Krumpin: Haters stay spotless while the projections resign
Week 6 final: every matchup, every starter, and the decisions that moved the result.
Skip Krump, final whistle. I have an uncomfortable announcement: the projection column has been evicted. Haters Gonna Hate is still undefeated, My Team Sucks! still sounds like a lie, and a Monday deficit of eight hundredths turned into a win. The seven games are final, so this is the week to talk about actual lineup decisions instead of letting a gold estimate argue with the television. There are seven winners and seven losers, and several of the winners owe their opponent a thank-you note.
The final matchups
King James / 4th and INCHES
King James 139.28, 4th and INCHES 92.89. Tre Tucker supplied 24.7 and the Chiefs defense 19.5, which is a reasonable way to erase the memory of Najee Harris's 0.2. The other side brought three zeros: Cam Skattebo, Efton Chism III and Juwan Johnson. Chuba Hubbard's 22.3 was a lifeboat tied to the pier. The pregame 131.08 projection for 4th and INCHES did not merely miss; it rented a different scoreboard. A Sunday concession in the chat was premature at the time, but Monday supplied no reprieve.
Ball Don't Lie / My Team Sucks!
My Team Sucks! 158.51, Ball Don't Lie 107.57. Kenneth Walker III's 30.3 and Bhayshul Tuten's 24.0 did more than carry the winner; they turned the matchup into an early dismissal. Kirk Cousins gave Ball Don't Lie 20.12 and Michael Penix Jr. added 23.0, so the quarterback room did its job. Derrick Henry's 5.2 and Tyler Higbee's 0.5 were a more serious problem. Even Roschon Johnson's benched 14.4 over Henry would not erase this margin. The name My Team Sucks! remains the league's most aggressive piece of false advertising.
BNF / EzMoney
EzMoney 139.87, BNF 109.26. Trevor Lawrence filed 29.04 and James Cook III added 26.4; George Kittle's Monday 14.9 shut the file. BNF had C.J. Stroud at 24.58 and Kyle Pitts Sr. at 21.0, enough actual work to make the loss sting. Starting Jameis Winston's 8.28 while the bench held no magic quarterback replacement is not the whole story; this was a thirty-point gap built elsewhere too. BNF falls from 0–5 to 0–6. That is not a roast of a bad break; it is a standing appointment with the draft board's ghosts.
Dat's It / DGAD
Dat's It 100.92, DGAD 81.50. Sunday's 0.08-point gap was less a lead than a dust mote. Monday's Mike Evans 11.5, Brandin Cooks 2.0 and 49ers defense 6.0 converted suspense into an actual result. Isaiah Likely's 21.6 and Jordan Love's 22.54 did heavy lifting beforehand; Bo Nix's 4.98 was the ballast. DGAD got 20.1 from Josh Allen and 19.8 from Jaxon Smith-Njigba but started Brian Thomas Jr. for zero. Tyler Bass's 18.7 kept this respectable. A projected win is a napkin calculation; Dat's It took the real one.
Ghost of Twomp / Haters Gonna Hate
Haters Gonna Hate 160.92, Ghost of Twomp 97.85. Jonathan Taylor's 23.0, D'Andre Swift's 22.3 and Monday's Brock Purdy 20.36 made the unbeaten team look annoyingly organized. Twomp had Jayden Daniels 22.3 Monday and Carnell Tate 16.2, but Courtland Sutton's 3.3 and two one-point receiving slots turned the comeback into a theoretical exercise. Twomp benched Tanner McKee's 13.6 while already starting Daniels and Caleb Williams; that is not a missing win. Haters gets the division's cleanest punch and still has to explain why Justin Herbert posted only 10.16.
GolfNut / Dan's Deepball
GolfNut 126.09, Dan's Deepball 74.13. Christian McCaffrey's Monday 26.5 provided the last signature, with Bryce Young 20.94 and DeVonta Smith 16.4 supplying the first two. Dan's got 12.08 from Patrick Mahomes, 6.2 from Bijan Robinson and zero from Rashod Bateman. A 15.75 Steelers defense cannot tow an offense across a fifty-point canyon. GolfNut even absorbed a negative 1.75 from the Texans defense and won comfortably. The negative defender belongs in the highlight reel precisely because it changed absolutely nothing.
Tony's Terrific Team / Kittle Corn
Tony's Terrific Team 125.90, Kittle Corn 111.67. Matthew Stafford 17.18, Aaron Rodgers 17.42 and Colston Loveland 14.7 made the winner's lineup sturdier than its title suggests. Tyler Shough dropped 29.16 for Kittle Corn, but the rest of the starters could not finish the push. Terry McLaurin's Monday 3.4 never offered Tony a victory lap; the lead was already built. Kittle Corn has the cruelest kind of quarterback comfort: a strong signal in the most expensive slot, followed by eleven reminders that the rest of the roster also exists.
After Week 6
Rank | Team | W–L | season PF (through Week 6).
- 1 | Haters Gonna Hate | 6–0 | 886.24
- 2 | GolfNut | 5–1 | 765.93
- 3 | My Team Sucks! | 4–2 | 904.04
- 4 | King James | 4–2 | 796.09
- 5 | Ball Don't Lie | 3–3 | 841.23
- 6 | 4th and INCHES | 3–3 | 819.98
- 7 | EzMoney | 3–3 | 813.81
- 8 | DGAD | 3–3 | 804.47
- 9 | Dat's It | 3–3 | 729.07
- 10 | Kittle Corn | 2–4 | 738.18
- 11 | Dan's Deepball | 2–4 | 735.85
- 12 | Tony's Terrific Team | 2–4 | 717.96
- 13 | Ghost of Twomp | 2–4 | 675.52
- 14 | BNF | 0–6 | 676.55
The verdict
My call: Haters Gonna Hate's 6–0 start is the story, but the valuable warning label goes on Ball Don't Lie: two quarterbacks can both do their jobs and the roster can still get buried by fifty. Dat's It was right to wait for Monday; a 0.08 Sunday deficit was not a death sentence. Dan's Deepball lost with the league's lowest weekly total, while Twomp and 4th and INCHES could not turn modest bright spots into full lineups. Next week the proud teams get a new chance to explain their weakest starter. The losers get the same chance without the press conference.
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