Starting off with the Tampa Bay Vipers finally playing at home and hosting the Houston Roughnecks. In, what I thought would be a blow out by the Roughnecks, was actually one of the best offensive games so far. Tampa Bay held serve at home and was ahead at the beginning but could not hold off Houston’s powerful offense led by starting quarterback PJ Walker. He threw for 306 yards(The first 300 yard passing mark of the league), and completed 67% of his passes. Walker threw 3 TD passes all to Cam Phillips who now leads the league in touchdown receptions so far. Houston also attacked well on the ground using James Butler and Phillip Walker as their main weapons. Butler led the rushing game with 76 yards on seven attempts while Walker scored Houston’s only rushing touchdown. The Roughnecks played extremely
Tampa actually played very well, using their running game as their main arsenal with Deveon Smith leading Tampa Bay’s running attack. Quarterbacks Cornelius and Flowers scored the two rushing TDs, while Cornelius thew a touchdown and an interception. While their passing has been an eye sore so far, the two quarterback combo coached by Marc Trestman did throw better this game versus the previous two in my mind. But home-field advantage was not enough to defeat the Roughnecks.
This game had 5 lead changes and could have gone either way.I hopetheir are like these to come.
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