SirA1 Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 (edited) BDL 2019 Week 1 Match: Rome Eternals @ Ivory Coast Black Rhinos Away Owner: @bcb1213 Home Owner: @RuskieTitan Vote for who you think would win the game. Rules:One vote per person, duplicate accounts will be banned and action taken against those attempting to rig the results. One vote per team involved in the match. Co-owners may vote in every match up except their own. For members, who have been following along, and wish to vote. Please join the conversation and maybe give a reason you voted as you did. This will alleviate any suspicions of unusual voting and will promote discussion. Note: Players that have a (D) next to their name indicate that they are doubtful or unlikely to play. Players with (Q) are game-time decisions. Good luck to you both Edited September 9, 2019 by SirA1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirA1 Posted September 9, 2019 Author Share Posted September 9, 2019 (edited) Rome Eternals Offense QB Drew Brees RB Todd Gurley Slot WR Julian Edelman WR JuJu Smith Schuster WR Amari Cooper TE OJ Howard LT Tyron Smith LG Ramon Foster C Brandon Linder RG Chris Lindstrom RT Ryan Ramczyk WR Travis Benjamin WR JJ Arcega Whiteside OL Braden Smith RB Phillip Lindsey TE Tyler Eifert RB Marlon Mack QB Mitch Trubisky OL Greg Robinson Defense Edge Ziggy Ansah NT Dalvin Tomlinson UT Gerald McCoy Edge Carlos Dunlap LB Leighton Vander EscH LB Jordan Hicks CB Marlon Humphrey CB William Jackson CB Prince Amukamara S DJ Swearinger S Tre Boston S Tashaun Gipson Edge Dante Fowler Edge Marcus Davenport LB Matt Milano DL Matt Ioannidis DL Jerry Tillery CB Nickell Robley Coleman CB Janoris Jenkins Edited September 9, 2019 by SirA1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirA1 Posted September 9, 2019 Author Share Posted September 9, 2019 (edited) Rome Eternals Offense Tempo Fast fast fast. Ivory Coast lacks depth up front so we are aiming to tire out the first four of the roster. Toting the Rock While our base is a three wide, we will run a good amount of two tight ends this game taking Cooper off the field. We want to run directly at this defense who doesn’t have any big fat guy run cloggers up the middle and a LB corps that is more suited towards stopping the pass. We start the game with Gurley be we also will rotate in Mack and Lindsey liberally to keep fresh runners attacking the defense weating them down. Up front, we have one of the best lines in BDL and we will lean on them to push us to long drives chunking out yardage in an old school football manner. Later in the game we plan to take advantage of an overzealous defense with some counter runs and sweeps when they start stacking the middle Passing We will run a fair amount of play action from the success of our running game. Ivory Coast has a good corner group so our hope is to catch the youngsters starting into the backfield and hitting some deep shots. We catch a break with PP7 suspended so we like our wide receivers in most matchups here. If we can get one on one with White, we are gonna take some shots there as he really struggled last season after a great rookie year. We also will be looking to hit Howard or Eifert over the top on a sneaking up defense and Lindsey out of the backfield against a tired LB squad Up Front Obviously IC has some big time pass rushers but we probably have the best tackles in the league and hopefully beating on the edges all day wears them down. We plan on chipping mack and sliding our line towards the other edge to buy us more time in obvious passing downs. Our rbs serve as excellent check down options against blitzing TL/DR: Run heavy hurry up to wear down thin defense. Attack middle of line, chip edges and trusting the talented line. Hit some deep shots and crosses off play action. Ball control Defense This week we face Matt Ryan and a solid running tandem led by Nick Chubb Unfortunately for IC, Trent Williams is holding out so I'm guessing they are starting Andre Smith at LT. Smith is a huge downgrade and we are gonna send blitzes from that side often to make sure we get him in one on ones. Ryan can be deadly if you give him time but he's not much of a creator so rattling him is the key to success On the outside we will be playing majority man one deep safety. We feel our corner talent is the best group in the league. Humphrey will be on Jeffrey, Jackson will get well Jackson or Anderson while Amukamra gets Samuel. If both the speedster are out nrc gets whichever lines up in the slot. Hicks is in charge of Chubb out of the backfield while either LVE or Swearinger grabs cook depending on who is blitzing. Boston plays the cover one role for us. This defense allows us to put Swearinger in the box to help against the run while up front we have a great run stopping line with Dunlap Mccoy and Tomlinson. Our rotation is much deeper this season including ziggy ansah on an edge with Tillery and ioannidis pass rushing down specialists. We will rotate our ends and tackles pretty frequently this game to speed past Andre Smith on the outside. If IC keeps a player in, his cover man gets the underneath robber zone. Two te Milano hops on the field. Our offensive tempo should allow this strategy of fresh linemen to have its best success against a tired o line. We will per usual mix in zones blitz, base zone and occasional cover two man just to keep the offense guessing Tl/dr. Blitz the Andre Smith side of the field, rotate lineman frequently, cover one heavy with S in box to help against the run Edited September 9, 2019 by SirA1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoundrel Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Rome beat a ghost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VigilantZombie Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Just an fyi, I accidentally clicked on the Rhinos. My vote should've been for Rome considering they actually submitted a gameplan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuskieTitan Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 Ivory Coast has decided to implement an extreme version of the Rams pre-season approach, and sent their players home to rest during week 1. Supposedly, the owner wanted to keep his players fresh for the playoffs. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VigilantZombie Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 14 minutes ago, RuskieTitan said: Ivory Coast has decided to implement an extreme version of the Rams pre-season approach, and sent their players home to rest during week 1. Supposedly, the owner wanted to keep his players fresh for the playoffs. I like your style Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xmad Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 The Forevers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whicker Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 Rome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnarok Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 Welp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockey5djh Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 With an inactive Ziggy Ansah in the starting lineup this one might be tough but since the Rhinos flipped the switch making everyone inactive Ruskie pulls the Gotcha move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TedLavie Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 Rome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirA1 Posted September 11, 2019 Author Share Posted September 11, 2019 Rome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pheltzbahr Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 Hmm, Ill go Rome here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rackcs Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 Another total landslide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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