DFL 2016 Week 6: Well, that was a bummer of week..

So... Week 6 is over, right? I mean.. there are no more games to tally points into right?  I'm just asking because there didn't seem to be a lot of scoring this week.  Looking down the scoreboard, nobody even hit triple digits this week?

But Phil, Patrick actually scored 101.18.

Yeah, like I said, nobody hit triple digits.

I have to mock, because Patrick also delivered the beat down of the week.

But perhaps I am getting ahead of myself.

Let's take a look at the elimination league, shall we?  BIG week of strikes this week. Seems like most folks liked Pittsburgh this week.  Well, everyone except for Dolphins D who turned the Steeler's QB from this

Into this:

Hint:  Rothlisberer isn't the doctor in the picture above.

So, what's that mean for the elimination league?  4/6 of the remaining players took strikes this week.  (OK technically, Mike took a strike because he didn't actually make a pick, but I wouldn't want to publicly announce that and embarrass him.)

So, that means that we say good night to Patrick for the season.  This leaves the following people still swinging in the league:

Marie, Phil, Mike, Terri, and Ben.

And what's this?  Everyone has one strike, save one person.  And that person would be Marie, who isn't even in the DFL anymore.   (Those of you who remember history know that Marie was kicked from the league several years ago for performance enhancing drug use.  OK... technically she was just sniffing dry erase markers, but we do have a zero tolerance policy here.)  So, she's the one to beat, folks.

Pick'ems, Pick'ems, Pick'ems, Pick'ems.  Only three people making picks at this point, and there is still plenty of time to get into it, and here's what the picks looked like:
Terri went 3-3 (giving her 24 points overall)
Phil and RA Dave both went 4-2, keeping them tied and inching closer to Terri (we are tied at 21 points)

11 weeks left... that's 66 points up for grabs.  Anyone's game still!  (I'm actually in another league where one of the competitors started dead last, but has really turned on the picks since week 1 and is knocking on first place.)

I know that I usually don't go on a tangent here, but I wanted to throw a quick gif out there to properly describe my feelings on the NFL this week:

The Eagles and the Panthers really should have had BYEs this week.

Why?  Why do the Eagles have to get so close and then blow it?  To the freaking SKINS???  How can the Panthers battle back from a 21-0 deficit and lose in the last 4 seconds???  ARGGG!!!  You know what though?  I'm not even mad... Just sad..  Very, very sad...

Maybe a little mad on Sunday.... but it's eroded away to sadness now...

OK OK OK....  Now we can talk about the games..

Phil vs. Melanie - Did I mention that nobody actually scored a lot of points here? Well, I pulled in my second win of the season here, with ...66 points.  Melanie kinda went belly up and only turned in 47 points.  Well, it would have been closer to 50, but the Jets just got *trounced* on Monday night and their defense didn't really do anything, netting Melanie a cool negative 4 points.  Oddly enough, the big winners in this game are the Tight Ends, both turning in 15+ games.  Everyone else..  Well, they showed up.

Battle of the Daves! (Crutch vs RA Dave).  Well, it looks like RA Dave got his Crutch BYE this week.  Didn't we have these last year too?  OK in Crutch's defense, his work has pretty much screwed him, pretty much taking any free time for at least the next fortnight.  So, go easy on him, guys.  And really, as sad as it is, Crutch couldn't have even won, even if he got line up Nirvana.  I was going to give RA Dave a hard time.  See, he left Cam and his 22 points on the bench.  But for some insane reason, he chose to start Stafford instead and was rewarded with 30 FREAKING points.  So, good on you for starting Stafford over Cam.  God, the feels wrong to say....

Out out damned stain!!!!

Kookie vs Terri.  The Kook train keeps on rolling!  I'm not sure that anyone can stop him now.  Brady's back in full force, ODB is getting more and more frisky with the kicking net, and hie bench is just so damn deep!!  Good draft or lucky draft?  I dunno... maybe a blind pig will find a truffle eventually...  As for Terri... ugh.  Not much to say, Big Ben went down, killing the team.  The Panthers D just shriveled up and died...  But hey.  You've always got Dalton to fall back on, right?  RIGHT???

I WILL EAT YOUR SOUL!!!!

Mike vs Ben.  And speaking of deep benches, Mike is stocked up this year!  Brees is shaking off that usual Autumn malaise that seems to plague him, both Joneses are kicking ass, and he's holding tight to that second place of his, with his win over Ben this week.  Ben is holing his own,what with McCoy actually advancing the ball on occasion.  I mean his only real mistake was to start the Pittsburgh D against the powerhouse that is the Miami Dolphins.

I mean, really, how can this team NOT be intimidating???

Skoot vs. McClennen.  Yeah, this was not impressive.  They missed their projects by a combined 40 points.  Luckily, McClennen managed to suck a little less and pulled in the win.  Highlight of the game?  Lamar Miller with 25 points.  Embarrassment of the game?  Carson Wentz.  Just... come on, man.  Get your head in the game.

Oh, who can stay mad at him???

And... that's about it, right?  O wait yeah... one more....

Missy vs Patrick.  When Patrick comes up big, he comes up REALLY big.  Like, the points difference in this game was more than almost half the teams in the league scored this week.  Oddly, somehow KC figured out a way to shut down Carr.  But that just meant that the rest of Patrick's team showed up.  Pryor Sr (yeah,I don;t know who that is either) and West (Seriously, Patrick, are you just making these players up??)both turned in 20 point games.  Then, MNF rolled around and Johnson, not to be outdone, threw out 28 points himself.  Well done, Sir!  Missy.... take solace in the fact that you would have been comparative with your score had you been playing most of the other teams in the league this week.  Also, try not to think about how you left 20 points on the bench because White somehow kicked some ass this week. Here's a weird gif to help you forget:

See you crazy cats next week.