Week 8 2017: vs. Imposing Monstrosity

Starting Lineup:
QB: Drew Brees
WR: Antonio Brown
WR: Tyreek Hill
RB: Ezekiel Elliott
RB: Alvin Kamara
TE: Hunter Henry
Flex: TY Hilton
K: Blair Walsh
D/ST: Atlanta

We are officially halfway through the 2017 MFFL season and El Pollo Loco (5-1-1) is off to the best start in franchise history. They are coming of a week in which they scored the highest point total in the league this season, beating Tavon and Only 164-124. In last week's press release I mentioned Ezekiel Elliott had his best matchup of the season and needed to lead Loco to victory. Zeke did just that dropping 43 points on a lowly 49ers defense. It wasn't just Zeke for Loco as they put in another balanced team effort with 7 starters scoring over 15 points. Loco looks to keep the momentum going as they turn their attention back to the West division as Imposing Monstrosity comes to Albuquerque. Loco wants this game bad as they try to avenge an uncomfortable early season tie with Stros.

Stros is coming off of a victory over Brock n' Roll to stay 2 games behind Loco for the division lead. A win against Loco would be huge for Stros bringing them within one game of Loco and it would give them a better divisional record than Loco. Stros still has decisions to make a QB and WR, but their team will be lead by Le'Veon Bell and Rob Gronkowski. Bell has been absolutely on fire after a slow start and is good for 20 points every week. When Gronk is healthy it is hard to find a fantasy player with a higher ceiling which is a huge advantage at the TE spot.

Loco is coming off a huge performance and though it seems things have changed for them this season they still have been inconsistent. When they are good they are great scoring over 137 points 4 times this season. However they have had their share of down weeks scoring under 108 points 3 times including a game under 100. Loco likes what they saw from their team last week, but there are players that still can step up. GM Josh Cermak told me, "last week was a great team effort. Almost everyone contributed, but we still want to see more from Drew [Brees] and TY [Hilton]". It seems like nit picking, but Brees, while playing solid, hasn't quite lived up to the 3rd round hype. Also, you would like to see more production than 4 points from Hilton. We'll see this week if Cermak can't get his entire team in gear.

This is great rematch and possibly the beginning of a great divisional rivalry between these two teams. Look for this game to be just as close as the first one, but hopefully with one team coming out victorious.