Week 10 Summary: Another lopsided score that should've been closer. Yellow definitely played better and likely would have won the game anyway but Red's miscues simply did them in. Red started poorly with lousy protection and turned the ball over twice to Jason Brecht. By the time the protection improved, Red found other ways to lose despite getting open regularly. Dropped passes were a favorite (did anyone not drop at least one?) but when we weren't dropping them, the QB was misfiring. It was just an ugly game for Red. I think Yellow ended up with like 5 picks.

Yellow won 5-2 but two plays could have made it 4-3. The first was horrible Yellow pass (came in like a punt) that I should have picked but which I bounced off my knee right into Zieser's hands and which he took in for a score. The second was a beautiful long pass that Kris put right into Shay's hands in stride in the endzone that he caught and then lost when his feet got caught up. So take one score away from Yellow and give Red one and you get 4-3. But would've/could've/should've doesn't mean much.

I think I need to talk about the origin of the MVP award in our game. In 11+ years we almost never talked about such things. Then last year, Alex came out and had a career day. He had 4 picks, (2 returned for touchdowns), a couple of sacks, and I think he had an offensive touchdown as well. It was without question, the most dominating performance we'd seen by a player in years. Now flashforward to this year. While this year's MVP winners have had nice games, we haven't yet had one quite as dominating as Alex's last year. That's the standard to shoot for guys.

This week's candidates were Cain, who did a terrific job QBing for Red and who played some nice defense, Brecht who had the 2 aforementioned picks and nearly had a long catch and run TD (called back by an offensive pass interference call), and Zieser who had 2 picks (or was it three) and made the catch of the season when he grabbed the tipped/missed pick that I made and took it in for the TD. That play put Zieser over the top this week. He caught it while running straight at me with the expectation of getting a flag since I should have caught the ball and then it suddenly was bouncing low and fast right at him. He was about 6 feet away when I bounced it. It was really a hell of a catch and run. I had nightmares about it Saturday night.

Week 11 Preview: Well we had 7 on 7 on a holiday weekend so lets hope that bodes well for the next several weeks. I know that people have familial obligations and need to spend money to keep retailers in business but remember, stores are open in the afternoon and absence makes the heart grow fonder.

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