Well it has been a rollercoaster of a season for the Hahalua, honestly. We started the season as the favorites for the title, with the most TPE and then after a few unlucky losses, we decided to completely blow the team up and rebuild. It's not my favorite thing as a GM but I must admit, as a player, and basically the only high TPE player being kept on the team, I can't complain about it. My stats have and likely will improve due to the lack of competition for them and that should help me break further team records as the one person who is being kept around and it might also help me in some of the all time leaderboards and hopefully I can then be ahead in that regard and break some all time records even. But for this season, the rollercoaster went from title favorites to likely 1oa pick and that is definitely wild.
I 100% believe this team can make it all the way. Simo, lemon and Kotasa have done a great job assembling this core. The biggest difference from last season is Donovan Winters III's performance. Winters had jokingly earned the nickname wINTers inside the Outlaws locker room after a series of untimely interceptions in previous seasons. But wINTers is no more. He has 23 touchdowns to just 4 interceptions this season. He's averaging 39 more yards per game compared to last season on just one more attempt. It's WINter in Arizona.
On things that could be improved, it would be defense, especially vs the run. The once-stout run defense is not what it used to be. It's frustrating since a lot of the players on defense have improved individually, but I guess progress isn't always linear. As a strong safety it's obviously part of my responsibility as well, so the number one priority is getting my TPE up. Once the defense catches up, the Arizona Outlaws are going to be very scary.
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S46 was meant to be a tough season for Bondi Beach. Losing so many players to call ups and with an incredible Tijuana team in the division, things looked like they could be rough. However after starting the season with 2 losses, things have begun to turn around for the Australian side. At 4-5, they sit level with Norfolk and 1 game back from Dallas in a battle for the #2 seed in the conference but things are improving every week. The incredible S47 draft class have 8 members at over 135 TPE, second only to Minnesota, and importantly scrambling QB Bugs is nearly maxed so ready to turn the dial up to 11 on the offence. If they can keep up the high pace of earning then this Bondi team have a good shot at making the playoffs and at that stage it really is any given Tuesday/Thursday. While the peak of the team will likely be next season, everything is still there for Bondi to make a run at the title this season.
Sarasota’s playoffs hopes are balanced on a knife’s edge right now. We’re 4th in the conference but only a game behind Yellowknife and Cape Town. Unfortunately we already lost to both teams earlier in the season; fortunately we have rematches coming up in the next two weeks, and both games are at home. Winning those two games would place us no worse than a three-way tie in the playoff race.
We also play the 3-9 Yeti and 10-2 Hawks; the Baltimore game is scary on paper but we’re responsible for one of those losses - we got by them 14-9 in week 5. We’ve also shown a knack for winning close games, with four single-digit wins including three in a row before our loss to New York (where we fell apart in OT and committed two terrible defensive penalties on the game-losing drive). If we can continue our winning ways, we’ll enter the playoffs on a streak and could be a real threat to any team in the league. So despite the .500 record there’s reason for optimism in Sarasota.
Unfortunately, due to a very rough start for the New Orleans Second Line, the Ultimus is essentially out of question right now and it is time to look ahead to next season to hopefully accomplish some real goals and get that Ultimus win for the franchise needing one. With the moves that have been made in the middle of the season, you can see that the team is actually in very good shape going into next season and based on the overall team, may actually be one of the favorites early on as crazy as that sounds. After the trade, the team has took off a bit going 4-2 in their last 6 games and 4-3 in their last 7 with all 3 losses being single digit losses. The team has the pieces on offense, defense and special teams with most players not really deep in regression so the team is poised to be huge next season. With a bit more luck with the one score games, this team could be 7-5 right now and challenging for the postseason and one has to assume that a full season of this team could make for a really great season for the New Orleans Second Line in Season 47.
Former players:
QB Joliet Christ Jr. (HON/BER) (1x Ultimus Champ)
WR Deondre Thomas-Fox (SJS) (2x Ultimus Champ)
QB Joliet L. Christ (SJS) (Hall of Fame) (1x Ultimus Champ)
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