Six weeks in the books already! It has been an interesting beginning to the season, with games postponed, Monday Night Double Headers and Tuesday Night Games. But the CFFL keeps trucking on. Now that I am back from Florida the blog is back up and running.
Since I was gone, here is a very brief look at Week 5 before we jump into Week 6...
Week 5
Mayhem 48 Crew 37 - Mayhem upset Crew in shoot out behind 12 big points from Thielen
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| Goff with a big spike...sort of |
Ferrets 26 Bees 24 - Ferrets hang on to beat Bees. Bees see star QB Prescott go down with gruesome ankle injury
Chislers 38 Dragons 36 - Another nail biter sees Chislers score two TDs late by Allen to win it!
Titans 19 Animals 15 - Animals fall to the Titans. Titans get 14 of their 19 points from Goff!
Sinistars 20 Legion 9 - Sinistars didn't score much but didn't need to. 12 from Russel would have done it.
Cocktails 53 Whales 36 - Despite 15 points from Mahomes the Whales fall to the Cocktails. Only one player didn't score for Cocktails.
Juggernauts 36 Killers 23 - Going all in on Buccaneers might not have been that wise for Killers.
Crush 36 Krauts 17 - Story of the week: Chase Claypool's 4 TD day for Crush!
Player of the Week: Chase Claypool, WR, Crush - 24 points
Onto Week 6:
Is it too early to see the playoff picture start to develop? No one is mathematically eliminated yet, but it might be safe to say that Mayhem, Krauts, and Crush are pretty close. Chislers only undefeated team pretty much in driver seat, along with Crew and Sinistars. Bunch of teams 4-2 or 3-3 still in the fight. Even at 2-4 don't give up yet!
Wrecking Crew 32 Killer Bees 24 - Crew hang on as these two teams traded punches late, with Bees getting 8 points from Kicker Butker to take lead while Crew kept coming up empty until Murray took the field and scored 14 points!
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| Murray scored 14 big points for the win! |
Dragons 34 Ferrets 14 - After a heartbreaking loss to Chislers last week, the Dragons got things back on track easily handling a flat Ferret team. Watson had 16 points and included a pass to Fuller for a 10 point connection.
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| Watson led Dragons to victory with 16 points! |
Animals 39 Mayhem 31 - Animals get a big game out of Wentz (finally) with 16 points but it was The Drake that decided this game. Trailing the Mayhem 31-27 late in the game, ball on the one, time slipping away. "Love the" Drake plunges in from one yard out to win the game!! He would then add a 69 yard TD run at the end of the game. (69...hahahaha).
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| Love the Drake! |
Chislers 50 Titans 26 - This game was close and actually slightly in question for a minute. Score was 30-20 in favor of the Chislers. Titans still had Amari Cooper in the late game and if he could hold the Chislers Bills from scoring they would have a chance. Yeah, I don't think so. Allen would then throw two 10 point connections; one to Diggs "Dig Dug" and one to Cole Beasley "Reese". Game over.
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| These two guys...enough already |
Iron Legion 52 Krauts 4 - The Berlin Wall has fallen. What has happened to the once mighty Krauts. This week the Legion, after looking mediocre at best last week scoring only 9, rip off 52 points this week led by a receiving group that scored 40 points! (Cobb-6, Jefferson-14, Kirk-12, Graham-8)
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| Jefferson becoming one of the great young talents |
Juggernauts 32 Crush 26 - Crush drop to 1-5 despite Matt Ryan's 16 points. Claypool continues to shine, while not scoring 4 times he did score another TD, but all for naught. Juggs didn't have great production, but didn't need it when your kicker Koo scores 16 and QB Jackson another 10.
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| Younghe Koo...Cream Sum Younguy. |
Cocktails 23 Killers 22 - Cocktails had to come back late with two scores from Kelce to win the game. Killers couldn't get a TD from RB Singletary late in the game. It wouldn't have been close at all had Cocktails started back up Tannehill who threw for 17 points on the bench.
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| 2 scores for the win |
Whales 44 Sinistars 17 - The Whales handed the Sinistars and defending champs their first loss of the season in impressive fashion. Pure efficiency. When every one of your players scores besides your D, you have squeezed everything you can out of your line up. The Whales did that. The Sinistars did not.
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| Mahomes leading this upstart Whales |
Player of the Week: Carson Wentz, QB, Animals - 16 points
This Week we look at the top 5 teams in the league according to the Herd Hierarchy:
Number 5: Iron Legion 4-2, 208 points - Surprise team of the year with plenty of young talent
Number 4: Molotov Cocktails 4-2, 246 points - Need to chose the right QB and could be big contenders.
Number 3: Jakes' Juggernauts 4-2, 241 points - With Lamar we trust but must show more consistency
Number 2: R.C. Wrecking Crew 5-1, 227 points - Need CMC back and CEH to score. That happens this team is scary.
Number 1: Cherry's Chislers 6-0, 288 points - Who else? Team with 6 titles and now is undefeated, leading the league in points with a loaded roster led by Allen and the Bills.
Who missed the top 5?
Sinistars 5-1 - Only 177 points scored and last three games: 19, 20, 17. In Wilson they trust.
Whales 3-3 - Scored 227 points with the last 4 being 44, 44. 36, 44. Keep an eye on this team.
Big two weeks coming up as we enter the dreaded divisional home and home series. What's on tap?
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| Those are certainly 2 big "weeks" |
None bigger than the Chislers/Crew series. 6-0 vs 5-1. Longest rivalry in the CFFL. Brother vs. Brother. Will go a long way deciding who is in the driver seat in the North.
Who has it easy? Whales do playing Crush. Could sweep and move up standings. Cocktails do playing lifeless Krauts.
Who has it tough besides the Chisler/Crew series? Sinistars playing Juggs. Better not get swept here.
Now let's go out there and have some fun!
