Crew TNF: MWM Final!

It’s MWM Final week!! Five franchises are starting six players on TNF tonight across five matchups.

The MWM Final is a rematch of last season’s Championship, 114.2 to 103.4, and of week 8’s regular season matchup last week, when 🦞 Doug won by 44.8, 164.8 to 120.0, on the same night both won their MWM Semifinals.

🦞 Doug reached this MWM Final on a Monday comeback. It trailed ⏪ RTRO by 21.1 with three Bears to play, and @BotHasStat gave it a 55% chance. D'Andre Swift scored 27.5, Caleb Williams added 20.98, Luther Burden III managed 17.2, and 🦞 Doug won its MWM Semifinal by 10.2.

🦞 Doug is the first franchise to reach three straight MWM Finals. It lost the last two, to ⚜️ K&G in 2024 and 🧪 CLI in 2025, and it has never won an MWM. Only 💨 LTF has lost three MWM Finals.

🎣 DTTW is 2–6, the worst record any franchise has brought into an MWM Final, and that may be its best argument. The franchise with the worse record has won each of the last five MWM Finals, and every MWM finalist with a losing record has won it: four of four, all at 3–5. 🦞 Doug was the better record in the last two, at 7–1 and 6–2. It is 6–2 again.

Neither MWM finalist starts anyone tonight.

🦞 Doug vs 🍆 ZJ

🦞 Doug’s other game this week is for first place. 🦞 Doug, 🍆 ZJ and 🦅 Pwns share the league lead at 6–2, and 🦞 Doug and 🍆 ZJ both carry five-game winning streaks. Two franchises on winning streaks of five or more have met five times before, most recently ⚽ TPC and 🧪 CLI in 2024. A win would tie 🍆 ZJ’s longest, six straight in 2012.

🦞 Doug leads 13–8, and it won the last meeting by 0.4, 116.7 to 116.3. 🍆 ZJ is starting a kicker tonight, and nobody else. 🦞 Doug starts nobody.

⚜️ K&G vs 🦅 Pwns

⚜️ K&G leads 5–2. 🦅 Pwns did not take a knee on Monday. It started Zach Charbonnet with a 0.08 lead, he scored 5.3, and it won 105.6 to 100.2.

⚜️ K&G starts the Jaguars D/ST, and it is 0–5 when it does. Last week the Jaguars defense scored 20.0 for it, its best for ⚜️ K&G, and ⚜️ K&G still lost, 81.0 to 91.9.

💨 LTF vs 👨‍🍳 M&R

The series is level at 9–9, but 💨 LTF leads 4–1 in the five postseason meetings. 💨 LTF beat 🧪 CLI on Monday with an inactive Breece Hall in its lineup, 124.7 to 112.3, and ended a three-game losing streak. That was 💨 LTF’s 17th inactive start, extending its Crew record, and it blows away the rest of the league at a clip of 9.9 inactive starts per 100 games. 🕳️ TBH is next at 7.7.

👨‍🍳 M&R has lost two straight. Tonight, Trevor Lawrence starts at quarterback for 👨‍🍳 M&R: 23.7 a game for it, and it is 4–2 in his starts.

⏪ RTRO vs 🧪 CLI

These two met in this season’s Community Shield, 141.1 to 125.1, and both are now eliminated from this year’s MWM. 🧪 CLI was 4–1 after five weeks. It is 4–4 after three straight losses.

Tonight, Derrick Henry starts at running back for 🧪 CLI, at 19.7 a game for it. Parker Washington starts at receiver: 13.2 a game for 🧪 CLI. ⏪ RTRO starts nobody.

🕳️ TBH vs ⚽ TPC

The series is level at 8–8. Bhayshul Tuten starts at flex for ⚽ TPC tonight, after 31.5 last week. He scores 15.8 a game for ⚽ TPC, which is 3–1 in his starts. 🕳️ TBH starts nobody.