The Seahawks had another close game, but in the end the penalties. missed field goals and broken plays because of the offensive line were too much to overcome. It has to be painful as a field goal kicker when you miss THREE field goals and your team loses by three points. Just making ONE of them could have sent them to overtime.
Our league continues to be a free-for-all. Last week, Luke had the highest team score and Andy had the lowest. This week they flipped. Tim had the second highest score in the league hinting that maybe 8th place isn’t where he will end up. With 5 games left until the playoffs are set, everyone still has a chance. Logan and Luke are still looking good with their good records and high point totals.
Deshaun Watson was the second highest scoring player in our league up until his season ending injury. Let’s take a minute to review his progress through our league:
- Logan had him for less than 14 hours on October 4.
- He was on Logan’s team again for one week in mid October..
- He was on my time for a week at the end of October.
He played a total of one week in our league! I had finally made the obvious decision to start him regularly and I even picked up his favorite target (Will Fuller), and then… bam. Out for the season. I think we all deserve a face palm for missing out on all those points up until his injury.
Power rankings for week 10:
1. Logan (+1)
2. Luke (-1)
3. Austin (+1)
4. Tim (+3)
On to the weekly awards…
| This Week | This Season | All-Time | |
| Highest Team Score | Andy had 148.65 | Luke had 161.89 (Week 3) | Tim 200.51 (2015) |
| Lowest Team Score | Luke had 74.47 | Dad had 61.50 (Week 1) | Andy had 41.29 (2015) |
| Biggest Blowout | Luke beat Dad by 68.53 | Luke beat Jim by 74.22 (Week 3) | Luke beat Andy by 113.02 (2010) |
| Closest Win | Austin beat Ben by 16.86 | Andy beat Jim by 2.96 (Week 6) | Jim beat Ben by 0.12 (2012) |
| Highest Scoring Player | Jared Goff had 36.44 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 | Austin has won 2 games in a row | Logan had a 5 game winning streak (Week 5) | Micah (2011) and Ben (2015) had an 8 game winning streak |
| Longest Active Losing Streak | Dad has lost 2 games in a row. | Tim had a 5 game losing streak. (Week 5) | Kyle had a 14 game losing streak (2011) |
Seahawks! Now THAT was a fun game to watch. I liked the up tempo pacing of their offense (even if it does screw up my 30-second skip button between plays). The downside is that it means that their defense might not get a huge rest on drives that are duds. That did turn out to be the case in the first half so I was worried that we’d see another second half defensive breakdown, but that obviously didn’t happen as the offense set a franchise record for most second half points. The injury to Chris Carson was a big blow though. He looked like their featured back for the first four games but now they have to continue the search. Hopefully Procise and Rawls can get healthy and get moving downfield.
The Seahawks are 1-2. At least they scored a touchdown AND an extra point. There were some flashes of offense but it clearly wasn’t enough. After the game, I told a Packer fan that the odds weren’t looking good for a Seahawks/Packers playoff game. The Seahawks were pretty good odds for winning the Super Bowl before the season. Kudos if you were smart enough to bet against that. I’m not saying you can predict a season from 3 games, but they clearly aren’t dominating the league early on, even against teams like the 49ers.
The Seahawks got their first win of the season. Barely. Against the 49ers. That’s hardly inspiring. They also got their first touchdown of the season but we’ll keep waiting for that first extra point. It was nice to see Russell Wilson happily scrambling around though. Jimmy Graham has a total of 4 catches for 9 yards this year. Hopefully they can get him back on track and/or he can get through whatever injury is slowing him down.
