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For my thing in the league that interests me I am choosing to write about my own career and how far I have come so far going into my 3rd season in the league.
I have just completed my second season in the DSFL and I think I will be making the jump to the ISFL next season. I am super excited to join a group of talented player in the big apple next season. I want to take this time to chronicle my journey so far. My passion for football really started back in high school when I attended Willowbrook High School in Villa Park, Illinois. My freshman year I played all over the place. I played Wide Receiver, Tight End, and Outside Linebacker before finally making the switch to defensive end. I picked up the position very quickly. By sophomore year we won the West Suburban Gold Conference Championship. Junior Year I helped the team to win a second conference championship and finally a sectional title to lose finally in the semifinals at state. Senior year we went back and never lost completed an undefeated season that ended in the 7A State Championship in our trophy case.
I was pumped to be playing great football. I committed to play for the best college team in the Midwest, the Ohio State Buckeyes. I had many accolades in college, unfortunately they were not enough to be considered a first round talent at the next level. I felt I slipped a lot in the DSFL draft falling finally to the Bondi Beach Buccaneers with the 8th and final pick of the second round. I was the 4th or 5th Defensive end taken off the board. I took this as a motivational piece. A chip on my shoulder. I wanted to show those teams that they missed out on a star. Over the next year I grinded out my training, I kept an eye on my fellow defensive ends and tracked my performance relative to them. I ended up beating all of them out and out earning them all except for Glenn Smart. Glenn is a bonafide stud and I look forward to squaring up against him for years to come.
It was a tough season for defending champs, the Bondi Beach Buccaneers. We finished the season 5-9 and missed the playoffs. I thought we had a real shot at week 6 we were sitting at 4-2 and right in the hunt. Unfortunately, I didn’t know that we would only go on to win one more game the rest of the season and dropped our last 4 in a row. That was especially hard to swallow. Me personally, I often times felt limited rushing out of the 3-4 I could easily be doubles and this limited my tacking and sack opportunities. I would have a couple of games where I would go off for 9 tackles and 2 sacks in a game followed my multi game droughts from getting to the QB. I finished the season with 8 sacks, 9 tackles for loss, 1 forced fumble and 1 fumble recovery. This put me in 4th in the league in sacks but way behind the top three sack getters. I was a decent debut season but I am always striving for better.
The following offseason was the most exciting time a young player. It was ISFL draft season. I really enjoyed chatting with a bunch of teams. I genuinely feel that many teams are in a good position to compete in the near feature and there were a lot of good landing spots. As more and more mock drafts were released I felt my draft stock might take a tumble due to my lack of activity in the discord channels like the rookie and general channel. Frankly, I just don’t have the time to be online all day chatting. Maybe that might cause me to drop despite my diligent earning. I felt good about one landing spot in particular and that was the New York Silverbacks. I felt they were in a really nice spot as far as young talent and I like a lot of the locker room members. They had the 6th pick which made me nervous giving rumbles of my stock slipping. On draft day I held my breath and waited for my name to be called. First Defensive End off the board was Xavier Walls, technically he was moving back to LB so I don’t count that. Walls did not earn as much as me but he is a great guy and a great locker room presence so I understand the pick. Next Defensive End off the board was Glenn Smart. I mentioned Glenn earlier. He is unreal. I like to consider us two elite DE in any other class I feel I would be number one but Smart is good. He never misses a point and he works his butt off. Props to him, Arizona traded up (another spot I felt I vibed well with the front office) and got a great player. Finally I heard my name called at pick six. It was awesome that they put that much trust in me and I was super excited to be a part of New York.
The next season in the DSFL, I will admit that I did not pay as much attention. A lot of things going on in real life. I just bought a house. I paid more attention to the ISFL watching my Silverbacks have a great year and make the playoffs only to fall in the first round. I am really pumped to join them and put them over the edge. As for me, BBB had another lackluster season finishing 6-8. I finished the season with 57 tackles, 12 tackle for loss, 3 forced fumbles and 9 sacks. Improvements in every category besides fumble recoveries. That’s something to hang my hat on but not the dominate defensive performance I am looking for. I am hoping to come out of the gates swinging next season and learn a new position. I will be playing DT for NYS at least for a little bit next year. Thank you for listening to my ramble of my career so far. MONGO coming to the show near you, very soon.
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For my thing in the league that interests me I am choosing to write about my own career and how far I have come so far going into my 3rd season in the league.
I have just completed my second season in the DSFL and I think I will be making the jump to the ISFL next season. I am super excited to join a group of talented player in the big apple next season. I want to take this time to chronicle my journey so far. My passion for football really started back in high school when I attended Willowbrook High School in Villa Park, Illinois. My freshman year I played all over the place. I played Wide Receiver, Tight End, and Outside Linebacker before finally making the switch to defensive end. I picked up the position very quickly. By sophomore year we won the West Suburban Gold Conference Championship. Junior Year I helped the team to win a second conference championship and finally a sectional title to lose finally in the semifinals at state. Senior year we went back and never lost completed an undefeated season that ended in the 7A State Championship in our trophy case.
I was pumped to be playing great football. I committed to play for the best college team in the Midwest, the Ohio State Buckeyes. I had many accolades in college, unfortunately they were not enough to be considered a first round talent at the next level. I felt I slipped a lot in the DSFL draft falling finally to the Bondi Beach Buccaneers with the 8th and final pick of the second round. I was the 4th or 5th Defensive end taken off the board. I took this as a motivational piece. A chip on my shoulder. I wanted to show those teams that they missed out on a star. Over the next year I grinded out my training, I kept an eye on my fellow defensive ends and tracked my performance relative to them. I ended up beating all of them out and out earning them all except for Glenn Smart. Glenn is a bonafide stud and I look forward to squaring up against him for years to come.
It was a tough season for defending champs, the Bondi Beach Buccaneers. We finished the season 5-9 and missed the playoffs. I thought we had a real shot at week 6 we were sitting at 4-2 and right in the hunt. Unfortunately, I didn’t know that we would only go on to win one more game the rest of the season and dropped our last 4 in a row. That was especially hard to swallow. Me personally, I often times felt limited rushing out of the 3-4 I could easily be doubles and this limited my tacking and sack opportunities. I would have a couple of games where I would go off for 9 tackles and 2 sacks in a game followed my multi game droughts from getting to the QB. I finished the season with 8 sacks, 9 tackles for loss, 1 forced fumble and 1 fumble recovery. This put me in 4th in the league in sacks but way behind the top three sack getters. I was a decent debut season but I am always striving for better.
The following offseason was the most exciting time a young player. It was ISFL draft season. I really enjoyed chatting with a bunch of teams. I genuinely feel that many teams are in a good position to compete in the near feature and there were a lot of good landing spots. As more and more mock drafts were released I felt my draft stock might take a tumble due to my lack of activity in the discord channels like the rookie and general channel. Frankly, I just don’t have the time to be online all day chatting. Maybe that might cause me to drop despite my diligent earning. I felt good about one landing spot in particular and that was the New York Silverbacks. I felt they were in a really nice spot as far as young talent and I like a lot of the locker room members. They had the 6th pick which made me nervous giving rumbles of my stock slipping. On draft day I held my breath and waited for my name to be called. First Defensive End off the board was Xavier Walls, technically he was moving back to LB so I don’t count that. Walls did not earn as much as me but he is a great guy and a great locker room presence so I understand the pick. Next Defensive End off the board was Glenn Smart. I mentioned Glenn earlier. He is unreal. I like to consider us two elite DE in any other class I feel I would be number one but Smart is good. He never misses a point and he works his butt off. Props to him, Arizona traded up (another spot I felt I vibed well with the front office) and got a great player. Finally I heard my name called at pick six. It was awesome that they put that much trust in me and I was super excited to be a part of New York.
The next season in the DSFL, I will admit that I did not pay as much attention. A lot of things going on in real life. I just bought a house. I paid more attention to the ISFL watching my Silverbacks have a great year and make the playoffs only to fall in the first round. I am really pumped to join them and put them over the edge. As for me, BBB had another lackluster season finishing 6-8. I finished the season with 57 tackles, 12 tackle for loss, 3 forced fumbles and 9 sacks. Improvements in every category besides fumble recoveries. That’s something to hang my hat on but not the dominate defensive performance I am looking for. I am hoping to come out of the gates swinging next season and learn a new position. I will be playing DT for NYS at least for a little bit next year. Thank you for listening to my ramble of my career so far. MONGO coming to the show near you, very soon.
1050 words
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MONGO DE | NEW YORK SILVERBACKS | ISFL RND 1 PICK 6
MONGO DE | BONDI BEACH BUCCANEERS | DSFL RND 2 PICK 16
