8) Awards season is a big part of the offseason festivities. Take the stand, in 400 words or more, for one or more players that are not your own, and argue why they should receive awards glory. They can be your teammates or anyone in the league. How did their stats and on the field contribution contribute to their case this year?
I will argue why Doug Howlett should win wide receiver of the year, offensive rookie of the year and maybe offensive player of the year. The fact that he is a rookie while leading the entire league in receiving yards is pretty crazy. He was the top receiver on the Baltimore Hawks, who went eight and eight on the season. The team did throw for the second most in the season trailing only the Sarasota Sailfish. Doug Howlett managed one hundred and two catches in sixteen games with a total of 1646 yards (203 yards more than the second place receiver), averaging sixteen point one yards a reception. That 16.1 is good for sixteenth overall, which is very impressive while maintaining the yardage lead. He also managed to haul in eleven touchdowns, which is tied for sixth most on the season. His longest catch of the season was a sixty six yard completion. He put up these stats with the second wide out on the team going for seventy three catches for 1186 yards and seven touchdowns. He started his first pro game with seven catches for one hundred twenty nine yards. That is a heck of a debut. He followed that up with another seven catch game with one hundred and fifteen yards. Well, there goes that theory of the first game being a fluke performance. His single game best performance came in week twelve against the Orange County Otters with eight catches for 114 yards, two touchdowns and a long of twenty four yards. His highest receptions in a single game was nine in week eleven against the Yellowknife Wraiths. He was consistently the top receiver on the team, all of that while drawing the top cover guy from the other team. Nobody could stop him, and this is knowing that the Hawks were a pass first team, they ranked second to last in rushing as a team, with only the Sarasota Sailfish finishing lower than them. At this point, there is no denying he should win wide receiver of the year, (the only thing you could argue is he was not top touchdown guy, but come on), the next question would be offensive rookie of the year. Well there are really only two contenders here, and neither of them is leading their positional group overall. While Zoe Watts had an amazing rookie year as a running back, Zoe finished third overall in rushing yards, tied for third in touchdowns. Again very impressive, but Howlett was the number one overall wide receiver, despite being a rookie. The only other person you could try to argue for would be Ramza at the quarterback position. He finished fourth over all in the quarterback race. While very impressive for a rookie at that position, he still finished behind three other qbs. Offensive player of the year is harder to argue, as there were other very impressive performances. My argument for him is that he is WR1 as a rookie.
9) It’s always important to look forward to the future. Examine your team, and in 400 words or more, talk about how they can improve themselves to get a stab at trophy contention next year. Are you loaded with draft capital for the next draft? Do you have plenty of cap space to sign free agents? Go through the roster and note the different strengths and weaknesses, and how you think those will change over the next few seasons. How should your team adapt?
The Yellowknife Wraiths were in a bit of a rebuild this last season, being forced to start several true rookies their first year out of the DSFL. A starting cornerback, wide receiver and a running back. All started below the four hundred TPE mark for the season, with two of them ending slightly above four hundred and the other slightly below. The team still managed to finish with a seven and nine record, which is one win off third and fourth in the division. The two main issues seem to be at times struggling move the ball on offense. Our season low for points was nine points, which is by no means the lowest of all the teams, but it is hard to win games when you only score nine points total(we actually did win this game 9-3). We had way too many drives just stall out, due to dropped balls, interceptions, fumbles or just plan broken plays. We had the sixth most punts of any team with ninety nine total, going for forty six hundred yards. If you punt that much, you aren't going to score as many points as you would like. The thing is, our offense can score, we put up forty two points against the Berlin Fire Salamanders(I know, expansion team, doesn't count), but we also scored twenty seven against the Sarasota Sailfish. So offense needs to better, we could use some more time to get our young guys up to speed, and of course another quality offensive lineman next to Bruce Buckley and Maurice Virtanen to help give our quarterback and running back more time.
Our second biggest issue was our ability to consistently stop the other team's offense. Granted if our offense spent more time on the field with the ball, it would automatically help out the defense. Less time on the field, less time getting tired, less points the other team can put up... In our worst game we gave up fifty five points to the Arizona Outlaws. Most likely not going to win many games giving up fifty five points to anyone. Our best defensive performance we held the Baltimore Hawks to three points, granted we only scored nine, but a win is a win. We gave up thirty or more in seven games this season, and that does not include the game we gave up twenty nine in. We lost every time we gave up twenty nine or more points. That is eight losses right there. We only lost one game where we held the team to less than twenty nine points... So again, if our offense could put up some more points, we had a shot at two extra wins, two of the games were one possession losses with it being less than a touchdown difference. The real answer is get our offense going, and get more consistent on defense. Draft some good quality players at offensive linemen and maybe another solid defensive tackle to finish the defense off.
I will argue why Doug Howlett should win wide receiver of the year, offensive rookie of the year and maybe offensive player of the year. The fact that he is a rookie while leading the entire league in receiving yards is pretty crazy. He was the top receiver on the Baltimore Hawks, who went eight and eight on the season. The team did throw for the second most in the season trailing only the Sarasota Sailfish. Doug Howlett managed one hundred and two catches in sixteen games with a total of 1646 yards (203 yards more than the second place receiver), averaging sixteen point one yards a reception. That 16.1 is good for sixteenth overall, which is very impressive while maintaining the yardage lead. He also managed to haul in eleven touchdowns, which is tied for sixth most on the season. His longest catch of the season was a sixty six yard completion. He put up these stats with the second wide out on the team going for seventy three catches for 1186 yards and seven touchdowns. He started his first pro game with seven catches for one hundred twenty nine yards. That is a heck of a debut. He followed that up with another seven catch game with one hundred and fifteen yards. Well, there goes that theory of the first game being a fluke performance. His single game best performance came in week twelve against the Orange County Otters with eight catches for 114 yards, two touchdowns and a long of twenty four yards. His highest receptions in a single game was nine in week eleven against the Yellowknife Wraiths. He was consistently the top receiver on the team, all of that while drawing the top cover guy from the other team. Nobody could stop him, and this is knowing that the Hawks were a pass first team, they ranked second to last in rushing as a team, with only the Sarasota Sailfish finishing lower than them. At this point, there is no denying he should win wide receiver of the year, (the only thing you could argue is he was not top touchdown guy, but come on), the next question would be offensive rookie of the year. Well there are really only two contenders here, and neither of them is leading their positional group overall. While Zoe Watts had an amazing rookie year as a running back, Zoe finished third overall in rushing yards, tied for third in touchdowns. Again very impressive, but Howlett was the number one overall wide receiver, despite being a rookie. The only other person you could try to argue for would be Ramza at the quarterback position. He finished fourth over all in the quarterback race. While very impressive for a rookie at that position, he still finished behind three other qbs. Offensive player of the year is harder to argue, as there were other very impressive performances. My argument for him is that he is WR1 as a rookie.
9) It’s always important to look forward to the future. Examine your team, and in 400 words or more, talk about how they can improve themselves to get a stab at trophy contention next year. Are you loaded with draft capital for the next draft? Do you have plenty of cap space to sign free agents? Go through the roster and note the different strengths and weaknesses, and how you think those will change over the next few seasons. How should your team adapt?
The Yellowknife Wraiths were in a bit of a rebuild this last season, being forced to start several true rookies their first year out of the DSFL. A starting cornerback, wide receiver and a running back. All started below the four hundred TPE mark for the season, with two of them ending slightly above four hundred and the other slightly below. The team still managed to finish with a seven and nine record, which is one win off third and fourth in the division. The two main issues seem to be at times struggling move the ball on offense. Our season low for points was nine points, which is by no means the lowest of all the teams, but it is hard to win games when you only score nine points total(we actually did win this game 9-3). We had way too many drives just stall out, due to dropped balls, interceptions, fumbles or just plan broken plays. We had the sixth most punts of any team with ninety nine total, going for forty six hundred yards. If you punt that much, you aren't going to score as many points as you would like. The thing is, our offense can score, we put up forty two points against the Berlin Fire Salamanders(I know, expansion team, doesn't count), but we also scored twenty seven against the Sarasota Sailfish. So offense needs to better, we could use some more time to get our young guys up to speed, and of course another quality offensive lineman next to Bruce Buckley and Maurice Virtanen to help give our quarterback and running back more time.
Our second biggest issue was our ability to consistently stop the other team's offense. Granted if our offense spent more time on the field with the ball, it would automatically help out the defense. Less time on the field, less time getting tired, less points the other team can put up... In our worst game we gave up fifty five points to the Arizona Outlaws. Most likely not going to win many games giving up fifty five points to anyone. Our best defensive performance we held the Baltimore Hawks to three points, granted we only scored nine, but a win is a win. We gave up thirty or more in seven games this season, and that does not include the game we gave up twenty nine in. We lost every time we gave up twenty nine or more points. That is eight losses right there. We only lost one game where we held the team to less than twenty nine points... So again, if our offense could put up some more points, we had a shot at two extra wins, two of the games were one possession losses with it being less than a touchdown difference. The real answer is get our offense going, and get more consistent on defense. Draft some good quality players at offensive linemen and maybe another solid defensive tackle to finish the defense off.
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