Originally posted by SCACE
I'm not sure how to explain the 'Nites fall from grace -- it can't just be boner tokens...something isn't working for them or others have figured something out.
I think it is a combination of things. I do think boner tokens have played a small role, but there is obviously more to it than that.
The biggest reason I can come up with is that teams are preparing better for us now than they did in the past and they have found weaknesses that they can exploit. It is damn hard to find weaknesses in a team that has 30+ consecutive wins and is blowing everyone out of the water. Once we lost a couple games, teams took notice and jumped on the exposed weaknesses.
We have also had some AI issues, albeit those were minor for the most part. They were there though. I am certain that if you watch all of our games, you will see instances where we leave a receiver wide open in the middle of the field.
The other part of it is builds and keeping up with the Bortifications. I won't get into any specifics there, but I believe we have several builds that need revamped due to changes made by Bort within the past season.
I do think it really comes back to teams desperately wanting to beat us and putting in the prep work necessary to accomplish that. There have been games where we have done little to no prep work and there are others where we have extensively scouted the opponent. If we lose because of lack of effort, that is on us. It has happened this season, so I will take some heat there. The competition is improving though and very few teams in this league can be taken lightly. I believe we have made that obvious over the past three games to everybody.
I'm not sure how to explain the 'Nites fall from grace -- it can't just be boner tokens...something isn't working for them or others have figured something out.
I think it is a combination of things. I do think boner tokens have played a small role, but there is obviously more to it than that.
The biggest reason I can come up with is that teams are preparing better for us now than they did in the past and they have found weaknesses that they can exploit. It is damn hard to find weaknesses in a team that has 30+ consecutive wins and is blowing everyone out of the water. Once we lost a couple games, teams took notice and jumped on the exposed weaknesses.
We have also had some AI issues, albeit those were minor for the most part. They were there though. I am certain that if you watch all of our games, you will see instances where we leave a receiver wide open in the middle of the field.
The other part of it is builds and keeping up with the Bortifications. I won't get into any specifics there, but I believe we have several builds that need revamped due to changes made by Bort within the past season.
I do think it really comes back to teams desperately wanting to beat us and putting in the prep work necessary to accomplish that. There have been games where we have done little to no prep work and there are others where we have extensively scouted the opponent. If we lose because of lack of effort, that is on us. It has happened this season, so I will take some heat there. The competition is improving though and very few teams in this league can be taken lightly. I believe we have made that obvious over the past three games to everybody.
No point in having them if they can't do the 1 friggin job they're paid to do! 
