Word from the Mouth: Empty Wallet! edition
Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and the extra day off. The league has notified all captains and posted on the Facebook groups about smoking while inside the park. Not only should you go outside the fenced area, but try to stay away from people as best you can. We don’t want people complaining about us, like the soccer guys did about D’Arcy McGee.
On top of everyone not smoking inside the park area, there has been tons of garbage left behind, and that’s not cool as well. We are all grown ups and if picking up our empty bottles and dropping them in the trash when you leave is not too much, what is the world coming to.
On top of taking everything down at the end of a 12-hour day, I shouldn’t need to spend half an hour picking up after everyone else. I already have bags of people’s stuff that they leave behind, you should see some of the crap I have found (house keys, car keys, one shoe, a wallet that was empty when I picked it up (ed’s note: sure it was…)). How do you leave this stuff behind and not ask about it?
Recap
D1
Outlaws vs A-Team (47-22)
I don’t know what to tell you, I picked A-Team to win this game knowing Steve wasn’t there and Brady made an ass out of me by throwing 7 TDs and controlling the tempo of the game. In the first half nothing was working for A-Team, and they were down 32-2 at half. In the second half they got going, but at that point Outlaws were taking it easy and just trying to avoid getting hurt.
D2
Phoenix vs Respect (7-24)
This was a must win for Phoenix to keep their slim playoff hopes alive and Kevin dookied the bed, missing wide-open players, bad plays being called. and then hesitating to throw the ball. I have to give it to Avery and the Respect team he was filling in on. Avery called lots of short plays that his guys were able to turn into big gains. Then on defense, Dilan had them playing off and they were shooting all over the place. Phoenix had chances to make it a close game, but couldn’t capitalize when they were there in front of them.
D3
Ducks vs Sour Puss (34-20)
Going into this game, I expected to see Ducks crush Sour Puss with ease. That wasn’t the case and Dave should be lucky that he had Steve to throw to because every time a play needed to be made, Steve made it. Ducks didn’t have a way of slowing Emilie Carrier who went off for 120 yards and 1 TD on 9 catches. I can tell you that Jessy could have gone to her all day as Ducks left the deep ins open all game long. Ducks will need to figure it out if they want to make a deep playoff push.
D4
Sour Peeps vs F.A.T Players (19-39)
Leon looked good in this game and Shawn was his guy catching 5 balls for 75 yards and 3 TDs. Let’s give Geneviéve Gaudet another weapon and see what she can do. Simon might be the best player on Sour Peeps, but the most exciting player to watch is Geneviéve. You needed to see her take off for her 45-yard TD run. She made every single player on the defense miss and, in some cases, miss twice. On the sideline we were like, did that really just happen?
Hawks vs Nothing But D (30-13)
This wasn’t a clean game from both sides of the ball. Both Thomas and Alec struggled to complete 50% of their passes, there were some drops, but there were a lot of passes that weren’t on target. What saved Hawks was their defense with Rob getting 2 picks and Eliott getting 1. If Thomas didn’t have Eliott scoring 4 TDs on short passes and making players miss this might have ben a different game. Marcel still isn’t 100% and will need to get there if Nothing But D want to make another run at the title.
Slot Machines vs F.A.T. Players (31-32)
I won’t take anything away from F.A.T. Players who were missing Sean who was off being a good father coaching his sons’ team. I hope they won cause if not Leon said he wasn’t invited to the victory party. The biggest issue for F.A.T. Players was dropped balls, I think when Dominic put on his sleeves for the second game he forgot how to catch. Kyle played QB for Slot Machines as Giovani was off somewhere coaching as well. This meant a lots of miscommunications and bad timing on routes being run at wrong depths. But Kyle relied on Eric with lots of drags and crosses all game long and it took a while, but F.A.T. Players figured it out before it was too late. In the last few moments of the game Leon elected to go for 2 and the win after not getting any converts all game. He was able to buy time before finding Seb with no defender around for the game winning points.
D5
Sorry folks I missed you this weekend, maybe next week if not before the season ends.
Women’s
Just like D5 I missed seeing any of your games. Ladies, I hope to see at least 1 more game before the season ends.
Big shout out to the Ladies on Crazy B’s for getting their first win of the season.
That’s all I have for you this week. I kept it short so that I can enjoy my Monday with Sunshine even if it does look like rain.
Studs & Duds
If you had been waiting for a slow week to make my list this was your week. There were only 18 games played over 6 divisions so there is a chance that your team was the only one playing. Now lets just jump into it and see who earned their Thanksgiving feast or who shouldn’t even get the scraps.
Studs
D1
- Marvin Steinberg 3 TDs and 1 pick.
D2
- David Michaud 1 TD on offense then 2 more on defense both pick 6s.
D3
- Jeanne Lewis 5 catches for 49 yards and 4 TDs. She also made 1 tackle on defense.
D4
- Dylan Rogers and his 3 sacks are the reason why F.A.T. Players won the game against Slot Machines.
D5
- Emilio Ulisse or the utilityman as he should be referred to as. Emilio threw 2 TD passes, had 3 1-point converts, ran the ball 13 times for 101 yards and 2 TDs. Then on defense he picked off 1 pass and made 1 tackle.
Women’s
- Zuzana Sichova 6 catches 76 yards and 2 TDs.
Duds
D1
- Jonathan Plourde for throwing 3 picks.
D2
- Robert White 1 catch 7 yards and no defensive stats.
D3
- Dave Lepine threw 4 picks in what should have been an easy game.
D4
- Gold for only having 2 players catch balls while only completing 7 out of 27 passes.
D5
- Jorge Hernandez threw 5 picks and only had 119 yards total.
Women’s
- Kayla Gauthier 10 picks thrown in 2 games.
There you have it, the players I felt balled out and those that didn’t need to come out in the cold and could have stayed home.