There are only four weeks left of the regular season, and the standings have never been closer! The most wins so far is 7 (held by Coors Light Drunk Guys), then two teams have 5 wins, five teams have 4 wins, one team has 3 wins and one has 2 wins. Only the top six make it in to the playoffs, and as of now it seems like any team still has a shot.
This week, the congratulations go to Joe’s Pats who bested their total from last week by more than double (51 points last week to 117 this week), and claimed their first Weekly High Score Prize of the season! Joe got big performances from Derek Carr (26 pts), Adrian Peterson (19 pts), the New York Jets Defense (17 pts) and Jeremy Langford *who?!* (22 pts). Langford is a runningback for the Bears who piled up 142 total yards and a TD on MNF. With the win, Joe becomes the sixth person to win a Weekly High Score Prize this season. Way to go, Joe!
Just a quick update this week, where we’ll check in on team defenses and the Browns and award a Best Bench that almost took a full roster swap…
WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU?!
The Browns really blew their load in Week 5 when they scored 107 points, because they haven’t even come close to that again. Their weekly point totals since then have been 66, 45, 64 and now 42 this week:
| Johnny Manziel Cle - QB | 13 |
| Duke Johnson Jr. Cle - RB | 9 |
| Isaiah Crowell Cle - RB | 5 |
| Dwayne Bowe Cle - WR | 3 |
| Travis Benjamin Cle - WR | 2 |
| Gary Barnidge Cle - TE | 3 |
| Travis Coons Cle - K | 4 |
| Cleveland Cle - DEF | 3 |
| Total | 42 |
DE-FENSE
At the start of the season I predicted that a few of the highly ranked defenses in the preseason would end up being good and the rest would be a jumble. So far it looks like it is a 50/50 split. Here are the Top 10 Defenses in the preseason rankings, along with how they currently rank:
| OVERALL | |||
| Rank | Defense/Special Teams | Week 9 | RANK |
| 1 | Seattle Sea - DEF | Rk #26 - 0 pts | 2 |
| 2 | Buffalo Buf - DEF | Rk #12 - 7 pts | 22 |
| 3 | Houston Hou - DEF | Rk #30 - 0 pts | 25 |
| 4 | Philadelphia Phi - DEF | Rk #3 - 12 pts | 6 |
| 5 | St. Louis StL - DEF | Rk #19 - 3 pts | 4 |
| 6 | Arizona Ari - DEF | Rk #27 - 0 pts | 5 |
| 7 | New England NE - DEF | Rk #8 - 9 pts | 9 |
| 8 | Baltimore Bal - DEF | Rk #31 - 0 pts | 27 |
| 9 | Green Bay GB - DEF | Rk #32 - -1 pts | 12 |
| 10 | Kansas City KC - DEF | Rk #28 - 0 pts | 12 |
Here is the current Top 10 Defenses along with their preseason ranking:
| Actual Rank | Defense/Special Teams | Actual Pts | Pre-Rank |
| 1 | Denver Den - DEF | 125 | 17 |
| 2 | Seattle Sea - DEF | 98 | 1 |
| 3 | New York NYG - DEF | 97 | 22 |
| 4 | St. Louis StL - DEF | 94 | 5 |
| 5 | Arizona Ari - DEF | 91 | 6 |
| 6 | Philadelphia Phi - DEF | 81 | 4 |
| 6 | Carolina Car - DEF | 81 | 12 |
| 8 | Pittsburgh Pit - DEF | 75 | 21 |
| 9 | New England NE - DEF | 74 | 7 |
| 10 | Cincinnati Cin - DEF | 72 | 20 |
When you leave players in your active roster who are on a bye, you really increase your odds of being Best Bench. The Coors Light Drunk Guys left the Arizona defense in the game, and the Midnight Maulers had two bye players playing. In the end, that was enough to make Jamie this week’s Best Bench! Jamie could have improved his point total by 55 points with a five player roster swap: B. Roethlisberger for M. Stafford (+21), A. Vinatieri for S. Hauschka (+12), D. Walker for G. Olsen (+11), A. Robinson for A. Green (+7) and the Eagles for the Falcons (+4).
Four more games until the playoffs! What, don’t talk about playoffs.. PLAYOFFS?!?
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