08-05-2023, 02:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-05-2023, 02:42 PM by Muford. Edited 4 times in total.)
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A player that had one of the biggest impacts this past season for the San Jose Sabercats was none other than Keanu Calhoun, Wide Receiver aka @Frostbite He was brought over from the New Orleans Second Line in a trade mid-season and he flourished while playing in San Jose. He brought speed, poise, and a deep threat to an offense that was basically lacking all of the above. While he was also drafted in the same draft as my player, Blacksmith Andre, so his impact was not as high as most would have thought, since we are still in the lower TPE brackets of the league, he still had an amazing impact on the field and in the locker room as well. Frost brings such a great, calm demeanor to the locker room, and also is quite insightful when it comes to ideas and plans for the team. His player is able to enact his ideas to the best of frost’s abilities, so its just a double win there.
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I do not know too much about the sim engine, as I do not own the newest version we are using, but a couple things I think would be awesome if they were able to show it more easily accessible would-be penalties allowed by offensive linemen. If the Index was able to track that as well, I think it would go a long way in getting offensive linemen better opportunities to understand what they are doing right and wrong and be able to better write about and better grasp what the offensive lineman is doing. It’s quite rough right now, since we only have pancakes and sacks allowed as a stat, so I can understand why it is not a glamorous position for everyone. I would like to see more stats overall for offensive linemen, and if there was a way to code it or make it more easily accessible I think it would be a small step in a long process to make the trenches better at least on the offensive side of the ball.
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One of the ultimate team players in San Jose is DJ Maclean aka @Urq660 He’s been a godsend in the locker room since I’ve come to the San Jose Sabercats. He’s insightful, delightful, and just an all-around amazing dude to share the locker room with. I did have the privilege to work with him for a short time in Bondi Beach, but now also being with him in San Jose has just shown how great of a person he is, and how willing he is to go above and beyond to assist people if they need it. Urq has been such a fun person to discuss things with, and also one smart cookie, so to speak. Even though, he does have one bad quality of being in the chair force, we can over look those issues and congratulate him on just being an upstanding person and someone that I look forward to being on the same team with for a long time!
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One new rule of football that I think could be really fun, would be allowing, just line in old arena football rules, is a run up for a singular wide receiver, to the line of scrimmage before the ball is hiked. He can not be past the ball before it is hiked, but a run up to get him moving quite quickly and making the defense have to react a bit faster then to just a man on man on the line of scrimmage where you can bump and push them and give the offense that much longer to set up. I think allowing some sort of movement on the offensive side of the ball pre-snap would be pretty fun to watch and also allow offenses that are on the weaker side to become a bit better without actually having to change much of anything, and giving players the opportunity to actually be good instead of getting bumped and destroyed at the line.
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A player that had one of the biggest impacts this past season for the San Jose Sabercats was none other than Keanu Calhoun, Wide Receiver aka @Frostbite He was brought over from the New Orleans Second Line in a trade mid-season and he flourished while playing in San Jose. He brought speed, poise, and a deep threat to an offense that was basically lacking all of the above. While he was also drafted in the same draft as my player, Blacksmith Andre, so his impact was not as high as most would have thought, since we are still in the lower TPE brackets of the league, he still had an amazing impact on the field and in the locker room as well. Frost brings such a great, calm demeanor to the locker room, and also is quite insightful when it comes to ideas and plans for the team. His player is able to enact his ideas to the best of frost’s abilities, so its just a double win there.
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I do not know too much about the sim engine, as I do not own the newest version we are using, but a couple things I think would be awesome if they were able to show it more easily accessible would-be penalties allowed by offensive linemen. If the Index was able to track that as well, I think it would go a long way in getting offensive linemen better opportunities to understand what they are doing right and wrong and be able to better write about and better grasp what the offensive lineman is doing. It’s quite rough right now, since we only have pancakes and sacks allowed as a stat, so I can understand why it is not a glamorous position for everyone. I would like to see more stats overall for offensive linemen, and if there was a way to code it or make it more easily accessible I think it would be a small step in a long process to make the trenches better at least on the offensive side of the ball.
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One of the ultimate team players in San Jose is DJ Maclean aka @Urq660 He’s been a godsend in the locker room since I’ve come to the San Jose Sabercats. He’s insightful, delightful, and just an all-around amazing dude to share the locker room with. I did have the privilege to work with him for a short time in Bondi Beach, but now also being with him in San Jose has just shown how great of a person he is, and how willing he is to go above and beyond to assist people if they need it. Urq has been such a fun person to discuss things with, and also one smart cookie, so to speak. Even though, he does have one bad quality of being in the chair force, we can over look those issues and congratulate him on just being an upstanding person and someone that I look forward to being on the same team with for a long time!
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One new rule of football that I think could be really fun, would be allowing, just line in old arena football rules, is a run up for a singular wide receiver, to the line of scrimmage before the ball is hiked. He can not be past the ball before it is hiked, but a run up to get him moving quite quickly and making the defense have to react a bit faster then to just a man on man on the line of scrimmage where you can bump and push them and give the offense that much longer to set up. I think allowing some sort of movement on the offensive side of the ball pre-snap would be pretty fun to watch and also allow offenses that are on the weaker side to become a bit better without actually having to change much of anything, and giving players the opportunity to actually be good instead of getting bumped and destroyed at the line.
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