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Matchup Recap Summary
Week 5
Weekly
Grade
Grade
Marry Our Cousins!
5-0 159.94
159.41
VS
proj
The Tidy Troops
98.32
2-3
136.34
Marry Our Cousins! knock off The Tidy Troops to remain perfect in 159.94-98.32 rout
Marry Our Cousins! won their fifth consecutive matchup to open the season with a easy win over The Tidy Troops, rolling to a 159.94-98.32 victory. It was the third consecutive loss for The Tidy Troops. Marry Our Cousins! pulled out to a 11.50-point lead on Thursday behind Rob Gronkowski and never gave it back. Stefon Diggs (17.6 points) and Patrick Mahomes (16.82) led the way for The Tidy Troops in defeat. Marry Our Cousins! improve to 5-0 on the season, while The Tidy Troops fall to 2-3.
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Matchup Timeline
Marry Our Cousins!
The Tidy Troops
Inside the Matchup
Matchup Player of the Week
Projected to score 12.91 points, Woods scored 58.8% more than that amount by scoring 20.5 points as the Rams beat the Seahawks 33-31. He racked up 145 yards from scrimmage to beat his projection by the highest percentage of any player on Marry Our Cousins! this week. Next week, Woods will battle the Broncos.
Robert Woods
Top Player Comparison
Marry Our Cousins!
Points
% of total points 159.94
1
Todd Gurley II
RB
36.3
26.29
22.7%
2
Robert Woods
WR
20.5
12.91
12.8%
3
Kareem Hunt
RB
20.4
17.89
12.8%
4
A.J. Green
WR
17.2
15.38
10.8%
The Tidy Troops
Points
% of total points 98.32
1
Stefon Diggs
WR
17.6
14.8
17.9%
2
Patrick Mahomes
QB
16.82
24.05
17.1%
3
Emmanuel Sanders
WR
13.2
11.38
13.4%
4
Phillip Lindsay
RB
11.1
7.95
11.3%
Matchup Highlights
Sunday Early
Both teams had players with big-time plays early Sunday, after which Marry Our Cousins! owned a 141.30-68.42 lead. For Marry Our Cousins!, Robert Woods had a 56-yard run. Patrick Mahomes made the highlight reel for The Tidy Troops with a 40-yard pass.
Sunday Late
Kirk Cousins had a 68-yard pass for Marry Our Cousins!, helping the team to a 157.44-86.02 lead.
Points By Position
Marry Our Cousins!
The Tidy Troops
StatSmack
This wasn't even their best effort. Marry Our Cousins! scored less in this one (159.94) than their season average of 183.42.
Get on their level! The Tidy Troops have lost their last three weeks, while Marry Our Cousins! have won five straight.
We heard scoring helps you win. Marry Our Cousins! are doing a better job of that, averaging 183.42 versus The Tidy Troops's 144.7.
As Herm Edwards once said, "You play to win the game!" Marry Our Cousins! (5-0) have a better record than The Tidy Troops (2-3).
Even the machines think Marry Our Cousins! have a better lineup. Their projected average points is higher (162.51) than The Tidy Troops (139.99).
Once Marry Our Cousins! put their foot on the gas, they don't let up. They've got more blowout wins this season than The Tidy Troops (3 vs 0).
Marry Our Cousins! should change their team name to "The Overachievers" since they have scored higher than projected in more matchups than The Tidy Troops (4 vs 2).
By position, Marry Our Cousins! have outscored The Tidy Troops at RB, WR, TE, and K this season.
Marry Our Cousins! don’t just win, they win BIG, with an average margin of victory of 54 points, highest in the league.
The starters for Marry Our Cousins! had more big plays in their NFL games this week (2) than the starters for The Tidy Troops (1).
There's not much good to say about The Tidy Troops this week. Maybe they'll get their act together, and we'll see something different next week!
Coach Talk
Marry Our Cousins!
Creating mismatches is a huge component to winning in football. Thanks to some stellar yardage production from our running backs, our team really made that happen this week. Our backfield put up 84 total yards than the RBs of The Tidy Troops (268 yards from scrimmage to 184), and we wound up nearly tripling them at the position (71.8 points to 25.4).
The Tidy Troops
Ruh-roh... no passing TDs, but two interceptions for Patrick Mahomes against the Eagles? Week 6's approaching quickly and we should probably discuss the elephant in the room: do we keep deploying him as our starting quarterback?