Word from the Mouth: We're Talking About Feelings! edition

Word from the Mouth: We're Talking About Feelings! edition

Kevin Kousaie

Well, we're back, or at least I am. Work is back to normal except I've been on vacation this week just relaxing and doing things around the house. Once in a while it's nice to just do nothing at all, except if you know me, I just can’t sit there and need to be doing something. So I played video games and went to the movies. 


What I have noticed is that everything is a copy nowadays (ed’s note: here we go, classic Kevin old man rant!). Movies are all the same and so are video games. It gets me so mad these companies need to stop putting out crap. What happened to the good old days when you'd get a game and play that game over and over for a few years before a new one came out? I know what part of the problem is and that’s EA having most if not all the players rights.


Studs & Duds 


What a week! We had lots of guys balling out and a few players really plopping the bed. Then you have the odd case where a player doesn't know the rules or thinks they can do anything. Now let's see who ended up in which section.


Studs


D1

- Joey Notaro 3 TDs, 2 picks with1 going back for 6. 


D2

- Victor Davis 3 TDs and a pick on defense.


D3

- Connor Martin scored 2 TDs. 


D4

- Thomas Znoj 3 TDs and 12 catches.


D5

- Alex Taschereau 5 TD passes and 2 picks on defense. 


Women's 

- Maya Di Fazio 4 TD passes and a pick in her first game. 


Duds


D1

- Guillaume for not punting with 1:50 left with a 9-point lead, a pick was better. 


D2

- Craig Owy O’Brien throwing 3 picks to 1 player while completing less than 50% of your passes gets you on my list especially when we all know you’re better than that. 


D3

- Nicolas Poitevin 6 picks and only 9 completions. 


D4

- Slicks for blowing an 18-point lead. 


D5

- Julien Shabazz 1 of 10 for 3 yards with 3 picks thrown. 


Women's 

- All the defenses or lack of. 


There you have it, my Studs and Duds from last week. We are close to the halfway point of the season and that means your time to make my list is dwindling away. If you want to make it before the season is done, you better step it up. 


Predictions 


This is where I give some team hope and in other cases where I piss them off and motivate them to bungle plops up and pull off an upset. Let’s see who I have this week, and like always my picks are in bold. 


D1


Unit vs Iron Wolves 

Outlaws’ vs Unit 

KOLB vs Ranceurs 

Idaho Udapimp vs Honor Game 


D2


Nice TDs vs Average Joe's 

Him U vs Double Dippers 

Double Dippers vs Witching Hour 

Thunder Buddies vs Pacemakers 

Bines vs RawSauce 


D3


FAT Players vs Spartans 

Horde vs Ducks 

Gridiron Lions vs Phoenix NA 

Gros Iron Trollers vs Ducks 


D4


Martin Mystère vs Action Squad 

Slicks vs Blue Badgers 

Nomads vs Nothing But D 

Alouettes vs Creaky Knees 


D5


Top Shooters vs los Politos 

Big Booties vs Wolverines 

Action Squad vs Big Assets 

Jungle Squad vs Ledgendaries 

Bandits vs Unnamed Champions 

Wong Dynasty vs Titans 

514 vs Sax Farm 

Big Assets vs Jungle Squad 

Unnamed Champions vs Titans 

Last Calls vs Spartans 

FAT Players vs MTL Cessnas 


Women's

 

Leftover vs Faucheuses 

Flag Moi la Peche vs Louves du Nord 

Rookies vs Unmatched Girls 

Leftovers vs Déesses du Drapeau 

Flag Moi la Peche vs Drama Queen 

Louves du Nord vs Crazy Bs 

Mamma Jammas vs Rookies 


That's who I have winning this weekend, prove me wrong or quit complaining about how I never pick your team. 


Power Rankings 


Time for my rankings and seeing who landed where.


D1

1- Idaho Udapimp 

2- Unit 

3- Outlaws   


D2

1- Him U 

2- Double Dippers  

3- Witching Hour 


D3

1- Phoenix

2- Ducks

3- Gridiron Lions 


D4

1- Alouettes

2- Mustard Tigers 

3- Creaky Knees 


D5

1- Titans

2- FAT Players  

3- MTL Cessnas 


Women's 

1- Deesses du Drapeau

2- Tigres

3- Leftovers 


People always wonder how my rankings are done and at this point of the season it's no longer based on what I expect you to do, it’s all about winning games and who you beat and how you beat them. 


Final Thoughts 


I’m not sure about you, but I hope this beautiful weather sticks around for tomorrow. I wouldn't complain if it was a bit cooler, but it's mid September and who doesn't like 20+ degrees. I’m so glad to be back playing after what seems like months ago, but it’s only been 3 weeks. 


I hope I can still run, now that I'm old as someone would say with a smirk on their face. People playing at Le Ber, enjoy the grass, folks playing at Arthur Therrien, I’ll see what I can do to get you on some of that green stuff, so it's not so dusty, but I can’t make any promises. 


I got things to do, and this should have been in hours ago, so have a great day and remember we're playing a game, so go out, have fun, and try not to kill anyone, and don’t yell at the refs. Some of them have feelings, not me but some of them. 


Word from the Mouth: The Big Dipper! edition

Word from the Mouth: The Big Dipper! edition

Kevin Kousaie

I’m glad that this is my last week of this crazy schedule of working 6 days a week and I'm on vacation next week. So yay to that, but we should give a bigger shout out to everyone that participated in the charity tournament last weekend. 

It was fun to see, but a little disappointing as well. Everyone was crying for the dip to be brought back and we allowed it for this tournament, and I think I saw 3 or 4 total dips. I want to see every player on every catch dropping low to make a defender or two miss. 

What I really wanted to see was Andrew show up, strap on his cleats, run the 40, and walk off after a blazing time. I think he might have heard about Moe running a 4.9 and was like, I can compete with that. Good thing because that wasn’t the fastest time from what I hear. It was a 4.6 by someone not playing in the league. We will be doing something like this again in the future and we'd love for it to be a bigger all-day event. 


Studs and Duds 


Time to find out if you impressed me or disappointed me enough to make my list.


Studs


D1

- Gabriel Boucher 3 TDs and a pick on defense.


D2

- Thomas Cote-Parent 1 Tad and 1 pick. 


D3

- Antoine Bussieres 1 TD,1 pick which he took back for 6.


D4

- Alouettes defense 8 sacks and 4 picks. 


D5

- Alex Taschereau 5 TD passes plus 2 sacks and a pick 6 on defense. 


Women's 

- Genevieve Gaudet 3 TD passes plus a pick on defense. 


Duds


D1

- PO with his 6 picks. 


D2

- Owie for having more completions to 1 player than the rest of the team. 


D3

- Leon Holder 4 picks and less than 50% completions.

 

D4

- Damien Lalonde-Blondin throwing 4 picks. 


D5

- Nicolas Cloutier three 6 picks. 


Women's 

- Angie Toporowski for throwing 4 picks. 


If you expect to see your name up here then you will need to try harder and put-up better stats or no stats at all, it’s the only way to make my list. There are a few other ways, but you don’t need to know about them. 


Predictions 


Time to pick this week’s winners and it’s a full week of games, not like last week where we had 12 games only. Now for my picks and like always they are in bold.


D1


Idaho Udapimp vs KOLB 

Idaho Udapimp vs Ranceurs 

Pack vs Unit


D2 


Bines vs Thunder Buddies 

Rejects vs RawSauce. 

Him U vs Trench Babies 

Average Joe's vs Pacemakers 

Double Dippers vs RawSauce

Rejects vs Him U 

Witching Hour vs Nice TDs 


D3


Tropic Thunder vs Gridiron Lions 

Spartans’ vs Drama Club 

Horde vs Bandits 


D4


Nothing But D vs Martin Mystère 

Action Squad vs Slicks 

Nomads’ vs Blue Badgers 

Creaky Knees vs Mustard Tigers 

Slicks vs Alouettes 


D5


MTL Cessnas vs Jungle Squad 

MTL Cessnas vs Hive 

Action Squad vs 514

Sax Farm vs Wong Dynasty 

Ledgendaries vs Wolverines 

Los Politos vs Spartans 

Last Calls vs FAT Players 

Knights’ vs Wong Dynasty 

Spartans’ vs Top Shooters 

Titans’ vs Bandits 


Women's 


Tigres vs Unmatched Girls 

Rookies vs Drama Queen 

Mamma Jammas vs Louves du Nord 

Faucheuses vs Tigres

Unmatched Girls vs Drama Queen 

Crazy Bs vs Mamma Jammas

Déesses du Drapeau vs Flag Moi la Peche 


There you have it, my picks for this week. 


Power Rankings 

With so few games played last week, it's time to see if my rankings changed or stayed the same. 


D1

1- Idaho Udapimp 

2- Outlaws 

3- KOLB  


D2

1- Him U 

2- RawSauce 

3- Double Dippers  


D3

1- Gridiron Lions 

2- Phoenix 

3- Ducks 


D4

1- Alouettes

2- Creaky Knees 

3- Mustard Tigers 


D5

1- Titans

2- Wong Dynasty 

3- Jungle Squad 


Women's 

1- Deesses du Drapeau

2- Drama Queens

3- Tigres


There you have it, my rankings heading into the weekend. 


Final Thoughts 


I’m exhausted and glad to be on vacation as of Friday. For the first time in over a month I'll have a day off. This gives me a chance to catch up on things like sleep and will eventually get to watch a game or 2 since I won’t be sleeping. 

I’m late getting this done and don’t really have anything else, so rest up since tomorrow is game day. Go out, have fun, and try not to kill anyone. See you tomorrow if you’re at de la Verendrye. 


Word from the Mouth: Playing Like Gobbledygoo! edition

Word from the Mouth: Playing Like Gobbledygoo! edition

Kevin Kousaie

I said last week we needed it to rain and boy did it ever. Good thing Jon wasn’t playing or else his game would have been cancelled or moved like last season. 

It was so bad for the 3pm game that I called Terry and was hoping to get it cancelled, but he said no that we couldn’t because there are no available slots to add these games to later in the year. I already knew that, but was hoping. 

We had players praying for lighting so we couldn’t play due to it. That never happened, so they played in a lake. Ok, not a lake, but an inch and a half of water. I was glad I purchased boots and insoles, if not I would have used 3 pairs of shoes and socks instead. 

This week it is calling for nice weather, so that’s a good thing. We are also playing at Le Ber this week and it’s all grass. 


Studs & Duds 


It's now time to see if you or any of your teammates had what it takes to make my list. 


Studs 


D1

- Manuel Allard-Roy 3 picks with 1 going for 6 plus a TD on offense as well. 


D2 

- Geoffrey Mubengaie 5 TD passes and 2 picks on defense.


D3

- Nicholas Desrochers 3 picks with 1 going back for 6 points.


D4 

- Liam Martins 6 catches 75 yards and 3 TDs.


D5 

- Esteban Marcotte 4 TD passes plus a pick 6 on defense. 


Women's 

- Leftovers for starting 2-0 as a free agent team. 


Duds 


D1

- Guillaume Renaud-Dumoulin for not showing up for the first game then throwing 5 picks when he did show up.


D2 

- Thunder Buddies defense for giving up the score on the last play of the game. 


D3

- Jean-François Lawrence threw 5 picks and only had 5 yards rushing. 


D4 

- Blue Badgers going 0-2 on the weekend and now sitting at 0-3 for a team I thought would compete for it all. 


D5 

- Robert Thomas Gallagher for only putting up 19 points with that roster. 


Women's 

- Tigres up 18 nothing and lose the game. 


There you have it, my list after week 4 being in the books.


Predictions 


Time to pick my winners for this exceedingly small weekend of games and like always my picks are in bold. 


D1

Iron Wolves vs Pack 

Ranceurs vs Idaho Udapimp 


D2

Average Joe's vs Bines 


D3

Spartans vs Ducks 

Bandits vs FAT Players 


D4

Seminoles vs Alouettes 

Nomads vs Slicks 

Action Squad vs Nothing But D 


D5

Free Agent #2 vs Big Booties 

Wolverines vs FAT Players 

Sax Farm vs Hugs and Cuddles 


Women's 

Crazy B’s vs Leftovers


That’s who I have winning, love it or hate it, only thing you can do is play hard and hope for the best or slip me some cash at the coin toss and you’re set. 


Power Rankings 


Let’s see who I have in this week’s rankings.


D1

1- Ranceurs

2- KOLB 

3- Outlaws 


D2

1- Him U 

2- RawSauce 

3- Double Dippers  


D3

1- Gridiron Lions 

2- Phoenix 

3- FAT Players 


D4

1- Alouettes

2- Creeky Knees 

3- Seminoles


D5

1- Titans

2- Wong Dynasty 

3- Jungle Squad 


Women's 

1- Deesses du Drapeau

2- Drama Queens

3- Tigres


That's how I have my rankings, if you don’t like them then show me why your team needs to be on my list and maybe one of these weeks your team will make it.


Final Thoughts 

With all the hype for week 1 of college football, it was a lot of crap games. I mean they built up all these big games and everyone including myself were like, yes this is going to be a wonderful day of games, then the games started. 

We had Archie Manning the favorite to win the Heisman play like gobbledygoo and maybe even lost it week 1, we had Alabama losing once again and you got Jonny football say how the fear of Alabama is gone they need to buyout their coach for 69 million and hire a guy name Jon who has stated he'd love to coach in the SEC. If you don’t know which Jon I mean, Gruden not the commissioner, he's already busy on Saturdays. 

We have our charity tournament this weekend and that should be exciting and fun. It’s for a worthy cause, so if you’re not playing, you can still come watch, hangout, make a donation, and watch some football where they will allow the dip. That’s all for this week, have a great rest of the week and see some of you on Saturday. 


Word from the Mouth: Better Dip Right! edition

Word from the Mouth: Better Dip Right! edition

Kevin Kousaie

Look at that, we made it through another week on those crappy dust fields. I think next week we are back at Le Ber at least.

That is also the weekend we are doing our charity tournament where you will be allowed to dip if you’re able to and it better be done correctly or else I’m blowing it dead (ed’s note: ruining fun for charity!). That means leaning with your head or shoulder like some players do.

If we get some rain before Saturday that would help out a lot. 


Studs & Duds 


This is what you all want to see, who made my list. And here you have it for last week. 


Studs 


D1

- Kris Hope 3 TDs and a pick.


D2

- Gabriel Chateauvert 8 sacks. 


D3

- Roxanne Roy for her pick 6. 


D4

- John Morris 3 TDs and 4 picks.


D5 

- Sébastien Lucas Alzate 4 TDs.


Women's  

- Sabrina Renaud 3 picks and scored 1 TD. 


Duds


D1

- Dave Daoust-Kyle 5 picks. 


D2

- Ryan Dobbs 4 picks and only completing 51.6% of your passes.


D3

- Justin Salonga for how he finished the game against Drama Club, pick 6 to tie it then a safety for the winner. 


D4

- Creaky Knees as a team for barely winning while playing 5 vs 6.


D5 

- Sax Farm for allowing Mike Jaz to gain 105 yards on 5 catches. 


Women's  

- Mamma Jammas for the double forfeit.


There you have it folks, that’s my list for week 2.


Predictions


Time to see who I have winning in week 3 and like always my picks are in bold. 


D1

Ranceurs vs Pack

Unit vs Honor Game 

Outlaws vs Iron Wolves 

Pack vs Idaho Udapimp 


D2

Trench Babies vs Pacemakers 

Thunder Buddies vs Rejects

Witching Hour vs Him U 

Nice TDs vs RawSauce 


D3

Bandits vs Ducks 

Spartans vs Phoenix NA 

Gridiron Lions vs Horde 

Gridiron Lions vs FAT Players 

Tropic Thunder vs Iron Trollers 


D4

Seminoles vs Creeky Knees 

Blue Badgers vs Martin Mystère 

Mustard Tigers vs Nothing But D 

Blue Badgers vs Creeky Knees 

Slicks vs Seminoles 

Mustard Tigers vs Nomads 


D5

Knights vs Hugs & Cuddles 

Big Assets vs Ledgendaries 

Big Booties vs Action Squad 

Wong Dynasty vs Free Agent #2 

Sax Farm vs los Politos 

514 vs Jungle Squad 

Action Squad vs MTL Cessnas 

Hugs & Cuddles vs Hive 

Free Agent #2 vs Top Shooters 

Titans vs Spartans 


Women's 

Faucheuses vs Rookies 

Leftovers vs Flag Moi la Peche 

Rookies vs Flag Moi la Peche 

Mama Jammas vs leftovers 

Déesses du Drapeau vs Tigres 

Unmatched Girls vs Louves du Nord 


If I have it my way, then those are this week’s winners.


Power Rankings 


Let’s see who I have ranked where after last week. 


D1

1- Pack

2- KOLB 

3- Ranceurs 


D2

1- Him U 

2- RawSauce 

3- Double Dippers  


D3

1- FAT Players 

2- Phoenix 

3- Gridiron Lions 


D4

1- Alouettes

2- Seminoles 

3- Action Squad 


D5

1- Jungle Squad 

2- Titans 

3- Wong Dynasty 


Women's 

1- Tigres

2- Deesses du Drapeau

3- Drama Queens


My rankings with 2 weeks in the books. I’m sure that next week it won’t look the same. 


Final Thoughts 


I can’t believe that this week the NCAA kicks off and I’m trying to figure a way to call in sick and watch the games all day. Terry I’m coming down with something and can’t make it. That should cover it.

Let’s hope that it rains before Saturday and I don’t even care if it rains on Saturday, just not between 12 and 1:30 when I play. Well, it rained a bunch overnight, and it was a lot. This should make the hay we've been playing on a bit greener and not as dusty.

That’s all I have for you this week. Good luck to all, but remember we are playing a game, so go out, have fun, and enjoy yourselves and try not to kill anyone.

Word from the Mouth: I'm A Busy Man! edition

Word from the Mouth: I'm A Busy Man! edition

Kevin Kousaie

With so much going on with my Monday to Friday job (or for the last few weeks Monday to Saturday job), I haven't had lots of extra time to do my articles. So the plan is for the next few weeks until things get back to normal, I'm going to skip the game reviews since they take up loads of my time and will just give you all what you want to read. Plus, you have Matt and Gold on Sunday nights and then Terry and Willie on Wednesday, so putting it out there late Thursday or early Friday seems like a waste, but I'll get back to it in a few weeks once things settle down with work. 


Studs & Duds 

This is what you all want to see. Did you make my list week 1 of the season. 


Studs 


D1

- Guillaume 7 TDs with only 6 incomplete passes. 


D2

- Yvan Desjardins 5 TDs, 122 yards on 9 catches in his 2 games.


D3

- Anthony Drysdale 6 catches, 99 yards, 2 TDs and 2 picks on defense. 


D4

- Kayla Gauthier 2 TDs and a pick on defense.


D5 

- Anthony Evangelista 150 yards,4 TDs and 3 picks on defense as well.


Women's  

- Christiane Panti 2 picks on defense to go along with a TD on offense. 


Duds


D1

- Steve and his 3 picks. 


D2

- Jason Armenti played so badly 7 of 26 2 picks he changed positions for his second game. Some QB of the year we got here. 


D3

- Nicolas Poitevin, you threw 5 picks. 


D4

- John Morris, your defense scored more points (12) then you did on offense 6, and how could I forget about the 5 picks. 


D5 

- Les Last Calls for going 0-2.


Women's  

- Angie Toporowski completing 41.9% of your passes won’t cut it against the top teams. 


There you have it folks, my list for week 1.


Predictions


Time to pick the winners once again. Last week I went 16-19 or 47.5%. That won’t cut it, so you have to start listening to what I'm saying if I'm ever going to be perfect. Here are this week’s picks and like always they are in bold. 


D1


Idaho Udapimp vs Outlaws 

KOLB vs Outlaws 

Pack vs Honor Game 


D2


Him U vs Nice TDs 

Rejects vs Trench Babies 

Double Dippers vs Average Joe's 

Pacemakers vs Bines 

Witching Hour vs Thunder Buddies 

RawSauce vs Witching Hour 


D3 

Drama Club vs Tropic Thunder 

Ducks vs Phoenix NA 

Drama Club vs Phoenix NA 

Tropic Thunder vs Horde 

Gridiron Lions vs Spartans 

LGIT vs Bandits 


D4


Nomads vs Alouettes 

Nothing But D vs Seminoles 

Slicks vs Creeky Knees 

Martin Mystère vs Mustard Tigers 


D5

Last Calls vs MTL Cessnas 

Sax Farm vs Top Shooters 

FAT Players vs Knights 

Hive vs Wong Dynasty 

Hugs and Cuddles vs Action Squad 

Knights vs MTL Cessnas 

Jungle Squad vs Sax Farm 

Titans vs Top Shooters 

Bandits vs Big Booties 

Spartans vs 514

Big Assets vs Wolverines 


Women's 

Mama Jammas vs Drama Queen 

Louves du Nord vs Tigres 

Flag moi la Peche vs Mama Jammas 

Faucheuses vs Unmatched Girls 

Crazy Bs vs Rookies 


There you have it, all my picks for week 2. I hope it's better than last week, I mean it can't get much worse. 


Power Rankings 


Now that we have played week 1, I know there are multiple changes coming to my rankings. 


D1

1- Idaho Udapimp

2- Pack

3- Outlaws 


D2

1- Thunder Buddies

2- Him U

3- RawSauce 


D3

1- FAT Players 

2- Ducks 

3- Phoenix


D4

1- Alouettes

2- Blue Badgers 

3- Seminoles 


D5

1- Titans 

2- Mtl Cessnas

3- Los Politos 


Women's 

1- Tigres

2- Deesses du Drapeau

3- Drama Queens


You can love or hate the rankings, it doesn't bother me in the least. If you think your team should be higher or even in the list, this is only week one and you have 9 more weeks to show me your team needs to be up here. Win some games and I'll eventually notice. 


Finals Thoughts


I really don't have much to say other than only a few more weeks until college and NFL starts and I would say I can't wait for it, but between my new work schedule and taking care of everything for the MFL, I get to see very few games. 

I was supposed to go away to see Boise State and Air Force play in a few weeks and follow that up with a Cowboys game, but decided against it since it’s the Cowboys and who wants to watch them? 

I know that de la Verendrye and Arthur Therrien aren't in the best shape, but in a few weeks we'll be back at Le Ber which has grass on it right now and it's great, then after 2 weeks of use it will be just like the rest of them. 

Is it better to play on grass or turf? For me, it's grass all the way, but that's my preference and I also have cleats for every type of field we could play on so I'm good. I get why you'd rather turf, it's the same conditions all day long, but it worse on your joints, less give. That's just my preference. 

Finally let's all remember we are playing a game, so go out, have some fun, and try not to kill anyone. Have a great day and see you all Saturday.


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