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Favorite play, or plays, of the season has to be whenever Jay Cue Jr. is sitting on the bench, not touching the damn football. Not a great season for the Berlin Salamanders, an awful season if we are being honest, and the blame has to go mainly to the portuguese, soon to be hall of famer, running back.
But since this point task needs to be about some play, i can give you a rundown of one, that it is pretty much similar to every other one. Roque Santa-Cruz snaps the ball, hands it over to Jay Cue Jr., nice handoff, Cue gets tackled. And that is it. Maybe once in a while he gets a fairly decent run, but that is not very common Even though he finally got his first rushing touchdown of the season last night. Week 7. His first. Who would have thought? Maybe it gets better from now on, let us just hope so. (159 words)
Alex Armstrong is pumped up and celebrating after yesterday's game. His team, San Jose Sabercats, has had a rough season start and the team morale has been a little down feeling that the record is worse than it should be. Yesterday the team had a good bounce back game against honolulu hahalua. The team came out victorious with a score of 40 - 30. On a personal note Alex earned his second sack of the season. The first was during a 25 - 29 loss leaving a bitter taste in Alex's mouth for being excited about a personal accomplishment while the team suffered defeat. With securing a win to go along with the second sack, Alex feels more free to be expressive and happy about recording his first two sacks. He has been flexing his muscles in a show of strength to the rest of the team while repeating his phrase "Strong Arm Alchemist". His team mates will probably get tired of this before the next game.
My favorite play of the season so far absolutely has to be the one from game seven with the Colorado Yeti playing against the Berlin Fire Salamanders. It an incredibly tightly contested game, the Yeti and the Fire Salamanders managed to tie things up late in the fourth quarter and send the game into overtime. At this point the game was 31 to 31 and the way the two offenses had been playing, it felt like whoever got the ball first was going to run away with this game. Surprisingly enough though, the Yeti defense held and managed to force a punt. It was at this point that Ceti Pyxis, a running back with no touchdowns on the season, caught a short pass in the flat and then absolutely toasted the entire Berlin defense for a 71 yard touchdown. No only was it the longest play of her career to this point, it was her first score despite her being the RB1 for Colorado. It was fairly hilarious that it still wasn't a rushing touchdown, but beggar's can't be choosers!
My favorite play so far is hands down Jamdrian LeBayer's first ever pick-6 during just the second game of his ISFL rookie season. Because he's my player, of course.
Jamdrian was lined up across from the Baltimore wide receiver, Shane. And it was quite a desperation play since Baltimore were so far behind. As the ball snapped Jamdrian stepped up as he noticed Shane wasn't going very hard or far with it. So getting into his space was easier than usual. The play call was clearly set up for a quick pass, which almost looked like it was thrown without much thought going into how the field looked like. Just as the ball arrived Jamdrian managed to get in front of it! He managed to stretch out and intercepted the pass! Being so close to the end zone also allowed him to keep his speed and balance for long enough to go all the way. His first touchdown!
My favorite play so far this season has come from me watching on the sidelines during week 3 against the Royals. I was looking up the different run plays we had run during that game, Bannings was looking at game film with the QB coach, and the rest of the offense was having fun with thee Gatorade. It was around a minute into the third quarter, and Miller dropped back into the pocket for a pass. There was just something special in the air at that time. With all of the pre-snap adjustments and whatnot, our CB Gates was just translating those audibles into his own language. When Miller threw to Ehrmantraut, almost everyone knew what was coming, and Gates certainly did. That man jumped the route and picked that ball off. I mean I'll tell you what, our sideline just became an inaudible cacophony of yelling and cheering. Then that madman decided he needed to run it back and give us the lead for the game. That entire play was just so different in the right ways, and it's been my favorite play through 4 weeks of DSFL action.
Carissa had an awesome 3 sack game against the Butchers in week 5, making it a career record for sacks in a game. She's been working on making tackles count, not just going for it whenever it seems like she has a chance. It's resulted in less tackles overall, she may not make the top 10 for tackles in a season, but she's certainly finding herself with more sacks which. She's always loved sacks. More than anything. So the plays are planned so that she can track the QB well, and get to them before that ball leaves their hands. She's been working on her speed and agility so that she can weave through teammates as they hold off the opposition and keep the QB looking for a receiver while she goes in for the kill. She feels kind of like a cheetah or a lion or some kind of big cat when she gets a sack, and is trying to get a new nickname out of it.
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Honestly for this week, I'm not sure if there is a specific play that I loved or anything like that, but I really really enjoyed the comeback last week between the Baltimore Hawks and the Sarasota Sailfish. The Hawks were down early but came back big against one of the favorites in the NSFC and really balled out in the 2nd half of the game. The Hawks were down 24-7 at halftime following a Sconnie McSix 51 yard touchdown, Blaze Jr. 8 yard touchdown, another McSix 42 yard touchdown and a 29 yard field goal from Swantavius King. They only had a lone Turnbull 6 yard pass touchdown from their star QB, Preston Beatz to end the half (48 seconds left).
However after a few minutes of downtime in the 3rd quarter, things started to finally click for the Hawks. With a 37 yard field goal to kick things off and a pick 6 for dont draft the other way the Hawks quickly answered with 2 quick touchdowns making it a 1 score game (24-31). The Sailfish would then quickly push their lead with 2 field goals but as all hope looked lost, Dante King managed to do what he did best and hauled in a massive touchdown pass with just over a minute left. With the game on the line Money Tolliver brought in an onside kick to regain possession and then came the play of the game. With 40 seconds left, Jay Money brought in a huge 38 yard bomb from the one and only Preston Beatz, completing the comeback and putting the Hawks up 38-37. The Sailfish would fail to score and that was how the game would end. |
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