08-31-2021, 12:27 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-31-2021, 12:28 AM by Painted. Edited 2 times in total.)
This week will see the S30 Ultimus and Ultimini races begin in earnest. How did each team arrive at the playoffs? Were there any dark horse teams that went unexpectedly far, or any presumptive favorites that fell flat? Who do you think will win the final? If you’re writing this after the finals were decided, were you surprised by the outcome?
You know, they say it is hard to repeat championships. And to be honest, they are right. Very few NFL teams can even make it back to the super bowl, let alone win it twice. As a matter of fact, it is done so rarely, it has its own Wikipedia trivia page. Well the exact same can be said for the ISFL and DSFL So to see the Grey Ducks even come close to contending after winning the Ultimini in Season 29 was impressive in its own right. The fact that they won a repeat championship- well, that’s just crazy!! And here is how it went down:
Coming off the S29 Ultimini win, it was looking like that was the peak, that now we would regress as many of the high earners would get the call up. So in the war room, we began preparing for that. We began scouting, thinking that we would need to replace our starting quarter back, running back, and wide outs. Not only were they key contributors, they were also MVP and OPoY as well for Fronk and Oles. To say we were shocked when we heard from their ISFL GMs that they were returning is an understatement! That key fact alone changed our draft strategy. No more did we need to focus on offense, we were keeping pretty much everyone.
Then it clicked, well if we were only losing a few starters on defense, and we just drafted many of their replacements, maybe we could be even better next season?! Well the draft came and went, we drafted the defensive replacements as well as some nice offensive contributors for the future. Then came preseason! We went 4-0. Right then we knew we stood a chance at a repeat.
Curbstomping our competition in the preseason, the runningback Huntsman was doing his thing, Fronk-ing up and down the field, racking up yards and tuddies! Kazamir Jr. was also chucking it like last season never ended to both Sharpei and Malone! All that needed to go our way was a good game plan. That’s where Coach Crody made his patented Rosarita strat. It won last season, so we rolled with a version of it all season in season 30. Let me sum the strat up for you: FEED FRONK, PASS TO MALONE AND SHARPEI, DON’T TURNOVER, SCORE… A LOT.
So yeah, it worked! Then the defense, lights out. That’s just Minnesota football baybee. Players like Dukemarriot and Hotsalads were playing at an All-Pro level and over the course of the season, defensive touchdowns were scored by many of the duckies. The newest first round rookie Czaryous was a beast too at defensive end!
Now to sum up the course of the season, I only need to talk about one game, and that was against Norfolk. Why that game? Because that was the Grey Ducks only loss! Before the game, the Minn twitter got into a twitter roast with the Norfolk twitter users, and it was a riot. They got fired up having gone 0-6 to that point and Minn was 6-0. So that extra fuel on the flames led to an enormous upset with Norfolk coming out on top 48-34. That game was a reminder, that despite how stacked we were, we were not infallible. So we made adjustments to the game plan, and never looked back! Minn finished the season 13-1, the only loss was to Norfolk and we went into the playoffs licking our lips for a title.
The question of course, was who were we playing? Naturally, the answer was our toughest opponent, the Portland Pythons. For whatever reason, the pythons have had our numbers when it came to game planning against them. They ALWAYS played us very tight and it felt miraculous when we would come our victorious. So, to many in Minn, this felt like the real title game! After a long hard night of scheming, Coach Crody whipped up another amazing new strat. It involved changing around some of the starters on defense so they lined up in different spots, but it sure did have an impact. We were able to hold off the sneks to just 16 points as our offense rallied a solid 30. One of our sneaky big contributors was K/P Levy Tate who went a perfect 3/3 on field goals and had a massive 64 yard punt with 2 inside the 20.
Finally, all things came to a climax against the Luchadores in the Ultimini. It was a straight up revenge game for them since this was the exact same match up as last season. And boy did they barely squeak in! It came down to a missed buzzer beater field goal by Dallas which shocked the entire DSFL. Nonetheless, they made it in and wanted a THIRD go around for the title. But the Ducks were not to be denied! It was an extremely hard fought game, but with a final score of 33-30, Minnesota hoisted their #quack2quack championship!! Even despite 10 sacks, Oles Jr played lights out with 3 TDs and a passer rating of 112.4. But once again, the defense and Tate played the biggest role, getting a well timed safety and notching 3 punts within the 10 yard line, respectively.
No matter who to credit, the Grey Ducks played their minds out. And now we’re partying like there’s no tomorrow. Unfortunately for me, I inherited the team as GM, but that’s fine because now I can rebuild the ship, that we thought was sinking last season! I’m very hopeful that this next draft class will be amazing!
Words: 934
You know, they say it is hard to repeat championships. And to be honest, they are right. Very few NFL teams can even make it back to the super bowl, let alone win it twice. As a matter of fact, it is done so rarely, it has its own Wikipedia trivia page. Well the exact same can be said for the ISFL and DSFL So to see the Grey Ducks even come close to contending after winning the Ultimini in Season 29 was impressive in its own right. The fact that they won a repeat championship- well, that’s just crazy!! And here is how it went down:
Coming off the S29 Ultimini win, it was looking like that was the peak, that now we would regress as many of the high earners would get the call up. So in the war room, we began preparing for that. We began scouting, thinking that we would need to replace our starting quarter back, running back, and wide outs. Not only were they key contributors, they were also MVP and OPoY as well for Fronk and Oles. To say we were shocked when we heard from their ISFL GMs that they were returning is an understatement! That key fact alone changed our draft strategy. No more did we need to focus on offense, we were keeping pretty much everyone.
Then it clicked, well if we were only losing a few starters on defense, and we just drafted many of their replacements, maybe we could be even better next season?! Well the draft came and went, we drafted the defensive replacements as well as some nice offensive contributors for the future. Then came preseason! We went 4-0. Right then we knew we stood a chance at a repeat.
Curbstomping our competition in the preseason, the runningback Huntsman was doing his thing, Fronk-ing up and down the field, racking up yards and tuddies! Kazamir Jr. was also chucking it like last season never ended to both Sharpei and Malone! All that needed to go our way was a good game plan. That’s where Coach Crody made his patented Rosarita strat. It won last season, so we rolled with a version of it all season in season 30. Let me sum the strat up for you: FEED FRONK, PASS TO MALONE AND SHARPEI, DON’T TURNOVER, SCORE… A LOT.
So yeah, it worked! Then the defense, lights out. That’s just Minnesota football baybee. Players like Dukemarriot and Hotsalads were playing at an All-Pro level and over the course of the season, defensive touchdowns were scored by many of the duckies. The newest first round rookie Czaryous was a beast too at defensive end!
Now to sum up the course of the season, I only need to talk about one game, and that was against Norfolk. Why that game? Because that was the Grey Ducks only loss! Before the game, the Minn twitter got into a twitter roast with the Norfolk twitter users, and it was a riot. They got fired up having gone 0-6 to that point and Minn was 6-0. So that extra fuel on the flames led to an enormous upset with Norfolk coming out on top 48-34. That game was a reminder, that despite how stacked we were, we were not infallible. So we made adjustments to the game plan, and never looked back! Minn finished the season 13-1, the only loss was to Norfolk and we went into the playoffs licking our lips for a title.
The question of course, was who were we playing? Naturally, the answer was our toughest opponent, the Portland Pythons. For whatever reason, the pythons have had our numbers when it came to game planning against them. They ALWAYS played us very tight and it felt miraculous when we would come our victorious. So, to many in Minn, this felt like the real title game! After a long hard night of scheming, Coach Crody whipped up another amazing new strat. It involved changing around some of the starters on defense so they lined up in different spots, but it sure did have an impact. We were able to hold off the sneks to just 16 points as our offense rallied a solid 30. One of our sneaky big contributors was K/P Levy Tate who went a perfect 3/3 on field goals and had a massive 64 yard punt with 2 inside the 20.
Finally, all things came to a climax against the Luchadores in the Ultimini. It was a straight up revenge game for them since this was the exact same match up as last season. And boy did they barely squeak in! It came down to a missed buzzer beater field goal by Dallas which shocked the entire DSFL. Nonetheless, they made it in and wanted a THIRD go around for the title. But the Ducks were not to be denied! It was an extremely hard fought game, but with a final score of 33-30, Minnesota hoisted their #quack2quack championship!! Even despite 10 sacks, Oles Jr played lights out with 3 TDs and a passer rating of 112.4. But once again, the defense and Tate played the biggest role, getting a well timed safety and notching 3 punts within the 10 yard line, respectively.
No matter who to credit, the Grey Ducks played their minds out. And now we’re partying like there’s no tomorrow. Unfortunately for me, I inherited the team as GM, but that’s fine because now I can rebuild the ship, that we thought was sinking last season! I’m very hopeful that this next draft class will be amazing!
Words: 934
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