Interesting matchups in both CC's tonight. First of all we are guaranteed to have two previous World Bowl winners face off as we have 6 time champion Houston at 1 time champion Denver in one game, while the first World Bowl winner, Florida travels to face 2 time champs New Jersey.
Houston is known as an offensive juggernaut and they still are that but the Gamblers bring some D too. Houston has the #7 defense, a ranking they haven't seen since their 6th ranked D of 1991. Denver is equally as good on both sides of the ball, sporting the league's best defense. The Gold won their first World Bowl 4 years ago and have been battling with Houston and Portland for conference championships ever since.
In the National Conference, we have opposite approaches. Florida is a run first team as Robert Romero had a 1,500 yard season to lead the league and they also have an efficient passing game. Willie Graham doesn't fill the air with footballs like his counterpart Don Ferguson, but Graham had 27 TD passes to just 8 INTs, tied for the lowest amount among QBs with 300+ attempts. On the other sideline are the New Jersey Generals and Don Ferguson, the league's leading passer. In 3 previous CC games, Don Ferguson has not played well. Is that because he faced his old team Washington? Or is it because he chokes under pressure?
Three of the four teams left had a first round BYE, showing the importance of the BYE week in January. Next season should be interesting as I'm pretty sure we are going to 7 playoff teams and 1 BYE per conference with version 4.6. I could be wrong so don't quote me on that yet.
Blog is almost finished btw, just 1 more game to write about. Got sidetracked yesterday watching my concrete driveway being poured. I've been wanting to have this done ever since I bought this place over 3 years ago.
