NFLE week two recap
by Tommy Brown
Published on April 12, 2005 under National Football League Europa (NFLE)
Ahmaad Galloway showed this week he is probably the best football player in NFL Europe. He rushed for 161 yards and a touchdown for the Frankfurt Galaxy in the come-from-behind victory over the Amsterdam Admirals in front of over 30,000 fans in Frankfurt. After Amsterdam jumped on the board quickly with two first-quarter touchdowns, the rest of the game was all Ahmaad Galloway. Akili Smith had a nifty touchdown scramble for Frankfurt's first touchdown, only to be removed from the game for backup Kevin Eakin. Frankfurt won the game 23-14.
All NFL Europe teams use a rotating quarterback system of some sort to ensure playing time for allocated players. Frankfurt though, uses a system that seems to interrupt the flow of their offense. One would think to be fair the quarterbacks could rotate week to week instead of quarters. As long as either quarterback to continue to hand the ball off to Galloway though, Frankfurt may not lose another game for awhile. Note to rest of NFL Europe: Ahmaad Galloway's knee is officially 100%.
Berlin defeated Hamburg 15-13 with a late fourth-quarter field goal by Kevin Miller. Larry Croom continued to disappoint for the Sea Devils, only rushing for 34 yards. He did only receive 8 carries in the game. One would think the Hamburg coaching staff could find a way to get their best player the ball more than 2 times a quarter. Apparently, they were too busy designing plays for Scott McCready so he could break an absolutelyl meaningless national player career reception's record. Good job Hamburg coaching staff! Your team lost.
Dave Ragone played almost the entire game for Berlin, going 17 for 24 and 168 yards passing. He threw a touchdown pass to running back Cal Murray. Murray and LJ Flowers split time in the backfield for Berlin and both had nice games on the ground.
Quarterback Kevin Thompson led the Cologne Centurions to victory this week with two rushing touchdowns. Cologne remained undefeated as they dismantled the Rhein Fire, who have yet to win. Scott McBrien again looked terrible in defeat. Were it not for a miracle last-minute 58 yard touchdown pass, McBrien would have had zero touchdown passes and under 100 yards passing, with one interception. The touchdown pass help rescue McBrien's stats, but it could not help the Rhein Fire, as they lost 23-10.
Weekly picks:
I am indeed a genius! Here were my picks for last week:
Thunder rolls the Sea Devils. Berlin is too much on both sides of the ball.
Galaxy sink the Admirals. Ahmaad Galloway gets the ball and shows up this week. No tricks plays.
Cologne over Rhein. Scott McBrien throws like a girl that doesn't know how to throw.
I think my prediction about Ahmaad Galloway should elevate me to the title of OFFICIAL NFL EUROPE GURU! The Scott McBrien prediction was too easy.
Week Three Predictions:
Frankfurt over Cologne:
Ahmaad Galloway keeps it going. The Centurions will suffer their first loss and Kevin Thompson's stellar play comes to an end.
Hamburg over Rhein:
Who won't intercept girly-thrower Scott McBrien?
Amsterdam upsets Berlin:
Jarrett Payton and Gibran Hamdan have been playing well and will lead their team in an upset of the mighty Thunder.
Got a question for Tommy? Email questions to tommy33624@yahoo.com. All questions will be answered the following week in my column about NFL Europe.
National Football League Europa Stories from April 12, 2005
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