After having a mediocre season (in which we made it all the way to the NSFC Championship and lost), Baltimore Hawks had to regroup and prepare hard for the upcoming season. Our offseason prep started with the draft. Everybody thinks that the Hawks trade away their picks for free agents, however we actually picked three very key players in the past two drafts. Since we didn't get any free agents this offseason, our offseason training focus was to get those new Hawks integrated into our game plan. Our latest addition to the team, Stevie Vassallo, had to train even harder during this offseason to make sure he knows what he is doing. Since we are an "old" team, we had countless drills where our veteran players showed our new players how it is done in Baltimore. Our old time players also had a lot of things to learn because after losing one of our key players to free agency, we had to change our pass heavy offense to a more balanced style. I think the biggest challenge with that was to get Corvo to stop passing the ball. That dude has a monstrous arm and loves to use it, however we really need our backs to be involved more this season.
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