Monday Memo v2.1

Good Monday morning, everyone! The drawn out first week of the 2007 NFL season is nearly complete. Not only did we get a Thursday night game to kick things off, we also get two Monday night games...games that will most definitely have an impact on who will be leading the PPFFL at the 1/17th point. Current standings are as follows:

The Dragons 104.37
Kellogg Krushers 94.97
The Bouncers 94.76
The Outlaws 85.40
The Maestro 74.74
The Dominator 58.44

Everyone but the Kellogg Krushers will have players on the field tonight. The Dragons will have Todd Heap (Baltimore) and Frank Gore (San Francisco); The Bouncers will be pulling for T.J. Houshmanzadeh (Cincinnati) and the Ravens defense; The Outlaws will be breaking out the black and orange pom poms for the Bengals' Carson Palmer and Rudi Johnson; The Maestro will no doubt be lamenting the fact that neither Larry Fitzgerald (Arizona), nor Darrell Jackson (SF) will play as well as Randy Moss did on Sunday; and, The Dominator will officially release his Desert Storm strategy, as he unleashes the Cardinals' trio of Anquan Boldin, Edgerrin James, and Neil Rackers, along with Ocho Cinco of the Bengals.

The standings will no doubt look much different tomorrow morning. In fact, I will give you my lead pipe stone cold guarantee of the week that the point totals for all but one team will be different.

One note that was so relevant to our NorCal teams that it had to be busted out before the Tuesday Review...

The NFL gave us the ulimtate pillow fight in week 1, and, predictably, the Raiders took the gas pipe at home, losing convincingly to the Lions. The Kings of the Jungle, using the elite talent acquired by former Raider and current idiot savant Matt Millen, blew a 17 point lead and trailed with 7 minutes to go, but put up 16 points in the final 4-plus minutes to send Raider fans quietly back to their respective penitentiaries. It's probably getting a little old to pile on the Raiders, but 2 things have struck me about the game yesterday:

• Raider fans are beside themselves that Daunte Culpepper didn't get the start, nor did he get into the game. This is the guy who stunk so badly in Miami last year that he was released and replaced with Trent Green, who not only has a permanent concussion, but is so old and broken down that even Brian Sabean wouldn't sign him. Daunte is also the guy who fumbled more snaps than Rex Grossman in the preseason and looks to be on the same eating plan as recent Jaguar castoff Byron Leftwich.
• Matt Millen, the aforementioned former Raider, and his "mentor" Al Davis seem to have the same philosophy about building a team....namely, they don't have one. Unless, drafting and signing the crappiest players possible qualifies as a philosophy. Someday, Darth Raider and Millen need to collaborate on a book titled "The Raider Way", in which they detail how they were able to be so utterly uncompetitive in a league which everyone has a successful season once every five years. Their book could be sold in conjunction with Isiah Thomas' pending release of "How to Succeed in Business and Personnel Management".

Good luck to all tonight...I'll be getting prepared to bring it strong tomorrow, because that's how we roll in the EG.

The Commish