2023 Week #8 Discussion

[Matt]

	Monday Night Game: 68 degrees, 0MPH, Fair Newark ( 5-1, PR 83 ) at Vancouver ( 5-1, PR 89 ) Vancouver favored by 3
	Sunday Night Game: 68 degrees, 0MPH, Fair Tulsa ( 5-2, PR 70 ) at Georgia ( 5-2, PR 53 ) Tulsa favored by 3
	Thursday Night Game: 54 degrees, 5MPH, Fair Portland ( 6-0, PR 75 ) at Hartford ( 3-3, PR 52 ) Portland favored by 4
	Saturday Late Game: 73 degrees, 8MPH, Rain West Virginia ( 3-3, PR 49 ) at Fresno ( 4-2, PR 55 ) Fresno favored by 3
	Saturday Early Game: 30 degrees, 7MPH, Fair Orlando ( 3-3, PR 44 ) at Vermont ( 5-1, PR 66 ) Vermont favored by 6
	Sunday Game: 68 degrees, 0MPH, Fair Lansing ( 3-3, PR 48 ) at Texas ( 4-3, PR 48 ) Texas favored by 2
	Sunday Game: 51 degrees, 3MPH, Rain Houston ( 5-2, PR 58 ) at Iowa City ( 3-4, PR 44 ) Houston favored by 2
	Sunday Game: 45 degrees, 0MPH, Fair Pennsylvania ( 5-2, PR 71 ) at Madison ( 2-4, PR 40 ) Pennsylvania favored by 6
	Sunday Game: 47 degrees, 0MPH, Fair Carolina ( 2-4, PR 47 ) at Salt Lake City ( 2-4, PR 49 ) Salt Lake City favored by 2
	Sunday Game: 50 degrees, 0MPH, Fair Lawrence ( 7-0, PR 91 ) at Oakland ( 1-6, PR 27 ) Lawrence favored by 13
	Sunday Game: 67 degrees, 2MPH, Rain Murfreesboro ( 2-4, PR 31 ) at Cleveland ( 5-2, PR 62 ) Cleveland favored by 8
	Sunday Game: 36 degrees, 7MPH, Fair Louisiana ( 1-4-1, PR 31 ) at Montreal ( 3-4, PR 46 ) Montreal favored by 5
	Sunday Game: 36 degrees, 4MPH, Fair Anchorage ( 2-3-1, PR 48 ) at Chicago ( 1-5, PR 21 ) Anchorage favored by 5
	Sunday Game: 63 degrees, 1MPH, Fair St. Louis ( 1-6, PR 19 ) at Wichita ( 4-3, PR 54 ) Wichita favored by 9

[markc]

Newark makes the long flight to the left coast this week. This is another tough matchup for the Whales, I'll be very glad when we are done playing the NC East. Newark's had our number, hope to reverse that trend, but like Lawrence, there's so many weapons to try to stop it's ridonkulous. Gotta hope REX dials up some serious home field advantage. GL Matt

[Beeznik]

Huge game here. Can we take control of the division? I'm not too confident. Tulsa is having a good year, and we've been barely beating mediocre competition this year. Sure, that is partly due to numerous penalties and fumbles, etc. But nonetheless.

Good luck Tarc.

[Matt]

looking forward to this one, Mark.
not sure we're in your league yet so a win on the road would be gigantic for us. Not expecting any miracles.

[Kobeck]

rain in Fresno means who knows what.

Every W makes the next game that much bigger. A win this week at home would be huge for the Warthogs in the AFC

[tarcone]

Huge game here. Can we take control of the division? I'm not too confident. Tulsa is having a good year, and we've been barely beating mediocre competition this year. Sure, that is partly due to numerous penalties and fumbles, etc. But nonetheless.

Good luck Tarc.

I just got my arse handed to me. That worries me. The last 2 seasons included 6 game losing streaks. So i hope the last game wasnt the start of one of those.
This is a monster game. Looking forward to it.

Good luck, Beez.

[JesterBlaze]

Not exactly another GotW for the Phantoms but I get to match up against my cousin so internally this is a memorable game for Lawrence.

The most interesting storyline of this week would be "What Tulsa team is going to show up?" if you ask Spark Wonup.

NWK/VAN is a possible post-season preview.

I think CAR starts a late run at the playoffs today.

[jley618]

The game html isn't up yet...how bad did we get spanked?

[markc]

Good game Matt. The game was very close as expected, I think I got some home field AI help on my final drive. Stats were pretty even. I was watching Solevision and I thought the first team to make a turnover would lose, but neither team made one. Good luck the rest of the way and maybe we'll meet again in the playoffs (hopefully in Vancouver).

[Kobeck]

Fresno capatilized early but WV did not go away. Schwartz put the game away with a late TD pass. TOs were the difference in this one.

gg WV

[Beeznik]

GG Tarc. We coughed the ball up early while driving, but luckily that was our only fumble. We had 11 penalties!!! What the hell. We already have 61 penalties this year.

Anyhow, huge win for us. We played it safe benching Darren Wallace and it didn't bite us in the ass.

[Argot]

GG Vito...some questionable coaching decisions on our part...to kick a FG on the two yard line on 2nd down at the end of the half with 24 seconds left instead of taking a shot in the end zone. Questionble screen plays on 3rd and long. INT's didn't help May today. Your running game shredded me.

[tarcone]

GG Tarc. We coughed the ball up early while driving, but luckily that was our only fumble. We had 11 penalties!!! What the hell. We already have 61 penalties this year.

Anyhow, huge win for us. We played it safe benching Darren Wallace and it didn't bite us in the ass.

GG Beez.

3 points in the last 2 games. Time to change the offense.

[Matt]

Good game Matt. The game was very close as expected, I think I got some home field AI help on my final drive. Stats were pretty even. I was watching Solevision and I thought the first team to make a turnover would lose, but neither team made one. Good luck the rest of the way and maybe we'll meet again in the playoffs (hopefully in Vancouver).

Ya, it was a tight one. just got home now to watch it.
We couldn't run effectively enough to set up our pass. You guys got to Kennedy also.

I can imagine a rematch later in the year.
Good luck the rest of the way

[SteveBsFan]

Another close game with a good team. It started off bad with a quick pick and we got a 50 or so yard fumble recovery called back. Managed to claw back in the 2nd half with a good win, but still a lot of work to do during the bye.

It is good to get out of that 3 game road trip with 2 wins, now we're back at home versus an always dangerous Murf.