NorCal-Aussie: Love already cashed 36.18, and Cook is holding a two-point lead
Week 9, Sunday, provisional. True QB already has 154.64 in the book. Five games are still open, and the tightest two are waiting on one running back and one defense.
By Skip Krump, Senior Columnist, Unlicensed League Psychiatrist.
Sunday is done. Monday is not. Scores below were current at 9:00 p.m. Pacific. Thursday is already inside them. White is live. The projected total is played points plus each remaining starter's own projection. An empty kicker stays at zero. A lead is not a win. The record column does not move until the week closes.
One matchup is closed. Five are not.
True QB 154.64, Bryce Young… 107.64, projected 133.88. True QB is finished. Jordan Love scored 36.18 and Kenneth Walker III scored 34.3. New England's defense scored -1.0 on the same card, which is a stain on a parade, not the parade. Bryce Young… is not finished. Dalton Kincaid is projected 8.31, DJ Moore 10.02, Tyler Bass 7.91. That is 26.24 still out, and the hole is 47.00. Monday would have to beat those projections by 20.76 just to tie. Dak Prescott already scored 19.5, Javonte Williams 20.4, and Bryce Young 21.34. The projected total does not see a comeback. A fairy tale still could.
Baldy 141.76, RedPanda 117.14. This is the closed game. Joe Burrow scored 29.54 and Bucky Irving 26.5. The margin is 24.62. CeeDee Lamb scored 28.5 for RedPanda, Travis Kelce 15.3, and that was not enough. Ladd McConkey scored 0.0 in the lineup. The result is already in. The record column still says 2-6 on both sides until the week is final.
Byrobowl || 139.52, projected 154.18. Shough Me the Money 131.06. Shough Me the Money is finished. Bijan Robinson scored 23.7 and Tyler Shough 19.7. Byrobowl || leads by 8.46 with Justin Jefferson still to play, projected 14.66. Matthew Golden already scored 27.4 and Christian Watson 26.6. The projected total says 154.18 to 131.06. That is a lead with one player left, not a trophy.
Ninja Turtles 106.56, projected 141.77. Lathrop Raptors 72.48, projected 81.31. Ninja Turtles still have Josh Allen projected 21.22, Will Reichard 8.04, and the Vikings defense 5.95. Drake Maye already scored 21.26, Jonah Coleman 16.8, and Brock Bowers 18.8. Lathrop Raptors have T.J. Hockenson projected 8.83. Ja'Marr Chase scored 26.5, and that was the day. The live gap is 34.08. The projected total gap is 60.46. Hockenson would have to outscore three Monday players by 34 points. Keep the result unlabeled.
Sunday Best Phong 117.62, projected 124.27. Block Party Ray 114.80. Ray is finished, with Puka Nacua at 28.0, and still trails a lineup whose kicker slot is empty. Phong leads by 2.82. Patrick Mahomes scored 16.48, Christian McCaffrey 21.7, Kirk Cousins 15.64. The Bills defense is projected 6.65, and the kicker slot is empty. Chris Boswell is on the bench with no game, so he does not get estimated into the slot. The projected total leaves that zero alone. Any Bills defense score better than -2.82 keeps the lead. A disaster night from that defense is the way this flips.
Wheat Hill Weasels 123.38, Tuten My Own Horn 120.96, projected 135.04. The Weasels are finished and up 2.42. Brock Purdy scored 26.28. George Pickens scored 0.0. Tuten My Own Horn has James Cook III left, projected 14.08, after Shedeur Sanders scored 22.68 and Tee Higgins 17.7. The projected total has Tuten ahead by 11.66. Cook is holding a two-point lead, and the projection says that lead does not survive the night.
Still out: Allen, Reichard, and the Vikings for Ninja Turtles; Hockenson for Lathrop Raptors; Jefferson for Byrobowl ||; Kincaid, Moore, and Bass for Bryce Young…; the Bills defense, and an empty kicker, for Sunday Best Phong; Cook for Tuten My Own Horn. Baldy and RedPanda are the only matchup with nobody left. Love already had the night. Cook and a defense get the last word.
