7) Next year
Written: If your team has been eliminated, why will the next year, or the year after that, be the year that your team is going to win the Ultimus or Ultimini.
The National Sim Football League is a game of luck and sim love. Having the games top QB and More then one 90 overall wide receiver means you always have a chance. Having no holes on the team means you'll make it to the playoffs. The lack of early picks hasn't devolved the team as the team has only been able to trade for the players it needs to get better. Fabricio baldari gave a top-end d-lineman performance and he only cost a third-rounder. This window however of a championship team is closing. The sim has had a lot of love for Baltimore over the years but this next year is going to be the culmination of things. Havran threw a few Int's to let the yeti past but beat that same yeti at the start of the season. Losing heartbreakingly close to the otters the year before came down to a game of inches. Every dog as his day and the hawks day is coming next year. I really hope so at least as the teams looking forward to a large rebuild in the years to follow. But the sim loves and the sim hates. All one can do at the end of the day is to hope for their day in the sun.
215 words.
20) Let’s get Wild!(card)
Written: Write about a team in one of the wild card games from last friday. Write about how they got robbed, or how they will win it all, or how they should have been the 1 seed.
The wildcard game between the Arizona outlaws and the Baltimore hawks was a statement about Baltimore's ambition. One team wanted to play a football game with hope in their hearts and love in the eyes. The other had hearts full of hate and eyes clear of mercy. Wayne Gretzky once said that when he lost his first Stanley cup that when he went over to the other team's locker room he found it to be closer to a morgue than a party. He said he learned that winning the title meant that the team had to die another day. Baltimore knew what it had to do to complete against Yellowknife and set out to show that it would do it. Arizona never played that badly but Baltimore simply never allowed for any openings. If anything though I think Arizona learned a lot from this game, more so then what Baltimore got, especially after their performance the week after. This might be the Arizona outlaws Stanley cup moment where they learned what it takes to win the playoffs and birth their dynasty from it. This was a good wildcard game, one team began a playoff campaign that it deserved and the other team learned its real place in the league.
8) Draft Focus
Written: What areas of your team has the biggest holes that you are hoping get filled in the upcoming S19 draft? What round are you hoping it’s filled?
My team is the Baltimore, Maryland, United States, Hawks and I think we all know the spot that the Hawks need to draft for. and by that I mean they don't have any real positions that they can draft for that will make this team better in the draft. Defensive tackle, linebacker are maybes but The hawks don't have a first-rounder to draft a starter in that role in the draft. DT ofc is the highest priority as hobbs is the weakest starter on the team but that's not even saying much. A lot of other teams have weaker starters in a lot more roles than him. Past that the team needs to start looking for actives that will be sent back down to the DSFL for a year or two until they can replace whoever is above them on the team. Luckily the non first round is filled with players like that. Having a generational QB means a lot of your problems solve themselves. A lot of teams will again be filling their D-line and the Baltimore D-line is filled with studs. Corner backs is already filled with a replacement in the next coming years. On the other side of the "skill position" set of players an up and coming WR is something Baltimore would be good to invest in sooner and later as while their start WR's are entering the award-winning years of their careers soon after that they will be shot in the proper way Baltimore hawks deal with the elderly.
17) Robbed
Written: Write about why your team was robbed from making the Playoffs, how did the sim screw you and why were you more deserving.
Graphic: Explain with a graphic why your team was better than a playoff team.
I'm sorry but Baltimore was robbed this time out. I know the Yellowknife Wraiths went 11-2 in the season and my Baltimore hawks only went 6-7 but the result was clearly going hawks going into the second half of the game. Then the wind picked up again and the game went the other direction with havran not being able to grip the ball like he has throughout the year and the year before. Why is the presence of wind something that would rob the hawks, a flying creature that would understand and appreciate the atmospheric effects of various winds? Because that wind was freezing bro. It turns out that Yellowknife isn't in some random city in the American west near Yellowstone. The Yellowknife wraiths actually hail from Yellowknife Which isn't even a town in a state. Its the capital of wasteland stretch of land in what's considered the "northern territories" like we're in the 1800's and we're trying to figure out if its going to be a slave state or a free state. On top of all this Its not even the north of America cold, We're talking about Yellowknife, Northern Territories, CANADA! So yes Baltimore was robbed because if television has taught me anything its to blame canada.. blame canada!
Written: If your team has been eliminated, why will the next year, or the year after that, be the year that your team is going to win the Ultimus or Ultimini.
The National Sim Football League is a game of luck and sim love. Having the games top QB and More then one 90 overall wide receiver means you always have a chance. Having no holes on the team means you'll make it to the playoffs. The lack of early picks hasn't devolved the team as the team has only been able to trade for the players it needs to get better. Fabricio baldari gave a top-end d-lineman performance and he only cost a third-rounder. This window however of a championship team is closing. The sim has had a lot of love for Baltimore over the years but this next year is going to be the culmination of things. Havran threw a few Int's to let the yeti past but beat that same yeti at the start of the season. Losing heartbreakingly close to the otters the year before came down to a game of inches. Every dog as his day and the hawks day is coming next year. I really hope so at least as the teams looking forward to a large rebuild in the years to follow. But the sim loves and the sim hates. All one can do at the end of the day is to hope for their day in the sun.
215 words.
20) Let’s get Wild!(card)
Written: Write about a team in one of the wild card games from last friday. Write about how they got robbed, or how they will win it all, or how they should have been the 1 seed.
The wildcard game between the Arizona outlaws and the Baltimore hawks was a statement about Baltimore's ambition. One team wanted to play a football game with hope in their hearts and love in the eyes. The other had hearts full of hate and eyes clear of mercy. Wayne Gretzky once said that when he lost his first Stanley cup that when he went over to the other team's locker room he found it to be closer to a morgue than a party. He said he learned that winning the title meant that the team had to die another day. Baltimore knew what it had to do to complete against Yellowknife and set out to show that it would do it. Arizona never played that badly but Baltimore simply never allowed for any openings. If anything though I think Arizona learned a lot from this game, more so then what Baltimore got, especially after their performance the week after. This might be the Arizona outlaws Stanley cup moment where they learned what it takes to win the playoffs and birth their dynasty from it. This was a good wildcard game, one team began a playoff campaign that it deserved and the other team learned its real place in the league.
8) Draft Focus
Written: What areas of your team has the biggest holes that you are hoping get filled in the upcoming S19 draft? What round are you hoping it’s filled?
My team is the Baltimore, Maryland, United States, Hawks and I think we all know the spot that the Hawks need to draft for. and by that I mean they don't have any real positions that they can draft for that will make this team better in the draft. Defensive tackle, linebacker are maybes but The hawks don't have a first-rounder to draft a starter in that role in the draft. DT ofc is the highest priority as hobbs is the weakest starter on the team but that's not even saying much. A lot of other teams have weaker starters in a lot more roles than him. Past that the team needs to start looking for actives that will be sent back down to the DSFL for a year or two until they can replace whoever is above them on the team. Luckily the non first round is filled with players like that. Having a generational QB means a lot of your problems solve themselves. A lot of teams will again be filling their D-line and the Baltimore D-line is filled with studs. Corner backs is already filled with a replacement in the next coming years. On the other side of the "skill position" set of players an up and coming WR is something Baltimore would be good to invest in sooner and later as while their start WR's are entering the award-winning years of their careers soon after that they will be shot in the proper way Baltimore hawks deal with the elderly.
17) Robbed
Written: Write about why your team was robbed from making the Playoffs, how did the sim screw you and why were you more deserving.
Graphic: Explain with a graphic why your team was better than a playoff team.
I'm sorry but Baltimore was robbed this time out. I know the Yellowknife Wraiths went 11-2 in the season and my Baltimore hawks only went 6-7 but the result was clearly going hawks going into the second half of the game. Then the wind picked up again and the game went the other direction with havran not being able to grip the ball like he has throughout the year and the year before. Why is the presence of wind something that would rob the hawks, a flying creature that would understand and appreciate the atmospheric effects of various winds? Because that wind was freezing bro. It turns out that Yellowknife isn't in some random city in the American west near Yellowstone. The Yellowknife wraiths actually hail from Yellowknife Which isn't even a town in a state. Its the capital of wasteland stretch of land in what's considered the "northern territories" like we're in the 1800's and we're trying to figure out if its going to be a slave state or a free state. On top of all this Its not even the north of America cold, We're talking about Yellowknife, Northern Territories, CANADA! So yes Baltimore was robbed because if television has taught me anything its to blame canada.. blame canada!