Once Matt handed the ball over to Seneca, after the first team finally wrapped up the Rushing and TD titles for Shaun, it look as though he was going to run away with the ugliest trophy on the blog. He lead the team on an 8-play, 71-yard drive culminating in the first TD pass of his career, a 5-yard pass to free-agent pick-up extrodinaire, Joe Jurivicius. As if it was possible to like and respect the "unlucky hooker" any more, he once again proved his tremendous character by giving the ball to Seneca to commemorate the moment.
However, I didn't get to witness that drive personally, as I was playing Madden on my son's new GameCube during halftime, and Seneca looked dazed and confused for the remainder of the game, so that left me looking for other MGA candidates.
The two other pre-game favorites for this award didn't do much better. MoMo managed just 25 yards on 9 carries, 16 yards coming on a single run. Most of this was due to most of the starting offense line also resting, but some has to do with the eratic play calling of Gil Haskell. Both better hope the Seahawks have room for them next season, because neither did themselves a big favor to showcase their talents.
I didn't pay too close attention to how Chris Spencer played while in the game, but a first round selection is probably automatically excluded from this award. I was also surprised that Leonard "Stiffy" Weaver did not get much playing time in this exhibition, which ruled him out as well, so on to the defensive side of the ball we go.
Craig Terrill seemed to be everywhere on the field, and recovered a fumble for the second week in a row, but didn't really show up in the stat sheet, and let's face it, he's no Joe Tafoya! Kaz and Koots got quality playing time, but didn't really make the most of it, but Rodney Bailey proved to be another good Ruskell pick up.
No, this week's Moonlight Graham award goes to Jimmy Williams, who continued the good work filling in for our injury depleted secondary. Sure, the second teamers got torched enough to make the Packers look like contenders, and Brett Favre an MVP candidate, but Williams was second on the team with 8 tackles, and picked off a pass at a critical point in the game. Actually, it's that interception that locked up the award for him, since it seemed to be the first ball he's pulled in this season without first calling for a fair catch!So, to the man with an old soul, who started the season on the 49-ers, a team just barely good enough to lose out on Reggie Bush, and ended it on the team with the best record in NFC, enjoy two weeks in the glow of the Moonlight Jimmy Williams!
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Gotta love Brett Favre!
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