3) All about the QB
This year’s Ultimus features two amazing quarterbacks, that should make for an electrifying game. Cooter Bigsby leads the all season favorites, Yellowknife Wraiths, against the the Orange County Otters. The Otters are once again lead by Franklin Armstrong, who was absolutely amazing in the Otter’s run to the title last season. Showing the run was no fluke, Franklin has them back for a second season in a row. Statistically these two barely compare due to two very different styles. Cooter will kill you all game with his arm and his stable of ultra-fast skill players running up and down the field. Franklin will kill you with dink and dunk efficiency and super timely runs. Bigsby led the league in passing yards with a cool 4,398 yards. He also tied for the lead in passing touchdowns with 31. Franklin had less than 3,000 yards passing and only 18 passing touchdowns. However if we add in rushing, Franklin had over 750 yards rushing and 9 rushing touchdowns while Bigsby only had 61 yards rushing and zero touchdowns. This gives a clear picture of strengths of each quarterback and also shows just how closely mated these two are, even though they approach the game very differently. I think it is Bigsby’s time this year and he leads the Wraiths to a 29-22 victory.
9) Enemies
Not enemies per say but Forrest Gump and Sam Torenson look to have a long fierce rivalry ahead of them in this league. I was openly rooting for him to slow down so Torenson could catch up to him in rushing yards. Torenson came into this league like a house on fire and only showed small signs of slowing down last season. I think much of that can be equated to the change of city and living conditions for the small farm town kid and the new offensive coordinator running way more sweeps than Sam is accustomed to. He can handle sweeps just fine but they take a lot more timing and learning of your teammates blocking tendencies and reads. Sam was toting the rock straight up the gut most of the time in Chicago. He used his strength to force his way through holes and agility and speed once he broke through the line. Gump figures to be in the rushing conversation for the next few seasons alongside Torenson and for that reason he will be looked at as an enemy of the Bell! He looks to have won this latest round with a running back of the year award going to him almost assuredly this season but Sam will be back and more in shape than ever.
11) Trades
Well, duh! This is an easy one. My player Sam Torenson was traded this past offseason to the Philadelphia Liberty. He was traded from the Chicago Butchers in exchange for Marquise Brown, his boyhood idol and a 5th round pick. A few things jump out here. First off there was a general consensus around the league it could have been the worst trade ever. The way the Chicago locker room was going and sitting back and watching the near firesale with very uncertain leadership, I said to the GM that they should think about trading me to at least get something in return since it seemed they were hitting a rebuild. I had stated all along I was very happy in Chicago and it would definitely be a possibility to return as a free agent anyway. The thing is, trading me for a 5th rounder and retiring player does not set the team up long term in anyway shape or form. If Chicago had made a great move like getting 2 firsts and a second for me, it would have made it much easier to go back to. Plus Philly is awesome and I has a super active locker room of great people.
17) Robbed
I don’t think you can point to any one thing as to why the Philadelphia Liberty was robbed last season but damn if the sim wasn’t evil to us. We lost so many close games, time and time again. We had multiple big leads slip away and we had many players in the prime of their careers have just plain bad years. Adriana Falconi was still a superstar TPE wise last season and had plenty of weapons at her disposal with offensive players like Sam Torenson and Nacho Varga, yet she managed to finish with the 8th best QB rating and ninth best completion percentage. That is not just a bad season, with her TPE that is a horrendous season, totally outside of our control. There is nothing more frustrating than someone earning and not being rewarded for it. Watching a max earner put up less than pedestrian numbers is a terrible case for a good sim. The sim crushed us with Torenson’s season as well. He was coming off leading the league in yards rushing two seasons in a row and still managed to look very average despite a huge TPE gain throughout the season. As a team we were robbed in so many ways.
This year’s Ultimus features two amazing quarterbacks, that should make for an electrifying game. Cooter Bigsby leads the all season favorites, Yellowknife Wraiths, against the the Orange County Otters. The Otters are once again lead by Franklin Armstrong, who was absolutely amazing in the Otter’s run to the title last season. Showing the run was no fluke, Franklin has them back for a second season in a row. Statistically these two barely compare due to two very different styles. Cooter will kill you all game with his arm and his stable of ultra-fast skill players running up and down the field. Franklin will kill you with dink and dunk efficiency and super timely runs. Bigsby led the league in passing yards with a cool 4,398 yards. He also tied for the lead in passing touchdowns with 31. Franklin had less than 3,000 yards passing and only 18 passing touchdowns. However if we add in rushing, Franklin had over 750 yards rushing and 9 rushing touchdowns while Bigsby only had 61 yards rushing and zero touchdowns. This gives a clear picture of strengths of each quarterback and also shows just how closely mated these two are, even though they approach the game very differently. I think it is Bigsby’s time this year and he leads the Wraiths to a 29-22 victory.
9) Enemies
Not enemies per say but Forrest Gump and Sam Torenson look to have a long fierce rivalry ahead of them in this league. I was openly rooting for him to slow down so Torenson could catch up to him in rushing yards. Torenson came into this league like a house on fire and only showed small signs of slowing down last season. I think much of that can be equated to the change of city and living conditions for the small farm town kid and the new offensive coordinator running way more sweeps than Sam is accustomed to. He can handle sweeps just fine but they take a lot more timing and learning of your teammates blocking tendencies and reads. Sam was toting the rock straight up the gut most of the time in Chicago. He used his strength to force his way through holes and agility and speed once he broke through the line. Gump figures to be in the rushing conversation for the next few seasons alongside Torenson and for that reason he will be looked at as an enemy of the Bell! He looks to have won this latest round with a running back of the year award going to him almost assuredly this season but Sam will be back and more in shape than ever.
11) Trades
Well, duh! This is an easy one. My player Sam Torenson was traded this past offseason to the Philadelphia Liberty. He was traded from the Chicago Butchers in exchange for Marquise Brown, his boyhood idol and a 5th round pick. A few things jump out here. First off there was a general consensus around the league it could have been the worst trade ever. The way the Chicago locker room was going and sitting back and watching the near firesale with very uncertain leadership, I said to the GM that they should think about trading me to at least get something in return since it seemed they were hitting a rebuild. I had stated all along I was very happy in Chicago and it would definitely be a possibility to return as a free agent anyway. The thing is, trading me for a 5th rounder and retiring player does not set the team up long term in anyway shape or form. If Chicago had made a great move like getting 2 firsts and a second for me, it would have made it much easier to go back to. Plus Philly is awesome and I has a super active locker room of great people.
17) Robbed
I don’t think you can point to any one thing as to why the Philadelphia Liberty was robbed last season but damn if the sim wasn’t evil to us. We lost so many close games, time and time again. We had multiple big leads slip away and we had many players in the prime of their careers have just plain bad years. Adriana Falconi was still a superstar TPE wise last season and had plenty of weapons at her disposal with offensive players like Sam Torenson and Nacho Varga, yet she managed to finish with the 8th best QB rating and ninth best completion percentage. That is not just a bad season, with her TPE that is a horrendous season, totally outside of our control. There is nothing more frustrating than someone earning and not being rewarded for it. Watching a max earner put up less than pedestrian numbers is a terrible case for a good sim. The sim crushed us with Torenson’s season as well. He was coming off leading the league in yards rushing two seasons in a row and still managed to look very average despite a huge TPE gain throughout the season. As a team we were robbed in so many ways.
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