IFL Week 4: Quad City at Cedar Rapids Preview

By Christopher Mabry
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​Overall, they are It is week four in the Indoor Football League season and the playoff picture is starting to form in this very young season. To kickoff the week, the Quad City Steamwheelers who is in fifth place with a 1-1 record are traveling to Iowa to take on the eighth ranked Quad City River Kings who are currently 1-2.

For quad Cities, this will be their third game this season, but their first game to be on the road. In their first two games at home, they are averaging 48.7 points per game, and 265 yards per game. As for the defense, they are giving up 58.7 points per game to their opponents and 272 yards per game. 

On the other side of the field is the Quad City River Kings. So far this season, the River Kings have played in three games. Two at home and one on the road. In the games played at home, they are 1-1 and on the road they are currently 0-1 Overall, they are at 1-2. The River Kings defense is giving up 58 points per game and 272 yards per game. 

If either of these two teams wants to win tonights game, they have to rely on their defense to keep the other from scoring and taking big leads.