(S22) - Ultimus Week

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6) I still consider my team to be the Chicago Butchers. I never even joined the Sarasota LR and Fukushuu hasn’t even been drafted yet. So, the only team I can really talk about is the Butchers.

First of all, I don’t want them to draft Mai. I feel that in order to get as much separation from the insults and harassment I received last month, I shouldn’t be affiliated with them at all as they go through this transition. I feel like the right people were put in charge and I trust them to fix things.

When it comes to actually fixing those things, the big reason why we went for Bayley and Muford is because we needed GMs who had experience in surviving a grueling rebuild. They were a part of the Las Vegas/NOLA rebuild and the Sabercats rebuild. They know what they’re doing here and I believe that they will see it through to the end.

First is just waiting until you can build up enough good draft picks. Despite rumors, I never traded away a first round pick. In fact, I gathered about 4 first rounders for a single season. Unfortunately, that was a really shit draft. This season, the Butchers don’t have a first round pick again. Years of trying to grab band-aids has given way to a complete collapse that means starting over from less than scratch.

There’s already been work done on trying to fix the Butchers’ asset market. They took the opportunity to trade away retiring QB Rose Jenkins to Sarasota for a draft pick, which is the definition of getting money for nothing. But there’s still a further waiting game to get to a point where they can recoup the traded away cap space and have their own draft picks.

From what I understand, the defense isn’t that bad and there are some good WRs on the team. The problem is just that there’s no truly great players to let the team not be the worst. It’s a full rebuild, so there needs to be a large amount of changes no matter what.

Next season will be another rough one and I don’t think that there’s going to be a good season for at least another few seasons. Maybe by S30 the Butchers will be on stable ground. For now, the most important thing is washing out the stink of defeat that’s permeated the area and looking towards the future.



7) In short, Rose Jenkins’ career has been essentially unnecessary. She never won an individual award, she was never on a team that could do anything. She was about as inconsequential as Joe Kitna. Throughout her DSFL career, she was mostly just fodder for annoying controversy. In her first season she was lucky enough to benefit from taking over for a multi who was at QB on the team she fell to. Then the whole Ryan Leaf Jr thing happened and she was forced into a position where she wasn’t getting the right amount of snaps despite playing well. And in Rosie’s third DSFL season the team just decided to switch to a running game.

That’s kind of the story of Rosie’s career. She’s halfway decent, but never anything truly special. Her team never makes it anywhere and she’s just stuck in a position where no one even thinks about her. She was never in any conversation in any league as one of the best. She was just someone who held a spot and was eventually tossed aside because she passed her prime before the team could catch up.

I had a goal to be a max earner and get as much TPE as possible for Rosie so that she could finally be the player I create that is the best, but she was just a complete disappointment. She did nothing in the DSFL and nothing in the NSFL. There will be no Hall of Fame votes and if I had just left like I should’ve, there’d be no one even talking about her. Hell, I don’t even really want to talk about her because she was that disappointing.

I think that if she were a real life player, I think she’d be all right. She’d have made a name for herself in her hometown and was able to represent them for around 7 seasons. IRL, she’d probably end up as a local broadcaster or be involved in some way with the community. But around here, no one gives a shit about that. It’s sad. Canonically she grew up around greats like Mike Boss and Angus Winchester, but no one will remember her name.

I don’t know why I need to write 400 words on how sad Rosie makes me. It’s a simple situation. She had so much potential that just never showed up. It feels like saying anything more is just trying to fill out extra words on an essay.