07-04-2021, 04:09 PM
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14. Describe your player and/or team’s journey through this latest season. What were the highlights? What were the lower points? What might you have done differently? What are your expectations for next season?
This was Dante King's first season in the ISFL as a rookie with the Baltimore Hawks, and he was lucky enough to be able to join a team where he could come in and contribute immediately despite being a very young, inexperienced player. While there wasn't much to get excited about on the scoreboard for the Hawks this season as the team is still developing its young core, there were flashes of what the future could hold for Dante as he continues to develop. As part of a two headed running back committee with Busch Goose, Dante finished twelfth in the league with 823 rushing yards, a very respectable total for a first year running back. More impressively, he carried a 4.2 yards per carry average throughout the season while nearly all of his rookie peers fell below the 4 yard mark. While he didn't have to serve as a dual-purpose weapon like he did in college due to Baltimore's star young wide receiver core of Luke Quick, Chunt the Badger, and Preston Parker, he did add 199 yards through the air to put him over 1,000 yards from scrimmage on the season. Ultimately, he lost the Offensive Rookie of the Year vote to some wideouts with stellar campaigns and a fellow rookie, Brandon Prince, who vastly outpaced him in touchdown production, but it was still a campaign to be proud of. There were a handful of games that stood out among some weeks where King was very inefficient or the run game couldn't get going. In particular, it's worth noting his Week 2 game against the Yellowknife Wraiths that saw him match up against former Norfolk Seawolves teammate and star rookie running back Jay Cue Jr. - King heavily won the battle of the young backs, racking up 87 yards on 16 carries versus Cue's 22 yards on 6 carries. In Week 4, KIng scored his first career rushing touchdown on a 31-yard scamper against the Philadelphia Liberty. Weeks 9 and 11 against the San Jose Sabercats and Sarasota Sailfish, respectively, saw Dante top the 100 yard mark, as he accounted for 114 rushing yards and a touchdown in the former and 135 yards from scrimmage in the latter. The last game worth calling out is Baltimore's penultimate game of the season against the Austin Copperheads, where Dante had his only multi-touchdown game of the season. As all of Baltimore's young weapons develop in the coming seasons, the offense should be very formidable, even if that means fewer touches for King and Goose.
25. Imagine your current position was not available to be picked when you created your player. What other position would you have picked, and why?
If I was unable to pick the running back position with my recreate, Dante King, I probably would have ended up creating a quarterback. After spending so much time maxing out my career with Nero Alexander at defensive end (plus a brief stint at defensive tackle), I was really craving some stats and personal glory with my next player. Running back seemed to be a versatile option to see myself show up on the scoreboard, but there is something about playing under center that is really appealing too. You touch the ball on every play and often find yourself in control of the most pivotal moments in the game, and I think that my experience with the sim would have prepared me well for the inevitable ups and downs that come with the position. Timeconsumer, with his legendary QB Cooter Bigsby, used to mention that to play QB in this league you must have thin skin and a short memory, and I hope I would be able to do that. Not to mention that in the new sim, passing seems vastly overpowered, with quarterbacks and wide receivers racking up numbers that would have seemed insane a few seasons ago. It would be fun to be a defining part of a new era like that! Or perhaps I would have been a trailblazer as a scrambling QB. Well, we may never know... check back in a couple years.
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This was Dante King's first season in the ISFL as a rookie with the Baltimore Hawks, and he was lucky enough to be able to join a team where he could come in and contribute immediately despite being a very young, inexperienced player. While there wasn't much to get excited about on the scoreboard for the Hawks this season as the team is still developing its young core, there were flashes of what the future could hold for Dante as he continues to develop. As part of a two headed running back committee with Busch Goose, Dante finished twelfth in the league with 823 rushing yards, a very respectable total for a first year running back. More impressively, he carried a 4.2 yards per carry average throughout the season while nearly all of his rookie peers fell below the 4 yard mark. While he didn't have to serve as a dual-purpose weapon like he did in college due to Baltimore's star young wide receiver core of Luke Quick, Chunt the Badger, and Preston Parker, he did add 199 yards through the air to put him over 1,000 yards from scrimmage on the season. Ultimately, he lost the Offensive Rookie of the Year vote to some wideouts with stellar campaigns and a fellow rookie, Brandon Prince, who vastly outpaced him in touchdown production, but it was still a campaign to be proud of. There were a handful of games that stood out among some weeks where King was very inefficient or the run game couldn't get going. In particular, it's worth noting his Week 2 game against the Yellowknife Wraiths that saw him match up against former Norfolk Seawolves teammate and star rookie running back Jay Cue Jr. - King heavily won the battle of the young backs, racking up 87 yards on 16 carries versus Cue's 22 yards on 6 carries. In Week 4, KIng scored his first career rushing touchdown on a 31-yard scamper against the Philadelphia Liberty. Weeks 9 and 11 against the San Jose Sabercats and Sarasota Sailfish, respectively, saw Dante top the 100 yard mark, as he accounted for 114 rushing yards and a touchdown in the former and 135 yards from scrimmage in the latter. The last game worth calling out is Baltimore's penultimate game of the season against the Austin Copperheads, where Dante had his only multi-touchdown game of the season. As all of Baltimore's young weapons develop in the coming seasons, the offense should be very formidable, even if that means fewer touches for King and Goose.
25. Imagine your current position was not available to be picked when you created your player. What other position would you have picked, and why?
If I was unable to pick the running back position with my recreate, Dante King, I probably would have ended up creating a quarterback. After spending so much time maxing out my career with Nero Alexander at defensive end (plus a brief stint at defensive tackle), I was really craving some stats and personal glory with my next player. Running back seemed to be a versatile option to see myself show up on the scoreboard, but there is something about playing under center that is really appealing too. You touch the ball on every play and often find yourself in control of the most pivotal moments in the game, and I think that my experience with the sim would have prepared me well for the inevitable ups and downs that come with the position. Timeconsumer, with his legendary QB Cooter Bigsby, used to mention that to play QB in this league you must have thin skin and a short memory, and I hope I would be able to do that. Not to mention that in the new sim, passing seems vastly overpowered, with quarterbacks and wide receivers racking up numbers that would have seemed insane a few seasons ago. It would be fun to be a defining part of a new era like that! Or perhaps I would have been a trailblazer as a scrambling QB. Well, we may never know... check back in a couple years.
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