Folks sure got screwed by some injuries this week. Two QBs laid goose eggs for their owner and those owners got a L. Damn near the whole league still has a shot for the playoffs though. Three way tie in the West. Three teams only one game behind Dave in second place. Two games left. Crunch time.

*Week 12 Review – Highlights from Week 12

The Chinese improve to 10-2 thanks to Matt Ryan getting hurt and laying an egg. My RBs continue to be solid but I had a rough WR day. How about Jamaal Charles. Looks like I was wrong about Larry Johnson. I’m shocked he had a productive day. Meaningless game though. Derek and I are both locked for the postseason.

Chris. What happened to your team? It’s in freefall. I thought you were good for the playoffs too. Chris went from being stacked at RB to starting Rock Cartwright. I don’t know that guy either. If you only had Jamaal Charles. Chris Johnson alone (#1 pick next season?) ain’t gonna win you every game. Great job Brian. Forty from 2 WRs is hot stuff. You get to pound Chris into putty one more time this season.

Rhett and Dave had themselves an exciting game. Dave was 6 points down with the Ravens DST to play after Sunday’s afternoon games. Rhett was freaking out since the Ravens DST was likely to put out more than 6 points. The Ravens DST didn’t do jack fucking shit the whole game but they go into OT with Rhett up 2 points. Rhett has never cheered for the Steelers harder in his life. The very suddenly, in OT, Dixon throws a pick and Rhett is crushed. A tie. He’s been here before and he lost to the Chinese in Week 3. His bench is down about 11 points. Dave and Rhett have 2 bench players left for Monday’s game but Dave’s guys are all hurt. But Rhett is victorious. He showed us what a great coach he is and left Maroney’s 20 points on the bench for the tiebreaker.

Kevin wins a tough game against AK. He had 2 guys put up no points but AK couldn’t capitalize. Tom Brady playing like Jake Delholme or Eli manning really fucked AK over.

Tim, Halloween is over. You can take off that red headed stepchild wig. Don’t let Matt beat you like one. Matt’s back in the playoff hunt after a strong win. Tim shows off four 0s on his bench. Tim looks to be seriously hurting at WR.

*Best plays and worse plays (yeah, that’s right, not worst, just worse than the best)

Kevin for playing Snelling. 20 last week. Zero this week. Didn’t cost him the game though.

Tim left his wire pick up on the bench this week. Forsett scored 25 to lead all RBs this week. Not that it would have gotten Tim a win.

Chris dropped Fred Jackson and his 23 points from his team and started Rock Cartwright for 5.

*Weekly poll

One person reported being trade raped by Rhett. Five people reported being offered some shit from the wire from Rhett. Two reported being offered shit from the wire every year.

*Interview – Thank you Derek for your response

Newsletter: What’s going well for your team this season?
Derek:  I think I’ve been really lucky with injuries, excluding last week.  My starting line is pretty strong, but my bench is weak, I guess you could say I kind of put all my eggs in one basket, and so far it has paid off.  I did a slick little double trade a few weeks ago and landed myself a great kicker too.

Newsletter: What isn’t going so well?
Derek: My QBs are really hit and miss.  Cutler has been really spotty lately. Then as soon as I benched him, Ryan hurts his toe and scores me a big goose egg.

Newsletter: Whose team would you least want to face in the playoffs?
Derek:  YOU YOU YOU.  It seems you don’t really have many off weeks, so if my whole team doesn’t show up with their game faces on, I’ll get blown out of the water.  Most other teams will put out a 70 point week every now and then, but not you.

Newsletter: What has been the key to your success or the cause of your failures?
Derek:  Like you said in your last report, we have similar lines.  My RBs (Smith is great…he just plays for Detroit L) and WRs put out a lot of points. Relying on them and hoping for my QB or DEF to have a decent game seems to work out all right.Oddly, the injuries to my DEF have hurt me a bit.  If you check the bar graph, you can see exactly when Polamalu was away.  That man is a beast. [A beast with great hair. Head and shoulders above anyone else’s. -ed]

Newsletter: Which of your guys has been the most surprising success?
Derek: No one has really been that surprising, because my strongest players I drafted early.  My kicker is the only player on my starting line I didn’t draft.   It reminds me of a quote I heard somewhere….

”Show me someone who sticks with only the guys he drafted, and I will show you someone who has not made the playoffs” [Funny how my team is like that too. Well I did get my kicker off the wire because someone took all the good kickers on draft day. -ed]

Newsletter: Which of your guys has been the most disappointing?

Derek: Although I never expected that much from him, Keller hasn’t done much for me.  I looked around for a decent TE for a while, but to no avail. I think there just aren’t that many out there. I had nothing to offer timmy when he was looking to unload a decent TE without dropping someone from my starting line.  And I’d rather have a good WR putting out points than a good TE putting out points.

*Looking forward

Teams can win out to hit the playoffs. Every game has playoff implications.

[rant] Marshawn Lynch is totally shit. Since he returned from his suspension he has made his team lose and made Fred Jackson not worth owning. Glad to see Lynch as backup to Jackson now. [/rant]

Sorry Matt. I plan on kicking your ass. I’ve got some players that might not perform due to injuries though.

AK plays Tim. Tim’s team is running with a bunch of really random guys. Could be gold. Could end up with 60 points for the week. I think AK is going to get this one.

Rhett (3 game W streak) is up against Chris (3 game L streak). Boldin might have a rough game if Warner sits. I like Rhett for the W.

Brian will try to keep Dave from the playoffs. Brian and Dave are the 9th and 10th best coach in our league per the Coach Rating. If everyone in the East loses, Dave still holds onto second place.

Derek plays Kevin’s resurgent team. Kevin will bring WR and DST domination. Derek can’t finish worse than second in his division standings even with 2 loses.

Good luck.