6. Write 600 words or more on something about anything in the league that interests you. It could be related to statistics, a league issue that you take seriously, or a niche part of history that doesn’t fit neatly into either of the above categories. This must be directly related to the league, so don’t wax 600 words about your team’s participation on a Werewolf server or something.
Last offseason I talked about the best and worst of the offensive linemen when it came to pancakes and sacks allowed, but it'd be too boring to constantly talk about offensive linemen, since it's their job to get pancakes and allow few sacks, so this offense I'm going to looking at the best and worst in those regards in the other offensive position groups.
We're going to start off with the funniest position group in my opinion, the quarterback. Not really known for their blocking prowess the quarterback is rarely put into position to block, mostly on run plays, but when they do get in position to do so, it's more than likely going to either be a whiff or the defender will just throw them to the side like they're rotten food. Out of all the quarterbacks that recorded a pancake this season, two tied for dead last with one a piece. Firstly there's Carter Knight of the Sarasota Sailfish. Knight picked up his one pancake in week 9 against the Honolulu Hahalua, that one pancake might have been the difference maker as he the Sailfish ultimately won the game and Knight was given the Offensive Player of the Game honors. Secondly we have Ryan Negs of the Philadelphia Liberty, Negs picked up his one pancake in week 5 against the Baltimore Hawks. Despite Negs' best efforts, the Liberty would ultimately lose the game, but won the mental battle, and we all know that's what most important. Out of all the Quarterbacks who recorded a pancake, the leader by a good margin was IsHe... ReallyInvisible of the New Orleans Secondline, who had a whopping 18 pancakes, over one pancake a game for a position that rarely blocks, ReallyInvisible's elite blocking is probably a majority of the reason that the Secondline had a top 5 rushing offense.
The Next four positional groups I won't go too in depth with due to the fact that blocking and giving up sacks, while rarer than lineman, is still commonplace for them.
Firstly is wide receiver, and I'm only going to shout out the player with the most pancakes, who was Nick Kaepercolin Jr. of the Sarasota Sailfish with an outstanding 44 pancakes, this is a result of the Sailfish's high power passing attack, giving Kaepercolin a lot of opportunities to block for his teammates.
Running Backs are hard to analyze due to starters are almost guaranteed to allow at least one sack on the season, but only allowing one sack while getting almost 50 pancakes is also pretty impressive, which is what Arizona Outlaw's Running Back Jay Cue Jr. did, While the sample size isn't going to be as large as other teams to due to the Outlaws running their offense through Cue Jr., When they did pass the ball with him blocking, they could count on him to at least be above average. On the flip side, out of the top 10 highest sacks allowed, two of them were by starting Running Backs, that being the Honolulu Halalua's Cobra Kai, and the Austin Copperhead's Zoe Watts, but this can be explained away by the fact that both are deep into regression and have other things to worry about that aren't blocking in the pass game.
Tight Ends Really didn't have any contenders for the sack list, as the highest total allowed was by the Baltimore Hawks' Lenard Graf, but they only gave up three sacks, which is pretty much negligible. And to round out this list of players is, again, another Honolulu player, and this time it's Tight End Buffalo Hunter, who had 67 Pancakes, and more impressively he did it all without giving up a single sack.
Last offseason I talked about the best and worst of the offensive linemen when it came to pancakes and sacks allowed, but it'd be too boring to constantly talk about offensive linemen, since it's their job to get pancakes and allow few sacks, so this offense I'm going to looking at the best and worst in those regards in the other offensive position groups.
We're going to start off with the funniest position group in my opinion, the quarterback. Not really known for their blocking prowess the quarterback is rarely put into position to block, mostly on run plays, but when they do get in position to do so, it's more than likely going to either be a whiff or the defender will just throw them to the side like they're rotten food. Out of all the quarterbacks that recorded a pancake this season, two tied for dead last with one a piece. Firstly there's Carter Knight of the Sarasota Sailfish. Knight picked up his one pancake in week 9 against the Honolulu Hahalua, that one pancake might have been the difference maker as he the Sailfish ultimately won the game and Knight was given the Offensive Player of the Game honors. Secondly we have Ryan Negs of the Philadelphia Liberty, Negs picked up his one pancake in week 5 against the Baltimore Hawks. Despite Negs' best efforts, the Liberty would ultimately lose the game, but won the mental battle, and we all know that's what most important. Out of all the Quarterbacks who recorded a pancake, the leader by a good margin was IsHe... ReallyInvisible of the New Orleans Secondline, who had a whopping 18 pancakes, over one pancake a game for a position that rarely blocks, ReallyInvisible's elite blocking is probably a majority of the reason that the Secondline had a top 5 rushing offense.
The Next four positional groups I won't go too in depth with due to the fact that blocking and giving up sacks, while rarer than lineman, is still commonplace for them.
Firstly is wide receiver, and I'm only going to shout out the player with the most pancakes, who was Nick Kaepercolin Jr. of the Sarasota Sailfish with an outstanding 44 pancakes, this is a result of the Sailfish's high power passing attack, giving Kaepercolin a lot of opportunities to block for his teammates.
Running Backs are hard to analyze due to starters are almost guaranteed to allow at least one sack on the season, but only allowing one sack while getting almost 50 pancakes is also pretty impressive, which is what Arizona Outlaw's Running Back Jay Cue Jr. did, While the sample size isn't going to be as large as other teams to due to the Outlaws running their offense through Cue Jr., When they did pass the ball with him blocking, they could count on him to at least be above average. On the flip side, out of the top 10 highest sacks allowed, two of them were by starting Running Backs, that being the Honolulu Halalua's Cobra Kai, and the Austin Copperhead's Zoe Watts, but this can be explained away by the fact that both are deep into regression and have other things to worry about that aren't blocking in the pass game.
Tight Ends Really didn't have any contenders for the sack list, as the highest total allowed was by the Baltimore Hawks' Lenard Graf, but they only gave up three sacks, which is pretty much negligible. And to round out this list of players is, again, another Honolulu player, and this time it's Tight End Buffalo Hunter, who had 67 Pancakes, and more impressively he did it all without giving up a single sack.