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Week 16

Weekly
Grade
NMSaints
10-6 124.43
134.67
 
VS
proj
The Flying Wedgies
88.1 10-6
110.21

The Flying Wedgies fall short of expectations, lose to NMSaints, 124.43-88.10

There's no easy way to put it, The Flying Wedgies dropped the ball, at least compared to projections, as NMSaints earned a 124.43-88.10 win. NMSaints earned a 39.16-point lead on Thursday behind an impressive performance from Trevor Lawrence, who passed for 229 yards and ran for 51 yards and a touchdown (41.76 points), and never looked back. Sam Darnold (250 Pass Yds, 1 Pass TD, 19 Rush Yds, 1 Rush TD) and Pat Freiermuth (7 Rec, 66 Rec Yds) were the leaders for The Flying Wedgies in the loss. This marks the second time this season NMSaints have beaten The Flying Wedgies, after winning 153.56-113.6 in their last matchup. NMSaints improve to 10-6 for the season, while The Flying Wedgies fall to 10-6.

Matchup Timeline

  NMSaints   The Flying Wedgies

Inside the Matchup

Matchup Player of the Week

Taking on the Lions in Week 16, Foreman ran for 165 yards and a touchdown. In doing so, he put up 33 points and scored 64.5% higher than his scoring projection, the highest percentage of any player on NMSaints this week. Foreman will go up against the Buccaneers next week.
D'Onta Foreman

Top Player Comparison

NMSaints
Points
% of total points 124.43
1
Trevor Lawrence
QB
41.76
37.75
33.6%
2
D'Onta Foreman
RB
33
20.06
26.5%
3
Chris Godwin
WR
14.3
15.4
11.5%
4
Cordarrelle Patterson
RB
9.17
16.51
7.4%
The Flying Wedgies
Points
% of total points 88.1
1
Sam Darnold
QB
39.9
28.95
45.3%
2
Pat Freiermuth
TE
13.6
9.98
15.4%
3
The San Francisco 49ers defense
DEF
10
13.23
11.4%
4
Jeff Driskel
QB
7.2
7.97
8.2%

Matchup Highlights

Saturday
Sam Darnold had a 47-yard pass and a 43-yard pass for The Flying Wedgies, who trailed 110.13-84.20 after Saturday's games.

Points By Position

  NMSaints   The Flying Wedgies

What If

NMSaints would have beaten only one other team besides The Flying Wedgies this week.
The Flying Wedgies would have lost to six other teams besides NMSaints this week.
If NMSaints played The Flying Wedgies every week this season, they'd be 10-6.
NMSaints would be 8-6 if they played the same schedule (excluding head-to-head matchups) as The Flying Wedgies.
If they played the same schedule (excluding head-to-head matchups) as NMSaints, The Flying Wedgies would be 8-6.
If NMSaints had played every team in the league each week, they would be 140-139-1.
If they played every team every week, The Flying Wedgies would be 135-145.

Coach Talk

NMSaints
Hey, finding mismatches is the key to football, right? Case in point: we really emphasized that by quadrupling The Flying Wedgies at running back this past week (42.17 points to 9.4).
The Flying Wedgies
As we move ahead to 2023, our coaching staff is champing at the bit to get back out there again next year. Follow the Yahoo! Experts throughout the offseason for news and player developments, and don't let that pesky agent of yours talk you into holding out of the next fantasy season!