Week 17 Discussion

[Delandis]

Well we lose against Kalispel but it is all good because we didn't play starters.

We end the regular season 11-5 and our fourth straight ACN Division title.

This year we get to play the Showboats in the WC round. We are relatively healthy for the first time since we started consistently making the playoffs.

I'm really proud of this team because I expected us to take a step back looking at some the ratings hits we took, but this team headed by Granberry and Sheldon just keeps on truckin'.

Good luck, Memphis.


But not too much of it. :)

[Guest]

Sisco broke the Denver records for rushing yards in a season, yards per carry, rushing touchdowns, yards from scrimmage and all-purpose yards.

I would say he was a big reason why we posted our best regular season record since 2033.

[Guest]

GG bomber.

Well, we did what we needed to do to pull out a victory. Unfortunately, it looks like Boston wins the tiebreaker which, for the wildcard, is conference record.

We won 6 of our last 7 to make it an interesting finish, at least. But the one loss in the last 7 was to Boston, and that was the difference maker for us.

At least the NC East has two horses in the race, I hope one of you guys takes it down!

As for our game, our goal was to try to run the ball and throw a bunch of short stuff, using up the clock and, when we couldn't score, working field position. Unfortunately, we fell behind near the end of the game and needed some big time 4Q Heroics from Sage to make it happen. Now that our season is over, it looks like Sage is finally getting familiar with our offense.

This game was like our season.. Disappointing and heartbreaking. First time we finished with less then 10 wins in maybe 10 years. Good game Irish guy.

[Guest]

This game was like our season.. Disappointing and heartbreaking. First time we finished with less then 10 wins in maybe 10 years. Good game Irish guy.

Was that when you went 0-16?

[Guest]

It was an interesting finale, but our defense was on fire this week. Just a suffocating performance resulting in our 8th straight win and a playoff berth after starting the season 1-7. Friggin crazy. We get to test our mettle fittingly in the first round of the playoffs against Boston, another cinderella story of a team that recovered from a 1-5 start to make the playoffs. Problems for us: We lost two starting OL in the final game of the season. We'll be hurting bad at that spot and that does not bode well. Our defense is going to have to play an incredible game and Britt Buchanan is going to have to play like a magician behind the piecemeal quintet we'll be running out there.

GG ira, we couldn't get touchdowns, but we managed to kick you to death, which sounds much more gruesome. It wasn't pretty, but a win is a win.

great season Julio!
what a return from the dead for your team
you better represent the NC West in the playoffs!!

[RyanG]

Spoiler

Phantoms finish the season on a positive note with a 25-17 win over the Gladiators. We finish the season 7-9 after going 0-4 in the first quarter of the season for the second year running. We will need a much better start next season.

gg RyanG

Good luck in the playoffs everyone

Good game. It's sorta tough to gameplan when the temp is 2 degrees. You guys were better than us, which we can say for every team we played this season.

What a terrible season for us. Didn't matter which QB we used, both sucked. With White in, we just had more sacks and QB fumbles than Reilly. The only good things to come out of this season is that we have the #1 pick in the draft, and a good running game with Bush (1207 yards, 8 TD, 4.97 yards per carry). We'll also try again this year to trade away the players that we have so that we can get this team turned around quickly.

[IrishGuy65]

This game was like our season.. Disappointing and heartbreaking. First time we finished with less then 10 wins in maybe 10 years. Good game Irish guy.

You've got to remember that our division is a strong division, with basically 4 playoff caliber teams, and it's going to be hard to get 10 wins. You were 7-3 outside our division, so our division is where you got killed. Boston and SMD were both 3-3, and Camden was 5-1. Whichever team has the best division record is usually going to win the division, because it is that close.

I personally enjoy the tough division and hope we can continue to have an all out brawl in the division every season. It's exciting.