Well, it appears that I am back once again in the third installment of this series of trying to pay for my Dotts packs and not go broke at the same time.
Recent Pulls:
Pack 4:
Brock Weathers III DE S8 PHI ®
Tycker Om DE S23 PHI (B)
Desta Danger CB S7 COL (B)
Martavius Mack S S15 COL (B)
Jesse Marchand LB S9 PHI (B)
Stanislaw Koniecpolski LB S22 ARI (B) x2
Pack 5:
Football Sackerman DT S11 SJS (S)
Omar Wrong DT S8 COL (B)
JD Boom DE S3 OCO (B)
Afredo Crisco K S14 AUS (S)
Robby Rainey RB S6 YKW (G)
Brave Ulssess DE S15 NO (G)
Pack 6:
Johnson Harding QB S18 PHI (B)
Rock Hardshaft LB S15 PHI (B)
Bobby Ruckus S S6 COL (B)
Victor Moreno CB S20 HON (B)
Alexander Selich LB S1 SJS (B)
Vander Jones RB S13 PHI (G)
Pack 7:
Brendan Lanier S S22 SJS (B)
Tristan Gronlie DT S22 PHI (B)
Alex Thomas OL S1 ARI (B)
Dex Kennedy LB S22 BAL (B)
Blake Alexander WR S22 NO (B)
Gosh Jarden WR S1 YKW (G)
Well, it has been a few days since my last installment of my Dotts pack series so thought I’d whip up another one in an effort to get some
bread in the bank for more. Pretty mediocre last few days for me by only pulling 1 All-Pro tier card and 4 Star tier cards. Hopefully the next few packs will turn in my favour and I can pull one of those fancy awards cards or just pull myself cause that’s pretty much the only card I want so far. Without further adieu I’ll get into the boring part of these articles that a majority of you probably just glance over.
The first person discussed in the history segment should probably be one of the best players I pulled so we are going to dive into Brock Weathers III
Brock Weather III was selected with the last pick in the first round for the Philadelphia Liberty as a linebacker from the illustrious San Antonio Marshals.
Brock Weathers stayed down for an extra season after the draft and joined the big club in season nine as a defensive end where he had 45 tackles and 6 sacks. The legendary defensive lineman for the Liberty only managed to play til the summation of the 13th season of the ISFL where he put up a solid 60 tackles and 7 sacks.
The final update for this player saw him go out in his prime with over 1000 TPE earned and applied. When faced with the question of why a player so good and crucial to a Liberty locker room would walk away Brock Weathers III answered that he “caught a glimpse of his grandfather out of the corner of his eyes. [he] could tell that there was something on his mind. Instead of joining the rest of the Liberty in the locker room he walked over to the elder BW and just stood there in silence for a bit
before Senior held his hand out with a small envelope clutched inside. III reached for it and tried to take it, but the old man's hands just didn't want
to let go. Finally he let Brock have the envelope and he simply turned and walked away, no words. Brock was puzzled, but couldn't land on a single word to
say either. He finally opened the envelope and pulled out an even smaller piece of paper. He turned it over and it had only two words. GAME OVER”
Another defensive player in my fourth pack stood out as well and it is Jesse Marchand who was also drafted in Season 9 and played for the Philadelphia Liberty.
Jesse Marchand was selected with the 13th selection overall in the Season 9 draft that was loaded with studs such as Xavier Flash, Marquise Brown, and Kolby Deringer.
Marchand, much like Weathers, took an extra season in the DSFL to hone their skills and came out firing in their rookie campaign and notched 93 tackles, 5 sacks, and 15 pass defenses. Unfortunately fellow Season 9 draftee Kolby Deringer also stood out and made Pro Bowl voting. Season 11 saw change for Marchand as he joined Brock Weather III on the defensive line and failed to get a sack.
Fresh scenery and a return to his original position saw Jesse Marchand break out again for the New Orleans Second Line where he got 95 tackles and 11 pass defense.
Marchand saw one more scenery change to Arizona and back to the defensive line where his struggles continued and subsequently retired after the season.
Time to continue the defensive trend and talk about someone who played for the best team in the league, which is the San Jose Sabercats, but more importantly Football Sackerman.
Football Sackerman was selected with the tenth pick overall in the Season 11 draft by the Arizona Outlaws.
Throughout his time in the ISFL he was a one-time Pro Bowler in Season 15. Much unlike some of the other players discussed already, Sackerman started in his true rookie season but struggled out of the gate with only 15 tackles and 1 sack. Sackerman truly broke out in Season 14 when he joined the San Jose Sabercats and garnered 56 tackles and 10 sacks at the defensive tackle position. Sackerman remained with the team through Season 17 and continued to put up solid numbers and finds himself at 6th
place all-time for sacks as a Sabercat player.
Yet another defensive lineman deserves to be looked into and that includes JD Boom of the Orange County Otters (ew).
Boom saw himself slide in the Season 3 draft all the way down to the 25th selection by the Otters.
Boom started out of the gate on all cyclinders as he notched a whopping 11 sacks and 37 tackles in his rookie season. Sadly much of this early success was an outlier as JD Boom found themselves out of the league by the start of the 5th season of the ISFL although they were able to receive a championship ring in season 4 when the Otters won the Ultimus, which Boom had contributed solid numbers from the defensive end position.
Well, the final player I will discuss with the third installment of this series is Bobby Ruckus the safety out of Colorado
Bobby Ruckus was selected with the 10th overall pick in the Season 6 draft and was surrounded by players selected to the Pro-Bowl roster by unfortunately Ruckus never made it themselves.
Ruckus started in their true rookie season at strong safety and only managed to net 68 tackles (almost nice), 1 sack, and 1 pass defense.
The Front office of the Yeti put the pressure on Ruckus too perform and he balled out in a big way by adding 7 sacks and 5 pass defenses in his 2nd season in the league. Ruckus was able to carve out a role on the defense for a few seasons til inevitably he was replaced and found himself out of the league.
Now for some of the opinions on the design art for the cards in my latest few packs.
The Good:
Omar Wrong:
There is just something appealing about cards that look slightly older much like this one, the jersey colouring in this one is top notch and the framing and placement of this card is also top-notch. All around it is a fairly pleasing card and with no real critiques or downsides to it.
8.5/10
Vander Jones:
Once again another top notch card design for this one. The photo selected for this card was a nice action shot that features a nice blurred background that still is pleasing to the eye. This is also one of my first cards that features the Dotts logo on the top right corner and it looks nice for a change. The jersey touch up for this is nice but a little too orange for my tastes but still pretty solid.
7/10
Alexander Selich:
Now I may have a little bias towards San Jose cards but this is another excellent card especially with the pose and all aspects of the body still remaining within the boundaries of the card. The green tinted background is slightly darker on this card then other San Jose cards, which I completely enjoy. Overall, well framed, coloured and done.
8.5/10
The Meh:
Brendan Lanier:
Let me preface this that they are a great teammate but this card just isn’t that nice in my opinion. Lanier is sort of just shoved off to the right side of the card to probably accommodate for his arm but just sort of throws the whole card off. I like the jersey swap and the colours but just not a fan of the placement.
5/10
Tycker Om:
Now this card pretty much has the opposite problem of the last card in that the jersey swap/colouration just ain’t it. It still is pretty clearly a Chargers jersey with the lightning bolts and powder blue uniforms. The Dotts number in the bottom corner is also not really centered or white, which makes It more difficult to read. Other than that the card is framed well and pleasing to the eye.
Just is not good a card (Sorry to whoever did this one)
3/10
Pulls so far:
Legend tier (Blue) 1250+ TPE:
All-Pro tier (Red) 850-1249 TPE: 2
Star tier (Gold) 550-849 TPE: 5
Starter tier (Silver) 400-549 TPE: 10
Backup tier (Bronze) <400 TPE: 25
Duplicates: 1
Recent Pulls:
Pack 4:
Brock Weathers III DE S8 PHI ®
Tycker Om DE S23 PHI (B)
Desta Danger CB S7 COL (B)
Martavius Mack S S15 COL (B)
Jesse Marchand LB S9 PHI (B)
Stanislaw Koniecpolski LB S22 ARI (B) x2
Pack 5:
Football Sackerman DT S11 SJS (S)
Omar Wrong DT S8 COL (B)
JD Boom DE S3 OCO (B)
Afredo Crisco K S14 AUS (S)
Robby Rainey RB S6 YKW (G)
Brave Ulssess DE S15 NO (G)
Pack 6:
Johnson Harding QB S18 PHI (B)
Rock Hardshaft LB S15 PHI (B)
Bobby Ruckus S S6 COL (B)
Victor Moreno CB S20 HON (B)
Alexander Selich LB S1 SJS (B)
Vander Jones RB S13 PHI (G)
Pack 7:
Brendan Lanier S S22 SJS (B)
Tristan Gronlie DT S22 PHI (B)
Alex Thomas OL S1 ARI (B)
Dex Kennedy LB S22 BAL (B)
Blake Alexander WR S22 NO (B)
Gosh Jarden WR S1 YKW (G)
Well, it has been a few days since my last installment of my Dotts pack series so thought I’d whip up another one in an effort to get some
bread in the bank for more. Pretty mediocre last few days for me by only pulling 1 All-Pro tier card and 4 Star tier cards. Hopefully the next few packs will turn in my favour and I can pull one of those fancy awards cards or just pull myself cause that’s pretty much the only card I want so far. Without further adieu I’ll get into the boring part of these articles that a majority of you probably just glance over.
The first person discussed in the history segment should probably be one of the best players I pulled so we are going to dive into Brock Weathers III
Brock Weather III was selected with the last pick in the first round for the Philadelphia Liberty as a linebacker from the illustrious San Antonio Marshals.
Brock Weathers stayed down for an extra season after the draft and joined the big club in season nine as a defensive end where he had 45 tackles and 6 sacks. The legendary defensive lineman for the Liberty only managed to play til the summation of the 13th season of the ISFL where he put up a solid 60 tackles and 7 sacks.
The final update for this player saw him go out in his prime with over 1000 TPE earned and applied. When faced with the question of why a player so good and crucial to a Liberty locker room would walk away Brock Weathers III answered that he “caught a glimpse of his grandfather out of the corner of his eyes. [he] could tell that there was something on his mind. Instead of joining the rest of the Liberty in the locker room he walked over to the elder BW and just stood there in silence for a bit
before Senior held his hand out with a small envelope clutched inside. III reached for it and tried to take it, but the old man's hands just didn't want
to let go. Finally he let Brock have the envelope and he simply turned and walked away, no words. Brock was puzzled, but couldn't land on a single word to
say either. He finally opened the envelope and pulled out an even smaller piece of paper. He turned it over and it had only two words. GAME OVER”
Another defensive player in my fourth pack stood out as well and it is Jesse Marchand who was also drafted in Season 9 and played for the Philadelphia Liberty.
Jesse Marchand was selected with the 13th selection overall in the Season 9 draft that was loaded with studs such as Xavier Flash, Marquise Brown, and Kolby Deringer.
Marchand, much like Weathers, took an extra season in the DSFL to hone their skills and came out firing in their rookie campaign and notched 93 tackles, 5 sacks, and 15 pass defenses. Unfortunately fellow Season 9 draftee Kolby Deringer also stood out and made Pro Bowl voting. Season 11 saw change for Marchand as he joined Brock Weather III on the defensive line and failed to get a sack.
Fresh scenery and a return to his original position saw Jesse Marchand break out again for the New Orleans Second Line where he got 95 tackles and 11 pass defense.
Marchand saw one more scenery change to Arizona and back to the defensive line where his struggles continued and subsequently retired after the season.
Time to continue the defensive trend and talk about someone who played for the best team in the league, which is the San Jose Sabercats, but more importantly Football Sackerman.
Football Sackerman was selected with the tenth pick overall in the Season 11 draft by the Arizona Outlaws.
Throughout his time in the ISFL he was a one-time Pro Bowler in Season 15. Much unlike some of the other players discussed already, Sackerman started in his true rookie season but struggled out of the gate with only 15 tackles and 1 sack. Sackerman truly broke out in Season 14 when he joined the San Jose Sabercats and garnered 56 tackles and 10 sacks at the defensive tackle position. Sackerman remained with the team through Season 17 and continued to put up solid numbers and finds himself at 6th
place all-time for sacks as a Sabercat player.
Yet another defensive lineman deserves to be looked into and that includes JD Boom of the Orange County Otters (ew).
Boom saw himself slide in the Season 3 draft all the way down to the 25th selection by the Otters.
Boom started out of the gate on all cyclinders as he notched a whopping 11 sacks and 37 tackles in his rookie season. Sadly much of this early success was an outlier as JD Boom found themselves out of the league by the start of the 5th season of the ISFL although they were able to receive a championship ring in season 4 when the Otters won the Ultimus, which Boom had contributed solid numbers from the defensive end position.
Well, the final player I will discuss with the third installment of this series is Bobby Ruckus the safety out of Colorado
Bobby Ruckus was selected with the 10th overall pick in the Season 6 draft and was surrounded by players selected to the Pro-Bowl roster by unfortunately Ruckus never made it themselves.
Ruckus started in their true rookie season at strong safety and only managed to net 68 tackles (almost nice), 1 sack, and 1 pass defense.
The Front office of the Yeti put the pressure on Ruckus too perform and he balled out in a big way by adding 7 sacks and 5 pass defenses in his 2nd season in the league. Ruckus was able to carve out a role on the defense for a few seasons til inevitably he was replaced and found himself out of the league.
Now for some of the opinions on the design art for the cards in my latest few packs.
The Good:
Omar Wrong:
There is just something appealing about cards that look slightly older much like this one, the jersey colouring in this one is top notch and the framing and placement of this card is also top-notch. All around it is a fairly pleasing card and with no real critiques or downsides to it.
8.5/10
Vander Jones:
Once again another top notch card design for this one. The photo selected for this card was a nice action shot that features a nice blurred background that still is pleasing to the eye. This is also one of my first cards that features the Dotts logo on the top right corner and it looks nice for a change. The jersey touch up for this is nice but a little too orange for my tastes but still pretty solid.
7/10
Alexander Selich:
Now I may have a little bias towards San Jose cards but this is another excellent card especially with the pose and all aspects of the body still remaining within the boundaries of the card. The green tinted background is slightly darker on this card then other San Jose cards, which I completely enjoy. Overall, well framed, coloured and done.
8.5/10
The Meh:
Brendan Lanier:
Let me preface this that they are a great teammate but this card just isn’t that nice in my opinion. Lanier is sort of just shoved off to the right side of the card to probably accommodate for his arm but just sort of throws the whole card off. I like the jersey swap and the colours but just not a fan of the placement.
5/10
Tycker Om:
Now this card pretty much has the opposite problem of the last card in that the jersey swap/colouration just ain’t it. It still is pretty clearly a Chargers jersey with the lightning bolts and powder blue uniforms. The Dotts number in the bottom corner is also not really centered or white, which makes It more difficult to read. Other than that the card is framed well and pleasing to the eye.
Just is not good a card (Sorry to whoever did this one)
3/10
Pulls so far:
Legend tier (Blue) 1250+ TPE:
All-Pro tier (Red) 850-1249 TPE: 2
Star tier (Gold) 550-849 TPE: 5
Starter tier (Silver) 400-549 TPE: 10
Backup tier (Bronze) <400 TPE: 25
Duplicates: 1