All in all this was a pretty good season for myself and the austin copperheads. As a team I think we had confidence in ourselves but after last season we needed to set some realistic expectations. The first half of the year was incredible. We were killing it. I think we were looking at 4 or 5 wins. And then we started 6 and 1. We knew we could do it. Playoffs seemed to be in the cards and we knew we could compete. Expectations grew. Then the second half of the season started and something changed. We lost focus or something and those playoff chances were collapsing as we finished 2-7. So we beat the beginning of the season expectations but we had higher expectations as the season went on. As for myself I’m happy with the way thing weren’t ending with 58 pancakes and 3 sacks slowed as a rookie. I just wanted to solidify myself as a force on the offensive line and I think I did that. Next year we will be even better.
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Well now that the season is over, now is a good time to reflect on the season and how it went down. For my player, my stats were overall down from a first glance. However, in terms of overall disruption, I had an improved season as I had 4 TFLs and a career high 6 sacks due to improvement in my agility and my speed. I helped my team's defense overall with taking pressure off my fellow DL and helping them all have career seasons in this year. However, as a team, we underachieved and even then we were extremely unlucky. All of our 8 losses were by 7 points or less and had at least one blown coverage touchdown in each loss and an unforced turnover that led to us losing prime opportunities to put games away against lesser opponents. We will definitely get into the offseason with a retooling sense and to fix our mistakes so they won't repeat this next season.
This is exciting because I get to write about 2 players! Willie Miller's corpse finished out the season in Philadelphia and Willier Miller was drafted to the London Royals.
I wouldn't say I was expecting a good season from Willie given that he was low tpe, but I was hoping he would be able to break into some higher echelon's on the all time leader board for INTs and PDs and he delivered! Willie officially hangs them up in sole possession of #5 PDs in a player's career with 233! He almost cracked into the top 10 for INTs, finishing tied at 11th all time with 34! Willier Miller had a great season in London, but for him I was expecting and hoping for a bit more team success. We had a great regular season, surely 8-5 is a record to be proud of with a chance to make that 9-5 tomorrow, but given that we play in the stacked North Conference we are going to be sitting at home for the playoffs Another season of the North putting together a better roster of teams from top to bottom than the South could! wc: 191
All expectations for Baltimore and my own player Preston Beatz was super low. Second lowest team in TPE, rookie qb at just over 500 QB comer week 1. No established Wide Receivers, holes on the defence with a devoid of talent all round, ended up with 7 rookies inclusive of Beatz taking to the field. It was for all intensive purposes, a tanking season.
So what happened? Baltimore made the playoffs. Beatz had the least Ints of any QB and middle of the road rating. Absolutely no one could have predicted this, and near no one did. In season predictions only 5 people out of nearly 230, had Baltimore making the playoffs. This season for the Hawks should be one that gets remembered league-wide, the unlikely heroes that put some big teams and stacked rosters to the sword, trading away of talent just to all-in team like NOLA, or a sign and trade when a player wanted out to a team with better prospects, crushed off playoff dreams by the team they left. That is what the season was for Baltimore, and Beatz at the helm, yard by yard slowing got the offence there with a courageous defence playing well above their weight-class. It is one of the greatest over-acheiving seasons ever for a team in this league, from expected fight for 1 or 2 OA in the draft, to a fight to win a ring, what a fever dream it has been
My personal expectations for both Kumquat and his beloved Yellowknife Wraiths were fairly high this season, as they tend to be year in and year out. I generally hope to improve upon the previous season every year, no matter what that looks like (so good luck to YKW when we finally win that Ultimus - not sure what I'll expect the following season!) and so far we've at least kept the pace of the last two seasons, returning to the playoffs once more, albeit with one less regular season win in our pocket. Yellowknife is without a doubt a defensive powerhouse team, and Kumquat would like to see that swing at least a bit in the other direction - that's not to say he's looking to get rid of any stars on defense, but rather, would love to see some more attention paid to the offense. Kumquat broke 1,000 rushing yards this season, which is always a nice mark to hit, and he did it while splitting carries with his very talented backfield partner. What's more, Kumquat also racked up another 674 yards through the air, showcasing his multi-faceted talents.
I used to think the Philadelphia Liberty was a tragedy, now I realize its a comedy. At some point the losses all start to blend together. Missing the playoffs by a single game, or being at the bottom of the division starts to feel the same. This season, some of us had hope that maybe, just maybe we could finally make the playoffs this season. Losing 7 of the first 9 games quickly made that impossible for us. At that point, reality set in and the factory of sadness started up once more. But hey, at least we got some moral victories, right? American Boot looks like a star at TE, the future of the running game looks bright with Jarvis Harbinger Marjin. But then once again reality sets in once you realize that Philadelphia does not possess their own first round pick, which was traded in a move to attempt to vault themselves to the playoffs. A move which has ultimately completely failed.
When I started out with Hogmolly, I had one goal - I wanted to figure out what it would be like to have a max earning TE. At the time, there had been very few people to create a truly max earning TE - I'm not talking about setting a TPE record or anything, I'm purely talking about being within the top few in the class in TPE in any given season - retiring after being maxed during regression for a season or two, etc. Currently, I'm a bit flummoxed by TE output. The Yeti aren't throwing the ball like we were during the Yeeti years, however the production from receivers is still good. qWest's player is still putting up quality numbers while not being fully maxed (as an example). TE production, however, is down. I know we aren't targeting the TE or making it a focus in offensive sets, but its still a bit lackluster that no matter what happens the production feels like its based on random variables in the sim.
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