Week 2 PFCC: Blood and Guts Everywhereby: exRegionalWeenieOh, the carnage. Almost no one was unharmed by the NFL's Week 2 games. Body parts littered the playing field and the Dirty Dawg results were unmentionable. Damage on the Field Injuries were everwhere. It wasn't just the bums - a lot of stars went down, too. Even big name QBs such as Drew Brees, Tony Romo, Jay Cutler and Matthew Stafford were injured. Long-time Cowboys stud TE Jason Witten sprained one knee and BOTH ankles. Now that's a bad day at the office. While injuries caused some impact, the chaos of Week 2 was due to the NFL being the NFL...just worse than normal. Instead of only one or two games that made zero sense, there were several. Raise your hand if you believed New Orleans, Miami, Baltimore AND Indianapolis would lose to Tampa Bay, Jacksonville, Oakland and the NY Jets. No way. Damage in the Standings This had to be one of the worse weeks in PFCC history. Of 322 players, only 17 scored above zero. SEVENTEEN. The overall average score was a negative 37. Ouch. If you found yourself thinking, "Gee, I would have been better off not playing last week," think again. The penalty for skipping a week in PFCC is that you are assigned the same score as that week's worst score. This week, that score was a MINUS 86. The two dozen of you who "earned" a minus 86 can thank Jerry Durham, who managed to lose 12 of the 15 games. Nice work. By the way, Jerry hails from Germersheim, Germany. I'm cool with Germans but I gotta wonder if Jerry was too busy processing paperwork for immigrants and refugees to bother giving much thought to his picks. Hey Jerry, spend more time on your picks this week and let the Hungarians pick up your slack! Results Everyone stunk last week but some players stunk a lot less than others. Aaron Hill of Lubbock, TX, "won" with 28 points. Mary Drobnik and Diana Schmidt were close behind with 26 points. Eric Bude and Erin Schmidt rounded out the week's Top 5. John Crafter of Goldsboro, NC, is our overall leader. He has a big lead over Billings, MO's, Darren Scherer. The other members of the overall Top 5 include Diana Schmidt, Robert Banks and Aaron Hill. The leader in Group Play is the five-man team called Je me souviens. I used to know what Je me souviens means in English but I can't remember any more. Whatever. "MAKE this AMERICAn team GREAT AGAIN" is confused about upper and lower case letters but at least they know enough about the NFL to be in second place. DesertDawgs is third. Weekly Fantasy, Anyone? I'm getting an itch to play a weekly fantasy game. Has anyone heard of such a thing or know where I can get more info? If so, you can e-mail me at shuttheheckup@goaway.com. Thanks. Parting Shots Hello, Philadelphia Eagles, are you out there? Hello, Demarco Murray, calling Demarco Murray. Jimmy Graham...hellooooo?? Where the heck are you? Yes, It's only Week 2, but Philly's Chip Kelly has early dibs on Lower of the Year. He made many off-season moves and so far most of them have turned to poop. |
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