WEEK FOUR
Cincinnati Bengals
(1-2)
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| Oakland Raiders (2-1) |
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Pregame Notes:
- The Cincinnati Bengals Have...
- An above average QB in Andy Dalton
- Two great Running backs in Jeremy Hill and Giovani Bernard
- 3 great top receivers in A.J. Green, Mohamed Sanu. and rookie Bryant Patterson
- A pretty good offensive line
- The weak spot is at the center position
- One of the best Defensive Tackles in the NFL in Geno Atkins
- A weak secondary (players that play the corner back and safety position)
Final Score: Cin 34 - 41 Oak
Game Takeaways:
- Defense
- We had a bad overall performance
- allowed over 400 yards
- 338 yards passing
- Kept Giovani Bernard and Jeremy Hill under a hundred yards
- They ran the ball a total of 23 times
- We had a hard time stopping TE (Tight End) Tyler Eifert
- Recorded 10 receptions for 146 yards and a touchdown
- Defensive Tackle Henry Melton had a good game
- Recorded 2 sacks
- Offense
- We had a good overall performance
- Got 377 yards
- 153 rushing
- 224 passing
- Derek played amazing
- Recorded a 135.0 QBR (quarterback rating)
- Threw for 250 yards
- Threw 2 touchdowns
- Completed 61 percent of passes
- averaged 12 yards per pass attempt
- Kenjon Barner also played great
- Got 152 yards on 19 rushing attempts
- Averaged 8 yards a carry
- Longest rush was 60 yards
- Team
- Despite having a great time rushing the ball, we lost the possession battle by allowing the Bengals to have their offense on the field for 32 minutes and 39 seconds compared to our 19 minutes and 21 seconds
- This is bad because the longer their offense is on the field the more of defense gets tired and the more our defense gets tired, the more our not so good backups play which gives the Bengals offense to gain over 400 yards like the did today
PLAYER OF THE GAME (POTG):
The player of the game goes to Kenjon Barner for his great rushing performance.
WEEK FIVE
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| Oakland Raiders (3-1) |
Week five is our bye week. In the NFL, a bye week is a (for lack of better phrases) an off week for the NFL players and coaches. But since I'm playing a video game, I don't have an off week. This bye week came at the right time because we had a myriad of players coming off injuries. Some of these players include our great rookie Left Tackle Kirk Lane, our 6th round draft pick Sergio Black and our free agent signing David Wilson.
Our next game will be against the Minnesota Vikings. Before I took on this project, I had a Connected Franchise with the Minnesota Vikings. And they aren't completely similar but their are some uncanny similarities. Like us, the Vikings have 2 seconds year players that will be the cornerstones of their franchise for years to come. Ironically enough, they all play the same position. The Vikings have Anthony Barr who plays Left Outside Linebacker (like Khalil Mack). Also, they have Teddy Bridgewater who plays quarterback (JUST LIKE DEREK CARR!!). Along with those two players, the Vikings have a rookie offensive guard,in John Dalton, that they could build their interior offensive line around (similar to our right guard Gabe Jackson). If you didn't think that was weird enough, they have a 20 year old starting rookie Left Tackle called Travis Lane (I don't know this for a fact but I am convinced that he is the brother of our 21 year old starting rookie Left Tackle Kirk Lane). One more blaring Similarity is that they have two good corners in Xavier Rhodes and Captain Munnerlyn. A couple of difference is that they have one of the best running backs in the NFL in Adrian Peterson.
WEEK SIX
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| Oakland Raiders (3-1) |
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| Minnesota Vikings (4-1) |
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KICKOFF!!
This week we are on the road at TCF Bank stadium to face the Minnesota Vikings. As I said earlier, the Vikings have the best running back in the NFL, Adrian Peterson, and our task for today is to keep him under 100 yards. Unfortunately for us, we couldn't even keep him under 200 yards. This Vikings team had one plan and they executed it to perfection. The Vikings game plan was to run the ball down the teeth of our defense and then when they felt like it they would throw the ball without a problem because there was always a threat of them running the ball. The benefit of having such a good running game is that you open up the play action. If you have an effective running game, the play action, late in the game, become your best friend. The play action is basically a Quarterback faking that he would hand the ball off to the running back, then either throwing the ball down the field or throw a quick pass to a tight end or the slot receiver cutting across the field, depending on the play call.
Final Score: Oak 27 - 52 Minn
Game Takeaways
- Defense
- Overall Terrible Performance
- Allowed almost 300 yards rushing
- Adrian Peterson ran for over 200 Yards
- Teddy Bridgewater Completed 80 percent of his passes
- Completed 12 of passes
- They had more rushing yards than our whole offense gained yards
- As a team, they got 297 yards
- Offense
- Derek Carr had a below average game
- Passed for 230 Yards
- Threw a Touchdown and an interception
- Had a 76.3 Quarterback Rating
- Completed 56 Percent of his passes
- Kenjon Barner didn't perform well
- Had a total of 62 yards
- Averaged 3.4 yards a carry
- Jeremy Maclin had the best receiving performance of both teams
- Caught 6 Passes for 90 yards
- Team
- Terrible performance on both sides of the ball. This was a blowout at halftime when the score was 28-6. Then it went to 38-6 at the end of the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, our offense finally decided that they had a game to play and they started scoring some points as we scored 21 points in the quarter.
POTG: Due to the fact that nobody perfomed well, there isn't a player of the game
WEEK SEVEN
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| San Diego Chargers (0-5) |
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| Oakland Raiders (3-2) |
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Today we play against the San Diego Chargers who haven't won a single game this season and also this is a home game for us so we have the odds in our favor. The significance of this game is that we have our rookie Wide Receiver Glenn Gaitor and our Half Back David Wilson returning from injury. As you may remember, earlier this season, Wilson was my starting running back till he got hurt. When he got hurt, I signed Kenjon Barner to take his place and I like the performances that Barner has had. In week 3 against the Cleveland Browns, he rushed for 125 yards averaging 4.6 yards a carry then the following week against the Cincinnati Bengals, he rushed for 152 yards averaging 8 yards a carry. With all those good performance in mind I was pretty conflicted on who to start. So I decided that I would stay with the hot hand and keep Barner as my starter. As a matter of fact, Wilson didn't even play in this game.
The Chargers have a pretty solid 11 year veteran starting Quarter Back in Philip Rivers.
At running back the Chargers have a lot of depth as a matter of fact, their 4th string running back is good enough to become our starting running back.
The Wide Receiver that we'll have to worry about is Kennan Allen. But I trust our corner Prince Amukamara to keep him under a hundred receiving yards.
The Chargers have 2 great tackles in Left Tackle Branden Albert and Right Tackle D'Brickshaw Ferguson. But their interior offensive lineman are that good.
The Chargers have a pretty weak defensive line headlined by rookie Left End Malik Chaney. The Chargers Linebackers are pretty average with the weak spot being at Right Outside Linebacker Jerry Attaochu.
The defensive backs for the Chargers are pretty good at free safety, they have one of the best Free safeties in the league in Eric Weddle. They also have two great corners Brandon Flowers and Jason Verrett.
Lucky for us, they are missing a lot of their starters. They are missing: RB Ryan Mathews, MLB Donald Butler, ROLB Melvin Ingram, DT Paul Soliai, WR Danario Alexander
KICKOFF!! - Thursday Night 8:20 PM at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.
This game was pretty weird in the sense that it was closer than I expected it to be. I expected us to decimate the Chargers considering that most of their key players were hurt while the majority of our guys are healthy.
At halftime the score was tied at 10. Then in the beginning of the fourth quarter, the score was 17-13. In the fourth quarter, we managed to extend the score to 30-13. In the last two minutes, the Chargers drove down the field and scored a touchdown to make the score 20-30. Then proceed to successfully recover an onside kick. After they recovered the onside kick they drove the field to score another touchdown as time expired to make the score 27-30
FINAL SCORE: SD 27 - 30 OAK
POTG: This weeks player of the game is MLB Chris Borland
-Borland recorded 13 tackles, 3 sacks and 4 Tackles for Loss (TFL).
GAME TAKEAWAYS
- Defense
- Our defense allowed the Chargers offense to gain 447 yards
- 115 yards passing
- 332 Yards rushing
- We got a lot of pressure on the Quarterback
- Recorded 9 sacks
- MLB Chris Borland recorded 3
- RE Ryan Davis recorded 3
- DT Henry Melton Recorded 2
- Rookie DT Tavarus Steward recorded 1
- Danny Woodhead rushed for over a hundred yards
- Averaged 6.7 yards a carry
- Fumbled once
- Offense
- Our offensive line did a good job protecting Derek Carr
- Only got sacked once
- Rookie RT Owamagbe Ogbonna got 2 pancakes (when an offensive lineman runs over a defender)
- Derek Carr had another below average game
- Threw for 176 yards
- Threw 2 Touchdowns and 2 Interceptions
- Recorded a 68.1 QBR
- Completed 56 percent of his passes
- Completed 17 of 30 attempted passes
- Kenjon Barner Rushed for over a hundred yards again
- Average 6.2 yards a carry
- Fumbled once
- David Wilson did not play
- Team
- We can't keep allowing quarterbacks to throw all over us like they did
- Derek Carr needs to get improve his performances
- We got 3 turnovers
- We were dominated in the time of possesion battle once again
- They had ball for 27 minutes and 36 seconds
- we had ball for 24 minutes and 24 seconds
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| Green Bay Packers (5-2) |
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| Oakland Raiders (4-2) |
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Similar to the Vikings, Bengals, and Lions, the Packers have a great Quarterback and a great Runningback. In real life, their starting quarterback (Aaron Rodgers) was voted Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the NFL. And their starting running back, Eddie Lacy, won the rookie of the year award in the 2013-2014 season. In this game, I thought that we were going to lose but then in the first quarter Aaron Rodgers got hurt and it was our chance to capitalize on this sad situation (for them) and win! Then again ... they do have Eddie Lacy *rolls eyes*. A couple of plays after Aaron Rodgers get hurt, Derek Carr gets a concussion and misses the rest of the game which made the game the battle of the backup quarterbacks. The Packers have Scott Tolzien and we have Matt Moore.
FINAL SCORE: GB 23 - 36 OAK
Game Takeaways
- Defense
- Our defense allowed 389 yards
- 78 yards rushing
- 311 yards passing
- Kendrick Lewis was our leading tackler
- recorded 10 tackles
- We only got one sack on the quarterback
- Henry Melton recorded one sack
- We forced Scott Tolzien to throw 2 Interceptions
- Prince Amukamara caught one
- Priest Maclin caught one
- We kept Eddie Lacy under a hundred yards
- Got 52 yards on 15 attempts
- Offense
- For the time Derek Carr was on the field, he was mediocre
- Recorded a 67.1 QBR
- Threw a Touchdown and Interception
- Completed 55 percent of his passes
- Matt Moore played well in replacement for Carr
- Threw 136 yards
- Recorded a 117.6 QBR
- Completed 66 percent of his passes
- Our offensive line didn't perform well
- Allowed Matt Moore to get sacked 3 times
- Didn't give many running lanes for Kenjon Barner
- He got 87 yards on 23 rush attempts
- Team
- We were okay, the Aaron Rodgers injury definitely helped us out. We did good limiting Eddie Lacy.
POTG: Matt Moore
Matt Moore's job was to come in and not screw anything up, and he did that well.
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