Week 3 Game Summary: Well this was a weird week. We only had 11 guys so we played 5 on 5 with an all-time QB (Leo and Nick taking turns) and a 2 man line. Then when Sam had to leave early, we played a little old-school 5 on 5, 4 Mississippi rush game. I think what we learned was that the smaller the game gets, the more important to match guys up carefully. Normally in a 7 on 7 or better game, you can mix and match as much as you want but this week with such small teams, having most of the speed on one team was bit much with Yellow winning 6-1.

Picking the MVP was actually hard. I think a good case can be made to give it to a couple of people. I had 2 picks, a couple of nicely defensed passes, and 2 touchdowns (and might could have scored another but lateralled to Leo who took it in). The yellow defense as a whole could have been nominated as well with 4 picks, a turn over or two on downs and forcing a number of punts. But this week, I'm going to award the MVP to Leo because he had 3 TDs (one of which was a really nice WR screen where he had to make some very nifty moves to get in) and threw for a couple.

Week 4 Preview: Hopefully the weather will continue to cool a bit and our numbers will increase slightly. I think most people will agree that 7 on 7 or 8 on 8 generally produce our best games so getting a few more people out this coming week would be really good.

Something that would really be nice would be if we had numbers at 9:00 which is actually our start time. We're starting games now as soon as we have enough to begin playing - even if that means playing a smaller game to start or having to substitute guys in or something. 9:00 start means arriving early enough to put on cleats, stretch, warm-up, whatever and starting the game at 9:00.


Link of the Week: http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=9066&where=index