[MIJB#19]

General Manager Notes: So far so good?

The 2105 regular season continues to be an up and down ride. We lost the division lead after losing 27-20 at North Plainfield, but took it back after beating Rochester 26-23 and Toronto 33-21.

European Division:
1. Maassluis 3-3
2. Gothenburg 3-4
3. Bordeaux 2-4
4. Paris 0-5-1

On to the next games!

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Wait, hold on, that's way too easy going just by the scoreboard. Isn't there anything interesting to report about these three games?

There is, actually. The road game at the North Plainfield Plague felt uncharacteristic compared to previous clashes in this matchups. Remember how we lost at their place last season. This time around, we actually didn't play all that bad, except that our defense wasn't quite playing up to its potential. In return, our offense had the usual troubles against neon-green, but a couple of lost fumbles by veteran WR Ed Schulz hurt our chances to take a big enough lead to actually to not let the Plague come back from behind to beat us, wasting a 3-pick performance by our defense.

The home game against the Rochester Razorbacks saw us play dreadful on defense throughout the first half, yet in our own red zone, we did just enough to actually lead 14-13 at half time. In the second half our team woke up and overcame all 3 turnover we committed, albeit it took us a last minute touchdown to come back from behind to win it. TE Garrett Alcala had his first 100-yard game.

Today we continued with a big test against the Toronto Lake Monsters. Once again, we had our struggles and despite some game plan changes, we still haven't figured out why we're not living up to our potential on defense. LB Gus Coleman did however, having a couple of late game interceptions, the second one a fantastic 61-yard pick six. On the other side of the ball, Evan Drake continues to find WR Calvin Maxwell (79-yard touchdown today), WR Vinny Buysse and TE Garrett Alcala (made his 8th touchdown of the season already). RB Bennett Holmes struggled again, continuing to be very hot or miss as our RB2 (so fare he ran for 106, 67, 27, 12, 91 and 22 yards).

So, 6 games in, we've won all our home games and lost all our road games. Now is the moment to stop that trend as we'll continue with a road trip, visiting Paris and Harlem (on the other side of the pond, not Haarlem on the northern side of Holland) in weeks 8 and 9.