FLOF Bowl Preview: Ramjets

Ramjets are a career 1-2 in FLOF Bowls. They won the first ever FLOF Bowl back in 1997 and appeared in 2 more over the next 4 years. Ramjets are 7-6-1 all time against Bill's Team including a win in their lone playoff match up: a 45-12 win in 2003's wild card round. They tied in their only meeting so far this season 27-27 in week 7.

How They Got Here:

Ramjets got off to a good start going 3-1-1 before hitting a 0-3-1 slump mid season. That left them 3-4-1 after week 9 but in the Right Division that meant they were only 1/2 game behind division leader CAPO. From that point on Ramjets played pretty strongly and matched CAPO win-for-win and loss-for-loss until their week 14 show down for the division title which Ramjets obviously won. Ramjets have remained hot through the playoffs.

The chart below tracks Ramjets total points scored every week. The grey bar is the middle 1/3 of scores in FLOF over the last 2 seasons (from 61 to 72 pts). The white line is the median over the last 2 seasons (68 pts).

Key Players:

Matt Schaub took over for Eli Manning early in the season and was the Ramjet's biggest contributor all year averaging 14.44 pts/gm. Schuab has been particularly strong in the playoffs with two 17 pt games and is second in points scored this post season. Schaub was acquired from Drow the end of last year in a trade.

Ronnie Brown was a steadying influence at RB for the beginning of the season after taking over for Portis. But he broke in week 10 and that nearly killed Ramjets playoff hopes. Brown was a first round draft pick this year.

Cedric Benson has not been phenomenal since joining Ramjets after being acquired in a trade with the Drow at the deadline but he has been solid and that's better then what they had.

Wes Welker and Steve Smith (Car) held down the fort at WR for most of the season. Welker has largely been solid but not excellent and Smith has been hot or cold but Smith has really come on in the playoffs with 21 pts in 2 games. Welker was a 2nd round darft pick 2 years ago by the Ramjets and was franchised this season. Smith was acquired in an early season trade with Drow.

Matt Prater gave the kicking game a boost for the final 4 weeks of the season by averaging 2 more pts per game then Kris Brown had prior to that but came up small in the playoffs averaging 4 pts over two games. Prater was acquired in free agency this year.

Terrell Suggs was a solid season long DF for Ramjets but has not had much affect in the playoffs so far. Suggs was a 2nd round draft pick for the Ramjets this season.

Gary Bracket was a 6th round draft pick for the Ramjets this year who gave the defense a little boost for the last 4 games of the regular season but also has not had much affect in the playoffs.

Brandon Meriweather and Richard Marshall (both 4th round draft picks) were a solid duo at DB for Ramjets all year but Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie (acquired at the trade deadline from IC Lagers) has been the playoff MVP so far with 36 points over 2 games, the most of any player so far.