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MTZehvor on 27 September 2017
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RolStoppable said:
MTZehvor said:

Biggest Upset: AlphaMales 92.00, LousyPack 75.72

Boy was this a nutty finish. Rol held close to a 10 point lead over Mike with 8:20 to go in the second quarter of the Monday Night game, and both teams had one player active: Rol had the Arizona DST, which had largely shut down the Dallas offense to that point, and Mike had Larry Fitzgerald, who had put up terrible stats to that point. Then...chaos. The Cowboys reeled off 28 points in the last two and a half quarters, taking away all the points Rol had gained from the Cards DST (they finished with 0 points). Meanwhile, Fitzgerald went off, posting 149 yards and a TD pretty much exclusively from that point onward (he finished with 21). The end result was the last unbeaten going down in dramatic fashion. 

Huh? Larry Fitzgerald had six or seven receptions in the first quarter alone. The way he was targeted and the way the Cowboys allowed it, it was only a matter of time until a big catch happened. That was in the third quarter, I think. But Larry had about 40 yards (4 points) after one quarter and before MNF I was ahead by only ~4.5 points. I don't count on a defense to save many of the 10 default points; if 4 of those remain at the end of the game, that's already a great result. What's more important are the other ways a defense can score points and the Cardinals didn't manage more than a single sack. The only reason why it looked competitive at all is because of the 10 points a defense gets in advance, but a single TD plus PAT by the opposing team already deducts 6.

According to the score tracker on the website, Fitzgerald had roughly 3 fantasy points until 4:45 left to go in the third quarter. Can't speak for how many catches he had (especially since I don't think the number of receptions is directly tied to fantasy points outside of the yards that go with them). But yes, 3.4ish points through two and 2/3rds of a quarter, which extrapolates to around 5 points for the whole game, is a pretty bad game by Fitzgerald standards.