3) Now let's preview for NOLA as we enter the league's 50th season, a milestone that can not be understated!
We have done what many thought that we were not able to do: secure a back to back in the face of the league. Of course, defending our title was not easy this second season, but we were able to overcome adversity and secure it! Now as we look to s50, this team is looking a little different from the previous two seasons as we have made some changes to the roster.
We have traded away Ezra Azazel as we unfortunately did not have enough cap space, but we allowed him to go to the Sabercats and recoup draft capital in a mutal trade for player and team. As a result, we have drafted I.Q. Bowman as his successor to fill the void. He won't be ready, but eventually he will be able to take over in due time.
After that transaction news, we have some growth of last year's rookies to report on! On offense, TE Auto Matic had a great rookie season that awarded him Pro Bowl honors! He looks to take more of a leap forward as some of our vets on offense are hitting regression! Here's to an All Pro season for Matic! On defense, Stone Wall is poised to take the jump as one of our main corners as he had a great rookie season as our NB; he had 5 sacks and an interception and held up very well in coverage! The aforementioned stats and his contributions for our run last season earned him rookie team honors! We expect him to take a great step forward as we will look to start him in one of our CB positions and reward him!
Onto some of our other players; we have elevated Frosty Steele to the main team from the DSFL as we liked how he did in his stay down year in the DSFL and we feel he could help us secure the 3peat. As he is a pash rusher like Adebam, that will help generate more turnovers and sustain our great defensive play over the last 3 seasons! We also scored a big free agent in LB Maurice Gunner coming over from Berlin in order to help us with the same goal of securing the three peat! His versatility and growing game will help sustain us long after some of the defensive veterans regress into retirement!
Now as our outlook for the season, it looks pretty interesting but fun. In terms of preliminary outlooks, I believe that its likely that for the third straight season that NOLA will be the one seed in the AFC; however, this season will be our toughest as regression is starting to affect this core with vets such as Mardukas, Gibson, White, Speedings, and Adebam starting to decline. However, with the growth and additions of quality young players and Gunner, these should be enough to offset the regression and give us a chance to achieve a legendary 3peat! Right behind us not in any order, I believe that Arizona, as always, will be right in the mix as well. They always seemingly never rebuild and have been a thorn in our side seemingly forever. In addition, Honolulu looks to have finally arrived and looks to be a playoff team this season and could be a dark horse to win it all! Other teams that are possible playoff teams in the AFC are New York and San Jose. Though, all in all, this season should be a fun one to try and go for the 3peat and see how much of our limits we can test to get it!
We have done what many thought that we were not able to do: secure a back to back in the face of the league. Of course, defending our title was not easy this second season, but we were able to overcome adversity and secure it! Now as we look to s50, this team is looking a little different from the previous two seasons as we have made some changes to the roster.
We have traded away Ezra Azazel as we unfortunately did not have enough cap space, but we allowed him to go to the Sabercats and recoup draft capital in a mutal trade for player and team. As a result, we have drafted I.Q. Bowman as his successor to fill the void. He won't be ready, but eventually he will be able to take over in due time.
After that transaction news, we have some growth of last year's rookies to report on! On offense, TE Auto Matic had a great rookie season that awarded him Pro Bowl honors! He looks to take more of a leap forward as some of our vets on offense are hitting regression! Here's to an All Pro season for Matic! On defense, Stone Wall is poised to take the jump as one of our main corners as he had a great rookie season as our NB; he had 5 sacks and an interception and held up very well in coverage! The aforementioned stats and his contributions for our run last season earned him rookie team honors! We expect him to take a great step forward as we will look to start him in one of our CB positions and reward him!
Onto some of our other players; we have elevated Frosty Steele to the main team from the DSFL as we liked how he did in his stay down year in the DSFL and we feel he could help us secure the 3peat. As he is a pash rusher like Adebam, that will help generate more turnovers and sustain our great defensive play over the last 3 seasons! We also scored a big free agent in LB Maurice Gunner coming over from Berlin in order to help us with the same goal of securing the three peat! His versatility and growing game will help sustain us long after some of the defensive veterans regress into retirement!
Now as our outlook for the season, it looks pretty interesting but fun. In terms of preliminary outlooks, I believe that its likely that for the third straight season that NOLA will be the one seed in the AFC; however, this season will be our toughest as regression is starting to affect this core with vets such as Mardukas, Gibson, White, Speedings, and Adebam starting to decline. However, with the growth and additions of quality young players and Gunner, these should be enough to offset the regression and give us a chance to achieve a legendary 3peat! Right behind us not in any order, I believe that Arizona, as always, will be right in the mix as well. They always seemingly never rebuild and have been a thorn in our side seemingly forever. In addition, Honolulu looks to have finally arrived and looks to be a playoff team this season and could be a dark horse to win it all! Other teams that are possible playoff teams in the AFC are New York and San Jose. Though, all in all, this season should be a fun one to try and go for the 3peat and see how much of our limits we can test to get it!