I hope you were all lucky enough to avoid the rain. If you weren’t, then you got to see that the rain wasn’t good for the field and it’s now hanging on for its life. I know it’s not that late in the year and it will have time to grow back, but we better not get too many more rainy Saturdays.
I don’t know how it was in Laval on Sunday, but it was hot in Brossard. I was looking forward to eating my Chinese food and watching College football Saturday night, but me being the old man that I am was passed out by 9 pm (ed’s note: I was out by like 8, so who’s the old man now?). This meant I missed all the games on opening weekend.
With all the hype around the Colorado Buffaloes, can Shedeur Sanders really go number 1 or will a team let Travis Hunter play both ways like he has since high school once turning pro? I can tell you now that Shedeur will not go number 1 and no team is going to let a player play both sides of the ball. Just imagine that player when it comes to contract negotiations, do you pay him for 2 different positions or just 1?
Only 4 more days until we see the KC Chiefs start their title defense against the Baltimore Ravens. If I was picking the game, I’d lean towards Lamar and the Ravens, it’s week 1 no one is laying a finger on him.
Recap
D1
Missed out on all the games this week as you were all over at Arthur Therrien all day and I was Darcy McGee. Maybe I’ll catch a few next weekend.
D2
Phoenix vs RawSauce (19-14)
This was not a pretty game by any means and had to with it starting to rain. Francis had a big game hauling in 11 balls for 67 yards. All this did was protect the ball and limit the number of plays. JF once again played his ass off scoring 2 TDs and picking off 3 passes. Ludovic played like he normally does by spreading the ball around and taking what was open, but a few (4) got away from him and were picked. The one Justin got where he and Gab both had the ball and was ruled a pick might not have been. Late in the game Phoenix held a 5-point lead and needed to waste the rest of the game to get their first win of the year. Phoenix wasn’t able to gain a first down and punted it away. This left time for Ludovic to try and win the game. After a big run, Ludovic connects with Gab down the sideline where he out played Justin for the ball to gain 27 yards. With under a minute left Ludovic still had time, but he was sacked on first down a big incomplete then on third down the ball sailed high, and this let JF get his third and final pick of the game.
Division 3
Iron Wolves vs Ducks (24-39)
Before the game I was looking at Ducks team and was thinking where you attack on offense or who do you take away on defense, and I couldn’t figure it out. Then I was like, Jon will pick them apart and make it look easy and Josh will throw something at Dave to get him off his game. The game couldn’t have started better for Iron Wolves with Josh getting a pick in the endzone and taking points off the board. On the first play of offense, Jon threw a deep pass to Alexis who was able to pull it in by his fingertips, but was caught at the 5 before Josh capped the drive on the next play to go up 6. The lead didn’t last long as coverage was blown, and Antoine scored an easy 45-yard TD. Iron Wolves were able to respond with a long drive to take a 12-6 lead that lasted until the second and the rain started to let up. Once the field got sloppy the running of Dave was all the difference. I mean it wasn’t like he had any huge runs, it was that once he started to move around, this allowed his guys to find holes and had defenders look at him and not the receivers.
Division 4
Blue Badgers vs Action Squad (19-24)
I’m just as shocked as the rest of you. How did this happen? Let me tell you. Blue Badgers looked like they didn’t miss a beat from the last time they played a regular season game. Oliver relied on Jérémie to move the ball before he ran it in from 10 yards out to go up 6. After forcing a turnover on the first drive, this time around Pascal picked off Gold on first down and scored to give the Blue Badgers a 12-0 lead. After battling back and Blue Badgers still being up, they looked to chew the clock and take the win. After using up 5 minutes of clock, on fourth down and goal Oliver had his pass go well out of bounds and turned it over on downs. It took Gold 1 pass to Michael for 40 yards out to tie it up at 18. This is where Gold made a dumb mistake and threw the ball out to the sideline with no zip on it where Jérémie was able to make a break on it and took the ball back to give his team a 1-point lead with 4 minutes left. After being forced to punt with 90 seconds left in the game, the Blue Badgers just needed to get a stop. Play after play Gold was able to pull something out as he moved the ball all the way down to the 1-yard line with 1 play left. Just like he did to tie it up, Michael was able to score and win the game.
Division 5
514 vs Ass-Been (6-25)
I don’t know how you show up with only 4 players and expect to win. Well 514 started to play with 4 before Gold came in to sub part way through the first half. I will point out that Eric Thibeault is new at QB and played his best game of the season so far, but if he had more experience, he would have picked 514 apart early when they were only 4 and even once they were 5. Lesniak on offense depended on Gold to move the ball, but with him being banged up he wasn’t much help. Eric spread the ball the whole game with 3 players catching 3 or more balls and 3 different players scoring TDs. When Eric and this team improve, they will be formidable opponents for teams.
Phoenix vs Ass-Been (19-0)
This was the second game of the day for Ass-Been and the first game of the season for Phoenix so this could have gone either way. It also started raining for this game and didn’t stop. Eric Thibeault had a much harder time playing against 6 players, especially with those players knowing what to do and where to be. Phoenix started the game with a TD score capped off by David from the 1 to put Phoenix up 6-0. After that score, not much happened except both teams punting it back and forth until Phoenix got the ball back with 10 minutes left in the second half, Where Yann was able to score from 19 yards out and making at least 3 defenders miss tackles on his run. After another stop on defense, Phoenix got the ball back and moved it all the way inside the red zone. This is when my favorite play of the game happened. Chrissy and the defender both fell on the play. I was able to look left and left some more while in my head I’m hoping Chrissy gets up and goes out to the right corner where it was all open. She did see it and she did get up and she scored a TD on a play she thought she was out of once she fell. She should have been out of the play, but Ass-Been didn’t rush, so I had all day to see where I wanted to go.
Slicks vs PickSixers (27-12)
Both defenses didn’t look good as neither of them were able to stop the other QB from completing most of their passes. Yeah, they were all short passes, but you should be able to jump a few of those passes or at least knock 1 or 2 away. This was the first time I got to see William Shlien play QB and he really was better than I expected, considering the defense he was up against. His best throw came on their opening drive when he connected with Brendan Melnik for a 42 yards TD down the sideline, but after that it looked like hunting season with all those ducks. For Slicks, Luca looked great throwing the ball and not running on every other play like he had in the past. Okay, so Luca ran 10 times and only threw 22 passes, so he did run every second play it seems, but I’ll give him a pass (ed’s note: what a pun!) this time around because of the rain and the fact he could have run more but threw the ball instead. This was the last game of the day and everyone was fed up with the rain, so both teams elected to go short and waste the clock between plays and limit the numbers of plays and chances for mistakes.
Women’s
Sorry ladies, I wasn’t around much this weekend, but I hope to catch more of the division and watch as it grows and develops over the year.
That is all I have for you this week, but if you want or need more MFL news, wait until Wednesday when MFL Total Access with Terry & Will gets released.
Studs & Duds
With 3 weeks in the books and more games being played this week, I had a better selection of players that balled out and a few with the stats they put up or didn’t and should have stayed home this weekend as it might have helped their team a bit more.
Studs
D1
- Andrew Grant 3 TDs 93 yards on 5 catches and 1 pick on defense.
D2
- Jean-François Lawrence 2 TDs and 3 picks.
D3
- Christian Pedroza 2 TDs and 2 picks.
D4
- Jordan William Matte scored 3 TDs and had 1 sack.
D5
- Liam Martins 3 picks and scored on 1 of them. Plus, he had 3 catches for 51 yards and 1 TD on offense.
Women’s
- Shermika Bartley 3 TDs and a pick in her second women’s game of the day.
Duds
D1
- Pocket Rockets for losing to KOLB when they had 4 picks on defense and only 1 on offense.
D2
- Respect for breaking cap and taking an L because Ali said he was under CAP, and it wasn’t checked.
D3
- Mark Selvadurai 1 catch 4 yards and no defensive stats
D4
- Blue Badgers for allowing Action Squad to drive down and score as the clock expired when all you needed to do was get a first down.
D5
- Matthew Betnesky 6 catches 11 yards.
Women’s
- Aryane Leboeuf going 3 of 32 with 3 picks will land you on my list.
There you have it, my Studs and Duds for week 3. If you’re expecting to see your name up here, then you better step your game up because everyone else did.
