Originally posted by haymondjunior
Bill- how does confusing having more quality teams (competitive teams) with having a better conference, confuse you? Now Im confused. I believe logic would dictate that if at some point a conference has to fill playoff spots with gutted teams that it would be hard to argue the better conference. LC last season had a 4 way tie to settle the last 3 playoff spots, yet the EC had a team give up mid season, gut their team, and yet still cruise in as an 8th seed into your playoffs giving the #1 team a first round bye. I understand your loyalty to your conference but I am not injecting bias into my statements, I am trying to justify with facts and statistics.
Also, beating a team week one is not a very good barometer of the team we had to beat week 14 or 15 whatever it was. They had several upgrades by that time at key positions. Your team is the one legit opponent I mentioned above and the reason that made you legit was you had the best defense in the entire league last season hands down. So its no wonder to me why you were able to limit their lvl 44 TE, you had the personnel to do just that. You were like the Baltimore Ravens of recent years past, if a team scored more than 17 points on you, your offense struggled to keep you in the game. We were the opposite with the personnel we had we were using double teams of lvl34 LOLB and a lvl41 run stuffing SS to try to contain that speed. Its a mismatch any way you look at it, as our FS was lvl 32 so that wasnt an option.
What was bland and predictable was our ability to put up the most points scored on them all season, what I am trying to take credit for is making the closest game they played all season. Both points are prideful considering the EC as a whole couldnt accomplish those feats. Since noone beat them all season long, you have to take solace in the few battles you win even if you lose the war.
As for the scrimmage, we do take them seriously and we havent lost many of those either. However, we dont show our "A" game nor our "A" AI either. So, if we win we win and if we lose either way our opponents come regular season time have nothing to scout. Best of luck to you, and I am curious to see how we fair against a tough "Raven's-like" defense using an experimental setup. This allows us to maybe throw another setup into the kitty to draw from later on if needed.
Your first paragraph makes two good points. That first game was week 1 and was a 1 pt victory, so take that for what it is worth. However, Happy Hour was a good team that quit right after we housed them. And if I remember correctly, we housed them because we got some to's early and the rest of the game was a moral beat down, I think they made a terrible decision and I still don't understand it.
However, if competitive = quality, the ACC was the best football conference last season.
Regardless, while our conference has victories, it wasn't like E'ci and MaRAWK!!o went out and just trounced everybody in lion conference. In my opinion, there were 5 good teams in our league last season, 3 Lion, 2 Elephant.
I still think we got unlucky twice against E'ci last season. Our RB had one fumble all season and it was in the first quarter of the E'ci game, which they returned for a TD and then they figured out our secret 3rd and short play (ram it up the middle). In the first game we threw half of the interceptions we threw all season and put together the best AI I have ever seen on defense (we changed the blitz package and accidently left the TE open on 3 wide formations). But regardless of what I think, they beat the crap out of us twice.
And let the record reflect: scrimmages are totally either test or goofing games, so if you win, you should definitely run your mouth because it doesn't mean anything.
Here is the good news about our defense: Everybody we brought in was on defense and we got a punter. Guess what we are planning to do this season? I think you have seen it before.
Bill- how does confusing having more quality teams (competitive teams) with having a better conference, confuse you? Now Im confused. I believe logic would dictate that if at some point a conference has to fill playoff spots with gutted teams that it would be hard to argue the better conference. LC last season had a 4 way tie to settle the last 3 playoff spots, yet the EC had a team give up mid season, gut their team, and yet still cruise in as an 8th seed into your playoffs giving the #1 team a first round bye. I understand your loyalty to your conference but I am not injecting bias into my statements, I am trying to justify with facts and statistics.
Also, beating a team week one is not a very good barometer of the team we had to beat week 14 or 15 whatever it was. They had several upgrades by that time at key positions. Your team is the one legit opponent I mentioned above and the reason that made you legit was you had the best defense in the entire league last season hands down. So its no wonder to me why you were able to limit their lvl 44 TE, you had the personnel to do just that. You were like the Baltimore Ravens of recent years past, if a team scored more than 17 points on you, your offense struggled to keep you in the game. We were the opposite with the personnel we had we were using double teams of lvl34 LOLB and a lvl41 run stuffing SS to try to contain that speed. Its a mismatch any way you look at it, as our FS was lvl 32 so that wasnt an option.
What was bland and predictable was our ability to put up the most points scored on them all season, what I am trying to take credit for is making the closest game they played all season. Both points are prideful considering the EC as a whole couldnt accomplish those feats. Since noone beat them all season long, you have to take solace in the few battles you win even if you lose the war.
As for the scrimmage, we do take them seriously and we havent lost many of those either. However, we dont show our "A" game nor our "A" AI either. So, if we win we win and if we lose either way our opponents come regular season time have nothing to scout. Best of luck to you, and I am curious to see how we fair against a tough "Raven's-like" defense using an experimental setup. This allows us to maybe throw another setup into the kitty to draw from later on if needed.
Your first paragraph makes two good points. That first game was week 1 and was a 1 pt victory, so take that for what it is worth. However, Happy Hour was a good team that quit right after we housed them. And if I remember correctly, we housed them because we got some to's early and the rest of the game was a moral beat down, I think they made a terrible decision and I still don't understand it.
However, if competitive = quality, the ACC was the best football conference last season.
Regardless, while our conference has victories, it wasn't like E'ci and MaRAWK!!o went out and just trounced everybody in lion conference. In my opinion, there were 5 good teams in our league last season, 3 Lion, 2 Elephant.
I still think we got unlucky twice against E'ci last season. Our RB had one fumble all season and it was in the first quarter of the E'ci game, which they returned for a TD and then they figured out our secret 3rd and short play (ram it up the middle). In the first game we threw half of the interceptions we threw all season and put together the best AI I have ever seen on defense (we changed the blitz package and accidently left the TE open on 3 wide formations). But regardless of what I think, they beat the crap out of us twice.
And let the record reflect: scrimmages are totally either test or goofing games, so if you win, you should definitely run your mouth because it doesn't mean anything.
Here is the good news about our defense: Everybody we brought in was on defense and we got a punter. Guess what we are planning to do this season? I think you have seen it before.
