Five Weeks In – The Trigger Pity Party

The hardest schedule so far, by a mile, belongs to the Flying Dutchmen. Let’s not make excuses for Trigger, but let’s just marvel at his incredibly bad luck. He has had 3000 more points scored against him through the first five weeks than either the first or second-place teams so far. 3000. That’s a lot. Even the 2nd (Tan) and 3rd (Dave) hardest schedules (based on PA) so far have had almost 1000 fewer opposing points to deal with.

POINTS AGAINST

  1. Flying Dutchmen (12,190)
  2. C Tan vs the World (11,309)
  3. The BF3000s (11,206)
  4. Wash. Sentinels (10,777)
  5. Sc4_Skippers (10,667)
  6. Burrito Warrior (10,513)
  7. RedBank Mallrats (10,371)
  8. The Tim Bradys (10,323)
  9. MexicoCity Quasars (10,156)
  10. TIMMO! (10,083)
  11. Kaiser (9,208)
  12. SECOND DECK (9,082)

And perhaps he’d be more competitive than his 1-4 record indicates if he wasn’t also the most brittle team in the league through five weeks. Willie Gay Jr, Dre Greenlaw, Jerry Jeudy, Carlton Davis III, and Logan Thomas – all on the IR. And then, there’s the $83 Dollar Man – Christian McCaffery (seen below).

While not actually added to the IR, Trigger’s first pick (the 2nd overall selection from this year’s draft) has now missed the last two weeks after going down early in week three. Trigger also took the Panthers RB last year, with the first pick in the draft, and like a true Lions fan, proved he’s conditioned to stay in an abusive relationship for as long as it takes.

After averaging 2450 points the first two weeks, since Mr. Glass CMac got hurt, the Dutchmen have been limping along at a paltry 1920 per. That is a 500 point drop in average.

Fly Dutchman, fly.

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