20. It has been a long and grueling season for Yellowknife, and the Wraiths have been decimated by injury. It’s the final game of the regular season, with a playoff berth on the line. With every man on the field except the water boy, legendary but aging defensive end Nero Alexander unfortunately tears his ACL, ending his season (and likely his career.) Without any other choice the coaches are going to have to play someone on the both sides of the ball, and turn to the tight end, Zee Rechs, and tell him he’s going to have to step up and play on the defensive line. While not ideal, Zee is the best offensive player to try and fill a hole on the defensive line. As a tight end, Zee has high strength to try and out muscle opposing linemen and tight ends, agility to out maneuver them, and intelligence to try and predict the play ahead of time. Unlike trying to put in an offensive lineman, Zee is also pretty quick. Zee also has great hands to try and shed blocks. The biggest flaw in this plan is Zee has almost no tackling skills, and hasn’t worked on his tackling since high school, so hopefully none of the opposing team’s players are too slippery!
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22. Due to his skills on the field, Zee has had the chance to endorse several products. However, this is an easy one for Zee, since he grew up on a cattle farm, but Zee would definitely endorse some good old Texas beef. Granted, most folks have already heard the tried and true “Beef, it’s what’s for dinner!” campaign, but it's kind of upsetting to Zee that breakfast and lunch aren’t included. Not only does Zee love to eat, he loves to cook, and he’s a damn fine chef. The new ad campaign would definitely feature pics of Zee on the farm, because nothing’s more quaint than a family farm (except the smell!) But the biggest thing Zee would bring to the new beef campaign would be his new youtube cooking show! Who wouldn’t want to see him cooking his favorite meals and recipes using beef? Besides vegetarians. Zee is more than willing to show the internet his mad kitchen skills. Breakfast, lunch, or dinner, Zee brings a lot more than just a pretty face and football talent to the table. Nothing will sell the product faster than pictures and video of Zee, his friends, family, and teammates chowing down on some delicious burgers, steaks, and Zee’s favorite, BBQ brisket!
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28. I, for one, am super excited about switching to the new sim. It feels to me like a bit of a fresh start for my player, for one thing. I feel like tight ends are kind of boring in the current sim, unless you play outside the tight end slot in the depth chart. Since my archetype is going away I have to switch types anyway. Hopefully, the new sim will be a bit more balanced, and more than one archetype or playstyle are viable for most players. The current sim is very one dimensional, and also pretty well figured out by most of the league at this point. I’m hoping between the new builds and new traits that more play styles become attractive to the players. I know many folks will be frustrated that, without exhibition games, testing is much less of a thing now that you can’t sim 500 games at a time, but maybe that will encourage GMs to experiment with more formations than the few that are used now in the current sim. It does look like play calling will be more customizable to a team’s strengths as well! I do think the sim interface will take some getting used to, but overall I’m happy with what the new sim seems to bring to the league.
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29. Well, I know how infinite feels about more awards, but I definitely have a few opinions about them after being on the awards committee! One award that I think the league should seriously consider implementing is the ‘best blocker’ award. Currently, players like blocking tight ends and fullbacks are very unpopular in the league, as it’s not a very rewarding position. However, with the new sim requiring a fullback in the fullback position, I expect to see more of them in the future. Since we are moving to the new sim, I think now is a good time to implement an award that players whose primary job is to block, outside of the offensive line, would qualify to win. This would likely encourage more folks to consider these types of players because they have at least some chance at recognition. Right now there is really one person who should be getting this award, and that’s New York Silverbacks fullback Buster Bawlls. Bawlls had 31 pancakes last year, and an impressive 51 this year. Most fullbacks and blocking tight ends will never have enough receiving or rushing yards to make them even close to eligible for running back or tight end of the year, and this award would serve as motivation for folks to be willing to create those kinds of players, which can only be better for the league.
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22. Due to his skills on the field, Zee has had the chance to endorse several products. However, this is an easy one for Zee, since he grew up on a cattle farm, but Zee would definitely endorse some good old Texas beef. Granted, most folks have already heard the tried and true “Beef, it’s what’s for dinner!” campaign, but it's kind of upsetting to Zee that breakfast and lunch aren’t included. Not only does Zee love to eat, he loves to cook, and he’s a damn fine chef. The new ad campaign would definitely feature pics of Zee on the farm, because nothing’s more quaint than a family farm (except the smell!) But the biggest thing Zee would bring to the new beef campaign would be his new youtube cooking show! Who wouldn’t want to see him cooking his favorite meals and recipes using beef? Besides vegetarians. Zee is more than willing to show the internet his mad kitchen skills. Breakfast, lunch, or dinner, Zee brings a lot more than just a pretty face and football talent to the table. Nothing will sell the product faster than pictures and video of Zee, his friends, family, and teammates chowing down on some delicious burgers, steaks, and Zee’s favorite, BBQ brisket!
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28. I, for one, am super excited about switching to the new sim. It feels to me like a bit of a fresh start for my player, for one thing. I feel like tight ends are kind of boring in the current sim, unless you play outside the tight end slot in the depth chart. Since my archetype is going away I have to switch types anyway. Hopefully, the new sim will be a bit more balanced, and more than one archetype or playstyle are viable for most players. The current sim is very one dimensional, and also pretty well figured out by most of the league at this point. I’m hoping between the new builds and new traits that more play styles become attractive to the players. I know many folks will be frustrated that, without exhibition games, testing is much less of a thing now that you can’t sim 500 games at a time, but maybe that will encourage GMs to experiment with more formations than the few that are used now in the current sim. It does look like play calling will be more customizable to a team’s strengths as well! I do think the sim interface will take some getting used to, but overall I’m happy with what the new sim seems to bring to the league.
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29. Well, I know how infinite feels about more awards, but I definitely have a few opinions about them after being on the awards committee! One award that I think the league should seriously consider implementing is the ‘best blocker’ award. Currently, players like blocking tight ends and fullbacks are very unpopular in the league, as it’s not a very rewarding position. However, with the new sim requiring a fullback in the fullback position, I expect to see more of them in the future. Since we are moving to the new sim, I think now is a good time to implement an award that players whose primary job is to block, outside of the offensive line, would qualify to win. This would likely encourage more folks to consider these types of players because they have at least some chance at recognition. Right now there is really one person who should be getting this award, and that’s New York Silverbacks fullback Buster Bawlls. Bawlls had 31 pancakes last year, and an impressive 51 this year. Most fullbacks and blocking tight ends will never have enough receiving or rushing yards to make them even close to eligible for running back or tight end of the year, and this award would serve as motivation for folks to be willing to create those kinds of players, which can only be better for the league.
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