7) Awards season is a big part of the offseason festivities. Take the stand, in 400 words or more, for one or more players that are not your own, and argue why they should receive awards glory. They can be your teammates or anyone in the league. How did their stats and on the field contribution contribute to their case this year?
Awards are such a large and clear way to show a person’s success in their career. It demonstrates that a player has had such an amazing season, with hard work, dedication and effort off the field in training, paying off in amazing game day results for their team. It is a very admirable way the league recognises those players who achieve highly and who set the standard for all other players within both the ISFL and DSFL league as to what they should aspire to be. With their popularity, some awards are always more sought after than others. Most Valuable Player, Offensive or Defensive player of the year are the highest awards that everyone desires. Positional awards also come with it a a badge of honour and respect. However, unlike other awards, there is one positional award that doesn’t get as much glory as some of the others and this year, has a clear winning candidate that should be receiving more credit than they currently get. That is, the Offensive Lineman of the year, and that player who is a cut above the rest, is Bruce Buckley of the Arizona Cardinals.
Whilst other positional awards such as Kicker or Punter of the year and Returner of the year also get less credit than other positional awards, there is simply no debate as to what was a phenomenal year for Bruce Buckley and that he is deserving to win the Offensive Linemen of the year award and capture that glory. Whilst only into his second season playing in the ISFL for the Outlaws, Buckley was able to amount 84 pancakes across the season, only 3 behind Lazlo Forty-Two, the absolute pinnacle of Offensive Linemen for multiple seasons. However, Lazlo is unable to win this award due to technicalities, leaving Buckley with the most pancakes from eligible nominees. On top of Buckley’s position leading sack total, he is recorded 0 sacks allowed throughout the season. Buckley was able to put on a masterclass at how to protect their QB, his performance should be mentioned more when Jay Cue for Quarterback of the year, offensive position of the year of Most Valuable Player arguments come up. Buckley’s A+ performance allowed Cue to also get those critical extra second to get rid of the ball and link up with his receivers.
Buckley’s stats don’t lie. For his second season in the big leagues, the dude is a monster racking up pancakes like there is no tomorrow, but for this young star, he has a bright future ahead of him. This starts with him winning Offensive Lineman of the year award, with what is arguably the best stats in a very straightforward position to determine. #Fairrubs!.
8) It’s always important to look forward to the future. Examine your team, and in 400 words or more, talk about how they can improve themselves to get a stab at trophy contention next year. Are you loaded with draft capital for the next draft? Do you have plenty of cap space to sign free agents? Go through the roster and note the different strengths and weaknesses, and how you think those will change over the next few seasons. How should your team adapt?
After some impeccable drafting by the General Managers and some great training gains by those players, the Minnesota Grey Ducks find themselves in an awkward position heading into the next draft. After failing to reach a trophy, last season and the one just past has seen the team slowly fall towards the bottom of the standings. With so much of their premiere talent now being called up to play in the big leagues, there is rumours around the league that after the next list of callups come through, the Ducks could be left with as little as four or five players on their roster.
In a saving grace for the Minnesota Grey Ducks, the next class up is large numbers currently weighing it at 136 prospects and counting, just hitting 17 full rounds of picks. Even in a worse call scenario situation where the Ducks are left with only four or five players on the team after the ISFL teams determine who they want to call up or leave down, the team has the ability to fill every position with the few send downs they will still have to field an all player team for the next season. What will be crucial is that the Ducks need to select prospects that will grow and flourish in their training to build back up to one of the top teams.
With needing to fill so many positions and holes in their roster, the Grey Ducks management team will have to accurately determine when to take someone for each position at the optimal time to get the most value spread around the field. With Sim SnowBow in his last season of eligibility to play in the DSFL, when do the Ducks look to fill their backup and future QB slot? Go early and leave vulnerabilities in defensive positions. Wait to long and potentially miss out on the best prospects or any all together with their only being a handful of Quarterback prospects in the class as of right now. These are the sort of decision that will be happening which each pick the Ducks have to make. Fortunately for the Ducks, they acquired an extra pick in the fourth round via the Dallas Birddogs as well as an eight from the London Royals.
With the little extra capital, the Ducks draft will all be about timing, when to pull the trigger on what position. Their effectiveness in doing so, will be the determining factor on how their rebuilding roster will turn and if the mighty Ducks will fly again all be just quacking from the outside looking in come playoff time.
Awards are such a large and clear way to show a person’s success in their career. It demonstrates that a player has had such an amazing season, with hard work, dedication and effort off the field in training, paying off in amazing game day results for their team. It is a very admirable way the league recognises those players who achieve highly and who set the standard for all other players within both the ISFL and DSFL league as to what they should aspire to be. With their popularity, some awards are always more sought after than others. Most Valuable Player, Offensive or Defensive player of the year are the highest awards that everyone desires. Positional awards also come with it a a badge of honour and respect. However, unlike other awards, there is one positional award that doesn’t get as much glory as some of the others and this year, has a clear winning candidate that should be receiving more credit than they currently get. That is, the Offensive Lineman of the year, and that player who is a cut above the rest, is Bruce Buckley of the Arizona Cardinals.
Whilst other positional awards such as Kicker or Punter of the year and Returner of the year also get less credit than other positional awards, there is simply no debate as to what was a phenomenal year for Bruce Buckley and that he is deserving to win the Offensive Linemen of the year award and capture that glory. Whilst only into his second season playing in the ISFL for the Outlaws, Buckley was able to amount 84 pancakes across the season, only 3 behind Lazlo Forty-Two, the absolute pinnacle of Offensive Linemen for multiple seasons. However, Lazlo is unable to win this award due to technicalities, leaving Buckley with the most pancakes from eligible nominees. On top of Buckley’s position leading sack total, he is recorded 0 sacks allowed throughout the season. Buckley was able to put on a masterclass at how to protect their QB, his performance should be mentioned more when Jay Cue for Quarterback of the year, offensive position of the year of Most Valuable Player arguments come up. Buckley’s A+ performance allowed Cue to also get those critical extra second to get rid of the ball and link up with his receivers.
Buckley’s stats don’t lie. For his second season in the big leagues, the dude is a monster racking up pancakes like there is no tomorrow, but for this young star, he has a bright future ahead of him. This starts with him winning Offensive Lineman of the year award, with what is arguably the best stats in a very straightforward position to determine. #Fairrubs!.
8) It’s always important to look forward to the future. Examine your team, and in 400 words or more, talk about how they can improve themselves to get a stab at trophy contention next year. Are you loaded with draft capital for the next draft? Do you have plenty of cap space to sign free agents? Go through the roster and note the different strengths and weaknesses, and how you think those will change over the next few seasons. How should your team adapt?
After some impeccable drafting by the General Managers and some great training gains by those players, the Minnesota Grey Ducks find themselves in an awkward position heading into the next draft. After failing to reach a trophy, last season and the one just past has seen the team slowly fall towards the bottom of the standings. With so much of their premiere talent now being called up to play in the big leagues, there is rumours around the league that after the next list of callups come through, the Ducks could be left with as little as four or five players on their roster.
In a saving grace for the Minnesota Grey Ducks, the next class up is large numbers currently weighing it at 136 prospects and counting, just hitting 17 full rounds of picks. Even in a worse call scenario situation where the Ducks are left with only four or five players on the team after the ISFL teams determine who they want to call up or leave down, the team has the ability to fill every position with the few send downs they will still have to field an all player team for the next season. What will be crucial is that the Ducks need to select prospects that will grow and flourish in their training to build back up to one of the top teams.
With needing to fill so many positions and holes in their roster, the Grey Ducks management team will have to accurately determine when to take someone for each position at the optimal time to get the most value spread around the field. With Sim SnowBow in his last season of eligibility to play in the DSFL, when do the Ducks look to fill their backup and future QB slot? Go early and leave vulnerabilities in defensive positions. Wait to long and potentially miss out on the best prospects or any all together with their only being a handful of Quarterback prospects in the class as of right now. These are the sort of decision that will be happening which each pick the Ducks have to make. Fortunately for the Ducks, they acquired an extra pick in the fourth round via the Dallas Birddogs as well as an eight from the London Royals.
With the little extra capital, the Ducks draft will all be about timing, when to pull the trigger on what position. Their effectiveness in doing so, will be the determining factor on how their rebuilding roster will turn and if the mighty Ducks will fly again all be just quacking from the outside looking in come playoff time.