(S46) PT #4 - Kicking Into High Gear

[Keyg_an]

The Cape Town Crash have been on a hot streak lately, with their defense often stifling opponents offensively to provide a clear lane towards victory. Dominate performances by our defense has been what has kept us in games when our rookie quarterback experienced growing pains adjusting to the ISFL level talent on defense. Despite this, we have achieved a winning record and currently look as though we have a solid chance at becoming a playoff team this season. If defence wins championships then we have what it takes to take this team to the next level. We are not yet looking towards the off-season, but when we are it will be all hands on deck to address the offense. Ayame has had an all-time year, but the wide receiver play leaves plenty to be desired. Ideally we can address wide receiver internally, but there’s the potential for a franchise altering move as well. Only time will tell how the big bosses will handle the move.

[Oles]

Well, I've been on the Coyotes for all of like, 1 day so I have very much not a lot of info regarding how the team is going. I just know that this team has won 6 of their last 7 after a rocky 3 game start, looking like they might not be in a good situation. Add on an addition from one of the most prominent ISFL families, the Oles family, for the Ultimini push, and they are poised to make a push for the Ultimini and bring it home to Kansas City. The Coyotes are the strongest team over this 7 game stretch, having won the most games. Sure Tijuana has the best record in the league, but their past 3 weeks are two losses and a win against the worst team in the league. Tijuana is sliding, the Grey Ducks are strong but no team is hotter than the team that resides in Kansas City, poised to be a strong contender for the Ultimini. (167 words)

[thewhovian]

Uh, the Chicago Butchers are not faring well. They are currently 5th in the division, with no real hopes of turning it around for the Ultimus, especially after already trading away their main RB mid-season. Their offense is currently 9th in the league for points, 14th for yards, and surprisingly their defense is also not faring well either being 8th and 14th in the same stats.  So, looking towards the offseason, the team really needs to pick up some key pieces to improve their chances for the future. Mainly all of those pieces need to be on offense. This team has a aging offense that will need to be replaced. It seems they’ve put a lot of faith and hopes into building up their defense, which was warranted in a division with very high-powered offenses, but now the offense has suffered and needs to be shown a little love during the offseason. Hopefully in the meantime their defense can either hold steady, or their younger players can continue to earn and be more competitive.

[Charple]

Right now the Dallas Birddogs are at a cool five wins and five losses. This barely keeps us in the running for a playoff run as long as the Bondi Beach Buccos and the Norfolk Seawolves stay away from winning. Our keys for success are our Passing attack and Passing defense, with statistical leads in both. Unfortunately we lost our OROY Silence Suzuka in the offseason, but Seventh Rounder has picked up a lot of slack to assist with the passing attack. I think if McChapperson (my player and QB) can actually start showing up to games and getting the ball to the playmakers then we have a better chance of making it to the Ultimini. For the offseason we may need to boost up the defense a smidge to stop the rush, which we are statistically horrible at, as last in the league. So as long as we can keep Seventh Rounder, as we are losing Lane Frost III, and grab another Wide Receiver later in the draft, I would hope to see a first round pick on the Defensive side of the ball.

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[shadyshoelace]

Lenard McRobinson is a newly minted member of the ISFL's Honolulu Hahalua, and the team is looking towards the future with him at the helm. After the would-be contenders sputtered early in the season, starting 1-7, they decided to punt the current Ultimus chase by bringing McRobinson up to the big leagues and initiating a large-scale rebuild that saw many of the team's older and high-performing veterans shipped off to new locales. This means that Lenard is the face of the next generation of the franchise and will be a crucial leader for all the young players that will be selected with the litany of draft picks Honolulu owns over the next few seasons. The team has showed their ability to quickly rebuild into an elite team in the past, so the players are looking forward to the offseason and excited to see which new prospects take their places at the heart of the ISFL's next dynasty.

[roastfuego]

Not the Ultimus (cause I ain’t in that league yet), but the Tijuana Luchadores look like the clear favorite to win the Ultimini. This is a team with the two best receivers in the league (one who’s on pace to break the single season receiving touchdown record), a goated tight end (still waiting on the Kronk spike), a league leading running back with fresh legs in the RB2 spot and the league MVP under center. And that’s just the offense. The team currently rosters the number one overall offense in the DSFL and the number one overall defense. And all of this starts with the GMs. They have held each of us accountable with updates, build advice, sim understanding and just keeping the locker room tight knit altogether. Key free agent signings as well as some of the best drafting over the years has led to the dominant force that is the Tijuana Luchadores. It’s the Luchadore league, everyone else is just kinda there to develop.

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[Cycro]

The Cape Town Crash came into this season expecting to primarily be in a period of semi-rebuilding. Reloading is maybe the better way to phrase it, as we come off of the power spike from our previous Ultimus run and enter the ramp up into our next big power spike with our S41/S42 players peaking. Instead, we've been a sneaky threat all season with stellar performance in our run game from QB Thor Ballsforever and RBs Nakiri Ayame and Scorch Von Turbo. As well, our defense has played absolutely lights out all season, keeping higher performing offenses locked down and giving our run-heavy offense the chance to grind out the tougher games. I would expect literal record breaking performance from our running offense in the remaining games of the regular season as well as (hopefully) some record breaking defensive gameplay from our key pieces, particularly our Corners and our Linebackers.

[Dindog]

Oh boy well since I am on a DSFL team I am going to relate it to that. And the “you never know who is going to win the whole thing” is the most true statement ever in the DSFL. It’s a toss up pretty much the whole way through. As for my team the Minnesota grey ducks and our performance thus far I’d say we are somewhat under performing. We dropped a couple games that should have won. But with that said I definitely do not see a reason why we can’t come back strong and finish out on top. We have one of the strongest teams on paper when talking about TPE and positional depth. So I really think that this season is duck season and we are the ones that are going to be doing the hunting. I can see it now! The grey ducks win the mini!! And I am looking forward to celebrating during the off season. (162)

[shrub02]

For the first time in quite a while, I am feeling pretty confident about the Otters' odd to win it all this season. We are currently sitting at 3rd in the conference and two of our next three opponents are struggling teams. We got our bs loss out of the way last game so hopefully that will fuel us for the playoffs. Our real challenge comes tomorrow night versus the Sabrecats. We need to beat them in order to get to the playoffs. Once that is done, anything can happen. I think our key to success this season has been a long time coming: steady team building with great players/users. That combined with some great pickups via trades this season has put us in a great position. Not to mention that some guy named Reginald Shrubbery has been killing it this season. All we need to do is take care of business this next game. I think this is our season. Hopefully that's not just the hopium taking effect. 

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