(S34) PT 5 - Botchamania

[Kyamprac]

SHL Affiliate

[Repgnar]

Week Thirteen in the Developmental Simulation Football League was an exciting week for the Tijuana Luchadores. Coming off clinching the first seed in the South the players were invigorated to travel to Bondi Beach. The Luchadores recognized that the Buccaneers were still in the hunt for the two seed and came in fully expecting a close contest. While both teams were able to move the ball at times the Buccaneers ended up getting the best of the Luchadores despite a late 4th quarter push.

Speaking purely from a defensive standpoint, the Luchadores' defense was left with only wishing they had a better performance to put their team in a position to win. The Buccaneers had a solid 17 first downs throughout the game. While the South's third seed struggled with a 27% third down conversion they were able to accumulate a combined 397 yards. The difference in penalty yards did not favor the Luchadores either. This included a crucial taunting flag in the fourth quarter nullifying a great reception. The Buccaneers averaged 6.8 yards per attempt in the air and 5 yards per rushing attempt. Fortunately for the Luchadores' defensive mental they were able to force a fumble and snag an interception despite the lacking performance.

Ultimately the Luchadores botched this Week Thirteen match up. What should have been a morale booster prior to a tough Week 14 was anything but that. The Luchadores are looking to face the number one seed in the North Coyotes in the regular season finale. Many bettors favor this to be a preview of the Ultimini later this year. The Luchadores will have to bounce back quickly though as they remain on the road. The Coyotes stayed true to their first seed and clobbered the Dallas Birddogs for well over three quarters.

[Chucky]

While I have recently joined my team Bondi Beach Buccaneers. This week's practice was hell for us players. The coaches weren't pleased with the 4 unnecessary roughness penalties that we received last week all in the 4th quarter in a tight game against the Kansas City Coyotes. While the Coyotes are a really good team, we had them where we wanted them 23-10 in the 4th quarter with 10 minutes left in the game. We had already been called for one unnecessary roughness penalty, but no one predicted the last 2 penalties to factor into the Coyotes scoring 14 points in the last 3 minutes and upsetting us. 

The entire week coach had us run suicides, and push us to the brink to get a response. It didn't matter if we just joined the team (I and my fellow 3 recruits were given multiple meetings with various coaches on what to do in various situations to control our emotions and be smarter players), you were running suicides if one person showed any un-necessary emotions rather that be a sigh and any gestures showing our exasperation.

While the media may throw a fit and call this too much, us players appreciated the tough love. It all paid off as the Bondi Beach Bucs kept their playoff hopes alive with a 22-14 win over the current #1 seed, Luchadores. In a better show of temperament, the Bucs only committed 2 penalties.

[Evok]

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[unconfident]

The Austin Copperheads and I have had a bit of an up and down season, and there's been plenty of mistakes on everyone's part. But I'll focus on my player, quarterback right end eighty two. In games where we need to win the most I've thrown some unfortunate interceptions and not exactly put us in the best position to win games by turning the ball over so carelessly. And when I've kept the ball out of the hands of the opposing defense, I have failed to gain that much yardage, resulting in an unfortunate passer rating. Despite these faults, I'm sure it is all the fault of now outgoing quarterback Jackie Daytona, the added difficulty of having to share snaps is simply too much to handle and if I recieved every snap so we could send Daytona to the bench I would certainly perform a lot better than I currently have been and wouldn't botch so many plays.

[LB3737]

For this point task about botching plays, there’s no real way I could speak here about my own player, David Moyes, as it is a simple that the Moyesiah has never, ever botched a play in his entire career, doesn’t even know the meaning of the word to be quite frank here (no ill will towards anyone I do talk about botching here, I just really need to do this PT so cmon). Firstly for a botched play for Sarasota this season I can look at the most recent game vs Philly which was an absolutely devastating loss in the race for a high playoff seed this postseason. You may think I’m gonna talk about Rainbow Dash’s missed FG and Caleb Watt botching the snap, but as a matter of fact, no! That is not the botch. For we have to look at Carter Knight, botching the snap and fumbling the ball back to Philly, costing us the game and in turn the 1st seed. Hope you’re proud of yourself, Carter

[.simo]

This season has been quite a big of a come down for Wendell Sailor. A bit of a second year syndrome affecting the quarter back that plays for the Outlaws of Arizona in the International Simulation Football League. Last season from Wendell Sailor was his rookie season and not only did he win offensive rookie of the year but he was legitimately playing at a most valuable player level through the whole season. He threw a lot of touchdowns and not so many picks. This season though basically the whole season has been this mistake from Wendell Sailor. He has thrown about double the number of picks than he did last season and just in general has not been able to move the ball down the field as effectively as he could last season. In the end though the Outlaws should be making playoffs and from there who knows what will happen. Playoffs always throw up some crazy scenarios.

[Alcott]

As has been the case throughout his whole career, the biggest fault in Cole Maxwell's game is his propensity to lose concentration during the process of the catch and end up dropping the pass. While this fatal flaw has improved over the years, it still rears its ugly head from time to time, and season 34 was no different, with his 5 drops often coming at impactful times. The first example of this was during the week 8 loss to the Arizona Outlaws, a game that was decided by 7 points. Had Cole been able to secure the catch instead of letting it fall to the ground, perhaps his team could've scored on that possession and taken the game to overtime for a chance at bringing home the win. Another example of this was the week 14 loss to the Philadelphia Liberty by a total of 6 points. The crucial drop could've helped sustain a drive that, if it produced points, could've led to another win for the Yeti

[Skindog44]

PT 34-5

This PT is extremely triggering to me. I mean I have a ton of issues. But I want to be clear and remark that most of the mistakes done are 100% in game. I mean lets talk about… its 4th and short we are down in a game and we are in our opponent’s part of the field. Why on earth would we ever punt the ball and not for it right there. I mean its insanity. This season we have one of the most potent offensives in the league. And our defense is somewhat suspect. When we are in a 4th and short situation and close the 50 yard line and we just punt the ball the way and allow the other team to eat clock or just march down the field again against or poor defense I feel that is just terrible in game managing. Like I said though I know our gm don’t have much control once the sim fires up but this in game managing engine is just terrible and it kills me to watch it some time. And it’s just know that. The in game clock management is just god awful but I’ll save that for another PT. Ioe out

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[JoshiePoo]

In many of the rookies first games in the DSFL, the Tijuana Luchadores travelled 7,500 miles southwest to face off against the Bondi Beach Buccaneers in a DSFL South matchup that would for many showcase each teams relative strength heading into the postseason. Tijuana was coming off a 6 game win streak and was sitting at a pretty 9-3 heading into the Thursday night showdown, and stood poised to put another W on the board. For the Buccaneers the season had been a forgettable one, posting a record of 5 wins and 7 losses over the course of the season.

The Luchadores would jump out to an early lead, QB Elessar Jones completing a gorgeous 6 yard pass to rookie sensation Don Dobbler for the TD, making the score 7-3. This would mark Dobbler's first and only catch of the game, making his TD/rec ratio 100%. Inexplicably however, the TIJ head coach would fail to scheme their electric rookie open again, and after three quarters of dominance the Buccaneers would find themselves holding a 19-7 lead over TIJ. Only after garbage time scoring would TIJ make the score respectable, and the final score would come out to BBB 22-14 over TIJ.

This begs the question, in this analytically driven modern age of football, why was the Luchadores head coach not able to scheme the ball into rookie Don Dobbler's hands? With a TD/rec ratio of 100%, surely it stands to reason that every subsequent pass caught by the rookie would also go for a TD! This has some analytical gurus calling this blunder by Tijuana the "Botchmania" of the season. In an interview, the TIJ head coach said "That's not how statistics work," which has many fans scratching their heads over the dinosaur football theory on display. Fans everywhere will find out Monday if the Luchadores can recover ahead of their game against Kansas City.