CFFL Week 8 Review

8 weeks in the book and the dreaded home and home series are finally over.

Pryor runs for 92 yards and the win!

Game of the Week: Twins 23 Mafia 17
Yes this was a game between two teams pretty much out of the playoffs with 3 wins between them.  But it ended in thrilling fashion!  Late in the game (late Sunday  Night) the Twins were down 17-11 when Micah Hyde returned a punt 93 yards for the Packers to tie the game at 17-17.  In overtime Terrelle Pryor scampered for 92 yards and a TD to win the game for the Twins!!

Comeback of the Week: Killer Bees 33 Mayhem 30
In a see-saw battle that saw the Mayhem take the lead with 14 points from their Kicker Mason "Consolidated" Crosby 30-21 it looked like it was all over.  Only player Bees had left was Golden "Taint" Tate.  One TD wasn't going to be enough down 30-27.  But Tate would get a second TD late in the game (and was a real dick about it) and with no time left the Bees won 33-30.  This game's box score was a strange one with 41 points scored from both their kickers and defenses.

Marvin "Garden" Jones 4 TDS

Player of the Week: Marvin "Garden" Jones - 24 points - Chislers
The Chislers needed every one of those 24 points, well maybe just 12,  as they split the home and home against the Animals 46-31.  The 24 points made it a lot easier to watch "Beast Mode" Lynch play on Monday night, but as it turned out Lynch couldn't crack the goal line once.  The win puts the Chislers still 3 games back but back to .500 at 4-4

Performance of the week:  Wrecking Crew 56 points
The Crew swept the Ferrets beating them 56-29, which at one point looked like it might be a game at 26-16 but the Ferrets could only manage points from their QB, Kicker and Defense.  The Crew got double digit scoring from 4 players (Newton-14, Gore-12, Graham-12, Bailey-12).  Newly acquired Jimmy Graham was happy to be back with the Crew who he spent his past two season with and didn't show any signs of his planter peanut foot bothering him. 



Newton and Olsen hook up for 10 pts

Man that dude knows how to party

Around the League: Crush prevent the sweep as Drew Brees was back racking up 20 points in the Crush's 39-28 win over the Bums, tying them for first in the West at 6-2.  Malachi's 20 points were fro naught for the Bums...Dragons cruise to a 31-9 victory in their bye week over the Titans.  2 10 point connections from Rodgers to Nelson were key. The win helps them stay 2 games back of the Bees...Titans are a hot mess...Sinistars keep rolling and sweep the Krauts 27-15 staying one game above the Roulette. Sinistars were lead by Stafford's 10 points (6 of which came with 12 seconds left in the game)...Roulette kept pace with the Sinistars beating the Juggs 37-33. The Big Three for the Roulette finally all hit on the wheel,  Peyton Manning threw for16 points this week, Peterson had a TD and Calvin Megatron Johnson had one as well...

What the heck...Go Twins!

CFFL Week 7 Review

As we are at the mid point of the season and smack dab in the middle of the dreaded home and home series, here is how Week 7 went, and where we stand after half of the regular season is in the book.


"I WIN!"

In the North:  Animals 40 Chislers 25 and Wrecking Crew 27 Ferrets 19
The North see the Wrecking Crew begin to pull away from the rest in the North moving to 6-1 and a three game lead now.  Frank Gore's knee lead the way with 12 points this week as the Ferrets continue to struggle finding the right mix of stiffs...The Animals put up a 40-burger over the defending champ Chislers.  The Animals were well balanced getting scoring from every player except the defense and Alshon "I WIN" Jeffery.  Animals actually have the best offense in the North and could make a run...

Megatron scored 2 TDS

In the East:  Roulette 31 Juggernauts 11 and Sinistars 29 Krauts 21
The East its between the Sinistars (6-1) and the Roulette (5-2).  The Roulette easily dispensed the Juggs and got some big production from Megatron (12 points) and of course Peyton Manning (12 points).  With those two plus Adrian Peterson, the Roulette should continue to roll and will set up a big match up at the end of the year with the Sinistars.  Speaking of the Sinistars, they came from behind late in the game with 11 points from Josh Brown "Eye" to defeat the Krauts despite 12 points from Vincent "Price" Jackson. 

In the South:  Killer Bees 39 Mayhem 19 and Dragons 41 Titans 24

Rodgers had no problem vs the Titans

The Bees are beginning to run away with the division at 5-2 and hold a 2 game lead right now over the Dragons.  The Dragons were hoping for some help from the Mayhem as the Dragons playing his brother the Titans really have a 2 week bye in this home and home series.  Can never count out Dragons with Aaron Rodgers and Jordy Nelson who combined for 18 points this past week.  Bees who for years had had Brees now lands Andrew Luck who has proven to be a fantasy star.  He earned player of the week award with 18 points this week. Going to be hard to catch the Luck lead Bees.

Malachi is ready for the Corn fields!

In the West: Mafia 43 Twins 23 and Bums 34 Crush 15
With the home and home series pitting 5-1 Crush vs. 5-1 Bums is how it should be.  Advantage to Bums as they take the first game in impressive fashion. Malachi Dalton played like he should  scoring 12 and as long as Jamaal Charles continues to have his career year they may  take game 2.  Brees will be back for the Crush next week making this the game of the week.  Twins and Mafia playing for the basement of the West.  What has happened to the Twins?

Players of the Week: Matt Forte and Andrew Luck - 18 points
Andrew Luck are leading the Bees to a 2 game lead in the South.  Matt Forte had a rare 18 points for the 2 win Mafia.

Luck tallied 18 points!

Mid Season Awards:

Manning having amazing year

Top Player: Peyton Manning - 106 points - Roulette.  Yeah that's right, 106 points! that's 36 more than the next player on the list (who is a kicker).  Manning has two weeks of 20+ points.

Top Running Back: Jamaal Charles - 48 points - Bums.  Charles "In Charge" is having his best fantasy year yet tying his career best  TDs of 8 already and its only week 7!

Top Wide Receiver / TE: Julius Thomas, Bums and Wes Welker, Crush - 48 points.  No surprise that top wide outs are Broncos.  Interesting they play for divisional rivals in the West.

Top Kicker: Matt Prater - 70 points - Killer Bees. Yet another Bronco. 

Top Defense: Bears and Chiefs - 30 points (Bees and Sinistars).  No surprise the Bears are at the top here but the Chiefs were a surprise. 

What to look for in the second half of the season....Can the Crew keep winning?  Well they may have to when fighting off top offense in the North Animals and the luck of the Chisler...With the line up of the Roulette they are still the odds on favorite to make it to the Fantasy Bowl and don't count on Manning sitting at the end of the season if the Chiefs keep winning....Dragons will challenge Bees, but will not be easy as long as Luck keeps playing like he does.  But you can't count out Rodgers...but on thing you can count on or out is the Titans, who have yet won a game.  Will they win a game?  Who knows.  There has never been a winless season...could this be the first.  Epic battle next week with Crush and Bums going round 2 and this time Crush have Brees back.  Both teams have a shot going deep in the playoffs. Again what happened to the Twins???  Oh wait..here they are!

CFFL Week 6 Review

Stafford Celebrating again!

Not a lot of exciting action this week.  Some blow outs.  Some close scores.  No come backs.....Here's how Week 6 ended up...

Top Team of the Week:  Sinistars 49 over Crush 26
The Sinistars stomped the formally undefeated Crush as Stafford tallied 16 points and DeSean Jackson finally showed up scoring 2x.  The Crush were to busy trying to figure out if they loose to a bunch of teams that score a lot of points how he can still make the playoffs. 

Top Team second honors: Krauts 47 Twins 9
What the heck has happened to the Twins?  In a complete shellacking, the Krauts put the Twins in the oven, showers, you name it!  Krauts were lead from an unusual source...Nick Foles in for Vick had 18 points, while Vincent Jackson scored a rare 2 TD game!  The Twins fall to 1-5.  The win puts the Krauts at 3-3 but still 2 games back of the Powerful Sinistars.

SuperStiff was finally Superman

Player of the Week: Cam Newton and Nick Foles - 18 points
An unusual pair for sure.  Cam "SuperStiff" Newton finally managed to live up to his first round billing throwing for 3 TDs and running in for another as the Wrecking Crew improve to 5-1 with a victory over the Mayhem 37-29 (didn't hurt that Brady only had 4 points).

Around the league...The Bums just keep winning and beat the Juggernauts 32-22 lead by 12 points from Jamaal Charles "in charge" who is having maybe his best ever fantasy year.  He's already got 7 TDs on the year only 1 away from his career high, and its only Week

6...Roulette played to an uncharacteristic low scoring affair out lasting the Mafia 16-12 surviving the Monday Night game which had Ryan "Glass" Mathews for the Mafia.  The mighty Roulette who traded for Megatron, and now have Peterson and Manning managed only 8 points from Manning and 8 from the kicker....Bees beat a lackluster Ferret team 23-9 with 6 from MJD and Cooper and as always the Bears D.  Ferrets sported a lineup that included Rashard Jennings at RB, Ted Ginn Jr. and Jeff Cumberland (who??) as wideouts...The Animals got a bye week this week taking on the Titans, winning 29-17.  Beast Mode had 12 points in the effort. It was only the 2nd win for the Animals as the Titans remain winless...The Chislers handed the Dragons their 2nd loss in a row thanks to 24 points from their kicker ("Survey Says" Dawson) and the Rams D...yeah I said the Rams D...go figure.  Aaron Rodgers had only 4 points...

"Norman" Bates scored the first Rams D TD!

I would have to say the toughest Division right now is the Eastern Bloc.  With the Sinistars at 5-1 and the Manning, Peterson Megatron lead Roulette at 4-2 hard to argue.  Oh and Krauts and Juggs are a respectful 3-3 as well.  The West is a Division of two tales.  Crush and Bums 5-1 while Mafia and Twins are 1-5...

And incase you missed my response to the Crush's ridiculous proposal and poll here it is:

At least the Crush got this in the news!

Call us MLB, but That is insane.  If you want to get into a rotisserie league that only goes by points, go right ahead.  Who needs to play head to head then?  Just total points is all that matter.  Hell lets just not submit a line up and just play all our players because its total points...doesn't matter.  Please give me a break.  There are plenty of leagues out there that you can get into that play like that I suppose.  So feel free to join those leagues Randy. I'm sure there are many owners in this league that are in "other" leagues.  What has been amazing about this league is the realness of this league to actual football games.  We don't have to start a TE, or we can start 5TEs if we want to.  We can go with a one back set, don't always have to start 2 RBs. 

Has the best team won  the Super Bowl in the NFL every year?  I would think not.  Many times its been the team that got hot at then end, or got some lucky bounces.  Nor has the Super Bowl team been the team that scored the most points through out the regular season, in fact that is a rare occasion.

Plus in the league where points are at a premium, unlike some of the "other" leagues where you get points for just about anything, if you happen to fall behind in points significantly it is very hard to make up that ground and your season is over.  But under our current format, maybe a team gets lucky, wins some games and fights for a playoff spot at 7-7.  Certainly don't want some "unlucky" team with a record of 5-9 making the playoffs....

Lets stop this nonsense and crazy talk!  Please!

Week 5 Preview

Cherry's Chislers (-4) at Michigan Mayhem
The Defending champs are 1-3 and now face the Mayhem who are 2-2 and tied in the South.  Mayhem are lead by Tom Brady but the Chislers have their Packers back in James Jones and Randall Cobb.  Mayhem have some pretty good backs too in Bell and McCoy.  Somehow I don't see the defending champs going 1-4. Chislers win but take the Mayhem and the points.


Chislers have fan club in SF

Alex's Animals (-3.5) at Georgia Killer Bees
Animals got their first win last week and are looking to make it 2 against the Bees.  Animals have some fire power in Lynch, Demaryius and Jordan Cameron.  Bees are 2-2 thanks to Luck and Prater and the Bears D.  While the Bears D is good can't count on them every week.  Animals cover.

R.C. Wrecking Crew (-5) at Monclova Dragons
Yet another road favorite travels to the South.  Rodgers is back after his bye just in time for a big game against the North leading Crew.  Julio Jones, Nelson for 10 points, and Victor Cruz will come up big.  Crew's trying to ground it out with Newton, Foster and Gore.  Take the Dragons to upset the Crew and win outright.

Fez's Ferrets (-19.5) at Toledo Titans
The Ferrets get a bye week this week as they take on the hapless Titans and are a huge favorite.  A.J. Green best player for the Titans and the turmoil at QB.  Ferrets who looked to trade some players away are now only game behind in North.  Ferrets win but take the Titans and the points.

Oh those crazy Ferret Fans!

Cabucki Crush (-16)at Kretz Krauts
Hard to go against a Drew Brees lead team in the Crush.  They also benefited from Richardson going to Indy.  Krauts camp not happy and hoping to end the 2 game skid. Krauts #1 pick Alfred "Mo Mo" Morris has been a disappointment as has their wide outs.  Too many points on the road take Krauts and the points but Crush remain undefeated.

Barcardi's Bums at Stamm's Sinistars (-15)
Sinistars are a surprise big favorite over the Bums and once again the Bums get no respect.  Sinistars go as Matthew Stafford goes.  Bums keep doing it with mirrors.  Won last week with no points from QB.  I'm seeing another stunning upset by the Bums.  Take Bums, points and to win.

Bums fans after the game...before the game..during...

Thomsen Twins at Russian Roulette (-9)
Twins trying to right the ship after being preseason favorites to go to Fantasy Bowl. Graham has been the one bright spot as Martin and Spiller have disappointed at RB.  Can Sproles keep picking up the slack. Roulette are coming off stunning upset at the hands of the Ferrets.  With Manning and Peterson, just a little help from anyone else and they should always win.  Twins woes continue.  Roulette cover.

Mark's Mafia at Jakes' Juggernauts (-4)
Maybe the game of the week.  Both teams are 2-2 and looking to make moves in their divisions. Juggs are tough with Russell Wilson and Dez Bryant.  Mafia rely on Megatron.  QBs are lame (Palmer or Geno Smith).  Looks like Juggernauts cover on this one.

Juggernauts Phoenix fan club.

CFFL Week 4 Action

Not sure what race, but damn he good!

This week saw some pretty amazing comebacks and exciting action on Monday Night!

Comeback #1: Twins 36 Titans 32
It looked like the Titans were finally going to win their first game of the year by beating the preseason favorite Twins.  After 28 points from their kicker Akers and Nate Washington, the Titans were up 28-12.  No problem right.  Monday Night the Titans brought Tannehill to the game and the Twins had Sproles and Graham.  Sproles TD, Graham TD, Sproles TD and it was only half time of Monday night and the Twins were in the lead 30-28.  Graham would add one more TD to make it 36-28 but the Titans still had Tannehill.  Tannehill only managed one TD to make the final 36-32.





Comeback #2: Ferrets 43 Roulette 37


Lamar Miller scores the game winner!

Late in the game it looked like it was going to be one of those crazy games that you waste not one but two Defense TDs on the board and loose.  Ferrets were down only 21-8 after Roulette got 2 TDs from Peterson and still had Manning yet to play.  Manning then didn't disappoint throwing for 4 TDs (16pts)!  The man is just amazing!  Score was quickly 37-20 in favor of the Roulette after the Ferrets got a defensive TD from the Broncos. Then a Gates TD...Still a lot of points to make up.  Then a blocked punt by the Broncos gave them hope putting them only down by 11.  Sunday night saw Matt Bryant score exactly 11 points.  This game was going into overtime!  Not so fast my friends!  Ferrets running back
Lamar Miller ran from 5 yards out for a TD to give the Ferrets the victory, when all looked lost earlier in the game.

Nina Hartley, Sinistar Fan!

Comeback #3: Sinistars 30 Wrecking Crew 23
Probably the least thrilling of the three comebacks was the Sinistars and Wrecking Crew.  Crew got good performances, but made two big mistakes.  First, they didn't shake the Chislers hand for a trade last week for Flaco for Ponder (Ponder then didn't start in the game for the Vikings). Flaco's 8 points would have given the Crew the 31-30 win.  Second, the Crew didn't start Tony Gonzalez who scored 2 TDs Sunday night, which would have given them a 35-30 win.  Instead leading by only 1 point 23-22 the Crew were out of weapons and the Sinistars had Garrett "Nina" Hartley.  After 2 TDs from the Saints giving them 2 XP the game was over.  Hartley would add 6 more points to make the final 30-23.

High Scoring Team of the Week: Crush 59 points with win over Bees 59-24
Every player scored for the Crush, including the defense except for Heath Miller.  Richardson, Bush, Boldin, Seahawks, all had 6 each.  Succop had 7.  Welker had 12 and Drew Brees posted 16 points.  That is pretty impressive week as the Crush remain undefeated.

Player of the Week: David Akers (Titans), Peyton Manning (Roulette), and Drew Brees (Crush) - 16 points

Three players shared honors as the Player of the Week.  Brees and Manning continue to do what they do, throw tons of TD passes and living up to the #1 and #2 QBs picked in the draft.  David Akers "My Balls" leg was busy on Sunday kicking 16 points. 




Just a random pic of some hot twins.

Around the League: Bums keep pace with the Crush in the West by staying undefeated beating the Dragons 29-20 behind 6 each from Fitzgerald, Garcon, and Jamaal Charles and 0 from Dalton. Dragons still tied for first in South at 2-2...Mafia whacked the Mayhem, put them in the trunk, dug a hole and buried them 40-13 lead by Jennings (yes he is still alive) and Gostkowski's 12 points each. This was the Mafia's first win of the year...The Animals finally woke up and put the beat down on the Krauts 46-20.  Demaryius Thomas had 12 big points and Jordan Cameron in the line up this week scored 6. While this was the Animals first win of the year it was the Krauts 2nd loss in a row after starting 2-0...sound familiar?...Juggernauts had no problem beating the Chislers who had their Green Bay Packers out on a bye.  Dez Bryant was huge getting 2 TD catches.  The defending champs are now 1-3 and have an up hill battle to make the playoffs.

Check back tomorrow for next weeks previews and predictions as the Commissioner is in League Meetings in Vegas this week.