2014 Season - Week 8

Congratulations to Craig and Aaron who both made the Scoring Hall of Fame this week putting up 56 and 52 points respectively. It’s Craig’s second visit having scored 51 points in week 2 of 2011. It’s Aaron’s fourth visit but what’s more impressive is that just four weeks ago he was in the Hall of Shame having made only one change on Trading Day 1. It’s only the second time an owner has visited both Halls in the same season, Wayne did it in 2011 but it is the first time an owner has experienced both within a month. It’s A Passing League Right Now Ben Roethlisberger passed for 6 TDs against Indianapolis completing 40 of 49 for 522 yards. That’s the fourth highest ever (tied second are Matt Schaub in 2011and Warren Moon in 1990 with 527 yards). At one point it looked like Big Ben would break the record of 554 set by Norm Van Brocklin way back in 1951 but getting the ball back with 2 minutes 48 seconds left and the result assured Pittsburgh ran the ball to run out the clock. Ben was not the only one to let it fly, for the first time in league history four QBs passed for over 400 yards on Sunday (Aaron Rodgers 418, Nick Foles 411 and Andrew Luck 400 were the others). Just a month ago there was great concern that New England, New Orleans and Pittsburgh were on the decline, on Sunday their QBs were a combined 97 completions from 116 passes (84%) for 1187 yards, 14 TDs and 0 interceptions. Now those are some serious stats. BUMS Team of October And so the second month of the season is in the book. October’s team scored 286 points at a cost of $11 million. That’s more than every team has through two months! You could have had either John Fox (Leamington and Denver) or Bill Belichick (Sofa and New England) running your team with four wins in four weeks for 24 points (both costing $2m). Stephen Gostkowski (Misunderstood and New England) is your kicker (56 points for $2m), with Peyton Manning (Phoenix and Denver) quarterbacking (42 points for $3m). Your running backs are Arian Foster (Rhodesia and Houston – 48 points for $1m) and Matt Forte (Willoughby and Chicago – 38 points and franchised for $1m). At receiver Demaryuis Thomas (Sofa and Denver) franchised for $1m was the top scorer with 30 points. Four players scored 24 but the two that get in cost $0.5m, Emmanuel Sanders (Willoughby and Denver) and Randall Cobb (Green Bay) who is franchised by Phoenix. The two left out are Rob Gronkowski (California and New England) who cost $1m and Julian Thomas (Perivale and Denver) who cost $2m.