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Quick write up for week 3


(2-0) Buffalo Gangstarz vs (0-2) Colorado Springs Blazers

Colorado Springs travels to take on the Buffalo Gangstarz this week. Liquidguns and his boys in Big Blue are off to an undefeated start. This game will be over quickly. Buffalo's vaunted rushing attack is going to wreak havoc on the Blazers.



(1-1) LaPaz Challengers vs (1-1) Paris Musketeers

While you can throw what is supposed to happen out the window, you cannot deny that Peter Venkman is more than capable of pulling off the win against the Musketeers. The saving grace for LaPaz is that Paris's defense shouldn't be nearly as effective as Gangstarz was. Of course, "shouldn't" isn't the same as "won't,"

The Musketeers will probably give LaPaz a little scare early on, but the Challengers will be fine at the end.



(0-2) Miami Fusion vs (1-1) LUELinks LUEshis

LUEshis hasn't given us a complete look at what it can do this season, and we know this team is loaded with talent on both sides of the ball. However it's always the same with Miami- They come into the season once again unprepared and can give 2 fucks about losing.

The LUELinks have every reason to enter this game expecting a blow-out victory.



(2-0) Minnesota Stunners vs (1-1) Eastern European Alliance

EEA is worried about how to compete in Beta Division this season, but the Stunners are simply focusing on the long journey from being the best in their class to the most feared football franchise in the game.

Minnesota's ground and pound does the best at making up for the team's lack of aerial intimidation.

Jimbo Jumpback is the wave of the future, and the team continue to prove that they struck gold on the recruitment of Imani Cross last season.



(1-1) Gangsta Wit it' vs (0-2) Kansas City Hippos

Gangsta Wit it might not look as good as they had hoped, but there's no way they fall to a punching bag like Kansas City Hippos

There are a ton of difficult games on Gangsta Wit it's schedule, but this is simply not one of them.



(2-0) 1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers vs (1-1) Rare Breed Rookies

Rare Breed heads to Nebraska this week to see if it can do what Gangsta Wit it' couldn't: beat the Cornhuskers. (Spoiler alert: The Rookies won't be able to either.) If the Rare Breed can find any kind of success against them, that's a good indication Blake Bortles has the program on track for a relatively big season sooner than expected. The Pass game has already hit the ground and running, but their Wide receivers are having serious issues with dropped passes, plus other minor details on defense that add up to great adversity.

This is just one of those tough losses the Rookies are going to have to stomach for the time being.

Congratulations Minnesota, you are the greatest running team ever.

There just is no counter for pure rushing teams built to create morale dumps. It's crazy how fast the morale bars just dump.



Sucks, considering we moved the ball well, finally.

thanks Otega -- (are you being sarcastic?)


I think the advantage we see so often is that I'm not aware of a single team that has a defense that is heavily focused on stopping the run (nebraska is close). Most teams (including mine) are built mostly to stop the pass -- with the run defending skills being an after thought.

i really hate being a distant number two... but what can you do

Originally posted by TxSteve
thanks Otega -- (are you being sarcastic?)


I think the advantage we see so often is that I'm not aware of a single team that has a defense that is heavily focused on stopping the run (nebraska is close). Most teams (including mine) are built mostly to stop the pass -- with the run defending skills being an after thought.



No, not being sarcastic.

And you're absolutely correct. You can't focus a defense to stop the run when there are only a few offenses built like yours.

The morale spiral inducing traits simply compound the problem. Hence why, despite people's protests a few seasons ago, I've always felt that heavy/pure rushing offenses are way overpowered in GLB2. There is no counter for it on a 1 to 1 basis. Granted, pass coverage sucks too, so makes it relatively easy to pass. But still, you get the point.

Positioning of defenses, run blitzing, etc is largely ineffective when your lolmorale bars can basically dump after a couple plays.

Save for a few plays I need to take out, and a couple plays that were on 1 bar but called non-stop (i dunno why the always is) I was pretty happy with the defense I set up (first time I really took time scouting and game planning). I wasn't expecting to win, but I was expecting to play the game a lot closer. The run blitzing worked in terms of positioning (for the most part, not always). But, when you watch the bars drop 30-50 points on a play, it's a bit tough to really counter that lol.

But, you can't cover everything, skills wise. Which, of course, the problem.

Of course, we also moved the ball pretty well, which I was happy with frankly.

We did some respeccing and re-tooling during the off season, trying to find a better mix on offense. I think we've accomplished that, just need time to let that play out with skills points, etc. So doesn't help that we start with Lue, yourself and in another game or so, Neb.

We'll be better 2nd time around, but still really see no way to compete with your rushing attack, unless I had a total all points respec where i could just load up on morale counters and pass defense skills be damned lol.

Also doesn't help that as a product of GLB1, I wasn't even inclined to think that morale stuff could have the impact it has, from the start.

Originally posted by Otega
Of course, we also moved the ball pretty well, which I was happy with frankly.

We did some respeccing and re-tooling during the off season, trying to find a better mix on offense. I think we've accomplished that, just need time to let that play out with skills points, etc. So doesn't help that we start with Lue, yourself and in another game or so, Neb.

We'll be better 2nd time around, but still really see no way to compete with your rushing attack, unless I had a total all points respec where i could just load up on morale counters and pass defense skills be damned lol.

Also doesn't help that as a product of GLB1, I wasn't even inclined to think that morale stuff could have the impact it has, from the start.

how do you really feel

Originally posted by vipermaw82
how do you really feel

Like I just had a colonic

Well - I had some great matchups in terms of outside run vs inside defense (lucky - or bad luck depending on what side you were on) - your GL d's vs the outside big I runs gave up a lot of long TDs which certainly aren't good for morale.

I think the biggest factor for morale though is pancakes. As an example - in the championship game vs Nebraska - we had 44 pancakes (think he pancaked me 58 times).

In our game today - I pancaked you 156 times (you pancaked me 33 times). You guys haven't built over the last 3 seasons to avoid getting pancaked...Nebraska has kept it as a focus -- and that is the difference (in my opinion). (in that same vein - in this years championship Nebraska outgained me on yards and should have won -- but I got lucky in the turnover battle and won the game -- or Nebraska would be 2-1 against me)

I hope I'm not sounding like an argumentative a-hole - I'm meaning this as a "here is what I've observed" tone.


As for morale spiraling - I'm willing to share I've spent almost nothing on intimidation yet - so that isn't a big factor here.


If the game was free - I'd love to build a 100% run focused defense. I'd expect to get killed by passing offenses (if I didn't - clearly a problem) - but I'd stuff the run offenses. That could be an option in the future though as there seem to be more and more run only teams being built (I modeled my team on the Ronin who are like 70% run).

You're hitting the nail on the head though - by us being in "the minority" (most teams are either full on pass or balanced attacks) - that gets us in a unique position to have a huge advantage over most defenses in the game.

i dont think we need to bring up the NEB championship game again... still a bitter taste

Well that I better make sure I definitely don't mention Benning and his fumbles....is he even still on your roster? I think most coaches would have cut him after that game.

I tried to cut him then realized, he's worth more touchdowns than turnovers , if we get back to championship game he may not get the starting nod though

You're not. I appreciate the discussion.

FYI, my Dlineman aren't devoid of hold ground.

The problem is, once the spiral starts, there is no recouping it. Effectively, there is no stopping it, and it compounds everything else. Hence, why Q1 can be so competitive, then it simply goes to shit from there. If we had the spare SP's, I would have everyone take heart way up and see if that can delay it long enough to make a game of it, but of course, if if if.

Once the pancake machine starts churning them out, it can't be stopped lol.

It's a good point.

I haven't paid much attention to morale increases (other than believing heart gives you 'more morale hit points' so to speak).


You might think if a guy has been pancaked a couple plays in a row -- then avoids getting pancaked for a play that might give him a little morale boost -- but I don't know if it works like that or not.

Well this was definitely a week of blowouts. The only decent game being Nebraska vs Rare Breed.

Holy shit Minnesota! 118 points and 17.5 yards per rush against a top 20 team. I'm scared to watch the tape, it might give me nightmares.