BDL 2019 Week 1 - Seoul Dragons @ Singapore Sentinels

[Whicker]

BDL 2018 Week 1

Match:  Seoul Dragons @ Singapore Sentinels

Away Owner: @TedLavie

Home Owner: @SirA1

   

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Good luck to you both

Edited September 11, 2019 by Whicker

[Whicker]

Seoul Dragons

QB Derek Carr

RB David Johnson

WR TY Hilton

WR Tyrell Williams

TE Travis Kelce

TE Austin Hopper

LT Ronnie Stanley

LG Rodger Saffold

C Austin Reiter

RG Laurent Duverney-Tardiff

RT Donald Penn

 

Bench RB Jordan Howard

Bench RB Kenyan Drake

Bench WR Jamison Crowder

Bench WR Keke Coutee (Q)

Bench WR Demarcus Robinson

Bench TE Gerald Everett

Bench OL Mike Person

Bench OL Ty Nsekhe

 

ROLB Bradley Chubb

DE Grady Jarrett

NT Eddie Goldman

DE Linval Joseph

LOLB Melvin Ingram

MLB CJ Mosley

CB Darius Slay

CB Ronald Darby

CB Kendall Fuller

FS Justin Reid

SS Jaquiski Tartt

 

Bench Edge Derek Barnett

Bench Edge Romeo Okwara

Bench Int Maliek Collins

Bench Int Ryan Glasgow

Bench LB Shaq Thompson

Bench LB Nigel Bradham

Bench CB Sidney Jones

Bench S Marcus Williams

 

 

Singapore Sentinels

QB: Aaron Rodgers
RB1: James Conner
FB: Kyle Juszczyk
WR1: Josh Gordon
WR2: Keenan Allen
TE1: Darren Waller
LT: Joe Staley 
LG: Lane Taylor
C: Eric McCoy
RG: Billy Turner
RT: Marcus Cannon
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RB2: Le’Veon Bell
RB3: Latavius Murray
TE2: Eric Ebron
WR3: Corey Davis
WR4: DaeSean Hamilton 
WR5: Marqise Lee
OL6: Duane Brown 
OL7: Weston Richburg

DE: Aaron Donald
NT: Damon Harrison
DE: Montravius Adams
OLB: Danielle Hunter
ILB: Deion Jones
ILB:Jaylon Smith 
OLB: Preston Smith
CB: Bradley Roby
CB: Trae Waynes
FS: Jesse Bates III
SS: John Johnson III 
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NCB: Desmond King II
CB/S3: Kareem Jackson
CB4: Jason McCourty
OLB3: Everson Griffen 
OLB4: Carl Lawson
DL4: Shelby Harris
DL5: Bilal Nichols
ILB3: Chris Board

[Whicker]

Seoul Dragons

New times in Seoul with most of the core of the consecutive BizzBowl appearances team gone. New QB, new interior DL, new LB crew but we expect the same domination over our division, and it starts with Singapore, our Asian rival. 

 

Offense

 

Tire Singapore front.There’s no way around it, Singapore has a daunting starting DL. But it’s pretty thin. Snacks Harrison is a great run defender but he’s only able to play around 50% of the snaps at this point of his career, Shelby Harris and Adams also are part time players and there’s no one behind them. That would mean Aaron Donald has to play a bunch of snaps. We’ll have a fast tempo offense so we can play as many snaps as we can in this game. The goal is to tire out this defense to limit Donald impact as the game goes on and to open up running lanes down the road. We’ll start the game by going with running the ball a lot with split carries between Johnson and Howard, Howard being the most powerful of all my backs. We’ll target heavily Hunter side as he’s a weaker run defender and, if lined up against Penn, he’s the guy we want to tire down for passing downs. Once we feel comfortable with the state of fatigue of that DL, we’ll open up our passing game a bit and Howard will gradually disappear from the field to let David Johnson handle the load, backed up by Kenyan Drake.

 

Load up the short areas and middle of the field.Our strength this year lies in our TE and RB. David Johnson, if 100%, is one of the best catching back in the NFL, and I have a trio of solid TEs to play. We expect Deion Jones and Jaylon Smith on Kelce and Johnson. We’ll target them anyway, as we think they can win their matchups. If Singapore decides to line up a safety on one of them, then Kelce/Johnson becomes even more involved. Our TE2 will also be featured a bit, whether it’s Hopper (who will play more early, ie. Jordan Howard) and Everett (who will be more featured in the later parts of the game). We will not go for the big play early, looking more to move the chains and multiply the number of snaps our offense plays.

 

Let our WRs win their 1vs1.As Singapore defensive resources may focus more on our TEs/RBs, that should give us interesting matchups outside that will be more and more looked for throughout the game. Simply put, there’s not one corner from Singap who scares us, besides Desmond King who’s more a slot corner. If he’s matched up vs TY Hilton, we’ll take a some deep shots to him at the end of quarters and in the whole 4^thquarter. Tyrell Williams will be used deep on a couple of occasions too, but we will also use his size to move the chains quite often as we like this matchup vs Tray Waynes or whatever corner Singapore uses on him. We will also try to isolate Kelce or Johnson outside to throw off Singapore defense and force them to give out their defensive coverage. 

 

Pass protection and pre-snap movement.The challenge of playing Singapore is obviously slowing down that pass rush. First, expect a lot of quick passes and screens to catch this DL off-guard and use their aggressiveness against them. As for the blocking, we’ll let everyone block their guy, with obviously a focus on Donald with the center helping LDT/Saffold on occasion. If there’s a matchup that screws us (mostly the Penn vs Hunter matchup), we’ll adjust and slide protection to this side or use a TE to chip in. Hopefully, our run/quick passes limits slow down this pass rush until they eventually get exhausted. We’ll also use our versatility to have a lon of pre-snap movement and find the matchup we like on any given snap.

 

Tldr: up-tempo offense. Start with a lot of running and short passes, then open up the passing game

 

 

Defense

 

Contain outside, attack inside.The weakness of this OL is inside, and we want to attack it. Our heavy formation has three good to great inside defenders whose job will be to attack the middle of the field. Ingram and Chubb will have a bit of different role outside as they will be asked to play more containment, as we want to keep Arod from making plays with his legs outside the pocket. That will also help against the outside running game which is a threat against Singap. We’ll have Tartt play in the box to have two defenders in the second line of defense so we don’t get burned by Bell/Conner in the ground too.

 

Hybrid formation.Our nickel formation is shown as 3-3-5 but it will evolve throughout the games. If Singapore comes in a 1 RB 1 FB 1 TE offense Shaq comes in for Fuller. On passing downs, Goldman will leave the field for Shaq, going to a more traditional 4-2-5 formation, but we’ll often send blitzes inside to keep giving 1vs1 matchups to Joseph and Garrett. We will also have heavy 4-2-5 formations with Goldman Joseph inside and Grady as our SSE and Chubb/Ingram as our LEO, or even 4-3 formations with Ingram as SLB. Goal is to keep moving our defense so we don’t get too predictable, and use our versatility to manage critical situations better. Glasgow will rotate at the NT spot, Collins at other INT spots. Barnett and Okwara are rotation players on the edge.

 

Man coverage. We have confidence is our individual defenders to cover Singapore weapons, so we’ll play man to man most of the game. Mosley gets the RB, Tartt gets the TE, though they might switch on occasion. If on the field and not blitzing, Shaq gets the FB/RB2/TE2. Slay gets Allen outside, with Darby on Josh Gordon. Fuller mans the slot. If Allen slides in the slot, Slay gets Gordon with Darby covering the other WR

 

Tldr: attack to get big plays, even if we concede some. Overwhelm Singapore OL and play man coverage outside

 

 

SINGAPORE Week 1

Motivation - New season, new offensive leader, welcoming back an old friend, it’s time to finally slay the Dragons.

Offensive Strategy

Formations: 21 / 11 / 12 | Scheme:  Pass (58%) vs Run (42%)
 
Passing Attack/Protection Assignments
Aaron Rodgers  makes his Singapore debut against our most hated rival. He will get protection from arguably our best OL in years. Joe Staley and Marcus Cannon get the task of stopping Chubb and Ingram off the Edges, while Lane Taylor, Eric McCoy and Billy Turner keep the pocket clean.  Rodgers will have full autonomy to make calls at the line and make adjustments as needed to utilize his weapons to their best ability. Rodgers can use his legs to extend plays and will throw it away to limit turnovers in this game as controlling the ball will be the key to defeating the Dragons.
 
Josh Gordon brings his big play ability to stretch the field combined with Keenan Allen’s dominance out of the slot. These receivers use the whole route tree, allowing Rodgers to target the entire field of play. Darren Waller provides additional protection against the blitz from Seoul’s back seven, and is a reliable chain mover that becomes a big target in the Red Zone.
 
Our experienced receiving backs in James Conner (55 rec/497yds) and Kyle Juszczyk (30 rec/324yds) we will be able to shift our base 21 personnel out into the slot or send both backs out wide while Seoul tries to stop the run. Juszczyk is especially dangerous in play action where he can go on delayed passing routes to serve as a safety valve for Rodgers. All of our running backs are excellent in space and will be mismatches for Dragon’s LBs.
 
Backups Corey Davis, DaeSean Hamilton and Marqise Lee will also get work this week in 3 and 4 WR sets versus the Dragon Secondary. Eric Ebron comes in for 12 Personnel as an additional threat/blocker in short yardage situations.
 
Running Game
James Conner gets the start this week in our RBBC, landing roughly 60% of the rushing attempts.  Le’Veon Bell receives 35% of the carries allowing him to shake off any rust from not playing last season, with powerback Latavious Murray getting some tough situational yards. This will keep the base 21 personnel fresh for the entire game, increasing their chance for a big play.
 
We’ll run the ball both inside and outside against the Dragons using our FB and pulling guards to get our running backs to the second level. Once our guys hit open space they can force a missed tackle or two and get chunk yardage.
 
Defensive Strategy

Formations:   3-4 Base/ 4-2-5 (Nickel) / 3-2 Big Dime | Scheme:  Cover 1 / Man with Blitz 
 
Pressure/Run D
Fully embracing the 34 defensive switch this powerhouse trio of Aaron Donald, Damon Harrison, and Montravious Adams we believe can effectively clog any interior rushing lanes against the Seoul running backs.   Keeping a solid rotation of guys like Shelby Harris and Bilal Nichols will allow us to wear down the depleted Seoul OL. Danielle Hunter and Preston Smith will use their impressive wingspans to crash the outsides and look to confuse Carr/Murray into making mistakes. In 3rd down situations extra pass rushers like Everson Griffen and Carl Lawson will keep the pressure on Carr/Murray.
 
Jaylon Smith calls the plays and will be the extra pass rusher on stunts up the middle and will be spying on Murray if he’s in the game. Deion Jones will be used to mainly cover Travis Kelce this game as he’s one of the best cover LBs in the league. With constant pressure our front seven should be able to force a few turnovers which I think will be the key to winning this game.
 
We will dial up some zone blitzes, as well as including fake blitzes off the edge, dropping outside backers into zone coverage in an attempt to confuse their quarterback into holding onto the ball a little longer. This puts six defenders into coverage for the short and intermediate routes where we expect the Dragons to target, allowing Jaylon Smith, John Johnson and Trae Waynes to be an extra surprise rusher not accounted for by the Seoul blocking protections. With Seoul not knowing where the pass rush is coming from, Aaron Donald and company will be celebrating coverage sacks and/or fumbles by Carr (12 Fumbles)/Murray.  
 
Coverage Assignments
With injuries to Green and Coutee, I’m preparing for Hilton, Williams, Crowder and Kelce being the top receiving options this week with a second TE a possibility as well in Hooper/Everrett.
 
A healthy Deion Jones will cover Kelce underneath with a second defender in Bates over the top and should help eliminate any big plays in the seam. Hilton will be covered by Trae Waynes. Bradley Roby will cover Williams. John Johnson will be in his normal robber role while not covering the slot in the base defense. Desmond King II, the best slot CB in the BDL, will come in on nickel situations and take over the slot. In Dime situations Kareem Jackson will be the second defender on Kelce letting Jessie Bates slide to deep coverage over the top.
 
We think we can limit Carr/Murray’s options with our greatly improved secondary enough to force Seoul into making tough choices where our man coverage gives our guys a great chance to jump a route or break up the pass.

 

[SirA1]

I would like to give a big shout out to @ny92mike for a truly collaborative effort this week. Finally having a co-owner is going to pay off big time this season. 

[VigilantZombie]

Damn....idk how to vote. This one is a really good matchup 

[VigilantZombie]

Man you guys make these too hard to vote on. I gotta learn some of these formation names so I can improve my writeups.

I tend to stay away from betting against greatness. And because of the RB depth especially, I like Singapore's chances of wearing down the opponent and creating really long drives that keeps their defense off the field. If we assume this is the case, that makes tiring out Donald very difficult and there for a major part of the gameplan by Seoul , ineffective.

I like Singapore in this one, 28-13 (just for the fun of it)

[Scoundrel]

Still some key contributors yet to play so need to wait on this bad boy 

[Xmad]

I'm gonna roll with Seoul on this one. 

Both teams present excellent lineups and gameplans, I think the difference here is a medicore performance from Rodgers this week and Seoul's TEs being hard to stop for Singapore. 

 

[Whicker]

On 9/8/2019 at 7:10 PM, Whicker said:

Howard being the most powerful of all my backs.
 

Oh goodness I feel like this was put here just for me

[TedLavie]

2 hours ago, Whicker said:

Oh goodness I feel like this was put here just for me

Haha

[Hockey5djh]

I'll take Aaron Rodgers with the weaker weapons over Derek Carr with the better weapons. Plus I think Rodgers is afforded a great OL and running game.

[bcb1213]

I'm gonna go Seoul in a close matchup I saw a pretty big flaw.  Singapore kind of forgot to put anyone on David Johnson or even pay attention to him in the passing game 

[Ragnarok]

I am going to go with Seoul.  Taylor and Turner were not good for the Packers this week and pairing them with a rookie C concerns me quite a bit.    I think the Seoul DL will be able to collapse the pocket with a fair bit of frequency.  

Plus, ignoring David Johnson in the passing game is a bold strategy, but it doesn't pay off Cotton..

But this was very close.  Well done by both teams.  

[SirA1]

2 hours ago, Ragnarok said:

I am going to go with Seoul.  Taylor and Turner were not good for the Packers this week and pairing them with a rookie C concerns me quite a bit.    I think the Seoul DL will be able to collapse the pocket with a fair bit of frequency.  

Plus, ignoring David Johnson in the passing game is a bold strategy, but it doesn't pay off Cotton..

But this was very close.  Well done by both teams.  

Against the best Def in the NF league sure. Both still had decent grades this week. McCoy was baller last night too.

[SirA1]

On the plus side I was happy with the play of Darren Waller this week.

Duane Brown next man up.