(S21) - PT4 - Ultimus Dreamin’

[Jay_Doctor]

I don’t even know what to write about this season anymore. I think the closest comparison I can think of is the 1986 New York Jets and it’s not exactly a perfect one. For the record, this was well before I was alive so I can’t claim to have lived it, but the Jets started off 10-1 on the season. The New Orleans Second Line started off a franchise-best 9-0. A lot of big wins with some being close, but with quite a few never really being in doubt. Then week 10 happened. We lost in back-to-back dramatic games at home vs the Wraiths and Otters, both coming down to the end and by a combined 4 points. Now being 9-2 is still a hell of a record and we should have bounced back, but we lost a 1-point game on the road to a good Baltimore team. Well shit, that’s now 3 losses in a row. To cap it all off, we get crushed on the last week of the season on the road to Chicago. Like the New York Jets, we wind up losing the remaining games of our schedule and limping into the playoffs. Where just about one real life week ago I’m in the best position of my sim career, now I’m questioning everything. I’ll still go ahead and say New Orleans will win it all, but that feels like more of a wish than a prediction now.