Crazy career year

[Ben E Lou]

So I've been playing a 6.0e career for around 30 seasons now, and for the last 11, I've been chronicling it in a dynasty thread. I haven't touched my offensive game plan in five seasons or so, and my QB has been putting up good, not great, numbers. However, that all just changed on a shocking level this season.





Literally, I didn't *touch* the game plan on offense this year, and I don't think I've touched it since 2029 when Kirk's development and receivers were far along enough to stretch the field a bit more. We also didn't sign any new receivers. The only thing I can think of here is that my WRs and TE are all relatively young. My TE unmasked 8 points this year, but he didn't have that stellar of a season: 46 catches, 553 yards, 4 TDs. Team summary forthcoming in the next post...

[Ben E Lou]

Passing	Att	Comp	Yards	Yd/Att	TD	Int	Rate
Shannon Kirk	494	331	4461	9.03	54	11	122.7
Team	517	336	4514	8.73	56	12	119.0
Opp	574	324	3476	6.06	16	19	69.8

Rushing	Pos	Att	Yards	Yd/Att	TD	Fum
Rich Dancy	RB	235	1207	5.14	4	7
Herb Lindo	RB	152	624	4.11	5	4
Shannon Kirk	QB	44	258	5.86	2	4
Team	---	458	2180	4.76	12	21
Opp	---	367	1526	4.16	5	16

Receiving	Pos	Target	Catch	Yards	Yd/Ctch	Yd/Att	TD	Drop
Mitchell Newhart	FL	139	80	1322	16.53	9.51	17	9
Kris Dolinko	SE	82	55	692	12.58	8.44	11	5
Darren Rubisch	TE	64	46	553	12.02	8.64	4	3
Gino Winslett	SE	81	46	688	14.96	8.49	7	3
Lorenzo Wright	FL	65	40	602	15.05	9.26	11	6
Toby Tuupo	FL	25	18	202	11.22	8.08	3	0

Defense	Pos	Tackle	Assist	Sack	Hurr	Ints	Dfnsd	PDPct
Eugene Chinn	WLB	71	23	6.0	2	3	9	81.1
Morris Reed	MLB	70	18	1.0	2	0	1	73.9
Melvin Estes	LCB	60	12	2.0	0	6	24	86.6
Rich Joyner	RCB	56	19	0.5	0	5	11	82.0
Steven Rudis	LDE	48	16	23.5	33	0	0	82.1
Mickey Gleason	SS	45	10	0.0	0	0	4	77.3
Scottie Gillespie	LDT	44	15	8.0	11	0	0	81.6
Julio Rodgers	FS	36	9	1.0	1	2	2	81.6
Vincent Marroso	FS	36	15	1.0	2	0	6	78.4
Marvin Fine	FS	33	10	1.0	0	1	2	77.9
Vinny Irwin	RDT	32	12	7.0	5	0	0	82.2
Conrad Farrell	RCB	30	6	0.0	0	2	3	80.2
Jamal Green	LDE	24	15	9.5	15	0	0	81.6
Aaron Burns	SLB	22	10	0.0	0	0	1	77.7
Benjamin Jaax	FS	18	6	0.0	0	0	3	75.3
Mario Knoyle	MLB	17	6	0.5	1	0	2	79.4

Jacksonville Team Rank Rushes per Game 28.6 12 Rushing Yards 136.3 7 Yards Per Carry 4.76 6 (T) Pass Attempts 32.3 24 Completions 21.0 17 Completion Pct. 65.0 8 (T) Passing Yards 282.1 1 Yards Per Attempt 8.73 1 Yards Per Catch 13.43 1 Total Yards Gained 412.4 1 3rd Down Conversions 51.1 1 Points Per Game 35.2 1 Pass Rush Pct. 15.8 12 Pass Defense Pct. 65.7 1 Turnovers 24 14 (T) Turnover Margin 0 15 (T)

Opponents Team Rank Rushes per Game 22.9 6 Rushing Yards 95.4 5 Yards Per Carry 4.16 11 (T) Pass Attempts 35.9 29 Completions 20.3 8 (T) Completion Pct. 56.4 1 (T) Passing Yards 217.3 11 Yards Per Attempt 6.06 5 Yards Per Catch 10.73 17 Total Yards Gained 288.6 2 3rd Down Conversions 39.0 16 Points Per Game 13.3 1 Pass Rush Pct. 16.1 24 (T) Pass Defense Pct. 40.7 10 Turnovers 24 19 (T) Turnover Margin 0 15 (T)

Just wow. Has anyone seen a breakout year quite like this, with no ratings breakout and no game plan changes?

[Peregrine]

It's hard to tell without seeing your previous years, but it seems to me that it wasn't a stupendous breakout year across the board, just in touchdowns. (As an aside, the fact that you consider throwing for 3600-4200 yards a season with around 30 touchdowns a year only "good" is pretty funny.)

Essentially Kirk threw the ball less than the previous year, threw for only a few more yards than the previous year, his average/catch was lower this year, but he exploded in touchdowns. It looks like to me he's abeen a long thrower the past several years, but what's been holding him back was interceptions. His previous season could have been just as good as this one, but a lot of those long passes went for interceptions and this year he kept most of them on target. (21 last year, 11 this year) This is also borne out by his accuracy numbers, he had a career year in accuracy. Maybe his receivers had butterfingers (even this year they seem to have quite a few drops) but it looks to me like he was already poised to put up huge numbers but accuracy problems and interceptions stood in the way.

[Ben E Lou]

Good points, Peregrine. Here are the receivers' numbers from the last two seasons...

Receiving	Pos	Target	Catch	Yards	Yd/Ctch	Yd/Att	TD	Drop
Mitchell Newhart	FL	127	81	1039	12.83	8.18	15	3
Lorenzo Wright	FL	107	68	1003	14.75	9.37	10	7
Kris Dolinko	FL	58	34	494	14.53	8.52	5	3
Darren Rubisch	TE	46	33	326	9.88	7.09	2	0
Darnell Gomez	SE	48	29	428	14.76	8.92	3	2
Antoine Nakamura	FB	21	16	155	9.69	7.38	2	0

Receiving	Pos	Target	Catch	Yards	Yd/Ctch	Yd/Att	TD	Drop
Mitchell Newhart	FL	116	59	956	16.20	8.24	5	11
Lorenzo Wright	FL	76	50	759	15.18	9.99	4	6
Darren Rubisch	TE	77	47	655	13.94	8.51	7	3
Toby Tuupo	FL	47	32	416	13.00	8.85	5	3
Gino Winslett	SE	67	31	401	12.94	5.99	1	5
Kris Dolinko	FL	39	27	428	15.85	10.97	0	5
Darnell Gomez	SE	44	25	298	11.92	6.77	4	5
Antoine Nakamura	FB	21	16	132	8.25	6.29	3	0

[Peregrine]

Well those 2032 numbers are interesting. I don't know what happened that year, but Kirk threw a ton less that year than any other year (maybe partially explained by injuries?) but other than that it has a lot of similarities to his current breakout. Newhart and Wright clearly show they can score a lot, and their TD totals in the current season are nearly identical to two years ago. Kris Dolinko was obviously involved a lot more this season.

It's an interesting situation. Did you get more rushing touchdowns the past few years (in other words was Kirk so accurate this year that he was throwing them in from the red zone rather than having your RB rush them in from the 2?) That seems like one possible reason. Either way, you can't complain about the excellent year!

[Ben E Lou]

Oh, sorry. Kirk was hurt for a good bit of 2032.

Passing	Att	Comp	Yards	Yd/Att	TD	Int	Rate
Shannon Kirk	350	227	2808	8.02	33	12	106.7
Wendell Woodard	98	66	857	8.74	9	2	116.7
Doug Fulton	37	15	237	6.41	1	3	37.8
Team	485	308	3902	8.05	43	17	103.5

Checking rushing TDs...

2032: 12
2033: 18
2034: 12

[Richard Weed]

Seems awful strange that your RB Dancy wasn't in the receiving statistics. In my careers (all SP and all computer gameplanned) my RB has usually been in the top 5 or 6 receivers. I'd imagine he'd have at least one of the receiving TDs. Did Kirk use a lot of multiple receiver sets that year? What's also impressive is that Kirk had 2 rushing TDs.

[MartinD]

Just a thought - was the running game significantly better in this year than in previous years? When trying to run pass-first offences in previous versions of FOF, I often found that having a solid running game really helped to open up the passing game (although never to the extent of a 120+ QB rating...)

Martin

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by Richard Weed

Seems awful strange that your RB Dancy wasn't in the receiving statistics. In my careers (all SP and all computer gameplanned) my RB has usually been in the top 5 or 6 receivers. I'd imagine he'd have at least one of the receiving TDs. Did Kirk use a lot of multiple receiver sets that year? What's also impressive is that Kirk had 2 rushing TDs.

The game plan I'm using doesn't throw enough short passes to get the RB into the mix that much. Since 2029 when I opened it up, the most catches any back has had has been 30. In this season, all backs (FB included) got a total of 46 targets.

[Richard Weed]

Gotcha. Pretty good gameplan then.

I don't read the dynasty forums much. Just checked it out though and I don't think I've ever had the MVP, Bowl MVP, OPoY, DPoY, and a rookie of the year. All you needed was to draft/sign an undrafted FA WR and I'm sure you would've had both rookies of the year! Most impressive.