Week 4: Red Rolls Again, Illini No Shows

The battle of undefeateds went to the powerhouse Big Red. The Ogres can't complain mush as they only managed 56 points with Big Ben the only one to get into double digits with 14. Big Red had Moss come through again with 18, Hasselbeck threw for 15 and Addai had 14. Even Vrabel had a TD getting Big Red to 84, second highest score in a low scoring week. Ogres drop 2 spots, but stay in the top 4 for playoff contention.

The other still undefeated team, Back to CALI got a bye week. They put up 62, but could have won with 6 against the Absent Illini. CALI got 20 from Brady, 10 for Urlacher and Coles and nothing else mattered. Absent started only 7 players. One of those was on a bye and another was out. Wilkins scored 0, so only 4 players contributed. Jordan scored 4.05 before getting injured to lead the team, but Denver's D had -4 to erase that leaving 3 points for the Frightened Illini.

Ballin' moved into 3rd place beating the Homies who lost Caddy for the season. Ballin' had a solid team effort. Favre led the team with 17 and Braylon Edwards had 10, but the key was having only 2 players less than 5 points. Homies had the stud with the Bear D putting up 19 and Josh Brown kicking for 11, but 6 players scored less than 3.

The Hillbillies revamped team seems to have made a turn around knocking down the Reavers to vault into 5th place. New acquisitions Seattle D and Anrde Davis were among the leaders with 19 and 12 points respectively. LT seems to be back with 15 (though 3 below the projection) and Gostkowski kicked for 10. Reavers got another strong Kitna game with 14. McGahee got 100 yards, but missed the end zone again. Lynch and Witten had 9+ to contribute, but Reavers struggled in the defense and kicking game, only getting 12 points from those positions as they fall to 2-2.

The Raiders took it to the Cushions with the high score of the week. Peyton had a big day with 27. Jerry Porter finally produced with 14 and Merry Man had 11 to lead the Raiders who had less than 5 from their backfield. The Woopiecushions boldly started Derek Anderson against the Ravens and were rewarded with 14 and Patrick Willis had 11. 4 Others were in the 8-9 range, but their receiving corps failed them with 6 points which wasn't enough as the Cushions drop to 2-2. In other Raider news, many players expressed their disappointment when the coach voiced his opinion that the playoffs were a ‘stretch’ for them. We'll see what becomes of it. Was it a brilliant motivational move or sewing the seeds of discord and apathy?

The Ghostriders are the #3 scoring team and finally got a win. Romo opened it up again with 30. TJ and the Buc D also got into double digits to beat down the struggling Scuds. The Scuds got 19 from Holmes and 7 from Pennington (who was dropped following the game, but Maroney sat out and has become a huge disappointment along with the Raven's 2. One could hardly blame the Scuds for leaving Culpepper's 32 on the bench, but that was painful. I figure the same people who started Culpepper where the same ones who had the insight and guts to start Derek Anderson when he played the Bengals. I have to ask, is it just me or does it seem strange that the Patriot (Maroney) is helping shoot down the Scuds each week?

Spit 'n Polish fell again, this week it was to Clovis. Both teams are now 1-3. IDP, Hobbs got 4.5 to outscore Watson's .6 to get the win by 1 point. Ronnie Brown continues to produce with 17 this week. Dallas Clark picked-up for injured Marvin Harrison and score 15. to lead Clovis who had barely 1 point for his receivers. Spit got 12 from Winfield and 6 others were between 6 and 9, but Berrian needed 3 more yards to deliver the victory.