Word from the Mouth: The Editor's Half Asleep! edition

Word from the Mouth: The Editor's Half Asleep! edition

Kevin Kousaie

(ed’s note: I’m super tired editing this and am really just scanning it. Enjoy the grammatical and spelling errors!)

 

Welcome back. Hope you’re all having a wonderful week and if you had Monday off, great for you and if not, guess it’s just a regular day for you. I got suckered into working the holiday because I was told it was mandatory and that the shift was only going to be 2 hours max, it wasn’t. After sitting around for those 8 and me being bored out of my mind and having no one to talk to, I went to see my baby and rambled on for hours to make up for lost time. I know what she is getting for Christmas (earplugs).

Sitting around watching the 9ers play on Sunday and seeing Brock Purdy walking off the field saying I love you mom made me think of Willie. The difference between the two is I think Willie is the better player.

On another note for Willie, I don’t like to be stared at while walking around shirtless, so please let your mom know the first show is free, but after that there is a fee. Ask Jon about it, that’s why I get paid what I do. It’s not because I’m a great ref.

 

Recap

 

D1

 

Sorry folks I missed out on your games once again.

 

D2

 

Phoenix vs Thunder Buddies (19-26)

Once again Phoenix couldn’t finish a game they were in control of in the second half. First half Phoenix could do nothing wrong and they forced Terry to punt and even picked him off once, but they did get some help with the drops on key downs. There were a few areas that Phoenix was able to attack, and this allowed JF to score 2 TDs and Josh numerous first down plays. When the teams changed sides that’s when Phoenix started to fall apart and let Thunder Buddies gain momentum. Phoenix opens the second half with the ball and a 5-point lead. Now is where the mistakes start to happen, and Thunder Buddies start to take over. A few plays into the second half Victor picked off a pass when a receiver stopped running their route but as the QB I should have seen the hole where he sat. Very quickly that 5-point lead became a 7-point deficit. There was still plenty of time and I was never worried we weren’t going to go down and score it was a matter of how much time would be left if we needed a second possession. Well, we were able to march and had a few good shots at the endzone, but the stupid sun blinded my players and they weren’t able to pull it down. I’m not throwing anyone under the bus because everyone had issue looking back into the sun just ask Willie how many easy drops he had. With 3 minutes left still being down 7 Terry knew he needed to get 1 or 2 first downs and it was over. Terry, Rob, and Will got back at us for last year, but I can tell you next year were taking it by 3 scores again.

 

D3

 

Ducks’ vs Iron Wolves (20-19)

JP Morrier is a huge addition for Iron Wolves, and it paid off with 1 TD and 2 picks. Josh once again was Jon’s guy when play needed to be made. Players who need to make a little more out of the balls they got were JF and Lucas. They combined for 7 catches but only 37 yards and no scores. On the Ducks side Dave did an excellent job of spreading the ball and keeping the defense off guard. Dave had 5 players with at least 26 yards and 2 catches each. Dave only had 18 completions and 174 yards, so you do the math and tell me that was good ball distribution. With 10 minutes left and a 12 point lead I figured this was a wrap, Jon has this on lock, then he started to throw the ball and that’s when the problems started. On their final 3 drives of the game Jon threw picks to Antoine, Tristan, and Nicholas. Nicholas scored from 20 yards out to put the Ducks up 20-19. Jon threw his fourth and final pick to end the game after getting the ball on the other side of half.

 

D4

 

Action Squad vs Nothing but D (19-6)

Andrew Ochisor had a great game rushing Gold getting 3 sacks, forcing quick throws, and not allowing Gold any rushing yards. The defense wasn’t the issue for Nothing But D, the problem was the offense and not getting anything going until it was too late. Alec had a great deep pass early in the game that could have set the tone, but it was dropped and the first thing I said was Marcel is getting that ball, but he was out with an injury. Late in the game Alec ran one in but at that point the game was already over. Gold finally got Justin involved in the game getting him the ball 7 times for 59 yards and 2 TDs.


D5

 

Phoenix vs Wong Dynasty (34-7)

I won’t talk much about this game and will point out that nothing went Wong Dynasty’s way. I know that Phoenix had 5 picks on defense, but 3 of them were balls that bobbled around and fell into the hands of a Phoenix player. The one player Ryan should have gone to more was his center, Leo. He had the size over the defender and when the ball went his way he made plays. It would have been a pick free game from Kevin if Matthew didn’t get the interception on the last play of the first half. I won’t lie, I threw that ball up hoping the rusher was going to make contact with me since he was getting really close all game, but he was able to stop just inches from me and it turned into a good play from the team leading the league in picks.

 

28-3 vs 514 (12-25)

This must be the best game Lesniak has played in an exceedingly long time. He was 21 of 32 for 176 yards, 4 TDs and no picks. This is what happens when you simplify your playbook and your players catch the ball. For 28-3 I have no clue what they are doing the last few weeks as they have been missing all sorts of players and you can’t win that way. Nico, Mass only getting 1 ball is crazy. Feed the man on 5 yard hooks all day, you know he is going to keep those chains moving. Less than 10 minutes into the game 28-3 was up 12-0 and nothing could go wrong, then the team started to fall apart as they dropped balls, missed tackles, and this allowed 514 to climb back into the game before taking it over.

 

Women’s

 

Déesses du Drapeau vs Crazy B’s (24-13)

What a difference it is when a team has a QB. With so many injuries and missing players, Crazy B’s went out and signed Roxanne to step in and fill the QB spot. The move paid off as they were able to move the ball and score some points. With Roxanne at QB this allowed Zuzana to ball out as a receiver getting 4 catches and 65 yards. It will be awork in progress for these ladies, but this is a great first step. On the DDD side of things once again Viviane balled out. Big game for sure handed center Charlotte getting 73 yards and 1 TD on her 7 catches. Daphné scored 2 TDs on her 3 catches. This DDD team is good and if they keep improving maybe they will make the finals and this time win it.

 

That’s all I have for you in the way of recaps. If you want more, look out for Terry and Will on MFL total Access on Wednesday.

 

Studs & Duds

 

I can tell you from playing early in the day as well as late that the sun was a huge factor in a few of those games and it was reflected on the stat sheet. Now let’s see you balled out and who stunk up the joint.

 

Studs

 

D1

- Manuel Allard-Roy 2 picks on defense, 4 catches for 62 yards and 2 TDs on offense.

 

D2

- Samuel Aerts 5 catches 55 yards and 3 TDs.

 

D3

- Benjamin Denis 9 catches 111 yards 3 TDs and on defense 7 tackles and 1 pick.

 

D4

- Sean Kennedy 5 catches for 84 yards, 3 TDs and had 2 picks and scored on 1 of them on defense.

 

D5

- Guillaume Dubuc Lacombe 22 of 31 for 185 yards, 4 TDs and had 1 pick on defense as well.

 

Women’s

- Mélissa-Anne Xavier 6 catches 3 TDs and 54 yards.

 

Duds

 

D1

- Eliott Bourque with a rating that high you need to pull down more than 1 catch for 4 yards, I don’t care that it was for a TD.

 

D2

- Tigres for giving up 50 in a game that should have been much closer.

 

D3

- Marvin Steinberg 9 completions on 21 attempts for a total of 70 yards. I know you had 2 picks on defense, but you also threw 2 as a QB and only 3 TDs.

 

D4

- Vincent Des Rosiers-Houle 4 interceptions.

 

D5

- 28-3 for losing a game where they forced 6 picks on defense.

 

Women’s

- Majestic Divas for throwing 5 picks and not scoring any points.

 

That’s who I got based off stats and seeing the games.

Predictions and Power Rankings Week 6

Predictions and Power Rankings Week 6

Kevin Kousaie

Predictions

 

I once again must pull out my crystal ball because without it I only went 15-9 last week using my own intelligence. For me 62.5% isn’t good enough, I want more so I’m pulling out my ball to see if that will help (ed’s note: please don’t…). Here are my picks and once again they are in bold.

 

D1

Iron Wolves vs Pocket Rockets

A-Team vs Outlaws

 

D2

Bines vs Rejects

Average Joes vs Villains

Double Dippers vs Nice TDs

Bines vs Villains

Phoenix vs Thunder Buddies NA

Tigres vs Respect

 

D3

Drama Club vs Sour Puss

Ducks vs Top Shooters

Blitzing Bastards vs Tropic Thunder 

Ducks vs Iron Wolves

 

D4

Slot Machines vs Witching Hour

F.A.T Players vs Mustard Tigers

Blue Badgers vs Sour Peeps

Nothing But D vs Action Squad

 

D5

Budget Cats vs PickSixers

Phoenix vs Wong Dynasty NA

Jungle Squad vs Slicks

Last Calls vs Titans

28-3 vs 514

Ass-Been vs Spartans 

Big Booties vs Last Calls

28-3 vs Wong Dynasty

514 vs Budget Cats

 

Women’s

Déesses du Drapeau vs Crazy B’s

Tigres vs Majestic Divas

Crazy B’s vs Steeleuses

 

Power Rankings

 

D1

#1- Outlaws

#2- KOLB

#3- A-Team

 

D2

#1- Nice TDs

#2- Double Dippers

#3- Rejects

 

D3

#1- CIA

#2- Ducks

#3- Drama Club

 

D4

#1- Witching Hour

#2- Blue Badgers

#3- Slot Machines

 

D5

#1- Phoenix

#2- Slicks

#3- Jungle Squad

 

Women’s

#1- Tigres

#2- Steeleuses

#3- Majestic Divas

 

Everyone wants to see their team in my top 3, but I can’t just make that happen. You need to do that by playing lights out, racking up some wins, and in some cases, hope for a few teams to lose. My rankings aren’t a popularity contest, cause if it was some of the teams on my list now wouldn’t be there.

 

Final Thoughts

 

I have so much to say, but so little time to write them all out. (ed’s note: thank God for small miracles)

Fall season is in full bloom and that means apple picking and stupid pumpkin spice everything. The only good thing about fall is football season and who doesn’t love football.

Speaking of fall activities, I’m looking for a good place to go that has corn mazes. Let me know if you know somewhere so I can take Sunshine and see how long it takes to get out. (ed’s note: I am willing to bet cash money that Kevin will need to be rescued from the maze)

One thing that I have wondered for a while is when will the league get rid of the Andrew Grant award for smack talking. Should we really be encouraging this type of behavior? I’ve won this award numerous times in the past when people weren’t as soft. Anything you do or say now can and will offend someone that’s why I say we get rid of it all together. (ed’s note: so, “back in my day” is now like 2019?) I like the chirping back and forth, but once the game starts to go one way that’s when the chirping becomes an issue. Let’s all grow up and just come out play our games and have fun, which is why we are all here.

Anyone who thinks the MFL has bad refs, did you see that no call in the Chiefs game? They need to start firing some of these garbage refs, but they can’t since this is what the league wants. Have a good rest of the week and see you all, or at least most of you, Saturday. 

Word from the Mouth: I Don't Give a Duck! edition

Word from the Mouth: I Don't Give a Duck! edition

Kevin Kousaie

We have passed the midway point of the season and its time to start thinking about the playoffs and what it will take to get there.

I’m flabbergasted that no one has come up with a streaming network for College football. With the NFL you can stream anywhere and that’s not an issue, my problem is not being able to come home Saturday night after football, get my Chinese food, and watch a boat load of games in quick succession. I know Jon downloads them and watches them commercial free, but I want to be able to flip back and forth if that makes sense (ed’s note: if there was a streaming service where you could easily flip between games, I would definitely get that).

All weekend people were asking where Sunshine was and why she wasn’t there and I told them to look up in the sky cause there she was all weekend long. If you asked me on Monday where she was, the answer would be taking a nap behind all those soft fluffy clouds so she can shine bright next weekend (ed’s note: listen, I like hallucinogens as much as the next guy, but Kevin, you gotta tone it down).

Settle down everyone, it’s the last weekend of September, so there is a chance of rain. If it does don’t blame me, I’m not a meteorologist. Plus, it’s only Monday when I wrote this and it can change before then.

 

Recap

 

D1

There was only 1 game this week and I couldn’t catch it, so maybe Terry or Willie did and will talk about it on the Podcast this weekend.

 

D2

 

Phoenix vs Nice TDs (25-33)

The QB change that I mentioned a few weeks back was huge in this game. Guillaume was able to pick us apart with the intermediate routes. Andrew did what he does and scored 1 TD and had over 100 yards, but the biggest impact player had to be Brian scoring 2 TDs and making 1 heck of a catch for one of them. On defense, Nice TDs didn’t do anything special, no sacks, no picks, they just made every tackle and limited the YAC. Phoenix needed a few things to go their way to walk away with the W. In the first half on fourth down Andrew knocked a pass out of bounds that would have given us the first down. On defense we missed a sack that would have been a safety and given us the ball back and instead Nice TDS scored a few plays later. Phoenix needed to attack the middle of the field in the intermediate range more and this would have opened up the underneath, but it’s too late for that now. The difference in the game was that Nice TDs double dipped and Phoenix couldn’t stop them.

 

D3

 

Tropic Thunder vs Top Shooters (13-34)

With how this Tropic Thunder team is built this should have been a cake walk for them. They had 2 jobs to do on defense, take away the deep ball and don’t let Marvin run. Well, they took take the deep pass away, but only because of drops and keeping 3 players back and that let Marvin run 9 times for 50 yards and 1 TD. Nigel went off once again this week with 3 TDs on 4 catches, but only had 29 yards receiving. Justin struggled to get things going early and by the time he did they were down and out of the game. Justin couldn’t avoid the rusher and make things happen with his legs as he was sacked four times, three of them by Sam and once by Deven. Tropic Thunder came in hot and looked unstoppable and after the seeing how they played this game, I wouldn’t think they were one of the top teams.

 

Blitzing Bastards vs Iron Wolves (6-28)

The one player that stood out most to me from this game was Lucas. If you know Lucas you know he is a nice guy, but his hands are sus at best. Well in this game his hands were like rat traps catching everything that hit them. Lucas also showed he has a few moves up his sleeves when he made multiple defenders miss on his 29-yard TD catch and run. Jon did what he does and spreads the ball around to everyone not named Carlos who only had 1 catch for 2 yards and 1 TD. Carlos you should be telling Jon he has to get you a catch per sack and if that were the case you would have had 3 catches and at least 1 TD if not more. Blitzing Bastards have a few good players, but they lack discipline and leadership and I know that’s what bothers Kris. They have talent on this team, but they won’t win games if they don’t catch the ball. Sanketh needs to do a better job of looking for the open players, too many times he would force a ball when he had another player wide open. This will come with experience.

 

D4

 

Sour Peeps vs Hawks (0-37)

Simon Torres is the best player for Sour Peeps, but Geneviéve Gaudet gives them a better chance at winning when playing QB. Sour Peeps played musical chairs at QB in the first half until settling on Geneviéve. Sour Peeps never challenged Hawks and were never in a position to score. Thomas did a good job of getting the ball out of his hands early and often finding his players wide open. The one take away from this game is Thomas should not be trying to throw 40-yard bombs late in the game because you want to get reps in and practice. I won’t go into many details since the Hawks roster was much stronger than Sour Peeps.

 

D5

 

Phoenix vs Jungle Squad (20-7)

What was labeled as the game of the week was very disappointing. This was supposed to be the top 2 teams in the division and it didn’t play out that way. Jungle was missing a few key players, and you could see Gold didn’t have his trusty center to rely on to keep the chains moving. Jungle should be very glad Elana was there as she was their one and only stud catching 5 balls for 64 yards along with all 7 of her teams’ points, plus she added 3 sacks on defense. When you rely on the short game like Gold did in this game, you need to be accurate and your players need to catch the ball and that didn’t happen. Phoenix took control of the game with long drives, and it helped that they scored on 3 of their first 4 drives. With Phoenix up 20 Jungle Squad tried really hard to make it a game when they picked off back-to-back passes from Kevin midway through the second half. Had they been able to score earlier in the game it would have made it interesting, but they were only able to score off the second one and at that point Phoenix played the time game and ate it up. The hardest part about playing Phoenix will be how do you prevent Sparky from getting into the endzone for a fourth game in a row.

 

That’s all I have folks. I know you’ll need more MFL news, so look for Terry and Willie on MFL Total Access on Wednesday.

 

Studs & Duds

 

It’s time to see who balled the duck (ed’s note: I’m tired) out and who should have stayed the duck home. I get people asking me all the time why they were picked as my Stud and there can be a few reasons why. I base my picks off stats and when 2 players are close, I go look and see when they made these plays. For example, a pick at the end of the half of a blowout doesn’t do it for me. Like, big deal, you had a meaningless pick. Now to see who got what.

 

Studs

 

D1

- Jérémi Riendeau-Demers 9 catches 118 yards, 3 TDs and made 4 tackles, 1 sack on defense.

 

D2

- Jean-Sebastien St-Arneault 9 tackles 6 of those being sacks in 1 game.

 

D3

- Simon Valiquette 7 TD passes 0 picks and a win over Kris Hope which is all that really mattered in this game at least for Simon, Ben, and Nico.

 

D4

- Albert Nguyen 25 of 29 for 204 yards with 5 TDs and 1 pick.

 

D5

- Louis François Francoeur Décarie had 3 picks scored on 1 of them and added a TD on offense as well.

 

Women’s

- Branda Léonard throwing 5 TDs, 136 yards and ran 4 times for 28 yards.

 

Duds

 

D1

- Alexandre Szalipszki 2 catches 18 yards and 1 tackle on defense. Some pretty sad numbers for someone who talks about being a stud all the time.

 

D2

- Stephen Harripersaud for throwing 3 picks against Nice TDs, when I threw 0.

 

D3

- Tropic Thunder for a bunch of questionable decision-making choices, getting blown out and going 0-2 on the weekend after winning 13 or 14 games in a row.

 

D4

- Sorry for doing this Pascal Risler, but you threw 7 picks. It’s not all on you, it’s also on Brian and Tom for not showing up and putting you in that position.

 

D5

- Ryan Wong for his 7 picks throwing.

 

Women’s

- Kayla Gauthier throwing 3 picks and only 64 yards on 16 completions.

 

 

That’s who I got this week and just remember you too can see your name up here if you ball out, fizzle out, or give me a bribe. If you made my list congratulations, and if you didn’t better luck next time.

Predictions and Power Rankings Week 5

Predictions and Power Rankings Week 5

Kevin Kousaie

Predictions 

 

It's that time of the week where I would normally pull out my crystal ball and ask for the winner. Well, after going 9-7 last week, I'll use my newfound intelligence and do it on my own. Ok, it's not found intelligence, it's the appearance of it because of the glasses. Now to my picks and, like always, they are in bold.

 

D1

 

KOLB vs Pocket Rockets

 

D2

 

Rejects vs Tigres

Nice TDs vs Phoenix NA

RawSauce vs Thunder Buddies  

Double Dippers vs Bines

Rejects vs Villains

Nice TDs vs Respect 

 

D3

 

Tropic Thunder vs Top Shooter

Blitzing Bastards vs Drama Club 

Iron Wolves vs CIA 

Sour Puss vs Turf Ninjas 

Tropic Thunder vs CIA 

Blitzing Bastards vs Iron Wolves 

 

D4

 

(ed’s note: Kevin didn’t highlight any of these, so I’m saying he is 0-5 this week in D4)

 

Action Squad vs Witching Hour

Nothing But D vs Slot Machines 

Mustard Tigers vs Blue Badgers

Sour Peeps vs Hawks

Binettes vs Action Squad 

 

D5

 

Slicks vs Big Booties

Bear Hood vs Wong Dynasty 

Phoenix vs Jungle Squad NA

PickSixers vs Spartans

Ass-Been vs Les Last Calls

 

Women's 

 

Steeleuses vs Majestic Divas

Tigres vs Dirty Chai Latte

Crazy Bs vs Tigres 

 

That is who I have winning in week 6. If you want to help me out with going perfect, you can take the week off or just not try. 

 

Power Rankings 

 

I know you're all wondering what happened with my rankings after a week with only 18 games and a bunch of teams having the week off. Ya, there were only 18 games, but some of those games were big games. Now let's see if your team has what it takes to make it onto my list. 

 

D1

#1- Outlaws

#2- KOLB

#3- A-Team

 

D2

#1- Respect 2.0

#2- Tigres

#3- Average Joe's 

 

D3

#1- Tropic Thunder

#2- Ducks

#3- CIA

 

D4

#1- Witching Hour

#2- Blue Badgers

#3- Slot Machines

 

D5

#1- Jungle Squad

#2- Titans

#3- Wong Dynasty

 

Women’s

#1- Tigres

#2- Steeleuses

#3- Majestic Divas

 

You might not agree because your team isn't where you think it should be, well quit your belly aching and go prove to me that my list needs your team on it.

 

Final Thoughts  

 

I know it's way too early to tell, but is Caleb Williams a bust yet or is Chicago the problem? For me he is a bust and shouldn't have been the number 1 pick. Justin Fields is better and you could have loaded up with weapons for him to succeed.

I think I'm over the NFL. The games are boring and slow, but I need to get my fix and miss most of the college games on Saturday which are so much better. I mean just look at how the fans are into the games. When was the last time you saw that in the NFL? It's not called the no fun league for no reason.

I'm out, but before I let you go, remember that on Saturday when out on the field you are playing a game, so go have fun, don't take it too seriously, and try not to kill anyone. See you out there!

Word from the Mouth: Blatant Sexism! edition

Word from the Mouth: Blatant Sexism! edition

Kevin Kousaie

Hello and welcome back everyone, hope you enjoyed last week. It was freaking beautiful out there. I just wonder how many more weeks of great weather we will get before it turns cold and we have to play in weather like the previous 2 weeks.

Some of you may have noticed that I look a little more distinguished than normal and that's because I'm getting older and I'm about to rotate around the sun once again and needed to get glasses.

As an athlete growing up people who wore glasses were nerds (ed’s note: still are!) and it looks like I am joining that click (ed’s note: sic). I just need the brain to go with being a nerd as after 12 concussion the brain is like mush. Yes, I already know 12 is a lot but one thing for sure is that I've never thrown up gang signs after getting knocked out like Tua.

Does the league allow Tua to keep playing or force him out? The NFL talks a big game when it comes to player safety, but that's all talk.

If you look back at the game played in Brazil, the field conditions were subpar at best, but they played the game. If this was a FIFA soccer game, they aren't playing that game. The NFL talks a big game about safety, but bottom line all they care about is the cash flow.

I want to say I feel for all you fantasy owners that picked Christian McCaffrey number 1 and now have to sit and watch their fantasy season go down the drain with him being put on IR. Should MFL allow a team to put players on IR for a set number of games where you are able to replace that one person with a player of equal cap numbers or lower. I know it's not going to happen, but with most of us getting older and more fragile, some teams might be able to use this and it would help them out.

 

Recap 

 

D1 

 

I wasn't able to catch any of the D1 games this week, so I'll leave it to Terry and Will to talk about on the podcast.

 

D2

 

Average Joe's vs RawSauce (31-14)

This RawSauce team was down players and needs subs to fill out their roster and not make it a forfeit, but with their top 2 players out they didn't have much of a chance or at least shouldn't have. Ludovic struggled most of the game with the elite defense he was facing. James picked him off twice and Devin and Anthony both had 1 sack. Jason slung the ball around getting everyone touches. I would have liked to see James get a few more touches on offense, but he limited his time on that side of the ball. One player that will get overlooked on this team is Anthony. He is a solid defender and a big target that should be a huge redzone target. Average Joe's are a very good team that will go far as long as they stay as a team and don't bicker with each other.

 

D3

 

I missed all of D3 this week, but I was really hoping to catch the Ducks vs Turf Ninjas game which would have been my game of the week. We also had the return of Marvin after weeks away with a hip injury. 

 

D4

 

Slot Machines vs Sour Peeps (32-8) 

This Slot Machines team is really good and are loaded all over the place. Giovanni is a top 3 QB in the division and his main target Eric has to be a top 5 target, but those aren't the only 2 players they have. This week the player that took over this game was William Lalumiere who scored 2 TDs and had 2 sacks. Karmina, Zoe, and Marie-eve might get overlooked, but all three of these ladies can play. Marie-eve is a very dependable snapper with capable hands. Karmina normally lines up as rusher and she gets after whoever is QB and then we have Zoe who doesn't miss many tackles. This Sour Peeps team is struggling because they have a new QB in Simon who is learning and struggles against the better teams. Slot Machines were in complete control of this game right from the get-go and the only time that they might have been in a worry was when Sour Peeps opened up the second half with a score making it 20-8. After that Giovanni took 3 plays to get those points back when he connected with Eric from 27 yards out. After that score you could see the air being deflated from Sour Peeps.

 

Action Squad vs Nothing but D (19-15)

I'm very surprised how this game turned out. Nothing But D seems to be struggling with the move up to D4. This team was scoring at will last season and got stops left, right, and center, but now this season they are struggling to keep drives going. Alec, if you want to win you need to get your best player Marcel more touches, 1 catch for 4 yards isn't going to cut it. On the Action Squad side Gold needs to work on his ball placement, far too many drops because players are stretched out just to get their hands on the ball. Gold, I don't want to tell you what to do or how to run your offense, but Big Sherm was open all game long and not just a little, like wide open. I think Nothing but D got lucky that there were so many drops from Action Squad because the score would have been worse. With just over 2 minutes left, Yavar scored to put Action Squad up 2 scores and let them sit back and force Nothing But D to use the clock with nothing big, essentially ending the game, but Jon scored from 10 yards out as clock expired making the game seem closer than it was. 

 

D5

 

Phoenix vs Budget Cats (34-6)

This game started out with Phoenix getting a stop on downs then scoring a few plays later. After this score Budget Cats started playing defense and managed to get 3 picks and 2 sacks in the game with Matthew Newell leading the way for them with 2 picks and he also got their only points of the game by returning 1 of his 2 picks for a score. On the Phoenix side of things Yann was dependable not dropping any balls and kept the chains moving, Gabriel all he did was score 2 TDs and get a pick and we'll Ilias who is better known as a good rusher is playing safety this season and had 2 picks. Phoenix once they got rolling were too much for Budget Cats to handle and even with them getting help from the sideline the lack experience was too much for them to overcome.

 

Phoenix vs Bear Hood (44-8)

Bear Hood just came off a huge win against 28-3 and were feeling like they were king of the world, then this game began and the score tells it all. Phoenix walked all over them using their secret weapon to do so. Our secret weapon was Nico from 28-3 who had the inside scoop. Offensively Bear Hood went with Emilio at QB, and it was an upgrade over what they had before, but he needs to be more consistent. There were numerous times where balls were dropped or he just had the ball get away from him. I knew Bear Hood was going to be disorganized on defense, but I didn't think that it would show from play 1 when Nico caught a 1-yard hook as the slot and ran through the defense for 40 yards. Pierre-Luc dominated on the offensive side of the ball, scoring 2 TDs on his 7 catches and 63 yards. Ilias picked off another 2 passes on defense scoring on 1 of them. I want to apologize to Bear Hood for calling the timeout before half on fourth down, it's just a force of habit, plus I never know the score since I never ask about it. (ed’s note: yet you call people out for running up the score. Maybe they just don’t know the score either.)

 

Women's 

 

Sorry ladies, I missed the 1 game in the division this weekend, but I'll be back watching your games in no time and now with my glasses I'll be able to see everything happening. 

 

That's all I have for reviews this week if you need more look out for MFL Total access when it comes out on Wednesday. 

 

Studs & Duds

 

I'm on vacation and in a bit of a time crunch so I'm going to get straight to it and tell you who balled out this week and should have stayed home.

 

Studs  

 

D1

- Justin White scored 4 Total TDs 3 as a receiver and 1 on defense.

 

D2

- Jason Edwards scored 2 TDs on his 4 catches totaling 49 yards, plus 1 tackle on defense.

 

D3

- Kayla Gauthier 6 catches 95 yards and 2 TDs. 

 

D4

- Alec De Lafontaine-Jovani for his game 3 performance. He went 24 of 27 for 272 yards 8 TDs and ran 6 times for 47 yards.

 

D5

- William Shlien for handling the scenario like a boss. Last week they got whooped and this week when he started to throw picks, and the team started to bicker he stepped up and took control and lead his team to their first victory. Along the way will went 22 of 29 for 134 yards and 3 TDs. He also added 57 yards and a TD on the ground along with a pick on defense.

 

Women's 

- Viviane Plourde 3 TD passe, 2 TDs catching and 1 on the ground. 

 

Duds

 

D1

- PO threw 5 picks.

 

D2

- RawSauce for being a big roster and still needing subs and this landing to struggling with constancy.

 

D3

- Banged up Marvin for playing defense when we all know he isn't 100% and is going to get hurt again and I get that it's only D3 but why risk it. 

 

D4

- Thomas Svoiski for throwing 5 picks.

 

D5

- Les Last Calls for playing the defense they did, allowing Luca to run as much as he did and for as many yards as he did and that's what cost you the game. 

 

Women's 

- I'm not putting anyone here this week. Call it what you will. (ed’s note: I call it blatant sexism!)

 

There you have it folks, my Studs & Duds for week 5. Remember if you want to see your name up here, then you need to show me that you need to be included on my list. And if you want to make my Dud list, just do what Saquon Barkley did on Monday night and drop that simple third and 3 pass to all but and the game and walk away with the win.

Leagues
Montreal Flag Football League
Division 1
Division 2
Division 3
Division 4
Division 5
Women's Division
Brossard Div 1
Brossard Div 2
Laval Div 1
Laval Div 2
Winter Div 1
Winter Div 2
Winter Div 3
Winter Women
Aces Flag Football