(S41) PT #5 - The Final Stretch

[Dextaria]

With the season almost ending, despite the Berlin Firesalamander's chances of making the playoffs not looking to hot, Beniri is still looking to play his best. To prepare for this, T'Chawama has been hitting the gym and doing extended sessions with his trainers followed by large, protein-filled, meals to build the muscle and the weight needed to lay down those pancakes on the field. Now, this is all the obvious stuff that other players are doing and Beniri is looking to get any edge that he can so he has looked into "alternative" methods of training. One of which involves the new superstition of bathing in a bathtub of maple syrup to get into the "pancake" mood as well as keeping a lucky pancake in his helmet throughout the game and eating it during time of need. This may sound absolutely ridiculous and there is no way this would work, but hey sometimes you just need to get a little lucky. With these new additions let's hope for a strong end!

[zaynzk]

Bonzi Buddy has been training hard in order to end the season on a high note, while the team has unfortunatly missed the playoffs this seasons bonzi is looking to the future and is hoping to improve his game in order to really take over the league by storm and be a dominant player for seasons to come we believe there is a lot of things we can do in order to improve and take the next step as a franchise and we are hoping we will be back and better then ever in the near future. BonzIhas decided to work harder and focus more for the mental side of the ball and that we can turn into someone who can dominate on the ball and be someone who can take over a game and i hope that we can to do something to take over and i believe that we can do something and dominate

[TDenstroyer]

Tunkha Danstrol enters the DSFL a little disoriented and confused. After years of playing college football he was hoping to go pro but instead he got a little lost along the way and ended up in the development league on the last week of the season? He's not 100% sure. Anyway, he wants to do what he can to help the other ducks succeed. So he has been doing up downs and two-a-days relentlessly... Some would think that would cause him fatigue on game day... And honestly... It probably will. But he will be mentally tougher than his opponent. He will shake the bail. He will put his heart where his body is to tired to take him! Actually, Tunkha doesn't actually know where he is playing on the offensive line. He doesn't even know the play book. But that isn't here nor there. He doesn't need the playbook. He just need to knock people on their ass accordingly. So for this final week, Tunkha isn't prepared at all.

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[Martin.Bachman]

Ever since he arrived in London, Martin has been in search of a fried chicken place that could give him the energy he needs to play at the top of his game. After weeks of searching he finally found he chicken that reminds him of home and the days of working in the Church's Chicken. Memories of his dad bringing in chicken at halftime during his high school years fill his mind. Now he continues his dads tradition and has his favorite. Ironically enough, his new favorite chicken shop is named "Royal Fried Chicken" Martin always goes on about how "peng" the chicken is. Other than that he's been trying to keep up his cardio to burn some of the calories he consumes and build up his endurance to play harder longer into the game. He's also taken to drinking a special tea his teammate Josh Patterson makes at halftime. It makes him feel funny, but helps calm him in the high intensity situations.

[MattBake12]

The riddler prepares for the playoffs by streaming his favorite video games because there is a very low possibility that the New York Silverbacks receieve a playoff bid this season. To do this I have hired a personal gaming trainer in the retired great of serenity17 a popular world of tanks and rainbow six siege player. his regiment starts with a breakfast of gaming champions, limited edition doritos cereal and mt dew milk. This will get your sugar and dophamine levels very high and ready for pixel exposure. After that we warm up by playing on our smurf accounts and pwning some noobs. That transitions into the aim trainer for 30 minutes followed by a ranked match on main account. after the first match we will review our VODs and write notes on what to improve upon, then we go back to the aim trainer for 1 hour. Now we are ready for our marathon sesh- 4 hours of comp gaming. After that session we cool down with a nice match of fall guys and fall asleep in our racing chair.

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[overdoo]

Written option: It’s the final stretch of the regular season, and only a few qualified will keep going. Describe what your player is doing to elevate their game in hopes of making the playoffs! Are they trying different workouts? Did they change the healing crystals to the right ones? Give all the details!

Upon joining the Seawolves, it was quite clear Indarts was only brought in as a backup quarterback to Franklin lll for the end of the season. The Seawolves find themselves a single game back of Bondi Beach for a playoff spot, with three games remaining in the season. While it is unlikely Huck Indarts plays any part in getting Norfolk a playoff game, he's hoping for a comeback to show itself as experiencing DSFL playoffs, even from the sideline, would be crucial experience going into his first true season after the draft.

His main role right now is just to put up a fight in some practices. Find a way to help the players improve before the end of the season, or at least find a way to get the players to help him learn a couple of things about the next stage. Hell, maybe he'll be able to figure out a weakness or two about the Norfolk defense just in case he doesn't end up back here for next season!

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[Sonny]

As Sonny Johnson's first season as a professional draws to a close, he is looking to his more seasoned team-mates for guidance on how to up his game for the final stretch.

Among the advise he'd received, were the words, "Relax, keep on doing what you've been doing, and make sure you allow your body time to recover. Don't overdo it."

Sonny took that to heart and on the physical aspect of his training, changed nothing. He stuck to his weight program that the team set him and rested otherwise.

What he did take up a level was his game-tape time. He dialed into rewatching all of his team's defensive plays from this season, looking for strengths and weaknesses in his own game and his team-mates on the defensive line. 

He of course then rewatched the same footage again with a focus on the offensive line, making notes as he went on individual players, before a final rewatch noting play tendencies. 

Sonny was comfortable he had put in the time and had done everything in his power to be prepared for the last games of the season.

[WrittinDirectino]

As someone who started football very late, Brian Vincent-Vega has had to show significant improvement every season to make it to the DSFL. After putting in a lot of work in the off season, BVV had high expectations for both himself and the defense. But 11 weeks in, the improvement hasn't been there, and Brian knows it. Missed tackles, Misreads, and dropped interceptions have plagued his season, and his mental health has taken a hit. He is not proud to admit that he's spent a decent amount of time reading tweets and articles criticizing his performance. After talking with the coaches, BVV has started seeing a sports psychologist. Most of the talk has been about managing expectations. As an athlete, motivation is crucial-but it's just as important to realize that progress isn't always linear. His performance on the field has still been up and down, but BVV knows that this is a marathon, not a sprint. BVV hopes that he can get his mind right in time for the playoff push.

[IsaStarcrossed]

Given that the Yeti have felt a little cursed over this past season when they were supposed to be making a huge leap forward, RAINN isn't beyond trying anything to get them in the groove. As such RAINN has planned a full ritual for the team as a whole to take part in to help improve all of their mental and physical abilities. After all they have to close this season out strong to have a ghost of a chance at playoffs! It starts with collecting an absolute ton of those healing crystals. You know like the ones Aaron Rodgers gets? But instead of using them for healing, they'll all be used for the center piece of a Yeti summoning ritual. You heard right. The Yeti will be contacting the dead to summon back the ghost of the great Lawrence Taylor, arguably the greatest football player of all time. By allowing him to possess the body RAINN channel his energy to return to his former greatness, RAINN will be at his absolute best and help push the Yeti to new winning ways

[Tesla]

Agent Tesla: Well I am glad you asked Miss Poofenplotz! You see this is Cross-Eriksen's eighth season in the league and she has gotten into a pretty regular routine to cover the sixteen games of the regular season. Now a lot of people think you need to put in more work, however that is actually a massive mistake on their part as the key to surviving the football season is to reduce load as best you can as you progress through the weeks.

Now to give a more concrete example Cross-Eriksen's training is most difficult during the off-season, and then it declines as we reach each step over the course of the season. So that by this final stretch of the season she is down to doing just enough to maintain her form for a potential playoff berth so as to avoid any stress injuries. That said she does make up for this reduction of physical training time though by doing more studying of the playbook and mental practice as she has found that keeping herself in a football mode seems to help her when it comes to game day. Based off her all pro nods thus far I am quite comfortable with how she handles herself over the course of the season and am not about to complain about it now.

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