S2 - Ultimus Week

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Playoff Predictions: Give a short write up on each of the playoff matches (including the championship game)

Arizona vs Orange County – Having dominated the season series the Outlaws look to do much of the same in the playoffs as they head into their conference final vs the Otters. Out scoring the otters 43-29 in their 2 regular season match ups and winning both contests, they are the clear favourite heading into this match up. The otters will need their big game players to be just that for them if they want to put these Outlaws behind bars.

Yellowknife vs Baltimore – Despite drawing even in the regular season match up with both team managing to win 1 game vs each other the total points put up by both teams aren’t as close. The Hawks had the distinct advantage blowing the Wraiths out one game giving them the seasons edge scoring 56-43. The Wraiths defense will need to come up big this game if it wants to stay close and make things as difficult as possible for the Hawks offense if they want a chance to play in the big game.

Baltimore vs Arizona – In what was a rather lopsided affair in the regular season, the Hawks are looking to improve on their regular season scoring of 29-56 and hopefully shut down the Outlaws offense. Showing no signs of slowing down, the 1st overall Outlaws are looking to close this season out the champs and send the Hawks back to their nest empty handed. The Big players need to play the deciding factor this game for both teams, and the Hawks might need to wish for a bit of a miracle in order to shut down the Outlawks.


Bottom Half: Write about why two of the four teams were not able to make the playoffs.

San Jose – Team defense. This was the downfall of the Sabercats. Allowing a league high of 374 points scored, they just couldn’t out score the massive amount of points being pushed past them and it was their eventual downfall as a team.

Las Vegas – When your ‘star’ quarterbacks completion rate is 48% for the passing game, your going to have a bad time. The inability to move out of the pocket with his weak OL mixed with the his hugely inaccurate throws, had the Legion looking at the sky on their backs rather than down the field at the next TD or FG.

Colorado – They were right there, ready to have their go at the playoffs but the curse of the tie breaker sent them packing. Maybe leaving their end of season winning streak to a little to late, they were tossed off the edge to prepare for next season thinking of what could have been.

Philidelphia – Not much of a surprise here with the expansion franchise sitting out for their first round, but Philly did manage to win 5 games which seems promising, but their road record torpedo’d any chance they had of making the playoffs, if they want to be there this time next season they need to learn to steal some games on the road in the future.