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Week 15

Weekly
Grade
The Wild Turkeys
8-7 156.66
100.06
 
VS
proj
Morty
78.54 5-10
98.56

The Wild Turkeys hand Morty fifth straight loss in 156.66-78.54 rout

The Wild Turkeys cruised to a 156.66-78.54 victory to hand Morty their fifth straight loss. The Wild Turkeys nabbed a 24.52-point lead on Thursday behind Philip Rivers (20.52 points) and Harrison Butker (4) and never gave it up. Alvin Kamara (19.8 points) and Lamar Jackson (16.74) did their part for Morty in the loss. This marks the third time this season The Wild Turkeys have knocked off Morty, after winning 92.34-91.7 in their last matchup. The Wild Turkeys improve to 8-7 for the season, while Morty fall to 5-10.

Matchup Timeline

  The Wild Turkeys   Morty

Inside the Matchup

Matchup Player of the Week

While running for 170 yards and 2 touchdowns against the Giants, Henry scored 29.74 points this week. His scoring output more-than-doubled his 10.87-point projection and was much higher than his 9.81-point season scoring average. Henry ranks #63 among all fantasy players this season and will face the Redskins next week.
Derrick Henry

Top Player Comparison

The Wild Turkeys
Points
% of total points 156.66
1
Derrick Henry
RB
29.74
10.87
19%
2
Dalvin Cook
RB
28.8
12.64
18.4%
3
Philip Rivers
QB
20.52
21.41
13.1%
4
Tevin Coleman
RB
20.5
9.99
13.1%
Morty
Points
% of total points 78.54
1
Alvin Kamara
RB
19.8
18.46
25.2%
2
Lamar Jackson
QB
16.74
19.61
21.3%
3
Greg Zuerlein
K
12
11.71
15.3%
4
Josh Reynolds
WR
9.5
8.07
12.1%

Matchup Highlights

Sunday Early
Tevin Coleman had a 43-yard touchdown run and a 65-yard run for The Wild Turkeys, while Dalvin Cook had a 21-yard touchdown run, helping The Wild Turkeys to a 148.36-30.24 lead.

Points By Position

  The Wild Turkeys   Morty

Game Notes

The Wild Turkeys had six of their nine starters exceed their projected points.
Morty had only four of their nine starters score higher than their projected points.
Morty can partially blame the loss on Kerryon Johnson, who didn't score any points.
The Wild Turkeys had five players score more points than the leading scorer for Morty.
The Wild Turkeys put up more points than their season scoring average (105.87) while Morty fell short of theirs (96.06).
The Wild Turkeys put up more points than their projected total, while Morty fell short of their projection.
The 156.66 points scored by The Wild Turkeys are the 2nd-most in the league this season.
The matchup's 78.12-point margin was the largest in the league this week.
This victory snaps a streak of three consecutive losses for The Wild Turkeys.
Not only did The Wild Turkeys win, but they also covered the 1.5-point predicted margin of victory.
The Wild Turkeys moves to (4-5) in blowout games this season, while Morty falls to (1-3).

Coach Talk

The Wild Turkeys
Spotting mismatches is a big key to success in football. With some monster yardage production from our running backs, our team certainly made that happen this week. Our backfield recorded 317 more total yards than the RBs on Morty (484 yards from scrimmage to 167), and we wound up nearly tripling them at the position (79.04 points to 27.7).
Morty
Welp, we certainly can't gripe about a lack of opportunities this time, can we? As a group, our trio of pass-catchers (two WR and one TE) collectively saw a grand total of 21 targets in Week 15. With only 10 total catches, that group may be showing signs of chemistry issues.