DFL 2016 Week 8: Now we get to see the waivers from the other side.

Another week, another win for the still recovering from perhaps the worst start in DFL history..  The come back has not been pretty, but at least it's there..

If SNL can get away with making Margot Robbie look like this, then maybe
there's hope for the kings yet...

It's with a heavy heart that I announce that this will be the last week of the elimination league.  Why is that?  Well, everyone has been eliminated... Everyone, that is, except for me.

Fucks right!  Two weeks ago, Marie didn't even have a strike. And now every single person left standing went out on a single upset.  That upset being that somehow Chicago beat Minnesota. Well, everyone except me, who happened to chose Tennessee over Jacksonville.

But it does go along with what I always say:  Stay away from rivalries and nationally televised games (like TNF and MNF) - weird things happen when teams get charged up.  I mean, just look at what happened in Happy Valley a few weeks ago when somehow Penn State got the Saturday night game against #2 ranked Ohio State.

I could literally watch this gif all damn day.

So, yes, I will take the crown for the elimination league this year.  One of many crowns this year, perhaps....

Pick 'ems.  Well, Mike got the highest number of picks right at 5-1 this week.  He is inching closer and closer to the first place charlie foxtrot, which is still sitting in a three way tie, as Terri, RA Dave and I all went 4-2 this week.  The odd thing is that EVERYONE got McClennen vs Patrick wrong.  But outside of that, nobody's strikes matched.  Well done, folks!  So, it leaves us with RA Dave, Teri, and I sitting at 28, and Mike at 23.  Mike's keeping it real:

I could see Mike throwing the Wu Tang Clan sign....

Now, the games, shall we?

Patrick vs. McClennen.  We're starting here because NOBODY picked this game.  I'm not entirely sure why that was.  Patrick, as always continues to be dominant.  And McClennen... I mean.. I guess that he was at .500 this week.  The predictions were so close... I still don't know why everyone felt the need to support McClennen this week.  Regardless, Patrick's boom and bust cycle of relying on the Raiders paid off this week.  So, well done, Patrick, you glorious bastard!

Crutch vs. Skoot.  OK skoot... WTF?  4 starters on BYE?  Come on, man.  This was going to be your Crutch BYE week.  You should have won! I mean, Crutch did spot you a BYE week player and TWO (count 'em - TWO!) players went negative.  (As a side note, Cruch pulls in the luckiest bastard of the week award this week, as he did the same thing in the other league that I'm in.  That is, win on someone's Crutch BYE week.)    Geez Louise, this game made me sad.

I mean, look at him, y'all!  You did this!

Terri vs. Ben.  Slightly more uplifting here. I mean, at least the little guy was able to claw herself up to 10th place.  And that's good, right?  Plus, it drug down Ben, which is always nice.

Kookie Bowl!  This was an interesting game, in that it was so well balanced.  Both QBs lit it up.  Both Defs shat the bed, the line by line comparison pretty much kept these teams neck and neck.  The big differentiator, which gave Kookie the game was that Alshon Jeffrey blew past Cameron Meredith on Monday night.  So, Kookie holds on to his 1st place position for another week.

Mike vs. RA Dave.  This was probably the most interesting game this week.  #2 (Mike) going up against #3 (RA Dave).  If Dave wins, he moves up.  Otherwise, the rankings stay the same.  Sadly, the rankings stayed the same as Mike delivered the beat down of the week on RA Dave. Ironically, RA Dave did actually hit line up Nirvana.  So, silver linings and all that.

Phil vs. Missy.  As much as my players fought me for the win, we did actually pull it off.  Wilson never saw the endzone and freaking Ty Montgomery, who ws supposed to be this great sleeper pick from the waiver wire didn't play because of his kidneys.  The bum!  Anyways, outside of Rodgers, which kicked all sorts of ass, Missy's team just kinda rolled up and died.

That's about it for this week.  Keep up the work guys!  And if you're not working, then start, dammit!  We're getting closer and closer to the end of the season and the play off race is starting to heat up!