1) Playoff Predictions, Reviews:
The San Antonio Marshals stop the Tijuana Luchadores chance at a 3-peat. Big sad. The game started out fairly well for the Lucha’s when they were the first team of the two to score. That drive started at their own 20 yard line and ended with a 3 yard touchdown by Fuzzy Dotson to give them the lead. The next team to score was also the Luchadores who got a 41 yard field goal. Unfortunately that would be the last time they score this game. With 34 seconds left in the half the Marshals managed to squeeze in a 40 yard field goal for their first 3 points of the game. At 27 seconds left in the third quarter the Luchadores miss a 39 yard field goal and right after the Marshals pull out a huge 78 yard touchdown run by Mathias Hanyadi that tied the game up 10-10. Marshals take their first lead of the game with a 1 yard touchdown by the good boi Ruff Ruff. The Luchadores tried to make a drive down to tie the game but were stopped on the San Antonio 7 yard line when they couldn’t convert on 4th and 1. After that the Marshals got the ball back with 2:13 left in the game and just ran out the clock to end the game and take their spot in the Ultimini.
3) All about the QBs
Going into the San Antonio Marshals vs Tijuana Luchadores playoff game everyone expected it to be a game that would be won on the ground and it was for the most part. But what about the qb’s, how did they do in their most important game of the season at the time. The answer is bad. Both qb’s had a rating below 50 and neither of them had a touchdown pass. Vega completed only 12 of his 30 passes for 147 yards and also had 2 interceptions. Vega finished the game with a rating of only 28.1. Blocksdale didn’t fare much better as he had 15 completions out of 33 attempts for 159 yards but with only 1 interception. Blocksdale had a slightly higher rating of 47.4. Even though there were three interceptions, only one of them was returned for any yardage. Two of them for 0 yards returned and the other for one yard. Blocksdale also had a fumble when he tried to rush the ball but it was recovered by Tijuana, fortunately. A possible reason that Blocksdale had slightly better game would be that he wasn’t sacked a single time but Vega was sacked three times, two of them coming from Howard Ryan.
8) Draft Focus
After losing to the wraiths 29-14 in the semi finals of the playoffs this year Baltimore needs to find some ways to improve and the draft might help fill up some holes that might assist in their pursuit of an ultimus. It looks like some of the larger need for the hawks going into the draft are currently linebacker and maybe a defensive linemen. I currently only see one linebacker on the hawks roster so if I had to choose I would rather fill that spot. The hawks first pick isn’t till 17 so I don’t reckon that we will end up getting one of the two better linebackers in this class, unfortunately. Because of this it might be a good idea to either try and grab a player that would be willing to switch or just grab a defensive linemen. There are two defensive linemen that might be available at 17, Stevie Vassallo and Jayson Kearse. They were both near identical in stats for the DSFL season as they both had 3 sacks and 15 tackles for a loss, but Vassallo had 5 more tackles. Vassallo also has a bit more TPE than Kearse so that probably explains the slight difference but otherwise either might be a good choice at pick 17.
The San Antonio Marshals stop the Tijuana Luchadores chance at a 3-peat. Big sad. The game started out fairly well for the Lucha’s when they were the first team of the two to score. That drive started at their own 20 yard line and ended with a 3 yard touchdown by Fuzzy Dotson to give them the lead. The next team to score was also the Luchadores who got a 41 yard field goal. Unfortunately that would be the last time they score this game. With 34 seconds left in the half the Marshals managed to squeeze in a 40 yard field goal for their first 3 points of the game. At 27 seconds left in the third quarter the Luchadores miss a 39 yard field goal and right after the Marshals pull out a huge 78 yard touchdown run by Mathias Hanyadi that tied the game up 10-10. Marshals take their first lead of the game with a 1 yard touchdown by the good boi Ruff Ruff. The Luchadores tried to make a drive down to tie the game but were stopped on the San Antonio 7 yard line when they couldn’t convert on 4th and 1. After that the Marshals got the ball back with 2:13 left in the game and just ran out the clock to end the game and take their spot in the Ultimini.
3) All about the QBs
Going into the San Antonio Marshals vs Tijuana Luchadores playoff game everyone expected it to be a game that would be won on the ground and it was for the most part. But what about the qb’s, how did they do in their most important game of the season at the time. The answer is bad. Both qb’s had a rating below 50 and neither of them had a touchdown pass. Vega completed only 12 of his 30 passes for 147 yards and also had 2 interceptions. Vega finished the game with a rating of only 28.1. Blocksdale didn’t fare much better as he had 15 completions out of 33 attempts for 159 yards but with only 1 interception. Blocksdale had a slightly higher rating of 47.4. Even though there were three interceptions, only one of them was returned for any yardage. Two of them for 0 yards returned and the other for one yard. Blocksdale also had a fumble when he tried to rush the ball but it was recovered by Tijuana, fortunately. A possible reason that Blocksdale had slightly better game would be that he wasn’t sacked a single time but Vega was sacked three times, two of them coming from Howard Ryan.
8) Draft Focus
After losing to the wraiths 29-14 in the semi finals of the playoffs this year Baltimore needs to find some ways to improve and the draft might help fill up some holes that might assist in their pursuit of an ultimus. It looks like some of the larger need for the hawks going into the draft are currently linebacker and maybe a defensive linemen. I currently only see one linebacker on the hawks roster so if I had to choose I would rather fill that spot. The hawks first pick isn’t till 17 so I don’t reckon that we will end up getting one of the two better linebackers in this class, unfortunately. Because of this it might be a good idea to either try and grab a player that would be willing to switch or just grab a defensive linemen. There are two defensive linemen that might be available at 17, Stevie Vassallo and Jayson Kearse. They were both near identical in stats for the DSFL season as they both had 3 sacks and 15 tackles for a loss, but Vassallo had 5 more tackles. Vassallo also has a bit more TPE than Kearse so that probably explains the slight difference but otherwise either might be a good choice at pick 17.