Highest Scoring Team ($15)
Slick Rick’s Firepoles
Coach Drew
168.80 pts
Highest Scoring Player ($7)
Boes n’ Hoes
Coach Jord
Todd Gurley - 33.30 pts
(Conner scored 34.50, but Drew can’t have it all)
Pickup of the Week
(of pickups that were started)
Children of Jackos
Commish’
Cincinnati Bengals - 22.76 points
Free Agency Pickup
High Bid of the Week
Robert Turbin
Stranger Bros
Coach Joe
$42 Waiver Pickup - 0 pts in Week 5
Bench of the Week
Slick Rick’s Firepoles
Coach Drew
Robby Anderson - 27.30 points
Benched for Alshon Jeffery - 5.90 points
Often times, the IFL official “Game of the Week” is a blowout, and doesn’t live up the hype or other games become more exciting, and steal the spotlight, but this week we were not let down.
Drew and Jord, who are “hot off a successful Best Man / Groom wedding relationship arrangement that led to what many are calling the ‘best night of my life,’” if I may quote myself, put on a show for the boys that rivaled the entertainment value of Drew’s wedding in the way that a fantasy game could.
Down by 30 for most of the game, the late Sunday afternoon, Bows n’ Hoes made their play, with Gurley leading the charge. One-dimensional Gurley’s 3 rushing TD’s, combined with a timely Beathard TD pass, led to Jord taking over the lead for the first time in the game, 150 - 146 with about 7 minutes left in the Cardinals game. But as Beathard giveth, so too Beathard taketh away:
And thus Drew’s stream of the Cardinals DST, who hadn’t scored more than 9 points all season pays off, stripping the ball away from Beathard and taking it for 6, was a 10 points swing, and that gave Drew a lead, with so little time left in the afternoon games, that was insurmountable (although Jord did come closer than I would have thought), winning 169 - 165.
With everyone else in the BSC losing, this puts Drew three games up in the BSC, and it appears that the division is already won. For Jord, he is battling Jack and TC, who are tied for the DD&B at 4-1 after both of them winning this week, so a little bit tougher sledding. But I’d like to point out that both Slick Rick’s Firepoles and Bows n’ Hoes are averaging 147 PPG, 10 more PPG than Jack and TC, which is the same PPG as the highest scoring team in IFL history, the Tatooine Sith Lords, the 2015 IFL Champions. Quite the company to keep, I must say.
The Monday night question was a nailbiter, but the man that always finds a way to win, Curtis, creeps his way to another win over Anton, 110 - 107, much to the Cul-de-Sack’s collective dismay. Curtis remains one game up in the CdS over Joe, who won pretty easily in the Battle of the Bros 145-111. The Commish’ falls two games back.
Nick, remains two games back, but claims the Bounty, after stomping Brady 134-92, the fourth straight time the Bounty holder has lost. A curse if I’ve ever seen one. Curtis will attempt to take it off his hands next week.
With our 10th trade this season just processed, I looked back at the trade count for past years, and already, we have the 2nd most amount of trades in a season. They were 11 processed trades last year. 4 of this season’s trades we have Jesse to thank for, who is vying to make in the IFL record books any way he can, but even without ‘em, the league is on a record pace, with still 6 weeks left till the trade deadline. This speaks to the league’s increased activeness, and is something I’m very proud of.
Keep it up, boys.
Pretty even week all-around here. No real movement in standings.
Division Overall W-L:
DD&B: 189-111
X-IA: 160-140
CdS: 143-157
BSC: 108-192
Another tough week for the Pickers, but Nick and Anton manage to go 3 for 4, and climb the mountain, Nick edging his way towards the top.
Hype sucks!