No Jahmyr Gibbs. No problem, right? Wrong. This is Garrett’s week in three players. Cam Skattebo played six snaps and got zero touches — the Giants froze him out of the backfield entirely — for 0.00. Harold Fannin Jr. caught one ball for nine yards. Darius Cooper caught one ball for nine yards. Jinx! No seriously, they were both that bad. Add in Dak’s two interceptions in Green Bay (13.02) and you get the lowest score of the week by 19.68. D’Andre Swift’s two touchdowns (21.0) were the only bright spot in the lineup.

Scarpitti is back to his easy, breezy winning ways. Bhayshul Tuten caught two touchdowns out of the Jacksonville backfield (22.7 on an 11.90 projection), Josh Allen threw for 255 and two scores (22.3), and Jaxon Smith-Njigba caught 12 balls for 134 (21.4). Scarps is 5-1.

Now the good part. 75.82 was the lowest score among active Squid Game teams, so Garrett is out. However, he’s sitting on a Duel Token and it’s time to collect. Of the seven teams he could have challenged, he picked the one that had just beaten him by fifty.

Garrett is running it back against Scarpitti. LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

Margin: 1.66. Gangus takes the Photo Finish and $25.

Scotty, you’ve had some close losses this season, but I imagine this one cut a little deeper. I don’t want to talk about Kyle Pitts again. I really don’t, but you’ve forced me to. After you benched him last week for Hunter Henry, Pitts has outscored Henry in both matchups, and this week he went for five catches, 60 yards and two touchdowns (20.5). The best game he has played since we started making fun of him back in 1998. And of course he did it on your bench.

I called last week’s 12.7 bench game the most Kyle Pitts thing that had ever happened. I’d like to retract that. THIS is it. He finally breaks out, he does it in street clothes, and the 7.70 he’d have gained you over Hunter Henry would have been more than enough to get the W. Also, start Pitts and I win the Photo Finish bonus over Gangus and we put Coyne in last place. Everyone wins! Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying start Kyle Pitts next week. That would be irresponsible fantasy football advice. At least you are no longer bonus-cash poor. Malik Nabers was a monster — 165 yards on 12 catches, 24.50 and the WR Dot.

Gangus got the W with another standout performance from Isaiah Likely (20.9, TE Dot, second week running) and Jordan Love (22.24), and he did it while Brian Robinson Jr. gave him 2.00, the Jaguars defense gave him 1.00, and Amon-Ra was on bye. Three dead roster spots and he still found a way to win by 1.66. You say that you “HATE” fantasy football, but fantasy football doesn’t seem to be hating on you.

79.86. 103.00. 106.68. 120.92. 125.70. 128.16. Six weeks, six increases, and this one was the highest score in the league. I picked up Tyler Shough out of Scarpitti’s trash bin and watched him throw three touchdowns and run one in (32.96). Boswell added 169 yards of field goals (17.9). And then there’s Colston Loveland. Six catches, 65 yards, a touchdown, 15.5 points. The recurring villain of this newsletter since Week 1 — accurately described as “buns” — went out and played professional football. I built a personality around that man’s failure, and I don’t know who I am anymore.

Hayden, meanwhile, scored 124.94 and lost, which is becoming his whole personality. Trevor Lawrence threw four touchdowns (37.34, QB Dot) and Kenneth Walker III ran for 128 and two scores (28.9, RB Dot) — his fourth multi-touchdown game in five outings, a pace matched since the merger only by Calvin Johnson in 2011. He owned both offensive Dots and still lost by 3.22.

Here’s where it actually turned. By Monday night we each had one player left. Hayden had Terry McLaurin. I had Christian McCaffrey. Late in the first quarter McLaurin pulled up on a route and left on a cart with his leg in an air cast — one catch, 27 yards, 3.2 points, done. Door shut. Window open. McCaffrey ran in two touchdowns and finished with 26.2. Hayden lost by 3.22. Run the math on a healthy McLaurin playing three more quarters and this match likely goes his way. The knee is the entire margin. This will definitely go down as the lowest scoring “high score” of the season, but who cares. I’ll take the $15 and the spotlight for one week.

Behind Walker and Lawrence, it was slim pickings anyway: Derrick Henry (4.5), Bucky Irving (5.9), Zay Flowers (9.7). Hayden’s 3-3 and has now lost twice while scoring 124 or better.

Graham is 6-0.

Let it sink in, because we can’t Ctrl + Z our way out of this. I’ve spent five weeks calling this a scheduling artifact. This week he posted 111.02, the fourth-lowest score in the league, and won again, because Coyne only managed to score 101.36. Kirk Cousins threw for 313 and two touchdowns (24.52). Chuba Hubbard ran for 120 and a score (20.60). His two Rams combined for 19.20 on a 39.84 projection. Travis Kelce caught four for 53.

That is not a good fantasy week. It is, however, a winning one. Six in a row. Gee whiz.

Coyne is 1-5 and still isn’t a bad team, which gets harder to say out loud every week. Jonathan Taylor ran for 94 and a touchdown (20.1), Purdy threw for 264 (19.36), DeVonta Smith caught a touchdown (17.0). The back half is where it died: Garrett Wilson 6.40, the Colts defense 3.00, and Davante Adams 5.40 before leaving with a knee injury. For the first time all season the bench wasn’t the problem. He just got beat by Chuba Hubbard and Kirk Cousins. And that is nothing to be embarrassed about. Or is it?

Greg’s quarterback room is down to rubble. Jalen Hurts is on injured reserve for the season with blood clots, so Greg turned to Patty Mahomes, who threw for 272 with a pick (10.48 on a 20.50 projection). His highest-scoring starter was the Chiefs defense at 17.00. That’s twice this season his best player has been a defense.

James Cook ran for 95 and a score (22.8), Carnell Tate added a touchdown (16.0), and 104.18 was enough to get the job done. That’s now two wins for Giggy without cracking 106.

Anthony lost this match at running back. Bijan Robinson got 11 touches, finished with 61 rushing yards and minus-eight receiving, and only scored 6.3. Tony Pollard added a measly 7.6. Eddy Pineiro missed an extra point and managed 4.3.

Drake Maye continued to impress. Three touchdowns, 235 yards, 24 more on the ground, 29.8 — three straight weeks of 29-plus from the guy who looked like a bust through the first three weeks.