Robbed: (216 words)
When you talk about teams who had their playoff chances robbed, their playoff hopes shattered, their playoff dreams rudely awaken from... I don't know where I'm going with repetition, but basically what I'm saying is that there are normally teams who it's obvious you'd talk about. This time around in Season 9, I'd expect most people to say it was the Yellowknife Wraiths. A week 2, overtime loss to the Arizona Outlaws while playing in Yellowknife certainly seemed like an early spat of bad luck or abnormality, and then a week 7 trip to Philadelphia in which a 21 point loss ensued seems pretty unfortunate. Especially when, in the same season, Yellowknife beat Arizona 45-10 and the Liberty 52-23. Furthermore, Yellowknife had far more points for and much less points against than the Yeti did.
But if you say Yellowknife was the team that was robbed... I get it... but firmly disagree
The Arizona Outlaws were robbed of a playoff shit this season. "But run_CMC" you say, "the Outlaws went 3-11". Yes. Yes we did. But no team in the league matched us in the most important category. The intangibles. No team matched us in heart and passion! I've seen Bucky Barnes' heart in an xray. Absolutely massive. The man must have a condition or something.
Playoff Series MVP: (210 words)
Ground. And. Pound.
Owen Taylor, hall of fame trajectory runningback for the Baltimore Hawks, did it in the NSFC Championship Game against the Colorado Yeti. His final stat line for the game was 35 attempts for 149 yards (4.3 yards per carry) and a touchdown, as well as two receptions for nine yards. Obviously this is a big game on the ground by a player with incredible endurance, but it's even better when you look at it in the context of the Hawks offense as a whole. Did Taylor's quarterback throw four touchdowns and zero interceptions? Yep, power to him! And Taylor only got one touchdown for all his work on the ground... but his 149 yards was just 45 yards short of Blocksdale's 194 passing yards, and Taylor's 35 rushes were more than Blocksdale's 32 attempts! (Granted, this doesn't include Blocksdale's four times sacked... so really 36 dropbacks... but still!)
Basically what I'm saying is that Owen Taylor was the MVP of this particular playoff game. In hindsight perhaps the gameplan expended too much of his energy because he only managed 18 carries in the following Ultimus bowl, but who cares. Against the Yeti, Taylor dominated, and it was necessary for them to move on. MVP him up bois
Playoff Review: (224 words)
The first game of these Season 9 National Simulation Football League playoffs was between the Colorado Yeti, who were making a playoff trip for the first time since Season 1, and the Baltimore Hawks, who have been to the Ultimus in the past, but have been unable to leave with hardware. The Hawks went in confident - rightfully so - but Applehort had quite a game, distributing the ball well across his variety of receivers. In the end, though, 4:0 TD:INT for Blocksdale and 149 yards on the ground for Owen Taylor got Baltimore a narrow victory.
Now we move on to Orange County in New Orleans. Unlike the previously mentioned game, this matchup saw one receiver for each team get extreme emphasis by the gameplan: Carlito Crush got 7 receptions for the Otters against the next highest receiver's 3, and legendary tight end Paul DiMirio snagged 8.(only for 62 yards versus Crush's 106 however). In the end, a dominant performance both through the air and on the ground got the Second Line a trip to the Ultimus.
The Ultimus was a much closer game than the final score indicates. Going into the final quarter, the Hawks were up 24 to 19. But in the end, NOLA shut them out in that quarter and gained plenty of points necessary to take home the trophy.
Unsung Hero: (216 words)
Unsung hero, eh? You guys, the ones who read PTs... you know what I'm gonna write about. It's the same every year. The unsung hero of the playoffs is A KICKER!!! SPECIFICALLY, IYAH BLEWITT, MOP AND MVP CANDIDATE, NEW ORLEANS SECOND LINE PLAYER, AND ALL AROUND ABOVE AVERAGE ATHLETE! In the championship game, the highest stage of professional football (in the National Simulation Football League at least), Iyah Blewitt popped two field goals and three extra points successfully, and he also had four punts averaging 52.8 yards a punt while landing a whopping 50 PERCENT INSIDE THE 20! THAT'S RIGHT FOLKS! 50%! Hecking insane play from a hecking insanely good player. Bradley T. Madlad ain't got heck on this bucko. FURTHERMORE, in the ASFC Conference Championship game, Iyah Blewitt punted nine times for... two inside 20... 40.9 average... umm... but he kicked...! Five extra point attempts... with... only four makes... which means after hitting almost 100 kicks on the season he missed one in the first playoff game... and not even a field goal, an extra point... well that's awfully disappointing. I was so proud of him. ... I'm not really sure what to discuss now. His Ultimus Bowl play was about as stellar as it gets but his ASFC Champ was kind of shitty. Oh well.
When you talk about teams who had their playoff chances robbed, their playoff hopes shattered, their playoff dreams rudely awaken from... I don't know where I'm going with repetition, but basically what I'm saying is that there are normally teams who it's obvious you'd talk about. This time around in Season 9, I'd expect most people to say it was the Yellowknife Wraiths. A week 2, overtime loss to the Arizona Outlaws while playing in Yellowknife certainly seemed like an early spat of bad luck or abnormality, and then a week 7 trip to Philadelphia in which a 21 point loss ensued seems pretty unfortunate. Especially when, in the same season, Yellowknife beat Arizona 45-10 and the Liberty 52-23. Furthermore, Yellowknife had far more points for and much less points against than the Yeti did.
But if you say Yellowknife was the team that was robbed... I get it... but firmly disagree
The Arizona Outlaws were robbed of a playoff shit this season. "But run_CMC" you say, "the Outlaws went 3-11". Yes. Yes we did. But no team in the league matched us in the most important category. The intangibles. No team matched us in heart and passion! I've seen Bucky Barnes' heart in an xray. Absolutely massive. The man must have a condition or something.
Playoff Series MVP: (210 words)
Ground. And. Pound.
Owen Taylor, hall of fame trajectory runningback for the Baltimore Hawks, did it in the NSFC Championship Game against the Colorado Yeti. His final stat line for the game was 35 attempts for 149 yards (4.3 yards per carry) and a touchdown, as well as two receptions for nine yards. Obviously this is a big game on the ground by a player with incredible endurance, but it's even better when you look at it in the context of the Hawks offense as a whole. Did Taylor's quarterback throw four touchdowns and zero interceptions? Yep, power to him! And Taylor only got one touchdown for all his work on the ground... but his 149 yards was just 45 yards short of Blocksdale's 194 passing yards, and Taylor's 35 rushes were more than Blocksdale's 32 attempts! (Granted, this doesn't include Blocksdale's four times sacked... so really 36 dropbacks... but still!)
Basically what I'm saying is that Owen Taylor was the MVP of this particular playoff game. In hindsight perhaps the gameplan expended too much of his energy because he only managed 18 carries in the following Ultimus bowl, but who cares. Against the Yeti, Taylor dominated, and it was necessary for them to move on. MVP him up bois
Playoff Review: (224 words)
The first game of these Season 9 National Simulation Football League playoffs was between the Colorado Yeti, who were making a playoff trip for the first time since Season 1, and the Baltimore Hawks, who have been to the Ultimus in the past, but have been unable to leave with hardware. The Hawks went in confident - rightfully so - but Applehort had quite a game, distributing the ball well across his variety of receivers. In the end, though, 4:0 TD:INT for Blocksdale and 149 yards on the ground for Owen Taylor got Baltimore a narrow victory.
Now we move on to Orange County in New Orleans. Unlike the previously mentioned game, this matchup saw one receiver for each team get extreme emphasis by the gameplan: Carlito Crush got 7 receptions for the Otters against the next highest receiver's 3, and legendary tight end Paul DiMirio snagged 8.(only for 62 yards versus Crush's 106 however). In the end, a dominant performance both through the air and on the ground got the Second Line a trip to the Ultimus.
The Ultimus was a much closer game than the final score indicates. Going into the final quarter, the Hawks were up 24 to 19. But in the end, NOLA shut them out in that quarter and gained plenty of points necessary to take home the trophy.
Unsung Hero: (216 words)
Unsung hero, eh? You guys, the ones who read PTs... you know what I'm gonna write about. It's the same every year. The unsung hero of the playoffs is A KICKER!!! SPECIFICALLY, IYAH BLEWITT, MOP AND MVP CANDIDATE, NEW ORLEANS SECOND LINE PLAYER, AND ALL AROUND ABOVE AVERAGE ATHLETE! In the championship game, the highest stage of professional football (in the National Simulation Football League at least), Iyah Blewitt popped two field goals and three extra points successfully, and he also had four punts averaging 52.8 yards a punt while landing a whopping 50 PERCENT INSIDE THE 20! THAT'S RIGHT FOLKS! 50%! Hecking insane play from a hecking insanely good player. Bradley T. Madlad ain't got heck on this bucko. FURTHERMORE, in the ASFC Conference Championship game, Iyah Blewitt punted nine times for... two inside 20... 40.9 average... umm... but he kicked...! Five extra point attempts... with... only four makes... which means after hitting almost 100 kicks on the season he missed one in the first playoff game... and not even a field goal, an extra point... well that's awfully disappointing. I was so proud of him. ... I'm not really sure what to discuss now. His Ultimus Bowl play was about as stellar as it gets but his ASFC Champ was kind of shitty. Oh well.