7) Award season is upon us again and a number of Austin Copperheads are up for awards and eagerly await the voting but GMs and HO. Let's go through a few of them shall we? First of all for the dead certs and both are the same player, Austin's veteran cornerback Dermot Lavelle Jr. Dermot is up for both the returner of the year and corner back of the year and is the front runner for both of these awards. Returner of the year award is quite simple, dermot had got 3 returning touchdowns this season, the next nearest person has 1. Scrap who has the best average yards and things like that for this award that single fact will surely be enough to win this award. The other award dermot should be dead cert to get is cornerback of the year. Dermot leads not just cornerbacks but the league in interceptions with 6 this season including 1 for a touchdown. Dermot also has 20 pass deflects which is 3rd out of corner backs. Again this should be an open and shut case to why he should get this award as well. The next Copperhead who should be in line for an award is another old manner, this time the now retired Alfredo Crisco. Crisco is no stranger to awards and has had an amazing career and this season has been no different and he really should win Kicker of the year. Crisco was 1 of 3 kickers to score 100% of their extra points but he also scored the most with 38 out of 38. When it came to field goals he had a percentage of 97.2% making 35 field goals out of 36 attempts, giving him the 2nd most field goals made and the 2nd best accuracy. To top it all off when you combined field goals and extra points Crisco has scored more total points than any other kicker this year and well deserves the award over any pretenders. The last award should be my own, this is my (Mendonca's) last season and what a seaso it has been with me in the mix for runningback of the year, what do I have go for me, well it is my combined rushing and receiving figures. I have 1810 total yards this season, over 300 more than my nearest rival. I have the highest average gain to boot and the 3rd most touchdowns, surely this old man deserves an award!
8) Austin have had a great run of making six playoffs in a row which came to an end this season, it was a shame especially as it was done to bad luck rather than anything else that stopped our 7th consecutive playoff appearance. Going forward Austin are on a slight down swing when you look at age, especially for the QB but I hope and think it will be a very short down swing if managed correctly. First let's look at the offense. Austin have lost here, RB1 has retired as has WR3, luckily Zoie Watts is coming up ready for RB duties and we have 2 Stella WRs and 1 more years of an aging but very talented Nets to contend with. At TE we have Larson for 1 more season but as he is aging a replacement should be sought soon. OL is another issue with Beaver retiring and so a replacement is required for her post haste. Lastly there is QB, Cole has been great but is looking long in the tooth, but he has 1 final season of good play left him him. Next defence, the defense is younger and getting in better and better which is only a good thing. With Montain coming in and Bowie coming up to replace Sexjoke this defense is about 2 good players away from being down right dangerous. Now how are we going to improve, quite simply it has to be through free agency, we don't have enough draft capital to pick up more than 2 or 3 complementary pieces in the draft due the the using of draft picks on the likes of Montain and the fact we need to pick up our future Quarterback in the second round so the bulk of our work should be done looking at Free Agents. Luckily for Austin the scouts are already scoring so hita in finding players ready to play, some only for a season or 2 others hopefully should be in it for the long term to lead Austin to another Ultimus. Of course I have forgot 1 last position that needs filling? Yes that is right we will need a new kicker after team legend Crisco has finally retired. It is a sad day but finding a new kicker should be easy either through free agency or the draft but who ever comes in to replace him with have some very big shoes to fill both metaphorically and physically!
8) Austin have had a great run of making six playoffs in a row which came to an end this season, it was a shame especially as it was done to bad luck rather than anything else that stopped our 7th consecutive playoff appearance. Going forward Austin are on a slight down swing when you look at age, especially for the QB but I hope and think it will be a very short down swing if managed correctly. First let's look at the offense. Austin have lost here, RB1 has retired as has WR3, luckily Zoie Watts is coming up ready for RB duties and we have 2 Stella WRs and 1 more years of an aging but very talented Nets to contend with. At TE we have Larson for 1 more season but as he is aging a replacement should be sought soon. OL is another issue with Beaver retiring and so a replacement is required for her post haste. Lastly there is QB, Cole has been great but is looking long in the tooth, but he has 1 final season of good play left him him. Next defence, the defense is younger and getting in better and better which is only a good thing. With Montain coming in and Bowie coming up to replace Sexjoke this defense is about 2 good players away from being down right dangerous. Now how are we going to improve, quite simply it has to be through free agency, we don't have enough draft capital to pick up more than 2 or 3 complementary pieces in the draft due the the using of draft picks on the likes of Montain and the fact we need to pick up our future Quarterback in the second round so the bulk of our work should be done looking at Free Agents. Luckily for Austin the scouts are already scoring so hita in finding players ready to play, some only for a season or 2 others hopefully should be in it for the long term to lead Austin to another Ultimus. Of course I have forgot 1 last position that needs filling? Yes that is right we will need a new kicker after team legend Crisco has finally retired. It is a sad day but finding a new kicker should be easy either through free agency or the draft but who ever comes in to replace him with have some very big shoes to fill both metaphorically and physically!