Jeremy’s Journal
November 27, 2027
This week we meet up with a team I became somewhat familiar with before the draft, the Amsterdam Illusion. Coach Kim Louis met with me and talked away about New Orleans more than he talked football. I guess the rest of the staff didn’t want to draft me because he would lose all his focus! No, honestly, he told me that they were looking harder for a MLB and had me projected as a mid-round WLB, so I was not up on their board. They drafted Terrell Turnbull, another Division B, backer, who was also a First-Team All American out of Duquesne. For Turnbull, I think he’s been banged up all year and not getting a lot of snaps, so his numbers aren’t great, but he is a hell of a ST tackler. I don’t have any ST tackles, but he has 10.
Overall, Amsterdam is struggling quite a bit at 4-7. They actually started off 3-0 on the road, but now they have lost three straight on the road, and we hope to make it 4. There’s nothing particularly outstanding about their team except for one thing, their rushing. At 131.1 ypg, they are 2
nd in the WSAFL in rushing. It helps to have a QB who can run, so we’ll be chasing him (Jerald Burnett) around the field quite a bit. We just have to make sure we contain him. He’s actually a pretty smart QB with the ball. AI is 31
st overall in passing yards, but Burnett has only thrown 2 INTs all year! I just looked at his stat chart and in four years as the starter, he has never thrown 10 or more INTs in a season. Wow!
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As expected, Shawver was put on IR and we picked up Curtis Duncan, a third year Sam out of Rice.