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2009 Mud and Blood .... The News of the Week Wildcard Playoff Edition

The playoffs are set in the Mud and Blood!

#1: GridIron Masters On Crack!
#2: Schrodinger's Cat
#3: Carnivorous Snatch
#4: D'z Nutz
Wildcard: K's Other Men

This week's match up is between K's Other Men
and D'z Nutz. The top three teams get a bye.

Next week the winner of the Wildcard game
will play The GridIron Masters On Crack! While the
Pussy Cat plays the Snatch.

GMOC! finish with the best record for 2009 and the second
most points, falling a mere 10 points short of The Ferrets.
The Ferrets equal the 1997 Old Farts as the only team to
lead the league in points and finishing last in their
division. The Old Farts actually did not lose in the
Stupid Bowl, so they did not end up as the worse team
in 1997. The Ferrets can break this dubious record, when
they square off against Shockingly Offensive in the 2009
Stupid Bowl - in 2 weeks.

An honerable mention goes to Kevin's Team, who finished
4th in total points, with a decent 5-8 record
after an 0-6 start.

It's Mud and Blood crunch time now! Playoffs!

K's Other Men should be heavily favored in this week's
match up, and barring an upset will feature a re-match
of last years 2008 Super Bowl vs. GMOC! and this years
2nd and 3rd highest scoring teams. GMOC! looks to get
revenge after last year's 3 point loss.

The other matchup (next week) features two new teams -
The Cat and Snatch. The Cat won his division and sits
in the #2 seed, while the Snatch got the second seed
in her division. Handicappers will be jumping off the
top of the Strat trying to predict the over under! It
could be a 62-58 game or a 120-115 game. These two
teams are very unpredictable.

More updates on specific matchups after next week.

Wildcard Game Prediction:

QB:
K's Other Men are stocked with two of the hottest QBs
in the league - "Arena Boy" Warner and Alex "Not the TE" Smith.
Unfortunately she can only play one of them, and surprisingly
enough - the Cardinals are playing the 49ers on MNF! Will
the game be determined by then or will the QB make an impact
in the game?

D'z has to choose between Matt Hasselsuck and Carson Palmer -
a pretty easy choise if you axe me!

RB:
Adrian Peterson + Matt Forte need to not under perform for
the K's to win. Slaton sits on the bench, but he has had
a bad season and with Shaub injured will have hard times
finding yards.

D'z running backs: John Stewart and Miles Austin could have
huge games or get zippy! They're as predictable as El Nino.
Sitting on his bench is the Million Dollar Injured Man...
Westbrook. If Westbrook was healthly, D'z would certainly
be able to send him toe to toe with Peterson.

WR:
This time we'll start with D'z... again, sitting on his
bench is the awesome Steve Smith. If Smith was on the Colts
he'd have about 20 TDs by now, but he is on the Panthers, who
have as much offense as MRTODD - the football team - not the
owner of the Creepy Cats, and formerly M&B Orphan Kitties.
But he DOES have Wes Welker who has been one of the best
WR this year. If that guy gets 20 points - he'll vault D'z
Nutz right up there. But his second WR is the poorman's
Rod Gardner (Fidy-Fidy) - Lee Evans, not to be confused with
his twins Lee Childs and Darrel Evans.

Now that the Arena Boy is back, Boldin is happily back to
scoring points, which makes K happy. Her other WR will
be Santonio Holmes, since all the other WRs on her bench
remind me of that Redskins team - not the real Redskins but
the Fairfax County coed Redskins team. She should hope
Boldin keeps up with Welker and Holmes can out perform
Evans, which shouldn't be that hard, even if Mr.
Concussion is throwing to him.

TE:
Gates (D'z) vs. Shiancoe (K's)
Gates has the clear advantage here, unless K pays the
Jimbo look-a-like to throw a TD to Shiancoe.
Rivers will certainly look many times to Gates.

K:
Who cares.

Defense:
Baltimore plays Detroit. Great news for the K's - bad
news for D'z. However, D'z Tenn defense plays the
pathetic Rams. Stephen Jackson will run for 120 yards, but
no one on the team will score. This is a coin-toss. Who has a
worse offense? The Lions or the Rams?

News of the Week predictions:

QB:
Warner: 18 points
vs.
Palmer: 13 points

RB:
Peterson: 12 points
vs.
Austin: 15 points

Forte: 15 points
vs.
Stewart: 6 points

WR:
Boldin: 16 points
vs.
Welker: 19 points

Holmes: 11 points
vs.
Evans: 5 points

TE:
Shiancoe: 8 points
vs.
Gates: 10 points

K:
Kaeding: 9 points
vs.
Gould: 7 points

DEF:
Ravens: 22 points
vs.
Titans: 18 points


K's Other Men: 96 points
D'z Nutz: 93 points