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Peaking at the draft, an astounding 5 guys didn't sign last year and reentered the draft. I've never seen more than 3 in all my seasons of FOF.
I've decided to drop all my draft picks on the worst NFC team last season. That honor goes to division rival 2-14 New York Giants. I hope busts on all of them. The Giants had to surrender a 7th next year and a 7th two years from now for all the picks.
Odd thing from the draft: We get a B for drafting nobody.
The Giants get an A+, and they completely rebuilt their offense with our picks. Parts of their draft: a 25/69 QB, a 60/65 RB, and a 23/61 WR. They are going to be good soon.
We get a trade offer for our C. So far, we've gotten offers for just about every one of our guys still over 55 or so.
Reeves looks to have topped out at 62/62, and McG is now 41/41, and learned 2 new formations finally. I did bump up the film room time during TC, so maybe that was the key.
Preseason is fairly uneventful, except that we lose TE Matos for the season. I think his ratings took a big hit as well, but I'll have to go back and double check.
We stick with the Smash Mouth offense again this year.
We get our first week 1 win this season, our 12th overall, 17-14 over Philly. McM runs wild, and McG unleashes some bombs, and the D holds on to save the win.
Week 2 has an important injury, TE Kop goes out. Combined with TE Matos's injury, we have to convert someone. The main problem is that the primary guy to do this with, our backup FB, is also our backfield leader, and possibly would become the receivers leader. This could throw us into craziness...As it turns out, the FB is our new receivers leader and has an afinity with the old leader. Our new backfield leader is Bucky, our backup RB, and creates no conflicts. Whew.
Week 5 sees us as 4 point favorites over Arizona, and we escape with a win, 17-16, for #13 overall. McG tosses a TD with 2 minutes to go. Its the only thing he does well as our RBs carry us.
8 games in, we've lost several by just a few, and a couple that we probably should have won. We stand at 2-6.
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