[MIJB#19]

General Manager Notes: no winning season, again...
But if we pull the upset, we can end up at 8-8. Yay?

A dreadful season has not quite come to an end yet, we added a couple of losses to the results. The Paris Musketeers didn't play all that well on their own place, but we failed to take advantage, outgaining them by 80 yards, posting 5.7 yards per play versus 3.5 yards per play, it all was not enough to avoid a 20-17 loss. And at that end our last chances for a trip to the playoffs.

You'd think we'd bounce back in a road game at a team fighting for the #1 spot in the draft. Yeah, think again, nothing in this season makes sense. The Moontown Darksiders made the best of all 4 of our giveaways (we had no takeaways) and 2 missed field goals, beating us 26-3. That's right: the fourth game in seven where we were held to 7 or less points. Wow.

At Moontown, Earnest Ashley completed 15 of 48 pass attempts, with 3 interceptions, for 192 yards. A passer rating of 18.7 was his reward. I had no idea he was capable of such a low point in his career, despite thinking he's the kind of player that deserves $40M per season. In 15 games he completed 46% of his passes for 3,609 yards, 18 touchdowns, 20 interceptions. His worst season to date, without a doubt. Even as a green rookie he played better, much better.

Division standings:
1. Paris 10-5
2. Gothenburg 10-5
3. Maassluis 7-8
4. Bordeaux 6-9

Yeah, Gothenburg has been freefalling and we're here to make it worse for them, there's no way we'll roll over for them. Last game of the season is in our house. They have their playoffs ticket booked, contrary to the division leading Musketeers, who can still miss out on tie-breakers if all the other hopefuls from Harlem, Toronto and Augusta all win their last game, as well as the Giants. Which of course is what we will try to not make happen. Our points differential is atrocious at -35. If we tie the last game, it will still go down as the 7th worst season ever. Thankfully a worst ever would require losing by 46 points, I don't see that happening tomorrow. Right? Right!? I mean, you never know with this team, not the way our offense has been playing this season. Goodness, have we completely lost the ability to play football. The offensive coordinator will no longer hear he's the worst in the league in terms of judging player talent, he's clearly unable to get results out of the players at all.