Ragnarok Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 BDL 2020 Week 7 Match: Gotham Gashslayers @ Antarctica Katabatic Beasts Away Owner: @pheltzbahr Home Owner: @Pickle Rick 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnarok Posted October 25, 2020 Author Share Posted October 25, 2020 GOTHAM OFFENSE QB - Derek Carr RB - Josh Jacobs WR - Tyreek Hill WR - Jarvis Landry WR - Tee Higgins TE - Hayden Hurst LT - Jake Matthews LG - Laken Tomlinson C - Maurkice Pouncey RG - Shaq Mason RT - Mike McGlinchey RB - Mike Davis RB - Adrian Peterson WR - Jerry Jeudy WR - Keelan Cole TE - Eric Ebron OL - Kaleb McGary OL - Lucas Patrick OL - Lloyd Cushenberry DEFENSE EDGE - Brandon Graham INT - JJ Watt INT - Chris Jones EDGE - Jadaveon Clowney LB - KJ Wright LB - Zach Cunningham CB - Xavien Howard CB - Xavier Rhodes CB - Jason Verrett S - Minkah Fitzpatrick S - Justin Simmons EDGE - Whitney Mercilus INT - Dontari Poe INT - Corey Peters LB - Germaine Pratt LB - LJ Fort CB - Rasul Douglas CB - Vernon Hargreaves S - Bradley McDougald Antarctica Katabatic Beasts Offensive Starters: QB - Lamar Jackson RB1 - Todd Gurley WR1 - Chris Godwin WR2 - Stefon Diggs WR3 - Ceedee Lamb TE1 - Jimmy Graham LT - Brandon Shell LG - Dakota Dozier C - Ryan Kelly RG/C2 - Tyler Biadasz RT - Tytus Howard Offensive Bench: RB2 - Cam Akers RB3 - Alexander Mattison OG3 - Germain Ifedi OT3 - Cam Robinson TE2 - Cole Kmet WR4 - Tre'quan Smith WR5 - Van Jefferson QB2 - Tua Tagovailoa _________________ Defensive Starters: DE - JPP DT - DeForest Buckner DT - Jaleel Johnson DE - Frank Clark LB - Roquan Smith LB2 - Demario Davis CB1 - Joe Haden CB2 - Marshon Lattimore Slot CB3: Jeff Okudah FS - Anthony Harris SS - Nasir Adderley Defensive Bench: Dime CB4 - Charvarius Ward LB3 - Myles Jack - OUT LB4/DE3 - Harold Landry DE4 - Josh Sweat DT3 - Timmy Jernigan - FA DT4 - Jordan Elliott DT5 - B.J. Hill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnarok Posted October 25, 2020 Author Share Posted October 25, 2020 Coming off a big divisional win, we are hitting stride as a team and look to solidify our status as a BDL Contender against an Antarctica squad that presents unique challenges of its own. GOTHAM OFFENSE (50% Pass 50% Run) - 3 WR/TE/RB Base Our offense continues to seek balance with David Carr leading the way out of our 3 wide base. Antarctica’s strength does not lie in their defense, and we think we can take advantage in the following ways: Running Game: We want to sustain drives in this matchup and will utilize all 3 of our RBs to keep them fresh, wearing out a thin defensive line. Happy to get Shaq Mason back, we will again use our power run blocking scheme to open holes for Jacobs and Peterson and get to a second level missing the Beasts’ best LB, Myles Jack. Establishing the run game should prevent the KB’s best defensive personnel, their EDGE defenders, from keying in on Carr. Carry Splits: Jacobs (60%) Peterson (20%) Davis (20%). Passing Game: We think Tyreek can have a big game against an underperforming Antarctica secondary, he will be targeted heavily if left in single coverage. Tee Higgins gets the start this week, but Jeudy will be heavily rotated in for both Landry and Higgins to give their defense varied personnel looks and match up decisions. Hayden Hurst gets the start this week as well, we like his potential to be overlooked by a back 7 that doesn’t feature a defender that matches his size and speed. Formations: 3 WR Base - 60% - Use 4 WRs in heavy rotation to keep them fresh. 12 Personnel - 20% - Hill/Higgins/Hurst/Ebron Exploit mismatches with our TEs and use play action against 4-4 fronts to take deep shots to Reek and Higgins. 4 WR - Attack single coverages in man, especially Okudah. Run routes at all 3 levels to find soft spots against zone. DEFENSE - 4-2-5 Nickel Zone Base While I’m not overwhelmed by Antarctica's defense, I am impressed by their potential to cause damage on offense. With no real holes on our defense, we look to contain Lamar’s explosiveness. Lamar: While not performing at his MVP level last year, Jackson is still as dangerous a RB playing QB as you will find. I do not mean that as an insult in any way, its just how you have to defend him. The NFL is on to Lamar and how to limit his explosive plays; play zone so the CBs aren’t turned away from him, keep him in front of you as a tackler, and clog him up at the line. So that’s what we’ll do as well. Cover 1/Cover 2/Cover 3 Nickel Zone - We’ll use mostly zone against 3WR Sets. Sure Zone is generally easier to play and easier to complete short and intermediate throws against, but we think our playmakers in the secondary relish the thought of Lamar throwing a bunch down field in this game, I smell picks. Antarctica has impressive WRs, but I think the challenge is for Lamar to get the ball to them...its not happening deep with my D Line harassing Lamar against a not so great O Line. Minkah plays SPY out of Cover 1 looks. 4/3 SPY Meat Wall - Watt/Poe/Peters/Jones - I could see us a lot in this formation with Antarctica’s insistence on running with both Gurley and Jackson. Wright and Cunningham on the wings, with Pratt at MLB fortifies against the ground game, while providing coverage against short and intermediate routes from RBs and TEs.. With some unusual lineup choices recently, we will use this defense against heavy RB sets. We will mix up man and zone out of this formation to keep Lamar guessing. *Tua - If Tua happens to start this game for lulzy reasons, we're keeping our strat as is; with a focus on stopping the run game and forcing an unproven passer to beat us through the air. ANTARCTICA Motivation: Working on a new approach, i think it will lead to some victories soon. Personnel Changes: Brandon Shell who protects the best QB in football (Russell Wilson) gets promoted to LT and Okudah gets into the starting lineup as we move to play more Nickle to match up with Gotham. Offensive Formations: We will focus this weak on spreading out Gotham using 3, 4, and 5 WR spread formations. We want to provide nice passing/running/scrambling lanes for LJ. Tempo: Traditional tempo as we want to control/dictate the game and see everything and make presnap adjustments to get us into the best possible positions. Playcalling Distribution: we will focus more on passing on early downs as well as using RPO's and playaction on early downs. Then as the game progresses we will shift to running a tradition play calling mix with more run plays on early downs. This setup should open up the run more as the game progresses as the LB's and DB's hold wide to cover the WR's expecting pass. Run Scheme: when we do run, we will focus on power running with a large amount of traps, counter traps, pulling sweeps (RB and QB), and pulling counter sweeps (RB and QB). These plays are going to look to exploit the aggressiveness of Gotham's d-line as they like to penetrate up field hopefully to get caught in the trap by our pulling o line. Read option/Option: option, read option and triple option plays, will mostly be our check down plays to move out of poorly called pass plays or attack weak positioning from Gotham. We will occastionaly overload one side and look to catch no one home on the backside. This is where we will check into the options and run to the weakside hopefully for big plays. Passing: we will be throwing a lot more this game. Early downs will be passing downs for us. We will look to utilize slants, posts, and crossing routes layered to exploit our advantage in the WR-DB matchups. Our blocking is much improved over recent weeks but to help out our o-line even more the rb will be blocking long into the play before becoming a safety outlet for LJ (if at all). Playaction and RPO's: we will be using RPO's and playaction on early downs in place of runs. This will hopefully hold the LB's and DB's wide later in the game as s mentioned before. Defense Base Formation: Nickle defense, switching to Dime on spread formations and 4-3 and 4-4 on short yardage plays. Playstyle: going with Nickle as our base D this week ss it will give us a better opportunity to force Carr to make the throws ee want him to make which he is terrible at, or use the checkdowns which we plan to cover tightly. Run defense. We will be sticking to our 4-3 D and using our 4-4 run stopping D to crowd the box on clear run plays and big formations. Runs blitzes will be far fewer this week as we like out D to win their 1 on 1 matchups to stuff the run. Stunting with our big men up front will also help to get into the backfield and get tackles for loss Passing Defense: at this time last season Derek Carr had a 34.5 passing grade on his second read which is the second-lowest grade in the NFL since the start of 2018, and his four turnover-worthy passes on such throws are the second most. This season has seen more of the same as Carr has a huge tendency to throw to his check down man very often. At times, that’s his go-to pass-catcher: whoever is closest to him. It’s not exactly what every coach wants out of his quarterback (and perhaps that’s in part why the Raiders’ Jon Gruden is so non-committal to Carr), but that’s simply the truth with Carr, whose yards per attempt average is 6.9 for his career. With all that in mind we plan to play a lot of Cover 1 Man with Nasir Adderlay doubling Tyreke Hill. This should force Carr to his 2nd, 3rd, or checkdown reads where he is either terrible at or keeps any passing plays limited to short yardage. We will take away Hill and force Carr to make terrible decisions and plays, to his other options/checkdowns. With this playstyle the man covering the checkdown backs will be playing much tighter then usual. Coverage assignments when in man: Haden: Tyreke Hill Lattimore: Jarvis Landry Okudah: Jerry Jeudy Ward: slot 2 Adderlay: slot 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickle Rick Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 For those asking for a better more focused gameplan where we focus specific things, I think you will be pleasantly surprised with how well this new game plan works. It takes advantage of the Gotham gameplan in a number of aspects and if executed should lead to victory. We anxiously await feedback on the gameplan and how well you feel our team can execute it and of course if you feel we can come out victorious. Happy reading my friends! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pheltzbahr Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 1 hour ago, Pickle Rick said: For those asking for a better more focused gameplan where we focus specific things, I think you will be pleasantly surprised with how well this new game plan works. It takes advantage of the Gotham gameplan in a number of aspects and if executed should lead to victory. We anxiously await feedback on the gameplan and how well you feel our team can execute it and of course if you feel we can come out victorious. Happy reading my friends! Myles Jack is inactive and Timmy Jernigan is on the street. Should be fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickle Rick Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 14 minutes ago, pheltzbahr said: Myles Jack is inactive and Timmy Jernigan is on the street. Should be fun! Thankfully I have them as bench players and their backups are just as good if not better (Landry and Elliott/Hill). Slide on up to the first seat on the bench fellas, strap your helmets down and get ready. A battle is about to break out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pheltzbahr Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, Pickle Rick said: Thankfully I have them as bench players and their backups are just as good if not better (Landry and Elliott/Hill). Slide on up to the first seat on the bench fellas, strap your helmets down and get ready. A battle is about to break out Good to know Elliot and Hill are as good as a RL FA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickle Rick Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, pheltzbahr said: Good to know Elliot and Hill are as good as a RL FA. Jerigan was being talked up pre season a lot, not sure what happened to go from that to cut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pheltzbahr Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 1 minute ago, Pickle Rick said: Jerigan was being talked up pre season a lot, not sure what happened to go from that to cut. I'm guessing because he sucks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickle Rick Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, pheltzbahr said: I'm guessing because he sucks? Well he gone so it won't matter now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VigilantZombie Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 I haven't decided on this game yet but there are 2 things about Antartica's gameplan i am not in love with. Haden on Hill, do you realize how fast hill is and how fast Haden isn't? I love me some Joe Haden but that seems like a mismatch, I thought he would've been better matched with Landry (whom he would be more familiar with) Brandon Shell at LT is a huge risk. He is a RT for Seattle who has given up some sacks this year. Putting him on the blindside...idk.. but I feel like (I don't know if this is true haven't researched it) Lamar runs more to his right than anything so It might not be as negative as it seems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlash Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 I like Antarctica's new look game plan and I think they should stick with it going forward. I like the idea to mix it up and throw the ball more to catch Gotham off guard, problem is Gotham's CB's match up very well and his defensive line against a patchwork offensive line is going to cause major issues for LJ being able to sit back and throw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VigilantZombie Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 I went Gotham but tbh I forgot how bad Carr played this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pheltzbahr Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 12 minutes ago, wwhickok said: I went Gotham but tbh I forgot how bad Carr played this week. Curious, do you base your player performance assessment weekly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VigilantZombie Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 4 minutes ago, pheltzbahr said: Curious, do you base your player performance assessment weekly? I think you have the overall better team and gameplan. No, I personally don't I try to look at what a player would do on the roster he is on in BDL. Its clear I'm one of very few ppl that do that though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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