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One undefeated team stands tall among the field of eight as we head into our first of the NFL's bye weeks. Despite a potentially lost season to be highlighted on international television Sunday morning against the 0-5 Jaguars, Nick Zurawski remains unfazed by the eroding roster the Dolphins trot out every week as Nick's 2020 fantasy season prepared him emotionally for the dangers of NFL football taking down players on a weekly basis. It also helps that his team, Scott's Many Endeavors has not lost by relying on zero Dolphins. Is he even a true DolFan anymore? Once Tua returns we'll know for sure. In fact, we might just get to see Tagovailoa in London against the Jags. I'm sure we're all rooting for a Miami Dolphins victory leading to the Jaguars making Urban Meyer book his own flight back to the states since he just needs some time for himself to get those losses off of his mind. It's a shame that Trevor Lawrence's rookie season has been wasted this way but in all fairness, the #1 overall pick has played like a 1-4 or 2-3 quarterback.
In less expected lost season news, the NFL is all about the luck of the draw and unfortunately Russell Wilson can't draw right now, greatly hindering their postseason odds at 2-3 in a division starring the 4-1 Rams, the 5-0 Cardinals and a feisty 2-3 Niner squad that wasn't embarrassed by Trey Lance's first start so that's... something. Geno Smith hasn't started a game since 2018 with the New York Giants and ever since he fired his agent and bailed out of the NFL Draft green room after falling to the second round, the former Jet has not done a single thing worth making anyone confident in his capabilities to carry this sorry Seattle squad to a .500 record. They are effectively done unless this somehow makes DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett alter their routes, confusing opposing defenses as Chris Carson returns from injury to bulldoze their opponents. With Wilson's finger injury, Andy must turn to other options for the remainder of October and quite possibly all of November as he looks to rebound from a 1-4 start with Justin Fields now slotted in at QB... FOR NOW. It's not like I haven't tried avoiding the field with Fields by LITERALLY offering every single team a trade before kickoff Sunday but, I feel confident in a Justin Fields renaissance so just y'all wait and see!!! It may not be much, but it will be an honest scoring.
The New York Giants got massacred by the now-Super contending Dallas Cowboys this weekend and their season also seems sort of lost at 1-4 despite some of Daniel Jones' best football to date. Unfortunately, Danny Dimes suffered a concussion and will probably be too woozy to keep the Joe Judge-coached Giants from leaning on Mike Glennon, Devontae Booker and Evan Engram (shockingly the one healthy weapon on this team). They're in this sticky situation after losing RB Saquon Barkley to a (thankfully) non-season ending ankle injury that will still cost him a couple of games minimum and their receiving corps stars different weakened variations of the same, experienced group every week. Kenny Golladay cannot stay on the field in his first go-round in NYC and Kadarius Toney shocked the world with his past two games of stellar football after showing no signs of delivering on his first-round hype before suffering his own injury, designating him questionable for this Sunday's game against the star-studded LA Rams defense. Their division isn't nearly as impossible to rebound in as the NFC West but, the Cowboys aren't just the best team in the NFC East right now... they might be the best team in the entire conference with Tampa's secondary issues.
Picking matchup plays for fantasy has been trickier five games into the season but, things are going to start clearing up now that we know of at least 6-10 proven bad defenses with certain squads like potentially Seattle, the Giants or even the Dolphins just waving the white flag like my fantasy team has. This week, my Todd's Plan is to just set it, forget it and let the offers come in because EVERYONE IS AVAILABLE. My loss to Cole this week reignited the fire inside Cold Waters' fantasy football determination to end his nearly five-year title drought. Don't let this five-year title drought distract you from the fact that Darrin Aschebrook blew a 96-point lead to Cole in the Shelby Bowl. Cole plays Glaza Division Leader Tyler Sneen this week with the 96ers owning the WRBL's top kicker in scoring (Tyler Bass) as aided by his fantasy and real life quarterback Josh Allen. With how hot the Bills have been since their fluke loss to the Steelers, I don't see the Titans as a defense strong enough to contain coordinator Brian Daboll's attack and therefor, Sneen and Cole are practically equals considering Dalvin Cook's continued week-to-week status.
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Dalvin Cook's absence has led to Alexander Mattison (above) becoming a bit of a waiver wire wonder for the WRBL, now hitting free agency again after a second 20+ point performance for a second WRBL team.
My co-workers have been persistent on getting me involved in their discord calls even though I play none of the games they're playing and I mostly just meme along and it's a good time but, it really messed up my sleep schedule this past week and caused me to miss a majority of the Chiefs-Bills' lightning delay. It was odd, seeing back-to-back weeks with primetime lightning delays. I typically only expect Thunder to be involved with basketball... SPEAKING OF WHICH, WHAT'S THE STATUS ON BRO LEAGUE BASKETBALL @NICK ZURAWSKI? I WOULD LIKE TO DEFEND MY TITLE PLEASE. Seriously though, anything to distract me from likely letting another 1-win team waltz to their second win (this week, Nathaniel Hoefs gets the supposed bye!) is a positive in my book. I need to see Luka dropping triple-doubles as a form of escapism from my triple-threat of wideouts falling short AGAIN. It's also time for the two longest-tenured tax paying homeowners to face as Alec and Darrin see who wins the first phase in their personal Ultimate Dad of the Year competition. The next round will see the two comparing lawns in the battle of composting versus mulch. The coveted Dinkleberg is up for grabs and with Josh Tiffany busy putting together his own football team to rebound from his dead-last finish back in Year One, it's truly anybody's to win.
Z's 5-0 team gets to play Ryan's 2-3 Take Mahomes Country Roads as the Chiefs' QB takes on an absolute tire-fire of a defense in Washington's "Borderline" Football Team. Taylor Heinicke is not going to be able to keep up but, this could be a fun shootout to watch on Sunday. However, nothing spells out "fun" more than the Cardinals offense right now and they get to solidify themselves as legitimate Super Bowl contenders with another win on the road against an east coast playoff team in Cleveland. The Browns have struggled to maintain our league's attention with no consistently fantasy relevant players outside of the RB-duo of Kareem Hunt and Nick Chubb. Both of whom started in week 5, with Hunt dropping an impressive 25.9 for Hoefs in his loss to Nick "No-longer Chubb" Zurawski. Nick "Still" Chubb also blew up for Ryan (in the week's closest win, over Alec) as there were practically points persistently popping off in the Browns' 42-47 loss to the LA Chargers. Justin Herbert has yet to get a start for Nate and uhh... Hey buddy, want Antonio Gibson after this week? Keenan Allen? Russell Wilson? MY WHOLE ROSTER!? Maybe I need to slow down. It is the first weekend of Bye Weeks after all and the Bye Week Blunders are sure to slow down these early-season freight trains.
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Despite all that has already happened this fantasy season, first-round pick TE Travis Kelce remains the most valuable (trade bait?) player on Todd's Plan headed into Week 6.
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