Week #5 Discussion

[JesterBlaze]

Phantoms head into SLC to see what this new QB hubbub is all about.

And wonder for another week if Newark will lose a damn game.

[Vic Carucci]

Week#5 Discussion

	Monday Night Game: 68 degrees, 4MPH, Fair Lawrence ( 4-0, PR 86 ) at Salt Lake City ( 3-1, PR 57 ) Lawrence favored by 6
	Sunday Night Game: 68 degrees, 0MPH, Fair Tulsa ( 2-2, PR 67 ) at Texas ( 3-1, PR 67 ) Texas favored by 2
	Thursday Night Game: 69 degrees, 18MPH, Rain Cleveland ( 4-0, PR 88 ) at Wichita ( 2-2, PR 49 ) Cleveland favored by 8
	Saturday Late Game: 47 degrees, 6MPH, Fair Norfolk ( 3-1, PR 55 ) at West Virginia ( 2-2, PR 67 ) West Virginia favored by 4
	Saturday Early Game: 68 degrees, 0MPH, Fair Montreal ( 3-1, PR 57 ) at Houston ( 2-2, PR 54 ) Houston favored by 1
	Sunday Game: 32 degrees, 18MPH, Fair Vermont ( 2-1, PR 57 ) at Reno ( 2-2, PR 47 ) Vermont favored by 2
	Sunday Game: 75 degrees, 2MPH, Fair Oakland ( 1-3, PR 33 ) at Newark ( 3-0, PR 93 ) Newark favored by 14
	Sunday Game: 66 degrees, 3MPH, Fair Los Angeles ( 1-3, PR 40 ) at Portland ( 2-2, PR 71 ) Portland favored by 8
	Sunday Game: 46 degrees, 2MPH, Fair Iowa City ( 3-1, PR 72 ) at St. Louis ( 0-4, PR 39 ) Iowa City favored by 6
	Sunday Game: 57 degrees, 1MPH, Fair Anchorage ( 2-1, PR 64 ) at Hartford ( 0-4, PR 34 ) Anchorage favored by 6
	Sunday Game: 72 degrees, 10MPH, Fair Vancouver ( 0-4, PR 34 ) at Orlando ( 2-2, PR 44 ) Orlando favored by 4
	Sunday Game: 68 degrees, 0MPH, Fair Little Rock ( 0-4, PR 32 ) at Pennsylvania ( 1-3, PR 46 ) Pennsylvania favored by 5
	Sunday Game: 65 degrees, 1MPH, Fair Boston ( 3-1, PR 61 ) at California ( 0-3, PR 18 ) Boston favored by 8
	Sunday Game: 64 degrees, 2MPH, Fair Georgia ( 0-4, PR 17 ) at Dakota ( 1-3, PR 39 ) Dakota favored by 6

[Kobeck]

I finally got a gameplan in on D, been Rexed for first 3 weeks and it was just awful. I am not predicting anything except it will NOT be D by Rex this week. Just didn't see any downside too trying some things out.

GL Boston, but not too much. lol

[DakotaGeorge]

I finally got a gameplan in on D, been Rexed for first 3 weeks and it was just awful. I am not predicting anything except it will NOT be D by Rex this week. Just didn't see any downside too trying some things out.

GL Boston, but not too much. lol

I like Cali for the upset.

[tarcone]

Going into Texas for 1st place in the division. Im hoping my offense starts to gel. I think i have adjusted every game trying to get things to click.
Texas is tough as always. One thing im real happy about is the retirement of Money. Makes life a little easier.

[SteveBsFan]

Well that was easily the most embarrassing display of defense my team has ever done. Only one non scoring drive for Montreal. We gave up 39, and it *easily* could have been more had I not held them to 6 FG's. I'm going to have to strongly evaluate my gameplanning

GG Chris

[Matt]

tough loss Jave. Your team will come around soon, I'm sure.
gotta run. will comment more later.

[VitoStallion]

Phantoms head into SLC to see what this new QB hubbub is all about.

And wonder for another week if Newark will lose a damn game.

GG Blaze

[Jave]

SIGH.....

[Jave]

I must be the only team ever to get top 5 picks year after year and actually manage to get WORSE.

Yea yea, top over pick, here i come!!!

[DDT]

We held the undefeated division leaders to 50yds and 0-6 on 3rd downs in the first half ... 2 fumbles, a blocked and a missed FG kept it sorta close ... D played well in the second as well but CLE Clawz back to tie at 14-14. Not a problem though we score a TD to go up 21-14 and then .....

4Q: 05:54 Devin Hanson kicked off 67 yards from the WIC30. Percy McGarity returned the ball 97 yards for a TOUCHDOWN! Wichita 21, Cleveland 20

Not a problem though we score a TD to go up 28-21 and then .....

4Q: 01:12 Devin Hanson kicked off 65 yards from the WIC30. Percy McGarity returned the ball 95 yards for a TOUCHDOWN! Wichita 28, Cleveland 27

CLE adds a FG after a Scott pick and we lose despite playing a great 2/3 of a game!!!

GG CLE and Happy Birthday.

Good thing I don't take this seriously.

[DDT]

I guess the positive is holding a team to 222 YFS (and 270 in returns) has really improved our defensive rank.

[Cringer]

GG Pitt Power....er Penn Nittany Lions, whatever you are. GG Penn.

Bad passing on 3rd downs, pass rush wasn't strong enough, otherwise this game seems to be fitting an overall pattern of close loss, and losing late. Oh well. I expect more of Les Rogers though at this point, so I need to break out of the saved game plans and tweak something just for him I think. He just doesn't fit the medium passing mode I usually get locked in on.

[Chris Rex]

After last weeks frustrating loss, I hoped that switching back from the run heavy attack of last week to a more balanced attack would give us a chance. It seemed to work well, as their run stuffing D was surprised on a few occasion by our first down passes. It feels good to get a win over an opponent who I was convinced would destroy me.

That being said, I played a little drinking game.

Everytime I saw:

"(Houston) is throwing into double coverage
(Houston) makes the catch"

I downed a show of vodka.



I am now blitzed off my ass...


-C Rex

[eckman]

We held the undefeated division leaders to 50yds and 0-6 on 3rd downs in the first half ... 2 fumbles, a blocked and a missed FG kept it sorta close ... D played well in the second as well but CLE Clawz back to tie at 14-14. Not a problem though we score a TD to go up 21-14 and then .....

4Q: 05:54 Devin Hanson kicked off 67 yards from the WIC30. Percy McGarity returned the ball 97 yards for a TOUCHDOWN! Wichita 21, Cleveland 20

Not a problem though we score a TD to go up 28-21 and then .....

4Q: 01:12 Devin Hanson kicked off 65 yards from the WIC30. Percy McGarity returned the ball 95 yards for a TOUCHDOWN! Wichita 28, Cleveland 27

CLE adds a FG after a Scott pick and we lose despite playing a great 2/3 of a game!!!

GG CLE and Happy Birthday.

Good thing I don't take this seriously.

Makes it even funnier is we inserted McGarity into the #1 kick return slot this week. Go figure.

We definitely won one we should have lost. Tough one to lose Wichita