I feel like it’s going to be easier to watch the Seahawks this year. I have no hope of them making the playoffs and I’ll be satisfied if they make it to 8-8. That proved to be a good attitude for week 1 as they bumbled their way through the game with flashes of greatness mixed into a messy game. It was fun to be watching football again though.
The rest of the NFL provided plenty of excitement with the Browns breaking their losing streak (but still not winning), but the craziest game has to go to the Packers. Aaron Rodgers too his enormous new contract out for a test drive and promptly got carted off the field in the second quarter only to come back late in the game an engineer one of the greatest comebacks in history. How’s that for a roller coaster of emotions?
In our league, the top two teams from last year started off with losses this year as Tim (Beer-me), Dad (EndOverEnd), Andy (RAAWWWRRRRR!!!) and Luke (Helmetheads) all started off their season with a win. Every week I’ll update the stat table below. Normally the third column will be the current season but this week I’ll put last season’s numbers in there.
This Week | This Season | All-Time | |
Highest Team Score | Tim had 157.87 | Logan had 188.80 (Week 15) | Tim 200.51 (2015) |
Lowest Team Score | Nick had 93.70 | Jim had 60.95 (Week 10) | Andy had 41.29 (2015) |
Biggest Blowout | Luke beat Nick by 35.63 | Luke beat Jim by 74.22 (Week 3) | Luke beat Andy by 113.02 (2010) |
Closest Win | Dad beat Tyler by 20.61 | Dad beat Jim by 1.86 (Week 15) | Jim beat Ben by 0.12 (2012) |
Highest Scoring Player | Ryan Fitzpatrick and his beard had 50.28 as a free agent… | Tom Brady had 45.72 for Luke. (Week 3) | Drew Brees had 60.54 on Tim’s bench (2015) |
Longest Active Winning Streak | Tim, Dad, Andy and Luke all have 1 game winning streaks | Austin has a 6 game winning streak (Week 13) | Micah (2011) and Ben (2015) had an 8 game winning streak |
Longest Active Losing Streak | Ben, Tyler, Logan and Nick all have 1 game losing streaks | Tim had a 5 game losing streak. (Week 5) | Kyle had a 14 game losing streak (2011) |
Smoke Forecast
Seattle is in the midst of some record-breaking bad air quality due to the wildfires in British Columbia, eastern Washington and California. Unless the wind is blowing form the west, it gets smokey in Seattle and an inversion layer traps the smoke down here between the mountains.
There are a couple handy sites for helping to check how bad it is right now and how it’s going to look in the future. The first is the Puget Sound Clean Air site. It shows a short timeline of the particle count in the air.
The second is an experimental forecast from NOAA that predicts where the smoke will be going. Choose your overlay on the top left and then choose the hour of the forecast on the bottom left. (Note that if you slide it all the way to the right it appears to jump back in time.) The forecast only goes out about 24 hours, but, for example, today you can at least have some hope that tomorrow will be a little better.