Buffalo Sucks - a Madden Franchise with only street free agents
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Them points, though. That's a great change.
Semper fi
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Always have a plan. And a backup plan. And backups to the backup.
And be able to improvise.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Always have a plan. And a backup plan. And backups to the backup.
And be able to improvise.
Re: Buffalo Sucks - a Madden Franchise with only street free agents
jose21crisis wrote:Them points, though. That's a great change.
Yeah, having 3 guys on offense that are just hauling ass all day helps a lot. There are actually not that many deep balls to DeSean Jackson though, it's a really bad completion rate any time I try it. The ball flies OOB or is overthrown... sometimes I connect, but it's not that much of a factor.
On defense, having 2 corners that can close the gap helps a lot with batted passes, but they get beat on double moves a lot or just get ran by because they have the AWR of a cookie.
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Alright! We are halfway through the season!
We are still not kicking field goals, nor are we punting in this franchise.
Instead, we are 90.6% in red zone trips and 75% in 4th down conversions.
Our 2-point conversion rate has also gone up to a good 71.4%.
We also have found ways to get backup QB Bernard Morris the ball here and there, mostly on 3rd and 4th and short and in the red zone. His legs are just too dangerous to keep on the bench all the time.
For the second half of the season I want to pass the ball a bit more to receivers and not rely on the speed of FB Anthony Aldridge too much. He's extremely dangerous out of the backfield with his 97 SPD, but it takes the ball out of the receiver's hands. It leads to wins, so I'm not complaining.
My gambles with Jonathan Goff at RE, Antwan Barnes at MLB, Tyrell Johnson at LOLB and moving Alfonso Marshall to FS are doing pretty well. They are racking up tackles and sacks. The team is still lacking interceptions though. Only Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie has more than 1 halfway through the season.
Bills 2008
So, we have played Week 5, 6, 7 and 8.
The most interesting matchup was in week 7 at Arrowhead Stadium versus the Chiefs and Tom Brady.
looks way better not in a Patriots uniform
But it wasn't Brady that made the game hard to play, it was their defense.
We got behind 12-00 at half time. And it took a lot of effort and some deep balls to Antony Aldridge to get the offense rolling in the 3rd quarter.
A long bomb to Chris Johnson along the sidelines sealed the deal in the 3rd quarter and with 12-16 entering the 4th quarter, no team managed to score anymore. It was a close but fun game.
The other ones were basically blowouts.
Week 5 vs Chargers: 44-20 win
Week 6 vs Raiders: 54-36 win
Week 7 at Chiefs: 16-12 win
Week 8 vs Seahawks: 46-12 win
"deep balls and blowouts are my specialty"
So of course, Head Coach Jim Johnson is getting Legendary Status in Buffalo from the fans:
Play like a winner.
My settings in this franchise are that players only progress after the pre season, after week 8 and week 17.
All O-linemen improved their blocking by one point in RBK and PBK. Everyone got a bit of AWR and TAK here and there.
Furthermore, Matt Ryan now has a 99/97 arm. Yay!
He is still slow as a snail in wet cement though, which is really not a good thing.
Suck it, Brady.
After week 8, it is also time to reveal the Pro Bowl squads.
Last year, in 2007, no Bills player made the Pro Bowl.
This year, we yave 8 selections: 4 on offense and 4 on defense.
Matt Ryan, Chris Johnson, Anthony Aldridge and Desean Jackson on offense.
Jonathan Goff, Keilen Dykes, Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and Alfonso Marshall on defense.
Keilen Dykes is the biggest surprise because he only has 12 tackels (2 for loss) and 2 sacks halfway through the season.
Them pro bowls though
As for League MVP...
That is a good one. The MVPs are revealed after week 8, but these awards can change during the second half of the season (unlike the Pro Bowl selections).
After week 17 we will know who the real MVP will be and who will take over the crown (or cup) from Ladainian Tomlinson; last year's winner.
Chris Johnson is right now on top of the voting.
He has ran for 925 yards on 108 carries (8.5 avg) and 9 TDs. That doesn't lead the league, but Johnson also has 11 receptions for 343 yards and 7 TDs. Those are Tomlinson-like numbers, but Johnson has way more TDs right now.
Offensive Rookie of the Year:
We might keep a few for next year.
Defensive Rookie of the Year:
Jerod Mayo is having a very good season with a lot of tackles. DRC will have to put on some more stats to get there. Goff has an outside lane to the prize.
Needless to say, fan support is doing very well:
Thank you for reading! I will soon play the third quarter of the season. I hope to keep the wins coming. Johnson is 75 yards short to be on pace to 2000 yards on the season, so I will have to get him some more yards here and there. It's secondary to winning though, so no promises.
We are still not kicking field goals, nor are we punting in this franchise.
Instead, we are 90.6% in red zone trips and 75% in 4th down conversions.
Our 2-point conversion rate has also gone up to a good 71.4%.
We also have found ways to get backup QB Bernard Morris the ball here and there, mostly on 3rd and 4th and short and in the red zone. His legs are just too dangerous to keep on the bench all the time.
For the second half of the season I want to pass the ball a bit more to receivers and not rely on the speed of FB Anthony Aldridge too much. He's extremely dangerous out of the backfield with his 97 SPD, but it takes the ball out of the receiver's hands. It leads to wins, so I'm not complaining.
My gambles with Jonathan Goff at RE, Antwan Barnes at MLB, Tyrell Johnson at LOLB and moving Alfonso Marshall to FS are doing pretty well. They are racking up tackles and sacks. The team is still lacking interceptions though. Only Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie has more than 1 halfway through the season.
Bills 2008
Spoiler:
So, we have played Week 5, 6, 7 and 8.
The most interesting matchup was in week 7 at Arrowhead Stadium versus the Chiefs and Tom Brady.
looks way better not in a Patriots uniform
But it wasn't Brady that made the game hard to play, it was their defense.
We got behind 12-00 at half time. And it took a lot of effort and some deep balls to Antony Aldridge to get the offense rolling in the 3rd quarter.
A long bomb to Chris Johnson along the sidelines sealed the deal in the 3rd quarter and with 12-16 entering the 4th quarter, no team managed to score anymore. It was a close but fun game.
The other ones were basically blowouts.
Week 5 vs Chargers: 44-20 win
Week 6 vs Raiders: 54-36 win
Week 7 at Chiefs: 16-12 win
Week 8 vs Seahawks: 46-12 win
"deep balls and blowouts are my specialty"
So of course, Head Coach Jim Johnson is getting Legendary Status in Buffalo from the fans:
Play like a winner.
My settings in this franchise are that players only progress after the pre season, after week 8 and week 17.
All O-linemen improved their blocking by one point in RBK and PBK. Everyone got a bit of AWR and TAK here and there.
Furthermore, Matt Ryan now has a 99/97 arm. Yay!
He is still slow as a snail in wet cement though, which is really not a good thing.
Suck it, Brady.
After week 8, it is also time to reveal the Pro Bowl squads.
Last year, in 2007, no Bills player made the Pro Bowl.
This year, we yave 8 selections: 4 on offense and 4 on defense.
Matt Ryan, Chris Johnson, Anthony Aldridge and Desean Jackson on offense.
Jonathan Goff, Keilen Dykes, Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and Alfonso Marshall on defense.
Keilen Dykes is the biggest surprise because he only has 12 tackels (2 for loss) and 2 sacks halfway through the season.
Them pro bowls though
As for League MVP...
That is a good one. The MVPs are revealed after week 8, but these awards can change during the second half of the season (unlike the Pro Bowl selections).
After week 17 we will know who the real MVP will be and who will take over the crown (or cup) from Ladainian Tomlinson; last year's winner.
Chris Johnson is right now on top of the voting.
He has ran for 925 yards on 108 carries (8.5 avg) and 9 TDs. That doesn't lead the league, but Johnson also has 11 receptions for 343 yards and 7 TDs. Those are Tomlinson-like numbers, but Johnson has way more TDs right now.
Offensive Rookie of the Year:
We might keep a few for next year.
Defensive Rookie of the Year:
Jerod Mayo is having a very good season with a lot of tackles. DRC will have to put on some more stats to get there. Goff has an outside lane to the prize.
Needless to say, fan support is doing very well:
Thank you for reading! I will soon play the third quarter of the season. I hope to keep the wins coming. Johnson is 75 yards short to be on pace to 2000 yards on the season, so I will have to get him some more yards here and there. It's secondary to winning though, so no promises.
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Week 5 vs Chargers:
Week 6 vs Raiders:
Week 7 at Chiefs
Week 8 vs Seahawks
Spoiler:
Week 6 vs Raiders:
Spoiler:
Week 7 at Chiefs
Spoiler:
Week 8 vs Seahawks
Spoiler:
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"Buffalo Sucks" should be changed to "Buffalo can't lose."
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RevanFan wrote:"Buffalo Sucks" should be changed to "Buffalo can't lose."
"Buffalo doesn't suck anymore!' ... no, wait. Too long. Buffalo fans in this universe are probably already pushing a "Matt Ryan to the HOF" campaign right now.
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If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Always have a plan. And a backup plan. And backups to the backup.
And be able to improvise.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Always have a plan. And a backup plan. And backups to the backup.
And be able to improvise.
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Hello and thank you again for reading about the Buffalunstoppable Bills.
We won the first half of the season with a combined score of 942-12 and outgained our opponents by 3468 yards and 83 touchdowns... so we're basically just steamrolling the league at the moment.
No. Of course not. Not at all.
We were only winning with an average score of 48-26.
Which means our defense was still letting through too many big gains.
On to the second half of the season!
4 away games are waiting for us..
In this stretch of the season Nickel Back Allen Rossum has still been injured with some nagging ingrown toe nail or something. Free Agent pickup TJ Rushing has been his replacement. He snagged a pick somewhere and returned it. This also meant that Baigeh Joe Tucker (B.J. for friends and family) came in in dime packages
Week 9 at Patriots:
This was fun. We just fucking murdered them in the first half scoring 36 points and allowing only a field goal. I just hate playing against Rex Grossman, he's just so over rated. I have insane respect for HB Steven Jackson though, he played pretty much all of his career for a lousy Rams team, just after the glory days of the Greates Show on Turf and before McVay made something of that team.
Matt Ryan had a poor day though, he went 4 for 12 and a pick (2 of those completions were still TDs - that's how explosive the offense is), so I benched his ass in favor of Bernard Morris. He went 10 for 16 without picks.
sit down, you draft bust
winning
beautiful run
Chris Johnson had 166 rushing yards on the day. Well on par to get to 2000 on the season.
Week 10: bye week
We held a big big party.
Week 11 at Texans:
The Texans took both LE Chris Long and RE Vernon Gholston with the first overall pick in the 2008 draft. Our commissioner is a clown and an idiot for letting it happen.
this happened for real
We still scored 56 points on them. QB Bernard Morris came into the game for some throws, didn't find one receiver, even though he threw 6 passes.
B.J. Tucker got a pick! The crowd went wild! Yay for him!
"B.J.! B.J.! B.J.! B.J.!"
Ryan had passing TDs of 76, 75 and 60 yards.
It's always nice to have a running back that can turn this:
into this:
Chris Johnson had 167 rushing yards on the day. Well on par to get to 2000 on the season.
Important:
Matt Ryan suffered a 2 week injury, making Bernard Morris the starter for a few games:
pictured: not Matt Ryan
Week 12 at Dolphins:
With Matt Ryan out of the game, this would be a great test for what this team is without a QB that can just sling it to who ever is faster than the defender covering him. With Chris Johnson with 99 SPD, Aldridge with 97 SPD and DeSean Jackson with 98 SPD, it's only a matter of time before one of them breaks free for a long gain. It's actually more fun to play with a lesser armed QB who is a bit mobile than with a statue of a QB but equipped with a laser.
We still won quite easily because David Carr is a pretty poor QB who completed only 5 passes on the day.
Willie Parker still ran for 115 yards, but not enough for a Dolphins win.
We actually won with solid good football. Morris' longest pass was for 26 yards.
Chris Johnson had 133 rushing yards on the day. Well on par to get to 2000 on the season.
Week 13 at Broncos:
Another start for Bernard Morris, because with Matt Ryan questionable I was not going to risk it...
there are 5 differences hidden between the 2 pictures. Can you find them?
I got a bit scared before the game, because the Broncos front 7 looks like this:
92 M.Strahan LE 93 $35.64M 7 35 6'5" 255
60 C.Okeafor RE 87 $28.23M 7 32 6'4" 265
97 C.Simon DT 88 $40.71M 7 31 6'2" 293
90 G.Dorsey DT 84 $40.75M 5 22 6'1" 297
55 T.Suggs LOLB 93 $31.93M 7 24 6'3" 260
51 J.Farrior MLB 96 $47.05M 7 33 6'2" 242
99 K.Bell ROLB 84 $34.00M 7 28 6'1" 254
If you don't recognize who "99 K.Bell ROLB" is; that is Kendrell Bell, a Steelers Linebacker who played most of his short career in the middle. He was DROY though in 2001 but after that injuries slowed him down until retirement in 2007 after a short time in Kansas City. In this game though, he's still no push-over.
Kitna, Rudi Johnson, Marquise Colston and Larry Fitzgerald play on offense. This was not going to be easy.
The Broncos scored on their opening drive.
On the next drive they stopped our offense and scored again. Making it 14-00.
I put on my game face because this just got real.
After a sack we got stuck in a 4th and 17 situation.
I called my go-to play and this happened:
B-I-N-G-O and Bingo was his name-o
This is a variant of a play from the 5 receivers set (Pass Balanced playbook)
On 4th down, I audible the out from the trips receiver to an out at the sticks, hoping that the defender there will not drop under it. The backside slot receiver is audibled to a slant, or a deep in depending on the situation.
If the slant is not uncovered (zone) for a short first down, I look at the deep out. If that's not there, many times the trips middle receiver is open who originally runs a corner route (instead of the streak).
If the defense doesn't spy the QB and plays man on the backside, 9/10 that leaves a big green area to run for yards.
It looks like this if mirrored:
does this make sense?
We kept our drive alive making it 8-14 at the half.
Some tables and furniture was broken during half time and the team came out of the locker room determined to keep the win streak alive, but it wasn't going to be easy.
On the opening drive of the half we got stopped, but DRC picked of Kitna on their possession.
We scored and made it 14-14 in the 3rd quarter.
In the 4th quarter the Broncos made a field goal, which meant we had to score again. 14-17
Like a miracle and out of no where 2007 hero LeRon McCoy was found wide open along the sidelines and he ran it another 46 yards for a 64 yard touchdown. 22-17.
what a hero
The Broncos scored again in the 4th making it 22-23.
We made a crazy drive with many runs, because I didn't want to turn the ball over. In the end, Morris found Tight End Mark Bradford in the end zone for the score making it 30-23 to end the game, as we scored with only 9 seconds remaining.
We are still unbeaten, but it also meant that we are a warned team. We can have a day off. We can be scored on and our offense can be stopped.
So here's overview after the 3rd quarter of the 2008 season:
Something that stands out to me is that Anthony Aldridge, a fullback, is our leading receiver with 47 catches for 744 yards. That's crazy.
Sure, I'm the one throwing him the ball so it shouldn't come to a big surprise to me, but I haven't changed the playbook or play style all that much when compared to last year.
Dee Brown, our 2007 fullback, only had 23 catches of 216 yards. On the season!
Then on the other hand, Aldridge only has 36 rushing attempts (16% of all runningbacks carries), compared to Dee Brown who had 131 (35% of the RB carries). So Aldridge is getting carries only half as much as Brown did last year.
I think it's because our drives are much shorter so there's less opportunity for Chris Johnson to get tired. I'm still playing with sub out at 85% and sub in at 90%. I don't want to make that up to 95%, because I might get in trouble on defense.
It's still very fun.
Thank you!
We won the first half of the season with a combined score of 942-12 and outgained our opponents by 3468 yards and 83 touchdowns... so we're basically just steamrolling the league at the moment.
No. Of course not. Not at all.
We were only winning with an average score of 48-26.
Which means our defense was still letting through too many big gains.
On to the second half of the season!
4 away games are waiting for us..
In this stretch of the season Nickel Back Allen Rossum has still been injured with some nagging ingrown toe nail or something. Free Agent pickup TJ Rushing has been his replacement. He snagged a pick somewhere and returned it. This also meant that Baigeh Joe Tucker (B.J. for friends and family) came in in dime packages
Week 9 at Patriots:
This was fun. We just fucking murdered them in the first half scoring 36 points and allowing only a field goal. I just hate playing against Rex Grossman, he's just so over rated. I have insane respect for HB Steven Jackson though, he played pretty much all of his career for a lousy Rams team, just after the glory days of the Greates Show on Turf and before McVay made something of that team.
Matt Ryan had a poor day though, he went 4 for 12 and a pick (2 of those completions were still TDs - that's how explosive the offense is), so I benched his ass in favor of Bernard Morris. He went 10 for 16 without picks.
sit down, you draft bust
winning
beautiful run
Chris Johnson had 166 rushing yards on the day. Well on par to get to 2000 on the season.
Week 10: bye week
We held a big big party.
Week 11 at Texans:
The Texans took both LE Chris Long and RE Vernon Gholston with the first overall pick in the 2008 draft. Our commissioner is a clown and an idiot for letting it happen.
this happened for real
We still scored 56 points on them. QB Bernard Morris came into the game for some throws, didn't find one receiver, even though he threw 6 passes.
B.J. Tucker got a pick! The crowd went wild! Yay for him!
"B.J.! B.J.! B.J.! B.J.!"
Ryan had passing TDs of 76, 75 and 60 yards.
It's always nice to have a running back that can turn this:
into this:
Chris Johnson had 167 rushing yards on the day. Well on par to get to 2000 on the season.
Important:
Matt Ryan suffered a 2 week injury, making Bernard Morris the starter for a few games:
pictured: not Matt Ryan
Week 12 at Dolphins:
With Matt Ryan out of the game, this would be a great test for what this team is without a QB that can just sling it to who ever is faster than the defender covering him. With Chris Johnson with 99 SPD, Aldridge with 97 SPD and DeSean Jackson with 98 SPD, it's only a matter of time before one of them breaks free for a long gain. It's actually more fun to play with a lesser armed QB who is a bit mobile than with a statue of a QB but equipped with a laser.
We still won quite easily because David Carr is a pretty poor QB who completed only 5 passes on the day.
Willie Parker still ran for 115 yards, but not enough for a Dolphins win.
We actually won with solid good football. Morris' longest pass was for 26 yards.
Chris Johnson had 133 rushing yards on the day. Well on par to get to 2000 on the season.
Week 13 at Broncos:
Another start for Bernard Morris, because with Matt Ryan questionable I was not going to risk it...
there are 5 differences hidden between the 2 pictures. Can you find them?
I got a bit scared before the game, because the Broncos front 7 looks like this:
92 M.Strahan LE 93 $35.64M 7 35 6'5" 255
60 C.Okeafor RE 87 $28.23M 7 32 6'4" 265
97 C.Simon DT 88 $40.71M 7 31 6'2" 293
90 G.Dorsey DT 84 $40.75M 5 22 6'1" 297
55 T.Suggs LOLB 93 $31.93M 7 24 6'3" 260
51 J.Farrior MLB 96 $47.05M 7 33 6'2" 242
99 K.Bell ROLB 84 $34.00M 7 28 6'1" 254
If you don't recognize who "99 K.Bell ROLB" is; that is Kendrell Bell, a Steelers Linebacker who played most of his short career in the middle. He was DROY though in 2001 but after that injuries slowed him down until retirement in 2007 after a short time in Kansas City. In this game though, he's still no push-over.
Kitna, Rudi Johnson, Marquise Colston and Larry Fitzgerald play on offense. This was not going to be easy.
The Broncos scored on their opening drive.
On the next drive they stopped our offense and scored again. Making it 14-00.
I put on my game face because this just got real.
After a sack we got stuck in a 4th and 17 situation.
I called my go-to play and this happened:
B-I-N-G-O and Bingo was his name-o
This is a variant of a play from the 5 receivers set (Pass Balanced playbook)
On 4th down, I audible the out from the trips receiver to an out at the sticks, hoping that the defender there will not drop under it. The backside slot receiver is audibled to a slant, or a deep in depending on the situation.
If the slant is not uncovered (zone) for a short first down, I look at the deep out. If that's not there, many times the trips middle receiver is open who originally runs a corner route (instead of the streak).
If the defense doesn't spy the QB and plays man on the backside, 9/10 that leaves a big green area to run for yards.
It looks like this if mirrored:
does this make sense?
We kept our drive alive making it 8-14 at the half.
Some tables and furniture was broken during half time and the team came out of the locker room determined to keep the win streak alive, but it wasn't going to be easy.
On the opening drive of the half we got stopped, but DRC picked of Kitna on their possession.
We scored and made it 14-14 in the 3rd quarter.
In the 4th quarter the Broncos made a field goal, which meant we had to score again. 14-17
Like a miracle and out of no where 2007 hero LeRon McCoy was found wide open along the sidelines and he ran it another 46 yards for a 64 yard touchdown. 22-17.
what a hero
The Broncos scored again in the 4th making it 22-23.
We made a crazy drive with many runs, because I didn't want to turn the ball over. In the end, Morris found Tight End Mark Bradford in the end zone for the score making it 30-23 to end the game, as we scored with only 9 seconds remaining.
We are still unbeaten, but it also meant that we are a warned team. We can have a day off. We can be scored on and our offense can be stopped.
So here's overview after the 3rd quarter of the 2008 season:
Spoiler:
Something that stands out to me is that Anthony Aldridge, a fullback, is our leading receiver with 47 catches for 744 yards. That's crazy.
Sure, I'm the one throwing him the ball so it shouldn't come to a big surprise to me, but I haven't changed the playbook or play style all that much when compared to last year.
Dee Brown, our 2007 fullback, only had 23 catches of 216 yards. On the season!
Then on the other hand, Aldridge only has 36 rushing attempts (16% of all runningbacks carries), compared to Dee Brown who had 131 (35% of the RB carries). So Aldridge is getting carries only half as much as Brown did last year.
I think it's because our drives are much shorter so there's less opportunity for Chris Johnson to get tired. I'm still playing with sub out at 85% and sub in at 90%. I don't want to make that up to 95%, because I might get in trouble on defense.
It's still very fun.
Thank you!
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Week 9 Bills at Patriots
Week 10 Bye
Week 11 Bills at Texans
Week 12 Bills at Dolphins
Week 13 Bills at Broncos
Spoiler:
Week 10 Bye
Week 11 Bills at Texans
Spoiler:
Week 12 Bills at Dolphins
Spoiler:
Week 13 Bills at Broncos
Spoiler:
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I thought letting you draft and be forced to pick up bad FAs would keep things interesting, but clearly not... Buffalo sucks no more!
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Re: Buffalo Sucks - a Madden Franchise with only street free agents
The Craziest Game Ever Played
This moment was the spark that ignited a powder keg of craziness:
"Woah! Check this grass out!"
How do we get to that? Let's go back a few weeks because the 4th quarter of the season start in Week 14 in Arizona.
Week 14 at Cardinals:
Going scoreless in the 1st quarter, the Cardinals who are quarterbacked by Phillip Rivers, put up 32 points in the second quarter. Another 10 points in the 3rd quarter means that they were leading the score 42-34. One touchdown and a 2 point conversion was what we needed in the 4th quarter, but we hadn't stopped Rivers all day.
Bernard Morris started the game, because of the injury by Matt Ryan, but Morris shit the bed pretty badly and we needed to come back in the second half badly, so even though he was injured, we decided to drug Ryan up and let him play. Painkillers are a blessing as long as you are aware of the dangers of dependence. “It only takes a little to lose a lot”. So seriously: be careful with that stuff.
Ryan went crazy and made it rain bombs on the cardinals. Connecting with DeSean Jackson 5 times for 254 yards. Yes, that's about 51 yards per catch.
Needless to say, we scored enough (22) in the 4th to overcome the deficit and preserve our perfect season.
DRC had another blocked FG returned for TD. This guy is like a reverse kicker, but just as clutch.
Going pass happy meant that Chris Johnson only had 84 yards. 41 yards shy of what is needed for the 2000 yard season.
Week 15 vs Jets
The Jets are a good team with Dunta Robinson, Asante Samuel, Bart Scott and Brodrick Bunkley on defense.
Their pass defense is pretty good and I wanted to make up some yards with Chris Johnson, so we had a run heavy game plan.
This shortened the game, and in the end CJ had 29 carries for 137 yards. That looks like a good day, but that's only a 4.7 yard average. Much shorter than his 8.3 per carry average on the season. Bernard Morris was still the starter due to Matt Ryan's injury, and he went only 5 of 10 with 1 TD.
DRC had yet another blocked kick for TD.
Our offense only scored 26 points, but our defense played lights out with a pick by 3rd round pick ROLB Ezra Butler and... defensive tackle Brian Johnston, we sacked Alex Smith 5 times. He spend the rest of the night in the Mercy Hospital Buffalo. They only scored 12.
pictured: not a hotel
Week 16 vs Patriots:
Matt Ryan returned fully healthy and was named the starter again.
Chris Johnson had 1695 with 2 games to play. Which means that he needed 305 yards over 2 games. 150+ per game. It could be done, but required a run heavy game plan to pull it off. Not really my play style as I like to wing it and swing it in the passing game on first and second down.
It's official. I hate Rex fucking Grossman. No, not personally, I'm sure he does wonderful charity work for the Boys and Girls Club of America. (I guess the name "Kids Club USA" was already taken)
Anyway, F that guy.
He went 19 of 30 for 230 yards like it's nothing. Well, with my defense...
This season, the guy over 2 games went 45/73 for 564 yards, 7 sacks, 3 TDs and 2 picks.
They went 4-12 so I won't be meeting them in the playoffs.
We came out with a run heavy game plan, but the Patriot defense was a hard nut to crack.
At the end of the first half we were behind 14-19. I got a bit nervous, because Patriots linebackers Boss Bailey and Nick Barnett flew all over the field, cornerbacks Antrel Rolle and Roderick Hood allowed 0 (zero) passes on the day and Safety/weapon-X Brian Dawkins cleaned up anything that the first 10 guys let through.
The 3rd quarter was quite even, but only in the 4th did I manage to get a few passes deep and made the score 46-31.
Johnson ran for 144 yards, so he would have to have a big last game of the season to make it to 2000.
The first half was a big warning for me. And it was only a sign of things to come...
Week 17 vs Dolphins:
This is where our story had started.
We had 2 objectives:
1: win
2: Chris Johnson had 1839 yards coming into this game. 161 short of 2000. It was a secondary goal, but I would be embarrassed writing this journal winning out but not accomplishing this goal.
3: DRC was second on the DROY voting, it would take a great game of him to jump to 1st place.
And so we kick off the Craziest Game I Have Ever Played.
On the very first play of the game, David Carr goes deep to Santonio Holmes for a 83 yards TD pass. The guy has stolen our playbook!!
Alright. Fair enough. We do have a team of low AWR guys and they do seem to bite on double moves and play fakes.
We receive the kickoff and call a run play to get CJ the carries he needs to get to 2000. The guy goes full Terminator and runs for an 84 yards touchdown.
That's right. We had played only 29 seconds of game clock and the score was 6-7 (we failed on our conversion).
But that was only the start of this crazy game...
The Dolphins then marched down the field and scored a field goal making it 6-10, nothing bad.
We scored too making it 14-10.
In the second quarter Chris Johnson was close to his 2000 yard mark, so I was not concerned that he would get this anymore. But at the end of the second quarter I threw an ugly pick and the Dolphins scored on their drive making it 14-17 going into half time.
On the opening drive of the second half I scored a nice TD 22-17.
The Dolphins made me pay with a TD and jumped me 22-23.
I will be honest and admit I got completely arrogant at the start of the 4th quarter. Arrogance means an ego needs some repair because I got my ass kicked in the progress. Chris Johnson got his 2000 yards, so I started to run 2007 star Rod "HE HATE ME" Smart some plays, I wanted to run Anthony Aldridge a bit more, I wanted to get Bernard Morris more reps. I even wanted to get Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie more stats so he could be DROY. In all this, predictably, I lost sight of the only thing that was important: winning.
I gave the nod to Morris to close the 4th quarter and win the game. His legs are better and I wasn't planning to go deep a lot. We had a solid drive.
But then, with about 3 minutes remaining, this game went crazy. This game went into... the Twilight Zone.
tuuduuduuuduuu
23-22 down, with about 3 minutes left on the clock, I wanted to score and stop the Dolphins once in order to win. Morris still came in on short downs because Bernard Morris is an accomplished scrambler. On one particular play, we came out 5 wide and the defense played cover 2 man under, I saw a lot of daylight/grass/money in front of him and made a dash for it.
see daylight
land on your head
He was tackled juuuuuuuust short of the end zone and... fumbled into the end zone.
Touchback Dolphins.
With only 1 point between the teams this meant a whole lot. The Dolphins drove the field and I was in clock management territory, burning 2 time outs before the 2 minute warning. I stopped the Dolphins and they went for a 57 yards field goal with 1:52 remaining. I had lined up DRC like always to block the kick, but I missed the block and rookie kicker Coutu made the 57 yarder. Crazy! 22-26
nice kick, kiddo
This all meant I had to score with under 2 minutes and only 1 time out because I burned 2 on the Dolphins' drive.
We received the kickoff and started to grind for some yards. I know what everyone's saying "just bomb it" but scoring quickly only gives the opponent enough time to score and win the game. You know how every quarterback turns into Superman at the end of a half. I didn't want to do that.
We arrived around the 50 yard line with only 30 seconds remaining.
Then, with about 25 seconds remaining I thought "that's enough" and tried a few passes deep and one connected for a 51 score, pretty much sealing the win and a perfect 16-0 record. 30-26... or so I thought.
Then I somehow completely shanked the kickoff, giving the ball at their 45 yard line. But with only 17 seconds remaining this could still be stopped with a defense that doesn't get burned deep.
Carr passed deep and completed. Time out. Carr passed into the end zone. Catch. Touchdown. And so, with 8 seconds remaining in the season, the Dolphins made it 30-32 for them. What I didn't want to happen, happened. I left too much time on the clock for them to come back.
All of the fans. Everyone watching at home had seen this team come from being the laughing stock, the losers, become the unbeatable. "HOF" they said. "can't lose" they said. And here they are. Losing in the final seconds of the final game of the season.
After a lost fumble less than a yard short of the goal line.
After a 57 yards field goal.
After a crazy comeback touchdown pass.
But the refs still had 8 seconds one the clock.
8 seconds.
Chris Johnson hadn't returned a kickoff for TD all year, and wouldn't do it on this one either. It took him 4 seconds to get tackled.
4 seconds.
So we called a variation of a favorite play: "I-right PA FB flat".
This time we swap the WRs for a favorable matchup, because we know we're going to DeSean Jackson.
This time we audible to let the FB block.
This time we audible to let the HB block.
This time we audible to let the TE block.
Ryan gets hit just as he releases, and the ball flies high into the night sky.
Speed kills, now go catch it.
Catch it in stride, don't get caught from behind.
perfect season maintained
Next up:
Playoffs.
End of season awards
This moment was the spark that ignited a powder keg of craziness:
"Woah! Check this grass out!"
How do we get to that? Let's go back a few weeks because the 4th quarter of the season start in Week 14 in Arizona.
Week 14 at Cardinals:
Going scoreless in the 1st quarter, the Cardinals who are quarterbacked by Phillip Rivers, put up 32 points in the second quarter. Another 10 points in the 3rd quarter means that they were leading the score 42-34. One touchdown and a 2 point conversion was what we needed in the 4th quarter, but we hadn't stopped Rivers all day.
Bernard Morris started the game, because of the injury by Matt Ryan, but Morris shit the bed pretty badly and we needed to come back in the second half badly, so even though he was injured, we decided to drug Ryan up and let him play. Painkillers are a blessing as long as you are aware of the dangers of dependence. “It only takes a little to lose a lot”. So seriously: be careful with that stuff.
Ryan went crazy and made it rain bombs on the cardinals. Connecting with DeSean Jackson 5 times for 254 yards. Yes, that's about 51 yards per catch.
Needless to say, we scored enough (22) in the 4th to overcome the deficit and preserve our perfect season.
DRC had another blocked FG returned for TD. This guy is like a reverse kicker, but just as clutch.
Going pass happy meant that Chris Johnson only had 84 yards. 41 yards shy of what is needed for the 2000 yard season.
Week 15 vs Jets
The Jets are a good team with Dunta Robinson, Asante Samuel, Bart Scott and Brodrick Bunkley on defense.
Their pass defense is pretty good and I wanted to make up some yards with Chris Johnson, so we had a run heavy game plan.
This shortened the game, and in the end CJ had 29 carries for 137 yards. That looks like a good day, but that's only a 4.7 yard average. Much shorter than his 8.3 per carry average on the season. Bernard Morris was still the starter due to Matt Ryan's injury, and he went only 5 of 10 with 1 TD.
DRC had yet another blocked kick for TD.
Our offense only scored 26 points, but our defense played lights out with a pick by 3rd round pick ROLB Ezra Butler and... defensive tackle Brian Johnston, we sacked Alex Smith 5 times. He spend the rest of the night in the Mercy Hospital Buffalo. They only scored 12.
pictured: not a hotel
Week 16 vs Patriots:
Matt Ryan returned fully healthy and was named the starter again.
Chris Johnson had 1695 with 2 games to play. Which means that he needed 305 yards over 2 games. 150+ per game. It could be done, but required a run heavy game plan to pull it off. Not really my play style as I like to wing it and swing it in the passing game on first and second down.
It's official. I hate Rex fucking Grossman. No, not personally, I'm sure he does wonderful charity work for the Boys and Girls Club of America. (I guess the name "Kids Club USA" was already taken)
Anyway, F that guy.
He went 19 of 30 for 230 yards like it's nothing. Well, with my defense...
This season, the guy over 2 games went 45/73 for 564 yards, 7 sacks, 3 TDs and 2 picks.
They went 4-12 so I won't be meeting them in the playoffs.
We came out with a run heavy game plan, but the Patriot defense was a hard nut to crack.
At the end of the first half we were behind 14-19. I got a bit nervous, because Patriots linebackers Boss Bailey and Nick Barnett flew all over the field, cornerbacks Antrel Rolle and Roderick Hood allowed 0 (zero) passes on the day and Safety/weapon-X Brian Dawkins cleaned up anything that the first 10 guys let through.
The 3rd quarter was quite even, but only in the 4th did I manage to get a few passes deep and made the score 46-31.
Johnson ran for 144 yards, so he would have to have a big last game of the season to make it to 2000.
The first half was a big warning for me. And it was only a sign of things to come...
Week 17 vs Dolphins:
This is where our story had started.
We had 2 objectives:
1: win
2: Chris Johnson had 1839 yards coming into this game. 161 short of 2000. It was a secondary goal, but I would be embarrassed writing this journal winning out but not accomplishing this goal.
3: DRC was second on the DROY voting, it would take a great game of him to jump to 1st place.
And so we kick off the Craziest Game I Have Ever Played.
On the very first play of the game, David Carr goes deep to Santonio Holmes for a 83 yards TD pass. The guy has stolen our playbook!!
Alright. Fair enough. We do have a team of low AWR guys and they do seem to bite on double moves and play fakes.
We receive the kickoff and call a run play to get CJ the carries he needs to get to 2000. The guy goes full Terminator and runs for an 84 yards touchdown.
That's right. We had played only 29 seconds of game clock and the score was 6-7 (we failed on our conversion).
But that was only the start of this crazy game...
The Dolphins then marched down the field and scored a field goal making it 6-10, nothing bad.
We scored too making it 14-10.
In the second quarter Chris Johnson was close to his 2000 yard mark, so I was not concerned that he would get this anymore. But at the end of the second quarter I threw an ugly pick and the Dolphins scored on their drive making it 14-17 going into half time.
On the opening drive of the second half I scored a nice TD 22-17.
The Dolphins made me pay with a TD and jumped me 22-23.
I will be honest and admit I got completely arrogant at the start of the 4th quarter. Arrogance means an ego needs some repair because I got my ass kicked in the progress. Chris Johnson got his 2000 yards, so I started to run 2007 star Rod "HE HATE ME" Smart some plays, I wanted to run Anthony Aldridge a bit more, I wanted to get Bernard Morris more reps. I even wanted to get Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie more stats so he could be DROY. In all this, predictably, I lost sight of the only thing that was important: winning.
I gave the nod to Morris to close the 4th quarter and win the game. His legs are better and I wasn't planning to go deep a lot. We had a solid drive.
But then, with about 3 minutes remaining, this game went crazy. This game went into... the Twilight Zone.
tuuduuduuuduuu
23-22 down, with about 3 minutes left on the clock, I wanted to score and stop the Dolphins once in order to win. Morris still came in on short downs because Bernard Morris is an accomplished scrambler. On one particular play, we came out 5 wide and the defense played cover 2 man under, I saw a lot of daylight/grass/money in front of him and made a dash for it.
see daylight
land on your head
He was tackled juuuuuuuust short of the end zone and... fumbled into the end zone.
Touchback Dolphins.
With only 1 point between the teams this meant a whole lot. The Dolphins drove the field and I was in clock management territory, burning 2 time outs before the 2 minute warning. I stopped the Dolphins and they went for a 57 yards field goal with 1:52 remaining. I had lined up DRC like always to block the kick, but I missed the block and rookie kicker Coutu made the 57 yarder. Crazy! 22-26
nice kick, kiddo
This all meant I had to score with under 2 minutes and only 1 time out because I burned 2 on the Dolphins' drive.
We received the kickoff and started to grind for some yards. I know what everyone's saying "just bomb it" but scoring quickly only gives the opponent enough time to score and win the game. You know how every quarterback turns into Superman at the end of a half. I didn't want to do that.
We arrived around the 50 yard line with only 30 seconds remaining.
Then, with about 25 seconds remaining I thought "that's enough" and tried a few passes deep and one connected for a 51 score, pretty much sealing the win and a perfect 16-0 record. 30-26... or so I thought.
Then I somehow completely shanked the kickoff, giving the ball at their 45 yard line. But with only 17 seconds remaining this could still be stopped with a defense that doesn't get burned deep.
Carr passed deep and completed. Time out. Carr passed into the end zone. Catch. Touchdown. And so, with 8 seconds remaining in the season, the Dolphins made it 30-32 for them. What I didn't want to happen, happened. I left too much time on the clock for them to come back.
All of the fans. Everyone watching at home had seen this team come from being the laughing stock, the losers, become the unbeatable. "HOF" they said. "can't lose" they said. And here they are. Losing in the final seconds of the final game of the season.
After a lost fumble less than a yard short of the goal line.
After a 57 yards field goal.
After a crazy comeback touchdown pass.
But the refs still had 8 seconds one the clock.
8 seconds.
Chris Johnson hadn't returned a kickoff for TD all year, and wouldn't do it on this one either. It took him 4 seconds to get tackled.
4 seconds.
So we called a variation of a favorite play: "I-right PA FB flat".
This time we swap the WRs for a favorable matchup, because we know we're going to DeSean Jackson.
This time we audible to let the FB block.
This time we audible to let the HB block.
This time we audible to let the TE block.
Ryan gets hit just as he releases, and the ball flies high into the night sky.
Speed kills, now go catch it.
Catch it in stride, don't get caught from behind.
perfect season maintained
Next up:
Playoffs.
End of season awards
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