When season predictions came out for Season 27, an overwhelming amount of users picked my new team, the Philadelphia Liberty, to be the worst team in the league. It was hard to see a reason not to: the team had lost many veteran players and would be fielding a defense with FIVE rookie starters, as well as filling out the rest of the team with a bunch of random inactive players due to the sad state the roster was left in.
I'm here to tell you that the general consensus about the Liberty prior to the season was, while made in good faith, genuinely a bad take. Currently, the team sits at 2-3, owns possibly the biggest surprise win of the young season, in which they handed the New Orleans Second Line their only loss of the season (in New Orleans, to boot!), and played the defending NSFC champions, the Colorado Yeti, tough at home in a game that was much closer than the final score of 27-16 showed.
The team is led by an offense featuring a 1,000 TPE QB in Brock Phoenix and the best WR no one talked about in Flash Panda, as well as the soon-to-be career rushing yards holder, Sam Torenson at running back, whose speed and agility plays perfect compliment to backfield mate Fuzzy Dotson's pass catching ability. The offense also sports one of the most promising young WR's, Killian Chambers, as well as a mountain of a man at OT, Simon Tremblay.
But where the Liberty will continue to improve and surprise people is on the defensive side of the ball. The sheer number of starters from a season ago the team lost is staggering, but they were replaced by players who are nothing if not developing at unnatural rates. Ten of the team's eleven defensive starters are Season 24 or younger and many of them are earning and burning. The TPE gap means less and less when you reach a certain level on defense, and these youngsters on the Liberty are out to prove it.
If you think that the two wins so far this season were a fluke, you're in for a big shock when you see what we have in store the rest of the way.
I'm here to tell you that the general consensus about the Liberty prior to the season was, while made in good faith, genuinely a bad take. Currently, the team sits at 2-3, owns possibly the biggest surprise win of the young season, in which they handed the New Orleans Second Line their only loss of the season (in New Orleans, to boot!), and played the defending NSFC champions, the Colorado Yeti, tough at home in a game that was much closer than the final score of 27-16 showed.
The team is led by an offense featuring a 1,000 TPE QB in Brock Phoenix and the best WR no one talked about in Flash Panda, as well as the soon-to-be career rushing yards holder, Sam Torenson at running back, whose speed and agility plays perfect compliment to backfield mate Fuzzy Dotson's pass catching ability. The offense also sports one of the most promising young WR's, Killian Chambers, as well as a mountain of a man at OT, Simon Tremblay.
But where the Liberty will continue to improve and surprise people is on the defensive side of the ball. The sheer number of starters from a season ago the team lost is staggering, but they were replaced by players who are nothing if not developing at unnatural rates. Ten of the team's eleven defensive starters are Season 24 or younger and many of them are earning and burning. The TPE gap means less and less when you reach a certain level on defense, and these youngsters on the Liberty are out to prove it.
If you think that the two wins so far this season were a fluke, you're in for a big shock when you see what we have in store the rest of the way.
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