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January 12th, 2009 11:37pm PST

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Better than the Wild Wild West

While most of the matchups may have lacked some drama, for the fantasy football enthusiast there were plenty of fireworks the entire weekend, espcially during Sunday's Wildcard Weekend finale. The NFL definitely saved its best for last.

On Saturday it was a pair of mismatches with the both the Jets and Cowboys running games kicking into high gear. The Jets rookie running back Shonn Greene set the stage in the early game shredding the Bengals defense for 135 yards and a score. Not being outdone the Bengals running back Cedric Benson churned out 169 yards of his own including a 47-yard scoot for six.

In the night cap, it was the Felix Jones show. The Cowboys second year running back broke the game open in the 4th quarterback with a 73 yard touchdown run. He would finish the night with 148 yards on the ground, but would not be the only fantasy stud for the evening. To the surprise of many, DeSean Jackson (14 yards receiving, one touchdown) was not the Eagle's receiver with the big night. Rookie receiver Jeremy Maclin had a huge night catching seven balls for 146 yards and a touchdown.

These were the few bright stars on Saturday, but Sunday was filled with comets, quasars, and multiple explosions. In the morning game on Sunday, Ray Rice helped ignite the Ravens ground attack with 22 carries for 159 yards, including an 83 yard touchdown run on the first play from scrimmage. While that was a small explosion of a sort, it was nothing more than "the calm before the storm."

"nothing like a Sunday afternoon shootout"

As if we had thought we seen everything, enter Kurt "Wyatt Earp" Warner and Aaron "Doc Holiday" Rodgers. These two gunslingers put on a show for the ages and filled enough highlight reels to cover the entire 2009 post season. After more than 1,000 yards of offense, over 60 first downs, and 10 touchdowns, you would have expected after four quarters we would have a winner, right? Not in this classic, it would require OT.

From out of the gate "Wyatt" (Warner) came blazing, firing his six shooter and extending the Cardinals out to a 17-point first half advantage. Is "Doc Holiday" your Huckleberry, maybe so, but Aaron Rodgers was the answer to the Cardinals early fireworks. After a slow start in the first quarter (4 of 7 passing, 33 yards, 1-Int) the Packers signal caller got hot and just kept heating up especially in the second half; 19 of 28 passing, 318 yards, four touchdowns.

On the other side Wyatt just keep his guns blazing all afternoon. The Cardinals 38 year old quarterback was better than good, he was nearly perfect completing 29 of 33 passes. To make better sense of what he did, think about the fact he threw more touchdowns than balls that hit the turf (incompletions). Warner finished the evening with 379 yards passing, five touchdowns, and a passer rating of 154.1; These numbers are staggering against one of the leagues better secondaries.

When the dust settled, there was only one man left standing, the new sheriff in town and his name is Kurt Warner.

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