Crew MNF Presented by Monster - Week 2

The Giants are at the Rams tonight, and for the second week running every matchup on the board has somebody in it. Two of them have somebody on both sides.

🕳️ TBH vs 🦞 Doug

🕳️ TBH trails 5–10 across fourteen meetings, and the widest of them is the one that hurt most: the 2018 championship, which 🦞 Doug took 159.5 to 101.4.

Davante Adams starts at receiver for 🕳️ TBH: 132 starts at 17.5 PPG for eight franchises, 58 of them for 🕳️ TBH at 20.0 a game — the third-largest body of work any franchise has built with one player, behind two 💨 LTF pairings. 🦞 Doug answers with Kyren Williams, drafted in round three.

🍆 ZJ vs ⚽ TPC

🍆 ZJ trails 11–15 in twenty-five meetings, and 2013 explains why this one never settles. In week 13 🍆 ZJ won 179.6 to 76.4, a margin still among the ten widest in league history. Three weeks later, in the 5th Place Game, ⚽ TPC won 171.0 to 95.6.

Malik Nabers starts at flex for 🍆 ZJ, Isaiah Likely at tight end for ⚽ TPC, and neither has ever appeared in a lineup for the franchise starting him tonight. Nabers cost the 31st pick this year; Likely the 139th.

🎣 DTTW vs 💨 LTF

Last season’s champion trails last season’s Sacko 3–13 across fifteen meetings. 🎣 DTTW has beaten 💨 LTF three times in a decade of trying — but one of the three was the 2019 championship, 115.6 to 93.4.

💨 LTF starts the Rams defense, 101 starts at 7.8 PPG for eleven franchises. Eight of those starts are its own, at 5.6 a game against 8.1 for everybody else. 🎣 DTTW starts nobody.

🏎️ M&N vs 🧪 CLI

🏎️ M&N starts nobody and trails 3–12 here, still its worst series against anyone.

Last week 🧪 CLI beat ⚜️ K&G 168.7 to 130.7 while Matthew Stafford, its quarterback, scored 6.6. Exactly one franchise has ever scored more with its starting quarterback under ten points — 🦞 Doug, 179.2, week 1 of 2017. Stafford has 124 starts at 23.4 PPG across ten franchises, 23.4 a game for the nine that are not 🧪 CLI.

👨‍🍳 M&R vs ⚜️ K&G

⚜️ K&G leads 14–14 across twenty-seven meetings, six of them postseason, one of the most-played playoff series in the league. 👨‍🍳 M&R won the most recent, the 2025 playoff, 144.1 to 103.9, and starts nobody tonight.

Which leaves the fact of the night. ⚜️ K&G is 122–104 all time — the most regular-season wins and the best winning percentage of any franchise in the record — and it has 0 championships. It is 2–10 in knockout games, the worst mark of any franchise to reach the postseason more than once. Sixteen championship games sit on record; ⚜️ K&G has never played in one. It has played the 3rd Place Game seven times.

Jaxson Dart starts at quarterback, the 148th pick this year, round thirteen. He scored 35.1 last week, and ⚜️ K&G lost that game to 🧪 CLI — whose quarterback was Stafford, at 6.6. Tonight the two line up against each other for real. Dart is also the last ⚜️ K&G starter standing, and the franchise is on 39.90 with nobody else to come. The two lowest scores in the entire record are 🗿 Mitch’s 43.8, in week 7 of 2019, and ⚜️ K&G’s own 43.9, in week 5 of 2015 — a tenth of a point apart. The result stopped mattering hours ago. Four points from a thirteenth-round quarterback keeps both marks where they are, and the league will be watching intently to see whether ⚜️ K&G can avoid a new all-time low.

⏪ RTRO vs 🦅 Pwns

🦅 Pwns has lost all four meetings with ⏪ RTRO, the only winless series of four games or more in league history. ⏪ RTRO has played seventeen knockout games, more than any franchise, and starts nobody tonight.

Cam Skattebo starts at running back, the 47th pick this year. 🦅 Pwns is also starting a kicker.

What is still live

Four of the six are decided in all but arithmetic. 👨‍🍳 M&R is 109 clear of ⚜️ K&G. 💨 LTF is far enough ahead of 🎣 DTTW that the Rams defense cannot lose it, which ends a four-game losing streak whatever happens tonight. 🦞 Doug leads 🕳️ TBH by 27.7 and 🍆 ZJ leads ⚽ TPC by 18.1, and each of those now needs one man to have the night of his life.

Two are genuinely in doubt. 🦅 Pwns trails ⏪ RTRO by 11.1 with two starters still to come against nobody at all, so it will take a miracle for ⏪ RTRO to hold — and the league is rooting hard for 🦅 Pwns, which has never beaten ⏪ RTRO in four tries and will not get a better chance than this. The other is 🧪 CLI, 28.7 behind 🏎️ M&N with Stafford the last man standing on either side. Something close to thirty, from the quarterback who gave it 6.6 last week, completes the comeback.

Lineups and scores read from ESPN at 7:17pm Eastern, an hour before kickoff, and they can still change.