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Good Will Not Be The Enemy Of Great!

I've been doing ok in my career, but not close to a title. After starting the career with a stud QB, I was forced to go with a 43/43 former 6th-round pick as the starter for the last 2 1/2 years. He has done pretty well, actually, putting up a career 92.1 QB rating, but only 74.5 in the playoffs. He's done well enough to keep us from getting a high pick, but not well enough to make me feel like we can win it all. Here's my career so far:

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Front Office Football 2007

GM Performance for Ben Lewis of the Tucker Tigers

   

Year  Team  Eval  Perf  Diff  Proft FrVal Record    Playoffs  

2015  TUC   60    60    67    60    61    11-6-0    Wild Card Round        

2014  TUC   62    81    69    52    59    12-5-0    Wild Card Round        

2013  TUC   51    57    67    42    63    9-7-0     None                   

2012  TUC   55    63    64    46    71    12-7-0    Conference Final       

2011  TUC   62    66    65    53    86    13-4-0    Wild Card Round        

2010  TUC   67    86    64    53    83    14-4-0    Conference Final       

2009  TUC   75    90    64    63    98    13-4-0    Division Final         

2008  TUC   66    69    64    59    89    11-7-0    Division Final         

2007  TUC   88    90    68    88    100   18-1-0    Bowl Winner            

2006  TUC   48    48    74    35    84    8-8-0     None

My 43/43 guy became a mentor this year, and a stud QB showed up in the draft class:

I had the #24 pick, so I decided to do what I had to do to get him. I couldn't get the 1(1) directly with nothing better than the 1(24) and future firsts to offer, so first, I dealt up to 1(10), giving up the 1(24), 2(25), and next year's 2nd rounder. Then, with the 1(10) in hand, it took that pick, two future firsts, a future 2nd, and the 3(24) to get the pick. So, in short, I gave up:

2016: 1(24), 2(25), 3(24)
2017: 1st, 2nd
2018: 1st, 2nd

to get

1(1)

Floyd Francis, you better pan out.

He'd better at that cost. WOW.

Weren't you the guy who thought a ball-control offense was the best way to go... :D

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Originally Posted by DolphinFan1 (Post 1315830)

He'd better at that cost. WOW.

I know, but I'm sick of fighting for the Wild Card, which is what I was going to be doing for years with the QB I had.

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Originally Posted by wbatl1 (Post 1315831)

Weren't you the guy who thought a ball-control offense was the best way to go... :D

Well, I'm letting the AI run all my gameplanning in this career.

I guess he will be fine but the “No workout” must have you a little worried.

Well, after taking over my Scranton Coal Miners after a 20-year fast sim, this guy was available at the top of the draft pool in my first draft:

I had the 22nd overall pick, and it cost me three straight first round picks and a starter to trade up to first overall. Of course five games into the season, he needs ankle surgery requiring him to miss the season. So, I have to replace him with this:

All he proceeded to do was have a monster year and almost carry this "rebuilding" team into the playoffs:

I guess it should not be too surprising looking at his other career statistics. However, Bell was never an "air-it-out" quarterback as you could tell by his YPC and the number of 300+ passing yard games he had. He also never completed over 65% of his passes until that season.

Now I've got an interesting conundrum. Do I start the hot-shot rookie or the stable, yet undervalued 16-year vet?

SD...please stop causing problems!

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Dola, this Scranton team is actually pretty interesting.

They managed to make it to the playoffs 9 times in 20 seasons. But, they lost each and every single playoff game, never making it out of the wildcard round.

The CPU drafting is SOOOO much better in this version.

I had my eyes on a future Buffalo Bills QB, picking #5 in 2007 - Detroit is right before me and although they could use a better QB, they had other needs.

I stand fast and wouldn't you know those bastards picked my QB! Grrrrr!!!

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Originally Posted by MizzouRah (Post 1315879)

Oh yeah. It's a given in this version not to assume anyone is going to fall to you like in the last version. If I need, say, a DE, and there are three DE's who look like 1st round material, once the first two get picked, I feel the need to trade up immediately to get the last one.

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Originally Posted by SkyDog (Post 1315835)

40/76 for now.

After training camp.

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Originally Posted by SkyDog (Post 1315928)

After training camp.

impressive...but he's no terry hopper

A couple of things:

How is he a roll out QB when his scramble frequency is 3/100? Also, I like the fact that he knows 13 formations as a rookie, but I don't like the fact that his loyalty is 0. He's looking like he's in it for the dollar.

Roll-Out QB just means he knows certain formations. I'd like to see a FAQ on which exactly, but I think they're better than Short Passes QBs at any rate.

12-4 his first season, and back in the Conference Championship game, where we lost a 41-38 thriller. On the year, he threw for 3,072 yards, 23 TD's, 9 INT's, had a 95.8 QB rating, and was Offensie Rookie Of The Year. He should be taking us back to the title game soon.

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Originally Posted by SkyDog (Post 1316448)

He should be taking us back to the title game soon.

With injuries at 200? HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!