[League Update] Week 7: New Avatar Alert!

It's time for a new Twitter avatar, boys and girls! This is my favorite type of League Update.

We're going to lead into the new avatar with the Week 7 TWEET(s) OF THE WEEK! 

@RoyaleWCheeseFB Who says kickers aren't important!? @Manofsteele_13 just got Suishamed!!
— Jeremy Williams (@JWill09) October 21, 2014

@JWill09 @RoyaleWCheeseFB You have GOT to be f***ing kidding me?!?! I can't catch a damn break. Kickers never score that much! Stupid game.
— Manofsteele_13 (@Manofsteele_13) October 21, 2014

Stupid game, indeed.

Pittsburgh Steelers kicker Shaun Suisham kicked three field goals and three extra points Monday for 12 points, giving Big Poppa a 68.32-68.1 win over The Reservoir Dogs. That has to be one of the worst ways to lose.

(In case you were wondering, the worst way to lose is by less than a point because of the negative rush yards incurred by a quarterback kneeling the ball at the end of the game. Brutal.)

I love so much about this photo.

Big Poppa's win and Cant Be That Hard's 94-75 loss to Dolphins of Old put Big Poppa alone in first place with a 6-1 record. That means this beautiful photo (right) will take over the Twitter avatar from PerpetualMotionSquad, who has in PerpetualMotion in the wrong direction since earning the avatar.

With Week 7 in the books, we are officially halfway through the Royale With Cheese regular season.

Cant Be That Hard and Turn Down for Watt are tied in second place at 5-2, a game behind Big Poppa. After that, we have three teams -- Jeff Fisher's Mullet, Dolphins of Old and Big Kahuna Burger -- tied for fourth place (the final championship playoff spot) at 4-3.

No team is more than two games out of a playoff spot, though, so a lot can still happen.

PerpetualMotionSquad has been moving the wrong direction since it took the avatar with a 3-0 record. The team has lost four weeks in a row, including a 112-95 loss to Go big or go home in Week 7. And then there was #Lynchgate. At 3-4, PMS is very much still in the hunt, but things need to turn around.

This week's highest point scorer was Go big or go home with 112 points.

The sad trombone goes to Off Constantly, which scored 50 points in a loss to Big Kahuna Burger. So, yes, Big Kahuna Burger beat Off Constantly ... 60-50.



And this week I'm debuting a new award, proposed by Big Poppa:

@RoyaleWCheeseFB Can the team that made the worst decisions this week win the Jameis Winston Award?
— Jeremy Williams (@JWill09) October 16, 2014

Absolutely! Though I'd like to call it the Jameis Winston Award for Poor Decisions.

The inaugural award goes to Off Constantly, which had not one but two quarterbacks on its bench that scored more points than starter Brian Hoyer. Hoyer had 4 points, Carson Palmer had 16 and Austin Davis (who?!?) had 13. Off Constantly, remember, only lost by 10. Oops.

Last week, it seemed like Blaupunkt was seriously considering starting Tony Romo over Peyton Manning.

So @Mattpar14 are you standing by your decision to start Tony Romo over Peyton Manning this week? @RoyaleWCheeseFB
— Jeremy Williams (@JWill09) October 17, 2014

@JWill09 @RoyaleWCheeseFB romo vs giants D or peyton vs 49ers D…
— Matthew Parunak (@Mattpar14) October 17, 2014

It didn't happen, and it ultimately didn't matter -- Blaupunkt beat Something 80-56 -- but ... no. Why would you do that? Never doubt Peyton, especially when the backup is Tony "oh no" Romo.

@RoyaleWCheeseFB glad I started Peyton #sorryromo
— Matthew Parunak (@Mattpar14) October 20, 2014

Other scores from Week 7:

• Turn Down for Watt beat Muscular Mathletes 99-87. I think the Mathletes had the only player in the Packers' offense -- TE Andrew Quarless -- that didn't go ham on the Panthers Sunday. 
• Jeff Fisher's Mullet won a second straight game 97-80 over Academic Probation. The Seahawks D is somehow turning out to be my worst pick in the draft. 

This week's Thursday night game is between the Chargers and Broncos. Teams with a bye in Week 8: Giants and 49ers. 

Wishing you unlimited free crab legs, 

Corey