ISFL NEWLETTER |
The
Internet Simulation Football League Newsletter
Volume #17 Issue #20 – February 2, 2014
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Current League Officers
Commissioner: Mark McNeil (blades99@rochester.rr.com)
League Statistician: Mark McNeil (blades99@rochester.rr.com)
ISFL
WWW site: http://www.blades99.com/ISFL/ISFL.htm
ISFL
Review Board: Jeff
Barricelli, Dave Stewart, Don Antonelli
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LEAGUE NOTES
I.
Message from the Commissioner
II.
News from Around the League
III.
Standings
IV.
Super Bowl XVII Results
V.
Season Complete
VI.
Transactions
VII.
Other News including Players of the Week
I.
MESSAGE FROM THE COMMISSIONER
Congratulations to both of the teams who played in this years Super
Bowl. Andy Henderson has
worked hard and put together a great team and really made it a great
final game of the season.
Daniele Miozzi has built a team to be proud of and with some really good
coaching has won the big game for the first time and shown that his
great regular season was just the set up for a Super Bowl Champion.
Please welcome our two new owners to the ISFL.
Valentino Montalbano is taking over the Houston Texans and can be
reached at
montalbanovalentino@yahoo.it for all league related matters.
Jerry Conca as rejoined us as the new owner of the NY Jets and
can be reached at sbaapba@aol.com
for trading and game contacts. Welcome to the league guys, good to have
2 good new owners and be full up again.
I
can’t stress enough that you need to IMMEDIATELY send me your game
export when the game is complete.
Send your write up later on, that’s fine, but I MUST have the
game export as soon as the game ends or I’ll have to sim the game to
keep things.
Don’t
forget, if you lose a player for 2 or more games, you can ask for an
injury replacement, but it must be done the same week as the injury, so
don’t wait, get those requests in right away and take advantage,
especially the teams who are already challenged for the amount of games
they have to work with.
Also, be sure you give me enough names as the more injuries the more
likely someone else already grabbed the guy you want.
Reminder that you MUST send a boxscore and writeup to the league after
each game. The home team is
responsible for this, but either team can do it, as long as it does get
done. Also, you MUST send me
the game export immediately after the game is complete.
It takes about 30 seconds, so I shouldn’t have to chase you down
for that file after a game, just get it in right away so I don’t have to
guess whether a game has happened or not.
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II.
News from Around the League
The
Super Bowl was a great contest as the Arizona Cardinals and New England
Patriots take it right down to the wire and a last minute field goal
gets the Patriots the 34-31 win.
Coming up we have the offseason as we wait on the new league files and
then we can get things going with a new set of files and the draft
probably around May 1st.
Super
Bowl XVII Recap
The two teams are almost at
full strenght, as the only player missing is Morris Claiborne, CB of New
England.
The dome grants that the
weather don't affect the show :-)
The Patriots wins the coin
and decide to defer.
And the first drive show us
how hot mr.Brady will be, with a 6/6 for 64 yards. The Patriots wasn't
able to find a way to stop him for all the day.
Luckily for them, he missed
a crucial pass to Boldin for a 3rd &3 and the drive ended with a FG of
Graham. ARI 3 - NE 0.
The Patriots start equally
strong, as Peterson gained 24 yards on the ground on the first play, but
needed a lot of luck to mark the points.
First they need a bootleg
of their QB to close a 4th and 1 on the Arizona 41, then 2 blessed
penalties (the second one that called back a Peterson's fumble lost...)
to allow Netwon to find Gronky for a 5 yards hitch in the end zone. ARI
3 - NE 7.
From now on, and for the
most part of the first half, Arizona take the control of the match,
while New England was only able to go for a pair of 3 & out.
And in the meanwhile, the
Cardinals scored twice. First on a QB sneak of Brady and than on a long
cross pass for Smith (a 55 yards gain that beat Stevie Brown, who was in
and out for most of the game due to an injury, on a man to man cover).
So New england found
himself down 17-7 with 1.46 in the first half, with an offense unable to
produce yards, and points. Not a good sign, i think.
But Newton wasn't arrived
so far to let the game fade away just after an half.
With 4 complete passes to
Roberts, Shorts and Gronkowski and with a little help from his star RB,
the Patriots were able to find the endzone, with 30 second left on the
clock, thanks to a 3 yards hitch for Peterson. At the end of the first
half the game is almost in balance: ARI 17 - NE 14, with the first ball
of the second half on their hands.
In the second half, New
England started to run more behind their runner, and Peterson started to
work the Arizona defense, with some good gains (of 4, 6 and 7 yards)
that started to open up some space for the passing game.
But, maybe, the most
important thing of the drive was that The Patriots lost their franchise
QB, Newton, for the game and were forced to go with his reserve: Kirk
Cousin, who played only a bunch of snaps in the regular season, and
never in the playoff.
Surprisingly, the rookie
was awesome.
He ended the first drive
with a 3/3 for 36 yards and a TD. Not bad at all. ARI 17 - NE 21.
The next two drive saw the
two teams score a TD.
First, Brady engined a
solid, and fast, drive closed by a TD of Boldin, then was the time of
Peterson run for a 5 yards TD. And the situation was still the same: ARI
24 - NE 28, but now with 14 minutes to play.
In this shoot out, the New
England defense, suddenly remember that they also was invited to the
game, and, finally, stopped Brady and forced Arizona to a punt.
With the ball on their
hands with 9.53 to play, the Patriots started a long drive behind
Peterson. 8 runs for 57 yards, allowed to New England to arrive to the
opponent 22, but they was forced to a FG. ARI 24 - NE 31.
With 3 minutes left, Brady
knows that this must be a TD drive.
And once again, he done
that.
The problem was that he
need only 1.20 minute to score the tie, allowing to New England a last
chance to win the game.
1.39 to the end, on their
20, coach Miozzi says: "no risk, no glory", so he let his rookie QB to
show what he can do.
And Cousin opened the drive
with a long fly to Shorts, covered by Jennings, a ballhawk. And this
paid, as Shorts gained 27 yards.
Again, was the time of
Roberts to contribute with a 14 yards gain.
And the MVP and future all
of famer, Adrian Peterson, closed the game running for two bloody runs
of 18 and 14 yards to set the winning FG with 3 second left and the
first trophy for the New England Patriots under the new regime. ARI 31 -
NE 34.
MVP: Adrian Peterson. AP
deserve it with 185 yards and a TD on the ground and 22 yards and a TD
by air. He also deserve, maybe, the MVP title for the playoff, as he run
for 109, 144 and 185 yards with 2 TD on the ground and 1 by air.
Honorable Mention: Tom
Brady and the Cardinals passing game. Almost unstoppable, with 334 yards
and 3 TDs.
Kirk Cousin. The rookie filled in for the injuried Newton and finished
the game with 10/11, 132 yards 1 TD. A good start.
And with this beautiful
game, i close a wonderfull season.
I don't know if i will be
able to do that again, but, folks, this time was amazing.
Last but not least, hat off
for my opponent, Andy Henderson, who played really well today and, i
think, also for all the season. We face off twice this season and were
both tight game.
I wish you a better luck
the next year.
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III. STANDINGS
http://www.blades99.com/ISFL/Standings13.htm
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IV.
RESULTS – Divisional Round
New
England 34 Arizona 31
V.
SCHEDULE
Offseason
VI.
TRANSACTIONS
AFC
BUF –
CLE –
DEN –
HOU –
IND –
MIN –
NE
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NYJ –
PIT –
SF
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TEN –
NFC
ARZ –
ATL -
CAR –
DET –
GB
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KC
-
MIA –
PHI –
SEA –
STL –
DRAFT
PICKS FORFEITED:
None
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VII.
OTHER NEWS:
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK:
WEEK
ONE
OFFENSE: James Jones, SF – 8 catches, 205 yards, 3 TDs
WEEK
TWO
OFFENSE: Carson Palmer, SEA – 20 of 29 for 224 yards, 4 TDs
DEFENSE: Craig Dahl, NYG – 2 INTs, 6 tackles, INT return TD
WEEK
THREE:
OFFENSE: Steven Ridley, SD – 20 carries, 148 yards, 1 TD
DEFENSE: Tamba Hali, ATL – 3 sacks, 6 tackles
WEEK
FOUR:
OFFENSE: Adrian Peterson, NE – 23 carries, 163 yards, 2 TDs
DEFENSE: Linval Joseph, NYG – 3 sacks, 5 tackles
WEEK
FIVE:
OFFENSE: Tony Romo, ATL – 41 of 54 for 475 yards, 4 TDs
DEFENSE: Chris Long, DAL – 5 sacks, 11 Tackles
WEEK
SIX:
OFFENSE: Jamal Charles, NO – 21 carries, 196 yards, 1 TD
DEFENSE: Troy Biermann, CAR – 3 sacks, 3 tackles
WEEK
SEVEN:
OFFENSE: Marques Colston, TEN – 11 catches, 135 yards, 1 TD
DEFENSE: Devin McCourty, TB – 2 INTs, 6 tackles
WEEK
EIGHT:
OFFENSE: Matt Schaub, GB – 29 of 36 for 386 yards, 5 TDs
WEEK
NINE:
OFFENSE: DeMarco Murray, MIN – 32 carries for 198 yards
DEFENSE: Everson Griffen, IND – 3 sacks, 4 tackles
WEEK
TEN:
OFFENSE: Michael Crabtree, SEA – 11 catches, 212 yards, 2 TDs
DEFENSE: Aldon Smith, GB – 7 sacks, 11 tackles
WEEK
ELEVEN:
OFFENSE: Jamal Charles, NO – 26 carries for 188 yards, 2 TDs
DEFENSE: Chad Greenway, PHI – 16 tackles
WEEK
TWELVE:
OFFENSE: Frank Gore, ATL – 35 carries for 230 yards, 3 TDs
DEFENSE: Patrick Peterson, IND – 2 INTs, 6 Tackles
WEEK
THIRTEEN:
OFFENSE: Adrian Peterson, NE – 24 carries for 148 yards, 2 TDs
DEFENSE: Aldon Smith, GB – 4 sacks, 5 tackles
WEEK
FIFTEEN
OFFENSE: DeAngelo Williams, GB – 27 carries for 181 yards, 3 TDs
DEFENSE: Chris Long, DAL – 4 sacks, 8 tackles
WEEK
SIXTEEN
OFFENSE: Drew Brees, JAX – 38 of 57 for 488 yards, 4 TDs
DEFENSE: Eric Weddle, NO – 2 INTs, 2 Tackles
WEEK
SEVENTEEN
OFFENSE: Stevan Ridley, SD – 28 carries for 199 yards, 2 TDs
DEFENSE: Paul Posluszny, STL – 2 INTs, 17 tackles
WILDCARD ROUND
OFFENSE: Ahmad Bradshaw, DET – 14 carries, 109 yards, 2 TDs
DEFENSE: Richard Sherman, SD – 2 INTs, 5 tackles, TD
DIVSIONAL ROUND
OFFENSE: Joe Flacco, CLE – 18 of 26 for 245 yards, 2 TDs
DEFENSE: Whitney Mercilus, NE – 3 sacks, 6 tackles, forced fumble,
fumble recovery
CONFERENCE FINALS
OFFENSE: Adrian Peterson, NE – 17 carries, 144 yards, TD
DEFENSE: Charles Tillman, JAX – 9 tackles, fumble recovery TD
SUPERBOWL XVII
OFFENSE: Adrian Peterson, NE – 29 carries, 185 yards, 10 first downs, TD
DEFENSE: Joe Haden, NE – 7 tackles, 1 forced fumble |