All expectations for Baltimore and my own player Preston Beatz was super low. Second lowest team in TPE, rookie qb at just over 500 QB comer week 1. No established Wide Receivers, holes on the defence with a devoid of talent all round, ended up with 7 rookies inclusive of Beatz taking to the field. It was for all intensive purposes, a tanking season.
So what happened?
Baltimore made the playoffs. Beatz had the least Ints of any QB and middle of the road rating. Absolutely no one could have predicted this, and near no one did. In season predictions only 5 people out of nearly 230, had Baltimore making the playoffs. This season for the Hawks should be one that gets remembered league-wide, the unlikely heroes that put some big teams and stacked rosters to the sword, trading away of talent just to all-in team like NOLA, or a sign and trade when a player wanted out to a team with better prospects, crushed off playoff dreams by the team they left. That is what the season was for Baltimore, and Beatz at the helm, yard by yard slowing got the offence there with a courageous defence playing well above their weight-class. It is one of the greatest over-acheiving seasons ever for a team in this league, from expected fight for 1 or 2 OA in the draft, to a fight to win a ring, what a fever dream it has been
So what happened?
Baltimore made the playoffs. Beatz had the least Ints of any QB and middle of the road rating. Absolutely no one could have predicted this, and near no one did. In season predictions only 5 people out of nearly 230, had Baltimore making the playoffs. This season for the Hawks should be one that gets remembered league-wide, the unlikely heroes that put some big teams and stacked rosters to the sword, trading away of talent just to all-in team like NOLA, or a sign and trade when a player wanted out to a team with better prospects, crushed off playoff dreams by the team they left. That is what the season was for Baltimore, and Beatz at the helm, yard by yard slowing got the offence there with a courageous defence playing well above their weight-class. It is one of the greatest over-acheiving seasons ever for a team in this league, from expected fight for 1 or 2 OA in the draft, to a fight to win a ring, what a fever dream it has been