Quote:8) It’s always important to look forward to the future. Examine your team, and in 400 words or more, talk about how they can improve themselves to get a stab at trophy contention next year. Are you loaded with draft capital for the next draft? Do you have plenty of cap space to sign free agents? Go through the roster and note the different strengths and weaknesses, and how you think those will change over the next few seasons. How should your team adapt?
It’s kind of surreal choosing to answer this question again a season later. If I were to compare my answer from last offseason, to what has happened, it almost seems like everything that has happened has gone in the opposite direction of what I would have thought it. Then again, everything this season has gone in the opposite direction. With the expansion coming up, it’s difficult to accurately predict what the outlook of the Philadelphia Liberty would be outside of the protected players. A lot of the same things from before still apply to a degree. Overall it’s a fairly similar outlook in that the defense is fairly young in majority of spots and those youngsters are really coming into their prime at this point as regularly recognized starters on almost any team in the league. The depth of defensive backs (namely safeties in particular) is a selling point even with the aging D’Attoria, as names such as Brandon Booker, Matt Cross, Wesley Eriksen and Eugene Smoothie are all still facing very bright futures ahead of them. A huge shock in how this season turned out is that they aren’t exactly green faced rookies and were expected to take significant steps forward already but instead took a step back. A big hole was left from the departure of Warren Stephens and apparently was more significant than thought. Especially on the ground where the Liberty were 11th in the league for rushing yards against, teams continued to roll past them. Seeing them in 12th for points allowed while only being 8th overall spot in terms of yards allowed really puts into perspective the absolute unfortunate events that transpired against them. The Liberty certainly played poorly to a degree but the results always looked so much worse than it could have and maybe should have been. A lot of this feels like it would be on the shoulders of the O-Line, as stars in Brock Phoenix and Sam Torenson should be enough to make a significant impression regardless of other potential areas of deficit.It’s clear though that some of the upcoming needs include a boost on the DLine with two inactive folks sitting at a combined 480 TPE making an obvious hole. Also with stars like Torenson and Phoenix regressing, there may be a need to look at finding some potential youngsters to prepare for taking those spots in the future. The only things that they might be able to consider a long term strength for the time being is TE, the DB spots and hopefully Kicker. It sounds like the Liberty have had a bit of a “Professor of the Dark Arts” esque situation there with not having been able to find a proper replacement.
Quote:20) Make a scouting report for any of the ISFL or DSFL draftees. Show their stats, abilities, TPE, highlights, or attempted armed robbery. Whatever rookies get up to these days.Timmy Dimbi (@tylar) is a very young and raw prospect in the DSFL, having joined the Tijuana Luchadores after the draft as an undrafted free agent. It`s surprising to see this talent being missed as physically, there is a lot to like. For example his overall structure is at an impressive 6’4” and current 308lbs yet still is fairly light on his feet, showing that he could potentially play at the ends of the line as a pass rusher. If he is able to develop more strength to hold his own in the middle and in potential double teaming situations, then he could certainly be a force as an Interior Rusher. His start/stop ability is great when it comes to straight lines and in strict pursuit situations against pass rushers, having the explosiveness to catch slower interior linemen off guard if they aren’t ready for Dimbi’s speed. While we’ve already mentioned that he’ll have to develop some strength in order to be ISFL quality ready, it’s not so far away that he couldn’t slot in as a starter in some teams but more likely as a second interior defensive lineman. There’s also a lot of other areas that could be improved from his proactive and reactive ability in regards to recognizing the game around him as he’s been prone to a lot of encroachment penalties between wanting to take advantage of his speed but also lacking the high end awareness to time QBs’ rhythms. Dimbi also tends to fade on longer players and later in games though compared to his current peers in the DSFL, is a common weakness that can be quickly addressed without much concern.
Quote:27) Some positions are still under appreciated. Talk about the offensive linemen and/or special teamers on your squad. Show how they have contributed to the team, both on and off the field, and why they deserve recognition.I would like to give some love to our rookie kicker Karmichael Hunt. They joined the Liberty at the same time as me in the same draft, but looks like a potential franchise kicker that the Liberty will have been looking for for quite a while. While his 92.2% accuracy for extra points made ranks him for 11th in the league, that in large part is due to the fact that the Liberty offense unfortunately couldn’t give him as many opportunities compared to other teams. His 2 misses are still better than a couple other kickers so at the very least he has been standing close to his peers. Similarly on field goal situations, Hunt had been close in numbers for majority of situations in terms of chances such as <20, 20-30,30-40 and even had 5 opportunities on 50+ situations, making 3 out of 5 attempts. The only obvious deficit was the 40+ area and with another season under his belt, I would feel confident with Hunt stepping onto the field in all ranges. I think his 26 punts inside the 20 yard zone is probably one stand out stat, showing his ability to nail teams in their end by making use of his accuracy. All the while I rave about his on the field quality, I still think the best part is his calm and easy going presence in the locker room, no matter how tough of a season it’s been.
10/10 tpe