CFFL Week 4

After 4 weeks there are still 3 teams that are undefeated (Crew, Chislers, Sinistars) and 2 teams winless (Mayhem and Crush).  There is a log jam at the top of the South with 3 teams tied at 2-2. Still a long way to go.  We even have a team doing a fire sale (albeit way to early) that ends up scoring the most points he has all year!

Here is Week 4's action:

GAME OF THE WEEK:  Chislers 47  Killer Bees 46 - What a barn burner this was and ended in exciting fashion!  This game had a little bit of everything in it.  First the Killer Bees came out firing early with 19 points from Prescott and 18 from Joe Mixon!  Chislers were down big, but his Bills players hadn't played yet.  Allen would get his customary double digit points (14) and throw a TD pass to Cole Beasley "Reese" for a 10 point connection.  Game was 41-40 for the Chislers going into Monday Night.  

Mixon scoring one of his 3 TDs

With the CCP Wuhan Virus scare with the Patriots, there were some concerns about the NE/KC game being played.  This might have affected some decisions in the line ups...at least I sure hope so...Regardless, late Monday night, Aaron Jones would score a TD for the Bees to take the lead 46-41! Butker was kicking some FGs too...wait...He started Lion kicker Prater instead..wait what?  With the game seemingly in had, and the Chislers only having the KC D, it looked like the Bees would prevail.  Enter "Chisler Luck".  The KC defense would end up picking off a pass, late in the game returning it for a TD and the win 47-46!!

Honey Badger clinches Chisler victory with Pick 6

TRADING LOCKER ROOM CANCER:  Ferrets 57 Mayhem 39 - Funny how a team's identity can change by just trading away a player.  Lamar Jackson just wasn't meshing with the locker room and it was time for him to go.  Ferrets were 0-3 and giving up.  They trade Jackson and then score 57 points! Andrews scored 12 and newly acquired TE Robert Tonyan (who?) scored 3 times!

This is Tonyan...best get to know him!

TEAM TO BEAT or BAD BEAT? Juggernauts 59  Whales 44 - It would appear that the Juggs are quickly becoming the team to beat, after trading for Lamar Jackson, who would in turn score 14 points, then Chubb gets hurt so Jugg RB Hunt is becoming main dude.  He scores 12.  OBJ coming alive, he scored 18.  I don't think we will see the Juggs score only 14 points like last week again.  The Bad Beat?  The Whales scoring 44 points and losing...

OBJ has come alive!

Ryan trying to explain why he couldn't muster any points

AROUND THE LEAGUE...Crew hang on against the Titans winning 25-12 behind 12 points from Murray.  Titans got only 10 points from their Rams, even though he started all three of them this time...Dragons knock off Animals 26-23, starting Fitzpatrick over Watson this week. Nick Chubb suffered a knew injury that will keep him out several weeks....Sinistars win a defensive battle with the Crush 19-11.  Wilson was more pedestrian scoring 8 points.  Crush still scratching their head wondering how they didn't come back and win that game having Matt Ryan, Edelman and Watkins all playing Monday night (all scoring 0 points)...Cocktails got things rolling defeating the once undefeated Iron Legion 39-25 behind 12 points from Gordon and 13 points from kicker Blankenship...Finally the Killers scored enough points to survive the blitzkrieg of the Krauts on Monday night.  Tom Brady had 20 points and Latavius Murray had 12 for the Killers.  Krauts threw everything they could on MNF as Rodgers threw for 16 points and Todd Gurley ran in 2 scores...

Player of the Week:  Tom Brady, QB, Killers - 20 points

This week's guest prognosticator is Mitch Moss, co-host with Pauly Howard of Follow the Money on VSiN.  

"What are we doing here?"

Guest Picker Standings:

1. Mike Palm 5-3

2. Pauly Howard 4-3-1

3. Matt Youmans 3-4

Week 5 games:

Wrecking Crew at Mayhem (+4) - Crew remain undefeated and cover

Ferrets at Bees (+8) - What's going on here?  Take home Bees and 8 points!

Chislers at Dragons (+8) - Another big home dog?  Take the dog!

Animals at Titans (-9) - Game could get ugly, lay the points and take Titans

Sinistars at Legion (PK) - Might be the game of the week.  Sinistars prevail!

Cocktails at Whales (-2) - Another good one, lay the 2 and take the Whales.

Juggernauts at Killers (+14) - 2 TDs?  Brady getting 14 points.  Take Killers!

Krauts at Crush (+2) - Krauts keep Crush winless.

CFFL Week 3

Week 3 begins our first trip out of the divisions.  Have we seen some separation already in the divisions?  Perhaps....The North, Crew and Chislers are 3-0 while the Ferrets and Animals combined for one win...The South is seeing a winless Mayhem while Bees and Titans lead the division...Defending Champs Sinistars in the East, haven't lost a game yet, while the rest division hasn't won more than 1....In the West, Iron Legion surprise team of year so far undefeated...

Well its a long way to go yet and this could all change in a couple weeks even.  Here is what happen last week:

Wrecking Crew 34 Dragons 23 - Crew get come from behind points from Tucker and Hardman to win the game Monday Night.  Murray led all players with 14 points...

Murray struggled but still scored 14

Animals 39 Bees 30 - Bees needed 14 points from Butker to win, got 4..what's up with that?  Oh Prater on his bench had 14. Chubb led the way again for Animals with 2 more scores.

Chubb chub chub chub!

Chislers 69 Mayhem 36 - One point shy of 70, Chislers humming with his Bills players (Allen and Diggs) who combined for 28 points.  Allen had 22 points and trails only Wilson by 5 points as league leader.

Can the Chislers be stopped??

Titans 35 Ferrets 22 - No luck Ferrets having a slow start with Jackson and Andrews as neither of them playing like expected.  Titans QB Goff led the way with 15 points.  He started Higbee, who only had  a 2 point conversion, while benching Cooper Kupp, who scored on bench.  I said it before.  Start ALL of your Rams already!!

Goff says put in all my guys!

Sinistars 29 Killers 22 - Sinistars hang on against the Killers behind 21 huge points from MVP Russell Wilson.  The defending champs also had 32 points on the bench!

Is this the MVP??

Cocktails 45 Crush 34 - Thank god for special teams for the Cocktails.  Gostkowski kicked in 19 points and their Colts D had 14 points!

19 points from this guy!

Iron Legion 49  Juggernauts 14 - After scoring 65 points the week before, the Juggs come out and score a whopping 14.  Legion surprising the league at 3-0 led by Joe Burrow and Kamara.

Kamara a machine so far

Whales 44 Krauts 37 - Whales needed 16 points from Mahomes to complete a huge comeback on Monday Night.  They had that by half, and then Mahomes finished with 22!

Player of the Week:  Patrick Mahomes, QB - Whales - 22 points

Last Week Mike Palm was right, he did do better than Matt "Fish Lips" Youmans. He finished 5-3.  This week we get Pauly Howard from Follow The Money, our celebrity guest picker from VSiN.

"An eclectic mix as always"

Titans at Wrecking Crew (-1) - Injuries catching up with Crew, go Titans +1

Bees at Chislers (-1) - Vegas know something I don't? That line can't be right? Take Chislers!

Dragons at Animals (-1) - Take the short favorite Animals

Mayhem at Ferrets (-4) - Something's got to give between 0-3 teams.  Jackson has huge game, take Ferrets

Crush at Sinistars (-2) - Keep betting the champs!  Sinistars -2

Legion at Cocktails (-3) - Look to see the Cocktails giving Legion first loss.  Take Cocktails -3

Whales at Juggs (+2) - Which Jugg team showing up this week?  What are we doing here? Take the points and Juggs.

Killers at Krauts (-5) - Krauts get back on track, take them and lay the 5.

CFFL Week 2

 Week 2 are in the books and it was a painful week with many players going down with significant injuries.  Here is how things shook out in Week 2...

In the Great White North...

Wrecking Crew 57  Animals 25 - Crew rolled the Animals behind 16 points from Murray, 15 from Justin "Mother" Tucker and 12 from CMC.  This was after falling behind 12-0 Thursday with Animal RB Chubb scoring twice.  

Chislers 48  Ferrets 28 - Chislers rolling with their Bills players as Josh Allen begins to look like an MVP candidate, scoring 16 points and now has 30 on the season already.  He hooked up with Diggs "Dig Dug" for a 10 point connection. Ferrets only got 4 points from Lamar Jackson and Andrews. 

Diggs and Allen, next big Chiz duo!

In the Sad Sack South...

Killer Bees 49  Dragons 22 - In yet another blow out, Dak Prescott led the Bees with 22 points and almost single handed beat the Dragons.  Aaron Jones had another big week scoring 18 points for Bees.  Watson has been disappointing for the Dragons so far.  

Titans 19  Mayhem 13 - How did the Mayhem not win this game.  Down only 10 with Drew Brees and Tre'Quan Smith?  I mean Drew Brees should be able to get 10 points, right?  One pass to Smith and its game over. The Titans were able to hang on, and Brees only had one TD pass.  Goff for Titans threw 3 times to Higbee, who was on the Titans bench.  Start all the Rams and be done with it...

In the Eastern Bloc...

Juggernauts 65  Cocktails 48 - Juggernauts exploded for 65 points, and this was with Matt Stafford at QB!!  Ridley had 12, Jonnu Smith had 12 and kicker Koo had 15.  He also had Hunt on bench with 2 TDs.  Cocktails didn't roll over though and had all but one player score.  We could see a change at QB for the Cocktails with Tannehill pushing Big Ben for the number one spot...

Sinistars 44 Krauts 24 - Defending champs steam rolled the Krauts after the game was tied at 24.  That's when Russell Wilson took the field and promptly scored 20 points to make the game 44-24! Wilson now has 36 points and leads all QBs. 

In the Wild Wild West...

Iron Legion 42  Crush 35 - In probably the best game of the week, it was a back and forth affair that would have to be determined on Monday Night.  Rookie Legion QB Joe Burrow started things out with 12 points along with kicker Bullock who also had 12 points giving the Legion a 24-0 lead.  Crush would storm back on Sunday.  Leading the way was Matt "Shark Eyes" Ryan with 16 points.  They would take a 35-30 lead going into Monday night.  The Legion trailed by 5 going into MNF with only Kamara going versus the Saints/Crush D.  Kamara would score a 1 yard TD to win the game.  He would add another one later for good measure giving the Iron Legion the win and a 2-0 record! 

Kamara scores game winner!

Whales 35  Killers 11 - The Whales had little trouble with a lifeless Killers squad.  Whales got 9 from Mahomes and a pick 6 late from their Pats D.  Killers left 40 points on the bench which included 16 from Newton and 12 from Fournette.

This weeks infirmary report:

Christian McCaffrey - Crew - ankle - 4-6 weeks

Tevin Coleman - Crew - knee - multiple weeks

Paris Campbell - Animals - MCL - IR

Jimmy Garoppolo - Animals - ankle - could play

Drew Lock - Chislers - shoulder - 2 weeks 

Courtland Sutton - Bees - knee - season

Sterling Shepard - Bees - turf toe - doubtful

Raheem Mostert - Dragons - knee MCL - week to 2 weeks

Davante Adams - Krauts - hamstring - should play

Breshad Perriman - Krauts - ankle - week to week

Cam Akers - Crush - ribs - day to day

Saquon Barkley - Titans - ACL - season

Player of the Week:  Dak Prescott - QB - Bees - 22 points

Last week Matt Youmans went 3-4 in his picks.  This week let's see how Mike Palm from the D in Vegas does this week...

"I should be able to beat fish lips"

Crew at Dragons (-3) - Even with out CMC take Crew and points.

Animals at Bees (-7) - Lot of points. Take the points and the Animals.

Chislers at Mayhem (+4) - 4 points not enough.  Take Chislers, lay the points

Ferrets at Titans (+1) - Late comeback by Ferrets, lay the point.

Sinistars at Killers (+12) - Killers are a mess.  Sinistars roll

Cocktails at Crush (+2) - Rocking chair win here.  Coctails -2.

Juggernauts at Legion (+4) - Could be close.  Take Legion.

Krauts at Whales (+3) - Krauts pissed, they go Whaling.  

CFFL Kick off Week 1

Ferrets at Chislers (-6) - take Ferrets plus the points, Jackson will make it close

Well the 36th season of the CFFL has kicked off!  It was so good to have football back and we already have our first OT game of the season!  Let's take a look at what happened in Week 1 of the CFFL...

In the Great White North...

Wrecking Crew 42  Ferrets 34 - The Ferrets got all 34 points from three players.  Jackson and Andrews combined for 24 while Will "Lug"Lutz kicked in 10, but then they got no help for any other player.  Crew came back in second half with Kyler Murray's 10 points, plus McCaffrey picked up right where he left off scoring twice.  

McCaffrey punches it in for Crew

Chislers 36  Animals 25 - While the Bunker ripped on Josh Allen the whole time (can't throw the deep ball) he goes and scores 14 points.  With Dalvin Cook's big day of 16 points it was a rocking chair victory for the Chislers.  (side note Henry had 0 TDs, while Elliott had 2, a player he passed for Henry...hmmm)

Cook  gets 16 points for the Chiz!

In the Sad Sack South...

GAME OF THE WEEK: 

Killer Bees 32(W)  Mayhem 32 (OT) - Bees started out fast with kicker Butker on Thursday with 10 points.  Mayhem would comeback with a Michel score and 14 big points from Thielen.  As the Monday Night approached Mayhem had to feel good about a 12 point lead having James Conner.  Well not so fast my friend.  Bees would get two scores from "Aunt" JuJu Smith-Schuster to tie game while Conner would leave the game early with an injury.  With the game going into OT, the Bees would win as back up kicker Matt Prater had 11 points.  Game over!  

JuJu enjoying himself in the win!

Dragons 36  Titans 20 - Hey Titans this isn't 2018 anymore!  As much as I would like to see the Rams light it up, the Titans had all the wrong Rams.  Goff - 0, Kupp - 0, on bench: Higbee - 0 and Reynolds -0.  The Dragons however had one Ram, the only one you needed.  Malcom Brown, who scored twice Sunday Night!  

Move of the Week by Dragons!

In the Eastern Bloc...

Sinistars 48  Cocktails 38 - The Defending Champs really was in control of this game once Sunday started getting 16 points from Russell and 18 huge points from Josh Jacobs "Jingleheimer Schmidt".  Cocktails did get some good production from QB Big Ben, scoring 12 points, but countering all the was the Sinistars kicker Chris Boswell, who had 8.

MVP Wilson?

 Krauts 39  Juggernauts 35 - This game wasn't as close as the score indicated.  The Kruats pretty much dominated the game getting 28 points from Rodgers and Adams (this could be dangerous).  Juggs did get 12 points from Ridley and got two late scores from Elliott to make the score seem close (hmmm 2 for Elliott and none for Henry...)

Kraut trio...

Killers 27  Crush 16 - The Killers hung on to upset the Crush behind 14 points from Tom Brady, now a Buc.  Brady did throw a pick 6 to the Crush/Saints D, but still managed to put up a nice amount.  Game wasn't  nearly over as on Sunday and Monday night the Crush were coming  in with 3 players including a kicker!  Cam Akers had nothing Sunday Night.  Diontae Johnson couldn't get out of his own way Monday night and McManus late Monday only scored 2 points!  

Good ole Tom gets the win for Killers

Iron Legion 31  Whales 24 - In the game between the two expansion teams, the Legion came away with the upset.  Whales seemed to be in control of the game getting 12 from Mahomes early and then 12 more from Carson.  But unfortunately that would be all they would get.  Kamara led the way for the Iron Legion scoring 12.  Whales didn't even get a single point from their kicker.  See kickers can be important too!

Kamara comes up big for Iron Legion

Player of the Week:  Josh Jacobs "Jingleheimer Schmidt" RB - Sinistars - 18 points

Next Weeks Action:

Special Guest Matt Youmans (aka Fish Lips) from VSiN makes this weeks picks: 

Animals at Crew (-6) - take Crew lay the 6 points, they should roll.

Killer Bees at Dragons (+5) - at home getting points, take the Dragons!

Titans at Mayhem (-3) - lay the 3 with the Mayhem.  Don't expect many points from Rams again

Cocktails at Juggernauts (+3) - take Juggs and points.   This one will be close

Krauts at Sinistars (+1) - just a point?  Take Rodgers and the Krauts

Crush at Legion (-5) - Crush get back on track, lay the 5.

Whales at Killers (+2) - lay the 2 and take Mahomes and the Whales.

On a much more sober note I wanted to add this, for those of you who were not aware of the folding of the Russian Roulette

Russian Roulette owner Rich Johnston lost his life June 24, 2020 at the age of 42.  His team was in the league since 2009 and posted 2 division titles and 4 playoff appearances.  They were the pride of Russia and had many battles with their Eastern Bloc foes.  He will be deeply missed...