Rook Forks Lasker - Week 11 - November 18, 2003 **** RFL WEEK IN REVIEW **** TWO THUMBS DOWN Black jerseys and dark green helmets?!? Who told the Eagles this would look good?!? Get black helmets for the jerseys and then they might be on to something - like the Falcons, perhaps? Fashion don't #2... the Pats' silver jerseys. With the blue jerseys, the Pats can pull off looking like an NFL team. In the whites or silvers, NE looks like a D I-AA team or a Canadian team. IF THE REGULAR SEASON HAD ENDED YESTERDAY... Making the playoffs: #1 seed: Zach, Spunk Monkeys 8-2-1, 516 pts scored #2 seed: Vesh, Dirty Sanchez 8-3, 511 #3 seed: Cals, Love Touch 7-4, 505 #4 seed: Clark, Manchester United 7-4, 482 #5 seed: Shiv, Big Brown Boys 6-4-1, 467 #6 seed: Joepa, samurai pengiuns 6-5, 496 #7 seed: Brodz, The Axis of Evil 5-5-1, 433 #8 seed: Wang, BoyzInTheChineseHood 5-6, 523 Participating in the Scrub Bowl tournament: 9) Mike, Angry Starfish 5-6, 444 10) Gary, West Coast Offense 4-6-1, 496 11) Drew, Midget Tossers 4-6-1, 475 12) Stan, The Belching Brides 4-6-1, 457 13) Ali, Wet Noodles 4-6-1, 417 14) Joebob, Chocolate Love 4-7, 508 15) Richard, Spankin It... 3-6-2, 447 16) Tarang, The Hustlers 3-7-1, 476 But since the regular season did not end yesterday, PLAYOFF PROJECTIONS appear again in the Weekly Warble. RAIDERS ON THE PINE These guys' asses languished on their respective teams' pines last weekend: 14 J Plummer (LT) 23 B Westbrook (MU) 15 Z Crockett (SM) 11 M Muhammad (MT) 12 Q Morgan (SM) 0 E Kinney (LT) 10 J Elam (AS) 85 points... 16-0 this week, 165-8-3 through 11 weeks. IN SEARCH OF THE FISCHER DEFENCE Highest scoring team: BoyzInTheChineseHood - 47.5 ppg Lowest scoring team: Wet Noodles - 37.9 ppg Toughest defense: Spunk Monkeys - 37.5 ppg Softest defense: Chocolate Love - 49.7 ppg League scoring average: 43.5 ppg (down from 43.6 thru last week; last year 47.6) Now on to WIR #11! -------------------------------------------- STANDINGS The Queen's Gambit Division Team W L T GB PF PA STK The Axis of Evil 5 5 1 3 433 524 W1 Angry Starfish 5 6 0 3.5 444 504 L2 Chocolate Love 4 7 0 4.5 508 547 L1 The Hustlers 3 7 1 5 476 483 L2 The Sicilian Defence Division Team W L T GB PF PA STK Spunk Monkeys 8 2 1 - 516 412 T1 Big Brown Boys 6 4 1 2 467 463 L1 BoyzInTheChineseHood 5 6 0 3.5 523 462 W2 West Coast Offense 4 6 1 4 496 516 L3 The Catalan Opening Division Team W L T GB PF PA STK Dirty Sanchez 8 3 0 .5 511 447 W3 Manchester United 7 4 0 1.5 482 422 W1 The Belching Brides 4 6 1 4 457 478 L3 Wet Noodles 4 6 1 4 417 487 L1 P-KR3 Division Team W L T GB PF PA STK Love Touch 7 4 0 1.5 505 459 W4 samurai penguins 6 5 0 2.5 496 459 W1 Midget Tossers 4 6 1 4 475 493 T1 Spankin It... 3 6 2 4.5 447 497 W1 -------------------------------------------- WEEK 11 IN REVIEW ***************** ************************** **** GAME OF THE WEEK **** ************************** West Coast Offense 57 (4-6-1) Love Touch 58 (7-4) pregame spread: WCO by 5 Can we pick 'em or can we pick 'em?!? This GOTW had all the makings... a RB rumbling, bumbling, stumbling and fumbling in OT (Deuce), a brownie running up the score on AZ (Holcomb), a QB running a draw for a TD (Culpepper), a WR running a punt back for a TD (Warrick), and a superstar WR returning to his pouting ways (R Moss). And in the end... the play that determined the final outcome of this remarkable GOTW... Culpepper's 2-pt conversion pass to Hunter Goodwin! In the pre-yahoo days, that Culpepper toss would have only counted for 1 pt - and then we would have gone to bench points to decide this one. But those days are long gone. Had we gone to bench points, Cals still would have won anyway. Gary made 2 great calls with the West Coast Offense starting lineup - starting Holcomb over Flutie and Kasay over J-kow. In the end, the tougher calls for Gary came at the WR spots. Gary chose to go with the dinged-up Horn and Keyshawn (perhaps in his last game as a Buc). The WRs left on the bench, I Bruce and J Morton, went for 3 and 5 pts respectively. Cals' only tough decision came at RB/WR. Cals chose Josh Reed over K Barlow and D McCants. So... both GMs left key points on the bench. The quality depth on Gary's roster was supposed to be the difference in this game. But when Gary's 3 pass-catchers combined for a mere 3 pts, and when Cals got 29 pts from A Train and P-dub... Love Touch got over. kellyh 16 deuce 25 ddavis 5 horn 1 key 2 freddie 0 kasay 8 c'pep 20 atrain 11 warrick 18 rmoss 1 jreed 3 graham 0 jhall 5 -------------------------------------------- Big Brown Boys 20 (6-4-1) Boyz In Th Chin Hood 49 (5-6) pregame spread: BBB by 8 Wang's RBs were expected to dropoff dramatically from Week 10's performance, and they did not disappoint - scoring 17 fewer this week compared to last. And just when praise started being sung for Shiv's pickups at QB (Blake) and WR (Smith), those 2 managed a meager deuce apiece. BoyzInTheChineseHood was able to overcome the dropoff in RB points by getting solid production from R Wayne and the PK (a PK vultured from Richard earlier in the season). As for the Big Brown Boys... Shiv made a great last-minute call - benching D Boston's scoreless ass for J McCareins' 7 pts. But Shiv was left holding the bag by his RBs and Alge. If Shiv doesn't get M Vick's ass in gear soon, his entire season might be in jeopardy. D Johnson and K Kittner have been shutting down Alge and Peerless week after week - better than any Pro Bowl DBs could hope for. The Cowboys lose, Wang wins. Both teams are headed for .500 finishes, but perhaps .500 will be good enough for Wang to get into the playoffs. Shiv probably only needs 1 more win to secure a postseason berth. jblake 2 fredt 3 troyh 2 mccareins 7 ssmith 2 alge 0 akers 4 brooks 6 sdavis 13 mfaulk 7 rwayne 8 price 1 heap 3 wilkins 11 -------------------------------------------- The Axis of Evil 52 (5-5-1) The Belching Brides 35 (4-6-1) pregame spread: TAoE by 1 Brodz knew he needed to finish strong in order to make the playoffs, and The Axis of Evil got started down the finishing path on the right foot with this win over Stan. P Manning and Shaun Alexander basically scored right on their averages for Brodz, but it was the 2 last-minute substitute starters (B Engram and Dallas Clark) who did the heavy lifting in putting The Belching Brides away. Stan has now scored 34 or 35 pts for the 3rd straight week - and not surprisingly... Stan now has a 3-game losing streak. Kerry and Tiki scored about as many points as Stan could have hoped for against the black-clad Iggles. Needing to sub in Hearst for C Garner hurt Stan a bit, and getting only 5 total points from the 3 pass-catchers proved to be the final difference (Brodz won 20-5 in the pass-catcher matchup - and won by 15 overall). Chad Johnson guaranteed a Bungle win over the Chiefs, but forgot to guarantee a win for Stan. peyton 11 shauna 13 shipp 2 engram 15 javon 0 dallas 5 stover 6 kerry 8 tiki 13 hearst 3 calico 1 chadj 4 booba 0 graham 6 -------------------------------------------- Chocolate Love 39 (4-7) Dirty Sanchez 57 (8-3) pregame spread: CL by 10 Boy, were the oddsmakers wrong on this game! R Williams and Amani were expected to score some touchdowns this week, but neither came through with any Chocolate Lovin'. After being the 1st pick overall in the draft, Ricky is speedwalking along as the 9th ranked RB in RFL - a whopping 74 pts behind Ahman. Add Ricky and Edgerrin together, and you'd still be 5 pts behind Ahman. And what about Amani? He was expected to challenge for perhaps 2nd team All-RFL this year. With 57 pts through 10 starts, Toomer is 25 pts behind S Moss for the last WR spot on the Honorable Mention team. How did Vesh manage to win this one going away? First of all... Vesh's WRs were able to stay within reach of Joebob's - even with T Streets in the starting lineup. C'mon, Vesh! We know the running game is key to winning in RFL, but at least give your opposing D the illusion that you might throw the ball! At least you got the "Submit Changes" button thing right this week with Kennison. ;-) The 2nd key for Vesh was that Dirty Sanchez' backfield was able to outpoint Chocolate Love's backs. Add in an old-school 23 from Sharpe, and the sweet taste of victory was Vesh's. green 12 rickyw 7 pittman 2 amani 3 anquan 5 declark 2 v'jagt 8 bj 5 ahman 12 martian 7 streets 0 kennison 4 sharpe 23 v'teri 6 -------------------------------------------- samurai penguins 42 (6-5) Angry Starfish 24 (5-6) pregame spread: sp by 6 Joepa responded to the Happy Valley heat by getting his Big 11-style running game cranked up again. UMich alum T Wheatley (allegedly raging on 'roids) first attacked some Bay Area photographers - and then ran up a dozen on Mike's WAC'ed D. What more can we say about samurai penguins WRs T Holt and S Moss? Holt (#1 RFL WR) and Santana (#6) could become the 1st starting duo in ages to both garner All-RFL honors in the same season. Andre Johnson's 13 shows that Mike's WRs haven't completely quit on him, but Andre the Texan was supposed to be Mike's #3 WR this year. A Johnson (51 pts, #16 WR) is leading Angry Starfish's WR corps. Plaxico is #24 with only 37 pts. And Rod Gardner is 2 pts behind Burress. Add all 3 of these WRs together and T Holt is only a single point behind! Mike needed a Monday Night miracle from Plaxico to pull this one out, and Maddox clearly tried to get Plaxico the ball more... but the only PIT TDs went to the Bus and Slash III. brady 4 tyrone 12 porter 2 tholt 13 smoss 9 mcmike 0 jreed 2 favre 4 LT 1 andrej 13 plaxico 5 gardner 1 miller 0 cundiff 0 -------------------------------------------- Spunk Monkeys 26 (8-2-1) Midget Tossers 26 (4-6-1) pregame spread: SM by 2 Not just sister-kissing here... sloppy, saliva-y, scrubby sister-spit-swapping. In second-guessing the Midget Tossers, Drew left Mushy Muhammad (top yardage gainer among WRs this week) on his bench behind Moulds (out with a partially torn groin). At least Drew managed to get a tie by subbing in Kleinsasser for Shockey (out due to a need to re-shoot his lame watch commercial). Drew's WR situation is now very nearly worse than Vesh's - after trading a QB to Vesh for his best WR! And Drew's strategy to go with 3 Bills starters has officially been panned by the RFL peanut gallery. No point wondering if Zach played down to Drew's level or if Drew played up to Zach's level. Zach has now scored less than 42 twice this season. While for the Midget Tossers, this game marked Drew's 6th trip into sub-38 point land. Spunk Monkeys were led by their MVP Air McNair. But overall... McNair has now fallen behind Culpepper in QB scoring. Zach still controls his own destiny regarding winning his first Steamroller trophy, but might have set his cruise control at 55 - when it should have been set at 75. air 7 priest 5 bennett 3 dmason 5 djax 3 becht 0 edinger 3 bledsoe 3 thenry 8 jamall 5 moulds 0 bryant 2 k'sasser 3 josh 5 -------------------------------------------- Manchester United 59 (7-4) Wet Noodles 35 (4-6-1) pregame spread: MU by 3 Clark is back within 1 1/2 games of winning consecutive Steamrollers. Knowing that Ali's D is very soft up the middle, Clark pounded Edgerrin straight at Ali's D over and over again. Edge's 26 was reminiscent of the E James from a few years ago. Add on the 6 from Moe, and Man U hardly needed an aerial attack to win this one. After scoring only 2 pts last week, Man U QB Bulger hit double digits for the 6th time in his 7 starts. And Koren recovered a fumble in Ali's endzone for Clark's last TD on the day. Despite all the warning signs, Ali left in 2 starters who DNP on Sunday - M Harrison and M Pollard. That's a full demerit for Ali. Getting healthy bodies into the starting lineup still might not have been enough for Wet Noodles to pull off a victory, but with Ali still having an outside shot at a playoff spot... total points scored should remain a major consideration for Ali - as Brodz muscled Ali back down into last place scoring-wise. bulge 10 edge 26 moe 6 hiney 2 koren 7 mili 1 dbrien 7 ramses 9 egeorge 4 conway 8 marvinh 0 rods 10 pollard 0 garya 4 -------------------------------------------- The Hustlers 40 (3-7-1) Spankin It... 59 (3-6-2) pregame spread: TH by 4 A rookie season that started with so much promise for Tarang (1st place ranking in Foge's preseason poll) has now virtually come to an end - as Richard has virtually eliminated Tarang from a shot at the playoffs. The Hustlers really fell apart at QB - where J Garcia was not able to go and then D Carr got hurt. Tarang also lost his TE in the game. Right behind R Williams among the disappointing RBs is C Portis. DEN scored 4 TDs on SD, and Portis got none. The final nail in the coffin was T Glenn. After bashing NE, she failed to deliver on the field - getting shut down by a recuperating Pats D. If Tarang can finish 3-0 and keep up his decent scoring pace, the rookie might still have an outside shot. Richard's win puts his record essentially at 4-7. Winning their last 3 games - scoring lots of points or not - should have Spankin It... in good shape to make the playoffs. McNabb, W Dunn, TO and T Gonzalez are all coming together at the right time. Richard even left some nice Bettis points on the bench behind Thrash. If Richard can get Laveranues back on track, Spankin It... could do some serious damage down the stretch - and perhaps in the postseason. dcarr 0 portis 6 jjax 14 terryg 0 keenan 9 conwell 0 cahney 11 mcnabb 12 dunn 10 thrash 2 TO 15 coles 2 tonyg 11 mort 7 -------------------------------------------- WANG'S WEEKLY WARBLE ====== ====== ====== PLAYOFF PROJECTIONS 1) Zach, Spunk Monkeys 11-2-1, 46.9ppg Should beat Mike and Brodz relatively easily, Joebob is the tester 2) Vesh, Dirty Sanchez 11-3, 46.5 Should close 3-0, can steal Steamroller if Zach slips up 3) Clark, Manchester United 10-4, 43.8 Closes against Richard, Drew and Mike - 3-0 projected 4) Wang, BoyzInTheChineseHood 8-6, 47.5 Very slim ppg edge over each of last 3 opponents (Cals, Tarang, Gary) 5) Cals, Love Touch 8-6, 45.9 Win over Stan should be a lock, tough matchups with Wang and Vesh 6) Joepa, samurai penguins 8-6, 45.1 Expected to beat Brodz and Shiv, loss should come against Joebob 7) Shiv, Big Brown Boys 7-6-1, 42.5 Win over Stan, losses to Vesh and Joepa 8) Gary, West Coast Offense 6-7-1, 45.1 2-1 finish looks like it will be good enough for a playoff berth 9) Drew, Midget Tossers 6-7-1, 43.2 Looks like 3-0 is needed (against Ali, Clark, Richard) 10) Joebob, Chocolate Love 6-8, 46.2 Also needs 3-0 finish (against Joepa, Zach, Ali) 11) Mike, Angry Starfish 6-8, 40.4 Needs win over Ali, and an upset against Zach and/or Clark 12) Brodz, The Axis of Evil 5-8-1, 39.4 Expected finish 0-3 (against Vesh, Joepa, Zach), needs at least 1 W and 1 T 13) Tarang, The Hustlers 4-9-1, 43.3 Finishing 3-0 probably won't even be enough to make playoffs 14) Stan, The Belching Brides 4-9-1, 41.5 Needs to go 3-0 when 0-3 is projected 15) Ali, Wet Noodles 4-9-1, 37.9 Probably needs to go at least 2-0-1 to make playoffs 16) Richard, Spankin It... 3-9-2, 40.6 Needs to go 3-0, and key players are coming along at the right time ************************************************* RFL GM Profiles: Joseph Pynadath, Chocolate Love ************************************************* Joebob... so few physical or mental tools, yet marginally successful in a few physical and mental exercises. How does he do it? Did he sell his soul to the RFL gods? Let's take a peek into that which is brown and smelly, shall we? RFL Week in Review Editing Staff: Joebob, despite being the 4th highest scoring team through 11 weeks... Chocolate Love is a miserable 4-7. What gives? Joseph Pynadath: What can I say? I've pushed my luck with the RFL gods time after time and eventually I was going to get burned. Cecil Collins, Bam Morris, Michael Pittman - Let's just say player character has never been a high criteria item for me. Now it's payback time for the Gods. I have the 4th highest scoring team and I'm 4-7?? Terry Glenn scores 3 TDs in a game against me???? Is that possible? David Boston goes for 2 TDs and close to 200 yds?? Peyton Manning passes for 6 TDs?? What can a GM do against that? RFL: [Interviewer note: "Quite bitter - he is"] On the positive side, your team did come up with a huge 58-47 week 9 GOTW victory over Wang. Tell us about that matchup and outcome. JP: That was classic Chocolate Love. Never know what you're going to get. Tim Rattay, Anquan Boldin and Amani Toomer won that game with sheer grit and determination. I won't lie and say we didn't have this game circled on our calendars. We gave the game ball to Tim. Apparently Wang passed up drafting him out of college after committing to him that he would pick him up if available. Tim didn't forget that one. RFL: Rumor has it that you brought the Rumbling Romanian Josh Veshia into RFL. If the rumors are true, why did you do it? If not, why would people attempt to frame you for that crime against humanity? JP: First, it's not true. However, I can see why people would make this mistake.Veshia has a nasty habit of using my name to get into things that he normally would not be able to. Movie premieres, Playboy mansion, Company club trips, and yes, RFL. You see, Vesh and I have known each other for quite some time. He has always idolized me and tries to live my life. I'm used to it now. He is by far one of the least talented GMs in the business. RFL: I see that attempting to deflect attention away from yourself is still a favorite ploy under your employ. How is the young 'un coming along? What signs has he given regarding his potential to GM against Baby Brodz a few years down the road? JP: Young Joshua has really come into his own as Chocolate Love's Asst GM. The Tim Rattay and Arlen Harris pickups were his ideas. Yet, he still has some growing to do. As good as those picks were, his draft ideas of Trung Cadidate and Marty Booker are still hurting us. As you probably know, we've recently added another staff member - my new son, Jason. I expect Jason's arrival to kick up the competitive juices in Joshua - which will help propel us through the playoffs. As for Baby Brodz - no real threat there. From what I'm hearing, Brodz is a micro-manager - so Isaac has no inputs in personnel at this time. RFL: Why didn't you appear at draft HQs this year? Is it true that you lost consecutive 1-on-1 loser-stays-away-from-HQs games to 21 against Cals and Clark? What has happened to your hoops skillz? JP: With my staff getting so big, I didn't feel that draft HQ could accomodate all of us. As a result, we're currently building an addition to our house to take over as draft HQ in the future. As for the hoop rumors... are you crazy?? I don't think Clark has ever scored a point off of me. My hoops skills are still on the rise. The one that I worry about is Cals. He seems to lose a step every year. RFL: Where are you working these days? How're things going with the career? JP: Still working at Mercury Interactive. Due to my reputation as a successful RFL GM, I've been able to do OK and see myself there for a few more years. I'm currently expanding my group at Mercury, so I may be interviewing Vesh in the near future. He's always looking for handouts. RFL: [Makes note of Joebob's Vesh-envy] You got trounced by both Shivan and Tarang this season. What is your plan to regain relevance in IFEJ over the next few years? JP: Oh, I'll regain IFEJ relevance over those IFEJian wannabes. What can I say - they're young and brash and every now and then they'll get an RFL victory. I've been there. But they'll burn out. You'll see. RFL: [Makes note of Joebob's loss of Reality Touch] How much cash money have you contributed to your alma mater, BU, since you walked off with that hard-earned sheepskin? What do you miss most about BU and Boston? JP: 0 dollars. They have the WORST career development organization so I felt I owe them nothing. I think they had 1 or 2 companies come to campus to interview. Shiv - transfer now before it's too late. As for what I miss in Boston - beating the crap out of our graduate Teaching Assistants in football. Ah, what a glorious day! RFL: [Makes note to get Joebob on all the annoying BU alumni mailing and emailing lists] Commish Wang is clearly losing his grip on the League. Whom would you nominate to become Commish #3? JP: Cals RFL: [Surprised that Joebob had the restraint not to nominate himself] What do you like most about your team this season? What do you like least? JP: Like the most - The overachievers: Trent Green and Mike Vanderjagt. Like the least: The underachievers - Ricky Williams, Amani Toomer, Trung Candidate, Marty Booker RFL: Any closing comments you wish to share? JP: It's been a disappointing season so far. I've never had a team perform so well yet be so far down in the standings. People'd better hope Chocolate Love doesn't make the playoffs - otherwise there will be some trouble! RFL: Strong words from a GM whose team has already been virtually eliminated from the postseason. Perhaps someone is trying to save his job? Hmmm? This has been an RFL interview. The rights to all proceeds made from this interview belong to the RFL WIR and exclusively to the RFL WIR. ******************************************************** SEASON POINTS LEADERS ********************* QB 119 D Culpepper (Love Touch) 115 S McNair (Spunk Monkeys) 110 P Manning (The Axis of Evil) RB 165 A Green (Dirty Sanchez) 153 P Holmes (Spunk Monkeys) 114 J Lewis (Midget Tossers) 113 L Tomlinson (Angry Starfish) 113 S Alexander (The Axis of Evil) 102 S Davis (BoyzInTheChineseHood) 102 D McAllister (West Coast Offense) WR 122 T Holt (samurai penguins) 116 R Moss (Love Touch) 87 K McCardell (The Hustlers) 87 H Ward (Manchester United) 83 M Harrison (Wet Noodles) 82 S Moss (samurai penguins) TE 67 S Sharpe (Dirty Sanchez) 56 T Gonzalez (Spankin It...) 45 T Heap (BoyzInTheChineseHood) PK 106 M Vanderjagt (Chocolate Love) 99 J Wilkins (Boyz In The Chin Hood) 74 J Elam (Angry Starfish) -------------------------------------------- RFL ALL*STARS ************* QB 20 D Culpepper (Love Touch) RB 26 E James (Manchester United) 25 D McAllister (West Coast Offense) WR 18 P Warrick (Love Touch) 15 B Engram (The Axis of Evil) and T Owens (Spanking It...) TE 23 S Sharpe (Dirty Sanchez) PK 11 J Wilkins (BoyzInTheChineseHood) and J Carney (The Hustlers) ************** Week 11 total: 128... QxKBP mate -------------------------------------------- NEXT WEEK's ACTION **** GAME **** OF **** THE **** WEEK **** Big Brown Boys (6-4-1, 42.5) vs. The Belching Brides (4-6-1, 41.5) Shiv Edge Stan J Blake -- K Collins F Taylor <- T Barber T Hambrick -> G Hearst S Smith -> C Johnson D Boston -- A Davis A Crumpler -- B Franks D Akers <- S Graham Shiv needs 1 win in the last 3 games to make the playoffs, and Stan is the only remaining opponent Shiv is projected to beat. Stan probably needs to win all 3 of his remaining games to make it to the Large Lambada. Stan will be throwing 2 G-men starters at G-men fanatic Shiv. But Kerry and Tiki at TB on MNF might not be such a good matchup for Stan. Stan also faces a tough call at RB/WR. Stan has not started a 3rd WR yet this season. But with C Garner dinged and G Hearst not-so-fantastic... perhaps Stan will dip into the WR well for the first time this week. Starting Chad Johnson is the only no-brainer for Stan. A Davis (vs PIT) is perhaps the 2nd best option - with T Calico (at ATL), N Burleson (vs DET), D Branch (at HOU) well worth consideration. C Bradford vs NE should be a no-go. Shiv has a little bit of thinking to do at QB: Blake vs STL or Harrington at MIN. M Vick is also supposed to get onto the field for the first time - but in a very limited capacity. All of Shiv's WR options are tough to call: S Smith at DAL, D Boston vs CIN, J McCareins at ARL, D Hall vs OAK, D Looker at AZ. But S Smith has been pretty solid (aside from this past weekend), and when you're paying D Boston $40+M... you've got to start him, right? It should be interesting in Shiv's dorm room Monday Night if he needs TB to shutdown his beloved Gints for an RFL dubya. RB performance and WR decisions should be the keys to this contest. *** G-men lose, Shiv wins... Big Brown Boys by 3 *** -------------------------------------------- Other Tilts: Love Touch (7-4, 45.9) by 8 over Boyz In Th Chin Hood (5-6, 47.5) Cals has Culpepper-Moss at home against DET. Need we say more? Wang has really bad matchups for all his WRs - and C Dillon back to take away Rudi touches. Dirty Sanchez (8-3, 46.5) by 2 over The Axis of Evil (5-5-1, 39.4) Vesh still has some WR issues. But Brodz' WRs are almost as "challenged". This one should be closer than the season-to-date ppg averages say. Chocolate Love (4-7, 46.2) by 6 over samurai penguins (6-5, 45.1) Joebob should get back on track after hitting a nasty pothole last weekend. Joepa's RB problems will having him trying to dig himself out of a hole again this week. Spunk Monkeys (8-2-1, 46.9) by 10 over Angry Starfish (5-6, 40.4) Zach's Priest is due to explode on Zach's beloved Raiders this weekend. Mike's WRs have very nearly quit entirely on him. Midget Tossers (4-6-1, 43.2) by 4 over Wet Noodles (4-6-1, 37.9) Drew's Bills are at home against a Colts team that might give up some points. Ali's main Colt needs to return to the lineup for Ali to have a chance. Manchester United (7-4, 43.8) by 1 over Spankin It... (3-6-2, 40.6) Edgerrin should lose offensive focus for Clark if Harrison returns to action for the Colts. Richard's hopes rest on Bettis' and/or Laveranues' shoulders. Should be a barn-burner... West Coast Offense (4-6-1, 45.1) by 5 over The Hustlers (3-7-1, 43.3) Gary simply needs some good, clean living to avoid more bad luck. Tarang needs his Garcia-Portis-J Smith trio back up and running.