Playoffs: Bye Teams

Let's not leave out the two bye teams this season. Both will be resting this week but they'll have their scouting departments carefully deployed to analyze eventual matchups.

Chunky Monkeys (10-3)
Lets's start with the accolades. Highest scoring team in the league with 118.8 points per game -- an incredible 9.2 more than the next closest PF team. Eleven weeks with 100+ scores. The best RB in the game: Jamaal Charles. The best WR in the game: Calvin Johnson. The hottest WR in the game: Josh Gordon, coming off two 200+ yard efforts. Plus perfectly played FA additions of Torrey Smith, Harry Douglas, and Michael Floyd. All of this amidst major injuries to Julio Jones and Randall Cobb, plus weathering the extreme craptasticness that was Trent Richardson 2.0. Oh, on top of that, a promising rookie running back, Giovani Bernard, unearthed through the draft.

Armed with surging Russell Wilson at the helm, Chunky Monkeys are our favorite. Again. The Monkeys haven't won a championship since 2010, but it looks like their days of being regular season frontrunners / postseason chokers could be over. The league is on high alert: Beware Monkeys! (Sidenote: How did the highest scoring team end up facing the leagues' softest schedule? That's just unfair.)

Fat Jubas (9-4)
Our defending champs are perfectly poised to return to their third Super Bowl in a row. Led once again by Cam Newton and Jimmy Graham, this team is full of familiar faces. Big play threats Vincent Jackson and Eric Decker can now add Alshon Jeffery to the mix, and in what could have been the highest scoring game of all time, Eric had the chance to have two 40+ point WRs starting last week. He still put up 161.7 points in a drubbing of Fobsters but it would have been cool to see him eclipse 200+ points. Chris Johnson has quietly become a dependable top back again, and the story of the season is how Knowshon Moreno eclipsed all expectations and became the #3 ranked RB this year. He more than took over Darren McFadden's role in the lineup and now gives Jubas one of the best RB duos in the land.

Eric's team wasn't too shabby in the century games department either, putting up ten of them this season. Also, they are wrapped up the season on a 7-2 and are clicking at just the right time for a long playoff run. With a strong chance to become the first repeat champion in CTDB, look for Eric to be glued to the television every Sunday in December.