2025 Divisional Playoff Discussion

[Matt]

	Marquee Matchup: 68 degrees, 0MPH, Fair Orlando ( 11-6, PR 68 ) at Vancouver ( 13-3, PR 87 ) Vancouver favored by 6
	Game 2: 46 degrees, 2MPH, Fair Cleveland ( 13-4, PR 62 ) at Fresno ( 11-5, PR 72 ) Fresno favored by 4
	Game 3: 51 degrees, 5MPH, Fair Georgia ( 12-5, PR 57 ) at Lawrence ( 12-4, PR 88 ) Lawrence favored by 8
	Game 4: 50 degrees, 4MPH, Fair Murfreesboro ( 10-6-1, PR 64 ) at London ( 12-3-1, PR 78 ) London favored by 5

[Kobeck]

midweek uploaded


Another Murfreesboro London matchup. Last time it was a brutal tie that was as good as a L to the Mules. Sent team into late season funk, but backing into the POs in w17 gives the veteran Mules a chance.


Mules FO spent heavily on D veterans going into 25' and Mattingly was a big part of that. The DE earned DPoW twice in the last month including a huge day in his first ever PO game. LOL 1 more SAC and he is tied for the Mules all time PO SAC lead.


Houston beat the total crap out of the Murfreesboro in the WC round so there is that to deal with. George is gimpy not sure how to handle that and a starting DB is OUT for the season. Might be available for AFCC or SB but cant worry about that this week. Gotta do what I gotta do - uuuggghhh!








BTW the 2026 draft class sucks - LOL

[ukpatfan]

London host Murfreesboro who gave us a tough fight in week 13.
We really should've lost that game and despite the Mules being a little banged up, we are expecting another difficult matchup.
Hopefully the extra week off and home advantage will tip it our way.

[Kobeck]

locked and loaded

[JesterBlaze]

I've spent too much time game-planning for what end up being losses to GEO recently so for this week I used the 3 minute "F@ck It" export.

[JesterBlaze]

Corey Perkins starts today's game 591 passing yards away from being the All Time Post-Season leader.

Omar Robinson starts today's game 186 receiving yards away from being the All Time Post-Season leader.

Dwayne Hernandez starts today's game 19 tackles away from being the All Time Post-Season leader. Hernandez already holds the INT lead with 6.

Derek Rezac starts today's game 4 Key Run Blocks away from being the All Time Post-Season leader.

[Kobeck]

gg UKPatfan

the 3 TOs, esentially 4 with the TO on downs early 4Q, was the difference. London only got 3 points off the TOs but they all ended Mule drives without points - obviously

Mules had the ball at their own 20 with a minute left but stout London D resulted in 4 INCs and the game

Mules got down early and abandoned the run which was not what Murfreesboro wants to ever do.

Best team won the day - GL going forward UKPatfan

[Brando]

GG, Fresno. I figured you'd be well positioned to take advantage of our weak corners and we were really exploited in the passing game early on. That and you shut down our offense completely. We never really had much of a chance beyond the first quarter. Best of luck the rest of the way!

[JesterBlaze]

Great Game, Beeznik! I'm very pumped to get a post-season victory against the Generals!!

If I'm correct the Phantoms held onto the ball for 12:58 of the 4th quarter to seal the win.

[Beeznik]

Great Game, Beeznik! I'm very pumped to get a post-season victory against the Generals!!

If I'm correct the Phantoms held onto the ball for 12:58 of the 4th quarter to seal the win.

Good game Jester. Yeah, we couldn't get you off the field and our offnse struggled. After running the ball great all year, we really struggled to move the ball on the ground once my backup RB went down with an injury. I knew I had to run it well to have a shot, and we didn't.

Good luck going forward!

[Pirates]

Man, Nixon got tossed out of the game on the first series. Don't think it would have mattered. Vancouver blew our doors off. GG!!

[ukpatfan]

GG Kobeck,
The Mules played it tough 2nd half and you have to think a healthy George wouldn't have thrown the 3 picks, but London took their opportunities and advance.
So, onto the Conference Final against a Fresno team that bounced us out last year.
Time for the Monarchs to step up.

[markc]

Man, Nixon got tossed out of the game on the first series. Don't think it would have mattered. Vancouver blew our doors off. GG!!

Sorry for the slow reply, i was in a car accident last Friday and just now starting to get back to "normal".

Good game Pirates, I looked at the box score and was wondering what happened to Nixon - I thought he got injured. I'm sure that really screwed up your game plan. You should be primed for another run next year with (I assume) your offense nucleus returning.

I guess were are down to the #1 vs #2 seeds in both conferences.
I'm definitely not looking forward to playing Lawrence - they're rock solid on both sides of the ball.