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  1. I love this thread concept. I have been on/off playing a save of Front Office Football 8 with the Seahawks, starting in the 2020 season. Decided to stick with Russ in the beginning, believing he still had something left in the tank. 2020: Ended 7-9, in fact it made Carroll so sad he retired. Brian Schottenheimer got promoted from OC to Head Coach. The season was lost in the beginning, so I put forward my backup QB (Conner Butler) to play half the season because he has the right mentalities and I wanted someone as a future mentor/glue guy. 2021: 6-10 in the first season of Schott, Russ only made it through 12 games before getting injured. 2022: 7-9, again Russ only made it 12 weeks before getting hurt. And he had a terrible season before that. 2023: With Daniel Jones (somehow playing good football for NYG!) a free agent, I decide to take the risk and release Russ whilst giving Dan a good contract. In his first season with us he immediately get a 89 QB and 3300yards, leading the team to a 12-3-1 and our first playoffs and all the way to the NFC finals before falling to the Colts (who came off a 2200+ yard rushing season from Jonathan Taylor!!) They somehow lose against the Bears in the superbowl. 2024: A worse season for Dan, struggling with injuries, the honeymoon ends. But a stud defense and ace RB gets us to 11-5 and another playoff run, where we lose in the divisional round, because the backup can't make it happen with Dan out. 2025: Dan has a healthy but super underwhelming season, but again defense + rushing gets us to 11-5 and another loss in the Divisional off a horrendous playoff performance. 2026: The honeymoon is fully over, we end 8-8 and not getting into the playoffs, Jones just wasn't working out, but I was fully committed. I somehow have a knack for drafting defenders, but like the mid 00s Ravens the offense isn't picking up the slack. 2027: 9-7, no playoffs. I continue to blindly believe in Daniel Jones, but at least I pick up a decent looking QB in the 5th round called Alexis Brandon who totally won't become relevant later. 2028: Almost confoundingly, Daniel Jones goes crazy and throws for almost 4000 yards, and with that same great defense he hauls us to a 11-5 season and our first superbowl appearance, sadly in an ugly slogfest the Broncos win 17-16. But maybe Dan Jones can make it happen (surely!) 2029: Except he regresses right back to the mean, and we end up missing out on playoffs despite a 10-6 record. And thus ends the Daniel Jones era, we need a change, and Alexis Brandon deserves a chance after three years of bench riding learning from Daniel and Butler (yeah, he's there too!) 2030: Alexis and Butler spend the season sharing starts, but Alexis shows flashes of being better than Jones was, with 2500 yards in 13 starts and a tidy 87QBR. We make it back in the playoffs with a 10-6, but Alexis struggles to ball out and we lose in the divisional. 2031: The weirdest season. Alexis starts off on fire and is even on early MVP watch, except after week 8 he has a season ending bout of depression (no joke, that was the injury), Butler takes over and somehow does better at a 119QBR across three games before he blows his knee out, the third stringer shows up, and he also gets injured (lol). We end up having to sign a guy cut by the Rams, and he shakily hauls us to a 12-4 finish (most wins were Alexis/Butler). To make things worse, we didn't even get the bye! I expect the worst, but the kid (Cory Barnes, 6th rounder) suddenly starts balling out, and before we know it we're in the Super bowl where we face off against the Chargers... And completely annihilate them 37-7 and win our first super bowl! Cory Barnes does the Nick Foles and carries a stricken team with a dubious offense to our first ring, and Butler of course takes the ring and retires. 2032: I am believing again, revived by the ring, it's time to run it all back. Barnes gets a contract to backup Alexis, and we finally draft a few decent looking receivers. Having gotten therapy, Alexis comes back swinging and gets a fantastic 3000 yard season on a 100QBR, ending in the top 3 in rating and TDs (24, we are a rushing team) despite only 12 starts, he could have become MVP if he had been healthy. And with another 12-4 I feel confident for another bowl run and we almost get it, only getting sent home in the NFC final against eventual winner Green Bay. And that is the current state of affairs. After 13 seasons we are going strong, the winningest team in the NFL in terms of regular season success. Despite that, we missed the playoffs six times because the 49ers/Rams are always dangerous (and I guess the Cards are also there with 2 playoff appearances, lol). When I dropped Daniel Jones I expected nothing from Alexis, because his abilities looked 'meh' at best, and I had plenty of meh with Daniel Jones. But that's what I love about FOF8 because he proved me wrong and was a big part in getting our first ring and following up with another NFC final the year after (which he actually made happen instead of the emergency backup). As a self rule I have never and will never tank, so I have been forced to work with late 1st round picks at best, so that's added a fun challenge. As well as mainly signing players that fit in the chemistry profile (which takes away a lot of good picks that *might* not work out). For some reason, I have always had a good defense going after the first seasons, but the offense has always been messy other than one stud RB who had 5 1000+ seasons until 2028, before falling off physically and becoming a backup (only 1 sub-500 season, even after the dropoff) until our title run (retired afterwards, good on him). Anyways, I might post future updates here. I have been thinking of posting a diary, but since I am already 12 years in it feels weird, and the past seasons are foggy. I'll post a few more stat dump pictures for the freaks among you who like that stuff! Fun fact, Kyler Murray is the leading yardage QB... The Cardinals have only made the playoffs despite that, clearly yardage isn't everything Team fact: In 13 seasons we have never lost against - The Browns (3-0), Steelers (3-0), Bengals (3-0), and Patriots (4-0) Seahawks history - League History - Bowl Results Career NFL Passing Leaders - Rushing Leaders - Receiving Leaders Tackling Leaders - Interceptions - Sacks League MVPs - Coach of the Year's Super Bowl winning box score
  2. Fingers crossed Deshaun Watson's injuries are career ending and Snoop can become the star I want him to be.
  3. Apparently the Pickett situation had been brewing since late last season where he allegedly refused to dress as the emergency backup. It sucks for him, but honestly he hasn't shown remotely the level of skill befitting a starter in the NFL, let alone one be a negative personality in the locker room. It's the harsh reality of sports in general, but if you find yourself on the push down all you can do to guarantee a career is to put your head down and keep working behind the scenes in the hope of getting the next chance. And he could've used being behind Russell as a way to improve himself away from the pressure, to learn tricks from a guy who has massive amounts of experience both with success and frustration. Instead he threw a fit, and finds himself on the bus to Philly where he will also be a backup. I hope he gets the hint, else I don't see him in the NFL beyond his rookie deal.
  4. So is he lining up at Left Cheek or Right Cheek in the formation?
  5. "We have Buddh at home"
  6. I actually finished it two weeks ago. It was great fun, and managed to hold my attention all the way through. It can become slightly tedious at times, but it just worked for me and being able to fight and hang out with some of my favorite Marvel characters is a blast. The balancing is quite well done, and all the characters have their own way of playing, too. Some are obviously better than others (late game Magik and Ghost Rider are obscene), but you rarely feel required to run certain parties to get through it. The friendship system feels a bit Fire Emblem-y, but once i realised that it only sold me further.
  7. Somehwat connected, finally picked Secret Invasion back up and finished it this weekend. And I felt that on its own it's a perfectly fine, albeit generic popcorn romp of staving off WW3 by stopping aliens. But the issue with that, and a lot of the newer stuff, is that when you sit down and think of the overarching implications of all the things that did, put it in context of past established lore, it quickly falls apart and becomes a mess. Also, not related with the discussion, but maaaan did the whole "We gotta be nice to Russia" bit suck even when it came out? Obviously Disney never expected Russia to invade Ukraine, but honestly if I had been them, I would've reshot all the Russia specific beats and set it in Vague-y-stan, because it's just... very poor taste in general. Also, like with Marvels, SI was way too eager to completely nullify most of the things that happened in the grand scheme of things. Lots of things happening that are likely to be nothing more than a one-line reference in the big name films. Their no-depth policy really doesn't help make it all feel connected, and makes watching all the films and series feel less satisfying (when the whole inter-connected nature of things was one of the main selling points in earlier phases)
  8. To add some context. Alyson Court refused to voice Jubilee again, instead advocating for them to cast an asian actress for the role.
  9. Fair fucking beans to the Chiefs for clutching it again. They are a phenomenally ran team with clutch players. But I hope next year we can get a non chiefs Bowl.
  10. It takes a very special kind of player to be slotted in at QB with no NFL experience, and to immediately be a star player and carry the impossible hopes of a fanbase on their shoulders. I think it's one of the major reasons why CJ Stroud succeeded and Bryce Young didn't. They both were trust into the starting role from day one, but one had a team in place that didn't expect him to shoulder the burden alone, one who were in a good place mentally and didn't have the expectations of greatness, and the other got nothing to work with, and was expected to be the best at his game, befitting his pick and the team's needs. It's easy to say in hindsight, because many expected Young to succeed and Stroud to struggle. But pure talent and quality rarely is the thing that makes the difference, even at THE position like QB. So much at the position also relies on confidence rather than skill, the knowledge that your line holds, that your receivers get open, that the OC calls the right plays, and so on. And that's honestly why Stroud got MVP votes, and Young was arguably the worst full starter in the league last year. Young was set up to fail, and he did so spectacularly. It's happened to many stud talents in the past, guys like Daniel Jones, Sam Darnold, Baker Mayfield. Bad teams love to pretend that one early 1st round QB is going to save their franchise and wipe away all the mistakes they have made and still make, that one 23 year old can turn the entire culture around and make them a winning team. But at the end of the day, there's a reason why the 49ers are in the Super Bowl, with 'Mr. Irrelevant' as an MVP candidate. Teams that are ran well, breed success... Teams that are ran poorly, only reap failure. And that's not to say that all the examples would've succeeded as long as they were on the 9ers or lived under Rodgers' shadow for a bunch of years... But I would honestly bet on them being a fuckload better off as players if they had. The Jets have had more QB 'failures' in the past years than the 9ers have had as starters in this century.
  11. Her contract was terminated. Basically she had a few notable tirades against the trans community, had rants about COVID mandates, and compared people's criticism of her political views as being on the same level as the persecution of the Jews during the holocaust. I would assume she had a few morality clauses in her deal that gave Lucasfilm all the power to terminate her contract.
  12. I will tell you this. "Established F1 star going to Ferrari to try and fix them" should be listed as an example in the dictionary under masochism.
  13. I think there's definitely a few teams crazy enough to bite in the hopes of LeBron showing up to complete a title contender. But having said that, he's getting paid 47 million this year and he's got a player option (for 51M!) for next year. Financially he is a gigantic dead weight, who brings in a LOT of extra drama in terms of team dynamics (LeGM) and general media scrutiny. So I am fully expecting the Mavs to fuck their chemistry on an aging star.
  14. I feel terrible for Zay. He's going to get so much shit on him for that fumble into the endzone, but he absolutely balled out when most others didn't. Honestly, and it's a big part on the Chiefs defense for going hard all game, but the offensive gameplan was never there from the first whistle, and it was all just hanging in there by the graces of Lamar and others making clutch plays, rather than a focused plan being executed. There were very few designed runs, and for most of the second half it felt the Ravens were just going with four verts with no dynamic routes to pressure the zones. Really poor playcalling down the stretch.
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