(S27) PT5 - Highlight Reel

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It's hard to believe the regular season will be coming to an end this week already! Write about your favorite highlights from the season so far. Did you or your teammate have a particularly great game? What happened that made it worthy of a highlight reel?

I was really impressed by our team performance in week 2 vs. Arizona. This was early in the season and so even though the Outlaws ended up much better than us at 11-5 overall, it looked much closer at the time as a matchup between two 0-1 teams. The team executed really well overall, despite some lackluster stats. We were 6 of 13 on 3rd downs on offense despite rushing for less than 3 yards per carry. Our rookie QB Daytona had arguably his best game of the season with 359 passing yards, counterbalanced by a sub-60% 26/45 completion percentage. Nearly all the defense contributed in a significant way, highlighted by Crooks' interception and 2 pass deflections and Thomaslacher's 2 sacks. We managed to hold Arizona to 1/9 on 3rd downs and 0/2 for 4th down attempts even though they led in time of possession and Cortez had a higher rating and much higher 71.4% completion percentage. So while this game didn't feature a single player taking over the whole game for us and delivering the win via sheer willpower or anything like that, I think it was a really complete game across the whole team, one that showed what we could be capable of when everything was working. Unfortunately, the rest of the season didn't stick quite keep up that rate of performance and we never got over .500 for the season, finishing last in the conference.