12-25-2007, 05:40 AM
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Morgado's Favorite Forum Fascist
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Greensboro, NC
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I guess overall, the prevailing strategy was to grab as many suspected creepers as I could, and give them playing time. The 1st-year starting lineups reflect that.
NAME
| POS
| Cur1
| Fut1
| Cur2
| Fut2
| CurChg
| FutChg
| Peter Briggs
| QB
| 23
| 43
| 28
| 48
| 5
| 5
| Herman Mirer
| QB
| 12
| 27
| 15
| 28
| 3
| 1
| Erik Norgard
| QB
| 15
| 33
| 17
| 33
| 2
| 0
| Tom Kearney
| QB
| 5
| 54
| 8
| 49
| 3
| -5
| Briggs looks like a star in the making. I just hope he can stay healthy. Mirer has a similar skill set and gave a mild creep, so that combination puts him in firmly as the #2.
O.J. Winters | RB | 38 | 38 | 44 | 49 | 6 | 11 | | Jose Greene | RB | 24 | 28 | 26 | 30 | 2 | 2 | | Trevor McElrath | RB | 27 | 41 | 27 | 37 | 0 | -4 | up to 15/36 as a WR. | Ken Kelly | FB | 18 | 37 | 22 | 36 | 4 | -1 | | Winters=star. He has only E positional experience, and his all-too-similar bars at three places make me wonder if he's a Dusty Ford/Swamp Thing Johnson heavy unmasker.
Wes Middleton | TE | 23 | 44 | 28 | 49 | 5 | 5 | Kendall Garvin | TE | 19 | 25 | 21 | 28 | 2 | 3 | Johnnie Worthington | TE | 24 | 44 | 27 | 41 | 3 | -3 | Sammie Newman | FL | 31 | 51 | 38 | 59 | 7 | 8 | Jerry Reeves | SE | 24 | 45 | 30 | 52 | 6 | 7 | Grant Dagostino | RB-->FL | 21 | 28 | 23 | 27 | 2 | -1 | Chad Turnbull | FL | 8 | 19 | 10 | 21 | 2 | 2 | Preston Turnbull | SE | 14 | 19 | 17 | 24 | 3 | 5 | Glenn Stevenson | SE | 15 | 29 | 18 | 30 | 3 | 1 | Our QB/receiver combo should be very, very good in a few years. I expect serious creeping from the starters at TE/WR, probably into the 60s for Middleton, and somewhere in the 70s for both starting WRs. Dagostino climbed to 15/36 as a WR in the position switch, so he could be a factor one day, too.
Harvey Halama | C | 11 | 31 | 13 | 34 | 2 | 3 | Luke Crawford | C | 21 | 35 | 22 | 36 | 1 | 1 | Spencer Finley | C | 14 | 29 | 18 | 30 | 4 | 1 | Neil Manke | LG | 16 | 29 | 19 | 33 | 3 | 4 | Jim Sheldon | RG | 17 | 40 | 20 | 41 | 3 | 1 | Bucky Crawford | RG | 22 | 37 | 21 | 33 | -1 | -4 | Clyde Powell | RT | 13 | 19 | 17 | 23 | 4 | 4 | Alex Pfaff | RT | 12 | 31 | 14 | 32 | 2 | 1 | Dusty Drayson | LT | 18 | 41 | 22 | 41 | 4 | 0 | This is where misunderstanding the rules could get me in trouble. My plan was to grab the nearest creeping rookie FAs after camp to be my fourth G and fourth T. I only carried 60 into camp, so I had plenty of room for more. I kept extra defensive linemen for switching over if necessary.
Brady Roberson | P | 41 | 51 | 42 | 49 | 1 | -2 | Joel Bass | K | 41 | 64 | 42 | 58 | 1 | -6 | Another place where I'd planned on grabbing the best postcamp creeping rookie FAs, so I didn't really pay attention to the guys I got here. Oh well.
Daniel Wilkins | LDE | 16 | 28 | 17 | 30 | 1 | 2 | Henry Turnbull | LDE | 16 | 47 | 18 | 41 | 2 | -6 | Vince Schmidgall | RDE | 27 | 44 | 33 | 49 | 6 | 5 | Willie Malcomson | RDE | 26 | 50 | 28 | 45 | 2 | -5 | Sammie Carr | LDT | 27 | 30 | 32 | 35 | 5 | 5 | Geoff Sims | LDT | 9 | 18 | 13 | 20 | 4 | 2 | Darrell Brody | LDT | 29 | 53 | 31 | 48 | 2 | -5 | Cedric Garrard | RDT | 25 | 50 | 30 | 50 | 5 | 0 | After the creeping is done, we should be pretty solid up front. Turnbull is high in PR technique, and will play LDE in nickel/dime sets for now.
J.T. Mills | MLB | 13 | 22 | 14 | 23 | 1 | 1 | Brenden Godfrey | MLB | 16 | 30 | 18 | 30 | 2 | 0 | Zack Swift | MLB | 15 | 28 | 17 | 32 | 2 | 4 | Rusty Henry | SLB | 14 | 23 | 15 | 25 | 1 | 2 | Rufus Facey | SLB | 18 | 30 | 19 | 29 | 1 | -1 | Johnnie Rayburn | SLB | 13 | 32 | 14 | 28 | 1 | -4 | Brandon Beyer | WLB | 22 | 35 | 25 | 32 | 3 | -3 | I'm most concerned about this position group, in terms of talent. I didn't draft anyone, and my FA pickups were pretty haphazard, too.
Joel Pancake | LCB | 15 | 19 | 18 | 23 | 3 | 4 | Korey Gottschalk | LCB | 16 | 22 | 19 | 25 | 3 | 3 | Bernard Delgado | LCB | 66 | 70 | 71 | 71 | 5 | 1 | Roosevelt Sherman | LCB | 23 | 35 | 25 | 36 | 2 | 1 | Lance Zitnik | LCB | 18 | 29 | 20 | 29 | 2 | 0 | Adrian Collier | RCB | 17 | 22 | 18 | 22 | 1 | 0 | Ron Moeller | FS | 10 | 24 | 13 | 28 | 3 | 4 | Mel Grier | FS | 20 | 43 | 21 | 38 | 1 | -5 | Kerry Andersen | FS | 23 | 47 | 25 | 41 | 2 | -6 | Trevor Gomez | SS | 12 | 39 | 15 | 41 | 3 | 2 | Delgado looks to be a stud in the making, and the other creeping should make this group above average fairly soon.
OVERALL: Obviously we've got a few years until we're competitive, but I like our roster, especially the offense. I'll be using an offensive philosophy that I call "The Lowcountry Shuffle." It's a mixture of the "West Coast" and "Play Action Vertical Passing" philosophies that I made public. It makes heavy use of the Adjustments screen to move between the two philosophies at various points of the game. I had a lot of fun working out the mathematics for this. Depending on how the game plays out, you could see nearly 100% usage of one philosophy or the other, or you could see the team switch philosophies multiple times during the same game.
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