Daron Arnold's tenure in the DSFL and ISFL has been an adventure. Originally set to follow in his star step brother's footsteps, Arnold entered the league as a defensive tackle. Minnesota quickly identified his talent and shifted him to the far more impactful linebacker position. Then, upon being drafted to the ISFL, the Yellowknife Wraiths shifted him back to the line, but as a defensive end rather than a tackle.
Arnold works hard and has ultimately done much better than expected shifting roles so many times (not to mention the toll such drastic weight gain and loss can have on the body), but the plethora of transitions has sometimes left him lost on the field. Now lined up as a defensive end, Arnold is expected to primarily get into the backfield, whether that means taking down the QB or running back. However, every now and then he takes a stutter step backwards as if dropping into coverage, a force of habit he developed while anchoring the Grey Ducks defense as a linebacker. That stutter step frequently costs him the edge (literally and figuratively) he needs to get pressure in the backfield.
Simon the Frog is quite a peculiar cornerback. Sitting at the DSFL TPE cap of 250TPE, in paper it seems like that he should be locking down any receivers that comes his way. Well, that's both true and false. Simon would often absolutely lock down capped receivers from opposing teams-sometimes multiple capped receivers- not allowing a single catch of over 20 yards and recording multiple passes defended. on the other hand, he would struggle against clearly inferior receivers, who are sometimes barely over 100TPE. The latter case was what happened in a game against the Portland Pythons. Simon struggled mightily against the team's two mid- 100TPE receivers, allowing a long play of 20 or more yards in basically every other pass that was targeted at the guy he was guarding. This sudden bad outing contributed greatly in Bondi Beach losing that game to the Pythons. However, Simon managed to get his revenge on Portland in the next game, as he got 2 interceptions out of them. (166)
Quite honestly, I don't know that Rumble has won or lost any games for Chicago this season. While he has been pretty productive for the Butchers when he's on the gridiron, he is still just a rookie rotational player surrounded by a lot of talented veterans. That's not to say that he hasn't made any mistakes this season, because he certainly has. He has flat out missed several tackles this season, and although a guy his size isn't often bulldozed in the hole, it's happened. On the part of the team, the coaching has been suspect at times, like how we lost a game that we could have tied with a field goal when we were easily within range because we spiked the ball with no time left on the clock. I'm not sure whose call that was, but their position on the staff really needs to be evaluated. Other than that, we're just out here getting ready for the playoffs.
I mean, its quite hard to really commit single important mistakes as a wide receiver in this league, however i want to talk about how much of a bum my player turned out to be in the later stages of the season. i think its kind of a huge mistake to turn into a bum with toasted hands halfway through the season, so here it goes. If u look at the recent games of the yellowknife wraiths, one thing is clear: bernd d. brot is getting outperformed by the goddamn corpse of (future hall of fame and all time receiving yards leader) kai sakura. completely unacceptable, from ridiculous drops to not catching many touchdowns, this whole second half of the season has been one huge mistake for bernd d. brot. however bernd is gonna come back stronger and work on those mistakes coming season 35. also bernd vows to never get outperformed in a single game by any other receiver ever again
Goat Tank in 1 game, I don't remember who it was against though - maybe Colorado? Had 2 running plays for over 65 yards and neither of them ended in a touchdown and both of them ended with him getting tackled at the 7 yard line. One of them resulted in a field goal and the other did result in a passing touchdown, but still it's disheartening that Goat Tank didn't turn them into 6 points himself like he should have. His legs are apparently just getting old and even though he rushed for 1700 yards this season, most anyone has done since season 10, his touchdown numbers are probably going to hurt him in any kind of voting as he only accomplished 10 of these this season, the least amount he has ever scored since becoming a running back.
I had high hopes for Goat Tank this season to show that age doesn't matter and he can still put up a fight and win some awards over these younger folks, and while he outran them, mistakes like not getting into the endzone when he should have will ultimately end up costing him.