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*Austin’s final 3 game predictions - Bmason0520 - 03-18-2023
Brandon and the Austin copperheads are heading into the final 3 games of the season. They will have matchups with the New Orleans Secondline, the San Jose Sabercats, and the New York Silverbacks. After going 2-1 in the last 3 games, the Copperheads fell back 1 spot in the division and are now sitting in third behind the division leaders, the Arizona Outlaws, and in 2nd, the Orange County Otters. The Otters have a tie under their belt which is what puts them ahead of the Copperheads. Arizona has locked in first place but the otters, copperheads, secondline, Sabercats and hahalua have a chance to make the playoffs. The silverback are the only ones eliminated.
Orange County has a tough route with the wraiths and outlaws being 2 of their final 3 games. New Orleans have a decent route facing Austin, Berlin, and San Jose. Sabercats have Arizona, austin, and New Orleans. Lastly Honolulu face New York, Orange County, and Colorado. Just based on the matchups it appears Orange County and San Jose will have the toughest road to make it to the playoffs. Followed by Honolulu then New Orleans and then Austin. Ultimately sim will sim, so you never know but you would expect a battle between Orange County, New Orleans and austin for the 2 and 3 seeds. Either way, Brandon and the copperheads know they just have to take care of business and they will be in.
Week 14 - New Orleans visits austin
New Orleans appears to struggle offensively ranking towards the bottom in the division and the league in points, total yards, and rush yards. They are about mid tier when it comes to rushing with jay cue. Neither passing or rushing break the top half of the league when it comes to yards or touchdowns. Jay cue is the only rushing threat with 972 yards but only 3 touchdowns on the season. Jones is the leader of the air attack totaling 2991 yards, 18 touchdowns but also having 13 ints. The ball is spread out fairly evenly between their 3 main receivers poop-eater sr, mada, and rookie Grayson. Poop eater is the main threat leading the team in yards and TDs but the other 2 are solid receivers. Austin seems to struggle with the rush so even though cue doesn’t have crazy stats, they are still a good runner and could be an issue for austin. Austin needs to make sure to limit the running game early as to not let it open the door for the play action and pass game and allow their 3 receivers to have that advantage. Offensively, austin needs to find a rhythm early. Lately they have been slow off the start and end up having to battle back into games. They struggle to get the rush game going and the defenses make it hard on queen and the high powered air attack of austin to get going. So establishing that run game against a bottom half defense may help queen and the passing game get going against a top tier passing defense. Although austin lost a close one to New Orleans on their first match up, if austin can stick to this game plan they should walk out with a win, but it’ll most likely be a close game.
Week 15 - austin goes to San Jose
Austin got the best of San jose in a 37-34 battle early on in the season. San Jose has a high powered offense, mostly powered by their passing game lead by their fearless leader, Farrell. Third best in the league in yards with 3800, 20 touchdowns and 11 ints. Behind that amount of yards comes 3 great receivers in Camacho, McSix and Higgins who could all potential eclipse 1000 receiving yards this season. They have a two headed monster in the back field with buckshank and breezy but austin, even with a struggling rush defense may want to make the rush attack beat them. Stack the box with 6, play fundamentally, and slow down the run. Then focus on maintaining the best matchups with the receivers and leave safeties over top for help. Make the passing game as difficult as possible on San Jose so they have to resort to their rush, which is definitely the weaker part of their offense. The austin offense matchup plays right into their wheel house. San Jose struggles with the passing game allowing the second most yards in the division. They also average giving up almost 27 points a game. So for austin to win this game defense needs to slow down the pass game and force San Jose to beat them on the ground and then offensively, they needs to establish some run game but then turn it over to queen and let her do her thing and let loose bickerman and beeblebox. Austin should fly out of San Jose with a win if they just stick to what they do best.
Season finale week 16 - New York visits austin
Austin closes the season out the the struggling New York silverback. New York currently sits last in the division and last in the league. Mostly seems to stem from struggles on the offensive side of the ball. Minus a killer rush game lead by mcturtle, that’s the second best in the league, points, total yards and passing yards are all in the bottom quarter of the league. Name of the game for austin will be, slow down mcturtle. They are fourth in the league with over 1100 yards, averaging 5 yards per carry and 11 touchdowns. Austin won’t be able to completely stop him but minimizing the damage is what they have to do and they force them to throw, which is not their specialty. The problem is austin struggles on run defense. Game plan here would be sellout to stop the run and trust the defensive backs to do their jobs. New Yorks strong point is their defense though ranking in the top half of the league in every stat and even better in some of those. This is a game that austin can’t afford to struggle early and expect to just come back. They have to score points when they have the ball. They struggled to score in their first matchup with one of their two touchdowns coming off a pick 6. This is another game that austin should win but if the offensive struggles continue, this will be a difficult matchup.
Prediction 3-0 on these game but 2-1 is also realistic with some of these matchups being tricky with a struggling offense.