Division C or how a QB makes a world of difference.

It’s crazy to think how many players play Division C and one other (Either Division D or Division B). Many teams look alike from one division to another, yet, the main difference is the QB position. How one team can go from struggling in one division to soaring in the other by simply changing one single player from one position to the other.

The best Division C teams also bolster the best QBs in the divisions (granted, there’s always exception, but generally speaking). We saw it last Winter in Division 4 and we’ll see it again this time around in Division C; if your QB can’t put up 30 constantly, you won’t make it far in the playoffs.

With only 3 weeks left, it’s the crucial part of the season that will determine the contenders from the pretenders. If you walk away with a 19-18 win, consider yourselves lucky.

It’s time to step up or shut up.

Let’s get started.

 

Week 7

Division C, where have you been all my life? Okay, fine, I overreact, but your style makes me envious. The way you walk around like it’s no one’s business and how you take care of you first makes others look like they simply don’t belong. I’m proud I chose you.

 

Thoughts of the Week

• I shouldn’t be happy we had a week without forfeits. There should never be forfeits.
• SO many games started off with a 6-point lead. I know there was an accident at Lachine, but guys, COME ON.
• I was sitting here, looking at the results and I must say, I’m at a loss for words.
• Now that I think of it, saying I’m at a loss of words, well, writing really, is quite clever.
• Way to go Minh Ton-That.
• I guess Rich Humes didn’t enjoy the criticism recently because he went OFF.
• Stockton Slap’s offense is looking worse and worse by the day. I know you guys started strong, but it’s looking pretty bleak right now boys.
• Many of you requested it, so, there. Playoff standings. Happy now?
• The battle of the Sauce is THIS WEEK. I’m so excited. For no reason.
• Euro2016 has me interessed in soccer again. Do not worry, it will not last. Till FIFA.
• We get it, Lebron James fan. You can put your jerseys back in the closet now; geez. You guys are EVERYWHERE. It’s been 2 weeks.
• I have a feeling Conference B will have a much tighter race than Conference A. See my full predictions below!
• The more I think of it, the more I’d like to impliment GoPros into FPF. Like for officials and stuff.
• James Floreani has no clue what a bribe is.
• Ryan Aridi films amazing Games. We should consider hiring him full time. For real.

 

Players of the Week

• Sammy Feder (Coyotes): Efficient and deadly, Sammy Feder went up for 6 TDs, no interception and finished the night with a 139.8 QBR after completing 79.2% of his passes. Well done, Sir.
• Adam Rockman (No Big Deal): a rushing TD, a receiving TD + serious yards and a pick-six on defense. Is there anything he cannot do?
• Jonathan Grizzley (No Name): 89 receiving yards, 3 TDs and 2 picks on defense. He had A NIGHT. Impressive.
• Francis Maheu (Former Tomahawk): In his QB’s return, Maheu went up BIG for 121 yards and 3 TDs on 11 catches. I guess their connection IS undeniable.
• Cory Kennedy (La Sauce): After mocking him for not being a QB, he went out on Tuesday night and scored 5 TDs, threw 0 picks and decided that adding 2 interceptions on defense would get him noticed. Well, it worked.

 

Recaps

• Coyotes took on 69ers as they kicked off week 7’s action and the game didn’t disappoint. Although Coyotes took an early lead and held on tight for most of the night, it was a rather good game as both QBs looked flustered at times (for different reasons) and defense made plays from time to time on both sides. Sure, Coyotes won by a large margin, but if the second half is any indication, a rematch would cause a very different outcome. And yes, it’s a plausible outcome. 69ers will look to bounce back against a struggling Killa Beez next Sunday and I feel like Dean Demetriou will look to right the ship bright and early.
• Former Tomahawk struggle to find bodies to fill the roster sheet as they were down 6-0 before the first snap even took place, but Jean-Francois Marquis’ dominance took place real early and Evolution were in the rearview mirror before Hinsley Adams had time to show up and have an impact. Sure, his 5 PDs and his TD helped Evolution, but that was the only positive thing that happened for them all night. Rick Cummins continues to struggle under center and his defense can only so much when they’re on the field for most of the game. The DB-duo of Jean-Francois Marquis and Corey Greenaway was dominant from snap to whistle as they came down with the 3 picks (1 for six). Former Tomahawk are looking real good right now.
• Vince Nardone had, yet another, good outing as Top Sauce trashed Honey Badgers. With such a weird stat sheet and myself playing at the same time, it’s tough to say whether Doug McKernan missed the game and who took the snaps for the team, but said QB struggled against Top Sauce’s defense as he only put up 1 TD per half. With weapons like Dilan Daoust, Jordan Moses, Alex Ganter and Jeremy Anderson, it’s tough to imagine anyone not being able to muster up points, but everyone has bad nights after all. Justin McLean and Chris Milard tore it up on both sides of the ball as both combined for over 150 yards, 5 TDs, 3 sacks, 3 PDs and 1 pick. Pretty monstruous. Someone will need to slow Justin McLean down at some point.
• No Name managed to stay afloat against The Commission as Michael Roy used a different receiver this week; JR Beausoleil for most of his yards and keeps including Jonathan Grizzley as a serious red-zone threat when he needs him the most. Sean Avraam threw his 4th interception of the season to Jonathan Grizzley and from the looks of things; it looked like the game changer as No Name walked away with a 5-point victory. Winning does fix everything, after all.
• Cory Kennedy took the field confident against Jagerbomb (who could blame him after last week’s performance), but his deep throws weren’t quite as accurate this week and if it wasn’t for Francois Raymond bailing him out on quite a few, the score would have been worse than it actually was. Jeremie Cloutier looked good and poised under center once again as his offense marched up and down the field for most of the night using his brand new target Cedric Nuckle quite well. If it wasn’t for Cory Kennedy forcing passes to both Francois’, maybe La Sauce would’ve stood a chance as their defense did decently against Jagerbomb, but the game looked over by halftime as Jagerbomb drank a bit of water and had smiles on their faces with a 14-point lead.
• For yet another week, Joey Taylor’s offense is going nowhere as Stockton Slap hits a brick wall against No Big Deal. Even without Jake Applebaum under center, NBD marched down the field quite often and scored as backup QB Dustin White distributed the ball well to all his receivers and allowed for everyone to look good out there. Somehow, Stockton Slap allowed Adam Rockman to run all over them for 40 yards and a TD on a SINGLE RUN. How did Brent Callender let that happen? I’ll never know. Seeing how Dustin White only mustered 84 passing yards, it shows just how Stockton Slap’s defense handles themselves regardless of the score and how amazing the field positioning was (Punting is in the rules for a reason guys).

 

Power Rankings

1. No Fly Zone (7-0-0): Undefeated never felt so good.  
2. Honey Badgers (6-1-0): Losing without your starting QB doesn’t sting the same. You get a pass here, but a soft one.  
3. Coyotes (6-1-0): It really was a fluke that one time.   
4. Top Sauce (6-1-0): I feel like 4th is low for them, but I simply can’t rank them higher just yet. Keep at it, boys.
5. No Big Deal (5-1-1): Who needs Jake Applebaum?
6. No Name (6-1-0): Winning close games shows character.
7. Former Tomahawk (5-2-0): Even down 6 before the first snap, they dominated the entire game.
8. Broccasion (4-3-0): 4-3 with a +/- of 77. Ridiculous.
9. 69ers (4-2-1): They can ball with the best of the division. Don’t take these guys lightly.
10. Show me Your TDs (4-3-0): This roster’s inconsistencies worries me, but Mike Addona keeps rolling with it, so maybe I should too.

 

FlagPlus Fantasy Football

Terry Tam falls to his teammate Brent Callender in one of this season’s closest games (wasn’t as close as me beating Peeze, but hey, every great game needs another to compare it with, right?).

As Francis Maheu was a no show and Phil Cutler couldn’t muster a catch, Terry Tam’s team let him down as Brent Callender’s took to the sky and beyond. Well done.  

Here’s the breakdown of last week’s results:

 

	Terry	Points Scored	Brent	Points Scored
QB	Rich Humes (No Fly Zone)	37.13	Sammy Feder (Coyotes)	28.67
Snapper	Robert White (No Name)	7.4	Yoni Lehrer (Keyport Lock)	10.4
WR	Kevin Smuda (Coyotes)	19.2	Vinny Gualano (No Fly Zone)	2.2
WR	Francis Maheu (Former Tomahawk)	0	Justin McLean (Top Sauce)	39.8
WR	Jordan Moses (Honey Badgers)	10.8	Aleksander Papich (BearSkins)	18.6
WR	Phil Cutler (Evolution)	0	Kevin Laliberté (Varennes)	3.4
Rusher	Chris Milard (Top Sauce)	22.5	Simon Laporte (No Name)	0
Defense	Brunch Buddies	25.5	Broccasion	27.17
Total		122.53		130.24

Last week’s MVP: Justin McLean – Top Sauce

This week’s challenger is G.M. Kolethras. Some of you may know him as he’s been around for, well, as long as people can remember. He’s better known as the FPF historian or the new host of the Division C podcast. Luckily for us, we’re not asking for his opinion and only his picks this week.  

Let’s remind everyone of the simple rules we follow weekly:

• Cannot draft someone from your own team
• Cannot draft the same player twice (Gives an edge to Challenger)
• Winner stays. Loser’s out.
• Challenger picks first.

Here’s the scoring format we’ll be using this season:

Quarterbacks

• 1 point per 15 yards passing
• 3 points per passing TD
• 1 point per 5 yards rushing
• 5 points per rushing TD
• – 2 points per interception
• – 1 point per sack

Receivers

• 1 point per 5 yards
• 5 points per TD

Rusher

• 7.5 points per sack

Defense

• 1 point per 3 tackles
• 1 point per 2 PD’s
• 2 points per sack
• 3 points per INT
• 5 points per pick-six
• 10 points for allowing 10 points or less
• 8 points for allowing 11-20 points
• 6 points for allowing 21-30 points
• 4 points for allowing 31-40 points
• 2 points for allowing 41-50 po ints
• 1 point for allowing 51 + point

** Key note: If any given player wants to be part of the Fantasy Duel in the upcoming week, we need new challengers. Send me a message (FB, Twitter, email) and I’ll set you up. You don’t need to be media/well known. As long as you love FPF / Division C and will spend about 25-30 minutes of your time to draft your team, we’ve got a deal.

This week’s teams:

 

	Brent	GM
QB
Snapper
WR
WR
WR
WR
Rusher
Defense

 **Teams will be edited in as soon as the guys are done drafting. I didn’t give them much of a heads-up this week.

 

Playoffs Standings

You guys asked for it and I delivered. The official playoff standings will be posted in every week’s article. I’ll, not only, keep track of them, but break them down for you every week. I’m nice, I know.

Names in bold: Teams that clinched a playoff berth.

Names strikethrough: Already eliminated from the playoff race

*next to name: Clinched division title.

 

Conf A	Team	GP	PTS	W(P-F)	DIV	PA		Conf B	Team	GP	PTS	W(P-F)	DIV	PA
1	Coyotes	7	12	6	[2-1-0]	141		1	No Fly Zone	7	14	7	[3-0-0]	120
2	Honey Badgers	7	12	6	[2-0-0]	155		2	Former Tomahawk	7	10	5	[1-1-0]	150
3	Top Sauce	7	12	6	[2-1-0]	153		3	No Name	7	12	6	[3-1-0]	152
4	69ers	7	9	4	[2-0-0]	202		4	No Big Deal	7	11	5	[3-0-0]	144
5	Show me Your TDs	7	8	4	[3-1-0]	154		5	BearSkins	7	8	4	[3-1-0]	157
6	La Sauce	7	8	4	[2-1-0]	169		6	Varennes	7	8	4	[2-0-0]	172
7	Broccasion	7	8	4	[1-1-0]	130		7	Stockton Slap	7	8	4	[2-0-0]	206
8	Jagerbomb	7	8	4	[1-1-0]	188		8	The Commission	7	8	4	[1-1-0]	166
9	Eskimo Brothers	7	6	3	[2-1-0]	172		9	Brunch Buddies	7	6	3	[0-3-0]	203
10	Gotham Knights	7	4	2	[0-2-0]	190		10	MVE	7	6	3	[0-2-0]	189
11	TOPSZN	7	2	1	[1-3-0]	244		11	Les Blues Branleurs	7	2	1	[0-4-0]	248
12	Evolution	7	0	0	[0-4-0]	212		12	Keyport Lock	7	0	0	[0-3-0]	235
13	Killa Beez	7	0	0	[0-2-0]	234		13	Warhawks	7	0	0	[0-2-0]	275

 

Quick notes:

• No Fly Zone is the first and only team that has clinched a playoff berth so far. Congratulations. 
• Evolution, Killa Beez, Keyport Lock and Warhawks are officially eliminated from the playoff race. That doesn’t mean that they can’t go around and ruin your dreams of making it. Don’t take them lightly.
• TOPSZN and Les Blues Branleurs are still in the race, but they’ll have to win out to remain relevant.
• Brunch Buddies, MVE and Eskimo Brothers are currently on the outside looking in, but it’s a close race on both sides for anyone between the 5th and 10th
• Top 2 seeds belong to Division winners. 3rd to 8th are wild cards. So, yes, it’s possible that the 3rd seed has a better record than the 2nd It’s not a mistake.
• The tiebreakers are Points, Wins, Head to head (in case of a 2-way tie), Divisional record, Points Against in that order.
• With the possibility of multiple teams reaching 5 wins (10 points) and beyond, 69ers and Former Tomahawk are far from safe if they lose out. Another win could see them clinch though.
• With serious playoff implications on the line, this week’s games are bound to be real thrillers. Eskimo Brothers could eliminate TOPSZN, Brunch Buddies could do the same to Les Blues Branleurs and Gotham Knights could see their hopes vanish if Honey Badgers hand them a L.
• MVE will most likely rise to contention unless Warhawks upset this week.
• The odds of either Coyotes, Honey Badgers or Top Sauce falling out of the playoffs are pretty slim. They aren’t mathematically clinched, but yeah.

 

Motivation / Predictions

So, this is probably the weirdest segment I’ve ever wrote, but who cares.

Okay, some of you do, but that never stopped me before.

With the playoffs on the line and on everyone’s mind, I’ve decided to list the most probable scenarios and how things will shake up from Week 7 and on. Seeing how marvelous I’ve been with my predictions thus far, can these ones reveal to be truthful? I will buy a 649 if they are, because there’s no such thing, right?

Oh, by the way, these are predictions. Please, PLEASE prove me wrong. I’d actually prefer to be wrong and see upsets all across the board than to be predicted truthful, but eh, life right?

Conference A

• I have a tough time imagining the top 3 changing: Coyotes will most likely walk away with the division title as they’ve already beat Top Sauce and own the head to head over said adversary. Honey Badgers almost have the other division locked down (almost). They’ll maintain.
• With only TOPSZN, Gotham Knights and Eskimo Brothers on the outside looking in and a tough schedule for Gotham Knights who needs to win 2/3 and TOPSZN to needs to win out, the only team that will make the playoffs is Eskimo Brothers.
• Looking at La Sauce’s ridiculous final 3 matchups, there’s a chance they drop all 3 and wind up at 4-6, tied with Eskimo Brothers who will only win 1 of their remaining 3. Luckily for the Bros, they own the tiebreaker over La Sauce in a head to head and will have a better divisional record when it’s all said and done.
• Show me Your TDs, Broccasion and Jagerbomb will all win at least 1 game to clinch playoffs before Week 10.
• TOPSZN and Gotham Knights will fall out sooner than later and La Sauce will go down after Week 10’s game and allow Eskimo Brothers to steal their seat in the playoffs. A shitty way to go out, if you ask me.
• Final 8: Coyotes, Honey Badgers, Top Sauce, 69ers, Show me Your TDs, Broccasion, Jagerbomb, Eskimo Brothers. In that order.

 

Conference B

• No Fly Zone has already clinched their playoff berth; kudos to them. No Name’s current 12 points is too much for them to fall out as they’d need one too many team to win out and that will not happen.
• Former Tomahawk will hold onto their division title and, thus, the 2nd
• No Big Deal will remain a wildcard, but high seed.
• Les Blues Branleurs won’t get enough points to make the jump and will drop out sooner than later.
• With a final showdown between MVE and The Commission week 10, I could really see that game being the 8th seed decider. I’m already looking forward to it.
• With an easy back-end, Brunch Buddies will get to .500 and squeeze a low seed into the playoffs.
• With a team at 10 points falling out to make room for Brunch Buddies and MVE/The Commission, there will be no freebies. BearSkins will upset No Name week 9 and win their week 10 game to clinch playoffs with 12 points.
• Varennes’ schedule is absolutely brutal as all their teams will turn into must-wins for both teams. Needing to win at the very least 1 (due to a strong PA and Div record), they’ll hold the 7th seed with 12 points.
• The Commission will fall out of the playoff race due to a loss to MVE.
• MVE and Brunch Buddies will tie for 8th Head to Head goes to Brunch Buddies. MVE falls 9th seed.
• Final 8: No Fly Zone, Former Tomahawk, No Name, No Big Deal, BearSkins, Stockton Slap, Varennes, Brunch Buddies. In that order.

 

Picks of the week

Back to back 10 outta 12 is quite the performance. *pats self on the back*.  Let’s see if I can do it 3 times in a row!

Here’s this week’s picks :

Honey Badgers vs Gotham Knights: Honey Badgers

Jagerbomb vs Broccasion: Broccasion

Coyotes vs Evolution: Coyotes

Eskimo Brothers vs TOPSZN: Eskimo Brothers

Killa Beez vs 69ers: 69ers

Warhawks vs MVE: MVE

La Sauce vs Top Sauce: Top Sauce

Brunch Buddies vs Les Blues Branleurs: —-

No Name vs Show me Your TDs: Show me Your TDs

No Big Deal vs BearSkins: No Big Deal

No Fly Zone vs Keyport Lock: No Fly Zone

Varennes vs The Commission: Varennes

Former Tomahawk vs Stockton Slap: Former Tomahawk

 

That sums it for this week’s article. It’s always a pleasure to write and hear back from you guys. After all, the content is meant 99% for you. I keep a percent for me; ranting here and there is fun after all. You can always reach me via twitter @DagenaisFPF or via email ([email protected]). I’ll be at Lachine every Sunday night scorekeeping/playing and at the new Stade on Mondays so you can stop by and chat. Don’t hesitate. Eagle WILL miss me at this week’s podcast. TRUST me.