week 11: the recap
Sheilah’s gone! Let’s change the rules, make horrible trades, and blame it all on her when she gets back!
Week 11. Trubisky is back to Trubisky things. The Jags are back to Jags things. The Browns are back to Browns things. Well, not the losing part…just the ability to roster headcase players who lose their mind. After last Monday’s game of the year candidate, this week started with the worst game of the year on Thursday night with the Browns going up against the team arguably having the worst luck this season in the Steelers. Myles Garrett loses his mind after being up 21-7 with 8 seconds left to go ripping off Mason Rudolph’s helmet and unsuccessfully trying to gently place it back on his head. What. The. Hell
Celebration of the Week:
I’m going to take this opportunity to introduce a new segment…I bring you Quenton Nelson - the unlikeliest of heroes…doing a keg stand:
The Stats
Highest Score | Trillionaire Club (Richie) 122.2 points, This is really getting old at this point. Is Lamar Jackson even fair for Richie to start anymore?
Lowest Score | Chicago Placeholder (Sarah) 57.9 points, Starting a BYE week Saquon Barkley and an injured Devonta Freeman wasn’t helping the cause this week.
Biggest Whoops | Billionaire Club (Craig), DJ Chark - 22.4 points, I don’t take much joy in this one (okay maybe a little), but starting Tyreek Hill, Allen Robinson, Juju, and Mark Andrews over Chark seemed like the obvious choice. Somehow all four players combined couldn’t equal Chark’s output this week - yeesh.
The Matchups
Ezekiel 23: 19-21 (Sean) 100.9 points
Chicago Placeholder (Sarah) 57.9 points
Unfortunately it doesn’t even seem Sarah’s bench could have changed the outcome of this one. An inactive week for two starters aside, Kyler Murray seems to be the real deal and should be getting BroNation looks shortly. Sean’s back to his winning ways this week riding Ezekiel Elliott who’s touchdown celebration this week featured the NFL’s latest trend…the The Dak Warmup.
Hot Chubb Time Machine (Neil) 101.4 points
Back that Pass Up (Kelly) 77.7 points
I imagine everyone but Kelly has enjoyed the rapid downfall in Tom Brady’s performance this year, yet somehow the Pats keep winning despite Trubisky-like performances from Touchdown Tom. Neil survived Watson’s worst week that I’ve ever seen with a dominant game from John Brown - who’s swag still can’t make Josh Allen look like he has anything to offer BroNation.
Field of Bros (Sheilah) 110.5 points
Drop Deebo!!!!!!!! (Chirag) . 102.6 points
This one got desperate for Chirag, with a Monday night plea for Sheilah’s team to provide a wedding gift of a win for him. Dak Prescott and Marvin Jones carried the team for him this week, but nobody expected Denver to reach quarterback desperation to the point where Courtland Sutton needed to start throwing for them.
Trillionaire Club (Richie) 122.2 points
Mitches Get Stiches (Diane) 93.6 points
Someone has to beat Richie…please! Diane had a solid week despite a Damien Williams injury with Josh Allen somehow winning this matchups quarterback battle. Lamar Jackson is playing to a level that they need to rewrite the fantasy rules for him and is continuing an MVP caliber season that Mark Ingram can get behind.
JPugh What-It-Do (Jason) 100.1 points
Just my Luck (Julie) 70.1 points
A resurgent week for Julie topping 70 points with an outpouring from Jimmy G and Todd Gurley couldn’t stop the return of Mahomes and the continued success of Kamara and Thomas…but Gurley seems like he’s back and that’s what we’re here for this week at BroNation.
Houston, We Have a Problem (Ross) 69.3 points
Billionaire Club (Craig) 63.3 points
I’ll admit - I had this write up ready to go recapping my pathetic week that featured my defense and kicker as two of my top scorers. An early injury to Tyreek Hill made Monday night a kick off between Craig’s kicker and mine - and the Phillip River proved to be terrible enough that they needed mine a lot more to carry me to a win I’m not proud of. Mark Ingram had a week for Craig and needs should be getting looks for Bro Nation with celebrations like this.
On to Week 12 - if you didn’t realize (because I didn’t) there’s only TWO weeks left in the regular season!