Alright, Let's Do this Thing! FOF7 Rise of the Jaguars

[Abe Sargent]

Season Awards:

All League First Team:

FB Robbie Wheatley
WR Marqise Lee

All League Second Team:

WR Joshua Wild
OG Marquis Satre
DE Cesar Velazquez

The NFL’s Fastest Man

WR Joshua Wild


Welcome back Velazquez!

[Abe Sargent]

Stats!


Passing

QB Blake Bortles, 11 starts, 238 of 313, 76%, 2936, 23:11, 114.4 rating, 13 sacks, 3 fumbles
QB Hardy Schaefer, 5 starts, 131 of 167, 78.4%, 1478 yards, 10:2, 118.5 rating, 19 sacks, 3 fumbles

So, Schaefer did fine spelling Bortles. That’s good. In fact except for sacks, he is better than Bortles, but he has a smaller sample size. The point is that the offense didn’t slow down much with him at the helm. I’m glad I extended Schaefer by a year.

Rushing

RB Jermaine Woods, 274 for 1265, 4.62 ypc, 15 rushing scores29 grabs, 156 yards, 1 score

Woods was, at the halfway mark, 3rd in the league in rushing yards, and fell to 8th. He also had 15 rushing scores, which leads the league. That’s a strong performance. Whew! I can’t tell you how happy I am to see that.

Receiving:

WR Marqise Lee, 92 for 1468 yards, 12 receiving scores; 1 rushing TD
WR Joshua Wild, 105 for 1465, 8 scores
TE Brett Kovacs 59 for 610 and 5
FB Wheatley, 40 for 425 and 4
WR Fahey, 20 for 296 and 2
WR Banks 24 for 212 and 1


Lee was 3rd and Wild 4th in receiving yardage, and Lee led the league in catching scores. Kovacs proved himself worthy of our starting roles. Among TEs he was 4th in receiving yards and led in receiving scores.

Special Teams:

K Marquis Danforth – 18 of 25 f with a long of 48; 56 of 56 PAT

P Conner Donovon – 78, 44.1 average, 36 in 20.

LBs Miceli and Okobi each had 25 special teams tackles.

We don’t have any one good in returning the football. Danforth had the 5th worst % in the league. Not a good year for special teams…

Defense:

DE Cesar Velazquez, 35 solo and 10 assists; 10 sacks, 5 blocked passes, 24 hurries, 19 QB KD; 3 FF
DE Gregory Burton, 34 and 11 tackles; 7.5 sacks, 2 block, 12 hurries, 2 QBKD; 2 FumRec
DT Brant Missouri, 31 and 10 tack, 5 sacks, 2 block, 9 hurries, 1 QBKD
DT Quentin Grossman, 35 and 17 tackles; 4.5 sacks, 9 hurries, 6 QBKD
DE Ron Ketteridge, 5 sacks, 2 blocks, 9 hurries, 1 QBKD; 2 FF; 1 FumRec
DT Randy Frederick, 4.5 sacks, 2 blocks, 2 hurries

Solid play from my D Line, but no guy that really sold me. Even Velazquez could have been better. Burton was good in his debut though.

SLB Ezra Wilkerson, 71 solos, 19 assists; 2.5 sacks, 2 hurries, 4 pasdef
MLB Lance Morris, 93 and 34 tackles; 2 sacks, 1 block,1 hurry 11 pasdef; 2 FF; 2 FumRec
WLB Amari Snipes, 21 and 6; 1 hurry

Wilkerson was well rounded, and looks like a solid enough starter moving forward and I’m not embarrassed by Morris either.

SS Jermaine Whalen – 99 solo and 37 assists; 4.5 sacks, 1 pick, 12 pasdef, 3 FF
FS Irving Troy – 10 starts, 1 sacks, 1 pick, 3 pasdef
CB Colton Hanks, 1 sacks, 5 picks, 1 INT RET TD 9 pasdef
CB Shane Hopkins, 2 hurries; 3 picks, 11 pasdef; 2 FF
CB Emmitt Burke, 8 pasdef

Hmmm….Troy you continue to suck. Hanks was awesome in the 1st half of the season and leading the league in picks with 5. Then….slowdown city.


Blocking:

OG Marquis Satre, 50 KRB, 12 pancakes, 5 sacks allowed
OT Myron Starks, 30 KRB, 8 pancakes, 8 sacks allowed
OC Myron Leggin, 23 KRB, 3 sacks allowed
OT Joel Cameron, 16 KRB and 9 sacks allowed
OG Steven Kelley, 12 starts, 10 KRB, 1 pancakes, 5 sacks allowed
FB Robbie Wheatley, 13 KRB, 0 sacks allowed


Satre had 4th most KRB in league, 2nd most pancakes. Dammit Kelley!

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:


Offensive Player of the Year: RB Jermaine Woods – It’s nice to have a running game again, isn’t it? We like it when running over things works. Our game needs that change up in order to make things work, because we can’t have defenses keying in on defenders too much. I Want my 1200-1350 rush yards and 12 rush TDs every year. Woods got me 1265 and 15 – led the league in rushing scores. Good job!

Defensive Player of the Year: MLB Lance Morris – Even though he was wobbly a bit and knocked down to questionable, we kept him in, and he had a strong season for us, with tackles, sacks, forced fumbles, and don’t forget, tied for second on the team in passes defended. Good job buddy!

Special Teams Player of the Year: LS Grayson Johnstone – You’ve been a quiet rock on the team for a decade, and it keeps on. Thanks!

Rookie of the Year: SLB Wilkerson - Both Wilkerson and Burton make compelling cases for this award. It’s very close. I’m going with Wilkerson because damn we needed a good outside linebacker. We’ve had 7.5 sacks and good stuff from DEs, but not the tackles, sacks, pass coverage and run stopping that you need from a SLB> Wilkerson gave us that. Welcome to the Jaguars!

Heart Award – QB Hardy Schaefer – He came in and started for a team that was 9-0. When he left it was 13-1. He played better than Bortles in his 5 starts. Schaefer was a great quality for our roster, and reaped benefits four years after drafting him.

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, let’s end this season!


Team Performance – 90
Value – 90
Profit – 73
Roster – 21

Score – 76


Retirements –

CB Kayvon Webster and OC Roger Pearson have retired.

Other Major Players Leaving the NFL:

QB Aaron Rodgers
RB Le’Veon Bell
TE Rob Gronkowski
WR Michael Floyd
WR Torrey Smith
WR AJ Green
WR Emmanuel Sanders
C Maurkice Pouncey
OC Roger Pearson – Sad
OT Matt Kalil
OT Sebastian Vollmer
OT Nate Solder
OT Russell Okang
K Nick Folk
DE VInny Curry
DT Marcell Dareus
DT Gerald McCoy
SILB Luke Kuechly
OLB Aldon Smith
OLB Melvin Ingram
CB Morris Claiborne
SS Rahim Moore
SS George Iloka – Another of ours for a while
FS Earl Thomas


A lot of retirees are players generated by the game, I won’t normally list them here heading on out.

New Hall of Fame – Ryan Clady, Joe Thomas, Calvin Johnson

6.4 mill cap increase

Our stadium renovations have finished up. Yay!

We made 20 mill last year
We had 99.8% attendance

With our renos complete, we are now worth 1.327 billion dollars, and our second in value only to the Seahawks

Our Stadium is ranked 2nd best
Roster is 13th best
Support tied for best (with Colts and 49ers)
16th best economy

[Abe Sargent]

I extend contracts to our Assit Head Coach and Off Coor

We draft 27th still.

Then a great OC is available and I snag him. Mr. No Weakness OC Winston Rogers.

No other staff changes.

I pimp up my ticket prices hard. We have improved parking lot, field, seats, etc.

We have 39 players under contract:

RFA:

QB Tito Poston
TE Stanley Ballard
MLB Toby Miceli
WLB Logan Sims

UFA:

FB Robbie Wheatley
TE Josiah Logan
SE Roman Fahey
RT Owen Ofodile
P Conner Donovan
K Marquis Danforth
RCB Owen Horn
SS Marcus Gilchrist

No major franchise tags or anything.

We don’t have a pick this year in the 2nd round.

Let’s hit up FAA

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Who on my roster that I want to extend deals to?

I extend LS Grayson Johnstone

I know he’s an 8th year vet, but I like what Morris brought.

I like what Lee, MLB Morris, DT Missouri, and CB Hopkins have brought. I’ll put them on my short list for now

RFA? I bring back TE Ballard and MLB Miceli and WLB Sims - they were all Undrafted FAs I picked up last year that brought it.

Before I hit the FA with kickers and punters, I want to check the draft. Nobody major there. I can grab mine in free agency.

I need:

Starting FB
RB
TE
C
WR
OTx2
K
P
3xCB
S

I’d like to bring in a starter quality S to push out FS Troy. Maybe a starter at WLB. I need depths at CB,

Before doing any extensions, let’s move to FA week one.


Who excites me?

I make an offer to Punter Brad Nortman

No kickers yet. I’ma wait until prices drop on them.

FS Carter Dernbach, 44/44 guy – the 3rd best FS in FA but the first one that won’t cost me a massive amount of cash.

I have a conflict with my new oline leader. I make a 4 year offer to bring in a solid OT named Byrce Talaridou who would be my leader and Bortles, Kelley, Cameron and Wheeler are all happy about that. Sold.

I’m going to wait on FB prices to drop. You can get them later.

I make some extensions – I extend CB Hopkins by 3 years.

I extend QB Peters by a year. I extend MLB Morris by three years.

Okay. We have 11.2 under the cap and I only need 5 for my draft class. I am going to hold off on Lee, since I suspect he’ll drop in rating post-camp or post-preseason.

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I also want to extend QB Hardy Schaefer, he wants a four year deal with 2.8, 3.36, 3.64, and then 4.29 mill. That’s not bad. But I want to hold off on that until later.

Oh, Johnny Manziel is in FA.

Anyone else I want to chase? I make an offer to WR Nicholas Ford. I need a good WR option other than the late bodies I keep passing over.

Both OG Kelley and OT Cameron are 51/51 and 52/52 respectively. And if they were playing like it, I’d extend them right now. But neither have sold me. Cameron, with 16 starts as a fully developed guy was just 16 KRB out of 57 KRO for a 28.1%. And 9 sacks allowed, that’s weak. I’ll keep them open in case we find a great rookie like I often do in the O Line.

Stage 2 – Manziel is heading to Green Bay.

Stage 3 – Nothing major

Stage 4 – Nothing again

Stage 5 – We sign RT Bryce Talaridou. 4 years, 11.94 mill.

Stage 6 – We sign FS Carter Dernbach to 3 years, 6.34 mill. Several offers to kickers have been made. I don’t make a move.

Stage 7 No news

Stage 8 – WR Ford, a 41/41 guy signs with us for 2 years, 2.65 mill – he has an affinity for Marqise Lee as well. We sign P Nortman. I make an offer to an old friend.

I am almost out of money. I have an ace in the hole, and I use it. I call up Bortles. We extend his deal by a year, drop his cap hit to 15 this year, 19 next, and then 15 the last year.

Stage 9 – Kickers begin to sign. They are still too pricey. We sign TE JR Delaroche for a two year deal worth 3.88 mill. Welcome back sir.

Stage 10 – No major news. TE Josiah Logan signed with the 49ers.

Stage 11 – No major news

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I will head to the Draft to see what I can rustle up:

I scout the top two kickers but they are overrated and very overrated. Hmpf.

We pick 1.30, and we don’t have a 2nd rounder, but we pick 7.3 as well. I have an underrated potential affinity FB out there at the top of the board if I’m feeling up for it. (I’m not)

WHOA OT. We have like 15 good quality starting level Ots (7 actually). I scout up a bunch of them. And some OG as well.


The 2024 NFL Amateur Draft


Because I lack picks and such, this is not going to be one of those drafts I follow that closely. I just grab the draft and fast sim until it’s my pick.

The first pick is San Diego who snags a DE.

How many OTs have gone in the first 29 picks? 5. Let’s take a look at who is left. Anyone I like?

RT Brant Matthews, had 4 blue combines, 50 volatility, 33% developed, and….very overrated.
RT Victor O’Neill, did not go to the combine, 39 volatility, 30% developed, and overrated

Now, without checking, there is DE Derek Osborn, with 4 blue combine scores, what looks to be incredible bars, and I’m not bored when I look at him Do I just draft for value? I interviewed the 3rd and 4th OGs on the board, and the 1st and 2nd are there too. Not a single OG has been drafted in the first round thus far. I can take any that I want. That’s enticing. I can take a WR< Roberto Moore with a potential affinity who looks pretty sexy based on bars. Not Wild sexy, but maybe Lee’s replacement down the road at SE.

Okay, now here’s something else – I scouted the 2nd best ILB in the draft, expecting #1 to be taken, and none have gone The #1 guy has horrible bars.


SILB Craig Puckett, 22 volatility, 4 blue combines, 26% developed, overrated

So, do I take a random WR or DE that looks good? OR do I grab the ILB or OT that fell?

Basically, my choices are all at places I have depth. I don’t need an OT, I have Cameron for another year. I don’t need OG for the same reason. I don’t need DE I have Velazquez and Burton. I don’t need ILB I just signed Morris. I don’t need WR I have Wild and Lee.

Alright, if I didn’t have a single player in these spots, and I wanted someone, who would I take:

DE Osborn
One of the OTs
SILB Puckett
One of the OGs
SE Moore

Hmmm… this may be the hardest choice I’ve had to make in the back part of the 1st in a while.



I grab CB Randall Liu in the 3rd. Then BAP from, there. I draft…

DE Osbron or Very Overrated OT Brant Matthews - I just hope he’s not a Goldhammer . It’s down to those two. I don’t need DE. I don’t. And I don’t want to risk the lower rated, no combine scored, overrated lesser OT.

I grab Matthews

I take some depth later on. RB at 3.30, then OG at 4.30, and then CB at 5.30.

Here we go:

The 2024 Jacksonville Jaguars Draft

1st – OT Brant Matthews, Toledo
3rd – RB Erick Winslett, Notre Dame
4th – OG Michael Berggren, San Jose State
5th – CB Allen Hutchings, Mississippi State
6th – C Joshua Pieper, Indianapolis
7th – CB Earl Monalvo, Boston University; K Dave Perez, Miami, Flor

[Abe Sargent]

We have a B+ rating

None of our players on the Green Page.

Early Results:

OT Matthews 21/53 – Yuck. That’s not the start of something wonderful.
RB Winslett – 33/48
K Perez – 25/48 – Yuck there too.


The DE I was considering is 35/69 right now. The SE is 29/56. Not great either. Could have gotten a strong 70 potential OG maybe to replace my OT Cameron, idiot, idiot, idiot.

In a move that surprised practically no one, RB Woods has held out. He wants a deal with 7, 8, 8, and 8.6. Now, if he was 63/63 instead of 53/53 maybe. He’s the 20th best RB in the league. He started In his 2nd and 3rd years in the league and he had 890 and 753 yards, 3.33 or 3.62 ypc and 6 and 6 Rsh td. He had good stats because he was running behind All Pro FB, OT, OG, a C with the potential to be one of the best in eh league and a long time OG and OT starter. And he was running with one of the leagues best passing games opening things up. That’s not you buddy, and I an’t paying you like you are a top ten RB.

I make a few offers:

K Kevin Hargrove, very cheap

I also offer:

UFA FB Devon Goodwin
UFA DE Ken Bridgeman
UFA SE Winfred Howard
UFA C Patrick Peters

Stage 2 – Cleveland signs FB Robbie Wheatley. We sign K Kevin Hargrove.

Stage 3 – We bring in no one, I make an offer to a UFA WLB. Meanwhile, former RB Walter Gohl heads to Detroit and S Marcus Gilchrist to Green Bay.

Stage 4 – We sign all of our targets.

WLB Avery Haldar, 3 years, 5.86 mill, 5th year vet, 44/44 guy. Removes conflicts by becoming our new leader.

Pre-camp, I sign FB Cory Finley, 39/39, to a vet min salary.

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CAMPING!

We sold 67,200 season tickets out of 67,200 season tickets.

I have 60 players on my roster

I cut: K Dave Perez; OC Patrick Peters; OG Zachery Wheeler, WLB Landon Bush; ELB Ken Okobi; WR Bryan Cooley, and


We go 3-1 in the preaseason.

Crap!

Here is OT Brant Matthews in the post-preseason – 24/45. A perfectly good third rounder I suppose. That solid RB I drafted? Ebbing down to 34/39. I had a solid OG Michael Berg, he;s busted down to 25/39.


Feh. Other draftees I was considering?

Post Preseason?

DE Osborn - 41/69
OG Craig Bay – 41/65
OG Jimmie Monroe – 47/72
MLB Puckett – 26/49 That’s not too disappointing I suppose
SE Roberto Moore – 32/53
OT O’Neill – 38/64

I don’t know how I talked myself in that pick. That was an awful pick.

There was a 36/63 C taken a few picks after I’m grabbing some random RB.

I am a bad drafter.


And now I have to throw some good money after bad.

TE Kovacs has dropped to 47/47. That sucks. Kelley dropped to 46/46. RB George dropped as well. QB Bortles drops to 49/49.

I cut: FB Devin Goodwin and DE Ray Tomlinson

There are a few folks I can still sign up – OG Kelley, OT Cameron, QB Schaefer, DT Missouri, SE Lee.

I extend Lee by two years.

Roster has dropped.

[Abe Sargent]

Roster Strength of Starters:

14th worst QB
15th best RB
8th worst FB
11th worst TE
THE best WR
13th best C
3rd best OG
5th best OT
15th best P
13th best K
5th best DE
18th best DT
6th worst MLB
10th best OLB
7th best Cb
6th best S

As of today, SS Jermaine Whalen, at 61/61, is the 10th best Safety in the league. There’s have been virtually no good FS to come out in the draft. At 52/63, OLB Wilkerson is the 9th best OLD in the league by potential. Just 11 OLb in the league are at 60+ rating current. Only two, mine and a rooki, have a potential of 60+. Among DEs, rookie from last year, DE Gregory Burton is the 10th best DE by potential and 10th by current ranking. C Myron Leggin is now 50/73.

We are the 5th youngest team in the league.

Let’s begin:

Week 1 – We open with a game on the road against Indianapolis and we just plant them 42-9. Bortles, MVP, has 21 of 27 for 414 and 5:1. Wild gets 184 yards on 10 catches for 2 scores, Lee 4 grabs for 111 and a score, and WR Nicholas Ford, my new signee has 3 for 76 and 2 scores. RB Henry Tiessen rushes for a score too. Pick by CB Hanks, and Hanks forced a fumble that DE Ron Ketteridge recovered. Sack by DT Missouri, 3 blocked passes by DE Ketteridge (DANG), pretty quiet day all told.

No major injuries either.

Week 2 – We head to Detroit and win 21/16. RB Tiessen had 14 carries, 101 yards, Bortles is 22 of 30 for 290 and 3:3, and Wild Is Game MVP with 8 grabs for 174 yards and 2 core.s WR Ford has a score. Pick by MLB Morris. Forced fu,mble by DE Velazquez, recovered by CB Hopkins. Sacks by FL Myles Clinton and SS Jermaine Whalen. 4 KRB by Satre.

Week 3 – We head to Baltimore, and this time, they take us down,41-24. Bortles was 21 for 44 and 382 and 3:3. Wild had 177 yards an 1 score, Lee 52 and another and WR Ford 65 and the third. Sack by MLB Morris. 3 KRB by C Leggin (and a pancake too)

Week 4 – We host the Jets and drop to 2-2. 30-17. Bortles is 35 of 52 for 416 and 2:3 and hi Wild for 11 catches 145 yards and 2 scores, and Lee for 106 yards. Sacks by DE Burton and DT Grossman.

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Week 5 – We host the 1-win Dolphins and return to our winning ways 38-14. RB Henry Tiessen rushes 17 for 119 yards and RB Bryaden George 15 for 101 and a score, and even rookie Erick Winslett gets a rush score. Bortles is 21 of 31 for 246 and 3:1, and Wild had 6 for 89 and a score and Lee gets 2 scores himself. Rookie CB Allen Hutchings gets his first pick of the season. FF and remove by DE Ketteridge. DT Missouri with 1.5 sacks, and 1 sack by DT Grossman. 5 KRB by OT Cameron and 3 by Starks and 3 and 2 pancakes by Satre.


DE Burton is doubtful with turf toe. I am benching him until he heals. We’ll start DE Ketteridge and I activate DE Nathaniel Brown.

Week 6 – We host the Colts and beat them again, 33-7. Bortles, MVP, with 27 of 32, 281, and 3:1. RB Tiessen rushes 20 times for 128 yards. Wild has 92 and a TD, Lee and TE Kovacs TDs too. Sacks by SS Whalen, DT Missoru, and 5 KRB by C Leggin.

Unfortunately, QB Bortles is out again, this time for two weeks with a strained Achilles tendon. Again, Schaefer will start for him. I sign Tito Poston back again. I cut MLB Ezekiel Mueller to make room for him.

Week 7 – We head to 5-1 Tennessee and now they are 6-1 after we lose 34-18. RB Tiessen gets a rushing score, and QB Schaefer is 19 for 29 and 250 and 1:1. Wild got 101 yards and RB Winslett caught the other score.

DE Burton is back from injury. WR Winfred Howard is doubtful.

Week 8 -BYE

Bortles is back.

Week 9 – We head to, and clock Buffalo 52-19. Bortles, Game MVP and NFL Offensive Player of the Week has 30 of 40, 397 and 6). Lee has 10 catches 138 yards and 2 scores, and Wild has 9 fr o147 and 3. 2 sacks by Velazquez, and others by DE Burton, SOBL Wilkerson, and DE Ketteridge.

RB Woods has officially ended his holdout. I place him on inactive. I waive QB Poston.

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Week 10 – We head to 5-3 New England and win big, 30-7. Bortles, MVP, with 25 of 34, 304 and 3:1. Wild caught for 123 and RB Henry catches 2 scores ad TE Kovacs the other. Tiessen also has 21 for 133 on the ground. Picks by SS Whalen and CB Hutchings. 3 sacks by DE Burton, 1 by DE Velazquez, 5 KRB by Satre, 4 by Starks.

DE Velazquez is doubtful with a hyperextended knee.

Week 11 – We host the Texans and send them home 31-21. Bortles is NFL Offensive Player of the Week with 22 of 34 and 267 and 4:0. RB Tiessen had 99 yards and RB George 93 yards on the ground, while Wild catches a score, and TE Delaroche, Kovacs and WR Ford all get scores as well. 5 KRB by Satre, 4 by OG Kelley, 3 by C Leggin.

I activate RB Woods and deactivate RB Winslett. WE Howard is out for a few weeks and I activate our 3rd string TE Stanley Ballard. TE Delaroche is questionable.

Week 12 – We host and then upend the Vikings 33-24. Bortles has 30 of 38, 263, 2:0, and hits Wild 10 times for 100 and 1 score, Lee 6 times for 62 and a score, and Rb Woods rushes 22 for 86 and as coer. Forced fumbles by WLB Amari Snipes and FS Myles Clinton recovered by DT Grossman and CB allen Hutchings. 1/5 sacks by Burton, 1 by DE Velazquez and SLB Ezra. 3 KRB by Kelley.

Week 13 – We host and defeat the Oakland Raiders as well 48-21. Lots of people did good stuff on thise one

Borltes (MVP) – 26 of 36, 4:2, 326 yards
WR Lee, 7 for 72 and 1 score
TE Kovacs 6 for 126 and 2 scores
WR Ford, score
RB Woods 21 rushes for 187 yards, 1 score
RB Tiessen 9 for 65, 1 score
RB Brayden George, 3 for 15 and a score
DE Burton, 1 FF, 1.5 sacks,
CB Hanks, 1 Fumble Recovered
DE Ketterridge 2 sacks
DE Velazquez – 3 QB Knockdown
SS Jermaine Whalen – 3 passed defended
OG Kelley – 5 KRB
OT Joel Cameron – 4 KRB
C Myron Leggin – 4 KRB


We have a few injures. OG Marquis Satre is questionable, FL Wild probable, FS Irving Troy out,, Bortels questionable, FB Finley questionable,but nothing too major.

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Week 14 – We travel to Chicago. And we win 31-17. RB Woods rushes 17 for 94 and a score. Bortles is 25 of 35 for 326 and 3:3, and hit Lee for 143 yards and a score, and Wild for 108 and 2. Forced fumble by SLB Wilkerson and picked by SS Whalen. Sack by DE Burton. 3 KRB by C Leggin. WR Howard is healed and back.

Week 15 – The biggest game of the season is here. The 11-2 Titans come to town to take on the 10-3 Jaguars. We are the teams with the 3nd and 3rd best records in the AFC respectively. (Baltimore has just one loss). The winner of the AFC South likely gets a bye. We lose, 17-23. And DE Burton is out for 6 weeks with a dislocated elbow.

DE Velazquez was the game MVP with 3.5 sacks and SLB Wilkerson added another. Pick bu hanks returned 82 yard sfor as core. Forced fumbled by Velazquez and recovered by him too. Bortles 28 of 41 for 296, and 1:2 and hit Wild for 116 and a score and Lee for 98 yards, and Woods rushed for 82 on just 12 carries.

The Titans are 12-2 and we are 10-4, with 2 games to go. And the Titans swept us, so they have won the division.

Week 16 – The 8-6 Packers arrive and leave 38-23 losers. Bortles, Game MVP and NFL Offensive Player of the Week had 31 for 34, 337 and 5:0. Lee had 10 grabs for 116 yards and 3 scores, and Kovacs and Ford the others. Pick by MLB Morris. 1.5 saacks by DE Ketteridge, and 1 by Velazquez.

Week 17 – We head to, and win against, Houston 42-35. DE Velazquez is Game MVP and NFL Defensive Player of the Week with 4 sacks, 2 hurries and a knockdown. DE Ketteridge got 3 sacks too. DT Missouri 1. 3 KRB by TE Kovacs. And a pancake too! Pick and return 44 yards for a score by MLB Morris. Wild has 108 yards for a score, Ford 103 for 2. RB Woods rushes for 93 and another socre and Bortles was 34 of 43 for 374 and 4:2.


SLB Wilkerson is out for two weeks.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2024 NFL Playoffs

The AFC Standings:

#1 Seed 15-1 Baltimore Ravens
#2 Seed 14-2 Tennessee Titans
#3 Seed 11-5 New England Patriots
#4 Seed 9-7 San Diego Chargers
#5 Seed 12-4 Jacksonville Jaguars
#6 Seed 8-8 Houston Texans

NFC features Lions at Vikins and Saints at 49ers


We head to San Diego and are favored to win by a lot of points.

And we lose. By one.

37-36

Bortles was still MVP with 25 of 34 for 337 and 2:0 and Wild had 6 for 103 and a score, Lee had 6 for 93, and RB Tiiessen caught a score, while Tiessen and Woods rushed for scores, forced fumbles by WLB Snipes and DE Ketteridge went to CB Hanks and Cory Finley and 1.5 sacks by DE Velazquez and 4 KRB by Satre (and 2 pancakes 2) and 3 by Cameron.


Houston lost 17-27
Saints won 22-16
Lions won 17-10

I consider extending RG Steven Kelley or OT Camero, but the OT wants a ton of money to do so.

I extend RB Brayden George by two years

I extend QB Hardy Schaefer

If Kelley were 56/56, I’d do it, but 46/46 is too dangerous for me to extend at 6 mill a year money.


Week 2 – Divional

New England heads to Tennessee
San Diego to Baltimore

Detroit to Phily
New Oreleans to Tampa Bay


Titans 34, Pats 20
Ravens 30, Chargers 7
Lions 27, Eagles 20
Saints 45, Bucs 26


NFL Championship Week

Tennessee upends the Baltimore Ravens 24-17
The Saints over the Lions 20-17

The Titans win the Super Bowl 26-20 over the Saints.

Good job Titans!

[Abe Sargent]

Awards:

All Pro 1st Team:

WR Joshua Wild


All Pro 2nd Team

QB Blake Bortles


Stats:

QB Bortles, 398 of 551, 72.2%, 4919 yards, 51:22 ratio, 113.6 Rating, 15 starts, 22 sacks, 5 fumbles

Again, pretty solid year! Even with the decline, he was 200 yard over the leader, 14 TDs over the leader, etc.

Rushing:

RB Tiessen, 10 starts, 170 for 940, 5.53 yards, 3 rush scores
RB Woods, 6 starts, 99 for 588, 5.94 ypc, 4 rush TD
RB George, 87 for 411, 4.72, 2 scores

Very mixed bag obviously.


Receiving:

WR Joshua Wild – 122 catches, 1829 yards, 18 TDs
WR Marqise Lee 94 grabs, 1179 yards, 14 TDs
TE Brett Kovacs – 43 for 551 and 6
WR Ford 41 for 672 and 9


Ford was a nice off season signing. He gets along with Marqise Lee too. And can I say, Damn Wild!

Special Teams.

K Kevin Hargrove, 20 of 26, long of 56, 63 of 64 PAT
P Brad Nortman, 63 punts, 17 in 20 43.1 average

CB Allen Hutchings, 46 PR, 1 PR RET TD< 6.6 avg,
CB Colton Hanks, 38 KR, 22.4 avg,

ILB Toby Miceli, 29 special teams tackles, 2nd highest tally in NFL (3 players had 31, none others had 29, next highest was 27)


Defense:

DE Cesar Velazquez – 42 tacles, 8 assists, 13 sack, 5 blocked passes, 13 hurries, 17 QBKD; 2 FF, 1 FumRed
DE Gregory Burton – 12 starts, 24 and 8 tack, 9.5 sacks, 5 blocks, 12 hurries, 14 QBKD, 2 pasdef
DE Ron Ketteridge, 4 starts, 20 and 11, 8.5 sacks, 3 blocked, 9 hurries, 1 QBKD; 3 FumRec
DT Brant Missouri, 25 and 9, 5 sacks, 3 blocks, 4 hurries, 1 QBKD
DT Quentin Grossman, 22 an 10 tack, 3 sacks, 1 block, 12 hurries, 6 QBKD

Another strong year for Velazquez, and maybe it’s time t pull Grossman, but I’m losing Missouri, so I can’t go all DT hog-wild.

SLB Ezra Wilkerson, 65 solo, and 19 assit; 3.5 sacks, 4 hurries, 1 QBKD, 5 pasdef; 2 FF
MLB Lance Morris, 91 and 31; 1 sack, 3 hurries, 3 pick, 1 INT RET TD, 4 pasdef; 3 FF, 1FRec
WLB Amari Snipes, 41 and 10; 1 pasdef


SS Jermaine Whalen, 93 and 29 tackles, 2 sacks, 1 hurry, 1 pck, 8 pasdef
FS Myles Clinton, 53 and 14 tacks 1 sack, 1 hurry, 8 Passdef; 2 FF
CB Colton Hanks, 2 picks, 1 INT RET TD, 7 pasdef
CB Shane Hopkins, 0 picks, 8 pasdef
CB Allen Hutchings, 2 picks, 3 fumrec
CB Emmitt Burke, 8 pasdef


We have a Hopkins problem, You can have a pick-less season. Period. End of discussion. And we can’t have a season with 8 total interceptions on my team. That;s inexcusable. My MLB Should not be leading the team with interceptions.


Blocking

OG Satre – 31 KRB, 6 pancakes, 5 sacks allowed
C Myron Leggin, 30 KRB, 1 pancake, 2 sacks allowed
OT Starks -0 26, 4 and 4 allowed
OG Kelley, 21 and 1 sack allowed
OT Cameron, 21 KRB and 11 sacks allowed.
FB Finley 1 KRB and 2 pancakes
TE Kovacs, 6 and 2 pancakes

Satre was slow, and still had a solid year. Leggin is clearly a guy. We only had 22 sacks on the season so 50% of our sacks came through Cameron. And he wants 7 mill?

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:

Offensive Player of the Year: WR Joshua Wild – Oh yeah. All Pro 1st Team, had a ridiculous amount of yards, and 18 TDs blows away the next highest (14, which Lee and one other had). The day is Wild.

Defensive Player of the Year: DE Cesar Velazquez – He led the team in every major disruption stat – sacks, blocks, hurries, and QB knockdowns. His disruption of the QB continues. He just keeps hitting the QB. He was tied for 3rd in the league for sacks. He could have been All Pro again (#2 was a LB).

Special Teams Player of the Year: ILB Toby Miceli - Don’t sleep on guy who can get the 2nd high special teams tackle total in the league. That’s quality as a gunner. Thanks!

Rookie of the Year: CB Allen Hutchings - With such a bad class, who stood out? Hutchings had a punt return for a score, and a quarter of our interception total. That’s a pretty solid contribution list from the 5th round selection and rookie. Thanks!

Heart Award: RB Henry Tiessen, this 38/38 guy was tossed into a bad situation when RB Woods held out for half the season. He did a solid job spelling him too. No complaints here about his 5.53 ypc and 4 100 yard games in 10 tries. Thanks RB!

[Abe Sargent]

End of the Season!

Performance – 66
Franchise Value – 100
Profit – 86
Roster – 20

77 Score

Retirements of Note:

LS Grayson Johnstone

QB Matt Stafford
TE Travis Kelce
WR TY Hilton
WR Josh Gordon
C Rodney Hudson
OG Kyle Long
DT Nick Fairley
SLB Jarvis Jones
WLB Jamie Collins
CB Jonathan Banks
SS Marcus Gilchrist


Hall of Fame – Clay Matthews, Joe Haden, Michael Bennett

6.4 mill cap rise again

We made 123 millin last year!
We are worth 1.289 bill – 5th most

The 2nd best stadium
22nd best roster
3rd best support
7th worst economy

100% attendance

[Abe Sargent]

RFA:

SE Winfred Howard
DE Ken Bridgman
MLB Toby Miceli
WLB Logan Sims

UFA:

RB Henry Tiessen
FB Cory Finley
OG Mark Meadows
OG Steven Kelley
OT Joel Cameron
DE Ron Ketteridge
DT Brant Missouri
WLB Amari Snipes
FS Myles Clinton

That’s a lot of my depth, and multiple starters (Kelley, Cameron, Finley, Missouri, Snipes, Clinton).

I have 20 mill in cap space, 12 for players. 39 players under contract. None of these seem like the kind of person to franchise.

I raise DC Geathers’ deal

Staff Draft, get ready:

We pick 5th:


Our HC current suitability is 61. Three is a 66 guy on the board. I love him too, so I grab the Defensive coordinator from the Lions KC Peak, He;s pretty sexy,

For OC I go from 61 to 69 and take Dalton Finley.

At DC? I grab a 85 guy – Les Garnder I even sign a new strength Coord. The only one I keep is the Assist. Coach.


We have a much improved staff!


I massage my ticket prices a bunch. I have a good stadium, fan support and good team. Let’s push it. We are now the 2nd highest price in the league after the Seahawks.

[Abe Sargent]

So let’s hit up FA

Major players that are up in 2025:

LG Satre
DE Velazquez
FS Troy
RB Woods
FL Wild
TE Kovacs
C Leggin
SS Whalen
K Hargrove

Well, I haven’t taken stupid pills, so I extend:

WR Wild – 4 years, drop cap hit this year to 18 mil from 21.

OG Satre – Just wants a one year extension, I offer it to him. He’s ebbed to 82/82. That’s still a force.

DE Velazquez by two years, this cuts his cap hit by three yers He’s 32 and a 10th year vet, this likely finishes his career. I’m okay with that.



I extend:

SS Jermaine Whalen – It’s 7 mill a year essentially. That’s a 5 year extension too, so he’s set for a while. Now that’s a major cap hit too, since he’s bumping from rookie deal to vet.

OC Myron Leggin to two more years at 5.8 this year ,and then 7 the next two.

QB Frankie Peters by a year

I think he learned his lesson, and I extend Jermaine Woods by two more years at 2. 87and then 2.9 mill. He’s 29, doesn’t have a lot of gas in the tank likely, will probably drop, and could be my #2 guy for a while, but he’s cheap.

I sign RFA MLB Miceli, DE Bridgeman. The other two RFAs want too much money right now, I want to see where we are at later in FA.

I want to retain TE Brett Kovacs, but he’s pricey. Let me see what FA might have?

Whoa!

There are some solid folks out there. The first time in a while I’ve seen FAs of talent making it into the process.

I will keep my cash handy right now, and make no additional signings.

Let’s head to FA:

My positions of need:

I need starters at FB, OT, OG, DT, WLB, FS – I could also use great players or depth at CB, WR, RB, OG, and maybe TE

[Abe Sargent]

The best player in FA:

LT Larry Kelly, 68/68, 5 year vet. Now, he’s pricey. He’s a 5 year deal for 62 mill. That’s a serious cap hit. But if you want a starter ready LT, he’s your guy.

2nd best – DE Tevin McPherson., 66/66

K Patrick Pintsak, 4th year vet, 63/63
RB Shaquille Willingham, 60/60
SLB Trenton Adams, 58/58
RG Teddy Fellin, 55/55
TE Jermaine Hanks, 54/54

Now, many of these players are actually young – Pintsak – 4th year, and 5th year for Willingham, Adams, and Fellin, and 7th for hanks.

Okay, I like Willingham but he wants a 31 mill, 3 year deal. Can I commit? Want an SLB you can move to WLB and then sort of have three strong LBs? 4 years and 37 mill. Want to end the rotation at OG I’ve had after Kelley and Theophilakas? Fellen is 5th year, and 4 years and 27 mill. TE hanks wants the same cash my current guy wants, is a lot older, but’s a better body.

Want to dig deeper on the FA list? How about 50/50 9th year vet RB Devin Cobb? 3 years, 27 mill,

We have 49/49 SS Lance Finch amd more.

We’re going to need to free up some cash:

I extend OT Myron Starks by 3 more years., and this drops his cap hit this and next year to 7.8 and 9.3 by a few million each year, and his caps from there at 8.8, 9.7 and 10.8.

If I need to, I can extend DT Grossman by a year for 1.2 mill cap space. Or I can cap him offer for another 700k – but I don’t think that’s worth it.

At any time I can cut FS Troy and FS Dernbach for other others, and free up 2.1 and 2.07 in cash in doing so.

Pre-targets, let’s look at the draft class now, because if I think I can snag a great CB or OG or OT at our 1.24 spot, then I want to know ahead of time,

Holy crap cornerbacks. Three studs. And a 4th guy who’s no chump. I interview them all. And a stud FS, and those are rare. I interview a pair of RB. There is a stud P out there but after interviews he came back very overrated. I also interview some OGs. I think I can get a S/CB and then if not, a OG. I’ll stear clear of major investments there in FA.

Alright – Target time -

RDT Randal Kantowski
RB Shaquille Willingham

I am considering LT Larry Kelly, but…do I really need four big names in O Line? I mean there’s
only so many KRO I can give ya, you know? But here’s the thing – The OTs have Kelly at 68/68, Cameron at 51/51., and the…..Stevens at 42/42 is the next one. So basically you get Kelly, or the underwhelming and expensive Cameron, or nothing - there is no in-between.

Sigh. I pass up OT Kelly sweepstakes and I skip Cameron. I’ll keep my 41/41 OT I already have on my roster for now.

Alright, who else?

WR Darnell Menzies, with 75 PR and 65 KR.

LS Kent Ikuma, with 92 long snapping

FS Myles Clinton – Let’s bring him back for depth and price. FS Myles Clinton is our secondary version of OG Brandon Linder.

If I still needed an SLB I’d chase Adams all day long. But I don’t think I’d get enough value from him at WLB to make that financial commitment.


I can go to WLB and OT on staff if needed. I’ll hold off on FB too, and I’s love to commit to a better P or K later on.

[Abe Sargent]

Stage 2 – We sign DT Kantowski. OT Cameron signed with Detroit. SLB Adams is heading to Dallas.

Stage 3 – We are outbid on RB Willingham’s deal so I up ours, considerably.

Stage 4 – DT Missouri signs with Detroit. LT Larry Kelly is heading to New Orleans.

Stage 5 – We sign RB Willingham for 4 years and 47.29 mill. When is doubt, make your own RB. Whoa! Willingham comes in as 63/63 according to our scouts and coaches, not 60/60. Yeah baby!

He’s also idealized. In his first four seasons as a starter, he didn’t miss a game, and has 5274 yards, and 34 rushing TDs.

Stage 6 – All quiet.

Stage 7 – We sign WR Menzies, FS Clinton

Stage 8 – quiet

Stage 9 – OG Kelley signs with the Titans. RB Tiessen with the Saints. DE Ketteridge with the Ravens.

Stage 10 – FB Cory Finley with the Ravens. We sign LS Kent Ikuma

I extend DT Grossman as discussed previously. I shop CB Emmitt Burke, a 52/52 guy we drafted at 3.30 a while ago. He has 0 picks and 15 run D, so he’s an odd coverage-only sort of corner. We trade him to the Falcons for their 4th next year.

Massaging my cap, trading folks, and having fun. Alright, let’s head to the draft.

We have 45 players on our roster and 7 picks.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2025 NFL Amateur Draft


My goal is to come away with a stud CB or FS , especially since we had serious pass coverage issues last year.


Dallas grabs a RB to begin then CB goes 2 and 3. Then the next CB hits at 1.7. GRRR. SO I call up the Bengals, who are at 1.8 and have just one safety on their roster, a SS, and have a strong need at OG if they want to swpa 1st. What do they want?

We trade:

1st (24) and 2nd (24) and next year’s 2nd to the Bengals for:

1.8, and their 4th and 5th rounders next year

I am in.

And I grab a stud player at a strong position of need. We interviewed him as underrated. He has three red bars in speed – 4.43 dash, 7.00 agility, and 60 pspec drills, and blue strength – 20, 49% developed, fits in, now…99% volatility, so, uh oh I suppose, but I grab FS Quentin Bernardini.

Alright, I’ll see ya’lll in the 3rd. Then I draft FB, LB, and LT. And then finally an OG that has affinity and Cb at the end.


The 2025 Jacksonville Jaguars Draft

1st – S Quentin Bernardini, James Madison
3rd – FB Lamont Liszt, New Mexico
4th – OLB Casey Joyner, Rutgers
5th – OT Colton Parrish, Nebraska
6th – OG Gage Wallace, Washington State
7th – CB Graham DeWine, West Virginia

[Abe Sargent]

“This was a team that was built around some real talent. But as we all know, talent in the NFL ages, retires, and weakens. And while the Jaguars have had some strong guys on their roster for years and years, we all know that their core group has aged, and will likely be gone, or drop in play quality to match.

Hey look, we have Lee who has been great for a long time, but this is his 12 year in the league. He;s 33. How many more years does he have in him? Blake Bortles could be their guy for a while, He’s also 33 and a solid 12th year vet, but he is showing signs of cracking formations, and has been injured the last two years. Players like 11th year vet OG Satre, and DE Velazquez and DE Grossman, both drafted 10 years ago are fading. Even 9th year vet CB Shane Hopkins appears to have lost a step.

And where do they turn? The general manager has tried to bring in young high quality pieces to sustain the team into the next transition. We have C Myron Leggin and SS Jermaine Whalen who’ve looked pretty good. We have DE Gregory Burton who looks like he can take over the reigns from Velazquez quite nicely. SLB Ezra Wilkerson. But this team needs more young talent. It has some that will age in a few years – WR Wild is in his 7th year, and OT Starks his 6th. But they need some younger guys.

And I think the Jaguars were afraid by their draft last year. So I think the General Manager came out firing. They had a weak year in the secondary despite solid guys with CB Colton, and CB Hanks, and yet, only SS Whalen really contributed. So you come into this draft, one that is loaded with top flight secondary players, and you want to come out with one. That’s fair, right? So many go off the board early, and you trade up to the 8th spot, and you take the one you really need, FS Bernardini. Now he’s good. We’ll see how strong after they get him to play. And frankly, I think the 3 corners and Bernardini were the top four talents in the draft. So they came away with a potential winner. And we’ve talked extensively about the lack of talent that the free safety position has in the NFL right now. If everything goes right, and it could, then this guy could easily be the best free safety in the league, and easily a top safety talent even among the strong ones.. None of the top four free safetys in the league are less than 30 yers old, and all are natural strong safeties.

So we get it. Berdardini shores up some weaknesses, and you trade up to grab a guy that can be a real player moving forward, a key building block of the future. We get it.

But…

You can’t keep trading away 2nd rounders without feeling it soon. The Jags know this – they can’t leverage the 2nd-4th round picks without problems emerging.

Starters on the Jaguars that came in the 2nd or later rounds include – WR Marqise Lee, C Myron Leggin, TE Kovacs, SLB Wilkerson, CB Hanks and CB Hopkins.

So they can’t keep mortgaging the future. But the Gm knows he needs to get real pieces to build his future roster from. In addition to the young RB Willingham they just signed, this is not a bad pickup. If you want to sustain the Jaggernaut, then we get it. But this has to be rare.

I give the Jaguars an A. They needed a FS and a strong secondary help, they got it, they grabbed good guys for need later. I an circling SLB Joyner is a fine pickup, the player most likely to surprise folks with how good he is down the road. He's a real sleeper. No major issues at all, and again, there’s good potential here from their draft.”

[Abe Sargent]

I need to free up some cap space. I cut FS Irving Troy. After the draft, of all the teams in the league, we have the lowest amount of cap space:

The most?

Miami – 41.68 mill
Cleveland – 36.7 mill
Kansas City – 31.01 mill
Seattle – 29.81 mill
New Orleans – 29.09 mill

The least?

Jacksonville – 800k
Cincinnati – 7.13 mill
Washington – 8.32 mill
Baltimore – 8.95 mill
Houston – 9.98 mill

That ‘s a lot of cap space.

We have 50 on our roster right now. What do we still need?

Backups:

OG
LB
CB

I move ot late FA

I need to make a minor move to clear up some cap space to sign folks.

Right now WR Marqise Lee is 9.49 mill hit and 9.9 next year. I can do a cap out offer to him to drop his to 6.66 this year and 12.66 next. Then sign three more folks. Instead, I cut FS Carter Dernbach.

Then I go after:

RG Mark Meadows, our guy, for a two year min-sal vet deal.
WLB Aidan Hutchins – UFA, has good synergy with leader
CB Ike Bradley – UFA with good special teams
SS Lionel Van Pelt – Best UFA Safety by potential and good punt returner to boot


We can sign all four for the 2.81 mill cap space that I have available, and then I can move to camp, and post-camp, we can chase some folks as anticipated vets lose a step and we can cut their salary accordingly (cough, Shane Hopkins, cough – I can already trim one mill from each year, since his ability dropped from 59/59 to 47/47).

Stage 2 – We sign WLB Hutchins. Our WLB Logan Sims signs with Cleveland

Stage 3 – We sign CB Bradley and SS Van Pelt. Green Bay made an offer for my OG. I increase the offer we made.

Our 59/59 K we signed last year is tied for 7th in the NFL with Tyler Bernard and Jerome Negrete. We ended up with a good one, but we got him cheap. He wants a lot more money to extend. I just can’t keep justifying dropping 4-4.5 mill a way on a kicker that might only get off 24 or 26 field goal attempts. So I am going to make an offer to the K that was just not brought back to Detroit – K Robert Blincoe. He’s 48/50, a undrafted K last year, and wants 740k, 840k and then 840k for the three year deal. I cut Hargrove to pay for him.

Stage 4 – We offered 30k less in signing bonus ,but RG Mark Meadows chose to return to us anyway! And we singed K Blincoe.

I extend our P Brad Nortman for a year. We don’t have the money to brign back TE Kovacs who wants a 4 year 35 mill deal when he’s 48/48. I like Kovacs. He got us 1470 yards and 14 TDs in three years, and has a 32.4% block percentage, and and I like what he’s done. But he’s just too pricey to extend. Hmm…

Could I trade him for something? Nah,no one is interested.

Any other UFAs that were passed over that demand a spot on my cap roster?

C Otis Ursino
WR Travis DeWacht looks to have some big bars

Stage 5 – We bring them both in.

[Abe Sargent]

CAMP TIME

We sold 63700 season tickes (out of 67200)

Damn FS Quentin Bernardini looks hot. I’ll check him out post pre-season, bcuase that’s when a lot of adjustments are made.

At 68/68 Myron Leggin is the 5th best C in the league, a solid place to end up.

I cut C Ursino. Extend TE Delaroche by a year and cut CB Earl Montalvo

We finish preseason with a 3-1 record and two players. WR Wild and C Leggin are out for a few weeks each.

And here is FS Quentin Bernardini!
http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/The%20Safety%20of%20Love_zpswobdjoed.jpg

DANGNABIT! Was it worth losing two second round picks, one of which was the 2.24, for that? If he plays like, then yes. He looks like a stud to me. But I’m biased, what do I know? The Green page has him 8th overall. Plus, he’s already 60/84. He is an immediate contributor, not someone who’ll grow into the role.

[Abe Sargent]

Anyway,our strengths?

19th best QB
7th best RB
The worst FB
11th best TE
THE best WR
2nd best OC
7th best OG
21st best OT
20th best P
20th best K
2nd best DE
23rd best DT
25th best MLB
7th best OLB
14th best CB
THE best S


The 2025 Jacksonville Jaguars

QB Blake Bortles – 43/43 rated, 12th year vet
RB Shaquille Willingham – Increased to 65/65 by my scouts, and new signee – let’s go!
FB Lamont Liszt – Just a rookie body, 23/32
TE Brett Kovacs – I wish the 4th year, 45/45 vet would sign for less. I’d sign him for 4-5 mill.
FL Joshua Wild – 82/82, 2nd best WR in league. We stole hm at 1.28. The best? 1.1 overall.
SE Marqise Lee – 54/54 and still trucking
LT Brant Matthews – What makes sense after getting a bad draft with him? Starting him!
LG Marquis Satre – He doesn’t suck
C Myron Leggin – Nor does he
RG Mark Meadows – The best of a bad situation. I just don’t have the money for better than this 37/37 guy.
RT Myron Starks – In Myron we trust.
P Brad Nortman – 14th year, 53/53
K Robert Blincoe – Cheap! 2nd year! 45/45
LS Kent Ikuma – Our first LS since Grayson Johnstone
LDE Gregory Burton – 69/69, and very hot. Need to spend a ton of cash next year to keep him.
LDT Randal Kantowski – Just a merc, 45/45 cheap.
RDT Quentin Grossman – Hopefully he hasn’t fully faded yet
RDE Cesar Velazquez – Oh baby!
SLB Ezra Wilkerson – 62/62 and we need ot re-up him too.
MLB Lance Morris – Ebbed to 42/42 but still our best guy.
WLB Avery Haldar – 44/44 guy. Just a body
LCB Colton Hanks – 49/49 and okay
RCB Shane Hopkins – 35/35? That’s not good!
SS Jermaine Whalen – 61/61 and fresh off a new deal in the offseason
FS Quentin Bernardini – The great teal hope.

WR Menzies is our primary KR/PR guy.

I bench Wild and Leggin for a few weeks due to injury since they are out for a bit.

[Abe Sargent]

As part of the 30th anniversary of the Jaguars currently ongoing, current GM of the team Marquis D’Avoigne was asked to create a Best of Roster for the team for the last 30 years. Here are his results:


QB Blake Bortles – No question he’s the go-to QB for you.
RB Fred Taylor – You can make an argument for Maurice Jones-Drew or someone the Jags had temporarily like DeMarco Murray, but this is Fred’s spot
FB Fred Wheatley – An All Pro nod makes this an obvious choice
TE Marcedes Lewis – Arguably the weakest place to grab someone since TE Kyle Brady, Damon Jones, Brett Kovacs, Travic Kelce and many others either never really dominated, or never really had a lot of years.
WR Joshua Wild, Jimmy Smith – Hey look, you have a 5 set of Keenan McCardell, Marqise Lee, Jimmy Smith, and Joshua Wild and Allen Robinson in the back at the 5 spot. There are no wrong answers here.
OT Tony Boselli, Myron Starks – Both have gotten All Pro nods, both are solid choices.
OG Marquis Satre, Chris Naeole - Other than Satre the Jags have never had a solid OG for any extended period of time. So let’s go with the professional.
C Brad Meester – This could easily be Leggin or Pearson, and in two or three yers, Leggin should have earned the spot.
P Chris Hanson – Pro Bowl punter for team who became famous for the axe incident
K Tyler Bernard – Man was automatic for a long time, and with the team for one year shy of a a decade.
DE Cesar Velazquez, Tony Brackens – You have the Defensive Player of the Year and an All Pro DE. In two years, current DE Burton likely earns the other spot. Undrafted free agent DE Kenneth Butler is in the conversation too.
DT Marcus Stroud, Quentin Grossman – There are three obvious choices - Henderson, Stroud, and Grossman. You could go with any.
OLB Daryl Smith, Justin Houston – Obviously two very strong guys. Special mention to Ezra Wilkerson, Kevin Hardy
MLB Paul Pozluszny – It was either him or Mike Peterson. Both were vet FA that came over and played really well. MLB Morris is likely in the conversation at #3.
CB Shane Hopkins, Fernando Bryant – The GM went with Bryant, a long-time starter, but there were a lot of flash in the pan CBs for the Jaguars over the years that had one or two good seasons – Bryan Meadows, Kareem Jackson, Aaron Beasley, Colton Hanks, Rashean Mathis.
SS Donovin Darius, SS Jermaine Whalen – Rather than name a FS, which the kjaguars have historically had issues with in injuries, underplaying, or short stinits – Carnell Lake, Reggie Nelson, Tavon Wilson, etc. Hopefully their rookie changes that!

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 – It’s rough when you begin a season on the road against the Super Bowl champions from last year. But we do, and here come the Titans And there they go, winning 30-26. Borltes was injured on the first drive and Schaefer finished. He had 26 of 40 for 241 and 1:0. WR Cedric Bansk caught a score. Meanwhile RB Willingham was 18 for 72 and a score and RB Woods added another. 3 KRB by Starks, OG Meadows.

Post-game, Bortles is probable; OG Berggren is questionable,

Week 2 – We lose in St. Louis 28-21. Borltes was 33 of 53 for 359 and 2:3. He his WR Banks for 177 yards on 10 catches, and WR Ford and TE Kovacs for scores and RB Willingham had 91 cards and a score. Pick by CB Hanks, 2 sacks by Velazquez, 1 by Burton and SS Whalen. 3 KRB by OT Brant Meadows.

Backup CB Allen Hutchings is out for a month with a strained calf muscle. We need some oomph so I send back WR Wild a week early.

Week 3 – We host the 0-2 Steelers and…we thump them hard and remind the league of who we are – 48-3. Bortles, Game MVP and Offensive Player of the Week has 24 of 31 for 407 yards and a 4:1 Ratio. Lee? 134 yards, 2 scores. Wild? 117 yards, 1 score. Banks? 96 and 1. RB Woods rushes for 2 scores. Pick by CB Hanks. 3 sacks by backup DE Ken Bridgman. 1 by Velazquez (wh had 4 QBKnockwodns and 2 hurries as well) and SLB Wilkerson and DT Randal Kantowski. 3 KRB by OG Meadows.

Week 4 – We host and lose to Oakland 30-28. Willingham had 2 scores in the ground, Bortles was 30 of 44 for 387 and 2:0, Wild had 1 score and 93 yards, and lee the other. Forced fumbles by CB Hopkins and MLB Morris both recovred by CB Hanks. 1 sack by Velazquez and DT Kantowski. 3 KRB by Starks.

Wow, a 1-3 start. Not what I was looking for!



Week 5 – BYE

All injured players heal over the bye week and are fine again. I move CB Hutchins above Hopkins on the depth chart and give Hopkins special teams role.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 6 – Whew! We travel to 4-1 Indy, and manage to win 27-19. Bortles, MVP< 18 of 27, 185 and 2:0. Lee and Wild with scores. Pick by FS Bernardini, his first. 1.5 sacks by DE Burton . 3 KRB by Satre

Week 7 – The Titans come to town. They edge us 37-34. There’s a new power in the division. Bortles – 31 of 45, 338, 3:2, and RB WIlliamsham rushes for a score, and catches two more. Meandwhile WR Ford the other score. 1 sack by Burton and Velazquez. 3 KRB by Starks and Satre.

Week 8 – Want to know what’s good for the 2–win team’s soul? Playing against a one-win team! We head to KC and come back winners 31-3. Picks by CB Hutchigns and FS Bernardini, and 2 forced umbles by CB Hopkins and 1 by Grossman. 3 KRB by Starks and Leggin. Bortles the MVP has 28 of 39 for 2:0 and 2598 and hits Wild for 132 and a score and DE Darnell Menzies for the other, and RB Willingham rushes for 2 more.

WR Nicholas Ford is questionable for a moth with a sprained knee.

Week 9 – We host 1-6 Denver. We crush them 56-14. RB Willingham is NFL Offensive Player of the Week – 167 yards, 4 TDs, 5 catches for 102 receiving yards. Borltes as 16 of 27 for 227 and 1:2 and hit Menzies for a score. Picks by CB Hopkins, returns for a 82 yard score, CB Hutchings, and 2 by FS Bernardini, one returned for a score. 1.5 sacks by Burton and 1 by Velazqus and DE Nate Brown. 6 KRB for Starks, 4 and 3 pancakes for Satre,

Post-game, P Nortman is doubtful with a hyperextended elbow, but we’ll start him

We finish the first half of the season 4-4.

We lost twice to the 7-1 Titans.

We need to pick this up. We are 4th in the division after 7-1 Tennessee, 6-2 Indy, and 4-4 Houston.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 10 – We travel to 4-4 San Diego and….we win 27-17 by a bit. It’s not a 30 point victory, but at this point, if it’s a win, I’ll take it. RB Willingham is Game MVP with 19 rushes for 105 and 7 catches for 98 yards. Borles is 20 of 31 for 3338 and 3:2 and Lee is 101 yard snad 3 scores. Pick by WLB Haldar. 1 sack by FS Bernardini and DT Kantowski. 4 KRB by Satre and C Leggin.

No major injuries – yay.

Weeek 11 - In an attempt to put some idstance between us and Houston, we host the 5-4 Texans,a nd beat them 45-21. DE Gregory Burton is NFL Defensive Player of the Week with 2.5 sacks, 2 hurries, and 5 QB Knockdowns. DT Kantowski batted down two passes, Velazquez got 3 hurries and 4 QB Knockdowns, we were just in their face all day long. C leggin had 4 KRB and a pancake. Willingham just 80 yards on 15 carries but had 15 catchign and a score. Bortles was 17 of 20 for 239 and 5:2. Wild had 2 scores, and WR Banks and Ford each one. Meanwhile Bortles was injured late, and then Schaefr went in for a driv,e nad then Schaefer was injured and is out for 3 weeks with a hyperextended elbow. I cut WLB Aidan Hutchins and then sign QB Dave Blank. In the battle of divison leaders, the Colts dropped the Titans.


Week 12 – We head to Arizona and beat the former top seed in the playoffs last year 28-21. RB Willingham has 24 carries for 192 yards and adds 51 catching. QB Bortles is 20 of 30 for 219 and 3:0. Wild, Kovacs, and RB Woods catch scores. Pick by CB Hopkins, 1 sack by FS Bernardini, 4 KRB by Matthews, Leggin, and 3 by Satre.

CB Hutchings is our for 5 weeks and Shane Hopkins is back starting for us.

Week 13 – We head to 4-win Miami and thump them 38-15 to finish 4-0 in the 3rd quarter. Bortle,s MVP, with 24 of 27, 201 and 2:0 and Banks and Woods caught scores. Woods rushes for one too. Willingham is 17 for 124 and 1 score too. CB Shane Hopkins gets a pick and returns it 92 yards for a score and FS Bernardini a pick too. Sack by DT Kantowski. 6 KRB by C Leggin, 5 by Satre 4 by Starks.

We are 8-4 and in front of Indy that is also 8-4. Now we head to our nemesis…

[Abe Sargent]

Week 14 – We fly cross country to face Seattle. We emerge victorious 48-36. Bortles, MVP, with 27 of 34 for 358 and 3:0 and hit Wild for 110 and a score, and Banks and Ford for scores too. RB Willingham rushes for 115yards and 2 scores and RB Woods another. Pick by Bernardini. Man that guy! Saks by MLB Toby Miceli, WLB Haldar, and DT Kantowski.

In the game MLB Morris suffered a strained achilels tendon and is out for a few games, and Miceli will start in his place.

I cut QB Dave Blank and sign WLB Aidan Hutchins.

Week 15 – We head to Houston with a one game win over them….and….lose 14-45. I’ll skip the play by play if you don’t mind.

Week 16 - We host the 9-5 49ers. And…we beat them! 34-14. Not even close, NFC GO HOME . Borltes is NFL Offensive Playre of the Week and Game MVP with 22 of 30 and 338 yards and 2:0. Wild had….10 grabs, 245 yards, and 2 scores. Willingham rushes for 96 yards and 2 more scores. Sacks by Miceli, Velazquez, CB Hanks, DT Grossman and DE Burton.

That sets up a minor week 17 game against the Colts.

AFC Central:

Titans – 12-3
Jaguars = 10-5
Texans – 9-6
Colts – 8-7

We need to win to survive, there are multiple 9 win teams in the wild card hunt.

We don’t just win. We win big. 41-24.

Willingham is the Game MVP with 22 for 145 and 3 scores on the ground, and 7 grabs for 88 more yards in the air. Lee is 7 for 97 and a score, and RB Woods rushes for another, and Bortles is 29 of 37 for 326 and 1:0, and Pick by SS whalen and sacks by SLB Wilkerson and DE Velazquez and backup DE Bridgman. Satre, Matthews, Leggin all had 5 KRB and OT Starks 4. Leggins had 3 KRB as well.

CB Hutchings is back from his injury. As is MLB Morris. I toss them back onto the roster.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2025 NFL Playoffs:


AFC:

#1 12-4 Tennessee Titans
#2 11-5 Buffalo Bills
#3 10-6 Cincinnati Bengals
#4 8-8 Sandiego Chargers
#5 11-5 Jacksonville Jaguars
#6 10-6 Baltimore Rvens

The Texans lost on tie breakers after finishing 10-6.

Once again, the AFC South was the only division in football without a team with a losing record.


We travel to San Diego. And we…eviscerate them 42-13.

Bortles is Game MVP with 35 of 40, 394, and 4:0. He hits Banks for 106 and a score, Lee for 55 and a score, and TE Kovacs for a score on 62 yards. Bortles rushes for one too, and WR banks scores on a reverse. Menawhile FS Bernardini has a forced fumble and a pick on the day. Sack by DE Burton, 3 KRB by OG Meadows and C Leggin.

In other news, winniners included Cincinnati, San Francisco and Washington.

Bad news – WR Wild and CB Hopkins are out for 3 weeks each. I bench them, in case they make it back for Super Bowl.

Banks I starting for Wild.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 2 – Divsional Playoffs

We head to Tennesssee
Cincinnati heads to Buffalo
San Francisco heads to New Orleans
Washington heads to Philadelphia

I tweak our gameplan to emphasize the run more with Wild out.

The Titans….three-peat us. We lose 21-18. Titans are really the game-changer

The Bills win 45-19 and the Saints and Redskins also emerge with victories.


Anyone on my roster I want to expend while I can? I want to save some money for DE Burton and SLB Wilkerson, but if I need too, I’ll extend someone…nah, we’re good.


Championship

Buffalo heads to Tennessee and loses 26-15
Washington heads to New Orleans and loses 23-13.

The 2025 Super Bowl

The Saints edge the Titans 33-31 to prevent them from getting a double-peat.

[Abe Sargent]

It’s time for a changing of the guard:


Season Awards:

Player of the Year:

RB Shaquille Willingham

Offensive Player of the Year:

RB Shaquille Willingham


Defensive Rookie of the Year:

FS Quentin Bernardini

All Pro 1st Team:

RB Shaquille Willingham
OT Myron Starks


League’s Fastest Man:

WR Joshua Wild

[Abe Sargent]

Stats:

Passing

QB Blake Bortles, 364 for 519 and 4428 yards, 70.1%, 37:16 rato, 107.0 rating, 41 sacks, 3 fumbles

Clearly Borltes has fallen a bit. You can see. But this is not a bad season. Among qualifiers, he had the best completion %, 3rd most yards passing, and the most passing TDs by one, and 2nd best Rating. Actually, you could make an argument that he should have been 2nd in All Pro voting. But it’s okay.

Rushing:

RB Shaquille Willingham, 2489 for 1559 rushing yards, 6.26 ypc, 19 rushing scores; 84 catches, 763 yards, 4 receving scores.

And that’s why he was MVP. You can see the dual threat he presented. He led all running backs by yards cacthesby a lot.

Receiving:

WR Joshua Wild – 14 games, 81 for 1241, and 11 scores
WR Marqise Lee, - 15 games, 66 for 1001 and 8 scores
WR Cedric Banks – 45 for 539 and 5
TE Brett Kovacs – 34 for 291 and 2
WR Nicholas Ford – 23 for 330 and 4

Okay, you can see a few things. First of all, Lee barely kept his streak alive of having just one season without 1000 recing yards – the 14 game season in 2020 when he had 930. This is his second d lowest reciving total in his career. Meanwhile Wild was injured, but still didn’t play the best. The emergence of RB Willingham as a target of interest cut into Kovacs and Lee/Wild’s production.

Special Teams:

WR Darnell Menzies – 1 KR RET TD, 32.6 KR Avg in 38 returns – Leads the league among qualifiers to 31.2; 46 punt returns, 9.7 avg.

K Robert Blincoe, 19 of 25 with 48 long and 69 of 70 PAT

P Brad Nortman, 72 punts, 43.8 average, 29 in 20.


Defense:

DE Gregory Burton, 42 solo tackles, 14 assists; 10.5 sacks, 6 blocked passes, 17 hurries, 13 QBKnockdowns.
DE Cesar Velazquez, 44 and 15 tackles, 9 sacks, 3 blocks, 18 hurries, 17 QBKD, 3 FF, 1 FumRec
DT Randal Kantowski, 31 and 17 tack, 6.5 sacks, 2 block, 7 hurr, 1 qbkd
DT Quentin Grossman, 19 and 6 tackles, 2 sacks, 4 hurries and 2 QBKD
DE Ken Bridgman, 5 sacks, 3 hurries, 3 QBKD


We didn’t get as many opportunities to tee off on the QB since we played the run more, we weren;t playing from ahead as much, and it shows here.

SLB Ezra Wilkerson, 58 and 15 tackles, 3 sacks, 1 hurries 2 QB KD, 6 pasdef
WLB Avery Halder, 32 and 14 tack, 1.5 sakcs, 1 block, 3 hurres, 2 QBkd, 1 pick, 2 pasdef
MLB Lance Morris, 13 ganes, 66 and 24 takcles, 0.5 sacks, 4 hurries, 5 pasdef, 2 FF

Nothing major here.

SS Jermaine Whalen – 100 solo takces, 28 assists, 1 sack, 3 picks, 6 pasdef
FS Quentin Bernardini, 67 and 17 tackles, 2 sacks, 1 hurry, 6 picks, 13 pasdef, 1 INT RET TD, 1 FF, 2 FumRec, 1 FumRec TD,
CB Shane Hopkins, 3 picks, 2 INT RET TD, 8 pasdef, 4 FF (included special teams play), 2 fumrec
CB Colton Hanks, 2 picks, 7 pasdef, 2 FF, 1 FumRec
CB Allen Hutchings 9 games, 2 picks, 4 pasdef

Well, Whalen and Bernardini account for 9 of our 18 picks – 50%. I’d like more from by CB and LB.

Blocking –

OG Marquis Satre, 45 KRB, 11 pancakes, 3 sacks allowed – 5th most KRB in league, 4th among OG ,
OT Myron Starks, 39 KRB, 11 pancackes, 3 sacks allowed – 10th most KRB in league, 3rd among OT the most pancakes among OT
C Myron Leggin, 12 games, 36 KRB, 5 panccakes, 2 sacks allowed
OG Mark Meadows, 23 KRB and 12 sacks allowed
OT Brant Matthes, 23 KRB and 1 pancakes, 14 sacks allowed

That is probably the single best O Line play I’ve had when it comes to run blocking. Check out these Block % - 48.4, 47.0, 59.0, 59.0, 46.9. You aren’t doing better than that.

[Abe Sargent]

Season Awards:

Offensive Player of the Year: RB Shaquille Willingham – There is no way anyone else deserves this award. Dang! Best season for a RB for the Jaguars we’ve seen since Fred Taylor’s debut, and maybe even better than that. Good job all!

Defensive Player of the Year: SS Jermaine Whalen - It really wasn’t a super-great year for us defensively, save for S play. Burton still hasn’t had one of those stud-level sack saeason we know he can do and so forth. Wilkerson was a little done and so forth. I’m rewarding our strong Safety play with a SS with 100 solo tackles, and more. He was 3rd among safeties in the league for solo tackles. Great stuff man!

Special Teams Player of the Year: WR Darnell Menzies – Had the best returning year for any kick returner in the league and a score to boot. Can’t beat that! Glad we signed him from FA.

Rookie of the Year: FS Quentin Bernardini – Practically no one is surprised to see me hand this award out. Defensive ROTY foro the league? That’s a sexy award - it’s our first league-wide award for a rookie. Without Quentin, the defensive would have been a lot worse at coverage stuff.

Heart Award: RG Mark Meadows – The former 6th rounder, 37/37 guy stepped in when we lost Kelley and was not the one we wanted to lean on. I had to resign him! But you can’t doubt the quality he gave the head, with 23 KRB out of 39 KRO and a scintilating 59% block rate and the only bad thing was the sacks allowed, but we understand. The best defensive players aren’t attacking Satre, Leggin or Starks. They are lined up elsewhere. Good job Mark!


And there we go.

[Abe Sargent]

End of the Season:

Performance – 66
Value – 93
Profit – 83
Roster – 26

Final Score - 75

Huh. Who would you have pegged to retire? Hopkins? Satre? Grossman? Velazquez? Bortles? MLB Morris? P Nortman? How about just WR Marqise Lee?


The HC we won a Super Bowl with retried.

Other Retirements of Note:

QB Jake Locker
QB Cam New Newton
WR Marqise Lee – Sorry!
WR Alshon Jeffrey
WR DeAndre Hopkins
WR Sammy Watkins
WR Robert Woods
OG Zack Martin
OT Eric Fisher
OT Luke Joeckel – Another Jaguar bites the dust
DE Ezekiel Ansah – 4 time All League DE
DE Kareem Martin
DE Ron Ketteridge – One who spent some time with us
DT Sylvester Williams, 3 time All League
DT Sheldon Richardson, 7 All Pros
MLB Manti Te’o
MLB Couryney Kiwanuka
MLB Jonathan Bostic
OLB Khalil Mack – 4 time All Pro, Defensive Player of the Year 2020
OLB Dee Ford
OLB Jadeveon Clowney
SS Jonathan Cyprien – Another of our Jaguars heads home.
SS Kenny Vaccaro
SS Matt Elam
SS Eric Reid
SS ha Ha Clinton-Dix
FS Deone Bucannon


Marqise Lee finishes with: 1081 catches, 16116 yards, and 153 TD. (In real life that would be 2nd in yards behind just Jerry Rice.More than Terrell Owens, Randy Moss, Isaac Bruce, Marvin Harrison, etc and it would tie for 3rd with Terrell Owns for TDs.). In the playoffs he had 130 for 1638 and 14 scores.

Bascially, his playoffs were another full season of stats.

I expect Ansah, Rishardson, and mayble Mack, to be in the running for Hall of Fame. I’d love to see Lee there as well, there is no player from the Jacksonville Jaguars, ever, to make it. With two rings and a ton of stats, it seems like Lee would be a solid HOF sort of player.

HOF inductees? Patrick Willis, Jairus Byrd, Geno Atkins

[Abe Sargent]

We made 92 mill last yearWe have the 1,469,820 and highest valued franchise in America.

4th best Stadium; 4th best Roster; 4th best Support; 7th worts economy

99.8% attendance

Staff Draft:

We pick 9th I make no changes

I massage my ticket prices.

RFA:

MLB Miceli
DE Ken Bridgman
SE Travis DeWacht
WLB Aidan Hutchins
CB Ike Bradley
SS Lionel Van Pelt

UFA:

FL Nicholas Ford
FL Darnell Menzies
TE Brett Kovacs
TE Stanley Ballard

That’s it.

[Abe Sargent]

Alright FA!

Alright, we have 42 players on our roster, 23 mill under the cap and 14.4 for a new player.

Final Year of their Current Deal:

P Brad Nortman
LS Kent Ikuma
DT Randal Kantowski
RB Brayden George
WLB Avery Haldar
QB Frankie Peters
RG Mark Meadows
OG Marquise Satre
TE JR Telarochhe
QB Blake Bortles

And my draft class 4 years ago – DE Gregory Burton, DE Nate Brown, SLB Ezra Wilkerson, DT Dana Korber, FL Cedric Banks. Know what? That was a pretty solid draft. After Burton and Wilkerson – we got 44/44 Banks in the 7th round, 41/44 DE Brown in the 6th, DT Frederick in the 5th and DT Korber in the 4th – all solid players. That wasn’t a sucky draft!

That’s a lot of players. I’m going to need some money.

I extend QB Schaefer for a year and make 1.3 mill in cash.

I can extend MLB Morris for another year and drop his cap hit by 1.6 mill this year, but I don’t know that I want to push out his salary. I can do a Cap Out for a little more money. I hold off.

I would have loved to have taken Shane Hopkins to a nickelback role, but he’s 10 mill. I cannot, in good conscience keep him around for two more years. He’s 35/35. He’swilling to drop to 6.3 mill, but that’s way too much cash. I cut Shane Hopkins. Sorry, I would have loved to have kept you as a womb to tomb player, but that’s not to be.

Alright, now I have some serious negotiating room.

Any major FA I need to keep abrest of? Three’s a 75/75 QB out there. Could I cut Blake and grab a different guy?


I extend LG Satre by a year but it costs an extra 2 mill this year.

I extend CB Hanks by three moe years and this drops the cap by two mill.


I love CB Allen Hutchings, he was a 5th rounder from 3 years ago and he’s now 50/54, so I can go with him and Hanks at CB easily enough. He was the only real player from that draft, that was a horrible draft.

I extend LS Ikuma by a year. In order to do the same with P Nortman it increases his salary from 1.8 to 3. Nope. I’m not paying that for a punter.

In order to extend him by two years, it hits my cap for 5 extra million dollars – bad Bortles, bad!

I extend SLB Ezra Wilkerson by a lot. He’s ours for a while. Good stuff. Now Burton. He wants a 5 year 74.9 mill deal. That’s ton of cash. But Burton is a 70/70 DE. We drafted hm for the long game. I commit that money.

That drops our cap to 18.9 under and 10.35 free.

Let’s advance to Stage 2 and see what we have.

Now, I’d love a cheaper P at some point in time later

Other needs:

WR x3
RB if I cut RB George (That cut would free 2.27 mill. George is my receivers leader though)
A real FB
Tex2
Starting OG only
Starting OT only
DE
S
3xCB
2xLB

I want to check and see how much the 6th year 75/75 QB wants – 5 year deal……..166 mill. That’s a lot of cash.

He led the league in passing yards last year with 5050. He’s one of the best we have. Among QB, Dalton Karenina is the 4th best QB in the league, and just a hair of Ray Maguire at 74/74. Bortles is 43/43. It’s like letting go of an aging Favre for Aaron Rodgers in his prime. Now it’ll cost us.

Now I might be able to be clever. For example, I could pay him a ton of signing bonus to cut his salary in the first year to make it more manageable – like an early cap out. I did that a bit with SLB Wilkerson.

Skip Dalton at first.

[Abe Sargent]

Who else do I like for the price and the talent?

I could make an offer to LG….Deoin Theophilakos, for 2.5, 2.8, and 3.0 mill. He’s 49/49 and in his 9th year, so that may ebb soon. That would be hilarious.

Again, before I get too crazy with offers, let me check the NFL Draft to see what I can see

We draft at 1.27. Back hear the back. We do not have a 2nd rounder. But we do have extra pickes at 4.3, 4.26 and 5.26. That’s a lot of middle ground space to fillout my roster. So I’m not looking for the high value filler in this FA like I normally might. I can draft CB or LB or TE that sort of thing. We have two stud Safeties one at each spot, and a stud CB.

I want to check out WR first though. I interview the top one, and he looks sexy. But he’ll get drafted well before 1.27. And he’s no Wild, although he;s a natural SE so he’d be a solid Lee. I interview the next four WR as well, so I know them decently enough. None are solid investments of a first. I also interview the 8th WR on the board he skipped the combine, but looks to have good bars. He’s as scouted.

We have two great TE, they’ll go early. I stay away. At CB the top two folks are studly and I keep away, no sense wasting my interviews. I interview 4, 5 and 6. The 4th best CB has a dash of 4.29! He’s the fastest player in the draft.

I also really like the 2nd best OLB in the draft, and WLB WLB Wayne Godfrey with an underrated interview.

Alright, back to FA

I make an offer to bring back WR Menzies. He was a great returner for us last year.

And to FB Charlie Woo.

RB Brayden George is my back field leader, but he’s a 34/34 vet who dropped from earlier solid places. I’m willing to cut him.

Hmmm…

I really want to sign that Qb. In the past 12 years, only one time has a QB that good been available in FA< and that was Russell Wilson. Without Lee, I want a QB that’s one of the best, not one who has a team that meakes him one of the best. Borltles is sort of like Eli Manning. He has a pair of rings, he’s a solid guy. Give him Calvin Johnson (aka Joshua Wild) and larry Fitzgerald (Marqise Lee) and a great O Line and DeMarco Murray at RB and you are going to pop. You are going to get NFL Offensive Player of the Year type stuff. We get that. Without Lee, we have dropped one puzzle piece of the problem.

And FA doesn’t have a 55/55 or higher WR. It’s best is 57/57 Stedman Bailey, a 14th year vet who’ll retire tomorrow. Then we see 47/47 Percy Rivers, a 5th year vet with a group of folks that don’t think he’ll fit in. So, there’s no FA Answer. Maybe there’s a draft-one.

What about OT? The best n the draft is 6th year vet Bo Wagner who ewants just 2.5, 3.1, and 3.66 mill for 3 years. Right on? Save for the fact that he’s 44/44. And that;s the best one? At 49/49 Theophilakos actually is the best OG in the FA pool, and then we get….45/45 STEVEN KELLEY. So I can basically choose which of my former hometown guys I want to resign. Kelley or Theo?

Again, no one sasses me.

TE? My guy, Brett Kovacs, is the top TE and wants a 3 year deal for 30 mill. He’s 45/45. At 43/43 is Eric Ebron, a 13 yer vet with a 2.6 mill one year deal. These TE have delusions of grandeur.

Cb? The best is….51/51 Emmitt Burke, whom we traded to Atlanta since we didn’t like him that much. He is looking for a 5 yer 46 mill deal. Meanwhile 42/42 CB is the next best one…

So there is no one out there.

With that, QB Dalton Karenina looks like a better investment.

But realisticly, who cuts their 34 year old QB who has been to four Super Bowls, won two, and been a five-time League MVP? That’s a horrible plot line. I have to bring Blake to 19 millto bring him back and Dalton is 24 mill that first year. Normally I can’t trim Blake – but he is in the final year of his deal, so I have some serious flexibility with him….

I feel like I’ll regret this decision either way. Suppose Bortles retires in two years or three, and I have difficulty finding my next Qb. That could easily happen. Or I could sign this guy, wade into heavy cap trouble, and then lose great players. I think I’ll work as players retire like Satre, Velazquez and Grossman, my cap should get better. But there’s no guarantee of when.

So I have some cash, why am I chasing just the two minor FA?

I’ll hold off for a week or threeto give me cap agility.

Stage 2 – QB Dalton Kerenina signs with the Bengals for a lot more than he initially wanted – 5 years, 202 million dollars. His cap hit is 30 mill this year. Damn. CB Emmitt Burke signed with the Raiders. We sign FB Charlie Woo to a 5.32 mill, 3 year deal and then Icut the FB we already had. DT Brant Missouri signed with Arizona.

Now what? I make an offer to P Herman Chapman, 4 years younger as our current P, about the same prince, three year deal, and about the same quality. I spend the 5 mill to extend Blake by two more years.

Stage 3 – Quiet

Stage 4- Quiet

Stage 5 – We bring in WR Menzies. WR Roman Fahey signed with Cleveland.

I check to see if folk’s contract shave begun to drop.

CB Bryan Meadows is back out, bounced down to 38/38. Minnesota cut him. I make an offer to OG Steven Kelley.


Stage 6 – WR Nicholas Ford signs with Indy OG Deoin Theo will head to Oakland. OG Steven Kelley to Indy.

Stage 7 – We sign P Chapman to a 3 year dela and I cut Nortman. CB Shane Hopkins has a deal to Dallas pending for 3 years and 9 mill. Huh, I can actually make him an offer, something that never happens after you’ve cut him. I make him a deal. Three other have too.

Stage 8 – Hopkins signs with us for 3 years and 8.67 mill. TE Stanley Ballard, our 3rd stringer last year is heading to New Orleans. I would have brought him back, but he conflicted with our new post-Lee leader.

Stage 9 – Quiet. Kovacs deal to re-sign keeps dropping. I take a look around. Let me do some math. What would my honest offer be, for a 45/45 TE who has been a solid contributor? I make him that offer. Not yet.Maybe 2nd FA or something?

Stage 10 – Quiet, Former TE Page of ours heads to Phily. Everyhting finishes up quiet to….

[Abe Sargent]

The 2026 NFL Amateur Draft


Now I’d love to be in play for SE Brendan Cicci. That’s not happening. On the value board, Brendan, the 2nd fastest player in the draft, is 6th. I don’t think Brendan will prove to be a Wild in value, but a Lee. I expect he’ll finish up in the mid-60s. I don’t have the ammo to move up like I did last time, I last a 2nd rounder and I have a 1.27 pick. But if I see him fall and that price to move up drops, I may be in play for him.

Again, here are the spots I need:

RB maybe
TE, maybe 2,
2xWR
No O Line unless high starting quality OG or OT
DE
2xLB
2xCB
S

So I’d like to walk away with 9 players for depths, I have 43 on my roster. I have 9 draft picks, so the math all works out.

Alright, let’s begin.

GreenBay starts off by taking a potential studly QB. Then DT, QB, CB, S, RB, WR Cicci at 7 to Cleveland, and OG, S and CB wrap up the top 10.

So, the target is gone, insert sad face here.

But there were others I really liked. For example, two OLB, and some ILB and frankly, I’m surprised both top TE are on the board as well. Let’s keep going

1.11 TE – Theere they go – am I presescient or what?
1.12 OLB
1.13 RB
1.14 TE
1.15 OT
1.16 DT
1.17 S
1.18 – DT
1.19 DE
1.20 CB

Now, if I want to make a play, my targets I like are………WLB Wayne Godfrey, MLB Artie Dodrill, and a bunch of WR. I hold steady. I like Godfrey, but I feel I can get a solid compensation package if he isn’t there.

1.21 Wayne Godfrey – Damn
1.22 – QB
1.23 WR
1.24 CB
1.25 ILB
1.26 WR

Wow look at that. Every player at a potioin of need just feell off the board. Damn. I don’t know if I’m getting anything. Let me look.

The next WR is very overrated but has an affinity – nope

I could gamble and grab WR Maxwell Poffenroth, now the 4th WR, with no combines, good bars, and as scouted. That worked with Burton.

Or, I could grab a non-scouted player at a different positon. If I just BAP this draft, who’d I take? Maybe OG Floyd or Barasch? Nope, FS Efrian Fedolfi. Could I take and move to CB?

I want to go OG.

Instead, we’re doing something different. I want to trade –target Poffenroth. He won’t go in the next few picks.

I trade back with the saints at 1.32 and grabs a pair of future fives.

They grab FS Fedolfi. Then OG Barasch, an ILB and OLB and WR go. I slide back to Green Bay’s 2/2 and collect another future 5. Two more players fall. I don’t want to push too many players back or anything. I snag my WR and hope.


I see you at 3.27

I grab OLB here. At 4.3 I look around. Hmmm…. I take DE Chris Goeken, whom I have an affinity with.

Then at 4.26 and 4.27 I snag DT Calvin Keith and RT Fernando Coleman.

The 5th opens and heads to us at 5.25 and 5.27. I like FS Roger Popson and MLB Ricky Nygaard. I grab a CB with affinity, from WAYNE STATE IN DETROIT BABY I nthe 6th. He’s also the top oneon the board too. Our last guy is a RB I like.


The 2026 Jacksonville Draft Class

2nd – WR Maxwell Poffensroth, West Virginia University BABY
3rd – OLB Marcos Karr, San Diego
4th – DE Chris Goeken, Alabama; DT Calvin Keith, Pittsburgh; RT Fernando Coleman, Auburn
5th – S Roger Popson, South Carolina; MLB Ricky Nygaard, Duquesne
6th – CB Walt Benavides, Wayne State BABY
7th – RB Kendrick Gaston, Jackson State

[Abe Sargent]

“You have to imagine that GM Marquis D’Avoigne was just getting upset as the stud WR and TEs went off the boards, postions on offense that we all know that he covets. Then players go off the board quicky before he drafts, and he doesn’t have the ammo in his gun to move up, lacking his 2nd round pick from the trade for last year’s Defensive Rookie of the Year FS Benardini.

Now that’s a move that looks even better after a year. But, it hurt his ability to move up and take a long temr starter at TE or one of the to players at LB or CB that were out there, and he needs a replacement for Marqise Lee, a retiree who is just monumental, even with Joshua Wild on the team.

So he finds his guy, WR Poffenroth, and then realizes that the rest of the league doesn’t have this guy as high on their radar, and trades beack twice, collecting a three set of future 5th round picks. Then he picks the guy in the early 2nd round that he wanted all along and now, hopefully, has his future Marqise Lee, or at least, can use the guy.

Now, remember that Poffenroth was injured during the combine and was not able to do any of the drills other than the IQ questions and interviews. A lot of teamsmoved him down. A few years ago, the Jaguars loved DE Burton who wasn’t even invited and his stock soared post-combine, and were not scared away, and they have been since rewarded. Again, they targeted a guy, traded back, and collected some future picks.

You have to really like how aggressive the GM has been about targeting players the last couple of years, and matching need with the board. But at the same time, they didn’t end up with a 1st round pick, and some of their later picks aren’t the best we’ve seen from D’Avoigne before.”

We have one player on teh Green page, Poffenroth comes back as the 2nd best WR in the draft, supposedly.

I slide him to SE.


B+ draft grade

[Abe Sargent]

I have, on my roster, needs for

TEx2
WR
CB


Holy crap future potential. The Bucs got an undrafted FA last year, LG Casey Pasto a 19/61 guy. They let him go. I am making him a two year offer.

I also like TE Courtney Beyer, a 2nd year undrafter TE that KC picked up. He’s 32/47 and wants a nice 3 year deal.

I cut RB Braylen George

I like UFA WR Juan Sharber and CB Jerald O’Neill and TE Christopher Bastyr

Stage 1 – We sign Bastyr and O’Neill and I increase some other offers ot stave off competition.

Stage 2 – We sign OG Casey Pasto.

Stage 3 – We sign TE Beyer, FL Sharber.

I make a few changesto our own guys first

I extend DT Randy Frederick by two years. QB Frankie Peters by one.

I’d like to do four things – Resign WR Cedric Banks as my 3rd guy going forward ; sign CB Allen Hutchings as a cheap starter for the next few years now, before I strat him, to keep costs low; resign TE Kovacs now that his deal is growing increasingly reasonable, and four resign RFA MLB Miceli, now that his deal is better as well.

I don’t have the cap space for all four. I could have 3 MLB and 4 OLB on my roster with Miceli there. But that’s extravagant. Kovacs is too, I have three TE right now.

I cut OG Gage Wallace. Even if LG Pasto is a bust later on, he won’t be worse than Wallace.

I can’t find a way to extend Hutchings financially beyond one year beyond his current deal – it’s not available.

Okay, so now it’s just Kovacs, Banks and Miceli. Beyer might grow into Kovacs, and if not, then at least a solid enough TE option. And I have Delaroche. I want to hold off on Banks until I see about Maxwell post-preseason.

So for now, I’m good.

Stage 4 – MLB Micelie signs with Oaklands. Sc Travis DeWachte with Buffalo.

Stage 5 nothing

Pre-camp, Kovacs has dropped to a very reasonable amount and I sign him back to 2 years and 1.9 and then 2.1,

I also sign a random OG UFA because I want to have insurance against my latest move.

[Abe Sargent]

CAMP TIME

We sell 66700 season tix

My best player, other than SE Maxwell appears to be 4th rounder DT Calvin Keith, at 22/54. Could he grow into a future starter for me at the DT Spot?

7th round rookie RB Gaston is 43/47 and looks solid too. Better than 3rd rounder and 3rd year vet Erick Winslett at 41/41

Anybody fall yet? Normally you might have to wait until post-preseason though.

Satre is down to 78/78
Bortles 43/43

Bernardini is up to 81/84.

Alright, let’s cut a few folks and then hit preaseason:



In the first week of preseason, the Giant’s RB goes down hard and is out for around 12 weeks with a knee injury. They have a ton of cap room. Sensing an opportunity, we dial up their GM on the phone to see if they want RB Jermaine Woods. But they don’t like Wood;’s salsary. How do you not like a 55/55 RB with a salary of 2.27 mill for your club when you have 40 million in space? In fact, no one wants him.

Ah well, it was a thought.

We finish the preaseason 1-3


Post preseason thoughts on our team’s rookies:

Whoa RB Gaston boomed to 50/53. That’s pretty solid. That’s impressive boomage. In fact, it moves his to the Green page, where he is the 3rd RB on the list. In fact, he’s the latest person on the list by four rounds, late 3rd in the last player on the Green page until Gaston made it. DT Calvin Keith is 24/51.

[Abe Sargent]

In other news, here’s our WR:

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/The%20Next%20Lee_zpshwtih0cl.jpg

The Next Lee?

42/69 is strong. If he finishes 64/64 or so, that’s be right around where Marqise Lee was, and we made some nice moves to replace our guy. He has great loyalty, and isn’t going to rock the boat. And I hope that he’ll se a solid catcher!

Even if he bosts to 55/55 or 52/52 like Allen Robinson, that’ll be fine for now. And Lee was also drafted near the top of the 2nd.

Anyway, good job.

[Abe Sargent]

Satre is down to 71/71. DE Velazquez does to 46/46 MLB Morris ot 42/42. WR Joshua Wild is at 74/74 but he’s 28, I don’t know what happened there. RT Starks to 61/61. RB Willingham to 57/57. WLB Avery Halder ot 37/37. Kantowski to 36/36 Grossman down to 30/30. TE Kovacs is up to 48/48.

I cut:

DT Dana Korber
4th rnd rookie RT Fernando Coleman who busted HARD to 14/24 from 14/51 in the draft
TE Bastyr
A pair of OG

And we are good to go.

A few changes to my starters from what you might expect. DT Randy Frederick and DT Calvin Keith are starting for us. Grossman and Kantowski are both going to be used as rotational guys.

Despite the loss of Lee, we are the 11th youngest team this year.



Roster Strengths:


9th worst QB
12th best RB
6th worst FB
8th best TE
5th best WR
5th best C
13th best G
13th best T
13th worst P
12th worst K
THE best DE
3rd worst DT
5th worst MLB
6th best OLB
10th best CB
THE best S (BY FAR, we are crushing them 100 to 65).


New starters include – FB Charlie Woo, SE Maxwell Poffenroth, DT Calvin Keith, DT Randy Frederick, RCB Allen Hutchings.

We are starting – 5th round pick Hutchings – 54/54, DT Frederick from the 5th, 39/39, 3rd rounder at 3.32 CB Colton Hanks, 4th round rookie Calvin Keith, and that;s in additional some you know like C Leggin from the 3rd.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 – We head to Houston and remind them of our danger level and we win 47-17. Bortles is NFL Offensive Player of the Week with 32 for 40 and 416 yards and a 4:1 Ratio. WR Wild? 7 for 98 yards and WR Poffenroth, in his first game, is 5 for 90 and two scores. Welcome to the NFL baby! TE Delaroche with a TD catch. RB Willingham has 17 carries for 92 yards and 2 scores; 6 catches for 66 yards and a score. DE Nate Brown subbing in grabs 2 sacks. Pick by FS Bernardini. Sack by DT Frederick. 4 KRB by OT Brant Matthews.

Week 2 – We host and smash the Eagles 40-16. Borltes is Game MVP with 27 of 37 for 304 and 3:0. Wild had 9 for 100 and 2 scores, WR Poffenroth 4 for 110 and 1. RB Willingham was 24 for 124 and a score on the ground. Pick by Bernardini.MLB Morris with a forced fumble recored by SS Whalen. 4 KRB by Satre and Meadows and 3 by Starks and Matthews.

WR Banks is out for a fouple of weeks with a calf musicle and MLB Morris strained his hammy and is questionable for an unknown length of time. We’ll keep Morris in though.

Week 3 – We head to Denver and just, barely, win 20-17. RB Willingham was Game MVP with 13 for 108 and a score on the ground and 8 catches for 35 yards as well. Bortles was 20 for 34 and just 196 yards and 1:2 ratio. TE Kovacs caught the score. Pick by Bernardini and 2 by MLB Morris. Glad I kept him in. SLB Ezra Wilkerson with a forced fumble. Sack by Bernardini. 3 KRB by Satre and Starks and Matthews.

We have a few injuries post game:

TE Delaroche is doubtful with abdominal strain
CB Colton Hanks is questionable for a week with a pulled groin


Week 4 – We host Cincinnati, the Bengals arrive with their newly acquired and fancy QB. And they beat us 20-13. Bortles as 27 of 37 for 303 and 1:1, and Wild had 150 yards and a score and Poffenroth 107 yards, Sacks by DE Burton and S Bernardini, and 3 KRB by Starks.

Banks is back from injury!

[Abe Sargent]

Week 5 – We thump Cleveland hard in vengeance for the loss to Ohio the prvious week. We win 48-24. Willingham has 21 carries for 128 yards and 3 scores. WR Wild 1 score and Maxwell 114 yards and a score. Bortles is 24 of 27 for 289 and 2:0. Pick by SS Whalen. Sack by Velazquez. 6 KRB by Starks, 4 by Satre.

Week 6 – We head to division rivals the Colts. Despite some good play by some folks, we still lose 14-27. CB Hutchings had a pair of interceptions. 2 sacks by SS Whalen, 1 by Burton. 3 KRB by Leggin. Roshing score by Bortles and he was…..33 for 46 and 430 and 1:4. That’s a lot of picks. Poffenright had 127 yards and Wild the same yardage but with a score attached.

No major injuries though.

Week 7 – We head to face one-win Pittsburgh. We come back with a nice 38-17 win. Borltes is MVP with 19 of 28 for 257 and 4:0. Wild – 103 yards, 1 score; Banks 1 score, Poffenroth – 1 score; RB Woods, 1 score, RB Willingham 21 for 114 and 1 score. 2 picks by Bernardini, 1 each by FS Myles Clinton, SS Whalen, and CB Hiuthcings. Sacks by MLB Ricky Nygaard, DT Keith, and DE Velazquez. 5 KRB by Leggin and 3 each by Satre, Matthews, and Starks.

WR Poffenroth is out for 6 week swith a leg injury. We’ll start Banks. That’s a shame, he was having a good season too.

Week 8 – We head to the Ravens. Again. Our nemesis in purple. They beat us, 30-27. Ah well. TO be expected I suppose. Willingham was 18 for 157, and 6 for 67 catching. Bortles was 27 of 40 for 304 and 2:2. Wild got 81 yards and a score, and TE Kovacs the other. Banks, spelling Poffenroth was 5 for 83 on the day. Sacks by DE Velazquez, Burton, Grossman, and 2 by DT Keith. 6 KRB by Matthews and 4 by Starks.

We are 5-3 at the break, one game behind Tennessee, whom we host next week

[Abe Sargent]

Week 9 – We crucify the Titans 51-14. CB Shane Hopkins has 2 picks, one he retruns for a score. DT Keith, and DT Grossman have a sack. Satre has 5 KRb, and Leggin, Starks 4 each and Matthews 3. Bortles was lame in the air, with just 25 of 29, 288, and 0:1. We relied on our awesome triple threat RB ground game. Willingham? 15 for 141, 1 score, and 6 grabs for 97 yards. Gaston? Rushes for a score. Woods? Rushed for a score. WR Banks? Rushed for a score. 3rd string TE Courtney Beyer? Rushed for a freakin’score. It was a rush-a-thon!

We have some post-game injuries to some catchers:

FL Juan Sharber, doubtful with a hyperextended elbpow for 2 weeks
FL Cedric Banks, questionable for 3

Let’s get through the bye week first though.

We are now in the top spot of the AFC South

Week 10 – BYE

Unfortuantely the teams we wanted to lose last week, Tenessee and Indy both won. We are 6-3 with the Titans but in front due to head to head stuff. Luckily the play each other this week, so one will go down. Come on, Colts!

Week 11 – We host the Texans. Well…we manage to score 27 on them, so that’s good? But they score…hmmm…it says here….0. We shut them out and down baby! Game MVP is Borltes who has 26 of 33 for 234 and 2:0. WR Darnell Menzies caught a score. RB Willingham was 23 for 146 on the ground with a score and then was 9 for 42 and the other score. Picks by MLB Morris, CB Hanks and CB Hutchings. 1 sack each by DE Burton, SS Whalen, and DE Velazquez. 3 KRB by Leggins and Matthews.

RT Starks is questionable for 2 weeks with a knee injury.

The Titans beat the Colts and are 7-3 along with us.

Week 12 – We head to Dallas and win 34-20. The Titans lost too! Anyway, DE Burton is NFL Defensive Player of the Week with 3 sacks. FS Bernadini had a pick and returned it 75 for a score and SS Whalen had 2 INTs. FF by Shane Hopkins recovred by Whalen. 1 sack by DT Keith, and Velazquez. 6 KRB By C Leggin and 4 by Matthews and 3 by Starks. RB Willingham, Game MVP, had 28 for 180 and 3 rushing scores. Meanwhile Borltes had 42.6 QB Rating day with 23 of 38 for 271 and 0:4. Our defense and ground game willed us ot a victory despite Bortles.

Week 13 – We host the Jets and win 31-6. (The Titans win too). Ready for the Game MVP?

OG Marquis Satre – 12 KRO and he got 9 KRB, and 1 pancake too. Year Satre! Matthews, Starks and Leggin with 3 each as well.

Sacks by Velazquez, and CB Hanks. Pick and 17 yard scamper for a TD by SS Whalen. Borltes? 19 of 27 for 178 and 1:0. Kovacs with the score. Willingham was 24 for 119 and 1.

RT Starks is fully healed, and I rus back SE Poffenroth back a week early. We need to dig this passing game out of the gutter.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 14 – We lose at Washington 20-19. Borltes? 19 of 27, 243, 1:1. Poffenroth caught the score. 1.5 sacks by DT Brown, and 1 byBerdanrdini. 3 KRB by Leggin. Rushign score by backup RB Woods.

Tennesse won too – we are both 9-4.

Week 15 – We defeat the Colts 20-9 and the Titans win 21-14 over the Texans. Bortles, MVP, 23 of 37 for 214 and 1:1. Menzies caught that score. FS Bernardini returned a paick 38 for a score and CB Hutchigns another pick. Sacks by Burton and Grossman. FF by Burton and recorved by DT Kantowski. 3 KRB by Satre.

Week 16 – We head ot New York and upend the Giants 31-7. Willingham is Game MVP with 27 carries, 170 yards, 1 score, 8 catches, 65 yards, 1 score. WR Menzies catches one and Borltes rushes for one. Borltes was injures in the gam,e after going 21 of 30 for 172 and 2:0. Pick by MLB Morris. Sacks by Whalen, Velazquez and Burton. 4 KRB by Matthews, 3 by Satre.

We have two major post-game injuries. C Myron Leggin is out for a month with a hyperextended knee. Meanwhile QB Bortles is out for a month with a severe wrist sprain.

I cut Jerald O’Neill to sign QB Kurt Bailey, a 2nd year guy to be my 4th Qb. QB Schaefer and C Pieper will start.

The Titans won too.

The winner of our game, at Tennessee, determines the winner of the AFC South.

We lose 17-34. QB Schaefer was 27 of 42 for 312 and 1:0. He his Poffenroth for a score. RB Woods added a score on the ground Sack by Ezra Wilkerson. 5 KRB by Satre.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2026 NFL Playoffs


AFC:

#1 Seed 13-3 New England Patriots
#2 Seed 12-4 Tenessee Titans
#3 Seed 12-4 Cleveland Browns
#4 Seed 11-5 Kansas City Chiefs
#5 Seed 12-4 Cincinnati Bengals
#6 Seed 11-5 Jacksonville Jaguars

That’s a tough AFC!

We head to Cleveland, whom we just trounced earlier this year.


This time we beat them barely. 34-31.

QB Schaefer, MVP, 30 of 50, 398, 3:2. Wild had 167 and 2, Poffenroth had 173 and 1. RB Willingham had 23 for 158 and 1. Pick by Morris. Sack by Burton. 4 KRB by Starks, Matthews, and 3 by Satre.

Not a bad day in Ohio!

The Bengals lose 41-16 to the Chiefs. The Cardinals lose in New Orelans and the Packers in Washington.

We are the only wild card team to have won.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 2 – Divisional Round

We head to New England and the Chiefs head to Tennessee.


We win 36-24

Schaaefer – 29 of 50, 284, 1:0, MVP
Wild 123 yards
DR Menzies the score
RB Willingham rushes for 24 carreis 141 yards and a TD
Picks by Hopkins (and a score), hanks, Hutchings, and Bernardini. 5 KRB by Satre.

The Chiefs survive the Titans and win in the road as well, 31-28

In the NFC we have the Saints and Redskins winning.

[Abe Sargent]

The NFL Conference Championships!

In the AFC you have #6 wild card 11-5 Jags against #4 seed 11-5 Chiefs.

In the NFC you have #4 against #2.

We have a bunch of people knocked to probable in the last game – DT Keith, LT Matthews, SS Whalen – all will start.

We are favored by 2.

We cover the spread. By one point. 27-24.

WR Wild is MVP with 13 grabs, 203 yards, and 1 score. FB woo the other. Schaefer was 31 for 49 and 389 and 2:5. Willingham was 28 for 95 and a score. Pick by Hopkins. Sack by Velazquez. 5 KRB by C Pierer and 3 by Starks and Matthews.

Now we have a decision to make. Bortles is back. New Orleans won the Super Bowl last year, and they won again.


If Schaefer had a strong game last game, I’d keep him in. But he had a very uneven performance. Both are ranked 43/43. C Leggin is back too.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2026 NFL Super Bowl


Your AFC Champion #6 Wild Card 11-5 Jacksonville Jaguars

Vs

Your NFC Champion #4 Seed 9-7 NFC South Winner New Orleans Saints

The Saints won last year – can they repeat? Or will the Jaguars win another?

The last Bowl the Jags won was 2020. They lost in 2022.

The Jags are favored by a touchdown.


Super Bowl MVP?

RB Shaquille Wllingham 19 carries, 152 yard,s 3 scores, 4 grabs for 52 more yards

Picks by Hanks, Hutchings, and Bernardini

24 of 35, 257,and 0:2. Bortles was not good.

Sacks by SLB Wilkerson, DE Burton

4 KRB by Satre, Matthews, and 3 by Starks



Another Super Bowl!

[Abe Sargent]

Season Awards:


Super Bowl MVP:

RB Shaquille Willingham


All Pro 1st Team:

RB Shaquille Willingham
OG Marquis Satre
DE Gregory Burton
SS Jermaine Whalen

All Pro 2nd Team:

OT Myron Starks
FS Quentin Bernardini

Fastest Man:

WR Joshua Wild

Somebody got robbed of an award – I’ll show you later.


In the meantime, I have three players here for the first time – Bernardini, Whalen, and Burton. Welcome to the list!

[Abe Sargent]

Stats!


QB Blake Bortles – 365 of 510, 71.6%, 4099 yards, 25:16, 98.5 rating, 33 sacks, 5 fumbles, 15 starts

Not a great year. Looks like the beginning of the end. He was strong lightning-out-of-a-bottle Borltes for a few games, and then bam! He ate kryptonite or something.


Rushing

RB Shaquille Willingham – 305 for 1788 yards and 5.86 ypc and 15 rush scores; 84 cacthes for 679 yards and 3 scores

He led the league in rushing yards by 160, by 2 for rushing scor,es and was the 3rd highest ypc among 16 game starters. No one comes close to him catching the ball either.


Catching?

WR Joshua Wild – 92 for 1272 and 7 scores
WR Maxwell Poffenroth – 11 starts, 50 for 777 and 7
WR Cedric Banks – 49 for 630 and 1
TE Brett Kovacs – 37 for 357 and 3

Not a great year. Borltes being down dropped us, and Poffenroth’s injury didn’t help.


Special Teams:

K Robert Blincoe – 27 of 34, long of 52, 54 of 57 PAT.

P Herman Chapman, 75 punts, 42.1 avg, 27 in the 20

WR Darnell Menzies – 35 PR, 10.3 avg; 30 KR and 26.6 avg

Among qualifiers, Darnell was 7th most in punt return yardage, and 2nd highest without a score. He had the 4th highest non-scoring KR avg too.

Defense

DE Gregory Burton – 10.5 sacks, 4 blocked, 20 hurries, 16 QBKD, 2 pasdef
DE Cesar Velazquez, 7.5 sacks, 5 blocks, 22 hurries, 10 QBKD
DT Calvin Keith, 6 sacks, 2 hurries
DT Randy Frederick – 1 sack, 3 blocks, 6 hurries
DE Nate Brown, 3.5 sacks, 2 block, 10 hurr, 1 QBKD
DT Quentin Grossman, 3.5 sacks, 2 block, 2 hurries


Grossman actually had a better year not starting! The Keith experiment worked, and the rookie was solid. Frederick is clearly better as a rotation guy. He had 5 sacks his first year in that capacity. Borotn;s year wasn;t any better than before, but the rest of the league was low.

SLB Ezra Wilkerson – 59 solo and 28 assists; 1.5 sacks, 3 hurries, 1 QBKD, 6 pasdef
MLB Lance Morris – 97 solo tackles, 23 assists; 1 block, 2 hurries, 4 picks, 10 pasdef, 2 FF
WLB Avery Haldar

Avery blanked.

SS Jermaine Whalen – 97 solo, 33 assists, 4 sacks, 1 hurry, 5 picks, 7 pasdef, 1 INT RET TD, 2 FF, 2 FumRec
FS Quentin Bernardini – 59 and 22 tack; 3 sacks, 7 picks, 2 returned for score,s 14 pasdef, 2 FF
CB Allen Hutchings – 5 picks, 5 pasdef
CB Colton Hanks – 1 pick, 14 pasdef

CB Shane Hopkins – 2 picks, 6 pasdef, 1 INT RET TD

We had better sack numbers from my safieties than my LB or some of my D Line. That’s not what you want folks! If you are only going to have one pick, have a metric ton of passes defensed Hanks. I get ya. Whalen and Bernardini are nasty.

Get ready though….

BLOCKING MY CAPTAIN

OG Marquis Satre – 49 KRB, 7 pancakes, 5 sacks allowed
OT Brant Matthews, 45 KRB, 2 pancakes, 16 sacks allowed
OT Myron Starks, 39 KRB, 6 pancakes, 4 sacks allowed
C Myron Leggin – 38 KRB and 5 pancakes and 4 sacks allowed
OG Mark Meadows – 19 and 1 and 9 sacks allowed
TE Brett Kovacs, 11 KRB, 1 pancacke, 0 sacks

Dang!

Remmeber when I drafted Brant Matthews and he sucked, and I called it my worst draft ever? Well, he outplayed himself:

He had just 72 KRO, He converted 62.5% of them – that’s higher than anyone else on my team. For his career, Satre runs around 42% (He was 50% this year). The only issue is the sack number.

Lots of sacks means you likely won’t get the nod, that’s the issue. Even if he had the 2nd most KRB for OT this year.

But that’s not the true issue. OC Myron Leggin was. He finishes the year with the most KRB among C and had more pancakes and the same sacks allowed as the 2nd guy, who got the nod. He even had a much better KR%. I have no clue what they were looking at:

C Myron Leggin – 38 KRB out of 85 KRO for a 44.7%, 5 pancakes, 4 sacks allowed
C Burt Cooper, 37 KRB of 95 KRO for a 38.2%, 4 pancakes, 4 sacks allowed

Copper came in 2nd in pvoting and Myron didn’t make it at all, despite leading.

Here’s the guy they chose #1:

C Blaine Victor, 34 KRB out of 89 KRO, 38.2%, 4 pancakes, 0 sacks allowed

Now I’ll grant you that a 16 start season without a sack may be good enough to make the cut. But why would you elevate Cooper over Leggin?

Who would you choose? DUH!

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:

Offensive Player of the Year: C Myron Leggin – He earned it! Damn it, I’ll give it to him! He led all C in KRb and had a large KR% to help get there, so good job Myron!

Defensive Player of the Year: FS Quentin Bernardini – He had a ton of picks, and passes defensed and sacks and forced fumbles and he was a force in the secondary and elsewhere with equal aplomb. He ins;t one of those fragile free safeties who avoids contact!

Special Teams Player of the Year – WR Darnell Menzies – Once again, some strong retrun stuff – thanks!

Rookie of the Year: DT Calvin Smith – He came in and started despite a low selection in the draft, and gave us a 6 sack season, which is pretty solid for a 1st year guy at DT.

Heart Award: DT Quentin Grossman – It can’t be easy being demoted on the football team, but he is content, never upset, came in and did strong work for us, and set an example of do what is required every day. Thanks buddy!

[Abe Sargent]

End of the 2026 Season:

Performance – 63
Value – 100
Profit – 91
Roster – 25

Score – 79

How did I get 63 for winning the Super Bowl?


Retirements:

We have three – DT Grossman, CB Shane Hopkins, and OT Bryce Talaridou

Both Hopkins and Grossman were with us their entire career, from wonb to tomb! Thanks for your work

Hopkins was never a major player. He finishes with 36 picks, and 102 passes defensed. He had one All-Pro season in 2019.

He does retire 1st in our record books for picks in a career, and 1st in tackles, passes defensed, and so forth. I expect our safety tandem to blow those records away though.

Again, Grossman was never that stud who would nail you a bajillion sacks or anything, but he retires with 48 sacks, 13 blcoked passes, 70 hurries, 36 QB knockdowns, and and a nice lineage at DT for us.



Other retirements:

RB Isaiah Tucker from the Titans, a major 7 time All Pro League MVP guy. He was originally with the Jets
TE Eric Ebron
TE Leonard Erickson – 4 time All Pro,
WR Kelvin Benjamin
WR Jordan Matthews
WR Mike Evans – Retires as Legend of the Game
C Travis Frederick
LG Deion Theophilakos – One of ours heads home
OT Lane Johnson
OT Jake Matthews
OT Greg Robinson
DT Aaron Donald
DT Quentin Grossman – bye!
MLB CJ Mosley
OLB Khalil Mack
CB Shane Hopkins – bye!
CB Byran Meadows – Remember when our starters were Meadows and Hopkins?
FS Terrence Brooks

[Abe Sargent]

We made 196 mill last year. 99.8% attendance

We are worth 1.379 bill – 4th most

6th best stadium, 2nd best roster, 13th best support, 7th worst economy


Staff Draft!

We pick 5th –

I skip a better OC who was horrible at play calling.

I make no other changes. Yay!

RFA:

QB Kurt Bailey
FL Juan Sharber


UFA:

TE Delaroche
WE Menzies
WR Banks
RG Meadows
DE Nate Brown
DT Kantowski
WLB Avery Haldar

No one major.

I have 41 on my roster.

[Abe Sargent]

I head to FA

I have these folks in the last year of their current deal:

RB Jermaine Woods
RB Erick Winslett
TE Brett Kovacs
C Myron Leggin
LG Marquis Satre
LT Brant Matthews
K Robert Blincoe
DE Cesar Velazquez
MLB Lance Morris
CB Allen Hutchings
FS Myles Clinton
LS Kent Ikuma
QB Peters


I extend Kent a year.


This year in the draft we have the 32nd pick at the tail end of every round plus no other picks save for the 5.31.

I begin by extending the deal of OG Satre and DE Velazquez by a year each. Apparently we may be on year-to-year deals for them from here on out.

MLB Morris was good for me, even last year, but there’s no way the 42/42 guy deserves an extension.

That leaves three problems that I want to do:

I want to sign CB Allen Hutchings to a long deal; extend C Leggin by a few years, and sign OT Matthews.

Now, they are all wanting some serious cash-age.

C Leggin wants to be brought up to 11.6, 13 and 14 mill from 7.7. OT Matthews wants to head to 6 mill and CB Hutchings wants to leap to 9, then 12, 13, 15 and then 17 million at the top end.

There are some interesting FA out there, so I want to check out their prices and such, so I pass the first week of FA by.


The top player In FA is RG Thurman Horton, a 5th year guy from the Texans who wants 58 mill over 4 years and is ranked 78/78. Grabbing him is a great pull. Firstly, when Satre retires, it leaves me a strong OG option. Second, I could let C Leggin go, and sign this guy for my staring roster, and then draft a C (or sign one) and add depth that way.

And if I don’t like the splash the cash on Horton, there are some 51/51 or 52/52 guys that are in eh late 2 mill-3 mill cap range and currently 7 year vets. I can target them

Another option:

CB Tristan Hutton – 7th year vet, 58/58 ability, wants 9, and 12, 12, and 13. 48 mill over 4 years. He is the best D Back in the FA pool. He started every game with the Patriots after being drafted 16 picks in 92 starts. 81 pasdef is nice – last year he had 4 and 18. He had 22 pasdef as a rookie, and then 7, 12, 12, 10, and 18. He’s been an all league CB once. And remember, he’s a 7th year vet at the age of 29.

Meanwhile I can just sign CB Allen Hutchings to a 5 year 68 mill deal. Both have a similar beginning – Allen goes 8/8, and then 12, 13, and then 15 vs 13 for CB an finally has a last year.

Allen has 25 starts and 9 picks in three years. He has just 9 pasdef. You could make a compelling argument that Hutton is a singing worth doing, but Hutchings is younger. And the next highest DBack on the FA list is 45/45. Now I can chase Hutton, and if I lose, then reup Hutchings. That is an option. Or I can just bite the bullet with the guy.

Now, if you want a cheaper Leggin, FA has a 5th year vet center from the Titans who is 56/56. He wants 2 years at 5.44 mill. He’s gotten 31, 31, and 36 KRBs in the last three years as a starter – with 12 sacks allowed. You know he has the goods. In fact, I’d say he’s a great FA bargain. The Titans drafted him in the 6th round – pretty solid deal.

What about LB? I need a WLB and maybe an upgrade at MLB considering Morris’ age. Say hello to the best WLB on the board, Albert Eamigh, a 5th year vet from the Bengals who clocks in at 49/49, and wants 3, 3.7, and 4 mill. We have a 48/48 guy, a 47/47 guy who wants more, a 45/45 guy who wants even more, etc.

[Abe Sargent]

Let me scout the draft to see if we have solid LB depth or anything. Because the top MLB is 44/44 9th year vet who plays SILB in a 3-4.

LB in the draft ain;t deep. I see the top two OLB and ILB going in the first due to need, but they aren’t quality folks we have five stud-like OT, 2 stud-ish QB, Some strong RB love, a solid WR or two. We even have two OG studs. No one of these is getting to 1.32, maybe I could trade to 1.26 or something is one falls deep. So I need to just have roster agility and not rely on anyone falling.

Whoa, I interview the 5th best OG on the board because he has great bars, but his combines aren’t a perfect match, expecting him to fall and he comes back underrated. OG David Blades. That might be a guy we can get.

I do scout some LB in case they fall. Wilkerson did his year.

Alright, my current roster has OG starting. We have a conflict issue at O Line too. Our leader retired and the new one, OT Starks, is causing some fuss.

Can I clean up some cap space in any obvious places? I could cut RB Jermaine Woods, he’s good though. I could cut MLB Morris, but I’d like some form of coverage first. And we have a major contract coming up next year – FS Bernardini and we will have to face the question of re-upping RB Shaquille Willingham. Both are going to want cash cash.

Any other cash free?

I could obviously take Leggin or Hutchings to FA but I doubt Hutchings is making any changes. That would free up a cash commitment this year though. But next, I need my FS and RB on. So I am not extending folks like QB Peters, FS Myles Clinton or MLB Morris through next year.

I move Hutchings contract to a more cap friend low salary high bonus deal and he agrees. It’s cap hits of 9.2, 9.2, 9.2, 12.2, and 16.3.

That’s not too bad, I’m not overly wounded by that deal in future years.

Now who is next?

I do something similar with Leggin and extend him with 9 mill cap hits this and next year, and then 13 the final year.

I will hold off on any extension of OT Matthews until post-draft.

For now, let’s begin to look toward FA:

One of the top two OGs in the low 50s was placed on IR each of the last two years. I release MLB Morris. Instead, I off:

LG Kennedy Bauer from the Falcons
WLB Albert Eamigh, from the Falcons
MLB Jameson Broyles from the Bengals

I would like to bring in a 3rd WR (we lost 3) but its just too pricey.

Stage 2 – The big name OG Horton heads to Indy. That big name CB Hutton is heading to Detroit.

Stage 3 – Quiet

Stage 4 – WR Cedric Banks heads to Arizona on a 2 year 8 mill deal.

Stage 5 – We sign OG Bauer. Meanwhile two of our D Line – DT Kantowski and DE Brown are signs to the Pats and Bengals, respectively.

Stage 6 – We sign WLB Albert Eamigh.

Stage 7 – Quiet

Stage 8 – OG Mark Matthews is heading to Cincinnati and TE Delaroche to Arizona.

Stage 9 – No major news

Stage 10 – Broyles signs.

I’m looking for a depth WR, CB or maybe S that is great at returning, but I can’t find one I can afford. Menzies wants a 3 year deal worth 2+ mill each year.

Let’s head to the draft

[Abe Sargent]

The 2027 NFL Amateur Draft

Positions of Depth and starting I need:

TE
3xWR
OT
DTx2
DE
CBx2


Carolina gets the draft rolling by grabbing a stud QB.

As the draft gets underway, a lot of talent goes early, but my target OG David Blades is on the board, and he’s there as things get later in the draft. I make no moves, and I snatch him at 1.32.

There are a lot of great players that roll off in the 2nd, but i wait for depth and need. There’s a nice DT on the board, and since I need two, that just makes sense. In the late third, I like two players.

I really like SE Bryce Haynes and CB Harry Morton. Both fill major needs. I need more WR. So I draft Haynes. But it was neck and neck.

CB Morton goes to the Colts at 4.11. Ah well. At the end of the 4th I like….let’s ignore need and go with BAP, one of the top two Centers has dropped, so I grab him.

In the 5th I have the last two picks at 5.31 and 5.32. I like a DE and MLB

I finish with a SE and RB.


The 2027 Jacksonville Jaguars Draft Class

1st – OG David Blades, Baylor
2nd – DT Maurice Clinton, Carson-Newman
3rd – WR Bryce Haynes, Evansville
4th – C Jason Nichols, Michigan
5th – DE Edwin Alston, Clemson; MLB Carl Goode, South Carolina
6th – WR Carlton Eckberg, Boston College
7th – RB Demetrius Stehlik, Temple


And we are ranked with a A grade.

None of our players are on the green page.

[Abe Sargent]

We have 51 players and I’ll trim some fat here in a moment.

I still need: TE, WR, OT, DT, CBx2

I make offers to:

UFA TE Allen Brandon
UFA WR Steven Simkowitz
UFA CB Trenton Craig

3nd year vet RT JB Rivers. He was a 5th rounder for the Bills, cut, picked up by the 49ers, then the Seahawks, they all let him go. I’m grabbing him next.

FB Devon Goodwin

2nd year vet DT Brett Galloway

I cut OG Berggren, to free up a spot at OG and to get rid of a extreme conflict RB Winslett and C Pieper. All were in the last year, and I wasn’t going to up any of them.


Stage 1 - We sign FB Goodwin and CB Craig. I cut FB Woo.

Stage 2 – We sign WR Simkowitz,

Stage 3 – We sign the DT and OT targets.

Stage 4 – I make a late offer – I have been following WR Menzies, and his price dropped to a reliable amount for a specialist. I offer him a three year deal for 4.9 mill

He signs with us. Anyone else I want to bring in pre-Camp?


I bring in two RB, a FB, LT, and SLB

[Abe Sargent]

Alright let’s go to Camp.

Post camp I extend LT Brant Matthews by two years.

I trim some of the extra fat from my roster, many of the UFA brought in to strengthen it in case of a dropping rookie or signee. I also cut LT Alan Raymond,

Post-camp, my LB are in an odd place. The second best LB on my roster is SLB Casey Joyner, that 4.24 pick from three years ago is now fully a 51/51 body. You could move Joyner to another spot, although why bother? Banish him to WLB? Nah I just signed one – WLB Albert Eamigh, who’49/49 is just barely worse. Spelling my major LB is a solid spot on the roster and providing great injury coverage is a boon. That’s one of the reasons I drafted him.

I sign UFA TE Joseph Fisher


Let’s start the pre-season!

We have a few injuries and start 2-1.

After game three LS Kent Ikuma is knocked to doubtful with turf toe.

Then we have our 4th game and win against Minnesota to go 3-1 on the pre-season.

We have a few injuries of note.

DE Burton will be out with a dislocated shoulder for 7 weeks
C Myron leggin joins LS Ikuma with doubtful turf toe.
RG Casey Pasto is out for 3 weeks with a hyperextended elbow


And…

[Abe Sargent]

QB Blake Bortles. ......


Is out…




With reconstructive knee surgery. For the season.

[Abe Sargent]

Good news?

Here’s OG David Blades:



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The Blades of Doom!

Alright, you can see that he’s a solid 40/67 guy, with no major weaknesses, although he’ll likely not rank up a large amount of pancake blocks. But he was a solid investment at the RG spot for us at 1.32. Now, we’ve had late 1st O Line before that underperformed, like OG Steven Kelley or OT Cedric Goldhammer. But he has survived so far.

[Abe Sargent]

Here’s the C we drafted back in the 4th round as a BAP. He’ll start as a rookie under C Leggin is done with his Turf Toe, and then be a major back up for us in the inner Line.

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This was a quality pick up for us, in case of an extend Leggin injury later. You can develop and trade him, or move him to OG later on, and have some flexibility. I’d rather have a starter quality guy in the 4.32 spot at a place I don’t have need than some 20/35 bum at CB.

I took DT Maurice Clinton at the end of the 2nd to be an immediate player to push for playing time. We started him in preseason, and although he ebbed to 27/49, I’ll still start him as the season progresses

Watch undrafted 1st year SLB Jared Gati, he’s 33/48 right now.

In last year’s news, RB Gaston is now 55/55, and SE Poffenroth 57/69 and DT Keith 38/49.

[Abe Sargent]

I place Bortles on IR. I sign QB Kenneth Berggren, a 23/33 guy as our 3rd string.

I move QB Hardy Schaefer to our starting spot.

Schaefer is a 44/44 QB who has been with us for 7 years. We drafted him at the 4.32 spot. He has started a few games here and there, and never looked that un-Blake like. Let’s take for a spin. This year ,and perhaps into the future, the team is his.

I make some cuts and roster mods:

RB Roderick Greer
WR Steven Simkowitz
WLB Marcos Karr

What do others think of our starters?

12th worst QB
11th best RB
12th worst FB
13th best TE
4th best WR
3rd worst C
11th best OG
12th best OT
7th worst P
13th worst K
3rd worst DE
5th worst DT
9th worst MLB
2nd best OLB
12th best CB
THE best S

Now this is with injuries to Bortles, Leggin, and Burton hurting our rankings. But you get the idea.

We are the youngest team in the league.

This is going to be the first season without Bortles. Bortles ebbed last year. His 4099 yards was 3rd least in history, and those two season were cut short by injury. His 25 TD the lowest ever, other than that 11 game season in 2023. The next lowest was 30 in his 2nd year as a QB. His 98.5 rating is 3rd lowest ever, since his first two seasons. So you could see it. But still…

In Bortles we trust. And maybe he’ll be fine post-injury.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 – We head the tunnel in North Florida to face the Colts and leave losers 30-6. Schaefer was 29 of 52 for 292 and 0:0. Willingham was held to 28 yards. No picks, no forced fumbles, Schaefer fumbled four times, No sacks, no body did anything of note.

The only good thing I can tell you is that C Leggin is back from turf toe injury.

Week 2 – Next up is Tampa Bay. Whom we beat 30-24. Schaefer is MVP with 25 of 31 for 218 and 2:1, and he hits Willingham and Poffenroth for scores, and Willingham has 19 for 103 on the ground. A pick by CB Allen Hutchings. DE Alston, starting for Burton, had a fumble recovery and return for a score – 84 yards. DE by DT Frederick and SLB Wilkerson. 1 sack by Wilkerson, Alston, and 5 KRB by Satre, 3 each by Leggin and Starks.

Week 3 – We head to Denver….and win 34-9. Schaefer is Game MVP with 30 of 37 for 347 and 3:0. Wild has 8 grabs, 103 yards, and 1 score, TE Kocavs and RB Woods the other two. No picks, but four Forced fumbles with three recoveries, one of which, by DT Frederick, is returned for a score. FF by CB Hutchings and DE Alston and WLB Eamigh. Sacks by Alston, Velazquez and backup DE Chris Goeken. 3 KRb by Starks and Satre and rookie David Blades.

We do have a few post-game injuries:

FS Popson – questionable, 3 weeks, pulled groin
SS Jermaine Whalen – questionable, 4 weeks, knee
RT Myron starks, strained hammy, questionable.

I’ll bench Popson. Everyone else stands.


Week 4 – We host the 1-2 Jets. We win 30-10 to go to 3-1. Shaquille Willingham is Game MVP with 25 for 152 on the ground, 6 for 52 in the air. Meanwhile Schaefer was 21 for 33, 213, and 3:1, hitting Wild, Menzies and FB Goodwin for score.s No picks or sacks. But 4 KRB by Satre, Starks and Leggin and 3 by Matthews.

No major injuries.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 5 – We host the 0-4 Dolphins. We win 38-10. QB Schaefer was MVP with 33 of 42 for 292 and 3:1, and hit Willingham, Goodwin and Poffenroth for scores. Willingham also had 90 yards and 2 scores on the ground. Picks by Hanks, Hanks, and….Velazquez. 2 sacks by the guy too, and 1 by Bernardini. 7 KRB out of 7 KRO by Starks, 4 KRB by Brant Matthews.

In injury news:

TE Kovacs, LT Matthews, RB Gaston, all knocked around
DE Alston is questionable with a broken toe for a few weeks.

Week 6 – We head to 5-0 Indianapolis, our sole loss on the season. They just clock us 33-10. I’ll skip the stats.

From injury – LS Kent Ikuma, RT Starks, RB Gaston, FS Popson.

Week 7 – We take out our anger on the formerly 4-2 Titans 44-17. The Colts lose to the Jets. Schaefer, MVP, with 26 of 35, 273, and 1:0. He jots Wild for a score. Willingham is 23 for 157 and 2 scores – RB Gaston and QB Schaefer have rushing scores. Sacks by Wilkerson and rotational DT Brett Galloway. 5 KRB by Leggin, 4 by Satre and Matthews, 3 by Starks.

Schaefer broke his nose in the game, and is probable for next week.

Week 8 – BYE – and in good timing as well.

Back from injury –

DE Burton
SS Whalen
DE Alston
QB Schaefer

Week 9 – We head to Buffalo. And while it is close, we ultimately lose to them 40-38 to go 5-3 on the season. Schaefer was 24 for 31 and 246 4:1 and connected with Poffenroth twice and FB Goodwin and TE Courtney Beyer for scores. Sacks by Burton and DT Frederick. 5 KRB by Satre

Injury:

LG Satre – probable
MLB Broyles - questionable

[Abe Sargent]

Week 10 – Next up, we travel to Boston for a battle with the 4-4 Patriots. We win 38-18. Schaefer 25 of 30 for 3609 and 4:2 - TD to Wild with 176 yards, Willingham, Kovacs, and RB Gaston - Gaston rushed for a score too. Pick by FS Bernardini. Sack by Burton. 3 KRB by Blades, Starks, Satre.

QB Schaefer is probable along with C Leggin

Week 11 – We host Houston and….lose 20-23. They held our running game in check – Willingham was just 64 yards on the day, and Schaefer’s 33 for 46 and 303, 1:2 performance wasn’t enough. Wild had 105 yards on 6 catches and WR Menzies the lone score from Schaefer. RB Gaston rushed for a score too. No picks, 2 FF by Bernardini and DT Keith. Recovered by DT Maurice Clinton, Meanwhile 2 sacks by Keith, 1 by Bernardini and Burton. 3 KRB by Satre and 3 by Starks

Week 12 – Next up – the 4-6 Panthers come to Jacksonville and leave losers 24-10. Schaefer, MVP, 29 of 38, 270 and 2:1. Wild had 144 yards, scores to TE Kovacs and Willingham, FB Goodwin with a rushing score. Picks by Hanks, backup CB Graham DeWine and Bernardini. 3 KRB by OG Blades and Satre.

DE Velazquez is questionable for a couple of weeks with a bruised ribcage.

Week 13 – We host the 9-2 Bengals. And they just take us down 38-35. Willingham had 115 yards on the ground. RB Gaston and QB Schaefer had rushing scores and Schaefer was also 28 of 43 for 323 and 1:0. Poffenroth had 7 grabs, 132 yards and a score. Sack by SLB Joyner. 4 KRB by OT Matthews, 3 by Satre.

Injury:

DE Alston is out for 3 weeks with a concussion
CB Trenton Craig questionable for two.
RT Starks questionable for one

[Abe Sargent]

Week 14 – We take down the Falcons 40-32. K Blincoe was 4 of 4, and Schaefer MVP with 25 of 33 for 307 and 2:0. Poffenroth was 9 for 167 and 2 scores. Fumble recovery by DE Burton for a score. FF by CB Hanks and Velazquez, recovered by Bernardini. 1 sack each by MLB Nygaard, OLB Gati, Velazquez and DT Calvin Keith. KRB By OT Matthews.

Multiple probables but no major injury additions . The Colts lost the last two weeks and are now 9-4 to our 8-5.


Week 15 – We head to Tennessee. We thump them hard 44-19. The Colts manage to win. FS Bernardini is NFL Defensive Player of the Week with 3 picks, 2 returned for scores! Backup CB Trenton Craig with a 4th pick of the Titans. Schaefer was 26 of 35 for 224 and 1:0 and hit Willingham for a score, Gaston rushed for one, and we had sacks by Velazquez, DT Keith, and DE Burton,

TE Kovacs is questionable for a week.

Week 16 – We head to New Orleans in a battle of the Super Bowl!!! We beat them in the Super Bowl last year, and they won the year before. So, who wins today? 49-20, us!

Willingham has 2 rushing scores, and Schaefer is MVP with 25 of 33 for 324 and 3:! And his Wild for 127 yards and 2 scores, Poffenroth for a score, and Willingham for 105 yards in the air. Picks by CB Allen Hutchings, CB Graham DeWine retuned 12 yards for a score, and FS Bernardini, returned 52 for another. 3 KRB by Starks.


The Colts won too.

We head to Houston and the Colts host the Titans. Our foes are playing spoiler or for a .500 season (both are 7-8). We are one game behind the Ravens in the Wild Card hunt for the #5 spot, and there is a 9 win team, the Browns, in the chase. If we lose, I don’t know if the Browns or us make it in at 10-6.

Let’s play the Texans!

The Browns won…we won 27-10, the Colts won – lots of folks won.

QB Schaefer was MVP and had 27 of 39 for 276 and 2:0, connecting with Wild for 92 and a score and FB Goodwin for another. Picks by Hutchings, Bernardini, Hutchings and Hanks. DT Keith with a sack. 3 KRB by C Leggin.

In injury news RB Jermaine Woods is out for the postseason with a broken jaw. I place him on IR and activate our 4th man, rookie RB Stehlik.

DE Chris Goeken is out for 2 weeks, and I sub him out. DE Alston just got back from his injury.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2027 NFL Postseason


The AFC:

#1 Seed 12-4 Baltimore Ravens
#2 Seed 12-4 Indianapolis Colts
#3 Seed 10-6 Kansas City Chiefs
#4 Seed 7-9 Buffalo Bills
#5 Seed 12-4 Cincinnati Bengals
#6 Seed 11-5 Jacksonville Jaguars

And we leave behind the 10-6 Browns.

Unfortunately we miss the honor of being the wild card team that plays a 7-win team. It would have been nice to send them packing.

Instead we travel to KC.

Now, Schaefer is not unfamiliar with the playoffs. We were the #6 seed last year too, and Schaefer guided us to the Super Bowl (sometimes a bit unevenly).

Oddsmakers are a bit uneven what to do with us. Yes, we are down our starting QB, and yet, that’s nothing new. Yes, we ar the #6 seed, but that is nothing new either. They settle on giving us a 6 point advantage.

Luckily we cover the spread. By a lot. We win 33-6.

Willingham is injured early, and Jermaine Woods is out too, so we turn to Kendrick Gaston, the 7th round rookie from last year, and he is MVP with 35 carries, 160 yards, and 1 score. He catches 5 balls for 51 yards too. Schaefer is 23 of 27 for 300 and 1:2. Poffenroth caught a score. FB Goodwin has a rushing TD. Picks by Hanks and Hutchings. 3 KRB by Satre, Leggin and Matthews.


For next week, Willingham is questionable.

Cincinnati crushed Buffalo 33-3. We also had wins in the NFC for Chicago over Green bay and 49ers over Giants – 3 out of four wild card teams won this weekend.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 2 – Divisional Weekend:

We head to Indianapolis. 2 of our loses this season were against the Colts.

We know them. They know us. So let’s get this thing started!


Once again we are never in the game against the Colts. They just have our number. 34-8.




Baltimore wins 20-17, setting up a match between equally 12-4 teams that were the top two seeds in the conference for the right to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl.

Phily eats the 49ers, Chicago the Bucs. Chicago is a #6 wild card against the #1 seed Eagles.


Conference Champs
Baltimore over Colts 33-25. Bears over Eagles 31-19

Scrappy vs the Raven-nators. The best QB in the league against the underdog wild card Bears.
Who wins the Super Bowl?

The Ravens 27-0

[Abe Sargent]

Get ready for a surprising set of awards:




NFL MVP:

QB Hardy Schaefer

NFL Offensive Player of the year:

QB Hardy Schaefer

NFL Defensive Player of the year:

FS Quentin Bernardini

All Pro 1st Team

QB Hardy Schaefer
FS Quentin Bernardini

All Pro 2nd Team

FB Devon Goodwin
WR Joshua Wild
OG Marquis Satre
OT Myron Starks


Now many of these are no surprise – Wild, Satre, Bernardini, Starks have all been here before, and no one is likely shocked to see Bernardini as the DMVP of the league.

And FB Goodwin has a strong year, you’ll see.

But QB Hardy Schaefer???

Uh oh…

[Abe Sargent]

STATS!

QB Hardy Schaefer – 440 for 608, 72.4%, 4572 yards, 33:11, 104.2 RB Rating, 35 sacks, 10 fumbles, 2 rush TD

Schaefer was 3rd most in yards, tied for 2nd most in TD, Was the most QB rating and had the best % completion by 3% over the next dork. But I felt like Schaefer never had those great games like Bortles would where he had like 400 passing yards and 5:1 Or 4:0 day. But he still had 500 yards more this season than Bortles last. To be fair this may suggest that the success of Bortles was more about people like Marqise Lee, Joshua Wild and my O Line than Bortles.

Rushing

RB Shaquille Willingham – 269 for 1369 and 6 rushing TD, 5.09 ypc, 87 grabs for 606 yards and 5 scores
RB Kendrick Gaston, 117 for 464 and 6 scores; 18 for 183 yards and a score in the air

Shaquille’s number shave returned to normal where I like my offense. I’m missing the rushing scores, but the receiving ones are fine.

Receiving

WR Joshua Wild – 103 for 1390 and 8 TD Grabs
WR Maxwell Poffenroth – 81 for 999 and 8 scores
TE Brett Kovacs 0 59 for 474 and 3
FB Devon Goodman – 46 for 308 and 4


One of the things about Schaefer in the past is that he always hit Kovacs for a ton of catches They had a real thing going. Each year, Kovacs’ best games of the season would be when Schaefer came in for Bortles. This year? A bit, yes. Kovacs 50 grabs the 2nd most he ever had after 59 his 2nd year, and he had 37 and 34 the last two years. So he’s back a bit. FB Goodwin evolved into a security blanket.


Special Teams:

K Robert Blincoe – 34 of 40, long of 53, 57 of 58 PAT

P Herman Chapman – 67 punts, 42.8 average, and 26 inside the 20

WR Darnell Menzies – 39 PR, 11.0 average, 2 PR RET TD, 28 KR, 25.8 KR Avg,

Two PR scores, and a great KR average again and Menzies is becoming our secret return weapon

FB Devon Goodman was one of our gunners, and he had 22 special teams tackles, 2 FF


Defense:

DE Cesar Velazquez, 6 sacks, 5 blocks, 17 hurries, 4 QBKD
DE Gregory Burton, 9 games, 5 sacks, 5 blocks, 17 hurries, 11 QB KD, 2 FF, 1 FUM REC TD
DT Calvin Keith, 5.5 sacks, 2 blocks, 12 hurries, 3 QBKD
DE Edwin Alston, 12 games, 2.5 sacks, 3 hurries, 2 QBKD, 2 FF, 1 FUM REC TD
DT Maurice Clinton, 1.5 sacks, 3 blocks, 7 hurries, 2 FumRec

With Burton and Alston splitting playing time, Velazquez wasn’t enough by himself to keep things honest. Weak effort.

SLB Ezra Wilkerson, 74 solo tackes, 21 assists, 2 sacks, 3 hurries, 2 QBKD, 11 pasdef, 2 FF
MLB Jameson Broyles, 87 solo, 28 asst, 7 pasdef
WLB Albert Eamigh – 27 and 8, 0.5 sacks, 1 pasdef

Dang, not a good year for my MLB or WLB. We need a better long-term solution in the middle. Period. Wilkerson had a great year in coverage though.


SS Jermaine Whalen, 59 solo and 24 assist; 1 hurry, 6 pasdef
FS Quentin Bernardini, 83 solo, and 25 assist, 2 sacks, 1 hurry, 7 INT< 3 INT RET TD, 19 pasdef, 2 FF, 2 FumRec,
CB Allen Hutchings, 4 picks, 13 pasdef
CB Colton Hanks, 4 picks, 9 pasdef
CB Graham DeWine, 2 picks, 1 INT RET TD, 6 pasdef

Our coaches regularly like to switch Whalen and Bernardini in their FS and SS roles on the depth chart. This year they liked to run Bernardini more often from the strong spot. That switching was very successful for Bernardini as well. 19 pasdef was tied for most in the league, but I think the change up through off Whalen’s game a bit. I may move back to more static roles for them going forward.


Blocking

OG Marquis Satre – 43 KRB, 2 pancakes, 3 sacks allowed
OT Myron Starks, 40 KRB, 6 pancakes, 9 sacks allowed
OT Brant Matthews, 27 KRB 2 panckes and 8 sacks allowed
C Myron Leggin, 23 KRB and 7 sacks allowed
OG David Blades, 22 KRB and 7 sacks allowed
FB Devon Goodwin, 10 KRB
TE Brett Kovacs, 8 KRb and 2 pancakes

Satre’s pancake numbers fall as his abilities drop, but they guy is still an all-pro OG. He’s down to 68/68, and I don’t care. Everyone else is solid to go.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:

Offensive Player of the Year: QB Hardy Schaefer – He had a compellingly good season behind a strong offensive line and with two great WRs out there and 3 55+ RBs. This is the result. He created an interesting QB controversy after Bortles heads down for the year in the pre-season. But he gest this award, no question.

Defensive Player of the Year: FS Quentin Bernardini – I’m not usually a fan of giving out these awards to the same player multiple years in row. But he earned this with his play at all levels o the game – tackles, sacks, FF, fumble recoveries, picks, pass defended, and being awesome.

Special Teams Player of the Year: WR Darnell Menzies - With 2 return scores, and great returns overall, Menzies is one of the best returners in the game right now.

Rookie of the Year: OG David Blades – 22 KRB out of 61 KRO for a solid 36.1 blocking percentage, with 7 sacks allowed. That’s not a bad record at all, and is a good foundation to build upon. What do you have next?

Heart Award: DE Edwin Alston – Hey look, OG Blades and DT Clinton were drafted to immediately start and fill holes on our line. Alston was a 5.31 pick that was forced by circumstances into the starting role when Burton went down with a pre-season injury for 7 weeks. He didn’t suck out there. He provided the needed depth and injury coverage from the first game on.

Welcome to the team!

[Abe Sargent]

End of the Season:

Performance – 63
Value – 90
Profit – 81
Roster Strength – 24

Score – 73

“After hosting a joint press conference, QB Blake Bortles and DE Cesar Velazquez of the Jacksonville Jaguars both announced their retirement. As part of their dominating careers for the team on offense and defense, their mutual retirement leaves leadership questions for the franchise moving forward.

QB Blake Bortles will be an instant Hall of Fame contender. With five Super Bowl Appearance, and 3 victories, the three time Super Bowl champion led the Jaguars, as received the NFL MVP award in 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, and 2022. He was one of the dominating players of his era.

But that era will always be marked by injuries. In the 2016 season, after leading the Jaguars to the playoffs, he was injured for the season, and QB Nick Foles had to take over, and got the Jaguars to the Super Bowl, which they then lost to the Seahawks. Multiple times QB Bortles would be injured, including the 2026 season when Blake was out for the playoffs, where QB Hardy Schaefer took over and took the Jaguars through a difficult gauntlet of AFC teams to the Super Bowl before Bortles returned to win it, albeit without any dominance.

Bortles’s history of injury caught up to him when in 2027, he was injured in the preseason and was placed on injured reserve for blowing out his knee badly and needing reconstruction surgery on it. While many were expecting Bortles to contend with Farve’s career numbers over the next two years for the Jaguars, including career TD and passing yardage numbers. Instead, he finishes with 57950 passing yards and 490 passing touchdowns. His career, cut short by injury, at the age of 36, was still one of the best. He finished with a career best 108.7 QB Rating.

Meanwhile DE Cesar Velazquez was one of the strongest defensive linemen during his era. Retiring at the age of 35, Velazquez received 5 All Pro awards, and one the NFL Defensive Player of the Year award in 2019. Additionally, he led the league in sacks three times – his best the 22.5 sacks he got in 2019. He was a threat to quarterbacks everywhere, and dropped opposing throwers 146.5 times in his career. He blocked 51 passes, was recorded for 242 hurries and knocked the QB down an additional 208 times. He retires with five more sacks that DE Michael Strahan, and is right above him on the career chart.

While the loss of both players will be felt keenly, QB Hardy Schaefer was NFL MVP last year spelling for Bortles and DE Gregory Burton was an All Pro two years ago. Both players are expected to be leaned on as the Jaguars turn over from an old dynasty to a new one.”



Other retirements of note:

QB Russell Wilson
QB Andy Dalton
QB Andrew Luck
WR Stedman Bailey – 2 All Pros, 15460 receiving yards, 102 receiving TDs
C Khaled Holmers
SLB Martin Galloway – 4 time All Pro (12th year vet,) ex Defensive Rookie of the Year
SS Jimmie Ward

It’s a sad day

New Hall fo Fame – Get ready:

QB Aaron Rodgers, Russell Okung, Gerald McCoy, AJ Green, Earl Thomas, Rob Gronkowski, Aldon Smith, Brian Winters, Morris Claiborne

[Abe Sargent]

We made 122 mill last year; 97.1% attendance

Value is 1.403 bill, and that’s now 9th most.

4th best stadium
19th best roster
14th best support
26th best economy


I retain all four staff I hired a few years ago when I got the 3rd highest pick in the staff draft – all of their contracts are coming up next year, so this’ll increase our staff costs tremendously, but we have good folks and I want to keep the party going.

Staff Draft

We pick 8th


I ignore a HC candidate who has 2 more suitability that ours, because I don’t like where he;s better and worse.

I hire the Redskins’ former strength coach for us, he’s a bit better.

I massage tickets

RFA:

QB Kenneth Berggren
TE Joseph Fisher
RG Casey Pasto
DT Brett Galloway
SLB Jared Gati
CB Trenton Craig


UFA:

QB Frankie Peters
RB Jermaine Woods
FB Devon Goodman
TE Brett Kovacs
K Robert Blincoe
FS Myles Clinton

No one on this roster is that valuable who is leading, and retirements have left me with a massive quantity of cash to resign players I like.

Which is good, we have major contracts coming up…

No franchise please. Thanks

[Abe Sargent]

Hello FA

Please give me some good stuff!

Feh. I looked over these folks. Not really seeing it.

The benefit of not having a QB that’ll take up a huge chunk of my Cap is that I can spend it on other folks to strengthen my roster elsewhere. I can use Schaefer as a bridge from Bortles to our next person.

Major contracts ending this year, 2028:

OG Satre
QB Hardy Schaefer
RB Shaquille Willingham
LS Kent Ikuma
FS Quentin Bernardini
RCB Graham DeWine
SLB Casey Joyner
DT Randy Frederick
P Herman Chapman
RG Kennedy Bauer
WR Joshua Wild


Never mind.

Schaefer wants a jump in cash from 3-5 mill to 17 mill and up. Hey look, become the NFL MVP and I guess everything changes. That sucks. That gives me a one year clock.

There is QB Damien Hoffman in the draft, and I interview, he looks legit.

He’s the only major player out there, and likely goes 1.1, That’s way too high to trade up to from 1.26.

Miami has the #1 pick. I call up the Gm. Just to check things out. However, Miami too a 21/76 QB at the 1.3 spot last year, so they might not even be in play. We’ll see as we get closer.

I’ll play that game later. It’d likely cost me two future 1st rounders.

Wild has ebbed to 69/69 – still a great guy. I extend his deal by two years.

I extend OG Satre and LS Ikuma by a year each

I sign RFA SLB Jared Gati and RG Casey Pasto

I could play FS Bernardini, then franchise and sign him next year, and save myself a ton of cash. But he’s worth it. I extend his deal for a new 5 year 76 mill deal. I move a lot of his deal to bonus, and it’s a very future-friendly cap hit.

I extend SLB Casey Joyner by 3 years.

I like Willingham. But he’s pricey. I could let him go this year, and then moved to RB Gaston. Or I could slide into to extend Willingham and keep him for the long haul.

I end the first stage of FA

[Abe Sargent]

We need:

FB, K, QBx2, RB, Tex2, DE, DT, CBx2, S

Of those, these starters – TE, K, FB, DE, maybe DT, maybe Qb. I could also use a stud/starter at WLB or a halfway decent MLB.

There is a one year gap DE available, 14 year vet Arnie Mettert, 57/57. From the Marquis Satre draft, and drafted two spots earlier. Looking for one big score. I could grab him to start across from Burton for a year he just wants 3.6 mill. I do it, I make that offer.

A lot of the areas that I want for starting, TE, DT, QB they just don’t have in FA.

I have the money, and not a lot of options in FA. I don’t need a 51/51 RB, a 49/49 SS a 64/64 12th year vet at CB, etc.

I just don’t have a lot of holes. I make an offer to backup QB Will Stanton to be my new backup. He’s 34/34 and a 5th year vet, and he has some affinities.

I’m not overspending for Kovacs, just like before. He went an entire offseason before I bought him back. If someone pays him a salary starting at…9.25 mill and going up from there, they can do so.

I want to make plays for TE, K, and FB later as prices drop. I still want to be cap sensitive.


Stage 2 – Nothing major. I have to increase the offer to DE Mettert to jump over others.

Stage 3 – We sign Mettert for 1 year, 4.28 mill

That’s a good signing – it immediately plugs the hole that DE Velazquez made for just one year, and not a super-major commitment, so I can come back next year in FA and try to find better, or develop via the draft and have two years of taking shots at the DE spot in the draft.

Stage 4 – RB Jermaine Woods is heading to Buffalo. Good luck!

Stage 5 – Quiet

At FB, there are two options we like. There’s a great 63/63 FB, 7th year vet out there, and then we can resign our guy Goodwin from last year. Both are fine. I want a strong FB as I have a week QB situation, and anything to strengthen that works. I make an offer to FB Percy Olivares. Yes, he’s pricier than I’d normally want, and he wants to sign for four years, and he’s a bit older, but he would immediately be the best FB we’ve had on our roster, ever. He wants to sign next week. He’ll also be a backfield leader for us.

I head to the draft review, I want to check out kickers. Any major ones I could steal? You can use the 3.32 pick to take them, most P/K go in the 4th.I interview three and all come back uneven at best.

I spend some time with the draft and whoa. The 5th DT on the board, Isaiah Christensen has great bars, but not the highest combines, and he interviewed as underrated. I like that a lot. That might be a future pick for me. There’s also mega-TE Todd Mills, who has a potential affinity, and very very nice looking bars.

Stage 6 – We sign FB Olivares and QB Stanton. We have signed the 2nd and 18th players on the Grey Sheet, a list of the best players in FA ranked by position, skill, and more.

Stage 7 - I make an offer, one year, for 17th year vet K Justin Tucker for a vet min salary.

I also make an offer to TE Bernie Chellgren a 94 special teams 30/30 TE, 6th year vet.

Stage 8 – We bring in TE Chellgren for 2 years 2.53 mill

Stage 9 – K Tucker heads to Jacksonville. WR Roman Fahey one of ours is heading to Washington and another of our, RG Mark Meadows is heading to Minnesota.

Stage 10 – Not a lot of action. TE Kovacs still wants massively incredible money. 4 year 36 mill contract? No!

Stage 12 – K Blincoe signed with the Vikings

[Abe Sargent]

Let’s hit this thang up!

The NFL 2028 Amateur Draft


Miami goes first, doesn’t need QB, and takes RB instead. The Jets take the next choice. The Jets have a 36/36 starting QB on their roster. Probably won’t pass.

I get the Jets GM on the horn.

Theoretically, I might want their 1.2 pick. What might it cost?

I don’t know if FOF uses the draft trade chart or not. Assuming it does,

1.2 is worth 2600 points. 1.26 is worth 700. I need to send them more than 1900 points. Our 2.27 is 310. I could toss in all three 5s, and that would be around 100 more not a lot more points for the picks.

Now I don’t know the exact value. Assume I off my 1st, 2nd, and next year’s 1st. Okay, we have a potential offer –

I trade them my 1nd and 2nd round picks this year, my 1st and 2nd next, and my 2nd in two years. That they’ll take.

Is it worth it? I denude my ability to take a first round talent to help out next year. I make the deal.

Because it’s fun!

We select QB Damien Hoffman, from Tennessee Tech, 5 volatility, as scouted, and strong combines. He was the top player on the board.

I’ll see you guys in the 3rd round!

I still need 2xCb, S, WRx2, DT, RB,

At the 3rd round, none of our positions of need are available. But the 2nd best QB in the draft hasn’t even been taken yet. There are clearly some value in drafting him – in case my guy busts, I have him too. And there really ins;t anyone here that I want/need unless I want to grab yet another fallen C.

Actually, if I’m going to blow a pick, why not take a P?

Then I start need drafting bodies

The 2028 Jacksonville Jaguars Draft

1.2 – QB Damien Hoffman
3.27 – P Wally Collier
4.28 – DT Rick Greer
5.10 CB Jonah Dennis
5.22 FS Tony Markel
5.29 WR Casey Meyer
6.26 TE Sebastian Treftz
7.27 RB Rob Velthoen

[Abe Sargent]

“I think we would all agree that you are allowed to make bold plays like this when your job isn’t on the line. After winning 3 Super Bowl rings in five appearances, GM Marquis D’Avigoine is in no danger of getting a pink card. So he might as well swing for the fences with QB Damien Hoffman.

He had great intangibles, physical stats, and more. And the Jaguars mortgaged two drafts to move up and grab him as the heir apparent for Blake Bortles. And they don’t even have to play him now, they can just let him grow for a year behind QB Hardy Schaefer.

But this is a risk Any player can bust. And we all know this is especially true of Qb. Many a fallen GM has been beaten on the rocks of the high hopes for the right QB to turn things around. Essentially, the Jaguars are admitting that their roster is good enough that they can afford to make this trade and survive.

Other teams didn’t, but they wern’t as we’ll stocked. The Redskins gave up a bevy of picks for the pick that would become Robert Griffith III, and that didn’t turn out well. But the Jaguars have a much better team, the picks not as important. And they have a savvy GM who keeps surprising the league – he’ll trade up and back and then keep steady – who knows where he’ll end up. But for now, the entire NFL is waiting to see what QB Hoffman, who is not from a major football school but small Tennessee Tech, can do on the biggest stage. If this gamble works, then GM D’Avigoine can put his name alongside legendary GMs of the past. If it blows up, then the gold may begin to tarnish on his legacy for the Jaguars.

In other picks, the Jaguars suited some needs, and took a strong P as well. The draft is a decent enough B+.”


QB Hoffman is listed as the top player on the Green Page.


Did you know that: QB Damien Hoffman is the son of Scott Hoffman, from Illinois, who played for Florida and Purdue?

[Abe Sargent]

In our continuing post-draft coverage, we have with us today former GM of the Texans Maurice Claiborne. He ran the Texans for four years, and after being let go, was actually hired by GM of the Jaguars Marquis D'Avigone for two years as a lead scout until his retirement two years ago, and now he advises us on regular events around the league.

Welcome to the program Maurice!

Thanks again Sarah, its always a pleasure.

Absolutely. Maurice, the entire country today has been buzzing about the news of the trade that the Jaguars had with the Jets for the selection of Damien Hoffman. This is an extremely bold decision by GM D'Avignon. Sure Blake Bortles retired this off season after being injured for the entire season last year, but they just had a long time vet on their roster start for them, and do so well that QB Hardy Schaefer won the NFL MVP award, and now he moves up and takes a guy like Hoffman. And he traded a lot of picks to do so.

Sarah, you are right, it's a difficult move to unpack. But I think that Schaefer's success led to this move in an odd way. Let me see if I can explain the thinking here. Bortles had great, sometimes downright obscene statistics from his position. Naturally, you think he was this great player, and he as NFL MVP 5 times. Clearly, there were results. But he was never a guy who you would call durable. He didn't finish a lot of seasons without missing at least one game. There were multiple post-season games as well that he missed. And whenever he came in for Bortles, to finish a game ,to spell him for a game or two, or longer, Hardy Schaefer looked pretty solid. In fact, he looked downright Bortles-esque.

Now earlier you could simple point to the fact that Schaefer didn't have a lot of starts or games, or opponents didn't play him long enough to get a feel for his game, or whatever. But last year, he started the entire season and layoffs for the Jaguars, and his numbers were very consistent. This proved that the Jaguars had a very strong system, because with all due respect to Schaefer, no one thinks he was this hidden John Elway who was on the bench for 7 years for the Jaguars and just suddenly bloomed.

The Jaguars created an impressive offensive juggernaut of a system. Marqise Lee? Probably a future hall of fame guy. Joshua Wild has that talent level so far. You have new draftee Poffenroth who has some Lee-like skills and talent. You easily have two of the top ten receivers in the league catching your passes. That's huge. Now add in a generational talent like offensive guard Marquis Satre on the line, joined by fellow All Pro talent offensive tackle Myron Starks, probably one of the best two or three centers in the league with Myron Leggin, and strong talent with David Blades from last year's draft, and so forth.

The Jags easily have the best offensive line in the game. They have the best receivers in the game, and they have built a strong running game. In that system, a backup QB can look like a MVP level talent.

Right, Maurice, and I get that. But if that's the case, why make the play for Hoffman? Why not stick with Schaefer who is working? Or another equally average talent who won't cost a lot of money down the road?

You are right Sarah. A lot of folks would do just that. And that''s why that aren't a Hall of Fame level GM like D'Avignon. Let me see if I can explain by showing what he learned about 1st round busts with OT Brant Matthews.

If you'll recall, the Jags drafted Matthews in the 1st a few years ago and thought he was the greatest thing since Marquis Satre to block a player. Great talent, great potential, and great skill set. Top 3 OT potential. Then he came to camp. Maybe instead of Top 3 he was a top 5. Then top 10. They came out of camp and hit preseason and man did he look not-good.

And eventually they benched him and played other OT that year. And later, in a future year after he had figured out the league they started him because they really didn't have anyone else. And you what? He didn't suck. He has a solid, though not spectacular year. And then another.

So the Jaguars came to terms with extending his deal, since Matthews knew he wasn't the best OT in the world, and he wasn;t asking for that much money. Matthews has been playing like a good, solid, 3rd round OT. No, he's no allpro, but he works. He's maybe the 25th or 30th best OT in the league in any given season, but he's not paid top money and he hasn;t screed up.

And I think the Matthews thing had the Jaguars thinking. If they traded for Hoffman, and he wasn't as good as everyone though, the team won't hurt. When you have built a team that is so fool-proof that even Ryan Leaf could drive it, then you don't need to risk an great 1st round pick busting into a Ryan Leaf.

Now imagine that if your Ryan Leaf ended up being Peyton Manning? What could you do with that offense?

So that's sort of the thought process behind this move i think. It's virtually risk free. Because look what Schaefer did with it.

That's a very interesting angle on this situation Maurice. Thanks for sharing!

Sure thing Sarah. Now, the next player I want to discuss is the linebacker taken in the late first....

[Abe Sargent]

The Browns tried, but failed to move to Beaumont TX. And since the Beaumont Browns sort of rolls off the tongue I suppose it’s okay. But they failed.

LFA!

Post draft, we have 54 players on the roster.

Let’s look at the new Free Agency to see if we have any stars in the making out there.

I make an offer to UFA RB Mickey Kasay; UFA MLB Christopher Newsome, UFA LT Skip Corona

2nd year WR Lonnie Yarborough
5th year vet RCB Ian Heath

TE Kovacs still wants 4 years and 28 mill. Closer, but no.

Stage 1 – We sign FB Kasay, and FL Yarborough. I edge up my offer to MLB Newsome, whom others are offering spots too.

Stage 2 – LT Corona, MLB Newsome, and RCB Heath sign with us.

Someone has offered TE Kovacs a 25.79 mill deal.

So here’s the question. Do I want/need Kovacs enough to pay him 5-6 mill a year for four years.

I make two changes. First, I let Kovacs go. I would love to keep a player for most or all of their career. But Kovacs wants way too much for his talent level or production. Then I extend TE Courtney Beyer, a 41/41 TE I have, I extend him by 4 years for 11.33 mill. Which is more feasible, and Courtney can be my top TE or my 2nd, based on how the market, drafts, etc work.

Stage 3 Kovacs signs with the 49ers.

Stage 4 – Quiet

Stage 5? Anyone who fell? I have 4 mill in cap space and 60 players.

For example, there’s a 43/43 5th year FS on the board – Albert Corbett. 4th year SS at 43/43.

We let FS Myles Clinton go, and I doubt anyone signs him, and he’ll quietly retire. He’s down to 24/24, ad 10th year vets that are that low tend to not get signed. He was drafted in the 7th round of the same drat that gave us WR Wild. Is was funny that the two players left from that draft on our roster were the first and last. Now he’s gone, the 10th year vet.

Post FA Corbett is pretty cheap, he wants 2 years at 3.96 mill, for a 40s guy for the rotation. Hes solid everywhere but has a 17 in picks. He only has 3 interceptions in 4 seasons for the Bills. He’d be a solid dime-nickel back who doesn’t get you picks, just passes defended, and coverage for injury and tiredness. That’s not bad. And I have the money. Who would I trim? Rookie FS Tony Markel? Maybe have 5 S and 5 CB instead of the normal 4 and 6? I make the deal. FS Corbett joins us.

[Abe Sargent]

CAMP

We sell 57,400 season tix

I cut P Chapman

Let’s head to preseason

We go 2-2 in the preseason

Any changes to existing players?

RB Willingham dropped to 52/52; FB Olivares, to 49/49 – which sucks. Wild is at 69/69, Satre 67/67, OG Blades is up to 62/67, Starks faded to 59/59, DE Mettert is now 45/45, WLB Eamigh rose to 50/50, CB Hanks down to 44/44, SS Whalen down to 53/53. Lots of bad news I suppose.

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, now, here’s the one you’ve been waiting for

QB Damien Hoffman –


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So, let’s take a look. He’s 32/82 right now. If he settles in the 75/75 range, I’ll be doing gymnastics. In my sleep, not in real life, cause I’m 38.

The Hoff will be starting for us, and he has no weaknesses, other than scrambling. Now he’ll start out with a high cap because of where we took him, which was okay, cause I had the cap room, and it won’t be as much of a cap leap when I sign him to a long term deal in three years. That’ll be nasty. For now, enjoy the Hoff and all he has to offer.

[Abe Sargent]

I massage my roster:

I cut

RB Mickey Kasay
FL Yarborough
LT Corona
MLB Carl Goode
MLB Ricky Nygaard
WR Casey Meyer
RG Casey Pasto


We are starting RB Gaston, and then no additional changes that we didn’t talk about before.

Roster Strength:

11th worst QB
12th best RB
19th best FB
19th best TE
2nd best WR
2nd best C
6th best OG
14th best OT
4th worst P
26th best K
3rd best DE
7th worst DT
Worst MLB
3rd best OLB
17th best Cb
2nd best S


7th youngest team in the NFL

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 – We host and smash the Titans 33-9. Hoffman in his first game 20 of 31 for 282 and 3:2 and his WR Poffenroth for 7 times for 96 yards and 2 scores and then Gaston for the 3rd. Pick by backup CB ian Heath. OC Leggin and OG Blades had 5 KRB and Satre and Starks 3. DE Burton and DT Frederick each had 1.5 sacks. 1 sack by DT Keith.

We finish with no major injuries.

Week 2 - Next we travel up north to D-Town. We come back winners 23-16. QB Hoffman is Game MVP for the first time with 25 of 41 for 248 and 3:2. He hit Poffenroth, Wild and TE Beyer for scores. Pick by FS Bernardini. FF and recovery by SLB Ezra Wilkerson. 1.5 scks each by DT Keith and 1 year patch p DE Arnie Mettert. 1 sacks by DE Edwin Alston.

A few probables, nothing major.

Week 3 - Next we head to Cincinnati to take on a bruiser of the AFC. We fight well, but ultimately lose 31-36. Think this was a Hoffman issue? Think again! 24 of 45 for 365 and 2:0. Wild had 165 yards and Poffenroth 110 and a score. FB Olivares the other TD score. Gaston was 2 scores on the ground. FF by SS Whalen. No sacks on the day, OG Blades with 4 KRB.

FS Bernardini is questionable with sprained knee for two weeks. We’ll keep him in.

That’s not a bad, unexpected loss for my team. I keep waiting for that bad 12 of 34, 156 yards 0:2 game. He hasn’t had any yet.

Week 4 – We host and defeat Jacksonville 44-28. Hoffman, Game MVP, has 28 of 42 for 414 4:2. Poffenroth rocks 12 catches for 194 yards and 2 scores, Wild 90 yards, and RB Willingham and TE Beyer the other two grabs, Willingham, has 16 for 129 and 1 scores and Gaston 19 for 82 on the ground. They are a pretty solid two-headed monster Gaston is more of the smash mouth guy and Willingham the dancer. Backup S Roger Popson with a pick after he subs in for an injured Whalen. Sack by DT Clinton, and Popson. 5 KRB by Starks, 4 by Blades, and 3 by Leggin.

SS Whalen is out for two weeks with a strained foot ligament and I’ll put in Corbett whom we signed into the starting role from backup.

We finish the 1st quarter of the season a strong 3-1. I’d be really happy with a 12-4 season!

Week 5 – BYE

Bernardini’s injury has healed.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 6 - We host the 5-0 Colts. An ugly game follows. We win 16-14. Gaston is MVP with 16 for 76, and then 4 for 44 yards. Willingham had a rushing score on the day with 13 for 68 and caught 5 for 32 in the air. Man, these RBs are a strong tandem. Hoffman was kept to 27 of 39 for 249 and 0:0. Pick by a newly healed Bernardini. 1.5 sacks by Burton. 5 KRB by Leggin.

SS Whalen is back from injury.

Week 7 – We head to Tennessee. Our foes are an anemic 1-4. We are favored by 8. We win 27-20. Sorry spread! Gaston is Game MVP with 16 for 98 and a score. Hoffman has a lowly 18 of 35 for 207 and 1:2. TD toss to Wild. No picks. RB Willingham falls on a fumble and returns it for a score in the 4th quarter. Sacks by Burton and DE Arnie Mettert, 5 KRB by Blades ad 3 by Satre.

No major injuries, although C Jason Nichols is probable for a few weeks. The Colt lost to the Chiefs and we move in front of the division at 5-1.

Week 8 – Now we head to the Chiefs. We win 27-11. Hoffman, MVP, 28 of 39 for 399 and 2:2, Wild was 8 of 135 and 2 scores and Poffenroth 8 for 128. RB Gaston had a rushing score. Pick by CB Ian Heath. Sacks by backup S Albert Corbett and DE Burton. 4 KRB by Starks and 3 by Satre.


Week 9 – We edge Denver 27-20. Hoffman, MVP, with 24 of 34 and 233 and 2:0 ratio. Poffenroth had 10 for 86 and a score and Wild 5 for 97 and the other. Gaston rushed for 23 and 123 yards plus a rush TD. Two picks by CB Hutchings. No sacks on the day. Ready for OG Blades? He had 9 KRB and 1 pancake! That’s Satre numbers! 4 KRB for Leggin and Satre, and 3 for Starks.

Man Blades – you are not slowing down your sophomore effort!

We have a few injuries:

RB Hutchings – probable – broken nose
DT Randy Frederick – questionable, ankle, 2 weeks
RT JB Rivers, probable, knee, 2 weeks

Nothing major, we’ll be fine

We finish the 1st half of the season a strong 7-1.

Here’s an interesting stat, at the halfway mark both of our RB are over 500 yards – Willingham at 514 and Gaston 616. Would it be possible to have two 1000 yard RBs?

The Bengals who beat us? 8-0!

[Abe Sargent]

Week 10 – We head to San Diego as we open the 2nd half of the season. We win 30-13. Hoffman, MVP, 26 of 31, 315, 1:0, Wild had 157 yards and WR Carlton Eckberg the score. Gaston had 19 for 88 and 1, score, Willingham the other score. Picks by Hanks and Hutchings. 1,5 sacks by DE Burton. 4 KRB by Starks and 3 by Blades

K Justin Tucker is doubtful with abdominal strain, but we’ll start him anyway, since I don’t want to sign a new K.

Week 11 – We head to 5-4 Houston. We head there and lose 28-31. Our running game went nowhere. Hoffman was 25 out of 35 for 230 and 3:2, and found Wild for 122 yard and a score and WR Menzies the other. Bernardini had a pick. Sacks by DE Mettert, MLB Broyles, S Bernardini, and 3 KRB by C Leggin. Menzies had an 86 yard Kickoff return for a score too.

A few injuries in the game. Satre is probable with a broken nose, and Wild with elbow bursitis,

Week 12 – We host the 6-4 Vikings. They beat us 35-33. Gaston got 3 rushing scores, and Hoffman was 40 of 48 and for 415 but 1:4. Wild 181 and Poffenroth 111. Score to RB Stehlik – CB Hutchings with a pick, Sacs by DT Frederick and Clinton. 3 passes defended by SLB Wilkerson.

We drop to 8-3. Still a game up of the Colt sat 7-4


Week 13 – We host the 6-5 Pats and blow through them 37-10. RB Gaston had 20 for 122 and a score, and yet Willingham is Game MVP with 12 for 84 and 2 scores. Meanwhile Hoffman was a slow 22 of 31 for 184 and 1:0. Wild caught the lone score. CB Hutchings with a pick. 2 sacks by Burton, 1 by DE Alston. 5 KRb by Blades, 3 each by Satre, Matthews, and Starks.

Starks was banged up and is questionable with rib damage. We’ll keep him in.

We finish the next third 9-3 and the Colts lots to the Texans and are now 7-5, and the Texans also 7-5. 2 games back.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 14 – We head to Chicago and return winners 35-10. Hoffman, MVP, with 21 of 23, for 251 and 3:!. He hit Poffenroth and Wild and Willingham for TDs, and Gaston ruses for another. A pick by Hutchings is returned 38 yards for a score. 5 KRB by Satre

Houston won, the Colts lost again, and now the Texans are the major issue. They have a chance too, they arrive in Jacksonville to take us on. Win, and they drop us one game closer with two games left.

Week 15 – It’s a great chance for the Texans, so we don’t let them anywhere near it – 37-17. Colts lost too. We win the division with 2 games to go. NFL Defensive Player of the Week is CB Allen Hutchings with 2 picks, and CB Hanks added a 3rd. 2 sacks by DE MEttert, and 1 each by CB Hutchings, DE Burton, DT Frederick and DT Rick Greer. 3 KRB by Satre, Leggin and Starks. Hoffman rocked 28 of 34 for 276 and 4:0 and Wild had 2 scores, and FB Olivares and TE Beyer the other two.

Week 16 – Are you ready for a big game? We host the 12-2 Green Bay Packers. Then we finish at Indianapolis. Are you kidding me? How did we do that? 55-3? That’s is just….i am just grinning all over right now. NFL Offensive Player of the Week is QB Damien Hoffman, 27 for 35 and 423 yards and 4:0 ratio Gaston was injured early, and Willingham just ran all over 31 carries, 135 yards, 2 scores on the ground. Gaston had a 3rd. Hoffman hit Wild for 162 and a score, Poffenroth for 65 and 2, and TE Bernie Chellgren for 1 . Whalen with a pick. 2 sacks by DT Keith. 3 KRB by Starks, Blades, and Matthews.


TE Chellgren is probable with shoulder tendonitis, SLB Casey Joyner questionable with a sprained knee and DT Rick Greer broke his thumb and is probable for a few weeks. Gaston broke his nose and is probable.

If Willingham collects 23 yards in the final game, both RB would have gotten 1000 rushing yards.


Final game

Week 17 – We head to face the Colts. We have a bye in the first round, and Cincinnati might get the 1 spot from us due to head to head if they win and we lose. And….don’t worry, we win 41-17. MVP Is Wilf with 7 for 126 and 2, and Poffenroth was 1 score too. Willingham was 17 for 103 and 2 scores and Gaston 18 for 87. Picks by Hutchings and Bernardini. 5 KRB by Starks and Matthews, 3 by Leggin and Blades

Major injury news. KR.PR Darnell Menzies is out for the season with a high ankle sprain

We place him on IR, and activate the 3rd string TE. Treftz. In the playoffs we’ll use starts like Poffenroth and Hutchings who don’t normally return but have high bars.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2028 NFL Playoffs


Your AFC:

#1 Seed13-3 Jacksonville Jaguars
#2 Seed 12-4 Cincinnati Bengals
#3 Seed 10-6 New England Patriots
#4 Seed 9-7 Oakland Raiders
#5 Seed 10-6 Baltimore Ravens
#6 Seed 9-7 Cleveland Browns

We have a bye.


Baltimore wins in Oakland 24-19. The Browns can’t in New England 31-9

In other news, the Giant suck in St. Louis and the Vikings blow in New Orleans



Weekend 2 – Divisional Round

We host the Baltimore Ravens

The Ravens won the Super Bowl last year, and are a perennially good team. We’ll need to play well to beat them. We are favored by 6. I think the Ravens are too hot to handle and we’ll lose. Let’s see…



We win 30-24. Hoffman is Game MVP with 28 of 36 for 240 and 3:2. He hit Gaston, Wild and RB Stehlik for scores. Hanks and Bernardini with picks, Gaston had 19 for 109 on the ground, and Willingham 11 for 79. Whalen with a sack, and DT Keith, DE Burton and SLB Joyner also netted post-season sacks. Leggin rocked 5 KRB and 1 pancakes, Blades 4 RB and Satre 4 and a pancake.

The Bengals are too much for the Patriots.

In the NFC, St Louis is chilled at Green Bay and The Saints are unlovedu in Philadelphia.

[Abe Sargent]

Conference Championship!

We host the #2 seed Cincinnati Bengals, who defeated us last year.

In a non-one-cares NFC news, the Pack host the Eagles.

The Bengals are favored by 4. They have beaten us before.

And the pundits are right. They defeat us again 31-17.


Hoffman was 34 of 54, 283, 1:4. Wild had 101 yards, WR Bryce Haynes a score, Poffenroth a rushing score CB Hutchings had 2 picks. DT Keith a sack. It was never enough. We were never in this game.

Alright, before the Super Bowl, do I want to make any extensions or anything with contracts?

I extend RB Willingham for two more years. This worked too well to jettison.



The 2028 NFL Super Bowl


Your AFC Champion The #2 seed 12-4 Cincinnati Bengals

vs


Your NFC Champion #2 seed 12-4 Philadelphia Eagles




Bengals 22, Eagles 20.

Good job Cincinnati!

[Abe Sargent]

Season Awards:



Offensive Rookie of the Year:

QB Damien Hoffman


All League 1st Team:

C Myron Leggin
OG David Blades
OT Myron Starks


All League 2nd Team:

WR Joshua Wild
CB Allen Hutchings

Was Satre robbed? Was Hoffman? Get ready for the fun!

And welcome Hutchings and Leggin and Blades to official awards time.

[Abe Sargent]

STATS:

QB Damien Hoffman – 405 for 577, 70.2%, 4716 passing yards, 37:19, 102.3 rating, FOURTEEN TIMES SACKED, 5 fumbles

That is not a lie. He was sacked just 14 times all season long. That’s just unfeasible. Good job O Line. Any O Line with that sort of protection wins. We have a Line with 4 players to get All Pro nods, so yay! 3rd most passing yards, 2nd most TD, 6th best Rating, 2nd best %, great stuff from the rookie.

But again, take any of your great NFL QBs in their first season. Now give them an All Pro line that allows just 14 sacks, so you have plenty of time to figure things out. And give you two of the top ten WR catching (Wild is ranked 6th by scouts and Poffenroth 9th). Give you two RBs that each have 1000 rushing yards. And you’ll have a great statline for your rookie season as well!


Rushing:

RB Kendrick Gaston – 249 for 1156 and 12 rushing TDs;55 grabs for 478 and 1 score
RB Shaquille Willingham – 201 for 1080 and 9; 43 snags for 353 and 2 scores

That’s just incredible. You can’t make that up. It’s a Jaguars version of Warrick Dunn and Mike Alstott. That’s just good stuff there. I don’t know that I’ve ever had two 1000 yard seasons in FOF before barring injury halfway through. But it worked here.


Receiving:

WR Joshua Wild, 106 for 1581 yards and 14 scores
WR Maxwell Poffenroth, 99 for 1244 and 11 TD
WR Darnell Menzies, 34 for 419 and 1
TE Courtney Beyer, 20 and 270 and3

Not a strong season unless you are Wild and Poffenroth. Those guys though had a strong year!


Special Teams:


K Justin Tucker, 31 of 36, long of 54, 59 of 59 PAT. 5th most FG made,.

P Wally Collier, 71 punts, 43.1 average, 17 in 20. The average is that bad but that’s a woeful inside 20 #.

WR Menzies – 38 PR for 9.6 avg, 30 KR with KR RET TD< and 30.9 avg; 3rd highest KR Avg, 5th highest PR Avg among non-scorers.



Defense:

DE Gregory Burton, 10 sacks, 6 blocks 26 hurries, 20 QBKD
DE Arnie Mettert, 6 sacks, 7 blocks, 12 hurries, 10 QBKD
DT Calvin Keith, 4.5 sacks, 2 blocks, 14 hurries, 16 QBKD
DT Maurice Clinton, 2.5 sacks, 2 blocks, 4 hurries
DT Randy Frederick, 4 sacks, 5 blocks, 9 hurries, 1 QBKD

Hello there Keith, you had a nice rushing season! And Mettert was adequate. Eventually Burton is going to burst it all wide open, but I don’t know when.


MLB Jameson Broyles, 106 solo, 19 assists; 1 sack, 2 blocks, 1 hurry, 11 pasdef
SLB Ezra Wilkerson, 53 solo, 14 ass, 1.5 sacks, 3 hurries, 1QBKD, 7 pasdef
WLB Albert Eamigh, 25 and 4 tack;2 pasdef

SS Jermaine Whalen, 62 and 32 tack, 0.5 sacks, 1 pick, 6 pasdef, 3 FF
FS Quentin Bernardini, 60 and 13; 1 sack, 3 FF
CB Allen Hutchings, 1 sack, 9 picks, 1 INT RET TD, 9 pasdef
S Quentin Bernardini, 4 picks and 8 pasdef
CB Colton Hanks, 2 picks, 6 pasdef
CB Ian Heath, 1 pick, 1 pasdef

Not great years for Hanks or Whalen. MLB Broyles had an unexpectedly decent year though.


Blocking!

OG David Blades – 47 KRB, 7 pancakes, 2 sacks allowed
OT Myron Starks, 44 KRB, 7 pancakes, 3 sacks allowed
OC Myron Leggin, 38 KRB, 5 pancakes, 2 sacks allowed
OG Marquis Satre – 34 KRB and 3 panckes and 4 sacks allowed
OT Brant Matthews, 24 KRB, 1 pancake, 3 sacks allowed


First of all, its great to see OG Blades as a great 1st rounder last year. He is 72/72 and fully developed. Secondly, even with Satre eroding in skills, and getting 4th best KRB on my team this year, he still has the 19th best KRB score in the league. That’s pretty strong. And 34 KRB is no jokes. This season was still better, KRB wise, that 5 of his other seasons.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:


Offensive Player of the Year: WR Joshua Wild, This was Wild’s 2nd best season in his career, and it came at a critical time as QB Hoffman had his first season. Wild was a crucial part of the team’s success in the regular season and to get to the Championships. Good luck next year!

Defensive Player of the Year: CB Allen Hutchings – Hutchings tied for the league leading 9 pickings. He notched his first All Pro award. And the 5th year pro from the late 5th round did it in style, and often secured the big moments in big games. Shoot, he even had 2 picks in the AFC Championship game!

Special Teams Player of the Year: K Justin Tucker, we don’t usually have a strong season from my K, since we tend to not kick a lot of FG, but we have a long of 54 – the 2nd longest kicked this year (tied with 3 others) and 5th most FGs made. And that’s a solid season for the 17th year vet.

Rookie of the Year: QB Damien Hoffman. Is there anything I could say about him that I missed earlier? The low number of sacks? The high %? I guess we could ask some questions – where will he go from here? Will he have the typical sophomore slump? Will he not perform as well under a lot of pressure? Will he drop from the 48/82 rating to something a lot worse? Will he be a flash in the pan who hit hot fast, but then his team faded?

Heart Award: LCB Walt Benavides, this 6th round rookie in the third year from Wayne State Univ (in Detroit) has no ability to catch the ball. You could coat his hands in stick um and he’s miss the ball with his 0 interceptions rating. But what he did do is quietly ratchet up 6 passes defended for us here a little here and there over the course of the season. So good job Benavides, whose last name I still can’t pronounce.

[Abe Sargent]

Alright here we go:


Performance – 86
Value – 94
Profit – 85
Roster – 24

82 Score


Retirements:

DE Arnie Mettert and K Justin Tucker are gone.

Welcome back Satre!

Other major retirements:

QB Derek Carr – Legend of the Game
LG Trey Brandon – 5 time All Pro
RG Steven Kelley -Former Jaguar draftee who never worked out
DE Wes Winters, 4 time All Pro, Defensive Player of the Year 2022, 171 sacks
SS Derrick Pigott, 5 time All Pro, 48 picks, 119 pasdef
SS Britt Kuykendall, 2 time All Pro, 57 picks
FS Spencer Preston, All League 1, 61 picks,

We signed a new deal as a league for 7.1 mill cap increase a year.

Hall of Fame inductee – Bashaud Breeland

We made 167 mill last year

99.1% attendance

1.621 bill, 4th highest

4th best Stadium
2nd best roster (behind Super Bowl winner Cincinnati)
12th best support
8th worst economy

[Abe Sargent]

No one comes close to our staff at 7th in the staff draft

I have 44 players under my roster, a ton of cash, and little need for money to keep my draftees since I am bereft of a 1st and 2nd this year.

RFA:

MLB Christopher Newsome


UFA:

QB Hardy Schaefer
RB Kennedy Bauer
LT Colton Parrish
RT JB Rivers
DT Randy Frederick
CB Graham DeWine


That’s no one worth franchising!

So let’s just go to FA

[Abe Sargent]

Players on my roster expiring in 2029 that I care about

QB Will Stanton
RB Kendrick Gaston
TE Bernie Chellgren
WR Darnell Menzies
SE Maxwell Poffenroth
C Myron Leggin
LG Marquis Satre
RT Brant Matthews
RT Myron Starks
DT Calvin Keith
MLB Jameson Broyles
SLB Ezra Wilkerson
SLB Jared Gati
WLB Albert Eamigh
CB Colton Hanks
CB Walt Benavides I suppose
SS Jermaine Whalen
FS Albert Corbett
FS Roger Popson
LS Kent Ikuma

That’s a lot of folks!

The best players in FA are the typical OG< RB, FB, C, stuff. But nothing good. In fact there are just five non-kicker players at 50/50 or better – RG, FB, RB, C, and C.

I need a starting K, DE,

TE Brett Kovacs was cut, he is back in the FA pool. He was IR after an injury in the preseason with the 49ers.

Let’s do some easy extensions first.

SS Jermaine Whalen by 4 years.
SLB Wilkerson by 2 more
LS Ikuma by 1
OG Satre by 1
OT Starks by 2
C Leggin by 3
QB Will Stanton by 1


WR Poffenroth is welcomed to the land of the full-time salary and give his first non-rookie deal.

I’m not sure about RB Gaston yet. Hanks has been dropping, it’s best to just let him go his own way.

Let’s head to a boring FA

I have to fill my DE post temporarily from FA since I’ll likely be unable to draft one back at 3.29 spot.

We need: QB, OGx2, OTx2, K, DE, DT, LB, CB

Only DE and K are starters. I could use starter upgrade at DT, MLB, WLB, CB, and TE.

There aren’t a lot of DEs out there. So I make a pimp decision. 14 year DE Kenneth Butler is available. I make him a one year offer similar to the one I did last year. Another DE, Nate Brown, a former draftee of mine is also available.

I have the cash to sign a solid rotational OT for 3 years 10 mill style deal. I’m probably letting Brant Matthews go soon, so I make an offer to the best OT in the draft, a 47/47 8th year vet who’ll be a leader I expect him to drop soon, but for now, a solid competitor.

Stage 2 – QB Schaefer signed a cheap 1.6 mill deal with the Patriots.

Stage 3 – RT Herb Chelius signs with us.

Stage 4 – DE Butler agrees to terms. Welcome home buddy!!! DE Nate Brown heads to Tampa

Stage 7 – OT JB Rivers heads to 49rs and RG Kennedy Bauer to Texans.

Stage 8 - DT Frederick heads to San Diego

Stage – 11 CB DeWine was picked up by the Cards.

It’ll be hard to scout the 3rd round and down. I got it. There is a stud K on the board. Blast. MLB 5th o on the board has strong bars and interviews well. Name of Ryan Vance. I want to check him, check and see if he;s a one. If he falls late, like 2nd round, I could see myself making a play if I don’t want to go K.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2029 NFL Amateur Draft

Detroit gets the night off to a OLB start.

ILB Ryan Vance? He went 1.23 to Cleveland. I wasn’t the only one who saw him. Ah well. The K goes early in 3rd round, like 3.3 to Detroit. Ah well.

Alright, who else is there?

I still need – QB, OGx2, OT, K, LB, CB

I like QB Brandon Millar. RG Robbie Beyer, with a potential affinity, and the better RB Lamar Rasnic. I cannot go affinity this deep, I have to dig out the best - I’ll take Rasnic. It’s a gamble – he has great bars, but no combine numbers at all. I didn’t interview him, so it could be a bust, but I’ll try it. Who know?

QB Millar is off the board in the 4th. MLB or DE? I go MLB. I still want a QB so I snatch Eduardo Pearl next.

The 2029 Jacksonville Jaguar Draft Class

3.29 RG Lamar Rasnic, Georgia Tech
4.30 MLB Eduardo Sweat, Southern Arkansas
5.29 QB Eduardo Pearl, Oregon State
6.30 RG Trent Clark, Purdue
7.29 RB Chance Braddock, St John’s (NY)

[Abe Sargent]

“Drafting at the end of rounds 3-7 has to be tough, especially when you gave up your 1st and 2nd round picks to the Jets in order to move up and grab a QB last year. So far phenom QB Damien Hoffman has proved worth the price, but the Jaguars know the rice of doing business, and at his press conference yesterday, GM Marquis D’Avoigne discussed the difficulty of scouting and interviewing them and predicting who would be available on the board was quite hard.

During the draft, they made sure that most of the players they took fit an immediate need. They grabbed two OGs to fit holes on the roster, a Middle Line back to push the weakest area of the defense, and a backup QB in Eduardo Pearl. But OG Lamar Rasnic is likely to be the only player on the roster with a decent chance of starting, as OG Satre is bound to retire any year now, and that would give Rasnic an opportunity to shine. Considering the little they had to work with, getting a potential future piece is a strong showing, and I have to give them an A- grade”

[Abe Sargent]

Late FA!

Veteran Holdout from Gaston, whom I was considering extending a deal to anyway. I’m not normally a fan of holdouts, but this dude is making a vet min salary as a 7th rounder, so him I get.

I make offers to three UFas and K Tyler Bernard, the long time Jaguar who is late in his years, and just wants a one-year deal.

Stage 1 – Quiet save for RB Jermaine Woods heading to San Francisco

Stage 2 – DT Cerasani, K Tyler Bernard sign.

Do I make an offer for Kovacs? He’s 30, and wants a 4 year 8 mill deal. That’s do-able. I have the cap space. But so I want to lock him up until he’s 34? Surely he’ll retire before then. Do I want a dwindling guy on my roster? Sure why not. I make him an offer….

Stage 3- Phily offers more and Kovacs signs with them. Hm. OT Cedric Goldhammer is signed by the Rams. We sign CB Kelvin Davey and SS Gary McCarthy, both UFA.

I extend RB Gaston’s deal.

[Abe Sargent]

CAMPCAMPCAMP

We sell 59,100 season tix

Wow, we have a boom in the rookie pool. Hopefully it lasts through the preseason! If so, I may have a surprise starter for my club!


Pre-season fun arrives

I cut a few players, and sign LT Irv Money, a UFA with a run blocking specialty (like, 25/78 special). I cut RB Rob Velthoen.

We finish preseason 3-1, and have a few injuries we’ll discuss in a moment. Actually, let’s just do it now:

WR Joshua Wild – questionable, strained hamstring, unknown heal time

That’s really it. A few probables here and there.

[Abe Sargent]

Now, I think I may just have broken the draft. I’ll show you. Post-camp, and post-preseason, we have two draftees that are pretty solid guys:

RG Lamar Rasnic – 32/70 –


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That’s a solid starter quality guy, who can move in when Satre inevitably leaves us. After all, Marquis Satre is 37 years old and in his 15th year with us. He’ll eventually retire. I get that. Rasnic is my man moving forward. As a late 3rd round selection, Rasnic has grown into a solid prospect. He’s moved to the Green page as well, for the hot rookies. But this is not my major surprise.

[Abe Sargent]

Take a look:


MLB Eduardo Sweat

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Now, I started him in the preseason to give him some experience and to ready him. MLB Broyles is just 43/43. Moving to a 35/59 isn’t a major drop. And this guy could be a strong pickup. If he finishes 54/54 then I’m in. I want to give him time to develop into a real player. I am in.

Any changes in my peoples?

[Abe Sargent]

QB Hoffman is now 63/84 -or, in other words, already better as a 2nd year guy that Bortles was at his best. RB Willingham, sadly, had faded to 42/42. That sucks. When I signed him last year, I brought his cap to reasonable numbers going forward anyway. The 2 headed monster may have been one year phenomenon. Ah well..


WR Wild is down to 62/62 in his 11th year for us

He didn’t start for us his first year, and now he has 13355 receiving yards and 96 scores thus far. That gives him a career production of Torry Holt – now Wild has had at least 1200 yards in each of the last 8 seasons. That’s incredibly long. If he gets 1100 this season and then calls it, that’s Marvin Harrison territory. Pretty good company. He has been All Pro 6 times out of 9 years starting.

SS Whalen fell again to 48/48, and that was a quick tumble from where he was. That’s a huge fall from before. In two years he’s tumbled around 16 in ability. The golden era of the Safety for us was short lived.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 – We host the Texans to open the season. And we lose 31-24. Our offense was stymied – Hoffman was 25 for 46 and 280 with 3:1 and hit Wild, WR Carlton Eckberg and FB Percy Olivares for scores. Gaston was held to little. CB Colton Hanks had the game’s lone pick. Sacks by SLB Wilkerson, DT Maurice Clinton, and first year man MLB Eduardo Sweat. DE Burton logged in 5 hurries and a blocked pass. S Bernardini 3 passes defended. OG Blades had 3 KRB and a pancake too.

WR Wild is done with his lingering preseason injury.

Week 2 – We head to take on some Rams. And we just blast them out of the dome 43-20. RB Willingham rushes for a score, CB Hutchings has 2 picks and Bernardini 1. FF by DT Keith and another by MLB Sweat. Sacks?? DT Keith and backup DT Rick Greer had 1 each. Wild had 8 grabs for 126 yards and WR Poffenroth 6 for 64 and 2 scores. K Tyler Bernard was 5 for 5 in FG. And Hoffman was the Game MVP with a 28 of 39 day, with 313 and 2:0.

Week 3 – We head to New England and just lose, 34-33. MVP is still Hoffman with 29 of 41 for 389 and 3:0. Wild was 9 for 174 and 1 score, Poffenroth 7 for 102 and 1. RB Willingham caught a score too. K Bernard was 4 for 4. Sacks by SS Whalen and SLB Casey Joyner.

Post game, DE Burton is questionable for a week with some rib stuff. We have to keep him in for the next game…

Week 4 – We host the Cincinnati Bengals, the team that took us down twice last year. Well this time we win. 24-17. RB Kendrick Gaston is Game MVP with 19 for 175 and 1 score and 4 catches for 49 yards and a score. Hoffman rocked 22 of 24 for 214 and 2:1. Poffenroth had the other day’s TD score. I a about to say something awesome. Sack by DE Kenneth Butler. I am smiling away. 3 KRB by Leggin and Starks.

TE Bernine Chellgren ruptured his elbow tendon and is out for at least a year, maybe not until longer than that. I place him on IR> I sign TE Elliot Allen, a 27/27 fa. Place him on the inactive list for now and activate TE Treftz.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 5 – We host the 3-1 Browns and just sandblast them 38-7. Hoffman is Game MVP with 25 of 35 and 3:0 on 315 yards. Poffenroth had 7 grabs for 126 and 1 score, Wild 5 for 75 and another, and WR Menzies the last score of the day. FB Olivares hrushed for a score. And RB Willingham another. 2 sacks by DE Butler, 1 by DT Keith, DE Burton, and backup OLB Jared Gati. 3 KRB by Brant Matthews


Major injury. CB Colton Hanks had to have ankle surgery, and he is out for the year. I place him on IR.

Meanwhile CB Kelvin Davey is out for a month with a strained elbow tendon. I pick up RCB Hayden Shepherd, a 28/28 FA for a vet min salary.

For now, CB Walt Benavides is starting for the rest of the season.

Week 6 - With Andrew Luck retired, the Colts are not doing too well. We send them to 3-3 with a win here 26-13. NFL Defensive Player of the Week is DE Gregory Burton who had 2.5 sacks on the day. 1 sack by WLB Eamigh. 5 KRB by Leggin, 4 each by Starks and Satre, and 3 by Blades. Pick by Bernardini. 111 yards by Poffenroth,89 and a score by Wild, 1 score by WR Eckbert, Gaston was 21 for 107, Willingham 15 for 76, and Hoffman 24 of 38 for 299 and 2:0.

And in the best news ever, we don’t have a third consecutive game with a season-ending injury. In Hanks’ case, that could be career ending. He’s 33 and in his 10 year. That could be the end of him.

Week 7 – Next up: we fly to Steel City to take out the 5-1 Steelers. I hope.

Do you remember last year’s game in week 16 against the 12 win Packers? We just swept them off the board 53-6? That’s what our team is capable of, even against the best teams in the league, when we click. I bring this up because I want to put today’s away game into the proper perspective.

Because it didn’t happen.

We lose, 17-27. Hoffman was 30 of 51 for 390 and 1:2. Wild caught 8 for 110, and Willingham rushed and caught a score. 1 sack on the day by OLB Joyner. No picks, no FF, very little pass rush, and not super great blocking or running. We were one dimensional, and they shut it down.

Not exactly our best effort.

And next we travel to Baltimore. Yes, that Baltimore. 6-1 Baltimore.

Week 8 – And we lose. Barley, 24-25. Baltimore heads to 7-1. But it’s a loss. It counts. Gaston was 20 carries but stymied hard by the Baltimore defense and kept him to 39 yards, but score. Hoffman? 23 of 34 for 259 and 2:2. Wild? 10 for 113 and 2 scores (Poffenroth was 6 for 98). N opicks. One FF and recover by OLB Joyner. 2 sacks by DT Keith, and Burton, 1 by DE Kenneth Butler. 3 KRB by Blades.

Satre is questionable with a viral infection. A zombie infection wouldn’t keep him out of the next week’s math against Tennessee.


We finish the first half of the season 4-4. We have losses to obvious people – Baltimore and Pittsburgh on the road, for example. 5-2 Houston; 4-2-1 New England. Every team with a winning record. And we beat Cincinnati incredibly enough, so we have a quality win there.

But we need to change things up. I make a few changes to our game plans. I want to push running a bit more.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 9 – We blank the Titans 27-0. Gaston was 21 for 160 and Willingham 16 got 89. So Hoffman was able to blink things around 14 of 20 for 133 but 3:0. Poffenroth, TE Beyer, and WR Eckberg with TD catches. DE Burton with a FF that was recovered by Kenneth Butler. Burtomn, WLB Eamigh and Whalen had a sack each, 6 KRB by Blades, 4 by Matthews, and 3 each for Satre, Starks and FB Olivares.

Satre is healed up.

Week 10 – BYE

Week 11 - Next up we head out to face the Texans. We defeat them 37-27 to create a logjam of three teams in the AFC South at 6-4, everyone but the Colts. Hoffan, MVP, with 27 of 29 for 3:1 and 388 yards. Wild? 135 yards. Menzies? 136 and a score. FB Olivares? A score. TE Treftz? Yeah, he gets a TD catch too! Picks by – MLB Sweat, returned 54 yards for a score – SS Whalen, SLB Wilkerson, CB Hutchings. Sacks by DT Keith and CB Walt Benavides. 3 KRB by OT Matthews

We have another injury. Sigh. DT Rick Greer, out with ankle surgery for 29 weeks, which is longer than the Super Bowl by a lot of weeks. I toss him on IR. I sign DT Terrence Burgraff, 32/32, to us. I activate undrafted Cerasani and place Burgraff on the bench for now.

Week 12 – We host the 6-4 Cardinals. We smash them. 44-19. Big win for the fans. Hoffman, MVP, rocked 22 of 28 for 319 and 2:0 and Poffenroth caught 6 and 80 and a score, Wild 5 for 105, and TE Treftz the other. Pick by Allen Hutchings returned 27 for a score. FF by DE Chris Goeken and S Roger Popson – both backups. (Popson is our nickelback right now). Recovered by DT Maurice Clinton and CB Benavides. RB Gaston and Willingham both rushed for scores. Sack by Goeken.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 13 – We host and just eviscerate the Raiders 45-20. NFL Offensive Player of the Week is QB Damien Hoffman with 22 for 29, 380 and 5:0. Wild had 2 TDs on 92 yards, TE Beyer, Menzies and Poffenroth each pulled in a score – RB Gaston rushes for another. MLB Sweat has a sack and strip. DT Keith 2 sacks. 3 KRB by Blades and Leggin.

Post-game, C Leggin strained his neck but is probable over a few weeks.

Week 14 – We head to Seattle, to face the 8-4 Seahawks. We are favored by 4. But no one is surprised when we lose 17-24. Gaston was 198 for 83 and 1 score. Hoffman though…….23 of 40 for 249 and 0:3. Yuck. No picks, but a FF by MLB Sweat is recovered by Bernardini. No sacks., 5 JRB y Starks, 3 by Leggins. Houston won and is 8-5 with us

Week 15 – Next we head an anemic Indy. But they still beat us, 33028. Damn Colts! Gaston had 105 rushing yards, Willingham a score Hoffman ws 22 of 39 for 293 and 3:2. Wild? 95 yards 2 scores. FB Olivares the other. 1 sak by MLB Sweat and DE Burton. No picks, no forced fumbles 4 KRB by Starks and Leggin.

The Texans won and are a game up over us at 9-5, we are 8-6 with two games left.

Week 16 – We host the 6-8 49ers. The least we can do after they fly all this way is to show them a really nasty team popping on all cylinders, right? We win 34-8.Hoffman, MVP< has 29 of 39 for 359 and 3:0. Poffenroth is 9 grabs, 119 yards, and 1 score and Wild 8 for 76 and 2 more. Sacks by Whalen and DT Clinton. 5 KRB by Starks. Gaston rushed 14 for 82 and a score and Willingham 16 for 72.

The Texans lost and that brings us even. Next week if for all of the marbles. We are both 9-6. We had to Tennessee and the Houston folks host the Colts. We have to win. If we lose, even if the Steelers lose and are 9-7 as well, they have the head-to-head tiebreak. Both of us are 9-6 right now, and we are not in. Right now the Texans are in front with the tiebreaker in the AFC South, but I don’t know who’s in or out based on tiebreakers if we both win or both lose.

Week 17 – Which is why it’s disappointing that we lose to the Titans 22-17. But, the Texans lose too. The Colts put on a strong final quarter and went 4-0 over it. We are out:


2029 AFC South:

Houston – 9-7
Jacksonville – 9-7
Indianapolis – 9-7
Tennessee – 7-9

[Abe Sargent]

The 2029 NFL Playoffs



AFC

12-4 Baltimore
12-4 Oakland
10-6 Buffalo
9-7 Houston
11-5 Cleveland
10-6 Pittsburgh

Houston over Cleveland 37-31
Pittsburgh over Buffalo – 38-31

NFC: Rams survive Green Bay 34-20; Tampa doesn’t in Seattle 24-23


Divisional Playoffs

Houston wins in Oakland 14-10
Pittsburgh in Baltimore 31-28
Seattle loses in New York 12-14
St Louis wins in New Orleans 48-20

3 road teams survive

Conference Champ:

Pittsburgh heads to Houston and takes them down 27-26

St Lous can’t handle New York 30-33

2029 NFL Super Bowl!

#6 wild card 10-6 AFC Champion Pittsburgh Steelers

Vs

The #2 Seed 11-5 NFC Champion New York Giants

The bets are EVEN, the game is a push. Who wins is anyone’s guess.


New York 37, Pittsburgh 31

[Abe Sargent]

Season Awards:

All League First Team

WR Joshua Wild


All League Second Team

QB Damien Hoffman
DT Calvin Keith

Whoa Keith! That’s a bit of a shock actually!

Here, I’ll show you:

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He’s 47/47, and not exactly scintillating. I didn’t even extend his deal through next year. Which may get pricey now (if I had, he would have been a guaranteed holdout). Good job Keith!

[Abe Sargent]

Stats Baby!


QB Damien Hoffman – 384 of 578, 4883 yards, 66.4%, 101.4 rating, 38:14, 26 sacks, 5 fumbles

Well, the good news for the rest of the league is that his great completion rate from last year was not duplicated this year. And they sacked him 26 times vs 13 last year. Still a pretty low number. This year there were 7 QBs who were sacked more than Hoffman was sacked in two years. He led the league in passing yards (by 53, not a bug number, a bunch of Qbs were in the 4500-4700 range). He led in pass Tds, but again, just by one. QB Dominique Oxford, of the Steelers, was league MVP.

Rushing:

RB Kendrick Gaston, 235 for 1218, 5.18 ypc, 7 rush scores; 50 for 500 yards, 1 TD
RB Shaquille Willingham, 156 for 658 and 5; 37 for 291 and 3

Not a two headed monster anymore – probably due in part to Willingham’s fading a bit. We’re committing to Gaston moving forward. Gaston was 4th most in the league in rushing yards. Cut Willingham’s rush total in half and give that to Gaston and we have a huge year for the guy. He has a great ypc, feed the guy the ball.

Receiving:

WR Joshua Wild, 106 for 1550 yards, 12 TD (Please don’t retire…)
WR Maxwell Poffenroth, 81 for 1062 and 9 scores
WR Darnell Menzies 29 for 527 and 3
TE Courtney Beyer, 28 for 408 and 2 scores


Wild was 2nd in the league in receiving yards. The guy #1? The WR I wanted to target 4 years ago – Brendan Cicci, whom I thought would be a perfect partner for Wild. He got 1790 yards for Cleveland. After Cleveland took him early, I focused on getting Poffenroth as a consolation prize.


Special Teams:

K Tyler Bernard, 31 of 34, long of 50, 55 of 55 PAT

No missed PAT, lots of FG made, and a strong season by the longtime-Jag we brought back. He was an undrafted FA in the same class as Allen Robinson, Marqise Lee and Blake Bortles. He played for us for 8 years but just got too expensive. He was All league 3 times, and won two Super Bowls with us. And he might retire, he’s 38, finishing up his 16th season and just wanted a one year deal. And I can’t commit to an gaining 34/34 K (Who faded from the 41/41 he was when we signed him) to bring him back despite good stats.

P Wally Collier – 67 punts, 42.9 avg, 25 in 20

I think the Collier experiment might be over

RB Willingham had 27 special teams tackles, good for 5th most in the NFL

WR Menzies – 39 PR< 1 PR RET TD, 9.5 average, 1 KR TD, 30.6 average on those 29 returns.

Guy is just a returning machine. I can’t tell you why Menzies had 0 TDs on returns for the Steelers for 3 years before we grabbed him from FA, but they should have kept him. Bad Steelers! Menzies is in his 9th year as a pro too. (and not signed beyond this year).


Defense –

DE Gregory Burton, 8.5 sacks, 6 blocked passes, 16 hurries, 5 QBKD
DT Calvin Keith, 8 sacks, 1 block, 11 hurries, 13 QBKD, 2 FF, 1 FumRec
DE Kenneth Butler, 5 sacks, 3 blocks, 9 hurries, 1 QBKD
DT Maurice Clinton, 2 sacks, 1 block, 2 hurr, 1 QBKD

Not a great D Line year save for Keith, who did have a strong 8 sack performance from the DT spot.


MLB Eduardo Sweat – 91 solo tack, 26 assist; 3.5 sacks, 2 block, 2 hurri, 1 pick, 1 INT RET TD, 7 pasdef, 3 FF
WLB Albert Eamigh – 25 and 6 tack; 2 sacks, 1 hurry
SLB Ezra Wilkerson, 78 and 18; 2 sacks, 1 block, 6 hurry, 4 QBKD, 1 pick, 7 pasdef
SLB Casey Joyner, 27 and 7 tack; 2 sacks, 2 pasdef, 2 FumRec

Sweat has had a strong rookie campaign, and Wilkerson continues to look good.

Maybe I could move to 3-4 and pull my underperforming DT and emphasize, for the first time ever, LB play.

FS Quentin Bernardini, 73 solo, 26 assit; 1 hurry, 2 pick, 12 pasdef
SS Jermaine Whalen, 81 solo, 21 assist, 3 sacks, 1 block, 1 hurry, 4 pasdef
CB Allen Hutchings – 4 picks, 9 pasdef, I INT RET TD
CB Walt Benavides, 6 pasdef

Another underperforming year from my secondary, but at least the hole left by the Hanks injury is part of the reason. We have 10 interceptions on the year, 8 by the secondary. That is not a good year folks. Although Whalen looks like himself again, with lots of tackles, sacks, and such.

Blocking

OT Myron Starks, 34 KRB, 3 pancakes, 7 sacks allowed
C Myron Leggin, 32 KRB, 3 pancakes, 2 sacks allowed
OG David Blades, 32 KRB, 9 pancakes, 6 sacks allowed
OT Brant Matthews, 24 KRB and 7 sacks allowed
OG Marquise Satre, 24 KRB, 1 pancake, 4 sacks allowed
FB Percy Olivares, 6 KRB.

Well, also a down year for our O Line, but three at 30+ KRB is still pretty good. No one (other than maybe Satre) had a down year.

Hey look, stats will be down in places because we were 9-7 this year, not 13-3. You’ll naturally have drop offs. I may not want it, but there it is in plain living color. We missed the playoffs for the first time in a while.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards

Offensive Player of the Year: QB Damien Hoffman – Get ready, because the ride is about to start. Make sure all hands are inside of the vehicle at all times. Right now, he’s 73/84. The sky is not even a limit. I pray.

Defensive Player of the Year: DT Calvin Keith this was an unexpected surprise. I’m happy to give this award to a 4th round guy who was forced into a starting role, has never been that prepared for, and has a strong arrival with it ever since Welcome to the party Calvin Keith.

Special Teams Player of the Year: K Tyler Bernard – This is a solid season for the old guy, and another great year for the Kicker and the Cat.

Rookie of the Year: MLB Eduardo Sweat – No way anyone would think Sweat was going to be our man, but he was. And, he was in the running for DPotY to be honest. Sacks, pick, passes defended, tackles, he played like an solid and savvy veteran, and he’s not. He’s a 4th round pick we forced into surface as the guy we had, Broyles, just didn’t bring it.

Heart Award: DE Kenneth Butler. It was great to work with you again man! Just great.

[Abe Sargent]

End of the 2029 Season:


Performance – 52
Value – 100
Profit – 84
Roster – 23

Score – 72


Retirements of Note:

DE Kenneth Butler – The undrafted FA was picked up by the Jaguars and had a strong first season as a rotation D Line with 4.5 sacks. Then he moved into a temporary starting role when injury struck and had another good season. He was moved to the starting role full time and held it for four seasons. During those first six years, Butler collected 40 sacks, and was the starter for two Super Bowl victories with the Jaguars. He was signed by the Bears and started for them for 6 more years, and then was moved to rotation for a 7th. During those times, he collected 38.5 sacks. Then the Jags signed him back for one further year as a one-year patch for the hole that was vacated when DE Cesar Velazquez retired. He finished with 83.5 sacks, 28 blocked passes, 148 hurries, and 30 QB Knockdowns.

K Tyler Bernard – After arriving with the Jaguars in undrafted free agency, Bernard went on to have a strong campaign with the Jags, culminated in 2 Super Bowl victories. He was let go and From Falcons to Bucs, to Colts and to Steelers until he came back home for a one year deal. At the age of 38, with 16 seasons under his belt and 423 KGM of 482 KGO – an 87.8 career %, Bernard decides to call it quits.

OG Marquis Satre – The very first draft pick of General Manager Marquise D’Avignon’s career, Satre came to dominate the Jaguars and their foes and defined that era much like OT Tony Boselli did for the Jaguars in the first years of their life. Regularly thought of as the best offensive lineman, at least in his early career, Satre’s forceful presence was felt in many places. He was an All Pro 7 times, as recently as 2027. He won three years in his career with the Jaguars. He finishes the 15 year season with 575 KRB, 143 pancake blocks, just 49 sacks allowed, and will be in the discussion to be in the Hall of Fame.


Other Retirements of Note:

QB Corwin Hastings, Denver’s stud QB has called it quits
QB Angel Jamison, Chicago’s strong guy does as well.
QB Teddy Bridgewater – Legend of the Game
QB Omar Etzinger, Tennessee’s strong QB, a former All League has retired
RB Henry Tiessen – One of my former signees. From Wayne State in Detroit Baby!
FL Shane Terry, - 13th year vet with 16750 yards, multiple All Pro seasons, for Miami.
FL Glen Howard, 13th year vet for the Pats, with 18195 yards, 4 All Pro, never had a season under 1200 yards.
OT Cedric Goldhammer – Goodbye buddy
DE Elliot Seeley, 5 time all pro, for the Titans and later other teams, 2 Rings, 129 sacks,
DT Harry Humphries, 4 time all pro, From WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BABY, with DET all 12 years, 73.5 sacks,
DT Darien Gibson, strong DT with Tennessee his whole career, All pro, 1 ring, 62 sacks
MLB Perry Farley, first Def Rookie of the Year, 2 all pro,
MLB Lance Morris – The guy we traded for and started 4 years in the middle for us. Got a ring with us. 2 time All Pro.
SLB Mel Blackburn, 2026 Def Player of the Year, Def Rookie of the year, All Pro 6 times


We suspect Satre, Blackburn, Howard are locks for Hall of Fame. Would not be too surprised to see Terry, Humphries, or Seeley as well.


This year’s Hall of Fame includes:

Margus Hunt, Ezekiel Ansah, Bobby Wagner, Sheldon Richardson, Kenny Vaccaro, DJ Fluker, Tyrann Mathieu, Jadeveon Clowney….and….


WR Marqise Lee. The first player in the history of the Jaguars to make it to the Hall of Fame. He had 89% of the vote. In the last 20 years, just six WR players made it in – Lee, Calvin Johnson, Andre Johnson, AJ Green, Julio Jones and Victor Cruz. Of this list, only Calvin Johnson and AJ Green had a higher voter % than Lee.

Players on my team I think could be – Wild, Bernardini, OT Myron Starks maybe? That’s probably it. Id’ need major pushes by guys like Allen Hutchings or C Leggin or SE Paffenroth. Maybe long term Blades and Hoffman if he lives up to his potential.

[Abe Sargent]

I ask to do another stadium reno, do the parking again and increase seating in various places and another 50 boxes. We offer to split the cost 50/50.

We made 163 mill last year 99.7% attendance, 5th highest value

8th best Stadium; 2nd best Roster; 11th best support, 8th worst economy

We pick 9th in the staff draft….whao. We have a strong HC on the board. Tony McDaniel, a 72 suitability vs our 67. I do like him better after giving him a looksee. 35 years old, D Line focus, DC for the Saints, we like him. Time to get promoted!

Then we get to Strength Coordinator, and find a 77 suitability guy there. I look him over and take him too.

We only have 35 players on our roster currently

RFA:

SLB Jared Gati
DT Renaldo Cerasani
CB Kelvin Davey
TE Elliot Allen
OT Irv Money

UFA:

CB Colton hanks
FL Darnell Menzies
TE Bernie Chellgren
WLB Albert Eamigh
LT Brant Matthews
DT Terrence Burgraff
MLB Jameson Broyles
FS Albert Corbett
CB Hayden Shepherd
DE Chris Goeken
DT Calvin Keith
CB Walt Benavides
FS Roger Popson

In retrospect maybe I should have extended Popson and Keith.

No one to franchise though.

[Abe Sargent]

Hello FA

I want to sign RFA Gati but I’ll wait a bit. Try to get him cheaper. None of the other RFAs sell me right now.

Our current rosters needs:

We need these starters: CB, DE, K, DT, WLB, OT. I could use a star at TE, FB, P, DT. I need depth at OG, OT, LB, Sx2, CB, DE,

I have a metric ton of cash – 45 mill under the cap, and 37 for non-rookie folks.


Players in the last year of their current deal:

QB Will Stanton
RB Shaquille Willingham
FL Joshua Wild
C Jason Nichols
RG David Blades
DE Gregory Burton
DT Maurice Clinton
DE Edwin Alston
LS Kent Iluma
SLB Casey Joyner


I extend Stanton Wild and Ikuma by a year each

Okay, I get on the horn. I have a strong OC in Jason Nichols – 50/65, and cheap. Anyone who needs a C interested in him now that I’ve gotten three years from him?

The Redskins, Cardinals, and Colts are all super mega interested.

We trade OC Jason Nichols and our 7.19 to the Redskins for their 4.21

Since Nichols was a 4.32 pick for us, we basically converted a 7th rounder into a better 4th round pick. And we got a good quality player for three years too. Good luck Jason!

We just seem to really get lucky with O Line here in Jville, that’s our place of expertise, finding, developing and churning out O Line talent.

We now need to pickup a C later on.

I checked the FA, and there aren’t a lot of good options, only three or four at 50 or above but we will be in play, and I intend to sign, the top FA.

Our new receiving leader is Poffenroth. I want to extend 4th year WR Bryce Haynes due to his new affinity. We extend him by year.

I sign OG David Blades to a ton of money and a 5 year deal. He’ll be our guy for a long time to come. We already have Satre’s replacement, LG Rasnic on the roster, he’s 31/69.

I also extend DE Burton by three years.

DE Alston is also extended by a year, just to make sure our roster works

Let’s head to FA

Any of my UFA I want to chase? Menzies, DT Keith, Popson, a few others.

I make a 3 year 8.6 mill offer to Popson

CB Hanks wants 2 years and 7.68 mill. I make an offer to sign him and be an emergency CB again and so forth.

[Abe Sargent]

Now, here’s my target:

6th year vet, CB Cary Greene, 64/64, and he’d be a leader on our team too.

We need to improve our secondary. And there it is with its 84 interceptions rating

DT Keith wants a ton of cash. 5 years and 54 mill cash. Nope. Sorry.

I have the cash to chase a real K and we are kicking more Fgs the last few seasons. Time to commit. I make an offer to 60/60 K Patrick Pintsak

What about OT?

I can move to RT Herb Chelius at 42/42 if I want. He’s 33 though – not sure how long I can rely on him. Brant Matthews is the best OT in FA, and he dropped his price, so I make an offer to bring him back.

Any great D Line folks?

Let’s look at the draft first.

We pick 1.19, 3.17, 4,19 and 4.21,5.18, 6.17. We don’t have a 2nd, as the final price paid for our All Pro QB. Totally worth it, by the by.

I could use DE and DT. Whoa, hello DE Jordan Rogers – 4th DE on the board, no combines, and underrated when we set up that interview. 4 great DE on the board. Could take any of them post-interviews. What about DT? The 2nd is very underrated. 3rd? Underrated with an affinity. Love them both.

What about WLB? Nah. Not ILB either. I interview a LB that had tremendous combine numbers 3 reds and 3 blues. But not super great bars. Josh Gordon. Came back very overrated. Yuck. Combine dork?

I also interview a strong looking TE Rusty Gray I’d be pleased to pick at 1.19, get a real TE for once in my life. I interview some WR and S candidates. Just to see if we had someone falling of serious talent – but nah.

Okay, I hope I can get one of the top 6 or 7 D Line folks, but I’m not sure which it’d be. I don’t want to go hard into D Line in FA. Keep my options open for now. I’d like a nice rotting option at the D Line though, cause right now, my D Linemen are DE Burton, DE Alston, DT Clinton and DT Rick Greer – not really a deep or inspiring list. I make an offer to LDT Thomas Dwyer, a 5th year man from Chicago.

We are chasing 6 real targets, and I’ll hold off for anything more for a while. Want to see what happens to our cap especially after the CB Greene chase finishes up.

Stage 2 - No news

Stage 3 – We sign CB Greene, we were the only team that offered. Welcome to Jacksonville Greene!

One hole down. I have 16 mill in cap space after that. Many of my targets will impact that space negatively. I can cut Willingham though to clear up some cap room later.

Stage 5 – DT Dwyer signs with us – 3 years, 10.5 mill

Stage 6 – LT Matthews is heading back home on a 3 year 11.27 mill deal. That’s something I like about Matthews, he gets his value. He’s a first round bust who didn’t suck bad enough to get taken away. You know, remove the stigma of “1st Round Disappointment” from players like TE Kyle Brady or OG Chris Naeole and you’d have some productive players. CB Hanks and FS Popson resign with us too. Bringing back my peops!

I cut Willingham. I’ll need the cash sooner or later.

If I was sure I am not in the running for a certain rookie TE I’d be considering an offer to 52/52 TE Erik Holsey. But that TE is my backup in case things go south on the D Line.

Stage 7 - CB Graham DeWine of former Jaguars heads to Denver. WLB Albert Eamigh to Detroit. We sign K Pintsak for way too much money – 16 mill, 3 years. He’s 61/61 though and pretty solid. Willingham is immediately given an offer by Denver.

Stage 8 – QB Hardy Schaefer heads to Rams for a 1 year deal. I make an offer to P Kendrick McKissick who is being made offers by the Dolphins and Bucs, the other Florida teams. I up the bonus to get above my cross-state rivals.

Stage 9 – That good 52/52 TE signed with the Saints for an admittedly pricey deal. P McKissick signs with us for 3 yards and 6.21 mill. I cut our guy. DE Chris Goeken signs with the Bills. DT Keith signs with the Bucs.

I don’t have too much cap space left. 4.2 mill for new players. So I need to lay off the signings for a bit. Hit up the draft to assess my holes. Maybe I can’t bring back Menzies or MLB Jared Gati. Sad face.

Stage 10 – Willingham to the Dolphins. DT Dana Korber, one of ours heads to Houston, and CB Walt Benavides to the eagles.

[Abe Sargent]

DRAFTING TIME IS HERE Again and with first round picks.

The 2030 NFL Amateur Draft

The Cowboys begin the draft by taking the top QB off the board. The rest of the Top Ten is DT,QB, DE, QB, WR< ILB< RB, WR and DT

So ,um wow. Could I get a great DE/DT at 1.19? With just three off the board, that looks possible. Surely all four won’t go in the next 8 picks, right? Right?

OG
WR
TE
DT
DE
RB
DT
OT

And that leaves me at 1.19 with….two of the top DE on the board.


Eric Kirkland – 89 volatility, 2 red combines in strength and agility, blue in broad jump and IQ test, came back as as scouted, 16% developed fits in.

Jordan Rogers – 83 volatility, no combine scores, 26 on IQ test, came back underrated, 31% developed. Fits in

So that’s the gamble. Here’s why I like Rodgers – more developed so I can start him now. Better impression – underrated vs as scouted.

Both are not only the top two DE on the board, but according to the adjusted score, the top two players, either is fine. I want to draft Rodgers, but Kirkland is perfectly fine.

So here’s my question – can I trade back and still do so? I’ve done this before with a player that ai liked but when there were other good folks there, I simply traded back.

I offer the Bills, at 1.23 a chance to trade up. According to the trade draft point system, they have 760 points and we have 875 – a different if 115. So I can get around 100 in value for the trade and it would still be in the Bills favor and they would likely make that move. The Bills have 3.23, that’s worth 155. I could offer the Bills a 40 point (ish) pick to grab their 3rd. Actually, what about a future 3rd instead? I offer them the 1/19 for their future 3rd next year, but no dice.

Instead, I look a future 4th and how about two? Their 4th in 3031 and 3032? Nah, okay instead I just move with the 1.22 Bucs for a 7th in 2031 and a 4th in 2032.

Tampa grabs Kirkland, and then…OLB and ILB.

I draft Rodgers at 1.22

See you folks in the 3rd round!

Positions of need for us: RB, C, OG, OT, TE, DE, DT, LBx2, CB, S

1.22 DE Jordan Rodgers, Arizona
3.17 DT Grayson Clark, UCLA
4.19 CB Monty Glenn, Nevada
4.21 C Billy Patton, Kansas State
5.18 LT Harrison Bridges, Oregon State
6.17 FS Malachi McKnight, Texas Tech

That gives us solid depth. I don’t think I have a solid starter, other than Rodgers in there, but we’ll see I guess.

[Abe Sargent]

Our stadium vote gets a pass, 51.1% pass.


We have 45 on the roster, and 4.4 mill in cap space. I move LB Casey Joyner to WLB.

We head to FA

Needs: RB, WR, TE, OG, DE, LBx2

UFA RB Willie West
UFA SILB Devan Comer
UFA RG Ralph Crawford
UFA DE Dylan Sanders
UFA CB Wade Rose

MLB Ray Gibson
TE Arnie Sitz


Stage 1 – West Signs. Sitz does as well. SILB Comer is outs. CB Wade Rose as well.

Stage 2 – Gibson arrives. I make a decision. I cut OT Chelius. OT Starks is my new leader. This frees up 2.7 mill. I make an offer to SLB Jared Gati. I need a backup who doesn’t suck at the LB spot. I make an offer to LT Darnell Ogden, a UFA< to make up for my lack of an OT on the roster.

Stage 3 – OG Crawford and OT Ogden sign deals with us. We also bring in DE Sanders and SLB Gati. Meanwhile, our former guy DE Cerasani is heading Detroit-ward. And FS Albert Corbett to Atlanta.

After all of that, I now have 53 on my roster. I give it one more once-over. I need to bring in one more WR. Forgot that. I move a million forward with a mini-cap out offer to Maxwell Poffenroth. I use that money to make an offer to Menzies.


Stage 4 – Menzies joins us. We’re all done.

[Abe Sargent]

I sign a few UFA post camp. Bring in a body or two.

Jaguars Records:

2014 – 6-10
2015 – 8-8
2016 - 13-3, Lost in Super Bowl to Seahawks
2017 – 11-5. Lost to Broncos in undefeated 19-0 Season
2018 – 11-5, Lost in playoffs
2019 – 14-2, Won Super Bowl
2020 – 15-1, Won Super Bowl
2021 – 12-4, Lost in playoffs
2022 – 14-2, Lost in Super Bowl to Seahawks
2023 – 15-1, Lost in playoffs
2024 – 12-4, lost in playoffs
2025 – 11-5, lost in playoffs
2026 – 11-5, Won Super Bowl as #6 seed
2027 – 11-5, lost in playoffs, Season Blake was injured
2028 – 13-3, lost in playoffs, first season of QB Damien Hoffman’s tenure
2029 – 9-7, missed playoffs and did not finish with 10 wins for first time since 2015
2030 - ???

To be fair, we had a touch season last year with the AFC North on our schedule when it included 3 playoff bound teams.

Since this dynasty began, here are some season records we hold:


Blake Bortles – Highest QB Rating in a Season, 2021, 127.3
Blake Bortles – Highest completion percentage, 2023, 76%
Blake Bortles – Most Passing Touchdowns, 2021, 55
Shaquille Willingham – Most Rushing TDs, 2025, 19
Marqise Lee – Most Receiving TDs, 2019, 19
Quentin Bernardini – Highest Pass Defense Percentage – 2027, 88.9%


We really haven’t dominated that much. There are no major defensive stats – picks, passes defended, tackles, sacks, hurries, blocked passes, and no key run blocks, or pancakes, or even field goals. Just a handful of awards.

Single Game Records we’ve set since this dynasty began

Blake Bortles, Passing Touchdowns 2014 vs Miami, 6

(This has been equaled 5 more times, 3 of those by Bortles himself)

OG Marquis Satre, Most Key Run Blocks in a Game, 11, 2016 vs Indianapolis

Never been tied.

That’s it, technically. Although, Justin Blackman had a kick return for a score against San Diego in one of the first games in 2014, so he “technically” set that record. No one has broken it since, obviously.

And again, that’s it. With our Star Wars numbers sometimes, you don’t see passing or receiving stuff.

I’ll give you an obvious example:

Most receiving yards in one game. Surely, Lee or Wild would have this, right?

The most is 322 by Cornell Franklin against Cincinnati in 2028. Donny Franklin had 286 against Miami for Cincinnati back in 2025. Then Torrey Smith, Stedman Bailey, Dez Bryant, Julio Jones. The highest we’ve ever gotten was Joshua’s Wilds 245 game against the 49ers in 2025. That game of Wild’s is the…12th highest receiving game since 2014.

Do we have a points scored? Nope. Yards per catch? Nope. Catches? Nope. Wild had a 14 catch day, 5 short of the record.

What about on the passing side? Passing attempts? Nah Eli Manning had an 80 attempt day back ‘n 2016. Completions? 44 Is the record. Now Hoffman had a 40 game his rookie campaign against the Vikes, and Bortles had a 39 completion day against the Patriots in 2015. Passing Yards? The most is 578 by Ryan Fitz in 2018 against us. Next is 544 by Dalton against the Dolphins in 2025. We have never even had a 500 yard passing game – the best from our team is 492 by Bortles once

Yards per pass attempt? Nah. Yards from scrimmage? Nah.

Now, we do have a tie for a record –

Most Passes Defended in a Game – Record 6

Tied by Bernardini in a game against Houston in 2027. It has happened 7 times.

Most Pancake Blocks in One Game – Record 6

Tied by Satre in 2016 against Indy. This record has only been reached twice total. In fact, 5 pancakes just once.

Now, if you care, we have set a minor record, with a guy no longer on our team:

Most Assisted tackles in a game

SS Jonathan Cyprien, 2022 against San Diego, for Oakland

The Most Rushing Scores in a Game – Record 4

RB Shaquille Willingham tied this record for us in 2025 vs the Broncos. This record has been hit 6 times.

Now, what everyone cares about:

Single Game Records in the Playoffs:

Most Rushing TD – 3 – set by DeMarco Murray against the Broncos in 2016. Tied by Murray once more, Shaquille Willingham once, and then once each by Frank Gore and Levi Sims – s ojust 5 times.


Most Pancake Blocks in One Playoff Game:

5, set by Marquis Satre in the game against the Steelers back in 2023. No one else has had more than 3. In fact, only three times has someone gotten 3 and Satre had 2 of those.

Most Points Scored in a Game:

30, by DeMarco Murray against Colts in 2017 – Never equaled

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, we have a dominant preseason, going 4-0 and winning every game by a ton of points.

We also had a boom in preseason from a 6th round pick.

Any major moves?

QB Hoffman is 82/82

WR Wild down to 56/56. RT Starks to 62/62, CB Colton Hanks to 40/40, C Leggin to 64/64, FB Percy Olivares 26/26,

But, MLB Eduardo Sweat is up to 47/61. LG Lamar Rasnic didn’t do badly with 41/69 in our post-Satre era.

We have three major results from the draft:

DT Grayon Clark, 3.17 pick, 30/51. Won’t start over our FA Signee Thomas Dwyer, a 45/45 5th year guy we brought in.
FS Malachi McKnight, 6.17, boomed to 32/55


DE Jordan Rogers –

Here’s our post-Velazquez guy

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We had a serious need for help on the D Line this offseason, and Rogers should fill that need nicely. He boomed a bit in camp/preseason. Dude looks like a future force. He’s still 3rd on the Green Page of awesome rookies.

[Abe Sargent]

I trim some UFA Fat to get us to 53. I also cut CB Ian Heath who dropped.

We’ll be using FS McKnight and SLB Gati as our gunners.

After he busted in preseason, I sign FB Neal Blades from FA. Then I cut FB Olivares.


The 2030 Jacksonville Jaguars

QB Damien Hoffman – Tied with 10th year man, well…here, I’ll show you:

Top QB by ability in the NFL:

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You can see that Hoffman has evolved quite quickly into a major NFL force. So there you are. Great stuff from the guy.

I’ll give you my roster via image this time:


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You can see my two 80+ players Hoffman and Bernardini, plus potential DE Rogers. You have the blue-esque bust of Whalen, and such on there. We have a decent cap now for pulling in replacements due to injury or whatnot.

Obviously, our success in drafting Hoffman could be really, really bad financially in a year or two.

Anyway, it’s also nice to see new signee CB Cary Greene not be a major bust or anything. New starters include now-WLB Casey Joyner, who doesn’t want to resign with me because he didn’t get a lot of playing time, and DT Dwayer, draftees OG Blades, DE Rodgers,

You can also see some aging talent in our offense – Leggin, Starks and Wild.

[Abe Sargent]

Roster Strengths –

Tied for best QB
8th best RB
2nd worst FB
6th worst TE
6th best WR
7th best C
12th best OG
11th best OT
11th worst P
9th best K
Tied for best DE
12th worst DT
12th worst MLB
2nd best OLB
4th best CB
THE best S

We had a weaker defense the last year, so I invested money and talent at DE, CB, WLB and we should hopefully see some strong results.


We have the 2nd youngest team in the league.

Alright lads, let’s get back to the playoffs!

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 – We begin with a away game against the Colts. We begin this season with a win, 28-17. Hoffman is 23 of 33 for 228 and 3:0. Poffenroth rocks 8 for 76 and a score, and RB Gaston and backup RB Stehlik catch TD scores too. RB Gaston rushes for a score. Pick by now-backup CB Colton Hanks. 4 KRB by C Leggin, OG Blades, ad 3 by new starter OG Lamar Rasnic. No major injuries either.


Week 2 Next up is the Eagles. We fly out there and declip them 27-3. Hofman had 27 of 33 and 367, 2:2. Wild 102 yards, RB Gaston 6 grabs for 71 and a score, WR Poffenroth the other score RB Gaston rushes for one too. Pick by CB Hutchings. FF by WLB Joyner, recovered by CB Cary Greene. 1.5 sacks by DE Burton, 5 KRB by OT Matthews.

Again, no major injuries. SLB and gunner Jared Gati is the sole major injury with questionable shoulder for a week or two.


Week 3 – Now we host the Broncos in our home opener. We send them home with a loss, 45-20. Hoffman rocked 20 of 26 for 319 and 4:0. Wild 115 yards and a score, Poffenroth 104 and another. Catches by WR Carlton Eckberg and RB Stehlik. Stehlik also rushed for a pair of scores too. Pick by MLB Sweat. Sacks by SLB Wilkerson, DT Grayson Clark, and DE Burton. 5 KRB by C LEggins, and 3 each by Blades, Starks and Matthews.



We have an injury to MLB Ray Gibson, a backup. He has turf toe and is doubtful for a while. I bench him.

Week 4 – We host the Jets and blast them 38-3. NFL Offensive Player of the Week is Damien Hoffman with his 24 for 33 and 422, and 4:0. WR Poffenroth had 8 grabs for 173 yards and 2 scores, Wild 83 and a score and FB Neal Blades a final TD. RB Gaston rushes for a score. Sacks by DE Jordan Rogers and backup DE Alston. 3 KRB by OT Matthews.


We finish the 1st quarter 4-0.

The Bengals are also 4-0 in the AFC, and in the NFC we have Minnesota, Chicago, Tampa, and Arizona.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 5 – We host and just break the Dolphins 41-7. Once again, Hoffman is NFL Offensive Player of the Week with 31 of 40 for 383 and 5:0. One TD Each by Poffenroth, Stehlik, Wild, Gaston and TE Beyer. Picks by Hanks and CB Jonah Dennis. 4 forced fumbles on the day, two recovered. Sack by SLB Gati, DE Rogers, and WLB Joyner. 4 KRB by OG Blades.


RG Trent Clark is doubtful with something. I bench him for 3 weeks until healed.

5 teams still at 5-0.

Week 6 – We struggle hosting the Colts, but emerge victorious 31-24. Hoffman, MVP, rocked 24 of 44 for 311 an 3:1. Wild – 115 and 1 score; Poffenroit 142 and 1 score; RB Stehlik with a score, Gaston rushes for another. Pick by CB Greene, 4 passes def by Bernardini. 3 FF on the day, one on special teams by Gati, and then DT Clinton with one.. 2 sacks by DE Burton. 4 KRB By OG Blades.

We have a major injury. OT Myron Starks is out for 7 weeks with a stress fracture in his leg. OT is the place with the least depth on the o Line for us too. That’s not an injury we can afford. We will be started UFA rookie Anthony O’Neal.

3 6-0 teams left.


Week 7 – We head to Tennessee and…lose 41-34. Well, there went an undefeated season. Tennessee, by the way, is a strong 5-2. Hoffman was 31 of 49 attempts for 450 yards and 3:2 ratio., Wild rocked 9 for 156 and 1 score, and other scores to Poffenroth and WR Menzies. SLB with a FF that was recovered by SLB Gati. Sack less, mostly blockless.

2 undefeated teams left (Chicago, Minnesota) – they play each other next week.

In injury news:

C Myron Leggin, probable
DT Grayson Clark, probable
DE Jordan Rogers, probable


We have a bye next week too

Week 8 – BYE

Minnesota, on the road, wins the battle of the undefeated 24-9.


Week 9 – We host and defeat the Bills 26-7. DE Gregory Burton is NFL Defensive Player of the Week with 3 sacks and a hurry, 2 forced fumbles, and one recovery. SLB Wilkerson with 1.5 sacks, 1 sack by Bernardini and DT Thomas Dwyer as well. 4 KRB by C Leggin, 3 by Blades. Pick by Wilkerson. We forced 5 fumbles, and recovered every single one! Oh, and Hoffman was 20 of 39 fir 292 and 2:1, and hit Poffenroth and RB Gaston for scores. K PIntsak was 4/4 in FG.



C Leggin is down to questionable.

The Vikes went and lost

We are now 7-1.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 10 – Next up is 3 win New England. They had a great pan for us and we barely overcame it 23-17. 3 KRB by C Leggin, 1.5 sacks by Burton, picks by Bernardini and SLB Wilkerson, 2 FF by SS Whalen, one recovered by Wilkerson. WR Poffenroth is MVP with 7 for 112 and 2 scores. Hoffman was 17 for 31 and just 251 and 2:2 on the day.

Multiple banged up injuries to players lik Wild, and CB Glenn. C Leggin upgraded to probable.



Week 11 – We host the 5-4 Texans and send them to .500 after the 33-9 drubbing we grant them. Rookie DE Jordan Rogers is Defensive Player of the Week with 3.5 sacks and 1 hurry and QB Knockdown on the day. Meanwhile Burton adds 2.5 sacks and Wilkerson one. 4 KRB by Blades. Picks by Whalen and CB Denis. Hoffman as 23 of 36 for 360 and 2:0. Wild had 8 grabs for 162 and 2 scores. Gaston rushed for a score too.

CB Colton Hanks is out with a strained elbow for 6 weeks. I toss him on the bench and activate CB Wade Rose. We’ll be using 6th round rookie FS Malachi McKnight as our new dimeback.

Week 12 – We head to Dallas and drop them 38-10. RB Gaston was injured early and we rode Stehilk to 19 carries, 133 yards, 3 scores, and a MVP nod. Hoffman was just 20 of 29 for 2:1 on 233 yards. TE Beyer and WR Poffenroth caught the scores. 2 sacks by DE Bortn, 1 each by Rogers and DE Alston. 3 KRB by Matthews, OT O’Neal and Leggin.


No major injuries.


Week 13 – We head to Cleveland and smack them around 34-10. DE Burton is NFL Defensive Player of the Week with 3 sacks, 2 hurries, 1 QB Knockdown. 1 sack by WLB Joyner. 4 KRB by OG Rasnic and 3 by OG Blades. Picks by CB Hutchings and CB Monty Glenn. Hoffman was held back to 19 of 29, 160 and 2:0 and Poffenroth those two scores. Gaston rushed 21 for 157 and 2 scores. We simply flipped the script to rushing and defense.


C Myron Leggin exacerbated his injury and is now out for 5 weeks. C Billy Patton starts for him
DT Thomas Dwyer is out for 3 weeks with a hyperextended elbow. Rookie DT Clark will start,


OT Starks is healthy now, and will move back into the starting lineup.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 14 – We start off the final quarter of the season hosting, and smashing the 3 win ‘Skins 31-9. Hoffman is again NFL Offensive Player of the Week with 29 of 40 for 337 and 4:0. Wild, Poffenroth, Wild and FB Blades caught scores. Pick by CB Hutchings. 3 sacks by DE Burton, 2 by DE Alston, and 1 by DT Maruice Clinton. 3 KRB by Blades and Rasnic


C Patton is questionable with a broken hand. We have to keep him in though.

Week 15 – We host the Titans and win 24-3. Hoffman was 27 of 36 for 335 and 2:0 and Poffenroth caught 8 for 126 and 2 scores. Picks by FS Malachi McKnight and Bernardini. FF by Wilkerson. Sack by Burton. 3 KRB by Matthews and C Billy Patton.


No major injuries

We are 13-1. We have won the AFC by a bunch. With only 2 games to go, the 10-4 Bengals can’t touch us. No one else in the conference, other than Tennessee, has 9 wins. Unless some 8-6 teams go 2-0 to finish, we may not have a lot of 10+ win teams in the playoffs.


But we have a major game – we are hosting the 11-4 New York Giants. We’ll play to win, we have a bye.


Week 16 – We crush them 41-13. Hoffman had 20 of 32 for 249 and 4:0. Poffenroth, RB Stehlikx2, and WR Menzies with the TD Grabs. Sack by DE Burton, and 3 KRB by Blades and OT Starks. CB Demetrius Stehlik was 27 for 197 and 1 score.

RB Kendrick Gaston is out for 6 weeks with a broken fibula. RB Stehlik will start for him.

DT Dwyer is fine and comes back from injury. He moves back into the starting lineup.


Week 17 – We finish with the 9-6 Texans. They are in the lead right now for Wild Card in the AFC (Titans and Texans are both in if the playoffs were held today). But if we beat them, there are 3 8-7 teams playing today that could cause problems. The Texans are playing for a post-season bid and we’re just playing for fun.

And….we lose, 16-12.


Wild is doubtful for 4 weeks with a pulled groin

[Abe Sargent]

I’ll skip the stats:


3030 NFL Playoffs


AFC Standings:

14-2 Jaguars
12-4 Bengals
10-6 Bills
8-8 Raiders
10-6 Texans
9-7 Dolphins

The Titans lost twice down the stretch to not make it in.

The Texans travel to, and defeat, the Raiders 23-17
The Dolphins are undone in Buffalo 14-6

Meanwhile the Eagles and Bears advance.


Week 2 – Divisional Round


We host the Texans. I’m going to keep in Joshua Wild, even at questionable.

We win 24-10. Hutchings is MVP with 1 pick returned 23 for a score. Pick by Bernardini as well. Poffenroth was 10 for 142 and Hoffman an anemic 19 of 29 for 268 and 0:1. 1 sack by DT Dwyer. 3 pasdef by Bernardini. 3 KRB by Blades and Starks

The Bills with 13-0 in Cincinnati
Chicago loses to Arizones 13-16
Philadelphia loses in Minnesota 13-24.

[Abe Sargent]

Conference Champ


We’ll start Wild again vs the Bills. C Leggin is back from injury.

We barely edge them 34-31. Hoffman is MVP with 30 of 44 for 272 and 1:0. He hits Poffenroth for 127 yard and Wild for a score. RB Stehlik rushes for 2 scores. Pick and return by SLB Jared Gati for a score. Sacks by DT Clinton and DE Burton. 4 KRB by Starks, 3 by OT Matthews

WR and KR/PR Menzies is questionable.

Minnesota can’t overcome the Cardinals and lose 13-26

[Abe Sargent]

The 3030 NFL Super Bowl

The #1 Seed 14-2 AFC Champion Jacksonville Jaguars

Vs

The #2 Seed 13-3 NFC Champion Arizona Cardinals

Since (this dynasty began) 2014, the Cardinals have never appeared in the Super Bowl. Will today be there day?

The Jags are back to the Bowl after winning it all in 2026.


We’ll keep Wild and Menzies in. RB Gaston is probable. He’ll start as well.

Here we go!


Arizona forces the Jags to go 3 and out to start ht egam,e heads, down, and then sores a TD at the 10:09 mark with a plunge by RB Alfred Hickman.

The Jags and Cards exchange possessions, and then Poffenroth scores a 11 yard pass from Hoffman to level it at 4:12. 7-7

On the ensuing drive, the Cards drive, convert a 8yard pass to score, with 14:25 left in the half, and it’s 14-7.

The Jaguars score two field goals, including one just as the clock drops and its 14-13 at the half.


The Cards pick off Hoffman for a 70 yard pick and score by CB Monty Carlisle and the score is suddenly 21-13. RB Gaston leads a strong drive and they score after minutes evaporate off the clock. A pass for the 2 point conversion fails. 21-19. The Cards scrore with 1:15 left in the 3rd off a pass to TE Doug Nordskov and its 28-19.

As the 4th opens, the Cards get the ball bal and score a FG. 31-19.

Then the teams exchange possessions for a while until Damien leads a late gave drive and hits TE Courtney Beyer for a 13 yard score with 1:38 left. 31-26. Will the onside kick work? Nope. Cards recover and win.

Hoffman was 32 for 53 and 405 yard with 2:1 ratio. Poffenroth had 10 catches, 210 yards, and 1 score, and TE Beyer 8 for `111 yards and a score. No sacks, forced fumbles, or picks. OG Blades had 5 KRB and C Leggin 3.


The Cardinals have won the Super Bowl:

[Abe Sargent]

Season AwardS:


Player of the Year:

QB Damien Hoffman



Offensive Player of the Year:

QB Damien Hoffman


Defensive Player of the Year:

DE Gregory Burton


All Pro 1st Team:

QB Damien Hoffman
OG David Blades
DE Gregory Burton


Not a lot of All Pro nods, but I’ve been saying for a while that eventually DE Burton is going to turn it on, and he did.

And, by the way, the era of the Hoff has begun

[Abe Sargent]

QB Damien Hoffman – 371 of 557 for 4873, 66.6 %, 44:9 ratio, 113.6 Rating, 11 sacks, 2 knockdowns, 1 fumble

2nd in league in passing yards by 23, The most TD by 9, The fewest picks among 16 game starters by 2, The best QB Rating by 5 points, 11 sacks is half the next best for a 16 game starter who had 22. 2 knockdowns is uncanny. Hoffman really protects the football well and has incredible awareness behind the line.

RB Kendrick Gaston – 15 games, 213 carries, 969 yards, 7 TD, 4.55 ypc; 39 grabs, 435 and 4 scores
RB Demetrius Stehlik, 225 carries, 930 yards, 8 TD< 4.13 ypc; 33 grabs for 302 and 6 scores


Neither of these really pulled away with things. Sorry about that. We had a poor running year, and a poor blocking year that likely led to it. Otherwise we would have easily had a 2 headed double 1000 rushing season again.

WR Joshua Wild, 94 for 1385 and 9 scores
WR Maxwell Poffenroth, 94 for 1384 yards and 18 scores

Wild and Poffenroth were 7th and 8th in receiving yards and Poffenroth 2nd in scores. How many 33 year old 12th year vets are still catching 1385 yards and 9 scores?


WR/KR/PR Darnell Menzies – 46 PR for 1.4 average, lead league among qualifiers who did not have a score. ; 31 KR for 30.1 avg, 3rd in league overall, even including those with scores..

Once again, solid year for Menzies.

K Patrick Pintsak – 31 of 33 KGM, long of 48, 59 of 59 PAT

P Kendrick McKissick -83 kicks fr 42.7 average, 27 in 20.

WLB Jared Gati had 29 special teams tackles and 2 special teams FF. 4th most special teams tackles in the league.


Defense:


DE Gregory Burton, 21.5 sacks, 4 blocked passes, 18 hurries, 15 QB KD, 3 FF; 2 fumrec
DE Jordan Rogers, 8 sacks, 5 block, 15 hurries, 6 QBKD
DE Edwin Alston, 4.5 sacks, 5 hurries, 1 QBKD
DT Thomas Dwyer, 13 starts, 2.5 sacks, 2 block, 3 hurr, 1 QBKD
DT Maurice Clinton, 2.5 sacks, 1 block, 6 hurr, 3 QBKD, 2 FF

Burton led the league in sacks by NINE. Yup, next best we DE Kennedy McBirney with 12.5 sacks. I still need to work on the center of my D Line though. Damien was sacked 11 times. We were +39 on sacks.



MLB Eduardo Sweat, 79 solo, 24 assist; 0.5 sacks, 2 hurr, 2 pick, 8 pasdef
WLB Casey Joyner, 32 solo, 18 assit; 2 sacks, 2 pasdef
SlB Ezra Wilkerson, 84 and 16 tack, 4 sacks, 2 QB KD, 2 pick, 9 pasdef, 4 FF, 3 fumrec

I thought Ezra was mounting a strong All Pro campaign until he faded in the 2nd half of the season. But c’est le vie.


FS Quentin Bernardini, 75 and 16 tack, 1.5 sacks, 4 picks, 11 pasdef
SS Jermaine Whalen, 76 and 26 tack; 2 hurries, 1 INT, 5 pasdef, 3 FF, 2 fumrec
CB Allen Hutchings, 4 picks, 17 pasdef
CB Cary Greene, 2 picks, 18 pasdef; 2 fumrec


The league lead in pasdef this year was 19, so Greene tied with two others for second, and Hutchings was alone at 17 pasdef. (Just one with 16 as well, then logjams begins at 15). Hey look, if you aren’t going to come down with a lot of picks, a ton of passes defended against works too. I cannot be unhappy with the low picks from my defensive brigade since we did so well covering the ball. Plus, with Damien only tossing 9 picks on the season, 20 we had from various places puts us at +11 INT. That’s pretty sexy.

Blocking:

OG David Blades, 39 KRB, 8 pancakes, 4 sacks allowed
OT Brant Matthews, 28 KRB, 3 pancakes, 3 sacks allowed
OG Lamar Rasnic, 26 KRB, 1 sack allowed
OC Myron Leggin, 12 starts, 24 KRB, 1 pancakes, 1 sack allowed
OT Myron Starks, 10 games, 14 KRB, 2 pancakes, 1 sack allowed

Not a strong year. At all.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:

Offensive Player of the Year: QB Damien Hoffman – This arc is similar to the one Quentin Bernardini did –Rookie of the Year, then All Pro, then Player of the Year. Hoffman has arrived. Now I want more stats, and more stuff, we can’t be content with his production, but he is a savvy guy we can lean on for a really long time to come.

Defensive Player of the Year: DE Gregory Burton. Heya! It’s time you played up to your ability. We now have 2 NFL Defensive POTY on our roster. Welcome to the club buddy!


Special Teams Player of the Year – K Patrick Pintsak – We had a solid season on special teams. Pintsak was 31 of 33, and was very reliable when called upon, with just two misses on the season. Thanks Pintsak!

Rookie of the Year: DE Jordan Rogers, the first rounder about whom we have a ton of hopes pinned certainly didn’t embarrass. He has grown to 66/84 and had a 8 sack season as a green-ish, rookie. The tag-team of Rogers and Burton should provide some serious QB Pressure to come!


Heart Award: SLB Jared Gati – Gati had a great season from a lot of angles. When spelling folks? 5 passes defended. Had 3 FF total, 2 on special teams, and 2 fumble recoveries. 29 special teams tackles. 1 each for sack, blocked pass, hurry and QB Knockdown. In special teams or spelling folks, he really excelled, and pretty quietly too. We had to massage the roster to resign him, but his play was worth it.

The Jaguars this season allowed an average of just 13 points a game. They allowed just 219 points.

[Abe Sargent]

End of 3030 Season:

Performance – 90
Value – 100
Profit – 78
Roster – 23

Score – 80


Uh oh. No retirements. That’s not good or healthy for my cap stuff.

QB Hoffman turns 4th year pro, so his contract is done at the end of this season and I need serious cap space to bring him back. Normally I like to re-sign my top talent in their final year, but if I can’t I may have to franchise tag and d it next offseason.

Retirements of Note:

QB Rich Dillon, retires as Legend of the Game, former 1.1 pick by the Bucs
TE JR Delaroche, former Jaguar
LG Earl Stamm, 4 time All League nods, 2 rings with the Seahawks – played all of his career with them, 349 KRB, 31 pancakes, 40 sacks allowed
LG Alonzo Thomason, 3 all league nods, played 13 years for 49ers, 458 KRB, 51 pan, 75 sacks allow
K Caiden Wells – All Pro 4 times
DE Trey Sullivan, 4 time all pro, 1 ring with the Saints, 92.5 sacks,
DT Casy Doxzon, 2 rings with Ravens, with them whole career, 69.5 sacks, 2 All Pro



Heading to the Hall of Fame: Khalil Mack, Aaron Donald, Mike Evans, Isaih Tucker, Cornelius Yachera and Ra’Shede Hageman.

[Abe Sargent]

Franchise worth 1.797 bill, 2nd most in league

3rd best Stadium
11th best Roster
14th best support
11th worst economy


I retain our OC and DC

We draft 12th. I make no changes to our staff.


We have 41 players under contract and no cap space – 8.78 mill which needs to be spent on rookies.

I can’t afford to even think of franchising.

Let’s hit FA and then stare at my ugly roster:




We have lost – starting WLB Joyner, DT Clinton, FB Blades

So we need: RB, FB, WR, OG, OT, DE, DT, LBx3, CB

Now, we have RFA at a lot of those spots. I can retain the best and keep our roster up to par.

Players in the Last Year of Their Deal That I Care About:

LS Kent Ikuma
CB Allen Hutchings
CB Colton Hanks
SLB Ezra Wilkerson
RT Myron Starks
WR Maxwell Poffenroth
WR Joshua Wild
QB Damien Hoffman

And backups or weak starters – TE Beyer, QB Stanton, WR Menzies, DE Alston, DT Nick Greer


Now, who do I really want to keep that’ll save some cap space?

I get two trade offers, hold on:

The Raiders are offering me their 6.21 this year for QB Eduardo Pearl. The Titans want DT Grayson Clark.

I try to change up the pick for a future 6th. That I’d do. They aren’t interested. We do it for two future 7ths instead.

I’m not going to be able to free up QB Hoffman’s needed 25 mill in cap space for his deal this year unless I go kamikaze on my roster. Instead, I can keep space free next year by not making any major FA singings or extending a few players past 3031.

[Abe Sargent]

Who are my must-extends?

We extend:

WR Maxwell Poffenroth
SLB Ezra Wilkerson
LS Kent Ikuma (To a vet min salary)


We will let go:

WR Menzies, TE Beyer, CB Hanks, QB Stanton, DE Alston, WR Bryce Haynes, DT Rick Greer, CB Joseph Dennis, TE Arnie Sitz, Sebastian Treftz

That’s a lot of depth. Knowing that, are there any RFA that I might want to keep in order to have solid depth to cover those folks?

I like MLB Ray Gibson – 36/44 undrafted FA for us and he’ll cost 1.35 mill (the min salary) to retain . I do like OT O’Neal, but he wants solid money (3 years, 7.21 mill) to come back. Can’lt do that for the UFA guy. That’s it.

I still need to free up money. Those extensions were usually for the same amount as their current deal extended. I can’t have 40 players plus my draftees on my roster.

We draft 1.31, and we just have our 8 picks this year with an extra 7th.

I want to see if anyone will give me some cap agility contracts on my team. I can extend CB Hutchings for 4 years, drop his cap hit this year by 3.3 mill, and then next three years it’s 9.3, 9.8 and then 10.7. That’s not bad for a 53/53 starter, but he’s in his 8th year and will be 30 by training camp. I don’t know if I want to commit that sort of money to him.

I don’t want to extend RB Gaston, because that could be where I go for cap space next year. Unfortunately SS Whalen doesn’t have an accurate view of his deterioration. I could cut TE Beyer now. Save 2.5 mill. I do need starters at DT (maybe, I do have my rookie from last year) FB, WLB, and that requires me spending cash in FA or getting very lucky in the draft. If I cut Beyer, I save money, but I have to replace him now. I could cut K Pintsak for a few million or SS Whalen to save 6.5 mill.

In order to better see the money stuff, I advance the FA stage.

WLB Joyner is the 4th best non-kicker in FA. There Is a 75/75 5th year CB, a 55/55 OT, a 53/53 FB, and then Joyner and then 51/51 FB.

I am deepest at safety on my roster I have Popson, the ex-rookie MckNight. I could cut Whalen, and then move over….McKnight looks a better SS. Frankly, that’s the samart play, although I hate to lose Whalen, I like to keep folks from womb to tomb. But it’s not to be.


I cut Jermaine Whalen. Sigh.

We talk to his agent, and WLB Casey Joyner would consider coming back to J-ville. I also cut TE Beyer.

I make an offer to:

TE Winston Blades, 3 years, 9.86 mill

He’s 5th year, and has great special teams play and is an adequate 42/42 guy. The Beyer cut saving spays for his first year.

We extend WR Wild by one year

I make a 2 year min-sal offer to K Duane Tate

I cut K Pintsak. This frees up 4 mill.

I extend QB Will Stanton for a year.

I make an offer to FB Robbie Bauer

I make an offer to bring back WLB Joyner. He’s cheaper than a lot of folks that aren’t as good.

We have offers to WLB, TE, K and FB.

Let’s move forward:

Stage 2 – Nothing

Stage 3 – We sign Joyner back. DT Clinton is heading to Washington.

Stage 4 – No news

Stage 5 – No news

Stage 6 – Nothing

Stage 7 – TE Blades is coming to Jacksonville.

Stage 8 – FB Bauer is heading to us too. Any major players missed in the first round of FA? No one major

Stage 9 - We sign K Tate. SS Whalen is heading to Cleveland.

Stage 10 – K Pinstak is heading to St Louis

[Abe Sargent]

Draft Scouting Time:

I need:


QB
RBx2
WR
OG
OT
DE
DT
2xLB
CB
S

Now we are losing 2xTE next year, so I could grab depth there as well. I could use a starter quality guy at SS (maybe) DT (maybe), OT (for Starks’s eventual replacement), WR (for Wild). Because I signed starters in the FA period, I basically have the luxury of BAP if I want. Although, ideally, I end up with that depth in the areas listed above.

I use interviews for LB, S, WR, TE and RB.

I finish up FA and let’s hit that draft thing.

The 3031 NFL Amateur Draft

The Chargers get things started with a DT.


Our 1.31 pick arrives and I take a look to see what’s what.

We have a stud OG on the board – Perry Wells. But with OG Blades and Lamar Rasic on my roster, that might be the one place I don’t have space for a BAP pick. Unless I moved him to OT?

There are some solid OTs on the board too, although nothing like Wells

I like FS Daquan Hartwig and SLB Brad Willing here too.

So….where do I go?

Hartwig? Willing? OT Sergio Keith? Wells?


I pick up OT Keith – he has two red and two blue scores, and a green one in his IQ Test.


Wow. The 2.31 arrives and TE Tony Gasho, the best TE on the board, is still there. After interviewing him he came back underrated. Fills a future need. My best guess is that he’s likely a Brett Kovacs sort of TE in the low 50s.

All of the other players I was eyeing fell by 2.12. I’m comfortable with Gasho. I snag him.


The 3031 Jacksonville Jaguars Draft

1.31 OT Sergio Keith, Louisiana State
2.31 TE Tony Gasto, Duke
3.31 SLB Van Ellwood, Eastern Kentucky
4.31 DT Zachery Stevenson, Iowa
5.31 FS Corwin Lynch, Tennessee
6.31 WR Vincent Cunningham, Duke
7.22 RB Efrain Austin, Indiana
7.31 FB Mark Davidson, Syracuse

[Abe Sargent]

So, coming out of the draft, Keith is 23/65. Looks solid, hope he plays that way. Wells? 33/76. FS Hartwig? 23/60. SLB Willing? 27/49

So Willing was a lucky miss. Whew! But Wells could be a real thing


“I hear ya, but the Jaguars draft isn’t as good as you think it is, I have to disagree with you. Why did they take any offensive line in the 1st? I don’t care how much you might like Keith, your giving them an A- grade just reflects how much you have drunk the kool-aid of GM D’Avignon.

Look, first of all, who is OT Keith pushing? Sure, eventually OT Starks and C Leggin might retire, and this is insurance for Starks. Sure. But Starks is just in his 12th year, and remember he’s younger than a lot of players since he came out of school early, he’ll be 33 by the time training camp opens. Last year was the first time, in his career, that he missed a game due to injury. There is every chance that injury and retirement are going to pass him by.

But if they don’t, why waste a pick here on an O Line? The Jaguars have proven again and again that they can find and develop high quality starters on the O Line. So why make the pick now, when you don’t need it? The GM stated that this was BAP move, but we ll know otherwise. They could have grabbed OG Perry Wells if that was the case. But you aren’t grabbing a guy to start when you have Blades coming off two All Pro seasons the ripe old age of 26 and a 3rd rounder you essential stole from the rest of the league a few years ago.

It doesn’t make sense. You can’t plan for retirement for an OT that young and that studly.

I don’t buy the pick, and I don’t buy your grade.”

To Late FA

I cut TE Sitz


I make offers to 5 Undrafted FA

I really like C Tyrell McGregor, a 3rd year guy, 39/58, from the Saints that looks solid and wants very little. I make him an offer, he’s be a better backup than my current guy.

We lose some players like RB Stehlik and MLB Ray Gibson.

I bring in all 6 of my guys, and then cut C Billy Patton. The guy I signed is more developed, had a lot better potential, is signed for two years at a cheaper price. I then resign MLB Devan Comer to come back to my team for 2 years and QB Joe Peterson for the same.

[Abe Sargent]

Who’s Ready for Training Camp?


I cut my extra FB and head to preseason


We sell 59,300 season tix

Whoa! We have a potential boom rookie. Van Ellwood. We’ll see if he’s like that post-preseason.

Remember when my team couldn’t buy a LB with a vowel. Now we are getting linebackers a go go and having trouble finding DT. It seriously might be time to go 3-4 next year. I’m told if I move this guy to SILB he’d get better. I’ve developed guys like Joyner and Gati on my roster as quality backup folk. I was surprised at how good MLB 4.32 Eduardo Sweat came out, and now he’s a 59/59 starter for me. And now maybe Ellwood is in that vein, we’ll see.

In the preseason we get blown out by the Seahawks, then win two, and finally edged in the final game by the Packers by a FG and finish 2-2.

Damn Ellwood got even better!


Alright, here’s my 1st rounder for ya’ll at a position of not-need. Not yet:
http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/LT%20KEith_zpsalnoa5el.jpg

Alright you can see the lad here. 33/71 is not a bad place post-camp/preseason after multiple chances to bust. Now the 94 volatility is always a concern, but I’m fine – nothing major happened (yet at least)

My TE Tony Gasho finishes the campaign at 42/59. That’s also a strong entry from the draft for my roster, and I hope we end up with a guy who is Kovacs+, I’d be happy.

My 4th rounder DT Zachery Stevenson, who was a rookie for me, finishes with a 28/54 rating. That’s not shabby. Undrafted FA RG Hugh Stone is very very green, but finishes with a 16/53. Also pretty solid.

[Abe Sargent]

Now, here’s my potential surprise:


http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/THe%20Van%20has%20arrived_zpskksmg9ub.jpg


SLB Van Ellwood finishes with a 38/69 body? Wow! If I had known I’d get him, and then he’d grow like this, I would not have resigned Joyner, I would have just moved him over and then thanked the football gods!


The Van has arrived!


Umm…it’s bad to have great players though. I am surprised by this draft and UFA class, since it seems like I have multiple high-quality potential starters down the line. I just sort of buzzed through my draft since I was busy with other things, in case you didn’t notice. I spent some time analyzing my 1st pick, not a lot, and then mostly just BAP’d areas of need from there on out.

Post-camp, OT Sergio Keith has risen on the Green Page considerably. He is now the 2nd highest on the board.

Other players I liked? OG Perry Wells is now a 46/75 guy for the Seahawks that they stole at the 2.12 pick. The S I wanted was injured in Green Bay in the preseason and was placed on IR< he’s at 31/56 right now….

I’m pretty happy with the results of that post-season, especially after letting Whalen go.

[Abe Sargent]

Alright now:

Changes you won’t like _ WR Wild down to 47/47; OT Starks down to 58/58; CB Hanks to 38/38, CB Hutchings to 48/48; OT Brant Matthews to 41/41, Will Stanton to 19/19; WLB Casey Joyner, 42/42; RB Gaston to 48/48.; DAMN!

I cut TE Treftz


Now that SS McKnight is starting I move him off gunner and move TE Winston Blades on. Because Matthews fell, looks like Keith will be starting for us at LT.

Here’s our starting roster

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/3031%20Roster_zpszhs2rcrj.jpg


You can see that we have some drops at places I would hope we would have growth. But having said that, I can’t fault my moves in the offseason to let go of folks like SS Whelan and so forth. Now, what did I do with the two major players we have unsigned:

CB Hutchings
OT Starks

They make no changes to their fiscal demands. I am comfortable letting Hutchings go right now. And Starks could be a solid guy for me.

Roster Strength:

3rd best QB
15th best RB
15th worst FB
15th worst TE
10th best WR
6th best C
5th best OG
14th best OT
9th worst P
7th worst K
THE best DE
8th worst DT
The worst MLB
5th best OLB
5th best CB
THE best S

7th youngest club in the league

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 – We open hosting Tennessee. It’s nice to open with a dominating win over a division foe, 34-6. Damien Hoffman has no rust, with a NFL Offensive Player of the Week nod when he tosses 39 balls, 28 completions, 312 yards and 2:0 ratio. RB Gaston has 8 grabs for 84 yards and a score, WR Wild 7 for 99 and Poffenroth 7 for 92 and a score. RB Chance Braddock, spelling Gaston, rushes for two scores. Picks by FS Bernardini, SLB Wilkerson, and CB Cary Greene. SLB Gati with a sack. 3 KRB by Blades, who is injured on the day and has knee tendinitis and is questionable.


Week 2 – Are the Buccaneers the closest team to the Jaguars? I was just wondering because we catch them totally flatfooted, maybe they thought they had a home game or something – 34-3. Hoffman has 24 of 30 for 293 and 4:0. W Menzies has 2 scores, WR Wild and backup WR Bryce Haynes one each. Sack by SLB Wilkerson. 3 KRB by rookie OT Sergio Keith

No major injuries


Week 3 – With our first away game of the season in Buffalo, one of the questions on everyone’s mind is if we’ll play the same dominating games we had at home. No, we wont. But we’ll still win 34-24, which is fine by me. DE Jordan Rogers is Defensive Player of the Week for the NFL and got 2 sacks, 2 knockdowns. Must have been a light week for defenses. Pick by CB Greene. 4 KRB by C Leggin, Hoffman was game MVP with 23 of 33 for 276 and 3:0 – he hit Wild for 105 and a score, RB Gaston and WR Poffenroth for scores too.

WR Poffenroth is one of a few players injured on the day, but just probable.

Week 4 - The next team that we host on the Come On Down and Get Your Loss Game Show is the Oakland raiders, who lose 24-12. Poffenroth is Game MVP with 8 for 135 and a score. The Hoff was 20 of 32 for 269 and 2:2. Gaston caught the other score, and RB Braddock rushed for one. Picks by CB Hutchings and WLB Joyner. Sacks by DE Rogers and Burton. 3 KRB by OG Rasnic, OT Keith.

Week 5 – Bye

All of our niggling injuries are over in the Bye week save for one – C Leggin;s probable knee.

After 5 weeks, just the Rams are unbeaten (although the Broncos and 49ers are 3-0-1.)

[Abe Sargent]

Week 6 – We head out to Indianapolis and come back winners 37-20. Hoff rocks 23 of 31 for 378 and 2:0. He rifles 6 to Wild for 121 yards and a score, 6 to Poffenroth for 115, and one TD to WR Menzies. RBs Gaston and Braddock each rush for a score. Sacks by SS McKnight, DE Rogers, DE Burton. 4 KRB by C Leggin.

Week 7 – We host the Titans and win 30-9. They held Hoffman in check and stopped the aerial game. He was 16 of 30 for 153 and 2:0. (RBs Gaston and Braddock caught scores). Gaston had 21 for 116 and a score on the ground and we had three picks – CB Hanks, Hutchings, and Bernardini. We also forced 4 fumbles on the day. Not all on defense – some special teams. 1.5 sacks by DT Dwyer and DE Rogers, and 1 by DT Stevenson. 3 KRB by OG Rasnic, OG Blades and OT Sergio Keith.

Week 8 – We blow KC off their own field 34-3. Bernardini has a 57 pick returned for a score and a forced fumble recovered by MLB Sweat. CB Hanks a pick too. Sacks by Sweat and DE Rogers. 3 KRB By Rasnic and Leggin. RB Gaston rushes for a score and QB Hoffman joins him, while passing 21 of 33 for 201 and 1:1 and hitting Poffenroth in the air for a score.

During the game OT Starks was injured he hurt his abdomen and is down to doubtful for two weeks. I deactivate him, move Keith to RT and move Matthews back to the starting gig.


Week 9 – We host the Broncos. It’s very close all the way up until kickoff. Then we win 55-26. Gaston was Game MVP with 13 for 103 and 2 scores, and 2 catches for 27 yards and as core. Wild was 92 yards and a score and Menzies a score as well. Hoffman was stymied 18 of 27 for 210 and 3:2. We had 4 picks on the day though – CB Hanks, Hutchings, WLM Sweat and CB Cary Greene. Greene retruned his 67 yards for a score. DT Stevenson forced a fumble that Grayson Clark recovered. 1.5 sacks by Rogers, 1 by DT Stevenson and CB Greene. 7 KRB by OG Rasnic, and 1 pancakes in there as well.

Post game WR Bryce Haynes is out with plantar fasciitis for 27 weeks. I toss him on I.R and sign UFA WR Louie Moore, a 24/36 guy.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 10 – Our next game is against the winless Chargers and we extend both our streak and theirs, 35-11. Gaston rushed for 2 scores ,Hoffman was 17 of 20 for 302 and 3:1 and then was injured for a pair of series and was pulled for QB Joe Peterson. Poffenroth was 6 of 139 and 2 scores, and Wild the other. Pick by CB Hutchings. Sacks by Rogers, DT Rick Greer, DT Grayson Clark, and DE Burton.

Injuries to a few backups ensure and I massage the depth of my roster

Week 11 – We host and then defeat the Texans 30-20. Gastonw as 20 for 134 and 1 score. WR Wild 11 for 141 yards and a score. New signee WR Louis Moore the other. Hoffman was a solid 30 of 40 for 336 and 2:0. Sacks by DE Rogers and Burton.


Week 12 – The next team on our radar is the Panthers. We beat them in their house 30-10. Hoffman is 24 of 42 for 303 and 3:0, and Poffenroth got 10 for 132 and Wild, TE Gasho and WR Moore scores. Pick by Bernardini, Sacks by DT Grayson Clark, Stevenson, and WLB Joyner.


Week 13 – Despite their 4 win record, and the fact they are in Jacksonville, I take the Bengals coming to town very seriously. We beat them 44-21, which we celebrate very seriously. 3 KRB by Blades, 2 sacks by Rogers, 1 each by Burton, CB Greene, and SLB Wilkerson, 3 forced fumbles, two of which were recovered, Wild had 5 grabs, 100 yards, 2 scores, WR MEnzies a score, and Hoffman was 19 of 26 for 315 and 3:0 while RB Gaston added 2 rushing TD.

Now, our Punter, Kendrick McKissick is out with broken ribs. I place him on IR and sign P Shawn Oakes. I have no desire to deactivate McKissick and carry two punters. We’ll just IR him and move on.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 14 – We head to Atlanta and come back winners 20-13. Hoffman was 31 of 40 for 407 and 2:2. Wild caught 8 for 159 and a score, and RB Gaston caught 7 for 104. FB Robbie Bauer the other TD Catch. 1.5 sacks by DE Rogers. DT Clark is questionable but we’ll keep him in

At 13-0, we have basically won the AFC. The Jets are 10-3, so we technically haven I guess, they could go 3-0 and us 0-3. But we have won a Bye.

Now the major questions in the league are can any team stop the Jaggernaut? Will we have another 19-0 team after the Broncos did it in 2017? Everyone wants to step up their game.

Week 15 – The first team up is Houston. In this case, familiarity does not breed contempt, just a loss. 31-13. Hoffman was 19 of 25 for 233 and 3:0. Poffenroth caught 7 for 119 and RB Gaston 2 TD catches and Menzies one. CB Cary Greene got a pick and a return 85 yards for a score, and SS Mcknight another pick. 5 forced fumbles on the day, but only one recovered. Sacks by MLB Sweat, DE Rogers, Burton. 4 KRB by Rasnic and 2 pancakes.


Who’s next? We host the 7-7 Saints.

Week 16 – Otherwise known as Our First Bye – 41-6. Hoffman was 27 of 35 for 349 and 3:1, while Poffenroth caught 11 for 151 and 1 score and Wild 10 for 156 and 2. RB Braddock had a score. Pick and return 82 yards for a score by CB Hanks and MLB Sweat another pick. Just one sack on the day by DE Alston.

No major injuries – RB Braddock is questionable, that’s the worst

The last team to try and shack is is a team that knows us well – the Colts.

Week 17 – The Indianapolis Colts fly into North Florida to take on the 15-0 Jaguars. We defeat them 29-16. Gaston was 24 for 122 on the ground, Hoffman 18 of 34 for 245 and 1:0, Poffenroth 7 for 129 and 1 score, pick and return 56 yards for a score by CB Hutchings, but K Duane Tate, with a 5/5 day is the Game MVP. Sack by DT Dwyer, 6 KRB and 2 pancakes by OG Rasnic, and 3 KRB by Starks and a pancake for him too.

[Abe Sargent]

The 3031 NFL Playoffs


The AFC:

16-0 Jaguars
12-4 Jets
12-4 Steelers
9-6-1 Broncos
10-6 Ravens
10-6 Titans

And 10-6 Dolphins are out on tiebreakers.


Tennessee loses at Pittsburgh 35-38
Baltimore loses at Denver 20-26

Chicago and Seattle win against Minnesota and New Orleans. In case you care even a little about the NFC (I don’t!)



Week 2 – Divisional Stuff

We host the Broncos. This is not a team that threatened us when we played earlier. Will they now, here at home, with destiny on the line for us?

We remind the world how awesome we are – 44-7

Hoffmann was 24 of 35 with 300 and 4:0 – Poffenroth 120 and 2 score; RB Gaston and WR Menzies scores – Hoffman rushes for a score too. Picks by Greene and Bernardini. Sacks by MLB Sweat. 3 KRB by C Leggin

RB Chance Braddock broke his leg and I toss him on IR> I then activate Tanner Jennings

I extend CB Hutchings by 3 more years – he’s proven himself.

Pittsburgh unseats the Jets 22-14

Meanwhile in NFC News, St Louis defeat Chicago and the giants smashes the Seahawks.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 3 – Conference Championship

We host the Steelers. Once again we just blast our opponent around – 38-13. QB Hoffman is mvp with 27 of 32 for 3:0, and hits Poffenroth (173 yards) for a score, RB Gaston and WR Moore for grabs as well, which RB Gaston and new backup RB Efrain Austin rush for scores. Picks by Hanks, OLB Gati and Bernardini. 1.5 sacks by Rogers, 1 sack by SLB Wilkerson, Burton, and 4 KRB BY OT Keith and C Leggin.


The Giants win 27-17 against the Rams

As a reminder, the Giants won the 2029 Super Bowl against the Steelers and now return to try and take us down. This is also a huge karma moment for football, because the Giants stopped the Patriots from an undefeated 19-0 season in the Super Bowl once before, and now are trying to do the same to us.

What will happen? Who will emerge victorious? Who will the nation discuss for years to come? Who is a legacy, a destiny, and imprints themselves into gold?

[Abe Sargent]

The 3031 NFL Super Bowl

The #1 Seed 16-0 AFC Champion Jacksonville Jaguars

Vs

The #3 seed 10-6 NFC Champion New York Giants

Who wins?


The game begins slowly and the second drive by the Jaguars sees WR Joshua Wild catch a ball and he is tackled hard and his elbow is injured, and he leaves the game and won’t returned, ruled out. That drive ends with a FG by Tate to put the Jags up 3-0 with 8:20 on the clock/

The Giants answer with a TD drive and score with a 21 pass to TE Bryce Noisy from QB Burt Folse with 5:44 on the 1st. Then the Wild-less Jags are stopped and again, the Giants won’t be denied and they score a 8 yard pass to WR Myron Murphies win put the giants up 14-3 with 0:57 left in the 1st.


And the same things happened again, and the Jaguars take some some to grind the clock, are eventually stopped after Hoffman tossed a pick to CB Marc Strickland, and the Giants slow things down, and then score with another 8 yard toss to WR Murphies with 6:36 left in the 1st quarter -21-3

Having not shown any signs of life up until now, the Jaguars create a 2 minute hurry up no-huddle drive and score very quickly with a 8 yard pass to WR Poffenroth from Hoffman with 4:28 on the clock. 21-10. The Giants fumble the ball on the kickoff as TE Winston Blades forces a fumble. The Jaguars put on their 4 minute offense hat and score with a 21 yard pass ot RB Kendrick Gaston with 0:20 left and go into the half 21-17.

As they return, the Jags begin and on the kickoff, they too fumble and Menzies’s ball is returned 54 yards for a score by the Giants special teamer Johnnie Stevenson. 28-17. The Jags drive twice and are stopped both times, an d then the Giants kick a Pat Thomas FG as the 3rd draws to a close with 1:31 left in the 3rd – 31-17.

Two plays later, QB Damien Hoffman nails a 55 yard to Maxwell Poffenroth for a score with 0:55 in the 3rd quarter to respond – 31-24.

Then the Jags FS Bernardini picks off Giants QB Burt Folse, but all the Jags can do with the possession is kick a 34 yard Tate FG at the 11:57 mark. 31-27

The Giants again are stopped, and again the Jaguars drive and a pass to WR Darnell Menzies for 5 yards gives them the lead since the 1st quarter and a TD with 7:18 left – 31-34.

But the Giants are nonplussed, and a few minutes later, WR Murphies gets a reverse from 21 yards out and scores. That’s his third TD of the day and the Giants go to 38-34

The Jags must score a TD to still be in it. And that’s what happens. In a fast drive Damien Hoffman moves the ball effectively and quickly and Poffenroth cauthes a 12 yarder for a TD with 2:46 on the clock at that’s 41-38

But that leaves a lot of time on the clock.

But the Jags defense forces the Giant to turnover on downs and wins the game by 3. Close game!


MVP Hoffman with 30 of 41 and 399, and 5:1. Poffenroth caught 102 yards and 3 scores, RB Gaston 9 grabs, 130 yards, and a score, and WR Menzies a score.

Pick by Bernardini
Sack by DT Dwyer
3 KRB by OT Starks
DE Rogers collected 3 hurries and 4 QB Knockdowns


Quiet day for our defense, other than tackling – not a lot of picks, sacks, forced fumbles – that stuff almost exclusively happened on special teams.


It took us a while to adjust to the gameplan minus Wild, but we did and things hummed from there.

Your favorite Jacksonville Jaguars are now 19-0 and finished the season unbeaten, joined the Broncos as the 2nd team to do so.

[Abe Sargent]

Awards:


Player of the Year:

QB Damien Hoffman


Super Bowl MVP:

QB Damien Hoffman


Offensive Player of the Year:

QB Damien Hoffman


All League 1st Team:

QB Damien Hoffman
OG Lamar Rasic
DE Jordan Rogers
CB Cary Greene



Welcome Rasnic, you are officially Satre’s replacement. DE Rogers has also arrived officially. He might have been a couple of sacks away from D PLOY too.


I actually think Hoffman shouldn’t have won those awards. I’ll show you:

[Abe Sargent]

QB Damien Hoffman, 358 of 517, 4591 yards, 69.2%, 39:9 ratio, 114.7 QB Rating, 14 sacks, 6 knockdown, ZERO Fumbles at all

Alright – he was 6th in passing yards, with 2 players over 5200 yards each. His 39 TD was tied for 2nd most with the guy with the 2nd most yard and the guy with the most had 40. Many QBs has few picks, in fact, QB Ricky Munoz of Green Bay has a better % completion rate, 4656 yards, and just 6 picks. Although fewer TD. This was not a year Hoffman distinguished himself. He won probably because his team went 16-0.


RB Kendrick Gaston – 266 for 1116, 4.2 ypc, 10 rush scores; 48 for 455 yards, 7 receiving scores
RB Chance Braddock, 164 for 549, 3.35 ypc, 6 rush td; 14 for 161 and 1


Gaston is a grind-ahead power RB, and we have a road grader capable O Line, but we just went pass more often. Can’t fault that. I suspect that I might move on from Gaston (sad, he was a 7.27 draft pick for us).


WR Joshua Wild – 102 for 1395 and 12 TD
WR Maxwell Poffenroth – 93 for 1346 and 8 TD
WR Darnell Menzies, 38 for 400 and 6 scores
TE Tony Gasho, 23 for 301 and 1 score

Not anywhere near the top of the charts. The huge passing numbers for a lot fo QBs this year drove a lot of receivers up.



WR/KR/PR Menzies 36 PR< 12.9 average, 29 KR, 1 KR RET TD, 30.7 avg

K Duane Tate, 36 of 39 FGM, 62/62 PAT, long of 54

You can’t fault my cheap K for sucking when he doesn’t suck!


DE Jordan Rogers, 15 sacks, 2 blocks, 22 hurries, 18 QBKD
DE Gregory Burton, 7.5 sacks, 18 hurries, 10 QBKD
DT Zachery Stevenson – 3.5 sacks, 1 block, 6 hurries,
DT Thomas Dwyer, 3.5 sacks, 5 blocks, 10 hurries, 4 QBKD
DT Grayson Clark, 2 sacks, 1 block, 7 hurries, 2 FF, 2 FumReec

Rogers led the league in sacks by 1. Meanwhile, Burton has returned to earth it seems. Meanwhile, yes, we need to go 3-4 I think.

SLB Ezra Wilkerson – 55 solo tackles, 17 assist, 2.5 sacks, 1 block, 1 hurry, 1 INT, 9 pasdef
MLB Eduardo Sweat, 72 and 16 tack; 2 sacks, 2 block, 3 hurri, 1 QBKD, 2 INT< 9 Pasdef, 2 FF
WLB Casey Joyner, 1 sack, 1 block, 1 INT, 1 pasdef

Although that WLB does nothing ever for us but take up space. Not even Justin Houston could do that much with it.

FS Quentin Bernardini, 66 solo, 26 asst; 2 hurri, 4 oucjsm 1 INT RET TD< 15 pasdef
SS Malachi McKnight, 89 solo, 29 ass; 1 sack, 1 block, 1 hurr, 1 INT, 6 pasdef, 3 FF
CB Allen Hutchings , 5 picks, 8 pasdef, 1 INTI RET TD,
CB Colton Hanks, 4 picks, 6 pasdef, 1 INT RET TD, FF
CB Cary Greene, 4 picks, 2 INT RET TD, 12 passdef


And finally a solid year from my secondary. Took a while!


Blocking:

OG Lamar Rasnic, 42 KRB, 6 pancakes, 2 sacks allowed
OC Myron Leggin, 25 KRB and 4 sacks
OG David Blades, 21 and 4 pancakes and 1 sack
OT Sergio Keith, 21 and 2 sacks
OT Starks, 11 starts, 1- and 1 pancakes and 2 sacks
OT Matthews, 5 starts, 8 KRB, 1 sack
TE Gasho, 8 KRB

Well, Rasnic had a great year, no question. Keith was fine for a rookie. No one else impressed at all.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:

Offensive Player of the Year: OG Lamar Rasnic – You made All Pro, you had a ton of KRB, and don’t forget a 7 and 6 KRB games that show you have what it takes long term. You deserve this award baby!

Defensive Player of the Year: CB Cary Greene – We had issues last year with picks. This year, you got great coverage, picks, interceptions returned for scores, and an All Pro nod to boot. It’s so nice to see a CB signing not bust, like say, (cough…Kareem Jackson…cough).

Special Teams Player of the Year – K Duane Tate – Duane Tate is a 36/36 K. Shoot, he should probably be eligible for Heart Award with the performance he brought it In fact, for his career thus far, only one eyar has he sucked at G (He was 26 of 27 for green Bay back in 2027). Overall he’s 146 of 168 so far. You can’t argue stats.


Rookie of the Year: OT Sergio Keith – 21 KRB is a great start for the next level. We saw players like Blades and Starks begin with low 20s numbers before catapulting. Now what can you bring, LT buddy?

Heart Award: WR Darnell Menzies – The 18/18 11th year specialist still caught 6 TDs from the Hoff. Over his career with us he’s caught 19 scores and had 2500 yards. Meanwhile he is a kick entrepreneur. He’s a return guy par excellence, and racked up another return TD this year. He’s had 7 for us in 7 years, and been a strong returner every year. Eventually he’ll drop, or we can’t afford him, or he retires. But man, Menzies just keeps on bringing it at 33 years of age. Menzies has 8945 KR yards and 3816 PR yards in his career. That’s 12671 return yards, (That would place him 6th in the NFL right now for career).

[Abe Sargent]

Score:

Performance – 90 – I have no idea how to do better!
Value – 100
Profit – 77
Roster – 22

Score – 80

Sigh, retirements… We have three

WR Joshua Wild has retired.

Wild finished with 7 All Pro nods, was fastest man of the year 3 times, won 4 Super Bowl rings, and finishes with 17685 yards and 129 TDs. (That would place him 2nd on yards and 5th on TDs, between Harrison at 128 and Carter at 130).

Wild is clear and away the best WR of his era, and a obvious first’ ballot HOF inclusion

Meanwhile, CB Colton Hanks is retiring. The 3rd.32 pick buy us notched up two Super Bowl wins in his 12 year season, grew into a starter, and had 31 picks, 4 returned for scores, and 83 pasdef, but never a breakout season. Like Wild, he played his whole career for us.

Our final retiree is LS Kent Ikuma

Other players of note:

QB Logan Thomas, 1 Bowl win, Legend of the Game, Super Bowl MVP last year in 3030 for the Cards, (One of the last real life players in the dynasty, retired at 40)
TE Kenyon Page – Undrafted FA we grabbed, had a productive 11 year career for 6 different teams.
WR Irving Jordon – The Colts lost one of their recent greats, kind of like their Allen Robinson
WR Jameson Prior – 13 year vet, 4 time All Pro, played whole career for Bucs, finished with 15009 yards and 116 TD.
WR Britt Galloway – 3 time All Pro
DT Calvin Stacy - 5 time all pro, 14 year career, Ring, 91.5 sacks
DT Alex Sweeney – 4 time all pro, 12 year vet, 72.5 sacks
SLB Kyle Abrams, 4 time all pro,
SLB Leon Chaves, 5 time all pro, Defensive Player of the Year in 2023, Ring
CB Rico Warren, 4 all pro, but just 36 picks
CB Conrad Watson – 4 time all pro, 2 Rings for Baltimore, 52 picks,

We suspect that Stacy joins Wild in HOF obviously. After that, could be Watson, or Sweeney or Thomas.


New Hall of Fame:

QB Blake Bortles and DE Cesar Velazquez have joined the HOF as Jaguars players! Bortles is just the 4th player with 1000% vote. #5 is retired for the Jaguars.

Others include– WR Stedman Bailey, QB Andy Dalton, Russell Wilson, Andrew Luck, Jimme Ward

[Abe Sargent]

We make 190 mill and are now worth 1.978 bill, the most in the league.

THE best stadium
7th best Roster
5th best support
11th worst economy
99.8% attendance

We won Coach of the Year for the 2nd straight year


Staff draft time: We draft 7th in the draft and….I choose ot stay with my OC when a slightly better one emerges,

I franchise Hoffman. I made sure we had enough on next year’s roster to do so.

I jack up ticket prices

Free Agency time

We draft 32 in each round and we have a 4.5 and 7.3 out there too.

I offer RFA RG Hugh Stone a 2 year deal

Major players with contracts expiring:

FS Bernardini
MLB Sweat
C Leggin
P McKissick
K Tate
QB Stanton
OT Matthews
QB Peterson
RB Gaston
DT Dwyer
FS popson
FB Bauer
SLB Gati
OG Rasnic

That’s a lot of talent

I extend:

FS Bernardini by 3 years



I cut QB Will Stanton

[Abe Sargent]

I want to sign QB Damien Hoffman to a flat-ish long term contract that won’t bite me. Right now they want 5 years, 205 mill, with a cap hit in 41, 45 and 50 mill. That’s a ton of cash I don’t want to spend. Okay, we got the deal:

Cap hit – 31 mill, 31 mill, 32, 32, and 42.

Alrighty. I advance the stage I want to see what OT Starks might cost – he wants 1 year deal for 10 mill.

But, I have some players that I want to re-up first.

I extend C Leggin by two years

I extend MLB Eduardo Sweat. I’m not letting him go

I cut RB Gaston. I re-sign OG Rasnic with the change. Flat cap of 12 mill for three years and then 15.

We have 38 players on the roster. I have 21 mill under the cap, 10 mill for new players I really don’t have a lot of cash for a one year deal with Starks. Sorry. I’ll just use Matthews and Keith

I make an offer to LS Rex Cole. That’ll be 2 mill of my cap space right there. I don’t have that much left.

I could cut DT Dwyer due to moving to a 3-4, and such. I would like to extend Gati and Popson for sure, as solid backups for their positions. I’d also like to rehire Menzies at some point in time as well.



Our needs right now:

Starting RB, WR
Backup QB
Backup TE
KR/PR if not Menzies
2x backup WR
Backup OT
Backup DEx2
DT Maybe if 4-3
2x LB if 3-4
CBX3


Maybe starter at CB and OT. I need RB and WR. Any good news in FA?

No WR is better than 47/47, and no WR that’s younger than 30 is better than 45/45.

Who has the best PR in FA? A RB names Levi Sim.s Then Menzies. Who has the best current KR in FA? Menzies is 4th best.

At RB we have a 46/46 th year vet, Howard Tubbs who wants 3 mill and just a one yeardeal. We drop the half0way decent RB very quickly as well

[Abe Sargent]

Let me check out draft stuff. Maybe I can identify a good RB/WR candidate in consideration at 1.32?

I scout some RB and WR< and there are a few WR I like in the draft, not super Wild studs but more like Poffenroth potentials. Three are a few RB too. I also uncovered a very underrated CB as well – the 3r one on the board.

Anyway, let’s head back to FA. I think I can do WR in the draft. Can’t guarantee it.

The best FA out there is 60/60 QB Gene Stoyanovich, 11th year et. Then OT Starks, and then FB, SS, and RB Gaston. Just not a lot there.

I sign RFA TE Marco Blackburn to remove one roster need,

Stage 2 – Starks heads to New Orleans, QB Gene to Minnesota.

Stage 6 – DE Alston signed with the Rams,

Stage 7 – We sign LS Rex Cole

I sign RFA P Shawn Oakes, who is 54/54 to a three year deal and I cut my other P.

Stage 8 – Gaston signs with Denver. Former 7th round CB Graham DeWine heads to the Vikings

Stage 10 – DT Rick Greer heads to the Seahawks

Anyone chap that fell we can use to bolster our roster pre-draft?

Not really

[Abe Sargent]

The 3032 NFL Amateur Draft

With my luck, I’ll spend twice as much time on the draft to get half the results!

Philadelphia kicks this thing off by grabbing a QB.


Damn, a lot of quality talent is waiting. The best WR on the board is still there after the top ten and we have a stud RB there as well. There are some other great talents on the board too. At the 1.15 spot, we still have available:

WLB Mickey Wickson
NT Cooper Zimmerman
FL Adrian McHugh
RB Riddick Guthrie

I interview everyone but Zimmerman and they are all looking good. Other teams dipped hard into the line and QB and secondary. I think Guthrie is the nest RB in the draft, McHugh either the 1st or 2nd best, Wickson the best LB of any sort, and Zimmerman the best D Line and DT in the draft by bars (although we didn’t interview him)

So, I doubt all four fall to us at 1.32. I doubt any of them do. But could you imagine me moving a bunch of picks and grabbing my future RB, WR studs at both spots, right now for my roster? We’d be set, and it’s been very hard to find quality RB. It would be nice to trade up and snatch one.

And if I moved up and grabbed Guthrie, I would be able to wait for finding a WR later. Just hypothetically, what’s the cost to move to 1.15 or 1.16 from 1.32?

1.32 is worth 590
1.16 is worth 1000

I’d need to give up 410 to get close. That’s a high 2nd. My low 2.32 is 270. There are a few players I like on the board that I expect at 2.32. For example the 8th overall OT, Hector Johnson, has no combine scores, but great bars, and he interviewed as scouted. I’m very okay grabbing him in the 2nd. I have taken a lot of non-combine folks recently who fall on draft day, and I expect Johnson to do the same (DT Zimmerman is the same).

So, to trade I’d need something like a future 2nd and something else.

Now I don’t have a lot of money in the kitty for a lot of moves up, so I want to trade picks this year, ideally. Dallas at 1.15 has a glaring need in the secondary and takes a S at 1.15

But at 1.16 are the Bills, and their #1 need his offseason is RB. There is a low chance that RB Guthrie won’t be taken here. He’s technically the 2nd back on the board, but all three have the same ranking. I interviewed them and they are very overrated, as scouted, and overrated.

Would you trade a future 2 and a 3rd or 4th this year for the RB that makes your team sing? But we’ve signed great backs in the past and sometimes, cough DeMarco Murray, their impact wasn’t what I’d hope. If I make this trade and it doesn’t work out, I’m screwed. Ish. I skip it. No RB

As expected, the Bills grab RB Guthrie.

Then Washington selects WR at 1.18. Oh oh!

This leaves McHugh at the top of the WR list and a WR needy team next. Washington didn’t need WR that was an odd pick. Now I believe more in the power of a high-quality WR than a RB. Especially now. I need a post-Wild guy to stretch the field and to pair with Poffenroth.

I call up the KC GM on the phone and we hammer quickly an agreement in theory. :

My 1.32 and 3.32 this year and 2nd rounder in two years for their 1.18.

Before I make this deal, I want to step back and pause. We don’t lack for quality WR talent in the league. As of today, there are 5 WRs with a current 70+ ranking and another 13 that are 60+. That’s 18 WR that have at least a 60 current ranking. That’s not some lack of talent, but quality WR just don’t hit FA, and when they do, they are very old, like Steadman Bailey a few years ago. Teams hold onto them. They also don’t tend to fall too much in the draft. I have drafted precisely two receivers – Wild and Poffenroth in our normal area in the late 1st. Wild fell into our lap and was a BAP, the other was forced when Lee retired.

So, without Wild, and without making this play, right now, it’s hard to see how my team can get another solid quality WR.

Let’s dig into further. These are the rounds and pick number, that all 60+ WR’s were drafted in, frm the best at 79/79 down through 60/60

1.16
1.1
1.7
1.9
1.14
2.2 (Maxwell Poffenroth, on our team)
1.13
1.16
1.7
1.14
2.4
1.25
1.23
1.5
1.11
2.1
1.10
1.23


So the lesson is very simple. If you want to get a WR in the 60+ value, 15 times out of 18, you have to invest a 1st round selection. The three times you didn’t, you couldn’t wait past 2.4. In fact, only 3 times could you get a top WR in the second half of the first round starting at 1.17

Are other positions like this? How about CB? There are only 10 CB in the league with a 60 or higher right now, as opposed to 18 WRs in that range. And yes, all ten were 100% 1st round folks. What about…say…DE, another high priority spot. There are just 13 DE at 60 or higher. There are a few later rounds, including one 5th, but most all 1sts. RB is very different. You have top RB that fell off the board in the 2nd round, at the 1.32 spot, in fact, of the 9 RBs in the 60+ rating, 5 were 2nd rounders and 4 1sts.

There is clearly a direct correlation with getting a 60+ WR and investing a draft pick from the 1st half of the 1st round.

So the only thing forcing me to pause on this trade is that we still have 2 really strong WLB and NT on the board that I rate, very, very highly. Good DT talent never falls this late. DT Zimmerman is the best player on the board, and has been for almost 10 picks, since the 1.9 spot.

But my roster needs a WR too. And DT. And WLB> We could use it all!

DT Zimmerman is a natural 3-4 NT. I could draft Zimmerman and WLB Wickson and just fully commit to the 3-4 transition. That’d be awesome! Or I could grab Zimmerman, convert him to LDT or something, and remain with my 4-3 now that I found my DT of the future. Good stuff all around, right?

But no matter what, I need a WR. And there’s one on the board…

Sigh…. I make the trade.

1.18 FL Adrian McHugh, Nevada

Adrian McHugh comes in as a 13 volatility, as scouted, 24% developed, with a 4.41 40 time, great intelligence, agility, and red position scores .


Alright let’s slow roll this:

1.19 – Cleveland takes SLB
1.20 Baltimore trades up and grabs ILB
1.21 New Orleans CB
1.22 Vikings CB
1.23 – Titans CB


How is Zimmerman STILL ON THE BOARD?

Am I delusional?

I call up the Baltimore GM at 1.24 to consider trading. He is willing to talk:

I give – my future 1st rounder in 2034.

I get 1.24, and 4th rounder in 2034

Every DT with a 60+ value was grabbed in the 1st round, just one in the 20s, and just 2 more outside of the top ten. If you want a 60+ DT, you have to invest a top ten pick 10 out of 13 times to get one. They do not fall. And if I want to get myself a real DT, this is my shot.

This is my shot. I don’t get DT this good. Ever. I make the trade and I draft

1.24 DT Cooper Zimmerman, South Carolina

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, let’s keep going.


1.25 Denver goes OT
1.26 Chicago goes TE
1.27 Seattle takes WLB Mickey Wickson and that takes away my final Should I Trade target away.

At the back of the 2nd round, I really like RT Hector Johnson, and he’s still there. I targeted him, interviewed him, and I love him

2.32 RT Hector Johnson, Washington State

I’ll see ya’ll in round 4.

Near the top of the round I like K. We have a stud K Harris Parrish who hasn’t gone. Nobody has cracked the special teams folks yet, so this is a great chance to grab a BAP that I wasn’t even looking for. Not going to turn that away.

And then from there I just draft need.

4.5 K Harris Parrish, Arkansas – Pine Bluff
4.32 DE Alfredo Osborne, Montana
5.32 QB Jaylen Millar, Louisiana - Lafayette
6.32 CB Garrett Gibson, Kentucky
7.3 – MLB Isaac Mahoney, Clemson
7.32 – FS Abel Wolfe, Delaware


Early early draft comments: K Parrish – 49/77; FL McHugh, 39/69; NT Zimmerman 46/69; RT Johnson, 27/61

Now, that’s early early. Everything changes once you hit camp and preseason. No one else on our roster is anything other than depth. No one, other than DE Osborne at 16/41 even has a 40 potential. Ah well. This draft isn’t about these late gems that I unearthed – it’s about the first four pulls.

We have 3 players on the green page.

WLB Wickson is 37/79

[Abe Sargent]

“Do the Jaguars even draft by the same rules as the rest of the league? I mean sure, lots of teams trade on draft day to pick up talent that has fallen that meets their needs. There were seven 1st round draft deals today alone – only 2 by the Jaguars. But the Jags really seems to know how to target players effectively. They traded and picked up top talent at places you normally have to invest high draft picks to acquire and filled two needs in doing so. Then they grabbed an absolute steal at the back of the 2nd round and the best K to enter the league in what, three years, maybe four? Definitely a powerful draft. They could easily have found four future pieces for their team going forward. I grade it A+”

We move to Late FA

We still need:

2 RB, one starter if possible
2 WR, or one Menzies and one WR
DE
2x CB
Maybe LB

Alright, what is rocking the block?

I make an offer to RB Steve Conley, a 2nd year 42/42 UFA from last year that the Redskins dropped.


These UFA:

RB Deron Downs
RB Bo Apolonio
QB Caden Kubrak
WR Damian Geathers
WR Sammy Schulz
LT Tyrone Barlow
CB Phillip Magar
CB Kaden Richard
WR Kim Riley
MLB Ronnie Duran
DE Jake Campbell

Kim might be a future Darnell Menzies. We’ll see post camp. Meanwhile Ronnie could be a future LB gunner like Gati or players like Okabi before him.


That’s a lot of UFA talent to bring in, I know!




Stage 1 – We sign 4 players to our roster. I fend off offers from some of our UFA by offering a small bonus, and I also up our deal to RB Conley to fight through three other teams.

Stage 2 – We sign 6 more players, including RB Conley.

Stage 3 – Our last target comes in. I’ll head to camp, and if Kim Riley looks like Darnell Menzies then I’m all set. If not, I can sign him.

Anyone else out there that fell through the cracks and is pretty solid and cheap? Nah.


Now, pre-Camp, do I need to massage my roster a bit? Or are we good at 4-3?

We are officially staying with a 4-3 roster. It’s working, and I’m afraid of losing rush stats with DE Rogers and Burton.

I move Zimmerman to regular DT and SLB Ellwood to WLB.

[Abe Sargent]

Camp time!!!



We sold 62,700 season tickets


I begin to cut UFAs that aren’t going to make the roster:

RB Deron Downs
RT Tyrone Barlow




I also cut K Duane Tate and QB Joe Peterson and WR Vincent Cunningham and FS Abel Wolfe

I have depth now at DT for the first time ever. In fact, I have four players who are all strong. I head out to shop DT Grayson Clark and I end up shipping him:


We trade DE Grayson Clark to the Houston Texans

For their

2nd and 4th round selections in 2034

This is the year we moved our 1st and 2nd from in order to trade up twice. The 2nd rounder is a spare pick the Texans got from San Diego, and then their 4th.

I sign UFA DT Mitchell Washington to come and sit on our inactive bench



We go 3-1 in the preseason, and our rookies look okay-ish.

[Abe Sargent]

Any major drop offs elsewhere?

CB Hutchings ebbed to 45/45 from 48/48 last year.
FS Bernardini is down to 76/76
WLB Casey Joyner is at 43/43

Other news:

LG Rasnic is 74/74; LT Sergio Keith is 62/72; WLB Van Ellwood 52/67; TE Tony Gasho 60/60

Among our four rookies, OT Hector Johnson has ebbed a bit. He’s down to 30/53 from a lot better. He’s off the Green page. If he finishes 50/50 I’ll be surprised, and he may end up at 48/48 or 45/45 or something.

Now, here’s my other three folks:


K Harris Parrish is the one I know you want to see the least, so I like keeping the mystery alive. His 55/79 looking sexiness is open for the world for see. Just two kickers in the NFL are currently 70+ with their current rating, so Parrish could be a real thing.

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[Abe Sargent]

Now let’s look at DT. Here’s my Coup:


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DT Cooper Zimmerman, and he’s grown in camp and pre-season to 54/73 and looks incredibly strong. This is the rock we can build our D Line around for a long time. Again you don’t get DTs this late that are this good. Book it.


And how about the new Wild? Not really, but he’s fine:


FL Adrian McHugh


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46/72 is a solid place to be. Now you saw that he’s injured in preseason with a hammy, but that’s okay. I’m just happy to have McHugh on our team. We need another guy to catch the ball from Hoffman. And this guy isn’t exactly bad and catching balls.



Can’t argue with those folks

[Abe Sargent]

Roster?


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So we have a few minor injuries to DT Stevenson, FL McHugh, SLB Wilkerson but I think we are in a solid place. I keep unearthing random starters in later rounds, much likes 6.17 SS Malachi Mcknight, 4.30 MLB Eduardo Sweat, 4.31 DT Zachery Stevenson and WLB Ellwood is the next at 3.31 and he replaces Joyner, 4.24 guy who started a few years for us back when he was 52/52. We just moved a late 3rd DT Clark for a 2nd and a 4th in the future. So we can find solid defensive talent without worries.


Roster Strength:

3rd best QB
5th worst RB
19th best FB
7th best TE
10th best WR
7th best C
2nd best OG
9th best OT
14th best P
11th best K
THE best DE
14th best DT
16th best ILB
3rd best OLB
6th best CB
THE best S

We are the youngest team in the league at 25.8, more than 1 year younger than San Diego at #2.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 – We start the season off with a win against the Texans 21-13. Hoffman was Game MVP with 23 of 30 for 275 and 2:0, hitting rookie Adrian McHugh 9 times for 93 yards and 2 scores, Poffenroth for 140 yards. RB Steve Conley rushes for a score as well. Picks by CB Cary Greene, FS Quentin Bernardini, and SLB Jared Gati. One sack on the day by DE Rogers. 3 KRB for OG Rasnic.


No major injuries

Week 2 – RB Steve Conley is Game MVP in the 29-7 romp over the Jaguars with 20 carries for 223 yards and 2 scores. Hoffman was 24 of 38 for 206 and 0:0. Pick by CB Greene. 2 sacks by DE Rogers, 1 each by MLB Sweat and DE Burton, and Sweat also had a forced fumble that DE Burton recovered. OG Rasnic – 4 KRB and 3 by C Leggin.

WR McHugh’s hamstring injury is now healed.


Week 3 – We host the Jets. We lose 28-38. Well, there’s goes the chance of an undefeated season again. Hoffman was 27 of 37 for 322 and 4:1 with McHugh 130 yards and a score, Poffenroth 86 and 2, and WR Sammy Schulz the last TD. Sacks by DE Rogers and SLB Gati.

SE Kim Riley, our returner is questionable for a while with a strained hammy. The hammy giveth, and the hammy taketh away,

Week 4 – We host the Bengals and send them back with a 35-14 spanking. Hoffman, MVP, 19 of 27 for 192 and 2:0. (McHugh and Poffenroth with scores). RB Conley was 24 for 119 and a score and EB Chance Braddock, spelling him gets another TD. The final score was a pick returned for 62 yards for score by CB Allen Hutchings. 2 sacks by DT Stevenson, 1 by DE Rogers, 3 KRB by C Leggin, OT Matthews and OG Blades.

SE Riley’s injury is over. Never mind I suppose.

We finish the first quarter of the season 3-1.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 5 – The Browns come to town and…..we beat them 27-3. Damien Hoffman is NFL Offensive Player of the Week with 28 of 40 for 354 and 3:0. McHugh? 10 catches for 123 yards and a score. Poffenroth? 7 for 129 and 1 score. WR Damien Geathers the other score 2 saks by DT Thomas Dwyer, rookie DT Cooper Zimmerman, and 1 by DE Burton and ILB Devan Comer. 3 KRB by OG Lamar Rasnic

We have a few lesser injuries:

SS Malachi McKnight – broke his finger
DE Jordan Rogers – shoulder tendinitis
SE Kim Riley, sprained knee

Week 6 – We head to Indianapolis and lose 21-24. They held RB Steve Conley to 24 for 78 and 1 score (and Braddock for 8 and 60 yards and a 1 score too). Damien was 21 of 31 for 186 and 1:1. (TE Tony Gasho with the score). No picks. 1 forced fumbles by SS McKnight was recovered by CB Greene. 1 sack by MLB Sweat and DT Stevenson. 4 KRB by Rasnic.

DE Burton broke his finger as well.

Week 7 – We head to Pittsburgh and win 30-20. Hoffman is Game MVP with 18 of 24 for 271 and 2:0. McHugh catches 122 yards and a 1 score and Pofenroth 85 and the other. RB Conley is 19 for 144 and 1 score. Pick by FS Bernardini. No sacks on the day., LT Sergio Keith was 4 KRB.

Now, QB Damien Matthews was injured. His replacement, Jayllen Millar was 8 of 13 for 78 and 0:0.

Injury news:

QB Damien Matthews is out for 4 weeks with foot ligament stuff.

I sign 29/29 QB Matt Lyons, a mentor to Qb to a vet min salary

I cut RB Efrain Austin, bench Mattews, and move undrafted FA rookie Caden Kubrak to the 1st spot, because the difference between 9/41 and 11/30 ain’t much, but there’s more developmental opportunity here. Lyons moves to the 2 spot.

DE Burton is healed.

Week 8 – We head to Baltimore and win 31-6. Game MVP is Kubrak with 28 of 38 for 339 and 2:0. McHugh is 11 for 140 and 1 score, Poffenroth 9 for 153 and 1 score too. QB Kubrak rushes for a score and RB Braddock the other. 1 sack by DE Rogers.

We finish the first half 6-2.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 9 – We host the Titans. With 11 seconds in the game, QB Kubrak drove the Jaguars down and scored a rookie K FG by Harris Parrish for a 41-38 victory. Kubrak was Game MVP with 27 of 50 or 369 and 2:0. McHugh was 153 yards and 1 score and WR Geathers 111 yards and another. RB Conley was 12 for 116 and 2 score.s CB Monty Glenn picked and returned 409 yards for our final TD. 2 sacks by DE Rogers, 1.5 by DT Cooper Zimmerman, 1 sack by DT Dwyer, SS McKnight. 3 KRB by OT Brant Matthews

DE Rogers, SE Riley are healed

OG Rasic is probable for a while.


Week 10 BYE

Hoffman is probable but we’ll keep him benched for now. We host the 3-6 Texans.

Week 11 – We win 26-14. It’s not a great day for the team. QB Kubrak was 18 of 30 for 197 and 1:1/ McHugh grabbed 114 yards and 1 score. RB Conley was MVP with 18 for 79 and 1 score. Picks by S Bernardini and McKnight. Sack by CB Hutchings.

K Parrish is doubtful with a injury for a week or two. TE Gasho probable, and LCB Monty Glenn probable.

QB Hoffman, SS McKnight and OG Rasnic are all back.


Week 12 – We head to Minnesota to take on the 7-3 Vikings. We win 41-16. The Hoff is Game MVP with 30 completions of 39 attempts, 418 yards, and 2:0 ratio for a 127.9 rating. McHugh has a 108 yard day, Poffenroth 106 and a score, and RB Conley catches a score, and rushes for two more and RB Braddock rushes for a score too. No picks. Day’s lone sack by DT Cooper Zimmerman. 3 KRB By OT Sergio Keith.

No major injuries.

Week 13 – We head to 8-3 Denver. And we flush them 45-27. QB Damien Hoffman is NFL Offensive Player of the Week with 22 of 30, 238 and 3:0. MLB Eduardo Sweat is Defensive Player of the Week for the league with 1 sack, 1pick returned 99 yards for a score. CB Hutchings also had a 71 yard pick and scamper for a score and CB Greene another pick. Hoffman nailed McHugh for 102 yard and 2 scores and Poffenroth the other. Conley added a rushing score. 3 KRB by Leggin.

TE Pasho and K Parrish are complete from their injuries.

We are 10-2 at third quarter mark.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 14 – We defeat the 7-5 Bears 31-3. Hoffman, MVP, has 25 oif 34 for 284 and 3:1. Poffenroth is 167 and 3 scores. RB Braddock with a TD, SS McKnight with a double-pcik day, and DE Rogers with a sack,

No major injuries.

I make a few roster extensions:

FS Roger Popson, SLB Jared Gati



Week 15 – We host the Colts. We win 29-13. Hoffman, MVP, 27 of 38 for252 and 2:0 and hits Poffenroth and TE Gasho for scores. CB Hutchings with a pick. 1 sack each by DE Burton, DT Stevenson, and SLB Wilkerson.

RB Braddock is doubtful.

Week 16 – Next up is 8-6 Green Bay. We lose 28-34. RB Conley rushes for 2 scores, Hoffman is 33 for 45 for 337 and 2:2, and hits McHugh for 184 yards and 2 scores. 2 picks by Bernardini. 1.5 sacks by DE Rogers. 3 KRB by OT Keith.

In injury news:

C Leggin – probable
CB Greene – questionable
SS McKnight questionable


Week 17 – We finish the season at Tennessee. It was closer than we hoped it would be, and we win 34-31 in OT. Game MVP and NFL Defensive Player of the Week is DE Jordan Rogers with 4.5 sacks, 2 hurries, and 2 knockdowns. 2 sacks by Burton too. 3 KRB by Rasnic. Hoffman was 29 of 41 for 382, and 3:1, and hit McHugh for 181 yards and 2 scores and WR Poffenroth for 105 and 1. RB Conley added a ground score.


We finish the season 13-3.

[Abe Sargent]

The 3032 NFL Playoffs


The AFC

14-1-1 Miami Dolphins
13-3 Jacksonville Jaguars
12-4 Denver Broncos
10-6 Steelers
10-6 Patriots
10-6 Browns

10-6 Baltimore missed out

Cleveland wins 31-10 against the Broncos and Pittsburgh survives the Pats 20-17.

(In NFC news, the Cowboys are 23-6 over the Bears and 49ers 31-7 over Seahawks)




Week 2:

We host the 10-6 Steelers. We beat a lot of winning teams this year. The Steelers were the team that took down QB Hoffman, and we beat them 30-20.


We win 35-14:

Hoffman is 30 of 40 for 319 and 4:0
McHugh is 10 for 82 yards and 1 score
Poffenroth is 7 for 107 and 21 scores
WR Sammy Schultz catches the final score
SS McKnight recovers a fumble and scrambles 49 yards for a score. He had a pick too
Sack by DE Rogers


Our LS Rex cole is doubtful for a week with a bad cold

The Dolphins edges the Browns 27-24


(Saints win 31-13 over 49ers; Cowboys win 31-24 over Pack)

[Abe Sargent]

Conference Championship Weekend


We head to Miami. They are favored by a field goal.

Well, we lose, but at least we cover the spread. 31-30:

QB Hoffman, 30 of 45 for 424 and 2:0 – Poffenroth with both scores and McHugh with 167 yards

RB Conley with a score

Pick by CB Greene

Sack by DT Coop



The 3032 NFL Super Bowl:

Your AFC Champion #1 Seed 14-1-1 Miami Dolphins

Vs

Your NFC Champion #4 Seed 9-7 Dallas Cowboys


The Dolphins are favored by….ELEVEN full points.

They win 24-17



Congrats Miami!

[Abe Sargent]

Season Awards:

NFL All League 1st Team:

DE Jordan Rogers


All League 2nd Team:

WR Adrian McHugh



Hmmm…. Not as many awards as I was hoping for, cough, Offensive Rookie of the Year, cough.

[Abe Sargent]

Stats!

QB Hoffman – 13 games, 326 of 44, 71.8%,3717 yardsm 29:6 ratio, 111.8 QB Rating, 15 sacks, 1 fumble, didn’t even lose it – recovered it

We had 2 players with 5000+ passing yards and 6 more with 4000+. Hoffman was down in rating, %, yards, and so forth. As expected

RB Steve Conley, 262 for 1251 yards, 4.77 ypc, 15 rush TD

Was 4th most rushing yards in league. Had the most rush yards in the league. With one more 100 yard game likely would have led league and gotten All Pro.


WR McHugh – 125 grabs, 1741 yards, 15 scores
WR Poffenroth – 112 for 1319 and 13 scores
WR Damien Geathers, 41 for 519 yards and 2 scores


Well, there you are! The NFL had 2 2000 yard receivers this year. McHugh was 3rd and Poffenroth 6th in yards. No other WR – not Lee, Wild, or Poffenroth had as good of a rookie season as McHugh had for us. And this was Poffenroth’’s best season for us thus far, btw.



Special Teams

WR Kim Riley, 42 PR, 9.8 avg, 31 KR ,24.1 avg

Not really great numbers

K Harris Parrish – 25/27, 52 long, 57/57 PAT


P Shawn Oakes, 3/4 FG, 2/2 PAT (Spelling injured Parrish); 83 punts, 45.9 avg, 33 in 20




Defense:

DE Jordan Rogers, 61 tackles, 14 asst; 16.5 sacks, 3 blocks, 29 hurries, 30 QBKD.
DE Gregory Burton, 5.5 sacks, 2 blocks, 22 hurries, 1 QBKD, 2 FumREc
DT Thomas Dwyer, 5.5 sacks, 4, 16, 2
DT Cooper Zimmerman, 5.5 ssacks, 1 block, 7 hurries, 2 QBKD
DT Z Stevenson, 4 scks, 1, 10, 7

Rogers had the 2nd most sacks in NFL this year, and Zimmerman was a solid debut for a rookie. But Burton? I expect more from you.

MLB Eduardo Sweat, 92 tack, 30 asst, 3 sacks, 2 hurries, 1 pick, 5 pasdef, 1 INT RET TD
SLB Wilkerson, 70 and 21 tack, 1 sack, 7 pasdef, 2 FF
WLB Van Ellwood, 0.5 sacks, 2 hurries

Nothing too major here

SS Malachi McKnight, 75 and 25 tack; 1 sack. 3 hurries, 3 picks, 9 pasdef, 4 FF,
FS Quentin Bernardini, 55 and 17 tack; 1 sack, 1 blocked pass, 5 pick, 11 pasdef
CB Allen Hutchings, 3 picks, 9 pasdef, 2 INT RET TD
CB Cary Greene, 3 picks, 12 pasdef, 3 FF, 2 fumrec,

Not amazing years here, but not too shabby either. Serviceable.


Blocking:

OG Lamar Rasnic, 30 KRB, 3 pancakes, 2 sacks allowed
OG David Blades, 24, 4 pancakes and 2 sacks
OT Sergio Keith, 24, 7 sacks allowed
OC Myron leggin, 23 and 3 sacks.
OT Brant Matthews, 16 and 5 sacks allowed

It’s time to let Matthews go.We’ll move rookie OT Hector Johnson to his spot for next year.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:

Offensive Player of the Year: WR Maxwell Poffenroth – He gave us a better year than ever before and a was a great leader on the team for rookies McHugh and class to emulate. He had more catches, yards, and 2nd most scores in a year than ever. The 7th year vet from West Virginia University is looking better than ever!


Defensive Player of the Year: DE Jordan Rogers – He was the lone All Pro light on the defense, and he earned it, no questions asked. But he had a good, keeping-his-form year after turning it on last year. Welcome to the club buddy!


Special Teams Player of the Year: P Shawn Oakes – Was one of the best seasons we’ve had 3with a P in a long time, and did a strong job spelling our K when needed as well. This was a strong year for P Oakes.


Rookie of the Year: WR Adrian McHugh –Nasty stuff indeed! Our draft machinations worked out it seems. 3rd most yards, tons of catches and TDs. In his entire career with us, WR Joshua Wild only once had more than 1700+ yards. McHugh has it in his first season!


Heart Award: QB Caden Kubrak – the undrafted free agent stepped in, had a great turn at the wheel, and got us three more wins on the season. He was no disappointment, and did everything you could ask. He grabbed us 73 of 118, 61.9%, 905 yards and 5:1 ratio and 96.2 rating. That’s better, spread over a season, than a lot of full time guys. Thanks buddy!



We have 3 11 year vets (QB Lyons, C Leggin, LS Cole) and 2 10 years (OLB Wilkerson, DE Burton). Are any heading to that quiet place in the Caribbean and turning in retirement papers?

[Abe Sargent]

End of Season:

Performance – 86
Value – 100
Profit – 73
Roster – 21

Score – 76

SLB Ezra Wilkerson retires. I would have preferred Leggin. Ah well.

SLB Wilkerson – We traded up in the 2nd round of the 2023 draft to grab him. He never missed a game:

160 starts, 667 tackles, 188 assists, 22.5 sacks, 2 blocked passes, 23 hurries, 13 QBKD, 5 picks, 70 passes defensed, 14 forced fumbles, 6 recovered

Always a rock, but never reached All Pro. 2 championship rings and the undefeated season he started last year.


Other retirements of note:

QB CJ Ellison, retires as legend of th game, was the best QB for a while in the league, made Baltimore, won Super Bowls, etc.

RB Kendrick Gaston – former 7th rounder and a starter for us., Retired after not getting rushes in Denver’s system.

LG Mike Statler – 4 time All Pro

LT Benjamin Givens – 3 time All Pro

LT Harvey Carpenter- 6 time all pro, 2nd round selection by Chiefs, played whole career for them.Exoect to see him in a bronze cast in Canton soon

P Daquan Shea – 4 All Pro

WILB Buddy DOub – Former Def. Rookie of the Year (2020) and All Pro 1sst Team.

SLB Tim Kaeding, 2025 Defensive Player of the Year, 4 time All Pro , probable Canton guy

SS Jamal Crigger, Won Super Bowl winner with Houston, spent whole career there, from WVU, 2024 Defensive Player of the Year, 7 time all pro,

Crigger is a lock for HOF, and Kaeding and Carpenter strong probables.

New HOF – randoms we haven’t had any interaction with. DE winters and LG Brandon

[Abe Sargent]

Our new stadium reno is done. We now have 200 boxes

We made 131 mill last year


Value – 2.023 bill – 1st in league
2nd best Stadium
3rd best roster
Tied for the best support
11th worst economy

99.8% attendance

We have 35 active players


UFA:

QB Matt Lyons
OT Brant Matthews
FB Robbie bauer
RB Chance Braddock
C Tyrell McGregor
OG Trent Clark

Nah

RFA:

MLB Devan Comer
QB Caden Kubrak
RB Bo Apolonia
FL Damien FGeathers
SE Sammy Schulz
SE Kim Riley
DE Jake Campell
DT Mitchell Washington
CB Phillip Magar
CB Richard Kaden

Nah


Staff

I retain my head coach, assist, and strength guy

We draft 12th

I make no staff changes

[Abe Sargent]

FA Time!



I actually get a trade offer for DE Rogers that I don’t automatically reject – a 59/59 RB and a 1.18 pick this year. But I can’t make that play. If it were Burton they were coming after? But not Rogers.

Players that I may need to extend:

SS Malachi McKnight
WLB Casey Joyner
LS Rex Cole
CB Cary Greene
CB Monty Glenn
DE Jordan Rogers
DE Gregory Burton
RB Steve Conley


Some of these, cough, Rogers, cough, is going to cost some serious cash to keep.

I extend Cole.

I want to bring McKnight and Rogers into my full-time contract club, but here are the players from the next year’s draft we are going to want to keep around as well:

LB Van Ellwood, 60/67 whom I’ll likely move back to SLB now that Wilkerson is retired
DT Zachery Stevenson 50/54
TE Tony Pasho 60/60
OT Sergio Keith 71/71

Here’s the McKnight/Rogers problem:

SS Malachi McKnight – 57/57:

Currently at 1.3 mill because he was a 6th rounder. Extends to 50+ mill and 5 year deal.

DE Rogers – 85/85:

Currently at 5 mill as a 1.22 overall pick by us. Wants 5 years and 160+ mill, jumping to 25 this year and then 29 next.

That is some major cap damage


At 60/60, Gasho is going to want 10+ mill a year as the 7th best TE in the league.

TEs:

94/94
83/83
67/67
66/66
64/64
63/63
60/60 – Gasho
58/58
55/55
54/54
48/58

Top ten TE by current or future includes those 11 folks. A 60/60 Gasho is worth a real contract. No question.


In FA/Draft I am looking for these starters:

FB
OLB
RB

And these backups:

QB
RBx2
WRx3
C
OG
OT
DE
DTx2
LBx2
CBx3


CB Allen Hutchings is in his 10th year and already began to fall and free agent signee Cary Greene is 9th year. Both are 31. Getting a younger CB starter wouldn’t be a bad idea either.

I advance FA a week to get to be able to make offers:

[Abe Sargent]

Major FA Players:

RB Percy Romine, 65/65. 7th year vet though, wants 3 year deal for 12 mill range. That’s pretty solid.

CB Malik Coxwell – 66/66, 6th year vet, wants 4 years, 78 mill

FL Cedric Wilcox, 61/61, 5th year, wants 4 years, 54 mill – If I want to push a strong three WR corps

There are a few high profile, older, DE ,like 64/64 DE Jalen Bradley, 10th year vet and 58/58 Dillon Matteson, 11th year.

WLB Devon McCarthy, 5th year vet, 54/54, wants 4 yers, 57 mill

This is just a strong FA class.

We have younger players, like a 54/54 5th year OG and such. There are two 50/50 RBs on the board as well.

Alright, let’s sign DE Rogers.

He wants 5 years, 160+ mill.

I end up with a flatter, but high cap hit, 5 years and 136 mill. 26.7 cap hit this year, and it drops a bit next year (same salary, but no additional cap hit from rookie deal)

Ways to free up cap space:

Cut 42/42 TE Blades; WLB Casey Joyner

Extend Burton and drop his cap hit this year from 26 mill to 19 mill, extending it one year.

Cut Burton to free 21 mill instead

Free up 2 mill by extended CB Greene for two years.

Cut Greene to free up more cap space than it worth. No reason to do that.

We are 20 mill under the cap, and 10 mill free for new players. I want to chase Romine.

The best way to free up cap is to cut Burton. But Burton feels like a womb to tomb player for me. And yet, 5.5 sacks isn’t going to cut it, and Burton was never that great sackmaster, like Velazquez was. He has 96 sacks in ten years, with that Defensive Player of the Year award a few years ago in 2030. He’s had a similar career to Mario Williams.

Burton has never been that sackmaster supreme. But he has been playing LDE< the hard position, because, for most of his career with us, that’s been his place. Maybe I should swap him to RDE next year? Although, to be fair, his pass rush is 39 and strength is 60. That’s not really an RDE style force either.

I push the decision off, but it’s probably time.

I’ll need a DE though, that creates a need. But again, I can make 6 mill by extended DE Burton a year, so I want to hold off a moment. I still want to extend SS Malachi McKnight too.

I sign a few RFA:

WR Kim Riley, QB Caden Kubrak,

[Abe Sargent]

I make an offer to RB Percy Romine


I don’t have the cap space to chase CB Maxwell, FL Wilcox or one of the DE. WlB McCarthy wants too much bread as well.

Week 2 – FL Wilcox heads to Tennessee; DE Bradley and Matters to Arizona and Tennessee, and the 50/50 other RB target to Tennessee as well. The Titans are cleaning up FA thus far. I bump up Romine’s deal.

Week 3 – We sign RB Romine to a 3 year, $13.28 mill deal. CB Coxwell is heading to Baltimore.

Now, I only need OLB and FB as starters.

I take a gander at the draft.

Not a good OLB draft, but a few intriguing ILB. I interview a few of those.

I also interview the top 5 DE in case.

Not a good looking draft either. Ugh. The DE and MLB will go early as a result.

I also interview a few CB as well. I could stand to really youthen my cornerbacks.

Can’t rely on getting great talent this draft at 1.30.

I extend OG Hugh Stone, my primary backup ot the OG spot.

I still have two major players I haven’t extended:

CB Cary Greene, DE Gregory Burton

And I have some cap space (4 mill) I can free up when. if I cut backup (for now) WLB Casey Joyner. But Joynmer would likely be our starter at WLB when I move Ellwood back to SLB. Never mind. I have an idea. I have always liked SLB Jared Gati. Could I move him to WLB instead?

Week 4 – WLB McCarthy heads to Carolina.

Week 8 – FB Robbie Bauer is heading to Washington, DT Thomas Dwyer to New Orleans

Week 9 – OT Brant Matthews signs with the Colts.

Week 10 – I take a looksee to see if any intriguing folks fell.

I make an offer to RG Trent Clark to return to our team for two vet-min sal years.

I do the same for QB Matt Lyons.

I want to resign RFA WR Damian Geathers, CB Richard Kaden and MLB Devan Comer but they both want too much cash for backup type folks

I make an offer to RB Micah Falvey for a 2 year vet min sal deal, 42/42. 6th year man from Atlanta.

Week 11 – I sign QB Lyons, RB Falvey, and OG Clark.

I’ll probably cut QB Jaylen Millar later on. But that’s not saving me any real cash, so we’ll see how he grows post-camp.

I want t make an offer to MLB Comer. But, I need more cash – I’m out of money.

I cut WLB Casey Joyner. I offer Comer, who will be my new team leader post-Joyner, and work well with three people on that squad.

Comer:

DE Rogers – Strong Affinity
DE Alfredo Osborne – Exceptional affinity
LB Van Ellwood – Exceptional Affinity

That was the right play

We have 41 players on the team and we’ll pick up 8 in the draft.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2033 NFL Amateur Draft

The Redskins start things off by going DE.

We need:

WRx2
FB
C
OT
DE
DTx2
LB (maybe 2)
CBx3

Because of how weak this draft appears to be outside of a few hitters at the top, I am enticed to package and move up. For example, according to the trade chart, I can turn a 1/30 and a 2/30 into a 1/18. I give 904 points for 900, and even if that team wanted more value the 1.19 should prove a decent enough spot.

Players begin to move off the board with rapidity. I like a DE on the board later on. And I make my move to get him. He interviewed well, and looks sexy.

Do I make a play for him?

That’s the end of the Burton era. DE is the only position with the depth and quality in this draft to make a play. None of the good players that were anywhere near me (WR, CB, ILB) made it out of the top 10. But a swap to 1/22 where DE Andres Aikman awaits is a solid play.

And that might mean good-bye Burton, but it gives me a DE for a while, assuming everything works out.

I trade:

My 1.30 and 2.30 for Seattle’s 1.22 this year and their 4th and 5th next year when I don’t have a 1st.

I grab DE Aikman

Red score in dash, blue in smarts, strength, and agility. 75 volatility, just 19% developed though.

See you near the end of the 3rd:

There are a few solid choices I like here:

FB Carter Monroe
CB Bert Harvey
OT Ted Moss

My needs are in that order.

I rank them Moss, Monroe and Harvey in ability though.

I go with need and grab Harvey.

Then I draft some need and affinities


The 3033 Jacksonville Jaguars Draft Class

1 – DE Andres Aikman, Georgia
3 – CB Bert Harvey, Louisiana-Monroe
4 – ILB Jacob Cyrus, Toledo
5 – OT Brett Lang, Arizona State
6 – DT Ryan Lang, Oregon
7 – FB Dwight Looker, Miami, FL
WR AJ Blades, Rice

[Abe Sargent]

Anyone major?

DE Aikman looks solid.

No one else is worth mentioning.

DT Lang is just 14/24. Yuck. Not one of my better drafts likely. (But again, it looked pretty weak in talent).

Aikman is 4th on the Green Page.

Some of our top-heavy players in the draft:

CB Kai Bryant is 41/88 – 1.3 spot
OT Cory Szymanski – 39/71 – 1.8
OT Juan Goffee, 41/72, 1.10
MLB Terry Gonzalez, 31/80, 1.7
MLB Donovan Alcott, 38/74, 1.6


I could have stayed put and grabbed a 34/60 OT or a 33/64 one that went 2.9. But we didn’t need any OT.

As you can see, pretty weak draft outside of the top ten though. Best WR was 32/48. Best C was 14/44. Best QB was 3/45. Best DT was just 28/55 and you had to draft him 1.15, and no other DT is over 50 potential. Just one OLB had more than 47 potential – 36/58, taken at 1.5.

Take CB. After the studly Kai Bryant, the next best is 27/51 Glen Stamm, and then 32/49 Connor Gomez. There’s just not a lot of depth this year after the top players.

Here are the players that went late 2nd when I traded out:

2.30 – LT Fiume, 23/47
2.31 – RG JT Whalen, 17/50
2.32 – FS Jamal Collier, 22/44
3.1 – TE Walt Laveli, 30/56
3.2 – WLB Roman Hodges, 14/34

So other than TE Laveli, none would have been worth a 2.30 for us. And with a major Gasho investment potentially on the horizon, I’m not sure I would have taken Laveli anyway.

I also made a major mistake in the 3rd taking CB Jarvey. He’s 14/38. Not that great.

The two I was also looking at:

OT Ted Moss when 4.3 to San Diego and is 19/51
FB Carter Monroe went 4.6 to Houston and is 33/54

Both would have been much better choices for us. Now, out FB is 18/48, but you never know with a guy like him if he’ll stay or not.

Anyway, let’s massage that roster.

We are rated A. Not sure why.

[Abe Sargent]

Late FA

We have 48 players under contract.

We need:

RB maybe
WR
C
DE Maybe
DT
LB
CBx2


Anyone out there I like?

Let’s begin with UFA:

SLB Nicholas Kates
FS Silas Rice
WR Stanley Poole
C Bradley Porter
DE Quinn Mosier
DT Roman Duncan
OT Frederick McWilliams

I also like:

3rd year vet C Ruben Barrett, wants a 3 year vet min sal deal and is 27/49

RB 2 year vet 44/52 Derrick Borden. He wants 3 year, 5.9 mill That’s a quality body and a young guy. I like him a lot for my #2/#3 RB spot.

If I brought him in, Conley would drop from #1 last year to # 4 on my roster. It’s a move that makes sense.

I cut Burton.

I make an offer for RB Borden and C Barrett

I extend SS McKnight by 5 years and 60 mill. That’s real money to a former 6th round pick!

I make an offer to 41/41 13th year vet WR Clyde Scarbrough to come in for a one year deal and help us catch some balls.

I move Jared Gati to WLB and WLB Ellwood to SLB.

I am also considering swapping DE Aikman and DE Rogers. It’s not like Rogers ain;t playing the run though, he had 61 solo tackles last year and 14 assists. That’s better than anyone else on my d Line had by far, and 4t on my team on defense (not including special teams players). I’m okay with it I think. I suspect people ran at Rogers to keep him from disrupting the pass lane.


Week 1 – We sign 3 players. I up C Barrett’s deal to compete against 4 other teams.

Week 2 – We sign 3 more folks. I massage some offers.

Week 3 – DE Burton is heading to Pittsburgh. We sign 4 players and bring in our whole class

Any other roster needs?

I need another CB. I offer Al Royer 42/42 7th year vet a 4.42 mill, 2 year deal.

Week 4 – Royer heads to Jacksonville.

[Abe Sargent]

Is it camp time yet?

It is!

I begin to trim some fat:

QB Jaylen Millar
C Bradley Porter
LT Frederick McWilliams


We go 3-1 in the preaseason.

Afterwards:

CB Hutchings is now 39/39
QB Lyons to 21/21
WR Scarbrough 36/36

Of last year’s rookie class:

FL McHugh is now 64/67
K Harris Parrish is 72/79
DT Cooper Zimmerman is 67/70
RT Hector Johnson is 35/53

In other news:

DT Zachery Stevenson grew to 58/58
RB Romine is 62/62 and didn’t bust badly as we feared
OG Blades fell a bit to 61/61
CB Cary Greene actually rose to 62/62
C Leggin I think dropped a tad to 58/58
TE Gasho is now 61/61 and continues to creep up just a bit here and there

[Chas in Cinti]

It took a few days, but I finally finished reading from beginning to end... great dynasty and I look forward to future installments!

[Abe Sargent]

Among our rookies:


DE Andres Aikman
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At 35/69 here is the good and the bad. The good is that he didn’t bust at all in camp or pre-season, which is great news. The bad is that he didn’t grow, despite starting in preseason and camp, which could foretell a hidden 35/35 guy underneath, kind of like OT Brant Matthews and others have done. I need to see results.




I cut WLB Jacob Cyrus and DT Ryan Lang

I move CB Monty Glenn to start for us. Hutchings is moved to nickelback

I extend CB Greene by two years.


I am in an unusual situation. My 4th RB is better than my FB, and my 3rd TE is better than him too.

In case I need him I deactivate my only FB. We’ll run Borden out of the FB spot.

[Abe Sargent]

It took a few days, but I finally finished reading from beginning to end... great dynasty and I look forward to future installments!

Awesome, thanks!

[Abe Sargent]

Changes to our roster:

RB Percy Romine, 63/63 is starting for us as our major FA signing.
OT Hector Johnson will replace Brant Matthews, and was our 2nd rounder last year, currently 36/53
DE Andres Aikman – Rookie DE
WLB Jared Gati -After 6 years of being a backup, moving him to a starting role
CB Monty Glenn – Starting as Hutchings continues to age too much. Probably temporary – 46/46




Roster Strengths:

THE best QB in NFL
4th best RB
The worst FB
6th best TE
THE best WR
8th best C
3rd best OG
6th best OT

We are the top rated offense heading into the NFL this year.

10th best P
3rd best K



3rd best DE
4th best DT
11th best ILB
4th best OLB
5th best CB
THE best S

We are the top rated defense in the NFL as well.


Other than the obvious (FB) everything on offense is 6th or above, and C is 8th. On Defensive side of the ball, other than MLB (And to be fair, we are being compared to 3-4 teams that have two players there), We are 5th or better at every spot.

Plus we have real K and P on our squad too.

[Abe Sargent]

I’ll show you some stuff:

The best player on our team is 86/86 DE Jordan Rogers. I’m going to show you to the top non-kickers in the league at any position:


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As you can see, two players are at 92 – an OG and CB. After them, just 12 other players are ranked at least 80, and of them, 6 are at 80. DE Rogers is the 4th best player in the league at any position. Guy’s a stud. You can also see QB Damien Hoffman, at 84/84, is not only the 8th best player in the league, but the best QB as well. Only 4 QBs are on the list at all.


I’m going to slide over to WR. Poffenroth is 68/68 and the 3rd best WR in the league. McHugh ids 64/67 and will be top ten once he finishes up.

Here’s the top five Ots in the league:

80/80 McKnight
71/71 – Sergio Keith, Jaguars
70/70 Westbrook
68/90 – Wilson
65/65 Poston

So Keith is really something. He’s the 2nd best OT and the third best potential in the league right now.

Cooper Zimmerman, a 67/70 DT is currently 10th best, and will be 8th if he gets to 70. By the way., at 58/58, Zachery Stevenson is 14th best DT, since there’s a talent fall off after 70.

At 68/68 Van Ellwood is the 6th best OLB in the NFL. Cary Greene is the 5th best CB, Quentin Bernardini still the best FS and 3rd best S overall.

Just for fun I sim the full season just to see what the AI would do. We go 12-4, make it to the Super Bowl, and then lose. That’s what the PC does. Can we better that?

[Abe Sargent]

Let’s go!

Week 1 – We open with Indianapolis and drop them 49-24. NFL Defensive Player of the Week is CB Cary Greene with 2 picks, and one brought back for a score. Hoffman is Game MVp with 25 of 42 for 330 and 4:1 hitting McHugh 9 times for 144 yards and 3 scores and Poffenroth the other. Percy Romine was 15 for 117 and 1 score. Romine also recovered a fumble by Hoffman and ran 33 yards for a score! That’s when you know its your day. 1 sack by Rogers, 4 KRB by Rasnic, 3 by OT Sergio Keith.

No major injuries.

Week 2 – Next up is the Rams whom we beat 31-8. Hoffman had 31 of 42 for 250 and 2:0 and McHugh and Poffenroth caught scores. Romine rushes 18 for 106 and a score. MLB Sweat picks and returns 30 yards for a score and CB Monty Glenn gets another interception. SS McKnight forces a fumble that CB Greene recovers. 1.5 sacks by Rogers, 1 by MLB Sweat and OLB Ellwood and 5 KRb and 1 pancakes by OG Lamar Rasnic.

No major injury news other than TE Winston Blades being questionable for a week.


Week 3 – We hang 55 on the Steelers to defeat them 55-21. QB Damien Hoffman is NFL Offensive Player of the Week with 29 of 41 for 410 yards and 5:0 ratio. McHugh was 191 yards and 2 scores, Poffenroth, RB Romine and RB Derrick Borden catch the other TD tosses. Meanwhile Romine is 16 for 104 and 2 scores on the ground. Picks by Hutchings and Greene. 1 sack by OLB Nicholas Kates. 4 KRB by OT Hector Johnson, 3 by C Leggin.

In injury news:

Backup RB Micah Falvey is out for two weeks with a foot ligament things.

Hutchings and RB Conley are probable.

Week 4 – We head to the Jets. And we win 30-10. Hoffman is MVP with 29 of 40 for 308 and 3:2. He hits McHugh for 138 and 1 score, TE Gasho for another, and WR Stanley Poole for the 3rd. Romine is held to 74 yards on 18 carries. Picks by Bernardini, CB Glenn, and OLB Ellwood. 2 sacks by rookie DE Aikman. 4 KRB by C Leggin and 3 for Keith.

No major injury news.

At 4-0, we are the only undefeated team in the AFC, both Detroit and Minnesota haven’t lost in the NFC.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 5 – We win 44-13 over the Dolphins. QB Damien Hoffman is NFL Offensive Player of the Week with 26 of 31, 349 and 3:0. He hit McHugh for 111 and all three TD. Meanwhile Romine rushes 13 for 146 and 2 scores. No picks or forced fumbles for us. 1 sack on the day by Rogers. 4 KRB by OTHector Johnson and 3 by OG David Blades.


RB Falvey is back from injury.

The next game is a otugh one.

Week 6 – We head to 4-1 Indy. We hang 40 on them and win 40-14. Hoffman is Game MVP with 25 of 33 for 390 and 3:0 – McHugh had 121 and 1 score, Poffenroth 100 and 1 score, and WR Poole the other. Romine added a rush score. K Parrish was 4/4 on the day. Picks by CB Greene, FS Bernardini, and CB Hutchings. Weak days blocking and sacking.

Week 7 – We head to Tennessee and….lose. They score a TD to go 38/38 with 38 seconds left, and then kick a FG in OT wo win it all 41-38. Romine rushes 19 for 96 and 2 scores, Hoffman was 38 of 49 for 421 and 3:4, and hit TE Gasho and RB Romine 2x for TD scores. Poffenroth was 143 yards meanwhile. No picks by us. 1 sack by WLB Gati. 6 KRB by Rasnic and 4 by Leggin.


FS Bernardini is questionable with a triceps muscle strained.

Week 8 – BYE

Week 9 – We defeat the Bills 34-18. DE Jordan Rogers is NFL Defensive Player of the Week with 2.5 sacks, 2 hurries, 2 knockdowns, CB Hutchings had a pick and forced fumble, 1 sack by DT Zimmerman and DE Aikman, Hoffman was a weaker 29 of 42 for 324 and 2:0 and hit McHugh for 108 yards and a score and TE Gasho for the other. RB Romine and Derrick Borden each had a rushing score on the ground.

No major injuries

We finish up 7-1 at the halfway mark

[Abe Sargent]

Week 10 – We host the Patriots and win 44-28. Hoffman was Game MVP with 28 of 42 for 375 and 4:1. And hit McHugh for 6 and 11 and 2 scores and Poffenroth for two scores. RB Romaine was 16 fo 95 and 1 score as well. SS McKnight had 2 picks, OLB Ellwood 1. MLB Sweat forced and recovered a fumble. Sacks by Rogers and Zimmerman. 4 KRB by OT Keith and 3 by OG Blades.

Rookie DE Aikman is out for 7 weeks with a broken clavicle. I bench him for DE Osborne.

Week 11 – We head to Houston. We win 38-33. Hoffman is MVP with 20 of 26 for 274 and 4:1. McHugh ctaches 2, and Poole and Poffenroth 1 each. Poole also has an 89 yard kickoff ret TD. 2 sacks by DE Rogers, 1.d by sub DE Osborne. 3 KRB by Blades.

Minor injuries to a few folks – nothing major.

Week 12 – We head to 6-4 Arizona and….lose….28-31. They get a pass with less than a minute left to fall into the endzone to eclipse us and win the game. Romine was 15 for 85 and 2 scores, and both Hoffman and RB Borden had rushing scores too. Hoffman was 27 of 40 for 373 and 0:1. McHugh was 175 yards. 1 sack by Rogers, no picks or forced fumbles, 5 KRB by C Leggin, and 3 by Blades and OT Johnson.

Week 13 – Next up is Denver. We beat them 34-18. Hoffman has 22 of 31 for 221 and 1:0, with WR Poole grabbed that score. Meanwhile RB Romaine had 3 rushing scores. Picks by CB Greene and Hutchings. 1,5 sacks by Rogers. 4 KRB by OT Keith, and 3 each by Leggin and Blades.


We are 10-2 at the close of th e3rd quarter. We lead the conference by two wins.

After the game, we have a bunch of minor injuries, including Hoffman. Won’t slow us down; the Jaggernaut will roll!

[Abe Sargent]

Week 14 – We head to Seattle. We win 40-16. K Harris Parrish is Game MVP with 4/4 and 4/4 on PAT too. Hoffman has 23 for 31 abd 230 and 0:1. Romine rushes for 2 scores. MLB Devan Comer, while subbing in, gets a pick and returns it 91 yards for a score. 1 sack by Rogers. 4 KRB by Leggin.


TE Blades broke is clavicle and on;t be ready for the rest of the year. I place him on IR. I sign 30/30 TE Cooper Donovan and place him on the inactive roster for a while.


Week 15 – We host the Titans. We win 31-0 despite very little, umm, game by anyone. Just one sack, no picks, no forced fumbles, no 100 yard rushing game by Romine (15 for 9-0 and 2 scores), not a great passing day for Hoffman (2:2 ratio, no receiver had more than 66 yards), no returns for scores, and just one good blocking day – OT Keith was 5 KRB and 1 pancake. We don’t even have a ton of tackles – OLB Ellwood leads the team with 4 solos and 1 assist. We’ve had better stats than today in losses.


Week 16 – We host the 4 win 49ers. And we have to fight to win 31-24. Hoffman is 28 of 41 for 305 and 3:1 and McHugh has 185 yards and 2 scores and TE Gasho the 3rd. Romine adds a rushing score. No picks, SLB Ellwood has a forced fumble that Bernardini recovers. 1 sack by Rogers.

WLB Jared Gati is questionable with a torn thumb ligament for a while.


Week 17 – The Texans come to town. We win 31-10. QB Hoffman is NFL Off Player of the Week with 26 for 32, 333 and 4:0. TD catches by Poffenroth (105 yards), McHugh, Poole and Poole. Pick by MLB Sweat. Many forced fumbles, include DE Rogers and DT Zimmerman. 1.5 sacks by the Coop, 2 by Rogers, 1 by DT Roman Duncan and DE Osborne.

DE aikman is healed heading into the postseason, and we finish 14-2.

[Abe Sargent]

The 3033 NFL Playoffs



AFC

14-2 Jacksonville Jaguars
12-4 Baltimore Ravens
10-6 San Diego Chargers
9-7 New England Patriots
11-5 Indianapolis Colts
9-7 Houston Texans

AFC South is back baby!

Now, in the NFC we have a thing.

One team has gone undefeated. Some people are calling them the worst 16-0 team ever. But if any franchise in history deserves this, its them. Who is it? Well, who had the 0-16 season? The Lions, right.

The 3033 Detroit Lions are 16-0 thus far.



The Colts win 35-28 over the Patriots
The Chargers win 36-31 over the Texans

Meanwhile in the NFC, the Cowboys lose in Arizona against the 7-9 Cardinals 13-34. And the 8-8 Redskins lose to the 11-5 Eagles 17-12. This gives the Lions an easy game next week against the Cards.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 2 – Division Time

We host the Indianapolis Colts
Baltimore hosts the Chargers
Detroit hosts a team with, and I’m NOT MAKING THIS UP, NINE FEWER WINS than they did (16-0 vs 7-9). That’s just funny.
Falcons host Eagles


We win 45-6

Hoffman is 15 of 19 for 238 and 4:1, and McHugh, Poffnroth, Scarbrough, Scarbrough, and TE Gasho catch score.s See, QB Matt Lyons went in after Hoffman was injured and tossed a 5th TD on the day. Sack by MLB Sweat.

Meanwhile:

Detroit wins 41-23 over the Cardinals
The Eagles win 27-14 taking down the only major threat in the NFC a 14-2 team, and the Chargers win in Baltimore 24-23

This has lined up nicely for Detroit. They’d much rather face the 11-5 Eagles who didn’t have a bye in the playoffs and are tired than the fresh 14-2 Falcons.


We jhave a few injuries:

WR Stanley Poole is doubtful
DT Stevenson is doubtful
MLB Sweat is questionable
WLB Gati remains questionable

I bench Poole for TE Cooper Donovan, and WR Blades will slide into his space.

[Abe Sargent]

The NFL Conference Championships:


We host the #3 Chargers and the Lions the #3 Eagles


We win 34-7


Hoffman is 26 of 31 for 336 and 4:0 and hits Poffenroth and AJ Blade each twice for scores. S Rodger Popson with a pick. Sack by DT Zimmerman. 3 KRB by Blades and Rasnic.

SS Malachi McKnight is doubtful.


Detroit wins 16-13 and that sets up:

[Abe Sargent]

The 3033 NFL Super Bowl

Your AFC Champion #1 Seed 14-2 Jacksonville Jaguars

Vs

Your NFC Champion #1 Seed 16-0 Detroit Lions


Who will win? We are favored by 2.

Just two years ago we went 19-0. Denver went 19-0 in Peyton Manning’s final season.

Detroit’s QB is 5 th year vet, 6th year pick 48/48 Brandon Millar. Despite the age of passing offenses, he just had a 3247 yard season, with a 19:11 ratio, and 62.4% and 86.3 rating despite going 16-0. Other than the record, that’s not compelling stuff. It’s like David Garrard going 16-0.

Where the Lions shine is rookie and stud 80/80 Aaron Schofield, With his 2093 rushing yards I his first year in the league. That’s why the Lions are here. They took him at the 1.2 spot, after some really bad years.

Lions:

2032 – 3-13
2031 – 5-11
2030 – 3-13
2029 – 5-11
2028 – 3-13
2027 – 8-8
2026 – 7-9
2025 – 6-9-1
2024 – 9-7 – Wild Card

2024 is the last winning season and playoff appearance for the Lions.

Before this year, the Lions had won the NFC North just once since 2014. They had 4 playoff appearance, including an 8-8 wild card once. Their worse season was 1-15 in 2017.

And now they struck draft gold and took it as far as they could. So Kudos to the Lions!

But we will beat them!


Here we go……



We score 30!

They score 36.

Ah….


Hoffman was Game MVP with 30 of 43 and 382 and 3:0. TE Gasho, WR Poffenroth (101 yards) and RB Romaine caught scores. Romine was also 19 for 98. CB Greene with a Super Bowl pick. Sacks by SS McKnight, DE Rogers, and WLB Gati. 3 passes defensed by FS Bernardini. 3 KRB by OT Hector Johnson. 5 special teams tackles by WLB Gati.

They still Aaron Schofielded us with 23 carries, 150 yards and 2 scores. They also got a safety and a 94 yard kickoff return for a score, without which we win,

Congrats Lions!

[Abe Sargent]

Season Awards:

NFL Player of the Year:

QB Damien Hoffman

Super Bowl MVP:

QB Damien Hoffman


All –League 1st Team:

QB Damien Hoffman
WR Adrian McHugh
DE Jordan Rogers
CB Cary Greene


All-League 2nd Team:

OT Sergio Keith

[Abe Sargent]

Stats:

QB Damien Hoffman – 440 from 615, 71.5%, for 5238 yards, 43:14, 111.0 rating, 22 sacks, 8 knockdowns, 5 fumbles; 1 rush TD

Led the league in lots of things – rating, yard,s pass TD, % completed


RB Percy Romine, 270 for 1331 yards, 4.93 ypc, 21 rushing TD; 59 grabs, 475 yards, 3 scores

That’s a strong stat line for my new starter. 4th in rush yards, the most rush scores by a bunch.


WR Adrian McHugh, 118 grabs 1776 yards, 19 scores – 2nd most in yards, and most in scores
WR Max Poffenroth, 82 for 1188, 9 scores
WR Stanley Poole, 53 snags, 612 yards, 6 scores
TE Tony Gasho, 50 for 516 and 4

Up until the last game, McHugh was 4 yards behind the league leader, and could have wound up best. It felt like Poffenroth really fought for those yards. Like it wasn’t easy anymore.


Special Teams

WR Kim Riley, 52 PR, 1 PR RET TD< 9.9 avg; 31 KR, 23.7 AVG

WR Stanley Poole, 9 KR, 1 KR RET TD, 30 avg

Riley and Poole both struck with scores. Thanks!

K Harris Parrish, 29 of 35, 55 long, 73/73 PAT

P Shawn Oakes – 66 punts, 46.4 avg, 26 in 20

Again, perfectly fine years from my kickers.



Defense:

DE Jordan Rogers, 51 solo, 19 assists, 16 sacks, 9 blocked passes (led league), 32 hurries, 36 QB KD
DT Cooper Zimmerman, 35 and 13 tack; 4 sacks, 4 blocks, 10 hurrie,s 4 QB KD
DT Zachery Stevenson, 0.5 sacks, 2 blocks, 5 hurries, 9 QBKD
DE Andres Aikman, 9 games, 4 sacks, 8 hurries,

Rogers led the league in passes batted down, QB knockdowns, and was 3rd in sacks. And DT was fine, but not where I want it to be.

SLB Van Ellwood 63 and 20 tackles, 1.5 sacks, 1 block, 3 hurr, 4 QBKD, 2 INT, 2 pasdef
MLB Eduardo Sweat, 72 and 30 tack, 1.5 sacks, 4 hurr, 4 QBKD, 2 INT, 1 INT RET T, 7 pasdef
WLB Jared Gati, 1 sack, 1 hurrie, 3 QBKD, 2 pasdef

Ellwood is looking pretty sexy.

SS Malachi McKnight – 86 and 31 tack, 1 blocked pass, 2 picks, 5 pasdef
FS Quentin Bernardini, 62 and 25 tack; 1 hurr, 2 pick, 19 pasdef
CB Cary Greene, 5 picks, 1 INT RET TD< 22 passes defensed
CB Allen Hutchings, 4 picks, 8 pasdef
CB Monty Glenn, 2 picks, 14 pasdef


Despite getting demoted that was a pretty saucy year for Hutchings! And Glenn got a large number of passes broken up, so you can’t look askance at him. By the way, Greene led the league with his 22 pasdef. There were 4 other players at 20 and 21, and then Bernardini’s 19 was 5th highest player in the league, and then the next was an ILB with 16.


Blocking:

OC Myron Leggin, 35 KRB, 1 pancake, 2 sacks allowed
OG Lamar Rasnic, 31 KRB and 8 pancakes and 1 sack
OT Sergio Keith, 31 KRB, 3 pancakes, 6 sacks
OG David Blades, 30 KRB, 4 sacks
OT Hector Johnson, 22 KRB and 8 sacks allowed
TE Tony Gasho, 8 KRB

Not a bad year for these folks with 4 at 30+ KRB. Good solid blocking.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:


Offensive Player of the Year: QB Damien Hoffman – Welcome back to the best QB in football ratings after a couple of years of injuries and weaker play!
Defensive Player of the Year: Rogers led the league in two stats and was third in another. Can’t argue with that. At this rate, barring injury or something, Rogers is likely to be Canton bound. Let’s take a look – Rogers, in four years, has been All League 3 times, and has collected 55.5 sacks. That’s around the same production level as JJ Watt.

Special Teams Player of the Year: WR Kim Riley – He had a solid returning year, as well as a PR score to notch it. Let’s keep it going Riley!

Rookie of the Year: WR Stanley Poole – As a undrafted FA, you got more than 600 receiving yards, 6 catching TD, a kick returned for a score, and a solid amount of quality on the field. That’s not a bad year at all!

Heart Award: DE Alfredo Osborne – Not a great player, Osborne was forced into the lineup way too early and managed to avoid embarrassing himself when our star DE went down. Good job providing the coverage Osborne!


Alright.

These are my players with at least 10 years of experience in order:

13 WR Clyde Scarbrough

12 QB Matt lyons
C Myron Leggin
LS Rex Cole

10 CB Allen Hutchings

[Abe Sargent]

Review:

Performance – 86
Value – 100
Profit – 100
Roster 22

Score – 90


We have 3 retirements:

CB Allen Hutchings, WR Scarbrough and CB Al Royer.

Another womb to tomb player for us, Hutchings was a 5th round selection from Mississippi State that got 1 All Pro mention, won 2 Rings, and had 42 picks and 82 passes defensed. Thanks Allen.

We have a new member in the hall of fame, and he lead all new members in voting with 98% of the vote:

OG Marquis Satre is in.


YAY!

QB Teddy Bridgewater is also in.


In other news:

QB Rodney Drietz, the pride of WVU, with a Bowl, Legend of the Game on retirement, All League once, 62398 passing yards, 389 TD, and career 86.4 rating. (That would put him 6th on the career TD list above Tarkenton in real life, and 3rd in passing yards just past Marino)

TE Brett Kovacs – A guy we drafted in the 2nd round, because a starter for us for 6 years, 1 bowl win,

WR Cornell Franklin, 6 time All Pro, fastest man in 2024,

C Blaine Victor – 4 time all pro for Buffalo

C Brady Stevenson – 5 time all pro for Tampa, retires with 467 KRB and 100 pancakes and 77 sacks allowed – Expect to see him be a potential for Canton

LG Ramon Hitchcock – 4 time all pro, 1 Super Bowl Ring -0 429 KRB, 95 pancakes, 61 sacks allowed

LT Myron Starks – 5 time all pro, 3 Rings, drafted by us and part of the Satre/Starks/Leggin triumvirate at O Line.

DE Tim Shaw, 3 time all pro for Bills, 117 sacks,

CB Herb McCarthy, Defensive Rookie of the year in 2024, All Pro once, finishes with 47 picks

[Abe Sargent]

We have 39 players under contract and no 1st round pick.

We made 366 mill last year.

Our value dropped though to 1.928 bill, tied for 3rd in league with Baltimore

8th best stadium
THE best roster
11th best support, 16th best economy

99.8% attendance




I retain my OC and DC


We draft first. I make no staff changes though.


RFA:

RB Steve Conley
TE Marco Blackburn
QB Caden Kubrak
WR Stanley Poole
DE Quinn Mosier
DT Roman Duncan
SLB Nicholas Kates
FS Silas Rice


UFA:

TE Winston Blades
TE Cooper Donovan
OT Harrison Bridges
CB Monty Glenn

That’s it. Noone franchise-able, that’s for sure!

[Abe Sargent]

Time to make some major plays:

These players are expiring:

QB Matt Lyons
C Myron Leggin
SE Maxwell Poffenroth
FS Roger Popson
RG David Blades
WLB Jared Gati
RB Micah Falvey
RG Trent Clark
MLB Eduardo Sweat
P Shawn Oakes
MLB Devan Comer
TE Tony Gasho
RG Hugh Stone
LT Sergio Keith
DT Zachery Stevenson
SLB Van Ellwood
FS Corwin Lynch
SE Kim Riley

That’s a lot of folks. That includes key depth at places like WR, FS, and OG, starters at all three LB spots, and my strong rookie class from a few years ago with Gasho, Keith, Stevenson and Ellwood now coming up and wanting to get paid.

I extend the cheapest first. DT Stevenson

5 years, 24 mill. Done.

Now, TE, SLB and OT all want some cash to be splashed.

I extend RG Blades by four years, and cut his cap number this year almost in half from 18 to 10.

That gives me 44 mill under the cap, 32.5 of it for non0-draftees. I have a lot of draft picks this year –

2.29
3.31
4.2
4.24
4.27
4.31
5.5
5.31
6.31
7.31

I kept trading into the draft since I missed a 1s rounder. I have so many mid round picks that I can’t bring all 11 players on board, so I’m okay making some mid round moves, maybe in the 2nd or 3rd round if needed.

Who’s next?

I drop MLB Sweat’s cap hit by 3 mill to sign him to a 5 year 40 mill contract.

Cash splashing time

OT Sergio Keith – flatish cap at 18 mill this year, and then drops to 15, 15, and then 23.

TE Tony Gasho – 4 years, 53 mill, cap hit rises from 2 mill to 12 mill this year.

WR Poffenroth – 4 year deal, lots of cash. Frees up some cap stuff

SLB Ellwood – 4 year deal

WLB Jared Gati by 2 more years.

I extend Kim Riley by a year



We have 7 mill in cap space for non-rookies post-extensions.

[Abe Sargent]

The only ones left I have any concern about are defensive front leader MLB Comer, FS Popson, but he’s too pricey these days, P Oakes, and of course, C Leggin.

Our needs:

Starter CB

QB
RB
TEX2
WR (Poole wants too much)
OT
DE
DTx2
LB
CBx2


Let’s head to FA

I don’t have an obvious CB option. I make an offer to FA CB Monty Glenn

Stage 5 – Glenn comes and joins us

I have 3 mill left in cap space

I sign RFA FS Silas Rice. I cut FS Corwin Lynch

That actually makes me some money and improved my roster

I also bring back SLB Nicholas Kates


I’m ready for a-draft!

[Abe Sargent]

I’m just going to skip the normal song and dance in my drafts, I’m hungry and I want to get some food. I only once have to think – at 2.29 I like OG Silas Fleck, WE Zack Robbins and FB Hayden Wilks.

Robbins – 4.43 dash (blue), 30 IQ Test (ble), 10 strength, 7.12 agility, 52 pos spec (blue). Strong bars. 10% development, 69 volatility

Wilks – Overrated, 40 volatility, 42% developed, red strength, blue in dash, agility, pos spec. Would consider moving to TE to help out there.

OG Fleck – Overrated, 93 volatility, no combine stuff, low intelligence, 13% developed

So I interviewed two players here, both are overrated, but this is 2.29, not exactly underrated territory. I don’t need, technically, and FB or OG. I could use the WR. I take Robbins.


From there I either BAP occasionally or grab top talent with nice bars.



2.29 – WR Zack Robbins, Duquesne
3.31 – C Stan Borders , Miami, Fl
4.2 – DE Shane Sanderson, Jacksonville State
4.24 – CB Jeremiah Hopper, Louisiana State
4.27 – OT Alex Pieper, Louisville
4.31 – QB Jonathan Quinn, St John’s Minnesota
5.5 – DT Gene Sheldon, Arizona State
5.31 – TE Mitchell Tidwell, Arkansas
6.31 – SE Emmitt Cavallo, Texas El-Paso
7.31 – RB Glenn Harden, Georgia Tech

There we are!

I think LT Pieper may be a grower, he has great combine scores. But he’s a 19/24 guy right now.

Post draft we still need: TE, DT, LB, CB


We have an….A+ draft grade. Odd

No one is on the green page

Not one rookie comes in with a 50 or higher future estimate

This was more of a hole-filling draft that merely gets me to the next year or two as I keep picking up extensions for draftees.

[Abe Sargent]

We have 51 players under contract

I make offers to these UFA:

SS Brody MacClelland
TE Quinn Dixon
SLB Deon Luangphone
DT Charles Prescott
TE Howie McNeely
WR Miguel Halpern
QB Daquan Ferrell

These 7 UFAs will provide camp competition, insurance, and depth to for our pre-season.

Week 1 - We bring in 4 targets

Week 2 – 2 more join.

Week 3 – All 7 have signed with us

We have 58 players under contract.

I make an offer to 33/51 RB Nicholas Cayea

Week 4 – He signs and I cut RB Micah Falvey, who is worse, and has a conflict with the new leader on the backfield

[Abe Sargent]

If everybody went camping, across the USA, and everybody’d go camping, to Californiayay.


We sell 58800 season tix

I am going to need a better draft next year, I can’t keep doing these low quality ones for long. Last year, other than DE Aikman, the best player was 42 potential. This year, I brought in lots of 40s potential but not one 50. Now, again, I was devoid of a 1st, and that’s always going to be an issue. But still.


I make a few changes pre-pre-season

I cut:

QB Daquan Farrell
TE Howie McNeely
WR Miguel Halpern


I sign UFA Dashawn Delery, a 20/41 body



We go 4-0 and I cut:


WR AJ Blades
FB Dwight Looker
FS Roger Popson
C Ruben Barrett

I sign MLB Chandler Hallock for the bench

[Abe Sargent]

Major rookie movement?

LT Alex Pieper has grown, he’s 21/50


No other major movement – CB Greene is still 62/62, and C Leggin 58/58 and Bernardini 72/72 and such.

Wait, nm, RB Percy Romine dropped ot 49/49. And WLB Gati t o33/33.

Wait, and RB Derrick Borden grew to 57/57.


Dang, I’ll switch switch over to Borden then.

Borden moves to starter and I’ll slide Romine to FB.

Changes in starters:

RB Borden is moved from FB and RB Romine to it

None others on the offense

On D no changes

So this is the first time in this whole dynasty where I have the exact same starting 22 (and P and K and returner and gunners as well) as before. Which is an odd thing, admittedly

We are still 2nd youngest team



Roster Strength:

THE best QB
8th best RB
6th best TE
THE best WR
7th best C
4th best OG
6th best OT

13th best P
3rd best K

2nd best DE
4th best DT
12th best ILB
3rd best OLB
5th best CB
THE best S

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 – In overtime we drive and defeat the Titans 32-29. Borden was 13 for 81 and Hoffman a weaker 36 of 57 for 484 and 4:3. WR McHugh caugt 8 for 86 and 2 scores. Poffenroth was 7 for 92 yards. Rookie WR Zack Robbins proved himself worthy with 7 grabs, 153 yards and a score, and RB/FB Romine caught the other score. Sack by Rogers, 4 KRB by OG Rasnic.


We have some injuries post-game

RB Borden, DE Aikman, and a few others are all probable

Backup DT Shelton strained his hammy and is now questionable

Week 2 – Last year the Eagles were the #3 seed in the NFC and made it to the Championship game. Now we head to Philadelphia to take them on. We lose 39-42. Hoffman is still Game MVP with 27 of 41 for 402 and 2:0. McHugh grabbed 169 yards. And RB Borden both catching scores. Backup RB Nicholas Cayea picks up a fumble on special teams and rush it in for a score. Meanwhile K Harris Parrish was 6/6 from the field. Sacks by SS MCKNight and backup OLB Nicholas Kates. Pick by SLB Ellwood.


Other than a broken finger on Hoffman, no major news


Week 3 – Everybody is calling the New England game today a push, but we win 49-19 and Hoffman is NFL Offensive Player of the Week with 27 of 39 for 355 and 4:1 – hitting McHugh for 115 and 2 scores, Poffenroth for 84 yards and a score, and TE Gacho te last TD. RB Romaine and Borden each score a TD as well. Pick and return 52 yards for a score by SS MCKnight. FF by McKnight as well. 3 KRB by Keith, no sacks on the day.


Week 4 - We host and throat stomp the Raiders 34-6. NFL Defensive Player of the Week is DE Jordan Rogers with 3 sacks, 1 hurries and 2 knockdowns, and a forced fumble as well. DE Aikman also has 3 sacks. C Leggin rocks 3 KRB. Picks by SS McKinght and backup CB Jeremiah Hopper. The McKnight one is returned 28 yards for a score. Hoffman was 27 of 38 for 300 and 3:1. Poffenroth 95 yards, 1 score; TE Gahso and WR Emmitt Cavallo the other scores.

DT Cooper Zimmerman is questionable with a strained quad muscle


We finish the first quarter 3-1

[Abe Sargent]

Week 5 – BYE – and at a good time too I have 7 injuries

Week 6 – We host the Colts. We win, but it’s closer than expected 38-33. Picks by CB Greene, SS McKnight, and FS Bernardini. 1.5 sacks by MLB Sweat, 1 by Rogers. 4 KRB by Rasnic, 3 by Leggin. WR Maxwell Poffenroth, recovers a RB Borden fumble and rushes it in for score. Hoffman is just 26 of 34 for 318 and 1:1, and hit McHugh for that score. Rushing TD by RB Romine and backup RB Cayea,

Post game, Bernardini is questionable with a sprained knee for a bit


Week 7 – next up, the 1-5 Titans. We win 41-10. Borden had the firs 100 yard rushing day with 19 for 120 and Hoffman had 21 of 31, 276 and 4:1 for 2 scores the RB Borden, 1 each to WE Cavallo and Robins – no favorites with the new guys. No picks, one FF by DT Zimmerman which McKngith grabbed, 1 sack by Zimmerman, OLB Ellwood, DT Stevenson, and 1.5 by Rogers. 6 KRB by Rasnic and 3 by Blades.

Zimmerman’s injury is done. DT Sheldon’s hammy is too.

Week 8 – Nex tis the 1 win Chiefs. We win 41-27, and Hoffman is 30 of 42 for 277 and 5) full house of TD to McHugh and Poffenroth. Pick by Greene, 26 carries for 148 yards by RB Borden, FF by DE Aikman that CB Hopper recovered, Sacks by McKnight and Rogers, 4 KRB by C Leggin, 3 by Rasnic

McKnight given a probable injury of tendinitis in his shoulder.

Week 9 – next we host the 5-2 Broncos. We shut them out 33-0. Hoffman rocks 24 for 39 and 333 yards and 3:0 with TDs to WR Poffenroth, Zack Robbins and RB Romine, and Parrish is 4/4 on the day. Sacks by backup DE Osborne and DE Shane Sanderson. 4 KRB by C Leggin.


Bernardini is healed fully.

We finish the 1st half 7-1

[Abe Sargent]

Week 10 – We head to 4-4 San Diego and shatter them 48-21. QB Damien Hoffman is NFL Offensive Player of the Week with 28 of 42 for 348 and 5:0. Poffenroth 116 yards, 1 score; McHugh 127 yards, 1 score, WR Cavallo, 2 scores, WR Robbins, 1 TD. RB Borden rushes o1. No picks. FF by Bernardini and recovered by MLB Sweat. 2 sacks by DT Zimmerman, 1 by DE Rogers and DE Aikman. 3 KRB by BRasnic and Blades.

RB Romine is out for a month with a shoulder injury. Cayea moves into his s[pots on the depth chart and I activate rookie 7th rounder Harden.

Week 11 – We head to 7-2 Houston and take them down 27-14. NFL Defensive Player of the Week is DE Roger who has 3 sacks, 2 hurries, 3 knockdowns, on the day. 1 sack by DT Zimmerman and WLB Gati as well. No picks, bit FF by Zimmerman that he recoved, andby ZT Stevenson, recovered by backup DT Gene Sheldon, for a score. 4 KRB by Blades 1 rushign score by Borden, and 26 of 39 for 291 and 1:0 for Hoffman


Week 12 – The 6-4 Cowboys arrived hoping to leave with a win. They are going to be disappointed when we send them back having been just embarrassed 52-6. The Hoff is the NFL OPotW with 23 of 33 for 353 and 4:0. Catching scores were Poffenroth, WR Rpobbins, McHugh and Backup TE Mitchell Tidwell. SS McKnight with a pick returned 59 yards for a score. FF by CB Greene and CB Glenn. Rushing scores by RB Borden and Harden. Sack by CB Greene. 3 KRB by Keith and Rasnic.

DE Roger strained his hammy and is questionable for a while.

Week 13 – We head to 8-3 Baltimore, and come back winners 51-33. QB hoffamn is again NFL OPotW with 33 of 45 for 416 and 5:0. Pofneroth had 195 yards, 2 scores, and McHugh a score, and WR Robbines and Cavallo the others. RB Borden was 18 carries, 111 yards, 1 score. Sacks by DE Aikman, Osborne. Picks by Bernardini, McKnight and Greene. 4 KRB by Keith, 3 each by Blades and OT Hector Johnson.

We finish 11-1

[Abe Sargent]

Week 14 - We head to 7-5 Washington and…..win 34-28. For th e3rd straight week, Hoffman is named NFL Offensive Player of the Week with 32 of 38, 371, and 3:0, hitting Poffenroth for 190 yards and3 score.s RB Borden added a rushing TD. Picks by McKnight, CB Glenn, and ILB Sweat. FF by SLB Ellwood and Zimmerman, and CB Glenn recovered one. No sacs. 3 KRB by OG Blades.


No major injuries either.

With 3 games left, we had won the AFC! The Ravens are the only 9 win team, and no one else is better, so we win the tie-breaker I they go 3-0 and we lose 0-3

Week 15 – The 9-4 Texans arrive and….we send them back crying 44-9. Hoffman has 19 for 34 and 231 with 4:0. He hits Poffenroth for 2 score,s one each to RB Borden and WR McHugh. SS McKnight has a pcik and rush back 25 yards for a score, and CB Greene and backup CB Dashawn Delerey with picks too. 2 sacks each by DE Aikman and DE Osborne, and 1.5 by DT Zimmerman, 3 KRB by OT Johnson.


Week 16 – We host the 11-3 Jets. We win 38-7. Hoffman is 21 of 26 for 296 and 3:0 – Poffenroth has 116 yards, McHugh 2 scores, and 1 score to RB Borden, and RB Cayea is rushing for a 4th TD on the day. CB Greene has a pick return 64 yards for a score. Picks by Bernardini and CB Delery as well. 1 sack by McKnight, 1.5 by DE Shane Sanderson, and 1 by DT Stevenon and backup MLB Issac Mahoney. 3 KRB by OG Blades and OT Johnson

DE Rogers hammy is done. RB Percy Romine is back from injury.

CB Monty Glenn has a concussion and is out for 3 weeks. I activate FS Silas Rice. CB Delery will start until Glenn’s return

Our final game is at Indy. If Hoffman has a great game, with 524 yards or more, he will pass QB Steven Meador’s 5530 passing yard record in a season set in 2026. The most passing TDs in a season was 55 by Bortles in 2021, (and Peyton Manning in 2013). Right now Hoffman has 51. He needs 4 to tie and 5 to break. I move my offensive plan to really push passing.


Week 17 –We finish 15-1 after winning 34-9 in Indy. Hoffman is NFL Offensive Player of the Week with 25 of 34 for 323 yards, 4:0 ratio. McHugh was 8 for 126 and 2 scores, Wr Poffenroth was 8 for 79 and 1 and RB Borden caught a score too. Meanwhile, DE Jordan Rogers was NFL Defensive Player of the Weke with 2 sacks, 3 hurries, 2 QBKD, 1 FF and 1 fumrec. MLB Sweat got a pick. Sack by McKnight, DE Aikman, WLB Gati.

DE Aikman is questionable for a few weeks with a knee thing


We got a bye baby!

[Abe Sargent]

The 2034 NFL Playoffs



AFC –

15-1 Jacksonville Jaguars
11-5 Denver Broncos
10-6 Cincinnati Bengals
9-7 New England Patriots
9-7 Pittsburgh Steelers
9-7 Houston Texans

9-7 Ravens and Titans didn’t make it in.

In the NFC The Lions went 12-4 and won the NFC North, in case you care.


Houston loses to New England 16-19
Pittsburgh can’t win in Cincinnati 15-45. Ouch.
Atlanta in New York 33-16
Dallas loses in Seattle, 34-13


Week 2 –

We host the patriots.


We have 6 games on them. We are favored by 8 points



And we even manage to cover the spread, 34-21


Hoffman – 21 of 31, 270, 4:0
RB Percy Romaine, 2 TD grabs, RB Borden 1, TE Gasho 1

S Bernardini pick
DE Rogers FF – DT Zimmerman recovers

1 sack by MLB Sweat, DE Rogers, DE Osborne

4 KRB by OT Johnson


The Broncos host and upend the Bengals 27-20

The Lions win 24-12 over Seahawks and Atlanta in Tampa 33-7

[Abe Sargent]

The Championship of the Conferences

We host the Broncos

The Lions host the Falcons


Earlier this year we shut down any chance of the Broncos winning 33-0.

I bring back CB Monty Glenn from injury

This our year, you can feel it.

Everyone’s hoping for a Lions-Jaguars rematch from last year.

They will be disappointed.

Detroit loses to the Falcons 26-21

And we win though – 40-24


Hoffman – 30 of 44, 275, 3:1, Poffenroth is 94 yards, 2 scores, and McHugh a score. RB Borden has 19 for 116 yards on the ground. 2 picks by MLB Sweat, 1 by Greene and one returned for a 73 yard score by WLB Gati. 4 KRB by Leggin, 3 by Blades. No sacks on the day.

[Abe Sargent]

The 3034 NFL Super Bowl



Featurinnnnngggg….



Your AFC Champion #1 seed 15-1 Jacksonville Jaguars

Vs

Your NFC Champion #5 seed 10-6 Atlanta Falcons


The Falcons were scrappy enough to get here, winning on the road three times as a wild card team. But we all know, that the Jaggernaut is about to roll, don’t we?


Don’t we?


We do, right?







Yeah….we do…

45-23

QB Hoffman is Super bowl MVP with 25 of 37, 332, 4:1, hits RB Borden for 1 score and 110 yards receiving, and WR Poffenroth, Cavallo and Robbins with scores. RB Borden adds a rushing TD as well.

4 pcks by us:

CB Cary Greene
CB Monty Glenn
SS Malachi McKnight
SLB Van Ellwood – retruned 49 yards for a score

2 sacks by DE Aikman, 1 by DT Zimmerman and DE Osborne.

5 KRB by OG Rasnic, 3 by Keith




No major injuries

[Abe Sargent]

Season Awards:

NFL Player of the Year:

QB Damien Hoffman

Super Bowl MVP:

QB Damien Hoffman

Offensive Player of the Year:

QB Damien Hoffman


All League 1st Team:

QB Damien Hoffman
WR Maxwell Poffenroth
WR Adrian McHugh
DE Jordan Rogers
SS Malachi McKnight


All League 2nd Team:

DT Cooper Zimmerman

Last two years we’ve seen Poffenroth, McKnight, Zimmerman and Keith win All Pro for the first time in the collective careers – nice stuff!



I thought McKnight might get Defensive Player of the Year nods. The guy who won, SS Winston Berlat, also a SS btw, had more picks, but fewer returns. He deserved it.

The Hoff with the quadfecta

[Abe Sargent]

Stats:


QB Hoffman – 425 of 612, 5374, 69.4%, 55:7 ratio, 121.7 rating, 17 sacks, 7 knockdowns, 1 fumble

If he had rocked his normal completion % he would have had the most passing yards in NFL season, and probably the record in TD as well. But this is no shakes, right?


RB Derrick Borden, 227 attempts, 1086 yards, 4.78 ypc, 6 TD; 57 grabs, 531 yards, 7 TD grabs


That’s an adequate season I suppose, but I expect more from my 7/57 talent.


WR Maxwell Poffenroth – 111 grabs, 1591 yards, 16 TD
WR Adrian McHugh – 105 snags, 1471 yards, 15 TD
WR Zack Robbins, 52 for 721, 7 scores
WR Emmitt Cavallo, 35 for 388 and 5
TE Tony Gasho, 35 for 396 and 2

Max led the league in both yards and TDs. Something he has never really done. This is, by far, his best season ever. My rookie WR draftees also helped I think.


Special Teams

WR Kim Riley – 43 PR, 12.2 avg -0 best avg in league among qual; 17 KR, 27.5 avg

We only had 25 kick returns all year long. We were kicked out of bounds or away from our guy after scores.

K harris Parrish, 36 of 42, long of 55, 74/74 PAT

Not bad at all fella!

P Shawn Oakes, 73 punts, 45.7 avg, 30 in 20.

Also not bad



Defense –

DE Jordan Rogers – 13.5 sacks, 1 block, 14 hurries, 11 QBKD, 2 FF
DE Andres Aikman – 9.5 sacks, 1 block, 11 hurries, 65 QBKD, 3 FF; 2 FumRec
DT Cooper Zimmerman, 47 and 13 tackles, 6 sacks, 4 blocks, 15 hurries, 19 QBKD , 4 FF; 2 FumRec
DT Zachery Stevenson – 3.5 sacks, 1 block, 7 hurr, 4 QBKD
DE Alfredo Osborne – 4 sacks, 1 6 and 3; 2 FF


Rogers still led league in a down year for sacks. He was probably slowed by his hammy injury for 6 weeks. Ziimmerman is clearly here as well. Thanks!


SLB Van Ellwood – 78 and 17 tack; 1.5 sacks, 1 block, 2 hurr, 4 QBKD, 1 int, 6 pasdef, 2 FF
MLB Eduardo Sweat – 68 and 23 tack; 2 sacks, 2 block, 3 hurr, 3 qbkd, 2 INT, 9 pasdef, 2 FumRec
WLB Jared Gati – 2 sacks, 3 hurr, 2 QBKD

Down years here I suppose?

SS Malachi McKnight – 101 solo tack, 34 assist, 4.5 sacks, 7 int, 4 INT RET TD, 6 pasdef, 2 FF; 3 FumRec
FS Quentin Bernardini – 61 and 17, 0.5 sacks, 3 picks, 9 pasdef
CB Cary Greene, 5 picks, 7 pasdef, 1 INT RET TD
CB Monty Glenn – 15 games, 1 pick, 9 pasdef, 2 FF

Clearly not a great year by Glenn. But everyone else turned in at least a solid performance.


Blocking:

OG Lamar Rasnic – 32 KRB, 7 pancakes, 2 sacks allowed
OC Myron Leggin – 28 KRN 1 pancake 1 sack allowed
OG David Blades – 27 and 4 and 3 sacks allowed
OT Sergio Keith 24 KRB, 1 pan, 3 sacks
OT Hector Johnson, 21 and 1 pan and 6 sacks allowed

TE Gasho – 7 KRb

Down year almost across the board. Come on folks! You can do better than this, you have too.


I know it doesn’t have Satre or Velazquez, but this is probably my best roster in this dynasty.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:


Offensive Player of the Year – WR Poffenroth – He notched All Pro for the first time in his career and led the league in two stats – yards and TDs. That’s a dominant year from the 9th year vet who is now 30 years old. Let’ keep it up old man!

Defensive Player of the Year: SS Malachi McKnight – His first just nasty year for us. Led our team in tackles, assists, picks, picks returned, and still had time for 4.5 sacks. McKnight was all over the place, and he clearly found another level!

Special Teams of the Year: Harris Parrish – With multiple games this year that need a lot of FGs, he has some strong results, and even had some long FGs to match. Thanks Parrish!


Rookie of the Year: WR Zack Robbins had a great year and notched 721 yards, and 7 scores in his rookie year at the 3 spot. Welcome to North Florida!


Heart Award: OLB Nicholas Kates – On special teams he noticed 20 tackles, he grabbed 3 forced fumbles, and recovered one. On defense he grabbed a sack spelling others, and 2 passes defensed. For an undrafted FA last year. He contribute everywhere he could!

[Abe Sargent]

End of Season:

Performance – 90
Value – 87
Profit – 81
Roster – 21

Score – 80



We made 230 mill last year

99.5 % attendance

2.085 bill, 3rd in league
4th best stadium
2nd best roster
3rd best support
16th best economy again


Retirements of note:


C Myron Leggin retires

The last the Leggin/Starks/Satre triumvirate has left the league. Leggin was a pretty strong guy, one All Pro season, won 3 rings for yus.


Other Retirements of Note:

QB Harold Macey, retries a legend of the Game, Super Bowl MVP in 2028, All pro once for Eagles,

C David Lynch, 3 time all pro for Eagles, 424 KRB

LT Joel Cameron, we drafted him in 2021 in the 2nd round, stared him and was disappointed. Signs with Lions and spends the rest of his career there, got the Super Bowl undefeated season last year too.

LT Terrance Donaldson – Two time all pro, strongest manx2, 1 Super Bowl Ring with Miami a few years back,

DE Gregory Burton – Defensive Player of the Year in 2030, 2 time all league, 2 Super Bowl wins, retires with 101.5 sacks and that might be enough. We’ll see – he needed more push with Pittsburgh and he didn’t get it.


Alright, get ready:

DT Earnest Wheeler – EIGHT TIME all pro in 13 seasons, played whole career for Packers, clearly Canton bound

SILB Jameson Broyles – We had him on our roster for two years at MLB back I 2027 and 2028.

CB Emmitt Burke – 3rd round draft pick Jaguars, Played for us for three years, traded to Falcons, then signed with Raiders for a lot of years. Finishes with just 12 picks and 107 pasdef.



In the Hall of Fame? QB Johnny Manziel. Two OG and a QB also headed in.

[Abe Sargent]

We have 39 players on our roster



We pick 5th in the staff draft:

No staff changes yet again. Our coach Tony McDaniel has won Coach of the Year 4 of the last 5 years.

Some of our rookies busted:

WR Cavallo is down to 31/40 and Robbins 30/38.

The biggest issues that we face right now are two-fold:

1). Our roster is lacking in depth and quality from recent drafts. Barring someone breaking open soon, the chances of me keeping any of these bums around, other than DE Aikman, is low.

2). We need to extend DT Zimmerman, WR McHugh, K Parrish, figure out RB and OT

And we have these major players finish up their deal:

CB Cary Greene
OG Lamar Rasnic
FS Quentin Bernardini
RB Percy Romine
RB Derrick Borden


Here’s what I’m facing:

Extending WR McHugh puts me in the 5 year 130 mill category

Extending Zimmerman is in the 5 years 64 mill category

Which is cheaper than I thought, really

Zimmerman’s initial deal would put him at 11.59 mill this year (6.3 more) and McHugh 22 mill, up from 5.8 to a staggering 16 mill more

Now, I could re-sign one now, and then let the other hit franchise city. That’s likely be Zimmerman now.

In three years, McHugh has 4988 receiving yards, 3 All Pro nods and 49 TDs. There are solid WRs whose entire career doesn’t have those sorts of numbers. I simply can’t let him go

Now, here’s some bad news:

Extending CB Greene? The 11th year vet wants an additional 6 mill this year for next, and that’s stupid money. I can’t increase his cap from 18 mill to something a lot worse.

I can’t let Greene walk, but the guy is 33 and 11th year. I can let his deal lapse and then resign him. Or I can wait until post-camp or preseason and if his skills drop, retain him more cheaply.

For a three year extension, we’d only shave 1.2 mill off our cap for Bernardini

For a four year deal with Rasnic, against, juts 1.5 mill is saved.


Get ready:

We have 16 mill under the cap, and just 6 mill for new players…

This is the impossible season:

1). Resign my major players
2). Bring back at least one of these two franchise quality players
3). Have a great, lights out draft to refresh my roster
4). Sign a new P and perhaps extend K Harris Parrish, which’ll cost serious cash
5). Bring back quality RFA in TE Dixon,

And do it under the current cap. Good luck!

[Abe Sargent]

And remember, the minimum salary is now just under 1 mill, so a bunch of really cheap folks would still (take me from 39 players to 53 - 14 million dollars right there)

[Abe Sargent]

I used to bring in some greater talent in later round, or develop it.

Here are starters or major players on my roster from later in the draft or undrafted


9th year LB Jared Gati, starter at WLB, undrafted, currently 33/33 but fell a lot recently.

Undrafted RB Derrick Borden, 56/56, 4th year

Returner WR Kim Riley, undrafted, 48 and 57 in returns, 4th year


6th rounder SS Malachi McKnight at 65/65, and just had an All Pro year - 6th year vet

5th year vet DT Zachery Stevenson, picked at 4.31, 58/58

MLB Eduardo Sweat, picked at 4.30 by us, 7th year 60/60 rating

SLB Van Elwood, picked at 3.31, 68/68 rating, 5th round

K Harris Parrish, 4th, 78/78. in case you count K

CB Monty Glenn, 4.19 selection by us 6th year, 47;/47


LG Lamar Rasnic, 3.29 pick, 7th year, 69/69

That is great drafting by us from the late 3rd round on back. But none of those players are younger. We have no hits from recent drafts, and that hurts the roster moving forward.

And developing that sort of talent only hurts right now because we don't have the depth to do so.

[Abe Sargent]

Now if you'll recall, I traded up some picks and such to grab some top talent that fell recently. And I have a few players on my roster that are downright nasty.

Here are the players that are on my roster that are in a Hall of Fame conversation, from the deadlocks to the strong players to the youth.


QB Damien Hoffman - 8th year, 2 Rings, 4 time league MVP, stats are just nasty at time, like his career 69+% completion, or 33000+ yards and 285:78 TD:INT ratio. Currently career leader for career rating (111.4) and career yards per pass attempt (8.5). LOCK for HOF.

DE Jordan Rogers - 6th year vet, 2 Rings, in his first 5 years, notched 69 sacks, 4 All Pros in 5 years, and led the league in sacks multiple times. Barring some sort of cataclysmic fall, or career ending injury, he's in.


FL Adrian McHugh - Despite his 4th year in the league, got 4988 yards and 49 scores, plus 3 All Pros and a Ring, and it on the Hall of Fame parabola quite easily.


FS Quentin Bernardini - 11th year vet, 44 picks, 1 time Defensive Player of the Year, 2 time All Pro. In there if he gets some more either longevity for great All Pro style years. 3 Rings

WR Maxwell Poffenroth - The Poff just had his 1st All Pro in his 9th year for us, and has 3 Rings. 11010 yards, 99 TDs, so Maxie Poff needs some more but is in the conversation for longevity and career yards.

NT Cooper Zimmerman - Outside chance he makes it, this 4th year vet just notched his first All Pro for us and has great stats, but not enough splash yes


How many players from the Jags made it to the HOF thus far?

QB Blake Bortles
WR Marqise Lee
LG Marquis Satre
DT Kevin Williams *
DE Cesar Velazquez

The Jags retired 5 in honor of Bortles

* Williams just played his last two career years for us, and was not a major Jacksonville star.

I'm confident that WR Joshua Wild will make it too. Other players that have retired but not made it to the HOF aren't locks.

[Abe Sargent]

If you'll recall the point of this dynasty was the play the newly available on Steam game and to record my thoughts, decisions, and play it slowly, so newer players could read along and see how my thought processes work.


I hope that you enjoyed it thus far!



The league used to have a paucity of quality at the QB position. That has ended:

3 Qbs have a rating of 80+ (including our own Hoffman)
2 QBs have a potential of 70+
5 QBs are currently 70+
7 QBs more have a current of 60+

Therefore as of this year, 17 Qbs, or a little more than half, are at 60 or more. At 84/84. Damien Hoffman is the best QB in the league.

At 61/71. the Panthers have a younger backup who is not starting, so the league has 16 of these starting. He was a 5th rounder that boomed to 61/71


19 players in teh league have a current rating og 80 or more, and we have 2 - QB Hoffman,a nd DE Rogers.

[Abe Sargent]

The potential HOF folks are the keys to my roster, and I don't want to move them. Everyone else is ultimately disposable.

Our team went 15-1 and won the Super Bowl. We can afford to lose some players and still compete, but I have too many players coming in at once.


These starters are in the final year of their deal:

RB Derrick Borden
CB Cary Greene
DT Cooper Zimmerman
WR Adrian McHugh
K Harris Parrish
G Lamar Rasnic
FS Quentin Bernardini
RT Hector Johnson

That's a lot of players. This is the hardest off season of this dynasty. It's a puzzle, and I have to unlock it.

To sign Bernardini, Rasnic, Zimmerman, Greene, and McHugh on this list, the quality starters I can't afford to lose would cost me roughly 21 million, with Bernardini and Rasnic each dropping their cap hits this year by roughly 1 mill each for longer deals.

The biggest of those is McHugh.

Now on the flip side, to extend K Harris Parrish, one of the best K in football would require me to jump from his rookie deal to an incredible 4 year 40 mill deal. That's an additional hit of 6.5 mill this year alone. I can't dream that sort of cash up. That's not happening. I was hoping to draft a good K and then just stick with him, but I can't drop that sort of cash on one.

So what's what then? Who's who?



Here's the big thing:

Here are the major contracts of note coming due next year that I need to keep space for:

QB Damien Hoffman
DE Andres Aikman (currently at 55/70)


But mainly Hoffman.

So one possibility would be to franchise WR McHugh net year, and then sign Hoffman next year or the year after. Cause I am devoid of cash....


With no splash-y free agency signings in a long time (Cary Greene was my last one about 6 years ago), just keeping my own folks, here's teh cap situation:

Total Cap 284,480,000
Cap Lost 110,000
Room Under Cap 16,230,000
Max for new player - 6,350,000

Cap Used Next Year - 211,730,000

We have 39 players on our roster, and 7 picks, in the back of each round 1.32 through 7.32.

That's just not enough.

[Abe Sargent]

16 mill might look like a lot of space, but this year, it will cost roughly 1 mill for a undrafted free agent. So after I draft 7 players, I can sign roughly 6 more on the cheap. Those 13 players put me at precisely 52 players for the year, or a full roster. But that includes no signings in FA, no depth, nothing.

It's incumbent on me to find players that I can move or spots not to worry
about. I currently need:

1 back-up-ish QB
1 back-up TE
3 OG/C
1 Punter
1 DT
2 LB
2 CB
2 S

For a total of 13 players.

Now, those were just my roster spots, where do I need a starter quality player? My current C is 32/48 so there,

Punter obviously

Perhaps WLB or CB. Ideally, i could draft a starter at C, or somewhere in the LB/CB/S region, and then get some great depth to grow at spots that it's a bit pricey at.

And to be fair, there are a few RFAs that I could sign in good conscious:

TE QUinn Dixon for 1.15 mill this year, 30/45
And I have three RFAs in teh secondary that I could toss money at if needed

How does UFA look? Cause I need a P at least.

My P wants a huge amount to resign.

[Abe Sargent]

What about the draft? Is there someone or some position I could target at the 1.32 spot (or maybe even the 2.32 as well).

Unfortunately this is not the year of the Center. The crop is really weak. Could I take an OG and move someone over? That'd doable, there are a few good, strong OGs out there. This is the year of the LB and the CB though. I'd love to get a good quality CB. I used to get good Cbs all over the draft and I've been sticking out a lot lately.

[Abe Sargent]

So let's take a look at some of the financial implications of my roster right now, and it begins with TE Tony Gasho


I drafted him at the end of the 2nd round a few years ago. He is a 62/62 guy right now. I had to re-up his deal to keep him, and he's being paid 12 mill against the cap this year, and we have him for two more years after this one

There are not a lot of quality TE in the league, and so you have to pay a lot for them. The best TE in the league is future Hall of Famer Todd Mills, an 8th year vet with a 97/97 rating, All Pro 6 times, and last year had 1079 yards, his 2nd time with 1000+. Arizona pay hims 25 mill against the cap.

There are no other TEs in the 80s or 70s. There are just 6 in the 60s. So only 7 at the position in the league right now are notching a 61 or higher. Our guy is the 6th best out there.

In 4 years, he's gotten 1400 yards catching for us. 9 scores. He also has 30 KRB out of 65 KRO. Now blocking wise, he compares well to TE Mills, but in receiving, he sucks.


Am I getting 13 mill of money from Gasho? Probably not.

EDIT -

How about RB next? After signing RB DeMarco Murray to a huge contract and drafting OG superstar Marquis Satre in my first year, what happened? Murray was okay. He was solid, but not spectacular. He dodn't play p to his deal.

Since Murray, I've tended to have a revolving door at RB as I draft or sign some random bum to carry the ball. When you have a good line, and good passing game, you don't need Barry sanders in the backfield. Natrone Means is good enough, I have RB Percy Romine, 9th year, at 49/49 who I signed to be my next guy, and he had 1331 rushing yards for me two years ago, and 260 last year in a backup role. Meanwhile undraft bum RB Derrick Borden, now in year 4, with a 56/56 rushed for 1086 yards for me last year, which was merely adequate. Derrick is 2.4 mill this year, and neither ar here next year. To extend Derrick would be to jump his contract to the 10 mill range. Romine? 11 mill.

So instead I can just move on to the next random guy. Insert next running back. I can cut Percy Romine and save 3.8 mill - from there I get some cap flexibility, although I would need another signee.


EDIT 2 - I can't really afford a good P. Our guy wants too much, and there are 13 Punters in the league at 60+ and 9 more at 50+. I don't always see a correlation between punting ability and punting stats. I can't in good conscience spend a lot of money at P.

I've regularly pushed my budget to the limit with cheap kickers and usually get not-hot results with them. In his three years, 78/78 K Harris Parrish, our draftee, and 3rd best in the NFL, is 90 of 104; 204 of 204 PAT; his 86% career convention is better than the #1 (83%), #2 (73%), #4 (84%) and #5 (77%) conversion rate. So he's good and consistent. But my Juggernaut offense doesn't often need a lot of Ks. Last year, in going 15-1, we won a lot of games by a lot of points. One game went to OT and we won with a FG, one game was lost by 3, and that;'s it. One other game was one by us for 6 points, every other by a lot. Do we really need to invest in the 3rd best K? If we had the 3rd worst K last year, would it have mattered? However, just 15 kickers have a current ranking of 50 or more. (Only 9 more have a 40+) So if I jettison my guy next year, I might not have a lot of space to move to. If I go from the 68/68 guy to the 41/41 guy, that could have some real results on game day at the kicking spot.


EDIT 3 - LS Rex Cole is a 14th year long snapper in the last year of his deal, and he's making 2.2 mill. He has a LS of 99. He is the best in the league. I could probably move on from him to someone else. My guy is a mentor to Centers and we don't save a lot by switching to someone else. Just a few hundred thousand. Not even one player

[Abe Sargent]

Obvious changes first:

1 - Cut RB Percy Romine

2 - Use that cash to help extend DT Cooper Zimmerman's deal. 5 years, 66 mill

3 - Extend OG Lamar Rasnic by three years

4 - Sign RFA Quinn Dixon, at TE

Skip everyone else for now. I'm waiting to see what happens post-Camp with CB greene and FS bernardini and hoping that hits to their skills that likely will happen (both are 11th year vets) could drop contract demands.


i do some interviewing and move to the draft

[Abe Sargent]

The 2035 NFL Amateur Draft has begun!


The first player taken is DT Kaden Brusca from Louisiana - Lafayette, to Philadelphia.

Let's see what we can see!


Whoa. Are you kidding me? How did that happen?

So I was scouting some talent for the 1.32 pick. Our starting OT is in the final year of his rookie deal, and at 55/55, I don;t feel the price hike. I could grab his replacement. I also was looking at some solid LB options as well. A few D Backs even. Perhaps even a really good RB and two of those are left. But then this guy has fallen:


WR Perry Albany, Georgia Tech, fits in, great bars, 76 volatility, 2 blue combine scores and one red, looks really solid


Now I don;t need a 3rd wr., I am set at the position. Maxie Poff is in his 10th year and WR Adrian McHugh his 4th. Both are strong bodies.


So if I went elsewhere, what would I do?

WLB Deion Curtis, potential affinity, 32 volatility, 4 blue scores
SLB Tre Vosicky, 5 blue combines, potential affinity

I was looking at these two for their affinities. They are the top two OLBs on the board. That was what I was looking - lots of good talent at the LB Crops this draft. I don't need one too badly, but but that's the strength of this team.

FS Weston Forest - 4 blues, top safety on the board,


RT Austin Hironaka - 3 blues, top OT
RT Trenton Divine, 3 blues with a higher raw score in each than Austin, , 2nd OT


I figured I'd grab an OT/LB/S here and figure it out. And the options I expected are all here.


So Im confused.


Let's talk about our WR history for a moment.


We were lucky to begin this dynasty with for legit threats at WR - Marqise Lee was in the 70s, and then Allen Robinson, Justin Blackmon, and Ace Sanders were all around 50. Blackmon was our primary returner as well, and Bortles did a solid job getting some yards early in his career. Sanders was the first to go, and then I let Blackmon go, and then, all of the sudden, in the draft, Joshua Wild happened.


Joshua Wild was an amazing looking WR (better than this guy looks) and we were drafting that year in the mid 20s. He fell to us. So I grabbed him, and he was our 3rd WR in his first year, and then supplanted Robinson, and then Robinson was let go. Lee was the old man, and Wild, in his 3rd year, was the consensus best WR in the game. Lee retires and I want to keep two guys, so I draft Maxwell Poffenroth to start across from Wild. We have Maxie and Joshua for a good long time.

Four years ago Joshua Wild retires. And Maxwell is the only guy we of of any consequence who can catch a ball. Now Maxwell may look strong with his 67/67 self, but until last year, he's never been an All Pro guy. So I traded up to select WR Adrian McHugh, who has developed to a 64/64 guy who's very strong statistically.

Poffenroth is in his 10th season in the pros, but he is a young 30. We picked him up near the top of the 2nd after trading back. Maxie is both a Mentor to WR and our receivers leader. We like him. He is signed for three more years at 14 mill each season, a nice flat cap hit.

There's no reason to move him.


So if I take my guy, Percy, and he winds up as another 68/68 WR then what happens? Do I have enough throws to hit all of my receivers? Sure, I have Poffenroth's replacement 3-4 years down the road, and a good one at that, but can my roster afford what is essentially a luxury pick right now?

WR is one of my lowest areas of need. I need a quality WR like a baby needs a quality dentist. Which is, "not at all."

Meanwhile, I have a solid WLB, SLB which fit my leaders quite nicely, or I could grab a solid RB or OT for laters. Even a good FS, and with Bernardini at year 11, I need a replacement for him sooner than the WR.

But, I don't need a OLB. I don;t need on OT or a RB or a S.

Jared Gati, at WLB, is down to 30 current score after a career for us, and cheap. Grabbing WLB Deion Curtis makes total sense.

I'd likely take Curtis now in a normal year. I always find adequate lineman falling later in the 1st or in the 2nd/3rd. I don;t often get a chance to take a starter quality OLB this far back, we don't have a lot.


I'll show you:


Currently, in the NFL, there are 21 OLBs at both WLB and SLB spots of at least 50 current skill. I have Van Ellwood at 60/60, rocking my SLB, the 6th best SLB in the NFL. Virtually none are WLB. We have the 7th and 21st OLBS at teh WLB spot. All of the rest are SLBs/

Curtis has affinity, and is good looking at a place of rarity in the NFL.

So what I do I do?

[Abe Sargent]

I find my results from LBs can be a bit hard to predict and uneven. remember when I signed Justin Houston to a big deal? He never really panned out. I don't usually get great results from my linebackers, and I like Ellwood and Sweat because these are my grabs, my developments, and my success stories. But, despite the fact that Sweat is a 60/60 MLB, he's never sniffed All Pro. Ellwood? 68/68 and never gotten that far either.

I could skip over Percy, grab WLB Curtis, and he'll never be that great statistically, especially at the woeful WLB spot, which is like a black hole on my team.

Perry Albany is rough. Taking him pushes me around. But I'm taking him.
The football gods have spoken


The rest of my target mostly go in the mid-2nd. If I had more ammunition I might have traded up for WLB Curtis, who goes at the 2.14 spot

Back at 2.32, some of the players I was targeting are still on the board, so yay for me


Here's my guy:

SS Chandler Campbell, Auburn, three blues, looks good bars and everything

Both of those guys will be m,major players for us moving forward.



And now a break for our Annual "Reach of the Draft"


Hello folks. Do you ever need a kicker so bad that you want the take the best one on the board, no matter what? Then draft that P Joseph Sobien from North Carolina in the 3rd round like an idiot, and you too, can be comforted.

Who else?

4.32 - RT Ralph Miceli, USC< 4.5 grade, 4.9 adjusted - top OT on teh board
5.32 - FS Quentin Zhahavi, Pittsburgh, 2 blues, 4.4 grade, 4.1 adjusted, 3rd S on board
6.32 - C Maurice Riddle, Brigham Young, 4.5 overall, 3.9 adjusted, 1 red, two blues, 3rd best OC on the board, but that red score is sexy
7.32 - ILB Antonio Bernstein, Arkansas, 4.2 grade, 4.1 adjusted, 2 red bars, one green, one blue, low bars. Will he be a potential grower? Let's find out!


I just owned this draft.

Our initial post draft results. If I were 1/1 in the draft, and picked, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, etc, I could not have done much better:


WR Albany - 42/75
SS Campbell - 24/57
P Sobein - 45/58
RT Miceli - 22/47
FS Zhahavi - 17/46
C Riddle - 22/49
ILB Bernstein - 11/17

Now we'll see how those hold up laters, but that's a really good start to my end of round draft. I just wish we could have nabbed some at positions of need.

[Abe Sargent]

We have a B+ draft review



"The simple fact of the matter is that GM Sargent for all of his great successes in the draft, simply can't resist a pass-catcher. We all know that they need a quality outside linebacker, a corner, a center, a punter, a replacement tackle, a better running back and more. They lost no players that caught passes, retaining every wide receiver, tight end, and even 3 of 4 running backs. The Jaguars made a luxury pick.

Everyone else can talk about how brave they were or how this is just Joshua Wild all over again, but Wild was a once in a generation receiver, and he just fell to their lap in the 20s, in part because people were afraid of his volatility. People mention that two WRs were piked prior to Wild by receiver needy teams, but they forget that both were 10 year vets that lasted, and both had 10000+ career catching yards. Getting a player like Wild to fall doesn't happen, so of course you grab him.

This is not Wild. He's got good potential, but seriously, you can't retain TE Tony Gasho, WR McHugh, WR Poffenroth, and Percy Albany all under this things we have called a salary cap. Everybody knows that McHugh will be franchised or signed later on, post this season, so we get it. You would be spending, roughly, 14 mill on Maxie, 26 on Adrian, and 15 on Gasho - 65 mill on those three, and around 4 mill on Albany already. 70 mill on your catchers - around 20% of your cap. Then add in QB Damien Hoffman to the mix and around half of your cap is going to be tied up in passers and catchers.


That is not sustainable. You could have taken a very good linebacker, you could have kept him for a lower cap-friendlier price post-rookie salary, and then built your roster that way. And that was the plan until Albany fell down the board - just one WRs was taken before him, and we think that Warren Dotson, at the 19 spot to the Ravens is a little better currently and had a bit better potential than Albany.

This was not a case of bad drafting, or a bunch of WR misses, they just needed other positions, went for it, and GM D'Avignon is now trying to change it up. This was not a great pick.

Now SS Chandler Campbell was good. You get a quality nickel back now, and a potential replacement later for FS Bernardini. Quentin is a great player, he's in his final year, and we just don;t know what';s coming next. Campbell is good insurance, and gives depth at an important place on the roster. They needed that depth.

grabbing a P was fine at the back of the 3rd, we often see them go in the top of the 4th, taking one early at 3.32 is suitable, and he got teh best one likely, from the draft.

I don;t see any of his magical mid- or late- round hits like he often gets, but these are serviceable guys who have some ability to spell starters and play injury insurance. So I have no complaints about later on. But the pick people think is genius? A total misfire by a guy who usually doesn't. Because at the end of the day, he just can't get enough wide receivers somehow."

[Abe Sargent]

Here were the players I was looking at at the 1.32 spot as well, in their minicamp pre-game context:

RB Everett - 41/53
RB Blake - 39/54
FS Forest - 31/58
WLB Curtis - 28/58
SLB Vosicky - 31/54
OT Hironaka - 21/50
OT Devine = 20/43

I probably would have grabbed Curtis, and he's fine.


Post-draft I need to massage my roster

I have 46 players under contract. Before Camp starts, there is UFA period #2 and and undrafted FA I want to chase

SLB Nicholas Kates, one of our own players out there 40/40.

RG Trent Clark, one of our expired FA who is 36/36. reliable, a 7th year vet we keep resigning, this time to another one year vet minsal. He's a mentor, we drafted him in the 6th round long ago and have retained him ever since.


UFA QB Cooper Thamilarasan
UFA RB Lenny Billmaier
UFA WLB Caleb Hailey
UFA CB Lamont Offerman looks like a solid retruner

[Abe Sargent]

Stage 2 - Our LB Kates signs elsewhere. We sign QB Coop and RG Clark. Kates heads to Pittsburgh

Stage 3 - Nothing new

Stage 4 - Everyone comes to us we were targeted from UFA land

I have to extend FS Quentin Bernardini by two years, and drop his cap hit by one mill, in order to fit in everyone

I move two players to places that I'm told could improve their value - RT Ralph Miceli to LG (it bumps him to 24/53) and 7th rounder LB to WLB.

I sign DE Dustin Guersc as a UFA pre-camp, and OT Tod Tramontana, the best UFA left on the board by potential



Camp time!

[Abe Sargent]

Post camp, here are my rookies and major UFAs:

WR Perry Albany, 47/73. Worst stat? Avoid drops 13/43. BPR of 74, 55/77 courage, and then everything is in the 80s and 90s for pots. Even endurance is 72/97.

SS Chandler Campbell - 28/56, sucks as Run D and Man to man, rocks everything else. With a 66/85 special teams, will likely be a gunner.

P Joseph Sobien - 46/56

UFA OT Tod Tramontana - 23/54 - run block specialist - 33/91 in that.

C Maurice Riddle - 25/48

LG Ralph Miceli 27/51

FS Quentin Zahavi, 20/45

RB Lenny Billmeier, 29/43

QB Cooper Thamilarasan 16/43


WLB Antonio Bernstein has grown! to 12/19

CB Offerman has a 56/70 PR and 25/32 KR

Not bad. We have Albany on the Green Page




Someone has offered me a 5th rounder for C Stan Borders. I have 11 O Line folks, and I like to have 10. I try something crazy. I move T Tod Tramontana, who was a bit of a boom in camp to C, and now he's 18/61. Alright, I accept the deal and move Borders, who was 33/45.


No major busts or diminishes on my team, not even my old folks Poffenroth, CB Greene, or FS Bernardini

[Abe Sargent]

Roster?


THE best QB
8th best RB
6th best TE
THE best WR
30th C
4th best OG
4th best OT
25th best P
3rd best K
THE best DE
6th best DT
16th best ILB
9th best OLB
5th best CB
THE best S


We have the youngest team in the NFl by two years

We have great cohesion. 9th best passing, 4th best OLine, 3rd best secondary, 3rd best d-front

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, let's set up some depth charts and such

I make some serious changes to my offensive game plan and angles of attack when I rush the QB.


Pre-season

We finish the preseason with 4 victories, and a few minor injuries:

Starting OG David Blades is questionable with a strained hammy until further notice

Backup RG Trent Clark has adeep thigh bruise

Backup DE Shane Sanderson was out for two weeks with a pulled calf muscle, and has improved to questionable. He's moved to the bench.


Here we go!


What I like to sometimes do is a quick sim with coaches setting everything just to see what the expected record would be. We go 13-3 and win the top seed. Then we win the Super Bowl. Winning All Pros is WR Poffenroth, DT Zimmerman, K Parrish, QB Hoffman, and DE Rogers. And no major season ending injuries. That's not bad results, and a lot of players like to do that sort of a quick sim, to get back to business later with the drafting and such.


Can I equal it with the slow roll?

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 - We head to Houston and trounce them 41-17. QB Hoffman is MOM with 28 of 42 for 438 yards and a 4:0 ratio. And so it begins. WR Poffenroth was 9 for 122 and 1 score, WR Albany was 8 for 120 and 2 scores, McHugh was 5 for 75 and 1 score. RB Borden rushes for a score, and FS Bernardini with a pick. DT Zimmerman has a sack, and OG Rasnic 5 KRB.

Injuries? WR McHugh is out for 3 weeks with a strained tendon, and obviously a certain rookie will get some starts in his place. Other lesser injuries occur as well.

Week 2 - We host and crush the Bucs 35-10. Hoffman, MOM, 19 of 28, 319, 3:0. RB Borden rushes 16 for 106 and catches a score. Albany has 8 grabs, 126 yards, and 1 score and WR Zack Robbins has the other score. A pick and a return for a score by SLB Van Ellwood. Sacks by Ellwood, DE Andres Aikman, and Rogers.


No major injury news. One of my backups is back in action.


Week 3 - We have a tough game in New England, and win 24-17. MOM is Huffman with 26 of 37, 300 yards and 2:0. RB Borden rushes for the other score. WR Albany was 8 for 104 and 1 score, WR Robbins the other. Picks by MLB Eduardo Sweat, SS Malachi McKnight and backup rookie SS Chandler Campbell who's playing nickelbakc for us. 2 sacks by DT Zimmerman. 6 players had 2 passes defended.

DE Rogers is banged up a bit for 5 weeks but nothing stops that guy from platting football.


Week 4 - We host and edge out the Bengals 30-17. DE Rogers is Defensive Player of the Week with 3 sacks, 1 knocked pass, 1 knock down, and 5 hurries. CB Greene recovered a fumble of MLB Sweats. 2 sacks by DE Aikman, 1 each by Zimmerman and CB Greene. 3 KRB by OT Sergio Keith. Hoffman was okay with 29 of 46 for 342 and 2:2. Albany had 10 grabs, 143 yards, and 1 score, RB Borden caught the other score and rushed for a 3rd.


LG Rasnic is a bit banged up but we are 4-0.

But we've had WR Albany starting for us, since McHugh is down for a bit more, and he looks hot.


In his first four games of his career - Albany has 34 grabs, 497 yards, and 5 scores. That could be a record.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 5 - The 1-3 Browns bring no challenge when they try to take us down, we win 41-13. Hoffman was a bit dinged up, and didn;t finish the game, and hes probable with a broken finger, but he still finished with 23 of 30 for 349 and 3:0. Albany had 146 yards, WR Robbins 125 yards, and scores by Poffenroth, Albany, and TE Tony Gasho. Rushing scores by RB Borden and QB Hoffman. 2 picks by SS Malachi McKnight. 1.5 sacks by DT Zimmerman and DE Aikman, and then 1 each by MLB Sweat and backup DE Zachery Stevenson. 3 KRB by OG Blades.

McHugh is back from injury.


Week 6 - We host and defeat the 4-1 Colts. 34-16 NFL Defensive Player fo teh Week id DE Andres Aikman, 1 forced fumble,, 2.5 sacks, 4 hurries, and 3 QB knockdowns. 2 sacks by DT Stevenson, 1 each by CB Greene, OLB Van Ellwood and backup WLB Caleb Hailey. 1 pick by Bernardini, and 2 by McKnight. In a great moment of perhaps extreme irony, McHugh catches the ball, rushes near the endzone, fumbles it, and then Perry Albany recovers and runs it in for a score. The Hoff is MOM with 22 of 31 for 346 and 3:0. Poff has 78 yards and a score, Albany 116 and 1 score, and TE Gasho the other.

Returner Kim Riley is questionable for a month or so.


Week 7 - We head out to Pittsburgh and return winners 48-10. QB Hoffman is NFL Off. Player of the Week with 29 of 38 for 365 yards and 5:1. WR McHugh makes up for lost time with 177 yards and 3 scores. Welcome back. Poff and backup WR Cavallo have the others. Picks by Bernardini, McKNight and rookie WLB Haley. Sacks by CB Greene, Rogers, Aikman and Zimmerman.


Not a lot of injury news - Hoffman's injury is now healed.

Week 8 - Baltimore falls before us 34-9. Hoff is NFL OPOTW again with 30 fo 43, 330, and 4-0. McHugh 80 yards, 1 score; Pff 117 yards;, Gasho 1 score,e Albany 2 scores. Pick by CB Monty Glenn. First pick of the season fora corner for us. Sacks by WLB Gati and DE Rogers.


Backup WLB Hailey is out for a month with a concussion.


We are 8-0 and the Giants are 7-0, the league's sole undefeated teams

[Abe Sargent]

Week 9 - Tennessee falls beneath the Jaggernaut 45-19. Hoffman, MOM< has 21 of 29 for 216 and 4:0. McHugh 2 scores, Gasho and RB Borden 1 each. CB Greene gets a pick and rushes it back for a score. ILB Sweat another pick. Sack by OLB Ellwood. 5 KRB by C Tod Tramontana, RB Borden was 14 for 114.

About 5 players leave the game is various stages of probables and quesitonables - nothing major though

Week 10 - BYE

OG Blades is finally healed! The Giants lost.


Week 11 - Surely 1 win Houston is not going to be the team to knock us down right? Right! 38-16 us. SS McKnight is NFL Def PotW with 1 pick, 1 sack. Sacks by Gati and Bernardini as well. Hoff - 25 of 32, 338, 5:1. Poff had 144 and 2 scores, Albany and McHugh 70+ each and 1 and 2 scores respectively.

MLB Hailey is back from concussion


Week 12 - We almost drop a game to 2 win Carolina, 30-27. We have 2 sacks by MLB Sweat, and 1 by CB Greene and DT Zimmerman. 3 KRB by Blades, and 4 forced fumbles on the day by SS Campbell (on special teams, which he recovered as well), CB Greene, Sweat, and Blades on special teams. The Hoff was 29 of 44 for 321 and 2:0, and hit McHugh and Poff for scores, and Albany for 105 yards. RB Borden had a rushing score.

Week 13 - We smash teh Broncos 41-27 and have both the NFL Off Player fo teh Week (Hoff, 30 of 41, 399, 4:1) and DE Rogers at Def (3 sacks, 2 forced fumbles). 3 KRB by OG Rasnic, Sacks by Stevenson and Aikman. FF by CB Monty Glenn, Borden was 13 for 79 and a score. McHugh was 137 yards - 2 scores, Poff 127 and 1 scores, Albany 65 and 1.


Week 14 - Our next foe, the Falcons, can't touch us, 30-3. NFL Def Player of teh Week is Rogers with 2.5 sacks, 2 blocked passes, 4 hurries, and 3 QB knockouts, 1.5 sacks by Aikman. 3 KRB by Rasnic. Picks by Bernardini and CB Greene. Borden rushes 20 for 128. Hoff - 21 of 34, 278. and 3:2. TD tosses to McHugh, McHugh, and WR Cavallo. Albany has 124 yards

Starting OT hector Johnson is out with a Achilles injury for a bit. I have tons of depth at the OT spot as I was grooming his successor.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 15 - Well that was closer than I wanted it to be - 34-31 in Indianapolis. Hoff is NFL Ofplayotw with 32 of 48 for 404 and 4:0. Albany was 118 yards and 2 scores, mcHugh 107 yards and 1, Poff 94 yards, and WR Cavallo the final score. Pick by MLB Sweat. 2 sacks by Zimmerman. 4 KRB by Rasnic. FF by Zimmerman, Ellwood, and Aikman.

Week 16 - There aint no one who thinks the 4-10 Saints are stopped us. True! We win 34-9. SS Knight=y is MOM with 2 picks and a sack. 3 KRB by OT Alex Pieper. DT Stevenson had a ff and recovery. Hoffman was an ok 22 of 36 for 252 4:1 day, and hit Albany for 117 yards and 2 scores, TE Gasho for the other 2.

Injury news? OT is back from injury. But OT Keith is out for a month with a concussion.



Week 17 - Can we finish 16-0? Probably. Our foe is the 5 win Titans. We win 45-22. MOM is Hoff with 23 of 37, 324 adn 4:1. McHugh had 106 yards and 3 scores, and Albany the other TD pass. Greene with a FF. 2 sacks by Rogers, 1 by Greene. 3 KRB for C Tramontana.

We finish 16-0.

Injury? Backup RB broke his elbow and it out for 6 weeks. I place him on IR.



Week 16 -

[Abe Sargent]

The 2035 NFL Playoffs!!!


Wild Card Round:


Indianapolis heads to Cincinnati
Oakland to New England

Dallas to SF
Phily to Green Bay

The away teams are favored every time save for Oakland

Results?

SF wins 23-16
Indy wins 20-14
Oakland wins 37-24
Phily wins 13-7



The Division Round:


We host the the 9-7 Raiders, and Indy travels to face the 14-2 Chiefs



In no-one-cares- NFC news we have Phily at New York and SF at TB



We crush Oakland 47-13. Hoff is MOM with 28 of 44, 378 and 5:0. He hits Poff for 124 yards and 1 score, Cavallo for a score, RB Borden for 1 and McHugh for 2. Picks by Bernardini, WLB Hailey, CB Lamont Offerman, 2 sacks by DT Stevenson, 1each by Rogers, DE Sanderson, and 1.5 by Aikman.

We have a major injury. CB Greene is out for the rest of the season. I place him on IR and we;ll move

Greene is willing to sign no for one year deal for 17 mill next year, and want to take it, but...can it? I tell him no thanks. I have to deal with mcHugh next year.

Backup MLB Mahoney is out with a broken ankle and I IR him as well.

Jeremiah Hopper is a 41/41 CB and is starting for greene.

Indy drops the 14-2 KC 27-6. Phily and tampa emerge



The NFL Championships:



Yoru AFC Champion #1 seed Jaguars at 16-0 host...

Your #5 seed wild card Colts at 10-6

The Colts came the closest of beating us all year long by a FG. Can we three-peat on them?

We win 37-14

Hoff, MOM, 21 of 34, 291, 3:0. Hits Borden, McHugh, and Albany for scores. RB Billmeier rushes for a score. Picks by McKnight, Aikman, and FS backup and now dimeback Zahavi. Sack by teh Coop.


No major injuries, and that sets up a Florida Bowl

[Abe Sargent]

The 2035 NFL Super Bowl:


Your AFC Champion Jacksonville Jaguars, #1 seed, 16-0

vs

Your NFC Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers, #3 seed, 10-6

Can the Bucs keep us from a perfect season? We didn't even drop a pre-season game!




We win 30-17


The Super Bowl MVP is DE Jordan Rogers with 2 forced fumbles, 2.5 sacks, 1 knockdown, 2 hurries, 1 blocked pass.

DE Aikman a sack
SLB Ellwood a FF and recovery
Pick by SS McKNight

The Hoff? 26 of 35 for 320 and 3:2. Poff got 77 yards and 2 scores, McHugh rocked 104 yards and a score, and rookie sensation Albany had 78 yards.


No major injuries



19-0


Meh - I tend to find 19-0 seasons to be a bit gaudy and hard to believe. Although, to be fair, this si the 4th time that someone did it - The Broncos were first, and then us, and then the Lions, and now us again

[Abe Sargent]

Season Awards:

NFL MVP - QB Damien Hoffman
Offensive Player of teh Year - QB Hoffman

Super Bowl MVP - DE Jordan Rogers



All-Pro 1st Team:

QB Hoffman
DE Rogers
DT Cooper Zimmerman
CB Cary Greene
SS Malachi McKnight


All-Pro 2nd team:

WR Percy Albany



We were stolen. Albany should have gotten Offensive Rookie fo the year, the winner was a RB with 1036 yards, 10 tds

[Abe Sargent]

Stats:


The Hoff - 409 of 596, 68.6%, 5321 yards, 56:9, 121.4 QB rating, 31 sacks, 4 fumbles, none recovered; 2 rush TD

This was Hoffman's 2nd best year just a tad below last year. 31 sacks though is more than he has ever had in a season. 14 knockdowns is too. Outside of his rookie year, he's never had more than 7 knockdowns. Last year he had 50 more yards, 2 fewer picks, a slightly; better QB rating, and better completion numbers. No one else had 5000+ yards this season.


RB Derrick Borden, 230 carries for 938 yards, 4.1 ypc, 7 rush TD; 49 grabs, 249 yards, 3 scores.

Derrick wasn't exactly scintillating. Only 13 backs had 1000+ yards rushing, and he finished 16th in the league. I dropped my rushing numbers to compensate for the extra WR in our lineup. we ran out of the Singleback a lot this year too.

Get ready...


WR Gage Wilder had 2000 yards receiving this year. So we didn;t get that homage.


WR Percy Albany, 101 grabs, 1575 yards, 16 TDs - 3rd most yards, 2nd most TDs
WR Maxwell Poffenroth, 81 for 1190 yards, 8 scores
WR Adrian McHugh, 12 games, 78 grabs, 1052 yards, 18 TDs - most in NFL

Wow. With McHugh out, he still crossed the 1000 yard mark in 12 games, and led the league in TDs. Had he been playing he could have easily had 1250 or 1300 yards and 20+ scores. Poffenroth was fine despite a slowdown in the mid of the season, and hello Albany. You had a virtual Randy Moss year, 3rd receiver fro 12 games, #1 for 4.

TE Tony Gasho, 28 for 316 yards, 6 scores; 5 KRB

I did everything I could to improve his numbers, and dropped most formations that had no TE on the field. Nothing happened. It's time to consider moving on.

OG Lamar Rasnic, 23 KRB, 2 pancakes, 2 sacks allowed
C Tod Tramontana, 19 KRB, 8 sacks allowed
OT Sergio Keith, 18 KRB, 7 sacks allowed
OG Blades, 16 KRb and 3 sacks
OT Hector Johnston, 11 and 4 sacks

A horrible year for my O Line in sacks and KRB, and I have a really strong O line. I meant it's not at the level its been in the past, but it's solid:

Rasnic - 66/66
Blades - 51/51
Johnston - 54/54
Keith - 69/69
C Tramontana - 31/53

That's not bad. Other than C there's no bums - everyone is developed and looking good.



Special teams?

K Harris Parrish, 30 of 34, long of 56, 70 of 70 PAT

P Joseph Sobien, 91 punts, 43.9 average, 31 inside 20

SS Chandler Campbell - 29 special teams tackles, 5th most in league. 1 FF on special teams as well, which he recovered.

Kr/PR Kim Riley - 8.7 PR ret average, 16th best among qual; 27.8 KR, 6th best among qual, 2nd best who didn't score

[Abe Sargent]

Defense:


DE Jordan Rogers, 15 sacks, 49 solo tack, 9 blocked passes, 31 hurries, 25 knockdowns - led league in sacks, swats, and hurries. 4 FF 1 FumRec

DE Andres Aikman - 11.5 sacks, 39 solos, 4 swats, 29 and 29. 2nd most hurries in league this year. 2 FF

DT Cooper Zimmerman, 10 sacks, 42 tackles, 6 swats, 14 and 12. Tied for most sacks of any DT, 1 FF

DT Zachery Stevenson, 4 sacks, 28 solo tackles, 9 hurries and 7 QB Knockdown. 1 FF and Rec

I love my D line it's so good. This is how we dominated games. Force my foes to play catch up, and then dominate the line of scrimmage with the best of them. I think this may be my favorite D Line in quite some time:

Andres Aikman is in his 3rd year, and is now 72/72
Cooper Zimmerman has 2 All Pros, 76/76. 4th year
Jordan Rogers is 80/80, best DE in the league, and 6th year
Zachery Stevenson is 59/59, 5th year

Three are signed to long-term contracts, and Aikman is still under his rookie deal.

I don't know how long I can keep the family together, but all are young, strong, and nasty.

[Abe Sargent]

MLB Eduardo Sweat, 83 solo tackles, 5 sacks, 2 blocked passes, 4 hurries, 1 QBKD; 3 picks, 11 pasdef; 2 FF, 1 Fum REC
SLB Van Ellwood, 65 and 3 sacks, 5 hurries, 3 knockdowns; 1 pick, 9 pasdef, 1 INT RET TD, 1 Fum REC
WLB Jared Gati, 18 solos, 2 sacks, 1, 2 0; 3 pasdef;

SS Malachi McKnight, 78 solos, 2 sacks, 1, 1, 1. 9 picks, 12 passes def. - Led league in picks!
FS Quentin Bernardini, 76 solos, 1 sack, 4 picks, 13 pasdef
CB Cary Greene, 70 solos, 5.5 sacks, 3 int, 18 pasdef; 3 ff, 1 Fum REC
CB Monty Glenn, 56 solos, 1 pick, 9 pasdef

How does a CB get 5.5 sacks? Cary Greene, the corner who puts the fear of sack-age into QBs everywhere. He doesn't shy from hitting this year! Dang. That's just crazy. And don;t forget those three forced fumbles - this year he was more like a Safety or LB. Even in his dottage, he;s beating you down!

McKnight had to have been really close to Defensive Player of the Year, and Rogers was probably in the conversation. SLB Wickson won, with 9.5 sacks, 6 picks, and 11 pasdef. Which is fair I think.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:

Offensive Player of the Year - WR Adrian McHugh - Despite being injured for a quarter of the season and out, McHugh led the league in receiving TDs, an impressive feat. McHugh is a receiving machine, and the wall is coming down!

Defensive Player of the Year - DE Jordan Rogers - I hate to give it to the obvious, but this guy led the league in blocks, hurries, and sacks. That's clearly what a Defensive Player of the Year can do.


Special Teams Player of the Year - SS Chandler Campbell with a ton of special teams tackles, this guy was a great gunner for us, jetting down the field and getting in that early hit. He brought the target down a ton of times and was 5th best in the league.


Rookie of the Year: WR Percy Albany - If I chose anyone else I'd be taking stupid pills. He had a ton of receiving yards, scores, and influence. Good job Albany!


Heart Award: WLB Caleb Hailey, this UFA came onto our team, grabbed a sack and a pick before being injured and dropped from the active folks for a good long time. He came on the team and helped us out. Thanks Hailey!

[Abe Sargent]

"The Teal Curtain Falls
by Roderick Blake


As the Jaguars celebrate a improbable 19-0 season and the Super Bowl that came with it, and a serious acknowledgement of the gilded stats that come with it, the accolades tend to be on either the entire passing offense, or on a few key players on defense like McKnight, Rogers, and Greene.

But that's not really the whole story. The Jags didn't just beat their foes with a sky high offense. They only allowed 264 points this season. That's the fewest points allowed by any team this year. Just one game all year, the Colts in Indianapolis, had a final score of less than a TD, and only one other had a 7 point spread. Everyone else was dropped all over football nation.

So don't forget that this is not just a good defense. It's a great one. It's a smothering one. And layered on top is one of the best passing attacks of all time. It's just not fair.

And there is a simple reason for this. The front four. The Teal Curtain.

The GM of the Jaguars has been open about focusing on one key thing when assembling a passing offense. He has the best QB in football, Hoffman blasting defenses all over with players like Adrian McHugh, Maxwell Poffensorth and now Percy Albany. No one has three corners or safeties in the league good enough to cover all three. All three are arguably in the top 10 pass catchers in the league. What defense has three defensive backs in the same measure.

So if opposing teams can't match the Jaguars with their coverage, then that leaves just one option. Pass to keep up. Don't let the Jaguars get to you. And that's where the Jaguars are focused. Stopping the pass.

Their D Line was built for dropping the QB. they were born for it. Zimmerman led the league for sacks from the DT spot, and DE Jordan Rogers has dominated again. In addition to getting the Super Bowl MVP, he also was Defensive Player of the Week three times. No one had more sacks, more blocked passes, or more QB hurries. That's what Rogers does. In just 6 seasons, with 84 sacks, no other active player has more sacks.

And DE Andres Aikman across from Rogers just finished his 3rd season. After a slow start as a rookie, Aikman has come into his own with 21 sacks in the last two seasons, and he is pressuring the QB as well. And even DT Zachary Stevenson has done a great job at finding the holes and getting through the single team he always gets.

Much like the receivers, you have Rogers, the best DE in football, and Aikman, probably a top 5 guy. Zimmerman is a top 5 DT and Stevenson a top 20 one. So again, the issue is who can you stop? If you double block Rogers, then Aikman is singled. Zimmerman is down. And so forth. These guys are a powerful force of pass-rushing.

A classic football strategy against great rushing like this is to run the ball. But you can't run the ball to play catch up with the passing offense. By keying in on finding and selecting key talent, the Jaguars have created one of the best Defensive Lines in football, celebrating their 2nd consecutive Super Bowl, and first undefeated season. They were 18-1 last year, and 19-0 this one.

In fact, the quadfecta of these players notched 41 sacks this year. There are some teams that don't have that many sacks from all of their players. But just the front four of the Jags did that to people. These four have been together for three years, starting ever since Aikman was picked.

There's only one major player on the team that the Jaguars did not draft, CB Greene. So credit has to be given to the GM for finding and grabbing such great talent on both side of the ball to have this sort of the season. The Teal Curtain Falls."

[Abe Sargent]

End of Season:

Team Performance - 90
Franchise Value - 100
Profit - 97
Roster - 23

90 year End Score

We made 360 mill last year

6th best stadium
4th best roster
5th best support
12th worst economy
1.986 billion franchise value




None of the Jags retire.

We have two major QB retirements:

QB Ray Ellard, 16 years, 49k yards, 306:209 scores - always a solid guy for the Dolphins

QB Ray McGuire - 16 years, 2 Rings, Retires as Legend of the Game, 61273 yards, 346:202

TE Brock Hughes and TE Irv Osborne were both 4 time All Pros

RT Brant Matthews - Drafted by us and played for us for 9 years, 8 of them starting, retires.

DT Clarence Kennedy retires, 4 time All Pro, 64 sacks total - which is strong for a DT.

DT Casey Corgi, 3 all pro, 67.5 sacks

Here's a big one:

SLB Gustavo Gibley, 4 All Pros, 1 Defensive Player of teh Year, 69 sacks, 8 picks,


Those are the major ones. Would not be surprised to see one or both DTs, the SLB and Ray McG in the Hall later on.



Speaking of teh hall, get ready:


The 2036 Hall fo Fame Class:

QB Logan Thomas
DT Calvin Stacy
SLB Kyle Abrams
FL Jameson Pryor
SLB Leon Chaves

and


with 100% of teh vote, and with his jersey retired (#86) - only five players in the recent history of he Hall have a 100% vote rate - QB Blake Bortles, QB Peyton Manning, QB Aaron Rogers, TE Rob Grontowksi and...


WR Joshua Wild - 4 Super Bowl rings, 7 time All Pro, Twice league fastest man, 1227 catches, 17685 yards, 129 scores,

The future is Wild

[Abe Sargent]

Coaching draft time:

i retain my Head Coach, Strength and Assist HC.


Staff draft time, we pick 2nd

I hire the Denver OC as our OC. He was a bit better. Claude Sewell. In all other cases , our coach is better than the rest of the field by at least a good 4 or 5 points



Here's my FA challenge:

I have these players up:

WR Adrian McHugh is out of his rookie deal
CB Cary Greene
K Harris Parrish
RB Derrick Borden
OT Hector Johnston



I franchise tag McHugh


I hit FA