Bow Down

New Orleans, LA -

Two teams that took completely opposite paths during the regular season took the same route out of the playoffs--their nemisis, Kurt Warner to Isaac Bruce, times three. The Monkeys stormed through the regular season with an 8-5 record, riding running back sensations LaDanian Tomlinson and Shaun Alexander. TAG stumbled and bumbled their way through the regular season, riding on the back of Donovan McNabb while their RBs and WRs struggled to find the endzone.

However dissimilar their paths may have been, the TAG and Chunky Monkey fates became intertwined in the first weekend of the playoffs. The Monkeys demise came at the hands of Kurt Warner's 4TD, 40 fantasy point explosion, while TAG suffered at the other end of Warner's game, as Isaac Bruce had his best game of the year, catching three of Warner's four touchdowns.

Their championship hopes ended, the TAG and Monkey players headed home for what promises to be a long offseason pondering their losses at the hands of the offensive juggernaut that is the St. Louis Rams.