Offensive: Tommy Grady QB Blaze
Defensive: DB Jarriet Buie TB
Ironman:
DB Virgil Gray AZ
Catch:
WR Lucas Taylor NO
Playmaker: DB Kelvin Rodgers Milwak
Highlight: DB JC Neal Talons
AZ
v Philly: How it will go:
The
Rattlers
are National Conf/ West Div leaders at 12-2 and
are 7-1 Home, 5-1 Away. They have scored 868
points and given up 653. The team also won the
Division and will play a first round home
playoff game.
Soul,
of the American Conf/East Division are 5-9 at
home 3-3, away 2-6. Scored 772 points
surrendered 774. They are third in a division
that may not send a team to the playoffs. That
makes them dangerous plus their Coach Mike
Hohensee is one of the AFL’s best ever. Beating
AZ at home would be of great use to him for
building next year’s squad.
Team
Sacks: AZ - 23
Philly 20
For
AZ it
is Pittman 7, Hawthorne 6. Glasper 5.5,
Harrington 3.5.
For
Philly:
Campbell 7.5, Barno 4, Perkins 1 and a bunch
with 1 each.
Team INT:
AZ 29
Philly 17
For
AZ
Gray 8, Floyd 7, Hill 6, McCullough 5, Swanson
2, Pittman 1.
For Philly:
Varner 5,
Brown 4, Sadler 2 and six with 1 each.
Injuries:
AZ now has LB McCullough and WR Harvey on the
sidelines and is for the first time facing the
injury bug to several key performers at a
critical point.
Around the League
Blaze
over Powers Pittsburgh 81-41…
At Home in Salt Lake,
the Utah Blaze (6-7) defeated the Pittsburgh
Power (7-6),
81-40,
in front of 9,096 The 41-point victory ties the
largest margin of victory in Blaze history.
Utah remains tied for fourth place in the
National Conference. The Blaze D stepped up
forcing 2 fumbles early as
Khreem
Smith and
Caesar Rayford and their sack led to the
first TD
pass from Grady to
Alvance Robinson then a sack by
Micahael Lewis led to a
recovery and score by
Brandon
Talyor. The quarter ended with the Blaze
leading, 21-13. The second quarter both teams
played even, trading scores.
In the third however,
the Blaze D turned off the Power on Pitt and
allowed no scoring.
Utah’s offense did add to it and the
fourth started at 60-27 Blaze ahead. Grady and
his beasts added three more and Pitt managed two
scores to get to the final, dismal, lowly,
disastrous, final score 81-40. Grady, he
finished with 10 TD’s to bring his total to 95
TD’s. Not a misprint 95 TD’s.
Blaze
WR Lesue
pulled in five TD’s.
This game casts a pall on the Power’s
Playoff Push. They can pretty much join
Cleveland as post season fans.
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KC Uses
New Kid to Slap Down Gladiators 50-41
For three quarters the
team with a QB taking his first snaps ruled the
nets as the visiting Cleveland were treated as
unwelcome guests.
Game MVP QB
Stephen Wasil (Albion College) in his
first start at QB this season took Command and
threw for five TD’s and ran for two more.
His partner in grind WR Bradley Chavez
caught three of the TD passes and was Offensive
Player of the Game.
Cleveland fell to 7-6
and stays in second place in the American East a
win would have put them in first place.
Gladiator QB Kurt Rocco tossed 4 TD’s,
ran for one and had only one INT. But turnovers
blew up the visitor’s opportunities. The bright
moments came from Cleveland’s Jack LB Mike
Bragg, he had 3.5 tackles, forced a fumble and
recovered a fumble, now with five forced fumbles
is one of the AFL’s best at making mayhem pay.
One
key to the win was KC running the ball 10 times,
that duty went to Trey Bryant and he picked up
39 yards, taking some pressure off Wasil. KC got
ahead of the scoring trade-offs when DB Sergio
Gilliam took his 3rd quarter pick 12
yards. That stop gave Wasil and the boys a
chance to enhance their game.
The Command get to test their new found
star on their trip to Utah.
Yep, the Blaze
will give Wasil a break, or two, because he will
not have as many snaps as Utah’s Tommy Grady
tries for another 10 TD’s. Good job, KC, buy
some accident insurance as the Blaze are playing
for their playoff lives and will take no
prisoners. Cleveland gets to play the Sabercats
at home, they have never played before and SJ
and Mark Grieb are playing like the Cats of the
past. Get set for the claws G-Men.
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Chicago’s
Rush to Spokane Leads to Shocking Loss 63-60
Six wins. That is how
many the defending Champion Spokane Shock have
this season after the glory of last year’s
Championship season.
This week they hosted one of the AFL’s
top defensive teams in the Chicago Rush. In the
end the Shock D was dominant.
The victory, Spokane’s sixth was
overshadowed by the fact that they have had more
QB’s than wins.
Seven have played, now
QB Erik Meyer is out. Chicago scored first and
the teams traded scores until an Ironman stepped
up. Shock LB Antwan Marsh intercepted Michna and
then later ran the ball in for the score. This
was followed by a defensive score when Shock
defender Jon Williams sacked Michna and team
mate Jonathan Williams recovered for a TD. This
led to Spokane leading at the half 42-27.
After the break the
Shock got an INT from DB Terrance Sanders. Then
QB Meyers got his bad break. He threw a pick and
injured himself making the TD saving tackle. At
that point he had five TD passes. Ouch.
The Rush took advantage and scored after
the pick then their D stole the ball from Shock
QB, Rookie Steven Sheffield as DB Vic Hall
pulled in the INT. The Rush scored again. Things
were looking good for Chicago. Then Rookie QB,
the kid did the right thing at the wrong time
for Chicago as he tossed a 32 TD pass to Shaun
Kauleinamoku and
locked in the win.
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Rattlers
Bite Cats Win Division Title 64-57
San Jose knew the way to
the desert today! Indeed, after struggling all
season to protect AFL vet and one of the top
QB’s in AFL history in Mark Grieb. The Green
Machine brought in the players to fill in the
needed spots and played the Rattlers snap for
snap in one of the most exciting games for AZ
yet. Not only did San Jose stay close, they
forced the Snakes to come from behind, twice in
the Snake Pit. Arizona special teams undid the
good that the Sabercats offense and defense had
accomplished in a heated rivalry game.
Victory
thy name is GRAY….. DB Virgil Gray ran back
two kicks for TD’s, bring his total to five on
the year. His
second came as the third quarter ended and when
it looked as if San Jose was taking control. The
play of the game however goes to a member of the
losing team as SJ Kicker Juan Gambo nearly
stopped Gray at the goal line. In Arena Football
the angles you have to recover in the outdoor
game don’t exist indoor. A three step lead is
nearly impossible to overcome for a defender.
Gamboa caught Gray as he was about to cross the
goal line at the North end of the Snake Pit.
Gray fought through it and carried Gamboa into
the end zone. The Sac State product Gamboa puts
the football player tag in front of the Kicker
job title. That man can play and fly.
Things are heating up in
AZ, both on the practice field and on the game
turf. Summer has arrived. How hot is it now?
Water from your garden hose evaporates before it
hits the ground during the day…. That makes it
Kul that QB Nick Davila plays for the Snakes.
The AFL top snap catcher is having a smokin’
season.
He threw seven TD’s on Saturday four to
WR Jason Geathers, Jason also caught the game
winner with ten seconds left in the game.
Rattlers WR Kerry Reed scored twice and Rod
Windsor the ultimate team player made a
difference with his two point conversion grab.
The Defense for the
Snakes stepped up as DB Vince Hill grabbed his
sixth INT of the year.
Ron
Jones, playing DL came off the IR, started and
had a pass break up and two tackles. LB Tyre
Glasper had fumble recovery to get the Snakes
moving again.
It is a good thing they did too, the Cats
D stopped AZ on four tries late in the game at
the goal line. That led to the two TD lead for
San Jose.
CFL Canada:
Regular Season starts
on June 30th with BC at Montreal
games will be played on Thu, Fri, and Sunday.
Montreal Alouettes
were in the last three Grey Cups winning in 10,
09 and losing in 08. Since 2000 the Alouettes
have played in a total of 8 Grey Cups winning 3
and losing 5. The CFL has games on the web and
to get their schedule and watch use this link:
http://www.cfl.ca/page/game_broadcast
CFL Schedule Page:
http://www.cfl.ca/schedule/year/2011/time_zone/0#
United Football League
UFL:
Schedule
http://www.ufl-football.com/schedule
Opens play on Aug 13
with Hartford Colonials at Virginia Destroyers,
then on 8/14 it is Omaha at Sacramento.
Former NFL Coaches
Schottenhiemer and Jerry Glanville will add some
excitement to this the 3rd Season for
the UFL
2009 Champs 11/27/2009
Sam Boyd
Stadium, Las Vegas, Nevada
Las
Vegas Locomotives (20, OT) Florida Tuskers
(17)
HC Jim
Fassel
MVP DeDe Dorsey (Las Vegas RB)
2010 Champs 11/27/2010
Johnny
Rosenblatt Stadium, Omaha, Nebraska
Las
Vegas Locomotives (23)
Florida Tuskers (20)
HC Jim
Fassel MVP Chase Clement (Las Vegas QB)
