(S19) - Ultimus Week

[BWIII]

3) Revenge
If there was a team I'd like to get revenge on it wouldn't be a likely target that most people would think. If someone else were to guess which team I'd like to get revenge on they'd probably say someone like the Colorado Yeti who stopped us from getting to the playoffs. For me though I'm all about personal matchups and records and what not and for me one goal I've had is to pick off all the quarterbacks, which is easier said than done since there's turnover from older guys. I've managed to pick off the entire NSFC, which is a lot easier since my team is in that division so that's one less team, but also because we play them twice a year. I have picked off Cole in the ASFC, which come on that's the easy one. The others though is a lot harder and I've settled for just winning against those teams. We ended up blowing out San Jose, which come on another easy one, as well as Arizona. We ended up losing to Orange County and New Orleans though and we only lost to Orange County by 3 points. For that reason I'd love to get revenge against Orange County next season and hopefully pick off Armstrong


5) Offseason Needs
I honestly don't know the holes on our team and what we have coming up through development, but one of the things I think we severely lacked was talent along the defensive line. Basically it was a constant theme where we were generating no pressure from those positions and it was forcing McMorris and myself to try and defend in coverage for an extra long amount of time. I was able to hold my own for most of it, while McMorris is still learning the position and was getting beat a good deal, but honestly that's not even his fault, but rather the result of having to cover for an insane amount of time. We were lucky enough to get pressure from the LB and safety positions, but that's really not going to cut it if we want to take the next step and get back to the playoffs. I think another hole that would be awesome to have would be that of an actual legitimate tight end threat. Farley Hank and Fuzzy Dotson have done some great things being swiss army knives lining up at almost every offensive position, but I think a natural tight end would help solidify that offense and hopefully end the continuous amounts of frustrating drives we saw last season.


7) Penalty box
Man am I glad that there is no penalty box in the NSFL or football in general because after looking at the numbers I'm sure we'd be in trouble with that. Now I haven't analyzed the data across all teams, but boy do we have a number of trouble makers on our team. At first after the data was compiled I thought that it was a little obvious with who would end up being in the penalty box as the defensive linemen had a staggering amount, which kind of made sense seeing as you have to be a different breed of animal to want to get down and dirty in the trenches with a bunch of other big dudes. The numbers were close with the entire defensive line coming out to an average of 3 penalties per person with crazy man Zach Hall leading the way, but there was an interesting thing that I saw......there was a bigger bunch of crazies. So who are the official lunatics of the Philadelphia Liberty? None other than the running backs!! They came out to an average of 3.666 penalties per person on the year. Farley Hank seemed to be the more tame of the group while Sam Torenson and Fuzzy Dotson appear to be the dudes who liked to mix it up with the opposing team a little too much.


17) Robbed
I don't think that any other team was robbed more than the Philadelphia Liberty and the playoffs this year proved it. I mean just look at the other two teams who made it ahead of us, the Baltimore Hawks and the Colorado Yeti. Those losers might as well have not even showed up to their games and just handed over a slip of paper saying they forfeit because they sure as heck didn't put up a fight. What is this archaec playoff determination system we have going on here? I mean look at how badly the Yellowknife Wraiths whooped up on the Hawks in the NSFC Championship game, like was that entertaining for anybody besides the Wraiths fans? No. Was it good for the NSFL brand in general? No. Just look at the Wraiths record on the year, 9-4 and look at who beat them. Half of their losses on the year came at the hands of the Philadelphia Liberty. I mean just put that those two teams up against each other and let them slug it out, that would have been an awesome game to watch most likely, just to see if the so called power team of the Wraiths could actually beat the Liberty. I'm guessing they couldn't, but we were robbed of that viewing pleasure!