DFL 2017 Week 5: BYE BYE BYE..

Well, I forgot to mention it, but do you know what kicked in fully this week?

That's right!  BYE WEEKS! 

As a side note, sorry about the boy band gif, but I was contractually obligated to include one this year, and the one above seemed a lot less disturbing than this monstrosity:

Anyways.... Did anyone notice the BYE week?  Like Mike (who had a grand total of 0 points on his bench due to BYEs and injuries), Terri (who had 3 starters on BYE), Crutch (who had a grand total of 0.03 points on his bench - wait.  Cross that.  He only had 1 guy on BYE - his team just sucks), and finally D (who couldn't even start a full roster due to BYEs).

On the plus side, it looks like a lot of teams got their whole BYE weeks done at one shot.  So, we can see how this strategy plays out in the next few weeks.  Anyways....

Elimination League.  4 out of 6 players dropped this week.  Pittsburgh, with their FREAKING 7 POINT SPREAD!, knocked out both Terri and Marie.  Mike chose Buffalo and was shown the door, and RA Dave just didn't pick.  That leave only Ben and Patrick left swinging with a strike apiece.  As a side note, Patrick, you know who Ben is going to pick every week... just pick a different team, and you'll win the gold!

Pick 'Ems.  Truth be told, I was not expecting this much shake up this week.  Patrick Bingo'ed, Ben and Phil both went 5-1, Ben had a respectable 4-2, Mike went 3-3, and Terri pulled in 3-2 herself.  Josh didn't make ANY picks this week , which threw him down to 4th place.  But with Crutch's great week, he's right back in it.  Here's where we stand:

Phil:  21
Ben:  16
Patrick: 15
Mike: 11
Terri:  11
Josh:  11
Crutch: 9

Tuco, what do you think of the race for the elimination league cup?

As a side note, we almost had ANOTHER "You're not my supervisor" week, but Patrick wisely picked Kerry over Ben. One one hand, it would have been nice to have bingo'ed there, but since Ben did lose, he falls to third place.  So, it looks like the crown goes back to where it belongs...

Well, for now at least...

That's probably a good enough segue, right?  Right.  Let's talk games....

Phil vs. McClennen   This was a surprisingly big game on both sides.  A few interesting points here.  First, both benched QBs outscored the starters (cuz like Wentz should pull more in than Rodgers, and the same with Hoyer over Winston).  Second, both Kickers scored 10 points.  Third, the defenses were within 0.02 points of each other.  Who said that Kickers and Ds win games?

Josh vs. D.  This one could have been a blow out.  This one *should* have been a blow out.  Like I mentioned earlier, D didn't even have enough starters not on BYE to field a full team.  That's kind of a shame because Watson went crazy, Crabtree (who was out the previous week because of a bruised lung AND had EJ Manuel throwing to him) blew the doors off the barn, and Ertz has a stellar game.  So, who knows?  With a little massaging, D might have been able to win this one?  ACtually nevermind.  Josh started Dak (who scored 25 points) and the Jacksonville D (who humiliated the Stillers for almost 30 points themselves).

This is kinda how I imagine Josh's team this weekend...

Kerry vs. Ben.  So very sweet.  Kerry handed Ben his first loss this weekend.  Well, more properly, Fournette handed Ben this loss (with the assist from Seattle's D), because that's pretty much the only people who scored anything at all in this game. But a 20 point win is a 20 point win, and kicking Ben into 3rd place is all worth it.

Well done, Kerry!

Patrick vs Terri.  Well, Patrick pulls in the win here, even though while going through his players I kept thinking "Wow... how did he get shut down?"  Terri actually had twice the number of double digit scoring player than Patrick.  But Patrick didn't have anyone going negative.  Terri had a real shitty choice of Defenses this week.  One was going up against undefeated KC, the other was going up against Dallas.  Somehow, even with Dallas scoring 31 points, Terri made the wrong call.

Kyle vs. Crutch.  Wow.  Closest game of the week.... for the 10th ranked team vs the 11th ranked team.  Probably the most painful stat of the week comes from this game.  If Crutch had started Tyrod Taylor instead of Big Ben, he would have won.  And Tyrod Taylor only score 0.03 points...  Meanwhile, Kyle continues his boom and bust cycle with the Pats.  Seriously, man.  I get sticking by Trady and Gostkowski, but the Pats D? 

Oddly, someone linked the other side of this gif to me earlier in the week.

Skoot vs. Mike.  Wow guys.... this ... this was not a good game.  Lowest scoring of the week, sure,but by god!  Nobody did anything!  Two starters goose egged.  Granted Mariota was benched at the last minute and Engram plays on the god awful Giants, but still.  On Mike's side, Smith ALMOST pulled in half the points.  On Skoot's side, Benjamin and Vinatieri combined to score ALMOST of Skoot's points. 

Don't make Pennywise sad, guys!

And that's about it for now.  We're 5 weeks in and still nobody has grabbed a triple digit game.  So, I guess that we did a good job with the points rebalancing at the beginning of the season?  I guess?