Week 5: The New Sheriff Gives Up His Badge

The Sheriff, Big Red passed his badge to the challager, CALI after losing by 24. Cali was led by Brady's 23 (again) and Stover added a dime. Back also had a nice move bringing in Ron Dayne to spell Rudi on his bye. Big Red finally got a good game from Torry Holt. He and Rackers had a dozen, but Addai was a late scratch, Moss was kept out of the end zone for the first time this year, and Hasselbeck had .32 vs the Steelers. Campbell's 18 and Feely's 17 could have made the difference for Big Red, but...those thigns happen.

Ballin' won a squeaker 50-49 and was lucky to do so against a Reavers team that had an off week. The Steel Curtain had 15 for Ballin', but the team had 0 TDs. Ballin' forgot the wisdom that he posted a while back about sitting Favre. Guess he was counting on Denver playing well against the Chargers. Sitting Fitzgerald (14) for Brandon Marshall (2.6). But it all worked out since Reaver's Kitna had -1.7 and yes, the Jag D gave up a TD with no time left. Witten's 13 and Ruud's 10 were the bright spots for Reavers who is kicking himself for having Reed (3) in and Kaeding (12) out. Is it time to bury Lee Evans yet? He has 5 points on the year.

The Ogres are back on the attack after last week's hiccup. They hammered Clovis 90 to 46. The brilliant moves of the week were bringing in Redskin D who kept the lid sealed on the Lions for 24 and Kris Brown who kicked for 23 (three 50+ yard field goals). Big Ben threw for 10 as the Ogres had 90 points on only 1 TD. Clovis was hit by the injury bug as well as the Ogres. Trent Green is gone for a while, Boldin was out again. Add to that Travis Henry being too busy smokin' pot to get in the end zone and it was a rough day. Ronnie Brown continues to be a bright spot for Clovis as he put up another 15 points and Dallas Clark found the end zone, too.

Hillbillies better hope they are too hurt to practice on Tuesday because they are not going to be greeted with any smiles. Spit and Polish gave them one heck of a shiner. Ben Watson had a huge day with 18. Eli figured out how to pass in the second half (only 3 completions in the first half) and threw a couple of TDs for 14 points and one was to Plax to get him 13. That was more than enough for an absent and inept Hillbillie squad. Gostkowski kicked for 11, but Tomlinson's 7 was the only other player over 5 points. Tomlinson sat down in the second half so that the pine rider, Turner could get 14 and LJ had .75 while the Colts started another pine rider, Keith (20). Pennington, the Seahawk D, and Fishy Jackson were shown the door after they collectively got just over 9 points.

The Woopiecushions blasted the Ghostriders 81-57. The Cushions rode the Pat's D for 18 and Folk's foot for 16. They also did well with a gutsy start of Derek Anderson (12 against the Pats D. The Ghosts had to deal with 2 stud WRs on a bye and the replacements scored next to nothing. Romo had his first poor outing (7). Kevin Jones and Portis both had problems locating the end zone, so the Titan's 16 were all that there was to write home about for the Ghosts. Woopie has been known to be rough on players (32 transactions in 5 weeks), but discarding Battle even after his TD?? That's tough.

Homies were sent home by the cross town/office rivals the Raiders. The Homies' Bear D had 12, but other than Heath Miller (8) there were no TDs and 2 over 3 points. Even their kicker Josh Brown had a dough nut. The Raiders, however, where ready to rumble. The Charger D led the way with 20. Najeh Davenport had a great day with 17. Peyton had his...yawn... 14 and Gates put up a dozen. McDonald found the end zone, too, just missing a 10 spot. Not sure what Parrish was doing on the bench when he was supposed to be starting, but the Raider management will have to decide if he will be cut for such non-sense. Fortunately, it didn't change the outcome of the game. You have to wonder if it was in response to the 'playoffs are a stretch' comment though.

The Scuds had a successful launch, beating the frightened Illini by 1. It was a defensive battle with Jacob's 10 and the Raven's 9 leading the way for the Scuds. The Illini had 14 from the Giant D and Wilkins kicking for 13, but 0 TDs sank them. The question that everyone is asking the Illini camp is how long until the plug is pulled on Drew Brees. The fans were chanting for Kurt Warner, and I think they just might be forced to make a change or lose their fan base. They made a good pick up in Selvin Young who is expected to get the carries from the pot smoker, Henry if/when he gets suspended. The Scuds are glad to had Jacobs back and have both halves of the Giant RB committee.