[Ben E Lou]

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.