Whicker Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 BDL 2017 Week 6: 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 people 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. Players that have a (D) next to their name indicate that they are doubtful or unlikely to play. Players with (GTD) are game-time decisions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whicker Posted October 15, 2017 Author Share Posted October 15, 2017 Wichita Woodpeckers QB: Jared GoffRB: Leonard FournetteWR: Dez BryantWR: Kenny StillsTE: Cameron Brate TE Ben WatsonLT: Jeremy ParnellLG: Kelechi OsemeleC: Spencer LongRG: Jahri EvansRT: Austin HowardQB: Carson Palmer RB:Matt ForteRB: TJ YeldonWR Eric DeckerTE: Adam ShaheenOL: John JerryOL - Graham GlasglowOL: Allen BabreDE: Michael BennettDT: Jonathan AllenDT: Corey PetersDE: Brandon GrahamLB: Hassaan ReddickLB: Luke KuechlyCB: Rashaan MelvinFS: Ron ParkerSS: Harrison SmithNCB: Brian PooleCB: Daryl WorleyDE: Olivier VernonDE: Alex OkaforDT: Pat SimsLB: AJ KleinCB: William GayCB: David AmersonCB: Ken CrawleyS: Jabrill Peppers Long Beach Leprechauns Offense QB- Aaron Rodgers RB- Christian McCaffrey WR- DeAndre Hopkins WR- Marvin Jones WR- Cooper Kupp TE- George Kittle LT- Terron Armstead LG- Joe Thuney C- Max Unger RG- Quinton Spain RT- Bryan Bulaga RB- Mark Ingram RB- Jeremy Hill TE- Tyler Kroft WR- Adam Humphries WR- Sammie Coates OL- Andrew Norwell OL- Russell Okung OL- Brandon Shell Defense LE- Cam Jordan NT- DJ Reader UT- Javon Hargrave RE- Trey Flowers SLB- Clay Matthews MLB- Jarrad Davis WLB- De’Vondre Campbell CB- Trumaine Johnson CB- Artie Burns FS- Darian Thompson SS- Landon Collins DE- Dean Lowry DT/DE- Stephon Tuitt DT- Abry Jones LB/SS- Deone Bucannon LB- Joe Schobert CB- Bradley Roby S- Budda Baker S/CB- Kareem Jackson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whicker Posted October 15, 2017 Author Share Posted October 15, 2017 Wichita Woodpeckers Offense: Balanced Offense: I look to start run heavy this game by running a 2 TE set. I will use the additional blockers on the line to carve some holes for Fournette and Forte to run through into a back defense known more for their pass defense than run defense. By establishing thr run we will give Rodgers less time on the field. This will also lead to setting up the play action and providing Goff extra time in the pocket to throw deep to burner Stills and matchup nightmare Dez Bryant. Also looo for the 2TE set to be feature heavily near the end zone for additional pass catching targets. Defense Welcome our new established pass rusher to thebfold in Bennett. LongBeach oline on the edge has been shaky this year. We will provide additional blitzers off the edge in addition to the DEs to provide more pressure on Rodgers this game. That will come in the form of nickel back blitzes, safety blitzes and pass rush from the LBing core. We will be playing bump and run man coverage this game with bracket coverage over the top on Hopkins. To keep the DE rotation fresh Okafor and Vernon will come in and get reps and keep the prrssure consistent all game. To keep McCaffrey from being a factor Kuechly will be locking him down. Long Beach Leprechauns Team: We are on a 3 game win streak and we are looking to keep it rolling at home this week against the Woodpeckers. I don’t have much to go off from Wichita’s game plan last week but we will attack them at their weaknesses and beat them down with our strengths. Offense: We will be featuring a layered and balanced passing attack and a zone running game. We will likely be getting our stud Tackles back this week (even if we don’t Okung and Shell have played well this year and we faced Miller and Mack the past two weeks and beat them with these two). We are going to look to take advantage of an underrated yet beatable pass rush, even with the addition of a hobbled Michael Bennett. Woodpeckers like to blitz from all over and we believe Rodgers will be able to pick apart the secondary identifying key matchups. Formation: Our base offense this week will once again be a three wide set with one back and one tight end. We will also run some empty sets with McCaffrey as an additional slot. George Kittle finally showed the promise of training camp last week and made key clutch catches all game long combined with great blocking to give me a new element to this offense. Pass Offense: Hopkins will play outside opposite Marvin Jones with Cooper Kupp and Adam Humphries splitting time in the slot. With the new element of George Kittle as a receiving threat and how McCaffrey is performing we have the matchups to beat Wichita on all levels of the field. I don’t see Rashaan Melvin, Daryl Worley, and Brian Poole being able to stop my Receivers and this passing game. If the Woodpeckers play man like they did last week Rodgers will pick his matchups and he should have plenty of options against this defense to pick them apart. The woodpeckers like to jam receivers and I believe my receivers can beat their jams easily and make them pay for it. If they go zone we will be stacking routes anyways to give Rodgers levels of options to attack. Two weeks ago Wichita played their two safeties back in four wide sets. When we split McCaffrey out wide in empty sets we will have quick passing options to exploit and attack the defense at their weakness, their corners without safety help. Once again McCaffrey and Ingram will be splitting reps out of the backfield. With Christian sometimes lining up in the slot we believe we can get a quick matchup to take advantage of the blitzes by the Woodpeckers. Christian will also see some wheel and screen opportunities if the Woodpeckers get blitz happy. This will expose them to quick passes from Rodgers. Kuechly is a great player and he will win some matchups on the field but we believe we can win some also if he is tasked to cover our RB’s out of the backfield. Reddick is a young first round pick who we believe is on the field for Wichita to use as a blitzer (we don’t have much information because of last weeks lack of a gameplan), however he has shown nothing as a blitzer so far and we can attack his vacated space when he blitzes. If Harrison lines up in the box we will attack behind him with our route combos or in front of him if he is playing deep. If Ron Parker plays deep we believe we will have deep opportunities against him just like Houston did with Hopkins last week. If the safeties play back against our three wide we can feast on short routes and in the middle using McCaffrey and Kittle as well as my slot receiver while always having Hopkins likely beating his matchup and Jones on the outside. If they help with a safety over the top on Hopkins we will have even more possibilities to win matchups all over the field. I don’t see this defense stopping Rodgers and this passing attack. We may have our star Tackles back in Armstead and Bulaga this week. If so we believe we can easily hold up against their pass rush. If Okung and Shell play we still believe we will do well and we can use Kittle as a chip block or a stand in block against heavy blitzes. While it takes Kittle away as a passing option in a stand in block situation we have the weapons to attack the vacated areas on all blitzes. However we believe even with Okung and Shell we will still win and Kittle will be able to get out and attack the defense. If either of the tackles struggle he will play to that side adding some extra support against Bennett or Graham (as Vernon is still out this week). I trust my interior Oline of Thuney, Unger, and Spain to hold up against more of a run stopper in Peters and the Rookie Jonathan Allen. Run Offense: Once again we will be running a zone scheme looking to take advantage of open running lanes along the entire line. Using Kittle as an extra blocker against an injured Bennett we believe we can get some movement against him and have those lanes underneath him if he gets too far outside or outside of him if he is able to hunker down. I think with two linebackers against us and the interior the woodpeckers have we will have success getting going inside on this team as well as taking advantage of over aggression of Brandon Graham. Ingram will likely see more of the run plays this week and with our three wide spreading the defense out we will have those interior run opportunities with an ailing Corey Peters who is questionable with a knee injury and has already had two acl tears in his career. Defense: We will be looking this week to stop Leonard Fournette and force Goff to keep up with Rodgers to try and beat us. We want to wreck the Wichita running game and disrupt the passing game. Formation: Our base D is once again a 4-3 under this week. We will be playing a cover 3 base this week against the woodpeckers as well as occasional man to confuse Goff. Goff struggled against this type of defense ran by the Seahawks last week and made mistakes that cost them the game. Even in a three wide set we will stay in our base defense this week. If the peckers go 4 wide we will go nickel. We will start out with Flowers at RE but will run our Tank front featuring Tuitt and Cam Jordan at ends with Javon Hargrave and DJ Reader at the Tackle positions quite often. This will still allow some penetrating type of pressure inside from Hargrave mixed with stout run defending from Reader and having the big bodied Tuitt outside across from the multifaceted Cam Jordan. If he decides to get really pass happy or in obvious passing situations we will play Tuitt at UT and move Hargrave over to NT. Front 7: This week it all starts for us up front to shut down this running game. Fournette had a good game last week and had an explosive 90 yard run right through Cam Heyward’s gap. Well Heyward doesn’t play for my team and looking at the rest of Fournette’s game against a dline that features two of my players, Fournette had 91 yards rushing on 27 attempts. A good game but not as great as his 90 yard run eludes too. I will be starting Javon Hargrave at under tackle. He had 10 tackles last week and is extremely active. Hargrave will be playing next to the stuffer DJ Reader and so he will be able to take on less double teams. Reader gets the start again to clog the interior of the Woodpeckers line. Cam Jordan and Trey Flowers are great run defenders and underrated pass rushers. They will be going against two average tackles at best and will be able to get pressure and stuff out run lanes. Stephon Tuitt is available to play end or tackle and will come in if the woodpeckers try to load up on Flowers who is the smaller of my two ends and be a big body run stuffer and pass rusher off of the edge in my Tank formation. I believe my front four can get pressure on Goff and force him to make mistakes. This week my LBers who will be in on all one wide, two wide, three wide formations will be De’Vondre Campbell at WLB, Jarrad Davis at MLB, and Clay Matthews at SLB. Clay Matthews will have force responsibilities on outside run plays funneling Fournette back inside as well as occasional blitzes. Matthews will have curl to flat coverage in zone and never give Brate a free release. Campbell has been one of the best balanced linebackers in the league this season. He has been a reliable run defender, pass defender, and blitzer. Campbell will play hook to curl in coverage and be able to play coming forward on run downs. Jarrad Davis has been a revelation for the Lions run D. Davis missed two weeks with a concussion but came back as a force last week. The defense with Davis in has given up 2.1 YPC and 1 TD on 64 carries. Without Davis teams have rushed for a 4.76 ypc and 2 TDs on 50 carries against the Lions. He will be the stud in the middle this week. On clear passing downs Deone Bucannon will play WLB with Campbell moving to MLB. The MLB will have the other hook to curl responsibility. Bucannon may see some time at SS depending on game flow as explained below. Secondary: We aren’t going to assign a particular corner to any receiver in this game. And will be playing mostly Cover 3. If the Woodpeckers play three wide Landon Collins will be over the slot receiver with curl to flat responsibilities opposite the side of Clay Matthews. This brings an extra defender down to stop the run for more of a 4-4 look. If Collins doesn’t play Budda Baker will play the SS spot. The SS will have force responsibility opposite the SLB and will have the WLB there to clean up inside or chase anything down if it beats the force to the outside. If Budda struggles to maintain run responsibilities if he is forced to play due to Collins' injury, Bucannon will play SS on run downs. Trumaine Johnson and Artie Burns get the start. Roby is the nickel in four wide sets. Darian Thompson is responsible for the deep middle as the two corners cover their deep third respectively. Burns is part of the top passing defense in the league and he can match up with any of the Woodpeckers WR. Dez had some success underneath on Trumaine when they matched up but didn’t win a single 50/50 ball against Tru and we trust our underneath coverage of Matthews, Campbell, Davis/Bucannon, and Collins to disrupt underneath plays while the mediocre tackles of the Woodpeckers get abused by our ends and force Goff to make mistakes. I believe my secondary is better than their passing game and my front four is better than their oline. Let’s continue that Winning Streak! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoundrel Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 Well I think I prepared well by loading up against a run heavy attack here. Bringing Collins up into the box and basically playing a 4-4 with a Tank front. As well as giving Ingram more of the run plays this week. This could likely be my last win of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockey5djh Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 7 hours ago, Counselor said: Well I think I prepared well by loading up against a run heavy attack here. Bringing Collins up into the box and basically playing a 4-4 with a Tank front. As well as giving Ingram more of the run plays this week. This could likely be my last win of the season. You done finishing yourself off there or would you like someone else to do it? Both teams planned pretty well this week but I think Long beach takes this in a close one.....RIP Rodgers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoundrel Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 8 minutes ago, Hockey5djh said: You done finishing yourself off there or would you like someone else to do it? Both teams planned pretty well this week but I think Long beach takes this in a close one.....RIP Rodgers Let me enjoy my last competitive game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TedLavie Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 Why did Wichita list Ken Crawley in their lineup when he plays for Portland? Close game overall. Wichita has a strong running game but LB has one of the best run defense in BDL so the estimate given by Counselor of 91yds on 27 attemps seems about right. Wichita passing game can have some moderate success here. I doubt LB zone running game has much success so the game relies on Rodgers arm almost exclusively. Wichita pass rush limits Rodgers impact but I think LB skill players are better than their opponents, save for McCaffrey. LB 23-20 with homefield advantage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MD4L Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 Tough injury for Long Beach. It happens to all of the owners. Still in this projection I like Long Beach's chances to stop Leonard Fournette. Putting Goff in harder chances to succeed is a reasonable claim with a strong secondary. Long Beach 20 Wichita 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirA1 Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" LB 24 Wichita 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xmad Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 Wichita stole my CB. Thus I will vote for Long Beach, but seriously I trust Rodgers and Long beach's pass rush more than Goff and his o-line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pheltzbahr Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 Could be worse, Mark Sanchez could be your backup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PR Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 5 hours ago, TedLavie said: Why did Wichita list Ken Crawley in their lineup when he plays for Portland? Close game overall. Wichita has a strong running game but LB has one of the best run defense in BDL so the estimate given by Counselor of 91yds on 27 attemps seems about right. Wichita passing game can have some moderate success here. I doubt LB zone running game has much success so the game relies on Rodgers arm almost exclusively. Wichita pass rush limits Rodgers impact but I think LB skill players are better than their opponents, save for McCaffrey. LB 23-20 with homefield advantage I picked up Crawley in waivers a couple weeka ago homie. @bcb1213 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PR Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 @OleXmad @bcb1213 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PR Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 You tried to steal my CB Xmad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoundrel Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 Wichita won him week 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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