Regular Season Game Week 1

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WEEK ONE! 

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In our week one match up, we have to face the Pittsburgh Steelers who have a pretty mediocre team. They have a good quarterback in Ben Roethlisberger but an excellent running back in Le'veon Bell. On the offensive line they are okay but our defensive line is okay too so our chances of not allowing Bell to run allover our defense. Apart from Bell, we'll need to worry about the Steelers wide receivers, more specifically, Antonio Brown. The reason Antonio Brown that makes is so great is that he catches everything that is thrown his way and also he is fast. Now when you have a player who can not only blow through coverage and catch any pass thrown to him ... your in for a long afternoon. 

Game Summary: 

My strategy for this game was to RUN! RUN! RUN! Unfortunately, our defense didn't manage to keep the Steelers offense off the field but our strategy proved to momentarily work because by the 2nd quarter we had the lead 20-17. Sadly, in the second quarter, our starting running back, David Wilson, broke his collarbone and wasn't able to return to the game. From that moment, our run game wasn't as effective as it was so we were forced to start throwing the ball and that hurt would hurt us later in the game. Going into the 4th quarter, we had a 30-17 lead. Now when you have such a huge lead, you want to start to take time off the clock by running the ball right through the teeth of the defense. But to no surprise, we weren't able to do that, so threw the ball a whole lot more than I would've liked for him to. Due to the lack of running game,the Steelers were able to  outscore us in the fourth quarter 24-3. Weirdly enough, we had 2 opportunities to either win or tie the game but Derek Carr threw two separate interceptions that gave them the ball back and negated any opportunity we had of winning the game. 

Final Score: Oak 33 - 41 Pitt 

Things We Need to Improve On:

• Passing - Though we ran the ball the majority of the time we were on offense and he threw a touchdown, Derek Carr didn't really have a good game because when we needed to throw the ball Derek wasn't able to deliver. 
• Pass Defense - Our pass defense wasn't great because we allowed Big Ben to throw for 358 Yards and 3 touchdowns on our defense but i mostly contribute this to our young and inexperienced defensive backs. 

The Off-Season

As I said before, this team is practically empty. As in we only have a 20 players when we need at least 53 by the start of the regular season.

FREE AGENCY:

To start free agency I targeted every top tier free agent at all the positions we needed. Unfortunately, not everyone accepted the contracts I offered them so I wasn't able to fill all the positions I wanted. 

The top free agent that I signed was Corner Back Prince Amukamara to a five year contract worth a total of 54.5 Million Dollars. At the moment, his 26 years old which means that his contract should end when his around the age of 30 or 31 and that good because that when his skills start to deteriorate.

Next, I signed I signed 28 year old Defensive Tackle Henry Melton to a 4 year deal worth a total of 22 Million Dollars. 

To just get a free safety, I signed 27 year old Kendrick Lewis. I don't expect Kendrick to be a starter his whole stent her because I hope to draft a better guys in future years. 

To fill our  needs at Wide Receiver, I signed 25 year old Jarrett Boykin who caught 80 passes for 841 yards and 8 Touchdown so we hope that we get that type of production for him. 

My plan was to draft a couple of offensive lineman in the draft, so just in case my drafted offensive lineman didn't pan out, I signed Veteran Tackle Tyson Clabo to a 2 year deal worth 3.44 Million dollars. 

THE DRAFT: 

I had the 10th overall pick, so I was conflicted on whether to go with a Tackle or a Corner Back. So I talked about the conflict with my mentor, Keron Smith,and we ultimately decided to draft a Tackle. I made this decision because, in my division, I have to face the Denver Broncos, the Kansas City Chiefs, and the San Diego Chargers who all have great defensive lines. Also, I scouted a Corner back that I thought was good and was projected to be drafted in the sixth round. 

Draft picks:

1st Round - Left Tackle - Kirk Lane - 88 Overall

2nd Round - Corner Back - Derek Burnett - 73 Overall

3rd Round - Right Tackle - Owamagbe Ogbonna - 73 Overall

4th Round - Left End - Edivaldo McKinney - 68 Overall 

5th Round - Corner Back - Priest Maclin - 78 Overall

6th Round - Wide Receiver - Sergia Black - 64 Overall 

7th Round - Kicker - Justin Perkins - 61 Overall 

Overall Thoughts: 

Overall, I am pleased with the drat, in the sense that I have found 2 players that are key to a championship win in our future in Kirk Lane and Priest Maclin but we'll see how they develop as the season progresses.

A Major Screw Up (that Leads to...) A New Beginning

Knowing that my team was just awful and wouldn't win that much, I decided that I would spare my time and simulate the rest of the season. At the end of the season, all was good until I got the news that I had been FIRED by The Tampa Bay Buccaneers after going 2 and 14. Fortunately for me, the ultimate goal of my project is to rebuild a bad team and win the Super bowl with them so to my luck, I was offered a Job by arguably the second worse team in the NFL, the Oakland Raiders. Another instance that fell in my favor is its the Raiders not only have the 9th overall pick (which is a minor downgrade from the Bucks 1st overall pick) by they have 95 MILLION DOLLARS in cap space which is important because they barely have anyone on their roster so i'll need to figure put how to allocate my money and what position are most important to me for the type of scheme i'm trying to run.

Contract Details: 

I signed a 3 year contract for 5.05 Million Dollars. 

TEAM NEEDS:

EVERYTHING!  

THIS ROSTER IS EMPTIER THAN A EMPTY! WE HAVE NO DEPTH AND AT MOST POSITIONS... NO PLAYERS!

Week 3

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GAME 3

VS

In our 3rd game of the season we look to bounce back from our two loses as we go to Georgia Dome to face the Atlanta Falcons. The Falcons attributes are that they have a great quarterback, Great receivers, terrible offensive line, and a pathetic defensive. Though there defense is a bad as ours, they have a great young corner in Desmond Trufant who will be faced with the challenge of facing our stud number one receiver, Mike Evans. 

Important Note:

From now on, I'm not going to spend too much time talking about the games because I am trying to lose 14 games so that I can get the first overall pick, then draft my desired player and build from that. 

Final  Score: 

The game ends with us losing 32-34. I would've given myself an opportunity to win the game when they had the ball on their side of the field with 3 minutes left. But fortunately, I didn't wasn't paying much attention and I didn't call timeouts when I needed to so they held the ball till the end of the game.

Regular Season Game 2

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Game 2 

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In game 2 of the regular season, we face a team in the Sam Bradford led St. Louis Rams who in a lot of ways are similar to the Carolina Panthers. Like the Carolina Panthers, the Rams have a great defense and a pretty mediocre offense. So our offensive line without Logan Mankins vs Their Phenomenal Defensive line is a key match up to worry about.

On the first offensive drive for the Rams, they quickly take the ball down the field and score a touchdown rushing the ball with Zach Stacy. 

On our first offensive drive, we were doing pretty good until our tight end Luke Stocker dropped a pass on 3rd down that would've given us a 1st down and put us pass the 50 yard line.

During the Game, our defense kept allowing the Rams offense to take the ball down the field but only for them to kick a field goal because we played great redzone defense. I promise you, in the first three quarters, if we consistently played defense the way we do when they get in the redzone, we'll be a superbowl contender in NO TIME. On the other hand, our redzone offense was TERRIBLE! When we got in the redzone, we played like a division 10 college football team, and I'm pretty sure that there is no division 10 but if they started one, they should add our offense to the league. The sad part about this is that we have Mike Evans who is built for redzone situations where all I need to do is just throw it up and he'll make some type of play. But our problems at the quarterback position continued to show. 

After the first quarter, I saw that Tyler Wilson wasn't having a good game as he completed 6 out of his 14 attempted passes so I made a gutsy call and decided to bench him for our 3rd string Rookie quarterback in Seth Lobato. When Lobato Came in, he wasn't but he was definitely better than Wilson. I would take most of the blame Lobato not being as efficient as he could potentially been because I kept throwing the ball down the field even when we didn't need to so that affected his completion percentage and QBR, but he was pretty average... nothing special. 

Rushing the ball, Everyone was pretty good, but Bobby Rainey on the other hand was ATROCIOUS!

He ran the ball four times to only gain ONE YARD!! While averaging .3 YARDS A CARY! I cant even blame the offensive line for this because Doug Martin got over a hundred yards on 21 carries while our FULL BACK Jorvorkskie Lane and 3rd string Half Back Charles Sims got 9 yards on 2 attempts. 

Honestly, with the current QB situation we have I need to run the ball a whole lot more and I cant accomplish that with Bobby Rainey running the way he did this game.

On the receiving side of the ball, Mike Evans had himself another Fantastic game catching 11 balls for 127 yards. I know its early in the season but this kid has lived up to the hype and can surpass the high expectations I already have for him. He, Doug Martin, and (when he gets back) Mike Glennon would carry this team for years to come. 

Our offensive line was alright and that's about it for them.

On defense, Lavonte David lead the team with 9 total tackles. Johnathan Banks (yes, the cornerback who is suppose to be down the field covering receivers) somehow always found himself in the backfield sacking the quarterback as he led the team with 2 sacks. 

Im sorry for making this sort of an after thought but the game ended in overtime, as the Rams Drove down the field to score the game winning touchdown.

FINAL SCORE: 32-26