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Today is the day we've waited for all season long. PLAYOFFS! Two great games on the table here. Let's get to it.

(9-5) Drunken Potato Farmers vs (9-5) Jersey Goons


THE JOURNEY THUS FAR

Both teams took similar roads to get here. Winning their respective divisions late in the season, but looking good doing so. Jersey held off D.C. to take the Alpha crown while Drunken defeated Compton in head to heads (sorry for putting that evil on you Kayoh) and claimed the Gamma title. There are more similarities when you look at their performance. The two have had their ups and downs this season, winning big games and losing gimme games. The previous match up between the two this season saw Jersey winning 47-35.



TALE OF THE TAPE

Both teams have fairly balanced offenses. Drunken is truly a balanced attack, while Jersey leans on the run but will still throw when needed. On paper this game looks great. On offense Drunken has the edge courtesy of their passing game. The superstars at the receiving position are key here. On the defensive side of things, both have highly ranked defenses. Jersey ranked 2nd and Drunken ranked 3rd in the league. Jersey likes to get after you and force turnovers, while Drunken has a bend but don't break approach.



PREDICTION

Drunken is the slightly more sound team, but Jersey has a knack for making plays when it matters. If Jersey can force a couple turnovers and sack the QB a bit, they have a great shot at winning this game. However if Drunken can get into a rhythm and Calvin Johnson makes some plays happen, the Potato Farmers will be advancing. I think this will be a tight one, coming down to a field goal in the closing minutes to win. Chilly Willy wins it for Drunken, 38-35.





(14-0) Minnesota Stunners vs (11-3) MMArmy Can Crushers


THE JOURNEY THUS FAR

Minnesota comes into the playoffs with an unblemished season. In fact their only loss of the whole year was to the #1 team in the game, the Hawaii Bulls. MMA was 19-2 at one point this year, riding a 16 game winning streak when things went bad. The Can Crushers had several bad games at the end of the sesaon, including a second loss to Minnesota. The Stunners take the #1 spot in the tier. MMA is a distant 2nd, over 30 spots behind in global rank. Minnesota has been that mean older brother all season and MMA will hope to save face with a good showing tonight.



TALE OF THE TAPE

Everyone knows what Minnesota does, and they do it well. Blockers get out quickly to seal off lanes, and rarely give any ground. Pancakes and broken tackles are what you can expect to see from the Stunners offense. On defense it's the same mentality. They will not let you have any semblance of a rushing attack. If there is a chink in the armor of the monster that is Minnesota, it's their pass defense. Their pass defense is ranked last in the league. MMA on the other hand has a very balanced approach on both sides of the ball. Ranked 4th in the pass and rush attack, 4th in rush defense and 2nd in pass defense. MMA may try to keep the Stunners honest with the ground game, but clearly their best chance here is through the air.



PREDICTION

The scales are tilted heavily in Minnesota's favor. If MMA wants to pull an upset out here, they will need to slow the Stunners' rushing attack as best they can, while putting up plenty of points themselves. The Stunners don't fumble, so there wont be any help from turnovers. As much as I'd like to write the underdog wins, I just don't see it happening. MMA makes a game of it, but Minnesota will wear them down in the end. Minnesota 66-49

Excellent write up

I would like to see the Goons find a way to win this game, but when looking at DPF and seeing championship banners hanging on the wall of their profile....Goons will get pinned down and cock slap around by Thor Douglas and Big Gain. Also allow QB Lance Longarm to rain shots all over your secondary.


MMA ahhh-- well we finally have you exactly where we want you. In our eyes, you are the best in this league. It was tough for us to watch you guys struggle but we also like to think you been saving yourself for us. If it wasn't for Big Ben and Mandy Ross connection, we would be looking to impregnate that offense. We work our ass for this game and can't wait to show you guys what we cook up. CB Kevin Smith better buckle up because Cross will be looking to take you for a ride.

We took a paternity test and it reads "The Game" is in fact Ours.

Ducks!

You think Kevin Smith will play in this game?

Cute.

Originally posted by Mezirah
You think Kevin Smith will play in this game?

Cute.


Thanks, made a few tweaks and now we are prepared to give you a beautiful death.

good game MMA -- just like the first game we played you guys sure got off to a red hot start (and kept us ice cold even with a turnover going our way).

Good season by you guys - you definitely earned that #2 spot in pro. you are a tough, tough team with tough, tough coordinating.

I dont know if gamelans meant anything in that game. MMA is built for pass defense, having to play Minnesota 3x for a trophy is just too tough to over come. Without specifically building from rookie year to defend against that offense it's impossible. Just demoralized us down to the point we can't tackle, and your running backs just break every block. Half of our guys are just on their ass from cakes as well, lol. It was fun trying anyways. On to season 8.

Originally posted by Mezirah

I dont know if gamelans meant anything in that game. MMA is built for pass defense, having to play Minnesota 3x for a trophy is just too tough to over come. Without specifically building from rookie year to defend against that offense it's impossible. Just demoralized us down to the point we can't tackle, and your running backs just break every block. Half of our guys are just on their ass from cakes as well, lol. It was fun trying anyways. On to season 8.

Doesn't matter how good of a gameplan you put together. It doesn't make a difference if you can't make tackles.

And I really wanted a team forum champagne party too! Damnit.

gg, was some wonderful scout tooling w/ your defense for sure. we called the game exactly how we needed to on both sides of the ball and still didnt come close lol.

either way gg gl, call me crazy but id say you just may be the favorite going into the finals haha

edit: not to sound salty but its only a matter of time until pure run offenses take a nice hit from a game adjustment. no way there should be 3-4 broken tackles behind the line of scrimmage http://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/replay/129325/2815362 just wanted to point out, without giving away any secrets, all of our LBs and DE/D-line have around 60+ tackling/grip and the other necessary supporting stats for tackling power rushers. i dont think there are many better built d-cores in our tier so i have a hard time understanding just how a team who has to build 75% for passing teams could possibly compete with a pure rushing team as far as stats/builds go.

Originally posted by Rob.
Doesn't matter how good of a gameplan you put together. It doesn't make a difference if you can't make tackles.

Ya it was never in the defenses hand to win. Big Ben had to score 80 pts or we had no chance. After the first 2 series being 3 and out's, I dared to hope, but I knew it was just a bout of attrition and Minnesota is built to win the long game.

Originally posted by Sov88
gg, was some wonderful scout tooling w/ your defense for sure. we called the game exactly how we needed to on both sides of the ball and still didnt come close lol.

not to sound salty but its only a matter of time until pure run offenses take a nice hit from a game adjustment. no way there should be 3-4 broken tackles behind the line of scrimmage http://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/replay/129325/2815362

either way gg gl, call me crazy but id say you just may be the favorite going into the finals haha

Ya pretty ridiculous since the defense was high on morale. Maybe some SA"s like Power Through should only be able to fire once a play. Just sayn' /summons Corndogs attention

Good game guys. It was a promising start. Mandy Ross had 2 or 3 friends to talk to the whole game!

Not to discredit the Goons (who played a great game by the way!) but I think it's safe to crown the Stunners, there will be no week 16 write up. See you guys in season 8! Hopefully not the stunners though... go play in Air Raid/Hawaii's league.

lol That was pretty funny.

I'm sure that was all on the up and up too.

Good game MMA.

A little back story that no one else know.

Steve told me before the start of season 3 that he wants to create an all run team. You idiot, that will never work. I kindly explain to him that the new meta is in the pass offense and pass defense. Look at the success of some of these season 2 teams. They are dominating with the pass. He told me all the more reason to build an all run offense to counter and the most physical defense on earth.

I laughed some more...

several seasons later, I am no longer laughing.


Hail to the Stunners!!!