It is over.
Mandrews McHollywood has officially, for real this time, retired from the ISFL.
After 11 seasons in the league, 12 if you count his waiver stint with Minnesota, the career of the best wide receiver in New York Silverbacks history has come to an end.
If I had to pick one word to describe his career, it would have to be: consistent.
You see, Mandrews was never the flashiest receiver in the league. No matter how good a year he had, you would never find him atop the leaderboard for wide receiver statistics. His advantage was that, although he may not have been the best, he was so consistently top-10 to top-5 that he wracked up the stats anyways. Consider that only once in his 10 ISFL seasons did he fail to hit at least 1,000 yards, his sophomore outing where he only managed 802. Even then he still snagged 9 touchdowns. So while you might have never seen him win an Offensive Player of The Year award, or hardly ever get a nomination, you did see him pick up a handful of first and second-team All-Pros as well as numerous pro bowls.
But let’s talk about his 10th and final ISFL season. Going into this final season Mandrews was down to just 402 TPE after regression and so the expectations for him were not very high. He was just 37 yards shy of the all-time New York Silverbacks record and about 90 receptions shy of that record. While I had every confidence he would manage to grab the yardage record, I had absolutely no faith he would manage to get the receptions record.
He then accumulated 102 catches for 1,009 yards and 6 touchdowns.
Now the records for New York look as such:
Receptions:
1-Mandrews McHollywood-923
2-Tugg Speedman-897
3-Matthew Mara-718
4-Sean Robinson-578
5-Jackson Kingston-487
Yards:
1-Mandrews McHollywood-12,378
2-Tugg Speedman-11,501
3-Matthew Mara-9,785
4-Sean Robinson-7,311
5-Jackson Kingston-7,042
Yards Per Catch:
1-Jackson Kingston-14.45995893
2-Harley Fank-13.92405063
3-Matthew Mara-13.6281337
4-Mandrews McHollywood-13.41061755
5-French Fries-13.37209302
Touchdowns:
1-Mandrews McHollywood-87
2-Tugg Speedman-75
3-Matthew Mara-59
4-Jackson Kingston-45
5-Sean Robinson-43
In terms of league rankings his stats stack up like this:
Receptions-14th
Yards-14th
Yards Per Catch-100th
Touchdowns-15th
Longest Reception-T-1st
Hopefully we see Mandrews get his gold jacket when his eligibility comes up.
Now moving on to Caleb’s first season!
Caleb TheGEICOCamel just finished his first season within the DSFL and it was, by all accounts, rather unremarkable.
That isn’t exactly surprising. A few factors, his late start post-ultimus, the overall talent on Minnesota, the fact that 3 corners were taken in total including himself in his draft class, all combined to him not seeing the field as much as he might’ve liked. In total he finished the year with:
23 Tackles
1 Sack
6 Pass Deflections
And on special teams:
1 Kick Return
2 Kick Return Yards
16 Punt Returns
88 Punt Return Yards
Technically he only officially started 6 games out of the 14 so the sparse stats aren’t shocking. Hopefully when he starts his second DSFL season at the 250 DSFL cap, we will see him get more starting time.
He did pick up another 3 tackles and a pass deflection in the 28-27 playoff loss to the eventual DSFL Ultimini champion Portland Pythons. His best game by far was week 12 in the 22-14 loss to Portland once again where he racked up a third of his pass deflections with 2 and picked up a tackle. While he won’t win any awards for his performance this season, hopefully this is just the start of something great.
Almost every single team in the league has reached out to Caleb to talk about possibly picking him up in the draft so obviously these teams know that there is greater potential in him than what he showed on the field in his first season
To step out of character for a moment, while it is undoubtedly sad to retire a player like Mandrews McHollywood, by far my most successful player thus far, and one of the highest earning players ever in league history, I am excited to start my 3rd new journey and my second on the objectively superior side of the ball on defense. Everybody always needs more secondary, as Ozzie Newsome says, you can never have too many corners, and I hope Caleb TheGEICOCamel will get to be one of the best.
I’ll see you in about a week on ISFL draft night 8:00 PM sharp!
Mandrews McHollywood has officially, for real this time, retired from the ISFL.
After 11 seasons in the league, 12 if you count his waiver stint with Minnesota, the career of the best wide receiver in New York Silverbacks history has come to an end.
If I had to pick one word to describe his career, it would have to be: consistent.
You see, Mandrews was never the flashiest receiver in the league. No matter how good a year he had, you would never find him atop the leaderboard for wide receiver statistics. His advantage was that, although he may not have been the best, he was so consistently top-10 to top-5 that he wracked up the stats anyways. Consider that only once in his 10 ISFL seasons did he fail to hit at least 1,000 yards, his sophomore outing where he only managed 802. Even then he still snagged 9 touchdowns. So while you might have never seen him win an Offensive Player of The Year award, or hardly ever get a nomination, you did see him pick up a handful of first and second-team All-Pros as well as numerous pro bowls.
But let’s talk about his 10th and final ISFL season. Going into this final season Mandrews was down to just 402 TPE after regression and so the expectations for him were not very high. He was just 37 yards shy of the all-time New York Silverbacks record and about 90 receptions shy of that record. While I had every confidence he would manage to grab the yardage record, I had absolutely no faith he would manage to get the receptions record.
He then accumulated 102 catches for 1,009 yards and 6 touchdowns.
Now the records for New York look as such:
Receptions:
1-Mandrews McHollywood-923
2-Tugg Speedman-897
3-Matthew Mara-718
4-Sean Robinson-578
5-Jackson Kingston-487
Yards:
1-Mandrews McHollywood-12,378
2-Tugg Speedman-11,501
3-Matthew Mara-9,785
4-Sean Robinson-7,311
5-Jackson Kingston-7,042
Yards Per Catch:
1-Jackson Kingston-14.45995893
2-Harley Fank-13.92405063
3-Matthew Mara-13.6281337
4-Mandrews McHollywood-13.41061755
5-French Fries-13.37209302
Touchdowns:
1-Mandrews McHollywood-87
2-Tugg Speedman-75
3-Matthew Mara-59
4-Jackson Kingston-45
5-Sean Robinson-43
In terms of league rankings his stats stack up like this:
Receptions-14th
Yards-14th
Yards Per Catch-100th
Touchdowns-15th
Longest Reception-T-1st
Hopefully we see Mandrews get his gold jacket when his eligibility comes up.
Now moving on to Caleb’s first season!
Caleb TheGEICOCamel just finished his first season within the DSFL and it was, by all accounts, rather unremarkable.
That isn’t exactly surprising. A few factors, his late start post-ultimus, the overall talent on Minnesota, the fact that 3 corners were taken in total including himself in his draft class, all combined to him not seeing the field as much as he might’ve liked. In total he finished the year with:
23 Tackles
1 Sack
6 Pass Deflections
And on special teams:
1 Kick Return
2 Kick Return Yards
16 Punt Returns
88 Punt Return Yards
Technically he only officially started 6 games out of the 14 so the sparse stats aren’t shocking. Hopefully when he starts his second DSFL season at the 250 DSFL cap, we will see him get more starting time.
He did pick up another 3 tackles and a pass deflection in the 28-27 playoff loss to the eventual DSFL Ultimini champion Portland Pythons. His best game by far was week 12 in the 22-14 loss to Portland once again where he racked up a third of his pass deflections with 2 and picked up a tackle. While he won’t win any awards for his performance this season, hopefully this is just the start of something great.
Almost every single team in the league has reached out to Caleb to talk about possibly picking him up in the draft so obviously these teams know that there is greater potential in him than what he showed on the field in his first season
To step out of character for a moment, while it is undoubtedly sad to retire a player like Mandrews McHollywood, by far my most successful player thus far, and one of the highest earning players ever in league history, I am excited to start my 3rd new journey and my second on the objectively superior side of the ball on defense. Everybody always needs more secondary, as Ozzie Newsome says, you can never have too many corners, and I hope Caleb TheGEICOCamel will get to be one of the best.
I’ll see you in about a week on ISFL draft night 8:00 PM sharp!