In all likelihood, the Seahawks have pretty much knocked themselves out of the playoff hunt with this latest loss. On any Sunday in the NFL, you have a hard enough time beating your opponent, but if you’re also beating yourself then you’re pretty screwed. The Seahawks destroyed themselves with penalties. They put a lot of points on the board but the defense gets credit for 14 of those. Sure there were a couple close calls and plays where the game could have gone the other way, but that’s the difference this year: they’re always playing from behind and hoping to get lucky.
In our league, Logan reinforced my loss from last week and got me thinking about the possibility of ending the season with a seven game losing streak. To top it off, I lost Julian Edelmen to injury. Earlier this season I also lost Arian Foster and Jamaal Charles. It’s hard to survive losing three superstars like that so we’ll see where the season leaves me.
Dad and Logan both won their games so they are just one game behind me with 4 games left until we start the playoffs. Austin continued his push from last week and is looking very strong. His optimal roster was over 180 this week. Speaking of optimal rosters, Andy almost started his optimal roster, but instead of starting Peyton Manning, he should have started Philip Rivers… who was on a bye. Peyton had -6.6.
Austin has now claimed the top spot in our power rankings and Jim climbs into 4th place.
1. Austin (+1)
2. Ben (-1)
3. Logan
4. Jim (+2)
Now on to the weekly awards.
| This Week | Season | All-Time | |
| Highest Team Score | Austin had 152.68 | Tim 200.51 (Week 3) | Tim 200.51 (2013) |
| Lowest Team Score | Andy had 62.50 | Was Austin had 64.70 (Week 5) | Luke 47.01 (2011) |
| Biggest Blowout | Austin beat Tim by 48.43 | Ben beat Dad by 111.43 (Week 8) | Luke beat Andy by 113.02 (2010) |
| Closest Win | Dad beat Luke by 1.81 | Ben beat Andy by 2.46 (Week 7) | Jim beat Ben by 0.12 (2012) |
| Highest Scoring Player | Kirk Cousins had 36.96 for Logan | Drew Brees had 60.54 on Tim’s bench (Week 8) | Drew Brees had 60.54 on Tim’s bench (2015) |
| Longest Active Winning Streak | Austin has a 3 game winning streak | Ben had an 8 game winning streak (Week 8) | Micah (2011) and Ben (2015) had an 8 game winning streak |
| Longest Active Losing Streak | Andy has a 4 game losing streak. | Luke, Austin and Tim had 5 game losing streaks. (Weeks 5, 7 and 8) | Kyle had a 14 game losing streak (2011) |