Week 2: Changing of the Guard

There's a new sheriff in town. Enter, the Big Red machine. He more than doubled Reavers who is trying to figure out which way is up. Moss, Marion Barber, Rackers, Addai, and the Packers all made it to double digits with Moss and Barber hit pay dirt twice. Reavers took that Bengal D which looked so good last week and rode them to a painful minus 2 points. McGahee had a nice 11 and Kitna 10, but more was expected of Kitna. The big problem was that half the team couldn't muster 3 points leaving Reavers hoping that the trade with the Bullets will get things going.

Cali narrowly missed the century mark for the second straight week, but had more than enough to get a second win and move into second place. They sent the reigning champion Bullets to the basement at 0-2. Brady and the Viking D each put up 21 points, Winslow and Rudi Johnson threw in another 12 and Urlacher had 10 to get CALI to 99. The Bullets got 12 from the Raven D and the Bulger, but Farrior was the only other player to get more than 4 as the big expectations of Lee Evans, Santonio Holmes, El, and Maroney produced very little.

The Ogres are teh third 2-o team and break the Ghostriders heart for the second week in a row. Ghostriders were prayin' that McNabb would throw in a TD to Reggie Brown to cap their last score, but... Akers got the field goal instead. Romo had 17, Andre Johnson had 19 before leaving with an injury, TJ had 15, Antonio Pierce threw in a dozen and Portis 10 for the powerful but defenseless Ghosts. The Ogres rode the cape of Chad Johnson (23). Willie Parker, Roy Williams, and Heap each found the end zone, Akers kicked in 12, and Morrison had 11 to get the Ogres to 99 and a 5 point win. Ghosts are 0-2, but have scored the second most points in the league. Opponents are averaging 106.59 against them. CALI must be lickin' their chops at their opportunity in week 3.

Ballin' had the offense workin', but the defense failed this week as the Woopiecushions scored the high score of the season with 117.93 and moved into 4th place. Steve Smith had 27 points catching passes from Delhomme (23), Jamal Lewis ran for over 200 yards and 17 points, and the Pat's D threw in 16 to lead the Cushions. Ballin' wasn't slouching. Braylon Edwards and Gore each had 2 TDs combining for 36 points. TO, the Steelers and Elam (ooooooooh I hate type that name today) each had 11 as well for a very solid week, but this week, the Cushions were outstanding.

The Hillbillies looked like they did in 2004 and 2005 rolling up 106 points against the blindsided Raiders. The Raiders got between 9 and 11 form Manning, Jerry Porter, Gates, Vinatieri, and Merriman, but 5 or less from the rest of the team. The Hillbillies got another TD from Calvin Johnson. Jacksonville had 11 and Briggs had a big day with 17, but the story of the day was Palmer who threw for 6 TD's and 41 points which was the margin of victory.

Undefeated (great to see you at lunch yesterday, Cory) needs a new name. The Illini got off their bum (somewhat) and got out of the basement. It was a defensive battle as there were only 2 double digit contributors in the whole game. The Illini's Devner D had 14 which was more than Undefeated's 11 from Zach Thomas. Those 3 points were the difference in the score 58-55.

The Homies got their first victory of the season beating the Conicals. This games was all about team defense. The Homies had it (Chicago for 20). Clovis didn't (Miami for -3). Driver had 10 and the Caddy had 15 as well for the Homies. Galloway found the end zone a few times for 19 and VY scored 12, but Clovis couldn't over come that powerful Bear D.