Four Weeks?!

By Daniel K. Wiems
special to EdMaddenReports

Three weeks on and four weeks off - it sounds more like an oilfield job than a quarterback. And yet, that is just the situation with relatively new Knife quarterback, Aaron Brooks.

Toward the end of a vicious game that was close due only to the heroics of rookie-of-the-year candidate Vic Hutton, Brooks was blind-sided by Dwight Freeney and knocked out of competition for four weeks at the least.

"It's just not fair," said Brooks, who went into the game confident and focused, happy with a new chance at life, being rescued from New Orleans to replace an injured Chris Simms.

Fair or not, the Knife have made it clear, by picking up disappointing Rohan Davey, that Mao Rice-Rice is the go-to guy.

"I didn't ask for this, but I will do my absolute best for the team." was all this reporter could get out of the tacit young quarterback.

Time will tell if Rice-Rice will be nice-nice or if we're saying "Not now," to Mao.

Stay tuned.

The Second Generation

For two months, the Samoa Hot Lava and the Calgary Rockies have been done. They have not played a game, and not one single transaction has been made. No efforts have been made to further the franchise and, as such, it can be considered "toast".

Moving forward, and onto a different platform (GameCube, for those curious enough to ask) we at edMaddenReports have news of a sort that has not been seen since Madden 2003.

And we are proud to announce the expansion to Los Angeles from Tampa Bay and to Las Vegas from Baltimore.

Indeed, the Los Angeles Knife (who have reverted to the Tampa Bay Orange crush, so beloved by ... well... nobody.) and the Las Vegas Caesars have something to prove to the rest of the world.