Week #9 Discussion

[tarcone]

Bend but dont break defense.
Big plays.
Matt Sanford maturing.
Singleton cant rush, so he is my leading receiver.
Offensive line needs to get some cohesion and definitely some discipline. Lots of holds and false starts. All indications point to RT Brock Heath getting most of the penalties with RG Rob Mitchell getting the 2nd most.

GG Lansing

[Coder]

Win against Vancouver but it was a rough one.. Jacob Pinder, Alonzo Lake and Virgil out with various injuries.. Virgil i probable but Lake and Pinder questionable.. might rest them all against SLC, we'll see. NC East now with three teams 6-2.. wow..

[r00k]

Kingfc, I thought that it was going to be another Boston nail biter as you had a lead going into the locker room, but your team just didn't show up for the second half and practically gave away the game in the third quarter with fumbles. Tough luck. See you again on the last week of the regular season.

[BuddaKINGII]

Ok, admittedly, I expect my team to suck, BUT...

Opponent has the ball, first and 1 on my 1...

"Montreal is aggressively expecting the pass"

multiple 3rd and 2 type situations in the last 3 minutes, knowing that the opponent wants to run out the clock...

"Montreal is gambling like a motherfucker that it's going to be a pass play.. No doubt about it..."

ARGH!!!!! :-)

Exciting, but frustrating game to watch.

Same here...

[Kozure]

Hahaha we suck , I give up. Steiner throws 5 ints, playcalling continues to amaze. GG WV 'bout time all those 1st rounders start paying off...

Thanks. You can never have enough first rounders. When you were down 28-13 and driving, I thought everything was going to unravel for us. Luckily, we got an interception and stopped that drive.

And to start the game, my second and third drives started at my 3 and 4 yard line. Both ended in 3 and outs. That was key for us. If we had let you score with the good field position there, the game would have been entirely different, i think. But we stopped you on one drive and got an interception on the next one. It set the tone for us the rest of the way. We weren't going to give up easy points.

Offensively, we were so so. Harding had a nice game, but our offensive line is just playing horribly right now with pass protection. Harding, I think, started the game going 2-7 and each of his five incompletions were hurries. And he still isn't throwing the ball to Martinez at all. Well, not nearly as much as I would like. A couple more passes his way would be nice, though he isn't catching everything thrown to him, either. Huggins picked up the slack.

Defensively, we were rock solid. Eight turnovers, including four interceptions on your final four drives will kill any comeback attempt. This defensive unit, if i can keep it together, will be tough for many, many years.

Christian Jacobs continues to shine with a two pick performance. But I'm impressed with my other rookie corner, Otis Davison. He's been quietly putting together a very good rookie season. Not bad for a third round pick.

Good game Budda.

[BuddaKINGII]

I find it troubling that I'm still in the wild card playoff race. Not mention the rest of the AFC...should be a interesting 2nd half. Hopefully we can turn "on" my game-planning which has been dreadful.

[BuddaKINGII]

Thanks. You can never have enough first rounders. When you were down 28-13 and driving, I thought everything was going to unravel for us. Luckily, we got an interception and stopped that drive.

And to start the game, my second and third drives started at my 3 and 4 yard line. Both ended in 3 and outs. That was key for us. If we had let you score with the good field position there, the game would have been entirely different, i think. But we stopped you on one drive and got an interception on the next one. It set the tone for us the rest of the way. We weren't going to give up easy points.

Offensively, we were so so. Harding had a nice game, but our offensive line is just playing horribly right now with pass protection. Harding, I think, started the game going 2-7 and each of his five incompletions were hurries. And he still isn't throwing the ball to Martinez at all. Well, not nearly as much as I would like. A couple more passes his way would be nice, though he isn't catching everything thrown to him, either. Huggins picked up the slack.

Defensively, we were rock solid. Eight turnovers, including four interceptions on your final four drives will kill any comeback attempt. This defensive unit, if i can keep it together, will be tough for many, many years.

Christian Jacobs continues to shine with a two pick performance. But I'm impressed with my other rookie corner, Otis Davison. He's been quietly putting together a very good rookie season. Not bad for a third round pick.

Good game Budda.

Yeah I was surprised we still had a shot in the early 4th. Steiners downfield heaves ended that though. Defense, actually let me have a chance for awhile so they've been playing well lately. Huggins kicked my ass though gotta see whats was up with that. Now I gotta work on my off gameplanning which has become very dull as of late...

[Kozure]

Yeah I was surprised we still had a shot in the early 4th. Steiners downfield heaves ended that though. Defense, actually let me have a chance for awhile so they've been playing well lately. Huggins kicked my ass though gotta see whats was up with that. Now I gotta work on my off gameplanning which has become very dull as of late...

My bad, you were down 27-14 at the time. Two scores and you had the lead. I wasn't very calm around that time. My defense is still very young. I could very easily see them falling apart.



Also, this is one of the few games this year were we started out hot. Good to see after the shlacking we had at the hands of California the week before.

[Warhammer]

Nice to see us go out and win. We're one game out of the WC race, but I think we're going to lose next week. West Virginia has the talent to unseat Norfolk now if they can put it all together. Meanwhile we're on the other side of the curve. We are aging on the OL and on the defensive side of the ball and need a good infusion of youth.

[Hell Atlantic]

i don't know what i'm doing in this game, and the fact that we go up against Norfolk - one of those teams that just finds a way to win - next week doesn't look good. we're going to end up with a crappy pick and no playoffs. and i'm not going to be happy. shitty team, i was better off not trading for Sante and just chalking this season up to a lost season. Sante doesn't bring anything to the table that i don't think i could be getting from someone else. i don't want to run the ball a lot cuz i have the best receiver in the league as well as a good #2 and #3 WR, but i have to get my playmakers the ball. TE McElroy is a bust, just doesn't factor into our passing game. yeesh, route running really is important in this game as its obvious that affects who gets targets. i didn't want McElroy stealing targets from Mullin, but fuck man, call for the ball every once in a while. no reason my backup TE should have more targets/receptions/tds than my starting TE. i don't even leave him in to block all that much. i might as well start now since he isn't doing anything. i also can't run apparently cuz Chapman isn't doing much with the ball when he rushes. all in all a bad draft for the Heroes as we fail to pick up anyone who can contribute this season. i was better off sticking with Larry Deason.

look for the Heroes to not trade much or shake the team up much in the coming seasons. i seem to not make good moves and i'm just running in place.

[tarcone]

It feels great going into the bye week with a win. In stunning fashion on the road.
This is the most excited Ive been this season.

[kingfc22]

Kingfc, I thought that it was going to be another Boston nail biter as you had a lead going into the locker room, but your team just didn't show up for the second half and practically gave away the game in the third quarter with fumbles. Tough luck. See you again on the last week of the regular season.

Yep and the 3 fumbles we forced we couldn't recover. Losing Fulton early hurt as well.

[BOSS]

I expected a loss this week. Started my backup QB and didn't have my best LB either. Oh well, we made a game of it late after being down early.

Irby should be back for next week against Little Rock. Luckily, everyone but Dakota lost in the division so were still in good shape.

Seems like no matter what you do on defense this year it won't help. Offenses have the edge big time in this sim.

[Kobeck]

Mules go into Wichita and come away with a win and another starter out for a while. Murfreesboro D played well overall as the Mules went up 21-7 early in the second for a lead that they would not surrender.

QB Scott threw 3 TDs accounting for all the Outlaw scoring.

[Argot]

Great Game Little Rock...early fumble in your redzone, and then a late fumble in my red zone sealed the deal and still it took a last minute drive to get the game winning fieldgoal. You totally took my RB's out of the game. Good thing DT went 30 for 34, with over 300 yards.

Can't remember the last time Dakota was in first place all by there lonesome...oh yeah..that's because IT NEVER HAPPENNED BEFORE.

And I love the quote by Madison, good thing everyone but Dakota won..., so we're in good shape...just what are you implying BOSS?

Hold the tie breaker with Madison, so that's like a two game lead...

What's this...Dakota talking smack?? So much for never being relevent...... ever.....

Big Division game with Lansing this week...What's wrong with Lansing...Gene Hamilton? Sherman Jarvis...guess Deason isn't what he used to be?? go figure...I thought they would be unbeatable...anyone want to send me a game plan?