Week 6 Color Commentary

Six weeks have already come and gone. This time next week our Fantasy regular season will already be halfway over. So sad, so sad. This week saw a pretty level playing field, with half the league stepping up and breaking the 100-point barrier. Way to be, league! Moose went a mediocre 3-4 with his picks, so don't spend your Saturday in tears if he selects against you this week; it won't mean much.

Being that we are just about halfway done, let's do a little prognostication. We have four teams above .500 and six teams below .500 (as well as 73 teams at .500 because our league is so damn big.) Let's look into the crystal ball and predict which winning team is most likely to miss the playoffs and which 2-4 team will creep in.

With winning records we have Jen, Moose, Tracy and myself. All four teams are pretty stout, but mine may be in the biggest trouble. With a sure loss this week due to byes, Austin Collie suddenly having surgery, owning just one legitimate starting running back, and Antonio Gates's perpetual turf toe due for a return, the Slaters are no sure thing to make the playoffs. Sad, but true.

With losing records sit Mauger, Klenk, Dufresne, Cappy, Sam, and Steph. Klenk is the sexy pic here with a 98 points-per-week average, however he has too many weaknesses for my money: Dallas Clark is now out for the year; Jahvid Best picked up 90% of his fantasy points in week two; and his entire team is on a bye this week. With Mauger, injuries to Addai and Floyd make him unpickable. Steph is a shambles with Favre and Garrard both sucking this year. I can't pick Sam, purely out of principle. Cappy auto-drafted and I cannot get behind that. So I'll have to pick Dufresne: Well-positioned to take down the Slaters this week and with the most injury-free team in the league, this is one legal eagle to watch out for.

AWARDS!

The Brady Award for... is he wearing a robe in that picture? Is the bare-shoulders look sexy on a guy, anyone? Steph? Jen? Cappy?

Well, our top scorer this week with a modest 123 points was OT. 34 points from Jeremy Maclin and courtesy of that high-powered Eagles offense lead the way. Not much more to say here. Someone needs to hit 140 for me to really tell a story.

The Douche of the Week Award goes to... MOOSE!

Your fearless leader was the only loser this week who could have won had he just switched a single player. Moose went with Joshua Cribbs over Danny Woodhead of the Pats. Also on Brian's bench: Kevin Erectionfoot, Billy Bonerleg, and Dick Trickle.

No contest on our biggest beat-down of the week. Dagan shut down Steph 108-43! Dagan could have played his just his Texans (Schaub and Foster) and benched the rest of his team... and he still would have eked out a three-point win. A combination of the bye week blues and some pathetic performances may have put the Pudding Poops into panic mode!