[MIJB#19]

General Manager Notes: Fun while it lasted
We're back to the land of the mortals.

Starting the season 2-0 was a welcome surprise, but today the Houston Mustangs put us in our place, probably. After a 30-9 drubbing, we know one thing for sure: we can't think we're already back in the land of the playoff caliber teams. Brandon Bell completed 15 of 37 passes for 106 yards, Theo Bondy had 2 catches for 14 yards.

What has me worried is that the staff keeps thinking it's a great idea to not use our best player on offense. Have they forgotten or never noticed we have Theo Bondy on our team? So far he's been targeted 22 times, cumulative over 3 games. Problem remains to be that opposing defenses will try to double cover our man. Hence the reason to sign a guy like Ronnie Hammond to have a legitimate WR2 and put Branden Sandlin in the WR3 spot that suits him.

And Francisco Patter continues to be angry, just because he isn't in our 113 formation. Get real, kid, you're getting 75% of the carries now, stop complaining!

At least we can put everything negative aside next week. Oh wait, it's once again our bye week already, in week 4 of the regular season. That never gets old, I guess.

Enough complaining, we're 2-1 and despite that the rest of the division is as well, we're still in the lead. Yay!

European Division:
1. Maassluis 2-1
2. Paris 2-1
3. Bordeaux 1-2
4. Gothenburg 1-2

So, next up a bye week. And then, in week 5, the Tucker Tigers. Yummy! We'll get them in Oranje Haven, but still, they're one of two undefeated teams in the AOC. They other team was our opponent from Houston earlier today.

The good news? It actually felt bad losing today, which is a signal I have by no means gotten accustomed to it. Let's keep that up. We've got our fair share of losses against them, but notching win #19 would put is one more away from batting .333 against them. Which is actually kind of decent in the grand scheme of things. The little wins count too. We can do this.

Back to the drawing board and see where it well gut us. Go Merchantmen!