We are still quite early in Season 47, but things are going OK for Harrison Andrews Jr. so far. It’s his first season in the league and he’s enjoying his time with the Tijuana Luchadores so far. From a team standpoint, Tijuana dropped the season opener, but have not dropped another game since then, riding a 3 game win streak to a 3-1 record after 4 games. Andrews isn’t necessarily making a case for an All Pro selection or anything like that, but he is a contributing member of a defense that leads the league in nearly every category, including allowing the least passing yards per game. As a starting cornerback, Andrews can claim a little bit of the credit for that statline. That’s not enough for him though. He’s yet to force a turnover this season and he plans to do whatever it takes to come down with a few INTs before the end of the season.
The first half of this season has gone better than even we expected in San Jose. At 6-1, the Sabercats are sitting pretty at the top of the ASFC. With the emergence of the Patterson and Calhoun connection, the SJS offense has started to catch up with the stalwart defense. Wins against the Otters, Sailfish and the Outlaws have given the locker room a huge boost and spirits are flying high! The back half of the schedule has some more big match-ups, including rematches with Orange County and Arizona that will likely determine playoff seeding. The key for the Cats will be to win the winnable games and claw a couple more of the big ones our way. It we can finish off the year with at least 4 more wins, playoffs will be all but secured, which would end a playoff drought that has plagued San Jose for far too long.
The first four weeks of the season have gone pretty well for the DSFL’s Bondi Beach Buccaneers. They started the season off with a narrow, three point win over the Tijuana Luchadores that many considered to be an upset. Buccaneer running back Brandon Johnson had 103 yards and a touchdown in Tijuana’s only loss so far this season. Week 2 was less successful for the Buccs. Three turnovers caused them to lose their first game of the season to the Kansas City Coyotes. The Buccs would get back into the win column the next week against the Dallas Birddogs. The Buccs took care of business against the team commonly considered the worst in the league, beating them 37-7. In the fourth week of the season, the Buccs would go on the road to the United Kingdom to take on the London Royals. There, they would pull off another upset, defeating the Royals, who were undefeated heading into that game, 31-17.
For Portland, it is not going so great. Our passing game seems to be doing great, with Jonathan Irons and Tyler Higbee II both being in the top 5 receiving yards on the season. Our rushing game seems to be doing well with Gucci Gurley, American Dream, and Animal Blundetto helping lead the rushing game to averaging 5.2 yards a carry. However, we cannot find the endzone to save our lives. Through 4 games, we have only scored 7 touchdowns with 2 being on the ground and 5 being in the air. Yardage wise, our offense is as good as anybody. However, we only have 73 points to show for it. If we can consistently find the endzone, I think we can sneak into the playoffs. Our defensive side of the ball is also struggling to stop opponents from scoring. Spaghetti and Strong are shining, but individual stats do not matter without results. If our offense can finish drives more and our defense can get some more stops, I think we can be great.
Things aren’t going exactly as we’d hoped for the New Orleans Second Line. Between bad luck and tough competition, we’re sitting at 4-3 and hoped to be around 5-2 at this point. This is the season we really hoped to be in competition in the ASFC and still think we are, but there’s a lot of talent in the conference and that’s going to make it a lot harder to hit the goal of playoffs that we had. BUT… the team is 4-3. This is the first time the New Orleans Second Line have had a positive record since my player Bruce White was drafted to the team. The talent is on this roster and it’s all definitely performing, we just need some more things to lean our way and it’s going to be a fun end of the season. All of this to say, things are looking bright and fun in NOLA!
Holy cow first week is done, it’s been a pretty great start to the season. But of course as we all know there are always going to be some things to iron out in the beginning and some speed bumps along the way. We look really good, the Minnesota grey ducks are in a position where we could win it all this season. Our defense is absolutely stacked, but our passing offense is where we need to work and figure out if we really want to be a force to be reckoned with, our run game and defense can care us but that is definitely the area we need to work on. As for my players own personal performance this fisrts part of of the season. It has been pretty good actually. No real complaints and hopefully krusty Krab pizza can keep up the hard work and keep improving as the season goes on (154)
This season has started off pretty poorly for our beloved Silverbacks. The team is currently sitting at 1-6 and the only team below us is the very obviously tanking Honolulu. It doesn't feel that great, but as a second season Silverback vet, I know that the NYS is a second half team. I can't wait for our win streak to start and have us eventually make playoffs despite what everyone is saying right now. I know we got some of the leagues best on our team and I'm excited for them to shine. One bright spot to the start of the season has been our rookie Drake Wane. In Drakes first couple of games in the ISFL, they were able to record two sacks, two pass deflections, a forced fumble, and a bunch of tackles. That might not seem like a crazy stat line, but for a rookie safety half way through the season those are really good! I'm excited to see what our duo will bring to this team in the future!