MD4L Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 BDL 2017 Week 12: 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...
MD4L Posted November 26, 2017 Author Share Posted November 26, 2017 Louisiana Jazz Offense: QB: Tom Brady RB: LeGarrette Blount WR: Michael Thomas WR: Doug Baldwin WR: Emmanuel Sanders TE: Zach Ertz LT: Laremy Tunsil LG: Josh Sitton C: Travis Frederick RG: Trai Turner RT: Jack Conklin RB2: Bilal Powell RB3: James White WR4: Jordy Nelson WR5: Tyler Lockett WR6: Torrey Smith TE2: Eric Ebron TE3: Dion Sims OL6: Bobby Massie Defense: Edge: Jabaal Sheard DE: Chris Jones NT: Damon Harrison DE: Jurrell Casey Edge: Brian Orakpo LB: Lawrence Timmons CB: Chris Harris Jr. CB: Logan Ryan CB: Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie S: Reshad Jones S: Eric Weddle DT3: Andrew Billings DT4: Tyrone Crawford DE3: Cameron Wake DE4: Bud Dupree S: Antoine Bethea LB2: Todd Davis CB4: Orlando Scandrick CB5: Davon House Portland Horned Owls QB1: Derek Carr RB1: Jordan Howard WR1: Davante Adams WR2: Sammy Watkins WR3: Jamison Crowder TE1: Austin Hooper LT: Alejandro Villanueva LG: Luke JoeKel - (Q) C: Ben Jones RG: Ryan Jensen RT: Jared VeldHeer Reserves: RB2: LeSean McCoy RB3: Ameer Abdullah FB: Kyle Juzsczyk WR4: Seth Roberts WR5: Jermaine Kearse TE2: Charles Clay OL6: J.C Tretter OL7: Donovan Smith Portland's Defense: RDE: T.J Watt 3T: Kawann Short DT: Timmy Jernigan LDE: Robert Quinn WLB: Telvin Smith MLB: Blake Martinez CB1: Jimmy Smith CB2: Johnathan Joseph SCB: Jason McCourtey FS: Glover Quin SS: Malcolm Jenkins Reserves: SLB: Bruce Irvin RLB: Zach Brown CB4: Bashaud Breeland CB5: Sean Smith S3: Daniel Sorenson DE3: Charles Johnson DT3: Michael Pierce DT4: DaQuan Jones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MD4L Posted November 26, 2017 Author Share Posted November 26, 2017 Louisiana Offense: We don’t plan to do anything particularly special on offense today but will rather stick with a pretty stock standard game plan and rely on Brady playing well and the offensive line holding up. The Short and Jernigan duo on the interior poses the biggest threat to our offense we feel, so Dion Sims will be employed as a H-back and FB in a number of sets to ensure that Brady has extra support, although we’re confident our great interior will be able to hold up for the most part. With the run game, Blount will reprise his role as the short-yardage and goal line back while Powell and White will rotate in as our COP and receiving backs. At receiver, we’ll rotate depending on the circumstances, but Baldwin and Thomas will see the majority of the snaps while Nelson, Smith, Lockett and Sanders will all see a varying number of snaps for different purposes, Nelson predominantly in the red zone, Smith & Lockett to stretch the D and Sanders playing a health amount both on the outside and in the slot operating on slants and deeper crossing routes aimed at getting him the ball in space. Defense: Portland’s offense has two key weaknesses and that is the OL being a rather poor unit by BDL standards and the lack of particularly dynamic receiving threats. We’ve decided to go with the heavier front this time around to ensure that we win the battle at the LOS and this should give us a two-fold advantage as it will limit the running game between Howard & McCoy, as well as hopefully putting more pressure on Carr who has shown this year that he isn’t particularly good when not behind a great OL. Wake while on the bench will rotate in often for Orakpo and Sheard and in reality it will probably be a 2/3rd of the snap situation for each of them as we look to keep them fresh, while Billings will spell Harrison on a few snaps here and there while Crawford will rotate in fairly regularly too. For the most part we like our secondary going up against the Portland receiving group, with CHJ to take Watkins, DRC on Adams and Ryan on Crowder, with Weddle helping over the top to ensure that there’s no deep burns. Jones, Timmons and Robertson will rotate as required on the backs and tight ends, while Bethea will come in for our 3 safety sets as Portland moves towards the pass after they inevitably fall down. Motivation: We're playing our old QB this week along with the best team in BDL, we're going to give it our all and prove we didn't need Brady. Since we're playing at home and this is our chance to lock up a playoff spot or at least show we're a playoff caliber team we're going to throw the entire kitchen at Louisiana. Portland Portland Offensive Gameplan: Control the Clock, Dominate the LOS, Allow Carr to pick apart their pass defense, keep brayd off the field. The Passing Game: Davante Adams will be our no.1 WR and he'll more than likely get covered by DRC and we'll try to get Adams the ball as much as possible unless he's double teamed. Sammy Watkins will operate as our no.2 WR and we'll try and get him some deep targets and get him involved on some screens and crossing routes to take advantage of his speed. With Jamison Crowder finally playing up to his talent level we'll try to get him some targets but since he's going up against Chris Harris I don't expect he'll get open very often. While Louisana possess some excellent CBs their safeties aren't exactly world beaters with Weddle taking a step back this year and Bethea being a stopgap we'll try and get our RBs heavily involved in the passing game so we can take advantage of Lousiana's LBs in coverage. Louisiana has a good defense but outside of it's CBs it's fairly average overall and we feel like we can exploit their weaknesses mostly by controlling the clock and using Long Possessions to keep Brady off the field. We're going to commit to the run and use our RBs as much as possible since they're a matchup nightmare for Louisiana. We'll try and get Austin Hooper his usual 5-50-1 statline and we'll use some 2 TE sets to help with Louisiana's pass rush as well, we'll leave a RB/TE in to pass protect as it's needed. The Running Game: Jordan Howard will be our main RB with LeSean McCoy mixing in as our 3rd down/pass catching back and I'd expect a 55:45 touches split between the two. We're going to try and get at least 40 minutes with our offense on the field so Brady can sit on the sideline, once we establish the run and tire out their defense we'll start taking some shots down the field to Watkins/Crowder/Adams who should be able to make a bunch of plays. The Blocking: Our blocking isn't terrible but with our focus on running the ball we should be able to keep Carr fairly well protected. Luke Joekel returns to the lineup at LG and I'd expect he'd pick up his play from where left off as a solid but not great blocker. TDLR; Keep Brady off the field, Win the TOP battle, Run the Ball. Portland Defensive Gameplan: Hit Brady, Don't commit stupid penalties, Be Disciplined, Force Turnovers, Play Man coverage. Pass Defense: There are a few ways to beat Brady and as much as I'd love to claim Bernard Pollard off waivers that's not going to work this week so instead we'll be doing the ole fashioned way of beating Brady. Playing man coverage and letting our pass rush get to Brady which will eventually force Brady to fear the pass rush and start making mistakes. Unlike Brady we cannot make mistakes Brady thrives off mistakes and we will be play disciplined football. As for how we will actually defend the pass... We're not going to cover one WR with one specific CB instead we're going to play man coverage for 75% of the game and force them to beat us through the air and let our pass rush disrupt Brady, Jimmy Smith will cover Michael Thomas on most of the snaps though. Jason McCourty will man the slot and Johnathan Joeseph will man the other outside CB spot with Bashaud Breeland being our no.4 CB. If we're going to win this game we need to get to Brady and that will be up to my d-line and LBs we use to Blitz Brady on occassion, we should get some pressure on Brady but he is still fairly well protected. Losing Ogbah sucks but Robert Quinn re-takes his spot as the edge Rusher across from T.J Watt. We're going to rotate our d-line heavily this week to keep them fresh and make sure they're good to late in the second half. I'm not too concerned about the run given how good my front seven has played all year but we'll still be ready for it. Since Brady loves his TE's we'll have Jenkins ready to cover Ertz along with using some 3 safety looks with Daniel Sorenson on occassion. James White is a massive threat in the passing game if Louisiana decides to use him and we'll be ready for that as well. Run Defense: Louisiana has one of the best o-lines in BDL and I'd expect they'll run the ball quite a bit to counter our pass rush and while their RBs aren't exactly all stars they're still solid players and we will respect the run. Once we shut down the running game however that will force Louisiana to turn to the passing game and use their RBs as pass catchers so we'll be prepared for that. We'll play goaline defense, nickel and all the other defenses as the situation calls for it and we'll rotate our front seven players to keep them fresh. TDLR; Stop the run, Control the LOS, Hit Brady, Make Plays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xmad Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 I have like 4 grammar errors in my gameplan....Whoops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoundrel Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Going with the Jizz here. I like the weapons Brady has and it's Brady. I also don't know about Watt playing RE. He may get bulldozed. I also like how the Jizz secondary matches up with Portland's receivers. Although Crowder should shake and bake Logan a bit. I would have matched the better quicker corner on him in CHJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xmad Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 1 hour ago, Counselor said: Going with the Jizz here. I like the weapons Brady has and it's Brady. I also don't know about Watt playing RE. He may get bulldozed. I also like how the Jizz secondary matches up with Portland's receivers. Although Crowder should shake and bake Logan a bit. I would have matched the better quicker corner on him in CHJ. I was about to counter the whole T.J Watt would get bulldozed arughment but he's 236 pounds. So yeah you're right about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingoLadd Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 I think Portland has a good enough secondary and pass rush to disrupt Brady and keep them out of the endzone for the most part. Though T.J watt is a big liability in the run game I think Portland can do enough damage on defense to pull it out. Portland's weapons all stepped up this week and with a good gameplan as well I'll give them the nod 23-24 Portland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoundrel Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 18 minutes ago, OleXmad said: I was about to counter the whole T.J Watt would get bulldozed arughment but he's 236 pounds. So yeah you're right about that. He has at least ten more pounds on him than that. But he still would get handled in the run game with no one absorbing blocks in front of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xmad Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 1 hour ago, Counselor said: He has at least ten more pounds on him than that. But he still would get handled in the run game with no one absorbing blocks in front of him. Yep going forward I'll have to move him to LB or just move entirely to a 3-4 defense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TedLavie Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Not a fan of what Louisiana did defensively (single LB, Ryan on Crowder) but they have too many mismatch to lose. 31-24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PR Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 With Portlands focus on running the ball ahainst a single LB front and targeting a solid matchup of Adams versus DRC, I'm going Portland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcb1213 Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 i like the plan, i just don't think the Portalnd O line is gonna hold up all game against a deep rotating line while the undersized ends are probalbly gonna wear down for them on the defensive side as well Llouisiana 27-20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirA1 Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 Jazz for me this week as Howard can be bricked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pheltzbahr Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 Very evenly matched. Nitpicky criticisms for both. Going with the home team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlash Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 When healthy on defense I love Portland. They're healthy. Went Portland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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