(S21) - PT1 - Reloaded

[Jay_Doctor]

NOLA had a quiet off-season. Overall, the team looks pretty similar to what it did before. We did lose Bender Rodriguez at receiver to Yellowknife, so we did lose some talent there. Believe it or not, I still feel we are stronger than last season. We got Ironside back, which I don’t think can be overstated how critical that is for our team. He has such a renewed freshness that he truly needed. I saw that man benching a polar bear in the weight room the other day. I don’t know about you, but I haven’t seen many humans able to do that. We also got Podolak back. He was pretty quiet for a while, but he is filling In nicely to replace Bender. Our tight end McCormick is bound to have a big season. There are a lot of targets up for grabs and I see him having a monster year. As for the rest of our defense outside of Ironside, we stayed quite intact. We will lose Slothface and Baux after this season, but we have a chance to go for a “win right now” attitude. We drafted Scorp and Ugarth the Dissector to help fill in for the future, so hopefully they will be ready to go by next season to take over.

[lamboalfredo]

For expansion teams, the draft is can be make or break for the season. On the positive, the team is a blank slate and the team can draft according to a strategy vs drafting by need. The difficult part is not having a foundation of talent and locker room presence to draft around. The London Royals did a great job of building a foundation of players that fit the Royals vision. Colby Jack, QB, a TPE beast and leader in the locker room was drafted 2nd overall. Defense wins championships and the Royals went defense heavy after their first pick, with 8 of the following 10 picks on defense. Derred de Ville, a very active player, creator, and locker room presence, has shown he will be a big part of the team's success. Defensive backs, Eldrick Avery and Cadillac Harris, will fortify the back end of the defense. Like his name, Acura Skyline, RB, will use his speed to carve defenses on the ground. On the subject of speed, the Royals prioritized speed with their defensive backs, with all of their starting DBs above 80 speed. The real question mark will be their receiving corp. Only one player has TPE of 100 or more and one only player with speed 80 or more. Will Colby Jack have enough talent to throw to or will the Royals be grounded on defense? The Royals will rely on their defense to keep them in games until the offense can catch up.

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[siddhus]

PT Pass

[RussDrivesTheBus]

The defending champion Grey Ducks looked to reloaded their defense with this years DSFL draft, and they accomplished that goal in spades. Minnesota drafted six new linebackers, including Samuel Sackson Sr. and Lawrence Bass, in an attempt to fill one of their major holes. Defensive Backs also made up a large portion of their picks, grabbing standouts such as Safeties Buck Thornton, Sebastian Vettel and six other Cornerback Bo Jangles. This boost to their secondary should help lock down the passing game, while additions like Defensive End Mo Magic and the front seven look to apply pressure to opposing Quarterbacks. The depth should create a solid competition within the positions while providing a solid rotation on game day.

While it was the lesser of the focus for the draft, the offensive side of the ball saw improvement in this as well. Wide Receiver William Anderson and Running Back Jamar Lackson added much needed depth and new sparks in the championship offense. The offense will be looking to these new additions to lead the charge and produce yards early and often.

Thornton, Lackson, Lawrence and Sackson standout as high earners and active members in their new locker rooms. Look for them to have large impacts throughout the season as the Grey Ducks look to defend their DSFL title.

[scorycory]

This is the season that Orange County reclaims our trophy because we brought a ton of new talent in. First there are a lot of players such as myself, the one and only Kacey Dream, improving from last season. Secondly there are a ton of new faces in Orange County with us and a lot of them are former team mates of mine from Myrtle Beach. Bobby Boucher and Rapid Eagle are coming up from Myrtle Beach to bolster an aging defensive line that desperately needed an infusion of talent. We have another defensive lineman Larry Longshot who is still down in Myrtle Beach but will joining them up here soon. On top of that we have the one and only Prince Vegeta joining me in the secondary. With Vegeta and myself joining Lattimer, Biggums, and Abernathy we make up what will probably be the best secondary in the league. There is also JZ and Ryan Scott, a linebacker and safety currently playing for Norfolk who will soon be coming up to infuse our defense with even more young talent. On the offensive side of the football we got Remon Kuristo and Siddhus Sarvepally as even more skill positions for the great Franklin Armstrong. There is also the reigning DSFL offensive lineman of the year Douglas Quail still down in Myrtle Beach waiting to come bolster our ranks.

[dahayn]

This new season absolutely brought fresh faces into the locker room for the Myrtle Beach Buccaneers. Only a handful of vets are still on the team but those guys are the core from which the draft was able to supplement in a way that will take us back to the Ultimini and this time we'll win! On the offensive side of the ball, our OL and RB were already our biggest strength for us before the draft so they didn't focus too much on those positions although they did help the depth with the drafting of Bruce Buckley who will be a beast on the OL and RB2 J.B. Apollo. Backup QB Tom Sofa with the Mr. Irrelevant pick is garnering a lot of attention as well. Our veteran WRs who are starting right now as well, only needed depth to back them up. The team drafted a couple guys with potential and even converted myself from LB to WR when they saw how fast I was and that I could kind of catch. I'm a work in progress to be honest. Finally, on the offensive side we were lucky enough to draft one of the best TEs in the draft with Heath Evens.
On the defensive side, the Buccs had veteran stars at each position but they needed filling out since they lost some truly excellent players to the NSFL draft. Some future stars that were drafted are Troen Egghands and Octavio Clemente on the DLine, Mark Radson in the LB spot, Brandon Booker as a CB, and Jonny Hellzapoppin watching the back end as a Saftey. All of these guys were immediate starters along side the vets and with our season starting 2-0 so far, they are proving to be well worth their picks in the draft. Thank goodness we have excellent scouts and GMs or our team could be a wreck.

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[Dewalt27]

At this point the Baltimore Hawks should be known for having some of the best draft classes. Management always seems to find impact players early on and fantastic sleepers later on in the draft. This year seems to be no different. Baltimore added impact WR Chris Kross with their first pick in the S21 draft. The WR class looked rather weak so getting a talent like Kross early was crucial he immediately slides into the WR3 role and should look to compete for WR2 during the season. Another BIG addition is Sardine Beanery the DT. This is a new and improved Hawks D line and they are showing how much they value production from that position. Sardine showed his immediate impact by posting a huge sack in his very first game in the league. Could he be the next bubba thumper? Probably better. The Hawks followed up these picks with drafting the QB of the future Chika Fujiwara, De Matt Hole, along with some other pieces showing they aren’t short sighted in their ambitions. The Hawks should be able to use these additions to the current roster to push them over the top for a championship, but also keep them in the championship picture for years to come.

[Nokazoa]

I think i have a pt pass

[JPach]

Being a newly drafted player to the Tiajuana Luchadores looking around me I see a wide variety of different faces. I believe going ahead we have a high chance of rallying and taking the season. From what I understand we had a below-average draft, to say the least, but I trust in our GMs and their judgment because all the rookies, like myself, are training around the clock and are hoping to bring the most we can to the field. After touching the field these past weeks, we had a soft start against the Minnesota Grey Ducks. After that loss we took to the practice field and refined our skills. I think we proved that in our game against the London Royals, We came to play and we took the game. Our team isn't resting on our laurels I assure you. We will dive headlong back into the training and we will continue to fight our way to the top. I think the heart and soul of our team lies in the rookies and their drive to improve and then the support the veterans have. Don't be surprised when you see us in the finals and we will see you there!

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[Exilizer]

The London Royals had their work cut out for them in this draft. Not only did they need to draft some new players, no, as an expansion team they had to build an entire roster from scratch. In the first round, they took Colby Jack QB, 2nd overall, and the offense is built around him, complemented by Susan Cash at WR, Arrabiata at TE and Acura Skyline and Batista at RB. Despite the DSFL being a more run heavy league, having a QB that can get the ball to his receivers will prove vital in our upcoming season.
On the other side of the ball, London invested even more heavily, taking Derred De Ville as their LB defensive cornerstone with the 9th overall pick. They also added Cadillac Harris (CB), Cadillac Mitchell (LB), Quinn Hughes (S), Tristan Gronlie (DL) and Sandro Ryeu (DL). This a solid core group, who already demonstrated what they can do in Week One with a combined 40+ tackles, 5 sacks, 1 safety and a Pick Six. Impact like that is going to be what they are looking for this season.

Competing for a championship in the first year will be quite unlikely, but I do believe that the Royals can make it to the playoffs based on the key pieces drafted on both sides of the ball.

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