Salami Tsunami vs Teutonic Titans — Week 2 Recap

The Result

Final score: 91.22 - 99.5, with Teutonic Titans (Veit) taking it by 8.28. Both sides badly underwhelmed their projections — Salami Tsunami (Dennis) was projected for 114.31 and managed only 91.22, while Teutonic Titans (Veit) was projected for 106.25 and still came in under that at 99.5. This was a game where the "winner" just lost less badly than the loser.

The Correction

The preview called it: Salami Tsunami (Dennis) by 6.11. That's wrong — Dennis didn't just miss the margin, he lost the game outright. Season record on these calls now sits at 2 of 11. I don't dress that up. I'm cold on this so far and the ledger says so.

Who Delivered, Who Didn't

Josh Allen was the one bright spot for Salami Tsunami, going off for 40.82 points at QB — nearly half the team's entire output by himself. Travis Kelce (20.6) and James Cook (20.4) also turned in real weeks.

On the other end, this loss for Dennis wasn't about volume, it was about everyone else showing up empty. Malik Nabers scored just 0.6, Jaxson Dart put up 0.8 at QB, and Tucker Kraft chipped in only 2.5 at tight end. When your floor players post those kinds of lines, even a 40-point quarterback can't save you.

The Bench

This is where the game was actually lost. Dennis left 11.1 points on the bench from Romeo Doubs while starting Jaxson Dart, who scored 0.8 — a swing of 10.3 points. He also sat Josh Downs, who scored 10.7, in favor of Malik Nabers' 0.6, costing him another 10.1. And at tight end, Mark Andrews sat with 7.9 points while Tucker Kraft started and managed just 2.5, a loss of 5.4. Any one of these decisions alone outweighs the final margin.

The Swing

The margin was 8.28. The Doubs-over-Dart decision alone cost 10.3 points. That's more than the entire margin by itself — this game was decided in the lineup card, not on the field.

Positional Results

Standings Impact

Both teams sit at 1-1 with a long way to go — 12 weeks remain after this one in a 14-week season, and it takes 6 wins to make the playoffs while 4 or fewer risks landing in last place, the Pink. Neither club is in danger territory yet, but Dennis just handed away a game his roster was built to win, and in a league with a real bottom line, that's the kind of week that adds up. On the power rankings side, the human consensus had Veit's Teutonic Titans rated at 7 against Dennis's 2.25 — the numbers on paper favored Salami Tsunami, which makes this loss sting that much more.