[MIJB#19]

General Manager notes: 2080, not quite our year just yet...
We're 7 weeks into the season, and the divisional standing are quite exceptional.

1. Gothenburg 5-2
2. Paris 4-2
3. Bordeaux 4-2
4. Maassluis 2-4

Uhm, yeah. We started with a 3-game losing streak, the first two while outgaining the opponents. We lost 23-19 at home to the Gothenburg Giants, then 16-10 at the Outer Banks Ospreys and then went into our usually way too early bye week after a 23-22 loss at the Toronto Lake Monsters. We thought we regrouped with a 16-13 overtime victory over the Tucker Tigers and a 30-20 win at the Augusta Greenjackets. But today, things went south again, we lost 26-24 at the Paris Musketeers.

QB Ellis McAlister's season started dreadful. His QB rating is a horrific 68.1 after 6 games, completing 52.6% of his passes for 270 yards per game with 5 touchdowns and 8 interceptions.

RB Walt Blair has to carry this offense at the moment. He's ran for a second most 598 yards (and a league best 100 per game). WR Dennis Nadell isn't J.R. Mills, but he's doing well in the yards per catch area (31 catches for 518 yard).

Otherwise, well, "meh". The season has been disappointing, so far. After improving to 2-3, we were actually in a win it all and be the division champion situation. At 2-4, we're far behind, with a tie-breaker situation that looks hard to fix. The wild cards are currently both in the European division, seventh best in the AOC is currently a threesome of 4-3 teams, not counting the Northeast division leaders.

Oh yeah, to rub it in, three of our cap casualties were picked up by other teams today: CB Herman Glenn joined the Moontown Darksiders, DE Todd Clinton the Rochester Razorbacks, C Steven Houshmandzadeh the Toronto Lake Monsters. These were the guys that we cut to be able to work out a new deal with Glenn Brewer. Earlier casualties DT Willie Turner and CB Ezra Slocum are still without a job in football though.