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CapnCrunch
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The first rule is, never get involved in a land war in Asia....


Everyone since that game has tried to pass on us - I guess you dont believe that our guys settings were jacked - dont matter - our pass D has done a very good job this year (one ..ahhem... game exception..) Im fine with people passing, well take our chances. You gotta figure that they think they have nothing to lose by throwing up some unconventional settings. Every team in the playoffs is a good team and every one of them is dangerous. Besides, if they pull out the win when everyone doesnt think they can, more props to them.


Anyway, first playoff game is coming up so Good Luck everyone!

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Menamino
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I figured it would go something like that. I wasn't kidding when I said we had the worst QB in the playoffs, lol. We knew we could force some fumbles on your RBs so our front 7 all had their tackling set to force fumbles. Well, we forced 6, and only recovered 2. And missed a lot more tackles than we anticipated in the process. And our team picked a good game to start fumbling randomly, fumbling 3 times and losing all 3.

But we would've lost anyway since we don't really have a passing game yet. Too bad. Props to you guys and especially pu shembac for having a hell of an OT who pretty much took Magnus out of the game. It's gonna be pretty hard for anyone to beat you guys.
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wallymartin
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All of the higher seeds advance, with the exception of Eurotrash being beaten by Steel City, and you'd be hard-pressed to actually call that an upset.
 
CapnCrunch
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It was a good game. I saw that you guys must have been going for the strip...lots of fumbles. It also hurt you guys pretty badly as we had tons of 6+ yard rushes and kept the chains moving. Our goal today was to run the ball so the long rushes were nice - but the fumbles hurt. You probably went with the long ball (aka beans) - guessing 15% to HB and the WR distribution like 20/40/40? Pu Shembac is a beast. Really, our whole O Line is very, very good - Ive always felt that the lines are what make winning teams. Anyway, good game and you guys had a very good season. Something to be proud of.
 
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Yep, congrats to the Ballers as well ! They gave us everything they had especially in the first quarter. Good luck for your future. It should be bright.
 
Menamino
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Well I figured you'd shut down our run game since you've shut down better ones in the past, and our OL is almost entirely owned by our owner who doesn't really check the game much anymore and doesn't want to boost anyone. So the only way that we really had a shot would be to get some shots deep and maybe take a few short passes the distance. That's the only reason I even had a little bit of our passes go short, in the hopes that Baller Status or Ricky Williams could elude a few tackles and get a big play. Almost happened once or twice but never really too big. We had a couple plays where our receivers got behind the corner with the ball in their hands, but they always got tracked down, barely.

Also had quite a bit of a high % in passes to our TE, which I thought was one matchup we may have actually had an advantage in, but we didn't pass nearly as often as we should've to him. Of course, then there's plays like this where the ball could have realistically been picked off 4 times before it got to him: http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?pbp_id=4577220

All in all it was a decent season for us. Offensively we have one active level 13 WR, and then a level 6, 5, and 11 who hasn't logged on in a month so he's more like a level 4. Hopefully the other guys catch up to the better receivers a bit next season and we can have a little more diverse offense.
 
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Originally posted by Menamino
Well I figured you'd shut down our run game since you've shut down better ones in the past, and our OL is almost entirely owned by our owner who doesn't really check the game much anymore and doesn't want to boost anyone. So the only way that we really had a shot would be to get some shots deep and maybe take a few short passes the distance. That's the only reason I even had a little bit of our passes go short, in the hopes that Baller Status or Ricky Williams could elude a few tackles and get a big play. Almost happened once or twice but never really too big. We had a couple plays where our receivers got behind the corner with the ball in their hands, but they always got tracked down, barely.

Also had quite a bit of a high % in passes to our TE, which I thought was one matchup we may have actually had an advantage in, but we didn't pass nearly as often as we should've to him. Of course, then there's plays like this where the ball could have realistically been picked off 4 times before it got to him: http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?pbp_id=4577220

All in all it was a decent season for us. Offensively we have one active level 13 WR, and then a level 6, 5, and 11 who hasn't logged on in a month so he's more like a level 4. Hopefully the other guys catch up to the better receivers a bit next season and we can have a little more diverse offense.


Great job getting your team to the playoffs Menamino.

 
Keebler08
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Dang, only lost by six points my Saints did.

But hell, we outyarded them, turnovers killed us though.

Good game though.
 
sallori
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Did I mention that I don't like kickers who love kicking FGs from the 40 yard range?

Was a well played Game, Features.

Our dropped and incomplete passes just keep killing us
 
CapnCrunch
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Features are a beast of a team... While a win would have been sweeter, no shame in losing to one of the very best teams in the conference.

 
Taylor36
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Originally posted by Keebler08
Dang, only lost by six points my Saints did.

But hell, we outyarded them, turnovers killed us though.

Good game though.


No offense but those are garbage yards, the majority of them collected in the 4th quarter when we had a comfortable lead. It was definitely not an EASY win for us, but there was never a point where you guys were about to win this game.
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Enceladus
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Originally posted by sallori
Did I mention that I don't like kickers who love kicking FGs from the 40 yard range?

Was a well played Game, Features.

Our dropped and incomplete passes just keep killing us


It was closer than I wanted it to be

You guys had several chances to make plays, but unfortunatly for you, we had some well timed 3 and outs and a good interception on your first 4th down try.

Cudos to you guys for putting up a good fight. You guys will be a bigger threat next season since you've continued to devolop through this season
 
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No big surprises except Steel City War Machine. Well done guys! The previous match between this 2 teams was close, this one was damn close!

2 good performances :
West Country Wyverns
Aarhus Stingers


Not so many points allowed to 2 great teams!
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Keebler08
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Originally posted by Taylor36
Originally posted by Keebler08

Dang, only lost by six points my Saints did.

But hell, we outyarded them, turnovers killed us though.

Good game though.


No offense but those are garbage yards, the majority of them collected in the 4th quarter when we had a comfortable lead. It was definitely not an EASY win for us, but there was never a point where you guys were about to win this game.


Ya you guys just field-goaled us to death haha. 3-1 in that department, w/e.

But not really, we had about 60-80 yards in the last quarter.

And we were driving down the field the last drive for the win.

But we ran out of time.

 
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We ran out of time too, drove down to the 7 yard line trying for the tie.

http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=33405&mode=pbp
 
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