DFL 2016 Week 4: All Hail to the King Baby!

(Before we get into it, I just wanted to make mention that I have changed drop waivers from 2 days to 1 day.  I haven't any clue how Yahoo! calculates the days, but currently (with 2 day waivers) has any moves made on Wednesday open up again on Saturday.  Again, I don't really get it, but at least now the drops should open up on Friday.  Still not in time for the Thursday night game, but it's something...)

Guess who's back, baby.  Go ahead... guess.  I'm me, monkeyfighters!!!!

Pictured above:  How I've been entering everywhere that I go since Sunday night.

What's that?  0-3 start?  Oh, I guess Phil has finally run out of steam?  I guess that we can write Phil off this year.  Well, let's just check the scoreboard this week, shall we?  Oh shit!  Phil won his game.  Oh shit, Phil administered the beat down of the week.  Oh shit, PHIL GOT THE MOST OVERALL POINTS THIS WEEK AND THE ONLY ONE TO HIT TRIPLE DIGITS.

That especially is for Skoot, of course...

Yeah, feeling pretty good here at the top of Awesome Mountain.  One last thought before we get into the nitty gritty:

OK... We good?  Well, we'll get BACK to that delightful topic in just a bit, but for now, let's talk turkey.

Not exactly the image that I was going for, but so much better than I was imagining....

Big week this week in the elimination league.  Patrick, Kookie, and McClennen all took strikes this week (the former two with Arizona, and the latter with Detroit).  That means that we have to say goodbye to both Chrises this week.  So long, fellas!  It has been great!  Well, not great, but it definitely was.  So, there you go.

Although, it's probably worth mentioning a disturbing trend amongst picks this year:

Yeah... almost half of the strikes handed out thus far have been from Arizona.  Followed very closely by Detroit. It's almost like those two teams are terrible this year.  I'm just waiting for someone to have the balls to pick Cleveland.  

Pick'ems!  As exciting as the elimination league is, this was a little bit of a disappointment.  I mean, not from my performance.  I picked perfectly this week.... what do you call that?

Oh, that's right.  Thanks, Cal!

Everyone else who picked (RA Dave, Terri and Mike) all went 4-2.  Everyone else?  Come on now.  Still got 12 weeks left.  Plenty of time to make some picks!

So, that leaves us like this:
1) Terri (16 picks)
2) Phil (14 picks)
3) RA Dave (13 picks)
4) Mike (12 picks)
5) Skoot (8 picks)
6) Ben (6 picks)

So, not a lot of competition this year.  If you wanted a trophy but don't know the path of least resistance, this might be the contest for you this year.  :)

And now for the games:

Phil vs Terri:  Yeah, we talked about this one a bit..  but it's probably worth talking about again because, well, I'm the author.  Not to belabor the point, but do you see why I did so well this year?  I've finally got my TE to break the 0 point barrier.  That's right, Gronk pulled in an astounding 0.94 points this week.  The lesson of course is that I dominate when my TE performs.  Guess that puts to rest any debate about TEs.  AMIRITEGUYS?  AS for Terri... what can I say?  The entire team just imploded. I mean, these weren't fantastitic defenses that her players were going up against (Chicago, Miami, LA).  The stars just aligned, but like in a bad way.  This game rocketed Phil up to 8th place and threw Terri down to dead last.

Crutch vs Mike:  Mike maintains his death grip on his undefeated season this week by crushing Crutch.  Though don't get too confident, Mike.  There are bigt cracks starting to show:  Brees is remembering his age, and Jackson and Forte went belly up after a stellar start to the season.  So stay on your toes...  Crutch, man, come on.  Palmer?  Still?  And Green Bay Def isn't going ot do much good to you, should that be on BYE.

Kookie vs Ben, aka the bitter about the league rules bowl.  The other undefeated team, Kookie, stays in control again this week with a win over Ben.  That is to say, Kookie started Ryan and then the rest of his team climbed onto his back and rode him to victory.  Ben, man... Just a bad week, sir. I mean, who could have thought that I would say "Well, LeSean McCoy was your top scorer BY FAR" and be serious about it?  eesh!

RA Dave vs McClennen.  AFter a rough start McClennen is turning it on.  WAY surpassing his projections, McClennen pulled in the second most points this week.  Nice job!  Sadly, RA Dave had some problems...   KC just got whooped by PIT, and Cam got knocked out with a concussion.  The big question, of course, is whether he'll be ready to play next week.  Believe you me, I'm hoping so!

Melanie vs Patrick.  Well, this was the closest game of the week at an  point difference.  The biggest surprise here is te fact that Derek Carr pulled in almost 30 points.   I mean, not for nothing, but that's actually one of the bigger surprises anywhere in the league this week.  Well done! On the flip side,  Melanie started Bortles, who is impressing me  more and more these days.  Outside ofthe QBs the biggest story is really Fuller... who score almost 19 points.  And I know what you're all thinking:  Who the hell is Fuller?  Well,I haven't a clue, and it's too late to go looking it up now.  Patrick - how did you know to start this little gem?

Skoot vs Missy:  Yeah, this was defeinitely a battle for who could score less... Combined the QBs scored 6 points.  Missy started a DEF on BYE.  Shit... even Skoot's Bell couldn't be bothered to rack up more than 13 points.  Soo.. that is what a #10 team versus a #11 team game looks like....

Anyways, time to prep for next week.  Get on that waiver, ladies and gentlemen!  I'll see you in week 5!