CFFL40 Week 3

 With three weeks in the books, we only have two teams still undefeated (Chislers and Krauts) and three teams winless (Titans, Killers, and Crush).  Does that speaks to the parity of the CFFL?  Let's keep that in mind for anyone ready to throw in the towel on the season after three weeks.  No one is out of it!

Week 3 action:

Wrecking Crew 26  Legion 17

The Crew were able to easily come back and defeat the Legion.  Harrison Butker's 10 points and Drake "Joker Face" London's 6 points did the trick.  The Crew were lucky considering their "big" Houston Texan connections of Stroud, Nico Collins and Schultz managed just 4 points...

Animals 32  Crush 27 

The Animals survived the initial outburst of scoring from the Crush on Thursday night when Rodgers hit Wilson for a 10 point connection and took a 14-0 lead.  Animal running back Charbonnet scored twice and they got TD catches from both Metcalf and "Flying" St. Brown.

Charbonnet scores twice for Animals

Chislers 53  Killers 26

With 6 of 8 players not playing until Monday night, the Chisler avalanche was inevitable.  5 out of the 6 scored with Josh Allen leading the way with 16 points!  Ja'Marr Chase scored twice as well.  By the time the avalanche was done the Killers were buried under 53 points!

Allen lighting it up with 16 points for Chiz

Ferrets 33  Whales 29

This was a close one till the end.  The Whales got another good performance out of Barkley scoring 14 points.  The Ferrets countered with 2 TD catches from Amari Cooper.  Then the teams would exchange TDs once again in the 4:00 window.  Ferrets RB Gibbs would score followed by a TD catch by Marvin Harrision Jr.  So going into Monday night, the Ferrets only lead by 2 points, 22-20.  Ferrets kicker Tyler Bass would outscore Whales kicker McPherson 11-9 for the win!

Cooper got the scoring going for the Ferrets

Sinistars 25  Warbirds 14

The Sinistars defeated a lackluster Warbird squad, behind 12 points from Brock Purdy.  The Warbirds only points came from their QB Burrow (12) and kicker Carlson (a whopping 2 points).  The Warbird running game, which has been their strength, came up empty.  Achane and Etienne could not find the end zone.

Purdy tossed 3 TD passes for the Sinistars

Cocktails 34 Killer Bees 14

A solid performance by the Cocktails.  They started Malik Willis and he scored 10 points!  Then both RBs scored (Akers and Montgomery) and even DeAndre Hopkins came back from the dead to score.  Have we seen the end of Bees K, Justin "Mother" Tucker?  He missed another FG and has struggled to make even 40 yarders...

Willis shut critics up scoring 10 points for Cocktails

Dragons 37  Juggernauts 14

Kyren Williams led the Dragons to a big win over the Juggs.  Williams scored from 3 and 4 yards out and then caught a 15 yard TD pass which ended in a flip into the end zone!  Williams appears to have picked up where he left off last year.  He has 5 TDs on the season already, scoring every week. 

Williams flips in for the score!

Krauts 36  Titans 35

The Titans fell short of pulling off the upset of the mighty Krauts.  Krauts, led by a powerful running game of Derrick "King Rat Tail" Henry (12 points) and Bijan Robinson (6), had a 7 point lead going into Monday.  Titans did have Ekeler.  He would score a TD to pull them with in 1 point.  Unfortunately, Ekeler left the game with a concussion and wouldn't return ending the Titans dream of an upset.

King Henry rumbled against the Titans.

Player of the Week:  Kyren Williams, RB, Dragons - 18 points

CFFL40 Week 2

 The story this year is injuries.  How many injuries are we going to continue to have to big name players?

• Pacheco "Peak at my Butthole"  for the Crew is out 6-8 weeks
• Tee "Mrs. Sue" Higgins for the Crew hasn't played yet, been out with a hammy
• Cooper Kupp for the Ferrets out with an ankle.  Not sure how long
• Evan Engram for Ferrets could be out a few weeks
• Joe Mixon for Animals had ankle rolled up on and could be out
• AJ Brown for Cocktails has a hammy and could be out several weeks
•  Jordan Love for Cocktails has MCL sprain and could be out several weeks
• Tua Tagovailoa for Killers bee-beed himself and might be out for several weeks
• Kenneth Walker for Killers has an oblique and missed last week and maybe next week
• Christian McCaffrey for Juggs on IR now and hasn't played a down.
• Puca Nacua for Juggs on IR with a knee.  Maybe back in Week 8 or 9?
• Deebo "Dabo Sweeny" Samuel for Bees set to miss multiple games with a calf
• Justin Jefferson for Legion left the game limping but should be back next week
• Keenan Allen for Titans has a heel issue and missed last week.  Yet to be seen for next week

snap!

In a 16 team league and that many injuries, the waiver wire is thin.  Plus with many of these players not likely to miss entire year so hard to just drop them off your roster...

Here is Week 2's action

Chislers 26  Wrecking Crew 24

In the longest standing rivalry, the Chislers took game one after getting 18 points from James Cook on Thursday.  The Crew couldn't over come the deficit even with a 10 point connection from Stroud to Collins.  Drake "Joker Face" London did score a late TD but needed a 2 point catch to get the win.

One of three TDs for Cook

Animals 37  Ferrets 13

Ferrets team came out flat, getting no points from stars Goff and Gibbs and then Cooper Kupp went out of the game with an injury (see above).  They only got points from kicker and defense.  While the Animals rolled with 12 points from Kyler Murray.  

Murray lit up the Ferrets (and the Rams)

Warbirds 32  Dragons 20

The Warbirds managed to win despite trying to out think the room by benching Burrow (8 points) in favor of Jayden Daniels (0 points).  Warbird running game still its strength getting TDs from both Achane and Etienne.  Warbirds Kicker Carlson booted in 14 big points too.  Quentin Johnston likely will be in the Dragon lineup next week

Achane a picture of scoring consistency.
(Plus Dolphins should go back to those unis)

Killer Bees 11  Titans 8

In the barn burner of the week, the Bees and Titans combined for only 19 points.  All 11 points for the Bees came from their kicker Justin "Mother" Tucker.

Tucker shocked that they won with just him scoring.

Juggernauts 40  Sinistars 25

The Juggs rolled over Sinistars behind 12 points from Calvin Ridley.  Rookie Malik "Jim" Nabers has been scoring each week.  And what a good move it was to draft Jordan Mason to handcuff McCaffrey.  He continues to score.  Stafford got the nod this week and came up empty for the Sinistars.  

Ridley finds the end zone twice for the Juggs

Krauts 31  Cocktails 25

Krauts move to 2-0 defeating the Cocktails 31-25.  Krauts QB Mahomes got two TD passes but none to either Kelce or Worthy.  Cocktails have QB issues although Danny Dimes, in for Love, was able to throw 2 TD passes in the loss.

Mahomes leading the way for Krauts

Legion 29  Killers 24

Killers lose another close one and the team took a turn for the worse Thursday losing Tua and ultimately effecting Tyreek Hill's production.  Start of season the Legion got a poor grade for QBs Mayfield and Darnold, but now they are two of the more productive QBs in the league.  Plus Legion kicker Brandon Aubrey is quickly becoming the new Tucker.

Mayfield celebrating his TD for the Legion

Whales 69  Crush 21

"69...hahahaha."  This Whale team just couldn't stop scoring points.  Kamara went nuts scoring 4 times!  Then Marvin Harrison Jr, who last week had one catch for 4 yards, exploded (against the Rams of course) scoring a 23 yard TD and a 60 yard TD!  And they didn't get much out of Barkley (only 2 points).  

Harrison stretching into the endzone for the score!

Player of the Week:  Alvin Kamara, RB, Whales - 24 points

CFFL40 Week 1

 The 40th year of the CFFL finally kicked off this past weekend with the Alex's Animals set to defend their title.

Wrecking Crew 23  Animals 20 - The Animals started last year 0-2 and went on to win its next 12 games and win the Fantasy Bowl.  So the Animals are not too concerned losing the first game to the Crew.  The Crew had to hang on after taking a 23-20 lead behind 2 TD passes from C.J. Stroud.  Animals still had Lamb, Metcalf, and "The Flying" St. Brown.  That is some fire power, but none of them found the end zone.

Stroud connects on two TD passes for Crew

Chislers 34  Ferrets 26 - The reigning MVP Josh Allen picked up right where he left off.  He tallied 2 TD passes and 2 TD runs giving the Chislers 20 points to start the game.  The Ferrets did have a number of players on Sunday Night, including Goff and Gibbs, but they couldn't muster up enough points to make it close.  Plus Chislers had Ram kicker Karty "Finkbeiner" who had 8 points. 

 

Allen leaping in for one of his two TD runs for Chislers

Dragons 42  Killer Bees 24 - The Dragons circled this date as soon as the schedule came out.  Their hatred for the Bees runs deep and they didn't hold back.  Every player but two scored for the Dragons including 2 TD catches from Stefon Diggs "Dig Dug".  I don't see too many wins for the Bees with the QB duo of Nix and Lawrence.

Diggs scores twice for the Dragons!

Warbirds 34  Titans 10 - Warbirds had little problem defeating the Titans, who in typical Titan fashion,  didn't even have a kicker.  Joe Burrow was a big disappointment for the Warbirds but they got scoring from other places.  Achane and Etienne both scored and Jayden Reed tallied two TD catches early.  This team could be dangerous if Burrow gets it figured out.

Reed scores 12 points for the Warbirds

Cocktails 40  Juggernauts 15 - This game was a little closer than the score indicates and at one point it looked like the Juggs could have been the favorite.  But down 20-14 the Juggs got dealt a blow when McCaffrey was ruled out of MNF.  Then the Cocktails got 20 points from their kicker Jake Moody "Blues" and before you know it this game was a blow out.  Unfortunately, at the end of game Jordon Love went down with a knee injury and might miss a few games.  And even worse their back up is Will Levis...

 

Krauts 32 Sinistars 31 - The Sinistars came up just 2 points short of taking down the favorite to win it all.  After the Krauts opened up the season with two 10 point connections from Mahomes to Worthy, they led the Sinistars 32-25 going into MNF.  Sinistars had Purdy and Breece "kids in the" Hall.  Hall would score on a 3 yard TD run to pull the Sinistars to within only one point.  Just one Purdy TD pass and they get the win!  Purdy would hit Juszczyk for 34 yards but he was tackled just 3 yards short.

This could be a very dangerous connection for the Krauts

Iron Legion 43  Crush 34 - For a team with Baker Mayfield  and Sam Darnold as thier QB, they sure looked good.  Mayfield ended up with 16 points, but two of his passes went to Mike Evans, Mr. Redzone for the Crush.  Legion kicker Brandon Aubrey, who can make a kick from anywhere, would kick in 15 points and Legion would get the win.

Mayfield's 16 points only second to Josh Allen this week

Whales 36  Killers 35 - The Whales opened up a big lead going up 26-0 after 8 points from Hurts and 18 huge points from Barkley!  Kamara would add another TD and it was 36-10 after a 10 point connection for the Killers when Tua hit Hill for a 80 yard TD.  The Killers had little hope.  But after 13 points from their kicker McLaughlin and a Godwin TD catch suddenly the Killers were back in it.  Then Walker III would get a 23 yard TD run!  They were only down 1 point.  Jakobi Meyers was still playing too!  Then Kenneth Walker III would score his second TD of the game for the win!!!  But wait!  There was a flag on the play for holding and didn't count.  Time ran out for the Killers and the Whales prevailed. 

Barkely gets 18 points out of the gates in Week 1!

Player of the Week:  Josh Allen, QB, Chislers - 20 points