
Word from the Mouth: Playoffs? Playoffs?! edition
Word from the Mouth
By Kevin Kousaie
We made it to the end of the season and what a season it was. Jon ran to Europe and will miss round 1 of the playoffs once again, cute Jon taking vacation during the season. Could you only imagine what would happen if I took vacation during the season? The league would have a mandatory week off because no one is doing what I do. This past week every single one of you would have died if you were me. Let me go over my day and explain. I found out on Friday afternoon, so I needed to arrange so I didn’t have to ref at 9am and only start my ref day at 1030. On top of that I needed to arrange the phones. That was the easy part the hard part was finding time to sleep, I did finally at 7pm. Once that was done now for the long part getting up at midnight to set up fields so I can make it to work for 3am. I worked until 930 did 25k in steps hoped to make 65k all day but only got 53k and change. Then I came to football where I worked all day until 9pm that included playing my game at 430. I finally got home and in bed 1030. Yup that’s right I was up for 22.5 hours straight. Who of you are doing all that? And let's not forget it was 40 degrees outside with minimal wind.
Recap
D1
Willie came back from family vacation and lit up KOLB for 7 TDs and in his second game against the Unit threw 4 picks with Andrew getting 2 of them. It looks like Outlaws and Idaho learn how to play defense during the week as both teams combined for 40 points and 3 picks and 4 sacks. What would an Outlaws vs Idaho game be like without someone being upset when the final whistle blows, this time it was Idaho next my bet is its Outlaws.
D2
Steve kept CIAs playoffs hopes alive with a last second TD passes to Mr. Ben Denis for the win over Double Dippers. Now all CIA needed to do was win as a team and hope Double Dippers lose their second game. Jason did his part throwing 5 TDs with 3 going to Jarrett. CIA won because Dave struggled at the start of the game and this allowed CIA to get up before they made the switch at QB to Mathis who threw 4 TDs and helped start the comeback, but it was too little too late. CIA had their fingers crossed hoping Average Joe's will whoop Double Dippers and they can sneak into playoffs. Well Double Dippers had other plans and walked all over a Joe's team who was missing Jason. Guess Jason was on timeout and wasn't allowed out the corner because of his behavior last week. Dippers won and earned their spot in the playoffs.
D3
Him U showed they shouldn't be taken lightly after beating Horde by 13, while missing their QB. I guess Joey can do more than just play defense and run drags for them. Horde lost by 13 in their first one and was looking to improve in the second game and get ready for playoffs. They ran into a Thunder Buddies team that was ready for them. Willie had 2 picks in his return holding down the defense and Terry did his job as the QB throwing 4 TDs and no picks, while keeping the defense on their toes mixing in a run here and there. Trench Babies went 2-0 for the week, securing their playoff spot while working out a few kinks, and get all the bickering out the way before the playoffs and what could be a magical run for them as they have all the pieces to do so.
D4
We added a play in game between 8 and 9 this week to see who gets the last playoff spot. With so many teams fighting for those spots it surprised me to see the 2 teams in that game both lost their last regular season game. Underdogs got beat by Spartans by 29 points. Nothing was working for underdogs, they couldn't stop JF from running all over them and when JF wasn't running he was finding open receivers. Action Squad got dismantled by Bouchers by 12 but it was never close. Gold didn't do a good job maintaining drives, he threw 3 picks and only 3 TDs. In the play in game between Underdogs and Action Squad we all hoped for lots of fireworks instead we got sparklers, it didn’t help that the game was played at 730 after a 40-degree day. It was a hot one. I want to thank everyone on behalf of all those soccer players from us clearing a field for them to play on. I could tell you exactly what happened in this game but by that time of day and being up for 20 plus hours at this point it was all a blur. Gold drove the ball and scored leaving a bit over 3 minutes left and that was plenty of time for Quentin to put something together and he did. I expected to see lots of running from him on the final drive and I’m sure so did Action Squad. With the threat of him running this opened up everything midrange and Quentin picked them apart going 6 of 7 on the final drive and only running twice for 9 yards. If Quentin can play like that in the playoffs with Simon being the leader, he is they'd have a shot at winning it all.
D5
We had a green vs green that was a forfeit before it started. Once Lambert got winded then it became a green vs rainbow game, for safety reasons. I tried to give gold a chance in their one with the first ever attempt at a 3-point convert, a no look behind the back pass from 10 yards out where the ball needed to travel the full 10 yards in the air. They lost the game by 7 but still got the W because Improbable forfeit since they were short players. In a battle for the second seed, you had Phoenix and Big Booties. This game came down to the very end with Phoenix pulling it out on a fourth down and 10 play with under a minute left. This gave Big Booties time to try and win it on the last play of the game Jorge was picked off by Brendan.
Women's
While did anyone expect anything less from Drama Queen other than a perfect season. Was it even a challenge for them all season? They had a tough game last week against Crazy Bs but this week they took care of business and won convincingly 19-0. In their second game it was a game they could have played around with and tried new things, but decided to stick to the regular plan and blew Supernova out of the water 39-7.
That’s all I have for you folks.
Studs & Duds
I’m not going to waste your time and I’m just going to give you my winners and losers and there are a lot of those to pick from this week.
Studs
D1
- Jerome Hovington 4 TDs and 2 picks.
D2
- Victor Davis 4 TDs.
D3
- Kevin St-Pierre 3 TDs.
D4
- Lukas Drouin 12 TDs and 1 pick to wrap up his last 2 games of the season.
D5
- Jeremy Ghio 3 TDs and 2 picks.
Women's
- Roxanne Roy 3 TDs passes and a pick in her first game of the day.
Duds
D1
- Brady Ohanessian only 14 points put up and 2 picks thrown in a game, we all expect more from you.
D2
- Kayla Gauthier for playing 3 meaningless games and not playing the one game that actually mattered to her team.
D3
- Rob White for throwing 4 interceptions.
D4
- Underdogs receivers for letting Mike Jaz have more yards (28) than youth top player
D5
- Max Rosenfeld for saying he was only playing a few drives until they were up 2 or 3 scores and losing the game.
Women's
- Drama Queen for not taking it easy in their last game against a free agent team that they would have beaten any which way.
There you have it you can love it or hate it, but stats and facts are where I got what I got and why I put people where they went.
Power Rankings
I’m skipping this section because its playoffs and no one cares where you are ranked it’s you win and you move on or you lose, and you get an extra week or 2 off before next season.
Predictions
Time for me to pick my winners and remember my picks are in bold like always.
D1
KOLB vs Iron Wolves
D2
RawSauce vs Nice TDs
Double Dippers vs Average Joe's
D3
Horde vs Drama Club
Iron Trollers vs Thunder Buddies
Action Squad vs Him U
Trench Babies vs Witching Hour
D4
Underdogs vs Spartans
Alouettes vs Bouchers
Bandits vs Beerhood
DTS vs Mustard Tigers
D5
Hive vs Big Assets
Jungle Squad vs Titans
MTL Cessnas vs 514
Mimosa Crew vs Big Booties
Women's
No games this weekend.
That’s who I have winning round 1 of the playoffs. I did not pick round 2 games for D5 that weren't already scheduled.
Final Thoughts
What a wacky season we had we went rain every week to the extreme heat and we hated all of it. The season is over, and teams are already gearing up for the fall season, you better get in that before we run out of space.
I said it all year to take it easy and have fun, well that time is over and it’s time to leave it all out on the field. I still expect you to have fun and not kill anyone but taking it easy just can't happen.