2005 LFFL Week 2 Wrap Up

It was billed as the game of the week: Prospect vs. Koppel. These two teams have played some of the most memorable games in LFFL, and going into this week, it promised to be another slugfest. However, the game took an all too familiar turn for Prospect, as they underperformed, and Koppel laid it on extra thick. In a career day Koppel QB Donovan McNabb passed for five touchdowns, himself chipping in nearly 35 points, with that, the rout was on. Thanks to impressive efforts from the wide receivers and tight end L.J. Smith, Koppel put up a season high 106.84 points, the first team to break the century mark this season. Prospect would have struggled to break 60 points, had it not been for the Monday Night heroics of wide receiver Joe Horn. Clearly, this was not the game it was billed as, at least not for Prospect. Next week, Koppel will have the chance to continue to roll as they face 0-2 Farrell, and a Prospect squad weakened by bye weeks will take on Edinburg.

Greenville bounced back from their season opening loss, no thanks to QB Daunte Culpepper, who handed over 5 interceptions this week. Last week Culpepper’s pathetic showing cost Greenville the game, without question. This week, thanks to a strong showing from other players, the team was able to absorb Culpepper poor play, and still pick up the W. The question now becomes, how many weeks can this team leave in their first round draft pick while he turns in such poor showings? This team may, within two weeks or so, have to consider turning the offense over to Chad Pennington.

In other action this week, the Allentown Iron Men defeated the Indiana Ignition, the Brewers of Latrobe won by 30 over Akron, and the Chewton Champs overcame an Epidemic from Edinburg.

The weekly poll question asked, “Who was this week’s (week one) Fantasy Player of the Week? The winner was Willie Parker, Prospect’s free agent running back, who picked up 16.7 points in week one.

There were many transactions this past week, most of which came from Prospect as would be expected. Akron dropped Tyrone Calico and the Cleveland defense to pick up Frisman Jackson and Marcell Shipp. Edinburg dropped Javon Walker and added Marty Booker (after adding and then immediately dropping Mike Williams), then dropped Jeb Putizer and added Duce Staley who was dropped by Prospect. The Pioneers replaced Staley with Bobby Engram, then dropped Paul Edinger and added John Kasay, then dropped Eric Moulds and added Ron Dayne, then dropped Ben Troupe and added Matt Jones. Greenville dropped William Green and added Alex Smith, and dropped Mark Clayton and added Michael Pittman. Koppel dropped Ronald Curry and added Joe Jurevicius. Latrobe dropped Matt Stover and added Lawrence Tynes. Allentown dropped Michael Bennett and added Marcus Robinson.