
Word from the Mouth: Magic Grass! edition
Hope you're all having a great week up to now, because your week is about to get a whole lot better now that you're reading this article. This week was some crumply weather and even worse field conditions. I was lucky enough to play at 9 so it hadn't started raining yet so conditions were decent but if you played at 430 and aren't named Jon you played in the mud. I won’t call Jon out anymore for his decision, which I didn’t support or participate in but if you know you know and if you don’t guess you should stick around and see what happens when you’re not around. I mean it was so bad you couldn't see the bags on the field. I'm just glad that we didn't use the new field this week or that would be done for the season.
Recap
D1
I missed both of these games and didn't get any feedback from anyone, so I'll leave it to Terry and the man that controls not only the league but the weather as well Willie.
D2
Phoenix vs Nice TDs (7-46)
What do I say about this game that won't hurt anyone's feelings or do I do it and since we're all grownups. Phoenix was coming in hot sitting at 2-0 playing a Nice TDs at 0-2. Did we overlook them? No. Did we come out flat and not being focused? Yes. Did we run bad routes? Of course, without a doubt we did. When you poke the bear before the game you better have a cage to trap him in. Andrew went off for 107 yards on 4 catches with 3 TDs. Guess the cage was 70 yards by 25 yards. Nice TDs came out hungry with nothing to lose and mopped the floor with us in every aspect of the game. Are they 39 points better than us? No fudging way but in this game, they showed why they are a dangerous team and need to be taken seriously. Guillaume next you need a lift to the field get it from someone on a team you were going to embarrass once the whistle blows.
D3
Trench Babies vs Nomads
This game was stopped due to lighting then because of the torrential downpour and it didn't help that everyone but Devin left. Not 100% sure what is going to happen with these games, but at no point were any of the teams told to go home and games were canceled. The league will be in discussion on what will happen.
Drama Club vs Witching Hour (26-19)
This game was closer than it expected it to be I was expecting to see Witching Hour trample Drama Club, then the game started. Simon has been around the block a few times now he is the block that can still move when needed. Once Simon figured out how to grip that Brady ball he got things going. After scoring with 3 minutes left Drama Club was up 2 scores and control of the game. Then Witching Hour turned it on and was able to punch it in to make it a 5-point game going into half. Drama Club started the second half with the ball and Simon took his time dinking all the way down for the score to regain the 2 score lead. Witching Hour got the ball back with just over 2 minutes left and took less than a minute to score and left their chances of winning on their defense. You get Simon vs a good and athletic defense for the win. Drama gets a first down game is over if Witching Hour gets the stop they still need to score and get the convert just to tie it up. First play of the series Simon takes off for 7 and at this point it know he is going short for the first and have the game ended, and that's what he did.
Witching Hour vs Iron Trollers (14-13) OT
After Jon using his power and authority to do what he did, this game was played on grass and not mud. With a snap of his fingers the grass grew, and he was granted firm footing to play on. This was a game of two halves in the first it was controlled by Iron Trollers on offense and them making a play on defense to keep it a shutout before half. Second half and Witching Hour were able to build on the momentum they got moving the ball into the redzone before the half ended and were able to open the second half with a long scoring drive. This game went to OT and might still be going on if Frederick had made the tackle when Tristan caught the ball instead missing it and then he scored for the win.
D4
Sorry folks I missed you this weekend, maybe this weekend I'll pop in catch a game or two just so I have something other than this to write here.
D5
The game I was supposed to ref was forfeited by one of the teams, so I didn't have a game to cover. I was able to catch the second half of the Wolverines vs Mimosa Crew. When I got to this game the score was 18-0 and it wasn't very close from what was being said on the bench. Nicolas opened the half with a deep pass to Hugo who ran it in front 10 yards out after securing the catch. This made it 18-6 and gave hope to the Wolverines. They were not able to do much after that, but neither was Mimosa Crew who are without their QB Curren, for the remainder of the season so Justin has to learn the position as the season goes on.
Women's
I didn't catch this one and only game this weekend sorry.
That's all I have in the way of recaps. I'm sure you need more so look for Terry and Willie on MFL Total access on Wednesday.
Studs & Duds
Well, it was a wet and slippery one on Saturday and that means lots of missed tackles dropped balls and getting dirty. Even with all that to deal with some of you still managed to ball out and now it's time to see if you did enough to crack my list.
Studs
D1
- Brady Ohanessian for throwing 5 TDs and over 20p yards as a QB, then also getting 3 picks in defense.
D2
- David Brisson and his 8 TD passes.
D3
- Benjamin Desroches for hauling in 2 TDs as well as 2 picks.
D4
- Thomas Znoj for his triumphant return plus scoring 3 TDs on 4 catches helps.
D5
- Yianni Mitsianis 3 TDs and 3 sacks.
Women's
- Kayla Gauthier 3 TDs and 4 picks
Duds
D1
- William Bradford because of the 4 picks he threw.
D2
- Phoenix and their defense for showing up to play but not actually playing.
D3
- Tropic Thunder for going 0-2 against teams they should be able to beat.
D4
- Ghislain Leduc threw 3 picks and only had 3 competitions for 18 yards.
D5
- Gabriel Darveau 7 picks thrown to just 8 completions.
Women's
- I'm going to leave this blank because I think putting Jon's name here is wrong. (ed’s note: my girlfriend keeps saying I’m a pretty girl. I don’t care for where things seem to be going for me…)
There you have it's folks, my Studs and Duds from week 3. You still have plenty of time to make my list 9 weeks to be exact so keep doing what you do and if you're lucky enough you might crack my list and if not at least you had fun trying and better luck next time.