The Otto Graham Challenge (FOF8) Now With the Chargers

[Abe Sargent]

I've been thinking recently about how amazingly different and crazy the career of QB Otto Graham was. I think he was the greatest QB of all time.


He played in the era before the pass was common.

When he retired he led all QBs in various passing stats, one of which (yards per pass) he still holds. He also has the highest winning percentage of all time. This guy was no mere safety net or hander off of the ball.

Here:


1). In real life, Otto Graham played running back, punt returner, and a bit of passing QB as well in college at Northwestern, and was converted to full time QB in the pros. (according to HOF bio)
2). In real life, Otto Graham had a 10 year career, and made it to the playoffs every year
3). In real life, Otto Graham made it to the championship 9 times in 9 years
4). In real life, Otto Graham won 7 championships
5). In real life, Otto Graham made All Pro 9 times
6). In real life, Otto Graham set career records in passing, one of which (career: yards/pass attempt) still stands today
7). In real life, Otto Graham was selected to the Hall of Fame
8) In real life, Otto Graham was no drafted by the Browns.
9). In real life, Otto Graham led the Browns, a new team, essentially an expansion team
10). In real life Otto Graham has the record for highest winning percentage.


So here's what you'd need to do: Sign an undrafted RB/QB/PR athlete from college, convert to full time QB, for an expansion - brand new team, make it to the playoffs 10/10 seasons, 9 championships, 7 victorys, set passing records and winning 5, make 9 all pros, and the HOF.

Good luck with that!

We can't simulate expansions in most places, but you do could an empty cupboard to be similar. It's just mind-boggling.



Now a lot of this stuff would be hard to facilitate in FOFC. So here is what I am aiming for:


1). Play as the Browns.
2). Sign an undrafted FA QB
3). Have that undrafted QB have a bunch of awards like Pro Bowls and such.
4). Win a bunch of Super Bowls
5). Set at least a few Top Ten of All Time records for passing
6). The Hall of Fame Awaits.


And that's it. We have longer careers now, but more teams in the league to compete against.

[Abe Sargent]

So given my basic needs, where would I start?

I think the best way to approach the OG Challenge is to build a very powerful offense, particularly with strong skill positions. Then I can plug and play a solid UFA QB that hits at 50 potential or so later. Each year I expect to grab two or three UFA Qbs for camp to see what they could bring, with the goal of finding that diamond in the rough.


Now I am willing to use any tool in my tool kit. Nothing is off limits. I'll sign FA, go for later stuff, use the franchise tag and trade away. I;m not as interested in defense this early. Again - my goal is simple. Build an offensive juggernaut, and then hopefully a decent QB will break out behind it. We've all seen solid QBs break out with the right support in FOF7.

Now I won't ignore defense, especially while trying to find and develop my guy. And it;s possible that well get a guy who looks good, and we spend a few years building him,only to find he busts to a 30/30 or never plays well despite the support structures in place.

I load up a dynasty and create a game:

Full Random

[Abe Sargent]

Wow, I have good corners, and DT Shelton. Everywhere else is in teh 40s on defense. (or even 30s with my LB Corps).

CB Joe Haden at 81, CB Gilbeert is 41/71, and rookie 6th rounder CB Charles Gaines is 33/63. NT Danny Shelton, my first rounder, is 51/70.

Offense stars are, as expected, my O Line. Joe Thomas is 84. OG John Greco 72, 2nd year man OG Joel Bitino, 50/71. Mack is the only disappointment at 47. My best RB is 33. TE Jim Dray is 33. WR Josh Gorden is 47/53 and Brian Hartline is 57. QB McCown is 41 and my best QB. Manziel has a potential of 44.

There are a bunch fo quality D Line UFAs out there that make my team suddenly interesting if I bring them in. My current D Line is:

DE Desmond Bryant 43
DE Randy Starks 47
NT Shelton, 51/70

Now the DEs are older, Starks is in his 13th year. And we have enough talent to move to a 4/3, which works, because here are my starting LBs:

SILB Karlos Dansby, 29/29
WILB Craig Robertson, 28/44
SLB Berkavious Mingo, 38/46
WLB Nate Orchard 3348

That is not a good LB Corps at all!

Here are some of the good UFAs out there right now, according to my scout

DT Marco Villars, 23/60
DT Vince Robbins, 33/54
DT Lamar West 26/53

There's some better LB prospects for later, and even a better K out there as well. 50/69 K Jimmy Cooley

[Abe Sargent]

Can I do this with FOF8 instead?

That would be cool to try.

[Abe Sargent]

Let's try it out, to see if I am interested long term.

I create a new game:

As the Browns, named Marquis le Satre (named after one of my favorite players from a previous Dynasty in FOF7 a Hall of fame OG who was the bet in his generation, and one of the best all time)

Full X Factor
Can be fired
Chemistry included
Track scouted ratings history



Let's create this thang!

Here is my initial roster to work with:


Front Office Football Eight
Cleveland Browns Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Arledge, Brendan 114 QB 1 19 52 1 yr.
Donner, Christopher 109 QB 1 16 52 1 yr.
Oglesby, Wes 117 QB 1 16 49 1 yr.
Lowe, Jimmy 118 QB 1 11 44 1 yr.
##Kessler, Cody 106 QB 1 19 43 4 yrs.
##Callahan, Joe 107 QB 1 11 35 3 yrs.
Griffin III, Robert 110 QB QB 5 32 32 2 yrs.
McCown, Josh 113 QB 13 23 23 2 yrs.
Johnson, Duke 229 RB 2 45 46 3 yrs.
Myers, Gabe 240 RB 1 41 45 1 yr.
Yamada, Sean 242 RB 1 37 40 1 yr.
Atkinson III, George 225 RB RB 1 37 37 3 yrs.
Crowell, Isaiah 234 RB 3 36 36 1 yr.
Barnidge, Gary 482 TE TE 9 54 54 3 yrs.
Helmic, Shaquille 448 TE 1 28 54 1 yr.
Hamlett, Connor 489 TE 1 28 48 2 yrs.
DeValve, Seth 487 TE 1 30 46 4 yrs.
##Telfer, Randall 486 TE 1 25 31 3 yrs.
Hawkins, Andrew 516 FL SE 6 59 59 2 yrs.
Gordon, Josh 512 FL 3 40 44 1 yr.
Coleman, Corey 519 FL 1 31 42 4 yrs.
Pryor, Terrelle 511 SE FL 4 51 51 1 yr.
Lyon, Artie 581 SE 1 28 49 1 yr.
Louis, Ricardo 580 SE 1 36 48 4 yrs.
##Payton, Jordan 584 SE 1 20 25 4 yrs.
Erving, Cameron 674 C C 2 29 43 3 yrs.
Reiter, Austin 662 C 1 11 32 3 yrs.
Drango, Spencer 766 LG 1 25 50 4 yrs.
Bitonio, Joel 775 RG LG 3 64 64 2 yrs.
Graham, Andrew 779 RG 1 36 63 1 yr.
Greco, John 777 RG RG 9 50 50 1 yr.
##Cooper, Jonathan 764 RG 3 24 24 1 yr.
Thomas, Joe 873 LT LT 10 85 85 3 yrs.
Daubach, Ramon 865 LT 1 33 63 1 yr.
Stine, Rodolfo 861 LT 1 26 61 1 yr.
Pasztor, Austin 867 RT 4 43 53 1 yr.
Coleman, Shon 872 RT RT 1 41 53 4 yrs.
Emerson, Rob 915 P 1 67 77 1 yr.
Colquitt, Britton 904 P 8 38 38 1 yr.
Raymond, Zach 1001K 1 44 66 1 yr.
Parkey, Cody 1003K 3 45 45 1 yr.
##Murray, Patrick 1002K 2 26 33 1 yr.
Paea, Stephen 1199LDE RDT 6 38 38 1 yr.
Horner, Joey 1193RDE 1 40 62 1 yr.
Cooper, Xavier 1196RDE 2 40 57 3 yrs.
Nassib, Carl 1194RDE LDE 1 33 47 4 yrs.
##Holmes, Tyrone 1171RDE LDT 1 24 32 4 yrs.
Shelton, Danny 1255NT 2 49 61 3 yrs.
Wright, Gabe 1297NT 2 33 46 3 yrs.
Alexander, Dominique 1354SILB 1 27 48 3 yrs.
Davis, Demario 1356SILB 5 40 40 2 yrs.
Kirksey, Chris 1358WILB MLB 3 70 70 2 yrs.
Ogbah, Emmanuel 1490SLB SLB 1 45 62 4 yrs.
Collins, Jamie 1491SLB WLB 4 58 58 1 yr.
Orchard, Nate 1444SLB 2 40 54 3 yrs.
Schobert, Joe 1453WLB 1 37 54 4 yrs.
Johnson, Cam 1457WLB 3 49 49 1 yr.
Haden, Joe 1523LCB RCB 7 59 59 4 yrs.
Boddy-Calhoun, Briean 1520LCB 1 28 50 3 yrs.
Poyer, Jordan 1533LCB 4 36 36 1 yr.
##Caldwell, Trey 1531LCB 1 9 15 4 yrs.
Taylor, Jamar 1521RCB 4 44 44 1 yr.
Williams, Tramon 1522RCB LCB 10 35 35 2 yrs.
##Burley, Marcus 1526RCB 4 24 32 1 yr.
Kindred, Derrick 1630SS 1 39 51 4 yrs.
Campbell, Ibraheim 1624SS SS 2 33 44 3 yrs.
Davison, Bruce 1646FS 1 30 53 1 yr.
Reynolds, Ed 1639FS FS 2 36 46 1 yr.
##Howard, Tracy 1641FS 1 20 44 3 yrs.
Hughlett, Charley 447 LS 2 11 11 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Front Office Football Eight
Players Under Contract: 70
Inactive: 10
On Active Roster: 60

Salary Cap: $155,300,000
Cap Room: $67,390,000
Maximum for New Player: $67,840,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $640,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $1,290,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $85,300,000



This roster is after the changes below

[Abe Sargent]

I am going to figure out the roster thing later, but first I want to take a look at where my surprises are on this thing. Where can I build the Browns?


Now remember this is pre-camp, so we don;t have full values on the rookies, but here is where my team shines. Here are my best players:

LT Joe Thomas, 85/85 - no surprise there
MLB Chris Kirksey, 70/70
RG Joel Bittonio, 64/64
DT Danny Shelton, 49.61
WR Andrew Hawkins 59/59
CB Joe Haden, 59/59
WLB Jamie Collins, 58/58
DE Xavier Cooper, 40/57
TE Gary Barndige, 54/54


And that's pretty much it for solid players.



For rookies, pre camp we have

DE Joey Horner, 40/62
SLB Emmanuel Ogbah, 45/62
WLB Joe Schobert, 37/54

As my three highest quality rookies

[Abe Sargent]

My critical spots are:

QB? Best is either RGIII with 32/32 or Cody Kessler with 19/43 as needed.

RB? Duke Johnson 45/45

WR? Terrelle Pryor 51/51 Josh Gordon is just 40/44

OG? John Greco is 50/50 too

K Parker is just 45/45, P Colquitt is 37/37

Bad players in spots I'm not mentioning (like an 11/13 FB)

Defense?

D Line - Carl Nassib is 33/47; Gabe Wright, 35/46

LB? Probably our best unit on the team - you already saw above why

D Backs - CB Tramon Williams, 35/35, CB Jaylor Taylor, 44/44; SS Derrick Kindred 39/51, FS Ed Reynolds, 36/46

etc

Not an inspiring roster...

[Abe Sargent]

Now let's look at quality UFA. I will bring in any UFA that can pass the "Steam up a mirror when you breathe on it" test.


Well...

Did I just find my Otto Graham already? That's sort of broken. But very Browns to find a UFA that's better than anyone on their roster.

QB Christopher Donner, UFA, 16/57

Probably one of those UFA misses you expect. I sign him

I offer and bring in three more UFA Qbs that appear to have really high ceilings.

I also make offers to:

P Rob Emerson, 66/77 rating

K Zach Raymond, 44/68

LT Raymond Daubuch, affinity with our leader, 36/67

I have a RB here who looks good. But he would be my RB leader, with some liking him, but one person. . Before I make him an offer I cut my current FB who is my leader to see who his replacement would be My new leader has an affinity.

I sign the next one down. Not as good, but with an affinity. RB Sean Yamata, 37/37, who will be my backfield leader.

Actually, never mind. With Yatamata on my team as the leader, the #1 gy out there actually likes Sean and gets along with him, and won;t be my leader anymore. I sign him too: RB Gabe Myers, 41/45

TE Shaquillie Helmic, affinity, 28/57

FS Bruce Davison, 30/59

I cut LG Alvin Bailey to make room on my roster for OG Andrew Graham, 35/64

I have 9 QBs on my roster heading into camp. I cut Kevin Hogan.

I sign LT Rodolfo Stine, affinity with leader Joe Thomas, 27/66

I cut the horrible looking WR Rashard Higgans (12/18) and sign UFA WR Artie Lyon, 29/54

Now, all of these UFas are likely to bust, and fade. But they are still better than many Browns players even if they mostly fad. Some changes were already made to the roster after they signed.



Hmmmmm



Right now I have a strong affinity conflict in my receiver core. TE Barnidge is the leader, and Pryor and him have a strong conflict. I do not want that.


The roster above is updated through this post

[Abe Sargent]

I cut my Long Snapper, with a holding if just 54 and sign UFA Bo Newsome to that role

Any other cuts I can make to bring in more UFAs?

Yes!

QB Josh McCown. See ya!



My defensive coordinator likes a 4-3 over. I feel like we are more of a 3-4, but I'm not making that conversion right now. Both my OC and Assist Coach like smashmouth football.

What about OG Bryson Hickman, 37/60, and affinity with Joe Thomas? I make him an offer

I cut K Patrick Murphy and sign

Well i can;t find someone who can replace my leader at TE/WR. Ah well

How am I doing with returning?

RB Duke Johnson is awesome with PR at 82 current rating

Pryor and Hawkins are good enough, but I don;t want to risk them

We need a good KR man

To my mind, the best is RB Noah Poole, with both a maxed potential in Kr and special teams. But he is a distraction. Sorry Poole


I make an offer to SE Ricardo Crafton, instead

[Abe Sargent]

I make some changes to the options::

Injury setting - 120
Accuracy at Combine - 60
Cap - 40 to 70 - I don;t like small or big stuff

Staff - set game plan, playbook

I don't game plan. I GM only.

I m not a coach

Alright - Training Camp Time!


This is the most important button I'll likely hit in this career....


We well 42800 season tickets, and I have a couple of trade offers I'm not considering


No obvious busts.

I cut:

P Colquit
QB Jimmy Lowe
K Parker
CB Caldwell
QB Joe Callahan
OG Cooper
CB Burley
TE Telfer
WR Payton
DE Paea
QB Oglesby
DE holmes



Successes thus far?

LS Newsome has a 90 long snapping. Big upgrade there. he has the 3rd best long snapping in the league.

I sign:

UFA DE Michael Dunn, 36/61 after he joins my club

UFA DT CJ Holland, good affinity, 29/52 post joining

Pre Season!

[Abe Sargent]

In the preseason we are crushed by Green Bay, beat Atlanta, lose to Tampa, and shut out Chicago 27-0 win week 5. We finish 2-2.

Time for roster management


Let's take a look at where we are pre-cuts - we have had surprises both nice and...not




Front Office Football Eight
Cleveland Browns Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Griffin III, Robert 110 QB 5 33 42 2 yrs.
Kessler, Cody 106 QB 1 18 44 4 yrs.
Arledge, Brendan 114 QB QB 1 20 48 1 yr.
Donner, Christopher 109 QB 1 15 38 1 yr.
Crowell, Isaiah 234 RB 3 37 37 1 yr.
Johnson, Duke 229 RB FB 2 47 47 3 yrs.
Atkinson III, George 225 RB RB 1 38 51 3 yrs.
Myers, Gabe 240 RB 1 44 52 1 yr.
Yamada, Sean 242 RB 1 40 49 1 yr.
Barnidge, Gary 482 TE 9 55 55 3 yrs.
DeValve, Seth 487 TE TE 1 30 44 4 yrs.
Hamlett, Connor 489 TE 1 27 36 2 yrs.
Helmic, Shaquille 448 TE 1 26 45 1 yr.
Hawkins, Andrew 516 FL 6 58 58 2 yrs.
Gordon, Josh 512 FL SE 3 36 43 1 yr.
Coleman, Corey 519 FL 1 34 43 4 yrs.
Pryor, Terrelle 511 SE FL 4 50 50 1 yr.
Louis, Ricardo 580 SE 1 39 51 4 yrs.
Lyon, Artie 581 SE 1 26 37 1 yr.
Crafton, Ricardo 588 SE 1 27 39 1 yr.
Erving, Cameron 674 C C 2 26 39 3 yrs.
Reiter, Austin 662 C 1 11 27 3 yrs.
Drango, Spencer 766 LG LG 1 25 47 4 yrs.
Greco, John 777 RG 9 55 55 1 yr.
Bitonio, Joel 775 RG RG 3 57 74 2 yrs.
Graham, Andrew 779 RG 1 37 52 1 yr.
Hickman, Bryson 763 RG 1 31 49 1 yr.
Thomas, Joe 873 LT 10 74 74 3 yrs.
Stine, Rodolfo 861 LT LT 1 28 52 1 yr.
Pasztor, Austin 867 RT 4 37 39 1 yr.
Coleman, Shon 872 RT 1 46 70 4 yrs.
Daubach, Ramon 865 RT RT 1 32 54 1 yr.
Emerson, Rob 915 P 1 69 75 1 yr.
Raymond, Zach 1001K 1 53 57 1 yr.
Cooper, Xavier 1196RDE 2 42 49 3 yrs.
Nassib, Carl 1194RDE RDE 1 30 43 4 yrs.
Dunn, Michael 1178RDE LDT 1 37 54 1 yr.
Horner, Joey 1193RDE LDE 1 41 65 1 yr.
Holland, C.J. 1270RDT RDT 1 30 37 1 yr.
Shelton, Danny 1255NT 2 52 52 3 yrs.
Wright, Gabe 1297NT 2 33 45 3 yrs.
Davis, Demario 1356SILB 5 42 42 2 yrs.
Alexander, Dominique 1354SILB 1 26 47 3 yrs.
Kirksey, Chris 1358WILB MLB 3 71 71 2 yrs.
Collins, Jamie 1491SLB WLB 4 59 59 1 yr.
Orchard, Nate 1444SLB 2 41 56 3 yrs.
Ogbah, Emmanuel 1490SLB SLB 1 47 60 4 yrs.
Johnson, Cam 1457WLB 3 49 49 1 yr.
Schobert, Joe 1453WLB 1 42 57 4 yrs.
Haden, Joe 1523LCB LCB 7 63 63 4 yrs.
Poyer, Jordan 1533LCB RCB 4 34 34 1 yr.
Boddy-Calhoun, Briean 1520LCB 1 28 41 3 yrs.
Williams, Tramon 1522RCB 10 30 30 2 yrs.
Taylor, Jamar 1521RCB 4 44 44 1 yr.
Campbell, Ibraheim 1624SS SS 2 33 42 3 yrs.
Kindred, Derrick 1630SS 1 42 52 4 yrs.
Reynolds, Ed 1639FS FS 2 38 54 1 yr.
Howard, Tracy 1641FS 1 19 37 3 yrs.
Davison, Bruce 1646FS 1 29 44 1 yr.
Newsome, Bo 659 LS 1 17 17 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 60
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 60

Salary Cap: $155,300,000
Cap Room: $74,010,000
Maximum for New Player: $74,460,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $2,210,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $2,530,000
Front Office Football Eight
Cap Room Required Next Year: $78,470,000



What are my major post-camp themes:

OG Joel Bitonio is now 57/74 with a big upside

Rookie and 3rd round pick OT Shon Coleman boomed to 46/70

Last year's first rounder, C Cameron Erving, continues to drop, now at 26/39

At 69/75, P Rob Emerson is really good.

At 41/65, undrafted DE Joey Horner was likely my best pickup

At QB, Donner dropped to 15/38/ But UFA QB Brendan Arledge impressed. 20/48 rating. My coaches liked him, I I stayed with him .

Game 4 - Brendan Arledge 18 16 164 3/22 0 31 0 104.6
Game 3 - rendan Arledge 19 9 28 1/9 0 10 1 32.1
Game 2 - Brendan Arledge 20 10 75 1/7 1 33 0 76.0
Game 1 - endan Arledge 11 7 70 0/0 0 34 0 81.6

Not that bad, considering who he was going up against

So I am going ahead and giving the QB nod to Arledge for now.

[Abe Sargent]

Final cuts:

I move Andrew Graham to C


C Reiter
C Erving
RB Crowell
WR Crafton - busted on kick returns
FS Howard
CB Tramon Williams - lost a step in camp in his 10th year playing
QB Donner

Roster ready and confirmed!


Roster Strengths?

Worst QB
4th worst RB
12th best TE
17th best WR corps
4th best OT, 10th best OG, 9th worst C

5th best P, 15th best K

3rd worst DE, 9th worst DT
4th best MLB, 11th best OLB
14th worst CB, 5th worst S

We are the youngest team in the league by a lot - 24.0

[Abe Sargent]

Let's start the season!


week 1 at Eagles - We lose 7-20

Week 2 vs Ravens - We win 16-13 - Let's take a closer look at that one.

Here is your game MVP:

Brendan Arledge 40 25 224 1/6 1 35 0 85.8

RB Dave Johnson had 104 rushing yards,


DE Joey Horner 6 2 2.0 23 35

So there you are. Our stars were Johnson, Arledge, and Horner


Week 3? We beat Miami 17-3.

MVP - Brendan Arledge 32 21 186 2/20 0 34 0 81.0

RB Johnson had 103 yards on the ground and a score

Can;t argue with that.

Week 4? We beat Washington 31-27

Game MVP - Brendan Arledge 35 25 316 1/6 2 54 0 118.2

TE Gary Barnidge 8 9 105 13.13 5 22 0
WR Terrelle Pryor 7 10 135 19.29 85 54 1

RB Johnson had two rushes for scores and 79 yards on the ground



One fourth of the way through our season and we are a surprising 3-1.

[Abe Sargent]

Next quarter?

We lose to New England 21-32.

Brendan Arledge 35 23 203 1/6 2 35 2 76.2 - first picks by Arledge.

RB Johnson another 72 yards and score


Week 6 - 27-16 we defeat the Titans

Johnson had 87 yards on ground and 2 scores.

MVp - Brendan Arledge 25 17 283 1/9 1 34 0 119.3

We have two ish injuries of concern. Normally I don;t bother you with the minor stuff, we had people go out earlier that I replaced, they weren't major. CB Joe Haden is knocked to questionable, and WR Dawkins to doubtful. I bench Dawkins


Week 7 - We lose to Cincinnati 26-10. Arledge was exposed for the firsttime:

Brendan Arledge 37 21 225 4/17 0 39 3 41.0

Yuck

Starting TE Barnidge is out for 6 week with a broken clavicle



Week 8? We defeat the Jets 20-17 in OT.


MVP - ILB Chris Kirksey 6 1 1.0 32 50

RB Duke Johnson 17 124 7.29 79 2 1 - had a 79 yard breakout for a score

Pedestrian day for Arledge -

Brendan Arledge 34 17 132 1/6 1 18 1 57.5

And we are 5-3 at the halfway point

NT Gabe Wright out for a month, sub

[Abe Sargent]

Week 9? We host the 6-1 Cowboys. We edge them 17-16


MVP - Duke Johnson 24 138 5.75 50 3 1

rendan Arledge 29 18 140 0/0 1 21 1 71.0

Johnson out-dueled Zeke, one fewer carry, 13 more yards, and a score


Week 10 - Baltimore exposes our rookie in their place, and we lose in OT 20-23. Our defense did everything they could to win this. Two picks of Flacco, a FF by DE Horner we recovered, and more.

ILB Chris Kirksey 20 0 1.0

Brendan Arledge 32 18 135 2/20 1 24 2 50.8

RB Johnson was 58 yard and a score.

They kept our offense off the ground

Week 11 - WR Hawkins is back from injury this week. We host the 7-2 Steelers. We edge then 27-26

MVP - Brendan Arledge 35 21 183 2/10 1 33 1 71.5

SS Ed Reynolds 1 28 28.00 1 TIND return for a TD

Johnson hurt his heel and didn't play after the first drive

From injury - Haden;s is over.


Week 12 - We host the 6-4 Giants. We lose 28-20.


Brendan Arledge 39 21 195 4/25 1 35 0 76.3

Duke Johnson 19 115. 1 Rush TD


We played that quarter against four winning teams, and went 2-2, with two good wins, and two acceptable losses

[Abe Sargent]

Week 13 - Bye. TE Barnidge is back


Week 14 - At 7-5, we are 4th in the AFC North, that's how good the division is. We have teh Bengals, 8-4, this week. We cross Ohio to play them

We win 22-20


Brendan Arledge 29 17 192 2/6 1 39 0 90.0

They shut down the running game - Jhonson was 20 for 45.

We are now guaranteed our first non-losing season for a long time

In injury news, DT Joe Thomas is questionable for a month, as are some chumps and backups. Nothing stops thomas this side of doubtful



Week 15 - we travel to Buffalo to face fellow Great lakes team the Bills, who are just 4 wins. This is the easy spot on our schedule right now.

They are surprising feisty, but we win 31-26

MVp - Brendan Arledge 23 18 293 2/16 2 34 0 147.7

Coming out party?

RB Gabe Myers has ACL damage to his knee for along time. I toss hm on IR.

I sign UFA SEan Fleming, a Rb special teams and KR return guy


Week 16 We host the equally 9-5 Chargers. We hold serve 27-17.

Brendan Arledge 40 27 323 2/11 2 27 1 98.2

Game MVP RB - Duke Johnson 26 123, 1 Rush td

DE Joey Horner 2.5 sacks

Good game by us

OG Joel Bitonio is out for 3 weeks


As of now, we moved into 2nd place in the AFC North, If the season ended now, we'd be the #6 team

But there's another game. And it's not against some chump team, but ht 12-3 Steelers.


Week 17 - They eviscerate us 41-10

Brendan Arledge 33 20 239 4/17 0 39 2 57.5



but....

[Abe Sargent]

Cincinnati lost. We finish 10-6, and with the top wild card in the AFC

In fact, at 10-6, we have the 2nd best record in the AFC. Chargers are 10-6, Texans 9-7, and Pats 10-6. Bengals at 9-7 are in too




The 2016 NFL Playoffs!!!

Wild card weekend

Cleveland at Houston
Cincinnati at San Diego

Dallas at Arizona
Minnesota at New York


We are favored. For a playoff game. We are the battle tested AFC North, where every team was 9-7 or better, vs the 9-7 Texas in a division no one was at 500 or above other than them


This is where my Otto Graham, I mean Arledge, could start?

We win 31-26

Kirksey is Game MVP - ILB Chris Kirksey 11 4 2.0

We dropped Osweiler 7 times. Boom to the ground you go!

Brendan Arledge 28 19 271 1/8 3 72 2 104.9

Sure, two picks ain;t great, but 3/2 is fine.

They shut down Johnson



No major injuries either.

Thomas is healthy again

Cincinnati is up 24-16, Dallas loses 16-20 to the Cardinals, and Vikes over Giants 15--10

[Abe Sargent]

The 2016 NFL Playoffs:

Week 2

Arizona at Green Bay
Minnesota at Carolina

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh
Cleveland at New England


Now the teams this year that have done a good job exposing Arledge are the Steelers, Ravens, and Pats. I assume Belichick has this one in New England

But if you want to star your legacy, this is it.

As an undrafted rookie QB in your first year, go to New England and beat Tom Brady


They are favored by 6. Obviously


They cover the spread. By 1.

24-17

Brendan Arledge 35 17 102 2/11 2 16 0 74.1

No picks, 2 scores, but not what you need to win there, in those circumstances

They shut down Johnson hard. 51 yards on 18 carries



Pittsburgh wins 20-17
Arizona upends Green bay 20-17
Carolina over Minnesota 41-7


Championship Weekend:

New England wisn 37-17
Arizona 34-31 in OT


The 2016-17 Super Bowl!


Arizona wins 27-24 over the Pats.

[Abe Sargent]

We have a BUNCH of season awards. Get ready:

Off Rookie of the Year went to Zeke, natch

Defensive Rookie of the Year: DE Joey Horner

All Pro 1st Team:

MLB Chris Kirksay - Totally deserved


All Pro 2nd Team:

P Rob Emerson
DE Joey Horner
DT Danny Shelton

[Abe Sargent]

Stats?


Front Office Football Eight
Passing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Cmp Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/A Lg
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 16 538 331 61.5 3477 10.50 6.46 54

Player Pos Team TD Int 20+T 300+ Rating
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 13 54 2 80.1

Att - Attempts, Cmp - Completions, Pct - Completion Percentage,
Yards - Passing Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Completion, Ave/A - Yards per Attempt,
Lg - Longest Completion, TD - Passing Touchdowns, Int - Passes Intercepted,
20+T - Completions of 20 or More Yards, 300+ - 300-yard Games,
Rate - Quarterback Rating.

That is not a bad rookie season at all. 3477 yards, 16/13 QB:Int ratio, 10-6 record, 1-1 in playoffs, 80.1 rating, 60+ % completion.

Rushing?

Johnson was 313 for 1283, 13 rush scores, 4.10 avg he also has a PR RET TD


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Receiving Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Targ Ctch Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/T YAC
Pryor, Terrelle WR CLE 16 13 154 87 56.5 912 10.48 5.92 338
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 12 9 67 43 64.2 510 11.86 7.61 205
Johnson, Duke RB CLE 16 15 58 40 69.0 356 8.90 6.14 232
Barnidge, Gary TE CLE 11 11 54 35 64.8 603 17.23 11.17 143
Gordon, Josh WR CLE 16 9 55 35 63.6 298 8.51 5.42 94
Coleman, Corey WR CLE 16 6 53 30 56.6 236 7.87 4.45 77
DeValve, Seth TE CLE 16 6 29 18 62.1 166 9.22 5.72 3
Hamlett, Connor TE CLE 5 3 19 13 68.4 160 12.31 8.42 24
Helmic, Shaquille TE CLE 16 3 15 10 66.7 112 11.20 7.47 19
Atkinson III, George RB CLE 16 1 9 8 88.9 44 5.50 4.89 17
Yamada, Sean RB CLE 16 0 10 7 70.0 36 5.14 3.60 10
Myers, Gabe RB CLE 14 3 7 3 42.9 30 10.00 4.29 10
Louis, Ricardo WR CLE 16 1 6 2 33.3 14 7.00 2.33 6

Player Pos Team Lg TD Drp PPly TPct 20+C 100+
Pryor, Terrelle WR CLE 54 3 7 486 31.7 14 2
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 35 4 4 290 23.1 10 0
Johnson, Duke RB CLE 31 2 2 360 16.1 7 0
Barnidge, Gary TE CLE 39 1 2 333 16.2 12 1
Gordon, Josh WR CLE 39 2 1 259 21.2 4 0
Coleman, Corey WR CLE 23 1 1 254 20.9 1 0
DeValve, Seth TE CLE 24 0 1 272 10.7 1 0
Hamlett, Connor TE CLE 35 2 1 82 23.2 2 0
Helmic, Shaquille TE CLE 20 0 2 115 13.0 2 0
Atkinson III, George RB CLE 13 0 0 92 9.8 0 0
Yamada, Sean RB CLE 11 1 1 144 6.9 0 0
Myers, Gabe RB CLE 20 0 0 75 9.3 1 0
Louis, Ricardo WR CLE 8 0 0 94 6.4 0 0

Targ - Targeted with Pass, Ctch - Receptions, Pct - Reception Percentage,
Yards - Receiving Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Catch, Avg/T - Yards per
Target, YAC - Yards Gained After Catch, Lg - Longest Reception,
TD - Receiving Touchdowns, Drp - Passes Dropped, PPly - Passing Plays
on Field, TPct - Percentage of Passing Plays Targeted, 20+C - Catches
of 20 Yards or More, 100+ - 100-Yard Games.

Remember that Hawkins was out for a few games with that injury, as was TE Barnidge, who likely would have been AllPro otherwise. 600+ yards in 11 games?


K Raymond - 28 of 34 FG, 33 of 33 PAT.
P Emerson - 107 punts. 48.1 avg, long of 75,




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Defensive Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Tckl Asst Sack Blkd Hurr QBKd
Kirksey, Chris ILB CLE 16 14 146 36 3.5 1 1 4
Collins, Jamie OLB CLE 15 13 97 37 0.5 0 1 1
Haden, Joe CB CLE 16 16 88 27 0.0 0 0 0
Reynolds, Ed S CLE 16 16 68 28 0.0 0 0 0
Poyer, Jordan CB CLE 16 16 60 16 0.0 0 0 0
Shelton, Danny DT CLE 16 16 54 15 8.0 3 13 10
Horner, Joey DE CLE 16 14 48 14 15.0 3 13 11
Campbell, Ibraheim S CLE 10 10 37 9 0.0 0 1 0
Taylor, Jamar CB CLE 16 12 35 12 1.0 0 2 0
Wright, Gabe DT CLE 11 9 31 7 1.5 4 2 0
Ogbah, Emmanuel OLB CLE 16 5 31 10 3.5 0 3 4
Cooper, Xavier DE CLE 16 10 27 13 2.5 3 9 0
Kindred, Derrick S CLE 16 4 25 9 0.0 0 0 0
Holland, C.J. DT CLE 16 5 24 13 1.5 0 5 0
Dunn, Michael DE CLE 16 6 18 6 4.0 1 4 0
Nassib, Carl DE CLE 5 3 8 4 1.0 2 4 0
Davis, Demario ILB CLE 16 2 7 3 0.0 1 0 0
Davison, Bruce S CLE 6 2 6 2 0.0 0 0 0
Boddy-Calhoun, Briean CB CLE 16 2 5 0 0.0 0 0 0
Johnson, Cam OLB CLE 16 0 4 0 0.0 0 0 0
Orchard, Nate OLB CLE 6 1 4 2 0.0 0 0 0
Pryor, Terrelle WR CLE 16 13 3 0 0.0 0 0 0
Johnson, Duke RB CLE 16 15 2 0 0.0 0 0 0
DeValve, Seth TE CLE 16 6 2 0 0.0 0 0 0
Gordon, Josh WR CLE 16 9 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Atkinson III, George RB CLE 16 1 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Coleman, Corey WR CLE 16 6 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Louis, Ricardo WR CLE 16 1 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Graham, Andrew C CLE 16 16 1 0 0.0 0 0 0

Player Pos Team RPly PPly PRPct TkPct
Kirksey, Chris ILB CLE 428 529 1.0 19.4
Collins, Jamie OLB CLE 412 516 0.3 14.5
Haden, Joe CB CLE 461 599 0.0 10.8
Reynolds, Ed S CLE 460 599 0.0 9.1
Poyer, Jordan CB CLE 444 583 0.0 7.4
Shelton, Danny DT CLE 429 496 4.8 8.3
Horner, Joey DE CLE 425 526 5.9 8.1
Campbell, Ibraheim S CLE 270 307 0.3 8.0
Taylor, Jamar CB CLE 282 393 0.8 7.1
Wright, Gabe DT CLE 196 250 3.0 8.9
Ogbah, Emmanuel OLB CLE 191 238 2.7 10.4
Cooper, Xavier DE CLE 266 347 4.2 6.9
Kindred, Derrick S CLE 138 223 0.0 9.4
Holland, C.J. DT CLE 202 298 2.2 7.7
Dunn, Michael DE CLE 225 314 2.9 5.2
Nassib, Carl DE CLE 94 133 5.3 5.7
Davis, Demario ILB CLE 45 75 1.3 8.3
Davison, Bruce S CLE 54 67 0.0 6.6
Boddy-Calhoun, Briean CB CLE 18 54 0.0 6.9
Johnson, Cam OLB CLE 18 21 0.0 10.3
Orchard, Nate OLB CLE 24 21 0.0 13.3
Pryor, Terrelle WR CLE 370 486 0.0 0.4
Johnson, Duke RB CLE 370 360 0.0 0.3
DeValve, Seth TE CLE 167 272 0.0 0.5
Gordon, Josh WR CLE 164 259 0.0 0.2
Atkinson III, George RB CLE 52 92 0.0 0.7
Coleman, Corey WR CLE 227 254 0.0 0.2
Louis, Ricardo WR CLE 85 94 0.0 0.6
Graham, Andrew C CLE 421 572 0.0 0.1

Tckl - Tackles, Asst - Tackle Assists, Sack - Sacks, Blkd - Passes Blocked,
Hurr - Quarterback Hurries, QBKd - Quarterback Knockdowns, RPly - Rushing
Plays on Field, PPly - Passing Plays on Field, PRPct - Pass Rush
Effectiveness Percentage, TkPct - Percentage of Plays Making Tackle.



Your eyes do not deceive you. Fifteen sacks for rookie DE Horner. Incredible! You can see the house of the year Kirksay has a well. 8 sacks for DT Shelton.



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Pass Coverage Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Ints IRYd TD Defn Cght PPly PDPct
Kirksey, Chris ILB CLE 16 14 3 92 1 9 61 529 74.0
Poyer, Jordan CB CLE 16 16 2 1 0 4 42 583 76.2
Taylor, Jamar CB CLE 16 12 2 23 0 4 23 393 79.7
Collins, Jamie OLB CLE 15 13 1 0 0 11 58 516 73.5
Reynolds, Ed S CLE 16 16 1 28 1 3 31 599 77.6
Nassib, Carl DE CLE 5 3 1 0 0 1 1 133 87.0
Haden, Joe CB CLE 16 16 0 0 0 6 52 599 73.3
Davis, Demario ILB CLE 16 2 0 0 0 1 3 75 80.4
Johnson, Cam OLB CLE 16 0 0 0 0 0 3 21 63.5
Campbell, Ibraheim S CLE 10 10 0 0 0 3 18 307 77.0
Cooper, Xavier DE CLE 16 10 0 0 0 0 5 347 80.6
Orchard, Nate OLB CLE 6 1 0 0 0 0 1 21 76.4
Shelton, Danny DT CLE 16 16 0 0 0 1 7 496 81.1
Wright, Gabe DT CLE 11 9 0 0 0 1 1 250 82.9
Boddy-Calhoun, Briean CB CLE 16 2 0 0 0 0 5 54 70.1
Kindred, Derrick S CLE 16 4 0 0 0 3 18 223 74.9
Ogbah, Emmanuel OLB CLE 16 5 0 0 0 5 14 238 79.7
Holland, C.J. DT CLE 16 5 0 0 0 1 7 298 80.2
Horner, Joey DE CLE 16 14 0 0 0 1 4 526 82.0
Davison, Bruce S CLE 6 2 0 0 0 1 5 67 76.1

Ints - Interceptions, IRYd - Interception Return Yardage, TD - Interception
Return Touchdowns, Cght - Passes Caught by Covered Receiver, Defn - Passes
Defensed, PPly - Passing Plays on Field, PDPct - Pass Defense Percentage.


Kirksay continues with the most picks, a INT RET TD, and 2nd most pas def on my squad.





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Blocking Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS KRB KRO BPct Pnck SkA PPly SPct
Bitonio, Joel G CLE 15 15 28 80 35.0 1 4 523 0.8
Greco, John G CLE 16 16 27 68 39.7 0 5 572 0.9
Coleman, Shon T CLE 16 16 27 68 39.7 0 8 566 1.4
Graham, Andrew C CLE 16 16 19 75 25.3 1 9 572 1.6
Thomas, Joe T CLE 16 16 15 67 22.4 6 4 552 0.7
Hickman, Bryson G CLE 2 1 2 9 22.2 0 1 43 2.3
DeValve, Seth TE CLE 16 6 1 4 25.0 0 0 272 0.0
Stine, Rodolfo T CLE 16 0 1 1 100.0 0 0 20 0.0
Barnidge, Gary TE CLE 11 11 0 4 0.0 0 3 333 0.9
Hamlett, Connor TE CLE 5 3 0 2 0.0 0 0 82 0.0
Helmic, Shaquille TE CLE 16 3 0 2 0.0 0 0 115 0.0


Note the lack of Thomas. He is fading.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:

I like to give out a quintet of team awards each year to represent all of the different things we got from our peoples.

Offensive Player of the Year - 10-6. 1-1. That's why QB Brendan Aldridge has to be here. He was something acceptable, workable, and winnable.

Defensive Player of the Year - MLB Chris Kirksey. He led the team in multiple factors, and had a 20 solo tackle performance. He was the best player on our team from many angles, and made his impact felt. Good job Kirksey!


Special Teams Player of the Year - P Rob Emerson - He made All Pro. As an undrafted rookie. You have to love what Emerson has coming in his future!

Rookie of the Year - DE Joey Horner - We had a metric ton of rookies contribute and could get this award. But when you get Defensive Rookie of the Year and All Pro, my hands are tied. You deserved it Horner!

Heart Award - DT Danny Shelton - Is Danny a creeper? I guess we'll find out. He is a 56/56 DT, drafted in the first round last year. He was the best DT statistically this year in the league in pressurizing that QB. Actually, I'm a bit surprised that Sheldon got 2nd team. He led all Dts in sacks, and was 2nd best in hurries. But, beside that, the Heart Award goes to someone who over performed, did well in difficult circumstances, and more. Shelton defines that description.


Good job all!

[Abe Sargent]

End of Season

Team Performance 66
Franchise Value - 76
Profit Loss - 85
Roster Strength 34 -

Total Score - 74



We have no one retire.

Retirees of note -

Larry Fitz, A Boldin, V Jackson

Dwight Freeney, T Suggs, James Harrison, R Mathis, T Newman, Weddle

Tom Brady, Drew brees

Jamaal Charles, D e Williams, Sproles,

TE Antonio Gates


We have:

The Leagues 11th best stadium
13th worst roster
7th worst support
4th worst economy
12th worst franchise value

We made 112 mill last year, but just 74.% attendance, 5th lowest



Staff -

Two of our staff are out of deals:

Let;s head to the draft and see what I can tap. I was thinking about grabbing a 3-4 guy, but given the success we had at DE and DT in a 4-3, I'm no longer inclined to do that

I give raises to my HC and Assistant HC that were about to finish their year

We pick 21st in the staff draft

No pick in round one for us

Round 2 is the OC round. There are multiple coaches with the same level of quality.

Here's our ex OC - Smashmouth, O line specialist - Past the 50% line in Dev, talent, dis, and play calling, virtually no motivation at all, decent scouting and interviewing. 68 plays

Now he fits. I'll grab him, but the others all had something going for him

DC in round 3? No pick?

Assistant? There's a guy 5 better than ours, but likes the spread. I genuinely like my guy better and skip my pick

Strength C? I hire Andre Cobb from the Changers, 59 overall



Time for free agency

[Abe Sargent]

My only major FAs of note are WR Terrelle Pryor, OG John Greco (who is 10th year as a player), and SLB Jamie Collins, CB Jamar Taylor and Jordan Poyer

I would love to keep Pryor and Collins. Franchise Tag for Pryor is 10 mill, for Collins its 12.

On the bench I have 2nd year man 53/61 SLB Ogbah, 2nd round draft pick last year, so Collins, the better player at 59/59 is more optional.

There are not a lot of WR currently that would be better for Pryor. I would love to have him come back. But of the two, I don;t think they are worth the cash.

I make offers to my RFAs -

QB Arledge, 4 years
P Emerson, 5 years, big money
K Redmond, 4 years, cheap
DE Horner, 3 years, cheap

C Graham - Cheapish

LS Newsome, 1 year

LT Stine, 2 yeas
LG Hickman, 2 years, cheap
RT Daubach, 1 year
DT Holland, 2 years
RB Sean Yamada, 2 years
TE Helmic, 3 years
FS Reynolds, 3rd year vet, 3 years, 49/49
DE Michael Dunn, 2 years
WLB Cam Johnson, 48/48, two yeas, 1.8 and 2 mill each year

I keep the others open for now

[Abe Sargent]

My needs:

Stud RB

A lights out WR to go over my corps
starter WR

Great C. Starting LG

Starter DT

A bunch of corners -like 5.

A great SS and/or FS


I extend WR Dawkins by two years, Kirksey by 3, and I like RG Bitonio, but he wants a lot of cash to extend. I hold off on hm for now

[Abe Sargent]

I move to week 2:


On the Grey Sheet. many top players were franchised. Just OLB Collins is on the grey sheet from our roster of the best players in FA.


Let's take a look at top talents in my areas of need:

CB - Available are four players at 60+, and another 5 at 55-59, and a bunch more 50s. Given my cap space (55 mill), there should be nothing from letting me grab one. Many of these people are distractions, or too old. I decide to make an offer for Nolan Carroll, 64/64, even at 30, gets along with our leader, Joe Haden.


I also offer:

WR Jordan Norwood, best in the class


Before I make too many more, let's look at the rookies.

Anyone I think we can take at the 27th pick, like a good C,, OG, or CB or WR or DT or someone? There are a lot of high quality CBs out there. I interview E3 and get very underrated, and #4 and hard to read. #5 is very underrated and has amazing bars already and #1 and 2 look like studs based on their bars and combines. There is a ton of top talent here. I would love one to be there at 27. If I sign a top CB, draft another power, and give me three strong corners to refurbish my CB corps, that would be good

What else?

Top C on the board is very underrated. I interview the #4 and 5 guards, and 4 looks good. Two stud WRs out there. #4 is as scouted, three stud RBs in the draft too. I interview #3. Two great Safeties. Anyone I think could fall to 27? Teh #3 guy is very underrated

We are in a good place for this stuff. I'm comfortable we'll get WR, RB, CB, S,C, or OG for my team. Someone good.

No DTs though. So I look at FA'

I make an offer for DT Stacy McGeee to join us.

Anyone else I want to bring in? No to RB. Too expensive or old. Nah to C. There is a studly, franchise level OG Tim Leilito, 73/73. 5 years of experience. But he wants something like 5 years and 55 mill. Nope. I don;t need an OG that badly. What about 30 mill for 4 years to 65/65 Kevin Zeitler? He;s 2nd best. Or 7th year vet 62/62 John Jerry, 3 years and 14 mill? I do that and bump his bonus up a mill to 15 mill deal. That's reasonable


Anyone else? There is a lot of talent out there. We have one 80 player, 2 70s, 15 60s, and so forth. None of those are P/K either. DE Christ Long and WLB War eare the other houses. But we have 67/67 Kiko Alonso, 66/66 Jarvis Jones, DT Stacy McGee (who I made an offer to), 66/66 SS WIlcox, and and such.

Hmm, what about TE?

We have a 64, 61, and two 59 TEs out there. Ours is in his 10th year. Both in the 59 zone are cheap and strong options. I make an offer to TE Jordan Cameron

I make an offer to QB Chase Daniel. He's the replacement I have in line for RGIII, a mentor to QBs

[Abe Sargent]

Week 3? I sign both DT Stacy McGee and RG John Jerry!

Jerry is cheaper, 30 years, so he;s a bit of a placeholder if you will, but he;s 54/54. McGee was the best DT in FA, cheap, and 71/71 after signing, sop he looks better post signing!

OLB Jamie Collins wants 30 mill, 5 years. Way too much for me

Kevin Minter, WILB< is a good deal, but I don't need the competition. Man, we have such a good LB corps

WR Norwood is being chased by 11 teams. I up over offer to be 2 mill more then the next team

Week 4 - We sign SE Jordan Norwood for 3 years, 13.15 mill, comes in with a 63/63 rating


Week 5 - We sign CB Nolan Carroll, 3 years, 23.27 mill. Posting signing has 63/63 rating.

No one is chasing SS JJ Wilcox. So I do. He's 66/66, 5th year vet from Cowboys. Would be a huge upgrade at SS for us.


Week 6 - No news

Week 7 - We sign TE Jordan Cameron for 2 years, 3.86 mill

Week 8 - No news

Week 9 - We sign JJ Wilcox, 4 years,, 23.20 mill, comes in at a 64/64 rating

We signed the best WR, CB, S, and DT in free agency

Week 10 - No news

Week 11 - Chase Daniel signs to me my Mentor. I cut RG3

I have 35 mill in cap space for anyone I want to sign, and 49 players under contract heading into the draft.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2017 NFL Amateur Draft

The first player off the board is

QB Mickey Lannon, to the Redskins




Our pick arrives at 27. Who is there I scouted and liked?

C Harrison Tatum, very underrated

CB Trenton Flynn? (37/70)

There is a maxed bars guy still on the board - MLB Robert Banda. Not a position of need, but the BAP is Banda. His ideal is a SLB. He is the best LB in the draft, and looks to be a real force. I could draft him,and say screw it, and just move ot the 3-4 and move on.


OG AJ Doyle? OG Gaytan

TE Kris Nixon looks like a house, but again, not a position of need

OG Gaytan is available and looks extremely strong. We have some quality Des here as well that appear to have dropped.

My current OGs are 63/63 and 58/58. Gaytan appears to be the next level of quality. At LB I have 72/72 Kirksey, and then 53/61 Ogbah, and others.

Let's do it. Let;s take Banda

TE Nixon heads to teh Packers at teh next pick

The second round arrives and another BAP is about to happen. 2nd round DE Julio Stanton is a house, fell, and I'm not letting him fall further!
The 3rd pick is here and i need to start looking at need. I take the 2nd est CB on the board CB Cooper Schmidtke. He has good bars, and is pretty fast.

The 4th arrives. Two players attract me. C Harrison Tatum is still on the board. Very underrated, best C in the draft. Or FL Gabriel Lynch, with a great set of bars, and fast too. Both are good. Both are positions of need.

My current C is Andrew Graham, 46/52. My current WR are 58/58 and 63/63, and Norwood, the better on, is 30.

But very underrated? Man that entices!

I go with C Tatum

In the 5th, Lynch is there, so I snag Gabriel Lynch

6th round? Any more corners of quality? Sure, i grab tehj best CB on teh board Antoine Harrison

7th round i like to pick up depth or special teams. FL Shawn Gordon appears to be one of the best returners left, I grab him.

Here;s my first draft class:

1st Round - LB Robert Banda, Rice
2nd Round - DE Julio Stanton, Fresno State
3rd Round - CB Cooper Schmidtke, Mississippi
4th Round - C Harrison Tatum, Purdue
5th Round - WR Gabriel Lynch, Baylor
6th Round - CB Antoine Harrison, Ohio
7th Round - WR Shawn Gordon, Mississippi State

[Abe Sargent]

I feel like this could be one of those epic drafts, where I went BAP first two rounds and got serious talent there. We'll see. I emphasized bars and occasional combine scores over over stuff.

So let’s take a look and unpack the draft a bit more

We have one player on the green page – DE Julio Stanton is the 3rd best player on the page. We have a B+ draft grade

Here:

DE Stanton 45/82
LB Banda – 38/78
CB Schmidtke 38/70
FL Lynch 35/63
C Tatum 21/61
FL Gordon 25/50
CB Harrison 40/43

That is not a B+ draft!

Who else do I want to shoulder tap for this team?

I make these offers:

UFA RB Erik Hernandez, RB Tyrell Idler
UFA FB louis Bush
UFA QB Bill Bryant

I have some conflicts on my D Line, so I offer NT Corey Peters for 3 years to come in and help out as my new leader

WR Allen Hurns, 2 years

Week 1 – We sign Hurns, Peters,

Week 2 – We sign FB Bush

Week 3 – We sign Bryant, Hernandez, and Idley


I have space, I make offer to some random UFAs to give me bulk in camp – SE Pedro Block, CB Cornelius Oliver, LT Brenden Conti, FS Tyrone McSwain

Week 4 - We sign them all

Ready to go camping?

Before we do….

I need to figure out my defense.

I am going to run Banda at SLB, his area of strength, leave Kirksey at MLB, not his strength (WLB is his best position, but WLB is the worst positon on the 4-3 defense. I don’t want to waste him there) and then move Ogbah to WLB. Ogbah is 77 pass rush strength, 89 strength, 100 punishing hit, and I think he can do some damage from the WLB spot

[Abe Sargent]

Training CAMP!!!

CB Schmidtke just cracked the Green page in the final spot

Changes and updates –

Rookies – everyone is as expected

C Graham is 51/52 already. I’ll give Tatum starts in preseason, but Graham has earned the spot for now

I cut:

TE Connor Hamlett, SE Pedro Block, DE Carl Nassib, FS McSwain, QB Bryant, and RB Idler and Conti

In the preseason we go 20-10 vs the Saints, lose 24-17 to Cowboys, win 30-20 vs Bucs, and 21-14 over the Skins

Ready for the regular season?

RB Duke Johnson busted to 34/34
P Emerson busted to 61/61

I make these cuts:

RB Erik Hernandez
TE Shaqullle Helmic
FL Corey Coleman
SILB Dominique Alexander
DT CJ Holland
CB Boddy-Calhound


We have:

20th worst QB
28th worst RB
21st worst FB
17th best TE
12th best WR
THE best OT, 4th best OG, 17th best C

7th best P, 12th best K

17th best DE, 9th best DT
5th best ILB, 11th best OLB
8th best CB, 6th best S

Well there you are defense!

I spent this off season really shoring up my D. And I got those two top talent defenders. But I need to commit to a top flight RB soon.

[Abe Sargent]

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Cleveland Browns Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Arledge, Brendan 114 QB QB 2 30 47 4 yrs.
Kessler, Cody 106 QB 2 25 36 3 yrs.
##Daniel, Chase 105 QB 9 23 23 1 yr.
Yamada, Sean 242 RB RB 2 45 49 2 yrs.
Atkinson III, George 225 RB 2 39 39 2 yrs.
Johnson, Duke 229 RB 3 34 34 2 yrs.
Bush, Louis 345 FB FB 1 28 45 1 yr.
Cameron, Jordan 485 TE 7 54 54 2 yrs.
Barnidge, Gary 482 TE TE 10 50 50 2 yrs.
DeValve, Seth 487 TE 2 40 44 3 yrs.
Hawkins, Andrew 516 FL SE 7 58 58 3 yrs.
Lynch, Gabriel 513 FL 1 38 56 4 yrs.
Gordon, Shawn 584 FL 1 26 39 4 yrs.
##Norwood, Jordan 588 SE 8 63 63 3 yrs.
Louis, Ricardo 580 SE 2 45 51 3 yrs.
Hurns, Allen 586 SE FL 4 49 49 2 yrs.
Graham, Andrew 679 C C 2 52 52 3 yrs.
Tatum, Harrison 652 C 1 28 51 4 yrs.
##Drango, Spencer 766 LG 2 35 45 3 yrs.
Bitonio, Joel 775 RG RG 4 73 73 1 yr.
Jerry, John 769 RG LG 7 59 59 3 yrs.
Hickman, Bryson 763 RG 2 43 53 2 yrs.
Thomas, Joe 873 LT LT 11 75 75 2 yrs.
Stine, Rodolfo 861 LT 2 36 51 2 yrs.
Coleman, Shon 872 RT RT 2 66 66 3 yrs.
Daubach, Ramon 865 RT 2 40 57 1 yr.
Emerson, Rob 915 P 2 61 61 5 yrs.
Raymond, Zach 1001K 2 60 60 4 yrs.
Stanton, Julio 1199RDE RDE 1 55 75 4 yrs.
Horner, Joey 1193RDE LDE 2 65 65 3 yrs.
Cooper, Xavier 1196RDE 3 49 49 2 yrs.
##Dunn, Michael 1178RDE 2 49 49 2 yrs.
McGee, Stacy 1298LDT LDT 5 69 69 4 yrs.
Shelton, Danny 1255NT RDT 3 54 54 2 yrs.
Wright, Gabe 1297NT 3 38 38 2 yrs.
##Peters, Corey 1276NT 8 35 35 3 yrs.
##Davis, Demario 1356SILB 6 38 38 1 yr.
Kirksey, Chris 1358WILB MLB 4 71 71 4 yrs.
Banda, Robert 1395MLB SLB 1 45 74 4 yrs.
Ogbah, Emmanuel 1490SLB WLB 2 59 59 3 yrs.
Orchard, Nate 1444SLB 3 53 53 2 yrs.
Schobert, Joe 1453WLB 2 47 57 3 yrs.
Johnson, Cam 1457WLB 4 39 39 2 yrs.
Haden, Joe 1523LCB RCB 8 72 72 3 yrs.
Harrison, Antoine 1538LCB 1 51 66 4 yrs.
Schmidtke, Cooper 1549RCB 1 44 61 4 yrs.
Carroll, Nolan 1535RCB LCB 8 54 54 3 yrs.
Oliver, Cornelius 1522RCB 1 26 40 1 yr.
Wilcox, J.J. 1647SS SS 5 64 64 4 yrs.
Kindred, Derrick 1630SS 2 55 60 3 yrs.
##Campbell, Ibraheim 1624SS 3 37 37 2 yrs.
Reynolds, Ed 1639FS FS 3 49 49 3 yrs.
Newsome, Bo 659 LS 2 19 19 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $160,700,000
Cap Room: $40,200,000
Maximum for New Player: $40,740,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $9,910,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $4,740,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $122,370,000



There's muh roster!

Some additional news:

WR Norwood came out of preseaon out with a strained calf muscle for a few weeks. Hurns'l start for him until he returns

3rd round CB Cooper Schmidtke who looked initally good post-draft and camp dropped to 44/61. That's still really good for a 3rd rounder, even if he winds up 52/52 or something, that's fine. Meanwhile, 6th round CB Antonine Harrison frommmmm Farmington , WV boomed hard! The 6th rounder is 51/66 as a rookie

As I mentioned this was a corner heavy drafft...

There are CBs with these potentials running around - 85, 76, 73, 71, 69, 68, 67, 66, 61, 56, 56, 55, 54, 53, 53, 53, 51, 51, 51, 50, 50

That's a lot of players at 50+, and we have two of those at 66 and 61 in rounds 3 and 6.

[Abe Sargent]

I feel like my team deserves a really, really good Rb to put it over the top. Anyone looking to trade?

I feel like my defense is really tight right now. I have a ton of quality backups, like 55/60 SS Derrick Kindred, a UFA who boomed in camp and preseason, and I move him to FS and start him over FS Ed Reynolds, a solid 49/49 guy. I totally renovated my secondary in one year. Last year I had two All Pros on the D Line, and I added the best DT in FA and the best DE in the draft to go with them. I already had a stocked LB crops, and I traded a 59/59 SLb for the best LB in the draft a 45/74 guy, while having a ton of depth

We are good defense. We are going to Brown Out a lot of teams.

As you’ve seen, we have good, quality O line. My Wrs are okay, but not amazing. I have two solid Tes. Given that. I feel like one stud RB really pushes to that next level.

The Jags have the best RB in the league with Tod Coffeey, a rookie they took 1.6 with 66/81 stuff.

Chicago? You have the 2nd best current Rb in the league, 3rd best overall with 2nd year man Jordan Howard. You need a corner badly. Nope, doesn’t want Haden that much. I would trade Haden straight up for a young RB.

I get a call from a GM who will give me their stud RB, 25 years old, in the 5thyear in the league, for both my 1st next year and Joe Haden. Haden is one of my best players. But last year hee was just with 6 pasdef and 0 picks. He’s not this amazing, must-keep player, when I have the other three corners of value on my roster…

But my 1st rounder next year as well? That’s a rough price the Bengals want for Giovani Bernard. Last year he has 342 carries for 1502 yards. Dude can carry the rock. 72/72 overall score.

Alright, I make an offer the Bengals accept:

I send the Bengals:

1st rounder next year
4th rounder next year
RB Sean Yamada

For RB Giovani Bernard

[Abe Sargent]

I have to give you this game result NOW NOW NOW


Week 1 – We open with Cincinnati, ironically, and beat them 35-17, ironically. Holy crap!!!

Get ready for this stat line:

DE Joey Horner 9 tackles, 6 knockdowns and SEVEN AND A HALF SACKS. Holy crap that guy unloaded on Andy Dalton. 1 FF

Arledge was weak – 20 of 34, 202, 0:1, Bernard was 25 carries for 95 yards and FOUR TDs on the ground. Arledge rushed for a score.

Horner is obviously Defensive Player of the Week for the nFL.

[Abe Sargent]

We have OT Shon Coleman a little banged up from that game, and around 6 probables

Week 2 – We beat the Vikes 27-17. Game MVP Arledge 19 of 27, 302 yards, 1:0 rating. Bernard had 102 yards and a score, TE Barnidge was 130 yards and score with a 50 yard score TD. We have three picks, and S Ed Reynolds returned it 72 yards for a score. Antoine Harrison got a pick, and new SS Wilcox the other.

Injuries to RG Jerry Johns out for a month with a foot ligament injury

Week 3 – We beat the Bills 26-14. Game MVP is Arledge with 19 of 30, 295, 2:1, and WR Hawkins 136 yards and rookie Gabriel Lynch 100 and a score. Bernard adds 76 yards on the ground. Antoine Harrison with a pick returned 82 yards for a score. 1.5 sacks by Horner.


Week 4 – We defeat the Titans 34-24. Arledge is MVP wit 24 of 36, 310, and 2:0. Tes Barnidge and Cameron with scores. Bernard adds 114 yards and a score on the ground, as did Arledge. Interception by..DE Joey Horner.


SE Norwood is back from injury and starting in place of Hurns

Week 5 – We have the 0-4 Jags. So we crush them 41-13, no surprise. We have a major injury. DE Julio Station got a high ankle sprain and is out for the rest of the season. I place him on IR and sign DT Karl Klug to help.

For the game? Arledge is Game MVP with 19 of 26, 191 and 3:0. He hits Hawkins, Norwood, and RB Bernard for scores and Bernard adds 128 yard and another score on the ground. Picks by Kirksey and Wilcox. Sack by Horner.

Week 6 – We head to 3-1 Houston. We emerge victorious 23-13. Bernard has 91 yards on 33 attempts, they slowed him down and kept him from breaking out. Alredge was MVP with 21 of 29, 252 and 1:0. Hawkins with a score, DT Shelton recovered a fumble and rushed 19 yard for score. Lynch scored from an offensive fumble recovery. WLB Ogbah led the team in tackles, sacks, and more. Horne with another sack, DE Dunn, starting for Stanton got a sack too.

DT McGee is out for 9 weeks with a broken foot. OG Gerry John is back from injury

We are the NFLs last undefeated team!

Week 7 – Well that only lasted a week. We lose in Baltimore 17-14. Horner is game MVP with four more sacks. Dang. Arledge exposed 23 of 37, 219, 0:2. Bernard had 128 yards 24 carries and a score. But we lost. Horner is again D layer of the Week for the NFL

Sad face

CB Antoine Harrison is questionable with a trained hammy

Week 8 – We have the 5-1-1 Colts heading to Cleveland. We win 24-41 in OT. Game MVP Bernard 26 for 112, 1 TD, caught another sore. Arledge was 25 of 35, 271, and 2:1. 2 more sacks by Horner.

A bunch of injuries:

CB Cooper Schmidtke is out with a stress fracture in his good

CB Nolan Carroll is doubtful

RG Joel Bitonio for a 5 weeks with a damaged shoulder

[Abe Sargent]

At the halfway mark we are 7-1. How many sacks does Horner have? 17.5. Which is a lot of sacks, in case you are counting. Bernard leads the lead in rushing.

Week 9 – We barely manage to defeat the Steelers 23-17. Bernard, Game MVP, has 136 yards on the ground. Norwood had 106 yards and a score, and like always, the Steelers stymied Arledge a bit. He had 185 yards, 2:2, and 189 of 27. Safeties Wilcox and Campbell with picks. Sacks by DT Sheldon and WLB Ogbah.

Week 10 – BYE. CB Schmidtke healed

Week 11 – We head to Cincinnati. They get vengeance and knock us down, 37-27. CB Nolan Carroll is back from injury. Bernard held to jst 42 yards, but Arledge was 29 of 41, 279 and 3:0 and hit Norwood, Hawkins and Lynch for scores. 1.5 sacks by El Horner another by Ogbah

Week 12 – We host the 3-7 Bears. We win 41-16. OG Bintonio is back from injury. Bernard was 82 yards and a score, Arledge was 13 of 24 ,269, 2:1. Norwood and Dawkins with score. But Game MVP? That’s right, Joey Horner, 2 forced fumbles, and 3sacks Pick and return 81 yards for a score by Nolan Carroll, back in his starting gig.

Week 13 – We head to Denver! We lose in Denver! 23-16. Bernard 30 yards, Arledge was 29 of 45, 336 and 0:2, Norwood had 119 yards and Lynch 100. Pick and return 40 yards by Carroll for a score. O sacks.

We are 9-3 heading into the stretch

[Abe Sargent]

Week 13 – We head to Denver! We lose in Denver! 23-16. Bernard 30 yards, Arledge was 29 of 45, 336 and 0:2, Norwood had 119 yards and Lynch 100. Pick and return 40 yards by Carroll for a score. O sacks.

We are 9-3 heading into the stretch

Week 14 – We host the 7-5 Lions. We lose 38-28. Bernard was 109 yards and a score on the ground, Arledge was 25 of 40 for 221 and 3:2. He hit Cameron, Hurns, and FB Bush for scores. We forced 5 fumbles. Sack by Horner.


Week 15 – We head to Pittsburgh and…..with 42 -20. Wow. MVP was OG John Jerry with 5 KRB. Alright then, go Jerry! Sack by Horner. Arledge had 17 of 25 for 181 and 3:1 ration, hut Hawkins twice and Cameron once for scores. Bernard had 122 yards and a score.

DT mcgee is back from injury. And will start again for us

Week 16 – We play against the weak 5-9 Green Bay team. They are still Green bay though, and we fight them hard, and win 24-21. Arledge is game MVP with 27 of 30 for 395 and 2:0. He hits Hawkins and Norwood for scores, and Bernard had 20 rushes for 90 yards and a score. Quiet game by our defense.

Antoine Harrison is back from his strained hammy. Heading into the final week, we are 11-4 and in front of Houston and New England by a game. We face the 7-8 Ravens, who would love to get to 8-8 and prevent us from getting the #1 seed. Ravens are no joke

Week 17 – We crush them 42-9. Arledge, Game MVP, with 26 of 33 for 400 and 4:0 ratio. Bernard adds 24 rushes, 126 yards and s core. 165 received yards by Hawkins, TD catches by Norwood, Cameron, and FB Bush. Pick by Schmidtke, returned 59 yards for a score. Sacks by Horner, Wilcox, and CB joe Haden.


We win 12-4 and are the #1 seed in the AFC!

[Abe Sargent]

The 2017 NFL Playoffs!


Wild Card Weekend

Denver heads to Houston
Indianapolis heads to San Diego

Minnesota to Detroit
Tampa Bay to New York


I’d love to see Houston next week. Will that happen? Nope!

Denver wins 17-13, The Colts lose 28-31 in OT< Vikes crush the Lions 31-6, and Giants in a defensince, mistake riddled match 6-3 over teh Bucs.


Divisional Weekend:

We have:

9-7 Denver heading to Cleveland

11-5 New England hosting the 11-6 Chargers


Giants head to Seattle and Minnesota to Carolina

We are favored by 4. But don’t forget that one of our losses is to Denver, 23-16.

What can we do?

Can we win We score a TD on our opening drive, and never lose the lead. We finish 44-21.

Bernard took over – MVP, 28 carries, 192 yards, 3 TDs. Arledge was 18 of 24 for 273 and 2:0. Bernard caught a TD score, and Hurns another. Picks by SS Wilcox and CB Harrison. Even Joe Thomas wanted this – dude had 6 KRB.


Elsewhere –

Carolina over the Vikings, 27-19, Giants lose in Seattle 17-13 , and Pats over Charges 26-19

[Abe Sargent]

Conference Championships!



Can we make it to the Super Bowl over the Brady-less Pats?



Will Carolina or Seattle make it from the NFC side?


Let’s find out!!!!

Scoreless 1st quarter. We kick a FG< then they follow, then we score and its 10-3 at the half. We Score another FG, and then they reciprocate. Backand forth. Back and forth. They drive twice in the 4th to make it and win 33-23.

Bernard was 24 of 129 yards and a score. Arledge was 25 of 33 for 286, and 2:1. Hawkins 114 and a score, Hurns the other. We just couldn’t stop them in the 4th. We led from the early 2nd to the early 4th.

Carolina won


2016-2017 Super Bowl

Panthers 29, Pats 22

Good job Carolina!

[Abe Sargent]

Season awards:

DE Joey Horner, Defensive Player of the Year, All Pro 1st Team
WR Andrew Hawkins, All Pro 2nd Team
OT Joe Thomas, All Pro 2nd Team


Stats!




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Passing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Cmp Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/A Lg
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 16 519 355 68.4 4118 11.60 7.93 72

Player Pos Team TD Int 20+T 300+ Rating
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 29 13 63 5 100.3

Att - Attempts, Cmp - Completions, Pct - Completion Percentage,
Yards - Passing Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Completion, Ave/A - Yards per Attempt,
Lg - Longest Completion, TD - Passing Touchdowns, Int - Passes Intercepted,
20+T - Completions of 20 or More Yards, 300+ - 300-yard Games,
Rate - Quarterback Rating.



Arledge was 4th in yards, 2nd in TDs, 5th in QB Rating. That is a very respectable statline.


We were robbed for an ALl Pro for Bernard:

388 carries 1571 yards - led league in rush yards, 14 rush TDs, led the lead in rushing scores. He ha a better ypc than the next player down who did make All Pro, he had a better ypc, better yards, adn better rushing scores, and yet, that guy was an all pro, and Bernard wasn;t




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Receiving Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Targ Ctch Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/T YAC
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 16 14 112 79 70.5 1213 15.35 10.83 545
Norwood, Jordan WR CLE 12 9 94 62 66.0 744 12.00 7.91 299
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 16 9 88 55 62.5 651 11.84 7.40 162
Barnidge, Gary TE CLE 16 16 61 42 68.9 502 11.95 8.23 205
Bernard, Giovani RB CLE 16 16 67 51 76.1 363 7.12 5.42 160
Cameron, Jordan TE CLE 16 7 43 33 76.7 342 10.36 7.95 161
Hurns, Allen WR CLE 16 4 33 19 57.6 218 11.47 6.61 89
Bush, Louis FB CLE 16 2 11 7 63.6 55 7.86 5.00 7
Johnson, Duke RB CLE 16 0 4 3 75.0 20 6.67 5.00 0
DeValve, Seth TE CLE 16 3 4 2 50.0 10 5.00 2.50 0
Louis, Ricardo WR CLE 15 0 2 2 100.0 0 0.00 0.00 3

Player Pos Team Lg TD Drp PPly TPct 20+C 100+
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 72 9 9 501 22.4 24 2
Norwood, Jordan WR CLE 55 6 2 358 26.3 13 2
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 41 2 4 302 29.1 8 2
Barnidge, Gary TE CLE 50 2 1 439 13.9 7 1
Bernard, Giovani RB CLE 33 2 0 543 12.3 2 0
Cameron, Jordan TE CLE 28 5 2 251 17.1 6 0
Hurns, Allen WR CLE 26 1 1 141 23.4 3 0
Bush, Louis FB CLE 18 2 2 138 8.0 0 0
Johnson, Duke RB CLE 7 0 1 7 57.1 0 0
DeValve, Seth TE CLE 6 0 0 35 11.4 0 0
Louis, Ricardo WR CLE 3 0 0 30 6.7 0 0

Targ - Targeted with Pass, Ctch - Receptions, Pct - Reception Percentage,
Yards - Receiving Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Catch, Avg/T - Yards per
Target, YAC - Yards Gained After Catch, Lg - Longest Reception,
TD - Receiving Touchdowns, Drp - Passes Dropped, PPly - Passing Plays
on Field, TPct - Percentage of Passing Plays Targeted, 20+C - Catches
of 20 Yards or More, 100+ - 100-Yard Games.


Hawkins was 3rd in receiving yards, and tied forr 3rd in TDs


K Zach Raymond was 23 of 28, and 54 of 55 PAT.
P Rob Emerson - 79 pnts, 48.0 average, 39.2 net average. 4th highest average in league
Hawkins had 1 PR RET TD,
Hurns had 29 special teams tackles, 3 FF, 1 fumrec, and led all special team gunners in that role across the league

Blocking - Thomas was 29 KRB of 61 KRO, 5 sacks allowed; C Graham was 29 of 98 with 1 pancakes and 7 sacks allowed; OG Jerry, in 12 games, was 27 of 60 and 5 sacks and 2 pancakes; OG Bintonio, 12 starts, 24 of 81, 1 pancakes, 4 sacks, Ot Shon Colemon, 22 and 84, 1 pancake, 6 sacks allowed





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Defensive Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Tckl Asst Sack Blkd Hurr QBKd
Kirksey, Chris ILB CLE 16 16 92 37 2.0 1 2 0
Wilcox, J.J. S CLE 16 16 88 22 1.0 0 0 0
Ogbah, Emmanuel OLB CLE 16 12 68 16 5.5 0 7 7
Carroll, Nolan CB CLE 14 14 65 17 0.0 1 0 0
Haden, Joe CB CLE 16 16 65 16 1.0 0 0 0
Banda, Robert ILB CLE 16 10 62 24 0.0 0 6 0
Horner, Joey DE CLE 16 15 51 15 25.5 2 25 36
Kindred, Derrick S CLE 16 10 38 14 0.0 0 0 0
Wright, Gabe DT CLE 16 12 32 11 1.5 0 5 0
Reynolds, Ed S CLE 16 5 30 6 0.0 0 0 0
Shelton, Danny DT CLE 16 8 28 5 3.5 3 5 2
Cooper, Xavier DE CLE 16 8 21 10 4.0 4 2 0
Oliver, Cornelius CB CLE 16 6 18 4 1.0 0 0 0
McGee, Stacy DT CLE 8 5 16 6 1.0 1 5 3
Dunn, Michael DE CLE 11 7 16 6 2.0 0 2 0
Harrison, Antoine CB CLE 8 4 15 2 0.0 1 0 0
Campbell, Ibraheim S CLE 2 2 10 1 0.0 0 0 0
Stanton, Julio DE CLE 5 5 10 3 2.0 0 7 0
Orchard, Nate OLB CLE 13 0 9 2 0.0 0 0 0
Johnson, Cam OLB CLE 16 1 7 2 0.0 0 0 0
Peters, Corey DT CLE 8 4 6 1 0.0 0 3 0
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 15 0 4 0 0.0 0 1 0
Barnidge, Gary TE CLE 16 16 3 0 0.0 0 0 0
Norwood, Jordan WR CLE 12 9 2 0 0.0 0 0 0
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 16 14 2 0 0.0 0 0 0
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 16 9 2 0 0.0 0 0 0
Bernard, Giovani RB CLE 16 16 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Coleman, Shon T CLE 16 16 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 16 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Bush, Louis FB CLE 16 2 1 0 0.0 0 0 0

Player Pos Team RPly PPly PRPct TkPct
Kirksey, Chris ILB CLE 329 554 0.9 14.8
Wilcox, J.J. S CLE 353 644 0.2 11.1
Ogbah, Emmanuel OLB CLE 246 426 2.9 13.3
Carroll, Nolan CB CLE 292 551 0.2 9.7
Haden, Joe CB CLE 353 642 0.2 8.2
Banda, Robert ILB CLE 241 446 1.3 12.5
Horner, Joey DE CLE 323 554 9.5 10.4
Kindred, Derrick S CLE 212 330 0.0 9.6
Wright, Gabe DT CLE 253 359 1.8 7.3
Reynolds, Ed S CLE 117 296 0.0 8.7
Shelton, Danny DT CLE 180 414 2.8 6.1
Cooper, Xavier DE CLE 189 390 2.6 6.0
Oliver, Cornelius CB CLE 122 220 0.5 6.7
McGee, Stacy DT CLE 105 240 2.9 6.7
Dunn, Michael DE CLE 141 196 2.0 7.1
Harrison, Antoine CB CLE 91 173 0.6 6.4
Campbell, Ibraheim S CLE 35 62 0.0 11.3
Stanton, Julio DE CLE 98 189 4.8 5.2
Orchard, Nate OLB CLE 17 74 0.0 12.1
Johnson, Cam OLB CLE 10 41 0.0 17.6
Peters, Corey DT CLE 116 191 1.6 2.3
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 60 91 1.1 2.6
Barnidge, Gary TE CLE 408 439 0.0 0.4
Norwood, Jordan WR CLE 319 358 0.0 0.3
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 444 501 0.0 0.2
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 291 302 0.0 0.3
Bernard, Giovani RB CLE 475 543 0.0 0.1
Coleman, Shon T CLE 472 551 0.0 0.1
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 0 0 0.0 0.0
Bush, Louis FB CLE 92 138 0.0 0.4

Tckl - Tackles, Asst - Tackle Assists, Sack - Sacks, Blkd - Passes Blocked,
Hurr - Quarterback Hurries, QBKd - Quarterback Knockdowns, RPly - Rushing
Plays on Field, PPly - Passing Plays on Field, PRPct - Pass Rush
Effectiveness Percentage, TkPct - Percentage of Plays Making Tackle.


In his 2nd year, Horner beat Strahan for most sacks in a season. Note that WLB Ogbah ahs a strong 5.5 sacks, and backups had a bunch more. Shelton was just 3.5. If you think Horner was a fluke - he was 3rd in hurries, had 4 FF, and the most QB kd by 5 over anyone else. And he blew up sacks.





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Pass Coverage Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Ints IRYd TD Defn Cght PPly PDPct
Wilcox, J.J. S CLE 16 16 4 78 1 6 37 644 80.2
Carroll, Nolan CB CLE 14 14 2 122 2 8 44 551 77.1
Reynolds, Ed S CLE 16 5 2 72 1 2 21 296 78.1
Harrison, Antoine CB CLE 8 4 2 124 1 2 12 173 81.9
Kirksey, Chris ILB CLE 16 16 1 4 0 8 53 554 74.1
Campbell, Ibraheim S CLE 2 2 1 7 0 0 10 62 69.2
Horner, Joey DE CLE 16 15 1 0 0 2 5 554 83.0
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 15 0 1 59 1 1 3 91 86.2
Haden, Joe CB CLE 16 16 0 0 0 11 49 642 76.4
Peters, Corey DT CLE 8 4 0 0 0 0 3 191 80.5
McGee, Stacy DT CLE 8 5 0 0 0 0 5 240 79.8
Johnson, Cam OLB CLE 16 1 0 0 0 0 7 41 59.6
Cooper, Xavier DE CLE 16 8 0 0 0 0 1 390 82.2
Orchard, Nate OLB CLE 13 0 0 0 0 1 7 74 73.1
Shelton, Danny DT CLE 16 8 0 0 0 0 6 414 80.6
Wright, Gabe DT CLE 16 12 0 0 0 0 3 359 81.4
Kindred, Derrick S CLE 16 10 0 0 0 4 20 330 77.3
Ogbah, Emmanuel OLB CLE 16 12 0 0 0 2 41 426 70.7
Dunn, Michael DE CLE 11 7 0 0 0 1 4 196 81.1
Stanton, Julio DE CLE 5 5 0 0 0 1 1 189 83.0
Banda, Robert ILB CLE 16 10 0 0 0 8 41 446 74.5
Oliver, Cornelius CB CLE 16 6 0 0 0 3 13 220 77.9

Ints - Interceptions, IRYd - Interception Return Yardage, TD - Interception
Return Touchdowns, Cght - Passes Caught by Covered Receiver, Defn - Passes
Defensed, PPly - Passing Plays on Field, PDPct - Pass Defense Percentage.



Lots of players had picks. Wilcox was clearly worth the money signing him when he dropped in FA, and despite injuries, Carroll doesn;t disappoint either. We had 6 INT RET TDs, which is huge.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:


Offensive MVP - RB Giovani Bernard. Gio led the league in two major rushing stats - rushing TDs and rushign yards. That's very, very good, and he wins my OMVP award for teh team

Defensive MVP - DE Joey Horner. Duh

Special Teams MVP - Allen Hurns - no one was more destructive as a gunner, with that many FF and tackles. Good job Hurns!

Rookie of the Year: WR Gabriel Lynch - Was 3rd best WR On a team with a lot of busy stuff going on. This 5th round pick from Box Elder, SD Lynch had 651 yards, and 2 scores and looked good. Good job Lynch!


Heart Award: Andrew Hawkins - All heart. This guy went undrafted after playing at Toledo, then was undrafted. No one signed him. So h e went to Mounteeal and played in Canada for two years. The Rams signed him, and then let him go before he played in the regular season in 2011. The Bengals brought him him,and he played for three years, with his best season 51 for 533 and 4 scores. The Browns signed him, and he had 63 for 824 and 2 in his best season for thm Now, at the age of 31, he's All Pro. Heart baby

[Abe Sargent]

End of Season –

90 Perform
81 Value
83 Profit
31 Roster

81 Total Score

We had a retirement – TE Gary Barnidge. Thanks for playing with us!

Other retirees of note.

QB Schaub
RB Bush
TE Jason Witten, Vernon Davis
DT Wilfork
LB Dansby, Ware, Hali, Dumervil,

CB Adam Jones

We made 60 mill, 81.8% attendance

Staff Draft!

We pick 20

There is a guy a little better than our guy 62 suitable vs 60. I keep my guy


Now there is an OC much, much better than outs 65 vs 56. He’s the former OC of the Saints. Now he’s 60 to 68 playbook, West Coast vs Smashmouth, and RB vs O Line for primary. The new guy, Voinovich, is younger, better at motivation, play calling, scouting, worse at young talent, discipline. It is worth going to west coast style? We have been successful in Smashmouth. We have the line and RB and stuff for it. I stay with my guy again

Ready for DC? There is a DC option that prefers 3-4. Worth it? I don’t know if McGee is coming back from his long term injury. He is more o a 4-3 DT. Shelton can be a 3-4 NT. Horner is ideal in a 4-3. Julio Stanton as well. Alrgiht, we stay.

I hire a new Assistant Coach – TE balanced, enthusiast Philip Clements. A 71 suitable strength coord falls and I grab him as well.

All down!

Any franchise tags needed? The only UFAs I have are QB Chase Daniel, DT Karl Kil, SILB David and RG Joel Bitonio. Um, yeah, I’ll franchise Bitonio. Getting a new OG is not that hard, but I Don’t have a lot of ammo

We have 38 mill under the cap, and don’t; forget we don’t have a 1st or 4th rounder draft pick this year

Free Agency Time!!!

[Young Drachma]

Neat idea.

[Abe Sargent]

Free Agency Time!!!


I sign RFA LS BO Newsome for 2 years. RFA RT Ramon Daubauch for a year.

I sign OG Joel Bitonio for 4 years, 22 mill

Anyone I need to extend with one year left?

I extend Joe Thomas by a year
TE Jordan Cameron – 3 years total, 2 year extension
I add a year each to backups of LT Rodolfo Stine, RG Bryson Hickman, RB Duke Johnson,

I sign NT Danny Shelton to a 5 year, 26 mill deal

Changes on my rosier – C Andrew Graham grew to 58/58, P Emerson back to 70/70.

What do I need? I have 48 on my roster. I don’t have a bunch of picks, so I need to build my team in FA.



TE
Potential draft young replacement for Joe Thomas

Other than QB, I feel like I have a solid roster –

RB – 69/69
TE – 54/54
WR -63/63., 58/58,
C – 58/58, OG 73/73, 58/58; OT 76/76, 66/66

P – 70/70; K 55/55

DE 64/64, 62/76
DT 69/69, 54/54

MLB 71/71
SLB 60/74, 60/60, with 52/52, ad 47/57 backups

CB 72/72, 53/65, 54/54, 48/63
SS 63/63, FS 58/58 with 49/49 backup

That’s not a bad roster of starters we’ve assembled.

SO really, what do I need?

I would need a certifiable stud in FA in order to make a play

There are few. Some roster changing players.

[Abe Sargent]

Neat idea.

Thanks thanks!!!

[Abe Sargent]

Week 2 – Do I want to fight in the DT Bennie Logan sweepstakes? Young, 80/80. He initially wants 64 mill, 4 years. TO sign him, you’d have to likely make it more like 67 or 68. Now, that would basically end the McGee experiment. But McGee is injured, and cheap if I wanted to move him. This guy would be a powerful addition o my defense. A homerun hitter. Can I take a cap hit of say, 15 mill a year each year for the next four years for him?

I make him an offer.

I make an offer for a backup to my main RB in case of injury. The 2nd best is Latavius Murry, and he’s not pricey. I make him an offer.

I also make an offer to Chase Daniel.

Week 2 – New News

Week 3 – We sign Bennie Logan.

I make a couple of offers to players on my roster on the rise nw, when I can lock them down.

C Andrew Graham, 5 years, 23.4 mill
DE Joey Horner, 4 years, 33 mill

Week 4 – Latavius Murray joins us.

I don’t chase anyone else. Qb Daniel signs week 10

Let’s do some interviews.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2018 NFL Amateur Draft

The first player taken is OLB Darryl Thomason at Northwestern by the Jags.

We pick 30th

2.30 arrives

OG Fulton? OG Vernon West?
TE Abel Waite very underrated?
WR Little Potato Tucker?
C Anthony Soule?
OT Conner Wilkins, underrated?
DE Grant Doman?
DE Frank Brzezinski?
OLB Ben McGee?
FL Gabe Delaney

BAP appears to be OG West from Auburn, so I take him


In the 3rd round, both WR Gabe Delaney and TE Hardy Downs intrigue me.

3rd Round – WR Gabe Delaney or TE Hardy Downs, and BGen MCGee is still up on the board as well. Hmm… None of those players will fall to 5. I take Downs. I don’t; need another WR or SLB like I need depth on my TE roster. The TE from Indiana

5th round – RB Carlton Medlock, Georgia Tech for depth has good bars

6th Round – LT Earnest Ellison, OT Southern Mississippi

7th round –CB Tre Doucette, Duke

We have a B- draft review.

Early results are:

37/62 for OG West
25/59 for TE Hardy Downs
20/57 for LT Ellison
27/49 for RB Medlock
22/49 for CB Doucette

If they develop, Downs and West could be starters down the road

I have 56 players post-draft.

I make a handful of UFA offers to CB Raymond McWilliams, SLB Terry West, RB Perry Ramsey, CB Jeffrey Turnbull, a QB like normal, DE Axel Meyer

I have a holdout from WR Jordan Norwood. I certainly can get where someone like Dawkins or Bernard might want it. But Norwood? That’s a joke. Having 744 yards and 6 catches does not invalidates your 4 mill cap hit this year


By week 3, I get all but the QB

[Abe Sargent]

CAMP TIME!!!

Norwood ends his holdout. So weird

Post camp I cut:

RB Duke Johnson



I have my eyes on RB Perry Ramsey, who went from 34/34 as a UFA to 40/40

Preseason –

We finished 2-2, with lasses to the Giants, and Panthers, and we beat Falcons and Eagles

Final Roster –

I cut WR Shawn Gordon, RB Carlton Medlock, CB McWilliams, RT Ramon Daubach, DE Meyer, WLB Cam Johnson


I place Stacy McGee on IR






Front Office Football Eight
Cleveland Browns Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Kessler, Cody 106 QB 3 29 45 2 yrs.
Arledge, Brendan 114 QB QB 3 35 35 3 yrs.
##Daniel, Chase 105 QB 10 18 18 1 yr.
Murray, Latavius 220 RB 6 53 53 3 yrs.
Ramsey, Perry 226 RB 1 43 50 1 yr.
Bernard, Giovani 232 RB RB 6 48 48 2 yrs.
##Atkinson III, George 225 RB 3 42 42 1 yr.
Cameron, Jordan 485 TE 8 54 54 3 yrs.
Downs, Hardy 448 TE TE 1 30 48 4 yrs.
DeValve, Seth 487 TE 3 38 38 2 yrs.
Hawkins, Andrew 516 FL SE 8 58 58 2 yrs.
Lynch, Gabriel 513 FL 2 51 57 3 yrs.
Norwood, Jordan 588 SE FL 9 58 58 2 yrs.
Louis, Ricardo 580 SE 3 51 51 2 yrs.
Hurns, Allen 586 SE 5 49 49 1 yr.
Graham, Andrew 679 C 3 58 58 5 yrs.
Tatum, Harrison 652 C C 2 34 49 3 yrs.
Drango, Spencer 766 LG 3 41 43 2 yrs.
Bitonio, Joel 775 RG LG 5 73 73 4 yrs.
West, Vernon 760 RG 1 45 60 4 yrs.
Hickman, Bryson 763 RG 3 51 54 2 yrs.
Jerry, John 769 RG RG 8 52 52 2 yrs.
Thomas, Joe 873 LT LT 12 73 73 2 yrs.
##Ellison, Earnest 868 LT 1 22 44 4 yrs.
Stine, Rodolfo 861 LT 3 36 43 2 yrs.
Coleman, Shon 872 RT RT 3 68 68 2 yrs.
Emerson, Rob 915 P 3 61 61 4 yrs.
Raymond, Zach 1001K 3 56 56 3 yrs.
Stanton, Julio 1199RDE LDE 2 73 76 3 yrs.
Horner, Joey 1193RDE RDE 3 63 63 4 yrs.
Dunn, Michael 1178RDE 3 53 53 1 yr.
##Cooper, Xavier 1196RDE 4 51 51 1 yr.
Logan, Bennie 1271LDT LDT 6 77 77 4 yrs.
%%McGee, Stacy 1298LDT 6 74 74 3 yrs.
Shelton, Danny 1255NT RDT 4 55 55 5 yrs.
Wright, Gabe 1297NT 4 43 43 1 yr.
##Peters, Corey 1276NT 9 35 35 2 yrs.
Kirksey, Chris 1358WILB MLB 5 72 72 3 yrs.
Banda, Robert 1395MLB SLB 2 73 73 3 yrs.
Ogbah, Emmanuel 1490SLB WLB 3 60 60 2 yrs.
West, Terry 1450SLB 1 32 57 1 yr.
Orchard, Nate 1444SLB 4 51 51 1 yr.
Schobert, Joe 1453WLB 3 54 56 2 yrs.
Haden, Joe 1523LCB 9 62 62 2 yrs.
Harrison, Antoine 1538LCB LCB 2 62 62 3 yrs.
Schmidtke, Cooper 1549RCB RCB 2 55 62 3 yrs.
Carroll, Nolan 1535RCB 9 45 45 2 yrs.
Turnbull, Jeffery 1546RCB 1 36 44 1 yr.
##Doucette, Tre 1521RCB 1 25 39 4 yrs.
Wilcox, J.J. 1647SS SS 6 63 63 3 yrs.
##Campbell, Ibraheim 1624SS 4 37 37 1 yr.
Kindred, Derrick 1630FS 3 58 58 2 yrs.
Reynolds, Ed 1639FS FS 4 48 48 2 yrs.
Newsome, Bo 659 LS 3 17 17 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 54
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $166,100,000
Cap Room: $18,560,000
Maximum for New Player: $19,120,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $6,380,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $190,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $143,200,000


So let’s take a look at the final roster, the good and bad.

The obvious place to start is with the secondary.

Joe Haden faded from 72 to 62. His time is dwindling. Meanwhile, Carroll drooped to 45 from the 50s. This was not unanticipated. Last year I had a denuded cornerback situation, with Haden the only one, so I signed Carroll, despite his age, knowing he’d be a stopgap, and then I got two great corners from the draft. I will be starting Schmidtke and Harrison from here on out.

Speaking of fading, Arledge is dangerous. Year 1 I brought in three 50+ potential Qbs from UFA. Only one, Arledge, did not begin to drop, so I thought he was the right choice. And I have done everything I can to create a roster than can win now with Arledge to make this dynasty work. I’m playing this very differently. But, I kept hoping Arldege would grow, especially after last year, when he was 2nd in TDs, but instead of growing and getting somewhere near 45 or 48 total, he has capped at 35/35,. Which is very sad, because it would be easier with a 45/45 guy

We’’ll see what we can do. You can see some fading with WR Hawkins as well.

I do like the boom of RB Ramsey, who’s continuing to rise a little bit here and there. I hope he’s a grower. Banda is 73/73 in one year. And UFA OLB Terry West has not busted at all, and at 32/57 already, looks strong.

But look at Gio who busted to 48/48. That sucks.

We have –

6th worst QB
18th best Rb
13th best TE
16th best WR
11th best OC; 9th best OG, the best OT
12th best P, 17th best K
7th best DE, The best DT
The best ILB, 9th best OLB
10th best CB, 4th best S

That’s just wrong in a lot of places.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 0 We head to Pittsburgh, and emerge victorious 28-21

DE Julio Stanton is game MVP with 2.5 sacks, while Horner added 1.5 – picks by FS Kindred and SLB Robert Banda. Bernard was 16 for 83, and a score, and Murray is cutting into his carries. Ardirge – 25 of 32 for 245 and 2:1 – RB Murray and RB Bernard with TD catches.


Week 2 – We host and barely beat the Falcons 20-17. Ardege outdueled Ryan and was MVP With 27 of 39, 359, and 2:0 – hitting Hawkins for a score and RB L Murray for 101 yards and a a1 . Meanwhile, CB Antione Harrison is NFL Defensive Player of the Week with two picks of Matt Ryan. 2 sacks by DE Stanton.
It is time for me to move to Murray?

I move to Murray in front on my depth chart.

Week 3 – We host the Texans and…we beat the Texans 45-7 – Ardige is MVP with 30 of 40, 369 and 4:0. He hits Hawkins for 104 and 1 score, Norwood for 145, TE Seth Devalve for a score, and RB Perry Ramsey for another. Murray has 17 for 61 and a score on the ground. Joe Haden gets his first pick in three years, but returns it for a score. Go Haden go!

Week 4 – BYE

Week 5 – We crunch the Bronoces 34-17. Murrary is Game MVP with 25 for 168, 1 score, and Hawkins has a Rushing TD spelling him. QB Arledge is 24 of 41 for 222 and 2:0. TE Cameron and WR Hrusn catch scores. Pick by Joe Haden. 1.5 sacks by Kriksey.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 6 – We crush the Raiders 23-35 and just rushed all over God’s green earth against them. Oh, a nd Arledge got his first Offensive Player of the Week for the league with 24 of 31, 247 and 4:0. DE Julio Stanton is NFL Defensive Player of the Week with 2 sacks and a FF. Picks by Haden once and S S Wilcox twice. Murrary had 31 carries and a score, but just 77 yards, and Arledge, Harkins and Ramsey adde cares as well. Murray caught two scores, and DeValve and Hawkins caught one each


Week 7 – We head to San Diego and barely win, despite our foe being a 1 win team 31-28. Arledge was injured partly through he game and left just 8 of 15 for 99 yard and 2:0. Kessley went 8 of 8 for 53 and 1:0 as well. WR Norwood, TE Cameron and DeValve with TD Catches. Murray had 78 yards on the ground. 2 sacks by Horner.


We finish with a bunch of injuries. Just one of those games, you know:

QB Brendan Arledge – pulled groin, questionable
DT Bennie Logan, out with an elbow for three weeks
FS Kindred, questionable with groin for 3 weeks
WLB Obgah, questionable

But here’s the bad one…

C Andrew Graham, severe hamstring pull. Out for 18 weeks. I toss him on IR. We’ll start OG West, who looks good from rookie camp and such, with C Harrison Tatum as backup for now.

Week 8 – We win 20-13 over the Chief.s Pick by Haden, sacks by Horner and Stanton, Murray is Game MVP with 74 yards off 12 catches and received scores, and 23 rushes for 70 yards on the ground, and Arledge is 32 of 49 for 336 and2:2. Norwood with 114 yards.

Week 9 – We head to Baltimore. They knock us off our undeffeeated perch 28-24. Murray held to 14 carries for 48 yards, Arledge was 39 for 53 for 395 and 2:3, and Cameron and Ramsey grabbed some catches of TDs. 3 sacks by DE Julio Stanton

We finish the first half of the season 7-1.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 10 – We host and lose to the Steelers – 17-23. Murrary was 23 for 29 yards, Arledge was 28 of 41 for 265 and 1:4, and it was not pretty. The Steelers and Ravens know how to play us.

We have more injuries:

DT Corey Peters, out for five weeks.
FS Ed Reynolds, starting in place of Kindred, out for 3 weks
OT Shon Coleman, out for three weeks

I put back in, one week early, FS Kindred, NT Logan.

Week 11 – We host and beat the Bengals 24-10 to drop them to 500. MVP is Arledge with 22 of 31, 219 and 2:0. He hits Norwood twice for scores, and Murray is 23 for 33 on the ground. Pick by SS Wilcox. 2 sacks each by Horner and Stanton.

I am done with the Murray experiments. I move GIo back

MLB Kirksey is out for a month with an damaged knee.

Week 12 – We face the 2 win Saints and….tie them 34-34. We have a bunch more injuries first. This has been an injury plagued season:

QB Arkedge questionable again
SS Wilcox, question
RG Jerry broke his finger
TE Cameron is out for a month with a strained elbow tendon
Hawkins questions for a month

DE Joey Horner is doubtful for a month

So many injuries…

It’s very realistic.

I have to sign a TE – I sign 6th round rookie, cut by the Ravens, Bennett Albertini

Ardigde was MOM with 443 yards, 36 on 54, 3:1 ratio, Hawkins caught 132 and 2 scores, TE DeValve 1 score and 90 yards, Bernard was 22 for 62 and a sore.

Week 13 – We head to new England and lose 18-24. Julio Stanton is MOM with 5 sacks. But again, they expose Ardege and he was 22 of 32, 271, and 2:4. Hawkins 109 yards and s core, and RB Murray the other TD catch.

Comeback from injury is RT Coleman and FS Reynolds

[Abe Sargent]

Week 14 – We host and decimate the 10-2 Panthers. 43-10. Arledge is MVP with 30 of 42, 302, and 3:0, hitting Murray, Lynch and Ramsey for scores, and Bernard was 19 for 78 yarsd and 1 score. Haden and CB Schmidtke with picks.

Sigh, yet another frekin injury. CB Antione Harrison is out for 6 weeks with concussion crap. Backup CB Doucette out too. Ardrige is done with his injury

Week 15 – We beat the 8-5 Ravens 16-13 in OT. Kirksey and Horner are back next week. Ardege is MOM with 33 of 39, 391 and 0:0, rushes for a yard 102 yards for TE Downs. 2 saks by DE Stantion.

Week 16 – We head to and defeat the 9-5 Bucs 22-14. With 5/5 FGs. Kikcier Raymond is MON. Ardiege is 24 of 33 for 241 yards, 0:1 and Norwood grabbed 113 yards, and Bernard was 17 for 71, and Murry rushes for a score.

The following players have finished their injuries – DE Cooper, TE DeValve, RG West, SS Campbell, FL Hawkins, and NT Peters.

Go into into week 17 we are not in the best spot in the conference. Tennessee and New England are 11-4, we are 11-3-1, and Denver is 10-5 as the winners Baltimore is 8-7, both Pittsburgh and Cincinnati 9-6 . Once again, no losing teams

We need to win this game to guarantee the top seed

Week 17 – We play the 9-6 Bengals. They win, they get a wild card, so they are up for this. We win 27-17. No major injuries, TE Cameron, RC Turnbull ready for the playoffs. MOM was SLB Robert Banda, with 1 sack, 1 FF. Arledge was 18 for 32 for 203 and 2:1, hitting RB Bernard and WR Hawkins for scores, and Bernard added 81 yards and score on the ground. Picks by Haden, Kindred, Banda, and Wilcox.

We have the top seed with a 12-3-1 record

[Abe Sargent]

The 2018-20-19 NFL Playoffs!!

Wild Card Weekend –

Cincinnati beds to Denver
Pittsburgh heads to Tennessee


Dallas to Phily
Arizona at Minnesota

Three AFC North teams again!

All of the Wild Cards lose. Most badly with three shut outs, and only the 31-23 Denver win interesting.






Week 2 – Divisional Playoff Weekend:

Denver heads to New England
We host the 11-5 Titans

La hosts the Vikings and the Panthers are hosting the Eagles


We edge the Titans 20-17.

MVP is Arledge with 34 of 48, 342 yards, and 0:0. We have a Safety as Wilcox takes the ball carrier, and then 6 Raymond Field Goals. 1 sack by Haden and Station, FF by Bandra.

We have no major injures.

The Broncos upend the Patriots 37-13.

La 37 – Minnesota 16
Carolina 51, Philadelphia 10


Again, blow outs is the theme

[Abe Sargent]

The NFL Conference Championship:

AFC – We host the 11-5 Broncos

NFC – Carolina heads to LA

20-13 us


Arledge is Game MVP with 23 of 27, 222, and 1:1 and a rushing score. Norwood with a score, pick by Kindred.

Carolina edges the Rams 16-14

Setting up a rematch from earlier this year. CB Antoine Harrison is back from injury

[Abe Sargent]

The NFL Conference Championship:

AFC – We host the 11-5 Broncos

NFC – Carolina heads to LA

20-13 us


Arledge is Game MVP with 23 of 27, 222, and 1:1 and a rushing score. Norwood with a score, pick by Kindred.

Carolina edges the Rams 16-14

Setting up a rematch from earlier this year. CB Antoine Harrison is back from injury





The 2018-19 NFL Super Bowl:

Your #1 seed AFC Champion, 12-3-1 Browns v




Your #2 seed NFC Champions 11-5 Carolina Panthers


Do this for Joe Haden and Joe Thomas and Andrew Hawkins and those players!

But most of all, do it for Joe Thomas!!!



Early this year we just blew out the Panthers. We are favored by 4 and…




We win 30-16

Game MVP is arledge, 23 of 30 for 241, 2:0. Bernard rushes 34 for 144 and a ground score and caught two scores as well. A lone sack on the day by DE Stanton. OT Joe Thomas with 6 KRb

[Abe Sargent]

This year was quiet award wise -

NFL Defensive Player of the year: DE Julio Stanton
All Pro 1st Team: DE Julio Stanton
Super Bowl MVP: Alregde

That’s it. Arledge was robbed. He had the highest completion % in the league, the most passing yards pass TD,s and a 10+ QB rating, fourth best in the league. He has the best record, and won a Super Bowl Yet no all pro. Arledge was robbed


Haden had a good season, and I was hoping he’d get AllPro, but that wasn’t to be.

[Abe Sargent]

Stats!



Front Office Football Eight
Passing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Cmp Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/A Lg
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 16 595 422 70.9 4607 10.92 7.74 75

Player Pos Team TD Int 20+T 300+ Rating
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 33 17 58 7 100.0

Att - Attempts, Cmp - Completions, Pct - Completion Percentage,
Yards - Passing Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Completion, Ave/A - Yards per Attempt,
Lg - Longest Completion, TD - Passing Touchdowns, Int - Passes Intercepted,
20+T - Completions of 20 or More Yards, 300+ - 300-yard Games,
Rate - Quarterback Rating.


Arledge led all Qbs in yards by 300 was the most passing TDs by 2, 4th best QB rating, and had the best completion % among qualifiers at 70.9% . Now Zeke was nfl MVP and deserved it with 2400 rushing yards. But for Arledge to not even get a All Pro is sad. However, he was sacked...48 times. That's can;t continue


Rushing -





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Rushing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Yards Avg Lg TD RZAtt Yards
Murray, Latavius RB CLE 16 10 217 660 3.04 50 5 26 38
Bernard, Giovani RB CLE 12 7 136 493 3.63 38 4 19 23
Ramsey, Perry RB CLE 16 7 45 181 4.02 23 1 7 22
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 16 43 138 3.21 20 1 6 16
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 16 11 14 29 2.07 6 1 3 6
Kessler, Cody QB CLE 16 0 1 -1 -1.00 0 0 0 0

Player Pos Team Avg 3DAtt 3DCnv Pct FDRu 10+R 100+
Murray, Latavius RB CLE 1.46 31 8 25.8 38 23 1
Bernard, Giovani RB CLE 1.21 9 5 55.6 33 14 0
Ramsey, Perry RB CLE 3.14 8 3 37.5 7 4 0
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 2.67 11 3 27.3 9 5 0
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 2.00 0 0 0.0 1 0 0
Kessler, Cody QB CLE 0.00 0 0 0.0 0 0 0

Att - Rushes, Yards - Rushing Yards, Avg - Yards per Carry, Lg - Longest
Run, TD - Rushing Touchdowns, RZAtt - Red Zone Rushing Attempts,
Yards - Rushing Yards, Avg - Yards per Carry, 3DAtt - Third Down
Rushing Attempts, 3DCnv - Third Downs Converted, Pct - Conversion
Percentage, FDRu - First Downs Rushing, 10+R - Runs of 10 Yards or
More, 100+ - 100-Yard Games.


Nobody rushed well. But we need to revisit this in the off season. I am going to put a pin in it.


Receiving -



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Receiving Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Targ Ctch Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/T YAC
Norwood, Jordan WR CLE 16 15 126 85 67.5 1057 12.44 8.39 406
Murray, Latavius RB CLE 16 10 110 85 77.3 690 8.12 6.27 303
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 16 11 105 70 66.7 834 11.91 7.94 277
DeValve, Seth TE CLE 16 8 86 61 70.9 630 10.33 7.33 108
Bernard, Giovani RB CLE 12 7 48 35 72.9 350 10.00 7.29 167
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 16 10 45 33 73.3 397 12.03 8.82 94
Cameron, Jordan TE CLE 11 5 23 21 91.3 190 9.05 8.26 35
Hurns, Allen WR CLE 16 5 25 17 68.0 229 13.47 9.16 43
Downs, Hardy TE CLE 15 0 17 11 64.7 200 18.18 11.76 81
Ramsey, Perry RB CLE 16 7 12 10 83.3 61 6.10 5.08 33
Louis, Ricardo WR CLE 16 2 3 2 66.7 22 11.00 7.33 5

Player Pos Team Lg TD Drp PPly TPct 20+C 100+
Norwood, Jordan WR CLE 43 4 3 578 21.8 20 3
Murray, Latavius RB CLE 44 8 3 389 28.3 6 1
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 75 7 7 576 18.2 9 3
DeValve, Seth TE CLE 33 4 2 534 16.1 5 0
Bernard, Giovani RB CLE 33 2 1 238 20.2 6 0
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 31 1 2 368 12.2 3 0
Cameron, Jordan TE CLE 26 4 1 193 11.9 2 0
Hurns, Allen WR CLE 37 1 1 73 34.2 4 0
Downs, Hardy TE CLE 53 0 0 119 14.3 3 1
Ramsey, Perry RB CLE 16 3 0 125 9.6 0 0
Louis, Ricardo WR CLE 16 0 0 54 5.6 0 0

Targ - Targeted with Pass, Ctch - Receptions, Pct - Reception Percentage,
Yards - Receiving Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Catch, Avg/T - Yards per
Target, YAC - Yards Gained After Catch, Lg - Longest Reception,
TD - Receiving Touchdowns, Drp - Passes Dropped, PPly - Passing Plays
on Field, TPct - Percentage of Passing Plays Targeted, 20+C - Catches
of 20 Yards or More, 100+ - 100-Yard Games.



the good news here is that the introduction of L Murray helped in receiving. 690 yard receiving is no joke. Norwood just clocked 1000+ yards, and no one had that many TDs.


Blocking -



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Blocking Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS KRB KRO BPct Pnck SkA PPly SPct
Jerry, John G CLE 16 16 33 97 34.0 2 13 652 2.0
Thomas, Joe T CLE 16 16 20 71 28.2 1 5 622 0.8
Coleman, Shon T CLE 13 13 20 58 34.5 0 4 495 0.8
Bitonio, Joel G CLE 16 16 18 84 21.4 2 13 652 2.0
West, Vernon G CLE 10 10 11 33 33.3 0 2 426 0.5
Graham, Andrew C CLE 6 6 10 27 37.0 1 5 202 2.5
Stine, Rodolfo T CLE 14 3 3 15 20.0 0 5 187 2.7
DeValve, Seth TE CLE 16 8 2 6 33.3 0 0 534 0.0
Downs, Hardy TE CLE 15 0 2 5 40.0 0 0 119 0.0
Hickman, Bryson G CLE 2 0 1 3 33.3 0 0 0 0.0
Tatum, Harrison C CLE 3 0 1 9 11.1 0 1 24 4.2
Cameron, Jordan TE CLE 11 5 0 2 0.0 0 0 193 0.0
Drango, Spencer G CLE 2 0 0 7 0.0 0 0 0 0.0
Albertini, Bennett TE CLE 6 0 0 1 0.0 0 0 13 0.0


Jerry had a very respectful year in KRB, but sucked for sacks allowed. Compare to a Shon Coleman or Joe Thomas who kept sacks to a minimum. Jerry was 7th i
most KRB by a OG.


KR Hurns has a KR RET TD, and the 3rd best KR Average. Just 15 special teams tackles and 1 FF though

K Redman was 31 of 37 and 47/47 PAT

O Emerson 83 punts, 48.1 avh, 39.2 net. 6th best punt average in league, 8th best net



Defense:





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Defensive Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Tckl Asst Sack Blkd Hurr QBKd
Banda, Robert ILB CLE 16 8 80 20 3.5 1 3 0
Wilcox, J.J. S CLE 16 16 78 30 0.0 0 0 0
Kirksey, Chris ILB CLE 12 12 76 20 1.5 0 1 0
Harrison, Antoine CB CLE 13 13 68 14 0.0 0 0 0
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 16 16 53 10 0.5 0 0 0
Stanton, Julio DE CLE 16 16 52 23 23.5 7 22 29
Ogbah, Emmanuel OLB CLE 12 10 48 16 3.5 1 2 3
Orchard, Nate OLB CLE 16 5 43 8 3.0 0 0 0
Kindred, Derrick S CLE 13 13 41 11 0.0 0 0 0
Haden, Joe CB CLE 16 12 36 15 0.0 0 0 0
Logan, Bennie DT CLE 13 13 33 12 8.0 1 9 12
Horner, Joey DE CLE 13 13 30 9 9.5 2 15 16
Wright, Gabe DT CLE 16 11 24 11 1.0 1 0 0
Carroll, Nolan CB CLE 16 3 21 5 1.0 1 1 0
Shelton, Danny DT CLE 16 5 14 7 0.0 2 5 1
Reynolds, Ed S CLE 13 4 12 3 0.0 0 0 0
West, Terry OLB CLE 2 0 8 1 0.0 0 0 0
Murray, Latavius RB CLE 16 10 4 0 0.0 0 0 0
Campbell, Ibraheim S CLE 9 0 4 1 0.0 0 0 0
Dunn, Michael DE CLE 12 0 4 1 1.5 0 1 0
Norwood, Jordan WR CLE 16 15 3 0 0.0 0 0 0
Peters, Corey DT CLE 3 3 3 2 0.5 1 0 0
Bernard, Giovani RB CLE 12 7 3 0 0.0 0 0 0
Cooper, Xavier DE CLE 7 3 2 1 0.0 0 0 0
DeValve, Seth TE CLE 16 8 2 0 0.0 0 0 0
Cameron, Jordan TE CLE 11 5 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 16 11 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Jerry, John G CLE 16 16 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
West, Vernon G CLE 10 10 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Turnbull, Jeffery CB CLE 16 0 1 0 0.0 0 0 0




Stanton's massive 23.5 sack year is there too. Horner had 9.5 sacks in 13 games. A 12 sack season in 16 would have been 9th best in the league. I'm very okay with these two sackmasters. The QB must go down, and he must go down hard. We had a lot of injuries, so it's hard to bee too judge-y. But I like the contributions here by DT Bennie Logan and his 8 sacks from the DT spot in just 13 games, but Shelton was All Pro two years ago and has dropped his game


C0verage:



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Pass Coverage Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Ints IRYd TD Defn Cght PPly PDPct
Haden, Joe CB CLE 16 12 6 25 1 9 30 427 85.2
Wilcox, J.J. S CLE 16 16 4 43 0 7 32 582 81.6
Kindred, Derrick S CLE 13 13 2 28 0 7 22 449 82.0
Banda, Robert ILB CLE 16 8 2 4 0 9 43 447 76.7
Harrison, Antoine CB CLE 13 13 2 21 0 10 43 466 77.5
Orchard, Nate OLB CLE 16 5 1 25 0 4 20 212 76.8
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 16 16 1 0 0 7 41 587 76.9
Carroll, Nolan CB CLE 16 3 0 0 0 2 13 228 77.0
Peters, Corey DT CLE 3 3 0 0 0 1 0 78 85.5
Logan, Bennie DT CLE 13 13 0 0 0 0 1 444 82.3
Kirksey, Chris ILB CLE 12 12 0 0 0 4 27 331 74.5
Campbell, Ibraheim S CLE 9 0 0 0 0 0 2 41 76.0
Cooper, Xavier DE CLE 7 3 0 0 0 0 1 79 80.9
Reynolds, Ed S CLE 13 4 0 0 0 2 9 153 77.8
Shelton, Danny DT CLE 16 5 0 0 0 0 4 354 81.0
Wright, Gabe DT CLE 16 11 0 0 0 0 3 293 81.2
Ogbah, Emmanuel OLB CLE 12 10 0 0 0 5 24 306 75.9
Schobert, Joe OLB CLE 6 0 0 0 0 1 1 15 89.1
Horner, Joey DE CLE 13 13 0 0 0 1 8 496 80.9
Stanton, Julio DE CLE 16 16 0 0 0 0 2 589 82.1
West, Terry OLB CLE 2 0 0 0 0 1 5 25 65.3

Ints - Interceptions, IRYd - Interception Return Yardage, TD - Interception
Return Touchdowns, Cght - Passes Caught by Covered Receiver, Defn - Passes
Defensed, PPly - Passing Plays on Field, PDPct - Pass Defense Percentage. 


Joe Haden lead our team with 6 picsk, and was tied with 5 other people for most picks on the season. Good job Haden! He played so much better in the nickel. SS Wilcox again wth a solid year. CB Harrison had 10 pass defensed but just 13 games paying for us, and i wis h Schmidtke did a little better, but overall we were fine here. Check out Banda for 9 pasdef, second best on team, and 2 picks

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards!

Offensive MVP - QB Arledge - He led the league i a bunch of very pertinent stats. You can't but respect his game. Good job!

Defensive MVP - DE Julio Stanton. Duh

Special Teams MVP - P Emerson - Although no All Pro nods, the field position of quality he gives really helps make him a weapon


Rookie of the Year - Hmmm...OG Vernon West. Due to injuries at various positions, started at OG, C and OT for us. And despite his youth, and a sack plagued year, just had 2 sacks allowed, and a respectable 11 KRB. Thanks!


Heart Award - TE Seth DeValve. This is exactly what the heart award is for. Here is this mid round guy from Princeton, buried on teh depth chart, just a 38 ranking or so, and he gets 4 TDs ad 630 yards this year. He had more pass yards, by far, than the Cameron above him. he had tje 14th most receiving yards for TEs as a backup!

Thanks to all of my peops!

[Abe Sargent]

I did not expect this dynasty to be this successful this quickly. I'm surprised. I figure around year 3-4 I would have built up my roster, brought in a UFA qb and made that my first attempt at a Graham after my roster was already 10 wins. But it went fast

[Abe Sargent]

End of Season Score –

90 Team Performance
74 Value
85 Profit
30 Roster

80 year end score

Major retirees:

Joe is still playing for us. Both of them!

QB Palmer, Elie the Lesser, Alex Smith, Ryan Fitz
TE Olsen, Graham

G Evans, Incognito, Lang, etc

DE Mario Williams, DT Ngata,

Among many others

86.4% team attendance, we made a healthy 87 mill

We have very poor parking in the stadium (I’ve watched NFL games there, yay you do Cleveland) so I submit a plan to update parking, 35 mill, we pay 50%.

Staff Draft –

I choose 15th


There a DC a lot of folks are touting as the next great head coach, he’s available for my pick, but I genuinely like my guys bars and strengths better. I make no changes to my staff

Should I be franchising any of my free agents? They are QB Chase Daniel, Allen Hurns, DE Xavier Cooper, NT Gabe Wright, SS Ibrahim Campbell and LB Nate Orchard

Nah, I like Orchard and Copper, both 51 rated backups. But It’s let to let them head off

[Abe Sargent]

Free Agency Time!!!


Like normal, we don’t have a lot of talent out there in FA land. This is not uncommon in FOF, as teams keep their talent better the longer the game goes. I only see 5 players in the 60+ range = K Bell, SE Matthews, SE Kearse, P Carr, and NT Cox. I don’t need any of those. Save maybe SE Matthews.

Any major busts or stuff I need to be aware of for my roster? Nah, Norwood, Lynch and Hawkins are 58, 54, 58. C Graham 58, 73 for Thomas and Bitonio, etc. OG Vernon West I drafted last year is 57/60 already. He may push OG Jerry out of the starter role. Jerry was a patch and is 32 years old, so that’s fine by me. I need to figure out Shelton long term. McGee came back from injury and is still 73/73 rated, so he looks good. Right now I have a DT problem for the future, but I could see moving from Shelton to McGee and Logan.

I sign a few RFas:

RB Perry Ramsay, now 48/50. Still keep growing a little here and there.
DE Michael Dunn, 53/53 backup DE, 3 year deal for serious cash (2 mill a year)
SLB Terry West for another year
RCB Jeffery Turnbull for another year

I am currently 24 mill under the cap

Players in the last year of their deal of note

OT Joe Thomas
CB Joe Haden
CB Nolan Carroll
WR Hawkins
WR Norwood
RG Jerry
RB Bernard

Now these next are in the last year of their rookie deals, and this will need a bigger cap hit to retain

OT Shon Coleman
TE Seth DeValve
FS Derrick Kindred
SE Ricardo Louis
SKB Emmanuel Ogbah
WLB Joe Schobert

Haden might have faded a bit, but he still had a good season ,and is just 29. I can extend him, and drop his cap hit by 5 mill this year in doing so. I do. I like him as a Nickelback. He did a great job, and having the trifecta of Haden and my two youngers was strong last year


I will let CB Carroll head off

SE Norwood is 58/58, 10th year, 32 years old. He already dropped a bit. He wants double his current salary to extend his deal. No. Sorry. But no.

FL Andrew Hawkins, 58, 32, will have a 300k increase to keep for another year at 6 mill. Now that is something to think about. Also, I may want to wait until camp to resign these guys, in case they fade

OG John Jerry can finish his term and head out. Thanks!

I extend RB Bernard by a year and drop his salary in doing so, he is now making 2..5 mill this year and next.

Do I like Ogbah enough as my WLB to keep him in that role moving forward? He wants 18 mill for three years. Signing him to a long term deal, knowing I will be doing the same for Banda soon means I have no place to draft a groom good LB. But I do like hi in this role. 91 pass rush tech, 87 pass rush strength, 100 hitter – he is made to rush. WLB is agood place for him to do so. He’s had 12.5 sacs in 3 years, not a bad number.

Let’s hold off on that financial decision right now, see where my cap is

DeValve was very successful my my backup TE role, so I extend him for 3 more years and 1.5 to 2 mill a year. WR Louis has been buried on my depth chart, but is a solid 51/51 guy. But I don’t ee a lane in, like special teams or returns that Hurns had that made him so desirable to pick up. He wants real money lie k 9 mill in 3 years money. Sorry Louis.

So what do I need this year? I have 47 players on my roster right now signed:

This is Cody Kessler’s last year. Trade bait? Nah

Some folks are interested in SLB Schobert and DT Shelton (3rd and 4th from Atlanta), W R Louis with the Colts (4th)

I extend Shon Coleman. I don’t want to have to find Joe Thomas’s replacement while also worrying about the other OT as well. 4 years, 24 mill.

Kindred wants 4 years, 18 mill.. In the 13 games he started last year, he had 2 picks and 7 pasdef, which is not bad. Not what I want long term.


FA Time

[Abe Sargent]

FA Time


64/64 SE Matthews wants a ton of cash – 60 mill, 5 years cash.

What do I need? A lights out RB, lights out TE, lights out WR, future replacement for Thomas, depth at LB, depth at DT if I move Shelton or McGee, KR or PR. Lights out FS, Depth

I can’t resign Ogbah, Kindred both

Replacement at WR for Norwood.

Well, I can cut CB Carroll if I wanted to. That would free up 6 mill But I have another plan for that cash, sign QB Arledge to his first long term deal

I make a vet min offer for QB Daniel for two years

Huh. I fund him. Undrafted WR Cooper Fisher, 2nd year, not sign with any year last year. It’s hard to find someone who is good at both KR and PR, especially at this level, I make him an offer. 74/93 kr and 42/70 pr

58/58 Melvin Gordon is too pricey. I feel like L Murrary is good enough to stay as a 3rd down back, but I need a rock carrier. Gordon is scat back too. 96 breakaway, 90 3rd down, 76 speed to outside, 100 blitz pickup, etc. But he is horrible catching. He wants almost 40 mill for 4 years. Nah. Maybe Ramsey will keep growing?

There’s just no talent out there where the price meets my need, or where I’m willing to spend but no talent. My backups are among the best players in FA – DE Xooper is the 13th best player on the Grey Sheet, and DT Wright 28 and LB Orchard 41st.

I want to make an offer to bring back Xavier Cooper then, he’s cheap. But he’d be the 4th guy on my team, is better as a 3-4, and that would lock me to having pro contracts for all four DEs, leaving my no room to draft and groom later.

I end the first stage to see if any of the players I would like at WR or RB would want a cheaper deal.

Week 4 – RB Gordon signed for serious cash. SE Matthews for serious cash.

Let’s look at the draft

We pick 32nd

I interview the top four RB, none are that strong. I’d might make a play and move up if the right person was there. We have three stud CBs, 2 stud S, 3 stud middle lB, the weakest D Line in living memory, 4 compelling OT, 1 stud C, no stud WRs, but a handful of good ones, interview a bunch of WR, S, and others I think would be there around 1.32. There is a 9th rated WR on the board, but with great scores – fastest dash, red agility and solecismic scores, and I interview him but overrated. Ah well, I thought he might be someone to grab and grow, maybe. I also like 5th place Tony Tate, 3 reds, 2 blues, and as scouted interview. I could see taking Tate at 1.32.

TE Otis Crackel may be a sleeper 0 3 reds, 2 blockers, but 4.7 rating

Week 5 – DE Cooper signs with Miami. Matthews for a ton of cash

Week 8 – Daniel sings

Week 10 - We sign WR Fisher

[Abe Sargent]

The 2019 NFL Amateur Draft

The first player off the board is OT Oscar Grueneich to Jacksonville

Our pick arrives and the Panthers snagged Tony Tate the 1.31 pick. Grrr!

There are two players on the board that I like. SS Bumgarner, who was not at the combine (I find those are often undervalued by the AI so I like to scout them), came in underrated, the smartest person in the draft, low volatility. I could grab him, develop him for a year, and then let him head off and replace either Wilcox or my current FS if it works out.

The other is one of the top WRs in the draft, SE Wright? I did not expect him to fall, so I didn’t interview him. I thought Tate would fall instead. Well, I was off by one. Great bars. If I’m not keeping Norwood beyond this year, and that looks likely, and Hawkins is 32 and who knows with him, then grabbing Wright here makes sense. I have to grab on luck though, without targeting the player.

1st round pick, 1.32 SE Dustin Wright, Penn state

Our 2nd round pick arrives and I take a look around.

Wow, are you kidding me? The best FB on the board, who looks like a legit player is there. The top OT on the board has sick bars. And There is a great, high bar RB there too. The best FB on the board, FB Ralph Schuster or RT Cesar Howard or RB Deon Camp


I offer trade to the redskins, at 3.4. I send them Danny Shelton for their 3rd this year and 5th next. Hopefully I can lock down one of these players there.


I take FB Schuster

The next four picks are RB, OG, GB, and OG. So my guy likely would have gone before I picked again

Both OT and RB are there. I grab the OT. He’s the top player on the board, and I don’t see him going too much further.

I’m not sure RB Deon Camp makes it to 3.32, Camp has a 5.3 rating, great bars, he is very, very slow. But he great receiving back, great returner, and looks sexy as all get out with power inside and hole recognition. No speed, no elusiveness, no speed to the outside.

What about OLB Daryl Moore?

Alright let’s move. If he were faster, but les catch-y, ;d trade up for Camp. But I just don’t feel it enough to make the sacrifice

He heads to Tampa at 81

End of round three – who do I like? Who fell? I grab SLB Jordan Garcia, from Boise State. He has two reds, two blows, and doesn’t suck

4th? RB Hugh Grudisch, 5 blue scores , may be worth the flyer

5th? TE Donny Bennett is fine

6th? FS Lincoln Baxter is a flyer. Fast – 4.33 dash, four blues.

7th? CB Rodolfo Clifford looks like a grower, 1 red, three blues – fast, agile, spec and smart, has a 5.2 grade, so this is not a bad place either.

We have an A draft evaluation


The 2019 Cleveland Draft –

1st – Wr Dustin Wright, Penn State
2nd- FB Ralph Schuster, Okalhoma State
3rd – OT Cesar Howard, Texas
3rd – OLB Jordan Garcia, Boise State
4th – RB Hugh Grudich, Georgia Tech
5th – TE Donny Bennett, Washington State
6th - FS Lincoln Baxter, Michigan State
7th – CB Rodolfo Clifford, Sacred Heart (Conn)

Howard is the 6th OT on the green page, but he is one the green page. 11 OTs are on the GP.

I may have gotten him so deep because everyone else got a great Ot too.

Early results:

Howard – 22/71
Schuster 41/68
Wright, 38/67
Garcia 24/51
Clifford 20/42
Baxter 20/37
Bennett 15/37
Grudich 23/33

Well, we can home Grudhisch, Clifford, Baxter, ,Garcia, grow!

But given where we picked, I think we did fine. We got a 38/67 WR at 1.32, and a 41/68 FB at the end of 2. Then I traded for Howard, who is clear winner. Hopefully!

Our stadium vote passes!

[Abe Sargent]

Arledge holds out, and I agree. I sign him to 55 mill, 5 years.

I have 56 players under contract. Anyone I want to make an offer too? 13 UFAs. Many looklike, some rare just bodies for camp, lik FB Tim Sipe and QB Lukas Upshaw

Week 2 – 6 of my UFAs sign.

Week 3 – 4 more join us

I need depth and offer DT Rex Raymond a 4three year 3.3 mill dealt to be my backup

Week 4 – Everybody finishes signed for me.

[Abe Sargent]

Camp TIME!!!


I have 69 players on my roster, so I cut:

UFA C Francis – I signed two, one came back 22/60,sso I’m keeping that UFA for now
UFA LT Enrique Dunn
UFA QB Lukas Upshaw
UFA FB Tim Sipe

I trade backup OT Stine for 5th rounder to the Cardinals in 20201. I have too many OTs. I Have 5 ghreat OGs – the worst is 46/46 Drango. The Packers pick him up for their 4th in 2021. I trade LB Joe Schobert to the Skins for their 4th rounder in 2022

I cut CB Nolan Carroll, and I extend FS Derrick Kindred to a 18 mill, 4 year deal. I cut CB Tre Doucette,

I extend QB Kessler by a year, Joe Thomas by a year, and FL Hawkins by a year.

I extend OLB Ogbah.








We go 30-10 over the Seahawks, 30-24 over the Pack, 38-15 over Rams, and 26-23 iver Vikings – 4-0 preseason!


Post preseason, I cut:

C Tatum
TE Donny Bennett
RB Grudich

Some UFAs at various places




CB Haden faded 10 points, Norwood busted to 49/49. I cut him,

Post camp, Lincoln Baxter moved to 28/53, and CB Rodolfo to 26/45

[Abe Sargent]

Roster:






Front Office Football Eight
Cleveland Browns Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Kessler, Cody 106 QB 4 37 47 2 yrs.
Arledge, Brendan 114 QB QB 4 35 35 5 yrs.
##Daniel, Chase 105 QB 11 14 14 2 yrs.
Murray, Latavius 220 RB 7 53 53 2 yrs.
Ramsey, Perry 226 RB RB 2 51 51 2 yrs.
##Wheeler, Hayden 227 RB 1 37 37 1 yr.
Bernard, Giovani 232 RB 7 36 36 2 yrs.
Schuster, Ralph 331 FB FB 1 45 56 4 yrs.
Cameron, Jordan 485 TE 9 51 51 2 yrs.
Downs, Hardy 448 TE TE 2 40 47 3 yrs.
DeValve, Seth 487 TE 4 38 38 4 yrs.
##Ellis, Myles 482 TE 1 15 35 1 yr.
Hawkins, Andrew 516 FL SE 9 57 57 2 yrs.
Lynch, Gabriel 513 FL 3 54 54 2 yrs.
Fisher, Cooper 581 FL 2 22 34 3 yrs.
Wright, Dustin 512 SE FL 1 41 61 4 yrs.
Louis, Ricardo 580 SE 4 50 50 1 yr.
Graham, Andrew 679 C 4 58 58 4 yrs.
Rivers, Juan 654 C C 1 24 52 1 yr.
Bitonio, Joel 775 RG LG 6 72 72 3 yrs.
West, Vernon 760 RG RG 2 61 61 3 yrs.
Hickman, Bryson 763 RG 4 61 61 1 yr.
Jerry, John 769 RG 9 58 58 1 yr.
Thomas, Joe 873 LT LT 13 61 61 2 yrs.
##Ellison, Earnest 868 LT 2 27 44 3 yrs.
Coleman, Shon 872 RT RT 4 67 67 4 yrs.
Howard, Cesar 877 RT 1 27 60 4 yrs.
Emerson, Rob 915 P 4 71 71 3 yrs.
Raymond, Zach 1001K 4 49 49 2 yrs.
Stanton, Julio 1199RDE LDE 3 87 87 2 yrs.
Horner, Joey 1193RDE RDE 4 63 63 3 yrs.
Dunn, Michael 1178RDE 4 53 53 3 yrs.
McGee, Stacy 1298LDT LDT 7 73 73 2 yrs.
Logan, Bennie 1271LDT RDT 7 68 68 3 yrs.
Raymond, Rex 1292RDT 4 47 47 3 yrs.
##Peters, Corey 1276NT 10 30 30 1 yr.
Kirksey, Chris 1358WILB MLB 6 71 71 2 yrs.
Banda, Robert 1395MLB SLB 3 74 74 2 yrs.
McKnight, Devon 1394MLB 1 34 42 1 yr.
Ogbah, Emmanuel 1490SLB WLB 4 61 61 3 yrs.
West, Terry 1450SLB 2 44 56 1 yr.
Garcia, Jordan 1491SLB 1 30 56 4 yrs.
Harrison, Antoine 1538LCB LCB 3 62 62 2 yrs.
Haden, Joe 1523LCB 10 52 52 3 yrs.
Clifford, Rodolfo 1537LCB 1 27 45 4 yrs.
Schmidtke, Cooper 1549RCB RCB 3 65 65 2 yrs.
Turnbull, Jeffery 1546RCB 2 45 45 1 yr.
##Barrington, Lucas 1542RCB 1 24 41 1 yr.
Wilcox, J.J. 1647SS SS 7 60 60 2 yrs.
Kindred, Derrick 1630FS FS 4 58 58 4 yrs.
Baxter, Lincoln 1628FS 1 28 53 4 yrs.
##Reynolds, Ed 1639FS 5 47 47 1 yr.
Newsome, Bo 659 LS 4 17 17 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $171,500,000
Cap Room: $15,290,000
Maximum for New Player: $15,790,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $5,140,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $3,320,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $156,460,000

[Abe Sargent]

FOrget that. I cut K Zach Raymond for K Matt Prater off FA.

Alright now my team is set

As you can see, I have an epic amount of talent at OG.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 – We host the Ravens and lost 34-27. We won’t start this season out undefeated. Arledge was 25 of 34, 298 and 3:0. In his first game, Wright has 10 catches, 80 yards, and 3 scores. Hawkins adds 102 yards. Ramsey is 19 for 81 on the ground. Pick by Cooper Schmidtke, and a FF as well which h CB Harrison recovered.

Week 2 – We beat the 49ers 38-30. Ramsey had 26 for 125 and a score, L Murray another score, Arledge is 23 of 34 for 293 and 3:1, and TE Cameron has 85 yards a score, and Destin Wright another 2 scores.

Week 3 – We beat the Broncs 27-9. Game MVP is Stanton with 2.5 sacks, FF. Arledge is 24 of 39 for 311 and 3:2. WR Wright has a score, Hawkins 133 yards, and both RB Murrary and Ramsey with TD Catches. Ramsey adds 29 carries for 113 yards. C Harrison with a pick.

Week 4 – Vs Buffalo – 42-15 0 Game MVP Pery Ramsey, 26 for 115, 3 rush scores, 1 score for RB Gio Bernard spelling hi, 18 of 27, 212, and 2:! For Arledge, and he this Dawkins and TE Hardy Downs for scores 2 picks by Schmidtke.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 5 – We host and beat Pittsburgh 26-12; Arledge is Game MVP wit 29 of 42, 291 and 2:0. Ramsey sis 22 for 105 and a score. WR Dustin Wright has 133 yards, Hawkins and WR Louis have scores, pick by Banda, 2 sacks by Horner.

A few injuries as the result of the game, and I massage y depth chart to accommodate. Minor ones.

Week 6 – We head to take on the 4-1 Dolphins. We beat them 30-7. Arlegde was MVP with 227 of 43, 328, 1:0. Ramsey has 27 carries, 164 yards, 1 TD, and L Murrary a score on the ground too. Wrigth 146 yards and Kirksey a pick.

A couple of major injuries:

Joe Haden is out with an injured elbow. JJ Wilcox is out for 2 months. I start S Ed Reynolds for Wilcox while they are out. And FS Willcox and CB Turnbull will act as Nickelback at times

Week 7 – We shut out the Jets 30-0. Arlede is MVP 24 of 43, 258, 2:0. Wright with a score, and WR Lunch the other. Ramsey adds 112 yards on 28 carries and L Murrary a rushing score. Picks by Kindred and Lincoln Baxter.

Week 8 – We defeat the Pats 40-25. Ramsey 162 yards, 1 score and 67 yards by L Murray. Arledge is 27 of 42, 329, 3:0. Wright with 99 yards and a score, Lunch and Hawkins with scores too.

We are 7-1 at the halfway point.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 9 – We edge the Ravens and get revenge for the first week. Ramsey 79 yards and as core. Arledge was 15 of 27, 181, 1:0 and a rush score. Wright the receiver. Picks by Kindred, Harrison and one picks and returned for a score 90 yards later by Schmidtke. Stanton is MVP with 2 sacks 1 FF that Banda recovered.


CB Joe Haden is back from injury

Week 10 – BYE

Week 11 -We head to Cincinnati for a game with the 7-2 Bengals. Well., now 8-2, they beat us 30-27. Ramsey was 17 for 81 and 1 score. Arledge was 27 for 41, 268, and 2:0, Wright caught the 2 scores. Kirksey and Ogbah with picks. 2 sacks by Horner.


Week 12 – We lose to the 5 win Rams. 33-20. Ramsey 20 for 83, Arledge was 31 of 47, 309 yards, and 2:1. Wright had 163 yards, Hawkins and Ramsey with TD Catches, Banda with a pick, 1.5 sacks.

Wilcox is back from injury. RG West Questionable, and Long Snapper Bo Newsome is questionable too with a concussion.

Week 13 – We head to 8 win Tennessee and…beat the Titans 47-38. Arledte is MVP with 25 of 36, 303 yards, 2:1/ Lynch and Louis with catches, Wright with 106 yards, and Alrge and Murrary rushed for scores, as they shut down Ramsey and held him to 42 yards. Schmidtke with 2 picks, 1 returned for a scores was NFL Defensive Player of the Week. Harrison a pick as well.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 14 – We head to Seattle and….win 31-14. Horenr is Game MVp with 3.5 sacks, pick by Wilcox. TD catch by Hawkins. Ramsey with 28 carries, 109 yard, and 3 scores. Arledge was 14 of 19, 218, and 1:0


Week 15 – We beat the Bengals 20-0. Ramsey with 22 for 107 and a score, Arledge is 21 of 30 for 179 and 1:1, hits Hawkins for a score. Picks by Harrison and Schmidtke. 2.5 sacks by Horner, 1.5 by Stanton.


Once again Joe Haden is out for a few weeks

Week 16 – We beat Arizona 30-3. Arledge is 25 of 42, 244, and 3:0 and hits Wright 2 scores. Ramsey catches te other, and has 13 rushing yards. Pick by Banda, 2 sacks by DT Bennie Logan.

LB Kirksey is doubtful for a few weeks I bench him

Week 17 – We win 34-17. Arledge is MVP with 23 of 29, 270 and 1:1. Ramsey 87 yard, Wright 126 yards, Lynch with a score.

We are 13-3 and in the top seed. By three games over #2 at 10-6. No other AFC team has more than 9 wins

[Abe Sargent]

The 2019 NFL Playoffs



Wild Card Weekend:


The Bengals head to Oakland
The Dolphins to Buffalo

The giants to the Vikings
The 49ers to the Cowboys

All four wild card away teams are favored! But all home teams win. Fin.



Week 2, Divisional Playoff Weekend:

Buffalo is heading to Tennessee.
Oakland is head to us, here at Cleveland where we are favored by TWELVE points

Dallas to LA and Minnesota to Atlanta


We barely cove the spread 17-3. Arledge is Game MVP with 30 of 35, 321, 2:0 and hits Wright for 118 yards and 1 score, and Hawkins for another and Ramsey adds 78 on 21 carries.

Kirksey is back from injury.


In other news:

Tennessee shut down the Bills 19-0
LA over Dallas 31-16
Atlanta ovs Minnesota 31-9

[Abe Sargent]

The Conference Championships:

La vs Atlanta

And we host Tennessee!

We are favored by 10

And we lose 24-30. Ah well. It’s not to be, it’s not to be, Arledge was injured and finished the game questionable.

Arledge 35 f 45 for 314, 3:4 ratio. Ramsey had 99 yards on the ground,, Wright more than 100 yards and scores.

We lost again.

Atlanta over LA 26-7


The 2019-2020 Super Bowl!


Atlanta over Tennessee 21-14

[Abe Sargent]

Awards!

Get ready!

All League 1st Team – QB Brendan Arledge, WR Dustin Wright, DE Joey Horner, OT Shon Coleman,
All-League 2nd Team – DE Julio Stanton, C Andrew Graham

And we had one person who should have made who didn’t

That’s a lot of awards!

[Abe Sargent]

STATST!



Passing -



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Passing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Cmp Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/A Lg
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 16 575 378 65.7 4392 11.62 7.64 66

Player Pos Team TD Int 20+T 300+ Rating
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 32 8 72 5 101.4

Att - Attempts, Cmp - Completions, Pct - Completion Percentage,
Yards - Passing Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Completion, Ave/A - Yards per Attempt,
Lg - Longest Completion, TD - Passing Touchdowns, Int - Passes Intercepted,
20+T - Completions of 20 or More Yards, 300+ - 300-yard Games,
Rate - Quarterback Rating.


Arledge was 2nd most in pass yards behind Ben R, lowered his propensity for picks, had the most TD passes, 2nd best QB rating behind Matt Ryan.


Rushing


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Rushing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Yards Avg Lg TD RZAtt Yards
Ramsey, Perry RB CLE 16 15 378 1702 4.50 63 12 59 159
Murray, Latavius RB CLE 16 1 36 252 7.00 47 5 11 42
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 16 48 212 4.42 32 3 11 14
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 16 14 4 44 11.00 45 1 1 0
Bernard, Giovani RB CLE 3 0 6 22 3.67 20 1 3 19
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 16 16 5 21 4.20 10 0 0 0
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 3 9 15 1.67 6 0 2 1


Ramsey's 1702 yard season was great, and was 3rd most in the year, after Zeke at 2201 and a guy for the giants. He had the 4th most rushing tds in teh league as well



Receiving -



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Receiving Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Targ Ctch Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/T YAC
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 16 15 176 118 67.0 1312 11.12 7.45 553
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 16 16 100 68 68.0 813 11.96 8.13 382
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 16 14 74 48 64.9 590 12.29 7.97 198
Cameron, Jordan TE CLE 16 13 79 47 59.5 570 12.13 7.22 154
Downs, Hardy TE CLE 16 2 54 33 61.1 366 11.09 6.78 107
Ramsey, Perry RB CLE 16 15 41 29 70.7 268 9.24 6.54 135
Murray, Latavius RB CLE 16 1 21 16 76.2 196 12.25 9.33 98
Louis, Ricardo WR CLE 16 1 16 13 81.3 190 14.62 11.88 24
DeValve, Seth TE CLE 16 0 7 3 42.9 49 16.33 7.00 21
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 3 7 3 42.9 38 12.67 5.43 33

Player Pos Team Lg TD Drp PPly TPct 20+C 100+
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 66 13 9 553 31.8 20 5
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 36 6 5 610 16.4 13 2
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 49 4 3 378 19.6 11 0
Cameron, Jordan TE CLE 34 1 6 550 14.4 8 0
Downs, Hardy TE CLE 31 1 0 199 27.1 7 0
Ramsey, Perry RB CLE 33 3 1 415 9.9 4 0
Murray, Latavius RB CLE 36 2 1 166 12.7 2 0
Louis, Ricardo WR CLE 37 2 1 47 34.0 5 0
DeValve, Seth TE CLE 46 0 0 24 29.2 1 0
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 29 0 0 108 6.5 1 0

Targ - Targeted with Pass, Ctch - Receptions, Pct - Reception Percentage,
Yards - Receiving Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Catch, Avg/T - Yards per
Target, YAC - Yards Gained After Catch, Lg - Longest Reception,
TD - Receiving Touchdowns, Drp - Passes Dropped, PPly - Passing Plays
on Field, TPct - Percentage of Passing Plays Targeted, 20+C - Catches
of 20 Yards or More, 100+ - 100-Yard Games.


I was surprised that Wright was not Offensive rookie of the Year with that year. But the RB who one was Bell, with 1361 rushing yards, 6 rush score,s nad 722 receiver yards too. and 5 rec TDs. So I get it - 2000+ yards from scrimmage. Wright was 2nd in teh league in receiving yards, and led in catches. He was on fire. I don't have buyer's remorse with picking him instead of that really good safety!


No PR/KR scores.
K Prater was 33 for 38, and 57/57 PAT, long of 58
P Emerson, 73 punts, 48.0 avg, 38.9 net


Blocking!




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Blocking Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS KRB KRO BPct Pnck SkA PPly SPct
Bitonio, Joel G CLE 16 16 40 98 40.8 1 9 610 1.5
Graham, Andrew C CLE 16 16 39 105 37.1 4 8 610 1.3
Coleman, Shon T CLE 16 16 28 89 31.5 3 5 610 0.8
West, Vernon G CLE 16 16 19 63 30.2 0 5 610 0.8
Thomas, Joe T CLE 16 16 17 57 29.8 0 7 610 1.1
Cameron, Jordan TE CLE 16 13 3 4 75.0 0 0 550 0.0
DeValve, Seth TE CLE 16 0 3 6 50.0 1 0 24 0.0
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 3 3 13 23.1 2 0 108 0.0
Downs, Hardy TE CLE 16 2 1 1 100.0 0 0 199 0.0
Rivers, Juan C CLE 4 0 0 4 0.0 0 0 0 0.0



Joel had a bunch of RB, and was 4th in KRB among OGs. Graham was 2nd among Cs. Two All Pros here, good job!


Defense!!!




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Defensive Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Tckl Asst Sack Blkd Hurr QBKd
Banda, Robert ILB CLE 16 16 108 22 4.0 0 5 0
Kirksey, Chris ILB CLE 15 15 93 33 3.0 1 0 2
Kindred, Derrick S CLE 16 16 75 15 0.0 0 0 0
Harrison, Antoine CB CLE 15 15 69 12 0.0 0 3 0
Wilcox, J.J. S CLE 11 11 54 12 0.0 0 0 0
Horner, Joey DE CLE 16 16 49 12 16.5 4 18 17
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 16 16 48 11 0.0 0 0 0
McGee, Stacy DT CLE 16 16 46 18 6.0 3 9 5
Stanton, Julio DE CLE 16 16 41 16 15.0 2 27 26
Ogbah, Emmanuel OLB CLE 16 6 35 10 0.0 0 2 3
Logan, Bennie DT CLE 16 16 28 16 4.0 3 11 12
Baxter, Lincoln S CLE 16 6 20 6 0.0 0 0 0
Haden, Joe CB CLE 11 5 16 8 0.0 0 0 0
Reynolds, Ed S CLE 7 5 15 8 0.5 1 0 0
Turnbull, Jeffery CB CLE 16 0 9 0 0.0 0 0 0
Clifford, Rodolfo CB CLE 16 0 6 0 0.0 0 0 0
West, Terry OLB CLE 16 1 5 3 0.0 0 0 0
Dunn, Michael DE CLE 16 0 3 2 1.0 0 2 1
McKnight, Devon ILB CLE 16 0 3 1 0.0 0 0 0
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 16 16 2 0 0.0 0 0 0
Downs, Hardy TE CLE 16 2 2 0 0.0 0 0 0
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 16 15 2 0 0.0 0 0 0
Coleman, Shon T CLE 16 16 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 16 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Graham, Andrew C CLE 16 16 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Barrington, Lucas CB CLE 1 0 1 0 0.0 0 0 0


You can just see how nasty my D Line is. Horner was third in sacks, 1.5 off the leader at 18.0. Stanton was fith in sacks, and led the league in hurries. Banda has a good year too.


Coverage!!!




Front Office Football Eight
Pass Coverage Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Ints IRYd TD Defn Cght PPly PDPct
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 16 16 7 140 2 8 40 587 82.6
Harrison, Antoine CB CLE 15 15 4 21 0 8 48 573 78.2
Banda, Robert ILB CLE 16 16 3 0 0 9 50 593 77.4
Kirksey, Chris ILB CLE 15 15 2 7 0 3 46 502 73.7
Kindred, Derrick S CLE 16 16 2 0 0 4 43 601 76.2
Wilcox, J.J. S CLE 11 11 1 18 0 2 27 422 76.3
Ogbah, Emmanuel OLB CLE 16 6 1 0 0 5 23 232 76.6
Baxter, Lincoln S CLE 16 6 1 0 0 3 16 215 78.3
Haden, Joe CB CLE 11 5 0 0 0 4 14 236 78.7
Logan, Bennie DT CLE 16 16 0 0 0 0 5 616 81.5
McGee, Stacy DT CLE 16 16 0 0 0 0 4 616 81.7
Reynolds, Ed S CLE 7 5 0 0 0 2 6 193 80.9
Dunn, Michael DE CLE 16 0 0 0 0 0 2 80 79.2
Horner, Joey DE CLE 16 16 0 0 0 1 8 593 81.2
Stanton, Julio DE CLE 16 16 0 0 0 0 2 537 82.0
West, Terry OLB CLE 16 1 0 0 0 0 1 35 78.8
Turnbull, Jeffery CB CLE 16 0 0 0 0 1 5 52 74.3
Clifford, Rodolfo CB CLE 16 0 0 0 0 0 5 41 66.2
Barrington, Lucas CB CLE 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 50.0

Ints - Interceptions, IRYd - Interception Return Yardage, TD - Interception
Return Touchdowns, Cght - Passes Caught by Covered Receiver, Defn - Passes
Defensed, PPly - Passing Plays on Field, PDPct - Pass Defense Percentage.



Schmidtke was the league leader i picks, and in picks returned for scores. And yet was not All Pro. That's the rob I mentioned before. In fact, no other CB in the leader had more than 5 picks, the ones with 6 were safeties. Banda led my team in pas def, and was 3rd with 3 picks. Wilcox was injured, so that;s understandable, but Kindred took a step back with 2 picks and 4 pasdef. I expect more.

[Abe Sargent]

Season Awards;:


Offensive MVP - RB Perry Ramsey - I really like RB Perry Ramsey for this role. He was strong, and the first realyl strong season by a RB we had. In other seasons, they averaged around 4-1 yards, and it was the number of rushes that game them their stats. Not so with Ramsey, who was 4.50.

Defensive MVP - Robert Banda, he led the team in tackles, and had a bunch of picks, sacks, pasdef, and more. He proved it on teh field.

Special Teams MVP - K Prater - He kicked a 58 yard fFG, which is a ton longer than his predecessor could ever do - his longs were 51 or 52.

Rookie of the Year - WR Dustin Wright - Duh. All Pro in first year? Duh

Heart Award - FS Lincoln Baxter - late 6th round that had to step into Haden's shoes a bunch, had a pick, pasddef, and looked good.


Thanks!!!

[Abe Sargent]

the Otto Graham Challenge needs a lot of Super Bowl titles. Not making it does not help. But, getting your first All Pro is nice.

In teh meantime, it's weird how many top shelf players I have from lower places. Take DE Joey Horner, a 2 time All PRo, 1 time DePotY, and was an undrafted FA I picked up. C Andrew Graham just had an All Pro year, after I signed him as an undrafted FA and converted him from OG to OC. Both former WRs we had were undraftd - Norwood and Hawkins, and Hurns in two years as well - all undrafted. P Rob Emerson, All Pro, undrafted (although that one is not too uncommon). RB Perry Ramsey, undrafted.

[Abe Sargent]

End of Season –

Team Performance 90
Value 86
Profit 82
Roster 29

81 Score

Both Joes retire. Haden and Thomas. Both were first round draft picks by the Browns, both were solid players, both were in the top of their game, and both languished on bad tema after bad team. It’s nice for them to go out on a high note

Other major retirees:

QB Ben Roeth, Rivers, McCown
RB McCoy, Ingram
TE Kellen Davis,
WR LaFell
Tons o line retired

DE Cameron wake, Michael Bennet,
LB Brian Cashing, Paul Poz
Joe Haden, Brandon Flowers, Leon Hall, Darrelle Revis,


I give raises to my Coordinators and C

Staff Draft

I have an OC I like bars better than OC Matthews – but I’m not messing with success and switch to West Coast enthusiast. No coach changes

[Abe Sargent]

Here are my FAs that I have coming up:

K Matt Prater
NT Corey Peters
RG John Jerry
FS Ed Reynolds
RG Bryson Hickman
WR icardo Louis

Nope, we’re good. Hickman is the best of te lot. A UFA we built to 60, but he’s run blocking only, has 100 run blocking but 3 pass. I didn’t want that long term.



Free Agency Baby!!!


We are 30 mill under the cap. 24 mill space available. I have 38 players under contact

I am about to be the victim of my drafting success. Let me show you:

These draftees are in the final year of their initial contract.

CB Cooper Schmidtke, 65/65 CB, wants 49 mill over 5 years
CB Antoine Harrison, 62/62 CB, wants 25 mill over 4 years
FL Gabriel Lynch, 53/53 WR, wants 20 mill over 5 years
DE Julio Stanton, 86/86 DE, wants 105 mill over 5 years
MLB Robert Banda, 74/74 LB, wants 58 mill over 5 years

Also –
RB Perry Ramsey, wants 34 mill in 5 years


If I didn’t have a salary cap, I’d pay them all. But I do. Here’s some context on each:

DE Stanton is the best DE in the league. In fact, he’s the 9th best non-kicker in the league. He’s already been all pro twice. He was injured for all but 5 games his rookie year, and still has 40 sacks in 3 years. Stanton is the real deal. He’ll be a hall of Fame player. I don’t want him playing anywhere else. (Horner is 13th best in the league by stats).

I also have the 4th and 6th best DTs in the league.

At CB, Cooper Schmidtke is the 20th best, and Harrison is 27th. Not bad for a starting tandem.

Banda is the 3rd best Lb in the league at any positon, and Kirksey is 11th btw.

I want to keep Banda, Schmidtke, Harrison, and Stanton. But that’s not easy

Who is mission critical?

I extend DT Bennie Logan by a year, and drop his cap hit to 11 mill this year


Others players in the last year of their current contact:

SS Wilcox
TE Cameron
WR Hawkins
DT McGee
RB Latavius Murray
LB Kirksey

I can’t keep the show together. Now I can tag one next year, like Stanton. But I need to figure some of this stuff out now.

I extend Kirksey by 3 years.

Because of cheap ness, I extend CB Antoine Harrison first

I will let the older Wilcox and Cameron finish their deals. I would love to resign McGee despite him being out for a year and a half. But he wants real serious DT money, and I have him for a very cap friendly below-market deal.

I want to hold off on Ramsey. In fact, I am going to advance to show you a potential target.

86/86 RB David Johnson. He wants 61 mill over 4 years. Ramsey wants $33,360,000, 4 yrs. That’s a big cap difference. Especially as I look for my full time RB. But Ramsey is just 51/51. I have a few fears. Ramsey was great last year, but if I sign him to a big deal, and let others go, and he’s not able to replicate that success, we are in a bad place. Ramsey isn’t even in the top 30 RBs by current score. On the other hand, Johnson is the best back in the league. Last year he had a 5.2 ypc average, considerably better than Ramsey. He’s in his 6th year in the league. Had 5500 rushing yards in the last 4 years, and is a reliable bet. You get Johnson, and you are going to run over everyone.

But it is worth savaging my stellar defense for Johnson?

I extend DE Joey Horner by two more years, drop his salary cap hit by one million. I extend RB Ramsey and give him the big deal.

I extend LS Newsome for vet min salary for another year

I look at the draft. I want to hold off on resigning details until later. There’s the very underrated S Barret, 3rd best in the draft or very underrated CB Virata, also 3rd best CB in the draft out there. If one falls, I could grab them and build them into my replacement for that position for Wilcox or Sch… or such.

I would like to come away from FA with a good K. There are two good ones in FA. But we can hold off on it.

Week 2 – RB Johnson signed a deal for 90 mill. I wasn’t touching that.

Week 3 – My two high quality OGs, Jerry and Hickman sign for 40 mill, 5 years with Atlanta (Hickman) and Tennessee for 8 mill, 2 years.

Week 11 Prater signs. There’s one more good K out there

I sign K Mason Crosby for 8 mill, 3 years – 74/74 K

I make an offer to TE Clive Walford to come in and be my receivers leader and have some affinities. 52/52

Alright, draft time

[Abe Sargent]

The NFL 2020 Amateur Draft

We pick 30th

First player taken?

WR Tevin McCarthy, from Northern Arizona, heading to play for the Jets.

This is a very heavy LB draft, and I hope to get some talent there.

Here are the people I am hoping fall. IIt’s pick 1.20. I have TE Shea, who interviewed well, looks great, S Barret, CB Virari, and there is this absolute stud of a MLB still on the board, and came back underrated when we interviewed him. Total fox. Of that list, I like Shea and the CB/S the most, they are needs or opportunities. It is looking good

In order, I would like Shea, Varrett, Virari, and MLB Howerton. All four are at the top of their boards now. Howerton is the best player left in the draft by far, but LB is not a position of need right now for me But I would take him all day long.


1.20 – Seattle DE Torres
1.21 – Miami, S Barrett – that sucks. But there are other options out there
1.22 – 49ers – QB Dunn
1.23 – Bengals OT Gruden
1.24 – Dallas trades for this pick and grabs S Cobb

Pause. The remaining teams need MLB, CB, and TE in various places. We are 1.30. Will at least one these top players fall? I don’t think Howerton falls to us. The 2nd need of the team at 1.29 is middle lb. How could you pass that up with that need? I only have 5 picks from here to me, but I’m not feeling it – 3 teams need MLB, 3 need CB, and 1 needs TE. All are picking with the top player on the board in those three areas are my targets. Let’s slow roll this, because I would be willing to move up and target one.


1.25 – Oakland TE Shea – Uh oh
1.26 – Denver…..


Denver is up. CB is their top need. I don’t think the CB makes it past them. Do I feel strongly enough to trade and take CB on the board? Or do, There is no way MLB Howerton is falling to me. And I could trade for a stud of studs at MLB.

I make the trade. I send Denver my 2 5ths there year and 6th next to make the move

We are drafting 1.26

Here, let’s make this fun! I’ll take some pics for you:

Who do you take?

The MLB, who is amazing, but not at a positon of need, or the CB? Now I have starters at both spots. But I could grab the LB Freddies, and move someone else,or draft CB Freddie, and have him move into the CB spot later.

Who do you grab?


https://s22.postimg.org/g883dyf5d/Who_do_you_take.jpg



I am taking Virata. I just signed LB Kirksey to an extension. Perhaps I could have waited, and I could move folks around to supplement and remove Ogbah, sign Banda, and have Banda, Kirksey, and this guy as my three LBs. But I have two LBs in the 70-s. None of my d backs are that high. Virata is also at a position of more depth, and can immediately be my nickel back.

Also, Virata is 4 years younger…

Howerton went 1.28

2nd – FS Miles Tatum, - I like his great and strong bars. No combine scores though.

3rd – LB Scott Staat – Many good LBs are falling. I grab Staat.

4th – WR Zachery Stone – Has some great bars

How is ILB Vince Horton still on the board in round 5? That guy was one of the top ILBs We have him as scouted, and yet, here he is, still on the board. That makes no sense to me.

At pick 154, where the Bills need an ILB, I make a trade to dial myself back into the 5th round. I offer a future 5 for it. They take it (they are picking 5.26)

5th round - LB Vince Horton. I am taking him all day long

6th Round – DE Tyrone Walker - Depth

7th round – OG Duane Auguston – Depth



Amateur Draft Report:

Rnd 1 - Freddie Virata, CB, Mississippi State
Rnd 2 - Miles Tatum, S, Hawaii
Rnd 3 - Scott Staat, OLB, Texas A&M
Rnd 4 - Zachery Stone, WR, Mississippi
Rnd 5 - Vince Horton, ILB, Northwestern
Rnd 6 - Tyrone Walker, DE, Purdue
Rnd 7 - Duane Auguston, G, Howard

[Abe Sargent]

I get a trade offer from the Steeler for QB Kessler for their 6th. I accept.

Pre-camp, my rookies have:

35/71 – Horton
32/62 Virtata
26/62 Tatum
23/59 Stone
24/53 Staat
13/46 Auguston
17/35 Walker

We’ll see of any of that stands. Virata came back very underrated and as scouted for Horton.


I have 46 players under contract. I make offers to RB Malcom Stevens, C Bryce Gardner, OT Norbert Collier, OG Adrian walsh, DE Ajani Jefferson, NT Stewart Steven, RCB Josue Haider – all UFAs.

I make an offer to QB Brock Osweiler for vet min cash

SS Karl Joseph was not resigned and was let go as a RFA. He is 52/52, and 5th year as a pro. JJ Wilcox is in the final year of his deal, is 60/60, is 31, costs me 7 mill this year, and Joseph just wants 10 mill over 3 years, much better cap hit this year. I’m thinking of trying to bring in Joseph, and then moving Wilcox and if Joseph doesn’t work out after a year, I can try someone else.

I release GIo Bernard and make an offer for UFA Jace Stevison and RB Aaron Wolf, 5th year man, 50/50, cheap, and 92 in Punt Returns.

Week 2 – I bring in Osweiler and a few Ufaa.

Week 3 – I bring in Wolf and a bunch of UFAs

Week 4 – All of my targets join us. I try to shop Wilcox but there are no GMs interested, so I waive him. I offer a spot to UFA CB Junior Norton and he signs next week

[Abe Sargent]

CAMP!!!!!

I have enough money to chase some folks down. I extend Hawkins by a year I do not like where CB Virata is post Camp and fell to 38/56, so I want to extend CB Schmidtke, but 50 mill over 5 years is a major commitment. Make the deal.

What about Banda? I extend him too


We go 2-2 in the preseason

I cut:

Nt Stewart
C Bryce Gardner
RB Malcolm Stevens
CB Haider


Roster!!!




Front Office Football Eight
Cleveland Browns Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Arledge, Brendan 114 QB QB 5 35 35 4 yrs.
Osweiler, Brock 111 QB 9 23 23 1 yr.
##Daniel, Chase 105 QB 12 11 11 1 yr.
Murray, Latavius 220 RB RB 8 53 53 1 yr.
Ramsey, Perry 226 RB 3 51 51 4 yrs.
##Stevison, Jace 229 RB 1 37 51 1 yr.
Wolfe, Aaron 232 RB 4 49 49 2 yrs.
Schuster, Ralph 331 FB FB 2 63 67 3 yrs.
Cameron, Jordan 485 TE 10 47 47 1 yr.
Walford, Clive 443 TE TE 6 46 46 3 yrs.
Downs, Hardy 448 TE 3 45 45 2 yrs.
##DeValve, Seth 487 TE 5 38 38 3 yrs.
Hawkins, Andrew 516 FL SE 10 55 55 2 yrs.
Lynch, Gabriel 513 FL 4 54 54 1 yr.
Fisher, Cooper 581 FL 3 18 25 2 yrs.
Wright, Dustin 512 SE FL 2 59 61 3 yrs.
Stone, Zachery 584 SE 1 28 55 4 yrs.
Graham, Andrew 679 C 5 59 59 3 yrs.
Rivers, Juan 654 C C 2 31 51 2 yrs.
Auguston, Duane 770 LG 1 14 33 4 yrs.
Bitonio, Joel 775 RG LG 7 72 72 2 yrs.
West, Vernon 760 RG RG 3 65 65 2 yrs.
##Walsh, Adrian 767 RG 1 22 38 1 yr.
Ellison, Earnest 868 LT 3 29 43 2 yrs.
Collier, Norbert 865 LT 1 23 43 1 yr.
Coleman, Shon 872 RT RT 5 66 66 3 yrs.
Howard, Cesar 877 RT LT 2 37 60 3 yrs.
Emerson, Rob 915 P 5 72 72 2 yrs.
Crosby, Mason 1017K 14 70 70 3 yrs.
Jefferson, A'jani 1173LDE 1 24 43 1 yr.
##Walker, Tyrone 1174LDE 1 18 27 4 yrs.
Stanton, Julio 1199RDE LDE 4 85 85 1 yr.
Horner, Joey 1193RDE RDE 5 62 62 4 yrs.
Dunn, Michael 1178RDE 5 53 53 2 yrs.
Logan, Bennie 1271LDT RDT 8 66 66 3 yrs.
McGee, Stacy 1298LDT LDT 8 58 58 1 yr.
Raymond, Rex 1292RDT 5 38 38 2 yrs.
Kirksey, Chris 1358WILB 7 70 70 4 yrs.
Horton, Vince 1396WILB SLB 1 45 69 4 yrs.
Banda, Robert 1395MLB MLB 4 73 73 5 yrs.
Ogbah, Emmanuel 1490SLB 5 61 61 2 yrs.
##Garcia, Jordan 1491SLB 2 31 44 3 yrs.
Staat, Scott 1452SLB WLB 1 31 44 4 yrs.
Harrison, Antoine 1538LCB 4 61 61 4 yrs.
Clifford, Rodolfo 1537LCB LCB 2 41 45 3 yrs.
##Norton, Junior 1534LCB 1 20 29 1 yr.
Schmidtke, Cooper 1549RCB 4 65 65 5 yrs.
Virata, Freddie 1524RCB RCB 1 32 39 4 yrs.
Joseph, Karl 1636SS SS 5 54 54 3 yrs.
Kindred, Derrick 1630FS 5 59 59 3 yrs.
Tatum, Miles 1640FS 1 31 58 4 yrs.
Baxter, Lincoln 1628FS FS 2 48 54 3 yrs.
Newsome, Bo 659 LS 5 17 17 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $176,900,000
Cap Room: $5,010,000
Maximum for New Player: $5,520,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $13,080,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $162,000,000



This was not a good camp. My supposed star CB has dropped considerably. Now I got luck with LB Horton, you can see him doing well holding at 69 potential. But still….

If I had taken the ILB, here is what I would have had – 57/83. Just a house of a player/ Ah well. My other targets? TE Shea was 48/63. S Barrett? Just 43/59. It he could grow, I don’t know. But CB Virata busted to 32/39. That’s not right. You can see major ebbs and drops for both of my DTs, a little with Hawkins.

Good rookie results from….FS Miles I suppose not dropping or SE Stone a legit 3rd option a few years from now?

Sigh

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 – We beat the Bengals 31-7. Arledge was 21 of 32 for 289 and 3:2. He hit Lynch twice for scores, and WR Dustin Wright once. RB Ramsey si stymied for 53 yards Murray rushes for a score. Dt Bennie Logan has 2 sacks.

Week 2 – We barely beat Skins 17-14. NFL Defensive Player of the Week is Stanton with 3.5 sacks. Picks by Schmidtke and Kirksey, the Kirksey returned 63 yards for score. They shut down Ramsey – 56 yard and 1 score, and Arledge, 22 of 33 for 261 and 0:1. Sure, I’ll take any win, but I’d like a prettier win, thanks!

Dt McGee out with a concussion for a few weeks

Week 3 – We defeat the Raiders 27-14. Ramsey is 20 for 98 and 2 scores on the ground, Arlese 29 of 42, 335, and 1:1. Wright has 11 yards and score. Pick by Harrison, FF by schmidtke. 2 sacks by Stanton, 3 by DT Logan


Week 4 - We visit the winless Titans, and take them down 23-3. Areldge is MVP with 26 of 31, 278, 2:0. Wright and Hawkins with TD Grabs. Ramsey is 55 on the ground. Picks by S Tatum and Kirksey, and we had 11 sacks by 9 people with Kirksey and Stanton 2 sacks and Horner 2,5

4-0 at the quarter mark!!!

[Abe Sargent]

Banda injured for 5 weeks. He’ll be out. Let’s see what the rookie can do!

Week 5 – We defeat Jacksonville 31-24. Arledge is MOM with 28 of 41, 413, and 3:2. Wright with 110 yards and a score, Hawkins and Lynch the other scores. Ramsey 20 for 62, and Hawkins rushes for a score. 2.5 sacks by Stanton

Week 6 – We barely defeated Houston 31-26. Stanton is Game MVP with 3 sacks. Pcik by S Miles Tatum and pick and return for score by Cooper Schmidtke. Ramsey is 79 yards, 1 score, and Arledge 20 of 26, 197 and 2:0, hitting TE Walford and Wright for scores


Back is McGee from injury.

Week 7 – We host and beat the Ravens 14-13. Ramsey with 16 for 67, 1 sore, Arledge 17 of23, 114, 2 sacks for Horner. RB Wolfe hd a 80 yard PR RET For the go ahead score and won us te game


Week 8 – We host and defeat the 5-2 Colts 27-10. Arledge, MVP, 22 of 31, 190, 3:1. Wright, Ramsey and Lynch with TD catches. CB Harrison with a pick. DE Stanton.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 9 – We beat Pittsburgh 23-17. Ogbah is MOM with 2 sacks, 1 FF< 1 Fum Rec for a score; 2 picks by Kirksey, Arledge is 29 of 43 for 265 and 0:2, L Murray rushes for a score,

We are playing poorly, but winning.

Week 10 – We host the 2-7 bengals! We win 30-10. Arledge is MVP with 25 of 33, 313, and 2:1 – Hawkins with 120 and 2 scores, and Ramsey adds 76 and a score on the ground.

Banda is back from injury.

Week 11 – Bye

Week 12 - We beat the 7-3 Eagles 27-21. Arledge is 21 of 36, 175 and 0:1. Ramsey finally has a big game 138 yards and 2 scores on the ground, and L Murray 74 and another score.
C Graham is out for a month with a concussion – C Juan Rivers starts for him


Week 13 – We head to 8-3 Buffalo and bust them 38-3. Arledge, MOM, is 26 of 33, 348, and 3:0. Wright had 142 yard sna d receiving score, TE Walford and TE Hardy Downs with scores and Ramsey adds 114 yards and as ground score. Picks by Ogbah, returned for a score, and CB Schmidtke. 2 sacks by Horner.


12-0 heading into the final quarter!

[Abe Sargent]

Week 14 – We beat the Jets 37-31.. Arlede is MVP with 20 of 28, 260, 3:1 -scores to Hawkins, Lynch and Hawkins. Picks by Banda and Harrison, and Harrison returned his for a score. 2.5 sacsk for Horder, 11.5 for Kirksey.

Week 15 – We beat the 9-4 Steelers 37-16. Arledge is NFL Offensive Paley of the Wee k with 22 of 31, 300 yard, and 3:1. Ramsey and Arledge rushed for scores. Hawkins had 162 yards and 2 scores, TE Downs 1 score. Picks by Banda, Kirksey, and CB Harrison.

Week 16 – We host the 8-6 Cowboys and beat them 24-16. Kirksey is MVP with 1 pick returned 55 yards for a score. Arledge was 17 of 25, 205, 2:0 and Ramsey was 40 yards, 1 score on the ground and FB Schuster another score.

Depending on what happens next game, get ready….

Week 17 – We beat Baltimore 16-15. I don’t think it happened in this game. Ah well. I think Kiriksey may be on the edge of D P ot Y. I thought one more good game, with a few sacks or another pick wright have put him over the edge. We’ll see though

Ramsey, 45 yards
Arledge, 25 of 35, 228, 1:2
WR Dustin Wright, 8 catches, 86 yards 1 score
FF by Oghab recovered.
Game MVP Horner, 3.5 sacks, 1 FF

We are 16-0!!!

And not playing that well either

This season can best be summed up as a Brown Out. We just unloaded our defense.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2020 NFL Playoffs!


Wild Card Round –


Detroit at Tampa
Seattle at green Bat

New England at Indy
Pittsburgh at Buffalo


HMM…. Who wins?


Detroit 30, Tampa 38
Seattle 27, GB 17

New England 16, Indy 48
Pittsburg 18, Buffalo 33


That sets up…



Playoffs Week 2, Divisional Champion Round

We host the 10-6 Colts

Kansas City, at 13-3, hosts the 10-6 Bills


Seattle heads to Phily and Tampa to LA

We barely edge the Colts, 19-14.

Kirksey, MVP, 1 pick, 1 sack; CB Schmidtke with a pick too. 1.5 sacks by Stanton. Ramsey had 79 yards, Arlegde was 19 of 28 for 223 and :1. L Murray with that TD Grab.

KC over Buffalo 37-35

Philly over Seattle 44-25

La over Tamp – 16 – 10

All home teams won.

[Abe Sargent]

The NFL Championships!

AFC - KC Vs Cleveland, e are favored by 5

NFC – La at Phily

My injuries concludes. I bring back C Graham and TE Walford


Phily over LA 36-16



We win 30-17. MOM is CB Schmidtke, 1 pick, Harrison with another and a INT RET TD. Ramsey was 91 on the ground, nd Arledge 21 of 636, 148, and 1:1. TE Walford with the score.


I have one injury. FS Kindred is ou t with a separated shoulder. I bench him a Baxter starts in his place


WILL WE GO UNDEFEATED in this ODD SSEASON???


I'm headign to bed. See y'all tomororw!

[Abe Sargent]

The 2020-21 NFL Super Bowl


The NFC Champion Philadelphia Eagles

Vs

The AFC Champion Cleveland Browns

Will the Browns go undefeated?

Will they embrace destiny?
27
13

Yes they win

Super Bowl MVp Perry Ramsey, 22 carries. 133 yard, 1 score

Arledge?

Brendan Arledge 29 22 273 2/17 2 54 1 113.1


WR Hawkins 106 yards, Ramsey and Wright caught scores


Pick by Schmidtke

Sacks by Horner and McGee

3 KRB by West and Coleman



We’ll take it!

Awards:

Get Ready for the Brown Out

Super Bowl MVP -Ramsey

Defensive Player of the Year – Julio Stanton
All Pro 1st Team – Julio Stanton, Bennie Logan, Chris Kirksey
All Pro 2nd Team – Joey Horner, Antoine Harrison

This was an odd defensive-minded win.

[Abe Sargent]

STATS!



Front Office Football Eight
Passing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Cmp Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/A Lg
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 16 524 370 70.6 4171 11.27 7.96 62

Player Pos Team TD Int 20+T 300+ Rating
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 26 15 69 5 98.7

Att - Attempts, Cmp - Completions, Pct - Completion Percentage,
Yards - Passing Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Completion, Ave/A - Yards per Attempt,
Lg - Longest Completion, TD - Passing Touchdowns, Int - Passes Intercepted,
20+T - Completions of 20 or More Yards, 300+ - 300-yard Games,
Rate - Quarterback Rating.


In a down year, ,still had 4000+ yards, and 26 TDs. Was last year an aberration? Or the Arlege here you see the one we have moving forward? 44 times sacked. 6th most sacks in the league. He keeps getting dropped too much. 4th in passing yards, 10th in QB Rating



Rush Rush!




Front Office Football Eight
Rushing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Yards Avg Lg TD RZAtt Yards
Ramsey, Perry RB CLE 16 9 303 1075 3.55 49 11 41 124
Murray, Latavius RB CLE 16 7 68 253 3.72 39 3 10 20
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 16 43 182 4.23 28 1 4 11
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 8 41 123 3.00 18 1 8 26
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 16 15 13 80 6.15 32 1 0 0
Wolfe, Aaron RB CLE 16 0 7 14 2.00 5 0 0 0


Yuck. Ramsey failed. He lost a full yard pc from last year.



Catching -




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Receiving Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Targ Ctch Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/T YAC
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 16 15 151 105 69.5 1228 11.70 8.13 668
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 16 15 115 73 63.5 972 13.32 8.45 330
Walford, Clive TE CLE 12 12 63 46 73.0 469 10.20 7.44 169
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 16 2 59 43 72.9 591 13.74 10.02 270
Ramsey, Perry RB CLE 16 9 43 36 83.7 364 10.11 8.47 248
Cameron, Jordan TE CLE 16 7 37 27 73.0 249 9.22 6.73 62
Downs, Hardy TE CLE 16 4 22 19 86.4 170 8.95 7.73 13
Murray, Latavius RB CLE 16 7 23 12 52.2 63 5.25 2.74 20
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 8 9 8 88.9 56 7.00 6.22 35
Stone, Zachery WR CLE 16 0 2 1 50.0 9 9.00 4.50 6

Player Pos Team Lg TD Drp PPly TPct 20+C 100+
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 60 8 7 548 27.6 20 3
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 41 8 5 544 21.1 16 2
Walford, Clive TE CLE 33 2 4 396 15.9 10 0
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 62 5 2 298 19.8 10 0
Ramsey, Perry RB CLE 37 1 1 291 14.8 8 0
Cameron, Jordan TE CLE 30 0 1 167 22.2 3 0
Downs, Hardy TE CLE 35 2 0 147 15.0 1 0
Murray, Latavius RB CLE 11 0 2 257 8.9 0 0
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 20 0 0 139 6.5 1 0
Stone, Zachery WR CLE 9 0 1 44 4.5 0 0

Targ - Targeted with Pass, Ctch - Receptions, Pct - Reception Percentage,
Yards - Receiving Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Catch, Avg/T - Yards per
Target, YAC - Yards Gained After Catch, Lg - Longest Reception,
TD - Receiving Touchdowns, Drp - Passes Dropped, PPly - Passing Plays
on Field, TPct - Percentage of Passing Plays Targeted, 20+C - Catches
of 20 Yards or More, 100+ - 100-Yard Games.


Wright was still 4th in receiving yards and tied with 8 people, including Hawkins, for 5th in catching TDs.

Wolfe had a 1 PR TD
K Crosby - 28 of 32, and 49/50 PAT
P Emerson = 91 for 48.0 and 39.7 net


DEFENSE!



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Defensive Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Tckl Asst Sack Blkd Hurr QBKd
Kirksey, Chris ILB CLE 16 16 96 25 6.5 0 1 2
Joseph, Karl S CLE 16 16 80 28 0.0 0 0 0
Harrison, Antoine CB CLE 16 16 80 17 0.0 0 1 0
Banda, Robert ILB CLE 10 10 64 12 2.0 0 3 0
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 16 16 62 13 0.0 1 0 0
Stanton, Julio DE CLE 16 16 53 17 22.0 3 31 38
Kindred, Derrick S CLE 16 16 51 22 0.0 0 0 0
Horner, Joey DE CLE 16 16 49 17 18.5 1 13 18
Logan, Bennie DT CLE 16 16 42 11 12.5 4 10 19
Horton, Vince ILB CLE 16 6 40 17 3.0 0 1 1
Ogbah, Emmanuel OLB CLE 16 8 31 14 3.0 0 1 3
McGee, Stacy DT CLE 12 12 28 18 6.5 3 10 4
Tatum, Miles S CLE 16 8 25 3 1.5 0 0 0
Baxter, Lincoln S CLE 16 0 9 0 1.0 0 0 0
Raymond, Rex DT CLE 6 2 8 1 1.0 0 2 0
Dunn, Michael DE CLE 16 2 6 5 1.5 0 2 0
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 16 15 3 0 0.0 0 0 0
Garcia, Jordan OLB CLE 6 0 3 0 0.0 0 0 0
Murray, Latavius RB CLE 16 7 2 0 0.0 0 0 0
Walford, Clive TE CLE 12 12 2 0 0.0 0 0 0
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 16 2 0 0.0 0 0 0
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 16 15 2 0 0.0 0 0 0
Staat, Scott OLB CLE 10 0 2 0 0.0 0 0 0
Cameron, Jordan TE CLE 16 7 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Graham, Andrew C CLE 11 11 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Downs, Hardy TE CLE 16 4 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 8 1 0 0.0 0 0 0



Stanton led the league in sacks. Horner was third. Logan led all DTs in sacks and was 2.5 more than the next guy. This was a huge Brown Out at the D Line. I've never had a team with that many sacks before. My D LIne alone was 6.5 for Mcgee, 22, 18.5 and 12.5 for 59.5. 88 sacks total. Amazing. Boom goes the QB!


Coverage -




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Pass Coverage Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Ints IRYd TD Defn Cght PPly PDPct
Kirksey, Chris ILB CLE 16 16 6 133 2 8 52 559 79.0
Harrison, Antoine CB CLE 16 16 5 71 1 8 52 650 78.7
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 16 16 3 25 1 5 50 652 76.4
Banda, Robert ILB CLE 10 10 2 0 0 6 27 329 79.0
Tatum, Miles S CLE 16 8 2 15 0 5 19 326 81.5
Ogbah, Emmanuel OLB CLE 16 8 1 86 1 8 25 311 79.6
Logan, Bennie DT CLE 16 16 0 0 0 1 5 643 81.9
McGee, Stacy DT CLE 12 12 0 0 0 0 4 458 81.4
Joseph, Karl S CLE 16 16 0 0 0 10 40 652 78.0
Kindred, Derrick S CLE 16 16 0 0 0 4 35 638 76.7
Raymond, Rex DT CLE 6 2 0 0 0 0 3 123 79.3
Dunn, Michael DE CLE 16 2 0 0 0 0 1 119 81.5
Horner, Joey DE CLE 16 16 0 0 0 0 5 621 81.5
Stanton, Julio DE CLE 16 16 0 0 0 0 4 638 81.7
Garcia, Jordan OLB CLE 6 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 17.5
Baxter, Lincoln S CLE 16 0 0 0 0 3 9 195 80.1
Horton, Vince ILB CLE 16 6 0 0 0 2 18 228 74.0
Staat, Scott OLB CLE 10 0 0 0 0 1 2 16 81.3

Ints - Interceptions, IRYd - Interception Return Yardage, TD - Interception
Return Touchdowns, Cght - Passes Caught by Covered Receiver, Defn - Passes
Defensed, PPly - Passing Plays on Field, PDPct - Pass Defense Percentage.



Kirksey led my team in picks. In fact he led all LBs in the league in picks. You can see the solid work of Harrison and Schmidtke. Not bad. Banda was fine in his starts, and Ogbah did well. SS Joseph didn't have any picks, but he led my team in pass defensed. Sometimes you have a good coverage yaer and no picks to back it up - that happens. He;s fine.

Coleman has an 80 pas blocking, I'm not sure what happened there. Probably just match up issues.



I need to fix Kindred.

Blocks!



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Blocking Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS KRB KRO BPct Pnck SkA PPly SPct
Coleman, Shon T CLE 16 16 32 95 33.7 3 12 568 2.1
Bitonio, Joel G CLE 16 16 22 93 23.7 1 8 568 1.4
West, Vernon G CLE 16 16 22 79 27.8 0 8 568 1.4
Graham, Andrew C CLE 11 11 19 57 33.3 4 5 366 1.4
Howard, Cesar T CLE 15 15 16 44 36.4 0 7 504 1.4
Rivers, Juan C CLE 9 5 11 35 31.4 0 0 179 0.0
Walford, Clive TE CLE 12 12 3 9 33.3 0 0 396 0.0
Ellison, Earnest T CLE 3 1 3 5 60.0 0 0 32 0.0
Cameron, Jordan TE CLE 16 7 2 4 50.0 1 0 167 0.0
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 8 2 6 33.3 0 0 139 0.0
DeValve, Seth TE CLE 4 1 1 1 100.0 0 0 9 0.0
Downs, Hardy TE CLE 16 4 1 2 50.0 0 0 147 0.0
Walsh, Adrian G CLE 4 0 1 4 25.0 0 0 23 0.0
Auguston, Duane G CLE 2 0 0 3 0.0 0 0 0 0.0
Collier, Norbert T CLE 1 0 0 4 0.0 0 1 32 3.1

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards!


Offensive MVP – OR Shon Coleman – 5th in PT in KRbs and he rocked 3 pancakes. Ots aren’t known for pancackes, only 13 had more than 1. One guy was 7, one 6, one 5, and then 3 3s. Only the sacks allowed were an issue with Coleman, but he still turned in a strong, solid season.

Defensive MVP – LB Kirksey – He led all LBs in picks with 6. He had more TDs off picks than any one backers. His 6.5 sacks were tied for 6th highest among LBs. He has d a very, very good season, and with a couple more sacks, and other six or something, I think he would have been DPotY

Special Teams MVP – Aaron Wolfe – 1 PR TD, great averages,2nd best PR Avg in league, 12 special teams tackles, and so forth. He has a good, solid season.

Rookie of the Year – LB Vince Horton, Played some SS Backer for 4 weeks while Banda was away. 3 sacks, 40 tackles, 17 assists, 2 pasdef, 1 FF. He was the best of the team.

Heart Award – S Miles Tatum – Got two picks as the dimeback, moved to nickel when we had that injury to the S Kindred, 5 pasdef as well. Tatum had a very respectable and productive season for us!


Undefeated seasons are usually by Juggernauts. This team was not a Juggernaut.

Let’s be honest. Right now, how many future HOF players are on the squad? At best, two. Horner and Stanton are both on that parabola. No one else is. Maybe Arledge because he was the QB that won a couple of Super Bowls and went 19-0. We’ll see what his legacy winds up being. We lost Joe Thomas, who might have a shot. No body on my offense right now – no WR, TE, RB, OG, OT, C, of FB is there. Maybe Kirksey? Banda has never gotten to that level yet, although he;s good. Maybe Logan?

[Abe Sargent]

In the last five years, no one has more TD passes than Arledge. No one has more passing yards.







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Passing Statistics

Player Pos Strt End GP GS Att Cmp Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/A Lg
Arledge, Brendan QB 2016 2020 80 80 2751 1856 67.5 20765 11.19 7.55 75
Cutler, Jay QB 2016 2020 80 80 2872 1810 63.0 19873 10.98 6.92 99
Ryan, Matt QB 2016 2020 77 77 2771 1806 65.2 19576 10.84 7.06 79
Stafford, Matthew QB 2016 2020 74 74 2463 1583 64.3 18670 11.79 7.58 89
Winston, Jameis QB 2016 2020 76 76 2419 1558 64.4 17831 11.44 7.37 75
Newton, Cam QB 2016 2020 76 76 2116 1423 67.2 15742 11.06 7.44 81
Dalton, Andy QB 2016 2020 76 76 2405 1542 64.1 17635 11.44 7.33 74
Mariota, Marcus QB 2016 2020 80 80 2577 1685 65.4 18307 10.86 7.10 66
Prescott, Dak QB 2016 2020 75 75 2654 1670 62.9 18393 11.01 6.93 78
Rodgers, Aaron QB 2016 2020 76 76 2345 1566 66.8 17778 11.35 7.58 98
Wentz, Carson QB 2016 2020 75 75 2351 1513 64.4 16251 10.74 6.91 80
Garoppolo, Jimmy QB 2016 2020 79 63 2103 1386 65.9 15701 11.33 7.47 88
Roethlisberger, Ben QB 2016 2019 61 61 2136 1364 63.9 14883 10.91 6.97 72
Manuel, E.J. QB 2016 2020 75 74 2498 1608 64.4 17902 11.13 7.17 77
Luck, Andrew QB 2016 2020 72 72 2339 1466 62.7 16238 11.08 6.94 75
Bridgewater, Teddy QB 2016 2020 68 68 2205 1416 64.2 15308 10.81 6.94 75
Tannehill, Ryan QB 2016 2020 63 62 2099 1336 63.6 15261 11.42 7.27 84
Wilson, Russell QB 2016 2020 79 79 2539 1684 66.3 16894 10.03 6.65 84
Cousins, Kirk QB 2016 2020 77 74 2634 1506 57.2 15507 10.30 5.89 61
Cortez, Lawrence QB 2017 2020 49 49 1771 1098 62.0 12006 10.93 6.78 91
Lannon, Mickey QB 2017 2020 51 51 1884 1130 60.0 11967 10.59 6.35 88
Keenum, Case QB 2016 2020 77 62 2154 1263 58.6 13899 11.00 6.45 64
Lynch, Paxton QB 2016 2020 75 74 2646 1597 60.4 16235 10.17 6.14 64
Goff, Jared QB 2016 2020 78 52 1685 1145 68.0 12103 10.57 7.18 72
Rivers, Philip QB 2016 2019 64 64 2151 1329 61.8 13952 10.50 6.49 53
Palmer, Carson QB 2016 2018 48 48 1714 1040 60.7 10910 10.49 6.37 85
Taylor, Tyrod QB 2016 2020 64 61 1986 1269 63.9 12935 10.19 6.51 67
Bortles, Blake QB 2016 2020 68 68 2342 1317 56.2 14123 10.72 6.03 81
Carr, Derek QB 2016 2020 67 67 2249 1264 56.2 13164 10.41 5.85 75
Smith, Geno QB 2016 2020 56 53 1762 1113 63.2 11411 10.25 6.48 90
Kaepernick, Colin QB 2016 2019 61 45 1463 888 60.7 9458 10.65 6.46 80
Foles, Nick QB 2016 2019 51 30 1020 694 68.0 8079 11.64 7.92 80
McCown, Luke QB 2016 2019 33 17 804 447 55.6 5508 12.32 6.85 58
Hackenberg, Christian QB 2018 2020 36 33 1199 713 59.5 7037 9.87 5.87 74
Brady, Tom QB 2016 2016 16 16 569 398 69.9 4560 11.46 8.01 77
Manning, Eli QB 2016 2018 46 23 745 513 68.9 5345 10.42 7.17 69
Petty, Bryce QB 2018 2019 22 15 539 359 66.6 4404 12.27 8.17 72
Smith, Alex QB 2016 2018 32 31 1100 637 57.9 6606 10.37 6.01 53
McCormick, Levon QB 2020 2020 16 16 631 415 65.8 4698 11.32 7.45 75
Schaub, Matt QB 2016 2017 17 12 481 300 62.4 3407 11.36 7.08 68
Kessler, Cody QB 2016 2020 80 16 612 376 61.4 4165 11.08 6.81 84
Livesey, Doug QB 2019 2020 32 16 580 399 68.8 4252 10.66 7.33 87
Osweiler, Brock QB 2016 2020 37 16 585 389 66.5 3591 9.23 6.14 42
Cook, Connor QB 2016 2020 80 13 784 450 57.4 4415 9.81 5.63 67
Salley, Randall QB 2020 2020 13 13 462 304 65.8 3452 11.36 7.47 55
Fitzpatrick, Ryan QB 2016 2018 19 15 620 366 59.0 3949 10.79 6.37 49
Morris, Stephen QB 2016 2020 60 22 927 538 58.0 5236 9.73 5.65 95
Brees, Drew QB 2016 2016 16 16 501 296 59.1 3176 10.73 6.34 75
Flacco, Joe QB 2016 2017 18 15 512 324 63.3 3110 9.60 6.07 56
Bradford, Sam QB 2016 2020 56 17 760 432 56.8 4453 10.31 5.86 80
Glennon, Mike QB 2016 2020 80 6 369 247 66.9 2541 10.29 6.89 75
Griffin III, Robert QB 2018 2020 41 5 316 183 57.9 1937 10.58 6.13 56
Huntley, Lamont QB 2019 2020 32 16 542 300 55.4 3156 10.52 5.82 84
Savage, Tom QB 2017 2020 17 5 254 167 65.7 1810 10.84 7.13 60
Hundley, Brett QB 2016 2020 80 4 338 223 66.0 2364 10.60 6.99 75
Brennan, Donnell QB 2018 2020 16 3 244 153 62.7 1794 11.73 7.35 80
Dysert, Zac QB 2016 2020 45 10 351 213 60.7 2317 10.88 6.60 83
Heinicke, Taylor QB 2018 2019 14 7 386 247 64.0 2565 10.38 6.65 75
Anderson, Derek QB 2016 2020 25 2 334 213 63.8 2410 11.31 7.22 67
Steed, Shaquille QB 2017 2020 37 5 295 169 57.3 1681 9.95 5.70 79
Siemian, Trevor QB 2016 2020 14 6 281 163 58.0 1853 11.37 6.59 74
Driskel, Jeff QB 2016 2019 40 4 289 181 62.6 1918 10.60 6.64 49
Jett, Camden QB 2020 2020 11 10 302 179 59.3 1854 10.36 6.14 73

Player Pos TD Int 20+T 300+ Rating
Arledge, Brendan QB 2016 136 66 316 24 96.2
Cutler, Jay QB 2016 117 63 280 17 87.8
Ryan, Matt QB 2016 114 53 262 21 91.5
Stafford, Matthew QB 2016 113 48 291 16 94.4
Winston, Jameis QB 2016 112 66 282 13 90.6
Newton, Cam QB 2016 104 46 242 6 96.4
Dalton, Andy QB 2016 100 40 289 13 93.0
Mariota, Marcus QB 2016 99 57 272 16 89.7
Prescott, Dak QB 2016 99 59 288 10 86.6
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Rodgers, Aaron QB 2016 97 55 258 20 93.3
Wentz, Carson QB 2016 97 59 247 10 87.8
Garoppolo, Jimmy QB 2016 95 36 226 12 96.0
Roethlisberger, Ben QB 2016 92 52 226 13 88.5
Manuel, E.J. QB 2016 91 47 287 15 89.9
Luck, Andrew QB 2016 90 33 245 11 90.1
Bridgewater, Teddy QB 2016 88 37 222 11 90.8
Tannehill, Ryan QB 2016 81 37 253 12 90.9
Wilson, Russell QB 2016 79 51 245 8 87.1
Cousins, Kirk QB 2016 77 65 218 3 73.7
Cortez, Lawrence QB 2017 75 39 169 9 86.9
Lannon, Mickey QB 2017 74 51 179 11 80.3
Keenum, Case QB 2016 74 58 219 8 78.0
Lynch, Paxton QB 2016 73 70 229 6 76.1
Goff, Jared QB 2016 70 28 182 2 95.5
Rivers, Philip QB 2016 69 29 204 8 85.7
Palmer, Carson QB 2016 66 27 158 6 85.4
Taylor, Tyrod QB 2016 66 56 176 5 81.8
Bortles, Blake QB 2016 65 78 205 6 69.4
Carr, Derek QB 2016 63 58 199 6 71.9
Smith, Geno QB 2016 62 36 156 6 84.9
Kaepernick, Colin QB 2016 56 35 134 2 82.3
Foles, Nick QB 2016 45 28 124 9 95.1
McCown, Luke QB 2016 41 22 92 9 82.5
Hackenberg, Christian QB 2018 38 42 100 3 72.0
Brady, Tom QB 2016 36 8 73 8 109.0
Manning, Eli QB 2016 34 11 78 2 98.4
Petty, Bryce QB 2018 31 18 62 4 96.9
Smith, Alex QB 2016 30 25 98 0 74.9
McCormick, Levon QB 2020 29 22 71 6 88.7
Schaub, Matt QB 2016 28 12 52 2 92.6
Kessler, Cody QB 2016 26 17 58 4 84.2
Livesey, Doug QB 2019 23 11 65 5 95.3
Osweiler, Brock QB 2016 21 5 51 3 91.4
Cook, Connor QB 2016 21 17 60 0 73.3
Salley, Randall QB 2020 20 19 57 6 85.3
Fitzpatrick, Ryan QB 2016 20 19 67 3 75.8
Morris, Stephen QB 2016 20 27 65 1 69.0
Brees, Drew QB 2016 18 9 48 3 82.2
Flacco, Joe QB 2016 18 16 48 1 78.8
Bradford, Sam QB 2016 18 30 66 0 65.3
Glennon, Mike QB 2016 15 13 38 2 85.4
Griffin III, Robert QB 2018 14 9 28 0 78.8
Huntley, Lamont QB 2019 14 17 39 0 68.0
Savage, Tom QB 2017 13 7 28 0 92.1
Hundley, Brett QB 2016 12 6 34 0 90.6
Brennan, Donnell QB 2018 12 7 29 1 89.4
Dysert, Zac QB 2016 12 7 32 0 83.2
Heinicke, Taylor QB 2018 12 13 33 3 79.4
Anderson, Derek QB 2016 11 10 34 2 83.8
Steed, Shaquille QB 2017 8 9 24 0 69.8
Siemian, Trevor QB 2016 6 8 24 0 73.1
Driskel, Jeff QB 2016 6 12 30 2 71.5
Jett, Camden QB 2020 6 12 23 0 67.1

Att - Attempts, Cmp - Completions, Pct - Completion Percentage,
Yards - Passing Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Completion, Ave/A - Yards per Attempt,
Lg - Longest Completion, TD - Passing Touchdowns, Int - Passes Intercepted,
20+T - Completions of 20 or More Yards, 300+ - 300-yard Games,
Rate - Quarterback Rating.

[Abe Sargent]

End of Season

Performance 90 – (How could I do better than 19-0?)
Value – 83
Profit 0 82
Roster – 30

Score – 80


HOF Inductees include Brady and Gates

Retirees of note:

QB Cutler, Rodgers
WR Jordy Nelssom, DeSean Jackson
OT Joe Staley

DE Malik Jackson, DY Nick Fairley
CB Dominique R-C, Talib, Vontae David
S Earl Thomas



We made 61 mill last year

I give raises to staff

[Abe Sargent]

Staff draft

When it gets to my pick there are 10 HCs better than my guy up there. Can I find a better HC?

I hire a new head Coach – Jeffrey Burtin, smashmotuh, good at Qbs, 69 playbook. better at our previous HC at player development and interviewing




No other changes

I franchise Stanton – 11.49 mill cap hit

Other players of note that are FAs:

Dt Stacy McGee – We just broke up the band
QB Osweiler, Daniels,
RB Latavius Murray
TE Cameron
WR Lynch

FREE AGENCY1!!!

[Abe Sargent]

I am very tight against the cap. Like 9 mill under, with 7 need for the draft I have 1.7 free cap space. I have a lot of key players in the final year of their deals:

RG Joel Bitonio 29 years old, wants 4 years, 34 mill
P Rob Emersion,
RG Vernon West, 26, wants 29 mill, 5 years
SLB Emmanuel Ogbah, 27, wants 3 years, 12.2 mill.
FL Hawkins,

Backups TE Downs, DE Dunn,
LS Newsome

Stanton? Currently paid 11.5 mill, wants 81 mill over 4 years. That’s a jump to almost 16 this year, and then 20, 21, and 24 the next three.

Where can I find space in my cap:

Ramsey. Signing him was a mistake. Cutting him frees up 7 mill.

Kindred, never done well. Cutting him frees up 4 mill

Logan. Yes, he was all pro but is 31, cutting him frees up 7 mill

Cut or trade all three and I have around 18 mill in cash freed up. And I sign Stanton to a his deal, as well as extend everyone above.

No one wants kindred or Ramsey. I cut them, For now, my starting FS will be either Baxter or Tatum, and my RB will be either Wolfe o r…Wolfe?

I make an offer to extend RFA RB Jace Stevison and LT Norbert Collier

I extend LS Bo Newsome to another year of vet min

Given how good he plays, I want to extend OG Joel Bitonio for a few more years. But I want to wait. I often find really good OGs later in the draft that fall, and I want to see if I get a good one to replace either West or Bitonio before I make that call

I can save money b y extended SLB Ogbah and P Emerson, and I go ahead and extend Emerson

What are my positions of need:

Qbx2
RBx2
Lights out TE
WR (Lynch is gone, and Hawkins will be soon)
Starter DT
Figure out Michael Dunn at DE.
DT backup
Extend or keep Ogbah – Ogbah is had 15.5 sacks,
Keep CB Virata?
Sign 2 CB, 1 S
Can be a stud S if someone pops up

Figure out OT. Is Cesar Howard with his 16 KRB and 7 sacks allowed good enough?

Figure out OG. Be open to drafting OG in draft, or otherwise sticking with West/Bitonio

We have a very heavy DB free agency. I have 82, 72, 69, 65, 62 corners and safeties. And Kindred si 59.59.

Now I had a 63/63 RB out there – Harvey Wallace. He’s pricey. I offer a deal to RB Christine Michael, who is 30, older, experienced and cheap.

I extend FB Schuster by two years. He is the best FB in the league

I make an offer to QB Cardale Jones

I make an offer to FL Gabriel Lynch

The top OG in FA is 64/64 LG Brandon Scherff, who is cheap, but is a 100 run block, 34 pass block specialist, who allowed 10 sacks last year. He’d be 12 mill over 4 years, and I could sign him, and then trade West.

The top OT is LT Allen Hannam, 56/56, and has no blocking strength, but us good elsewhere.

[Abe Sargent]

Let’s look at the draft and see what we have before I make too many decisions here on my O Line.

Huh, it’s an odd draft, with top talent at RB, TE, DE, and places of non-need or early round grabs.

What can I get for West and.or Cesar?

I make a trade:

I trade Jaguars my:

OG Vernon West
OT Cesar Howard
1.32 this ye
2 Future 2nd rounders in the nnext two years

For:

1.3 this year
4th rounders next two years, a 6th and a 7th as well

The goal of that is to make a play for the best RB to come through the draft in a log time. I want to put together the pieces

I make offers to OG Brandon Scherff and LT Allen Hannam. Should I withdraw my offer for Michael? He’s cheap insurance in case of bustage. But I probably need the cash.





Week 2 –RB Christin Michael heads to San Diego

Weekl 3 – Megee to the Dolphins

Week 4 – I get Hannam and Scherff under my wing

Week 6 – I sign Lynch

Week 8 – QB jones joins us

Do I need anyone else?

Nah

[Abe Sargent]

The 2021 NFL Amateur Draft!!!


Pick 1 is the chargers and they grab this stud OT, KC Fletcher.
Pick 2? SF Grabs this stud QB.

And that leaves me…


RB Diego Lorey, 7.7 grade, 8.2 adjusted, 4.37 dash, 4 sole, 26 str, 6.96 agility – four red combine scores. 32 p spc drill, blue

It was time to make a splash

The other good RB goes 1.10.

1.13 for TE Williams to Denver

OG Daniels, 1.17 – The OG I was tracking

I pause at 1.32 to see who I would take here. SLB Sawyer Nelson is the best SLB on the board, hasn’t gone yet. We also have a great DE in Bart Perkins or stud C Oliver Rodriguez. SE Chance Tillery is not bad either. The Jags take OC Rod, and I can’t blame them

SE Tillery, 2.13
Dt Cesar Fishley –2-31 – one of the last good DTs goes right before my pick. If I had felt that pick, I might have moved up, but the Vikings didn’t need it. GRRRs….

Pick 2.32.

How Is DE Perkins, and SLB Nelson still on the board?

Neither is a position of need.

DE Perkins – Red speed, red str, blue sole

These are the top two players on the board not kickers.

I take Nelson


There is a good corner left, Lincoln Howard, and Perkins, still at 3.16

Are either falling to me at the bottom of the round?

Perkins is taken a t3.21

CB Lincoln Howard, 3.32, Stanford

At 4.21 I grab DT Stephen Morris

4.32 I take DT Enrique Newman

5.18 – OG Norman Maurer

6.21 – OT Bart Neumeyer

7.32 DE Pete Clayton


Amateur Draft Report:

Rnd 1 - Diego Lorey, RB, Iowa
Rnd 2 - Sawyer Nelson, OLB, South Carolina
Rnd 3 - Lincoln Howard, CB, Stanford
Rnd 4 - Stephen Morton, DT, Rice
Rnd 4 - Enrique Newman, DT, Missouri
Rnd 5 - Norman Maurer, G, Indiana
Rnd 6 - Bart Neumeyer, T, Boise State
Rnd 7 - Pete Clayton, DE, Missouri State

[Abe Sargent]

We finish with 52 players under contract, and about 1.3 mill in cap room

A- Draft grade.

I still want to extend OG Bitonio, and Se Hawkins.

Coming out of the draft, Sawyer Nelson is looking like 37/79, 19/54 for OG Maurer, 21/43 for OT Neumetyer, 18/55 for DE Clayton, 17/48 for DT Newman, 28/50 for DT Morton, 24/56 fr CB Howard…and……..73/83 for RB Diego Lorey


I just have to hope that my notoriously bad decisions on RBs his dynasty (trading a future 1st for Gio Bernard, giving Ramsey huge money, not going after the stud RB in the FA last year.etc) is over with Lorey. We’ll see though….

There are two major ways to make money. Extend (or cut) SLB Ogbah, or cut DT Logan.

As you can see, I’ve gotten great quality LBs in the last two drafts with Nelson and Horton. There is no reason to resign Ogbah. I will save 7 mill in cap if I release him. No GM is interested. Time to cut the line. Good luck!

I make offers to some UFAs:

RB Lorenzo Strickland
RB Nathan Angus – Watch these two, they seem like sleepers
LCB Korey Fiebelkorn.
QB Kelley Lukas
QB Pat Simmons
SE Phil Weed
RCB Walter Porter
LCB Tyrone harris
TE Jerry Bamburg
C Tucker Pinto
LB Jackson Francis

Week 2 – We sign 5 of our targets

Week 3 – Ogbah heads to New York Giants. Another 2 sign.

Week 4 – All of y targets sign


I have 62 players on my roster.

Ready?

Do I want to make any other changes tomy roster pre-camp?

[Abe Sargent]

Training Camp!!!

We sell 53k tickets

After camp, RB Diego Lorey is he best rookie on the Green Page

LB Nelson is


I extend FL Hawkins by a year, OG Bitonio by 4

I cut C Pinto, QB Simmons, WR Weed, CB Freddie Virata, DE Tyrone Walker,

I extend backup C Juan Rivers another year and backup DE Michael Dunn the same . I extend OT Earnest Ellison, cut OT Norbert Collier, and extend WR Cooper Fisher, my returner.

We finish eh preseason 4-0 and with some dominant wins, like 35-0 at the Giants. Bitonio and RB Stevison are questionable

I massage my roster

Both growing RBs – Angus and Strickland grew. One is 40/53 and the other 43/51. I kind of what to keep both to see where they wind up. I cut RB Aaron Wolfe, who is just a returanr mainly, and little more.

I cut CB Tyrone Harris, CB Francise

[Abe Sargent]

Front Office Football Eight
Cleveland Browns Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
##Jones, Cardale 104 QB 6 34 34 2 yrs.
Arledge, Brendan 114 QB QB 6 38 38 3 yrs.
Kelley, Lukas 108 QB 1 11 45 1 yr.
##Stevison, Jace 229 RB 2 40 48 2 yrs.
Lorey, Diego 222 RB RB 1 74 79 4 yrs.
Angus, Nathan 230 RB 1 40 51 1 yr.
Strickland, Lorenzo 220 RB 1 43 50 1 yr.
Schuster, Ralph 331 FB FB 3 64 64 4 yrs.
Walford, Clive 443 TE TE 7 49 49 2 yrs.
##DeValve, Seth 487 TE 6 29 29 2 yrs.
Downs, Hardy 448 TE 4 46 46 1 yr.
Bamburg, Jerry 444 TE 1 23 36 1 yr.
Hawkins, Andrew 516 FL FL 11 46 46 2 yrs.
Lynch, Gabriel 513 FL SE 5 54 54 3 yrs.
Fisher, Cooper 581 FL 4 15 16 2 yrs.
Wright, Dustin 512 SE 3 61 61 2 yrs.
Stone, Zachery 584 SE 2 35 54 3 yrs.
Graham, Andrew 679 C C 6 58 58 2 yrs.
Rivers, Juan 654 C 3 47 53 2 yrs.
Scherff, Brandon 762 LG LG 7 65 65 4 yrs.
##Auguston, Duane 770 LG 2 14 26 3 yrs.
Bitonio, Joel 775 RG RG 8 64 64 4 yrs.
Maurer, Norman 764 RG 1 32 63 4 yrs.
Hannam, Allen 860 LT LT 6 48 48 2 yrs.
##Ellison, Earnest 868 LT 4 32 42 2 yrs.
Neumeyer, Bart 877 LT 1 27 51 4 yrs.
Coleman, Shon 872 RT RT 6 66 66 2 yrs.
Emerson, Rob 915 P 6 64 64 2 yrs.
Crosby, Mason 1017K 15 64 64 2 yrs.
##Clayton, Pete 1194LDE 1 22 44 4 yrs.
Dunn, Michael 1178RDE 6 52 52 2 yrs.
Horner, Joey 1193RDE RDE 6 60 60 3 yrs.
Stanton, Julio 1199RDE LDE 5 87 87 1 yr.
Logan, Bennie 1271LDT RDT 9 57 57 2 yrs.
Raymond, Rex 1292RDT 6 36 36 1 yr.
Newman, Enrique 1298RDT LDT 1 23 40 4 yrs.
Morton, Stephen 1276NT 1 33 43 4 yrs.
Kirksey, Chris 1358WILB MLB 8 68 68 3 yrs.
Horton, Vince 1396WILB WLB 2 67 69 3 yrs.
Banda, Robert 1395MLB SLB 5 74 74 4 yrs.
##Garcia, Jordan 1491SLB 3 37 47 2 yrs.
Staat, Scott 1452SLB 2 42 42 3 yrs.
Nelson, Sawyer 1497SLB 1 45 75 4 yrs.
Harrison, Antoine 1538LCB LCB 5 61 61 3 yrs.
Clifford, Rodolfo 1537LCB 3 43 43 2 yrs.
Howard, Lincoln 1525LCB 1 28 44 4 yrs.
Fiebelkorn, Korey 1545LCB 1 33 38 1 yr.
Schmidtke, Cooper 1549RCB RCB 5 65 65 4 yrs.
Porter, Walter 1539RCB 1 23 44 1 yr.
Joseph, Karl 1636SS SS 6 55 55 2 yrs.
Baxter, Lincoln 1628FS FS 3 54 54 2 yrs.
Tatum, Miles 1640FS 2 49 56 3 yrs.
Newsome, Bo 659 LS 6 18 18 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $182,300,000
Cap Room: $6,660,000
Maximum for New Player: $7,190,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $5,660,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $6,550,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $168,520,000




As you can see, post preseason, we have some folks, like Hawkins, Bitonio, and a few others, drop some.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 – Well we won’t be undefeated this season after we lose at Pittsburgh. Arledge is 23 of 34, TE Walford with a score, RB Lorey just 49 yards in his debut, 2 sacks by Horner


Week 2 – We host and beat the Dolphins 17-9. MOM is RB Diego Lorery with 29 for 113 and 1 score, Arledge was 22 of 33 for 229 and 1:1,. Hitting TE Walford for another score. Pick by Karl Joseph.


Week 3 – We head to Indy and lose to the Colts 31-24. Lorey was 93 yards, Arledge 387 of 50 for 325 an 1:0, TE Walford with eh TD catch, we had a safety by S Baxter,Crosby was 5/5 on FGs.

Week 4 – BYE

Week 5 – We win 22-7 over the Broncos. Lorey is MVP with 27 for 152 and 1 score. Arledge is 25 of 37, 208, and 1:0. WR Lynch the score. 2 sacks by DT Logan.

We finish the first quarter 2-2, and fully healthy

[Abe Sargent]

Week 6 – We win 26-23 over the Raiders. MOM is Arledge, with 19 of 28, 178, and 2:0. Hawkins with the two scores. Lorey had 89 and a score on the ground - picks by Schmidtke.

Week 7 – We win 34-6. MOM is Arledge with 19 of 30, 231 and 3:0, hitting Wright twice and TE Bamburg once for score, and Lorey adds 19 yard and score on the ground in 14 carries. Scherff had a great game 5 KRB and 4 pancakes.

Two ,major post-game injuries in the secondary

SS Karl Joseph, out for 7 weeks with a broken arm – CB Clifford starts until tatum moves over

FS Lincoln Baxter, doubtful, with a pulled groin, 3 weeks – Tatum starts at FS until Baxter retruns, then moves to SS for Joseph

Week 8 – We annihilate the Chiefs 41-18. Horenr is NFL Defensive Player of the Week with 4 sacks. Stanton 3. Lorey is 29 for 148 and 2 scores on the ground, and caught 2 TD passes from Ardlege. Arledge started 14 of 22, 236, and 3:0, was injured, and Kelley subbed in and tossed two picks. TE Walford with the other score.

RG Botionio is doubtful with turf toe. I deactivate him and will startC Rivers instead

Week 9 – We host the 7-1 Ravens. We win 27-7. MOM is Lorey, with 126 yards and 1 ground score. Arledge has a ground score as well as 23 of 33, 284 and 1:0. RB Lorey also caught a score as well. Pcisk by Banda and Schmidtke. 2 sacks by DT Rex Raymond, the sub for DT McGee.

At the halfway mark we are 6-2.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 10 – We barely beat the Steelers – 16-14. MOM is Arledge – 23 of 35, 242, 1:0. Hit Lorey fro a score. Lorey is 23 for o 81. Pick by Banda. 2 sacks by Stanton

Baxter is back and heads back to FS and Tatum moves to SS



Week 11 – We beat the Bengals 30-23. MOM is Arledge with 300 yards, 2”0, and 21 of 29. He hit TE Walford twice for scores, and Lorey had 83 yards on the ground, Arledge rushed for as core. 2.5 sacks by Horner.

Unfortunately, TE Walford is out for a few weeks with a strained foot ligament. Downs will start for him.

Week 12 – We beat the 7-3 Bears by a similar score of 30-23. MOM is Lorey with 27 of 104, and Alrdge rushes for a score, and was 19 for 29 for 200 and 1:1. WR Wright with the grab. Picks by Harrison and Scmidtke,a dn Harrison returned his for a score.

Injuries – Dunn and OG Scherff are questionable.

Week 13 - We face the Bills. We win 28--21. Lorey stymied with just 60 on the ground. Arledge 24 of 30, 342 and 2:2. Wright 14 catches, 197 yards, 1 score, and WR Fisher the other score. MOM is Kirksey with 2 pick and 1 restored for a score. 1 pick by Banda.

12-2!

[Abe Sargent]

W14 – We host the 3-9 Lions and they gob smack us 33-22. Lorey had 87 yards, 2 scores, and Arleedge 24 of 39 for 1:1 and hit Lynch for a score.

TE Devalve is out just as Walford returns.

Week 15 – We head to the 9-3 Baltimore Ravens a…..lose 27-30. Lorey is 761 on the ground. Arledge 16 f 30, 0:2. We score from a Fisher KO return, a Joey Horner fumble return and a Clifford kickoff return. 3 non-offensive scores almost won us the game! Pick by Harrison,

LG Scherff is back from injury

With that loss the Ravens move into 1st in the AFC North and AFC #1 seed


Week 16 – We beat the Packers 28-10. Arledge is MOM with 16 of 21. 174 and 3:0. Lorey, TE walford, and WR Stone with TD catches, and Lorey adds 134 yards and 1 score on the ground. Tatum with a pick.

SS Joseph is back from injury. CB Schmidtke is out with a torn bisceps muscle. That is a long term injyr of the 23 weeks kind. I toss him on IR. CB Lincoln Howard start for him.

DE Julio Staton is doubtful for two weeks with a hyperextended knee. Dunn will play for him.

Week 17 – We beat Cincy 27-3. MOM is Lorey, with 131 yards and 2 scores on the ground, and arledge was 18 of 28 for 195 0:0.

Hawkins is doubtful for a few weeks with a pulled groin

The Ravens lost this week, so at 12-4, we win the AFC North. The Colts are also 12-4. We finish #2.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2021-22 NFL Playoffs!


Wild Card Craziness!

All home teams one, not a single wild card team made it, not even the Ravens


Stanton is healed.

In the NFC –Atlanta is heading to Minnesota while Dallas swings by the Rams out in LA.

In the AFC, we host the 11-5 Broncos and the Colts the 9-7 Dolphins


We win 23-20. Arledge is MOM with 23 of 27, 207, 2:0. WR Wright with two scores, They held Lorey to nothing. Harrison and Horton with picks. 3 has 3 FF, and 2 fumble recoveries. Sacks by Tatum, Horner, ad Stanton

Dallas wins 37-20, Atlanta loses 20-24 to the Vikings, and the Colts win 27-16

[Abe Sargent]

The Conference Championships!

We head to Indy

The Cowboys head to the Vikings.

Hawkins is back from his injury and all healed out. Lynch is questionable, but will play.

The Colts have the answer and beat us 19-13

Lore y60 yards, Arledge 29 of 48, 195, 1:2. Wright with the TD cath. Sack by Kirksey

Vikings over Cowboys



Your 2021-222 NFL Super Bowl!!!


Colts win, 24-17 over the Vikings

[Abe Sargent]

Season Awards:

Offensive Rookie of the Year – RB Diego Lorey

All-Pro 1st Team – DE Joey Horner, DE Julio Stanton

All-Pro 2nd Team – SLB Robert Banda, DT Bennie Logan

It just doesn’t stop with that d line!

[Abe Sargent]

Stats!




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Passing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Cmp Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/A Lg
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 16 518 343 66.2 3785 11.03 7.31 80
Kelley, Lukas QB CLE 5 0 17 10 58.8 74 7.40 4.35 21

Player Pos Team TD Int 20+T 300+ Rating
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 23 7 58 3 96.8
Kelley, Lukas QB CLE 0 3 1 0 29.6

Att - Attempts, Cmp - Completions, Pct - Completion Percentage,
Yards - Passing Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Completion, Ave/A - Yards per Attempt,
Lg - Longest Completion, TD - Passing Touchdowns, Int - Passes Intercepted,
20+T - Completions of 20 or More Yards, 300+ - 300-yard Games,
Rate - Quarterback Rating.


It's not that Arledge wasn't being leaned on as much as previous years, He was. He also didn;t have the WR talent he needed. 45 scks





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Rushing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Yards Avg Lg TD RZAtt Yards
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 16 15 369 1580 4.28 52 12 53 92
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 16 44 213 4.84 22 3 6 26
Angus, Nathan RB CLE 16 0 22 71 3.23 16 0 6 20
Strickland, Lorenzo RB CLE 16 0 14 23 1.64 7 0 1 -4
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 16 11 8 18 2.25 12 0 1 0
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 4 13 10 0.77 5 0 2 -3
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 16 16 5 10 2.00 7 0 0 0
Kelley, Lukas QB CLE 5 0 4 0 0.00 5 0 0 0



Lorey had a great season! 1580 rushing yard, 12 rush scores is great. And gives us something from here on out to use and harness. But that's not everything....




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Receiving Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Targ Ctch Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/T YAC
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 16 16 156 91 58.3 1000 10.99 6.41 365
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 16 15 104 68 65.4 700 10.29 6.73 395
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 16 15 72 55 76.4 606 11.02 8.42 203
Walford, Clive TE CLE 13 10 70 52 74.3 605 11.63 8.64 193
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 16 11 42 27 64.3 376 13.93 8.95 82
Downs, Hardy TE CLE 16 6 43 27 62.8 293 10.85 6.81 73
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 4 29 20 69.0 147 7.35 5.07 58
Stone, Zachery WR CLE 16 1 7 5 71.4 32 6.40 4.57 29
Bamburg, Jerry TE CLE 16 1 4 4 100.0 59 14.75 14.75 34
Fisher, Cooper WR CLE 16 0 5 3 60.0 27 9.00 5.40 2
DeValve, Seth TE CLE 3 1 2 1 50.0 14 14.00 7.00 5

Player Pos Team Lg TD Drp PPly TPct 20+C 100+
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 80 4 10 576 27.1 12 1
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 36 5 9 546 19.0 11 0
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 42 2 0 522 13.8 13 0
Walford, Clive TE CLE 36 7 5 405 17.3 9 0
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 51 2 1 294 14.3 5 0
Downs, Hardy TE CLE 34 0 2 283 15.2 5 0
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 29 0 0 172 16.9 2 0
Stone, Zachery WR CLE 23 1 0 23 30.4 1 0
Bamburg, Jerry TE CLE 39 1 0 28 14.3 1 0
Fisher, Cooper WR CLE 13 1 0 16 31.3 0 0
DeValve, Seth TE CLE 14 0 0 26 7.7 0 0

Targ - Targeted with Pass, Ctch - Receptions, Pct - Reception Percentage,
Yards - Receiving Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Catch, Avg/T - Yards per
Target, YAC - Yards Gained After Catch, Lg - Longest Reception,
TD - Receiving Touchdowns, Drp - Passes Dropped, PPly - Passing Plays
on Field, TPct - Percentage of Passing Plays Targeted, 20+C - Catches
of 20 Yards or More, 100+ - 100-Yard Games. 


As you can see, Lorey had 700 receiving yards an 5 catchign TDs as well. That is a lot o yards from scrimmage. Wright hit 1000 yards, precisely and had a down year/ TE Walford was having a nice season, too bad his injury stopped him from finishing, that would have been nice. He led the team in TD catches in 13 games.




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Blocking Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS KRB KRO BPct Pnck SkA PPly SPct
Scherff, Brandon G CLE 12 12 33 88 37.5 7 6 419 1.4
Coleman, Shon T CLE 16 16 30 76 39.5 2 5 581 0.9
Hannam, Allen T CLE 16 16 28 64 43.8 2 8 581 1.4
Graham, Andrew C CLE 16 16 28 82 34.1 0 11 581 1.9
Bitonio, Joel G CLE 7 7 15 39 38.5 0 3 262 1.1
Rivers, Juan C CLE 10 9 11 40 27.5 0 9 316 2.8
Auguston, Duane G CLE 5 4 6 14 42.9 0 3 162 1.9
Downs, Hardy TE CLE 16 6 4 12 33.3 0 0 283 0.0
Walford, Clive TE CLE 13 10 2 5 40.0 0 0 405 0.0
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 4 1 9 11.1 0 0 172 0.0
Maurer, Norman G CLE 6 0 0 3 0.0 0 0 3 0.0


Scherff was a great additions and played very well. Coleman looks nice and Hamman was no slouch. Graham with a few more sacks allowed than normal though.




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Defensive Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Tckl Asst Sack Blkd Hurr QBKd
Banda, Robert ILB CLE 16 16 120 27 4.5 0 1 0
Kirksey, Chris ILB CLE 16 16 105 35 1.0 0 2 1
Harrison, Antoine CB CLE 16 16 75 18 0.0 0 0 0
Stanton, Julio DE CLE 16 15 56 23 12.5 6 27 31
Tatum, Miles S CLE 16 9 56 17 0.0 0 0 0
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 15 15 46 18 0.0 0 1 0
Logan, Bennie DT CLE 16 16 43 20 8.0 1 11 13
Horton, Vince ILB CLE 16 5 43 12 1.5 0 2 1
Baxter, Lincoln S CLE 16 13 39 17 0.0 0 0 0
Raymond, Rex DT CLE 16 16 35 13 6.0 5 8 2
Howard, Lincoln CB CLE 16 12 34 6 1.0 0 1 0
Joseph, Karl S CLE 7 7 32 9 0.0 0 0 0
Horner, Joey DE CLE 16 16 29 12 15.0 4 23 25
Clifford, Rodolfo CB CLE 16 3 11 6 0.0 0 0 0
Porter, Walter CB CLE 16 0 7 0 0.0 0 1 0
Dunn, Michael DE CLE 16 1 5 2 2.5 0 1 0
Staat, Scott OLB CLE 7 0 4 0 0.0 0 0 0
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 16 15 3 0 0.0 0 0 0
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 4 2 0 0.0 0 0 0
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 16 16 2 0 0.0 0 0 0
Hawkins, Andrew WR CLE 16 11 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Walford, Clive TE CLE 13 10 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 16 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 16 15 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Downs, Hardy TE CLE 16 6 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Newman, Enrique DT CLE 5 0 1 1 0.0 0 0 0
Nelson, Sawyer OLB CLE 13 0 1 0 0.0 0 0 0


At 15 sacks, Horner led the league in sacks. Stanton led the league in both hurries and QB Knocked down, and 12.5 sacks was 7th among all players. 8 aacks for Logan is great as well, and his thrid al pro int eh last six years of this dynasty

In tackles, Banda looked nice as well.





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Pass Coverage Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Ints IRYd TD Defn Cght PPly PDPct
Banda, Robert ILB CLE 16 16 3 63 0 5 55 580 74.5
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 15 15 3 71 0 5 43 563 77.1
Kirksey, Chris ILB CLE 16 16 2 50 1 4 48 533 74.1
Harrison, Antoine CB CLE 16 16 2 47 1 8 46 613 77.2
Joseph, Karl S CLE 7 7 1 0 0 2 14 234 78.7
Tatum, Miles S CLE 16 9 1 0 0 8 23 413 81.0
Logan, Bennie DT CLE 16 16 0 0 0 0 4 618 81.7
Raymond, Rex DT CLE 16 16 0 0 0 0 5 447 81.1
Dunn, Michael DE CLE 16 1 0 0 0 0 1 221 82.0
Horner, Joey DE CLE 16 16 0 0 0 2 4 618 82.5
Stanton, Julio DE CLE 16 15 0 0 0 0 6 538 81.0
Clifford, Rodolfo CB CLE 16 3 0 0 0 2 8 122 77.7
Baxter, Lincoln S CLE 16 13 0 0 0 8 27 503 79.2
Horton, Vince ILB CLE 16 5 0 0 0 4 26 215 70.7
Staat, Scott OLB CLE 7 0 0 0 0 2 4 13 78.7
Nelson, Sawyer OLB CLE 13 0 0 0 0 0 1 16 74.4
Howard, Lincoln CB CLE 16 12 0 0 0 9 26 408 79.3
Porter, Walter CB CLE 16 0 0 0 0 0 7 83 71.2

Ints - Interceptions, IRYd - Interception Return Yardage, TD - Interception
Return Touchdowns, Cght - Passes Caught by Covered Receiver, Defn - Passes
Defensed, PPly - Passing Plays on Field, PDPct - Pass Defense Percentage. 


You can see we have a lot fewer picks this year. Baxter, Clifford, Tatum. Harrison all had a solid 8 pasdef. Don;t forget we had a lot of injuries in teh S and CB section of the team.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:


Offensive MVP – OG Brandon Scherff – He was on his way to an All Pro season before his injury. He still finished with 33 KRB and 7 pancakes in 12 games. Good job Scherff!

Defensive MVP – LB Banda – First All Pro nod – 12- solo tackles, 27 assists, 4.5 sacks, 3 picks, 5 pasdef, 4 FF. 1 rec. He dud a great job and finally had he best season to date. Thanks buddy!

Special Teams MVP – CB Clifford He had 2 KR RET TDs What’s even weirder is he only had NIEN RETURNS ON THE SEASON! Normally Fisher is my primary returned, and he had one as well. In fact, Clifford is the only player with more than one KR TD this team.

Rookie of the Year – RB Lorey. This year was all about Lorey. And he was fine – 1580 and 12 is a fine rushing season. Add on 700 receiving yards and 5 rec TDS and it’s something good

Heart Award – DT Rex Raymond – 6 sacks as a 36/36 last man standing at the DT spot is great. He even had the 2nd most blocked passes for my team with 5. Dude was good!

Another Brown Out from the D Line. Three All Pros, a 6 sacks from Raymond. Even in a down year, we still had 42 sacks from those folks

[Abe Sargent]

I need to commit more to this challenge. I can’t be content getting my QB wins. I need him to set records. Right now, he’s more of a caretaker that hands the ball off and makes the safe pass. And that works. But… we need to get him fixed.

I need WR help.

After 6 years there are Arledge, Ryan. Newton, Luck, Goff, Dalton, Garoppolo, <aroota, Bortles, Bridgewater, Tannehil, Kaepnerick, Paxton Lynch, Winston, Wentez, and Prescot and Cpunsins and EJ Manuel and Wilson that have been starting for 6 seasons. Of that list, Arledge has the most passing yards (he’s just 150 more than Ryan) and pass TDs, 20 more than Ryan, and the best QB rating.

It’s time to make some changes, I’m thinking…

End Season:

Team Performance 86
Value – 84
Profit – 76
Roster 2

76 score


Retirees of note:

TE Gronk, Fleener, Julis Thomas
WR Demaryius Thomas, Crabtree, Dez, Mcluster
OG Beadles, Nate Solder,
DE Robert Quinn, Cameron Jordan, NDam Suh, Derrocl <prgam
LC Clay Matthews, Vontae Davis
S TJ Ward, Tashaun Gipson, Mike Mitchell, etc

Hall of fame inductees – Ware, Wilfork, and Witten

Our stadium reno is finished with a brand new parking lot

[CraigSca]

Roone must be so proud of his boy!

[Abe Sargent]

I suppose so!

[Abe Sargent]

Meet our new Head Coach – Mickey Harrison – was head coach of GB and Chicago. Better than our previous at everything that matters save Young talent, where he’s about 25 or so (around 50 vs 70).


Meet our new Defensive Coordinator – Tyrus Savea, a 3-4 Eagle enthusiasts!

I need to change this up.


I select a new AC – Brain Chu, specialist with secondary


For a cast of 13.8 mill, I tag Stanton

The person with the most sacks in a career is Bruce Smith at 200. Stanton has 75 in the first five years. Most sacks in a game was Thomas with 7.0, until someone got 7.5 baby. (Horner) Horner has 100 sacks in 6 seasons.


Major Players on FA:

DT Rex Raymond
TE Hardy Downs
That’s it actually

[Abe Sargent]

Free Agency!

We are 7.2 mill under the cap. We are below the cap needed with our draft picks. We do have 45 players on our roster right now. So we need to figure out our roster:


Major players in final year of their deal –

TE Walford, DeValve
FL Wright, Hawkins
DT Logan
SS Joseph
LT Hannam, Ellison
P Emerson
C Graham, Rivers
DE Dunn and Stanton
CB Clifford
FS Baxter
K Crosby
LS Newsome


That is a lot of players. Mission critical players include Wright, Coleman

I cut Hawkins. He’s dropped to 46/46, and he’s too pricey.

I have a liot of players entering year 7 that have been with my first draft or that FA Class – Shon Coleman, Devalve, Emerson, Newsome, Dunn, DT Raymond, DE Horner, C Graham and QB Arledge. But it’s time to cut some of these players I’ve had with me the whole dynasty.

Good bye Devalve. I need that 2 mill.

I extend Emerson two more years. Newsom for vet min sal.

At the age of 32, Logan has dropped to 57/57. Even if I extend him by one year, and drop his cap hit this year by 2 mill, and just 6 mill next, that’s a lot for a guy who’s aging and dropping. Cutting Logan is the key to clearing up space on my team. But it permanently breaks up the band in a major way.

Now a couple of things. Logan is my defensive front leader, idolized, and ideal front fit in as a DT in the 3-4. So I don’t have to find a different guy for my team. But I need to resign a lot of players as you can see.

So I cut Logan.

I make offers to some RFAs:

RB Angus and Strickland
LCB Fiebelkorn and RCB Porter

I can resign these starters for either small bonuses, or very little increases in salary – C Graham, Coleman, SS Joseph. Coleman is 30. Graham is okay but not amazing, and Joseph ahas been disappointing but not sucky.

But they aren’t about this year, but future years. I go ahead and extend Coleman, I hold off on graham, there are a pair of good OCs in the draft, in case I wind up with one.

I move forward a week to see what FAs want

Last yeaer, LT HHannam was 28 KRB and 8 sacks allowed and 2 pacackes. He is rated in the high 40s these days, and has 56 rub, 69 pass, 0 str, and 47 end.

There is a guy, same age, in the FA< who would have the same cap hit this year, and if I extend Hannam would be 2 mill fewer. So I make an offer to Lt Donovan Smith for three years. I sign UFA QB Kelley

[Abe Sargent]

I need:

TEx3
Staring WR
WR
OG
Starting DT for 3-4
LB? I have Kirksey, Banda, Horton and Nelson. But the 3-4 Eagle often starts a LB in the DT spot.
CB
S

I have 47 players under contract right now. I have no 2nd rounder, but 9 total picks. So I can build the depth and middle of my roster.

I start with some interviews. DT first. WR Second. There are 4 stud Qbs in the in the draft. And another very good TE. I need to renovate my receivers

WR Sterling shepherd is a FA, and 64/63, but 7th eyar and wants 32 mill over 4 years. I could see myself making a play for Shepard if I didn’t have to resign Wright. The next best is 52/52 Antoniio Brown or Ralph Conley.

There are no major options at DT that I love. The best is DT Bernard Brandon. So I move Dunn to NT. He’s better than a lot of these bums.

Do I want to make a play for Wright, or save him for tag next year?Let;s hold off for now

I’m good for now on chasing FAs

Week 4 - Uh oh. We sign Smith yay! But….RB Zeke signed with the Steelers. Yuck I cut Hannam

Given the number of draft picks I have, I move to the Draft!

[Abe Sargent]

The 2022 NFL Amateur Draft!

There are a lot of players with nearly perfect bars – MLB Matt Black, QB Cote, DE Hastings,

Black will go 1.14 and Hasting 1.15


First player taken is QB Chandler Cote to the Giants.

1.30 arrives. FS Zachery George? FL Rodney Riley? NT Cantwell? DEbailey?

Best two WR on the board are:

Weston Stacey, four red stats, 68 vol, impression is as scouted – good at avoid drops, getting down field, route, horrible 3rd down, adequate big play, low courage and adjust to ball.

Rodney Riley 0 1 red, 3 blues, 26 vol, underrated, grat avoid, downfield, and route, poor 3rd down, low big play, solid courage and adjust.

Who do I like more? The underrated one or the as scouted one with the great stats. Hey have identical avoid drops and downfield.

Stacey – worse, a bit, in route running; worse in 3rd down, a little better in big play, worse in courage, worse a bit in adjust to ball

So Riley has the better stats, and is a kick return specialist. Too.

The slightly better underrated bars, or the as scouted red stats.

Riley it is.



3.30 – OG Clinton? SS Kempthorn? Kempthron

4.4 – TE Frederickson or Timlin? Mackenzie Timlin

Mid 4 – OT Benson? WLB Krauchhick – Krauchick

Late 4th OT Benson

Late 5th – CB Jose Gonzalez

Mid 6th – OG Wyatt Sawyer

Late 6th - WR Larry Benning

7.30. WLB Dylan Nichols


Amateur Draft Report:

Rnd 1 - Rodney Riley, WR, Oregon State
Rnd 3 - Scottie Kempthorn, S, Southern California
Rnd 4 - Mackenzie Timlin, TE, Louisville
Rnd 4 - Willie Benson, T, Wisconsin
Rnd 4 - Dean Krauchick, OLB, Arizona State
Rnd 5 - Joseph Gonzalez, CB, Kansas
Rnd 6 - Larry Bening, WR, Houston
Rnd 6 - Wyatt Sawyer, G, Kansas
Rnd 7 - Dylan Nichols, OLB, West Virginia

[Abe Sargent]

Riley 30/67
Kemp 23/63
Nichols – 23/63
Krauchick – 33/75
Gonzalez – 29/51
Timlin – 21/48
Sawyer 12/47
Bening 16/38
Benson 22/54

Current post-draft feels B+ rating

I just keep getting LBs to fall. The rest of the league doesn’t respect it. And the best DE in ages, better than Stanton, just went 1.22, With a 100 potential rating.


There are a few UFAs of interest. The best is Buddy Hatcher , C, with a potential of 71 and I am also making an offer for P Lucas Robertson, with a 70+ potential as well. LCB Harvey Ellard, RB Les Kluge and a few more.

Now I still need some TE stuff. We only have two TEs under contract. I offer to UFA Amir Foudray and Edgar Ruddy


Week 2 – 2 sign with us.

Week 3 – Three more do

Week 4 – The last signs.

We have 62 people under roster. Anything else?

[Abe Sargent]

CAMP!

Let’s take a look around.

Early results on rookies is a bust with P Robertson,

Here we are with the first batch:

LB KRau 39/75
FL Riley 39/64
SS Kemp 29/62
C Hatc 24/60
LB Nichols 31/60
P 30/57
CB Gonzalez 34/50
T Benson 26/4
CB Ellard 24/42
RB Kluge 35/39
TE Timlin 24/38
SE Bening 19/37
TE Ruddy 27/36
TE Foudray 24/45
RG Sawyer 15/43

I cut:

WR cooper Fisher, my returner. Bening is my new retuners, who is a better receiver as well as a potentially better returner

RB Les Kluge = Busted in camp
OG Duane Auguston
CB porter
OT Earnest Ellison

I extend SE Dustin Wright by 5 years, 60 mill


I decide to not make offers to retain either SS Karl Joseph or FS baxter.

I finish the preseason 30-1


I cut:

P Robertson
C Hatcher, dropped to 52 pot
CB Ellard
SLB Garcia

I extend C Graham by 4 years

[Abe Sargent]

Front Office Football Eight
Cleveland Browns Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Kelley, Lukas 108 QB 2 19 40 2 yrs.
Arledge, Brendan 114 QB QB 7 39 39 2 yrs.
##Jones, Cardale 104 QB 7 34 34 1 yr.
Lorey, Diego 222 RB RB 2 76 76 3 yrs.
##Strickland, Lorenzo 220 RB 2 46 50 2 yrs.
Angus, Nathan 230 RB 2 47 47 1 yr.
Stevison, Jace 229 RB 3 41 46 2 yrs.
Schuster, Ralph 331 FB FB 4 65 65 3 yrs.
Walford, Clive 443 TE TE 8 46 46 1 yr.
Timlin, Mackenzie 482 TE 1 23 44 4 yrs.
Ruddy, Edgar 442 TE 1 28 41 1 yr.
##Foudray, Amir 489 TE 1 26 35 1 yr.
Riley, Rodney 586 FL SE 1 39 72 4 yrs.
Lynch, Gabriel 513 FL 6 54 54 2 yrs.
Wright, Dustin 512 SE FL 4 63 63 5 yrs.
Stone, Zachery 584 SE 3 39 41 2 yrs.
Bening, Larry 585 SE 1 19 36 4 yrs.
Graham, Andrew 679 C C 7 57 57 4 yrs.
Rivers, Juan 654 C 4 54 54 1 yr.
Scherff, Brandon 762 LG LG 8 63 63 3 yrs.
Bitonio, Joel 775 RG RG 9 67 67 3 yrs.
Maurer, Norman 764 RG 2 42 66 3 yrs.
Sawyer, Wyatt 767 RG 1 15 45 4 yrs.
Smith, Donovan 866 LT LT 8 59 59 3 yrs.
Neumeyer, Bart 877 LT 2 30 44 3 yrs.
Coleman, Shon 872 RT RT 7 66 66 3 yrs.
##Benson, Willie 869 RT 1 24 38 4 yrs.
Emerson, Rob 915 P 7 64 64 3 yrs.
Crosby, Mason 1017K 16 63 63 1 yr.
##Clayton, Pete 1194LDE 2 24 44 3 yrs.
Stanton, Julio 1199RDE LDE 6 86 86 1 yr.
Horner, Joey 1193RDE RDE 7 59 59 2 yrs.
Newman, Enrique 1298RDT 2 29 42 3 yrs.
Dunn, Michael 1278NT NT 7 56 56 1 yr.
Morton, Stephen 1276NT 2 46 46 3 yrs.
Nelson, Sawyer 1397WILB 2 61 77 3 yrs.
Horton, Vince 1396WILB WILB 3 71 71 2 yrs.
Kirksey, Chris 1358WILB SILB 9 65 65 2 yrs.
Banda, Robert 1495SLB SLB 6 62 62 3 yrs.
##Staat, Scott 1452SLB 3 42 42 2 yrs.
Krauchick, Dean 1456WLB WLB 1 39 71 4 yrs.
Nichols, Dylan 1457WLB 1 34 52 4 yrs.
Harrison, Antoine 1538LCB RCB 6 61 61 2 yrs.
Gonzalez, Joseph 1523LCB 1 38 53 4 yrs.
Howard, Lincoln 1525LCB 2 44 47 3 yrs.
Clifford, Rodolfo 1537LCB 4 44 44 1 yr.
##Fiebelkorn, Korey 1545LCB 2 38 38 2 yrs.
Schmidtke, Cooper 1549RCB LCB 6 65 65 3 yrs.
Kempthorn, Scottie 1641SS 1 30 60 4 yrs.
Joseph, Karl 1636SS 7 51 51 1 yr.
Tatum, Miles 1640FS SS 3 56 56 2 yrs.
Baxter, Lincoln 1628FS FS 4 55 55 1 yr.
Newsome, Bo 659 LS 7 17 17 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $189,600,000
Cap Room: $7,830,000
Maximum for New Player: $8,470,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $12,550,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $50,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $151,730,000


It's like good linebackers just flock to me!

[Abe Sargent]

I wanted to have my F Tag available next year, so I extend Stanton the big, giant cash he wants and needs. That guy is my JJ watt, and I’m not letting him out of my sight

Why is Stanton unwilling to sign for me? It says, due to past injustices my player is unwilling to sign with your team. What injustices? He likes me. He’s content.

Looks like the double franchise tag pisses him off. Had I known that, I could have fought for him in FA and not tagged him, or just traded him in the draft to move up higher than the stud DE there was available and just moved him.

For now, I’ll keep it as going, and look at potentially tagging Stanton next year and keep him tagged until I have a good replacement.


Week 1 – We win 26-6 over the Ravens. MOM is RB Diego Lorey with 23 carries, 153 yard and a score. Arledge was 18 of 29, 148 and 0:0. DE Horner had a fumble and return for a score. Picks by Baxter and Banda,

After the game, CB Harrison is injured with an Achilles tendon and out for a month. CB Lincoln Howard is starting until his return.

Week 2 – We crush the Falcons 31-13. Arledge, MOM, 20 of 32 and 3:0, 247 yards. He hits TE Walford Lynch and FB Schuster for a scores. Lorey adds 103 and a TD on the ground. Pick by Baxter.

Week 3 – We head to Mile High Stadium and lose 17-24. Lorey held to 64 yards, Arledge was 18 of 30 for 174 and 1:0 with Wright catching the score. 3 sacks by Stanton.

Week 4 – We beat the Bills 27-23. Arledge was MOM and hit Riley and Lynch for cores. Riley retired a KO 92 yards for a s core. Lorey 88 yards, pick by LB Nelson.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 5 – We thump the Steelers 33-13. Arledge is MVp with 24 of 28, 264 and 3:0. He hits TE Walford twice for scores and FB Schuster once. Lorey rushes 77 on the ground plus a score. 2 sacks by Kirksey, another by Banda and one by Horner

CB antoine Harrison is healthy again and returns from his injury. RB Lorye broke his finger.

Week 6 – We beat Miami 21-9. MOM is NFL Defensive Player of the Week S Miles Tatum ad his two picks. Lorey has 21 for 131 yards, and Arledge 24 of 32 for 186 and 1:0 – hitting Wright for a score. Stanton knocks a field goal, and returns is 98 yards for as core!


Week 7 – In a battle of 5 win teams, our defenses wills a win when the Kets shut our offense down, keeping Arledge and Lorey scoreless and pedestrian. We have 3 forces fumbles, 5 picks, one of which is returned by Baxter for a score.


Week 8 – We lose at New England 34-31. They held Lorey to 5 yards on 17 carries, Arledge rushes or a score, and tosses 29 of 43 for 324 and 3:1 – hitting Wright twice for TD s and 106 yards, and Schuster for another TD.


We are 6-2

LT Smith is doubtful with a hyperextended elbow, and the broken finger is healed. OG Bitonio questionable for a few weeks. I start OG Maurer for Smith.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 9 – We lose o the Ravens 24-30. Arledge is 22 of 39 for232 yards and a score. RB Lorey rushes for a score and 82 yards. And CB Harrison picks and returns it for a score as well.

Week 10 – BYE

Week 11 – We head to 6-3 Cincinnati and…on the first drive of the game, QB Arledge is injured and knocked out. QB Kelley is asked to step up, but this is really an opportunity for the coaches to lean on Lorey. Lowey has 215 yards, 1 TD on the ground, and Kelley another ground score. Kelley had 16 of 27 for 1:0, and hit WR Riley for a score. Meanwhile S Miles Tatum gets a pick and returns it for score. We win 34-14.

Arledge is questionable for 3 weeks with a sprained knee

I decide to go ahead and start him. LT Smith back.

Week 12 – We beat the 55- Saints 28-7. MOM is Arledge with 31 of 44, 318, and 3:1. He its Wright for 128 yards and as core and TE Walford for 103 yards, plus FB Schuster and RB Loery for scores. Lorey adds 105 yards on 21 carries and score on the ground. Pick by Baxter. 5 KRB by OT Shon Coleman. 2 sacks by LB Sawyer nelson.

Now unfortunately we have a pair of players out.

RG Joel Bitonio – Out for 7 weeks with a broken tibia
FS Miles Tatum – strained achilles tendon, out for 4 weeks
DE Julio Stanton, question with a strained hammy

OG Maurer and SS Thomas will start.

Week 13 – We host the 7-4 Colts and send them home, barely, 20-19. Karl Joseph is MVP with a pick and return 82 yards for as core. Kirksey with another pick. Lorey held 67 yards, and a score, and Arledge was damaged – 21 of 35, 191, 1:3. He hit Riley for that score

In other news, Stanton already came back from his injury

9-3

[Abe Sargent]

ILB Horton is injured for 3 weeks with a separated shoulder. I’ll start rookie Krauchick.

Week 14 – We crush the 8-4 Panthers 30-3. MOM isi Arledge with 19 of 27, 223 and 3:0 – hitting TE Walford, RB Lorey and FB Schuster for scores. 19 for 72 by Lorey. We have three picks – Joseph, CB Harrison and S Baxter .

Week 15 – We lose a tough match against the 8-5 bengalss 34-27. They chose to shut down Lorey hard, hoping that would stop us. It didn’t. Arlddge was 33 of 46 for 353 and 2:0 and hit Riley and Lynch for scores Lynch with 122 yards. LB Banda with a pick and returned for a core. 2 sacks each by Horner and Stanton. This would have been a OT game by Cincinnati made a 54 yard punt return for a score. Ah well.

S Miles Tatum is well and back in the lineup.

Week 16 - We head to Tampa and don’t do much 13-3. But it’s a win. Arledge MOM with 24 for 31 and 219 0:0. Lorery had 19 for 104 and 1. We blocked a punt and backup LB Staat returned it for a score. That’s our line TD>

LB Horton is back.


Week 17 – We finish with the 9-6 Steelers. We beat them 30-17. Picks by Tatum and Baxter, and Tatum returned one for as core. Arledge, MVP, 20 of 29, 232, 1:0 – he hit WR Wright for that score. Lorey was 22 for 81, and 1 scores.

C Graham is out for 7 weeks. I bench him and start C Rivers. Rivers finished that game with 3 KRB.

We are 12-4, and have the #2 seed. The Broncos, at 14-2, re #1, and the Jets are 12-4 as well. Colts at 10-6, Bengals 11-5, and KC at 10-6 wrap to up. Every team at 10 or more wins. We also have a 9-7 Oakland and 9-7 Pittsburgh and 8-8 Ravens, so again, we have a rough divion.s Only two teams in the NFC have 10 digit wins, and the lead is the Vikes at 11-5 and then the Giants at 10-6

[Abe Sargent]

The 2022 NFL Playoffs!!!!



Wild Wild CARD CARD Weekend –

Carolina heats to Tampa and gets thumped 30-13.
Dallas heads to Arizona and wins 29-26

Meanwhile in the AFC, which we clearly care about more, the Jets handle the Chefs 31-19 and the Bengals head to Indy and defeat the Colts 30-27

That sets up….


Week 2, Divisional Playoffs

OG Bitonio back from injury


12-4 Jets at 12-4 Cleveland
11-5 Bengals at 14-2 Broncos

Dallas heads to Minnesota
Tampa to New York


I am rooting hard for the Bengals!

Let’s go Ohio!


Dallas loses to the Vikings 35-14
New York beats the Bucs 23-13

Cincinnati just unloads 45-27.

What about us?

MOM is Arledge, 25 of 35, 282, 3:0, hits Lynch, TE Walford and Riley for scorse, Lorey adds 107 yards. Pick by Baxter,sacks by Stanton, Horner and Kirksey


No major injuries

[Abe Sargent]

NFL Conference Championship:


#2 seed Cleveland Browns, 12-4

Vs

#5 seed Cincinnati Bengals 11-5


And some bums in the NFC – New York at Minnesota

We lost to the Bengals 27-34 in Cincy and then lost to us here 34-14. So we split our series earlier in the season


The Giants wen 31-17

And we win. By a lot. 45-3

Arledge, 19 of 25, 4:0. Hits Wright, Lorey, Walford and Lynch fro scores. Lorey adds 128 yards on the ground. 2 picks by Tatum and another by LB Vince Horton returned for a score. Sacks by Horner and Stanton. C Juan Rivers has 6 KRB.

We have some injuries.

CB Joe Gonzalez is out with a concussion for a Super Bowl.

OG Bitonio doubtful for a month. I bench him for OG Maurer

[Abe Sargent]

The 2022-23 NFL Super Bowl

Featuring

Your NFC Champions, the #2 seed New York Giants

Vs

Your AFC Champion, the #2 seed 12-4 Cleveland Browns

The Browns are favored by a touchdown.

The Giants have four players out with injuries. TE Morgan, WR Martinez, both starters, FS Tartt and PB Mercier, their defensive stud a 70/70 guy.

Remember the stud QB Chandler Cote? Taken in the top pick this year in the draft? Well he’s taken by the Giants. He made it to the Super Bowl in his rookie season. Annoying right?

We have to end him. I’m feeling a strong Brown Out for today’s game!

Amiright??????????

They play us very, very hard. No Brown Out Here…

Drive 1 by Giants, ends with punt
Drive 1 by us, punt
They have a drive that ends with a pick by Tati,
We drive 23 yards for a score in two plays – Rodney Riley, 23 yard reception from Arledge scores. The rookie with a Super Bowl score!

That is going to be the last time we score a TD…..

They drive and it ends with a fumble. Forced by LB Sawyer Nelson, recovered by CB Howard.
We drive and score a FG to go up 10-0

End of 1st quarter

They drive and score a FG. 10-3.

Drive #4 sees us go three and out and punt
Their 5th drive is a…..10 play, 56 yard drive, with a TD. 10—10
We respond with a 6 play, 44 yard drive, that end with a FG. 13-10 us.

Their 6th drive is over on downs after 9 plays and 33 yards

We drive, go a great 3 players and -4 yards and put

They run out time,

HALF – we are up 13-10

We start with the ball. We man up. We need to make this game shorter. So we have a 12 play griding drive, 61 yards. We score a FG with 5:39 on the 3rd quarter clock to get a FG. 16-10

That will be the last time we score…

They get the ball and drove. 15 players, 68 yards. They score a FG. 16-13

We get it and a few plays later we are forced to punt.

End of 3rd quarter

They drive, and have to punt after 5 plays

We get the ball with 10:48 left. We drive. Hard, long, grinding. We just get 41 yards, but over 13 plays. We have the ball for 8:08 minutes, and punt it to them at the 2:40 mark .

They get the ball at their 20 yard line after P Rob Emerson gets a touchback

First play by rookie sensation Cote – complete to TE Wager, 12 yards, out of bounds
Second play – Cote hits WR Carthon for 11 yards, defensive penalty for defensive holding on CB Schmidtke declines, but stops the clock
Third play – Cote incomplete
Fourth play – Cote finds TE Wagner for 4 yards, and in bounds
TWO MINUTE WARNING

Fifth play Cote is forced to scramble as out 3-4 just blows through him, LB Banda brings him down after he gets 4 yards
Sixth Play – Cote hits TE Simon for 18 yards in bound
Seventh Play – Cote completed to TE Simon for 6 yards in bounds

TIME OUT BY NYG

Eighth Play – Cote hits WR Liam Dunn for 17 yards who goes out of bounds.

Cote has moved the ball very effectively from their 20 to the our 23 yard line with 1:10 left on the clock and a new set of downs.

Ninth Play, Giants run RB Walter Spiller for 3 yards. DT Michael Dunn tackles him, forces a fumble, which DE Horner recovers.

And that’s the game!

We win 16-13

[Abe Sargent]

Season Awards:

Super Bowl MVP – QB Brendan Arledge

All League 1st Team – FB Ralph Schuster, DE Julio Stanton,
All League 2nd Team – FS Miles Tatum






Stats!!!



Front Office Football Eight
Passing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Cmp Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/A Lg
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 16 515 344 66.8 3483 10.13 6.76 58
Kelley, Lukas QB CLE 4 0 37 23 62.2 204 8.87 5.51 27

Player Pos Team TD Int 20+T 300+ Rating
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 23 6 43 3 95.9
Kelley, Lukas QB CLE 2 0 3 0 94.8

Att - Attempts, Cmp - Completions, Pct - Completion Percentage,
Yards - Passing Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Completion, Ave/A - Yards per Attempt,
Lg - Longest Completion, TD - Passing Touchdowns, Int - Passes Intercepted,
20+T - Completions of 20 or More Yards, 300+ - 300-yard Games,
Rate - Quarterback Rating.


Not a pretty year for Arledge. He was fine at the half, with 1 pick and like 13 TDs and yards. But the injuries and such slowed him down, and we had a weaker season. He finished 21st in passing yards, tied for 12th in pass TDs, 5th in QB rating


Rushing?




Front Office Football Eight
Passing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Cmp Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/A Lg
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 16 515 344 66.8 3483 10.13 6.76 58
Kelley, Lukas QB CLE 4 0 37 23 62.2 204 8.87 5.51 27

Player Pos Team TD Int 20+T 300+ Rating
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 23 6 43 3 95.9
Kelley, Lukas QB CLE 2 0 3 0 94.8

Att - Attempts, Cmp - Completions, Pct - Completion Percentage,
Yards - Passing Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Completion, Ave/A - Yards per Attempt,
Lg - Longest Completion, TD - Passing Touchdowns, Int - Passes Intercepted,
20+T - Completions of 20 or More Yards, 300+ - 300-yard Games,
Rate - Quarterback Rating.


Lorey was 3rd in the league in rushing yards



Catching?





Front Office Football Eight
Receiving Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Targ Ctch Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/T YAC
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 16 13 121 84 69.4 989 11.77 8.17 398
Walford, Clive TE CLE 16 16 108 69 63.9 693 10.04 6.42 147
Riley, Rodney WR CLE 16 16 106 67 63.2 646 9.64 6.09 188
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 16 16 85 66 77.6 399 6.05 4.69 197
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 7 60 39 65.0 372 9.54 6.20 157
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 16 9 56 37 66.1 492 13.30 8.79 136
Timlin, Mackenzie TE CLE 16 3 8 2 25.0 49 24.50 6.13 23
Ruddy, Edgar TE CLE 11 0 2 2 100.0 44 22.00 22.00 25
Stone, Zachery WR CLE 16 0 4 1 25.0 3 3.00 0.75 0

Player Pos Team Lg TD Drp PPly TPct 20+C 100+
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 48 7 3 518 23.4 11 2
Walford, Clive TE CLE 36 4 7 541 20.0 8 1
Riley, Rodney WR CLE 38 4 5 569 18.6 10 0
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 35 2 2 543 15.7 4 0
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 33 5 4 273 22.0 5 0
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 58 3 2 350 16.0 6 1
Timlin, Mackenzie TE CLE 32 0 0 70 11.4 1 0
Ruddy, Edgar TE CLE 33 0 0 5 40.0 1 0
Stone, Zachery WR CLE 3 0 1 52 7.7 0 0

Targ - Targeted with Pass, Ctch - Receptions, Pct - Reception Percentage,
Yards - Receiving Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Catch, Avg/T - Yards per
Target, YAC - Yards Gained After Catch, Lg - Longest Reception,
TD - Receiving Touchdowns, Drp - Passes Dropped, PPly - Passing Plays
on Field, TPct - Percentage of Passing Plays Targeted, 20+C - Catches
of 20 Yards or More, 100+ - 100-Yard Games.


Down year for QB Arledge leads to a down year here as well

Blocking?



Front Office Football Eight
Blocking Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS KRB KRO BPct Pnck SkA PPly SPct
Scherff, Brandon G CLE 16 16 32 70 45.7 2 10 568 1.8
Coleman, Shon T CLE 16 16 29 81 35.8 1 8 587 1.4
Bitonio, Joel G CLE 11 11 24 67 35.8 0 2 360 0.6
Graham, Andrew C CLE 16 16 22 76 28.9 0 3 558 0.5
Smith, Donovan T CLE 15 15 12 36 33.3 0 9 526 1.7
Walford, Clive TE CLE 16 16 6 10 60.0 0 0 541 0.0
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 7 6 16 37.5 0 0 273 0.0
Maurer, Norman G CLE 8 6 6 19 31.6 0 3 271 1.1
Rivers, Juan C CLE 2 0 3 9 33.3 0 0 29 0.0
Neumeyer, Bart T CLE 4 0 0 4 0.0 0 0 17 0.0
Timlin, Mackenzie TE CLE 16 3 0 1 0.0 0 0 70 0.0
Sawyer, Wyatt G CLE 2 0 0 3 0.0 0 0 19 0.0
Benson, Willie T CLE 1 0 0 1 0.0 0 0 0 0.0


Scherff was 4th for OGS for KRB. I was holding out hope for an AllPro 2nd team. Sacks allowed had to hold him back from him



1 KR RET TD FOR WR Rilery
K Crosby was 31 of 32 FG, but just 42 of 46 on PAT. Yuck
P Emerson - 98 punts, 48.3 avg, 37.6 net


DEFENSE!

How did the first year of my 3-4 defense do?




Front Office Football Eight
Defensive Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Tckl Asst Sack Blkd Hurr QBKd
Kirksey, Chris ILB CLE 16 16 101 36 3.5 1 4 6
Banda, Robert OLB CLE 16 16 92 27 2.5 3 7 0
Tatum, Miles S CLE 14 14 85 33 1.0 0 0 0
Nelson, Sawyer ILB CLE 16 16 84 26 4.5 4 4 1
Baxter, Lincoln S CLE 16 16 61 31 0.0 0 0 0
Stanton, Julio DE CLE 15 15 49 17 11.5 2 17 17
Howard, Lincoln CB CLE 16 10 45 8 2.0 0 0 0
Horton, Vince ILB CLE 13 5 43 10 0.0 1 0 0
Harrison, Antoine CB CLE 12 12 41 8 1.0 1 0 0
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 16 16 40 15 1.0 0 0 0
Dunn, Michael DT CLE 16 16 38 19 4.5 2 11 0
Joseph, Karl S CLE 16 5 37 5 0.0 0 0 0
Horner, Joey DE CLE 16 16 32 19 10.5 5 21 15
Krauchick, Dean OLB CLE 4 2 11 2 0.0 0 2 0
Nichols, Dylan OLB CLE 14 1 5 2 0.0 0 0 0
Gonzalez, Joseph CB CLE 10 0 5 1 0.0 0 0 0
Clifford, Rodolfo CB CLE 16 0 4 0 0.0 0 0 0
Staat, Scott OLB CLE 3 0 4 0 0.0 0 0 0
Graham, Andrew C CLE 16 16 2 0 0.0 0 0 0
Morton, Stephen DT CLE 16 0 2 0 1.0 0 0 0
Fiebelkorn, Korey CB CLE 6 0 2 1 0.0 0 0 0
Riley, Rodney WR CLE 16 16 2 0 0.0 0 0 0
Walford, Clive TE CLE 16 16 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 16 9 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 16 13 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 16 16 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Kempthorn, Scottie S CLE 8 0 1 1 0.0 0 0 0



Stanton was tied for 3rd in the league with sacks, Horner was 5th. And Dunn was respectable in the DT spot.



Coverage?



Front Office Football Eight
Pass Coverage Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Ints IRYd TD Defn Cght PPly PDPct
Baxter, Lincoln S CLE 16 16 6 106 1 13 43 646 83.1
Tatum, Miles S CLE 14 14 5 108 2 9 37 542 82.1
Banda, Robert OLB CLE 16 16 3 67 1 6 51 637 76.4
Kirksey, Chris ILB CLE 16 16 2 8 0 4 43 640 76.6
Joseph, Karl S CLE 16 5 2 82 1 4 25 183 75.0
Harrison, Antoine CB CLE 12 12 2 70 1 6 29 450 79.3
Horton, Vince ILB CLE 13 5 1 0 0 0 17 173 72.3
Nelson, Sawyer ILB CLE 16 16 1 1 0 3 32 559 77.0
Dunn, Michael DT CLE 16 16 0 0 0 0 6 623 81.2
Horner, Joey DE CLE 16 16 0 0 0 0 5 649 81.5
Stanton, Julio DE CLE 15 15 0 0 0 0 5 563 81.4
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 16 16 0 0 0 15 29 648 82.1
Clifford, Rodolfo CB CLE 16 0 0 0 0 1 3 58 79.8
Staat, Scott OLB CLE 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 14 44.0
Howard, Lincoln CB CLE 16 10 0 0 0 5 33 471 75.7
Fiebelkorn, Korey CB CLE 6 0 0 0 0 0 2 18 67.5
Nichols, Dylan OLB CLE 14 1 0 0 0 0 1 78 80.9
Krauchick, Dean OLB CLE 4 2 0 0 0 0 3 78 77.4
Gonzalez, Joseph CB CLE 10 0 0 0 0 0 5 64 72.1
Kempthorn, Scottie S CLE 8 0 0 0 0 0 1 30 78.2

Ints - Interceptions, IRYd - Interception Return Yardage, TD - Interception
Return Touchdowns, Cght - Passes Caught by Covered Receiver, Defn - Passes
Defensed, PPly - Passing Plays on Field, PDPct - Pass Defense Percentage.


This was clearly the highlight of the year. CB Schmidtke was 2nd in the league among Cbs with pasdef. With 6 picks, Baxter was tied for the league lead in picks with a pair of corners. With 14 games, Tatum was tied for 2nd in the league in picks and led INT RET TD. Why no Baxeter All Pro? No clue.

Here let's look closer:

League stats for safeties:



Front Office Football Eight
Pass Coverage Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Ints IRYd TD Defn Cght PPly PDPct
**Baxter, Lincoln S CLE 16 16 6 106 1 13 43 646 83.1
Winter, Charlie S WAS 16 16 5 50 1 10 48 608 80.1
Bumgarner, Salvador S NED 16 16 5 68 0 8 37 604 81.7
**Tatum, Miles S CLE 14 14 5 108 2 9 37 542 82.1
Cohan, Dale S IND 16 16 5 1 0 5 36 616 80.8
Mathieu, Tyrann S ARI 16 16 4 26 0 9 37 538 81.1
Maxey, Pete S ATL 16 16 4 14 0 5 38 507 78.9
Burns, Zane S WAS 16 16 4 88 1 12 47 580 80.2
Reynolds, Devon S NJY 16 16 4 183 2 18 37 584 84.8
Carlisle, Brandon S PHI 16 16 4 151 2 6 50 584 77.0
Clinton-Dix, Ha Ha S NOS 16 16 3 3 0 8 45 587 78.1
Bible, Herman S ATL 14 7 3 27 0 4 23 351 80.8
Logan, Carter S CIN 16 16 3 14 0 7 39 590 79.1
Rutherford, Axel S TEN 16 16 3 24 0 3 39 443 75.8
Reel, Lewis S GBY 16 16 3 14 1 6 29 598 81.0
Chafee, Lewis S CHI 16 7 3 13 0 10 26 334 83.8
Harden, Jon S BAL 16 16 3 32 0 7 33 590 80.5
McGill, Keith S SDO 16 16 2 25 0 7 37 462 77.6
Parrish, Hugh S LAS 16 16 2 24 0 6 38 548 77.7
McLeod, Rodney S PHI 16 16 1 0 0 8 46 613 76.4
Vaccaro, Kenny S SEA 15 9 1 28 0 6 23 374 79.5
Boston, Tre S CAR 16 16 1 18 0 7 32 482 78.2
Simmons, Justin S DEN 16 16 1 0 0 10 38 634 79.1
Roberts, Donovan S NJY 16 14 1 0 0 7 42 524 75.9
Fenton, Mercury S MIN 16 16 1 75 1 14 33 537 81.5
Fitzgerald, Cooper S MIA 16 16 1 0 0 6 29 563 79.1
Repko, Mercury S HOU 14 12 1 0 0 6 27 334 77.5
Mitchell, Lamont S HOU 13 13 1 11 0 11 43 492 77.2
Edwards, Clarence S KCY 16 2 1 22 0 7 15 215 83.3
McDonald, T.J. S LAS 16 11 0 0 0 7 33 424 76.0
Smith, Ryan S TBY 14 13 0 0 0 9 27 457 79.4
Brandon, Cory S TEN 16 16 0 0 0 7 41 579 75.9
Hoppe, Greg S SDO 16 16 0 0 0 13 38 566 79.1
Anders, Cedric S SFO 16 16 0 0 0 7 30 512 78.0
Opitz, Eduardo S NOS 16 15 0 0 0 8 25 467 79.5
Borders, Craig S ARI 16 16 0 0 0 9 35 536 77.8
Pantoja, Shannon S NYK 16 16 0 0 0 11 46 562 76.3
Bourgeois, Jacob S DEN 9 8 0 0 0 9 13 288 83.9
Griffith, Isaiah S DET 16 14 0 0 0 6 31 479 76.9
Bobro, Bobby S DAL 16 14 0 0 0 9 30 446 78.4

Ints - Interceptions, IRYd - Interception Return Yardage, TD - Interception
Return Touchdowns, Cght - Passes Caught by Covered Receiver, Defn - Passes
Defensed, PPly - Passing Plays on Field, PDPct - Pass Defense Percentage.


Now SS Reynolds is NFL DPotY, led in pas def, had 4 picks, 2 returned. That;s fine. So the All Pros went to Reynolds, Bumgarner, Tatum and Hoppe. Why Hoppe? No clue! He had a sack? Did he have a bunch of FF? Nope just 1. I have no ideas!

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:

Offensive MVP – FB Ralph Schuster. During the preseason I asked a stupid question. I have the best FB in football. Why am I not featuring him? So I put him in my #2 spot for TEs in every offense formation that required 2 or more Tes. And dude responded! He caught 5 scores and 372 yards. Which is a large % of the output of Arledge this year. Good job in the All Pro game!

Defensive MVP – Baxter – Robbed of an All Pro. Led league in picks, and had a very healthy 13 pasdef, plus a pick for a score. Can’t deny his awesome!


Special teams MVP – P Benson rose his average in the league to 3rd best average among qualifiers

Rookie of the Year – WR Rodney Riley – Caught a Super Bowl TD! That’s always fun. Was a solid, but improvable, part of the offense.


Heart Award – CB Lincoln Howard – He played as nickel in a few settings, and was moved to start for a handful of games. No picks. Just 5 pasdef. So why choose him? Dude had 2 sacks. When a CB has more sacks than picks, that’s funny. (CB Schmidtke had a sack too)

[Abe Sargent]

End of Season –

Performance – 86
Franchise value 86
Profit 84
Roster 25

Score 80

We have no retirements!

Retirees of note:


RB LA Murray, Doug Martin, Dom Jones,
WR Julio Jones, Emmanuel Sanders, Tate, Antonio Brown, Norwood
OL – A bunch 0 like 218 O Lin e leave, including Alex Boone and Spain

DE Odrick, Clayborn,

LB Von Miller, Arturo Pierce

CB Jimmy Smith, Davon House, Cox, S Kim Chancellor, Gilchrist, Vacarro

Just one inductee – Adrian Peterson

[Abe Sargent]

Last year was the first time we had 100% attendance!

We made 108 mill cash

We have the 10th best stadium, 21st best roster, the best fan support (GO Cleveland!), and 8th worst economy


We are the 9th e most valuable franchise

I give a raise to my OC to keep him around

Coach Time!!!

We pick 8th

WHOA!!!!

There is a 75 suitably for DC, with a true 34-4 defense. I hire…

Logan Giannino, linebackers,


I also hire a new AC – Jack Keith

I have a bunch of players that are FAs:

FS Baxter
CB Clofford
K Crosby
DT Dunn
QB Jones
C Rivers
DE Stanton
TE Walford
SS Joseph

Had I gotten Stanton to sign his deal, I would franchise Baxter, and then resign him after his great year. Before this he hadn’t done anything, and I figured that Id have Tatum and Kempthron start next year. But I was unable to sign Stanton

So question –

Do I tag Stanton or Baxter?

I feel like Baxter is more replaceable, and chase able in FA.

So I tag Stanton

He’ll make 16.53 mill

I’d like to consider bringing back Baster and Dunn. But we’ll see for sure

FREE AGENCY!!!

[Abe Sargent]

I have 42 players under contract.

Players in the last year of their deal:

WILB Horton
LB Kirksey
CB Harrison
DE Horner
S Tatum
FL Lynch
SE Stone
Some backup RBs
QB Arledge

I extend Horner by 4 years. I extend Arledge to a 5 year 60 million deal. Graham’s gotta get paid 

I extend Horton by 2 more years


DE Stanton still doesn’t want his cash

Wait for better options before making decisions on CB Harrison, WR Lynch, or Stone, and Tatum

I have 31 mill in cash space

I advance a week. Anyone in FA I like?

I need four starters, and I have the cash for the splash

K
S?
DT
TE

And then:

Backups: QB, RB, TE, C, DT?, CB,S


In FA we have 3 good players at 73, 72, and 65 that can kick

I am a bad GM. I could have signed Baxter to a much cheaper deal last year. Ah well.

Baxter wants – 38 mill, and 5 years

He is the 3rd best S on the class, and just behind the 58 and 56 others at 55. Ironically, Hoppe, the SS the league thoughts was better, is out there. He wants less money. 28 over 4 years.


But Baxter has an exceptional affinity with Schmidtke, my leader. So he’s worth keeping around,

What about DT? I make an offer for 6 mill, 2 yeas for Dunn

I make an offer to TE Eugene Nail, would be a leader with three players liking him. 10 mill, 4 years, 2nd best TE in FA

I make an offer to K Brandon McManus.

Any other major talent I want to chase?

CB Jonathan Fox is 65/65, 5th year, wants 54 mill over 5 years, he is the 18th best CB in the league. I could sing him and let Harrison go. Although is 61 to 65 that much of an upgrade?

As of today, Stanton is now the 3rd best player in the league after an OG and Ss passed him

There’s really no other major FAs I want to bring in.

I submit an offer to Cardale Jones for two years min sal

My O Line is getting old – 10th year for Bitonio, 9th for Smith and Scherff, and 8th for Graham and Coleman.

Alright….

[Abe Sargent]

Week 2 - We sign Dunn back to our squad


Week 5 – We sign TE Nail

With Nail I have – Affinities with TE Ruddy, and Jones and others.

Week 7 – We sign Cardale Jones

Week 8 = Baxter reups

Week 11 – We get K McManus

[Abe Sargent]

The 2023 NFL Draft!!!

We pick 32nd. As a reminder we don’t have a 2nd round from the trade for Lorey. We have 2 fourths instead, and 7 picks total

At 1.1 the Bills take RB Alex Beeman

As he nears, I see a stud LB. I swap with the Giants, who need a stud LB the most and take him. I am not missing out on my LB again. I lose my 7th rounder this year

I take:

Karl Rincon, the best player in the board by 1.5 grade. When you look at him you er going to love him

8 volatility, 3-4 ILB< potential affinity, Rincon is a force of football nature

There were some other non-Rincon players there that if Rincon were taken, I would have considered.

CB Gregory Canada? SLB Walters? DT Eric Webb? DE Jason Miller looks amazing!

High RUN D, Pass rush, and strength, with lower play D and punishing hitter and very low endurance

But Rincon is worth the stretch

Seeing their need at LB, the Giants take Walters. So I was right thy were going Outside LB here.

Miller heads off the board to Tennessee at pick 39, Webb at 43.

Pick 60 arrives still Canada is on the board, as is the solid, I hope, CB Peter Davison. Then two corners and a safety head off in a row, leaving just Davidson and Canada at the top.

3rd round arrives. Will one of these two make ti to 3.32?

Atlanta comes up at 3.11. I make my move. I trade RB Strickland and move yup from 3.32 ot 11. (Which is a lot of points on the trade chart).

I draft Canada

At 3.13 Davidson heads off the board. Two more corners get drafted before 3-32, so neither were likely making it

At 4.4 I look around. Where is the talent? C Otis Schnebele

4.32? DT Graham Blades. Best DT on the board

5.32 – RB Moe Estell

6.32 – WLB Eduardo Gibbons



Amateur Draft Report:

Rnd 1 - Karl Rincon, OLB, Syracuse
Rnd 3 - Gregory Canada, CB, Florida
Rnd 4 - Otis Schnebele, C, Texas Southern
Rnd 4 - Graham Blades, DT, Louisville
Rnd 5 - Moe Estell, RB, Oklahoma
Rnd 6 - Eduardo Gibbons, OLB, Mississippi State

[Abe Sargent]

Early Results?

Rincon – 45/80
Canada – 27/70
Estell – 39/65
C Schebele 25/65
Gibbons 33/65
DT Blades 41/62

A- grade

Now Estell and Canada feel a little bust-y t me. They weren’t amazing with the combine stats, just with good bars and support for them. So if they bust, I won’t be surprised. But given that I got Estell in the 5th round, even if he winds up in the 50/50 era I’ll be set. Meanwhile, I keep finding good LB talent. And even if some of these bust I’m still happy – every player leaving the draft has a potential of 62 or more

Now Schnebele has great combines, so I suspect e’s the one least likely to bust. 4 volatility.


Anyone I want from Free Agency Era #2?

UFAs:

I make an offer to C Dunkin, insurance for my own draftee, RB Colin Snyder, SS Brandan Fackleman, DE Norm Pucillo, LB Vernon Dolfinger, CB Zack Hill, TE Johnny Henselman

Week 1 – I sign one UFA, nope two, sorry, read that wrongly

Week 2 – 2 more join the powerful Browns

Week 3 – The rest join us.

I have 61 players contract. Anyone else I want to chase?

I make an offer to UFA Taylor Dembowski

There is a good RT out there, 4th year, was not made an offer, and no one else made a play. I offer to R Bryce Owens. There’s also a 56/56 RCB there too. Two years for 3 mill? That’s cheap. Amari Bone. Bringing in Boone is good insurance that Canada busts. I make that offer

Week 4 – We sign all three targets.

Camp time!!!

[Abe Sargent]

Post Camp –

The Chargers offer me a 5th rounder for Cardale Jones. Sure. My 3rd string QB for a pick? I;m in

In an ironic wheel of fate I sign RG3 for a minsal contract. He gest along with TE Nail leader


I cut RT Willie Benson, CB ZackHill

Due to my absolute logjam of talent I have with the word “LineBacker” in it, I cut Scott Staat, a 4th year vet 43/43 and a solid backup. Another backup, DT Enrique newman heads out


DE Norm Pucillo boomed in camp to 36/63 – YAY!

Remember Horner was a booming UFA as well who grabbed 15 sacksa sa rookie and never looked back. H has 110.5 sacks, btw





Every few weeks I try to resign Stanton to no dice each time

Well clearing my cap was good, cause I have a major player next year to sign. RB Lorey


We go 4-0 in preseason

I cut –

RB Jace Stevinson
WR Dembowski
S Fackleman
DE Clayton


I’m confused by C. Both look similar – Dunkin is 42/63 and Schnebele 30/61. Who is my backup?

I deactivate Schnebele and cut OG Wyatt Sawyer. I’ll carry three OCs.

Banda busted to 58/58, Kirksey to 63. I cut Banda.

I cut CB Fiebelborn as well

My stud is out for a week with a concussion, I start the rookie Estell to see what he can bring to the table

WR Stone and OG Scherff are questionable for a while

Dt Dunn lost a step, and I move Blades to stare

Horner is down to 50/50. I will continue to start him until he proves he can’t start for me anymore. He’s earned my trust.

[Abe Sargent]

Not sure if you saw this in the FOFC FOF8 thoughts thread.

Here are my four LBs:

https://s12.postimg.org/dudxpz259/Untitledlb2.png

Kirksey and Banda dropped, and yet I still have these four young powerhouses on my team. I;m trying to suss out who should go where, given as I'm so unaccustomed to a 3-4.

Recommend b teh game puts them at -

Rincon SLB
Nelson SILB
Horton WILB
Kraucheck WLB

Enjoy!

[Abe Sargent]

Well, I;m waiting for figuring out which dance partners are going to sit in which chairs, let;s go ahead and look at my roster:



Front Office Football Eight
Cleveland Browns Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Kelley, Lukas 108 QB 3 28 46 1 yr.
Arledge, Brendan 114 QB QB 8 39 39 5 yrs.
##Griffin III, Robert 102 QB 12 21 21 1 yr.
##Lorey, Diego 222 RB RB 3 76 76 2 yrs.
Estell, Moe 220 RB 1 42 59 4 yrs.
Snyder, Colin 235 RB 1 41 57 1 yr.
Angus, Nathan 230 RB 3 48 48 2 yrs.
Schuster, Ralph 331 FB FB 5 65 65 2 yrs.
Nail, Eugene 487 TE TE 7 46 46 4 yrs.
Ruddy, Edgar 442 TE 2 33 43 1 yr.
Timlin, Mackenzie 482 TE 2 36 36 3 yrs.
##Henselman, Johnny 481 TE 1 20 30 1 yr.
Riley, Rodney 586 FL SE 2 60 71 3 yrs.
Lynch, Gabriel 513 FL 7 54 54 1 yr.
Wright, Dustin 512 SE FL 5 62 62 4 yrs.
Stone, Zachery 584 SE 4 42 42 1 yr.
Bening, Larry 585 SE 2 28 36 3 yrs.
Dunkin, Zane 650 C 1 42 63 1 yr.
##Schnebele, Otis 653 C C 1 30 59 4 yrs.
Graham, Andrew 679 C 8 57 57 3 yrs.
Scherff, Brandon 762 LG LG 9 63 63 2 yrs.
Maurer, Norman 764 RG 3 56 66 2 yrs.
Bitonio, Joel 775 RG RG 10 62 62 2 yrs.
##Neumeyer, Bart 877 LT 3 39 58 2 yrs.
Smith, Donovan 866 LT LT 9 54 54 2 yrs.
Coleman, Shon 872 RT RT 8 64 64 2 yrs.
Owens, Bryce 873 RT 4 45 59 2 yrs.
Emerson, Rob 915 P 8 65 65 2 yrs.
McManus, Brandon 1019K 10 74 74 3 yrs.
Pucillo, Norm 1190LDE 1 41 64 1 yr.
Stanton, Julio 1199RDE LDE 7 87 87 1 yr.
Horner, Joey 1193RDE RDE 8 50 50 4 yrs.
Blades, Graham 1292LDT NT 1 46 63 4 yrs.
Dunn, Michael 1278NT 8 46 46 2 yrs.
##Morton, Stephen 1276NT 3 46 46 2 yrs.
Nelson, Sawyer 1397WILB SILB 3 75 75 2 yrs.
Horton, Vince 1396WILB WILB 4 70 70 3 yrs.
Kirksey, Chris 1358WILB 10 63 63 1 yr.
Rincon, Karl 1455SLB SLB 1 56 79 4 yrs.
Krauchick, Dean 1456WLB WLB 2 51 73 3 yrs.
Gibbons, Eduardo 1451WLB 1 40 65 4 yrs.
##Dolfinger, Vernon 1491WLB 1 32 61 1 yr.
Nichols, Dylan 1457WLB 2 54 54 3 yrs.
Harrison, Antoine 1538LCB RCB 7 57 57 1 yr.
Gonzalez, Joseph 1523LCB 2 47 54 3 yrs.
Howard, Lincoln 1525LCB 3 46 46 2 yrs.
Canada, Gregory 1547RCB 1 35 68 4 yrs.
Schmidtke, Cooper 1549RCB LCB 7 65 65 2 yrs.
Boone, Amari 1536RCB 4 55 55 2 yrs.
Kempthorn, Scottie 1641SS 2 44 58 3 yrs.
Tatum, Miles 1640FS SS 4 56 56 1 yr.
Baxter, Lincoln 1628FS FS 5 55 55 5 yrs.
Newsome, Bo 659 LS 8 17 17 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $196,900,000
Cap Room: $23,820,000
Maximum for New Player: $24,400,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $2,510,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $2,380,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $137,130,000



I make offers to –

CB Harrison – 4 years, 27 mill
FS Miles Tatum, 4 years, 26 mill


I decide not to make an offer to FL Lynch. H;e s30 and just my 3rd wideout. Totally replaceable

I want to extend Stone, but he wants a ton of cash. 15 mill for 4 years. Dude is in his 40s permanently.

Nope

Alright I just talked myself into extending Lynch. 3 years 15 mill

[Abe Sargent]

Since we're pausing for now until I;m sure about my 3-4 backers, here are my other major draftees

You can see the major ones, and the undrafted DE that boomed in camp as well.

https://s15.postimg.org/f9wqkpl57/Rookies_2023.png

[Abe Sargent]

I posted this analysis post on another thread, but I like it, and it works for those that haven;t checked out the FOF Thread as well, so I am copyign and pasting it here:

So I inherited one great young LB on team, Kirksey, with a high 70s rating. I had 50s and 60s potential backers elsewhere. And I built my franchise very quickly around my front 7. FOr a while, all of my front 7 were set.

In particular, I had a stud D Line. A UFA got 15 sacks his first year as a rookie, and I played the crap out of him. He's now in his 8th year with me, and dropped this off season to 50/50, he has 110.5 sacks in 7 years, and had three ALL Pro and 1 Defensive Player fo tehj Year award, with 25 sacks in a season and 7 in a game, setting records for both of those. The following year I drafted DE Julio Stanton, who missed 11 games his first year, and DPotY twice, entering his 7th year, has 86.5 sacks, and 4 All Pros. Stanton was the best non-K in the league overall. And he played like it. Meanwhile I signed, in FA, DT McGee who the game rated as a 71/71 guy, and was great. He was injured for a year and a half, but he still came back and played strongly. The next year I signed Bennie Logan, DT from FA and paid him serious money. He was the 3rd best DT and was ALl Pro for me the year before I signed him, and two years for me. In fact twice in the three years they all played for me, Logan and my two DEs got ALl Pro.

I had to let McGee go. No one else could do as well as he could, I had an 86/86 guy at one end, mid 60s at the other, and two 70s in the middle. Then after a year of trying to make the D Line work, I swapped over to 3-4, adn planning on using Santon. But in his 31st year in th league, he was dropping, and was no longer someone I relayed on for, so I let him go.

Meanwhile at the backers, I drafted a solid guy named Banda, and resigned Ogbah, already on the Cleveland roster. I ran Ogbah at WLB because he could rush, Banda at SLB and Kirksey at center. Kirksey was all pro twice, once in 2016 when he was pretty much the only player on the team, and the other in 2020 when he led all LBs in sacks, picks, passes defensed, and if he had kept up his momentum in the last 2 weeks, I think he would have pushed Stanton for DPotY.

Ogbah did okay, but nothing amazing. Banda was fine. But he had an All Pro season in 2021.

So I drafted LB Vince Horton a back in 2020 in the back of the 5th round. He was a BAP pick, even though he preferred a 3-4. And I let him start at WLB and moved Ogbah, who was older and expensive and never that great, to start as a 2nd year player in the penultimate year of my 4-3 defense. Then in teh 2021 draft, Nelson fell to me at 2.32 and I grabbed him, as another 3-4 preference backer who was a BAP.

In 2022 draft, I wasn;t looking for LBs that much when Krauchick fell to me in the back of the 4th. Alright, that;s fine. I had just moved to 3-4 so I grabbed him.

Int eh first year of my 3-4, I started Banda, Kirksey, Stanton and Horton in these spots:

Horton - WILB
Nelson - WLB
Banda - SLB
Kirksey - SILB

In those four roles...


Player Pos Team GP GS Tckl Asst Sack Blkd Hurr QBKd
Kirksey, Chris ILB CLE 16 16 101 36 3.5 1 4 6
Banda, Robert OLB CLE 16 16 92 27 2.5 3 7 0
Nelson, Sawyer ILB CLE 16 16 84 26 4.5 4 4 1
Horton, Vince ILB CLE 13 5 43 10 0.0 1 0 0

Player Pos Team GP GS Ints IRYd TD Defn Cght PPly PDPct
Banda, Robert OLB CLE 16 16 3 67 1 6 51 637 76.4
Kirksey, Chris ILB CLE 16 16 2 8 0 4 43 640 76.6
Horton, Vince ILB CLE 13 5 1 0 0 0 17 173 72.3
Nelson, Sawyer ILB CLE 16 16 1 1 0 3 32 559 77.0



So nothing amazing in there. Banda dropped again in training, and was in the high 50s. And these four all prefer 3-4s, and he didn;t. So i cut him. And Kirksey is still on my roster, but dropped to 63/63

Anyways, Krau and Rincon have never started in this role.

So I just want to make sure I have the right guys in the right seats, before I begin my season. There's no reason this lB corps shouldn;t dominate. I need to make that happen. I even went after a DC in the off-season with a great play calling.

[Abe Sargent]

I took a quick pic of my new DC so you can see him, and Stanton, as well as all LBs in teh league listed by future potential, and you can see where my quad lines up


https://s17.postimg.org/4qnbuhnkv/defense2023.png

[Abe Sargent]

Let‘s just go ahead, and use the Rexxed suggestions for these four fine folks. My hope, is they dominate as much as Stanton, Logan, Horner and MCGee did when they were in


Brown Out Time!!!


Week 1 – We start this year as a rematch of the AFC Championship vs Cincinnati. RB Moe Estell is Game MVP and NFL Offensive Player oft eh Week with 30 for 138 and 3 scores on the ground. Arledge is just 0:1, 16 of 22 and 217. Pick by dimeback SS Kempthorn, OG Scherff has 7 KRB.


I have RB Lorey back from injury and RB Snyder, a backup, is out for a few weeks.

Week 2 – We blow through the 49ers. RB Lorey is NFL Offensive Player of the Week with 34 for 237, 2 scores, Arledge was 21 of 29, 196, and 0:1. Picks by LB Kauchik, returned for a score, and CB Canada. Scherff with another 5 KRB leads the team.

C Wright is out for a week with concussion

Week 3 – We head to Denver and barely emerge 34-31. Lorey with 15 for 161 and 1 scre, but MOM is arledge, 23 of 39, 269 and 3:0. Hitting WR Stone, RB Lorey, and WR Wright score scores. Picks by Tatum and Krauchick. Rincon has a FF and recovery, another FF by Horton, recover by Nelson.


I have a bunch of probables and questionables – fully 10 players on my team are one or the other right now

WR Riley is out for 3 weeks with a strained foot. Lynch starts.

Week 4 – We host and….beat the Titans 31-26. Arledge – 22 of 39, 236, 2:2/ Lorey 21 for 138, 1 core. WR Wright rushes for a score, and catches 116 yard and another. RB Lorey catches the othe score.


9 of my minor injurie send

We finish the first quarter a solid 4-0.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 5 – Well that didn’t last long. We head to Jacksonville and lose to the Jags 26-24. Lorey held to 15 and 28. Arlegge was blown off 20 of 33, rushed for a score, 219 yards, 2:4, hit Wright and Lorey for scores. Pick by Tatum.

CB Schmidtke is out for a few weeks – Boone will start for him


Week 6 – We head to face 5-0 Texans. And we get blowt out 43-20. Lorey has 132 yards, Arledge 23 of 38 for 251 and 2:2, hitting Wright for 101 yards, Lunch and Lorey for scores.

Ouch

Week 7 _ We head to 4-2 Baltimore and lose 31-33. MM is Arledge,28 of 39, 298, 3:0, hits Wright twice and Lorey once for scores, and Lorey has 17 for 180 and a score on the ground. CB Canada with a pick.

CB schmidtke is back

Week 8 – This week we face the 1-6 Colts and hopefully get dialed back into winning. Nope 24-21. Lorey is 26 for 152, Arledge 35of 52 for 262 and 2:1. Riley and FB Schuster with TD catches, S Baxter with a pick, and we are 4-4 at the half.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 9 – We host the equally 4-4 Steelers and win, 28-24. Arledge is MOM with 29 of 40, 307 yards, and 2:2, hitting Wright for 110 yards and a score, and Lync for the other score. Pick by Tatum. Lorey is 56 and 2 on the ground.


Week 10 – BYE

Week 11 – We defeat the Bengals against 28-23. They are having problems to and we send them to 5-5 with that victory. Arledge is MOM with 15 of 18 for 213 and 3::0 – hitting TE Nail, Riley and Lynch for scores, and Lorey was 20foro 125 and 1 score.


Week 12 – We win against the 6-4 Rams, 24-10. Arledge, MVP, 20 of 29, 189, 1”0, and hits Wright for that sore. Lorey has 82 on the ground. Picks by Tatum, returned 70 yards for a score, and Harrison. 2 sacks by Stanton.


Week 13 – We face the 12=0 Jets! We win 38-26 and they held Lorey to 55 yard and 1 score, but Arledge is MOM with 20 of 24, 248 and 4:0. He this Riley three times for scores and Schuster for another. S Baxter and Tatum with picks. 2 sacks by Stanton

8-4 with a very streak headed set.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 14 – We head to Seattle but lose, 27-28. Lorey had 106 yards and a score on 23 carries, Arledge 19 of 24, 282 and 2:0. Riley 123 yards and a score, Wright the other TD. Picks by Kirksey, Harrison and Canada. 2 sacks by Rincon

Week 15 – We win, poorly 22-10 vs the Steelers. They blast our offense. 60 yards for Lorey, 13 of 30 and 125 and 1:2 for Arledge, 1 score for Lynch, but our defense was in it. 3 picks – Harrison, Baxter, and Schmidtke. Stanton was MOM with 3 sacks

Week 16 – We head to Arizona and win 23-17. Arledge is MOM with 24 of 30 for 238, 1:0 and a score on the ground. He hit riley for the TD> Lorey adds 23 for 92. Pick by Tatum.

We are 10-5 heading into week 17. So is Baltimore, who we face this week. The winner of this game wins the AFC North. But no bye. At 14-1, Houston and 13-2 New York have the top spots. We are just trying to win so we can host a winning game.


Week 17 – Well, we lose. 16 35. Nope. Lorey is 22 for 134 and 1. Arledge 24 of 38 for 137 and 0:2. Pick by Tatum, 2 sacks by LB Rincon,

We finish 10-6, and the #6 seed Wild Card, we lose the tie with 10-6 Jacksonville.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2023 NFL Playoffs

Wild Card Weekend:

Jacksonville heads to Denver
Cleveland to Baltimore

Green Bay at LA
Dallas at Tampa

We are not favored in our game vs Baltimore

Dallas loses 27-20.
Greeen Bay wins 21-14
Jacksonville loses 220-32



We lose 13-17

Arledge, MVP< 28 of 44, 319, and 1:0. Riley had 102 yards. Lorey is held back hard. Pick by CB Canada. 2 sacks by Horner


Week 2 –

Baltimore loses 27-31 at Jets
Denver loses 16-20 at Houston

Pack lose 3-44 to Giants
Tampa lose 23-30 to Vikings


Week 3 – Conference Champs

Vikings lose 31-8. Houston wins 34-24



Super Bowl –

The Giants made it to the Super Bowl last year with their stud 1.1 overall pick in their rookie season, but we beat them. Can Houston beat them again this year? I hope so!

Let’s go Houston!!!


17-10, Houston wins

[Abe Sargent]

Season Awards:

Defensive Rookie of the Year – OLB Karl Rincon

All Pro 1st Team – RB Diego Lorey, FB Ralph Schuster, OT Shon Coleman, DE Julio Stanton,
All Pro 2nd Team – LB Karl Rincon, S Miles Tatum

League’s Strongest Man – OG Joel Bitonio

[Abe Sargent]

Stats!!!



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Passing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Cmp Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/A Lg
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 16 534 352 65.9 3680 10.45 6.89 62
Kelley, Lukas QB CLE 1 0 6 2 33.3 13 6.50 2.17 9

Player Pos Team TD Int 20+T 300+ Rating
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 28 17 55 1 89.9
Kelley, Lukas QB CLE 0 0 0 0 42.4

Att - Attempts, Cmp - Completions, Pct - Completion Percentage,
Yards - Passing Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Completion, Ave/A - Yards per Attempt,
Lg - Longest Completion, TD - Passing Touchdowns, Int - Passes Intercepted,
20+T - Completions of 20 or More Yards, 300+ - 300-yard Games,
Rate - Quarterback Rating.


Arledge, Arledge, Arledge.....


Rushing!




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Rushing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Yards Avg Lg TD RZAtt Yards
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 15 15 318 1638 5.15 60 11 41 120
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 16 36 200 5.56 36 2 3 6
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 6 55 147 2.67 14 1 8 11
Estell, Moe RB CLE 16 1 30 138 4.60 23 3 7 31
Riley, Rodney WR CLE 14 13 11 56 5.09 18 1 2 8
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 16 16 6 8 1.33 10 1 3 0
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 16 12 1 3 3.00 3 0 0 0
Stone, Zachery WR CLE 16 1 4 -4 -1.00 7 0 0 0


Lorey led the league in rushing yards by a bunch - the next best was 1338. Lorey had fewer carries and better results. 11 rush scores is no joke either.


CATCHING!!!




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Receiving Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Targ Ctch Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/T YAC
Riley, Rodney WR CLE 14 13 110 72 65.5 791 10.99 7.19 384
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 16 16 110 69 62.7 1023 14.83 9.30 410
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 15 15 83 58 69.9 515 8.88 6.20 255
Nail, Eugene TE CLE 16 16 67 40 59.7 366 9.15 5.46 103
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 16 12 59 39 66.1 356 9.13 6.03 96
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 6 41 29 70.7 301 10.38 7.34 112
Stone, Zachery WR CLE 16 1 40 26 65.0 169 6.50 4.23 51
Ruddy, Edgar TE CLE 14 0 11 7 63.6 36 5.14 3.27 0
Estell, Moe RB CLE 16 1 5 5 100.0 60 12.00 12.00 41
Timlin, Mackenzie TE CLE 16 0 5 4 80.0 28 7.00 5.60 1
Bening, Larry WR CLE 16 0 8 4 50.0 44 11.00 5.50 0
Angus, Nathan RB CLE 16 0 1 1 100.0 4 4.00 4.00 0

Player Pos Team Lg TD Drp PPly TPct 20+C 100+
Riley, Rodney WR CLE 62 7 6 388 28.4 12 1
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 49 8 5 527 20.9 21 4
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 31 5 3 504 16.5 8 0
Nail, Eugene TE CLE 38 1 5 498 13.5 5 0
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 49 4 4 352 16.8 3 0
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 37 2 0 279 14.7 4 0
Stone, Zachery WR CLE 20 1 3 129 31.0 1 0
Ruddy, Edgar TE CLE 9 0 0 37 29.7 0 0
Estell, Moe RB CLE 32 0 0 24 20.8 1 0
Timlin, Mackenzie TE CLE 11 0 0 89 5.6 0 0
Bening, Larry WR CLE 15 0 0 21 38.1 0 0
Angus, Nathan RB CLE 4 0 0 12 8.3 0 0

Targ - Targeted with Pass, Ctch - Receptions, Pct - Reception Percentage,
Yards - Receiving Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Catch, Avg/T - Yards per
Target, YAC - Yards Gained After Catch, Lg - Longest Reception,
TD - Receiving Touchdowns, Drp - Passes Dropped, PPly - Passing Plays
on Field, TPct - Percentage of Passing Plays Targeted, 20+C - Catches
of 20 Yards or More, 100+ - 100-Yard Games.


Arledge, Arledge, Arledge....

:)



BLOCKING!!!



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Blocking Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS KRB KRO BPct Pnck SkA PPly SPct
Scherff, Brandon G CLE 16 16 43 98 43.9 7 8 572 1.4
Coleman, Shon T CLE 16 16 36 97 37.1 3 4 572 0.7
Smith, Donovan T CLE 16 16 29 67 43.3 2 8 572 1.4
Bitonio, Joel G CLE 16 16 23 79 29.1 0 8 572 1.4
Dunkin, Zane C CLE 15 14 13 47 27.7 0 0 517 0.0
Graham, Andrew C CLE 2 2 6 14 42.9 0 2 55 3.6
Nail, Eugene TE CLE 16 16 6 11 54.5 0 0 498 0.0
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 6 3 11 27.3 0 1 279 0.4
Maurer, Norman G CLE 1 0 2 2 100.0 0 0 0 0.0


Because of how sack prone Arledge is, sometimes folks don;t get the All Pros they deserve. Scherff is 2nd in Gs for KRB and no All Pro. This was a very respectable year for us.

Huh. Looks like I forgot to move Graham back after his injury. And yet, rookie undrafted C Dunkin got no sacks allowed in 14 starts. Huh.

K McManus, 27 of 28 FG, 48/48 PAT
P Emerson 93 punts, 48.5 average, 40.5 net

Emerson had 3rd best net in league, and the best average in the league. Huh. Why no All Pro?



DEFENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!




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Defensive Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Tckl Asst Sack Blkd Hurr QBKd
Nelson, Sawyer ILB CLE 16 15 103 31 2.0 0 2 0
Krauchick, Dean OLB CLE 16 16 93 17 8.0 5 9 1
Tatum, Miles S CLE 16 16 92 22 1.0 0 0 0
Rincon, Karl OLB CLE 16 16 84 24 11.5 0 9 2
Baxter, Lincoln S CLE 16 16 63 20 0.0 0 0 0
Harrison, Antoine CB CLE 16 16 62 22 0.0 2 1 0
Stanton, Julio DE CLE 16 16 53 26 17.5 5 23 30
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 14 14 48 10 0.5 1 3 0
Horton, Vince ILB CLE 15 6 45 18 0.0 1 0 2
Blades, Graham DT CLE 16 16 43 9 4.0 1 6 0
Canada, Gregory CB CLE 16 6 33 9 0.0 0 1 0
Horner, Joey DE CLE 16 16 28 15 5.5 1 13 9
Boone, Amari CB CLE 16 7 27 6 0.0 0 0 0
Kirksey, Chris ILB CLE 16 0 7 3 0.0 0 0 0
Kempthorn, Scottie S CLE 16 0 7 1 0.0 0 0 0
Dunn, Michael DT CLE 16 0 4 0 0.0 0 0 0


Stanton was one half sack off the league leader and 2nd in sacks. Horner? 5.5 sacks is his worst ever. Blades, teh rookie, had a solid productive season

But look at rookie Rincon! He led all linebackers in the league with 11.5 sacks. Meanwhile Krauchick;s 8 sacks is great, and he led all lbs in the NFL for blocked passes. Nelson led my team in tackles, had a pair of sacks, and was very respectable. So when the defense needs just three backers, Stanton, Rincon and Krauchick are the three I use, so Horton is out there for fewer plays.


COVERAGE!




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Pass Coverage Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Ints IRYd TD Defn Cght PPly PDPct
Tatum, Miles S CLE 16 16 7 151 1 5 42 617 81.1
Harrison, Antoine CB CLE 16 16 3 3 0 4 48 623 76.2
Baxter, Lincoln S CLE 16 16 3 42 0 7 38 560 79.2
Canada, Gregory CB CLE 16 6 3 17 0 2 27 334 77.7
Krauchick, Dean OLB CLE 16 16 2 17 1 1 35 617 76.9
Kirksey, Chris ILB CLE 16 0 1 4 0 0 1 36 92.7
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 14 14 1 11 0 6 35 543 77.5
Kempthorn, Scottie S CLE 16 0 1 23 0 1 2 68 89.5
Horner, Joey DE CLE 16 16 0 0 0 1 9 623 81.0
Stanton, Julio DE CLE 16 16 0 0 0 0 6 623 81.2
Horton, Vince ILB CLE 15 6 0 0 0 5 21 289 76.9
Boone, Amari CB CLE 16 7 0 0 0 2 16 216 74.8
Nelson, Sawyer ILB CLE 16 15 0 0 0 8 35 443 76.3
Nichols, Dylan OLB CLE 16 0 0 0 0 0 2 22 70.3
Blades, Graham DT CLE 16 16 0 0 0 1 8 607 81.2
Rincon, Karl OLB CLE 16 16 0 0 0 5 44 607 74.8

Ints - Interceptions, IRYd - Interception Return Yardage, TD - Interception
Return Touchdowns, Cght - Passes Caught by Covered Receiver, Defn - Passes
Defensed, PPly - Passing Plays on Field, PDPct - Pass Defense Percentage.



In the league, 2 corners have 8 picks, 3 players have 7 - 2 S and a CB. So Tatum tied for the lead for Ss for picks at 7.

Not as many pasdef from any of my backers or Dbacks. Weak year for defending the pass

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards –

Offensive MVP _ RB Diego Lorey – He led the league in rushing yards in just 15 games, and blew through defenses many times. Meanwhile he was 3rd among RBs in receiving yards, 2nd in receiving Tds, 1st in3rd in rushing TDs, and well, you get the idea. Good job Lorey!

Defensive MVP - FS miles Tatum – Was the major good news from the secondary. He was a bright light of awesome! Thanks Miles Tatum!

Special Teams MVP – K McManus . Both my P and K deserve this award. I have a kicker that only missed one FG and no PAT. I have a P who led the league in average, and 3rd in net average. Both did well. But I’m going with McManus.

Rookie of the Year: LB Karl Rincon. Duh

Heart Award – RB Moe Estell – Had to start his first NFL game due a concussion to Lorey and did very well in that role. Thanks Moe!

[Abe Sargent]

End of Season 0

Performance – 63
Value 82
Profit 76Roster 26

Score 69



New Hall of Fame…. CB Derelle Revis, DE Cameron Wake and……

OT Joe Thomas! Yay!

Go Browns!

Major retirees of note:

QB Matt Ryan
RB Zeke
TE Rudolph
WR Hawkins, Shorts, Tavon Autin
C Mack, OT Gilbert , Beachum, Kalil,

DE Watt, Branch, Flowers, DT McCoy,
LB _ Telvin Smith, Bowman
CB Slay, Chris Harris, Morris Claiborne

Zeke was broken. He had 4 consecutive 2000+ yard seasons, with one at 2400. He finishes with 13373 yards, 89 rushing scores,

We made 53 mill. Just one of three teams with 1000% attendance,

[Abe Sargent]

Brendan Arledge –

2016 - 10-6, Wild Card, knocked out in first round
2017 –12-4, Won Division, Lost in AFC Championship
2018 – 12-3-1. #1 seed, made it to Super Bowl, Won
2019 – 13-3, #1 seed, Lost in AFC Championship
2020 -16-0, #1 seed, Won Super Bowl, undefeated
2021 – 12-4, #2 seed, lost in AFC Championship
2022 – 12-4, #1 seed, Won Super Bowl
2023 – 10-6, #6 Wild Card, knocked out in first round

Not bad. Arledge in year 9 is about to begin

STAFF!!

I give a raise and retain my Str Coord.

We pick 21st. I make no changes to my staff

Here are my FAs:

RG3
LB Kirksey
WR Stone
DE Stanton

I tag Stanton

I also have 7 RFAS

Begin Free Agency!

[Abe Sargent]

I have 43 players under contract:

Stanton is still not signing


Major Players in the Final Year of their deal:

RB Diego Lorey
LB Sawyer Nelson
RG Norman Maurer
P Emerson
CB Schmidtke
FB Schuster
LRT Coleman
OG Scherff
OG Bitonio
RT Owens
T Newmeyer
CB Amari Boone
LT Donovan Smith
RB Angus
NT Dunn
NT Morton
CV Lincoln Howard
LS Newsome



I have 30 mill under the cap, and 21 mill available

I sign RB Lorey for 3 years, 48 mill. I extend Newsome

I sign RFA – WLB Dolfinger, who is a 32-61 UFA I signed last year; DE Normal Pucillo, 47/64; TE Ruddy for two years


It will cost me real money to resign C Zane Dunkin, RB Colin Snyder. Snyder is 41/57 and Dunkin 52/62

I will wait n LB and O Line decisions until post draft and post-camp, when I see which of my old men fell, and what I was able to get in the draft.

I extend CB Schmidtke by 2 years and drop his cap hit this year by 5 mill. He’s my best Cb and my leader.

I extend P Emerson by 2 years. I Sign Schuster for 3 more years

LB Nelson wants, serious, serious money. Like 3 years 35 mill.

I end week 1

[Abe Sargent]

We have a couple of great players out there – 76 CB Russell Mueller, 7th year vet,

What do I need:

Backup QB
Backup RB, maye,
Backup TE – or a stud to go over Nail
WR
OG?
Stud DT, or none
Great S or CB would be fine

But I don’t need a lot

I offer RG3 to reup for two years, vet min sal

There’s no one out there I want.

So I make offers to my RFAs – C Zane Dunkin and RB Snyder

Let’s look at the daft

I pick 1.24. We have 2 5th round selections, 8 total.

There is a guy, DT Damien Alcott, at the top fo the board, identifies as natural 3-4 NT, total stud. He is who I want the most. Hard to Read, 91 volatility, 4 red stats, one blue. He is the strongest, smartest and fastest DT in the draft. That’s pretty sexy

I interview a couple more 3-4 NT near te top

There’s a great underrated TE at the top o the board. TE Danny Meyer

I also interview some LB, CB and S I think would be there at 1.24

Week 5 – Kirkseey signs with the Steelers.

Week 7 – Griffin signs with us

I have 49 players on my roster:

[Abe Sargent]

The 2024 NFL Amateur Draft!


At 1.1, Seattle takes QB Mitchell McGee

TE Meyer went 1.8. If he fell, I might have moved. Know who’s still on the board? Alcott

It’s 1.11. Should I make a play for Alcott? Alcott is 7.0 grade, 0.6 above any other raw players, and adjusted 7.6. Someone is takimg him before he gets to us.

Could I trade here for the 1.11 pick to ensure I get the only major player I want?

According to the draft pick value chart, the 1.24 is worth 740 and the 1.11 is 1250. So I would need to add 510 points. That’s the value of a high 2.nd round. Pick 39 over, 2.7 Is worth 510.

I can’t make this trade, so they grab a RB from the board . But at 1.12 is the first of defensive needy teams with Chicago. And I save 50 points by waiting until 1.12. Chicago needs LB, S, and Dt. I need 460 points to move up from 24 to 12. That’s pick 44 in the draft, 2.12.

The Bears won’t take a future 2nd for the trade.

You need a stud DT ot make 3-4 work right? I can’t not make this deal

I can’t get a future 6th or 7th and the 2nd as well

Players? They could seriously use a nice OG. Now I was hoping to extend OG Maurer as my starter, and then let either Bitonio or Scherff go, whichever falls in Camp. But I don’t have to. Chicago doesn’t want Maurer. Atlanta? San Diego? Sure! But not Chicago . They don’t want SS Kempthron either. Colts? Okay! Bears? Nah

I make an offer:

I give:

My 1/24
Next year’s 2nd rounder
The following year’s 3rd rounder

I get:
This year’s 1.12
Next year’s 4th
The following year’s 5th

I accept and I take Alcott and head to bed.


Who would have been there at 1.24?


LB Butch May? RT Dean Griffith? RB Frog Man Lotter? WR Erik Frederick?

The Bears take OT Griffith. I would have done the same. He’s BPA in my mind,

Frog Man goes 1.25

Frederick at pick 35

May 37

This great TE is falling. No one is grabbing him. Move up and make a play? Nah, I’m out of ammo for that. He goes to Oakland at 52, and we are at 56, so TE Hammers, almost made it to me!



At 2.23, take WR Colin Finch? LT Trenton henry? RB Jordan? LB Gerrity? I feel like Finch is the last good WR on the board. But Gerrity is good, and odd, while there are other OTs and Lbs out there. And yet, LT Henry is pretty solid. 1 red and three blues for Henry. He looks to be a pass locking specialist, which matches what you want from an LT generally, and someone guarding Arledge specifically. Both are good

But I have three Ots on my roster that can start. And yet, I have depth at LB and WR as well. So none of my three major targets are the top player that was needed.

So I go OT

Finch foes to GB two picks later

12 picks fall off the 3rd round. Is Garrity going to fall to me at 3?

Nape He goes 17th to the Bears. If you recall, they needed to up their D considerably.




3rd – With no obvious draftee that fell, who is my choice here? LG Harrison? Nope! TE Jon Franklin. Franklin is horrible at blocking, great at catching.

4th round? LG Salvador Harrison!

5.4 - LB Derek Newhart

5.23 – I’m taking a flyer on SS Zachary Jude. Horrible bars. Great combine stats for here, and affinity with my team

6th – LB Dexter tubs? Nah. A BAP on the board is DE Gibson. How is he still there?

7th - DT Tito Nelson

Amateur Draft Report:

Rnd 1 - Damien Alcott, DT, Louisville
Rnd 2 - Trenton Henry, T, Virginia
Rnd 3 - Jon Franklin, TE, Georgia Tech
Rnd 4 - Salvador Harrison, G, Tennessee Tech
Rnd 5 - Derek Newhart, OLB, Southern Mississippi
Rnd 5 - Zachary Jude, S, Penn State
Rnd 6 - Willie Gibson, DE, UCLA
Rnd 7 - Tito Nelson, DT, Washington State

[Abe Sargent]

Early draft results:

TE Franklin 25/53
SS Jude – 21/35
DT Nelson 21/63
LT Henry – 27/63
OG Harrison – 12/53
OLB Newhart 29/65
DE Gibson – 25/66

Oh, and Alcott?

53/91

He is the top rated rookie on the Green Page

Anyone I like in FA?

I make an offer to Lukas Kelley

These UFA:

QB Sebastian Pelfray
RB Alex Powell
WR Mitch Rivera
LB Dexter Tubbs
DE Shaun Yaros

LB Sawyer Nelson is holding out

Week 1 – I sign 2 players

Week 2 – I get another

Week 3 – All of my signings are done

Anyone else I want? No

CAMP!!!

[Abe Sargent]

I make some cuts:

QB pelfrey
OG Harrison – He busted hard, down to 15/33
RB Powell


NT Michael Dunn. It was time. He was with me for 9 years



I trade backup DT Morton to the eagles for their 2027 4th rounder


I trade OT Bryce Owens to the Giants to swap our 6th for their 3rd in 20206

I extend LT Neumeyer by a year. He’s 44/58 and was cheaper than Owens to extend

We go 2-2 in the preseason


Final changes:

After the preseason, my OG competitions are Bitonio at 59, Maurer at 60 and Scherff at 56.

I extend OG Bitonio for a year

I want to give OG Maurer a 4 year, 10 mill deal, but he’s angry and won’t do it. Ah well. What about OT? Smith ebbed to 51/51. I am going to start him, and then move to Trenton Henry next year

SS Zachery Jude has dropped to 21/31. I cut him

CB Harrison dropped to 48/48. We start Canada instead.

I give Sawyer Nelson 4 years, 45 mill

DE Horner busted to 43/43. It’s time….

I have 4 dsolid Des.

Norm Pucillo – 52/65
Willie Gibson – 32/63
Shaun Yaros – 27/60
Horner 43/43
Stanton 87/87

It’s a great irony that the UFA, Yaros, this year and the UFA last year, Pucillo, will rpealce a UFA finding that was awesome. I’d love to keep him. Especially since I think this may be Stanton’s last year with us, I can’t keep increase his salary with the Tag each year.

With 116.0 sacks, I can only hope that Horner, he can find a landing pad, and get some more sacks. He will land between Suggs and Mathis, career wise at 116.

I trade LB Dylan Nichols to the Eagles for thier 4th in 2026. He was 54/54

[Abe Sargent]

Front Office Football Eight
Cleveland Browns Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Kelley, Lukas 108 QB QB 4 37 52 2 yrs.
Arledge, Brendan 114 QB 9 39 39 4 yrs.
##Griffin III, Robert 102 QB 13 18 18 2 yrs.
Lorey, Diego 222 RB RB 4 76 76 3 yrs.
Estell, Moe 220 RB 2 47 58 3 yrs.
Snyder, Colin 235 RB 2 44 57 2 yrs.
##Angus, Nathan 230 RB 4 47 47 1 yr.
Schuster, Ralph 331 FB FB 6 65 65 4 yrs.
Franklin, Jon 446 TE 1 30 49 4 yrs.
Ruddy, Edgar 442 TE 3 39 44 2 yrs.
Nail, Eugene 487 TE TE 8 37 37 3 yrs.
##Timlin, Mackenzie 482 TE 3 36 36 2 yrs.
Riley, Rodney 586 FL SE 3 69 69 2 yrs.
Lynch, Gabriel 513 FL 8 55 55 2 yrs.
Wright, Dustin 512 SE FL 6 62 62 3 yrs.
Bening, Larry 585 SE 3 35 36 2 yrs.
##Rivera, Mitch 580 SE 1 20 27 1 yr.
Dunkin, Zane 650 C 2 56 62 3 yrs.
##Schnebele, Otis 653 C 2 37 59 3 yrs.
Graham, Andrew 679 C C 9 58 58 2 yrs.
Scherff, Brandon 762 LG LG 10 56 56 1 yr.
Maurer, Norman 764 RG RG 4 60 60 1 yr.
Bitonio, Joel 775 RG 11 59 59 2 yrs.
Henry, Trenton 865 LT 1 31 60 4 yrs.
Smith, Donovan 866 LT LT 10 51 51 1 yr.
Neumeyer, Bart 877 LT 4 39 49 2 yrs.
Coleman, Shon 872 RT RT 9 64 64 1 yr.
Emerson, Rob 915 P 9 67 67 3 yrs.
McManus, Brandon 1019K 11 67 67 2 yrs.
Pucillo, Norm 1190LDE RDE 2 52 65 2 yrs.
Gibson, Willie 1198LDE 1 32 63 4 yrs.
Stanton, Julio 1199RDE LDE 8 87 87 1 yr.
##Yaros, Shaun 1174RDE 1 27 60 1 yr.
Alcott, Damien 1294LDT NT 1 62 91 4 yrs.
Blades, Graham 1292LDT 2 59 62 3 yrs.
Nelson, Tito 1270RDT 1 33 60 4 yrs.
Nelson, Sawyer 1397WILB 4 75 75 4 yrs.
Horton, Vince 1396WILB 5 69 69 2 yrs.
Tubbs, Dexter 1354MLB SILB 1 35 59 1 yr.
Rincon, Karl 1455SLB SLB 2 79 79 3 yrs.
Krauchick, Dean 1456WLB WLB 3 73 73 2 yrs.
Gibbons, Eduardo 1451WLB 2 48 65 3 yrs.
Newhart, Derek 1495WLB WILB 1 36 62 4 yrs.
Dolfinger, Vernon 1491WLB 2 42 61 2 yrs.
Gonzalez, Joseph 1523LCB 3 53 53 2 yrs.
Harrison, Antoine 1538LCB 8 48 48 3 yrs.
##Howard, Lincoln 1525LCB 4 47 47 1 yr.
Canada, Gregory 1547RCB RCB 2 52 66 3 yrs.
Schmidtke, Cooper 1549RCB LCB 8 64 64 3 yrs.
Boone, Amari 1536RCB 5 56 56 1 yr.
Kempthorn, Scottie 1641SS SS 3 60 60 2 yrs.
Tatum, Miles 1640FS FS 5 55 55 3 yrs.
Baxter, Lincoln 1628FS 6 51 51 4 yrs.
Newsome, Bo 659 LS 9 17 17 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 54
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 47

Salary Cap: $204,200,000
Cap Room: $11,580,000
Maximum for New Player: $12,280,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $5,940,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $4,940,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $158,940,000

[Abe Sargent]

I think if I had built this dynasty as I intended, and built around a UFA QB only after building it up, Kelley might have been my man. Lukas Kelley is so much more consistent on the tats sheet.

[Brian Swartz]

For a guy that basically sucks, Arledge is all right.

I mean, Arledge rules! Arledge for President!! No, Emperor!!!

That should do it.

[Abe Sargent]

I trade CB Lincoln Howard to the Vikes for their 5th the next two years

I extend Shon Coleman a year

I sign UFA WR Abel Phillips and cut WR Mitch Rivera

Week 1 - We beat the Steelers 27-14. Lorey is MOM with 28 for 185, and 1 TD Catch. Arledge is 22 of 29, 228, and 3:2, hitting new rookie TE Jon Franklin twice for scores. Pick by OLB Rincon. FF by Nelson, recovered by Stanton.

Week 2 – Next up is the Redskins, and we win 24-17. Arledge is MOM with 20 of 26, 271 and 2:0. Riley is 149 yards and 1 score and RB Lorey the other. Lorey adds 87 yards and another score on the ground. FF by Rincon recovered y DE Pucillo. OG Maurer wit h 5 KRB

Week 3 – We thump the 2-0 Bills 32-17 in their place. MOM is Arledge with 20 of 22, not a typo, 265, 3;0. Lynch grabs 110 yards and a score, and Riley and Lorey the other TD catches. Lorey had 34 for 133. Picks by Baxter, Pucillo, and Canada. 4 KRB by Graha,m


Week 4 – BYE

Week 5 – We lose to the Broncos in our place, 16-21. MOM was Arledge with 31 of 49, 283, and 1:0. He hit Franklin for his 3rd score on the season. RB Lorey had 17 for 134.

And that makes us 3-1 at the first quarter mark.

[Abe Sargent]

For a guy that basically sucks, Arledge is all right.

I mean, Arledge rules! Arledge for President!! No, Emperor!!!

That should do it.

LOL!

He both sucks and doesn't. I mean he has a 44 accuracy, so there's that.

Here he his in all of his glory, with the Lukas by comparisons

https://s12.postimg.org/5nmb6g3y5/q_BS9.png

[Abe Sargent]

Oh and here's Alcott. Imagine him with those LBs!

https://s15.postimg.org/ewke9xjjf/Alcott_i.png

[Abe Sargent]

Week 6 – We lose at Oakland 27-37. Lorey, 3 for 103 and a score, Arledge was 25 of 42, 285 and 2:3. He hits Lorey and Wright for scores. 7 KRB by OG Maurer. FF by Rincon, recovered by Tatum

LB Vernon Dolfinger is out with a torn calf muscle for 11 weeks. I bench him and activate Tubbs

Week 7 – We lose 25-28 to the Chargers. MOM is Arledge with 38 of 53, 404 and 3:0. He hits Riley for 177 yards and a score, Lunch and Schuster for scores, Lorey has 21 for 92. FF by Harrison, recovered by Stanton.

Week 8 – We get back in a major , winning way, when we thump the Chiefs 40-17. Arledge, MOM and NFL OPotW, with 34 of 40, 412, 2:0 – he hits Lynch for 114 yards and a score, TE Franklin for a sore too. Lorey adds 2 scores and 165 yards on the ground. Picks by Schmidtke and Canada,


Week 9 – We head to the ravens and emerge victorious 21-17. Arledge, MOM, 23 of 30, 252, and 1:0. He hits riley fro 111 yards and 1 scores. Lorey adds 110 on the ground on 27 carries. Picks by Harrison and krauchick.

We finish 5-3 at the half

[Abe Sargent]

Week 10 – We host, and lose, to the 5-3 Eagles. Lorey is 21 for 164, and Arledge is 17 of 32, 194, 1:1. TE Franklin with the catch. CB Amari Boone with a pick. 2 sacks by Gibson spelling Pucillo.

Week 11 – We host the Bengals…And we beat them 27-21. This was one of those games our foe shuts down Arledge – 21 of 30, 168, 0:0. But Lorey had 26 for 138 and two scores. CB Schmidtke had a pick and ra return for 23 yards for a score. Tatum has a pick too.

Pucillo is healed

Week 12 – The 1 win Eagles fly in. They are feisty, but we finish them off, 38-28. Lorey is MVP with 20 of 154, 2 scores. Arledge is 16 of 26, 216, 1:1 and hits Wright for a TD. Pick by Tatum, an one by SLB Rincon returned 20 yards for a score. FF by Stanton, recovered and returned for a score by Baxter. 2.5 sacks by Stanton. But my choice for MOM? C Andrew Graham, 10 KRO, 9 KRB

We have a lot of probable and questionable stuff going on. Stanton probable, Maurer probable, Wright probable, Krauchic probable, Rincon questionable

No changes to my roster though

Week 13 - We host the 3-8 Jaguars. We crunch them 31-3. MOM is Arledge, 23 of 32, 272 1:0. Wrigth with the score. Lorey added 27 for 175 and 2 scores, and Arledge rushed for one as well. Oh, and Graham added another 7 KRB. Pick by Baxter.

We are 8-4 heading into the final stretch

[Abe Sargent]

Week 14 - This game is against major competition. The Giants. With their super stud Cote, and their 2 year back to back Super Bowl appearances. But they are having a down year and are 5-7. We beat them 30-22. MOM is Arledge – 29 of 43, 281, and 1:1. Wright was 107 and 1 score. Lorey was held to 60 yards and 1 score. SS Kempthron with a pick and a return for a score. Nelson with a FF that DT Alcott scoops up.



OG Bitonio is injured and out. I start OG Scherff instead and will finish the year with Scherff. Bitonio should be healed by the playoffs.

Week 15 – We play the Ravens and smash them 34-16. MOPM is Arledge with 20 of 31, 233, and 3:1./ Jot this Riley, Schuster and Franklin for scores. Lorey added 21 for 144 and 1 score. Picks by Schmidtket, Nelson and Rincon.

We have a lot of new injuries.

Schmidtke – questionable
LT Smith – questionable
Joe Franklin probable
DT Alcott – questionable

Again, I make no changes

Week 16 – We play the 4 win Cowboys . We thump them 44-18. Arlesdge is MOM with 22 of 31, 200, 2:0. Schuster and Lynch with scores, and Lorey adds 2 scores and 90 yards on the ground, Arledge rushes for score too. Picks by Baxter, DE Pucillo and Rincon.

Going into week 17, we are 11-4. Houston, at 12-3, is currently #1, and we have the Jets and Raiders at 10-5. We need to defeat the Bengals

Week 17 – we win 23-21. Arledge was 27 of 50, 2295, and 0:1. Riley has 116 yards. Lorey 18 rushes, 99 yards and a score. Pick by Nelson. WR Bening got a 91 yard PR for a score.


Were 12-4. And we have a bye at the #2 seed

Get ready for season awards, I think we have a major award about to come my way for the first time. I think I have an NFL MVP and Offensive Player of the Year….

[Abe Sargent]

The 2024 NFL Playoffs!

Wild Card Weekend:

In the NFC:

Atlanta flies in and takes out the LA Rams 20-6
Redskins hold vs Vikings and win 27-11

Jets crushed the Titans in NY, 23-9

Buffalo can’t find a win in Oakland, 9-24




Week 2, Divisional Champs

We host the Jets.

Oakland heads to Houston

Carolina hosts Atlanta
Washington at Green Bay


Carolina 26, Atlanta 6

Oakland 19, Houston 16

Green Bay 35, Washington 9

We beat the Jets 13-10.


Arledge is MOM with 24 of 35, 242, 0:0, and rushes for a score. Lorey held to 49 yards. Pick by LB Horton. 2 sacks by DT Alcott

[Abe Sargent]

The Conference Championships!

Because the #1 seed fell, we host the Raiders – We are favored by 6.

In the NFC, the Packers heads to the Panthers. Both are 13-3.

The Packer loses 27-30

We win 29-14

Arledge, MOM, 26 of 40, 225, 1:0, hits Lynch for a score. Lorey is 166 and 1 on the ground. 4 KRB by Bitonio and Coleman. Sacks by Rincon, Alcott. FF by Stanton, recoved by Tatum.

We have a injury:

Riley is doubtful for the Super Bowl. I wish I could line up TEs as WRs but you can’t.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2024 NFL Super Bowl!!!

Your AFC Champion, #2 seed 12-4 Cleveland BROWNS

VSs.

Your NFC Champion, #1 seed 13-3 Carolina PANTHERS


The Panthers are favored by 1


Now we have made it here three times, and won every time. Can Arledge make it four rings in four tries, and by his 9th year being a rock here? Or will he lose, and still have a solid and respectable 3-1 record in the Bowls.

The Panthers are the most difficult juggernaut we’ve faced in the Super Bowl. We’ve never been unfavored. And I don’t have my best receiver.

Who are the Panthers missing?

A random 4th string WR, 37/37
A Solid starting DE, 56/56
A LB, 39/39

That’s it

So nothing major.

Ready?


We begin the drive on our 37 yard line. Diego Lorey breaks wide, and rushes for a score on the first play of the game. 7-0

The Panthers have 4 plays, and punt

We get a huge return from Bening, who is tackled on their 16, Sensing vulnerability, Arledge goes for goal and hits TE Franklin, the rookie catches a TE score, 16 yards, on the second offensive pass of the game. 14-0

The Panthers go three and out and punt. After 5 players and 46 yards, Arledge tosses a pick suix, and thy score. 14-7

They are stopped. We get the ball, drive 8 plays and deep, and then another pick. They drive that pick for 15 plays, and 85 yards. Ten they score a TD in the 2nd quarter

14-14

We get the ball, drive 11 plays, 75 yards, and then kick a FG.

17-14 us

He Panthers punt

We Punt

The Panthers drive, and can’t do anything.


HALFTIME – We are up 17-14

They start with the ball, drive 12 plays, and then kick a FG to tie at 17-17


Arledge drives, hits Wright for a 55 yard pass with -10:17 left in the 3rd. 24-17 us


A fast score followed, with a 61 yard pass and they respond.

24-24

We go 3 and out and punt deep. Emerson drives it to their 11 yard line.

On the second play on their drive, CB Gregory Canada picks off their QB Cam Newton, and we get the ball on their 8. Diero Lorey rushes for a 2 yard run a few minutes later as the time ends on the 3rd

31-24 us

We force them three and out and they punt. We get the ball with 12:46 left. We drive 4 plays, 28 yards, and punt.

They get the ball at their 20 with a touchback. They get 4 plays, 19 yards, and punt.

We get it at our 12,. We go 3 and out and unt

They get it at their 34. They go three and -4 yards after the 3rd sack on the day by DT Allcott ends their drive. They punt

We get the ball with 5:31 left on our 19. We drive…8 plays, 61 yards. And we finish with a FG and make It 34-24 with under 2 minutes.


They get the ball at the 1:43 mark on their 25, and they turn it over on downs 12 yards and 7 plays later


We win 34-24

Super Bowl MVP – Lorey, 23 for 164, 2 scores. Arlsdge was 25 of 33, 261 and 2:2. He hit Bening an Wright for scores, and Lynch with 136 yards


Pick bu Canada. Our lone turnover of the day. We lose the TO battle -1

3 sacks by Alcott, sacks by Krauchick and Stanton and Pucillo and Rincon split a sack.

4 KRB by Maurer, 3 by Graham

Lots of people were involved. Great punting by Emerson to pin them deep and tat allowed the pick and momentum swinger by Canada. Alcott was all up in Newton’s grill. Returner Beinign had a great return to set up a score. Good stuff!

I think you might have just seen the rare quadfecta, but we’ll see…….

[Brian Swartz]

Sounds like a great Super Bowl!

[Abe Sargent]

Season Awards!

Damn Green Bay!

We missed the big awards. And We may have been a little robbed too….


Super Bowl MV_ RB Diego Lorey

All Pro First Team – RB Diego Lorey, C Andrew Graham, OT Shon Coleman, DE Julio Stanton, LB Karl Rincon,

All Pro Second Team – QB BRANDEN ARLEDGE BABY, FB Ralph Schuster, WR Rodney Riley, K Brandon McManus,

So we had NINE All Pros this year. Dang!

And yet I am going to argue that we were robbed of both MVP and OPotY, which should have gone to Lorey. I’ll show you how in says in a moment…..

[Abe Sargent]

Sounds like a great Super Bowl!

IT was, and we beat Cam, so there;s that. :)

[Abe Sargent]

STATS BABY!!!


Passing -




Front Office Football Eight
Passing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Cmp Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/A Lg
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 16 566 388 68.6 4259 10.98 7.52 87

Player Pos Team TD Int 20+T 300+ Rating
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 26 10 69 2 98.5

Att - Attempts, Cmp - Completions, Pct - Completion Percentage,
Yards - Passing Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Completion, Ave/A - Yards per Attempt,
Lg - Longest Completion, TD - Passing Touchdowns, Int - Passes Intercepted,
20+T - Completions of 20 or More Yards, 300+ - 300-yard Games,
Rate - Quarterback Rating


Arledge was 2nd in passing yards behind Dak Prescott, by 50 yards, and 5th in rating, and 4th in passing TDs. Frankly, I thought the All Pros would be Prescott and the GB guy. So I am very okay with this....

but not this....


RUSHING:

Let me switch this up and show you the qualifiers at rushing for the whole league:



Front Office Football Eight
Rushing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Yards Avg Lg TD RZAtt Yards
**Lorey, Diego RB CLE 16 16 382 2042 5.35 65 15 55 223
Kerbis, Roman RB OAK 16 9 199 1371 6.89 58 11 19 106
Mackey, Deon RB WAS 16 13 293 1341 4.58 52 8 42 141
Barger, Mason RB DET 16 15 270 1313 4.86 38 12 35 104
Champion, Alan RB TBY 16 10 276 1161 4.21 69 10 31 74
Conley, Floyd RB MIN 15 8 267 1150 4.31 54 11 45 111
Ricketts, Bill RB NOS 16 9 274 1120 4.09 80 8 38 93
Kluge, Les RB SFO 15 14 280 1093 3.90 68 6 42 113
Alcott, Pumpsie RB MIA 16 12 219 1034 4.72 75 11 44 149
Tousha, Micah RB GBY 16 15 298 1012 3.40 41 9 32 78
Ginste, Mercury RB DAL 16 9 195 982 5.04 93 6 27 50
Schwartz, Brant RB ATL 16 8 241 957 3.97 56 11 39 94
Coffey, Tod RB JAX 16 7 191 948 4.96 47 1 20 49
Glover, Chester RB KCY 16 13 250 943 3.77 75 8 30 101
Barton, Bubba RB DEN 16 11 220 938 4.26 47 7 30 71
Dagen, Bennett RB TEN 16 8 258 930 3.60 68 5 32 60
Spiller, Walter RB PIT 16 9 204 888 4.35 42 6 31 130
Gibson, Fido RB NYK 16 6 172 884 5.14 24 2 14 55
Fields, Marquis RB BUF 16 8 207 832 4.02 39 6 22 62
Dole, Spencer RB NJY 16 12 225 818 3.64 53 6 22 78
Longley, Pat RB PIT 16 7 174 773 4.44 39 2 9 41
Bensen, Jose RB SEA 16 10 143 773 5.41 39 6 22 98
Young, Ezra RB PHI 16 4 148 766 5.18 86 4 14 44
Huntley, Lamont QB BAL 15 14 139 758 5.45 66 8 21 62
Anzivino, J.T. RB HOU 15 10 187 746 3.99 80 9 26 71
Epps, Donte RB LAS 16 10 138 736 5.33 49 5 17 62
Johnson, David RB LAS 13 6 145 716 4.94 48 5 14 41
Rodon, Heath RB IND 16 14 203 649 3.20 34 4 20 47
Lincoln, Tracy RB CAR 16 7 160 633 3.96 36 4 25 50
Ross, Steven RB SDO 16 7 169 624 3.69 41 4 16 47
Davison, Joey RB MIA 16 3 125 624 4.99 39 3 14 61
Ellard, Joseph RB CAR 16 8 150 610 4.07 30 7 26 51
Beeman, Alex RB BUF 16 7 143 609 4.26 66 5 24 90
Gomez, Randy RB BAL 16 5 127 605 4.76 67 2 15 27
Augustynowicz, Myron RB CIN 16 4 136 605 4.45 75 7 20 86
Keppler, Ralph RB ARI 16 4 137 588 4.29 61 4 20 78
Givens, Dale RB NJY 16 3 178 578 3.25 52 5 28 53
Cole, Jesse RB PHI 14 10 144 548 3.81 80 8 19 69
Dearman, Rusty RB IND 16 7 143 530 3.71 39 4 24 46
McGee, Mitchell QB SEA 11 9 107 526 4.92 37 3 12 69
Burnett, Matthew RB ARI 16 11 158 476 3.01 26 1 19 61
Watson, Lenny RB KCY 16 3 107 459 4.29 76 3 7 8
Branch, Cornelius RB SDO 8 5 107 451 4.21 49 3 7 19
Biamila, Louie RB CIN 14 10 176 445 2.53 41 3 27 66
Dixon, Ezekiel RB NED 16 4 118 414 3.51 21 2 9 23
Conger, Bernard RB NYK 16 4 126 409 3.25 20 5 17 50
Buck, Edgar RB CHI 16 4 141 396 2.81 38 4 15 21
Reeves, Tyrone RB HOU 16 4 145 392 2.70 25 0 13 18
King, J.C. RB BAL 13 8 119 337 2.83 51 1 11 16
Reilly, J.J. RB CHI 16 12 109 298 2.73 60 1 10 13
Bloom, Jerome RB NED 16 11 119 277 2.33 26 2 18 29
Archambeau, Jimmy RB DEN 15 2 106 120 1.13 10 1 21 11



As you can see, Lorey both hit the mythical level of 2000+ rushing yards, and led the rest of the pack by 700+ yards. He also led in rushing TDs. He also had 524 receiving yard and 4 catching scores, so he had mroe than 2500 yards from scrimmage and 19 TDs. That is not just good. That is, in my humble and clearly biased opinion, enough to be MVP and Off Player of the Year.


Catch that BALL!




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Receiving Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Targ Ctch Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/T YAC
Riley, Rodney WR CLE 16 16 160 107 66.9 1312 12.26 8.20 530
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 16 16 114 88 77.2 982 11.16 8.61 405
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 16 10 69 45 65.2 706 15.69 10.23 311
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 16 16 92 66 71.7 524 7.94 5.70 398
Franklin, Jon TE CLE 16 10 56 41 73.2 375 9.15 6.70 121
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 6 43 28 65.1 205 7.32 4.77 71
Ruddy, Edgar TE CLE 16 1 17 9 52.9 125 13.89 7.35 40
Bening, Larry WR CLE 16 0 7 4 57.1 30 7.50 4.29 3
Nail, Eugene TE CLE 16 5 3 0 0.0 0 0.00 0.00 0

Player Pos Team Lg TD Drp PPly TPct 20+C 100+
Riley, Rodney WR CLE 61 5 6 593 27.0 22 4
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 40 4 0 507 22.5 15 1
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 87 5 3 400 17.3 15 2
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 34 4 3 568 16.2 9 0
Franklin, Jon TE CLE 34 5 6 399 14.0 5 0
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 22 3 2 225 19.1 1 0
Ruddy, Edgar TE CLE 32 0 2 98 17.3 2 0
Bening, Larry WR CLE 12 0 2 61 11.5 0 0
Nail, Eugene TE CLE 0 0 0 129 2.3 0 0

Targ - Targeted with Pass, Ctch - Receptions, Pct - Reception Percentage,
Yards - Receiving Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Catch, Avg/T - Yards per
Target, YAC - Yards Gained After Catch, Lg - Longest Reception,
TD - Receiving Touchdowns, Drp - Passes Dropped, PPly - Passing Plays
on Field, TPct - Percentage of Passing Plays Targeted, 20+C - Catches
of 20 Yards or More, 100+ - 100-Yard Games.



You can see the good stuff there. Riley was 2nd in the league in receiving yards. Receiving TE Franklin looked good as a mid round rookie as well.



BLOCKING BABY



Front Office Football Eight
Blocking Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS KRB KRO BPct Pnck SkA PPly SPct
Graham, Andrew C CLE 16 16 56 115 48.7 2 4 596 0.7
Coleman, Shon T CLE 16 16 36 89 40.4 2 3 596 0.5
Maurer, Norman G CLE 16 16 25 68 36.8 0 4 596 0.7
Smith, Donovan T CLE 16 16 18 50 36.0 0 15 592 2.5
Bitonio, Joel G CLE 13 13 17 53 32.1 2 2 468 0.4
Scherff, Brandon G CLE 4 3 7 15 46.7 2 1 119 0.8
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 6 4 9 44.4 0 0 225 0.0
Nail, Eugene TE CLE 16 5 3 8 37.5 0 0 129 0.0
Neumeyer, Bart T CLE 3 0 1 1 100.0 0 0 4 0.0
Ruddy, Edgar TE CLE 16 1 1 2 50.0 0 0 98 0.0
Franklin, Jon TE CLE 16 10 1 5 20.0 0 1 399 0.3
Dunkin, Zane C CLE 2 0 0 2 0.0 0 0 9 0.0



Graham just annihilated the rest of teh league with his KRB. The next highest was 43. You need good blocking to get a 2000+ year season. And we have another ALl Pro from Coleman and Graham just being the best O Line player in the league. Maurer looks fine in his first year starting for me as well.

K McManus, 40 of 46, 45 of 47 PAT.
P Emerson, 75 punts, 49.4 avg, 41.7 net. That was the best average and net in the league and once again, Emerson was denined another All Pro. That would have made us 10th. Ah well.
KR/PR Bening, 1 KR RET TD, among qualifiers, 7th best KR average in league, adn 4th best PR avg




DEFENSE!




Front Office Football Eight
Defensive Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Tckl Asst Sack Blkd Hurr QBKd
Stanton, Julio DE CLE 16 16 56 17 13.5 4 19 25
Rincon, Karl OLB CLE 16 16 97 32 9.0 0 4 5
Pucillo, Norm DE CLE 14 14 17 6 5.0 0 12 4
Krauchick, Dean OLB CLE 16 16 74 26 4.0 2 6 3
Alcott, Damien DT CLE 15 15 36 13 4.0 0 6 4
Gibson, Willie DE CLE 15 2 10 4 2.5 0 5 0
Nelson, Sawyer ILB CLE 16 15 98 44 1.0 1 3 1
Horton, Vince ILB CLE 16 8 50 18 1.0 0 0 0
Blades, Graham DT CLE 16 1 5 3 1.0 0 4 1
Kempthorn, Scottie S CLE 16 15 81 20 0.0 0 0 0
Tatum, Miles S CLE 16 15 53 15 0.0 0 0 0
Canada, Gregory CB CLE 16 16 50 7 0.0 0 1 0
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 16 16 41 9 0.0 0 2 0
Boone, Amari CB CLE 16 8 33 5 0.0 0 0 0
Baxter, Lincoln S CLE 16 1 14 3 0.0 1 0 0
Harrison, Antoine CB CLE 16 1 13 5 0.0 0 1 0
Gonzalez, Joseph CB CLE 15 1 5 0 0.0 0 0 0


Stanton;s 13.5 sacks were 1.5 behind the league leader, and 2nd most in the NFL. Rincon;s 9 sacks, 3rd best among all LBs. I know Pucillo was out for a couple of games, but I was hoping for more there. Especially if I can;t franchise Stanton again for like the 15000th season in a row. Alstott had more sacks in the post season than the regular season. I'll take it of course, especially 3 sacks in a Super Bowl, but I;d love to see from from the rookie next year.


COVER THAT BALL!




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Pass Coverage Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Ints IRYd TD Defn Cght PPly PDPct
Rincon, Karl OLB CLE 16 16 4 42 1 6 45 602 78.3
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 16 16 3 23 1 3 25 564 80.6
Baxter, Lincoln S CLE 16 1 3 19 0 2 12 181 84.6
Tatum, Miles S CLE 16 15 2 3 0 7 32 546 79.6
Nelson, Sawyer ILB CLE 16 15 2 14 0 7 47 524 75.6
Pucillo, Norm DE CLE 14 14 2 54 0 0 6 437 82.9
Canada, Gregory CB CLE 16 16 2 15 0 4 33 448 77.1
Harrison, Antoine CB CLE 16 1 1 7 0 6 11 208 84.7
Boone, Amari CB CLE 16 8 1 13 0 6 25 417 79.2
Krauchick, Dean OLB CLE 16 16 1 0 0 6 32 584 78.5
Kempthorn, Scottie S CLE 16 15 1 40 1 7 30 432 78.3
Stanton, Julio DE CLE 16 16 0 0 0 1 11 579 80.4
Horton, Vince ILB CLE 16 8 0 0 0 3 24 204 70.2
Gonzalez, Joseph CB CLE 15 1 0 0 0 3 4 72 85.0
Blades, Graham DT CLE 16 1 0 0 0 0 2 190 81.1
Gibson, Willie DE CLE 15 2 0 0 0 0 2 175 81.0
Alcott, Damien DT CLE 15 15 0 0 0 0 6 413 80.6

Ints - Interceptions, IRYd - Interception Return Yardage, TD - Interception
Return Touchdowns, Cght - Passes Caught by Covered Receiver, Defn - Passes
Defensed, PPly - Passing Plays on Field, PDPct - Pass Defense Percentage.


Rincon led my team in picks with 4. We had tons of people with picks, and lots of picks out there.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards!

Offensive MVP - Hmmm….RB Diego Lorey maybe? I thought seriously about Graham here.


Defensive MVP – LB Rincon – I have to admit that I love how fast and powerful Rincon has dominated. In his first year years he has 20.5 sacks, 13 hurries, 7 QBKD, 4 picks, 1 INT RET TD, 4 FF. and one fumrec. He has been a disruptive force on the strong side.

Special Teams MVP – P Emerson deserves this one for the reasons cited above and leading the league in two pertinent stats.

Rookie of the Year- DT Alcott – He was never bothered, stepped right in, and had a good, solid season.

Heart Award – FB Schuster. We play him on special teams, where he had 24 special teams tackles, 8th best in the league. And then was good enough to rock his third All Pro award as well Dude has heart.

[Abe Sargent]

Alright,let;s drill down into that QB who won MVP and OPotY

QB Bobby Briggs, Green Bay Packers:

The +++ for Briggs:

Briggs led the Packers to 13-3
Briggs was 5th in the league in passing yards with 4022
Briggs had 27 TDs, and 5th in passing TDs

The best thing you can say about Briggs, and this is big - just four picks, 103.2 rating, which was 4th best among qualifiers.

Briggs adds 4 TDs on the ground, and 344 yards

He wasn't top three in pass yards, TDs, or QB rating. He wasn;t the best scrambler. 5 Qbs had more than 4 Qbs. 13 more rushing yards

Why would Briggs be an Off Player of the Year, when I don't think you can make a convincing case he was the best at his position. Meanwhile, Lorey dominated this league, the competition, and is a clear and obvious choice, both for MVP and OPotY

[Abe Sargent]

Arledge’s career stats after 9 years:

3283 completions, 35972 yards, 236 TDs, 106 picks, 67.2%, 95.8 rating,

As you know, 60k is sort of the Magic mark. Hit 60 and you are in Tom Brady (Right now), Dan Marino territory. And 50k is Warren Moon, Elway area. 10th best is Testeverde with 46k,. So Arledge could easily make the top ten of all time in passing yards.

Now, he’s not near the top in pass TDs. 236 would put you at around 25-30 all time. At 11 is Warren Moon with 291. So, get to 300 to be safe. 300 is Elway’s TD record.

How about completions? 10th best Is Testaverde at 3787. So Arledge almost has that in 9 years.

[Abe Sargent]

End of Season –

Performance – 81
Value 85
Profit – 81
Roster 26

Score 77

Hall of Fame – Aaron Rodgers and Earl Thomas

We made 122 mill last year, had a 100% attendance,


OT Donovan Smith retires from us

Major retirees of note:

QB Matt Stafford, EJ Manuel,
RTE David Moragn, Cri Wilson
WR AJ Green, Marvis Jones, TY Hilton, Brendan Coleman,
O Line – OG WChance Warmack, Justin Pugh, Lane Johnson and many others – 16 o line retire

D Line – Anthony Barr, Ansah, Fletcher CCox,

Our Bennie Logan retires

LB – Bobby wagner, CJK Mosley,

Our LB Ogbah retires

CB Richard Sherman, Eli Apple, S TJ McDonald

I give a raise to my HC and head to the coach draft


We draft 9th

There is a better OC out there, Sherman Cole. Balanced, WR, 62 players. Would I want to move from smashmouth or do I upgrade my OC and swap?

I think I upgrade!

Meet Sherman Cole, former OC of the Titians, a full 12 points suitability better

I make no other staff changes

[Abe Sargent]

My FA:

Stanton
RB Nathan Angus
CB Amari Boone
RG maruer
LG Scherff


I wanted to retain both Mauirer and Stanton, but Maurer was angry in the offseason and I can’t sign players after the season begins, not even early on or once they see they are my starter moving forward.

Who to tag? Maurer and then resign? Or Stanton yet again.

I have 45 in cap space, 38 for new players. I have two rookies coming up that may cost a lto reoresign – WR Riley and LB Krauchick. I’m not sure I can do all three,. Stanton is up to 23.8 mill this year. F


I can’t not have Stanton. I franchise him.


FA TIME!

Which players of note are in the final year of their deals:

LB Krauchick
LB Horton
FL Riley
K McManus
DE Pucillo
OT Coleman
SS Kempthron
LB Dolflinger
OG Bitonio
C Graham
RB Snyder
WR Lynch
CB Joe Gon
QB Jelley
LT Neumet\yer
TE Ruddy
SE benig
Newsome

Newsome extended

I make offers to RFAs LB Tubbs and DE Yaros.

I currently have 47 players under contract

Im trying not to give major long term contracts to my older O Line. Take Bitonio -he’s in his 12th year. Currently 58/58. IF I had signed him to a big mega bucks deal, that’s likely to end on retirement of a drop in ability. He’s 33. How much longer does he really have as an O Line man? Coleman sis 33 too and is 10th year. Graham in his 9th is 30. I just had a O Line retire on me, so it happens right abbot now for these folks

I’ll wait until camp again, so see about ability, cap, and who I may have drafted

We are letting OG Scherff head off. I would like to sign Maurer. Maybe.

In the meantime, who do I want to extend?

K McManus wants 7 mill a year, a huge bump from his 5 mill deal. Nope

WR Lynch is 31 as well- I’m not giving him 20 mill for three more years.

Horton wants 14 mill for 4 years. But he;s the worst of my LB lot. Do I want to extend him?

I extend Bening by a year

Riley wants a ton of cash – like 77nill in5 years cash. TO be fair to Riley, he’s the 9th best WR in the league. Dustin Wright is 19th. There are only 21 at 60+ current rating. Only the Jets and Browns have 2 on their roster.

I would have to pay Pucillo serious 32 mill over 5 years type of money to keep him. That can’t happen until eh proves himself

[Abe Sargent]

I have 8 picks this year, and Green Bay loves my RB Moe Estell. They offer me a player and their 2nd rounder for him. Let’s ehck out the draft.

I need:

DE for Stanton
Backup RB,
3rd WR
OG? OT? Long-term replacements for Bitonio or Coleman.
LB
Starting CB

I interview 5 Cbs, There are two I really like. I also interview a bunch fo DE/D T folk as well as some WR

Are there a bunch of others out there that really want Estell?

Actually….maybe..

Do I want another high 1st round draft pick?

The Cards really want Estelle. They offer me their 2.11 this year for Estel. And tha;s good. But I talk them into their 1.11 with some additional picks from myself. Now this is not the normal trade up and trades some 2nds for it. It’s a free #1.

And I could even push it. You, trade back for more future picks, restore my future draft stock, and then draft in the 20s or something, followed by my pick at 32.

So that is very, very tempting.

Is there anyone up that high that’s worth the rush? Some years we have seriously awesome talen at the 11 spot,a nd others we done. I traded up to 1.12 for my DT Alcott last year, and up for RB Lorey, both were for top flight, rarely in the daft, let alone available players. Right?

Any generational players up there?

Studs:

2 RB, another 2ish
2ish QBs
Multiple Safeties
OT
2 ish CB
1 WLB


TE Willie Woods?

I could use the Ot and a CB. <aune Woods


Let’s hash out the trade:

I give the Cards:

RB Moe Estell
My 2nd rounder next year
My 2nd rounder two years from now

For

1.11
4th next year
4th the following year

So basically I drop down two rounds from 2 to 4in those two years to get a 1.11 now. If a tp notch player is there, I can snag him. If not, I trade back and rack up picks.

I end stage one of FA

I make an offer to OG Norman Maurer. 3 of the top 7 players in FA are from me, Maurer, Amary Boone and Scherff, and Kirksey si also out there down.

I extend RB Colin Snyder by a year

I make no other offers

Week 5 – Maurer signs with us for 8.82 mill, 3 yearas

I skip the stages and head directly for the NFL Draft.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2025 NFL Amateur Draft!

We are going to slow roll this

The first pick is RB Ellis Phillips of Auburn, to the Eagles

The players I was looking at, OT Bart McKnight, the two CBs, and more are all off the board. Three corners, 2 RBS, 2 QBs, DT, and S. McKnight went the pick before mine, Stupid Bucs!

I like DE Cornelius Watkins, SS Larry Shaw, FS Rico Akers, Burtner are all solid S. . If I wanted I could take CB Damon Comstock really, really earlier than I thought – 4th best Cb on the board. CB Ian Ridely? OT Malik Stimpson, who has low endurance but everything else? DT Kenny Shaw looks sick, but I don’t need another DT>

Hmmmmm…

When it doubt, trade back.

There is a heavy D Back draft, but too many went in the first 10. And yet folks I like aren’t here either

The 1.11 is worth 1250.

The 1.20 is 850. So I could get 400 points by dropping back 10 spots That;s enough for a high 2nd. For example, I could likely trade from 11.1 to 1.18 or 1.19 for someone’s future 2nd. Which would mean I only have traded one future 2 and my RB for this pick, and gotten 2 4s and this player

Seems like a good, deal, right?

I make an offer for 17th, future 2nd. That’s a drop of 300 points, but no dice. 300 is the 60th pick, back of the 2nd. I could just toss out a a 4th I trade dfor to make it work.

I trade:

My 1.11, 4.1 this year for

Steelers at 1.17, and their 2nd in 2027, two years from now

The Steelers grab S Rico Akers.

Then Stimpson, CB Comstock, DT Shaw, RB Farley and….RB Hernandez head off the clock…

And I still have these two great Safeties there.

Shaw: 4.42 dash, red agility blue strength, red pos spec 57,, hard to read, potential affinity. 13 volatility. 16% developed though

OR

Burtner – 2 reds, 1 blue. 37% dev, 71 volatility.


Now I could trade back again. I’m at 1.17. I could trade from here at 950 to about 1.30 or so and probably get another future 2nd. But shaw is good. He seems really, really strong. And bonus – jhe;s with an affinity!

I take Shaw

S Burtner goes 1.20 to the Saints

I;m watching four players very closely at 1.32, WR Chuck Jennings look pretty good. He;s falling, and would be a great pick up. There is LB McWilliams, arguably th best LB in the draft still on the board, and the 2nd is right behind and up there. And DE Parmely, a potential future DE star.


WR Chuck Jennings 1.30 to Pack1.29 WLB McWilliams

That leaves me at

1.32 MLB Dean Steinberg? DE Everett Parmely

As a reminder, I don’t have a 2nd this year. I have 1 4th lefts, 2 5ths.

This is not a draft where I need depth. So I was okay trading my extra 4th.

Hm….

Where am I looking? Who appeals to me?

Parmely. He might be my replacement for Stanton. He;s hard to read, 22% developed, the top DE on the board, This guy is a pass rush specialist. 3 blues one red.

I go Parmely . In previous years, I would have snagged LB Steinberg.

There are a few players I’m watching in two. TE Colton Seifert? OT Tubbs? OT Lane?

They all make it out. Of the 2nd round

Seifert goes 3.2. The last good TE in the draft. Tubbs goes 3 20. Is Lane falling?

So it’s my pick at 3.32. Two player I like. OT Lane – nocombine, looks to have good bars

The other is a WR that fell, Earl Boothroyd. Now Boothroyd might be a bust – combines don’t back up bars, high volatility. But there’s no combine for Lane at all to compare to. And Boothroyd has better bars than Lane…..

I’m not getting a good WR later. Might get a good OT later.

So I grab Boothroyd.

Lane feels good though. Could I trade my 4th up to take it? I’d probably have to package a future 6th? What I do instead if offer a future fourth from 2027 when I have 3 other 4ths and my 6th from 2027 as well. I grab Lane at the 107


The end of the 4th arrives. I take LB Randall Yockey, a 3-4 ILB

I have 2 picks in the 5th – 5.26 and 5.32,

No center has been taken yet. There are some good ones. Bu tI have three.

I offer C Schnebele for a trade o the Bills, Bears, Saints or Skins for their…..

I send Chicago’s 5th rounder and C Schnebele to the Bears for their 3rd in 3026.

I then take the top C in the draft, Marcos Henson. It’s not often you get a 6.0 rated player this deep into the draft not called a P or K. I then take a CB for depth

6th? I have a potential TE I want to take. Pat Reid, 2 rends, ad two blues. This deep. Maybe he I sa grower?

7th – RB Raul Lindsay depth and nice bars

Amateur Draft Report:

Rnd 1 - Everett Parmely, DE, Southern California
Rnd 1 - Larry Shaw, S, Brigham Young
Rnd 3 - Earl Boothroyd, WR, Kansas
Rnd 4 - Mercury Lane, T, North Carolina State
Rnd 4 - Randall Yockey, ILB, Portland State
Rnd 5 - Marcos Henson, C, Northwestern
Rnd 5 - Clayton Nixon, CB, Louisville
Rnd 6 - Pat Reid, TE, Prairie View A&M
Rnd 7 - Raul Lindsay, RB, Houston

[Abe Sargent]

We have a A- review

Early results”

SS Shaw – 25/73
DE Parmely 36/72
C Henson 32/61
LB Yockey 26/61
SE Boothroyd – 26/57
RT Lane – 18/56
RB Lindsay 29/46
CB Nixon – 22/46
TE Reid 23/33

Vet holdouts from Riley and Lynch, both receivers

I go ahead an ink a major extension for Riley – 67mill, 5 years

My cap is down to 2 mill under..

But…

I do have some players I can trim to make space if needed.

Meanwhile…

I look at signing –

C Matt Burmeister
RB Edgar Danek
QB Sebastian Nekolny
SE Marcus McDaniel
TE Archie Sowers
CB Darren Garner
CB Francisco Moss

Week 2- 6 of my targets agree to terms

Week 3 – QB Kekolny joins me

Are we ready for camp?????

I sign UFA Marlon kerr, LG Victor Washburn,

[Abe Sargent]

CAMP TIME!!!!!

The Ravens need a QB badly and they offer me a 3rd for Lukas Kelley. I accept. I sign UFA QB Malcolm McIntyre who boomed.

I cut CB Antoine Harrison and S Lincoln Baxter. That frees up about 10 mill. I extend both Coleman and Bitonio by a year each.

I cut TE Timlin, RB Kerr,

I trade 51/61 backup LB Dolfinger to the Texans for their 4th and 5th in 20208

We go 4-0 in preseason.

Seattle and both NY teams want DE Pucillo. He wants to o much to stay, and I now have a replacement for him. But I can start him this year, and then start Parmely next. But I really do want to get Parmely up and running as soon as possible. For a young, low 60s DE, I should be able to get at least a 2nd rounder. Come on now! I would extend and keep him on my roster as a quality backup, but he;s too pricey, and he’ll get pissed quickly I‘m sure.

Do I want to trade him and a couple fo 4ths for a future Seahawks 2nd, or just straight up for 3? I trade him to the ‘hawks for their 3rd and 5th in 2028.

I cut RG3 and TE Eugene Nail, whom I signed a few years ago. He;s no longer my receivers leader, WR Wright is. And he’s faded to 37/37, and my 3rd best TE

C Zane Dunkin dropped in preseason. I cut him

I am not going to extend C Graham. I have C Marcos Henson at 41/70 post camp and preseason. Henson has grown from 61 pot to 70. I want to encourage that.

My two UFA Qbs dropped to potential 30s, and Arledge dropped to 32/32

Unfortunately SS KEmpthron boomed a bit in camp. Last year I started him as SS and he was 1 pick, 7 apsdef. But Shaw looks really good. And I don’t have the cash to pay Kempthorn. Next year I have to pay to keep Rincon and perhaps CB Canada. So I am using Kempthorn as a Nickelback. He’s also my starting CB against the run, because of how bad Schmidktke sis vs the run. Goalline packages and such.

Kempthorn is too valuable to trade, and too expensive to sign.

I extend K McManus by a year

I extend Vince Horton for 13 mill, 4 years

I sign Krauchick too 60 mill, 4 years

Alright, I suspect Stanton’s cap hit leaving will be where I sign Rincon moving forward

Lynch is still holding out

After dropping in camp, I cut LT Bart Neumeyer

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 – We win 17-10 vs the Bengals. In his first game with us, Shaw has a pick and a return for a score. Meanwhile DE Parmely has 1.5 sacks, Stanton the same, and each of Alcott and LB Krauchikck 2 sacks as well. Lorey was 18 of 71, and Arledge 17 of 29 for 1:1 and hit Wright for a score. Alcott was our MOM. 4 KRB for Maurer

Week 2 – We defeat the Vikes 26-21. MOM is Arledge with 24 of 27, 251 and 1:0. Riley had 129 yards and s core. Another pick and turned for a score by Shaw. 2.5 sacks by Parmely, 1.5 by Alcott. Just 45 yards for Lorey though.

Two major injuries:

OT Trenton Henry is out for 3 weeks = Henson starts
LB Vince Horton is out for 7 weeks – Gibbons and Tubbs both get some reps


Week 3 – Arledge goes down in the first quarter, and rookie Sebastian Nekolny comes in and inishes 15 of 19, 242 and 1:0. Nekolny is MOM. Lorey has 180 yards on the groudnd, and Riley rushes for as core and WR rookie earl Boothroyd with another catch Pick by LB Sawyer Nelson. We win 17-13.

Arledge is doubtful for a couple of weeks. I bench him for Nekolny


Week 4 – Can we beat the 3-0 Bills? We can – 19-9. 3 sacks by Stanton, 1 each by Alcott and Rincon. Nekolny is MVP with 25 of 35, 280 and 2:0. Wright has 125 yards and s core, Boothroyd another score. Lorey was 21 for 135. 4 KRB by Maurer.

A lot more injuries:

OT Colemon is out for 2 weeks
SE Bening is questionable
SE Boothroyd is out for a month

Because Henry is back to probable, I rush him back to start for Coleman. I activate WR McDaniel and move him into Boothroyd;s place in a few formations

We are 4-0!

[Abe Sargent]

ROSTER!!!

Sorry forgot to give you a roster:





Front Office Football Eight
Cleveland Browns Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Nekolny, Sebastian 104 QB QB 1 18 34 1 yr.
##Arledge, Brendan 114 QB 10 32 32 3 yrs.
McIntyre, Malcolm 105 QB 1 17 31 1 yr.
Lorey, Diego 222 RB RB 5 78 78 2 yrs.
Snyder, Colin 235 RB 3 53 57 2 yrs.
Danek, Edgar 232 RB 1 33 47 1 yr.
##Lindsay, Raul 243 RB 1 32 46 4 yrs.
Schuster, Ralph 331 FB FB 7 66 66 3 yrs.
Franklin, Jon 446 TE TE 2 42 49 3 yrs.
Ruddy, Edgar 442 TE 4 43 43 1 yr.
Sowers, Archie 481 TE 1 24 36 1 yr.
##Reid, Pat 484 TE 1 27 33 4 yrs.
Riley, Rodney 586 FL SE 4 69 69 5 yrs.
$$Lynch, Gabriel 513 FL 9 52 52 1 yr.
Wright, Dustin 512 SE FL 7 60 60 2 yrs.
##Boothroyd, Earl 588 SE 1 31 51 4 yrs.
McDaniel, Marcus 583 SE 1 25 37 1 yr.
Bening, Larry 585 SE 4 34 34 2 yrs.
Henson, Marcos 657 C RT 1 44 70 4 yrs.
Burmeister, Matt 653 C 1 31 64 1 yr.
Graham, Andrew 679 C C 10 58 58 1 yr.
Washburn, Victor 768 LG 1 26 35 1 yr.
Maurer, Norman 764 RG LG 5 60 60 3 yrs.
Bitonio, Joel 775 RG RG 12 50 50 2 yrs.
Henry, Trenton 865 LT LT 2 38 59 3 yrs.
##Coleman, Shon 872 RT 10 62 62 2 yrs.
Lane, Mercury 869 RT 1 24 53 4 yrs.
Emerson, Rob 915 P 10 68 68 2 yrs.
McManus, Brandon 1019K 12 66 66 2 yrs.
Parmely, Everett 1193LDE RDE 1 45 75 4 yrs.
Gibson, Willie 1198LDE 2 44 65 3 yrs.
Stanton, Julio 1199RDE LDE 9 84 84 1 yr.
Yaros, Shaun 1174RDE 2 38 60 1 yr.
Alcott, Damien 1294LDT NT 2 88 91 3 yrs.
Blades, Graham 1292LDT 3 62 62 2 yrs.
Nelson, Tito 1270RDT 2 38 63 3 yrs.
Nelson, Sawyer 1397WILB SILB 5 75 75 3 yrs.
##Horton, Vince 1396WILB 6 69 69 4 yrs.
Tubbs, Dexter 1354MLB WILB 2 46 63 2 yrs.
Yockey, Randall 1352MLB 1 35 58 4 yrs.
Rincon, Karl 1455SLB SLB 3 78 78 2 yrs.
Krauchick, Dean 1456WLB WLB 4 73 73 4 yrs.
Gibbons, Eduardo 1451WLB 3 66 66 2 yrs.
Newhart, Derek 1495WLB 2 44 62 3 yrs.
Gonzalez, Joseph 1523LCB 4 52 52 1 yr.
Garner, Darren 1534LCB 1 26 42 1 yr.
Canada, Gregory 1547RCB LCB 3 67 67 2 yrs.
Schmidtke, Cooper 1549RCB RCB 9 65 65 2 yrs.
Moss, Francisco 1520RCB 1 27 51 1 yr.
##Nixon, Clayton 1524RCB 1 26 35 4 yrs.
Shaw, Larry 1633SS SS 1 32 71 4 yrs.
Kempthorn, Scottie 1641SS 4 60 60 1 yr.
Tatum, Miles 1640FS FS 6 56 56 2 yrs.
Newsome, Bo 659 LS 10 18 18 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 54
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $211,500,000
Cap Room: $3,290,000
Maximum for New Player: $3,900,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $8,760,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $4,610,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $166,440,000

[Abe Sargent]

Week 5 – We host and smash the Steeler 37-13. MOM is Wright with 146 yards and a score. Schuster with another TD grab. Nekolny is 22 of 33, 276 and 2:0. Lorey has 23 for 120 and 1 score. Pick returned for a score by Kempthron 2 sacks by Rincon.

More injuries. A bunch more:

C Graham is out for 14 weeks with a full ankle sprain. Given this is week 5, I go ahead nod put him on IR. It’s a sad way to end his 10 year career with us, nbut it’s not uncommon.

C Henson is out for 3 weeks. C Burmeister starts for Graham until Henson returns, and Coleman, probable, is rushed back for the OT spot.

CB Canada is questionable. Arledge returns

Week 6 - We host the winless Dolphins. We are favored by 13, so I hope this is a chance to play backups and get rested. We beat them 28-15. Arledge is MVP, 30 of 39, 317, 1:0. Wright has 134 and score. Lorey adds 30 for 122 on the ground and 2 scores. 2 picks by Miles Tatum. 4 KRB by Maurer

No. New. Injuries.

Yay!


Week 7 – We head to New York to face the 2 win Jets. We shut them out, 27-0. Arledge is MOM with 22 of 31, 239, and 3:0. RB Lorey with 2 td grabs and wright the other. Lorey adds 18 for 73 on the ground. Pick by Rincon.

SS Kempthron is questionable with a strained hammy.

Beneing is healed

Lynch ends his hold out. I bench McDaniel.

Week 8 – We host the 5-2 Pats. We beat them 32-14. 8-0. MOM is Arledge with 18 of 27, 1:0 . 2-04 yards, and TE Sowers got a score. Lorey adds 86 on the ground. Picks by Tatum and Rincon But we just blew up fumbles. We had 5 FF, 3 recovers. F2 FF by Parmely, 1 each by Tatum, DE Gibbons, and Schmidke. Recovery by Stanton, LB Tubbs, and LB Newhart. Both Stanton and Tubbs rushed their fumble recoveries for scores. Sacks by a bunch of folks too. 5 on the day.

Boothroyd and Henson are healthy.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 9 – We have the Ravens swing by and send them home -40-6 BOOM! That is a thumping. About halfway through, Lorey injured his finger and broke it. Snyder replaced him. Both were okay. Arledge was 23 of 33, 292, 2:1, MOM, hit Riley for 115 yards and TE Franklin twice for scores. 2 picks by Tatu, pick s Shaw, returned for a score, and…ick by DE Everett Parmely, and returned for a score.

Another injury. OG Maurer is out for two weeks . I rotate my o line again to adjust

Horton is healthy.

Week 10 – BYE

Kempthron is healthy.

Week 11 – We head to the 0-9 Bengals. 41-25. Not a good day for my defense, 1 sack, no picks, no FF, nothing. But m offense? Lorey has 28 for 178 and 2 scores. Arledge is 17 of 24 for 231 and 3:1. Wright with 2 scores and Riley with 109 yards and the 3rd TD. 5 KRB by Bitnio.

Another injury. C Bermeiser is out for a couple of weeks. I move Maurer back a week early

Week 12 – We smash the Bears 34-3. Arledge, MOM, 32 of 35, 388 2:0, and hit Riley foro 100 a 1 score, and RB Lorey for another score. Lorey added 21 for 74 and 2 on the ground. 3 FF and 2 recoveries by my defense.



Wright is questionable.


Week 13 – We lose in Houston 22-33. Lorey was 19 for 61, Arledge 21 of 34, 272, and 2:2. Riley had 117 and 1 score and Lorey the other score. Not a great day.


11-1 at the three quarter mark

[Abe Sargent]

Week 14 – Next up we host the 4-8 Lions. 30-16 we take them down. Pick by Rincon, Aleredge is MON with 27 of 34 for 326 and 1:0. TE Franklin with that TD scor.e Lorey was 25 for 147 and 2.

Wright is healthy, Burmester too


Week 15 – We host the Bengals, at 0-13. We win 13-9. C;pse than I would have liked, btu okay. Pick by Sawyer Nelson. Arledge was 21 of 26, 294, and 1:1. Franklin with the score. Lorey was 22 for 91. 2 sacks by Krauchick

Week 16 – MOM and NFL Offensive Player of the Week is WR Dustin Wright, 14 catches, 250 yards, 1 score. Arlede was 27 of 40, 349, 1:0. Lorey just 22 for 95 1 score. Pick by CB schmidtke. We ebat the pack.


But SS Shaw is out for a few weeks with separated shoulder. Well, I can slide my other strong safety right in


Week 17 – We host the 6-9 Steelers. We smash them 45-22. Arledge, MVP, 23 of 32, 363, 4:1, hits Riley 2x, Franklin 1, and Lynch once. Lorey has 23 for 86. Pick by Tatum, returned for a score 94 yards. 3 sacks by Alcott, 1 each by Rincon, Krauchik, Stanton, and ironically, CB Schmitdke.

We finish 15-1 and my defense dominated. We held our foes to 13.8 points/game The league aver is 22.2, we were the best. The next best were the Titans at 15.4, and then the eagles at 18.9. Meanwhile we have the 2nd highest ppg at 28.3, just behind the 49ers at 28.4.


So we just dominated.


We are 15-1, and the AFC still has the Ravens, Texans, Colts, Titans, Bills, Broncos, and Patriot s all at 10+ wins. 8 of the teams are 10+, or fully half the league! We have the 0-16 Bengals giving out a lot of gifts this year. There are two divisions in the NFC where there’s no 10 win team. The Eagles won the east with a 8-8 record.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2025 NFL Playoffs!!!


Houston heads to Denver and wins 28-27
The Pats hold steady and beat the Colts 27-14

Bears head to the Vikings and just smash 46-17

49ers on the road with 17-16 over the Eagles

3 out of 4 road teams win

Not a trend I want to continue…



Week 2, Division Champ Round

Browns host Texans. Despite the 5 game gap in our wins this year, we are only favored by 1

Titans host Pats. Tennessee is favored by 9.

49ers head to Falcons
Bears at Cards

Ready?

Cards 37-10

Titans 26-17

Falcons 28-21

Us?

44-20

I think we just barely covered the spread on that one!

MOM is Arledge, 27 of 33m 338, 2:1. Lynch and Ruddy with scores. Lorey is 30 for 147 and 3. Picks by CB Moss , a Nickelback, and Kempthron. 3 sacks by Rincon. Another by Alcott and PArmely. 4 KRB b Maurer.

[Abe Sargent]

NFL Conference Championship:


We have an injury. LT Trenton Henry is out for 5 weeks with a damaged patellar tendon. Burmeister starts

We host the Titans

In the NFC< the Cards host the Falcons

The Falcons win on the road 37-30.

We defeat the Titans 13-10.

MOM is Everett Parmely, with 2 sacks and a FF. Pick by Tatum. Lorery is held to 32 yards rushing, and Arledge to 26 of 37, 298, and 1:3. Riley had 116 yards abn Wright the TD>


I’ll take any sort of win.

No major injuries either.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2025 NFL Super Bowl!!!

Featuring….


Your NFC Champion #2 seed 10-6 Atlanta Falcons !!!

VERSUS

Your AFC Champion, #1 seed 15-1 Cleveland Browns !!!


FS Shaw is probable. I activate him. And I play him at Nickelback.

You ready? We often have tough Super Bowls. I don’t think this is going to be one of them

They begin with the ball, drive 72 yard, 10 plays, each up 6 minutes mad score a TD. 7-0 Falcons

We drive three plays, and then they sack and force Arledge to fumble. They recover and drive to the 18 yard line before being brought down. On their first play from scrimmages, Stanton forces a fumble, Atlcott recovers, and we get the ball back

We start on our 22, go three and out

They ge it on their 37, drive 7 play s, score a TD with 2 minutes left in the quarter.

14-0 Falcons

We get the ball on our 25, and Arledge pushes the ball down te field rapidly. 8 plays alter he hits Riley for a 9 yard score for 14-7 Falcons

The Falcons get it at their 30. 12 plays and 70 yards and more tha 6 minutes later. They score another TD.

21-7 falcons

We get the ball at 8:19 left in the half. Two plays later, Arledge tosses a pic deep in our territory. Tey get the ball on our 22, and one TD pass later, they git us again

28-7 Falcons

We get the ball with 6:33 left. We drive 60 yards in 7 plays, and kick s FIG.

28-10 Falcons

Two plays into their response, Julio Stanton intercepts a pass and is brought down immediately. Turnover

We get the ball out out own 47 There is where we need momentum

And we get it. We finish with2:20 on the clock and our response of a score. Lynch caught a 32 yard pass from Arleedge. They run out of time.

28-17 Falcons at the half.

We start with the ball, and a 7 ball, 61 yard drive winds up with a FD

28-20 Falcons

The Falcons go 3 and out, with -5 yards, and punt

We get it at our 29. We go 6 and 23 and punt

They get it at their 30. They go 3 and out again and punt

We get the back at our 30. Time to man up. 6 plays. 70 yards. We score a TD as Lorey gets a 1 yard pass from Arledge.

28-27

They get the ball at their 25. 12 plays, 59 yards later…Alcott forces a fumble that Rincon collects.

We get the ball with 14:20 left in the game, on our 35. We drive. 7 plays. 65 yards. Just 3.:487. Lorey rushes for a 4 yard score. First time we lead in the game. But…McManus misses the PAT. Just a 5 point lead.

28-33 Browns

They get the ball at the 10:32 mark. They know they need to strike quickly. They fire a 75 yard, 5 play 2:25 yard drive and strike a TD. Now, they want to go up three, so they go for a 2 point conversion. They fail

34-33 Falcons. And suddenly that PAT miss by McManus looks huge.

We get the ball with 7:40 to go ans start our drive at the 34 after Bening gets it out. We need ot score. 8 plays, 38 yards late they stop us….McManus kicks a 45 yarder, his 3rd FG on the day.


34-36 -Browns

Now the Falcons get the ball back with 3:38 left at their 29. And then they are forced to punt and go three and out. We get the ball. They have their times out and the 2 minute warning. We get it at our 28. One, two, three plays, we are driven back 9 kicks, and punt from our 19. Emerson punted the ball 51 yards to give them as much push back as possible. Will it e be enough?

They get it with 1:45 left on their own 34. Now remember, they are only down by 2. They get to FG range, kick it, and it’s game.

The final drive…..


The first play, their QB, Teddy Bridgewater, passes to Dotson 7 yards out of bounds.

At 1:37 Bridgewater finds TE Kinzie for 12 yards in bounds. Penalty on S Larry Shaw, declined, stops clock

At 1:28, Bridgewater passes to TE Pritchett, incomplete

1:19, Brudgewater passes for Kinzie…and…PICKED OFF BY Schmidtke!!!

I will take that. Closer than it should have been, bit I’ll takes it

Arledge, Super Bowl MVP, 27 for 37, 379, 3:1.

Lorey, 27 foro 88, 1 score

Wright 130 yards

TD catches by Lorey, Riley, Lynch

Picks by Stanton and Schmidtke

2 forced fumbles and recoveries

We had 4 turnovers on the day

2 sacks by Rincon and Stanton, 1 each by Nelson and Alcott

4 KRB by Joel Bintonio

[Abe Sargent]

Season Awards:

Whaoa!

MVP of the League – QB Brendan Arledge
Super Bowl MVP – Arledge
Defensive Rookie of the Year – DE Everett Parmely

All Pro First Team -RB Diego Lorey, WR Dustin Wright, DT Damien Alcott, LB Karl Rincon,
All Pro Second Team – L B Dean Krauchick


Notice players missing from that? FB Schuster, Stanton and Arledge. How did Arledge not get OPotY, or All Pros? He didn’t deserve them. Remember he was out for all but one drive of one game, and two more games

[Abe Sargent]

STATS!!




Front Office Football Eight
Passing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Cmp Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/A Lg
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 14 14 414 305 73.7 3767 12.35 9.10 77
Nekolny, Sebastian QB CLE 14 2 87 62 71.3 798 12.87 9.17 48

Player Pos Team TD Int 20+T 300+ Rating
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 23 7 60 5 112.8
Nekolny, Sebastian QB CLE 5 0 13 0 118.8

Att - Attempts, Cmp - Completions, Pct - Completion Percentage,
Yards - Passing Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Completion, Ave/A - Yards per Attempt,
Lg - Longest Completion, TD - Passing Touchdowns, Int - Passes Intercepted,
20+T - Completions of 20 or More Yards, 300+ - 300-yard Games,
Rate - Quarterback Rating.


Arledge was 13th in yards, 10th in pass TDs but blew up in QB rating and led there by far. It's rare to see the league MVP not go the OpotY, but it happens, rarely.


Rushing:



Front Office Football Eight
Rushing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Yards Avg Lg TD RZAtt Yards
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 16 16 364 1576 4.33 56 9 59 100
Snyder, Colin RB CLE 16 0 61 156 2.56 32 0 7 4
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 14 14 24 82 3.42 17 1 5 14
Riley, Rodney WR CLE 16 16 11 36 3.27 19 1 2 0
Nekolny, Sebastian QB CLE 14 2 6 9 1.50 13 0 0 0
Boothroyd, Earl WR CLE 12 2 1 1 1.00 1 0 0 0
McIntyre, Malcolm QB CLE 1 0 1 -1 -1.00 0 0 1 -1


Again, Lorey led the league in rushing, although it wasn't this amazing 2000+ yard season like last year. He also was down in rushing scores.

What about receiving?




Front Office Football Eight
Receiving Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Targ Ctch Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/T YAC
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 16 15 149 109 73.2 1460 13.39 9.80 688
Riley, Rodney WR CLE 16 16 112 73 65.2 1164 15.95 10.39 442
Franklin, Jon TE CLE 16 15 55 48 87.3 574 11.96 10.44 282
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 16 16 58 41 70.7 448 10.93 7.72 197
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 9 3 30 25 83.3 266 10.64 8.87 101
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 8 25 19 76.0 134 7.05 5.36 46
Boothroyd, Earl WR CLE 12 2 22 17 77.3 215 12.65 9.77 64
McDaniel, Marcus WR CLE 3 3 11 10 90.9 99 9.90 9.00 24
Sowers, Archie TE CLE 15 1 12 9 75.0 64 7.11 5.33 12
Ruddy, Edgar TE CLE 16 1 13 8 61.5 89 11.13 6.85 44
Snyder, Colin RB CLE 16 0 10 5 50.0 24 4.80 2.40 10
Bening, Larry WR CLE 16 0 4 3 75.0 28 9.33 7.00 0

Player Pos Team Lg TD Drp PPly TPct 20+C 100+
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 52 8 5 469 31.8 27 4
Riley, Rodney WR CLE 52 6 1 551 20.3 21 5
Franklin, Jon TE CLE 63 5 0 489 11.2 10 0
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 33 4 4 485 12.0 5 0
Lynch, Gabriel WR CLE 77 1 0 198 15.2 2 0
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 20 1 2 220 11.4 1 0
Boothroyd, Earl WR CLE 44 2 1 97 22.7 4 0
McDaniel, Marcus WR CLE 20 0 0 66 16.7 1 0
Sowers, Archie TE CLE 14 1 1 44 27.3 0 0
Ruddy, Edgar TE CLE 36 0 0 66 19.7 2 0
Snyder, Colin RB CLE 10 0 2 44 22.7 0 0
Bening, Larry WR CLE 13 0 0 46 8.7 0 0

Targ - Targeted with Pass, Ctch - Receptions, Pct - Reception Percentage,
Yards - Receiving Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Catch, Avg/T - Yards per
Target, YAC - Yards Gained After Catch, Lg - Longest Reception,
TD - Receiving Touchdowns, Drp - Passes Dropped, PPly - Passing Plays
on Field, TPct - Percentage of Passing Plays Targeted, 20+C - Catches
of 20 Yards or More, 100+ - 100-Yard Games.


I don't think I've had a double 1000+ season in this year yet, so that's nice. Wright is 120 yards in front of the rest of the league. Riley was 6th in receiving yards. Remember this is with a major injury to Wright for a few weeks. Lorey had a down year as well catching, and you can see Joe Franklin with a solid season.


Blocking!


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Blocking Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS KRB KRO BPct Pnck SkA PPly SPct
Maurer, Norman G CLE 16 15 29 86 33.7 3 6 548 1.1
Bitonio, Joel G CLE 16 16 26 85 30.6 1 15 556 2.7
Coleman, Shon T CLE 15 15 21 70 30.0 3 7 474 1.5
Henry, Trenton T CLE 14 14 16 56 28.6 0 12 464 2.6
Henson, Marcos C CLE 11 11 12 38 31.6 0 6 353 1.7
Graham, Andrew C CLE 5 5 9 38 23.7 0 1 152 0.7
Franklin, Jon TE CLE 16 15 4 13 30.8 0 1 489 0.2
Burmeister, Matt C CLE 7 4 4 25 16.0 0 2 125 1.6
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 8 3 17 17.6 0 0 220 0.0
Lane, Mercury T CLE 8 0 1 13 7.7 0 3 103 2.9
Ruddy, Edgar TE CLE 16 1 0 2 0.0 0 0 66 0.0
Washburn, Victor G CLE 1 0 0 1 0.0 0 0 0 0.0


We had a lot of injuries to my O Line. It was just beat up. Not a great year here from anyone


Special Teams?

Emerson, 87 punts, 48.7 avg, 37.8 net.
McManus, 35 of 40, 43 of 47 PAT
LB Gibbons, 25 special teams tackles
Bening was fine, but no TD



Defense:



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Defensive Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Tckl Asst Sack Blkd Hurr QBKd
Rincon, Karl OLB CLE 16 16 94 21 9.0 0 11 6
Nelson, Sawyer ILB CLE 16 15 81 31 0.0 0 1 0
Krauchick, Dean OLB CLE 16 16 80 34 12.0 2 8 4
Tatum, Miles S CLE 16 16 68 16 1.0 0 0 0
Shaw, Larry S CLE 15 15 57 17 0.0 0 1 0
Alcott, Damien DT CLE 16 16 54 25 14.0 3 18 27
Kempthorn, Scottie S CLE 14 7 51 10 0.0 0 2 0
Canada, Gregory CB CLE 16 16 50 15 0.0 0 1 0
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 16 16 48 17 1.0 0 1 0
Stanton, Julio DE CLE 16 16 32 16 10.0 3 23 20
Parmely, Everett DE CLE 16 16 31 9 9.0 1 12 1
Horton, Vince ILB CLE 9 4 20 8 0.0 0 0 0
Tubbs, Dexter ILB CLE 13 5 17 3 0.0 0 0 0
Garner, Darren CB CLE 15 1 12 5 0.0 0 0 0
Gonzalez, Joseph CB CLE 16 1 11 2 0.0 0 0 0
Gibbons, Eduardo OLB CLE 16 0 8 1 0.0 0 0 0
Moss, Francisco CB CLE 16 0 6 2 0.0 0 0 0


Alcott's 14 sacks is 4th in league for total, and leads all DTs by 3.5 sacks. Krauchick led all LBs in sacks, and was 8th highest in sacks, Stanton, Rincon and Parmely are all looking nice as well. But you can feel the swap over from Julio Stanton to these others.

Coverage?




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Pass Coverage Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Ints IRYd TD Defn Cght PPly PDPct
Tatum, Miles S CLE 16 16 6 129 1 3 47 609 78.4
Rincon, Karl OLB CLE 16 16 3 45 0 6 44 609 77.7
Shaw, Larry S CLE 15 15 3 79 3 3 34 535 78.2
Nelson, Sawyer ILB CLE 16 15 2 15 0 5 32 451 77.9
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 16 16 1 0 0 6 44 562 75.5
Kempthorn, Scottie S CLE 14 7 1 42 1 5 40 372 72.7
Parmely, Everett DE CLE 16 16 1 26 1 1 4 557 82.8
Stanton, Julio DE CLE 16 16 0 0 0 0 3 557 81.8
Horton, Vince ILB CLE 9 4 0 0 0 2 10 123 75.6
Krauchick, Dean OLB CLE 16 16 0 0 0 2 28 567 76.7
Gonzalez, Joseph CB CLE 16 1 0 0 0 3 6 119 81.9
Gibbons, Eduardo OLB CLE 16 0 0 0 0 1 4 89 79.3
Canada, Gregory CB CLE 16 16 0 0 0 4 25 527 78.0
Yaros, Shaun DE CLE 16 0 0 0 0 0 1 56 80.2
Gibson, Willie DE CLE 15 0 0 0 0 0 1 56 80.2
Nelson, Tito DT CLE 14 0 0 0 0 1 0 14 99.6
Alcott, Damien DT CLE 16 16 0 0 0 0 6 557 81.1
Tubbs, Dexter ILB CLE 13 5 0 0 0 2 6 96 79.2
Yockey, Randall ILB CLE 7 0 0 0 0 1 0 38 88.8
Moss, Francisco CB CLE 16 0 0 0 0 0 5 68 72.7
Garner, Darren CB CLE 15 1 0 0 0 0 13 131 69.2


I am sad Tatum was denied an All Pro - He was 2nd in S for picks, a couple had 5 and then more below him.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards!

Offensive MVP – WR Dustin Wright – he had that 250 yard game, led the league in receiving yards, looking good doing it too. Good job Wright!


Defensive MVP – DT Damien Alcott – He had a better season that either McGee or Bennie did at DT. Great job Alcott! 14 sacks? Whew!

Special Teams MVP – Meh. Emerson?

Rookie of the Year: DE Everett Parmely – Defensive Rookie of the Year! Nuf said!

Heart Award – QB Sebastian Nekolny – Undrafted FA that walked into a 15-1 juggernaut when an injury hit Arledge, and didn’t miss a beat. Had a better QB rating, no picks, 5 TDs, and 798 yards in 2.5 games. Good stuff Nekolny!

[Abe Sargent]

The Arledge Saga Continues...?

[Abe Sargent]

End of Season –

Performance – 90
Value – 79
Profit 78
Roster 28
Score 78


Two Browns retire. OG Bitonio and C Graham, under doctor’s orders

Both spent their whole career with me!

Other major retirees of note –

RB Tod Coffey, one fo the first powerful RBs the game made
WR _ allen Hurns, DeAndre Hopkins,
O Line – Zach Fulton, and many Mamore….


But….

DC Jadeveon Clownery, and LBs Kiko Alonzo, Dee Ford, Trufant, Luechley and……


TWO players you will know:

DE Joey Horner – 120 sacks, 22 blocked, 150 hurries, 153 QBKD, 22 FF< 14 FumRec, 2 scores – Defensive Rookie of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, 5 time All Pro, set the season record for most sacks, set the game record for most sacks. PLEASE BE HALL OF FAME!!!

LB Chris Kirskey – 2 All Pros, 23 sacks, 5 blocks, 14 hurries, 15 QBKD, 939 solos, 285 assists, 23 picks, 4 INT RET TD, 46 pas def, 11 ff, 7 rec,

And that was just during the era Kirksey played for us, and does not reflect him pre-start of the dynasty. He was in his third year

We wish you well!

In one day, those four players, all with All Pro ties to my franchise and dynasty are gone 

Just one HOF Inductee Rob Grontkowski

We were the only team with 100% attendance last year, we made 89 mill

[Abe Sargent]

STAFF TIME!

I gave raises to my DC and AC, and make no changes in the staff draft




I have….

56 mill in cap space, 37 players under roster. I need 10mill for my draftees.

Now I planned for life without Stanton….

Here are my players currently free:

Stanton
Kempthorn
CB Gonzalez
TE Ruddy
FL Lynch


That’s it
We also have 10 RFAs from my roster as well,

Now, we have these major players coming up that I need the cash to resign:

LB Rincon – All Pro all three years. Have to resign him
RB Lorey is final year of his deal. We need to deal with reupping him
CB Gregory Canada is going to be in the discussion.
CB Schmidtke is up for a new deal
Shon Coleman
WR Dustin Wright
FS Miles Tatum

Some good, quality backups like LB Tubbs and Gibbons and RB Snyder

That’s a lot

To franchise Stanton would be 28.5 mill. Basically, I could franchise him, and then…. I’m not sure what else. II’;d still have a good 18 mill and 38 players on my roster. I could probably keep Rincon and most of my reupping FAs for that. Extend RFAs too. Anyone with a bloated contract who’s no longer worth it?

It’s hard to imagine my team without Stanton. 8 All Pros, 2 DPotYs. 127.5 sacks and growing. And I only am forced to do this because the game mechanic of players not resigning after a second tag.

I so franchise Stanton. I don’t need any of these other bums that are FAs, and I’ll likely cut him in a few minutes after I Start reupping folks. But I want to give Stanton that chance!

[Abe Sargent]

FA!



I do not intentionally extend RT Coleman, K McManus,

I extend Emerson by a year. I have never wanted to move from Emerson. He’s good, quality, shows it, and not expensive like top punters tend to be,. I extend Newsome vet nmin sal and SE bening

Canada wants – 46.5 mill, 4 years
Rincon wants – 62 mill, 4 years

I pay Diego Lorey… 70 mill over 4 years

I like to make my big guys flat for 3 years, and then with a dummy year tacked at the end. I did that with Lorey. 16 mill cap hit first three years, then 22 mill at the end.

I sign these RFA:

DE Yaros, QB McIntyre, RB Danek, C Matt Burmesyer for 3 years, 4 mill, CB Moss,


I need 4 mill over 2 years for QB Nekolny

I resign Tatum for 3 more years, total 32 mill 4 years

Schmidtke is like my older guys. He’s 32, I’m waiting until camp to extend him a year

I sign Rincon: 4 years, 62 mill, for 14, 13, 13, and 22 cap hits

I cannot sign FAs, I cannot extend some others, I am now up against oy draft cap, and have just 420k left.


Goodbye Stanton!

DT Blades is my Defensive Front Leaders after Stanton heading to the hills. I have confluicts with LB Newhart and Gibbons and DT Nelson. That;s not good.

Oh, and with Graham gone, my nea leader on the O Line is Maurer and…he has pissed off OT Lae and C Burmeister…

Not what I want.

I advance a week

[Abe Sargent]

Anyone I want to chase?

Here is what I’m missing:



Stud/start TE?
Starting OG


Backups – Qb, TE, WR, OGx2, DE, CBx2 , S

There’s a good OG in the pool, 63/63, 9t year vet Corwin Fruth. Wants 18 mill over 3 years. Or I could try and hit up the draft.

I sign Canada for 48 mill, 4 years, with cap hits of 10.6, 10.3, 10.3, and 17,8. I have the cash for Fruth, but a 9th year vet doesn’t strike me a s solid answer. Let’s look at the draft first!

I interview a bunch of GOs, nothing is good. This is a deep OT draft, I could move an OT over.

Whoa!

There is a great, high bar CB in the 6th overall spot, with no combines but as scouted. Looks sexy – Bryant Crane. Will Crane fall? There are also some solid Tees near the top of the draft too

There are three just studly stud LBs on in the outside backer spots.

The dropoff in quality from OF Fruth to the next OG on the FA list is bad. And I don’t see any great OGs here But I could be tempted for OT into OG. If Fruth were 7th year, I’d do it. But I don’t want to sign a 31 year old OG who busts 10 points in camp. You know? I can do better than that.

I do not make an offer for Fruth

The best K in the league isn in fa. 14 ear vet Caleb Sturgis, 91/91. Also out there is 6 year vet, 78/78 SE Russell Martinez. Both quality.

I watch for a while

Int eh draft this year I have 1.32, 3.15, 3.19, 3.25, 4.30, 4.21, 4.32, 5.22, 5.32, 7.32

So I don’t need to go after anyone in FA that much. I can go after these folks!

Week 3 – Martinez signs a 100 mill deal with Dallas

Week 4 – Lynch heads to New Orleans. Good luck! You shouldn’t have held out… you have dropped what you wanted by 50% and I would have resigned you.

Week 5 – Fruth heads to SF 49ers

Week 6 =-Kempthorn to Denver, Gonzalez to Green Bay

Want to make on offer for a Kicker much better than McManus but a year older? Yes, I do. I make an offer. I have the cash, I don’t need anything else, might as well have the best K in the game, right?

Week 7 – We sign Sturgis for 20 mill, 3 yras, and that;s 1.2 mill more than McManus this year. I cut McManus. Remember Michael Dunn? He signs with the Bills.

Week 8 – McManus heads to Houston. Remember Antoine Harrison? Heads to Boston. Lincoln Baxter or the Jags

Week 9 – No one has made an offer to Stanton, even though he’s halved his contract demands to 36 mill over 3 years. He won’t take my offer. In real life, he would have, right? He liked playing for me, yadda yadda.

Week 10 – TEE Ruddy heads to Minnesota

End of FA

Stanton untouched

That is just bizarre.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2026 NFL Amateur Draft!

The Bengals kick of the draft with WR Mitchell Shreves coming off the board

CB Crane, I was interested in heads off at 1.18.

Then the second to last OT heads off at 1.19, . Hmpf.

This is not a very talented draft. I may trade some picks away for future picks, or to target the handful of quality here.

At 1.22, the Vikings biggest needs, and I am not kidding, are Ot, OT, and DT. Not a typo. The last good OT won’t make it past them. Right?

I offer my 1/.32 and 3.15 to move with the Saints to 1.11 and then I grab OT Lucas Lucas (not a typo) OT going 1.22 who I wanted. A lot. 4 reds, 1 blue. As scouted. Here we go

Who would I have taken at 1.32?

Some great players go in the late 20s, including two great Dts I liked, and a quality FS at 30.

A stud LB is left, WLB 3-4 guy Ethan Nelson. 3 reds, 3 blues. All stud. I would have gone him.

The Vikes take the top OT on the board and move on.

Player’s I’m following include OG Bill Potz, TE Perrone, and I want to see where Nelson winds up

None by pick 50

None in the first two rounds

How is Nelson still on the breaking board? And Plotz and Perrone are good too. I thought Perrone would be one of my 3rd rounders and scouted him. Plotz too. But Nelson? Wow. Even if a bad draft like this, there’s always somebody who tumbles

Uh oh. At picks 3.5 and 3.6 there is a run on TE, leaving Perrone on the board at the top.

3.10 at Dallas is the first team that needs TE on the board next. That pick is worth 220 points. I could throw a couple ofo 4ths at get it. Do I want Perrone that much? Nah. Wanna swap 3rds to get Plotz or Nelson? Nobody from here to us at 3.19 needs LB.

So let’s keep going.

Nelson goes 3.10 to Dallas

ARGH!!!

I didn’t see Dallas taking Nelson. Now I would have swapped 3rd so something. BLAST it. I could have gotten a 1st rounder here. Ah well, lesson learned.

Do I want to move up for Perrone? I could leap from 3.19 to 3.11 and move…nah it’s too pricey. I’ll just grab someone else.

Pick 76, Perrone heads to the Jets

At 3.19 I take LG Bill Plotz

At 3.25 – There are three intriguing people here. DT Marshal walker? He might “just” be a DT, but he’s good. DE Grayson Floyd and WR Grady Gillespie. Gillespie might be the last decent receiver on the board. But I go Floyd. Floyd is too good not to take here.


Walker goes 4.4 to the Jags



4th round –
I take FL Grady Gllsespie with my first pick in the 4th.
MLB Braxton Rhodes is next. Quality backup
S Julio Langley – just a body

5th? CB Cooley, again just for having a body.

7.32? RB Alexis Talley intrigues, especially as someone from MARSHALL

Amateur Draft Report:

Rnd 1 - Lucas Lucas, T, Wisconsin
Rnd 3 - Bill Plotz, G, Notre Dame
Rnd 3 - Grayson Floyd, DE, Toledo
Rnd 4 - Grady Gillespie, WR, North Carolina
Rnd 4 - Braxton Rhodes, ILB, Mississippi
Rnd 4 - Julio Langley, S, Maryland
Rnd 5 - Herb Cooley, CB, Lock Haven
Rnd 7 - Alexis Talley, RB, Marshall

[Abe Sargent]

Early draft results – not great. B rating

Plotz – 39/69
OT Lucas 32/68
LB Rhodes 32/66
Gillespie 29/51
Langley 25/40
Cooley 20/39
Talley 24/37
DE Floyd 31/64

Not the best I’ve ever had. But we’ll see if any pan out and who that might be if so.


I advance to late fa.

I offer spots to these UFAs:

QB Blake Kilgore
LG Cory Hammond
RCB Dustin Benton
FL Kristoher Dotson
TE WallY Ayers
RCB Quinn Hickman


And 2nd year TE Ezekiel Crews, let go by the Giants.

Stanton still doesn’t want to sign with us.

Week 1 – We sign 5 of our targets

Week 2 – Another joins us

Week 3 – Pur last target joins us

Stantons signs a vet min sal contacts with the Saints for one year. Wouldn’t you have signed a much bigger deal that that with me? Hardly realistic…

[Abe Sargent]

CAMP!


Major changes to my peopops?

With Alcott 90/90. He is rated as….

4th best player in the game behind OG Duffy, LT Schutlz and DE Hastings. K Sturgis is not only the best K by far, but the 5th best player in the NFL. Just 22 players are rated 80 or better. We have two – Sturgis and Alctot.

Rincon is 3rd best OL, Nelson 4th best, Krauchecki 6th best, and Horton, 11th best


I add a year to CB Schmidtke’s deal

I cut RB Talley And Cooley, who neither were better than UFAs I signed or other options I have on my roster. I cut Dotson and drop us to 54…


I extend RB Snyder by a year


I trade 63/63 LB Eduardo Gibbons, final year of his rookie deal, to the eagles for the 3rds in 2029/ I have too many LBs of quality to extended Gibbons Every LB I get is 60+ potential, with on e at 58 instead.


The only major thing left to figure out is my O Line. I am starting: C Henson, OT – Henry, Coleman, OG – Maurer and……PLotz? Lucas Lucas? Plotz is a huge run blocking, but just 1/6 for pass blocking, with 38/92 run, and 90 strength, 70/88 endurance. That’s what you get from a highly touted 3rd round OG,, a bit of a weakness. Look, Arledge gest sacked. A lot. We get that. But do I want this guy protecting him? On the other hand Lucas Lucas is 26/77 run, 10/36 pass, 85 str, 96 end, and just as run blocking, although not as much fo a specialist. Which is fine for himself as an RT, I would not play him at LT. I sort of envision him taking over for RT Coleman or moving him to LG. Coleman is 34 and drafting his replacement was not a bad plan given the draft’s heavy amount of talent at the OT spot.

This year we’ll use Lucas Lucas ajust like Matt Burmeister last, as a major emergency starter regardless of position. But I want to give PLotz, you know what? Screw it!

This is LL now…

26/77
10/36
85
75/96

I move him to LG

This is LL post-move
30/83
7/37
85
72/96

He is now a 37/73 guy there

We are starting Lucas Lucas as LG

I extend Dustin Wright by 45 mill and 4 year deal.

I pay DT Graham Blades 13 mill for 4 years. I extend MLB Dexter Tubbs by a year for 4 mill, 2 years total. I extend Coleman by two years

We go 4-0 in the preseason!

Arledge drops a little to 29/29

LS Newsom to 85 long snapping

Schmidtke is down to 57

All of my Des are more like run stoppers then pass rushers. Other than Parmely.

Yaros – 79/86 run, 38/47 pass rush, 38 pr str.
Gibson – 70/91 run ded, 39/53 pass run tech, 28 prs
Floyd 0 34/72 run d, 36/78 pass r t, 38, pr str

You know?

Hmmmm…..

Are you thinking what I’m thinking?

I move Krauchick to DE in a couple of pass rush formations where he;s not my WLB. And Floyd is my general DE starting in our base D and Yaros is my Run D DE

I have 14 mill in cap space. Anyone I want to make an offer to randomly in FA or anything?

Nah

[Abe Sargent]

Roster!



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Cleveland Browns Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Kilgore, Blake 119 QB 1 18 34 1 yr.
##McIntyre, Malcolm 105 QB 2 20 33 1 yr.
Arledge, Brendan 114 QB QB 11 29 29 2 yrs.
Lorey, Diego 222 RB RB 6 77 77 4 yrs.
Snyder, Colin 235 RB 4 54 54 2 yrs.
##Lindsay, Raul 243 RB 2 38 48 3 yrs.
Danek, Edgar 232 RB 2 38 46 2 yrs.
Schuster, Ralph 331 FB FB 8 60 60 2 yrs.
Franklin, Jon 446 TE TE 3 48 48 2 yrs.
Crews, Ezekiel 441 TE 2 40 48 1 yr.
Ayres, Wally 489 TE 1 23 42 1 yr.
##Reid, Pat 484 TE 2 31 34 3 yrs.
Riley, Rodney 586 FL SE 5 66 66 4 yrs.
Gillespie, Grady 513 FL 1 35 50 4 yrs.
Wright, Dustin 512 SE FL 8 61 61 4 yrs.
Boothroyd, Earl 588 SE 2 37 51 3 yrs.
Bening, Larry 585 SE 5 34 34 2 yrs.
Henson, Marcos 657 C C 2 60 69 3 yrs.
Burmeister, Matt 653 C 2 43 66 3 yrs.
Lucas, Lucas 771 LG LG 1 38 70 4 yrs.
Plotz, Bill 761 LG 1 44 68 4 yrs.
##Hammond, Cory 776 LG 1 15 42 1 yr.
Maurer, Norman 764 RG RG 6 59 59 2 yrs.
Henry, Trenton 865 LT LT 3 57 59 2 yrs.
Coleman, Shon 872 RT RT 11 60 60 3 yrs.
Lane, Mercury 869 RT 2 30 53 3 yrs.
Emerson, Rob 915 P 11 68 68 2 yrs.
Sturgis, Caleb 1008K 14 73 73 3 yrs.
Parmely, Everett 1193LDE LDE 2 69 73 3 yrs.
Floyd, Grayson 1179LDE RDE 1 39 66 4 yrs.
##Gibson, Willie 1198LDE 3 49 61 2 yrs.
Yaros, Shaun 1174RDE 3 53 58 1 yr.
Alcott, Damien 1294LDT NT 3 90 90 2 yrs.
Blades, Graham 1292LDT 4 63 63 4 yrs.
Nelson, Tito 1270RDT 3 44 63 2 yrs.
Nelson, Sawyer 1397WILB SILB 6 75 75 2 yrs.
Horton, Vince 1396WILB WILB 7 68 68 3 yrs.
Tubbs, Dexter 1354MLB 3 60 63 2 yrs.
Rhodes, Braxton 1391MLB 1 40 62 4 yrs.
##Yockey, Randall 1352MLB 2 41 58 3 yrs.
Rincon, Karl 1455SLB SLB 4 78 78 4 yrs.
Krauchick, Dean 1456WLB WLB 5 74 74 3 yrs.
Newhart, Derek 1495WLB 3 57 60 2 yrs.
Canada, Gregory 1547RCB LCB 4 67 67 4 yrs.
Schmidtke, Cooper 1549RCB RCB 10 57 57 2 yrs.
Moss, Francisco 1520RCB 2 35 47 1 yr.
Hickman, Quinn 1527RCB 1 24 42 1 yr.
Benton, Dustin 1525RCB 1 16 37 1 yr.
Nixon, Clayton 1524RCB 2 29 35 3 yrs.
Shaw, Larry 1633SS SS 2 53 71 3 yrs.
Tatum, Miles 1640FS FS 7 55 55 4 yrs.
##Langley, Julio 1644FS 1 29 40 4 yrs.
Newsome, Bo 659 LS 11 18 18 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $218,800,000
Cap Room: $14,990,000
Maximum for New Player: $15,630,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $7,660,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $270,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $194,780,000

[Abe Sargent]

We have a few minor injuries – RB Snyder, OLB Nelson, SE Bening, FL Riley are all probable and Schdmidtke is questionable. All will continue



Week 1 – We start the season against the hapless 0-16 Bungles from last year, with a 14 point favorite….and…beat them 34-13. I think we covered that spread! Arledge, MVP, 24 of 37, 309, 4:0. Lorey ads 21 for 95 on the ground. Wright – 143 yards, 1 score, Riley 107 and 2 and WR Boothroyd is the final scorer.

Week 2 – We host and defeat Atlanta 20-14. MOM is Arledge, 23 of 31, 256 and 2:0. Wright and Riley with scores. Lorey held to 44 yards on the ground, pick by Canada, 2 sacks by Parmely,

Week 3 – The Broncos arrive and we beat them 24-17. Again, Orey is nothing, but Arledge is MOM with 22 of 35, 277 and 3:0, and Wright, Riley, and WR Grady Gillespie have TD catches.

Week 4 – Today we have the 0-3 Titans and…we takes them to the cleaner 31-7. MOM is Arledge with 23 of 38, 301 and 2:0. He rushes for a score. Snyder has a score on the ground and Lorey is 27 of 55. Franklng and Wright with TDs. 2 picks by Schmidtke, 3 sacks by Krauchick and 2 by Rincon.

At 4-0. We are in an odd place. I expected we’d be leaning on Lorey more, and he’s the weak part of my offense right now. Arledge is off to a blistering pace at 1143 yards, 11:0 ratio. And Lorey is a pedestrian 230 o 84 carries, with 0 rushing scores.

Bening is injured a new injury, questionable, strained hammy

[Abe Sargent]

Week 5 – Our winning ways continue at Jacksonville 27-14. Arlege, MOM is 36 of 46, 390, and 2:1 – threw his first pic. He hits Wright for 184 and 1, and FB Schuster for the other. Lorey is 23 for 42 ad 1. Picks by schmidtke, Horton, and Tatum


Week 6 – We win at Houston 22-17. Arledge comes back down to earth. 28 of 36, 314, and 1:2. He hit Wright for 109 and a score. Lorey is 31 for 108. Sturgus is MVP with 5 of 5 FGs. Nelson with a pick, 2 sacks by Alcott

Week 7 – We head to 2-4 Baltimore to take on the Ravens. We are favord by double digits, but we lose anyways, 30-22. Lorey 20 of 67, 1 score, Arledge 24 of 35, 1:1, 286, and Wrigth has 107 yards, FB Schuster the TD sore.

We leave with a few injuries –

OT Coleman, probable
LB Rincon, questionable for 2 weeks
RB Lorey, probable 2 weeks

No roster changes or anything

Week 8 – We host and defeat the Colts 26-10. Arledge is MM with 23 of 36, 264, 2:0 – hitting Wright and Riley for scores. Lorey is 21 for 109, and FF by Parmely and he recovered. 3 sacks by Krauchic. 4 KRB by Coleman.

We are 7-1 at the halfway mark

Bening, Schmidtke, and Coleman all healed!

[Abe Sargent]

Week 9 – We head to Pittsburgh and….lose 30-34. Arledge is still MOM with 38 of 50 for 414 and 4:1. He his Wright for 152 yards and 3 scores, Riley for 114 yards, and TE Franklin for 1 score – each of those players had 10 catches precisely. Lorey held to 44 yards. 2 FF by Shaw.


Week 10 – BYE BYE BYE! Just another player in your game of two…


Week 11 -We host and lost to the Bengals, 17-22. Arledge, still MOM, 29 of 43, 379 and 2:0 hitting Wright for 101 yards, and Gillespie and Schuster for scores. Lorey held to 27 yards. FF by Schmidtke, recovered by Tatum. 2 sacks by rookie DE Floyd.

That was an ugly game

Week 12 – We head to New Orléans. That felt like a trap game. We lose, 27-14. MV of was Rincon with 3 sacks. Parmely had 3 too. Lorey? 20 for 623. Arlege? 23 of 40, 288 and 2:2. Frankling and Lorey with TD snags.

Week 13 – We head to 7-5 New England to face the Pats. We get back to the winning ways with a 33-7 thumping of them and a huge Brown Out. MVP was Parmely with a FF he recovered, and 2.5 sacks. Picks by Shaw (returned for a score) Tatum and Schmidtke. Arledge was 22 ofo 33, 205, and 1:0, and hit TE Franklin for that score. Even Lorey was expected with 23 of 102 and 1.

We finish the third quarter 8-4 after a 3 game slump.

[Brian Swartz]

Week 10 – BYE BYE BYE! Just another player in your game of two…

Oh no you didn't!:eek:

[Abe Sargent]

Week 14 – We heat to Carolina and win 24-9. Arledge, MOM, 19 of 26, 138, 2:0, and hit Wrigth and Lorey for scores. Picks by Tatum, Canada, and Schmidtke. Bening returned a 82 yard kickoff for a score.


We have a major injury post game. OT Trenton Henry tore his ankle ligament and is down for the season. I place him on IR. Unfortunately, I don’t have a good LT. I slide Coleton over to LT and Burmeister to RT.


Week 15 – We host the 9-4 Eagles and….We win 25-22/ MOM is Arledge with 29 of 46, 337, and 2:0. Riley had 107, Franklin and Wright with scores. SS Shaw got a pick. 4 KRB by Maruer as Lorey has 18 for 88 and 1 score.

Shaw is questionable with a sprained knee, but I will start him

Week 16 – We head to 2-12 Tampa. They hammer us mercilessly. But…we win in OT 19-16. The MAM and NFL Defensive Player of the Week was Parmely with 4 sacks. Lorey had 27 for 1-6, Arledge was 19 of 33, 194 and 1:1, hitting Wright for a score. LN Newhart with a pick. FF by Shaw that he recovered and another by DE Floyd that Canada snatched up.

We have a lot of injures too –

Rincon questionable, Nelson, questionable, Wright, probable, C Henson, questionable, LG Plotz, doubtful,

That was an ugly win. We needed it. We are one win in front of….Cincinnati. Yes, the 0-16 Bengals are now 10-5 heading into the last week.

Week 17 -

This is also going to be an ugly win…..

We win against Baltimore 31-21.

Arledge is MVP with 18 of 24, 257 and 3:0 – hitting Wright for 119 and 1 score, Riley and Gillespie 1 score too. Pick by LB Nelson.

Arledge was injured…

Injuries:

Rincon is doubtful,
Arledge questionable
DE Floyd doubtful


But…

We are 12-4 and….have the #1 seed so we have a bye next week. Which we need so badly.

[Abe Sargent]

Oh no you didn't!:eek:

LOL! I was wondering if anyone would get that reference

[Abe Sargent]

The 2026 NFL Playoffs!


Week 1 – Wild Card Weekend!

Cincinnati heads to Denver and drops them, 26-20.
Pittsburgh heads to Indy and drops them 17-14

Detroit loves in New Orelands 43-21
Minnesota loses at SF 37-13

So the away wild cards from the AFC North won on the road and the home division champs won in the NFC> Interesting!


Week 2 –

We host the Steelers
Cincinnati heads to the Jets

Saints at Packers
49ers at eagles

No team in the NFL is better than our 12-3 – the Pack, Eagles, all 12-4, and Jets and Bengals 11-5.

Injury Updates:

Arledge – probable, will start
Henson, Nelson – healed
Floyd – probable – will start
PLotz questionable, doesn’t start, staying in.

Rincon doubtful – I deactivate him and LB Newhart will move up

Can we have another all Ohio Conference Championship?

Go Bengals!!!

New Orelans takes out GB 23-16
San Francisco Phily 31-28

And Cincinnati wins on the road vs the Jeys 24-16

This is all good news! Both the teams left in the NFC are the 8-8 Saints and 10-6 49ers. Meanwhile, the 11-5 Jets are down, and all we have left is to take out the Bengals. This are setting up nicely. All we have to do is hold serve with the 9-7 Steelers and we get that All Ohio AFC Conference Championship again!


But……………….









We lose 13-21.

Lorey breaks oiut! 16 for 121 and 1 score. But……. Arledge is 22 of 48 for 167 and 0:2. Krauchick with a pick! Sack by him too! But that’s our only major offensive play – no other sacks or turnovers and…..


We go home all sad and stuff


The NFL Conference Championships

I’m rooting for the Bengals!

Bengals 31-24 Steelers

49ers 24, Saints 17

Hey making a Super Bowl appearance the year after going 0-16 is just bizarre but awesome.

Super Bowl:

49ers vs Bengals.


49ers win 35-16.

[Abe Sargent]

Season Awards!

NFL MVP – Brendan Aredge
Offensive Player of the year – Brendan Arledge
Defensive Player of the Year – Everett Parmely

All Pro 1st Team – QB Brendan Arledge, WR Dustin Wright, DE Dustin Parmely, DT Damien Alcott,
All Pro 2nd Team – FB Ralph Schuster, P Rob Emerson

Wow. Well, Parmely is really the replacement for Stanton/Horner’s legacy! And what happened with Arledge?

[Abe Sargent]

STATS!!!

Let me show you the entire league's stats passing:



Front Office Football Eight
Passing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Cmp Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/A Lg
**Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 16 589 400 67.9 4609 11.52 7.83 64
Still, Wayne QB SFO 16 16 560 387 69.1 4388 11.34 7.84 82
Cote, Chandler QB NYK 16 16 602 419 69.6 4899 11.69 8.14 66
Lannon, Mickey QB WAS 16 16 587 371 63.2 4148 11.18 7.07 79
Luck, Andrew QB IND 16 16 610 376 61.6 4029 10.72 6.60 66
Shannon, Samuel QB PIT 16 16 529 341 64.5 3722 10.91 7.04 47
Verstegen, Courtney QB MIN 15 15 440 294 66.8 3385 11.51 7.69 80
Wischhof, Alex QB NJY 16 16 510 332 65.1 3177 9.57 6.23 59
Carr, Derek QB OAK 15 15 537 359 66.9 3879 10.81 7.22 78
Prescott, Dak QB DAL 16 16 535 334 62.4 3878 11.61 7.25 78
Newton, Cam QB LAS 16 16 468 315 67.3 3682 11.69 7.87 64
Lynch, Paxton QB DEN 16 16 546 371 67.9 4009 10.81 7.34 75
Briggs, Bobby QB GBY 16 16 495 321 64.8 3871 12.06 7.82 65
Bortles, Blake QB JAX 14 14 514 328 63.8 3761 11.47 7.32 82
Acosta, Tim QB BAL 16 16 580 391 67.4 4191 10.72 7.23 80
Cousins, Kirk QB ARI 15 15 499 314 62.9 3631 11.56 7.28 75
Kessler, Cody QB CHI 14 14 510 330 64.7 3483 10.55 6.83 52
Salley, Randall QB HOU 15 15 463 304 65.7 3466 11.40 7.49 77
Wentz, Carson QB PHI 14 14 440 282 64.1 3328 11.80 7.56 78
Roberts, Chuck QB BUF 16 16 519 353 68.0 3849 10.90 7.42 54
McGee, Mitchell QB SEA 16 16 533 332 62.3 3666 11.04 6.88 69
Wilson, Russell QB MIA 16 16 505 316 62.6 3600 11.39 7.13 75
Karpovich, Nate QB DET 16 16 496 334 67.3 3549 10.63 7.16 85
Dalton, Andy QB CIN 16 16 544 345 63.4 3543 10.27 6.51 64
Ohm, Geoff QB SDO 16 15 515 332 64.5 3724 11.22 7.23 55
Guymon, Steven QB KCY 16 16 488 318 65.2 3485 10.96 7.14 80
Winston, Jameis QB TBY 16 16 555 358 64.5 3991 11.15 7.19 47
Garoppolo, Jimmy QB NED 15 14 490 299 61.0 3284 10.98 6.70 82
Scancella, Sawyer QB CAR 11 11 340 229 67.4 2352 10.27 6.92 48
Horn, Chester QB ATL 14 14 507 313 61.7 3366 10.75 6.64 47
Whiting, Harvey QB NOS 16 16 500 311 62.2 3194 10.27 6.39 77
Mariota, Marcus QB TEN 12 12 385 235 61.0 2699 11.49 7.01 81

Player Pos Team TD Int 20+T 300+ Rating
**Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 34 8 69 7 104.9
Still, Wayne QB SFO 33 6 60 5 107.5
Cote, Chandler QB NYK 31 13 79 6 102.1
Lannon, Mickey QB WAS 28 12 62 5 91.6
Luck, Andrew QB IND 27 10 69 3 88.9
Shannon, Samuel QB PIT 26 15 58 0 89.7
Verstegen, Courtney QB MIN 25 9 54 2 100.2
Wischhof, Alex QB NJY 25 11 43 2 89.6
Carr, Derek QB OAK 24 9 55 5 95.8
Prescott, Dak QB DAL 24 10 63 4 91.5
Newton, Cam QB LAS 24 7 59 2 101.8
Lynch, Paxton QB DEN 23 9 54 2 96.5
Briggs, Bobby QB GBY 23 8 57 3 97.5
Bortles, Blake QB JAX 23 14 59 4 89.3
Acosta, Tim QB BAL 22 19 62 6 87.3
Cousins, Kirk QB ARI 22 10 56 6 91.1
Kessler, Cody QB CHI 22 9 58 3 91.5
Salley, Randall QB HOU 22 10 48 3 94.8
Wentz, Carson QB PHI 22 6 52 2 98.0
Roberts, Chuck QB BUF 21 16 56 4 90.3
McGee, Mitchell QB SEA 21 7 54 2 90.2
Wilson, Russell QB MIA 21 14 56 3 86.2
Karpovich, Nate QB DET 21 10 51 2 93.7
Dalton, Andy QB CIN 21 4 50 2 91.9
Ohm, Geoff QB SDO 20 13 59 3 88.4
Guymon, Steven QB KCY 19 7 60 1 93.1
Winston, Jameis QB TBY 18 16 63 4 84.6
Garoppolo, Jimmy QB NED 18 14 42 2 81.2
Scancella, Sawyer QB CAR 18 9 34 1 93.6
Horn, Chester QB ATL 17 16 51 2 79.2
Whiting, Harvey QB NOS 16 10 49 1 82.8
Mariota, Marcus QB TEN 13 9 42 1 83.7

Att - Attempts, Cmp - Completions, Pct - Completion Percentage,
Yards - Passing Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Completion, Ave/A - Yards per Attempt,
Lg - Longest Completion, TD - Passing Touchdowns, Int - Passes Intercepted,
20+T - Completions of 20 or More Yards, 300+ - 300-yard Games,
Rate - Quarterback Rating.


I sorted by TD passes, so Areldge would be on top, but he has 2nd most yards, 2nd best QB rating, most TD passes by one, and more. So this was a great year for him.


Rush?



Front Office Football Eight
Rushing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Yards Avg Lg TD RZAtt Yards
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 16 16 348 1112 3.20 37 4 38 74
Snyder, Colin RB CLE 16 0 28 156 5.57 39 1 4 13
Riley, Rodney WR CLE 16 10 3 32 10.67 16 0 0 0
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 16 16 29 31 1.07 8 1 4 7
Gillespie, Grady WR CLE 16 7 3 16 5.33 12 0 0 0
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 16 16 1 0 0.00 0 0 0 0
Kilgore, Blake QB CLE 3 0 1 -1 -1.00 0 0 0 0


Lorey barely cracked 1000, and yet he was 8th in rushing yards - just 10 had 1000, we had another 2000 yard by a back as well

Catch Men



Front Office Football Eight
Receiving Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Targ Ctch Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/T YAC
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 16 16 181 120 66.3 1411 11.76 7.80 581
Riley, Rodney WR CLE 16 10 121 79 65.3 1182 14.96 9.77 477
Gillespie, Grady WR CLE 16 7 64 44 68.8 635 14.43 9.92 303
Franklin, Jon TE CLE 16 16 111 71 64.0 613 8.63 5.52 202
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 16 16 64 44 68.8 456 10.36 7.13 284
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 9 30 27 90.0 203 7.52 6.77 64
Crews, Ezekiel TE CLE 16 6 14 11 78.6 82 7.45 5.86 0
Boothroyd, Earl WR CLE 16 0 4 4 100.0 27 6.75 6.75 8

Player Pos Team Lg TD Drp PPly TPct 20+C 100+
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 47 14 7 620 29.2 17 7
Riley, Rodney WR CLE 42 6 4 585 20.7 23 3
Gillespie, Grady WR CLE 64 3 3 379 16.9 12 0
Franklin, Jon TE CLE 35 5 4 579 19.2 6 0
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 40 2 1 580 11.0 9 0
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 24 3 0 285 10.5 2 0
Crews, Ezekiel TE CLE 12 0 1 59 23.7 0 0
Boothroyd, Earl WR CLE 9 1 0 44 9.1 0 0

Targ - Targeted with Pass, Ctch - Receptions, Pct - Reception Percentage,
Yards - Receiving Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Catch, Avg/T - Yards per
Target, YAC - Yards Gained After Catch, Lg - Longest Reception,
TD - Receiving Touchdowns, Drp - Passes Dropped, PPly - Passing Plays
on Field, TPct - Percentage of Passing Plays Targeted, 20+C - Catches
of 20 Yards or More, 100+ - 100-Yard Games.


Wright was 11 yards behind the league leader in receiving yards. But he led the league by 4 TDs more than anyone else. I think that would make him the best WR in the league to most people's mind. So good job Wright! And another 1000+ season for Riley as well. He was 7th in yards but nowhere near the top in TDs.


Blocking?



Front Office Football Eight
Blocking Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS KRB KRO BPct Pnck SkA PPly SPct
Maurer, Norman G CLE 16 16 21 81 25.9 2 7 614 1.1
Henson, Marcos C CLE 16 16 21 90 23.3 3 4 643 0.6
Coleman, Shon T CLE 16 16 19 71 26.8 0 9 631 1.4
Lucas, Lucas G CLE 16 16 14 54 25.9 0 12 631 1.9
Henry, Trenton T CLE 13 13 12 46 26.1 0 6 517 1.2
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 9 6 19 31.6 0 0 285 0.0
Franklin, Jon TE CLE 16 16 1 11 9.1 0 2 579 0.3
Burmeister, Matt C CLE 4 3 1 8 12.5 0 2 114 1.8
Crews, Ezekiel TE CLE 16 6 0 2 0.0 0 0 59 0.0
Lane, Mercury T CLE 3 0 0 1 0.0 0 0 0 0.0
Plotz, Bill G CLE 2 0 0 5 0.0 0 0 5 0.0

Player Pos Team RPly OPct
Maurer, Norman G CLE 398 20.4
Henson, Marcos C CLE 416 21.6
Coleman, Shon T CLE 409 17.4
Lucas, Lucas G CLE 409 13.2
Henry, Trenton T CLE 328 14.0
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 192 9.9
Franklin, Jon TE CLE 373 2.9
Burmeister, Matt C CLE 88 9.1
Crews, Ezekiel TE CLE 72 2.8
Lane, Mercury T CLE 6 16.7
Plotz, Bill G CLE 11 45.5

KRB - Key Run Blocks, KRO - Key Run Block Opportunities, BPct - Key Run
Block Percentage, Pnck = Pancake Blocks, SkA - Sacks Allowed, PPly - Passing
Plays on Field, SPct - Sack Allowed Percentage, RPly - Rushing Plays on Field,
OPct - Block Opportunity Percentage.


Is this where Lorey failed? I think so. Very low KRB in raw number, and reduced % of KRO from previous yeas. My O Line failed Lorey.

Special Teams:

KR TD for Bening, and he led th league in average KR with 29.9, by far the best among qualifiers - teh next was WR Jenkins with 28.8, and Jenkins had two break out TDS to Benings 1 to weight the average.

K Sturigs, 33 of 40, 39 fo 40 PAT

P Emerson - 96 punts, 49,.8 avg, 41.1 net. 2nd in average, 4th in net


Defense!





Front Office Football Eight
Defensive Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Tckl Asst Sack Blkd Hurr QBKd
Nelson, Sawyer ILB CLE 16 16 101 52 2.0 0 1 0
Shaw, Larry S CLE 16 16 95 26 0.0 0 0 0
Rincon, Karl OLB CLE 16 16 72 18 10.5 2 9 11
Tatum, Miles S CLE 16 16 68 19 0.0 0 0 0
Krauchick, Dean OLB CLE 16 16 66 32 9.5 2 10 4
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 16 16 57 12 0.0 0 2 0
Parmely, Everett DE CLE 16 16 54 17 16.5 8 25 29
Horton, Vince ILB CLE 16 13 54 15 0.5 0 1 1
Canada, Gregory CB CLE 16 16 53 19 0.0 0 1 0
Alcott, Damien DT CLE 16 16 47 30 10.0 2 13 26
Nixon, Clayton CB CLE 16 3 33 9 1.0 0 1 0
Floyd, Grayson DE CLE 16 16 32 10 6.5 2 10 1
Newhart, Derek OLB CLE 16 0 10 1 1.0 1 3 0
Benton, Dustin CB CLE 16 0 10 1 0.0 0 0 0
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 16 16 3 0 0.0 0 0 0
Franklin, Jon TE CLE 16 16 2 0 0.0 0 0 0
Nelson, Tito DT CLE 15 0 2 0 0.0 0 0 0
Yaros, Shaun DE CLE 16 0 1 1 0.5 0 0 0
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 16 16 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Riley, Rodney WR CLE 16 10 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Moss, Francisco CB CLE 16 0 1 1 0.0 0 0 0
Hickman, Quinn CB CLE 4 0 1 0 0.0 0 0 0


Parmely led the league in sacks, QBKD and hurries. Alcott led all DTS in sacks and and was 2nd in the league behind Paremly for QBKD. Rincon actually led all LBs int eh league and yet was not an All Pro. So sad. At the halfway mark, Krauchick was actually leading all players with 7.5 sacks, but he slowed down in the 2nd half of the season. I thought he might have wound up DPotY.

Coverage?



Front Office Football Eight
Pass Coverage Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Ints IRYd TD Defn Cght PPly PDPct
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 16 16 5 8 0 9 53 601 78.5
Tatum, Miles S CLE 16 16 3 11 0 4 39 625 78.1
Nelson, Sawyer ILB CLE 16 16 2 5 0 9 43 619 78.3
Canada, Gregory CB CLE 16 16 2 13 0 14 29 623 83.2
Shaw, Larry S CLE 16 16 2 26 1 10 58 620 75.5
Horton, Vince ILB CLE 16 13 1 27 0 7 24 263 78.6
Newhart, Derek OLB CLE 16 0 1 0 0 0 6 116 80.0
Krauchick, Dean OLB CLE 16 16 0 0 0 3 12 615 81.1
Rincon, Karl OLB CLE 16 16 0 0 0 8 34 527 77.5
Alcott, Damien DT CLE 16 16 0 0 0 1 4 608 82.1
Parmely, Everett DE CLE 16 16 0 0 0 1 7 629 81.4
Moss, Francisco CB CLE 16 0 0 0 0 1 1 26 86.3
Nixon, Clayton CB CLE 16 3 0 0 0 6 29 366 75.8
Floyd, Grayson DE CLE 16 16 0 0 0 0 5 515 81.2
Hickman, Quinn CB CLE 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 60.9
Benton, Dustin CB CLE 16 0 0 0 0 0 9 74 66.2

Ints - Interceptions, IRYd - Interception Return Yardage, TD - Interception
Return Touchdowns, Cght - Passes Caught by Covered Receiver, Defn - Passes
Defensed, PPly - Passing Plays on Field, PDPct - Pass Defense Percentage.


Schmidtke had another rock solid season, and Miles Tatum was fine too. Schmidtke was 2nd in Cbs with 5 picks, and no other CB had 5. Only two CBVs had more than 4 - Schmidtke and Comstock over at New England. COmstock was the 5th or 6th CB on the board and I was looking for him back in the 1st, but all of the CBS went early, and I was early in the draft and didn;t want to grab him too early, if you'll recall.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:


Offensive MVP _ Arledge. Duh

Defensive MVP – Parmely. Double Duh.

Special Teams MVP – P Emerson. Just his second All Pro ever, and for us. He has always been a strong, solid, punter who gives you top yardage and position time and time again. It’s a lot easier for Stanton, Horner, Parmely, Alcott, Rincon, Krauchick, McGee, Kirksey and Stevens to key off players when you are pinning them so deeply and forcing foes to go further on their drives. A sack is worse. A force fumble is worse. And you build on that over and over again. Emerson is a weapon.

Rookie of the Year – DE Grayson Floyd – 6.5 sacks is no joke, when the third wheel on the 3-4 defense. And he didn’t play as many plays either, if you’ll recall. About 250 fewer plays than Parmely, and 200 fewer than Alcott. And yet he was 5th in sacks, and 3rd in hurries. Great job!

Heart Award – RB Colin Snyder. When Lorey was down, Snyder quietly had 28 for 156m an average of 5.57 carries for Lorey’s 3.20 ypc

[Abe Sargent]

Pleasedontretireplasedontretirepelasedontretire

End of Season –

Team Performance – 83
Value 80
Profit 76
Roster 29

75

Well, we do have one retirement K Caleb Sturgis. Odd

Other sof note:

QB Andy Dalton, Cam Newman, Kirk Cousins, Bridgewater, Russell Wilson
WR Odell Beckham, Jarvis Landry, Marqise Lee, Jorda Matthews
Very few O Line – Jake Matthews

DE Joey Bosa,

CB Marcus Peters, S Reid.



So Sad - LB Robert Banda = All Pro once for us, 685 solos, 182 assits, 22.5 sacks, 16 picks, 1 INT RET TD> 52 pasdef, 10 FF< 6 rec

He didn’t start the last two years, and only played in two games two years ago, and none last year at all

Hall of Fame – Von Miller made it

I up my STR Coach

Staff Draft?

Nobody is picked

We made 90 mill last year Just us and the Steelers had 100% attendance.



I have 43 players under contract, 33 mill in cap space, 24 available.

These players are up and not signed for a new deal:

That’s right. I only have RFAs available. No one to franchise or anything!

I head to FA!!!

[Abe Sargent]

I advance a week immediately. I want to see if Stanton will take my offer.

Cause he’s Stanton.

Nope. What an asshole. Know how many sacks he got in just THREE games for the Saints? 3. That;s a good number. But he was injured and IRd, like he was year 1 with us after 5 games

RFA Action:

DE Yaros signs 2 yrs, 5.5 mill for us
TE Crews extends 1 year, CB Moss too oh and Hichkman as well
QB McIntyre by 2 years

48 players

Who’s contract is coming due?

Get ready…..

Hello Damien Alcott, time to sit down and make you a permanent fixture here in Cleveland. You are the best player on my team. 5 years, 92 mill, with cap hits this year of 17, then 14, 1,4 and 21 and 28.

Next?

LT Trenton Henry – I make an offer of…..is he worth keeping?

Who else is in the final year of their deal?

Arledge
Bening
Maurer
Nelson

Schmidgter
Schuster
Newsome
Emerson
Snyder
TE Franklin
DE Gibson
DT Tito Nelson
LB Tubbs
LB Newhart

That is a lot of people.

I need to extend the big players first.

Emerson, Newsome, Benign all extend

I wait until ap for Schmidtke

I extend FB Schuster for 2 eyars

Maurer wants a big leap I cash to reup. Not right now

I sign Nelson to a 4 year, 46 mill dela that cuts his cap hit by 4 mill this year

I extend Snyder by 2 years.

Gibson and Nelson would be in the 2.5 or 2 mill range each year for each of them

I extend Newhart for a year, 4.5 mill total, split in half

Tubbs wants 12 mill, 4 years

I kind of want to hold off for Arledge until post-camp to see I f he drop s a little more. Right now he wants 15 mill this year and next, and he’s 13.5.

Franklin wants 12 mill over three years.

Let’s review the draft first

I have these picks – 1.26, 2.30, 3.27, 4.17, 3.27, 5.28, 7.26 – So 7 total picks

What do I need:

Great starter – TE, CB, K,

Backup – QB RB, TE, OG, CBx2, S,

Wow there are a lot of quality LBs, Des, OT< and Rbs. I may wind up with another LB or DE that falls to me late. The 5th CB on the board, Dana Cortez, is affinity and very underrated. This is a horrible TE class. Interview 6 CBs, 3 Ss, 2 OGs and 1 k. There is precisely one good K in the draft – Stanley Ramsay.

The top three TE in fa are all affility nos

Alright Franky

He gets his sweet pretty deal

I wait until the draft to see if I need to resign OT Henry.

Week 3 – Stanton signs with the Cards

I skip the rest of FA

[Abe Sargent]

The 2027 NFL Amateur Draft!


The Bucs get us started by taking super mega QB stud Kyle Weaver from the Ivy League U Penn.

1.26 arrives. Who do I like?

OT Catalano looks solid. OLB Boyette? CB Dana Cortez is on the board, but the 3rd CB there still on the board.

Whoa! Hello stud OG, Wayne Croom. Potential affinity.

How is he still on the board?

Holy crap…….

I figured I would take Dana Cortez. I was actually trying to talk myself into trading back. I don’t need to go OT in the 1st round back to back rounds, and Catalano is unscouted, and has 2 reds, 2 blues, and yet looks pretty solid with low volatility, and low endurance but eery thing welse. Would you want an LT, not an RT, but an LT with 65 run block, 80 pass, 80 block strength and 35 endurance? That’s about the average in the far end of the bars. He’s better than Lucas Lcas lst year.

And yet, Croom?

Here!

Who do you take!



https://s4.postimg.org/6d93lbstp/who27.png


EDIT -

This may inform your decisions:

https://s11.postimg.org/wf0x9dxc3/the_4.png


My current 4 OGs and OTs. Note Coleman's age, Maurer and Henry in the final year of their deal, and Lucas Lucas on there as well.


And here are my corners and Safeties.

https://s16.postimg.org/5v7ifm5yd/The_next_4.png

[Abe Sargent]

While we are on "pause" for a moment, this is a good time to talk about my approach to FOF in general, and how you've seen it here.

My goal is to become a synergy of the best of the Steelers and Patriots of whatever universe that they are playing in. That's my goal.

The Patriots have a powerful system. Despite changing names at various positions, they have some genuine HOF players, like Brady, they build around and use. They have some high quality players they retain. But they are not afraid to bring in Free Agents, high profile ones, and more. Randy Moss. Fred Taylor. Corey Dillon. Rodney Harrison. And they will bring in players that will be better in the Patriots system than elsewhere, like Wes Welker. And they will parrot their talent. Brady and company will air the crap out of the ball and bombard everything when they have that talent. Or they will plug up and play a powerful smashmouth run game when that's where they are. Whatever works. The Patriots are about replacement, plug and play, and getting the right people into the right spaces. They will collect draft picks, trade up to target the right player, trade back to acquire more picks, and are masters of draft management. And they make it to the playoffs and they win.

Now imagine that the year after Brady retires there is a top QB talent in the draft, like a Manning, or a Manning, or a Luck or someone. Imagine if they did everything they could to grab that 1.1 pick and take that top talent and kept on going.

That's what I like to do.

But I like to be the Steelers about it. I like to retain my own people. I'd rather keep a perfectly respectable 50/50 OG I have on my roster than sign some dopey 54/54 guy. Now If it makes sense( Half the money, drop in age by 7 or 8 years, etc) then I will. But I don't want to.

I want to:

1). Have the strong system players come into my draft, like the Steelers
2). Retain all of my talent, inc UFAs, that I bring in. Those are "my" players.
3). Master the draft like the Patriots, and match my pick to need, in order to keep it going

That's where I want to be.

I call this combination of Steelers and Pats mentality my "Equilibrium point." I try to get my dynasty to the Equilibrium Point. and we have reached that a couple of years ago here

Here is my path to Equilibrium:

1). Always, with only a handful of exceptions, draft BAP. You will have a healthier, stronger, and more competitive roster, when you took the BAP. Let me give you an example from my last dynasty with the Jags in FOF7. I had two top ten WRs in the mid20s at the end of the 1st round when a draftee called Joshua Wild fell to me. He was the BAP, and a stud. Now I had positions of need outside of WR. But I took him, two yeas later he replaced one of my WRs permanently, and was so good he made it to the HOF and was a concensus best WR during his tenure with us. I will take a stud DE, DT, LB, CB, or S even if I have two starters, with little muss or fuss. (Take my era with Horner and Stanton just now. I would not take a stud DE because I have two All Pros Defensive Player of the Year talents already - but that is a rare case). I will BAP a stud TE, RB, FB, WR or more over my current starters. BAP talent. You can see that in this dynasty with my linebackers.

2). Don't ever cut someone you can trade. Trade a younger 4th year player you won't keep for a future pick. You are building through the draft. So stockpile draft picks.

3). Target top talent, and move up to take it. There are a handful of players that will push my dynasty forward. Twice you saw me target Lorey and Alcott, and move up. Now I have had a 2000 yard rushed and an All Pro 90/90 NT for a 3-4 defense. Both were worth it. When there is a player that will make your team sing the next octave, make a play.

4) Don't get caught up with big bars and fancy stars. There will be studs in every draft. There will be players that should improve your team in every draft. You will lose them. That's fine. It happens. Don't move up and lose something to grab someone that you never really needed. Only make trades for players that are true value to your team.

5). Unlike many FOF players, I prefer bars to combines. There are draftees with great combine scores and low bars. They often grow. But they don't always,

[Abe Sargent]

While we are on "pause" for a moment, this is a good time to talk about my approach to FOF in general, and how you've seen it here.

My goal is to become a synergy of the best of the Steelers and Patriots of whatever universe that they are playing in. That's my goal.

The Patriots have a powerful system. Despite changing names at various positions, they have some genuine HOF players, like Brady, they build around and use. They have some high quality players they retain. But they are not afraid to bring in Free Agents, high profile ones, and more. Randy Moss. Fred Taylor. Corey Dillon. Rodney Harrison. And they will bring in players that will be better in the Patriots system than elsewhere, like Wes Welker. And they will parrot their talent. Brady and company will air the crap out of the ball and bombard everything when they have that talent. Or they will plug up and play a powerful smashmouth run game when that's where they are. Whatever works. The Patriots are about replacement, plug and play, and getting the right people into the right spaces. They will collect draft picks, trade up to target the right player, trade back to acquire more picks, and are masters of draft management. And they make it to the playoffs and they win.

Now imagine that the year after Brady retires there is a top QB talent in the draft, like a Manning, or a Manning, or a Luck or someone. Imagine if they did everything they could to grab that 1.1 pick and take that top talent and kept on going.

That's what I like to do.

But I like to be the Steelers about it. I like to retain my own people. I'd rather keep a perfectly respectable 50/50 OG I have on my roster than sign some dopey 54/54 guy. Now If it makes sense( Half the money, drop in age by 7 or 8 years, etc) then I will. But I don't want to.

I want to:

1). Have the strong system players come into my draft, like the Steelers
2). Retain all of my talent, inc UFAs, that I bring in. Those are "my" players.
3). Master the draft like the Patriots, and match my pick to need, in order to keep it going

That's where I want to be.

I call this combination of Steelers and Pats mentality my "Equilibrium point." I try to get my dynasty to the Equilibrium Point. and we have reached that a couple of years ago here

Here is my path to Equilibrium:

1). Always, with only a handful of exceptions, draft BAP. You will have a healthier, stronger, and more competitive roster, when you took the BAP. Let me give you an example from my last dynasty with the Jags in FOF7. I had two top ten WRs in the mid20s at the end of the 1st round when a draftee called Joshua Wild fell to me. He was the BAP, and a stud. Now I had positions of need outside of WR. But I took him, two yeas later he replaced one of my WRs permanently, and was so good he made it to the HOF and was a concensus best WR during his tenure with us. I will take a stud DE, DT, LB, CB, or S even if I have two starters, with little muss or fuss. (Take my era with Horner and Stanton just now. I would not take a stud DE because I have two All Pros Defensive Player of the Year talents already - but that is a rare case). I will BAP a stud TE, RB, FB, WR or more over my current starters. BAP talent. You can see that in this dynasty with my linebackers.

2). Don't ever cut someone you can trade. Trade a younger 4th year player you won't keep for a future pick. You are building through the draft. So stockpile draft picks.

3). Target top talent, and move up to take it. There are a handful of players that will push my dynasty forward. Twice you saw me target Lorey and Alcott, and move up. Now I have had a 2000 yard rushed and an All Pro 90/90 NT for a 3-4 defense. Both were worth it. When there is a player that will make your team sing the next octave, make a play.

4) Don't get caught up with big bars and fancy stars. There will be studs in every draft. There will be players that should improve your team in every draft. You will lose them. That's fine. It happens. Don't move up and lose something to grab someone that you never really needed. Only make trades for players that are true value to your team.

5). Unlike many FOF players, I prefer bars to combines. There are draftees with great combine scores and low bars. They often grow. But they don't always,

They don't always grow as well as you want or think. Players with high bars who aren't sustained by their combines often shrink, but not always, and not always as much as you fear. I'd rather draft a 30/60 CB and have them wind up a 48/48 CB than draft a 15/15 CB that grows, years later, into a 45/45 CB. I find the growth rarely matches the bars of others. Take a look at this dynasty. Only once did I have a real grower - S Baxter. Usually, they aren't even that - many players don't grow in camp at all, and some high combines have even busted post-camp.

6). Don't be afraid to make mistakes, but learn from them. I made many mistakes in this dynasty. Like my RB position. Or missing players I should have traded up for or BAPs when I wet need instead. Remember when I was thinking about stud MLB Howlerton vs that CB who met my need? That CB busted and was out of the NFl a few years later, and Howlerton is the best LB in football. Or that LB last year I could have traded a random 6th to move up and get in the 3rd, but I figured he'd come to me at 3.19. A first round talent in the third? Just shut up, make the trade, and move on. I learned my lesson. You will make mistakes. But will you learn from them?

7). Cut bait when you need to, but remember to keep things mission central. Don't sign a 65/65 C over a 55/55 OG with better statistics.

8). Do sweat the small stuff. I care a lot about special teams. In the GM Only or One Draft Dynasty Challenge we had here, I did very well. In the first, my first online league, I built the Jags into a Super Bowl team in year two, and built part of a juggernaut that stood around after I left, and another GM came in, improved on my model, and made a powerful juggernaut dynasty with an undefeated season and a bunch of super bowls. And I won the One N Done Draft Challenge where a bunch of players here all used the same draft and could only draft players that first year, and then played it out to see where they wound up. I'm not bad at this part of the game. And part of the reason is that I look at mechanics like affinity and special teams. Especially special teams. I think one of the reasons I won the 1ND is because I picked very good quality special teamers early in order to ensure quality. it matters

P Emerson is a weapon. It worth the money to upgrade my K. You see it here. These things get you wins. They get you to that Equilibrium Point

And once there, it's easier to sustain. Just replace when cash/age/better option comes along for parts already working. No spending cash in FA, you can usually skip it. The BAPs you grab will allow you to have better draft bait. Etc.

[Abe Sargent]

Croom has three goings for him. He is the Bap and the he’s been scouted and has an affinity.

So I’m taking Croom. The best fit was probably Catalano. I could use him in either spot. But Croom works

Now I sort of screwed up this draft. I thought CB would be hot like normal. But this great Cb went 1.25, just one in front of me. If I had seen no CB go, I would have jumped to 1.22 or 1.23 to secure it, and seen the team in front of me needed CB badly, but I missed it.

Ah well, mistakes have been made.

But with just one corner gone, with Dana Cortez fall past me? Is that a potential move? I could use depth at CB more than anywhere else, because moving up to take Cortez might be okay in a weak draft like this, where my main concern is getting K and a handful of talent later. Every draft is different, but this one is heavy in places where I’m strong, like DT and DE. There is still a ton of that talent (in 4-3 worlds) out there.

Let’s slow roll this:

1.27 – OT Catalano to the Eagles. So if I had taken him at 1.26, no surprises there
1.28 – OG Vernon Sheldon, GB – So OG Croom would likely have gone here, they went the next one on the board
1.29 OG Alex Clinton, Saints – We get the 2nd OG on the board, and just one of two OG studs.
1.30 – RB Barrett to Steelers
1.31 – CB Tyler McChane to Bengals – Uh oh.
1.32 – S Deon Lovallo, 49ers

Alright, he made it out if the 1st round.

2.1 DT Donovan
2.2 CB Craig – Cortex is now the top CB on the board

What would it take to move up to 2.3?

I have 2.30 this round. Their pic is worth the 550 on the draft trade chart, and mine is 284. So I need around 300 to sweeten the del. Doable, but not easy. I can give them my 3.27? I also send them a future 3rd in 2029, an get a 7th back that year.

I take Cortez. A very underrated affinity

I will see you in the 4th!

My mid round pick arrives. There are two players here I like a lot. K Ramsay is still there, and there’s this decent OT Diaz. Like a consolation prize.

4,17 LT Eduardo Diaz?

4.27 – K Stanley Ramsay

Alrighty then

5th – RB Edwin Willis? FL Darius Hardy? Hardy



7.26 – MLB Cedric Zuccato – Was not brought in to the combine, looks like a great, great player, very low on the list, we’ll see if his bars match his ability

Amateur Draft Report:

Rnd 1 - Wayne Croom, G, Arkansas
Rnd 2 - Dana Cortez, CB, Southern California
Rnd 4 - Eduardo Diaz, T, Glenville State
Rnd 4 - Stanley Ramsay, K, Clemson
Rnd 5 - Darius Hardy, WR, Canisius
Rnd 7 - Cedric Zuccato, ILB, Miami, Ohio

[Abe Sargent]

Initial Reviews –

Croom is 33/80 and the 2nd highest rookie in the draft by potential
Cortez – 48/70
Ramsay – 51/79
Hardy 28/49
Diaz 26/54
Zuccato……26/73

Now getting a quality K in the middle of the draft is nothing special. Diaz and Hardy are just bums. Zuccato fell and I snagged him. But I stand by my Croom/Cortez calls then, ad now…

But we’ll see. A Grade

I have 54 players under contract:

RB Edwin Willis was never taken. I make him an offer as a UFA. CB Frederick Dalton, LB Julio Witte, TE Jacob D’Arms, QB Marty Harder

They all sign

[Abe Sargent]

CAMP TIME!!!!!

I cut QB Harder and sign Butch Grant

I cut:

CB Quinn Hickman


I trade OT Mercury lane to the Patriots for the 2030 3rd rounder

I’m getting rid of conflicts. I have one left C Burmeister with OG Maurer. Strong conflict. I trade him to the Jags for their 4th in 2030. I trade Tito Nelson to the chiefs for their 3rd I in 2029.

Alright it’s time. I cut WR Bening. I have players that can divide his PR and KR roles. So sad, but I like all five of my WRs right now.

I cut BR Danek

I sigh, have to move a LB. I have 10. So I move Randall Yockey and cut him, and 47/54 LB

I sign LG Marlon Barlow, from Mill Creek WV, a UFA.

We go 3-1 in the preaseason

Final roster adjustments

I extend:

QB Arledge by 1 year

CB Schmidtke by 1 year

OG Maurer by 2 more years

No extension to OT Henry – he hasn’t earned it

[Abe Sargent]

Roster!!!




Front Office Football Eight
Cleveland Browns Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
McIntyre, Malcolm 105 QB 3 23 40 2 yrs.
##Grant, Butch 102 QB 1 6 38 1 yr.
Arledge, Brendan 114 QB QB 12 30 30 2 yrs.
Lorey, Diego 222 RB RB 7 63 63 3 yrs.
Snyder, Colin 235 RB 5 53 53 3 yrs.
Willis, Edwin 238 RB 1 44 51 1 yr.
##Lindsay, Raul 243 RB 3 41 49 2 yrs.
Schuster, Ralph 331 FB FB 9 60 60 3 yrs.
Crews, Ezekiel 441 TE 3 50 50 1 yr.
Franklin, Jon 446 TE TE 4 48 48 3 yrs.
D'Arms, Jacob 483 TE 1 25 36 1 yr.
##Reid, Pat 484 TE 3 23 25 2 yrs.
Riley, Rodney 586 FL SE 6 69 69 3 yrs.
Gillespie, Grady 513 FL 2 48 52 3 yrs.
Hardy, Darius 580 FL 1 30 41 4 yrs.
Wright, Dustin 512 SE FL 9 59 59 3 yrs.
Boothroyd, Earl 588 SE 3 48 50 2 yrs.
Henson, Marcos 657 C C 3 67 67 2 yrs.
Croom, Wayne 777 LG LG 1 41 78 4 yrs.
Plotz, Bill 761 LG 2 50 68 3 yrs.
Lucas, Lucas 771 LG 2 57 67 3 yrs.
##Barlow, Marlon 778 LG 1 16 41 1 yr.
Maurer, Norman 764 RG RG 7 58 58 3 yrs.
Henry, Trenton 865 LT LT 4 57 57 1 yr.
Diaz, Eduardo 873 LT 1 31 47 4 yrs.
Coleman, Shon 872 RT RT 12 57 57 2 yrs.
Emerson, Rob 915 P 12 68 68 2 yrs.
Ramsay, Stanley 1004K 1 61 76 4 yrs.
Parmely, Everett 1193LDE LDE 3 73 73 2 yrs.
Floyd, Grayson 1179LDE RDE 2 62 67 3 yrs.
##Gibson, Willie 1198LDE 4 47 54 1 yr.
Yaros, Shaun 1174RDE 4 59 59 2 yrs.
Alcott, Damien 1294LDT NT 4 90 90 5 yrs.
Blades, Graham 1292LDT 5 58 58 3 yrs.
Nelson, Sawyer 1397WILB SILB 7 75 75 4 yrs.
Horton, Vince 1396WILB WILB 8 65 65 2 yrs.
##Witte, Julio 1350WILB 1 28 56 1 yr.
Zuccato, Cedric 1399MLB 1 32 75 4 yrs.
Rhodes, Braxton 1391MLB 2 45 65 3 yrs.
Tubbs, Dexter 1354MLB 4 64 64 1 yr.
Rincon, Karl 1455SLB SLB 5 79 79 3 yrs.
Krauchick, Dean 1456WLB WLB 6 63 63 2 yrs.
Newhart, Derek 1495WLB 4 61 61 2 yrs.
Cortez, Dana 1528LCB RCB 1 60 72 4 yrs.
Dalton, Frederick 1529LCB 1 32 42 1 yr.
Canada, Gregory 1547RCB LCB 5 68 68 3 yrs.
Schmidtke, Cooper 1549RCB 11 53 53 2 yrs.
Moss, Francisco 1520RCB 3 43 46 1 yr.
Nixon, Clayton 1524RCB 3 35 35 2 yrs.
Shaw, Larry 1633SS SS 3 69 69 2 yrs.
Tatum, Miles 1640FS FS 8 55 55 3 yrs.
##Langley, Julio 1644FS 2 33 44 3 yrs.
Newsome, Bo 659 LS 12 18 18 2 yrs.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $226,100,000
Cap Room: $7,490,000
Maximum for New Player: $8,150,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $5,850,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $760,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $216,110,000

[Abe Sargent]

The major news is Lorey who busted hard from 77 to 63. Croom still looks good, and he has an exceptional affinity with Maurer. I’m starting them, and then using Lucas Lucas as my primary backup at all spots in case of injury, followed by Plotz. I believe next year, barring the acquisition of major talent, that someone will move over to OT. Meanwhile, Dana Cortez is already nasty, and Schmidtke is my leader and my Nickelback from here on out. Noting wrong with nickel. Meanwhile, Zuccato looks like no bust thus far, and I’m giving him starts on two run D formations to see what he can do and to give him some quality development playing time. Even Stanley didn’t bust so yay on the whole not busting thing for my 4 70+ potential players

Let’s drill down into that draft some more –

Here let me show you all rookies by future potential –

https://s24.postimg.org/6ebhnuctx/potential_rookies_2027.png

I got really, really lucky this draft

Other teams did too. Two other Ks boomed in camp, although I’m not upset at Ramsay. Croom is 2nd, and Cortez is great, and Zuccato is there as well. As you can see, we have 12 players with a potential of 70 or more. Three kickers, so 9 non-kickers. We have three. We also have a kicker too! Remember the OT we were looking at? Where did he wind up? 38/55. He had the combines. He had the respect. He had the bars. He had a low volatility. And yet? He busted. Meanwhile a combine-less wonder like Zuccato is the steal of the draft.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 – We open the season with a thumping of the Steelers, 28-3. We have a first for a this dynasty – Lorey has 21 of 103 and 1 score on the ground, and 6 grabs for 106 yards and thus 209 yards from scrimmage. TE Franklin with both TD Catches. 2 FF by Schmeditke, 1 by Rincon. Rincon recovers and rushes for a score.


A few minor injuries – C Hensen is questionable for 6 weeks witn a sprained knee ligament, and I send in Lucas Lucas to spell him. That seems like the sort of injury that could exacerbate.

Week 2 – Another crush 35-3 on the road vs the 49ers. Arldedge was MOM with 22 of 25, 245, and 3:0. Riley, Lorey and Gillespie with TDs. Lorey adds 81 on 20 on the ground. Pick by Miles Tatum, returned for a score. The defense forced Lorey to fumble, Riley recovered and scored. 2 sacks by Alcott. 4 KRB by Henry


Week 3 – We head to and win in Jacksonville 34-27. Lorey is 23 for 76 and 2 scores, Arledge 23 foor 20, 264, and 2:2, and Riley 109 and 1 score, and Gillespie the other. We have 4 picks on the day by Cortez, Shaw, Canada and Nelson. We also have 2 FF as well, one of which we recovered


Week 4 – BYE


Week 5 - We thump Denver 34-8. Arledge, MOM, with 21 of 34, 275, 2:0 – Franklin with 2 scores. Lorey another 17 for 78, and Snyder and Arledge rushes for scores. Another pick by Cortez. 2 FF by Parmely, recovered by Cortex and Shaw. 2 sacks by the Parme as well.


We are 4-0.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 6 – We thump the 1 win Raiders 27-7. Arledge, MOM is 25 of 32, 249 and 0:0. And Riley rushes for two scores Lorey for 102 yards ad a 1 score. Pick by Cortez and Rincon – 5 KRB by Coleman


Week 7 – The Charges fall 23-8.. Areldge, MOM 22, 31 for 336 and 0:1. Wright with 137 yards, and Lorey adds 23 for 66 on the ground and a score, and Snyder another. Picks by Horton and Rincon, FF by Krauchic and Parmely.

Post game, starting DE Grayson Floyd is out for 5 weeks and C Henson is back.

Week 8 – We win 27-24. Arledge, MOM, 21 of 31, 274, 2:0 – Scores by Franklin and Gillespie. Loreyis 21 of 92, 1 score. 2 picks by Cortez,

Week 9 – We win 24-22 over the Ravens. Lorey is 25 for 94, 1 score, Arledge 21 of 34, 342, 1:1. Score by Gillespie. 5 KRB by Coleman


We are 8-0.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 10 – We beat Pittsburgh 23-20. Arledge, MOM, 34 of 45, 429, and 1”1. Riley the score, Wright 122 yards. Pick by Tatum.

WR Boothboyd is out for a few weeks.

Week 11 – Cincy falls, 20-7. Mile Tatum is MOM with a pick and a score. Riley 11 yard, Lorey 25 for 119 and Snyder a rushing score Arledge was 21 for 35, 201 and 0:2.

Week 12 – We edge LA 38-27. Arledge, MOM with 27 of 43, 344 and 2:1 Je hit Riley for 100 yards, and Wright and Lorey for scores. Lorey adds 20 for 90 and 3 scores on the ground.

Can we get to 12-0?

TE Franklin out a couple of weeks. DE Floyd is back


Shit!

We wont eh game! 30-10 over the Jets. Arledge, MOM, 19 of 25, 227 and 2:0. Lorey is 33 for 128 and 1 score too. TD grabs by Wright adnd Gillespie. 6 KRB by Coleman and 4 by Henson

…..



But



Brendan Areledge…..at the age of 34….just went down with repetitive concussion syndrome and is out for an expected 124 weeks

[Abe Sargent]

Shit

[Abe Sargent]

At the 12 game mark, upon his injury, here were the league’s qb stats:





Front Office Football Eight
Passing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Cmp Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/A Lg
**Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 12 12 386 272 70.5 3387 12.45 8.77 66
Butler, Fernando QB ARI 12 12 428 292 68.2 3355 11.49 7.84 61
Acosta, Tim QB BAL 12 12 422 288 68.2 3315 11.51 7.86 84
Carr, Derek QB OAK 12 12 441 306 69.4 3219 10.52 7.30 64
McCormick, Levon QB LAS 12 12 440 292 66.4 3095 10.60 7.03 75
Verstegen, Courtney QB MIN 12 12 371 270 72.8 3067 11.36 8.27 92
Cote, Chandler QB NYK 12 12 359 244 68.0 2958 12.12 8.24 75
Lannon, Mickey QB WAS 11 11 380 256 67.4 2934 11.46 7.72 67
Winston, Jameis QB TBY 12 11 379 259 68.3 2883 11.13 7.61 49
Briggs, Bobby QB GBY 12 12 370 255 68.9 2809 11.02 7.59 63
Hill, Gabe QB MIA 12 12 427 265 62.1 2799 10.56 6.56 66
Probin, Rickey QB NED 12 12 384 246 64.1 2776 11.28 7.23 65
Ohm, Geoff QB SDO 12 12 417 240 57.6 2775 11.56 6.65 75
Shannon, Samuel QB PIT 12 12 397 267 67.3 2723 10.20 6.86 57
Scancella, Sawyer QB CAR 11 11 352 236 67.0 2711 11.49 7.70 61
Salley, Randall QB HOU 12 12 394 270 68.5 2711 10.04 6.88 44
Crane, Kent QB IND 12 10 436 248 56.9 2711 10.93 6.22 48
Mariota, Marcus QB TEN 12 12 389 232 59.6 2670 11.51 6.86 96
Guymon, Steven QB KCY 12 12 400 234 58.5 2607 11.14 6.52 62
Wentz, Carson QB PHI 12 12 424 247 58.3 2573 10.42 6.07 47
Still, Wayne QB SFO 12 12 423 251 59.3 2558 10.19 6.05 45
Fitzgerald, Greg QB ATL 12 12 353 242 68.6 2534 10.47 7.18 63
McGee, Mitchell QB SEA 12 12 402 247 61.4 2457 9.95 6.11 54
Logan, Geoff QB CIN 12 12 373 240 64.3 2326 9.69 6.24 49
Roberts, Chuck QB BUF 12 12 370 238 64.3 2319 9.74 6.27 50
Wischhof, Alex QB NJY 9 9 308 215 69.8 2288 10.64 7.43 74
Prescott, Dak QB DAL 8 8 296 193 65.2 2185 11.32 7.38 76
Karpovich, Nate QB DET 11 11 321 206 64.2 2122 10.30 6.61 46
Strickland, Devonte QB CHI 12 12 374 204 54.5 2044 10.02 5.47 62
Whiting, Harvey QB NOS 11 11 292 177 60.6 1731 9.78 5.93 75
Luen, Melvin QB DEN 10 7 261 168 64.4 1599 9.52 6.13 36
Raiola, Alfred QB JAX 8 5 208 127 61.1 1547 12.18 7.44 65
Nichols, Arnold QB JAX 7 7 196 107 54.6 1121 10.48 5.72 50

Player Pos Team TD Int 20+T 300+ Rating
**Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 17 7 54 4 104.5
Butler, Fernando QB ARI 23 10 59 5 99.7
Acosta, Tim QB BAL 16 7 55 5 97.4
Carr, Derek QB OAK 17 6 48 5 97.4
McCormick, Levon QB LAS 25 11 40 3 95.2
Verstegen, Courtney QB MIN 22 6 45 4 110.2
Cote, Chandler QB NYK 17 8 47 2 99.5
Lannon, Mickey QB WAS 16 7 37 4 96.8
Winston, Jameis QB TBY 13 4 41 5 97.7
Briggs, Bobby QB GBY 21 7 39 2 102.1
Hill, Gabe QB MIA 16 10 46 2 83.8
Probin, Rickey QB NED 10 10 48 1 83.4
Ohm, Geoff QB SDO 12 13 39 2 74.3
Shannon, Samuel QB PIT 22 14 40 2 90.5
Scancella, Sawyer QB CAR 25 6 36 1 106.6
Salley, Randall QB HOU 17 5 34 3 97.0
Crane, Kent QB IND 11 11 41 1 73.3
Mariota, Marcus QB TEN 10 5 35 2 83.6
Guymon, Steven QB KCY 18 10 35 2 82.5
Wentz, Carson QB PHI 16 10 35 1 78.6
Still, Wayne QB SFO 13 9 34 1 78.1
Fitzgerald, Greg QB ATL 19 5 37 1 101.1
McGee, Mitchell QB SEA 12 2 29 1 86.6
Logan, Geoff QB CIN 15 7 35 0 87.3
Roberts, Chuck QB BUF 19 13 30 0 84.2
Wischhof, Alex QB NJY 11 5 37 1 96.3
Prescott, Dak QB DAL 9 10 40 4 83.3
Karpovich, Nate QB DET 14 7 27 0 88.5
Strickland, Devonte QB CHI 13 11 27 0 69.6
Whiting, Harvey QB NOS 7 5 21 1 78.1
Luen, Melvin QB DEN 8 6 21 0 81.9
Raiola, Alfred QB JAX 9 5 25 1 88.3
Nichols, Arnold QB JAX 6 4 18 1 73.1

Att - Attempts, Cmp - Completions, Pct - Completion Percentage,
Yards - Passing Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Completion, Ave/A - Yards per Attempt,
Lg - Longest Completion, TD - Passing Touchdowns, Int - Passes Intercepted,
20+T - Completions of 20 or More Yards, 300+ - 300-yard Games,
Rate - Quarterback Rating.



Is this the end?
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[Abe Sargent]

I toss Arledge on IR. We will be having QB Malcolm McIntyre lead the 12-0 team to see we ca can finish strong.

Week 14 - We win 27-24, Cortez with another pick, 17 for 109 on eh ground for Lorey, McIntyre is 25 for 36, and 289 3:1. He hits Wright for 82 yards and 2 scores and Riley for 51 yards and the other


Well he started well!

Week 15 – We lose 16-20. McIntyre is 23 of 3, 323 and 1:2 and hit Lorey for the score, he was stopped, 24 of 30 yards. They shut him down hard.

CB Canada is doubtful for a week.

Week 16 – We win 34-7 ove the 4 win Cards. This was more a defensive win. Rincon is 2.5 sacks, and MOM. Cortez has a pick returned for as core. Lorey 30 for 111 and 1 score, and RB Snyder the other, McIntyre is 25 of 32, 91 and 1:1. Yes, 25 completions, 91 yards. Picks by Tatum and CB Dalton as well. 5 KRb by Coleman.

Week 17 – Our defense is not letting us lose. We just shut out the Bengals 37-0. Lorey is MOM with 23 for 148 and 1 score, McIntrye 21 of 33, 272 and 3:1 and Riley, Wright Ans Schuster with TD catchs. Cortex has 2 more picks, Nelson one, FF by Schmidtke that Shaw recovers, 4 KRb by Coleman.

We are the #1 seed heading into the playoffs. But we finished with wins over the 3-13 Seahawks, 5-11 Cards, 6-10 Bengals and a loss to the 9-77 Ravens.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2027 NFL Playoffs!


Wild Card Weekend –

Denver loses at Indi 20-27
Pittsburgh heads to Oakland and drops them 22-10

Green Bay smashes LA and heads home 27-24 winners while the Vikings can’t get things down in New York as the Giants beat them 27-20.


Week 2, Division Champ –

We hose the Steelers
New England hosts the Colts


The Lions hits the Packer and The Panthers host the G_men – we are favored by 8.

We lose 24-31. Lorey is held to 41 yards on 17 carries 25 of 30, 217 2:3, TDs to Wrigth and Lorye, picks by Rincon and Shaw, Rincon returned for a score, 2 FF, 2.5 sacks by Parmely – not enough.


New England 17-13 over Colts
Detroit 48-22 over Green Bay
New York 34 vs Carolina 37


Week 3 –

Carolina at Detroit – Detroit. wins 18-15

Pittsburgh gets crushed by New England 3-43


Super – Bowl

New England 30. Detoit 6

[Abe Sargent]

Season Awards:

Defensive Player of the Year – LB Karl Rincon

All Pro 1st Team – OT Shon Coleman, LB Karl Rincon, CB Dana Cortez,
All Pro 2nd Team – RB Diego Lorey, DE Everett Parmely, DT Damien Alcott

Cortez was absolutely robbed of Defensive Rookie of the Year. The guy who got it was a DE with 11 sacks. He didn’t even get all pro. Cortez had 9 picks, and led all players by FOUR PICKs!

[Abe Sargent]

Stats -




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Passing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Cmp Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/A Lg
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 12 12 386 272 70.5 3387 12.45 8.77 66
McIntyre, Malcolm QB CLE 6 4 136 94 69.1 975 10.37 7.17 66

Player Pos Team TD Int 20+T 300+ Rating
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 17 7 54 4 104.5
McIntyre, Malcolm QB CLE 8 5 13 1 93.8

Att - Attempts, Cmp - Completions, Pct - Completion Percentage,
Yards - Passing Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Completion, Ave/A - Yards per Attempt,
Lg - Longest Completion, TD - Passing Touchdowns, Int - Passes Intercepted,
20+T - Completions of 20 or More Yards, 300+ - 300-yard Games,
Rate - Quarterback Rating.







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Rushing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Yards Avg Lg TD RZAtt Yards
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 16 16 377 1459 3.87 56 13 68 163
Snyder, Colin RB CLE 16 0 70 208 2.97 14 4 18 36
McIntyre, Malcolm QB CLE 6 4 26 140 5.38 21 0 0 0
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 12 12 20 113 5.65 20 1 4 26
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 16 16 8 32 4.00 11 0 1 0
Riley, Rodney WR CLE 16 16 6 25 4.17 16 2 2 4

Player Pos Team Avg 3DAtt 3DCnv Pct FDRu 10+R 100+
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 2.40 31 6 19.4 86 52 7
Snyder, Colin RB CLE 2.00 15 5 33.3 13 4 0
McIntyre, Malcolm QB CLE 0.00 10 3 30.0 6 3 0
Arledge, Brendan QB CLE 6.50 6 2 33.3 6 5 0
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 0.00 0 0 0.0 1 1 0
Riley, Rodney WR CLE 2.00 0 0 0.0 3 1 0

Att - Rushes, Yards - Rushing Yards, Avg - Yards per Carry, Lg - Longest
Run, TD - Rushing Touchdowns, RZAtt - Red Zone Rushing Attempts,
Yards - Rushing Yards, Avg - Yards per Carry, 3DAtt - Third Down
Rushing Attempts, 3DCnv - Third Downs Converted, Pct - Conversion
Percentage, FDRu - First Downs Rushing, 10+R - Runs of 10 Yards or
More, 100+ - 100-Yard Games.


Lorey was 3rd is rushing yards, 2nd in rushing scores; and a guy with 2000 rushing yards hit again.




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Receiving Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Targ Ctch Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/T YAC
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 16 16 82 61 74.4 1011 16.57 12.33 377
Riley, Rodney WR CLE 16 16 129 92 71.3 976 10.61 7.57 386
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 16 16 91 62 68.1 742 11.97 8.15 471
Gillespie, Grady WR CLE 16 13 66 45 68.2 561 12.47 8.50 265
Franklin, Jon TE CLE 11 11 58 44 75.9 485 11.02 8.36 166
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 3 32 20 62.5 197 9.85 6.16 78
Crews, Ezekiel TE CLE 16 5 30 19 63.3 172 9.05 5.73 52
D'Arms, Jacob TE CLE 16 0 15 11 73.3 81 7.36 5.40 48
Reid, Pat TE CLE 5 0 4 4 100.0 53 13.25 13.25 44
Hardy, Darius WR CLE 15 0 5 4 80.0 38 9.50 7.60 4
Boothroyd, Earl WR CLE 14 0 7 3 42.9 25 8.33 3.57 0
Snyder, Colin RB CLE 16 0 2 1 50.0 21 21.00 10.50 15

Player Pos Team Lg TD Drp PPly TPct 20+C 100+
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 52 5 0 465 17.6 21 2
Riley, Rodney WR CLE 44 6 3 539 23.9 13 3
Lorey, Diego RB CLE 66 3 7 523 17.4 14 1
Gillespie, Grady WR CLE 45 5 0 287 23.0 5 0
Franklin, Jon TE CLE 66 5 2 343 16.9 6 0
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 32 1 2 311 10.3 2 0
Crews, Ezekiel TE CLE 31 0 0 244 12.3 2 0
D'Arms, Jacob TE CLE 23 0 0 50 30.0 1 0
Reid, Pat TE CLE 22 0 0 19 21.1 2 0
Hardy, Darius WR CLE 18 0 0 17 29.4 0 0
Boothroyd, Earl WR CLE 15 0 1 18 38.9 0 0
Snyder, Colin RB CLE 21 0 0 19 10.5 1 0

Targ - Targeted with Pass, Ctch - Receptions, Pct - Reception Percentage,
Yards - Receiving Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Catch, Avg/T - Yards per
Target, YAC - Yards Gained After Catch, Lg - Longest Reception,
TD - Receiving Touchdowns, Drp - Passes Dropped, PPly - Passing Plays
on Field, TPct - Percentage of Passing Plays Targeted, 20+C - Catches
of 20 Yards or More, 100+ - 100-Yard Games.





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Blocking Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS KRB KRO BPct Pnck SkA PPly SPct
Coleman, Shon T CLE 16 16 45 103 43.7 2 6 561 1.1
Maurer, Norman G CLE 16 16 30 101 29.7 3 11 567 1.9
Henry, Trenton T CLE 16 16 26 66 39.4 0 14 530 2.6
Henson, Marcos C CLE 16 11 23 69 33.3 3 3 371 0.8
Croom, Wayne G CLE 16 16 18 60 30.0 0 6 567 1.1
Lucas, Lucas G CLE 7 5 8 27 29.6 0 2 163 1.2
Plotz, Bill G CLE 5 0 3 9 33.3 0 1 33 3.0
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 16 3 2 17 11.8 0 0 311 0.0
Franklin, Jon TE CLE 11 11 2 7 28.6 0 0 343 0.0
Diaz, Eduardo T CLE 7 0 2 4 50.0 0 0 43 0.0
Crews, Ezekiel TE CLE 16 5 1 5 20.0 1 0 244 0.0

Player Pos Team RPly OPct
Coleman, Shon T CLE 484 21.3
Maurer, Norman G CLE 507 19.9
Henry, Trenton T CLE 445 14.8
Henson, Marcos C CLE 314 22.0
Croom, Wayne G CLE 478 12.6
Lucas, Lucas G CLE 172 15.7
Plotz, Bill G CLE 56 16.1
Schuster, Ralph FB CLE 214 7.9
Franklin, Jon TE CLE 294 2.4
Diaz, Eduardo T CLE 79 5.1
Crews, Ezekiel TE CLE 229 2.2

KRB - Key Run Blocks, KRO - Key Run Block Opportunities, BPct - Key Run
Block Percentage, Pnck = Pancake Blocks, SkA - Sacks Allowed, PPly - Passing
Plays on Field, SPct - Sack Allowed Percentage, RPly - Rushing Plays on Field,
OPct - Block Opportunity Percentage.






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Kicking Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS FG FGA Pct Lg 40+ Att Pct
Ramsay, Stanley K CLE 16 0 34 36 94.4 44 3 5 60.0

Player Pos Team 50+ Pct PAT Att Pct
Ramsay, Stanley K CLE 0 0 0.0 48 49 98.0

FG - Field Goals Made, FGA - Field Goals Attempted, Pct - Field Goal Percentage,
Lg - Longest Field Goal, 40+ - Field Goals from 40 or More Yards,
Att - Attempted, Pct - Percentage Made, 50+ - Field Goals from 50 or More Yards,
Att - Attempted, Pct - Percentage Made, PAT - Points After Touchdown,
Att - Points After Touchdown Attempted, Pct - Percentage Made.




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Punting Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Punt Yards Avg NetY Avg Lg In20
Emerson, Rob P CLE 16 0 95 4453 46.9 3503 36.9 67 40

Punt - Punts, Yards - Punting Yards, Avg - Yards Per Punt, NetY - Net
Yardage Punting, Avg - Net Yards per Punt, Lg - Longest Punt,
In20 - Punts Landing Inside Opponents' 20-Yard Line.





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Defensive Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Tckl Asst Sack Blkd Hurr QBKd
Nelson, Sawyer ILB CLE 16 16 88 24 0.5 0 0 1
Rincon, Karl OLB CLE 16 16 87 21 9.5 2 3 4
Shaw, Larry S CLE 16 16 84 38 0.5 0 1 0
Krauchick, Dean OLB CLE 16 16 81 23 7.5 1 6 2
Cortez, Dana CB CLE 16 16 56 12 0.0 0 0 0
Tatum, Miles S CLE 16 16 50 27 0.0 0 0 0
Horton, Vince ILB CLE 16 8 45 15 1.0 1 1 0
Canada, Gregory CB CLE 15 15 43 8 0.5 1 0 0
Parmely, Everett DE CLE 16 16 43 17 12.0 6 27 25
Alcott, Damien DT CLE 16 16 40 24 9.0 2 12 15
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 16 8 39 3 0.0 0 1 0
Floyd, Grayson DE CLE 11 11 21 4 2.0 0 9 3
Newhart, Derek OLB CLE 16 0 9 4 1.0 1 6 0
Moss, Francisco CB CLE 16 0 6 1 0.0 0 0 0
Zuccato, Cedric ILB CLE 14 0 5 2 0.0 0 0 0
Dalton, Frederick CB CLE 9 1 5 3 0.0 0 0 0
Riley, Rodney WR CLE 16 16 3 0 0.0 0 0 0
Crews, Ezekiel TE CLE 16 5 3 0 0.0 0 0 0
Nixon, Clayton CB CLE 16 0 3 1 0.0 0 0 0
Blades, Graham DT CLE 16 0 2 0 0.0 0 1 0
Franklin, Jon TE CLE 11 11 2 0 0.0 0 0 0
Yaros, Shaun DE CLE 16 5 2 4 0.5 0 2 0
Wright, Dustin WR CLE 16 16 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Snyder, Colin RB CLE 16 0 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Gibson, Willie DE CLE 5 0 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Tubbs, Dexter ILB CLE 15 0 1 0 0.0 0 0 0





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Pass Coverage Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Ints IRYd TD Defn Cght PPly PDPct
Cortez, Dana CB CLE 16 16 9 101 1 11 45 598 84.4
Tatum, Miles S CLE 16 16 4 74 2 8 32 636 82.0
Nelson, Sawyer ILB CLE 16 16 2 6 0 8 40 533 78.0
Rincon, Karl OLB CLE 16 16 2 6 0 11 48 636 78.2
Horton, Vince ILB CLE 16 8 1 13 0 5 21 241 77.9
Canada, Gregory CB CLE 15 15 1 9 0 4 22 547 79.8
Shaw, Larry S CLE 16 16 1 0 0 16 43 636 80.3
Dalton, Frederick CB CLE 9 1 1 0 0 3 6 100 86.7
Schmidtke, Cooper CB CLE 16 8 0 0 0 8 31 404 77.0
Krauchick, Dean OLB CLE 16 16 0 0 0 4 26 593 78.3
Alcott, Damien DT CLE 16 16 0 0 0 0 6 602 81.2
Newhart, Derek OLB CLE 16 0 0 0 0 0 4 176 79.5
Parmely, Everett DE CLE 16 16 0 0 0 1 9 627 81.0
Moss, Francisco CB CLE 16 0 0 0 0 0 5 28 58.6
Nixon, Clayton CB CLE 16 0 0 0 0 0 3 58 75.7
Floyd, Grayson DE CLE 11 11 0 0 0 2 5 385 82.1
Zuccato, Cedric ILB CLE 14 0 0 0 0 0 3 35 71.1

Ints - Interceptions, IRYd - Interception Return Yardage, TD - Interception
Return Touchdowns, Cght - Passes Caught by Covered Receiver, Defn - Passes
Defensed, PPly - Passing Plays on Field, PDPct - Pass Defense Percentage.








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Return Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS PR Yards Avg TD KR Yards Avg TD
Shaw, Larry S CLE 16 16 51 602 11.8 0 0 0 0.0 0
Riley, Rodney WR CLE 16 16 0 0 0.0 0 17 560 32.9 0
Snyder, Colin RB CLE 16 0 0 0 0.0 0 6 150 25.0 0

PR - Punts Returned, Yards - Punt Return Yards, Avg - Yards per Punt
Return, TD - Punt Return Touchdowns, KR - Kickoffs Returned, Yards - Kick
Return Yards, Avg - Yards per Kick Return, TD - Kick Return Touchdowns.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:

Offensive MVP – OT Shon Coleman – 2 pancakces, 45 KRB and 6 sacks allowed. He was 5th in the league and 2nd among OTs for KRB, and this was his best season for KRB ever, and his fourth All Pro. Dude is good.

Defensive MVp – LB Karl Rincon. Dude gets Defensive PotY, dude gets my team MVP award too!


Special teams MVP – K Stanley Ramsay – I am not a fan of giving a rookie a non-rookie award. But dude deserves it. 2 missed kicks? 1 missed PAT? Dude can kick the ball


Rookie of the Year – CB Dana Cortez – NINE picks? That’s the best INT total in a single year y any of my players during my Brown Out era. Dude can pick off the ball. Oh, an Shaw led the league in pasdef, we led in picks and pasdef with different players.


Heart Award – QB McIntyre – 3-1. ‘Nuff said

[Abe Sargent]

If he retires, here are Arledge’s career:


Year 1 , 10-6, Playoffs as wild card, lost in round 2 playoffs, 11-7
Year 2 – 12-4, Won Division, lost in AFC Champ
Year 3 – 13-3-1, #1 seed, won Super Bowl
Year 4 – 13-3, #1 seed, lost in AFC Champ
Year 5 – 16-0, #1 seed, won Super Bowl, undefeated
Year 6 – 12-4, #1 seed, lose in AFC Champ
Year 7 – 12-4, #2 seed, won Super Bowl
Year 8 – 10-6, wild card, lost in first round
Year 9 – 12-4, #1 seed, won Super Bowl
Year 10 – 15-1, #1 seed, won Super Bowl
Year 11 – 12-4, #2 seed, lost in round 2
Year 12 – 12-0 before getting injured. Team finished 15-1, lost in Round 2

Total record for Arledge – 165-45-1

For much of that time, Arledge was with arguably the league’s top defense and the top offense. 4 DTs, 3 DE, 4 LBs, 2 CBs, 1 S with All Pro, 4 years with Defensive Player of the year and 3 different players with it. He has two OT, including HOF Joe Thomas, C, and multiple OGs with All Pro seasons, the best FB in football, an All Pro RB, and multiple players getting WR All Pro nods, lie Riley, Wright and Hawkins. All Pro P and Ks.



So he had a lot of talent around him.

Now, here are his proper career stats:

4260 completions of 6273 attempts – a 67.9 %
47735 passing yards
Average/catch of 11.21 and /attempt of 7.61
310 TDs vs 128 picks
98.3 QB Rating
448 sacks, 70 fumbles 58 he didn’t recover

439 carries, 1878 yards, 21 rush scores

This places him, should he retire:

Tarkenton – 47004, and Warren Moon – 49, 325.

Current player, Eli Manning is 47284

TDs?

310 is between active players Rivers – 306, and Eli, 316. Elway was 300 and Tarkenton 342.

Completions?

4260 clocks between Elway at 6 – 4123 and Marino at 5 – 4967

Career passing rating?

98.3 is better than Brady and Romo, and places him 3rd all time behind Wilson and Rodgers. Among retirees, he betters the best of all time, Steve Young at 96.8


128 picks? He is tied at 80s with Kurt Water and BoB Waterfield for the most picks

Now, time for comparison to Otto Graham –

Graham led the league, and still does, for most yards per pass attempt at 9.0. No one can touch him. 7.61 puts him at the level of Matt Shaub, Trent Green, Sonny Jurgensen and Daunte Culpepper at 19th best.


His yards per pass completion of 11.21 aren’t anywhere high. The best is Ed Brown at 16.4, he clocks in at 164 with players like Kordell Stewart and Kyle Orton.

67.9% pass completion would lead the league and be the best of all time! The current best is Breez at 66.7 and of retired players, Kurt Warner at 65.5, Chad Pennington at 66.0.

Awards:

3 time Super Bowl MVP
2x League MVP
1 Offensive Player of the Year
2 All Pro 1st Team
1 All Pro 2nd Team

With 5 Super Bowls in 12 seasons, a 165-45 record, an undefeated season, playoffs is every season, and wth the actual proper passing record in one career sta (pass completion %) as well as multiple top tens….


I am declaring Brendan Arledge the next Otto Graham of the Cleveland Browns!!!

[Abe Sargent]

Now it's time to hit that "End Season" button...

[Abe Sargent]

Eval:

Performance – 90
Value 84
Profit 77
Strength 29
Score - 78


We have three retirees –

LS Newsome
CB Schmidtke
QB Arledge


He retires and is the Legend of the Game

Other retirees of note:


QB Kessler
TE Hardy Downs, one of my former players
WR Mike Evans,
O Line – Brandon Linder, Humphries, Tunsil, and many more
DE DeBuckner,
LB – Leo Floyd,;
CB Vernon Hargreaves, Jalen Ramsey, etc

Hall of Fame – JJ Watt, Chris Harris, Zeke

We made 112 mill

100% attendance

[Brian Swartz]

While we are on "pause" for a moment, this is a good time to talk about my approach to FOF in general

Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing. On the bars/combines thing, I find it useful to use a combination of the two(admittedly still being a newbie). Drafted a guy in the one I recently finished who was projected by 'adjusted grade' to be middle of the first round, but still available in the middle of the third. His bars sucked. Badly. But I'd interviewed him, and he had good combine results and my evaluation said 'Very underrated'. Looked decent at first, then boomed to 50/71 after training camp. Not throwing him back, but certainly I could have gotten bitten if things didn't turn out that way.

[Abe Sargent]

Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing. On the bars/combines thing, I find it useful to use a combination of the two(admittedly still being a newbie). Drafted a guy in the one I recently finished who was projected by 'adjusted grade' to be middle of the first round, but still available in the middle of the third. His bars sucked. Badly. But I'd interviewed him, and he had good combine results and my evaluation said 'Very underrated'. Looked decent at first, then boomed to 50/71 after training camp. Not throwing him back, but certainly I could have gotten bitten if things didn't turn out that way.

Yeah, I hear ya. And we each have our own stories. Take CB Cortez here. If I hadn;t interviewed him and gotten teh very underrated place, and gave you that for the evaluation, would many people have considered him at all? He had two blues, no reds. Very little to sell him, but bars, affinity, and a good interview. Now that Schmidtke has left, that affinity is gone, so who knows what would happen next, but I get it. Bars bust. Combines bust. But you are much more likely to unearth a player that grows over time with combines. And I'll do it where there aren't a lot of other options and I have the spot and time

[Abe Sargent]

So.....


what now?

1). I have built a juggeranut. I could go out and grab a undrafted QB this offseason, toss him into the system, and see fi I can get a third Otto Graham!

2). I have built a juggernaut. I have earned the right to break the NFL Go out, and grab a real, proper, QB and just break things. My O line and receivers deserve a proper Qb that just explodes. How often have you seen one of my O Line deserve an All Pro nod but too many sacks spoiled the roast. I can spice that roast into next October with a quality thrower of balls.

3). I have a juggernaut. Switch to another team in the league, and try to build another.

4). Call it. Good job Browns!


So I'm sort of in all 4 spaces right now....

[GoSeahawks]

I am voting for option #2 since I already know all the players you've brought in. I want to see what a roster like this is capable of with an actual star QB.

[Abe Sargent]

Thanks thanks! Other thoughts!

[Brian Swartz]

I would say #3 ... but why not do #2 first anyway? See how long at #3 it would take you to beat the monster you've created -- for bonus points pick another team in the same division, or at the very least the same conference. Add a house rule tweak or two at that point, perhaps involving trades to make it harder to stockpile draft picks?

But yeah, #2 then #3 is my vote.

[BYU 14]

2 for a season to dominate, then go to 3 to rebuild another team

[Abe Sargent]

Coach draft und Stuff:

I give raises to my HC and OC to retain them. I select a new, young sudsy Strength Coordinator, and that’s it.


I only have three players on my team that are unrestricted FAs. LB Dexter Tubbs, DE Willie Gibson, and OT Trenton Henry. I have 34 mill under the cap, and 20 for new players available. I elect to not franchise any of these dopes.

FA BABy!

[britrock88]

I would say option 1 or 4. :)

[Abe Sargent]

There are three very strong QBs in this year's draft...


https://s30.postimg.org/wtmvne4f5/QB_Trio.png

[Abe Sargent]

Let's commit to #3.

Since i joined the Browns and turned them into a powerful force of nature, the worst teams in the NFL have been:


San Diego – 72-120

Washington – 69-120-3

Jacksonville – 65-126-1


According to the NFL analysts, who has the worst, weakest roster?

San Francisco – 13

Tampa Bay – 13

Minnesota 3


San Diego is 50, Washington 94, and Jacksonville 83

I take a look. Jags have some great O Line talent, and a good strong WR, with a need for QB, another WR and a TE or RB to put their offense out there. On D they have a strong LB corps, and a few other adequate players here and there. Not too bad. Washington? They have tons of talent and have just underplayed. 74/74 QB, 72/72 RB, 68 and 61 WRs, 79/84 LT, 69 RT, 67 C, etc. San Diego has some great offensive talent, just needs a QB to make that work, and then a pretty woeful Defense.

Minnesota? Weak, but the Vikings are the best team after us with a lot of wins.

The Bucs had the worst record in football two years ago, and used it to draft theta QB in the draft at the 1/1 spot. But they haven’t started him, they have been using Winston instead as a 50/50 guy and a higher rating than the rookie with 43/67 stats. So I could build around this guy.

But I don’t want to necessarily. Sure, they have a weak roster, but to I want to try another Otto Graham challenge? Try with another team to replicate Arledge’s success? They already have someone, right?

Just two teams meet my qualifications. After looking at San Diego more, they have a 50 score for roster, but that still is 6th worst in the league. The other is the Rams, with a 53 score, and their talent is aging and spotty. But historically they were 106-86 with 7 playoff appearances in the last 12 years.

But not San Diego.

Now how were the competitors for my Browns doing? The Ravens have a 100 roster score, and one of the best rosters in the NFL. No Ravens. Steelers are 73 and 12th best as the list heads down. No Steel Town.

But what about Cincinnati? 90-102 record, but 5 playoffs and they had that Super Bowl run as a Wild Card, and lost. But they also had the 60 ranked and 18th best roster. Now when I pull them up, they have a solid 54 QB, with just two 70+ players, but a good number of 6 in 60+ as well as one with 60+ potential. That’s not bad. The Chargers are 5 70s, but just 3 60s. So the Bengals are higher at the top, but they lack depth. Just 8 in the 50s with actual or potential vs the Chargers’s 14.

The Bengals were more successful recently, the Chargers weren’t. Both franchises have had very little Super Bowl action historically, but both had some good regular season numbers for a while, and just couldn’t convert, and those eras are long over. The Bengals have the disadvantage of going up against my own Browns, and the Chargers don’t. The Chiefs are very weak, and the Raiders and Broncos are nothing great. Or I could do the Chiefs for that matter. 50 roster rating, 4th losingest franchise of this era.

Chiefs have 1 80, 1 70, 5 60s, 11 50s.

What’s more important? The better roster and history the Bengals recently had? Or the worse Chargers or Chiefs situation?


Let’s do the Kansas City Chiefs

[Abe Sargent]

Here's our current roster:




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Kansas City Chiefs Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Guymon, Steven 109 QB 9 52 52 2 yrs.
Swift, Ben 102 QB 2 15 49 3 yrs.
Graham, Ramon 101 QB 6 34 38 1 yr.
Watson, Lenny 246 RB 6 52 52 3 yrs.
Johnstone, Johnnie 248 RB 2 45 51 3 yrs.
Farley, Kendrick 227 RB 4 45 45 1 yr.
Buckner, Jon 325 FB 7 42 42 3 yrs.
Perrone, Walter 440 TE 3 45 54 2 yrs.
Gretzky, A.J. 443 TE 5 53 53 3 yrs.
Waite, Abel 488 TE 11 33 33 1 yr.
Frederick, Erik 510 FL 5 56 56 3 yrs.
Hatcher, Thomas 514 FL 4 51 52 1 yr.
Moss, Giovanni 583 FL 7 47 47 1 yr.
Woodson, A.J. 516 FL 2 26 38 3 yrs.
King, Blake 512 SE 10 71 71 1 yr.
Dar Dar, Dwight 654 C 6 52 52 1 yr.
Manning, Dennis 659 C 5 47 47 3 yrs.
Laird, Daryl 775 LG 6 56 56 3 yrs.
Hookfin, Stanley 768 LG 11 44 44 1 yr.
Wallace, William 767 LG 8 39 39 1 yr.
Bodell, Philip 772 RG 6 62 62 1 yr.
Torres, Francisco 874 LT 11 61 61 1 yr.
Ford, Adam 861 LT 5 36 44 ---
Foley, Theodore 863 RT 7 47 47 ---
Upshaw, Steve 866 RT 6 37 37 2 yrs.
Matlock, Keith 905 P 6 56 56 1 yr.
Lofton, Riley 1013K 5 53 53 2 yrs.
Cobb, Nicky 1197LDE 3 80 80 2 yrs.
Benton, Amos 1198RDE 3 59 59 3 yrs.
Browning, O.J. 1179RDE 4 42 42 1 yr.
McCargo, Weston 1271LDT 10 45 45 1 yr.
Nelson, Tito 1278RDT 5 52 60 ---
Sterne, Lenny 1276NT 3 68 68 2 yrs.
Perryman, Denzel 1352SILB 14 38 38 ---
Rivera, Ken 1392WILB 5 47 47 2 yrs.
Beethoven, Dwight 1395MLB 4 37 37 ---
Hauck, Meat Loaf 1499SLB 6 49 49 1 yr.
Lyons, Andy 1496SLB 2 29 40 ---
Coles, Levon 1453WLB 4 41 41 1 yr.
Mathews, Collin 1451WLB 2 22 33 3 yrs.
Browning, Miguel 1524LCB 11 45 45 2 yrs.
Lynn, Brendan 1547LCB 8 35 35 ---
Felker, Derek 1549RCB 3 60 60 2 yrs.
Willing, Paul 1520RCB 2 33 45 3 yrs.
Gresham, Grayson 1544RCB 6 41 41 1 yr.
Barker, Keegan 1636SS 8 48 48 2 yrs.
Tatum, Allen 1622SS 3 29 40 2 yrs.
Davis, Sean 1628SS 13 30 30 ---
Brinkley, Malachi 1639FS 7 37 37 ---
Taylor, Horace 445 LS 3 16 16 ---

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 40
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 40

Salary Cap: $234,100,000
Cap Room: $49,070,000
Maximum for New Player: $40,730,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $10,590,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $00

[Abe Sargent]

Who are the hits on this roster:

We currently run a true 3-4 defense

DE Nicky Cobb, 80/80, just 3rd year,

NT Lenny Stern, 3rd s, 68/68 guy, had 9 sacks last year, was an All Pro 2nd team.

Ten year vet SE Blake King, 70/70, was drafted by us and spent his whole career with the Chiefs, All Pro 3 times, has 8235 yards and 50 scores

62 OG Philip Bodell, been with us whole career, 27 years old

61 LT Francisco Torres, from WVU, been with us whole 11 year career,

You can see the other players in the roster above.

Position assessment by me:

D Backs? 1 solid young corner with Derek Felker, No one else is good anywhere at any position

LB? We don’t have a single LB with a potential or current of even 50 for a 3-4 defense...

D Line? Our clear and away strength. In fact, if I pushed to re-sgn DT Tito Nelson, a former Brown 6th round pick, we could slide to 4-3 easily enough.

O Line? A bit hit and miss for me, all things considered. My better players are old and good, like LT Torres, or young and weak. If we started today, I’d have currents of 52, 56, 62, 61, and 47 starting for me. That’s not where we need to be.

Second? TE Gretsky is fine, we jabe the older Blake King, and a 56 FL in Erik Fererdick who’s not bad, but again, I’d like better.

RB and FB? Nah

QB? 9th year man 52 Steven Guymon is okay. Luckily he’s good enough to be my starter for now while I build up my franchise, and then in two years maybe we’ll be ready for the next Otto Graham

K/P – Nope.

[Abe Sargent]

So we have 4 UFAs here. Only Tito Graham would make sense for us to bring back. I have no desire to chase any of the others.

Our stadium was recently renovated and opened in 3023, with a 55,900 capacity, and had 48k attendance last year, with outdoor, artificial turf, and good and very good stuff all over.



Staff Draft:

We pick 24th. I retain our HC Alejandro Humphries. He’s much better than any other options out there.

Our OC got grabbed for an HC role. So... I take... OC Steve Smith, former WR, as our guy. Likes West Coast, WR Focus, and such. His strongest stat is play calling.

DC? Not only is our 3-4 guy the best DC Out there, but the next seven are all 3-4s too. Crazy. The difference is suitability from the top 3-4 guy ours, and the best 4-3 is from 68 to 49. So we are staying with it for a year.

AC? I hire Brayden Warfield, a 59 suit gentleman.

SC? I hire Benjamin Humphries, the best of the options up there. Split about 50 in each of conditioning and strength.

I massage my ticket prices a tad and we are ready for FA!!!

[Abe Sargent]

The 2028 Free Agency Period

We have the 14th pick in the draft, but are missing our 2nd rounder.

We have 40 players under contract, just 50 million under the cap despite a poor roster. Who are we overpaying?

TE Gretsky is 9 mill, SLB Meat Loaf Hauck, 8 mill, SS Keegan Barger 8 mill, WR Giovanni Moss, 7.3 mill, QB Swift 9 mill, QB Guymon, 7.15 mill, etc.

Some of those players make no sense. And there’s no reason to be paying two QBs starting level cash. QB Swift was the 1.2 pick last year, and busted to 15/49. Yuck.

Another recent bust is RB Kendrick Farley, early 1st rounder, now 45/45 heading into year 4.

Alright, anyone I want to retain?

First let’s review FA. Players who attract me?

Looks like I won’t be moving my P, but I may find an adequate k out there, Best is 63, vs my own expensive 52.

There are no franchise changing players out there. They best are a few 60s TEs, RBs, and a couple of LBs. Unfortunately, the Lbs are not great for 3-4, but 4-3.

I extend OG Bodell by 2 years. I hold off on King and Torres for now. Well, nah. There’s no help on the way. Let’s lock them in. I extend each by 2 years and drop their cap hits this year.

Alright let’s head to week 2

[Abe Sargent]

Targets in FA I like:

K Edwin Carroll, 63/63 – 3 years, 12 mill

LS Frankie Zirn, with a 96 long snapping, 2 years, 2.9 mill

RB Cornelius Branch, 3 years, 11.25 mill

CB Damon Henderson, 2 years, 7.75 mill

MLB Dexter Tubbs, from Cleveland, 4 years and 15.4 mill. I also liked WLB Dean Krauchick from Cleveland, but he wants too much money. I got a lot of spots to fill.

I cut a random backup OG Leader with no affinities, so I can make an offer to RT Bubba Keith, 10th year veteran, 2 years and 7 mill.

Alright...

Week 3 – Dean Krauchick signed with Carolina

Week 4 – LB Dexter Tubbs signs with us, 66/66 guy. RB Branch signs with us, 60/60. I cut RB Kendrick Farley. DT Tito Nelson signs with Carolina.

I look at the FAs and consider a few more offers.


I offer youther RG David Drake 2 years, 1.8 mill on hope

I resign LB Dwight Beethoven, a RFA from us.

So far we have signed the best RB, and LB in FA. We have offers to the best CB, K, LS and OT as well.

Week 5 – We bring in CB Damon Henderson and OT Bubba Keith

Week 6 – Quiet

Week 7 – We sign K Carroll and OG Drake

I cut my K

I sign a couple of RFAs

I check out the draft. Anyone I love at our spot? At this point I’ll BAP virtually any position. I just need talent. We have studs all over at spots of interest, that won’t be there, like QB Ralph Gomez and OT Sebastian Will. I interview stud TEs, a strong CB, RBs, the 3rd rated QB, and more in order to hopefully prep for the draft.

Week 9 Zirn signs.

Here’s my first FA Class for the Chiefs:

RB Cornelius Brach, 3rd player on Grey Sheet, 3 years, 10 mill, 60 rated 4th year vet – best RB in FA

ILB Dexter Tubbs – 4th rated player on GS, 4 years, 15.36 mill, 66/66 rated guy, 28 years old – Best LB in FA

RT Bubba Keith – 11th on GS, 2 years, 7.16 mill, 31 years old, 55/55 rating – best OT in FA

LS Zirn – Best LS in FA, 93 long snapping, 2 years, 1.89 mill

K Carroll – Best K in FA, 3 years, 10 mill, 59 rating, 28 years old

CB Damon Henderson – 16th rated player in GS< best CB in FA, 2 years, 7.88 mill, 5th year, 53/53 rated

OG David Drake was 27/55 2nd year player. Grabbed on potential

Alright, let’s head to the draft!

[Abe Sargent]

The 2028 NFL Amateur Draft!

We pick 14th in the 1st.


We need:

RB for depth only
Maybe a WR for depth only, but not really

OT for depth or starter of studliness only – starters are 61 and 55 are 10 and 11 years in this league
Stud at C or OG would be fine, but not needed

NT for depth
DE for depth
3 starting quality LBs
2 starting quality Ss in a weak S class. Otherwise 2 subs
Maybe one sub CB
Stud P only

Here we goes!

Seattle kicks us off by grabbing RB Trenton Hastings. Then we have QB, QB, OT, and QB in the 1st five.

We finish the Top 10 with OT, S, CB, WR, and DE

This is actually a strong D Line draft, but we don’t really need that. So I may head elsewhere soon. S, RB, and S head off the board and it’s our turn to pick.

We have all of the LBs still on the board. None are outstandingly studly. But several are scouted and fine, like SILB Parker Reid, best ILB in the draft, and underrated for us, with a hole in Zone D, but good at everything else, but again some weaknesses in things like hitter in the 50s and run deff maybe just 55 or 60 or so. But his pass rush is monstrous.

OLB Jerry Sanderson is the best LB on the board, and just as scouted, with a better run d, and still hot, hot, hot pass rush.

I like Sanderson a bit more than Reid. But both make me happy.

Reid doesn’t even go in the 1st round. No ILBs were taken by anyone.

In fact, Reid is still on the board at the 2.13 spot, where we would have picked, had we not traded that draft pick. ARGH! I could have renovated our LB corps in one off season. 

He goes pick 50.

Alright, we are up at 78. Who do I like here?

ILB Jack Kaplan? CB Gavin Mellow? C Terrance Benson? OLB De Jesus? RT Craig? OG Kendrick Zorich? OG Tucker with great bars but 3rd best on the board? Hmmm... Tucker? Kaplan? I might normally take Tucker, but OG is my best starting place right now. With 61 and 56 and both not old. But I know Kaplan is likely to start. I grab Kaplan.


In the 4th, I like DE Cesar Lane here. He’s a 3-4 specialist, and looks to have great bars for us. This was a strong D Line draft, and hopefully I got a good one to drop.

5th round is here. Most good quality Cs are off the board. As are RT Craig, DE Lane, I also like SLB Crawford who’s left. Hmmm....I take Crawford and I’ll move him to the WLB.

Hello 6th round. SS Derrick Mitchell, NT Myron Becker, and then finally WHOA!

There’s this QB with great looking bars, and a 90 position spec red score here in the 7th Josh Lavorin. Should I take him and see if he’s my Otto Graham? Would you consider a 6th round draftee part of the OG Challenge? Can I afford to let him hit FA just to check that box? Given my accomplishment already, I feel like I can massage that a bit. But you know what?

Nah.

Alright, who do I like here. The top P is still there. RB Bennett Shaw?

I take C Sherman Carlisle

7th? TE Donnie Wassen




Early results?

Sanderson is 47/78 so a solid SLB. He’s on the Green Page too.

DE Lane is 31/60, ILB Kaplan is 23/59, SLB Crawford is 30/60, C Carlisle is 27/61. Good stuff.

Now time for UFA!

[Abe Sargent]

We had a C+ draft review

I make offers to:

UFAs

P Barginski
FB Alejandro Pasricha
QB DeAndre Salcedo
RT Danny Exner
RB Bennett Shaw – Is he a boom? Good combines, lowish bars
RB Camden Gerhardt
FL Deion Pasquerella – good special teams and returning
C Roosevelt Wagner
LB Demetrius Lujan
SS Roldolfo Franz
FS Parker Lanner

And these FAs:

FS Russell Sanford
CB Frederick Dalton, an RFA not retained by the Browns
SLB Leonard Floyd, 35 years old, mentor to OLBs


Week 1 – We bring in 8 targets. I increase our bid for Dalton to jump over Chicago’s bid by a few hundred thousand bonuses

Week 2 – We sign 6 more. Only Dalton is left

Week 3 – Dalton signs with us

We currently have 66 players under contract, including a whole bunch of cuts I know are about to happed post camp. Anyone else I like? We have 25 mill in cap space. Anyone that hasn’t been chased with a cheaper cap hit now or anything?

In case of bust-age, I make an offer to P Bucky Sutor and UFA OT Bush

Both sign. Who’s ready for CAMPing!

[Abe Sargent]

We sold 38500 season tix

Anybody boom in camp? Sanderson is 53/79, Crawford 35/61, and such. P Barginski comes back 43/57, and he looked so much better pre camp, total bust. Busts for a lot of UFas like normal, including QB Salcedo, and WR PAsquarella. DE lane busted to 35/55

Anyone free that I might want to chase? Nah

Time to cut the chaff:


QB Salcedo
RB Shaw
FB Pasricha
FL Pasqueralla
C Wagner
OT Bush
FS Lanner
WLB Mathews
SLB Lyons
P Barginski
P Sutor
SLB Meat Loaf Hauck
TE Wasson


I bring this solid UFA K into camp to see what we can see laters

We finish the pre-season 2-2, with a few minor injuries, C Dwight Dar Dar has a strained hammy and is questionable. A few probables here and there as well.

But here’s my major issue;

Sanderson dropped to 42/58. Yuck. 39/61 for Crawford. K Shin busted hard and I cut him. I cut OT Danny Exner. I cut MLB Dwight Beethoven.

Had I taken Parker Reid, long before I could had, or had a 2nd rounder for him, he would have finished the offseason as the best ranked LB, moved to the Green Page, and is 51/71.

Players I missed this draft include late 4th rounder C KC Boyer, 31/75 I missed and could have taken, LG Thurmon Norris, remember when I was strongly considering him in the 3rd? He went a few picks later and is 46/76. You know how badly I needed a S? I could have gotten this 29/65 guy in the 4th. A lot fo D Line busted, so I can’t be too upset at the Lane bust. The best DE in the draft was on the board when we drafted, and was taken 1.16 – 59/72.

This was a weak draft and UFA class by me. I missed on two UFA Ps and a K. I missed on every other major UFA. Most of my draftees busted, not a few points here and there, but a lot more. Weak. Only Crawford and Carlisle held serve. So weak