[MIJB#19]

General Manager Notes: Camping in .500 land
A crucial victory over the Gothenburg Giants brought us back to .500 land. With 5 victories in 10 games, we're still one of the disappointments of the season. I hope it's a short stay here, seeing us go North from here on and hopefully make the playoffs with double digits wins after all.

European Division
1. Gothenburg 6-4
2. Paris 5-5
3. Maassluis 5-5
4. Bordeaux 1-9

It's been a disappointing season for the most part. The start was nice (beating Gothenburg and Kansas), followed by a mixed bag (bad showing in Houston, then us shocking Tucker), then followed by a threesome of games that are up there in being one of our worst sets ever. Although, the last time we lost three straight by 11 or more points was only 2 seasons ago, when we pulled one of the biggest choke jobs in league history by going from division leaders with no losses by less than a score to losing the last three by 13 or more each and completely missing the playoffs.

The latest three games saw us trounce the Bordeaux Vineyards, blundering to not kick a game tying field goal in Orlando and today beating Gothenburg fair and square.

Our running game is doing pretty well, Leonard Belin is averaging 5.2 yards per carry. We need it to play our balanced game plan. Our receivers are, well, Theodore Bondy and a bunch of guys that barely get any looks. Bondy is elite and delivers. Ellis McAlister is going with the flow of our games, either because we used horrible game plans, or because McAlister himself is so erratic. I hope it's all on the game planning inability from my staff and not on our ball thrower.

The defense was doing well in recent games, but over the course of the season (10 games so far), it's still the unit that's failing us. 5th most rushing yards allowed, 3rd worst yards per carry figure, 8th worst yards per pass attempt, 9th worst pass defense rating... Only the pass rush percentage is slowly recovering and ranking 5th best at the moment.

Heath Oliver and Bart Guthrie are making good progress though. Let's hope their progress will go hand in hand with the entire defense's improvement...