DFL 2018 Week 5: What do I always say?

What is it? What do I always say?  I always say kickers win games.

OK, technically, I say that kickers *and* defenses win games, but we kinda cut DEFs off at the knees this year. So, we're left with just kicker.

The first one of note was the *seventh* field goal scored in an OVERTIME game.  So, congratulations Cleveland, you even found a way to look sad and miserable when you win.  Here's what that clunker looked like:

 I mean, I guess that he was tired, but really, the best part of that was the announcer: "It was so low, it looks like it was deflected.  It wasn't."

The other overtime game this weekend (again, 2 overtimes this week - pretty impressive for the NFL) was also decided by a field goal.

However, the BEST field goal of the week was by one Mr Graham Gano of the Panthers.  4 minutes left, Cats are up by 6.  G-men walk down the field and score a TD, leaving Cam and the boys only 68 seconds to score in any way, but they can only get to the 31 yard line. That means a 63 yard field goal..  I can't really sum up how exciting this was... but the Spanish Language announcers sure could:

(Dammit, blogger won't embed Twitter.  So, you can just follow this link.)  

And it was magical....  Anyways, let's get to the games at hand!

Elimination League..  McClennen went with Cincinati, who took care of Miami easily.  Meanwhile, both Phil and Josh picked Carolina, who just *barely* pulled out a win, with the second longest field goal in NFL history. I mean, Come on!!

So.. no strikes this week. Yay?

Pick 'ems.  Man, we really turned on it on this week!  Phil, Ben, Mike, Terri, and Josh all went 4-2.  Crutch broke the mold and went 5-1.  

Well, Crutch, but you get the idea.

So, that leaves us looking like this:

Phil:  22

Ben:  19

Mike:17

Crutch: 16 (Makin' moves, man!!)

Terri: 15

Josh: 15

In case anyone is keeping track, the big upsets were D beating Josh (an unexpected surprise, but a welcome one) and Stephen beating Ben.  We should have known about that second one... Yahoo! totally called it at the beginning of the season. And speaking of that game... let's do a little segue, shall we?

Stephen (88.76) vs. Ben (59.66).  Beat. down. of. the. week.  Most of Stephen's players went off this week.  Goff decided to take it easy after last week's insanity.  Ironically, on the other side, the only play that really lived up to expectations was his tight end - by tripling the expectations.  (Aren't you glad that we have tight ends, Ben?)  But the silver lining for Ben is that Mixon is back now (boy is he!) and Mahomes should bounce back nicely next week against the shit show that is the Pats D.  Probably little consolation in 11th place, but always look on the bright side of life, right?

D (84.91) vs. Josh (69.06).  Yeah, this one made a hell of a lot of sense.  On D's side, Whige went crazy, Ertz went crazy, Lockett had a great game, and OBJ not only caught a TD,but he also threw one!  To even things out, Gould was shut out, which is nice.  Josh, on the other hand did have 4 players hit double digits, but it wasn't enough.  (And oddly enough, he did hit line up Nirvana - partially because he picked up Olsen before he was ready to play.  Prick.)

Other people need TEs too, you know!!

Phil (84.08) vs McClennnen (71.87).  This feels kinda like it should have been more of a beat down than it turned out to be.  With this win, Phil rises to 1st place, and McClennen heads down to last.  This kicker is that the game was actually within 15 points, so it wasn't that big of a blow out.  And if you look at McClennen's point total for the year, it's... oh... OK, so he's the only one who hasn't hit 300 points yet.  Yeah, OK, McClennen, with your top waiver choice this week, it might be time to get in on those delish free agents.  I'm just sayin'.

Some say don't kick a McClennen when he's down.... but then when would you kick him?

Kyle (68.48) vs Crutch (56.63).  Man.. this one was rough....  Kyle was almost exactly at his projection, thanks mostly to Luck and Brown.  But you've gotta appreciate Crutch's go get 'em attitude.  Going into Monday night's game, Kyle just had Thomas to play.  He said to me "Man, all Thomas has to do is to get -8 points, and I win!"  That's a hell of a tall order for a WR, man.  But the important thing is that the king is dead!  Crutch was the last undefeated team left!  THE KING IS DEAD!  HURRAH!!

Mike (62.71) vs. Skoot (42.69).  Mike was playing with fire here....  He benched Brees (who was projected higher than Smith, but was playing on Monday night - though looking at it, his starting QB was ALSO playing on Monday - so, yeah, there's that), but it turns out that through a bit of bad luck, he had anti-line up Nirvana, where all of his bench players scored more than his starters.  Skoot, on the other hand, boldly started a guy on BYE, and then one of his other starters got knocked out inthe first quarter due to a concussion.  But Kudos to both of the players for starting their team's namesakes. And you know what the prize for that is, right?

Patrick (57.52) vs. Terri (43.63).  Not a lot happening here....  Patrick cashed in with Rivers and Run CMC (and fuck you to Josh for putting that ridiculous nickname in my head) hit projections, but everyone else kinda fell flat.  Terri continues to wait for LeVeon to do erm.. something, while the rest of her team just kinda sits there.  

That's about it for now.  More BYEs next week.  So, keep your eyes peeled on that waiver wire.