Week 13 - What Went Wrong?

As of now, only 4 teams are completely out of the playoff picture: Paul Kim, Rich Kim, David Kim, and Simon Kim (a curse on Kims? Only Jung can break that curse this year. If Jung and Jon don't make playoffs, it would be ridiculous because Jon is from the Kim clan as well).

Let's go back and see where things went wrong for these teams, starting with the most obvious:

12. Simon Kim
What happened?: A risk, a rape, and a ridiculous regular season schedule
Simon started off the draft with a questionable move: Kamara over McCaffrey? Kamara has never reached the volumes CMC has and while he's been a very fun runner to watch, there always seemed to be a ceiling on his potential. But he really went all in on the risky plays when he drafted AB and Gurley in the next two rounds. If all things broke right, he had 3 first rounders on his roster. Well, things didn't come close to breaking right. Brown got accused of rape. Gurley found out he's on a team with the worst QB not named Trubisky. Josh Gordon gets caught up in a horrific on-field injury and the hopes of a comeback season go down the drain. But all of this couldn't prepare him for the schedule he was about to face. Every team that faced him seem to have their best week against him. Let's take a look:
Dan: 1st and 2nd best scoring weeks (143.62, 134.1)
Jung: 4th (103.96)
David Y: 2nd (128.94)
Jon: 4th (123)
Biggie: 2nd (129.16)
Cho: 1st (125.6)
Mike: 2nd (109.32)
Eric: 6th (124.78) [thanks for treating me like all other teams]
David K: 2nd (104.44)
Chris: 3rd (121.42)
Paul: 4th (93.74)
It's like everyone's team prepped extra hard just to play Simon.

11. David K
What happened?: Wasted 1st rounder + 3 backs flirting with greatness
David started with one of the most questionable moves on draft day: making Davante the first receiver off the board. That's the easy decision to criticize. The issues he had at running back weren't really his fault (although, I guess he could have consolidated the potential of 2 of them into 1 solid back). Josh Jacobs looked great in week 1 but his streakiness made him hard to trust on a week to week basis. Some weeks he looked like a top 5 back; others he looked like he shouldn't even be started. But sadly, this was David's best option in the backfield. Mixon struggled all season on a team that still hasn't won a game and Mack's flakiness can be attributed to nagging injuries and stacked boxes due to the absence of Luck. All 3 of the backs were rated in the top 24 coming in to the season but none of them materialized into a true RB1.

10. Biggie
What happened?: Steelers, Browns, and Rams offenses implode
Take a look at Biggie's first 8 picks:

1.	(8)	James Conner (Pit - RB)
2.	(17)	JuJu Smith-Schuster (Pit - WR)
3.	(32)	Aaron Jones (GB - RB)
4.	(41)	Brandin Cooks (LAR - WR)
5.	(56)	Cooper Kupp (LAR - WR)
6.	(65)	Baker Mayfield (Cle - QB)
7.	(80)	Will Fuller V (Hou - WR)
8.	(89)	David Njoku (Cle - TE)

6 of his top 8 were players on the 3 teams mentioned above. Unfortunately for him:
1) Roethlisberger gets hurt for the season, tanking the entire Steelers offense. On top of that, Conner deals with injuries all season
2) Goff showed us that last year's Super Bowl was more indicative of his talents and that the regular season was mostly due to a solid o-line and superhuman Gurley. Goff looks like he did his rookie year and everyone in LA is reading the details of his $134 million dollar contract
3) Cleveland could never live up to the hype they had during the offseason but Baker really struggled against solid competition this season. He showed that he's more Ryan Fitzpatrick than Drew Brees and Njoku still has bricks tied to his hands

9: Paul
What happened? Slow start to season and a few key injuries
Paul is probably one of the unluckier ones this season as he didn't do too much wrong. Sure, he may have reached on Melvin and Michel but overall he didn't have too many bad picks. Cam was seen as a solid value pick that late, he had 2 stud receivers to carry him through most matchups, and Vance was supposed to be the Steelers latest receiving weapon that developed into a fantasy stud. Well, through the first 7 weeks, he was only able to muster 83 points a game. Hill missed a few unplanned weeks, Melvin missed a few planned weeks, and Cam missed the rest of the season a few games in. Now that he's moved past those injuries, his team is actually looking pretty solid. He's averaging over 99 ppg in the last 5 weeks, going 3-2. But that miserable start was too much to overcome, needing a perfect last 6 weeks to make the playoffs.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Good luck to all!

Simon