1) Underdog
This season in the nsfl and DSFL we’ve seen a lot of upsets, blowouts, and in general close games an it has all added up to the Ultimini, and Ultimate. The Ultimini features #1 Tijuana and #1 Portland is just from that it’s hard to see who would be the underdog. But if you’ve payed attention to the season you’ll be able to see that Portland is easily the underdog. Tijuana has only 2 losses all year and 1 of them was in garbage time. Portland might be the underdog if the DSFL but the main underdog in the playoffs is definitely Philadelphia. Unlike Portland, Philadelphia were not confirmed a playoff spot all season and had to earn their place. The Liberty have had an above average season and when it came to the final week of the regular season, Philadelphia hadn’t even claimed their spot yet fighting for it against Baltimore. All Philadelphia had to do was win their game against the abysmal Copperheads and they would get in. In this situation they were NOT the underdogs. When it came playoff time though they easily were. They have won back to back upset victory’s and made it to the ultimas.
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2) Magic Moment
In this playoffs there were a ton of magic moments, to the winless yeti beating the winless Copperheads in a game that would change the league entirely, to Baltimore losing the last playoff spot. But for me the Magic moment of not just the playoffs, but the whole season was Arizona @ Orange County, where the heavily favored Orange County Otters would try to make it to another Ultimas. Orange County came into the stadium, cocky and ready for a celebration from winning the conference championship, their fans came in as rowdy as ever already drunk from the $7 Beer in their hands. I’m the other hand Arizona came into the game determined to not only come out as conference champions, but also as the next ultimas champions. When the game began Arizona started off the drive with a Touchdown to make it 7-0 early on. This would set the tone for the rest of the game. At halftime the score was 17-0 and the once extremely rowdy fans were already feeling regret of going to this game. The defense of the Outlaws were able to hold off the Otters until the very last drive of the game, where it was already too late with the score being 31-0. As time expired OCO kicked a field goal just so they could say they didn’t get shut out. It was definitely the magic moment of the playoffs
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3)Next Year
Kansas City is such an Up and down season this year, and we couldn’t pull it out for the win. I personally will not be sent down this season but I’m going to try and hell out with the team as much as I can until next season. With KCC there are no confirmed send downs so there is no way to build off of a vet so for another season we will be going off another fresh slate. With such a big draft class announced by the Head Office of the DSFL and the NSFL there will be a lot of people to work with and create the newest team of stars. In the last half of the season Kansas City struggled while running so personally I would make the team more pass heavy and draft a Wide Reciever very early on in the draft and would also try and get a veteran free agent to sign for our team at Quarterback. Of course we would also draft a running back in the early rounds but I would draft mostly defense because like last season we won most of our games because of a kickass defense to stand by. Also like most team we would not want ANY bad locker room influences on our team and if someone started acting out I would either trade them, release them, or make them the back up u til they could get their attitude and tone fixed up
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4) All About the QBs
The DSFL Had 2 new Quarterbacks join the league Jordan McCann The Third eho got drafted to Tijuana, and Jim McMahon who got drafted to San Antonio. While Jim had a very up and down season with a lot of INTs he also had the best completion percentage for the whole season, sadly that couldn’t carry San Antonio to the Ultimas as they lost to McCann and Tijuana. On the other side of the ball you have Franklin Armstrong, a DSFL veteran who has spent multiple seasons playing against rookies with Portland.. This would be the biggest test for McCann as while he has played against Armstrong before, this would be a Do or Die game. Armstrong threw more Interceptions then McCann by 6, but also threw 6 more touchdowns and an extra 800 yards more than McCann in the regular season, making Armstrong the better QB in my opinion. Just because Armstrong is the better Quarterback doesn’t mean that McCann isn’t great either. McCann is known for being able to run the ball very well for a Quarterback and ran for a great 350 yards on the ground. Is this game generally a game of Veteran vs Rookie, no it isn’t. But when it comes to the Quarterbacks is it? Yes it is and we are all interested in seeing how both Quarterbacks play coming up tonight
This season in the nsfl and DSFL we’ve seen a lot of upsets, blowouts, and in general close games an it has all added up to the Ultimini, and Ultimate. The Ultimini features #1 Tijuana and #1 Portland is just from that it’s hard to see who would be the underdog. But if you’ve payed attention to the season you’ll be able to see that Portland is easily the underdog. Tijuana has only 2 losses all year and 1 of them was in garbage time. Portland might be the underdog if the DSFL but the main underdog in the playoffs is definitely Philadelphia. Unlike Portland, Philadelphia were not confirmed a playoff spot all season and had to earn their place. The Liberty have had an above average season and when it came to the final week of the regular season, Philadelphia hadn’t even claimed their spot yet fighting for it against Baltimore. All Philadelphia had to do was win their game against the abysmal Copperheads and they would get in. In this situation they were NOT the underdogs. When it came playoff time though they easily were. They have won back to back upset victory’s and made it to the ultimas.
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2) Magic Moment
In this playoffs there were a ton of magic moments, to the winless yeti beating the winless Copperheads in a game that would change the league entirely, to Baltimore losing the last playoff spot. But for me the Magic moment of not just the playoffs, but the whole season was Arizona @ Orange County, where the heavily favored Orange County Otters would try to make it to another Ultimas. Orange County came into the stadium, cocky and ready for a celebration from winning the conference championship, their fans came in as rowdy as ever already drunk from the $7 Beer in their hands. I’m the other hand Arizona came into the game determined to not only come out as conference champions, but also as the next ultimas champions. When the game began Arizona started off the drive with a Touchdown to make it 7-0 early on. This would set the tone for the rest of the game. At halftime the score was 17-0 and the once extremely rowdy fans were already feeling regret of going to this game. The defense of the Outlaws were able to hold off the Otters until the very last drive of the game, where it was already too late with the score being 31-0. As time expired OCO kicked a field goal just so they could say they didn’t get shut out. It was definitely the magic moment of the playoffs
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3)Next Year
Kansas City is such an Up and down season this year, and we couldn’t pull it out for the win. I personally will not be sent down this season but I’m going to try and hell out with the team as much as I can until next season. With KCC there are no confirmed send downs so there is no way to build off of a vet so for another season we will be going off another fresh slate. With such a big draft class announced by the Head Office of the DSFL and the NSFL there will be a lot of people to work with and create the newest team of stars. In the last half of the season Kansas City struggled while running so personally I would make the team more pass heavy and draft a Wide Reciever very early on in the draft and would also try and get a veteran free agent to sign for our team at Quarterback. Of course we would also draft a running back in the early rounds but I would draft mostly defense because like last season we won most of our games because of a kickass defense to stand by. Also like most team we would not want ANY bad locker room influences on our team and if someone started acting out I would either trade them, release them, or make them the back up u til they could get their attitude and tone fixed up
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4) All About the QBs
The DSFL Had 2 new Quarterbacks join the league Jordan McCann The Third eho got drafted to Tijuana, and Jim McMahon who got drafted to San Antonio. While Jim had a very up and down season with a lot of INTs he also had the best completion percentage for the whole season, sadly that couldn’t carry San Antonio to the Ultimas as they lost to McCann and Tijuana. On the other side of the ball you have Franklin Armstrong, a DSFL veteran who has spent multiple seasons playing against rookies with Portland.. This would be the biggest test for McCann as while he has played against Armstrong before, this would be a Do or Die game. Armstrong threw more Interceptions then McCann by 6, but also threw 6 more touchdowns and an extra 800 yards more than McCann in the regular season, making Armstrong the better QB in my opinion. Just because Armstrong is the better Quarterback doesn’t mean that McCann isn’t great either. McCann is known for being able to run the ball very well for a Quarterback and ran for a great 350 yards on the ground. Is this game generally a game of Veteran vs Rookie, no it isn’t. But when it comes to the Quarterbacks is it? Yes it is and we are all interested in seeing how both Quarterbacks play coming up tonight