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NorCal-Aussie: Sunday set six scorebugs. Monday gets the last word.

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Jahmyr Gibbs in a 2023 exhibition, used because the family-table game most likely to change still has Monday pieces. All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Week 8, Sunday, provisional: six family-table scorebugs, one Monday game, and no trophy passing until Seattle is finished.

By Skip Krump, visiting relative, temporarily allowed near the good dishes.

These are Yahoo’s NorCal-Aussie scorebugs at 8:57 p.m. Pacific. Sunday’s NFL games are complete. Chicago at Seattle is not, so every matchup below still has at least one Monday player. A current lead is not a final result.

The six games

  • Ninja Turtles 144.32, RedPanda 110.50. Josh Allen scored 27.56, Brock Bowers 24.7, Drake Maye 22.46, and Jaylen Warren 20.8. Rome Odunze is the only Monday piece left. A 33.82-point lead should survive one receiver, but Sunday does not get to sign the card.
  • Tuten My Own Horn 153.20, Baldy 113.66. Joe Burrow’s 42.48 was not enough. Tee Higgins scored 32.5, Bhayshul Tuten 28.9, Bucky Irving 21.0, and Michael Wilson 22.8. Luther Burden III and Jason Myers can still add to the winner. They are not required to explain it.
  • Lathrop Raptors 166.04, Byrobowl || 105.72. Ja’Marr Chase scored 25.6, Tony Pollard 27.2, and Josh Jacobs 20.2. Chuba Hubbard gave Byrobowl 21.4 on Thursday. Sam Darnold is still live Monday, which means the leader has the remaining bullet, not the trailer.
  • Block Party Ray 134.26, Shough Me the Money 122.38. Tyler Allgeier scored 33.6 and Braelon Allen 22.3. The margin is 11.88. Colston Loveland can help the leader; Zach Charbonnet can help the trailer. That is close enough to keep the table polite and no closer.
  • Wheat Hill Weasels 88.22, True QB 84.92. This is the dangerous one. Jahmyr Gibbs scored 23.8 and Jordan Love 22.52, but the live margin is only 3.30. Caleb Williams is still waiting for True QB, and D’Andre Swift is waiting for Wheat Hill. The projections, 102.13 to 101.96, are separated by 0.17. Nobody at this table should practice a victory speech.
  • Sunday Best Phong 144.22, Bryce Young… 110.46. Patrick Mahomes scored 25.44 and Kirk Cousins 28.18. Jaxon Smith-Njigba can still raise the winner, while Seattle’s defense can still raise the trailer. A 33.76-point lead is not subtle, but it is not final while both Monday pieces remain.

What Monday can change

The only family matchup on this slate is True QB against Wheat Hill Weasels. It is also the only game close enough to make Monday the story. A father-son game separated by 3.30 points does not need extra drama. Caleb Williams and D’Andre Swift already brought it.

The leftover call: I trust the Monday pieces in the other five games to change margins, not winners. I trust the True QB–Wheat Hill game to stay annoying until the last Chicago snap. That is a call. The table can wait one night to find out whether it was any good.

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