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DingoLadd Posted September 10, 2017 Author Share Posted September 10, 2017 Oklahoma City Rogues QB: Cam Newton RB: Jonathan Stewart WR: Jeremy Maclin WR: Mike Wallace TE: Jordan Reed TE: Jared Cook LT: David Bakhtiari LG: Richie Incognito C: Weston Richburg RG: TJ Lang RT: Jack Conklin RB: Joe Mixon RB: Latavius Murray RB: Terrance West WR: Adam Thielen WR: Allen Hurns WR: Taywan Taylor TE: Clive Walford T: Morgan Moses ROLB: Ryan Kerrigan DT: Cameron Heyward DT: Eddie Goldman LOLB: Von Miller ILB: Eric Kendricks ILB: Darron Lee CB: Patrick Peterson CB: Eli Apple CB: Brent Grimes FS: Malik Hooker SS: Adrian Amos NT: Star Lotulelei DL: Carl Davis OLB: Connor Barwin ILB: Brian Cushing CB: Morris Claiborne CB: Shaq Griffin FS: Maurice Alexander SS: Andre Hal Berlin Blitzkrieg Offense QB - Jameis Winston RB - Lamar Miller WR - Tyreek Hill WR - DeSean Jackson TE - Kyle Rudolph TE - Hunter Henry LT - Trent Williams LG - Justin Pugh C - Corey Linsley RG - Gabe Jackson RT - Ja’wuan James OL - Mike Pouncey OL - Taylor Moton RB - Mike Gillislee RB - D’Onta Foreman WR - Taylor Gabriel WR - Jordan Matthews WR - Kenny Golladay FB - Jalston Fowler Base Defense RE - Nick Perry DT - Mike Daniels NT - Brandon Williams LE - Justin Houston SLB - Eli Harold MLB - Alec Ogletree WLB - Kiko Alonso CB - Ronald Darby CB - AJ Bouye S - Eric Berry S - Haha Clinton-Dix Edge - Demarcus Lawrence Edge - Deatrich Wise DI - Davon Godchaux DI - Rakeem Nunez-Roches LB - Vince Williams CB - Eric Rowe CB - Quinten Rollins S - Tashaun Gipson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingoLadd Posted September 10, 2017 Author Share Posted September 10, 2017 Oklahoma City Rogues Writeup: We open the season with a nice little road trip to Berlin. The Blitzkrieg were a non-playoff team last year, and they still retain many of their weaknesses from last season. They have a very limited offense with just one real threat, and outside of their safeties, their defense does not stand out as overly impressive. We believe that we are simply the better team in this matchup and we will be able to win with a straight-forward gameplan that tries to limit Tyreek Hill's impact on the game. Offense: Berlin has two excellent safeties and our offensive game plan will mainly revolve around trying to attack around them. We expect Eric Berry to line up man to man against Jordan Reed in this game. If he does, then Berlin will only have Ha Ha Clinton-Dix as a single high safety. We will then utilize Mike Wallace, Jeremy Maclin, and Jared Cook in the deep passing game to abuse the space vacated by Berry. If Berry instead lines up as a deep safety, then we will attack the middle with Jordan Reed and Adam Thielen out of the slot. Jonathan Stewart gets the start in this game and will get some early down and goalline work, but Joe Mixon will rotate in frequently and will likely get more touches. Mixon showed his feature-back talent during the preseason, and he should especially excel behind our strong offensive line. Both backs will be expected to run routes and pass block as needed. As usual for us, we will have a couple of designed running plays for Cam Newton. Our offensive line was one of the best in the league last year, and we made absolutely no changes heading into this one. Outside of Berlin's one elite threat in Justin Houston, their defensive line shouldn't get the better of us. On some plays, we will provide help on Houston with a running back or a tight end chip. On others, we will roll Newton away from Houston and let Newton's mobility protect him. We also have high confidence in our tackles, as David Bakhtiari has quietly turned into a top 5 left tackle and Jack Conklin is coming off a sensational rookie season. We simply do not believe that Justin Houston or the Berlin pass rush will have a chance to beat us in this game. Defense: Last year, we boasted a very strong defense that helped carry a struggling Cam Newton to the BDL playoffs. The biggest criticism against last year's defense was our poor secondary. However, we come into this year with major improvements in that area. Eli Apple has ascended to the number one corner on a team that has Janoris Jenkins and Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, Brent Grimes and Morris Claiborne both had very good years last year, and Malik Hooker has the look of a super star at free safety. With these major improvements in our secondary, we believe we come into this season with the best defense in BDL. Tyreek Hill is the one name that stands out among Berlin's offense, and he will be our number one focus. He will be double-teamed on nearly every play by Eli Apple and Adrian Amos. Hill had a very big game on Thursday, but the Patriots' defensive gameplan was more focused on Travis Kelce. Berlin does not have a similar threat to draw coverage, and therefore we do not think Hill will have anywhere close to the same impact here. Patrick Peterson will line up against DeSean Jackson, and we believe that this will take Jackson mostly out of the game. Brent Grimes will cover Berlin's third receiver, and Eric Kendricks will be responsible for Kyle Rudolph. Malik Hooker will be a center-fielding Cover-1 safety. Berlin comes into this game with a strong offensive line, but they are unfortunate as they must face a better defensive line. Von Miller and Ryan Kerrigan make up the very best edge duo in this league, and Cameron Heyward is one of the better interior defenders at rushing the passer. Our pass rush will get to Jameis Winston in this game. Berlin's weakest link along their line is their RT, and they will absolutely have to provide Ju'Wuan James with help against Miller, making our secondary's job much easier. Berlin also only packs one threat in the running game with Lamar Miller. Despite Mike Gillisee's big fantasy night, he still remains an ineffective runner, and we do not fear him at all. We have a strong interior line with a very good run defender in Eddie Goldman. Despite Berlin's strong offensive line, we will win our fair share of battles in the trenches. Darron Lee didn't have the best rookie season in coverage, but he showed prowess defending the run. Simply put, Berlin's running game will not be strong enough to win this game. Berlin BlitzKrieg Writeup: Offense Our main plan this week is to attack the off-ball linebackers and safeties with our two TE set. We think that we can exploit them in both the pass and run game. OKC has some very good players in Heyward, Kerrigan, and Miller up front; however, we think our offensive line can more than handle them. We will be helping Ja’wuan against Miller most plays; either with a TE double team in the run game, or by being chipped by a TE before the TE goes out on his route. Jameis has free reign to throw to anyone his heart desires. We expect them to have to put 8 in the box. Run Game We plan on running plenty this game, look for us to use stretches, traps, and counters to make their linebackers have to make reads or get to the perimeter. While Kendricks is a good player, whoever else OKC uses at linebacker can be exploited either due to physical limitations or just not being very good. In the run game, we will trust Trent to handle Kerrigan or Miller, but Ja’wuan will get help from a TE to set the edge against the other. We think our interior OL will be just fine one-on-one, even against Heyward. That said, we will use some double teams inside with Linsley who will then scrape off to a backer, just to open things up that much more. Pass Game We are going to use our TEs frequently in the pass game as well. Rudolph and Henry have the speed to get open against OKC’s LBs and the size to dominate their safeties. We will use them in every conceivable route from short routes to move the chains to shots down the seams. We don’t think they can afford to double team either of our TEs and Jameis will go at them any time they’re one-on-one. PP is one hell of a cornerback, but we still think that DeSean or Tyreek will be able to use their speed and quickness to get open on him. So we will not shy away, especially if he follows Tyreek as we will have Tyreek using crossing routes to get open as well. We will take more than a couple shots to DeSean. We don’t respect Malik Hooker yet as he spent most of the preseason sitting, so if he gets caught in solo coverage, we will attack him. Golladay will come in for DeSean sometimes when we are in the red zone to use his size to catch TDs. 3-4 WR Sets We will use some 3 and 4 WR sets to spread out their defense and get some more speed on the field. Gabriel will be in the slot in 3 WR sets to add even more explosion to our offense. We want to stress their secondary and let Jameis push the ball down the field. TL;DR - Give Ja’wuan some help but let our OL win otherwise - attack their LBs and Safeties in the run and pass game with our TEs - Use our WRs elite speed to take shots down the field and on crossing routes Defense We will use our normal man coverage this game. Bouye gets Hurns and Darby gets Maclin. Berry takes Jordan Reed one-on-one and we think he can shut Reed down especially as Reed is playing with a fractured toe. Ogletree and Harold will share covering the RB and spying Cam with Harold occasionally coming on a delayed blitz to force Cam to hurry his throw. Kiko will cover Cook. Haha will play the deep middle and move around so Cam never knows quite where he will be, but he will help Darby or Rowe most often. If they go with a 3 WR set, Harold will come out. Kiko and Ogletree will watch the RB and spy Cam. Bouye slides into the slot, where he has played very well in the past. Rowe will come in and play against Hurns. OKC has a really good offensive line. However, we think that our front four can hold the point of attack and shut down their run game. They have no RBs that truly scare us as they have either middling or unproven talents. With a linebacker spying Cam at all times, we want to keep him in the pocket and force him to beat us with his arm. His arm that has been very limited since his shoulder surgery. TL;DR - Man coverage to force their WRs to beat us - let our front four fight their OL - shut down the run game - keep Cam in the pocket and make him beat us there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnarok Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 Man OKC really overlooking some of our improvements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whicker Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 1 hour ago, Ragnarok said: Man OKC really overlooking some of our improvements. Lol are you saying that just because of my opening paragraph? Here are the changes from your starting lineup last year to this year's: Desean Jackson from Will Fuller - This isn't a huge upgrade to start with but even so I covered this by putting Patrick Peterson, one of the best corners in the NFL, on him. If the voters decide that isn't enough, then lol but okay. Major offensive line improvements - I routinely gave you credit for your O-line improvement, but I'm sorry to say that I still think my defensive line is better. Brandon Williams and Nick Perry from Dominique Easley and Demarcus Lawrence - both are these are upgrades for sure, but similar to your O-line improvements, they are running against one of the strengths of my team. Perry is fine but he's going up against a top 5 left tackle in Bakhtiari. Williams kept me from going more run heavy so I don't think that counts as overlooking. AJ Bouye from Eric Rowe/other corners - Bouye had a very good year last year but he was covering #2 and #3 WRs routinely. This year he will continue that trend by playing on the same team as Jalen Ramsey. He's a good player, but let's not act like you have a Richard Sherman or Josh Norman here. With Eric Berry covering Reed man to man, I expect to win in the passing game by abusing the deep space that is being covered by a single safety, not by attacking any specific corner. You even said in your writeup that Clinton-Dix would be shaded towards Darby and Rowe, so all it would take would be one time for Wallace to get behind Bouye for a big play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnarok Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 Compared to how Fuller played last year, I think DeSean is a big upgrade for this year. Healthy C and Gabe Jackson at RG is much better than last year. Yup, we agree on the upgrades here. And Kerrigan is going against a top 3 LT in Trent Williams. Bouye covered #1s all of last year? And I believe he and Ramsey played sides. And I don't think your WRs are good enough to beat my corners with Haha. Even if Wallace got deep, he'd probably just drop it. I do think our battle in the trenches will be awesome. But I think we are a bit better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whicker Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 I'm not going to say I'm 100%, because I don't watch game tape or anything, but AJ Bouye did not cover #1's for all of last year. He only started 11 games as a boundary corner and was listed as the right cornerback for most of those starts. Jonathan Joseph and Kareem Jackson both played ahead of him at certain points in the year. This year, even if he and Ramsey do play sides, Bouye plays on the right side which means he is more likely to end up lining against a #2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DraftHobbyist Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 One place we (Berlin) really get the better of you (OKC) is Nick Perry vs David Bakhtiari. You are underrating Perry's ability, and when Cam Newton rolls away from Houston, he's going to be rolling right into the arms of Perry. Bakhtiari's weakness is strength, and Perry's strength is strength. It's a bad match-up for Bakhtiari. There will also be a lot of opportunity for the long-ball IMO. Hooker is rangey, but he's a young guy that guesses a lot, and he'll guess wrong quite a bit in his first game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingoLadd Posted September 12, 2017 Author Share Posted September 12, 2017 Both teams have pretty major weaknesses against Elite Pass rushers (Von Miller vs. Ja'Wuan James, Bahktiari vs. Justin Houston) I think Cam not being 100% affects him enough to the point where OKC is in a hole going into halftime. Neither team is going to be able to run the ball very well and I'd imagine Cam will take a lot of hits in this game. Eric Berry should be able to take care of Reed for the most part but Cam's WRs will have an easy time getting open against a pretty bad group of CBs. OKC wins on a late 4th Q TD pass, 24-21. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlash Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Adrian Amos didn't play a single defensive snap for Chicago on Sunday. Looks like Andre Hal will have to do the heavy lifting for you guys. I'm not sure the OKC offense can keep up in this one. I love their defense, but I think they're going to really struggle moving the ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WFLukic Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Newton doesn't look 100% and Reed is playing with a messed up toe, so when you're rolling with an injured QB and his best weapon is hurt, it's not a good situation. Berlin's team honestly looks a lot better than I expected it would considering last year and Rags definitely deserves credit. I still think a WR that can work the middle of the field would be a worthwhile addition, but with a strong OL, a presumably improving Winston bolstered by a decent support cast and a decent D should be enough to hold Cam and OKC off. 21-17 Berlin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TedLavie Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Berlin offensive gameplan goes right into the weaknesses of OKC, but I don't love their TEs. It's enough though as OKC weapons aren't good enough against a solid defense (Thielen should definitely start for OKC). 21-13 Berlin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xmad Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 OKC is banged up on the offensive side but they're still the better team. They should be able to make halftime adjustments and get the W. Though Berlin is going to be dangerous most weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PR Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Berlin has the defensive stalwarts to shut down OKC's offense in this one. However, Berlin is a world of hurt after this weekends injuries. Went Berlin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor091 Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Oklahoma City 3 - 38 Berlin 66F, Light Wind Scoring Summary; 1st Quarter BER 8:35 FG FG 35 yds. 0-3 OKC 3:22 FG FG 27 yds. 3-3 2nd Quarter BER 3:31 TD Mike Gillislee 2 yd. run (XP kick) 3-10 3rd Quarter BER 8:34 TD Tyreek Hill 3 yd. pass from Winston (XP kick) 3-17 BER 6:12 TD 39 yd interception return (XP kick) 3-24 BER 1:27 TD Mike Gillislee 26 yd. run (XP kick) 3-31 4th Quarter BER 5:19 TD Lamar Miller 3 yd. run (XP kick) 3-38 Key Stat Leaders; Passing; OKC: Cam Newton – 15/29, 175yds, 0TDs, 1Int BER: Jameis Winston – 13/22. 118yds, 1TD, 0Ints Rushing: OKC: Joe Mixen – 13 car, 31yds OKC: Jonathan Stewart – 18 car, 30yds BER: Lamar Miller – 19 car, 102yds, 1TD BER: Mike Gillislee – 7 car, 47yds, 2TDs Receiving: OKC: Jordan Reed – 7recs, 60yds OKC: Mike Wallace – 3recs, 43yds BER: DeSean Jackson – 3 recs, 28yds BER: Tyreek Hill – 2 recs, 16yds, 1TD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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