2008 Madden League Reporting Thread

[KEEZY]

I would do a write-up right now, but I have the worst case of heartburn (apparently I'm 55).

I'm a game where the Panthers threw 5 INTs, it seems Madden decided before the game started that Keezy would win. With 2 mins left, Cause was knockin at the door to take the lead with a TD. On 4th down, just outside the red zone, Cause almost snuck one in, but Madden decided it would be an INT, sealing the game.

Good game and good chattin with ya man!

[Lord Sam]

Eagles 17, Colts 3
Week 14

A fairly unspectacular game if you wanted to see offense. If you came to see sacks, tackles for losses, and punts - then you came to the right place.

Nothing happened in the 1st quarter and the 2nd quarter started with Manning throwing a pick. Eagles couldn't do anything with it and take the FG lead. Colts punt and on a 3rd-and-long play Dwight Freeney just misses McNabb on the sack, and then the DB just misses on the deflection. Sure enough the wideout catches it and goes 75 yards for the TD. That play was soooo close to being a sack that the ball came out wobbley. Schlickabod put together a great drive but with time ticking off, had to settle for the FG.

The rest of the game was the two of us punting back and forth until Manning threw another pick which the Eagles cashed in for a TD. Final score, Eagles 17, Colts 3.

Good playing with you Schlick! Let's do it again sometime.

For some reason Madden didn't let me see the stats after the game, but they were pretty terrible for both teams. Oh well.

[Quo]

Crank whooped me, 28 -14. I'm not sure what kind of roids Benson was on, but he was unstoppable, finishing with over 100 yards. Down 21-7 at the half, I held the ball almost the entire 3rd quarter trying to come back. A forced pass and a 99-yard int return for a TD did me in for good. Those 14-point swiings are brutal. I added a TD in the final seconds to make it somewhat respectable, but it was way too little, way too late.

Props to Crank, who, as always, was an excellent sport and a ton of fun to talk to.

Man, I stink at this game.

[drinkcoughsyrup]

I took on Crankbait66 earlier in the week - here's the juicy statistics.

Again, Peterson rushes for over 100 yds, this time with one TD.
Benson had a decent 68 yds rushing and about 20 yds receiving - plus one TD.

This was a solidly balanced game featuring a few imperative defensive stops and a few hot offensive strikes for each team, 20+ yd runs, etc...

The key for my win was the Bears going 0-5 on 3rd downs, while I struggled as well going only 3-9 on 3rd and 1-1 on a crucial late 4th down.

total offense:

VIKINGS: 203 yds
BEARS: 149 yds

no turnovers (wtf?)

final score:

VIKINGS - 17
BEARS - 14

fun game & good football talk.. Also, Crank is a HUGE Adam Archuleta fan. haha.

[Crankbait]

Originally Posted by drinkcoughsyrup

Also, Crank is a HUGE Adam Archuleta fan. haha.

I want all of you to open your windows tonight to hear my screams of pain during Monday Night Football!

[JSBfan]

Week 11
JSBfan Titans VS. AZRaiderH8r Broncos

Ok this week was one hell of a game, it was easily the closets game that I have ever played.

The game started off with a bunch of turnovers in the first half on both sides of the ball. Finally, the Broncos got the first score with a field goal. The Titans, however, remained scoreless in the first half of play.

In the sencond half the Titans came back....sort of. There was still a lot of turnovers in this half, and I mangaged to tie up the score 3 to 3. After this many failed drives and turnovers ensued, but late in the 4th quarter I was able to take the lead with a field goal of over 50 yards.

With under 30 seconds left in the game, the Broncos came back with a couple of long passes. The got within range of a field goal also of over 50 yards, the set up kicked, it had the distance, but not the accuracy.

The Titans win

6-3

JSBfan 7-2

[AZRaiderH8r]

Great game! I can't believe that last kick. 57 yarder and I hit the left upright. Brutal.

[drinkcoughsyrup]

WEEK 10 - DRINKCOUGHSYRUP's VIKINGS @ JSBfan's TITANS


VIKINGS
A. Peterson: 69 yds rushing, 124 yds receving
T. Jackson: 59 yds rushing | 9-19-218-1-3

TITANS
V. Young: 12-20-237-0-2
B. Jones: 10 receptions, 213 yds

yes, i said 213 yds.

Vikings run D showed up to do work and held the Titans to around 50 total rushing yards. Vince Young and Brandon Jones had apparently been hanging out all week running routes - and it showed. 213 of the Titans 218 yards through the air come by way of Young to Jones. The Vikings 3rd down defense was strong again, forcing the Titans into 4th down situations each of their 5 attempts.. While the Vikings were a respectable 5-7.

At the end of the first half, the Titans led 13-0 after a TD run by Lendale White on their first possession and 2 field goals. Tavaris Jackson threw 2 INT's in the end zone after 2 strong drives. Devastating? Hardly...

Adrian Peterson started the 2nd half off strong with a blistering 80 yard TD run, breaking tackles and hearts along the way. The 4th quarter scoring started off with a safety by Albert Haynesworth putting the Titans up 15-7. On the ensuing drive, Jackson connected with Peterson for a 13yd TD, followed by a 2pt conversion courtesy of Chester Taylor - bringing the score to 15-15.

After a failed onside kick, The Vikings defense came up with an INT in the end zone on the Titan's next possession, and with less than 40 seconds left and 1 time out - Tavaris Jackson connected on two 35+ yd passes back-to-back (one to Troy Williamson, one to Visanthe Shiancoe) and got the time out called with 6 seconds on the clock. Ryan Longwell trots out and boots a 43 yard FG to seal the victory as time expires.

Pretty eventful game - I got loud a few times and am suprised I didn't wake my wife up. Good playing with you homey!

TOTAL OFFENSE
VIKINGS: 317
TITANS: 281

FINAL SCORE:
VIKINGS 18 | TITANS 15

[Peench]

Complete Pakkage and I matched up last night before my 360 gave up the ghost and he spanked the Jets I think 35-0. The drive in my 360 died before I could track down any stats tho. Suffice it to say that all of my drives ended in interceptions when I was close to scoring. My new QB sucks - at least Pennington completed a pass every now and again.

[JSBfan]

Week 16

JSBfan Titans VS. DMiller68

Ok tonights game was not so interesting, the game started off with my Titans scoring on their first drive. The Seahawks just could not get it working, they threw many picks I think there was one fumble and it just wasn't their night. The Seahawks went scoreless.

Final Score

JSBfan's Titans 49 DMiller68's Seahawks 0

JSBfan 8-3

[Peench]

In a match up between two teams with only one (1) win, Dmiller's Seahawks and Peench's Jets met up at Jet's home field. While the outcome at the start was uncertain, the one thing that was certain is that one of these teams would double their wins in a single night.

The game started off interestingly enough with each team trading scores. Dmiller had just finished racking up barrels of Achievement Points playing the SP so he was all warmed up. Peench, on the other hand, hadn't touched the Madden 08 disc since it killed his last Xbox 360.

The teams traded scores early on and were fairly evenly marching down the field. Dmiller preferred quick scores while Peench preferred to march slowly down the field and then either fumble or throw an interception. Dmiller then took the lead and left Peench feeling like he wasn't going to have a chance. Peench rocked a solid 79 yard pass to tie it up, and then a 5 yard post pattern pass where Peench's receiver grabbed the ball with one hand to give the Jets the lead and then it was all about clock management.

Holding Dmiller to 3 and out Peench gained possession with a little over 2 minutes left in the game. Dmiller charged in strong and used his timouts but Peench was able to gain a couple of key first downs to keep the lead and double his victories!















Peench even gained a couple of achievements last night while playing.

Thanks for staying up late and cranking out our game dmiller. I had a great time!

[OOHCHIT]

* i forgot to report the scores a couple weeks ago ...short and sweet!!!

I played seahawkstd4 falcons.. ** i barely made out with a victory

jags: 21 falcons 14

I also played jsbfan titans.. I kicked my way to victory last second field goal.

jags 20 titans 17

[A SpecialFriend]

DrinkCoughSyrup and his Vikings traveled to Cleveland Browns Stadium the other night to take on the Browns. No big write up here but let me tell you, this is a game I would have loved to see in person. A thriller all the way to the end. Oh, by the way did I mention the game went into Overtime? In OT each team had 2 possessions before Phil Dawson booted the game winning field goal with about 2 minutes to go in OT to send the Browns home with a victory over the Vikings, 20-17.

Browns 20
Vikings 17

Great game man! If it weren't for Jamal Lewis' 95 yard TD run, I would have lost! Most exciting game I've played all year!

[schlickabod]

Week 10: Bears 7, Colts 14

[Quo]

Week 9:

Patriots 28, Cowboys 3.

Lots went wrong or poorly for the boys. I hate the Maddenz.