DFL 2017 Week 14: What an end!!

I know that this is usually the part of the write up where I bitch and moan about how someone or something has wronged me.  And I know that all y'all have come to expect it in the normal rhythm of the wrap ups,but lemme just say this:  Holy fuck, boys!  What a great weekend for football!!

Me all day Sunday.

Full disclosure: I might be on a bit of a football high as this was the most football that I have seen pretty much all season.  I was sad that I had to go to my son's birthday party until I saw that there were TVs EVERYWHERE and they were all playing different NFL games.  It was pretty much wonderful. I mean, officially, I was keeping my eyes on my son.  But, unofficially:

Anyways, we had a blizzard game (yay lake effect snow!), TWO games that were decided in the 3rd OT drive by touch downs, the Panthers win, the Eagles win, the Sunday night game is decided by a single freaking point, and Oh yeah, the Pats lose on national television.  Let me put that another way:  Culter beat Brady on Monday night football.

Did not see that coming....  I mean, pretty much everything came up aces this weekend.

Wait.  Shit.  Nevermind....

Anyway, before we get into the nitty gritty details, let's just say goodbye to the teams that didn't  make the post season this year:

Terri - This one has to hurt since the second to last place team beat you this week, which knocked you out of the playoffs.  Salt in the wound?  It was her husband that did it.
McClennen - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Auto draft sucks.  But the fact that you only made 9 moves all year says that maybe auto draft wasn't the only problem....
Mike - It was over long before this week, but way to go out on a high note.  Thanks for kicking your wife out of the post season, so that I may advance to get utterly destroyed by Ben next week. 
Skoot- With a whopping 2 moves all season, Skoot stopped caring long ago.  Sorry, man.  Hey - at least you get a good draft position next year, huh?

Alright, let's get to it...  Pick 'ems!

Erm... League Pick'ems, that is.

So, I'll just say this right up front.  This season has been pretty freaking random and this was pretty much the perfect way to end it.  That is to say nobody being able to pick the winners.

High picks this week was Mike, who broke even at 3-3.  THen, Josh and Phil pulled in an astonishingly bad 2-4.  Finally, Crutch and Ben somehow stumbled into 1-5 picks.  So, yeah, everyone sucks.

This leaves us with the regular season picks 'em like this:

Ben:  50
Phil:  49
Crutch:  35
Josh:  33
Mike:  28
Terri:  25
Patrick:  15

So, congratulations to Mike for finally pulling ahead of Terri.  Josh - so close to medalling..  And screw Ben.  I was actually going back and forth in my head thinking whether to choose Ben's opponent, since I knew that he chose himself.  Shoulda.  Didn't.  And that means that Ben wins the regular season pick'ems.  And for those keeping track, this means that Ben might just get the perfect trifecta:  Survival (already tied Patrick for the win), Pick 'ems (won the regular season outright), and the League itself (1st seed and going strong).  So.. good luck, Ben?

And now for the shit show that was the actual games this week.  Fun side note:  All 4 of the top teams took losses this week.  So, way to go underdogs!

Phil vs. Patrick.  I did not see this coming.  OK I guess that I did vote for it, but I was not expecting my team to have the highest score of the week AND deliver the beat down of the week.  the good news is that Wentz put in a solid performance, before being knocked out for the season...  But hey, Rodgers should be coming back next week, right?  RIGHT???  The good news for Phil is that this win sneaks him into the playoffs.  The bad news for Patrick is... actually there is none.  This game didn't change anything for him.  So, everyone's a winner!

McClennen vs Josh.  Again, another huge upset.  See McClennen?  This is how it feels when your team actually plays. What really hurts for Josh (and thank you for pointing this out, Josh) is that Josh only lost by 6 points here.  The problem is - you remember how both OT games which were decided by a TD?  Well, the players that scored said touchdowns were both on McClennen's team. 

Pictured above:  Josh reacts to his shitty luck.

D vs Kerry.  This is probably the game that meant most (outside of Phil desperately trying to get into the playoffs).  They were ranked 5th and 6th.  So, they were fighting to play the 4th seed (which, in this case, is Kyle who is the only non-points scored powerhouse among the top seeds).  D wound up pulling an upset and winning the game, mostly thanks to Williams and Thomas.  No thanks go to Ertz, who was benched at the last minute due to a concussion.  Kerry, who is still holding onto Cutler, just couldn't get her starters to, you know, start.

Kerry's whole team this week.

Crutch vs. Ben.  Now, normally I'm all on board with Ben losing.  The shitty thing this week is that Ben losing here *almost* kept me from the post season.  And I would have accused Ben of taking a dive just to spite me (because that's the kind of guy that he is), but really his whole team, even his bench just didn't show up.  I mean, by far, his highest scorer was his kicker. Crutch just had a really solid game.  (Side note: Dammit, Crutch where are you getting all of these high scoring TEs??  I can't find one to save my life!!!)  Nothing more to say on this one...

Skoot vs. Kyle.  Man, Skoot really shit the bed here.  QB goes negative, kicker barely gets on the board, defense just doesn't take the field.  Luckily for Skoot, Bell and Gurley were more than happy to pick up everyone else's slack.  Those two players pulled in almost all of Skoot's points.  Kyle, on the other hand, just couldn't get any of his starters going.  Not much to do here, except lick your wounds going into the play offs, Kyle. 

Nobody fucks with da Kyle.

Mike vs. Terri  This one didn't really mean much to Mike.  IT means a hell of a lot to Terri.  Sadly, Mike was able to wrestle this game away form Terri for the best reason of all: spite.  The big winner i the game was really Denver's D who shut out the Jets.  Outside of that, everything was pretty low scoring on both sides.  So, enjoy your time off for the next few weeks, Gs!

And that's about it!  Playoff are upon us and here's the match ups:

Ben (1) vs Phil (8)
Patrick (2) vs Crutch (7)
Josh (3) vs Kerry (6)
Kyle (4) vs D (5)

And fun side note on the playoffs: All 3 new teams (Kerry, Josh, and Kyle) made it into the playoffs.  Well done, all!