Word from the Mouth: Short and Sweet! edition

Tuesday, June 4th Kevin Kousaie

I won’t lie and try and sugarcoat it, this week’s article is going to be short, sweet, and straight to the point. I’m super late with it as I was traveling all day Monday and like to have it in by Tuesday at some point.

Some good news, well at least for me and only this week, we are back playing at Le Ber. I know you all might like playing on the grass, but it was just easier this week since we have only 4 games playing at once and 7 time slots instead of just 6, so it’s going to be a long smellypants day for some.

Recap

Division 1

I missed out on both these games. All I know is Marvin is back and balled the tiddlywinks out and helped his team win. In the other D1 game, Jon chickened out and let Willie take the loss at QB.

Division 2

Missed out on D2 this week.

Division 3

Phoenix vs Super Friends (13-6)

Don’t know who this guy is, but Olivier St Onge is solid at QB. He subbed this week for Super Friends and if it wasn’t for a bunch of big drops from his players, they might have won the game. Going into this game, Phoenix needed their defense to show up and did they ever. Tyler made it a long day for Olivier, and this led to picks by JF and Josh. With 2 plays left in the half JF jumped a route and looked like he scores on the pick except the ball slipped out of his hands on the 2-yard line. Last play of the half, I threw a bad ball that was dropped which would have been a TD. To start the second half Phoenix started with the ball and was driving, but once again I threw a pass where the ball got away from me and floated high and was picked off by Adam. Instead of double dipping, we walked away with no points. Super Friends had a chance late, but on third down Tyler was there quick and forced a bad ball and on the last play of the game Tyler sealed it with a sack.

Division 4

CIA Fusion vs 100 Genies (18-6)

Drops, drops and more drops. Yes, that’s right, if Genies had caught a few of those passes then drives would have continued and they might have scored more than 6 points. Gabriel Mercier might not be a QB, but he sure can throw it. Jason had a good game on offense not making a crucial error, but he really stepped up his game on defense getting 3 picks and should have been 1 more, but he dropped it.

Bouchers vs Systemes Urbains (44-7)

Lukas threw 7 TDs in the game and threw 2 picks and missed on some throws, but this will be the game that gets Bouchers moving in the right direction. For Systemes Urbains, there are a few issues, but they have Vincent Martel & Guillaume Simard who can both become really good players and should get used a lot more.

MTL Cessnas vs 28-3 (12-8)

JS wasn’t there so Sanketh Chunduri stepped in and got the first win in team history for MTL Cessnas. Massimiliano was the only player to show up for 28-3. Massimiliano had 23 yards and a TD on offense, then made 2 picks on defense. Mario and Emile did what they should, but I can’t get over how Sanketh played. Multiple times he avoided the rusher, kept his eyes looking to throw, and made good reads, but not always a great pass. If you were watching this game, you saw Chrissy take over the game as a rusher. She was all over Nico all game getting 1 sack, at least 1 PD, and forced countless bad throws leading to 3 picks.

Phoenix vs Bandits (18-0)

At the field you either love me like sunshine or hate me like most players do and Bandits found out why. Time management and just being me. Zach Lemaire is a legit rusher and against a less experienced QB he would have had 6 or 7 sacks, but only managed 2 and was there all game long. Phoenix was able to end the first half with Gab scoring from 10 yards out and making a good catch in traffic. Then Phoenix opened the second half with Greg scoring from 12 yards. With Bandits getting the ball being down 12 with 15 minutes left, they needed to put some points up. After an incomplete pass, Nick called the offensive play and Brian made a play on the ball and took it in for 6 points and the icing on the cake.

Division 5

I didn’t catch any games in the division this week, sorry folks.

Women’s

Drama Queen vs Mockingjays (24-12)

Both teams struggled to keep drives going and it makes sense as there were 10 picks in this game. The difference in the game was football IQ and Roxanne has loads of it which led to her getting 3 picks on defense and scoring on 1 of them. Rita Struggled most of the game, but late with a few words from coach Alex, she was able to finish the game with back-to-back scoring drives of 45 and 20 yards. I was more impressed by Mockingjays losing than Drama Queens winning.

Studs & Duds

Did we ever have a lot of players show up and ball the sea monkeys out. Don’t worry we also had a bunch not show up at all, so making my picks were pretty easy.

Studs

Division 1

- Marvin for his 3 TDs, 100 plus yards and a pick on defense all coming off a supposed injury. (ed’s note: and hungover!)

Division 2

- Kerano Johnson 7 catches for 132 yards and 3 TDs.

Division 3

- Nick Egley 7 catches, 109 yards and 2 TDs.

Division 4

- Antoine Bussieres scored 3 TDs, 1 1-point convert, 1 2-point convert and a pick on defense.

Division 5

- Luca Manolache was back under center and did what he does going 13 of 20 for 93 yards, 3 TDs, 1 pick and getting 1 convert. Now let’s see about his legs 12 runs for 74 yards and 2 TDs.

Women

- Florence Léonard 1 TD and 1 pick.

Duds

Division 1

- Rob White being at the game and registering no stats on either side of the ball.

Division 2

- Steve for throwing 3 picks in a D2 game.

Division 3

- Villains defense for giving up 2 rushing TDs to Jon of all people.

Division 4

- Connor Martin threw 4 picks.

Division 5

- Sniffers for not showing up.

Women

- Marie Lewis for her start to the volleyball game she showed up to play. If you know you know.

Those are my week 5 winners and losers. Better luck to everyone who balled out last week and didn’t make my list, you might have to try a bit harder and hope for the best.

Predictions and Power Rankings Week 4

Friday, May 31st Kevin Kousaie

Predictions

It’s that time of the week where we all get to see how much I have grown my lead over the coin. Coming into the week I held a 4-game lead. After going 14-12 I now have a 7-game lead. I mean this is in the bag, right? The season standings are 47-44 Me and 40-51 for the coin. Now to my picks and like always my picks are in bold.

Division 1

Master Chiefs vs Outlaws Coin Outlaws

- Injuries will hurt Outlaws this week

Iron Wolves vs Busch Boys Coin Busch Boys

- Stronger overall roster

Division 2

Respect vs Top Shooters Coin Top Shooters

- Won’t win back-to-back games

Pocket Rockets vs KOLB Coin KOLB

- Better QB

Top Shooters vs Pocket Rockets Coin Top Shooters

- More top end talent

Division 3

Sooners vs Thunder Buddies Coin Thunder Buddies

- Better athletes

TDs & Beers vs Double Dippers Coin TDs & Beers

- Subs for TDs & Beers

Villains vs Iron Wolves Coin Villains

- Weak defense from Iron Wolves

Super Friends vs Phoenix NA

- I don’t pick my teams games

RawSauce vs Tigres Coin Tigres

- Experience

Red Cats vs Horde Coin Horde

- St-Jean and Guillaume will be too much for Red Cats to manage

Division 4

Mimosa Crew vs Hawks Coin Mimosa Crew

- More game changers on their roster

CIA Fusion vs 100 Genies Coin 100 Genies

- Best player on field

Improbables vs Sour Peeps Coin Sour Peeps

- Improbables are dealing with injuries

Legendaries vs Bear Hood Coin Ledgendaries

- Better receiving core

Bouchers vs Systemes Urbains Coin Bouchers

- Experience

Mustard Tigers vs Chiefs Coin Chiefs

- Chemistry

Warriors vs Action Squad Coin Warriors

- QB experience

MTL Cessnas vs 28-3 Coin MTL Cessnas

- More complete roster

Systemes Urbains vs Villains Coin Villains

- Best player on field

Phoenix vs Bandits NA

- I don’t pick my teams games

Free Agent 4 vs Tropic Thunder Coin Free Agent 4

- Better team

Division 5

514 vs 8Ballers Coin 514

- 514 seems lost out on the field

Nothing But D vs Soonies Coin Nothing But D

- Consistent QB play

Jungle Squad vs Titans Coin Jungle Squad

- Stronger team

Titans vs Slot Machines Coin Slot Machines

- Better roster for this game

Big Booties vs Sniffers Coin Sniffers

- Max playing at a D1 level

Secret Agents vs Slicks Coin Secret Agents

- They all have and know their roles on the team

Women

Mockingjay vs Drama Queens Coin Drama Queen

- Better QB

Tigres vs Déesses du Drapeau Coin Tigres

- Defense

There you have it my picks for week 5. I hope my picks this week are better, but I won’t find out until Saturday at 6 once all the games are complete. Good luck to everyone playing this weekend, see you out there.

Power Rankings

We are 4 weeks in, and teams have started to develop their identities and this makes it so much easier to make my rankings.

Division 1

#1- Busch Boys

#2- A-Team

#3- Outlaws

Division 2

#1- Respect

#2- Pocket Rockets

#3- Top Shooter

Division 3

#1- Bines

#2- Horde

#3- Double Dippers

Division 4

Babalis

#1- Sour Peeps

#2- 100 Genies

#3- Phoenix

Power

#1- Action Squad

#2- Drama Club

#3- Hawks

Division 5

#1- Slot Machines

#2- Nothing But D

#3- Titans

Women

#1- Tigres

#2- Déesses du Drapeau

#3- Drama Queens

I know these rankings still aren’t perfect, but they are closer to being perfect than when the season first started. And as each week passes, teams start to pull away and separate themselves from the rest.

Final Thoughts

I know it’s early and things might change, but it’s looking like nice weather once again this week. Last weekend was a bit warmer than what it was calling for, but you never know. Other than the grass, the best thing about playing at Darcy McGee is not having to take a shower then wash the shower because of the dirt.

For everyone who is only there for 1 game, it isn’t so bad but I’m there all day and when I get home, I’m almost black from the dirt and not the sun. I’m glad we are playing on grass now because I’d hate to be playing on synthetic all summer long. I’d die from the radiating heat.

Before you all get back to your busy lives, remember we are playing a game for fun, so go out enjoy yourself and before you leave the field make sure you pick up and throw out your garbage. Thank you and see everyone on Saturday.

Word from the Mouth: In a Cloud of Dust! edition

Tuesday, May 28th Kevin Kousaie

What a week for the MFL! We played outside like we always have, but this week we had grass to play on. Only that’s not entirely true, if you played at Arthur Therrien then you still played in a cloud of dust.

Only a few little issues this week playing at Darcy McGee. We need to make sure we pick up after ourselves or we could lose the field and have to go back and play at Le Ber in the mud.

If you were there early, and by that I mean like 8:30ish, a bunch of soccer guys showed up and were expecting to play on a field that I had set up already. When I got a call saying they took down 1 of my fields I was livid, when I showed up first thing of course was taking off my shirt and see what was going on and I was ready to drop some people if needed (ed’s note: Kevin’s step 1 is always take off his shirt, no matter what he’s doing). Then I noticed Terry was there and let him handle it while I went back to setting up the field again.

The league is looking into moving games permanently to Darcy McGee from Le Ber for the remainder of the season, but it has not been confirmed yet.

Recap

Division 1

I wasn’t privileged enough to watch any of the D1 games this week, but Terry made his D1 return and had a sack, so you’ll get to hear about the Outlaws games on the Podcast. Who could I forget Willie playing on Iron Wolves and throwing a pick in the game, but yet still pulling off the upset.

Division 2

I wasn’t able to see any D2, but can tell you Marvin getting hurt playing in a different subpar league and not playing this week made a big difference. Tell me Marvin isn’t worth let’s say 65 yards 1 TD, at least 1 pick on defense, plus 2 PDs. He was probably the reason the game turned out like it did.

Division 3

TDs & Beers vs Sooners 45 (18-6)

Drops were the issue for both teams in this game. Not sure if it was 2 or 3 passes Ali dropped and at least 1 would have been a TD. Don’t worry Ali, I got your back and I’ll mention how Sydney also had a few drops, but at least you reached the endzone. Still on the drops, we had Victor who dropped a pick that he could have scored on, but instead it was dropped and a few plays later TDs & Beers scored the first points of the game. Without a doubt the biggest impact in the game came from Khalil with his 4 sacks and only giving up 6 yards rushing on 2 attempts. Even without PO at center and Leo calling the defense, TDs & Beers shut down what most think is a top tier offense.

Horde vs Iron Wolves (37-14)

I’m not saying Simon is a superstar QB who should be paid like the top dogs, but how the donkey is he going 21 of 26 with 6 TDs and no picks? I can tell you and it’s very simple, Horde have better athletes than Iron Wolves and its not even close across the board. From watching this game, I walked away feeling sympathy for Kris with his frustrations of goal line defense. Horde scored 4 TDs of less than 7 yards and on all 4 the ball was thrown to the front goal line and the defender gave up the line then didn’t attack the ball while in the air. St-Jean put up his regular numbers with 7 catches for 97 yards and 2 TDs one of 49 yards which was a 2-yard pass that he took to the house.

Phoenix vs RawSauce (30-38)

I could go two ways on this game and talk about how RawSauce was missing most of their roster and needed Simon to sub and bring them to 6 players or how Phoenix played defense like they were trying to defend a 30-point lead. Ok, now for what really happened. I was stupid and never attacked Simon knowing he was playing his third game in a row and wasn’t really moving around too much, but I know he is very good and knew if I was spot on with my pass it was going to get picked off. I threw 1 pick to Simon Coderre who made a great play jumping getting a hand on the ball and then being able to pull it back in for the pick. I don’t want to porcupine on my team and the defense since on multiple plays the defender was all over the offensive player and in good position. JF had a monster game for Phoenix scoring 4 TDs on 5 catches and totalling 77 yards. RawSauce is better than their 1-3 record just like once Phoenix gets that defense rolling will be better than their 0-2 record up to now.

Division 4

Phoenix vs CIA Fusion (18-12)

Let me start by apologizing to Amanda for taking ownership of Jason, if you want him back let me know what I have to give you to take him back. This game turned out to be really close and being in the game I felt like CIA had the advantage, they moved the ball better than Phoenix did, they were more consistent on defense than Phoenix and the difference in the game was the costly picks. Jason and Kevin both threw 3 picks, the difference was Jason’s picks all happened in the end zone and the picks Kevin threw weren’t. CIA had a good first half, but second half fell apart with 3 of 4 possessions turning into picks and the other was a turnover on downs. This will be a way different game if these teams meet again.

Bear Hood vs Mustard Tigers (45-33)

This was 2 man show for Bear Hood just like last season except this time around its Steve and Antoine doing most of the damage. In this game those 2 combined for 14 of 17 completions from Dave and 250 of 274 yards and all 6 of his TDs. Mustard Tigers might not be the same team they were last season, and they shouldn’t be as they lost their top players from then, but still Mustard Tiger have enough experience to not let this happen. Brian played well except for that effort on the pick 6 he threw where he just stuck out an arm for the sake of it. Tom score 2 TDs and 3 1-point converts, but the play of the game for Mustard Tigers had to be old man John scoring on a 27 yard streak down the sideline where I called the play when he lined up and the defender knew the play and John still ran by him caught the ball and walked in for 6. There were a few plays that Mustard Tigers should have made like a couple of easy catches that would have changed the game. Everyone needs to learn to catch the ball before turning up field, happens way too often and those are the plays that kills drives.

Division 5

Sorry I wasn’t able to catch any games from this division. One day soon, I hope. I need to see what all the excitement coming out of the division is and who I should bet on winning it.

Women

Sorry I wasn’t able to catch any games from this division either.

That is all I have in the way of recaps. If you want more, look for Terry and Willie, unless he got booted by a mop wearing a baseball cap. The worst part is it’s a Cowboys hat. Podcast will be out Wednesday night so keep an eye out for it.

Studs & Duds

Time to see if I felt you did enough to make my Stud list unless your goal was to be the Dud then showing up and playing like a punk might get you on that list.

Studs

Division 1

- Simon Blais 7 TDs passes on 28 of 37 for 323 yards

Division 2

- NA no one that was able to win showed they earned it, so monkey it, everyone needs to try a bit harder

Division 3

- Simon Valiquette 6 TDs and on 5 incomplete passes in game 1 and 11 total TDs on the day.

Division 4

- Othmane Karamat 6 catches 120 yards, 4 TDs and 4 sacks on defense

Division 5

- Kyle Martel had 5 catches for 46 yards, 2 TDs on defense he made 2 tackles and picked off 3 passes

Women

- Haydee Vargas pulled in 6 passes for 64 yards, scored 3 TDs, had 1 2-point convert. Then on defense she made 1 tackle and had 2 picks.

Duds

Division 1

- A-Team as a whole, getting 5 picks on defense and still losing the game.

Division 2

- Will Power is a bum, 2 catches for 9 yards and a PD on defense

Division 3

- David Brisson 5 picks in 1 game 6 total for the 2 games played.

Division 4

- Jason McAleer for his 3 picks all in the endzone in a 1 score game

Division 5

- Titans for their second half collapse

Women

- Paola Olivares threw 5 picks, those numbers need to come down against the stronger teams

There you have it my week 4 winners and let’s not forget about those losers. Or those players who showed up and just stood around trying to look good when we all know they don’t. I mean you all can’t be like Alex and myself standing around with your shirt off all day, get some color and think you look good. Show up, play your ass off, and hope that you did enough that week to make my list. If not try harder next time around.

Predictions and Power Rankings Week 3

Friday, May 24th Kevin Kousaie

Predictions

It’s time for me to decide if I still want to use my crystal ball or not after going 7-10 last week. Either the batteries are dying on my ball or some of you can’t read and didn’t want to help out.

I still managed to beat the coin by 1 game (ed’s note: Hercules! Hercules!) and giving me a 4-game lead. The records sit at 33-32 for me and 29-36 for the coin. I know they aren’t good up to now, but I’m beating the coin (ed’s note: I feel Kevin just brought the coin into this whole thing so that he’d be better than at least random chance).

Now to this week’s many picks.

Division 1

Outlaws vs Busch Boys Coin Busch Boys

- The towering 3(Smuda, Svetna & last and least Marvin)

Iron Wolves vs A-Team Coin Iron Wolves

- They are too much for Iron Wolves to deal with at 4:30 in the afternoon.

Division 2

Top Shooters vs Respect Coin Respect

- I think Marvin ends up being too much for Willie to handle

Division 3

Thunder Buddies vs Double Dippers Coin Thunder Buddies

- Rust on Thunder Buddies

TDs & Beers vs Sooners 45 Coin TDs & Beers

- Missing players for TDs & Beers

Villains vs Bines Coin Villains

- Experience

Horde vs Iron Wolves Coin Iron Wolves

- Too many weapons at Simon’s disposal

Phoenix vs RawSauce NA

- The Coin and I don’t pick my team’s games. (ed’s note: The “Coin” is starting to get capitalized like a proper noun. I think Kevin now thinks of the Coin as a person…)

Tigres vs Villains Coin Villains

- QB experience

Double Dipper vs Horde Coin Horde

- Key players missing for Double Dippers

Division 4

Bandits vs 28-3 Coin 28-3

- Nico guaranteed the victory to me on Sunday, said this is his coming out game.

Systèmes Urbains vs Phoenix NA

- The Coin and I don’t pick my team’s games.

Drama Club vs Mustard Tigers Coin Mustard Tigers

- Better QB and chemistry

100 Genies vs Improbables Coin Improbables

- They have the best player on the field

100 Genies vs MTL Cessnas Coin MTL Cessnas

- Their defense only giving up 7 point a game.

Mimosa Crew vs Action Squad Coin Action Squad

- Too many dogs on this team for Curren to use.

Phoenix vs CIA Fusion NA

- The Coin and I don’t pick my team’s games.

FA #4 vs Action Squad Coin FA#4

- I can not and will not pick a team to win 4 games in with no team name.

Hawks vs Tropic Thunder Coin Tropic Thunder

- Just a feeling.

MTL Cessnas vs Villains Coin Villains

- Game management

Hawks vs Chiefs Coin Hawks

- Better QB

Bear Hood vs Mustard Tigers Coin Bear Hood

- In the wild I’m probably going with the bear, but on this field I’m taking the Tigers because of experience.

Division 5

Slot Machines vs Secret Agents Coin Slot Machines

- This is a very good team all around.

Titans vs Soonies 45 Coin Titans

- Speed

Jungle Squad vs Big Booties Coin Jungle Squad

- Max

8 Ballers vs Binettes Coin 8 Ballers

- Better all over the board

Nothing but D vs 514 Coin Nothing But D

- Better offense better defense better chemistry equals easy win.

Sniffers vs Titans Coin Titans

- Organization

Women

Tigres vs Mockingjays Coin Tigres

- Coaching

Déesses du Drapeau vs Crazy B’s Coin Crazy B’s

- They QB is solid and maybe even better than her brother.

There you have it, my picks and the Coins picks for this week. Now if you read this far you have come to the realization that your either helping me out to get some Ws or you’re Team Coin and in that case your team is dead to me. (ed’s note: I feel that everyone is on Team Coin right now)

Power Rankings

Division 1

#1- A-Team

#2- Outlaws

#3- Busch Boys

Division 2

#1- Respect

#2- Pocket Rockets

#3- Top Shooter

Division 3

#1- Double Dippers

#2- Bines

#3- Sooners 45

Division 4

Babalis

#1- Sour Peeps

#2- 100 Genies

#3- Phoenix

Power

#1- Hawks

#2- Mustard Tigers

#3- Warriors

Division 5

#1- Slot Machines

#2- Titans

#3- Nothing But D

Women

#1- Tigers

#2- Déesses du Drapeau

#3- Drama Queen

I needed a few minutes to figure this out, but after looking over the standings I made a few hard picks and had a few easy ones, but I know I can’t make everyone happy. You can’t be 0-3 and asking why my team isn’t ranked. It’s easy, win some games and I’ll start to notice.

Final Thoughts

I’m super excited to play on a nice grass field this week as it has been so long. Trying to remember when the last time we had games at Rosemount High and Saint Bernadette, has to be a few years. I have been to the new field, and I can tell you that the game speed will be a bit slower than normal, so don’t lead your receivers too much in front they might not get there fast enough.

The one good thing about this week is Jon will be at D’Arcy McGee all day and can explain to everyone trying to use the field that we have a reservation on the field every Saturday.

Now before I let you go, remember that we are playing a game, so go have fun and try not to kill anyone. Oh, and let me remind you again to be on your best behavior. We don’t want complaints and to get kicked out of the park permanently. See you all Saturday.

Word from the Mouth: No Drinking, No Drugs! edition

Tuesday, May 21st Kevin Kousaie

Three weeks of the season for Montreal and week one in Brossard are in the books and up to now there have been no issues.

For the first time ever, the MFL will be playing at D’Arcy McGee, and the field is a few minutes drive from Arthur Therrien. I know we're all used to being loud and screaming and yelling and all of that other hoopla, that goes along with playing football, but at this new park we're playing at we will have to respect the area. People live around the park, so that means no yelling, no screaming, no swearing, no smoking, no drinking, no drugs. So all the good stuff can't be done over here. And we'll have to be on our best behavior or else we can lose the park.

I will be heading over there later today to check it out and make sure it will meet our need fully 3 fields preferably 4 if we can.

I can tell you Willy's not going to be happy, he won't be at Le Ber and won’t be able to get his pizza anymore. Some good news, there is a Dairy Queen only a few minutes walk away from the park. No pizza for Willie, but he can have ice cream. I mean what would you rather have in between games, ice cream or pizza?

Recap

Division 1

No games were played this week.

Division 2

Respect vs Pocket Rockets (45-15)

This game was a complete shellacking. Respect got off to a quick start and never look back. Steve had another good day going 22 of 29 for 247 yards and 6 TDs. The story of the game has to be Simon. We all knew Simon could throw the ball, but did anyone really expect to see him go off like he did this week, 6 catches for 139 yards and 3 TDs (20,45,35). Oh, I forgot to mention he also had a pick 6 as well. The biggest issue for Pocket Rockets was the late throws from PO. He had guys open, but he just looked hesitant and not trusting his arm and throwing the ball. The score looks very lopsided and, yes, this game wasn't close, but if you take away the 2 pick 6s that happened and if Pocket Rockets scored on those drives it would have been a game that was decided by converts. I don't think Respect is 30 points better than Pocket Rockets and I expect a much closer game next time they play.

Knights vs KOLB (34-25)

I actually don't remember much about this game. But yeah, Marvin had a big game going off for 101 yards and 2 TDs and Jeremy had 59 yards and a TD. Mike Jaz pulled in seven catches for 31 yards 1 TD and 1 2-point convert on the day, should have been more, except for the few drops that he had. On the KOLB side they were missing a few players and the players they did have this week didn't help Jon out as there were too many drops. I know everyone looks at stats and if the team wins or not, but next time you're at the field and can catch a bit of a KOLB game, you can tell that Jon might be the most talented QBs in the league as he makes every throw look simple and I’m not talking 10-15 yards down field, I'm talking 35 yards rolling left, throwing right, off his back foot on the money every time.

Division 3

RawSauce vs Bines (19-30)

This is a game that should have been, but the other way around (ed’s note: wat?). Bines was short a quarterback, RawSauce had their team and other than Ludovic being a bit banged up should have been on easy street. Instead, Mathieu decided the 12 for 34, 150 yards and 5 TDs to 1 pick was enough to secure the win. That wasn't the entire story as Mark and his 3 picks was the reason why they won. How does Ludovic not use Yvan on offense at all? The man is their best player and he had no offensive stats.

Division 4

Phoenix vs Bouchers (30-22)

Phoenix did enough to keep the victory, but it was closer than it should have been. Felix and Thibault both had good games for Bouchers combining for 20 catches 10 each, 157 yards and 1 TD along with 1 1-point convert. On the Phoenix side Vince had another 2 picks bringing his total to 5 on the season. The combination of Kenny and Gab as rushers this season has been huge and allowed them to stay fresh, each ending the game with 1 sack each. Bouchers biggest struggle in the game was stopping the run. I ran 13 times for 60 yards. I know those aren't considerable numbers, but it's what opened up because of the run, easy throws and to wide open players. Late in the game Bouchers were driving and needed to score and get a 2-point convert, they moved the ball all the way to the 10-yard line before running out of time.

Division 5

Slicks vs Slot Machines (19-34)

How does this happen? Going in Slicks were going to get an easy win with Guillaume at QB for them and then Scott taking care of the defense, well Giovanni had other plans. Giovanni threw 3 TDs to 0 picks and was able to spread the ball and keep the defense guessing. The game started with Slot Machines getting the ball and them driving the field and ending with Hugo scoring. On his first pass of the game Guillaume was picked off by Eric who scored to make it 12-0 game and after the successful 2-point convert it was 14-0 Slot Machines. Halfway through the first half Slot Machines had a 20-point lead and at this point it was too much for Slicks to comeback from. The score was 34-13 Slot Machines at half. In the second half Slicks started to get their defense in order and needed the offense to make some plays. They didn’t and even with the shutout in the second half Slicks couldn’t make it a closer game, the offense let them down in this one.

Women’s

I missed all these games this week. Eventually Ill get to see a Women’s game so I can talk about it.

Studs & Duds

It’s that time of the week where you get to see if the stat line you put up was enough to make it onto my list. I can tell you that this week I had to make a couple of hard picks, but I figured it out. Now to this week winners and let’s not forget those players that choked.

Studs

Division 1

- No Games played this week.

Division 2

- Simon Duchesne 6 catches 139 yards, 3 TDs, 2 tackles and a pick he returned for a TD.

Division 3

- Mark Bellini 3 picks on defense to go with his 2 catches and 35 yards and a TD on offense.

Division 4

- Gabriel Mercier threw 6 TDs on 9 completions and made 3 picks on defense.

Division 5

- Joshua Piscopo 4 catches 55 yards, 2 TDs, 1 tackle and 1 pick on the defensive side of the ball.

Women

- Emma Sinclair only made 1 catch for 7 yards but she made tackles, 2 picks and returned 1 for a TD on defense.

Duds

Division 1

- No Games played this week.

Division 2

- Simon Dumas no offensive stats and only 2 tackles on defense.

Division 3

- Yvan Desjardins best player on the field only made 1 tackle on defense all game long.

Division 4

- Brian Mustard for throwing Jon a pick and allowing him to return it for a TD. (ed’s note: game winning TD!)

Division 5

- Goldrick Noël threw 3 picks, same number of receivers that caught a pass from him in this game.

Women

- Marie Lewis you’re better than 1 catch for 7 yards on offense.

There you have it, my Studs & Duds for week 3. Just remember that if you didn’t see your name this week that you still have plenty of time to get your name up here you just have to keep balling out and eventually, you’ll get noticed.