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We make the playoffs. Miss out on the division. I don't think the story of this team is as easy to see in the summary screen. I think there's a definite validation of the concept that adding a third WR to this offense is a big benefit. There's definitely a lot under the hood that points to how devastating our OL flaws were too. Richey got knocked down 68 times, pretty comfortably the most in the league and more than four times where we were a couple years ago before we started losing everybody. 4th most sacks allowed in the league too. And we fell off a cliff running the ball, which I think had been a nice little efficiency benefit we had going the last number of years. We were a 30 ppg team last year. I think we got better as a WR corps. I think it's probably likely that losing our very good LT and very good C cost us like 10 ppg or something. Gonna have to dig in there and it's a tough spot to fix quickly. We still magically threw for 4600 yards again for the umpteenth time in the Richey era. I think we sneakily or not sneakily kind of stunk though, and it's just confirmation that solid to good WR/QB play is enough to be a 9-11 win team. The defense... we couldn't stop the run. We have some deceptively good numbers on some of the passing metrics. It's reasonably clear we're in that spot as a team where a good QB drops one of those 29/34 376 yards 4 TDs games on us and we hold serve statistically by beating the scrubs. We started two rookies at safety quite a bit. We've got flaws all over the place. We asked way too much of Pelletier, putting him on the DL in some key formations and then asking him to cover in others. Ended up on the field for over 1100 plays. Seth Thomas might be on fumes. Somehow we were top 4 PRPct. Ok, playoffs coming. We stink but I think we've got more parts in place and we can build on this. The studs are gone. Matthews is walking through that door. Reynolds isn't walking through that door. Seth Thomas continues to walk through that door... |
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04-20-2020, 09:21 PM
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I simmed pretty quickly. We generally flipped the script on the turnover battle. Whatever. We have a lot to improve and I'm looking forward to it. |
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04-20-2020, 10:24 PM
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WR Botta was 1st Team All Pro. WR Aguiar was 2nd Team. Richey didn't win a damn thing because we were mediocre and the losing QB was the Bowl MVP.
DT Jace Wolcott and LB Kristopher Cambini caught my eye on the retirements list. Our franchise still hasn't had a Hall of Famer, and I'm guessing Blackledge will be the first when eligible. We've had a lot of playoff success. I'll be curious how that impacts somebody like our boy Seth Thomas in the end. He's an LB who is going to end up a Top 15 or so sack total guy. He's got 7 rings. He had one standout awards season with 18.5 sacks. Maybe he sneaks in. He's back for more by the way. I also get that it's likely not amazing to follow, but we're gonna ride Richey's career out with a passing-focused attack. I rarely play a career out like this. For whatever reason, I'm enjoying it, despite the kind of randomly insane playoff success. And I want to see if we can get Richey the career passing yards record, which I think he's in good shape for provided it stays generally in the low 60k range like it is now. There's a Steam Achievement there too (what the fuck is wrong with me), and so yeah, wow, maybe I'll screengrab my laptop when that little pop up comes on. Amazing. Hoo-rah. We need to address the OL. |
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04-21-2020, 01:23 AM
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   We also really liked two players I was hoping could slide out of the draft. T Calvin Brandon and CB Curtis Stringer. They both made it through and we'll be making sure we land them in FA2. This is a good class for us. It would have been great to stumble into a 70+ LT, but these are all interesting guys and LB Grice has a chance to be a monster pass rusher for us just as we were starting to look for one. I'm also convinced that nobody with a bizarre nickname first name like "Toenails" is a complete scrub in the FOF generation algorithm. It's not necessarily an indicator a guy is a stud, but he's a 50 or something. Here in the 4th with solid bars, that counts for something. |
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04-21-2020, 11:05 AM
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We've had some good finds in FA2 where an undrafted Center or two is floating there who shows up looking really good. Our 65/65 RG Mason King is one of those guys. We've been signing these guys every year or two and trying conversions and bulk ups, etc. Our rookie LT that we played at RT last year, Harry Abrams, was probably a bridge too far. Signed him as an UDR C then tried to convert him to LT before camp while bulking him in camp. He's sitting on the roster now as a 31/50 LT in his 2nd season, with a profile that looks like he'll end up 50-50-50 in the blocking categories and 80+ in endurance. Nothing to sneeze at exactly, but I'm not sure the LT spot is where you're ever going to play your 50-50-50 guy. We should have gone down a path toward being a good G or really good C, or at most aggressive, an RT. Those conversions are like 90%+ skill transfers, and we basically turned what was apparently a 65+ type player into some 50 guy that we're never going to really trust to play the spot we moved him too.
Good lesson. Good experiment too. A good LT is another spot to circle as a challenge for us without the ability to make a top 100 draft pick. We've got offers to bring in a good batch of UDR OL and we'll probably run a good number of them through the position switch options to see how much juice we can squeeze out of these marginal assets. We're almost definitely a year or two late on this, but OL guys kind of have to play to develop. It's tough to have ready-made replacements waiting when you turn over as many spots as we have in the last few seasons. G Mason King and RT Lester Rayburn are the two guys we can lock in for the next four years or so. Our other spots are kind of up for grabs. Last edited by MalcPow : 04-21-2020 at 12:18 PM. |
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04-21-2020, 11:22 AM
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this thread is awesome. it's pretty impressive what you do. i'm watching carefully that HAN offense!
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04-21-2020, 11:41 AM
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04-21-2020, 12:17 PM
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So some good here. I think we have enough volume in the secondary to be OK. We still are probably playing a little too fast and loose with the basics, namely just get some big zone bars at safety. LB Terrance Grice is going to get a chance to be our next great pass rusher. He's 79/97 PRTech bar right now with a 86 PRStr. Only 49 endurance but I think I can just leave him out of all the short yardage type stuff and be ok. He's not triggering any concerns in the depth chart, but I'm not totally sure a lack of those warnings doesn't mean you're not overplaying a guy if you really want to get the most out of him. We moved our best LB Rhodes into the middle this year. Should help the run defense and the defense generally. WR Aguiar took a little hit, just as it looks like we might have a good trio lined up for a stretch. We have a major hit in new UDR C Jackie Bennett (34/75). He was just sitting there among the chaff with no bad flags and a big future rating. And he bumped a little post-reveal. We'll take it, and live with some growing pains this year. The G we took in the draft, Doug Jordan, and the UDR T we mentioned, Calvin Brandon, both look like maybes. Fringey. Probably should not play this year and I think we'll give them a year and only try to break in one new guy. I go back and forth on just playing Jordan. I thought he was a 60 in the draft and he's showing as a 26/48. I'm just sick of playing G Shea, who is one of those solid run bar/near void pass bar/solid other bars interior linemen. I don't think we can play a guy like that with shaky tackle play. I've talked myself into playing the rookie while typing this. We will play RT Rayburn out of position again at LT. And 2nd year guy Abrams will bring his meh-ness over to RT again. We're still shaky here but Bennett is a huge get, and we'll keep messing our way forward. |
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04-21-2020, 01:00 PM
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We are the 2 seed. It's funny what an absolute straight line it is between the quality/development of our OL and our success running the ball. It's the same group of backs without a loss of ability. We went from tremendous to terrible the last couple of years. This isn't rocket science, but it's a good reminder. We rushed the passer well. Grice only ended up with 6.5 sacks but 37 Knockdowns put him at 4th in the league and the three other guys up there around him are the best pass rushers in this universe. He came on late once he hit full dev too. I'm pretty convinced that a young guy's value to the overall pass rush doesn't change all that much as he's developing, but the stat assignment seems to lean pretty heavily toward the guys that have reached maturity. Once they reach full dev, suddenly they're gobbling up sacks that were going to teammates before that. Troy Pelletier broke the single game sack record early in the season with 6.5 against Moontown. Something tells me Grice helped a little there. We were solid. We're wasting years of Richey's life on this OL development. At least the C Bennett looks like it will be time well spent. |
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04-21-2020, 01:19 PM
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First round exit for the good guys in the Divisional. Most of our losses this year had a kind of "4 picks, bunch of sacks" superficial formula. This was kind of a straight up loss, with some of the markers of our "just ok" general vibe. No picks, short field goals, chance to win the game late in the 4th but settle for a short field goal to tie. Lose in OT. |
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04-21-2020, 02:12 PM
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WR Aguiar is a 1st Team All Pro. WR Botta is a 2nd Teamer. I swear they're alternating.
Kicker Matt Nixon is a 1st Team All Pro. 43 of 49 on field goals. It's a pretty big spike in the attempts which is probably another symptom to look at as we assess a little decline for the group. Our OL and Secondary cohesion were bottom of the league and we're surviving. We still need to add some talent but we should hopefully be able to build more continuity. I haven't really bit down on a fresh gameplan look in a while in this career either. We'll see. |
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04-22-2020, 12:26 AM
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LB Seth Thomas retired and I didn't say a word about it. He's a 7-time champion and went out with a whimper after a ratings hit left him outside of our key spots in the depth chart. No sacks and only 7 tackles. The game can be cold.
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04-22-2020, 11:20 AM
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It's amazing how attached you can get to some of these players. I do a lot of historical OOTP and get attached to players, especially if they overperform their "real stats". I once had Johnny Bench keep playing until 1990... at like 42 years old... that's one of the things I love about these games, is the attachment, more than even the "winning".
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04-22-2020, 11:50 AM
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   There's not a lot that's incredibly intriguing there for us, so we stick to our fundamentals. Big LBs who can play some different roles for us. Taylor in particular should help us is some coverage as he develops. Mansker is another pass rusher who may not get as clear a path to start now that we've got some guys in front of him. The C Jennings looks like another gamble on a long term G solution after it looks like we whiffed on one of three picks last year, Doug Jordan. I'm tempted to just play Jennings out of position as a new wrinkle on the crap we're throwing at the wall to patch the line together. |
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04-22-2020, 01:03 PM
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Roster look on the eve of the season. We'll see how Jennings does playing RG without a position change. We made a little bit of a conscious choice of taking some more developed rookies this year as kind of a tiebreaker looking at some similar talents. All of these guys should get on the field a little. We'll see if that messes with our already fragile cohesion. WR Replogle looks to have moved ahead of Aguiar for now so he's going to steal that volume role from him. We're clearing the way for Grice and Pelletier to pin their ears back. We'll see what they do. |
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04-22-2020, 01:42 PM
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We got sacks from Grice (13.5) and Pelletier (16). We made some light tweaks in the offensive gameplan that are tough to see in the overall numbers, but that I do think had an impact. We just had a few spots where we were trying to force some deep balls to TEs and some other oddball stuff that we swapped out for more efficient attempts. Yardage jumped, YPA, first downs, completion percentage a little. Somehow the Ints popped up a little too on the year, but we also had a four game stretch where Richey didn't throw one. It felt like I hadn't seen that in years. The sacks and knockdowns have stabilized down into a much more acceptable place too. The 7.5 ypa is the highest of Richey's career, so we'll count it as effective gameplan tweaking and move on. The defense... well yeah, we got those sacks. The numbers are pretty shaky. But we led the league in takeaways. We started checking the D Personnel screen the last two weeks of the season just thinking about tweaks. The trusty Analyze button apparently had some serious playing time concerns that it didn't have at the start of the season. Guess that's something to check more frequently that might be a cue for some cumulative effects. I tended to think it was just a quick check on endurance and some kind of weighted formation formula. Valuable or not, there's more going on there. Something to keep an eye on in the future. |
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04-22-2020, 01:45 PM
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04-22-2020, 01:48 PM
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So... LB Grice and Pelletier stay officially at OLB but slot in as a DE here, correct? (I'm doing that often too, just making sure I'm seeing that correctly)
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04-22-2020, 01:55 PM
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WR Replogle was a 1st Team All Pro. LB Pelletier was a 1st Team All Pro. LB Grice was a 2nd Teamer. We got those sacks.
Quick thoughts as we roll over... OL still, we're making progress but we need to keep building there. Somehow, at some point, we need to pull an LT from somewhere. I think our run game could return as early as next year. Those guys in the middle should get up close enough to development that we're looking at three 60+ dudes on the interior. Not elite by some standards, but much better than we've been. And then stopping the run. We've probably let our DT spots slide into some "versatile" guys who can pass rush a little too and we might need to just load on run stopping to shore that up. We were terrible on 3rd downs last year, and I think that's a trickle effect of yards to go and how we haven't controlled the opposing run game. We'll shuffle that up, most likely at the DT spots specifically. |
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04-22-2020, 02:07 PM
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DE Arnie Blackledge joins Tom Brady and Jason Witten as the only HOF inductees with 100% of the vote. His #75 is retired.
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04-22-2020, 02:13 PM
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For sure. I think a game like FBCB back in the day struck the perfect balance between being fast moving while still capturing the attachment factor. Some of that is the structure of college basketball with 4-5 year careers and small rosters. But some of that was just good clean design and not getting in the way of letting the player fill in their own blanks with "storylines" or narrative or whatever. I have a puzzle-solving, break shit bent in my personality that kind of eventually forces me to figure the damn thing out. But the attachment is the true give a crap factor of playing a career for me. |
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Yeah, we've got Grice in the RDE spot of our 43 Over. Pelletier is playing a lot of LDE. Blackledge, oddly enough, was in that LDE spot his entire run with us. We had some bigger individual seasons here and there from Seth Thomas as the RDE, but the LDE spot has been more consistently productive. And Pelletier had the bigger year this year. I've always assumed and the game docs seem to imply the RDE should be the bigger producer. Seems like that's been the trend in the past as well but I'm open to other thoughts. I'm probably going to look to solve our run stopping with some smaller DEs playing the DT spots. Might be misguided, but the skillsets are there, so we're gonna go for it if they don't bust in the preseason. |
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interesting, i've never tested this -- i assume it holds for a large sample (full season) because LTs are in general better pass protectors that RTs, but it could also be hardwired. i've seen the 43 over LDE having phenomenal production in a few games where the RT was awful in pass protection. so there's that. |
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04-22-2020, 05:00 PM
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That makes sense. Yeah, I wonder if the RDE/LT "matchup" has a greater impact on overall rush/protect effectiveness, but I could see the LDE/RT having more lopsided skill differentials and maybe that leads to the LDE getting more stats. We'll keep an eye on it, especially if I'm chasing those sack numbers (which I am). |
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04-23-2020, 12:05 AM
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We make a stadium proposal for a new retractable roof, high quality construction firm stadium because why not.
It's also a little humorous going through the staff draft. I think I mentioned earlier in the thread that I'm convinced the various positional focus attributes of your staff play a role in the development and ratings maintenance of those positional groups. Sounds obvious right? I'm guessing performance as well, but no testing, just saying shit. Anyway, Devin McCourty has been our Head Coach since we took over. He's been pretty successful. I've assumed he's been helping our secondary. Devin's true gift, however, is working with D-Lineman. The more you know. We might actually convert a few more of these LBs to DEs now or something. Roster look: Code:
I sort of missed that MLB Thomas Rhodes took a dive from 70 or so down to 58 last camp. Not the end, but it's a big move and another spot for us to address if we want to be able to control the running game a little more going forward. We signed a UDR in MLB Cedric Maxwell last year who looks like our best in-house option to take on a lot of that role. But he mostly looks like he'll develop into what Rhodes is now, and Rhodes at his best is probably more than we can hope to find without some randomness. We basically had a 70 LB for like 8 years. We've spent as much capital in the draft on that spot as any other and we haven't done that well since taking him in our first class of "Dragons" with QB Richey. |
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04-23-2020, 12:54 AM
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04-23-2020, 01:03 PM
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Roster snapshot before the season. This DE class looks like two major hits for us. DE Vance is going to move over play the LDE spot for us as a guy with a bit bigger body and more versatile skills. He honestly looks a lot like Blackledge. We moved the other two guys inside to DT, and Harris at least looks like he might be a stud in there with a near-maxed run bar. They both have 77 futures by our scouting group. That's almost definitely high but we've got good scouting and a HC who specializes on the DL (apparently). MLB Rhodes held which is big for us as we try to develop Blackwell to step in behind him. We feel better than we've looked in a few years at this stage, but we're probably giving playing time to multiple rookies and some still developing guys at multiple spots. Our RBs are fading but we picked up a decent UDR in Brandon Adamo. We just need RT (who plays LT) Lester Rayburn to keep hanging in. Those tackle spots have just been impossible for us to address. |
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04-23-2020, 01:34 PM
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So I think we were better. Some fairly massive swings all things considered on the offensive side. We are throwing the ball an insane amount, and we were better at it. Richey with probably his best passing season in awhile, certainly since his first few years when he was basically playing on an All Star team. Can't say this was really intended though, so I'm a little curious. Might just be slightly better protection from a now more fully developed line crew. The defense looks like a complete dumpster fire. I've got some personnel questions to think about for next year apparently. DE Vance was not all that productive as a rookie, and we seemed to go on a little run in the second half when we brought Pelletier back into a couple formations opposite Grice. |
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04-23-2020, 01:48 PM
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Good solid run but the Merchantmen get us in the Bowl. Another playoff loss where we just get beat, no turnover craziness or anything. We did have a bunch of penalties. Ah well, just short for the boys. |
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QB Richey sweeps again with MVP, OPOY, and 1st Team All Pro in his bounceback campaign.
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Enjoy following this. How do you retain formatting when copy/pasting to code on the forums? When I do it it all jumbles together. Look forward to following more, thanks
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   We take two LBs that I think will actually play LB for us. And then we go RB. I don't really think Saba has any superlative talent that makes him worthy of burning a pick vs taking what's left in the UDR pile. But I think he's pretty good and our guys are aging. We may change that gameplan some day.. Last edited by MalcPow : 04-24-2020 at 04:50 PM. |
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Snapshot before Week 1. The WRs are starting to fade. That's a nice new hole in the damn to try to find some fingers for. There should be one more year in there. We didn't bring in any depth at all there though. And I see some endurance bars fading on the guys who get more targets than anyone in the league. We were lucky to get Botta and Aguiar. We're probably going to have to take a committee approach to our style of attack if those guys can't hang on for a few more years as primary target types. I'm cautiously optimistic on the D even if our numbers tend to look weird even in good years. We've got good talent and no rookies starting or even playing much. |
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04-25-2020, 11:52 AM
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This felt like our best team in a bit. Last year and this year were both better teams than the years before that. This team had a little extra gear offensively. The 500+ yard games, 40+ points numerous times, we could just beat people. And the run game, kind of on cue returned to efficiency. Not sure which side of the combo of full dev on the line and fresh legs at the RB spots to give all the credit to there. Richey with another big year. T. Grice with our best pass rushing year in awhile, 20 sacks to put himself maybe on a trajectory toward something. We were decidedly atrocious doing the one thing we were asked to do 40+ times a game on D though, stop the effing pass. The rush was just solid really by our standards. The secondary didn't seem to really respond to further tweaks. We've been too lazy to really solve this situation by trying to understand it. We will likely persist in that laziness. We stink though back there, and we're just hoping we bring more bullets than the other guy offensively. Last edited by MalcPow : 04-25-2020 at 11:53 AM. |
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04-25-2020, 12:15 PM
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The Conference title game was our requisite fight fire with fire shootout where we won on a last second field goal. I don't know what the Bowl was, we got multiple return TDs in an ugly one that ended up with a comfortable scoreline. I think this was the most talent we threw out there in awhile, even if we weren't necessarily stacked at key spots like WR. We tried to play some seemingly more bar-appropriate shuffling in the secondary, but I think a few of the CBs we played at S and vice versa might have had some fairly significant weight issues affecting them. I want to believe that I'm doing something terrible in the gameplan screen but I'm worried about crawling back out of there alive if I go too far down into the abyss. As somebody smart said to me recently, "every time I do any testing I figure out I get more from an exceptional affinity than anything else." I thought last year's team was better than at least half of our previous Bowl winners, so I felt for the guys when they came up short. Nice to see the bounce back this year. |
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04-25-2020, 12:27 PM
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Lot of red on the top half of the Awards page.
Richey going treble with the MVP, OPOY, and 1st Team QB. (CB Buddy McDonald with the requisite weird game Bowl MVP for a pick-6, etc.) LB Grice goes 1st Team All Pro and snags DPOY as well, a first for us in this career. He's at 52.5 sacks through 4 seasons. Blackledge was at 45.5 through 4 seasons. It's a sneaky thing that is leeching some of the glory from our guys, but Blackledge was also a stud. Grice is some high-40s, got the right bars specialist guy who we can get monster production out of. The stud guys tend to survive those camp hits much deeper into their careers than the fringey guys with the right skills. I'd love to be wrong but I'm guessing Grice slips on a banana peel in a few years and suddenly can't do anything. We're sort of seeing it with the ratings decline of our WRs. They're good players, but they're fading earlier and from a level a little closer to earth already than the true studs. WRs Replogle and Botta sweep the 1st Team All Pro spots. (They're still fine.) Last edited by MalcPow : 04-25-2020 at 12:29 PM. |
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04-25-2020, 12:54 PM
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CB Ted Matthews makes the Hall of Fame with 82% of the vote. He started as a safety with us and eventually ended up playing a bunch of CB. He's still the franchise leader in passes defensed. He had one year with a 2nd Team All Pro finish and a Bowl MVP. I don't know if it's HOF-worthy, but I'm guessing the five rings helped.
Richey is at 47,953 passing yards after 10 seasons. If he plays three more years we should get to where we want to and the good QBs in this universe are tending to play 15-17 seasons. The current career record is 62,893, so he might need to play four more years to get there at this pace. We should be fine but he's still this 55ish rated guy who only wants one extra year on his contract with the renegs each offseason. We'll see. |
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04-25-2020, 04:14 PM
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Offseason snap. We're starting to become an above average across the board cohesion squad. I don't know if we'll ever really run into cap trouble, we're sort of just blindly extending everyone and guys who play want to get paid. But we've crept closer to the cap over time. We need WRs. Last edited by MalcPow : 04-25-2020 at 04:17 PM. |
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04-25-2020, 05:36 PM
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I'm counting 11 LB and 19 DL/LB players in the 2049 season. That's quite a lot. Sensing that depth and/or endurance forces your hand here to double up on each starter position to keep fresh players on the field? The end of season stats suggest that only 8 front7 guys were heavily used and 5 DB. Or is it a result of continuing to draft projects?
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04-25-2020, 09:23 PM
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2050 Draft
   We end up taking two more D-Linemen. I think they are both DTs for us. We like the CB a fair amount and I'm really still searching back there. We didn't force it on the WRs. Going to look to sign at least one in FA2 but we're stretching this group as far as we can. |
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