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— IT Crowd
While NFL football has looked back over much of the last month, Week 10 required a bright-side mentality.
- You could throw most of your passes to the other team and still win, as Jared Goff and Sam Darnold demonstrated.
- You could fumble away a key game and still look like a rising star, as Chase Brown and Tyrone Tracy demonstrated.
- You could miss every important throw and get rescued by your special teams, as Patrick Mahomes demonstrated.
- You could miss three field goals, inspire a dustup between Deebo Samuel and the long-snapper (#TeamLongSnapper), and still be the hero (and put up a strong fantasy performance), as Jake Moody demonstrated.
- You could throw for 116 yards on 29 attempts and still have the play of the season, as Baker Mayfield demonstrated.
- You could get cut from two-thirds of the teams in the NFL and still get behind the Atlanta defense, as Marquez Valdes-Scantling demonstrated. (Derek Carr ranked fifth in yards, IQR, and points above average on passes that traveled at least 20 yards in the air last season. #TeamNotMichaelThomas.)
- You can run the ball 43 times and still defeat Jayden Daniels if the replay booth is broken, as the Steelers demonstrated.
But you can also luck into a Joe Burrow Superstar game and advance in the Guillotine. This is how our Stealing Bananas league has transpired.
While we haven’t won a week yet, we also avoided a near-death experience. Pleasantly Salty has been the dominant force through nine weeks, while Headless Horsemen and Brat Summer control the increasingly important waiver wire the rest of the way.
Fortunately, we might be about to pull off our first weekly victory as Brat Summer’s FAAB disappears from the contest.
As more and more powerful teams get chopped down the stretch, you’ll need an increasingly powerful lineup to advance. We’re in great shape if Week 9 JSN is the JSN.
| QB | RB | WR | TE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Burrow | Jahmyr Gibbs | Garrett Wilson | Mark Andrews |
| Kyler Murray | James Cook | Cooper Kupp | Cole Kmet |
| Kareem Hunt | Jaxon Smith-Njigba | ||
| Aaron Jones | Tee Higgins | ||
| Jonathon Brooks | |||
| Ray Davis |
We no longer have much control of our destiny from that perspective, but a combination of current strength and savvy pickups at least provides an outside chance.
Outdueled by Bo Nix?
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