38 Players in One Draft - The Anxiety Story

[Abe Sargent]

Hello folks and welcome to the exciting One and Done challenge, and this is my entry. Yay.

Over the next while I will be posting my strategy going into the challenge and then looking at trades before the actual draft begins and I have pages of the draft. So, without further ado, let's begin

[Abe Sargent]

Going into the off-season, I decided to focus on offense. While I wanted to emphasize the passing game, I truly wanted a balanced attack. Going in, I wanted the Pentagon of Offense - OTx2, WRx2, QB, which gives you maximum passing ability. Toss in a top RB, and a few late Gs or Cs, FBs and TEs, like there often are, and I would have an offense that could score at will. At least, in theory...

[Abe Sargent]

With a lot of early picks invested in offense, and some later defensive picks, I;d like to come away with fantastic special teams players, which te comptuer can sometimes wait on. I'd love to draft the top P, top K, and then some great returners and gunners.

[Abe Sargent]

Let's begin with some trades:

Draft Trades:

1st /1 to Atl for 1st/4, 1st next year, and 4th, 5th and 6th.

I shop the Falcons picks. I have to go down to the Jets at 1/16 before they agree to accept it. As expected.

Traded Atl’s #1 next year for NJY 1/16 and I get their 7th this year too.

That means I traded the #1 pick for the #4, #16, and a 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th this year. I’m happy with that.

I feel like I can drop down again in the first and still implement my strategy. The problem with trading with the 8th overall Giants, is that their later round picks deviate greatly all the way to the 13th pick in that round, and that’s not good for me. The Colts at 7 are consistent throughout the draft. What can I get if I trade to their spot?

I am unable to get their first and second. I go lower. I can try to trade for their 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th. Let’s try that. Nope, that doesn’t work either. Hold on, let me make another offer.

I try 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 to no dice. I drop the 7 and it works. That is accepted. I acquire the 1/7 pick, and their 3rd, 5th and 6th selections.

I have now turned the top overall selection into 1/7, 1/16, 3, 4, two 5s, two 6s, and a 7. All near the top of those rounds. Alright, I’m comfortable sitting at 7.

[Abe Sargent]

Time to trade my future picks in. I need as many 2s and 3s as I can get, while also getting a few more 1s. I want at least one more first round selection.

I want a pick somewhere around 20, so I dial up the Patriots. I offer a future #1 for their 1 and 2. No dice. How far back can I fall and make this offer work? Just in case I get a hit soon, I sneak in a couple of low round picks to make thing seven.

I slide down to 26 at Minnesota and no dice. I have no desire to keep dropping. I jump back up to a higher team and try to get some later picks. I can’t get a 2, obviously, but what about something else?

I can’t even get a 1 and 3 out of Chicago for a future 1 with them at 1/18.

I offer a future one to the Eagles for a 1, 3, 6, and 7, and they accept.

I trade a future two to the Saints for their second and 7th round picks this year.

I trade with the Eagles again, my other future 2bd rounder for their 2nd round this year and their 5th rounder.

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I’m considering trading my last future number one for a bevy of picks instead of another mid to late first round selection. On the other hand, a fourth first round pick would be handy. Let me see how many number twos I can get.

I offer my future first to Oakland for their 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th, but no dice. Hmm. Let’s try dropping to the three spot.

I finally get an offer for the 49ers to work, a 6th, 7th 2nd this year, and a future 2nd for my future first. I rarely decline an offer that the computer says yes to, because you can only do that so many times. However, I know I can trade this pick for a mid round first, 17th overall, and I just feel like I have more value with a 1/17 than I would with a 2/3, 6/3, 7/3 and the 2/16 or so that I can trade the future pick for. I know that it runs one player into four, but frankly, more late picks aren’t exactly thrilling me right now. Can’t I get more high picks?

I reject the trade, but again, I hate to burn bridges. Let me try a different angle.

I try a trade for the 49ers second round selection, plus their 3rd round this year and the next two years. One two and three threes. Will this work? Nope. I drop a future three for a four and a five, and still no dice. I can’t even get a trade for 2, 3, 3, 6, 7. I can’t trade a 2 for two threes apparently.

I’m stuck. I have no desire to go back to my original trade. What if I changed dancing partners and dropped again?

I make a few offers to Pittsburgh. I finally make a deal.

I trade my last future first to Pittsburgh for their 2nd, 3rd and 7th this year, and their two future 3rds.

Some of my low round future picks are traded for low round picks of the same caliber this year. I am able to nab Denver and Chicago’s 6th and 7th round selections for my future 6s and 7s.

[Abe Sargent]

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Today was the day I learned that not all future picks are treated the same by the AI. I offered the Saints a future Steeler 3rd for their 3rd/17 this year, and they said no. As a lark, I offered them my future and they agreed. Funny. Maybe I should have asked for another seventh. Ah well. I didn’t expect them to say yes, but I felt bound to the offer.

The Jets at 3/20 don’t even want a straight up trade for the Steelers pick. How far do I have to fall back to trade these things off? Maybe that trade wasn’t as good as I thought it would be.

Even Tampa says no at 22. The Vikings at 24 decline a straight trade. St. Louis at 26 says no. This is a team that is at number 5/6 in the bracket, it has a lousy season last year, and no one wants their draft picks. Ugh. I feel like starting over. How far back are these things worth?

Kansas City at 28 says no thanks. Even Seattle at 32 says no a 3rd round 32 overall for a future third round is a guaranteed deal! So these picks are going to be made into multiple mid round picks. Yuk.

Oakland at 4/1 doesn’t want the Steelers future third, and that’s crazy. Let me try an experiment. Okay, Pittsburgh at 4/5 was willing to swap for my 3rd overall. It seems like the AI treats a second hand future selection differently that it does a future one I own. I can trade my futures for a 16 or 17 pick in the beginning of the middle of that round.

I call an audible and restart the dynasty. This was an element to the game I did not know. I could have deleted the info, but I wanted to be intellectually honest.

[Abe Sargent]

I am back to the Pittsburgh trade after redoing the previous trades from start. I decide to shop this future first elsewhere. I now know that my strategy of acquiring multiple picks of the same round in the future and then trading those picks in for numerous picks in that round will not work. I either trade my future first for a lot of picks, but nothing special, or I get a first round out of it. Hmm, maybe I can get both if I drop down a bit.

Nothing really happy comes my way.

I go back to my idea of trading with Oakland I offer my pick again for their 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and again, no dice. Then I do my Abedraft. I make the smallest change and see if that works. In this case, I drop a 6 for a 7. Then, if that doesn’t work, I drop the 7. Then I drop a 5 for a 6. Then for a 7. Etc. I offer the next closest thing in order to negotiate for the best deal.

Oakland accepts the next offer. 2, 3, 4, 5, 7. All this time, I was this close to a deal. Here’s the 411: With these picks, I have the top two selections I n every round but the first and sixth. I get two picks in between the picks I would get with a 1st and 3rd rounder of a later first round pick.

I gain the following picks, without regard for round:

33
66
97
130
194

Or I could trade with a team like Cincinnati and get their:

22
89
120
151
218


Which list would you rather have? Which list gives you the best group of five players?

That’s not really a question, is it?

We trade our remaining future first to Oakland for their 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7.

[Abe Sargent]

I still trade my future 6s and 7s to Chicago and Denver for theirs this year.

I trade a future second for Chicago’s. I trade the other for the Saints 2nd and 7th. I also trade my future 3rd and 4th to the Saints for their current 3rd and 4th.

I exchange a future 3, 4, and 5 to the Patriots for their 3, 4, 5 and 7 this year

I trade my final future pick, a fifth, to the Jets for their 5th

I currently have:

3 1s
4 2s
6 3s
5 4s
6 5s
6 6s
8 7s

For a total of 38 draft picks. That seems doable to me.

Let’s head to the draft.

[Abe Sargent]

I scout out a bunch of players. I am going to emphasize offense in my draft, so I emphasize it in my scouting. I want the best offensive players I can get, and then I’ll take defense later. For now, I want to focus on offense. I need ot get a QB, a RB, a WR with my top picks, and then hope for a good second WR, O-Line to fall to me in the next few picks, before sliding into defense for a lot of picks until I can snag the good offensive players late, classic underdrafted positions like TE, C and FB I can take starters for later. I want to come out with a K and P, but I don’t feel that I have to.

I interview the top 30 rated offensive players according to my scout, which included 13 QBs.

The top rated FB is from WVU, so I want him .

I decide to spend all of my interviews on offense. Let’s now go to the draft.

My scouts like QB Peter Briggs and Bert Mayhem. Briggs is also our top match, so we hope to nab him at 7.

We’d lose OT Bryan Clemons, but he’d have to seriously fall to be available at 7. If he is there, I may take him, as the rock of my team, the Tony Boselli I build my franchise around.

[Abe Sargent]

In the draft, the following players are taken:

Atlanta – QB Roy Harrison
Oakland – QB Myron Mason
SF – QB Malcom Sweeney. Wow, I totally didn’t see trip QBs going. Who got Cade McKnown and who got Donovon McNabb?s
Indy – OLB Kelvin Bushon
Buffalo trades to Oakland
Oakland – MLB Darren Kieta
Pittsburgh – OT Bryan Clemons - There goes my Boselli.

What do I do?

[Abe Sargent]

With three players on the board I can take, my choices are essentially QB Briggs, WR Harris Powell or RB Bryan McMillan. With that many choices it’s easy. Trade back.

I drop to 1/9 and take Washington’s 1/9. 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th.

Washington – CB Bernard Delgado
Giants – S Kendall Anderson

Well, I screwed up. In hindsight, its obvious that I should have traded farther back than 9 and gotten higher round picks for my time. Maybe I could have gotten a 3rd rounder if I had dropped back a few more places. I still have the same three players on the board as before, only now, I have a decision to make. Dropping back gets less and less lucrative every time you do it. Time to swallow my pride and make a choice.

However, all three of the players I covet are on the board. Even if one falls to me at 16, the other is not at 21. I wonder.

The run on QBs has stopped for now. Let’s go with that stud WR.

Pick 9 – WR Harris Powell of Nebraska

Let’s hope the right guy falls to me.

[Abe Sargent]

Miami – OLB Norbert Lyons
Detroit – QB Peter Briggs – I was hoping to get him at 16, but oh well.
Arizona – QB Chris Taylor
Tennessee – G Steve O’Field
Jacksonville – TE Wes Chevrier
Green Bay – ILB Shane Kolsrud


Pick 16 is up and I have another decision to make. I can take RB McMillan, and although I would love to, I feel that I have to make the QB decision now, I just can’t keep waiting

[Abe Sargent]

Again to recap, here is what I know about ye olde QBs.

QB Bert Mayhem has a high grade, and our scouts believe he is underrated, but looking at his bars is like looking at an undrafted free agent. Maybe I’d take a risk later in the draft, but at 16, I want to pick a more reliable QB prospect.

QB Kim McGregor looks to have nice bars, and he is rated the same at Bert, but my scouts believe he is very overrated, and that’s a problem.

QB Shaun Erickson is also rated at about the same level and listed as very overrated.

QB Jack Yoo is slightly below those in ratings, still has good looking bars and is very overrated as well.

Finally there is QB Dan McElroy who is hard to read, rated just below Jack Yoo and has an atrocious accuracy rating with a high volatility.

All but Dan did very well in intelligence. Jack and is a poor jumper while Bert is good, but who cares? All but Shaun are fast and Kim is strong.

I can veto Dan easily.

Let’s look at the bars.

Who has the highest accuracy? Shaun and Jack
Worst? Bert, by far
Who has the most well rounded pass bar? (the one with the best overall passes from screen to deep) Kim by far
Best 3rd Down? Shaun and Jack
The other two are nasty in 3rd down passing
Timing? Jack and Kim
Worst Timing? Shaun who is atrocious
Who is the best at sensing the rush, not a key skill, but nice? Only Bert is any good, and he’s still not that good. The other three can’t even draw a rush on a blackboard.
All but Bert are good at reading defenses, Kim is best though

When I look at the most well rounded QB, who is doing the worst? Bert. Bert’s out for now. Again, I might grab him later if I have a chance.

I can make a case for Kim the consistent passer no matter the distance so long as it isn’t a screen, or accurate and read defense Jack or solid all round Shaun. So who do I go for?

The guy from, West Virginia, Jack Yoo.

Why?

1). He’s from West Virginia, and that’s cool,

2). He’s probably Asian, and that’d be cool to have as your starting star QB.

This is a fun dynasty, so we might as well have some right now. I can’t pick between these three, but I need one, so I’ll snag the one I’ll have more fun with.


16 – QB Jack Yoo from Miami

[Abe Sargent]

The next picks are:

Denver – CB Bo Granados WR Sammie Newman
Chicago – OLB Leland Hamill
New Orleans – QB Kim McGregor
New England – QB Bert Mayehm

I hope NE didn’t get an egg with Bert. There are way too many QBs taken early in this draft.

[Abe Sargent]

Okay, time to make a pick. I’ve been eyeing RB Bryam McMillan all day. Do I take him here? Let’s look around and gauge the board.

The one thing keeping me away from Mr. 6.0 is that I already have two “Very Overrated” players taken. When I was grabbing Peter Briggs early, it was one thing, but now I have two overrated players. What to do? Grab a third?

Options:

RB Bryan McMillan very overrated at 6.0. Average breakaway speed, which I like a lot of. Extreme elusiveness, which I like as well. Great workout with good numbers in everything except broadjump.

RB Tyrus Torres is at 5.8 and rated hard to read. Torres was 0.1 faster than McMillan at the 40 yard dash, and has more speed to outside, but a bit less elusiveness, still a lot though.

RB OJ Winters is like Bert Mayehm, with ratings and scouts liking them, but bars of suckitude I no draft him.

RB Lonnie Staggs – Mr. 5.7 with an as scouted rating. Slower times and I don’t like his lack of strength in areas like breakaway and elusiveness. What you see is what you get with him, however.

Since these two – Torres and Staggs, are right behind McMillan, maybe I should think about going elsewhere. Should I trade down? You need to trade down a lot to make stuff here. For example, were I to trade down five picks, I’d only net 100 points on the trade calculator, enough for a late 4th rounder.

Other options to take here?

Our scouts think WR Sammie Newman is very underrated and he ran the 40 in sub 4.40 time. He can’t catch a cold in a rainstorm, but he has top notch big play ability, and if he is underrated, then he could end up a lot better. Volatility 82 though. Still, take a QB and two receivers in the first round, and you have a real offense, no matter what (I hope). We interviewed the top nine receivers and took the first. All of the rest after the next three were all very overrated. Taking one of the three ones that was rated well makes sense here. It also shores up our passing game in case our top choice busts.

Eh, why not move then. I want to get a low 2nd rounder so I grab my draft calculator and figure out a decent trade. Okay, I figured out this trade an the calculator, so hold on:

I give up to the Chiefs:

1/21
3/17
7/1

I get from the Chiefs:

1/28
2/29
4/29

I move down, and get to jump from mid third to bottom 2nd. Then I get an extra 4th for a seventh. Note this trade is in Cleveland ‘s favor by a mere 0.2 points.

By pick 28 I hope to have a clearer picture as to the RB/WR question.

[Abe Sargent]

Chiefs – WR Sammie Newman
Bengals – RB Bryan McMillan
St. Louis – QB Shaun Erickson
Tampa Bay – DT Marcus Danek
Houston – DT Tim Laing
Minnesota – WR Zach Ciscone
Cleveland – DT Mario Colson

[Abe Sargent]

Where do I go now? The last WR that my scouts really liked is Jerry Reeves. I have two picks after five more selections. RB Torres and Staggs are still there. Normally, I have a better chance of one RB falling with two on the board than of one WR falling, so I’d go WR. However, Torres fits my system better than Staggs who looks more like a traditional power back.

Pick 28 – RB Tyrus Torres from good ol’ Kentucky

[Abe Sargent]

The rest of the first round:

Carolina – RB Lonnie Staggs
San Diego – DT Harris Johnson
Baltimore – RB OJ Winters
Seattle – OLB Cornell Logan

[Abe Sargent]

Second Round

Well I got lucky that WR Reeves fell. No way Torres made it through that RB selection I think, so I’m happy.

I have the next two picks. The WR pool is getting thin quickly. If I want another top WR I should nab one now. The G talent has a few players that aren’t really worth drafting here, but there isn’t much, so I am afraid that if I wait on OG too long, I get stuck with losers.

The top players on my board are OTs, but there is a lot of depth here on the draft board. I could compromise and take the top OG and OT, netting 40% of my starting o-Line right now. Still, I can’t justify wasting a top 2nd round pick on a guy who shouldn’t be picked here. It’s not frugal.

Pick 33 – WR Jerry Reeves from Boston College

With the obvious pick out of the way, where do I go from here?

[Abe Sargent]

I could take that OT. That would be using my talent well. I could also go defense here. DE, DT, S and CB all have legitimate choices but I want a good offense first, and using the 34th choice on those positions does not help that cause.

There are no obvious places to go on offense besides the deep OT pool. No player sticks out. TE, WR, C, G all have their best player way below this spot in talent level. RB, QB, WRx2 all have already been picked by me. There are two great FBs, but I don’t want to go there.

Sigh. I hate choosing defense this early, but it is obviously the best choice for me to do so, who is the best player on the board?

It’s basically between S, OLB and DT. I go for the guy who looks better based on his numbers and the fact that the S has a volatility of 94.

Pick 34 - SLB Raymond Turnbull of Oklahoma State

He’s the best player I have left that’s not at OT which is full of players. I’ll make a move for my OT if he is still around after a few picks.

[Abe Sargent]

The safety I was eyeing went the very next pick. The players that go are largely on defense.


FB Nicky Whalen from WVU went and that saddens me.

I make a trade to move up and nab my OT before he goes.

I make a dead even trade offer but no dice. It has to be at least a tiny bit in the Ai’s favor. I add my last 7th rounder to the deal:

4/4
2/18
7/21

For 2/8

I then happily take the man I wanted all along, because two OTs just went in the last few picks, and I want to ensure that I get my man:

Pick 40 – OT Darryl Dotson from Tulane

He’s really good, and probably has late first round quality, worth trading up for.

[Abe Sargent]

I am feeling that one f the few quality OGs is about to go prior to my pick, so I trade up three and give up my late 6th rounder to grab:

Pick 47 – OG Preston Blake of Oregon State

He’s one of the best OGs in the draft after the guy from the first round, and another OT went in the last two picks, and when I looked, two of the three teams left before me needed OG as a position of need. I felt I had to jump up and grab him.

[Abe Sargent]

With our Kansas City pick, I simply take BPA.

Pick 61 – OT Dennis Dotson from Illinois.

This finishes the most important OLine positions. On offense, I now have the entire pentagon of talent (Qb, two WRs, two OTs, make a pentagon). In my estimation, if you have a pentagon of talent, you have a good offense, and now I have spent five of my top seven picks on the pentagon, and my offense is fixed. I am now free to pick wherever fro here on out.

Oh, and selecting Dotson gives me two things over other possible OT talent – dual Dotsons at OT, which is cool, and he’s from WV!

[Abe Sargent]

Third Round

I feel that the talent here is defensive and not offensive.

Pick 65 – RDE William Caldwell of Tennessee Tech

He’s the top DE on our board, and I like emphasizing the trenches.

The best players on the board are all defense, so I decide to get my money worth with this pick as well.

Pick 66 – CB Robbie Ramon, from WVU!

I take him over competition because he is from my alma mater. He’s also good on special teams.

[Abe Sargent]

I’m up again after just a few picks. I still have several ways I can go with my draft. I feel like I could take another defensive player to keep up, since my offense is frankly doing well. However, why pass a chance to get the best center in the draft, despite the poor quality of the position’s players?

Pick 71 – C Orlando Patchet from UNLV

[Abe Sargent]

I have two picks in a row, so let’s get some talent.

Pick 81 – G Vinny Malone from Syracuse.

My scouts loved this guy in the interview, said he was a great deal, and he matches the place where I am drafting, so I grabbed him. As of right now, we have all of our offensive starters except for FB, TE.

I waited too long and the last good FB was taken, and now I have crap to choose from. No sense choosing a FB now, I’ll just wait for a while.

Ah well. I screwed up, and no sense mucking about, we just move on.

I have two receivers, two tackles and two guards, nothing keeping me from going two with something else:

Pick 82 – CB Chris Augustson

Of the five corners I was reviewing, he can’t pick his own nose, let alone the ball, but he appears to have the best coverage skills, plus good run defense too. Having good passing defense is key to a good passing game, because it can prevent opponents from running up the score, instead running it with their back, which is the secret reason that a run defense corner is good for my team. That makes Chris an ideal corner, despite his lack of intercepticons. He’s also good on special teams.

[Abe Sargent]

Fourth Round

At the beginning of the fourth, its time to patch up some holes

Pick 97 – DT Floyd Hicks from Miami, Florida

I need more defensive players and he seemed to have some skills that I like, such as run stopping.


Pick 98 – TE Reuben Rasmussen from Notre dame

Sure, there are better DTs, DEs, CBs, Ss, OTs, Ks, Ps all available, but he is the best lesft at a weak area. I need to shore these up before too long, and the fourth round is my last real chance to get starters with any quality.

[Abe Sargent]

I missed out on one of the last good OLBs of any value left, and that’s sad. It does make my next choice easier, however.

Pick 108 – ILB Eric Haslett of Arkansas

Again, I needed players, and he was the best left at the position. I then let San Francisco pick third before taking the fourth pick of the fourth round. There are a lot of ways to go here. Take the top S. The top punter is available still. I could nab a backup RB or QB. I could take another defensive position I still need a starter at. However, you don’t want to go too long without a good MLB, it’s an important position.

[Abe Sargent]

I trade up a few spaces and give my last 7th rounder to Green Bay for the privelage. I am targeting by far the top safety on the board after the previous top safety as taken the pick after mine at 109. Green Bay only has two ont eh roster, so I jump now, for a seventh so late that it might as well be a UFA.

Pick 110 - S Lee Kinney of Washington

He fits my system very well and I need good pass defense. He was the last real good player here.

[Abe Sargent]

My positions of need: DT, DE, OLB, S, FB, P, K


Pick 113 – P Tracey Gomez of San Diego State

The first punter just went, and I suspect a run is about to start. Better to lead than follow.

I have Kansas City’s pick to finish out the round. I fill another hole.

Pick 125 – DT Cedric Garrard of Boston College

He’s simply the best left at his position. Tick off another position of need.

[Abe Sargent]

Fifth Round


I could take a WLB here, the top kicker, a S, a DE, or go with a backup. What to do?

Pick 129 – QB Dan McElroy of Rutgers

This is my safety pick in case Jack Yoo doesn’t pan out. He is the highest rated QB on our board and our scouts found him hard to read. He has the accuracy of an Abe, so he isn’t a Jack Yoo type QB, but he does have well rounded passing stats, and he;s a fifth round pick, so you can’t be as choosy.

Pick 130 – S Andy Hammond of North Carolina

I discussed taking this position earlier. Now its time. He’s poor at man-to-man but at FS I expect him to zone a lot, he’s also real good at stopping the run and a great special teams player.

[Abe Sargent]

After waiting for a pick, we are up again.

Pick 132 – DE Peter Hill from William and Mary

I wanted to shore up one of my last holes before I move to more backups. This pick should surprise no one.

With just FB, WLB and K left open, is it time to grab one?

Two more picks pass

Alright, time to make a decision. Backups and role players, or patch the holes?

Pick 135 – WLB Jonathan Krueger of Lehigh

I’m surprised he is still available, and its time to grab him before another surprised team takes him.

Pick 139 – WR Wendell Frederickson from North Carolina

I need another receiver and he seems serviceable. In case I want to go three wide at at times

Pick 144 – OLB William Bernard from Ferris State

Since I don’t have good backers, I figure I should get one of the better backups for them.

Pick 146 – CB Emmitt Spencer of Pittsburgh

I needed a nickelback and he was the top corner on the board.

[Abe Sargent]

Round Six

Pick 162 – K Fernando Sigman of California

Someone has to take him. We wait a pick and then are up again.

I want to get one good backup for each area. Time to start picking those up.

Pick 164 – DE Lamont Harrison from Syracuse

He’s solid and since the starting DE taken last round was one of the latest selections I took for a starting position, let’s take a good backup just in case.

Pick 167 – OT Bart Ramirez from the Other Miami

He’s solid enough, and we interviewed him. He did come back as overrated, but of those around, he has an affinity with our team leader thus far, so I’m taking him.

Pick 170 – G Ellis Murphy from Louisiana State

He had really good bars, and may be a nice surprise.

Pick 176 – DT Billy Joe Jenkins of Iowa State

Again, I want serviceable backups at least in each position group, and I got a DE< but I was surprised at how good his bars looked, so I’m taking a shot.

Pick 179 – CB Jerry Copeland of Colorado State

I need a dimeback, and I had to dig into the CBs in order to find one that might work in my system, but I hope that I did. Even if he isn’t a good dimeback he’s a great special teams player

[Abe Sargent]

Seventh Round

Despite trading away several of these picks to move up earlier, I still have six picks in this round

Pick 194 – RB Tyrone Kight of Michigan

Time to take a backup for Torres.

Pick 201 - WR Preston Segreaves of Arizona

I was REALLY hoping he’d fall to me. He was back in the pecking order, so I hoped I could hide him until late. He’s a great punt returner and may be a good fourth or even third option in spread offense packages, He does have a red flag, so watch out. Still, for what he offers, he looks like a seventh round steal and I’m very excited about him.

I have four picks in a row, Time to finish this draft.

Pick 208 – MLB Shane Bronson from Northwestern.
Pick 209 – OT Joe Sutter of Virginia
Pick 210 – S Walt Robinson of Illinois
Pick 211 – TE Johnnie Worthington from Virginia

All of these players contribute to special teams or are expected to develop into real backup.

Whew! There we are, one draft class of such enormity that it took hours and hours to pore through the stats and trade possibilities and bars of the candidates. I’m tired.

[Abe Sargent]

Enter Free Agency. Here is my current position breakdown

QB – 2
RB – 2
FB – 0
TE – 2
WR – 4
OT – 4
OG – 3
C – 1
K – 1
P – 1
DE – 3
DT – 3
MLB – 2
OLB – 3
CB – 4
S – 3

[Abe Sargent]

Now, with 19 million in cap room, I have every intention of taking as many undrafted free agents into camp as I can possibly cram onto my roster. That’ll take a while, so why don’t we come back when I’ve got them all

I drafted 38 players - not that bad actually. Free agents should fill the gaps quite nicely.

We got an A+ in our draft rating and everybody else got Cs.

I have made offers in the first pass to 59 undrafted free agents.

The “first pass” means that I take the top undrafted free agents, then look at each position and that the top 3-5 players then take a look at each of the special teams (KR, PR, LS, Holding) abilities and grab a few for each.

Now I’ll go back and try to find the diamonds in the rough.

These are the players with lower ratings but their bars just happen to be right, or they have a large volatility combined with intriguing scores. I make offers to an additional seven players here.

In fact, practically every player with a potential score of 40 or higher has an offer, no matter the position.

I’ve now made offers to 66 players, and in addition to my 38 draftees, that brings our class to 104 players.

They all sign with me.

I hop a few players to positions of need. I move Jerry Reeves to SE, for example. That way they get camp experience at their new position, but when I see the final numbers, I’ll move around even more.



Let’s go to camp

[Abe Sargent]

We sold 36,100 season tickets

The roster

This is a quick roster comparison pre-cut

QB:

Jack Yoo is 29/62, and looks alright, I suppose.

RB Torres is the third most developed player on the roster after our Punter and top selection. He’s also our backfield leader. 47/62

WR Harris Powell is a hoss in every way. Glad to have drafted him. 51/78. Every stat is at 70 or above in potential or actual except for returning, where he sucks. He does have a 100 in special teams play, so I’ll need to make a decision whether to play him there or not.

Jerry Reeves doesn’t look that great, but my scouts loved him. So I hope he’ll grow into a good player.

OT Darryl Dotson busted down ten. Prior to camp he has a 72 potential, he now has a 62.

Best potential in my position groups:

QB – Jack Yoo
RB/FB – RB Tyrus Torres
TE/WR – FL Harris Powell
OLine – C Orlando Patchet
K/P – P Tracy Gomez
DLine – DE William Caldwell
LB – OLB Raymond Turnbull
Sec – S Lee Kinney

CB Robbie Ramon busted around ten potential too, down to 42. My major disappointment was WLB Jonathan Krueger who busted down to a 32 from 50. That’s a problem.

[Abe Sargent]

Here is the pre-cut roster:

Front Office Football 2007
Dallas Cowboys Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Yoo, Jack 17 QB 1 29 62 4 yrs
McElroy, Dan 11 QB 1 29 55 3 yrs
Ellard, Aaron 1 QB 1 10 50 1 yr.
Holliday, Keith 5 QB 1 14 49 1 yr.
Kearney, Tom 15 QB 1 8 49 1 yr.
Newton, Bryant 14 QB 1 13 48 1 yr.
Torres, Tyrus 23 RB 1 47 62 4 yrs
Hoffman, Cedric 33 RB 1 30 44 1 yr.
Fling, Jack 47 RB 1 29 43 1 yr.
Kelso, Kelly 20 RB 1 23 42 1 yr.
Fletcher, Chester 34 RB 1 23 37 1 yr.
Bush, Leland 32 RB 1 22 35 1 yr.
Kight, Tyrone 31 RB 1 19 33 3 yrs
Maloney, Marcel 41 FB 1 25 54 1 yr.
Carter, B.J. 28 FB 1 21 37 1 yr.
Rasmussen, Reuben 84 TE 1 35 66 3 yrs
Matos, Shannon 80 TE 1 27 47 1 yr.
Farr, Oscar 16 TE 1 21 46 1 yr.
Reynolds, Leon 86 TE 1 20 46 1 yr.
George, Chad 3 TE 1 22 45 1 yr.
Jensen, Bucky 12 TE 1 20 44 1 yr.
Worthington, Johnnie 81 TE 1 27 41 3 yrs
Powell, Harris 83 FL 1 51 78 5 yrs
Okobi, William 6 FL 1 24 47 1 yr.
Myers, Randy 18 FL 1 17 45 1 yr.
Ramsey, Lawrence 19 FL 1 19 42 1 yr.
Poff, R.J. 89 FL 1 18 37 1 yr.
Idzik, Julio 87 FL 1 12 29 1 yr.
Reeves, Jerry 88 SE 1 29 51 3 yrs
Fredrickson, Wendell 85 SE 1 18 47 3 yrs
Hardy, Marc 7 SE 1 16 45 1 yr.
Nicholson, Mitchell 4 SE 1 19 43 1 yr.
Weber, Jermaine 8 SE 1 16 42 1 yr.
Dillon, Phil 10 SE 1 22 40 1 yr.
Segraves, Preston 82 SE 1 21 38 3 yrs
Burmbaugh, Donny 9 SE 1 14 28 1 yr.
Patchet, Orlando 53 C 1 39 68 3 yrs
Turnbull, Wayne 55 C 1 24 54 1 yr.
Corbett, Pat 58 C 1 16 53 1 yr.
Michaud, Andrew 57 C 1 19 47 1 yr.
Arriaga, Allen 52 C 1 12 42 1 yr.
Buckner, Walter 54 C 1 18 40 1 yr.
Blake, Preston 69 LG 1 37 59 3 yrs
Fisk, Albert 64 LG 1 18 45 1 yr.
Duncan, Antonio 65 LG 1 12 43 1 yr.
Hanks, Lionel 70 LG 1 21 41 1 yr.
Sutter, Luther 63 LG 1 17 39 1 yr.
Malone, Vinny 66 RG 1 28 53 3 yrs
Murphy, Ellis 62 RG 1 22 48 3 yrs
Brunell, Quentin 75 RG 1 19 41 1 yr.
Sutter, Joe 67 LT 1 17 52 3 yrs
Dotson, Darryl 73 RT 1 27 62 3 yrs
Dotson, Dennis 68 RT 1 30 61 3 yrs
Ramirez, Bart 71 RT 1 28 44 3 yrs
McWilliams, Ike 77 RT 1 15 44 1 yr.
Snell, Riddick 61 RT 1 13 42 1 yr.
Drayson, Dusty 60 RT 1 22 41 1 yr.
Gomez, Tracy 13 P 1 61 70 3 yrs
Sigman, Fernando 2 K 1 33 54 3 yrs
Franz, Rickey 25 K 1 24 46 1 yr.
Hill, Peter 94 LDE 1 17 48 3 yrs
Turnbull, Henry 45 LDE 1 18 42 1 yr.
Van Pelt, Butch 95 LDE 1 20 41 1 yr.
Cassidy, Herman 45 LDE 1 20 41 1 yr.
Harrison, Lamont 78 LDE 1 19 33 3 yrs
Caldwell, William 90 RDE 1 27 60 3 yrs
Malcomson, Willie 91 RDE 1 27 45 1 yr.
Brody, Darrell 99 LDT 1 31 48 1 yr.
Chamberlain, Don 92 LDT 1 18 41 1 yr.
Jenkins, Billy Joe 74 LDT 1 22 40 3 yrs
Hicks, Floyd 98 RDT 1 30 52 3 yrs
Garrard, Cedric 79 RDT 1 29 50 3 yrs
Morrison, Don 72 RDT 1 23 35 1 yr.
Medsker, Leon 27 NT 1 17 34 1 yr.
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Haslett, Eric 56 MLB 1 28 49 3 yrs
Bronson, Shane 97 MLB 1 19 49 3 yrs
Houston, Toby 44 MLB 1 15 39 1 yr.
Gunn, Edgar 26 MLB 1 15 38 1 yr.
Jagger, Kris 35 MLB 1 12 35 1 yr.
Turnbull, Raymond 93 SLB 1 34 61 3 yrs
Bernard, William 96 SLB 1 28 37 3 yrs
O'Neal, Emmitt 59 SLB 1 18 36 1 yr.
Campbell, Lorenzo 44 WLB 1 23 42 1 yr.
Bernhardt, Artie 50 WLB 1 21 40 1 yr.
Krueger, Jonathan 51 WLB 1 23 35 3 yrs
Augustson, Chris 22 LCB 1 25 55 3 yrs
Kerr, Kyle 27 LCB 1 13 48 1 yr.
Copeland, Jerry 45 LCB 1 18 44 3 yrs
Spencer, Emmitt 36 LCB 1 26 43 3 yrs
Buchanan, Jonathan 43 LCB 1 23 40 1 yr.
McDonald, Daniel 29 LCB 1 16 32 1 yr.
Ramon, Robbie 35 RCB 1 28 46 3 yrs
Petkovich, Donnie 26 RCB 1 17 40 1 yr.
Bauer, Butch 48 RCB 1 17 35 1 yr.
Wilkins, Frankie 21 RCB 1 15 24 1 yr.
Robinson, Walt 38 SS 1 24 49 3 yrs
Gomez, Trevor 46 SS 1 17 44 1 yr.
Kinney, Lee 40 FS 1 26 62 3 yrs
Hammond, Andy 37 FS 1 32 45 3 yrs
Inzinna, Seth 49 FS 1 26 43 1 yr.
Andersen, Kerry 39 FS 1 24 41 1 yr.
Henry, Mike 24 FS 1 20 41 1 yr.
Domenici, Gino 30 FS 1 15 40 1 yr.
Grier, Mel 42 FS 1 21 38 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 104
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 104

Salary Cap: $109,000,000
Cap Room: $14,690,000
Maximum for New Player: $15,000,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $61,970,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $410,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $37,240,000

[Abe Sargent]

It will be interesting to see if anyone that i end up cutting made it on your rosters, and then broke out.

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, let’s go position by position:

QB

Jack Yoo is the best player, but Dan is right behind. In fact, if you had simply skipped past the first round QB runs, and waited until the top of the fifth to take McElroy, you would have made out by getting other players in that slot. Imagine who I could have gotten in the 16 spot if I had waited until the 5th round for McElroy!

I could have gotten a 46/73 WLB and shored up my major weakness on defense, that’s what I could have done. BTW, the 49ers third overall selection and third QB in a row taken busted down to 7/27. Ouch.

The QB I wanted, Peter Briggs is at 21/50. The other QBs I was looking at are Kim McGregor at 13/42 and Shaun Erickson at 24/48. The top QB ain;t too bad at 59 potential. It appears that Jack Yoo was the best first round QB by potential at 62, but again, the top overall pick ain’t too far off. Yay WV!

Get this, from the last QB taken in round 1 until I took McElroy at the top of round 5, not a single QB was taken! That means, the draft went from pick 23 until pick 129 before another QB was taken. Again, had I known that, I would have just waited and snagged McElroy!

After I take McElroy, another QB isn’t taken until pick 28 of round five. It looks like I may have taken McElroy too early. I take a look at the last QBs taken. There was a seventh rounder who is almost all green but has a potential better than most other QBs drafted at 51, Benjamin Irvin. He would have made a good backup for a career.

I want to keep four QBs. Who?

McElroy and Yoo obviously. Who else?

[Abe Sargent]

With Jack Yoo, I have a kick holding of 77. Therefore, I don’t need a third string QB to be a good holder unless they are really good. Tom Kearney does have a holding of 96, so that would be possible.

Ellard: A good west coast QB. Strong stats in short passes, screen, solid but not spectacular accuracy. Adequate medium passing poor long and deep passing. Timing is adequate. Sort of like Chad Pennington. Only a 41 sense rush and doesn’t read defenses at all.

Holliday: Like a bad McElroy. Where McElroy has just a 30 in accuracy, Holliday has 15. Holliday is also great at the long and deep ball while acceptable at the medium game. He doesn’t even know there are shorter plays in the playbooks. Timing of 70 is pretty good, but his sense rush is woeful. He can read a defense about as well as Ellard, which is to say that he thinks he is playing Madden out there, and not actually supposed to figure out what is going on. Good deep ball and third down passing with no sense of rush, short passes and reading defense. That he is similar to MeElroy means our game scheme would be the same if for some reason Jack Yoo went down for the long term or permanently.

Kearney: From the football powerhouse of Livingstone. It’s rare that I have never heard of a college a person is from, since I work in the higher ed world. Good medium passes. Acceptable short and deep passes. Poor at the long and screen balls. It’s hard to game plan around little deep ball and yet have some deep balls tossed occasionally. Accuracy potential of 52, timing of 100 and he has my attention. Adequate third down. Another back poor at sensing the rush. Read defense can get to 56, which is the first one who actually knows the defense exists. Summation – knows medium ball, has good intangibles, poor at long ball and screens and sensing the rush.

Newton: This is like a David Carr type back. 0 sense pass rush. Poor medium passes but adequate at the other four areas. In fact, this is Mr. Adequate. He’s at about 50 or 60 potential in everything except medium passé and sense rush. With no major areas of strength, he at last has no major weakness, except for that glaring hole at medium passes. You simply cannot scheme well with reduced medium length passes. On the other hand, you don’t need to worry about him with all of the weaknesses that the other QBs have.

All of these are weak at sensing the rush, so Newton’s weakness there isn’t as glaring. Ellard is the best and he’s barely adequate there, and the rest are just poor.

No one has a good pass list. I could take good short, medium, poor long and deep, that I could plan around, as an example. Every QB has a pass hole:

Ellard: Long, Deep
Holliday: Short, Screen sorta
Kearney: Long, Screen
Newton: Medium

Of those, the one that is easiest to gameplan around is Ellard. However, only Newton has just one hole.

Accuracy, which is important to me. In this order from most to least: Newton, Ellard Kearney, Holliday. Newton and Ellard each have mid to high sixties. Hollidya just sucks here. Kearney has a 52 which doesn’t suck.

Intangibles: Sense rush, timing, 3rd down, read defense.. What weaknesses do they have:

Ellard: Read defense, sorta third down, sorta sense rush (Sorta is high 30’s, low 40s)
Holliday: Read defense, sense rush
Kearney: Sense rush
Newton: Sense rush

Ellard does not look good hear, neither does Holliday. However, who just nails a stat? (70+)

Ellard: None
Holliday: 3rd down passing and timing, each at 70 potential
Kearney: 88/100 timing
Newton: None

So, although Holliday has problems he is also gifted in areas

Who do I take and who do I drop?

I don’t want my backup to screw up. Therefore, I care more about problems than gifts. That makes Newton a strong choice.

I can also cut Holliday for the same reason.

It’s easier to gameplan Ellard, but he is the weakest at the intangibles after Holliday is cut. Who do I go for?

I go for Ellard, because he does have that strength in passing skills to fall back upon.

Therefore, I cut Kearney and Holliday.

[Abe Sargent]

Next up:

RB

This is an easier position to do despite the large number of stats. Being a good receiving back is nice, but not vital. I have seven RBs and I want to cut to four. Torres is good enough to stay.

Unfortunately, the backup I drafted, Tyrone Kight is the worst of the lot, and has not special teams skills to fall back upon. Therefore, he is cut.

Here are the traits I care most about:

Breakaway Speed
Elusiveness
Speed to Outside

Who has the best skills in these areas?

Total number of potential points in these three areas combined:

Hoffman: 143 with a significant deviation of 13 and 100.
Fling: 157, with a deviation of 90 to 7.
Kelso: 165, with a deviation of 100 to 28
Fletcher: 144 with a deviation of 60 to 36.
Bush: 102 with a deviation of 54 to 4.

Well, that doesn’t look good for Leland Bush, the WVU alum. On the other hand, Kelso and Fletcher look good compared to the rest.

Alright, what about the inside game? Nobody has more than a 31 power inside running trait.

3rd down running is alright. It doesn’t make or break a back, but I’d like it. Fling is at 67. Fletcher at 48. Bush at 64. The other two are in the 30s. That looks good for Fling and Bush.

Who are the best overall receivers? Again, nice, but not necessary.

Leland Bush is the best receiver. His stats are all at 50 up to 74 and 72 for two of them. Kelso and Fling are next.

Special teams, kick and punt return?

Bush is at 49 and 53 in the return stats. No one else is close.

I won’t be looking at those players yet, but I want to go ahead and cut some players. Since Bush might make the grade based on special teams and receiving play (making him a solid choice for a shotgun 4wr set or something), I’m not going to cut him yet.

I am making Fletcher officially a backup. He makes the cut because he is the only one with any breakaway speed. I have to leave the rest because of the Leland Bush question. If I bring him on, my choices change based on his stats.

[Abe Sargent]

FB

I have a great undrafted free agent in Marcel Maloney with a 54 potential. I cut the other FB.

TE

I want to take four with me into the exhibition season. I have seven so I need to cut three.

Rasmussen is the starter and clearly the best TE on the roster. He has a long snapping of 94, so there is no need to keep a long snapper.

Two TEs, Matos and Reynolds, and good on special teams, and may stay on for that purpose.

I prefer my TEs to block and catch, not specialize in one or the other. I’ll take a TE with no deficiencies against a great blocker who can’t catch.

Matos – He’s a red flag. Good on special teams (77). Barely adequate as a blocker. 37, 58, and 33 on the blocking stats. Spotty as a receiver – 80 3rd down and 76 downfield and even a 54 avoid drops, but a 7 at adjusting to ball, and 13 at route running. 24 big play receiving.

Reynolds – Good on special teams (75). While he is proficient at blocking technique, he has no strength. Worse blocker than Matos, better receiver though. Perfectly serviceable receiver.

Farr – 61, 42, and 16 blocking stats. Better than Reynolds at blocking, and a strong run blocker. Like Matos, also streaky as a receiver with a 0 in Big Play, 4 courage, 14 third down catching, but good stats elsewhere. Good at catching, running routes, adjusting to the ball, and getting downfield. Not a bad receiver in non-clutch situations. Would be a good target early in the downs with little on the line.

George – Best blocker so far. 46, 66, 40. 0 Big play receiving, 15 avoid drops, and 16 getting downfield against 81 courage, and 60’s in the other three stats. Another streaky receiver, but at least he is a good blocker.

Jensen – 36, 20, 48 makes him an adequate blocker but barely. Yet another streaky receiver, with low stats in getting downfield, adjusting, and big plays. Nothing more than alright in the other passing stats.

Worthington – 66, 52, 37 makes him a solid blocker. Worst receiver of the lot.

Now, who to cut? Although I drafted him, Worthington has to go. I have other TEs who are good blockers, but streaky receivers. He is just a poor receiver. Might as well cut him.


Who is staying for sure? Reynolds. As the only good receiver, it’s nice to have one TE you can throw a ball to

Who else is staying? Farr. As a great run blocker, Farr can open holes for Torres. He also is the only streaky receiver that can actually have a passing plan built around him.

That leaves me with one hole. I have left Matos, George, and Jensen. I need to keep Matos for now, until I’ve done the special teams works. Therefore, I cut Jensen, because George is a better blocker and they are both streaky receivers.

[Abe Sargent]

Choosing these players is tough, so I skip receiver for now. I move to OLine, which is easier to do:

C

I have six Centers on my roster, I want to cut three.

Buckner is the only player on my roster with a conflict with one of my leaders. He goes.

He had a run blocking of 80, but we needed to drop the attitude. Only harmony here.

All of the rest of my Centers are all solid. I could start and backup any of them.

Allen Arriaga has no blocking strength, despite great technique. I cut him. I hate to drop the guy from West Virginia State, but he is the worst of the remaining four, so I cut, unfortunately, Andrew Michaud.

OG

I have eight, and I need to cut to five.

Despite good blocking skills, I drop Luther Sutter for having no blocking strength. So is Albert Fisk. Lionel Hanks has a run blocking of 10., He goes too. Easy cuts here.


OT

I have seven OTs, and I want to drop two. I’ve been dropping O Linemen with no strength but Joe Sutter has 55 and 77 as his blocking potentials. That’s really good even with no blocking strength.

He is simply the best technique OT I have left, and so I am loathe to cut him at this time.

With a 26 run blocking, Dusty Drayson is gone. I hate to release a guy from WV, but Ike McWillams has just a blocking strength of 15 without the good blocking stats that Joe Sutter had. Time to cut him.

[Abe Sargent]

I cut my free agent K.

DE

I want to cut two.

DE Lamont Harrison, despite being a 6th round selection, is by far the worst DE on the team and is cut. Herman Cassidy is a nice run defense specialist, but doesn’t have enough of the other skills for my tastes. He is releases as well.

DT

I want to cut two here as well. The cuts here are easy. Leon Medsker and Don Morrison are easy cuts.

[Abe Sargent]

MLB

Cut two here as well.

Edgar Gunn is released with too weak of a run D for my tastes. I release Kris Jagger, another guy from WV, because he was too inconsistent in stats, although better in some areas that the other options.

OLB

I have six, want too drop to four.

O’Neal is an easy cut at the SLB side.

I move MLB Shane Bronson to WLB. He will now be my starter there. His stats got a bit better as result of the move.

I happily cut the bust that is Jonathan Kreuger

I’ll stay at 7 overall backers for now.

[Abe Sargent]

CB

I have 10 corners. A lot of these players will be assessed for viability as starters vs nickel and dime backs vs returners vs special teams aces. Any obvious cuts? I cut Butch Bower.


Alright, time to look at Safeties:

S

I have nine and I’m comfortable cutting four. Again, we have the possibility of returners and special tea aces, so I’ll only cut those obviously below par.

Only Mike Henry is obviously poorer than other options, so I cut him. Now, let’s go back to WR.

WR

I have fourteen receivers and am happy to get rid of a few.

Harris Powell is the star of our team, so no touching him.

Donny Rumbaugh never ended up being any good so he’s cut.

RJ Poff wasn’t good enough, but he was closer than Rumbaugh.

He’s another lost West Virginian, and we say goodbye to Phil Dillon.

Marc Hardy is good but very streaky, and with a 0 avoid drops and big play, I have to cut him.

[Abe Sargent]

Time to look at special teams. Let’s begin with returners. These are the players on my team that have return-ability.

RB Torres – 62 KR
RB Leland Bush – 49, 53 in each.
FL Lawrence Ramsey – 55, 31
FL Julio Idzak – 68 PR
SE Jermaine Weber – 58 PR
SE Preston Segreaves – 68 PR
LCB Emmitt Spencer – 62 PR
LCB Jonathan Buchanon – 53 KR
RCB Frankie Wilkins – 56 KR


I immediately release CB Daniel Williams, A PR man not as good as multiple people I currently have on my roster. I need two KR men. Torres is one.

[Abe Sargent]

Ideally I have a good PR, a good KR, and a good player that has both as a backup.

Julio Idzak is an odd person, who I may have to leave on my team. Before I grabbed my free agents, I saw that TE Rasmussen was the team leader and several players didn’t like him. Now, Idzak is my leader, and there is harmony. He’s the worst receiver by far, but I may need to keep him as the PR for the long term, with concern to harmony.

The problem with that is some of these receivers with PR specialization are simply much better receivers too.

Simply put, I really can’t but Idzak unless I bring in a TE or WR with a leadership higher than Rasmussen’s, which is 89.

Is that person out there?

TE Frankie Polston, 14/35 has a leadership of 99.
There is no WR that meets those requirements.

Is Frankie worth signing? Here’s one thing, Frankie can sit in the inactive list, but if we put Idzak in as my PR, he has to get played. He’s not that good though. Hold on, let me check something.

No one currently has an affinity with Idzak, so Frankie may have people like him.

I release Idzak. Time to find out what happens.

Rasmussen becomes the leader. Harris Powell, my star, has a mild conflict. I can live with mild. Maybe some of the players I cut had conflicts.

With Idzak gone, I consider the PR race to be between Spencer and Segreaves. If I deem either a good enough player to make the cut at their position, then my choice is made for me. Let me do some checking.

Segreaves is a better receiver than Spencer is a corner. So, for now, Segreaves is in as my PR. I’ll keep Spencer on the roster for now, in case things change.

I need to keep either Ramsey or Bush. Both are pretty solid receivers, but Bush is a RB, so that’s not as good credit. Ramsey is the better player for his position, but the problem for that is if I go with Segreaves and Ramsey, I might not have room for the top receivers. Do I have top receivers?

Harris Powell – top
Jerry Reeves – top

Good receivers:

Wendell Frederickson


Hmm…

Would I be comfortable going to the season with Powell, Reeves, Frederickson, Segreaves and Ramsey?

Yeah, I would.

Let’s cut some receivers. I’ll keep a few extra just in case.


William Okobi is a good possession receiver, with high avoid drops and route running and adjust and courage, but poor 3rd down and big play and downfield. Would I want that?

I cut Randy Myers and Jermaine Weber

Now time for kick return. I have Buchanan and Wilkins, both corners. The question then is, which is the better corner?

I cut Wilkins

I now have my PR, KR, and backup PR/KR man. Excellent.

[Abe Sargent]

Now time for coverage guys.

Starters include Rasmussen with 89, and Powell at 100. Do I play them or no?

Probably best not to.

Good special teamers

FB Maroney 64 *
TE Matos 77
TE Reynolds 75
TE Farr 57
FL Okobi 63
FL Ramsey 51 !
MLB Haslett 54 *
SLB Turnbull 72 *
WLB Campbell 54
WLB Bernhardt 60
LCB Augustson 53 *
LCB Kerr 70
LCB Copeland 73
LCB Buchanan 56 !
RCB Robbie Ramon 54 *
RCB Donnie Petkovich 76
SS Walt Robinson 55 *
FS Andy Hammond 68
FS Seth Inzinna 79
FS Kerry Anderson 69
FS Gino Domenici 71
FS Mel Grier 61

* - This player is a starter
! – This player is making the cut for other special teams play

No, I don’t know why I changed how I wrote their names during the list.

I need to keep a few of these guys, but no team needs this many.

I’m comfortable running with Maroney on special teams. I also get two players from the three TEs, since one will likely be cut. That gives me three. Add the two returners, and I have five special teams players. Of Campbell and Bernhardt, one will make the roster, giving us six. I would like a couple more at the CB/S positions, and then I can cut a lot of these players.

I can cut a few right now. Like Mel Grier. I still have 14 CB/S on my roster after cutting Mel, and 12 of those are good on special teams.

So, I’m just going to make my cuts here based on ability, and forget about special teams.

I cut Seth Inzinna for not maximizing his points in areas I care about. The same is true of Donnie Petkovich who just got a pink slip as well.

Alright, let’s trim in a few more places as a result of these special teams players:

WVU alum RB Leland Bush
RB Cedric Hoffman
TE Chad George
SE Mitchell Nicholson

[Abe Sargent]

Now I am at 63 with the following numbers on my roster:

QB – 4
RB – 4
FB – 1
TE – 4
WR – 6
OT – 5
OG – 5
C – 3
P – 1
K – 1
DE – 5
DT – 5
MLB – 2
OLB – 5
CB – 6
S – 6

[Abe Sargent]

I move Kyle Kerr to RCB.


I want to take this 63 into the preseason. There are no undrafted FA I want to take yet. However, I know I need to give my players actually playing time, and having too many players on the roster prevents that. Allow me to do a little trimming then.

I cut:

OG Quentin Brunell
OG Antonio Duncan
West Virginian OT Riddick Snell

I move C Pat Corbett to LG

I am now down to ten O Linemen, which is where I like to be for my rosters.

Also cut is

DT Don Chamberlain
DE Henry Turnbull

Leaving me with 8 DLine which is where I like to be

Other positions are closer, due to the large number of stats, so I’ll keep them for the pre-season and take a chance to assess after each game.

[Abe Sargent]

I deactivate players of the first game. I’ll rotate players in and out of the preseason games in order to give me a sense of what hey bring to the table.

In the pre-season we got 0-3-1, with a 17-17 tie as our sign of hope.

I have a few minor injuries to some of my players including an injured shoulder to Dan McElroy.

Time for the final cuts, but before I do that, let me take one last look around the free agents, and whatnot. There are no free agents available, and of course the computer won’t trade someone you just signed. So, this is it, final cut down day and we are stuck with this decision for a career.

[Abe Sargent]

My target numbers:

QB 4
RB 3
FB 1
TE 3
WR 6
C 2
G 4
T 4
K/P 2
DE 4
DT 4
LB 6
CB/S 10

For 53 players. Time for the cutsies.

[Abe Sargent]

I am happy with my 6 receivers, 10 O Line, 8 D Line, 4 QB. There are a few areas where I can make some cuts:

TE Shannon Matos – this was a tough decision, as I felt that every TE after Rasmussen on my roster brought something interesting to the team. Ultimately, I cut Matos, but this could easily have been any of the others.

SS Trevor Gomez – Too much of a run stopping specialist, which is not necessary for the nickel or dime back role.

Gino Domenici is a good FS with strong run stopping skills. I move him to SS

LCB Emmitt Spencer – Despite being a 5th round selection with good PR ability, that was deemed superfluous after I chose another as my PR. That made him my 6th worst corner thus his cut.

All of my backup RBs suck. Fletcher stays because he is my only speed threat. I’m cutting either Fling or Kelso. I’m keeping Fling. As I compared them side by side, he just seemed a tiny but better to me.

RB Kelly Kelso

Last up is the mess than is my LB corps. I have two MLB, the backup is my worst LB, but I can’t just cut him and move on. He’s doesn’t suck, he’s just not good in anything.
I have three WLB, so I can cut there. Or I can cut elsewhere and shift players around, like I did on my OLine.

I think run stopping is a key stat here.

I make some changes. I permanently move my good LB, Raymond Turnbull to MLB. I also permanently move my MLB, Eric Haslett to SLB. Now my good player will be in the thick of things. Haslett has some strong pas rush specialization going on, so that’s no a bad move.

[Abe Sargent]

Total number of UFAs to make the roster? 20

I cut five of my draftees bringing us to 33 draftees and 20 UFAs.

[Abe Sargent]

The Final Roster is ready


Front Office Football 2007
Dallas Cowboys Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Yoo, Jack 17 QB QB 1 29 62 4 yrs
##McElroy, Dan 11 QB 1 29 55 3 yrs
Ellard, Aaron 1 QB 1 10 50 1 yr.
Newton, Bryant 14 QB 1 13 48 1 yr.
Torres, Tyrus 23 RB RB 1 49 62 4 yrs
Fling, Jack 47 RB 1 29 43 1 yr.
Fletcher, Chester 34 RB 1 23 37 1 yr.
Maloney, Marcel 41 FB FB 1 25 54 1 yr.
Rasmussen, Reuben 84 TE TE 1 36 66 3 yrs
Reynolds, Leon 86 TE 1 22 46 1 yr.
##Farr, Oscar 16 TE 1 22 46 1 yr.
Powell, Harris 83 FL FL 1 52 78 5 yrs
Okobi, William 6 FL 1 24 47 1 yr.
##Ramsey, Lawrence 19 FL 1 19 42 1 yr.
Reeves, Jerry 88 SE SE 1 30 51 3 yrs
Fredrickson, Wendell 85 SE 1 18 47 3 yrs
Segraves, Preston 82 SE 1 22 38 3 yrs
Patchet, Orlando 53 C C 1 41 68 3 yrs
Turnbull, Wayne 55 C 1 24 54 1 yr.
Blake, Preston 69 LG LG 1 38 59 3 yrs
Corbett, Pat 58 LG 1 13 51 1 yr.
Malone, Vinny 66 RG RG 1 30 53 3 yrs
Murphy, Ellis 62 RG 1 22 48 3 yrs
Dotson, Dennis 68 LT LT 1 33 63 3 yrs
Sutter, Joe 67 LT 1 18 52 3 yrs
Dotson, Darryl 73 RT RT 1 28 62 3 yrs
##Ramirez, Bart 71 RT 1 28 44 3 yrs
Gomez, Tracy 13 P 1 62 70 3 yrs
Sigman, Fernando 2 K 1 35 54 3 yrs
Hill, Peter 94 LDE LDE 1 19 48 3 yrs
##Van Pelt, Butch 95 LDE 1 20 41 1 yr.
Caldwell, William 90 RDE RDE 1 29 60 3 yrs
Malcomson, Willie 91 RDE 1 27 45 1 yr.
Garrard, Cedric 79 LDT LDT 1 30 50 3 yrs
Brody, Darrell 99 LDT 1 32 48 1 yr.
Hicks, Floyd 98 RDT RDT 1 31 52 3 yrs
Jenkins, Billy Joe 74 RDT 1 21 40 3 yrs
Turnbull, Raymond 93 MLB MLB 1 30 62 3 yrs
Houston, Toby 44 MLB 1 15 39 1 yr.
Haslett, Eric 56 SLB SLB 1 26 51 3 yrs
##Bernhardt, Artie 50 SLB 1 21 40 1 yr.
Bronson, Shane 97 WLB 1 16 49 3 yrs
Campbell, Lorenzo 44 WLB WLB 1 23 42 1 yr.
Augustson, Chris 22 LCB LCB 1 27 55 3 yrs
Copeland, Jerry 45 LCB 1 18 44 3 yrs
Buchanan, Jonathan 43 LCB 1 23 40 1 yr.
Kerr, Kyle 27 RCB 1 12 48 1 yr.
Ramon, Robbie 35 RCB RCB 1 30 46 3 yrs
Robinson, Walt 38 SS SS 1 25 49 3 yrs
##Domenici, Gino 30 SS 1 14 40 1 yr.
Kinney, Lee 40 FS FS 1 28 62 3 yrs
Hammond, Andy 37 FS 1 32 45 3 yrs
Andersen, Kerry 39 FS 1 24 41 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 7
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $109,000,000
Cap Room: $14,990,000
Maximum for New Player: $15,300,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $62,280,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $1,340,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $34,620,000

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, let’s look at my starters:

QB Jack Yoo – He has passing potential, but he’s a bit green, so we’ll be seeing picks and incompletions for a while.
RB Tyrus Torres – What’s to say? He’s my horse. Good at pounding but also quality at breking it for a distance. All three of the first round RBs I was looking at came out pretty good, one is a major power back, the other, McMillan is a solid all around back, but Torres fits my desire for a speed back who can still run up the middle when needed.
FL Harris Powell – My star, our best player, and a ticket to winning games I hope.
SE Jerry Reeves – he was drafted high to be our other WR, and although he is the second best on the team, I was hoping for more from the way my scouts talked. I hope he outperforms his ratings.
FB Marcel Maloney – We will be playing a FB in our games. Crazy I know. Adequate blocker, great catcher, good blitz pickup, but a sketchy runner. With great catching stats (85, 50, 71) he could be better than my third WR option.
TE Reuben Rasmussen – A great blocker, and a good catcher, Rasmussen was a great 4th round pickup for my offense. However, my offenses have a tendency to lose the TE, so if that happens, remember I warned you here.
LT Dennis Dotson – One of my Pentagon picks and a good potential OT. He is a massively good run blocker with a 90 run blockings, his strength leaves something to be desired with 29.
RT Darryl Dotson – The other Dotson, Darryl was my first o-line player selected, and he is just a great all around tackle. His potentials are 66, 65, 55, 56. Good solid stats the entire way through, and you can’t go wrong with that.
LG Preston Blake – This was a thin G class so I wanted to grab the good ones early. Preston is a serviceable OG with 50’s blocking and strength stats.
RG Vince Malone – Third round pick 198 was when I took my last starting O Line, because I wanted these guys to be good. His strength is a little weaker, but his blocking stats are pretty good. The weakest of my starters, and he is still good.
C Orlando Patchet is flat out the best rookie center in the league, I checked. I took him in the early third and he is totally worth it.
P Tracy Gomez – You expect the second best punter when you take the second one off the board, and I got it.
K Fernando Sigman – You expect the top K when you take the first one off the board, and I didn’t.
LDE Peter Hill – This fifth round selection is very green, but could grow into a solid player but will never knock blocker around on the pass rush with his muscles.
RDE William Caldwell – Getting the second best DE at the 3/1 pick is a good deal. He is not the best play diagnosis player out there but he has a great motor and will be our sackmaster.
LDT Cedric Garrard – Like Caldwell, poor at diagnosing the play, but a strong hitter and a good run stopper.
RDT – Floyd Hicks – He’s a good DT with no major strengths or deficiencies after he develops
SLB Eric Haslett – Solid Run D, and acceptable pass rush meet weak man-to-man defense. He’s note that good at zone either.
MLB Raymond Turnbull – The saving grace of our LB corps is our first defensive player taken, Turnbull. He is great at everything except adequate hitting and poor zone.
WLB Shane Bronson – I brought him in as a 7th backup, but with Krueger’s bust and my other backup LBs all sucking, he was my only choice to move to WLB. That means all three of my LB starts ended the draft in other positions and have since been moved. Weak at punishing hitter, but solid everywhere else although a lot green.
LCB Chris Augustson – Although he was my second CB Taken, he is the best on the team, although very green and he’ll need to grow into his coverage. He has very high run D.
RCB Robbie Ramon – Although taken first in the 3rd round, there are other corners on the roster better than him, or just as good as him. He is starting because his stats happen to be aligned more with a starter, but he could get pulled at some time.
SS Walt Robinson – Taken in the seventh, I expected Walt to be a backup, not a starter, but that’s how things go sometimes. He has no hitting ability at all, but he’s serviceable in the other areas, once he learns the game and develops.
FS Lee Kinney – Despite being a 4th round pick and coming after both starting CBs, Lee is by far the best player I have in my secondary. He is my saving grace out there, like Raymond Turnbull is to my LBs. He’s not an interception machine, but at this point, I don’t care. He even has a run defense of 80 potential at the FS position.

[Abe Sargent]

Good things about my draft:

I hit on my QB Yoo. Go WV. Although all of the first round backs ended up being good, mine was the best for what I want to do. Yay WR Powell! TE Rasmussen, C Patchet are the best at their position, despite being taken later. The two Dotsons are rated 2 and 3 in the draft. Netting the second best DE in the top of the third was a good deal.

Getting a lot of top players is expected when you draft five and a half times as many players as a team normally does. I drafted 38 players, a full 31 players taken from other teams and put on mine, so that I got a few more good ones is expected. However, where I whiffed is bad, because I missed several times.

[Abe Sargent]

Bad Things

I missed on Vincent Norris, a 6th round OG that is the second best in the class. Lance Ramos, a fourth round OG, was the third best, and I missed him too. I had taken both starters by then, so I missed twice on both of those guys. The bust at WLB really hurt my roster a lot, giving me a glaring hole and a weaker corps. Were I to do this over again, I’d nab a better LB much earlier. My kicker slightly busted down to second best. I wiffed on some corners. There was a lot of great CB talent that I just missed. Picked number 21, WLB Hamill was a 47/73 WLB and a good player. You have to think that had I gotten him, everything would have turned out differently. A late third round WLB is third best in the class and trated 27/61. That would have been a nice pickup too, but no, I had to take an OG who, although the 7th or so best G in the class, was way behind two other Gs on the board. I coulda done better there too.. I missed on DT Kenneth Brown when I took Hicks, and Brown is much better than Hicks. I went too late for Punter and missed the 60/81 awesomeness of P Tuggle. I picked the second punter off the board and got the second best one, which is expected, but there’s a big difference between a 70 rating and an 81 rating on a P. Green Bay took Tuggle with my pick too, so I could have had him.

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, let's quickly sim through the first season, cause it should be ugly.

Our third game of the season is our first victory, and I already have two players disgruntled at playing time. That’s going to be a serious difficulty of this dynasty.




McElroy is starting to get pissed, which may be a curse in having such a good quality backup. Yet, my team is 3-4. I have no desire to give my backup QB some starts when we are still in playoff contention. I can’t imagine a fifth round QB ever getting pissed before halfway through the first season with a 3-4 record sitting behind a first round pick. I mean, Jack Yoo, through seven, games, is 11 Tds, 5 picks, and a 90.5 rating. No way that’d happen in real life.

With our fifth win near the end of the season, and second in a row, all disgruntled players are satisfied. Win and people get less pissed. I guess that’s realistic.

[Abe Sargent]

Front Office Football 2007
Dallas Cowboys 2008 Regular Season Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
Week 1 PHILADELPHIA EAGLES L, 18-38 39,300 Sunny, 88, 3 mph.
Week 2 BALTIMORE RAVENS L, 15-41 39,300 Sunny, 74, calm
Week 3 DETROIT LIONS L, 17-29 38,700 Sunny, 65, 11 mph.
Week 4 OPEN
Week 5 ARIZONA CARDINALS W, 27-14 38,000 Rain, 53, 14 mph.
Week 6 at New York Giants L, 17-30 50,400 Sunny, 56, 2 mph.
Week 7 SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS W, 20-13 39,300 Sunny, 83, 7 mph.
Week 8 at St. Louis Rams W, 24-21 52,000 Sunny, 48, 12 mph.
Week 9 at Seattle Seahawks L, 10-19 61,500 Sunny, 52, 10 mph.
Week 10 WASHINGTON REDSKINS L, 10-33 39,300 Sunny, 58, 1 mph.
Week 11 at Philadelphia Eagles L, 0-30 57,000 Sunny, 51, 9 mph.
Week 12 at Pittsburgh Steelers L, 3-30 49,700 Sunny, 24, calm
Week 13 at Atlanta Falcons W, 33-17 45,600 Sunny, 33, 6 mph.
Week 14 CINCINNATI BENGALS W, 17-13 39,300 Sunny, 41, 2 mph.
Week 15 NEW YORK GIANTS L, 20-40 40,100 Sunny, 31, 3 mph.
Week 16 at Cleveland Browns L, 31-41 53,900 Sunny, 26, 7 mph.
Week 17 at Washington Redskins L, 13-24 52,700 Sunny, 39, 2 mph.

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 36,100
Stadium Capacity: 70,000

[Abe Sargent]

Awards?

RB Tyrus Torres was Offensive RotY
MLB Raymond Turnbull was Defensive RotY

[Abe Sargent]

Passing Stats:


Front Office Football 2007
Passing Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Att Cmp Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/A Lg
Yoo, Jack QB DAL 15 13 399 251 62.9 2539 10.12 6.36 78
McElroy, Dan QB DAL 4 3 90 42 46.7 548 13.05 6.09 53
Newton, Bryant QB DAL 1 0 3 0 0.0 0 0.00 0.00 0

Player Pos Team TD Int 20+T 300+ Rating
Yoo, Jack QB DAL 17 13 30 1 81.7
McElroy, Dan QB DAL 3 2 8 0 68.2
Newton, Bryant QB DAL 0 0 0 0 39.6

Att - Attempts, Cmp - Completions, Pct - Completion Percentage,
Yards - Passing Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Completion, Ave/A - Yards per Attempt,
Lg - Longest Completion, TD - Passing Touchdowns, Int - Passes Intercepted,
20+T - Completions of 20 or More Yards, 300+ - 300-yard Games,
Rate - Quarterback Rating.

As you can see, Jack Yoo is playing much better than McElroy, even with a slip in the later part of the season. Jack Yoo was 5-8, McElroy was 0-3. Do I piss off my QB so much that he only stays via tag? Or do I hope he gets better over tie and give him three or four starts a year from here on out? FYI, He was out for about six games this year with two different injuries – would he have required more time in the game if he has been healthy?

[Abe Sargent]

In receiving, an interesting thing happened. I’ll show ya.

Front Office Football 2007
Receiving Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Targ Ctch Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/T YAC
Reeves, Jerry WR DAL 16 16 123 65 52.8 1013 15.58 8.24 257
Torres, Tyrus RB DAL 16 16 72 58 80.6 342 5.90 4.75 125
Powell, Harris WR DAL 16 16 110 56 50.9 697 12.45 6.34 90
Rasmussen, Reuben TE DAL 16 16 49 31 63.3 263 8.48 5.37 26
Okobi, William WR DAL 16 2 57 30 52.6 391 13.03 6.86 81
Reynolds, Leon TE DAL 16 1 22 13 59.1 99 7.62 4.50 24
Fling, Jack RB DAL 16 0 14 12 85.7 74 6.17 5.29 15
Segraves, Preston WR DAL 16 0 23 12 52.2 90 7.50 3.91 11
Maloney, Marcel FB DAL 16 13 12 7 58.3 21 3.00 1.75 4
Fletcher, Chester RB DAL 16 0 6 5 83.3 27 5.40 4.50 8
Fredrickson, Wendell WR DAL 13 0 4 4 100.0 70 17.50 17.50 0

Player Pos Team Lg TD Drp PPly TPct 20+C 100+
Reeves, Jerry WR DAL 78 8 5 405 30.4 16 2
Torres, Tyrus RB DAL 33 2 1 339 21.2 2 0
Powell, Harris WR DAL 40 5 6 429 25.6 9 1
Rasmussen, Reuben TE DAL 20 1 2 321 15.3 2 0
Okobi, William WR DAL 38 0 4 295 19.3 6 0
Reynolds, Leon TE DAL 21 0 0 202 10.9 1 0
Fling, Jack RB DAL 22 2 0 162 8.6 1 0
Segraves, Preston WR DAL 18 0 2 151 15.2 0 0
Maloney, Marcel FB DAL 7 1 0 255 4.7 0 0
Fletcher, Chester RB DAL 12 0 0 58 10.3 0 0
Fredrickson, Wendell WR DAL 40 1 0 38 10.5 1 0

Targ - Targeted with Pass, Ctch - Receptions, Pct - Reception Percentage,
Yards - Receiving Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Catch, Avg/T - Yards per
Target, YAC - Yards Gained After Catch, Lg - Longest Reception,
TD - Receiving Touchdowns, Drp - Passes Dropped, PPly - Passing Plays
on Field, TPct - Percentage of Passing Plays Targeted, 20+C - Catches
of 20 Yards or More, 100+ - 100-Yard Games.


Reeves notched 8 TDs and over 1000 yard receiving – nice! Its sort of vindication for my scouts. Torres got 58 catches, which is a nice number for your back. With 56 catches and 5 TDs was rookie Harris Powell.

[Abe Sargent]

Torres had 1071 yards rushing with 6 rushing TDs on 264 attempts. Jack Fling in a backup rile has 104 attempts for just 362 yards.


If you thought I parsed too much over special teams, I have news for you. We had three Kicks returned for TDs this year, two by Torres and another by Buchanan, so if you wonder why I put up with that CB on my roster, you now know why. Torres scored two KRs for TDs, grabbed two in the air off 58 catches, and rushed for over 1000 yards and 8 TDs there. Pretty good season for him.

K Sigman was 19 of 26 on the season for Field Goals. He went 5 of 10 from 40+. One bad thing, he missed a PAT.

P Gomez was sixth in the NFL in punting average with 47.6 yards per punt. 44 of 91 punts were in the 20, which is a really nice percentage. 44 is tied for fourth in the NFL for most punts in 20. Gomez did better in stats than the top Punter taken by Green Bay.

[Abe Sargent]

Front Office Football 2007
Defensive Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Tckl Asst Sack Blkd Hurr QBKd
Turnbull, Raymond ILB DAL 16 16 116 38 2.5 1 5 0
Robinson, Walt S DAL 16 16 79 26 0.0 0 0 0
Haslett, Eric OLB DAL 16 16 71 24 2.0 1 2 0
Ramon, Robbie CB DAL 16 16 61 13 0.0 0 0 0
Augustson, Chris CB DAL 16 16 57 15 0.0 0 0 0
Buchanan, Jonathan CB DAL 16 8 56 16 0.0 0 0 0
Hicks, Floyd DT DAL 15 15 53 19 5.0 1 7 0
Hill, Peter DE DAL 16 15 52 17 5.5 2 12 0
Garrard, Cedric DT DAL 16 13 46 17 0.0 3 3 0
Caldwell, William DE DAL 16 13 42 21 4.0 4 10 0
Campbell, Lorenzo OLB DAL 16 8 39 18 0.0 0 0 0
Malcomson, Willie DE DAL 16 5 26 11 5.0 0 4 0

Player Pos Team RPly PPly PRPct TkPct
Turnbull, Raymond ILB DAL 554 433 2.0 15.9
Robinson, Walt S DAL 518 425 0.0 11.1
Haslett, Eric OLB DAL 512 434 1.2 10.3
Ramon, Robbie CB DAL 528 436 0.0 7.7
Augustson, Chris CB DAL 521 438 0.0 7.5
Buchanan, Jonathan CB DAL 290 326 0.0 11.7
Hicks, Floyd DT DAL 453 376 3.5 9.3
Hill, Peter DE DAL 500 416 4.7 8.1
Garrard, Cedric DT DAL 435 315 1.9 8.4
Caldwell, William DE DAL 440 360 5.0 8.4
Campbell, Lorenzo OLB DAL 292 132 0.0 13.4
Malcomson, Willie DE DAL 258 172 5.2 9.8

Tckl - Tackles, Asst - Tackle Assists, Sack - Sacks, Blkd - Passes Blocked,
Hurr - Quarterback Hurries, QBKd - Quarterback Knockdowns, RPly - Rushing
Plays on Field, PPly - Passing Plays on Field, PRPct - Pass Rush
Effectiveness Percentage, TkPct - Percentage of Plays Making Tackle.

Defense –

Turnbull had a good season, vindicating his high pick. Bronson was injured for much of the season, and didn’t chart. Three corners in the top six tacklers – that is not what you want to see.

We have a lot of people with solid contribution in the sack department. DE Hill had 5.5, DT Hicks had 5 (which is great for a DT), DE Malcomson had 5, and DE Caldwell had 4.

[Abe Sargent]

For passing defense, I’ll not bore you with the stat sheet. Ramon had 5 picks. Robinson had 3 and 7 PasDef, which led the team. Both starting corners had 6 PasDef. CB Buchanan, my dimeback, had 6 as well, which is pretty good for my dimeback who was kept largely as a kick returner.

[Abe Sargent]

Front Office Football 2007
Blocking Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS KRB KRO BPct Pnck SkA PPly SPct
Patchet, Orlando C DAL 16 16 20 69 29.0 0 8 484 1.7
Dotson, Dennis T DAL 16 16 18 78 23.1 0 6 470 1.3
Malone, Vinny G DAL 16 16 17 54 31.5 0 7 436 1.6
Blake, Preston G DAL 14 14 16 61 26.2 0 8 423 1.9
Dotson, Darryl T DAL 16 16 11 40 27.5 0 8 445 1.8
Sutter, Joe T DAL 16 0 6 20 30.0 0 0 138 0.0
Maloney, Marcel FB DAL 16 13 4 17 23.5 0 0 255 0.0
Rasmussen, Reuben TE DAL 16 16 3 10 30.0 0 0 321 0.0
Turnbull, Wayne C DAL 16 0 3 7 42.9 0 1 49 2.0
Reynolds, Leon TE DAL 16 1 2 5 40.0 0 0 202 0.0
Corbett, Pat G DAL 16 2 2 9 22.2 0 0 98 0.0
Murphy, Ellis G DAL 16 0 1 2 50.0 0 2 109 1.8

Player Pos Team RPly OPct
Patchet, Orlando C DAL 362 19.1
Dotson, Dennis T DAL 335 23.3
Malone, Vinny G DAL 335 16.1
Blake, Preston G DAL 336 18.2
Dotson, Darryl T DAL 318 12.6
Sutter, Joe T DAL 132 15.2
Maloney, Marcel FB DAL 242 7.0
Rasmussen, Reuben TE DAL 269 3.7
Turnbull, Wayne C DAL 33 21.2
Reynolds, Leon TE DAL 181 2.8
Corbett, Pat G DAL 53 17.0
Murphy, Ellis G DAL 66 3.0

KRB - Key Run Blocks, KRO - Key Run Block Opportunities, BPct - Key Run
Block Percentage, Pnck = Pancake Blocks, SkA - Sacks Allowed, PPly - Passing
Plays on Field, SPct - Sack Allowed Percentage, RPly - Rushing Plays on Field,
OPct - Block Opportunity Percentage.


Blocking wasn’t bad but not as good as I would normally like.

We allowed 40 sacks, and that to be the most we will ever allow, or else we are in serious trouble.

[Abe Sargent]

Awards by me:

Offensive PotY: Tyrus Torres. Receiving and rushing, he did it all, and he was by far our most productive offensive player. I could look at Reeves, Patchet or Yoo, but I think Torres earned this

Defensive PotY: CB Robbie Ramon. I agree that MLB Raymond Turnbull was one of our best players on our defense as well. However, Ramon was fourth on our defense with tackles from the corner position, he added five picks, 6 passes defensed, and was our best guy in the secondary. I was disappointed with him out of camp, but no longer. If he can kepe this up while others get better, I’ll be very happy.

Special Teams PotY: Tyrus Torres. With two KR TDs and a great return average, Torres was our best player here as well.

Heart Award: Jonathan Buchanan. This award is given to a player who really played their heart out and went above the call of duty. With a KR TD, 6 passes defensed and 6th on the team in tackles from the dmeback position, he had a great season. If your corners should not be getting 4th in tackles, your dimebacks definitely shouldn’t be getting 6th in tackles. Add that tied for second in passes defensed with the starting corners and add the KR TD and you have a great performance by an underrated player. The pride of North Carolina A&T.

Final Record 5-11.

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, time for the next season:

I got a 56 overall score:

17 for Performance
7 for Franchise Value
90 for Profit/Loss
83 for Roster Strength

[Abe Sargent]

Time for staff

I make a head coach offer to a guy with excellent in both offensive and defensive play calling.

I also make an offer to a new D coordinator, but I like our offensive guy.

I eve make an offer to the cheapest scout. I mean, if we aren’t going to look for talent, might as well bring in a cheap scout, right?

At the end of the stages, we have hired our new staff:

Our new Head Coach for five years is Desmond Shanabrough, our new D Coordinator is Oliver Tanuvasa and our new Scout is Craig Griffin.

I don’t touch ticket prices.

Despite him being a starter, I send FS Lee Kinney to the summer league for more experience. He’s still really green.

I sign all of my RFAs.


I skip past free agency and then the draft, and then free agency again.

Raymond Turnbull is holding out.

He just wants to convert money to bonus really, he doesn’t want much more than I am already paying him. I agree to it.

[Abe Sargent]

You note that when you change coaches and scouts, the views of your players change. I’m about to show you a few major changes on my team so watch out.

Here is the pre-camp roster:

Front Office Football 2007
Dallas Cowboys Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Yoo, Jack 17 QB 2 29 56 3 yrs
McElroy, Dan 11 QB 2 28 48 2 yrs
Ellard, Aaron 1 QB 2 9 43 2 yrs
Newton, Bryant 14 QB 2 12 42 2 yrs
Torres, Tyrus 23 RB 2 56 66 3 yrs
Fling, Jack 47 RB 2 28 41 2 yrs
Fletcher, Chester 34 RB 2 22 34 2 yrs
Maloney, Marcel 41 FB 2 26 52 2 yrs
Rasmussen, Reuben 84 TE 2 41 61 2 yrs
Reynolds, Leon 86 TE 2 25 45 2 yrs
Farr, Oscar 16 TE 2 21 42 2 yrs
Powell, Harris 83 FL 2 60 74 4 yrs
Okobi, William 6 FL 2 26 43 2 yrs
Ramsey, Lawrence 19 FL 2 18 39 2 yrs
Reeves, Jerry 88 SE 2 41 56 2 yrs
Fredrickson, Wendell 85 SE 2 17 41 2 yrs
Segraves, Preston 82 SE 2 21 35 2 yrs
Patchet, Orlando 53 C 2 43 64 2 yrs
Turnbull, Wayne 55 C 2 23 47 2 yrs
Blake, Preston 69 LG 2 42 56 2 yrs
Corbett, Pat 58 LG 2 12 47 2 yrs
Malone, Vinny 66 RG 2 33 52 2 yrs
Murphy, Ellis 62 RG 2 22 43 2 yrs
Dotson, Dennis 68 LT 2 37 60 2 yrs
Sutter, Joe 67 LT 2 18 49 2 yrs
Dotson, Darryl 73 RT 2 29 55 2 yrs
Ramirez, Bart 71 RT 2 26 41 2 yrs
Gomez, Tracy 13 P 2 77 77 2 yrs
Sigman, Fernando 2 K 2 37 37 2 yrs
Hill, Peter 94 LDE 2 23 42 2 yrs
Van Pelt, Butch 95 LDE 2 20 39 2 yrs
Caldwell, William 90 RDE 2 32 56 2 yrs
Malcomson, Willie 91 RDE 2 27 40 1 yr.
Garrard, Cedric 79 LDT 2 31 49 2 yrs
Brody, Darrell 99 LDT 2 33 43 1 yr.
Hicks, Floyd 98 RDT 2 33 46 2 yrs
Jenkins, Billy Joe 74 RDT 2 21 34 2 yrs
Turnbull, Raymond 93 MLB 2 36 58 2 yrs
Houston, Toby 44 MLB 2 16 38 2 yrs
Haslett, Eric 56 SLB 2 33 47 2 yrs
Bernhardt, Artie 50 SLB 2 20 35 2 yrs
Bronson, Shane 97 WLB 2 16 45 2 yrs
Campbell, Lorenzo 44 WLB 2 24 39 2 yrs
Augustson, Chris 22 LCB 2 29 49 2 yrs
Copeland, Jerry 45 LCB 2 17 39 2 yrs
Buchanan, Jonathan 43 LCB 2 23 35 1 yr.
Ramon, Robbie 35 RCB 2 32 41 2 yrs
Kerr, Kyle 27 RCB 2 11 41 2 yrs
Robinson, Walt 38 SS 2 29 45 2 yrs
Domenici, Gino 30 SS 2 13 37 2 yrs
Kinney, Lee 40 FS 2 32 59 2 yrs
Hammond, Andy 37 FS 2 33 41 2 yrs
Andersen, Kerry 39 FS 2 23 36 2 yrs

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 53

Salary Cap: $109,000,000
Cap Room: $65,050,000
Maximum for New Player: $65,480,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $1,340,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $49,980,000

[Abe Sargent]

Note some changes:

Jack Yoo is down 6 potential, McElroy is down 7. K Sigman is down to 37/37. There are a lot of players down a bit in potential – which could just be my lousy scout, I don’t know that much.

Other drops among starters:

Turnbull down 4
Darryl Dotson down 7
Dennis Dotson down 3
FB Maloney down 2
Rasmussen down 5
Powell down 4
Patchet down 4
Blake down 3
K Sigman down 17
Hill down 6
Caldwell down 4
Hicks down 6
Haslett down 4
Bronson down 4
Robinson down 4
Kinney down 3



Ups

Reeves up 5
RB Torres up 4
P Gomez 7

That’s a major change in my team quality according to my current scouts and coaches.

[Abe Sargent]

We sold 33,300 tickets

I finish the preseason with a 1-3 record but all of the losses were close. McElroy is out for a few weeks with a broken foot. That’s he’s third injury in less than a year that takes him out for some time. That may be a blessing, as he won’t be demanding playing time as a result.

In the first game of the year we crush the Giants 27 – 3 . Jack Yoo goes 15 for 18 for 233 yards including a 70 TD to Jerry Reeves. Torres rushed for 2 TDs on the day. I have to reduce the carries Jack Fling gets, however, he got 20 for 34 yards. I need to up Torres’s carry count. DE Peter Hill had 3 sacks and was player of the game. He was the NFL Defensive Player of the Week, but he has to sit out next game because of a minor injury. A good first game.

Is it signs of things to come?

[Abe Sargent]

We lose at San Diego by 3. We lose 32-40 on the road at Minnesota. Harris Powell got three TD passes in that game, for 69, 62, and 45 yards. He had 250 yards and 6 catches. How’s that first pick working out for ya now! We finish our three game on the road streak with a 28-24 victory over Carolina. This time, Jerry Reeves caught 8 balls for 241 yard and 2 TDs. How’s that top of the second round pick working out for ya now! CB Robbie Ramon was the Defensive Player of the Week with his THREE picks.

With a passing game that is humming, this team is beginning to do what I wanted when I drafted these players. After four games, Jerry Reeves has the most yards in the NFL with Powell at 7. Jack Yoo is four yards behind the leader is passing. Robbie Ramon has a scintillating seven picks in four games, including a 99 return for a TD. That’s the same Robbie Ramon rated 35/35 on my team roster.

It looks good so far. Let’s see if we continue, or if the bottom is going to fall out.

[Abe Sargent]

We lose the next two games by around a TD each, scoring 13 and then 17. I’d like my vaunted offense back, please. With the season on the line and our 2-4 record, we drop the next game, 20-23. We then manage to defeat the one win Saints to go to 3-5 at the half. I had hoped for better in the second quarter.

We begin the second half of the season with a win over Atlanta, 23-14. We then win again to go to 5-6, with Rasmussen finally back from a tendon injury.

With .500 in our grasp, we defeat the Rams at our place 38-30. Torres rushes for two TDs and catches a third. Powell nags the fourth TD. Patchet had 6 KRB. Every team in our division is 6-6 or better, so even at 6-6, hopes for the playoffs are dim.

We then lose three in a row before winning the finale 37-21. That means we finished the season 7-9, two games better than last season.

[Abe Sargent]

Awards:

P Tracy Gomez, second team
CB Robbie Ramon, first team

[Abe Sargent]

Let’s look at some stats:

Jack Yoo had a 90.5 QB Rating, went 289 of 455 for a 63.5 percent completion rate, for 3538 yards, 23 TDs and 14 Ints. He fumbled 9 times though, and had 1 rushing TD. The best news is that QB McElroy never wanted a game, maybe because he busted or maybe because he was out for the first seven weeks with a broken foot.

Torres rushed for 1197 yards on 306 rushes for a meager 3.91 yards per attempt. 10 rushing TDs.

Jack Fling had 4 rushing TDs and 490 yards on 123 carries. His numbers are inflated because he had one game with just 5 rushes for 125 yards because he broke two long ones, and that inflates his totals.

[Abe Sargent]

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Receiving Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Targ Ctch Pct Yards Avg/C Avg/T YAC
Reeves, Jerry WR DAL 16 15 126 71 56.3 1214 17.10 9.63 438
Powell, Harris WR DAL 16 16 96 56 58.3 1026 18.32 10.69 295
Torres, Tyrus RB DAL 16 16 68 55 80.9 382 6.95 5.62 186
Okobi, William WR DAL 14 2 56 30 53.6 288 9.60 5.14 34
Farr, Oscar TE DAL 16 1 19 15 78.9 93 6.20 4.89 21
Fling, Jack RB DAL 16 0 17 13 76.5 75 5.77 4.41 27
Rasmussen, Reuben TE DAL 7 7 18 13 72.2 145 11.15 8.06 18
Segraves, Preston WR DAL 16 0 19 12 63.2 130 10.83 6.84 10
Maloney, Marcel FB DAL 16 12 15 11 73.3 59 5.36 3.93 35
Fletcher, Chester RB DAL 16 0 5 4 80.0 33 8.25 6.60 24
Reynolds, Leon TE DAL 13 11 8 4 50.0 42 10.50 5.25 7
Ramsey, Lawrence WR DAL 16 0 9 3 33.3 26 8.67 2.89 5
Fredrickson, Wendell WR DAL 5 0 2 2 100.0 25 12.50 12.50 2

Player Pos Team Lg TD Drp PPly TPct 20+C 100+
Reeves, Jerry WR DAL 88 6 3 422 29.9 19 3
Powell, Harris WR DAL 69 9 5 379 25.3 19 2
Torres, Tyrus RB DAL 60 3 1 306 22.2 2 0
Okobi, William WR DAL 21 3 2 254 22.0 1 0
Farr, Oscar TE DAL 30 0 0 220 8.6 1 0
Fling, Jack RB DAL 12 1 0 153 11.1 0 0
Rasmussen, Reuben TE DAL 21 0 1 119 15.1 1 0
Segraves, Preston WR DAL 46 0 2 139 13.7 1 0
Maloney, Marcel FB DAL 12 0 1 256 5.9 0 0
Fletcher, Chester RB DAL 12 0 0 45 11.1 0 0
Reynolds, Leon TE DAL 14 1 0 170 4.7 0 0
Ramsey, Lawrence WR DAL 16 0 2 81 11.1 0 0
Fredrickson, Wendell WR DAL 14 0 0 6 33.3 0 0

Targ - Targeted with Pass, Ctch - Receptions, Pct - Reception Percentage,
Yards - Receiving Yards, Avg/C - Yards per Catch, Avg/T - Yards per
Target, YAC - Yards Gained After Catch, Lg - Longest Reception,
TD - Receiving Touchdowns, Drp - Passes Dropped, PPly - Passing Plays
on Field, TPct - Percentage of Passing Plays Targeted, 20+C - Catches
of 20 Yards or More, 100+ - 100-Yard Games.

I like having two receivers of over 1000 yards. Powell may have had less yards but he did get 3 more TDs. Next year I’d like to have both over 1200 yards. TE Rasmussen was out for much of the season with a tendon injury, so he might cut into their production next year, we’ll see.

[Abe Sargent]

Torres had another KR TD this year, bringing his number of KR TDs in two years to three a respectable number.

My kicker went 19 or 30 for FGs, and missed TWO PATs. He’s a problem.

P Gomez looked good, as you saw. He had the 3rd highest punting average in the league at 47.8, and had 41 of 88 punts inside the 20. He is a seriously good weapon

[Abe Sargent]

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Defensive Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Tckl Asst Sack Blkd Hurr QBKd
Turnbull, Raymond ILB DAL 16 16 106 44 2.5 1 2 0
Haslett, Eric OLB DAL 16 16 83 27 3.0 0 1 0
Robinson, Walt S DAL 16 16 77 31 1.5 0 0 0
Ramon, Robbie CB DAL 16 16 56 10 0.0 0 0 0
Garrard, Cedric DT DAL 15 14 51 29 4.0 3 7 0
Buchanan, Jonathan CB DAL 12 8 49 12 0.0 0 0 0
Hill, Peter DE DAL 15 15 47 12 13.0 2 16 0
Kinney, Lee S DAL 14 11 47 14 2.0 0 0 0
Copeland, Jerry CB DAL 16 3 40 8 0.0 0 0 0
Hicks, Floyd DT DAL 16 12 33 18 3.5 0 3 0
Augustson, Chris CB DAL 13 13 33 14 0.0 0 0 0
Hammond, Andy S DAL 16 2 29 12 0.0 0 0 0
Caldwell, William DE DAL 16 7 28 7 1.5 1 18 0
Bronson, Shane OLB DAL 16 6 26 11 0.0 0 0 0
Brody, Darrell DT DAL 16 8 19 9 2.0 3 8 1
Houston, Toby ILB DAL 16 0 17 1 0.0 0 0 0
Campbell, Lorenzo OLB DAL 16 2 16 4 0.5 0 0 0
Malcomson, Willie DE DAL 16 9 14 5 1.5 4 8 0
Van Pelt, Butch DE DAL 16 1 10 3 3.0 1 1 0
Domenici, Gino S DAL 10 0 6 2 0.0 0 0 0

Player Pos Team RPly PPly PRPct TkPct
Turnbull, Raymond ILB DAL 470 556 1.0 14.9
Haslett, Eric OLB DAL 451 546 0.7 11.3
Robinson, Walt S DAL 446 540 0.3 11.1
Ramon, Robbie CB DAL 445 555 0.0 6.6
Garrard, Cedric DT DAL 402 494 2.8 9.4
Buchanan, Jonathan CB DAL 206 303 0.0 12.0
Hill, Peter DE DAL 400 502 6.2 8.0
Kinney, Lee S DAL 300 398 0.5 9.0
Copeland, Jerry CB DAL 157 246 0.0 11.9
Hicks, Floyd DT DAL 330 287 2.3 8.8
Augustson, Chris CB DAL 370 435 0.0 5.8
Hammond, Andy S DAL 119 226 0.0 11.9
Caldwell, William DE DAL 239 278 7.4 7.1
Bronson, Shane OLB DAL 183 146 0.0 11.2
Brody, Darrell DT DAL 263 283 4.6 5.5
Houston, Toby ILB DAL 56 33 0.0 20.2
Campbell, Lorenzo OLB DAL 86 66 0.8 13.5
Malcomson, Willie DE DAL 253 307 4.4 3.7
Van Pelt, Butch DE DAL 130 107 4.7 6.8
Domenici, Gino S DAL 31 24 0.0 14.5

Tckl - Tackles, Asst - Tackle Assists, Sack - Sacks, Blkd - Passes Blocked,
Hurr - Quarterback Hurries, QBKd - Quarterback Knockdowns, RPly - Rushing
Plays on Field, PPly - Passing Plays on Field, PRPct - Pass Rush
Effectiveness Percentage, TkPct - Percentage of Plays Making Tackle.



Turnbull’s tackle numbers are done, Ramon is still fourth, and at least Robinson is acting like a safety now.

As for sacks, look out Peter Hill because he had 13 on the season! No one else had more than four, and I need some of my other players to step up the sackage. He was tied for sixth in the league in sacks. Hill, btw, is a 31/42 rated guy.

[Abe Sargent]

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Pass Coverage Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Ints IRYd TD Defn Cght PPly PDPct
Augustson, Chris CB DAL 13 13 0 0 0 11 26 435 80.6
Turnbull, Raymond ILB DAL 16 16 2 0 0 9 34 556 80.0
Robinson, Walt S DAL 16 16 1 9 0 8 35 540 78.3
Haslett, Eric OLB DAL 16 16 1 15 0 6 30 546 78.7
Ramon, Robbie CB DAL 16 16 10 200 1 5 43 555 83.4
Kinney, Lee S DAL 14 11 0 0 0 5 28 398 76.1
Copeland, Jerry CB DAL 16 3 1 3 0 4 24 246 75.4
Brody, Darrell DT DAL 16 8 0 0 0 3 5 283 82.6
Buchanan, Jonathan CB DAL 12 8 1 24 0 2 25 303 74.7
Hammond, Andy S DAL 16 2 0 0 0 2 17 226 74.5
Garrard, Cedric DT DAL 15 14 0 0 0 1 5 494 81.7
Bronson, Shane OLB DAL 16 6 1 15 0 0 6 146 80.6
Van Pelt, Butch DE DAL 16 1 0 0 0 0 1 107 81.3
Malcomson, Willie DE DAL 16 9 0 0 0 0 4 307 80.8
Hill, Peter DE DAL 15 15 0 0 0 0 9 502 80.1
Caldwell, William DE DAL 16 7 0 0 0 0 2 278 81.6
Hicks, Floyd DT DAL 16 12 0 0 0 0 4 287 80.7
Houston, Toby ILB DAL 16 0 0 0 0 0 4 33 66.2
Campbell, Lorenzo OLB DAL 16 2 0 0 0 0 8 66 66.2
Kerr, Kyle CB DAL 13 0 0 0 0 0 1 29 78.1
Andersen, Kerry S DAL 12 0 0 0 0 0 3 44 73.5

Ints - Interceptions, IRYd - Interception Return Yardage, TD - Interception
Return Touchdowns, Cght - Passes Caught by Covered Receiver, Defn - Passes
Defensed, PPly - Passing Plays on Field, PDPct - Pass Defense Percentage.


With ten picks, Ramon led the league in interceptions. Augustson stepped up his pass defensed sliding up to 11 passes defensed on the year. Turnbull had 9 and two picks, good for an MLB.

[Abe Sargent]

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Blocking Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS KRB KRO BPct Pnck SkA PPly SPct
Malone, Vinny G DAL 16 16 25 63 39.7 1 5 435 1.1
Corbett, Pat G DAL 16 16 22 77 28.6 0 8 424 1.9
Patchet, Orlando C DAL 16 16 21 92 22.8 0 11 458 2.4
Dotson, Dennis T DAL 16 16 20 68 29.4 1 11 436 2.5
Maloney, Marcel FB DAL 16 12 10 27 37.0 0 1 256 0.4
Dotson, Darryl T DAL 16 16 10 37 27.0 0 5 393 1.3
Murphy, Ellis G DAL 16 0 6 26 23.1 0 4 149 2.7
Turnbull, Wayne C DAL 16 0 5 10 50.0 0 1 59 1.7
Sutter, Joe T DAL 16 0 4 15 26.7 0 4 124 3.2
Farr, Oscar TE DAL 16 1 3 7 42.9 0 0 220 0.0
Reynolds, Leon TE DAL 13 11 1 4 25.0 0 0 170 0.0
Ramirez, Bart T DAL 10 0 1 1 100.0 0 1 72 1.4
Rasmussen, Reuben TE DAL 7 7 0 4 0.0 0 0 119 0.0

Player Pos Team RPly OPct
Malone, Vinny G DAL 385 16.4
Corbett, Pat G DAL 386 19.9
Patchet, Orlando C DAL 421 21.9
Dotson, Dennis T DAL 401 17.0
Maloney, Marcel FB DAL 262 10.3
Dotson, Darryl T DAL 367 10.1
Murphy, Ellis G DAL 142 18.3
Turnbull, Wayne C DAL 51 19.6
Sutter, Joe T DAL 113 13.3
Farr, Oscar TE DAL 198 3.5
Reynolds, Leon TE DAL 224 1.8
Ramirez, Bart T DAL 59 1.7
Rasmussen, Reuben TE DAL 132 3.0

KRB - Key Run Blocks, KRO - Key Run Block Opportunities, BPct - Key Run
Block Percentage, Pnck = Pancake Blocks, SkA - Sacks Allowed, PPly - Passing
Plays on Field, SPct - Sack Allowed Percentage, RPly - Rushing Plays on Field,
OPct - Block Opportunity Percentage.


I would like my OLine to get more key run blocks, it’d help our running game, but the game wasn’t too bad this year, so improvement should help us get another win or two. In other news, we allowed 51 sacks. That has to get better, and soon, or I’m going to have to dial up some extra protection for Yoo. I can’t have him go down, and then McElroy follow and boom: there’s the end of the dynasty in season 3.

[Abe Sargent]

Peter Hill had 4 FF, Turnbull 3, several others including Ramon had 2. Turnbull did recover a fumble for a TD when a field goal was blocked. William Caldwell blocked the FG that only had to go 23 yards and Turnbull returned it 93 yards for a score.

Actually, looking at that drive is amazing. As New Orleans drove with the score us 10 and New Orleans 6, near the end of the 4th quarter (around 6 minutes left in the game), this is what happened:

13 yard run, tackle by WLB Bronson
4 yard pass, tackle by Turnbull
QB scrambled for 21 yards, tackled by Ramon
Run for two yards, tackled by Turnbull
Run for four yards, tackled by Turnbull
Pass incomplete, pass defensed by Turnbill
FG of 23 yards blocked by Caldwell, recovered by Turnbull at the 7 and ran back for 93 yard score.

Turnbull just simply took over the game. Glad I moved him to MLB. Glad I drafted him! He was worth the top defensive pick by me, even if he did bust a bit in scores.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:

Offensive MVP: WR Jerry Reeves - I really wrangled over picking Reeves in the top of the second, but that turned out well too. He really did well this year, notching over 1200 yards and simply moved the sticks on a regular basis. With the consistency that Powell did not display, he was the cog that made our offensive machine work, and I expect more good things from him in the future.

Defensive MVP: CB Robbie Ramon – Well, it was either Ramon or Hill here. You don’t get 10 picks with a great CB, let alone a third round pick with a 35/35 rating. I don’t know that I have ever, in all my years of FOFCing and some Hall of Fame secondary players have I ever had 10 picks. Sean Stewart, my first ever draft pick in an FOF franchise (2k1) ended up with the most picks ever by any player and a Hall of Fame free sfety, and he never had more than 9 in season. Ten is incredible. Unthinkable.

Special Teams MVP: P Tracy Gomez - Blocking a FG like Caldwell did is pretty good and directly led to a score. Torres got another KR TD. However, it was Tracy Gomez that turned in a powerful performance game in and game out. His ability to put almost half of his punts inside the 20 while still getting the third most distance from his kicks is a testament to his ability, and even the voters had to give him credit by giving him an All League team spot.

Heart Award: DE Peter Hill – I could have gone Ramon here as well, but I felt with the Defensive MVP award in his pocket, I could instead honor another player who really played outside himself this year in a big way. I’ve mentioned it before, but Hill’s 13 sacks are a massive quantity coming from a 31/42 rated DE. He has a pass rush strength of 15 and a pass rush technique of 41 outta 55. This guy isn’t some sack specialist, he’s just a guy from the 5th round of no real skill. He had a destiny to sack QBs this season though, and no lineman would stop him. .

[Abe Sargent]

Next year? I doubt Ramon will get even half as many picks, and Hill have as many sacks. I need my offense to step it up. After next year, we peak, with no real growth after that, so the year after next will show where we are talent wise for the rest of the dynasty. We also need some of our better defensive players to play better, because we can’t keep relying on players like Hill and Ramon to get it done. Without the exceptional performances turned in by these two players, where would we be right now? 6-10? 5-11? Worse?

Although this season was sweet, I don’t know that the future will be as bright. I hope we get another two game improvement and go to 9-7. I’m not holding my breath.

[Abe Sargent]

End of Season Two

0-16 in the pre-season one
5-11 in season one
7-9 in season two

[Abe Sargent]

I scored a 63 overall.

5 for Franchise Value
26 for Team Performance
100 for Profit/Loss
81 for Roster Strength

[Abe Sargent]

I don’t change ticket prices

I sign my three RFAs still hanging around.

I have two holdouts post draft. One I buy, the other I’m not so sure of.

Torres I holding out, and him I’m not so sure of. He got first round money, and he hasn’t gotten 1600 rushing seasons or anything since then. He wants a significant increase over the next two years, but he also wants an extension. No choice but to accept.

Now, the one I expected as Peter Hill. When a 5th round draft pick notches 13 sacks, you can expect that they want more money. And get this, he only wants an extra 250,000 for this year, and that pretty reasonable considering what he gave us last year. I agree. The pride of William and Mary will be making more this year, around a million.

[Abe Sargent]

I extend Jack Yoo’s contract by three years. It really costs more this year, but I expect it will save me over time.

Reeves is in the final year of his contract, and I extend it by three years.

Next year, almost everyone is up for free agency, and I figure that I aught to get rid of some of the heavy bonuses now in order to not kill our owner or bottom line.

I also extend:

C Orlando Patchet by four years
LT Dennis Dotson by three
LG Preston Blake by just one
RT Darryl Dotson by three
RG Vinny malone by two

I can focus on other positions later.

We sold 32,100 season tickets.

[Abe Sargent]

The latest roster

Front Office Football 2007
Dallas Cowboys Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Yoo, Jack 17 QB 3 45 51 5 yrs
McElroy, Dan 11 QB 3 35 44 1 yr.
Ellard, Aaron 1 QB 3 17 40 1 yr.
Newton, Bryant 14 QB 3 16 38 1 yr.
Torres, Tyrus 23 RB 3 65 65 5 yrs
Fling, Jack 47 RB 3 34 40 1 yr.
Fletcher, Chester 34 RB 3 23 30 1 yr.
Maloney, Marcel 41 FB 3 34 52 1 yr.
Rasmussen, Reuben 84 TE 3 52 58 1 yr.
Reynolds, Leon 86 TE 3 37 45 1 yr.
Farr, Oscar 16 TE 3 31 39 1 yr.
Powell, Harris 83 FL 3 72 72 3 yrs
Ramsey, Lawrence 19 FL 3 16 35 1 yr.
Okobi, William 6 FL 3 31 31 1 yr.
Reeves, Jerry 88 SE 3 56 56 4 yrs
Segraves, Preston 82 SE 3 24 33 1 yr.
Fredrickson, Wendell 85 SE 3 19 28 1 yr.
Patchet, Orlando 53 C 3 59 59 5 yrs
Turnbull, Wayne 55 C 3 30 40 1 yr.
Blake, Preston 69 LG 3 44 44 2 yrs
Corbett, Pat 58 LG 3 24 42 1 yr.
Malone, Vinny 66 RG 3 46 46 3 yrs
Murphy, Ellis 62 RG 3 26 40 1 yr.
Dotson, Dennis 68 LT 3 58 58 4 yrs
Sutter, Joe 67 LT 3 25 44 1 yr.
Dotson, Darryl 73 RT 3 36 47 4 yrs
Ramirez, Bart 71 RT 3 32 40 1 yr.
Gomez, Tracy 13 P 3 83 83 1 yr.
Sigman, Fernando 2 K 3 32 32 1 yr.
Van Pelt, Butch 95 LDE 3 24 37 1 yr.
Hill, Peter 94 LDE 3 31 31 1 yr.
Caldwell, William 90 RDE 3 43 53 1 yr.
Malcomson, Willie 91 RDE 3 30 36 1 yr.
Garrard, Cedric 79 LDT 3 42 42 1 yr.
Brody, Darrell 99 LDT 3 38 38 1 yr.
Hicks, Floyd 98 RDT 3 34 34 1 yr.
Jenkins, Billy Joe 74 RDT 3 26 31 1 yr.
Turnbull, Raymond 93 MLB 3 42 42 1 yr.
Houston, Toby 44 MLB 3 23 38 1 yr.
Haslett, Eric 56 SLB 3 40 40 1 yr.
Bernhardt, Artie 50 SLB 3 23 30 1 yr.
Bronson, Shane 97 WLB 3 23 40 1 yr.
Campbell, Lorenzo 44 WLB 3 28 36 1 yr.
Augustson, Chris 22 LCB 3 36 36 1 yr.
Copeland, Jerry 45 LCB 3 25 36 1 yr.
Buchanan, Jonathan 43 LCB 3 26 26 1 yr.
Kerr, Kyle 27 RCB 3 16 35 1 yr.
Ramon, Robbie 35 RCB 3 33 33 1 yr.
Robinson, Walt 38 SS 3 37 37 1 yr.
Domenici, Gino 30 SS 3 17 32 1 yr.
Kinney, Lee 40 FS 3 50 56 1 yr.
Hammond, Andy 37 FS 3 36 36 1 yr.
Andersen, Kerry 39 FS 3 26 31 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 53

Salary Cap: $109,000,000
Cap Room: $54,760,000
Maximum for New Player: $55,280,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $0

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $34,030,000

[Abe Sargent]

That’s right, Jack Yoo may have looked good initially, but after two years, he is down to a 45/51 player. Despite two good years statistically for a young QB, I may not be able to expect much more out of him.

Top overall pick QB Roy Harrsion, who had been just a step behind Jack Yoo is also down to 35/49. Peter Briggs, the one my scouts liked and who was looking like a bust earlier is at 46/55. No other QB in the entire class is above 45 except for those three players, so while Yoo still looks like a good pick, comparatively, he’s a lousy player compared to the rest of the league.

P Tracy Gomez is now rocking an 83/83 ranking and I no longer wish I had gotten Tuggle, who is still at 85/85, so he was good.

Peter Hill busted a bit more to a 31/31. Ramon busted to a 33/33 despite a 10 pick season.

Turnbull is down to a 42/42. K Sigman is down to 32/32.

My players are mostly fully developed, with a few exceptions. If we are going to put something together, this should be the year we demonstrate it.

When I put this team together, only a handful of players rated below a 40 in potential, now only 20 players rate about a 40 in potential.

A draft that looked promising now looks dull. Players that looked grande now look anemic.

[Abe Sargent]

During the preseason, Greta ranks Torres as the 10th best back the league.

We go 1-3 again in the preseason.

[Abe Sargent]

After the first game, a loss, we end up going three straight to bring the first quarter of the season to a close at 3-1. In four games, Torres has a 5+ YPC and over 400 yards, Harris Powell has 5 TDs, and Ramon already has three picks on the year. In bad news, we only have had 2 sacks in four games, and Sigman has missed half of his field goals. Our FB is out for a while and Jack Fling will be starting there until Maloney returns.

We lose to the Giants 33-38, and I suspect our season is about to go downhill. We follow it up with a 27-23 win over Chicago and Powell catches another pair of TD passes. We host and defeat 4-1 Minnesota with a 27-14 victory to go to 5-2 on the year. WLB Shane Bronson had a fumble recovery for a TD. DT Cedric Garrard had 3 sacks and was named the league Defensive Player of the Week. Is this the year we make it to the top?

Previously unbeaten Washington loses during our bye week, so they are now 6-1. With one game left to go in the first half of the season, we are hosting Washington. Want to make a statement? Win this game and move into first in the division.

Washington 24, Dallas 34

Jack Yoo hits four players for a TD: Torres for an 83 yard score, Powell for 45, Reeves for 18 and Okubi for 11. Despite the fact that Jack Yoo had 337 passing yards, he hit so many receivers so equally that he didn’t even have a 100 yard receiver. QB rating of 158.3, which I believe is the max. Peter Hill finally gets on the board with 1.5 sacks a FF and a recovery. Our FB is healed and will be back next week.

[Abe Sargent]

Actually we lost to Washington in our opener, so we are just tied with them, sorry.

Then we lose at Green Bay 13-17. Blast. It was looking good too. Washington won, of course. We follow with a 24-11 win over two win Philadelphia, which isn’t much of a chore. The Redskins are still winning. We are number 3 in the power ratings, with Washington at 1.

Anyway, our final games are:

Loss at Jacksonville, 17-21
Win at New Orleans 24-21
Loss at home to Tennessee 31-21
Win at Philadelphia 28-3
Loss at home to Texans 44-13.
Win at home to Giants 15-12 Winner of this game made the playoiffs as a wild card seed – we were both 9-6

10-6 and we are a wild card in the playoffs.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2010 NFC Playoffs:

Week One:

10-6 Dallas at 10-6 Seattle
9-7 Green Bay at 10-6 Carolina

We finished with the top wild card spot. Had we been more consistent down the stretch against the 4 win Jaguars and the 7 win Texans, we would be 12-4 and might have won the division and a bye(Washington was also 12-4). The Vikings won the NFC top seed with a 14-2 season.

We lose to Seattle 18-34. Jerry Reeves caught a pair of TDs. Jack Yoo tossed up three picks. Ah well. It was a good season even without any playoff magic:

The rest of the NFC Playoffs go like this:

Carolina crushes Washington 31-3 in Washington
Seattle is crushed by the Vikings 3-28

Minnesota edges Carolina in the NFC Championship 23-20.

The Vikings score 40 on the Ravens in the Super Bowl to win the title.

Had we defeated Seattle, note that we would have played the juggernaut Vikings and been spanked, so there is that consolation.

[Abe Sargent]

Year pre-one 0-16
Year one 5-11
Year two 7-9
Year three 10-6 and 5th seed in the playoffs (10-7)

[Abe Sargent]

Awards:

WR Harris Powell, All League Second Team

[Abe Sargent]

Stats:


Jack Yoo went 276 of 426 for 3540 yards, a 26:12 TD:INT ratio and a 99.3 QB Rating. He fumbled again nine times this year. He added a rushing TD.

Tyrus Torres rushed for 1440 yards on 342 carries for a 4.21 YPC average. He had 8 scores on the ground. He added 3 scores in the air to go along with his 424 yards receiving.

WR Harris Powell had his best year with 1205 yards, 11 TDs and 67 catches. Jerry Reeves was right behind him in TDs with 9, but only had 862 yards, which is down to my mind. Simply put, Reeves needs to step it up next year, because both him, and Powell have proved they are 1200 yard receivers.

[Abe Sargent]

No player had any returns for scores this year.

In punting, Gomez had the league’s third highest punting average again, and got 34 of 77 punts inside the 20.

Sigman only missed 6 FGs and no PATs this year.

Robbie Ramon had 6 more picks this year, disproving my prediction about him. Lee Kinney led the team with 14 passes defensed.

Turnbull had 96 solo tackles, and DT Cedric Garrard was second. Garrard was also second on the team with 6 sacks.

Also with sacks was William Caldwell with 7.5, and Peter Hill with 5.

Orlando Patchet had 43 KRB. We allows 47 sacks. I don’t think this number is ever going to drop, and its no wonder Yoo is fumbling all of the time.

Caldwell led the team with 5 FF, SS Robinson had 4, with Garrard and Turnbull each had 3.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:

Offensive MVP: WR Harris Powell. With 1200+ yards, 11 TDs, and all league honors, Harris Powell fulfilled the trust I placed in him when I made him our top overall selection. He has gotten better each year, and my ideal is that he gets 1400 yards next year, and Harris gets back to 1200. I really don’t even bother with any other receiving outlets besides Powell, Reeves and Torres.

Defensive MVP: DT Cedric Garrard. Ramon could have gotten this award for a second year with six picks, but instead I am choosing t reward the hard work of 42/42 DT Cedric Garrard. With 6 sacks, second on the team in solo tackles, and 3 FF, Garrard simply had a great year, especially for the DT position.

Special Teams MVP: P Tracy Gomez. Our first repeat winner is none other than one of the best punters in the league. He still has it, and he was probably third in all league honors, so lets give it up, once again, for Tracy Gomez.

Heart Award: C Orlando Patchet. Nomrally I might award one of my lower roster players for really stepping it up, and I considering giving Garrard this award too, but I decided that this could also apply to a position that doesn’t get a lot of love either. Garrard’s 43 KRB were fourth most among offensive linemen this year. He could have been all league C, but that was given to a player ith one less KRB and one less pancake block than Patchet (also two less sacks allowed at 5 vs Patchet’s 7).

Next Year? Well, I honestly expect that 10-6 is about as good as this team will be, so I hope to get 10-6 again, make it to the playoffs and get hot there.

[Abe Sargent]

End Season 3.

I got a 65 score for the year.

66 Team Performance
5 Franchise Value
81 Profit/Loss
83 Roster Strength.

[Abe Sargent]

I offer my OC another five year with us. He agrees and comes back to us.

Ticket prices are increased a tiny little bit.


I sign all but 9 of our players, and that took a while.

No hold outs this year, so let’s go camping.

[Abe Sargent]

Let’s take a look at our post-camp roster.


Front Office Football 2007
Dallas Cowboys Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Yoo, Jack 17 QB 4 49 49 4 yrs
McElroy, Dan 11 QB 4 39 43 3 yrs
Newton, Bryant 14 QB 4 19 36 3 yrs
Ellard, Aaron 1 QB 4 16 31 3 yrs
Torres, Tyrus 23 RB 4 65 65 4 yrs
Fling, Jack 47 RB 4 38 38 1 yr.
Fletcher, Chester 34 RB 4 24 29 1 yr.
Maloney, Marcel 41 FB 4 36 52 1 yr.
Rasmussen, Reuben 84 TE 4 55 55 3 yrs
Reynolds, Leon 86 TE 4 45 45 1 yr.
Farr, Oscar 16 TE 4 31 31 1 yr.
Powell, Harris 83 FL 4 71 71 2 yrs
Ramsey, Lawrence 19 FL 4 16 33 1 yr.
Okobi, William 6 FL 4 30 30 1 yr.
Reeves, Jerry 88 SE 4 57 57 3 yrs
Segraves, Preston 82 SE 4 27 32 1 yr.
Fredrickson, Wendell 85 SE 4 17 21 1 yr.
Patchet, Orlando 53 C 4 58 58 4 yrs
Turnbull, Wayne 55 C 4 34 39 1 yr.
Blake, Preston 69 LG 4 43 43 1 yr.
Corbett, Pat 58 LG 4 29 41 1 yr.
Malone, Vinny 66 RG 4 45 45 2 yrs
Murphy, Ellis 62 RG 4 29 40 1 yr.
Dotson, Dennis 68 LT 4 58 58 3 yrs
Sutter, Joe 67 LT 4 30 44 1 yr.
Ramirez, Bart 71 RT 4 34 41 1 yr.
Dotson, Darryl 73 RT 4 39 39 3 yrs
Gomez, Tracy 13 P 4 85 85 3 yrs
Sigman, Fernando 2 K 4 31 31 3 yrs
Van Pelt, Butch 95 LDE 4 27 37 1 yr.
Hill, Peter 94 LDE 4 30 30 1 yr.
Caldwell, William 90 RDE 4 49 49 1 yr.
Malcomson, Willie 91 RDE 4 32 35 3 yrs
Garrard, Cedric 79 LDT 4 42 42 3 yrs
Brody, Darrell 99 LDT 4 37 37 1 yr.
Hicks, Floyd 98 RDT 4 38 38 2 yrs
Jenkins, Billy Joe 74 RDT 4 23 25 1 yr.
Turnbull, Raymond 93 MLB 4 41 41 1 yr.
Houston, Toby 44 MLB 4 28 39 1 yr.
Haslett, Eric 56 SLB 4 27 27 3 yrs
Bernhardt, Artie 50 SLB 4 17 20 1 yr.
Bronson, Shane 97 WLB 4 29 39 3 yrs
Campbell, Lorenzo 44 WLB 4 32 34 2 yrs
Augustson, Chris 22 LCB 4 36 36 3 yrs
Copeland, Jerry 45 LCB 4 29 34 1 yr.
Buchanan, Jonathan 43 LCB 4 25 25 2 yrs
Kerr, Kyle 27 RCB 4 18 34 3 yrs
Ramon, Robbie 35 RCB 4 32 32 3 yrs
Robinson, Walt 38 SS 4 43 43 3 yrs
Domenici, Gino 30 SS 4 20 32 1 yr.
Kinney, Lee 40 FS 4 53 53 3 yrs
Hammond, Andy 37 FS 4 36 36 1 yr.
Andersen, Kerry 39 FS 4 27 27 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 53

Salary Cap: $109,000,000
Cap Room: $44,800,000
Maximum for New Player: $45,430,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $0

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $47,830,000

[Abe Sargent]

When I first drafted this team, I was pretty happy with it. I think I did a good job drafting, I got some of the top players at several positions and I think I got lucky on some players, like Jack Yoo. Despite us going 10-6 last year, I don’t see here where we are going to dominate the league or continue to de really well. The only thing we have is a very high cohesion rate.

Since I’m disappointed in my team, I hope you won’t mind if I quick sim the season and see what happens? I put my coaches in charge of decisions like depth chart and game plan and just sim the season.

[Abe Sargent]

We go 3-1 in the pre-season.

After week 2, Torres goes down for a few games, and I stop the quick simming. I move our FB to our starting RB position, not trusting my backup RBs. We win the first game without him. That puts us at 2-1 on the season.

[Abe Sargent]

We crush the winless Cardinals 38-13 at our place to go up to 3-1 and Torres is back.That games featured two interceptions for returns, one by Ramon and the other by Turnbull. My coaches are trying out Bart Ramirez as starter at OT and so far, he’s doing a better job than the Dotson he replaced. We’ll see if that continues.

We edge out the Giants in OT 27-24 and I’m amazed that Sigman could even find his shoes, let alone kick a game winning kick. Says here it was an 18 yarder, no wonder…

The winless are hammered by us at home 38-10. Nice to get those good feeling games out of the way. Torres ran for all five scores. Guy ran for 5 TDs and he isn’t even OPofW. It is a record though, 5 rushing TDs in one game.

[Abe Sargent]

It was a costly game. DE Butch Van Pelt is out for 63 weeks with a torn patellar tendon. He had gotten five starts this year in trying to find a spark on my DLine. Ah well. Patchet and Kinney are out for a few weeks as well.

We then scrub the next two games before a 34-17 win over the Redskins to knock us back to the win column at 6-3. We then follow that with a vague win over the Eagles 10-3. We win one, we drop one, we win two, we lose two, we end up 10-6 again.

This time, we won the NFC East. We are the fourth seed

[Abe Sargent]

The 2011 NFC Playoffs:

9-7 Bears at 11-5 Bucs
11-5 Rams at the 10-6 Cowboys

St. Louis 21, Dallas 31

The info:

TE Leon Reynolds caught a 7 yard pass on the opening drive.
WR Lawrence Ramsey caught an 18 yard pass in the second quarter
TE Rasmusen caught a 20 yard TD pass in the third
Torres ran it in from 5 yards in the fourth

A TD in every quarter, and none of my regulars caught TDs.


We missed two Field Goals (Thanks Sigman!).

[Abe Sargent]

Time for the Second Round:

11-6 Dallas Cowboys at the 15-1 Detroit Lions
12-5 Tampa at 13-3 Seattle

We played Seattle earlier this year and were shut out. I have no hope f beating a 15-1 team. I gameplan to be very aggressive, absolutely opening it up.


Dallas 24, Detroit 30. In overtime.

As I thought. We would lose, it was just closer than I thought.

Seattle loses to Detroit 21-31.

Detroit edges Baltimore 24-23.

[Abe Sargent]

Season pre-one 0-16
Season one 5-11
Season two 7-9
Season three 10-6 wild card as #5 seed (10-7)
Season four 10-6 division champ #4 seed (11-7)

[Abe Sargent]

Awards:

None

[Abe Sargent]

Stats:

Jack Yoo has just 3002 yards passing with a 15/10 ratio and an 86.6 QB Rating. This was a pretty bad season for our passing offense.

Torres has 1408 yards rushing on 323 carries for 16 rushing TDs. Third in the league is rushing TDs. Jack Fling, our backup RB had 6 TDs on the ground. Even Fletcher had one.

Jerry Reeves had 874 yards and 2 TDs. Harris Powell had 5 TDs and 795 yards. Alright, next season, no quick sim (although stopped early). I don’t think the AI knows how to throw. We throw the ball this year, and we’re probably 12-4 at least.

Sigman just missed four FGs.

Again, Gomez was third in the league is punting average. He continues to be a weapon.

[Abe Sargent]

Front Office Football 2007
Defensive Statistics

Player Pos Team GP GS Tckl Asst Sack Blkd Hurr QBKd
Robinson, Walt S DAL 16 16 88 26 2.0 1 0 0
Turnbull, Raymond ILB DAL 16 16 84 26 2.5 1 3 0
Haslett, Eric OLB DAL 16 14 75 18 5.5 0 2 1
Ramon, Robbie CB DAL 16 16 63 13 1.0 1 1 0
Garrard, Cedric DT DAL 16 16 60 13 7.0 4 12 0
Augustson, Chris CB DAL 16 16 47 19 0.0 0 1 0
Caldwell, William DE DAL 16 16 37 19 10.0 2 17 2
Hammond, Andy S DAL 16 6 34 10 0.5 0 0 0
Copeland, Jerry CB DAL 13 9 33 10 0.0 0 0 0
Kinney, Lee S DAL 10 9 33 9 1.0 0 0 0
Hicks, Floyd DT DAL 16 14 29 21 4.5 1 8 0
Bronson, Shane OLB DAL 13 6 20 10 0.0 0 1 0
Hill, Peter DE DAL 16 10 17 11 5.5 4 14 0
Jenkins, Billy Joe DT DAL 10 1 16 3 0.5 0 0 0
Campbell, Lorenzo OLB DAL 16 0 16 4 0.0 1 0 0
Houston, Toby ILB DAL 16 0 12 7 0.0 0 0 0
Brody, Darrell DT DAL 12 1 10 1 0.0 0 1 1
Kerr, Kyle CB DAL 16 0 10 1 0.0 0 0 0
Van Pelt, Butch DE DAL 6 6 9 5 2.5 2 6 1
Buchanan, Jonathan CB DAL 16 3 9 3 0.0 0 0 0
Andersen, Kerry S DAL 16 1 6 2 0.0 0 0 0
Malcomson, Willie DE DAL 16 0 5 4 3.5 0 6 0
Powell, Harris WR DAL 15 15 3 0 0.0 0 0 0
Bernhardt, Artie OLB DAL 7 0 3 1 0.0 0 0 0
Domenici, Gino S DAL 13 0 2 2 0.0 0 0 0
Torres, Tyrus RB DAL 15 15 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Fling, Jack RB DAL 16 1 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Maloney, Marcel FB DAL 16 14 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Reeves, Jerry WR DAL 16 13 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Ramsey, Lawrence WR DAL 16 0 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Segraves, Preston WR DAL 16 3 1 0 0.0 0 0 0
Malone, Vinny G DAL 16 16 1 0 0.0 0 0 0

Player Pos Team RPly PPly PRPct TkPct
Robinson, Walt S DAL 357 571 0.5 12.5
Turnbull, Raymond ILB DAL 377 577 1.1 11.8
Haslett, Eric OLB DAL 319 455 1.6 12.7
Ramon, Robbie CB DAL 358 584 0.5 8.2
Garrard, Cedric DT DAL 347 575 4.0 8.7
Augustson, Chris CB DAL 341 567 0.2 7.3
Caldwell, William DE DAL 344 574 5.1 7.2
Hammond, Andy S DAL 165 301 0.2 9.5
Copeland, Jerry CB DAL 188 356 0.0 7.9
Kinney, Lee S DAL 179 297 0.3 9.0
Hicks, Floyd DT DAL 321 454 3.0 7.0
Bronson, Shane OLB DAL 171 194 0.5 8.2
Hill, Peter DE DAL 243 357 6.6 5.6
Jenkins, Billy Joe DT DAL 93 78 0.6 11.4
Campbell, Lorenzo OLB DAL 75 97 1.0 11.6
Houston, Toby ILB DAL 49 42 0.0 20.9
Brody, Darrell DT DAL 87 69 1.4 7.1
Kerr, Kyle CB DAL 51 64 0.0 9.6
Van Pelt, Butch DE DAL 103 184 5.7 5.7
Buchanan, Jonathan CB DAL 47 105 0.0 7.9
Andersen, Kerry S DAL 27 81 0.0 7.4
Malcomson, Willie DE DAL 88 87 10.9 7.1
Powell, Harris WR DAL 387 325 0.0 0.4
Bernhardt, Artie OLB DAL 14 9 0.0 17.4
Domenici, Gino S DAL 34 32 0.0 6.1
Torres, Tyrus RB DAL 350 299 0.0 0.2
Fling, Jack RB DAL 166 155 0.0 0.3
Maloney, Marcel FB DAL 330 238 0.0 0.2
Reeves, Jerry WR DAL 352 346 0.0 0.1
Ramsey, Lawrence WR DAL 24 64 0.0 1.1
Segraves, Preston WR DAL 116 151 0.0 0.4
Malone, Vinny G DAL 423 393 0.0 0.1

Tckl - Tackles, Asst - Tackle Assists, Sack - Sacks, Blkd - Passes Blocked,
Hurr - Quarterback Hurries, QBKd - Quarterback Knockdowns, RPly - Rushing
Plays on Field, PPly - Passing Plays on Field, PRPct - Pass Rush
Effectiveness Percentage, TkPct - Percentage of Plays Making Tackle.


Yay for Caldwell getting ten sacks, and boo to Turnbull for crapping it up in the center. Yay Garrard for seven sacks and leading the team in FF with another 3. SLB Eric Haslett should get some credit for his sacktacular year as well. Even Hill is steady with 5.5 sacks.

Ramon only had 2 picks this year, but Robinson had 6. He also led our team in passes defensed with 15, while Ramon was second with 12.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:

Offensive Player of the Year RB Tyrus Torres: With our passing game taking a giant step back and our blockers forgetting how to tie their shoes, Tyrus still gets his yards and notched a ton of TDs this year. Good job!

Defensive Player of the Year: SS Walt Robinson. He led the team in solo tackles. That’s good. He also led the team with 6 picks. That’s good too. He also led the team with 15 passes defensed. Also good. He even notched a pair of sacks. I love versatile players like Robsinson is turning out to be.

Speacial Teams Player of the Year: K Fernando Sigman. He went 24 of 28 and didn’t miss a PAT. For him, that’s absolutely amazing.

Heart Award: SS Walt Robinson. This guy is a 43/43 rated SS picked in the 7th to be a backup and yet he dominated our team in three categories, and notched sacks to boot. No way he doesn’t get cred here too

[Abe Sargent]

I was surprised that my hope of going 10-6 worked, especially with our crummy’s team performance It seems like our team took a step backward, and yet we had the same record, won the division, and won our first playoff game. Still, we need to get back to form – lots of points by passing.

[Abe Sargent]

End Season Score: 58

69 for performance
0 for franchise value
65 for Profit/Loss
83 for roster strength.

[Abe Sargent]

I submit a stadium renovation plan to add a bunch of boxes.


This is a costly FA year, because all of my players are now vested veterans. In other news, I extend Harris Powell’s contract by five years. I extend G Vinny Malone by three.


My stadium proposal passed.

No holdouts this year either.

[Abe Sargent]

Front Office Football 2007
Dallas Cowboys Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Yoo, Jack 17 QB 5 47 47 3 yrs
McElroy, Dan 11 QB 5 42 42 2 yrs
Newton, Bryant 14 QB 5 21 34 2 yrs
Ellard, Aaron 1 QB 5 19 31 2 yrs
Torres, Tyrus 23 RB 5 66 66 3 yrs
Fling, Jack 47 RB 5 36 36 1 yr.
Fletcher, Chester 34 RB 5 25 29 2 yrs
Maloney, Marcel 41 FB 5 45 45 2 yrs
Rasmussen, Reuben 84 TE 5 54 54 2 yrs
Reynolds, Leon 86 TE 5 45 45 2 yrs
Farr, Oscar 16 TE 5 30 30 2 yrs
Powell, Harris 83 FL 5 69 69 6 yrs
Ramsey, Lawrence 19 FL 5 17 33 2 yrs
Okobi, William 6 FL 5 29 29 2 yrs
Reeves, Jerry 88 SE 5 59 59 2 yrs
Segraves, Preston 82 SE 5 30 30 2 yrs
Fredrickson, Wendell 85 SE 5 10 10 2 yrs
Patchet, Orlando 53 C 5 57 57 3 yrs
Turnbull, Wayne 55 C 5 37 37 2 yrs
Blake, Preston 69 LG 5 43 43 2 yrs
Corbett, Pat 58 LG 5 35 40 2 yrs
Malone, Vinny 66 RG 5 43 43 4 yrs
Murphy, Ellis 62 RG 5 32 39 2 yrs
Dotson, Dennis 68 LT 5 56 56 2 yrs
Sutter, Joe 67 LT 5 36 36 2 yrs
Dotson, Darryl 73 RT 5 38 38 2 yrs
Ramirez, Bart 71 RT 5 33 33 2 yrs
Gomez, Tracy 13 P 5 85 85 2 yrs
Sigman, Fernando 2 K 5 31 31 2 yrs
**Van Pelt, Butch 95 LDE 5 29 29 2 yrs
Hill, Peter 94 LDE 5 28 28 2 yrs
Caldwell, William 90 RDE 5 47 47 4 yrs
Malcomson, Willie 91 RDE 5 32 34 2 yrs
Garrard, Cedric 79 LDT 5 42 42 2 yrs
Brody, Darrell 99 LDT 5 37 37 2 yrs
Hicks, Floyd 98 RDT 5 37 37 1 yr.
Jenkins, Billy Joe 74 RDT 5 23 23 2 yrs
Houston, Toby 44 MLB 5 34 39 2 yrs
Turnbull, Raymond 93 MLB 5 39 39 2 yrs
Haslett, Eric 56 SLB 5 26 26 2 yrs
Bernhardt, Artie 50 SLB 5 18 18 2 yrs
Bronson, Shane 97 WLB 5 34 34 2 yrs
Campbell, Lorenzo 44 WLB 5 32 32 1 yr.
Augustson, Chris 22 LCB 5 35 35 2 yrs
Copeland, Jerry 45 LCB 5 30 30 1 yr.
Buchanan, Jonathan 43 LCB 5 24 24 1 yr.
Ramon, Robbie 35 RCB 5 31 31 2 yrs
Kerr, Kyle 27 RCB 5 20 28 2 yrs
Robinson, Walt 38 SS 5 42 42 2 yrs
Domenici, Gino 30 SS 5 22 31 1 yr.
Kinney, Lee 40 FS 5 52 52 2 yrs
Hammond, Andy 37 FS 5 36 36 1 yr.
Andersen, Kerry 39 FS 5 26 26 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 53

Salary Cap: $109,000,000
Cap Room: $38,590,000


Note that there are a lot of issues here, such as Powell now at 59/59 or FB Maloney at 45/45. That’s the way life goes, slowly down the toilet.

We sold 33700 season tickets.

[Abe Sargent]

We finish the preseason 0-4.

We begin the season with a 35-17 victory over the Giants. Normally we lose our opening game then do well, I hope the opposite doesn’t happen this year. We follow that with a 35-13 win over the AFC Super Bowl team last year (Ravens). Next up, one of the powers in the NFC the Seahawks host us. We lose 28-29. Seattle scored with 1:13 left in the game, and then got a 2 point conversion, so it was a good game, especially since we were away. We had a good special teams play. Gomez punted the ball 55 yard and then it was retuned 6 yards, until Jack Fling tackled the ball carrier and forced the fumble. TE Leon Reynolds grabbed the fumble and ran it is for a score. We follow that by crushing Carolina 41-14.

We are 3-1 and frankly, looking like top talent. We’ve scored 35, 35, 28 and 41. In the first three games we didn’t even kick a Field Goal.

[Abe Sargent]

23-16 at Tampa Bay, 27-3 over Washington, and then Jack Yoo goes down to an injured hammy at questionable. Return unknown. Start him or no?

We are 5-1. I feel that we can give a few starts to McElroy and rest Yoo.

McElroy’s first start is on the road at 2 win New York, and what do you know, Sigman hits five for five Field Goals including a 54 yarder. We win the game 29-24. Miss tow FGs, as Sigman is wont to do, and we lose that game.

Bad News Time: Our good Center Orlando Patchet has torn his bieceps muscle and will be out for 16 weeks. Nasty. I don’t know if that is an injury that will make him worse or no.

In good news, Jack Yoo is back after missing just the one game.

We then lose 17-23 in OT to the 5-3 Saints to go to 6-2 on the first half.


Our losses are by one point and then in OT. Not bad. Can we keep it up?

[Abe Sargent]

With 33 seconds left, we kick a FG to defeat the now 6-3 Falcons 24-21. If we can keep taking down the major teams, then we may have a shot later.

23-3 over the two win Eagles.
BYE WEEK
LOSS 20-24 to the 8-3 Steelers
33-14 vs Detroit
24-21 vs Cincinnati

Van Pelt is back from his serious injury and will be starting for us this week as twoof my Des are out. We rushed him back, and can only hope he doesn’t reinjure his knee.

28-17 over the 4-10 Redskins
LOSS 24-20 vs the 10-5 Browns
25-20 over the seven win Eagles, who went on a hot streak.

At 12-4, we won the NFC East, and we have the #2 spot going into the playoffs. Why the jump in our record? The rest of the division sucks. No team is at .500. During a down year for the divison, we end up with an extra few victories.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2012 NFC Playoffs

10-6 New Orleans at 10-6 Arizona
9-7 St. Louis at 11-5 Atlanta



St. Louis wins 17-10
Arizona wins 24-16


Week 2:

10-6 Arizona at 12-4 Dallas
9-7 St Louis at 13-3 Minnesota


Arizona 20, Dallas 31
St. Luis 24, Minnesota 31

Okobi, Fling and Reeves caught TD passes and Torres ran one in. Torres had 187 rushing yards on the day.

[Abe Sargent]

NFC Championship:

12-4 Dallas at 13-3 Minnesota.

This will be interesting. Do we have the offensive talent to keep up with the Vikings? We have beaten some good teams this year, we’ve lost some close ones. Are we better than our record suggests? Is Minnesota worse? Can we pull this off?

Dallas 24, Minnesota 26

Apparently we cannot pull it off.

Ah well.

Super Bowl

Minnesota vs Jets

Minnesota 35
Jets 55

Glad I didn’t play the Jets.


Our best year. Will we improve next year, and make it all the way?

[Abe Sargent]

Awards:

RB Tyrus Torres, All League 2nd Team
WR Harris Powell, All League, 2nd Team

[Abe Sargent]

Stats:

Yoo started 15 games but went down in one. He threw for 3433 yards, 21:13 ratio, and a 95.7 QB Rating. In McElroy’s sub and start, he got a 70.2 rating.

Torres ran 364 times for 1427 yards and 16 TDs. Jack Fling ran 134 times for 590 yards and 6 TDs.

Harris Powell led the team with 1415 yards and 7 TDs on 72 catches. Reeves had a very bad year, though he was injured and only started 13 games. He had 669 yard and 5 TDs. 8 players caught TDs as Yoo really spread it around this year. Torres had 82 yards and 4 TDs in the air.

In returns, Preston Segreaves had a PR for a TD. His PR average was seventh in the NFL among qualifiers. Torres was 11th in the NFL among qualifiers for average yards per KO return.

Sigman was 27 of 29 and didn’t miss a PAT. Gomez’s average rose to 48.2, his highest ever. Still third highest in the NFL.

All told, our special teams were simply amazing. Want proof? TE Leon Reynolds was tied for second in the NFL in special teams tackles with 32.

This was a disappointing year for our defense. Turnbull, although out for two games, notched 74 solo tackles and that led the team.

Caldwell was out for three games and still managed to notch 9 sacks. Hill was out for 7 games and had 5.5 sacks.

Ramon led the team with 5 picks. Safeties Kinney and Robinson each had 3. Robinson led the team with 17 Passes Defensed, while Ramon was second with 11.

Ramon is one off the current pick leader for the NFL, who has 29 overall picks, while Ramon has 28.

Dennis Dotson led our team with 31 KRB.

Backup safety Kerry Anderson had 4 FF. Haslett, Robinson and Fling on special teams each had 3.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:

Offensive Player of the Year: RB Tyrus Torres Powell and Torres are the good players here. Who gets the nod this year? Torres had 16 rushing TDs, and 4 in the air, for a 20 TD season. That’s worthy of an award. Add almost 1900 yards of offense and the great return man to the pot, and you get a great player.

Defensive Player of the Year: DE William Caldwell. Despite a year in which he was out for 3 games, he still led the team with sacks at 9, led the team with hurries at 19, and was second with 5 passes blocked. In a year when the defense was down, he wasn;t.

Special Teams Player of the Year: FL Preston Segreaves. I could give this to Goemz again, Sigman again, Segreaves, Torres or Reynolds, and they would all work. Segreaves had a great year in returning, not just because of the score, but also because of the great return average.

Heart Award: TE Leon Reynolds. He tied for second in special teams tackles. He recovered a fumble for a TD on special teams. He caught two in the air as a backup TE. He had the best KRB:KRO ratio on the team with 5 KRB out of 12 KRO. He was simply in a lot of places this year, and I want to reward that.

[Abe Sargent]

Next Year?

Well, frankly, I think this year was as good as it gets. I doubt we could ever improve, unless it involved our defense doing better and Reeves getting back up to par.

[Abe Sargent]

Year pre-one 0-16
Year one 5-11
Year two 7-9
Year three 10-6 wild card #5 seed (10-7 total record)
Year four 10-6 won divison #4 seed, won first game (11-7 total record)
Year five 12-4 won divison #2 seed, won first game (13-5 total record)

[Abe Sargent]

End of Season

Final score 60

Team Performance 83
Franchise Value 25
Profit/Loss 55
Roster Strength 83

[Abe Sargent]

Shane Bronson will be suspended for this year for a violation of the weapons policy. Damn. Lose a LB and we will have to make a lot of moves.


I make some contract moves. Extend a lot of contracts.

[Abe Sargent]

Post Camp Roster:

Front Office Football 2007
Dallas Cowboys Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
McElroy, Dan 11 QB 6 41 41 3 yrs
Yoo, Jack 17 QB 6 40 40 2 yrs
Ellard, Aaron 1 QB 6 21 30 3 yrs
Newton, Bryant 14 QB 6 18 27 3 yrs
Torres, Tyrus 23 RB 6 66 66 2 yrs
Fling, Jack 47 RB 6 27 27 3 yrs
Fletcher, Chester 34 RB 6 20 20 3 yrs
Maloney, Marcel 41 FB 6 44 44 3 yrs
Rasmussen, Reuben 84 TE 6 49 49 3 yrs
Reynolds, Leon 86 TE 6 45 45 3 yrs
Farr, Oscar 16 TE 6 28 28 3 yrs
Powell, Harris 83 FL 6 69 69 5 yrs
Ramsey, Lawrence 19 FL 6 19 31 3 yrs
Okobi, William 6 FL 6 29 29 3 yrs
Reeves, Jerry 88 SE 6 62 62 4 yrs
Segraves, Preston 82 SE 6 30 30 3 yrs
Fredrickson, Wendell 85 SE 6 9 9 3 yrs
Patchet, Orlando 53 C 6 56 56 2 yrs
Turnbull, Wayne 55 C 6 36 36 3 yrs
Blake, Preston 69 LG 6 39 39 4 yrs
Corbett, Pat 58 LG 6 37 37 3 yrs
Malone, Vinny 66 RG 6 42 42 3 yrs
Murphy, Ellis 62 RG 6 35 35 3 yrs
Dotson, Dennis 68 LT 6 54 54 4 yrs
Sutter, Joe 67 LT 6 36 36 3 yrs
Dotson, Darryl 73 RT 6 38 38 5 yrs
Ramirez, Bart 71 RT 6 32 32 1 yr.
Gomez, Tracy 13 P 6 87 87 4 yrs
Sigman, Fernando 2 K 6 28 28 3 yrs
Van Pelt, Butch 95 LDE 6 29 29 1 yr.
Hill, Peter 94 LDE 6 27 27 1 yr.
Caldwell, William 90 RDE 6 39 39 3 yrs
Malcomson, Willie 91 RDE 6 32 32 1 yr.
Garrard, Cedric 79 LDT 6 41 41 5 yrs
Brody, Darrell 99 LDT 6 36 36 3 yrs
Hicks, Floyd 98 RDT 6 34 34 3 yrs
Jenkins, Billy Joe 74 RDT 6 23 23 3 yrs
Turnbull, Raymond 93 MLB 6 38 38 1 yr.
Houston, Toby 44 MLB 6 37 37 3 yrs
Haslett, Eric 56 SLB 6 26 26 3 yrs
Bernhardt, Artie 50 SLB 6 18 18 3 yrs
$$Bronson, Shane 97 WLB 6 34 34 3 yrs
Campbell, Lorenzo 44 WLB 6 30 30 3 yrs
Augustson, Chris 22 LCB 6 33 33 1 yr.
Buchanan, Jonathan 43 LCB 6 24 24 3 yrs
Copeland, Jerry 45 LCB 6 22 22 3 yrs
Ramon, Robbie 35 RCB 6 29 29 3 yrs
Kerr, Kyle 27 RCB 6 21 21 3 yrs
Robinson, Walt 38 SS 6 40 40 3 yrs
Domenici, Gino 30 SS 6 23 31 3 yrs
Kinney, Lee 40 FS 6 51 51 4 yrs
Hammond, Andy 37 FS 6 35 35 3 yrs
Andersen, Kerry 39 FS 6 25 25 3 yrs

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 52

Salary Cap: $109,000,000
Cap Room: $34,410,000
Maximum for New Player: $34,930,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $0

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $73,920,000

[Abe Sargent]

We now have a problem. Take a look at my QB. Jack Yoo is rated 40/40, McElroy 41/41.

Is this a Byron Leftwich David Garrard type situation, where the backup stays about the same but the starter gets a little worse each year?

I’m started to get a little tired of the dynasty. Same people day in and day out. I’m going to quick sim the season. I may not ge the good results I otherwise would like, but I can finish this dynasty. I’ve written 86 pages of Word. I’m sure you can understand me getting a little bit tied of talking about Jack Yoo and Turnbull and whatnot.

[Abe Sargent]

4-0 in the preseason. My coaches think we should start McElroy, so we will do so. II take a look at my happiness, and I realize that I have to keep balancing the playes and their desires. I can’t let my coaches quick sim the season or else all Hell’d break lose.

I will be faster simming, if that makes sense. No looking at stats or anything after games. Just sim and move, sim and move, sim and move. Fix the depth charts. Sim, Sim Sim.

[Abe Sargent]

I’m beginning to think that McElroy was the missing ingredient. Despite Yoo’s demands and starts in three games, McElroy has started five, and we are 8-0. Even after having a crappy fifth game with a 68.0 QB Rating, his rating dropped to second in the league at 104. He is staying in as much as I can maneuver.

I then turn right around and lose. We win three more. I’m basically giving Yoo the easy games, like the upcoming 4-8 KC Chiefs. McElroy just took us on the road and won in an 8 win stadium. There is no similarlty to how they are playing, McElroy is lights out, and Yoo is adequate. Yoo still only won against KC 21-19.

I should give Yoo the final start with our team 14-1, but we have the bye, and McElroy is on pace to possibly be an All League QB, if I can get him enough starts to qualify. He stays in.

[Abe Sargent]

Okay, here’s our regular season schedule, all ready for ya:

Front Office Football 2007
Dallas Cowboys 2013 Regular Season Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
Week 1 WASHINGTON REDSKINS W, 25-14 42,100 Sunny, 100, 4 mph.
Week 2 SAN DIEGO CHARGERS W, 27-3 42,100 Stormy, 99, 57 mph.
Week 3 ATLANTA FALCONS W, 23-0 43,300 Stormy, 74, 12 mph.
Week 4 DETROIT LIONS W, 38-21 44,200 Sunny, 62, 3 mph.
Week 5 at New York Giants W, 45-24 56,500 Sunny, 51, 2 mph.
Week 6 at Chicago Bears W, 28-23 64,300 Sunny, 47, 12 mph.
Week 7 MINNESOTA VIKINGS W, 27-26 48,300 Rain, 67, 5 mph.
Week 8 OPEN
Week 9 at Washington Redskins W, 31-28 65,400 Sunny, 56, 4 mph.
Week 10 at Green Bay Packers L, 18-20 66,300 Sunny, 45, calm
Week 11 PHILADELPHIA EAGLES W, 20-10 45,500 Sunny, 55, 5 mph.
Week 12 OAKLAND RAIDERS W, 30-24 48,300 Sunny, 37, 8 mph.
Week 13 at Arizona Cardinals W, 34-14 70,000 Sunny, 50, 4 mph.
Week 14 at Kansas City Chiefs W, 21-19 71,200 Sunny, 53, 7 mph.
Week 15 at Philadelphia Eagles W, 26-10 67,800 Sunny, 50, 10 mph.
Week 16 at Denver Broncos W, 28-24 83,500 Sunny, 47, 11 mph.
Week 17 NEW YORK GIANTS W, 30-13 48,300 Rain, 37, 1 mph.

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 34,000
Stadium Capacity: 70,000

Yoo started the games against Detroit, Chicago, Minnesota, Philadelphia and KC. He went 5-0 as a starer. McElroy did go 10-1 as a starter, with a loss on the road. He won’t have to be on the road in the playoffs.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2013 NFC Playoffs

11-5 Detroit at 10-6 Arizona
12-4 Minnesota at 10-6 New Orleans

During the season, we beat Arizona, Minnesota and Detroit. I’d prefer New Orleans to win over Minnesota since we lost to the Vikings in the NFC Championship last year.

Detroit wins 17-14. New Orleans wins 17-14 as well.

Week 2:

11-5 Detroit at 15-1 Dallas
10-6 New Orleans at 12-4 Green Bay

I’d prefer New Orleans to go the distance to the NFC Championship, since only Green Bay beat us in the regular season, although it was close, and this time we’d be at our house. I expect Green Bay to win, however, and swing on by Dallas.

We win 27-20. New Orleans wins 17-13. It’s like a perfect storm of destiny. Who’d we lose to the playoffs last year? Minnesota, and they’re out. Who’d we lose to the in regular season this time? Green Bay, and they’re out. Destiny awaits.

[Abe Sargent]

The NFC Championship

Scoring Summary:

With five minutes gone in the game, TE Reuben Rasmussen catches a McElroy pass 4 yards for a TD. 7-0 Cowboys

At the top of the second, they cap off a long drive with a 2 yards run for a TD. 7-7.

In the middle of the second, McElroy hits backup WR Okobi for a 15 yard TD. 14-7 us at the half.

At the top of the fourth quarter, Rasmussen catches a second TD pass from 4 yard sout to put us up 21-7.

FG by Sigman

FG by Sigman

FG by Sigman

Final score, 30-7.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2013 Super Bowl:

The AFC Champion Cincinnati Bengals, with a 10-6 regular season record

Vs

The NFC Champion Dallas Cowboys with a 15-1 regular season record.

[Abe Sargent]

The Broncos were 11-5 in the AFC and got knocked out. There were six teams with 10-6 records in the AFC, and one didn’t even make it to the playoffs. Cincinnati is just as good as any other team, but no team truly dominated the conference like we did the NFC? Will that mean they are overmatched? Or does destiny end here for there intrepid Cowboys.

[Abe Sargent]

We score:

Harris Powell 7 yard TD catch
Harris Powell 80 yard TD catch
Jack Fling 4 yd TD Run
Sigman 37 yard FG
Sigman 23 yard FG
Torres 44 yard run TD
Sigman 19 yard FG

Total number of points: 37

But, our defense ain’t that good. Could we keep them from scoring on us?

[Abe Sargent]

The Bengals scoring summary:

Travis Cobb 50 yard TD catch
Fulcher 31 yard FG
Kostinko 4 ya TD catch

Total number of points: 17

Yeah, we kicked their asses that bad. The halftime score was 2-17 us, and then we didn’t even let them score in the second half.

[Abe Sargent]

Some Super Bowl Stats for ya:

The MVP was Dan McElroy

Torres: 23 rushes for 120 yards, 1 TD

McElroy: 21 of 29 for 357 yards, a 2:0 ratio, and a 136.7 QB Rating.

Powell: 8 catches for 201 yards, 2 TDs

Ramon got a pick

A good day.

[Abe Sargent]

Remember when I said that a smart GM would have waited until the 5th round to take their QB and then grab McElroy, and used him as their starter? Well, I was not just a dumb GM, drafting Yoo instead of getting somebody else and going with McElroy, but I was dumb for leaving him on the sidelines for so long. He didn’t do very well his first year, so I just left him on the bench thinking he wasn’t better than Yoo, until Yoo kept busting and busting. Remember at the beginning of the season I said this might be a Leftwich and Garrard thing, well, it really looks more similar now. Think of what I could have been doing with McElroy at the helm ALL THIS TIME. I wasted away this dynasty.

[Abe Sargent]

Awards:

QB Dan McElroy, Super Bowl MVP
RB Tyrus Torres, All League First Team
OT Dennis Dotson, All League Second Team

Dan McElroy was robbed of All League honors, you’ll see in a moment. Blasted Jack Yoo demanded to get starts all of the time, and this is what happens.

[Abe Sargent]

Stats:

QB McElroy: 193 of 279 for 2570 yards, 23:8 TD:Int ratio, and a 113.6 QB rating. He led the league in QB Rating and completion percent with 69.2. By comparison, remember that Jack Yoo started against weaker competition in five starts. 76 of 113 for 780 yards, 7:4 TD:Int ratio, and a 67.3 completion rate. 92.8 rating. After his first game, where he threw for two picks and 100 yrds, he looked awful, but he was able to come back against some lousy competition.

RB Tyrus Torres: 369 rushes for 1648 yards, 15 TDs. The 4.47 ypc is his highest. Fling diminished with less carries, a 3.03 ypc, and just 3 rushing TDs, so Torres was so much better made Fling a less attractive option. He caught 7 TDs in the air, on 374 yards.

WR Harris Powell: 1079 receiving yards, 8 TDs. We know Powell has the goods, and McElroy didn’t start five games, cutting into Powell’s stats.

WR Jerry Reeves: 989 yards, 8 TDs. Again, good production here, and his stats rose for the first time in a couple of years. If McElroy gets more starts, I expect Reeves’s numbers to keep climbing.

Six players had two receiving TDs or more, including our FB, TE, and backup WR. McElroy’s ball distribution is much better,

[Abe Sargent]

Preston Segreaves was second in the league in PR average despite not getting a score. 12.1 yards PR average.

With 28.7 yards per KR, Torres led the league as the best KR man, despite the fact that he also did not score a TD.

Gomez had the leagues second best P average.

Sigman made the fourth most FGs in the league

[Abe Sargent]

Turnbull led the team with 92 solo tackles. He missed three starts because the backup MLB was whining. He also got 4.5 sacks. He also led the team with 6 FF.

Formerly injured Van Pelt, he of the major torn ACL led the team with 7.5 sacks Caldwell and Garrard each had 4.5.

SS Robinson and CB Ramon led the team with 7 picks each. However, CB Augustson and FS Kinney tied the team with 15 passes defensed each. Nice to see everybody doing well.

OT Dotson, who made the All league team, only had 33 KRB, 5 pancake blocks and 5 sacks allowed.

Five players had 3 FF, which is a good nose for the ball: Garrard, Augustson, Buchanon, Domenici (on special teams), and Van Pelt.

Turnbull and Garrard each recovered fumbles for TDs. Augustson returned a pick for a TD.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:

Offensive Player of the Year: QB Dan McElroy. Duh.

Defensive Player of the Year: MLB Raymond Turnbull. He’s not as good as he was when he first won this award. Despite age, dilapidation, and 13 starts, he still led the team in tackles by a bunch, got 6 FF to lead the team, notched an impressive 4.5 sacks, grabbed 9 QB hurries, returned a fumble recovery for a TD, and got a pick. He was a do it yourself man this year.

Special Teams Player of the Year: RB Tyrus Torres. He led the league in KR average with 39 returns for a 28.9 yard average. That’s pretty hot.

Heart Award: FS Gino Domenici. I normally deactivate him, but this year, CB Kerr busted hard, so Domenici played all year. He starred on special teams where he led our team in special teams tackles. He also got 3 FF on special teams. Consider this: a 3 FF in 29 special teams tackles is by far a better percentage than Turnbull’s 6 FF in 92 solos and 26 assists. Despite being only on the field for a handful of pass plays during the year, he still managed to get 2 passes defensed. Good job Gino.

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, why did we explode this year? I attribute it to four things:

1: Tyrus Torres’s ypc greatly increased, which helped our running game become more dominant.

2. During all of his starts, Yoo is a sack machine. Toss out his first year, when he was still learning the game. Since then, Yoo has been sacked a lot. I grabbed my calculator and did some quick math. He goes down an average of 2.9 times a game. This year, McEroy went down 8 times in 11 starts. If don’t know how many sacks are drive killers, but if you figure that half of all sacks end drives, then Jack Yoo ends one and a half dries every game because of sacks. If there are eight to twelve drives a game, then Jack Yoo’s propensity for sacks kills around 15% of his drives. In the other hand, McEloy had ended around 4 drives in 11 games, instead of around 1.5 drives a game. That’s a big difference.

3: McElroy is plain out more accurate than Yoo. Yoo’s best QB season by rating was 2010 when he had a 99 QB rating and a 23:15 rating. Despite starting 16 game sin a season, Yoo has never thrown for more than 26 TDs, or less than 10 picks. On the other hand, McElroy’s completion percentage and QB rating hammered Yoo’s. In 11 starts, Dan notched 23 TD’s, and would almost assuredly broken Yoo’s TD record. He had 8 picks, and to be fair, that may have risen to 10, 11 or 12. But 30:12 looks a lot better than 23:15.

4: This is by far the most important, I feel. Our special teams were scintillating this year. This is why I care so much about parsing the special teams stats. When your retuner gets you 12.1 yards per return, and that’s without a breakaway TD to explode the stats, you are in a much better scoring position. When your main KR gets 28.7 yards on every kickoff, and again, that is without a breakaway TD to skew the stats, then you are cooking. When your P gets you the second longest punt average in the game, you are humming. When you have the player with the most points on the season, Sigman, you are spinning. When you have the 11th and 15th best special teams tacklers in the game by number of tackles, you are singing a merry tune. Simply put, when your special teams is this good, in reflects everything else.


Next Year? Honestly, if I keep the special teams up, and McElroy doesn’t slump, then I don’t see why we can’t continue the way we just did.

[Abe Sargent]

Some Records:


Robbie Ramon is tied for the most picks in the game since we begun, and he didn’t even register stats during the first season of the career. He has 35 picks.

Torres set the all purpose yards in a season record this year with 3138 yards. Torres has moved into first place for most all purpose yards in the career, with 15847. He also is in the lead with the most kickoff yard in the career at 5347.

Harris Powell is now in the lead with the most career yards for catch at 17.86.

[Abe Sargent]

End Season


We scored 60

Team Performance 90 (What do you want?)
Franchise Value 19
Profit/Loss 52
Roster Strength 83

[Abe Sargent]

Year pre-one 0-16
Year one 5-11
Year two 7-9
Year three 10-6 wild card #5 seed (10-7 total record)
Year four 10-6 won divison #4 seed, won first game (11-7 total record)
Year five 12-4 won divison #2 seed, won first game (13-5 total record)
Year six 15-1 won division #1 seed, won Super Bowl (18-1 total record)

[Abe Sargent]

I offer jobs to my D Coordinator and HC. I want them to stick around. Our scout leaves. I need to hire a new one. I poach Cleveland’s Scout. The new coach may give us a different view of our players.

No hold outs, which surprises me. I expected McElroy to hold out.

[Abe Sargent]

Here is our post camp roster, with our new scout.

Front Office Football 2007
Dallas Cowboys Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
McElroy, Dan 11 QB 7 42 42 2 yrs
Yoo, Jack 17 QB 7 41 41 1 yr.
Newton, Bryant 14 QB 7 20 27 2 yrs
Ellard, Aaron 1 QB 7 20 26 2 yrs
Torres, Tyrus 23 RB 7 60 60 1 yr.
Fling, Jack 47 RB 7 27 27 2 yrs
Fletcher, Chester 34 RB 7 19 19 2 yrs
Maloney, Marcel 41 FB 7 37 37 2 yrs
Rasmussen, Reuben 84 TE 7 45 45 2 yrs
Reynolds, Leon 86 TE 7 37 37 2 yrs
Farr, Oscar 16 TE 7 28 28 2 yrs
Powell, Harris 83 FL 7 68 68 4 yrs
Ramsey, Lawrence 19 FL 7 21 31 2 yrs
Okobi, William 6 FL 7 28 28 2 yrs
Reeves, Jerry 88 SE 7 63 63 3 yrs
Segraves, Preston 82 SE 7 30 30 2 yrs
Fredrickson, Wendell 85 SE 7 8 8 2 yrs
Patchet, Orlando 53 C 7 56 56 1 yr.
Turnbull, Wayne 55 C 7 35 35 2 yrs
Blake, Preston 69 LG 7 43 43 3 yrs
Corbett, Pat 58 LG 7 39 39 2 yrs
Malone, Vinny 66 RG 7 47 47 2 yrs
Murphy, Ellis 62 RG 7 35 35 2 yrs
Dotson, Dennis 68 LT 7 56 56 3 yrs
Sutter, Joe 67 LT 7 37 37 2 yrs
Dotson, Darryl 73 RT 7 39 39 4 yrs
Ramirez, Bart 71 RT 7 34 34 3 yrs
Gomez, Tracy 13 P 7 85 85 3 yrs
Sigman, Fernando 2 K 7 29 29 2 yrs
Van Pelt, Butch 95 LDE 7 30 30 3 yrs
Hill, Peter 94 LDE 7 20 20 3 yrs
Caldwell, William 90 RDE 7 39 39 2 yrs
Malcomson, Willie 91 RDE 7 31 31 3 yrs
Garrard, Cedric 79 LDT 7 41 41 4 yrs
Brody, Darrell 99 LDT 7 35 35 2 yrs
Hicks, Floyd 98 RDT 7 35 35 2 yrs
Jenkins, Billy Joe 74 RDT 7 12 12 2 yrs
Turnbull, Raymond 93 MLB 7 40 40 3 yrs
Houston, Toby 44 MLB 7 37 37 2 yrs
Haslett, Eric 56 SLB 7 26 26 2 yrs
Bernhardt, Artie 50 SLB 7 19 19 2 yrs
Bronson, Shane 97 WLB 7 24 24 2 yrs
Campbell, Lorenzo 44 WLB 7 22 22 2 yrs
Augustson, Chris 22 LCB 7 29 29 3 yrs
Buchanan, Jonathan 43 LCB 7 22 22 2 yrs
Copeland, Jerry 45 LCB 7 19 19 2 yrs
Ramon, Robbie 35 RCB 7 30 30 2 yrs
Kerr, Kyle 27 RCB 7 22 22 2 yrs
Robinson, Walt 38 SS 7 37 37 2 yrs
Domenici, Gino 30 SS 7 26 26 2 yrs
Kinney, Lee 40 FS 7 44 44 3 yrs
Hammond, Andy 37 FS 7 34 34 2 yrs
Andersen, Kerry 39 FS 7 25 25 2 yrs

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 53

Salary Cap: $109,000,000
Cap Room: $30,760,000
Maximum for New Player: $31,280,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $0

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $69,740,000


My defenses scores have fallen far.

[Abe Sargent]

I play Yoo for two games to get him unpissed, and then play McElroy for one. Yoo goes 1-1 ,and McElroy goes 1-0. Then Yoo gets upset again after being benched for one game. I have Jack Yoo signed for two more years after this one. I am officially ignoring Yoo from now on. Maybe McElroy will go down, and Yoo will be happy, but McElory is getting all starts from here on out. In the fourth game of the season, he just hung 41 on Arizona. He’s staying in for sure.

After a 31-17 victory in San Francisco DE Butch Van Pelt is again knoced out for the long term with a major injury, this time a broken ankle.

At the halfway point, we are 7-1 and continue to dominate.

[Abe Sargent]

We got scrubbed by the suddenly unbeaten Eagles two weaks later for our second loss on the season. I don’t want no wild card berth!

After a few more weeks, Phily is 12-0, we are 10-2 wit the top wild card spot wrapped up in a poor NFC this year. The only way we get the division this year is if Phily loses three out of their last four hames, and we undefeated the rest of the way. Liklihood? Not good.

I had a WLB Lorenzo get angrier and angrier during the season because of lack of playing time, but he started the whole season! Really pisses me off. What does he want, to start on offense too? I move him off starter and let him simmer.

We won’t get a bye. Now normally, I’d rest my starters but in a challenge that wants as many wins as possible, I’ll go all out these last two weeks.


We finish 14-2 with the top wild card spot. Has any team ever been a wild card with 14-2 record? Tennessee was 13-3 in 1999. If I had realized that the first game of the season against the normally woeful Eagles would be so key, I would not have started Yoo.

[Abe Sargent]

Front Office Football 2007
Dallas Cowboys 2014 Regular Season Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
Week 1 at Philadelphia Eagles L, 21-34 63,700 Sunny, 66, 5 mph.
Week 2 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS W, 21-14 47,500 Sunny, 58, 2 mph.
Week 3 at New Orleans Saints W, 24-17 60,300 Rain, 88, 12 mph.
Week 4 OPEN
Week 5 ARIZONA CARDINALS W, 41-17 49,500 Sunny, 87, 2 mph.
Week 6 at New York Giants W, 42-18 63,300 Sunny, 70, 2 mph.
Week 7 SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS W, 31-17 49,500 Sunny, 64, 9 mph.
Week 8 at St. Louis Rams W, 29-21 55,300 Sunny, 37, 11 mph.
Week 9 at Seattle Seahawks W, 40-10 74,400 Sunny, 43, calm
Week 10 at Washington Redskins W, 34-21 65,200 Sunny, 37, 8 mph.
Week 11 PHILADELPHIA EAGLES L, 17-31 51,600 Rain, 75, 14 mph.
Week 12 JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS W, 10-3 51,600 Sunny, 66, 2 mph.
Week 13 GREEN BAY PACKERS W, 37-21 51,600 Sunny, 37, 9 mph.
Week 14 at Tennessee Titans W, 23-20 56,500 Sunny, 58, 10 mph.
Week 15 NEW YORK GIANTS W, 23-14 51,600 Sunny, 62, 3 mph.
Week 16 at Houston Texans W, 20-17 64,100 Sunny, 57, 6 mph.
Week 17 WASHINGTON REDSKINS W, 31-16 51,600 Rain, 57, 7 mph.

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 42,200
Stadium Capacity: 70,000

[Abe Sargent]

The 2014 NFC Playoffs

The 14-2 Cowboys at the 8-8 Saints
The 10-6 Packers at the 10-6 Cardinals


That is a one sided matchup. I’d like GB to win along with us. Then we don’t have to face the Eagles until the Championship

We win 31-24

The Packers win 37-14

[Abe Sargent]

Week Two


I realized what was making Campbell so upset. An Endurance of 0. I can slide him into every starting position on the depth chart in every defense formation, but when he gets tired, he gets subbed and then he gets pissed at me. s

14-2 Dallas in 13-3 Minnesota
10-6 Green Bay in 16-0 Phily

Come on Green Bay!

The Packers edged the Eagles 24-23!!!

Unfortunately, we lost to the Vikings 20-27. Ah well.




24 Minnesota over 13 Green Bay


Super Bowl

Oakland 16, Minnesota 7

Boring

[Abe Sargent]

Awards:

C Orlando Patchet, All-League Second Team

[Abe Sargent]

Stats:

McElroy: 14 starts. Led the league with a 106.7 QB Rating. 3304 yards passing, 23:8 ratio. Sacked ten times. Rushed for a TD.

Torres: 1383 yards rushing on 373 attempts for a 3.71 ypc. Rushed for 16 TDs. 5 receivng TDs. Led the league in KR avg with a scintillating 31.1 average, despite no TDs.

Powell: 1017 yards, 8 receiving TDs

Reeves: 988 yards, 9 TDs

Sigmn: missed a PAT. 25 of 33.

Gomez. Top average punt length in the league, but got no honors.

Turnbull and Robision tied with 66 solo tackle each. Caldwell had 11.5 sacks. Turnbull led the tema with 4 FF.

Ramon: Another 8 picks, tied for third in league. Returned one for a score.

Patchet – 35 KRB. 0 Sacks allowed. 2 Pancakes.

Domenici – Had 37 special teams tackles. Second most in the league.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:

Offensive Player of the Year: C Orlando Patchet. With another great season, he allowed no sacks and made all league honors. Congrats Orlando!

Defensive Player of the Year: CB Robbie Ramon. He added another 8 picks to his total. This guy has a 30/30 rating overall and just a 66 in interceptions. I don’t know why he has such a nose for the interception, but year in and year out, he keeps coming down with the other team’s passes.

Special Teams Player of the Year: SS Gino Domenici. Last year, he won this for heart, this year he wins because of the massive number of tackles he brought forth on special teams. Award coulda gone to Gomez or Torres as well.

Heart Award: RB Jack Fling. He went over 150 carries, over 550 yard, and had 7 rushing TDs in a backup role. He simply did really well with the time he had, and his ypc is barely behind Torres’s.

[Abe Sargent]

Year pre-one 0-16
Year one 5-11
Year two 7-9
Year three 10-6 wild card #5 seed (10-7 total record)
Year four 10-6 won divison #4 seed, won first game (11-7 total record)
Year five 12-4 won divison #2 seed, won first game (13-5 total record)
Year six 15-1 won division #1 seed, won Super Bowl (18-1 total record)
Year seven 14-2 wild card #5 seed, won first game (15-3 total record)

[Abe Sargent]

End Season:

Total Score 57

Team Performance – 66
Franchise Value – 45
Profit/Loss – 53
Roster Strength - 79

[Abe Sargent]

Robbie Ramon is five above the next guy in career picks

Stadium renovation is complete

Andy Hammond has been suspended for the year for violating the anti-violence policy.

No hold outs. I extend some contracts.

[Abe Sargent]

Front Office Football 2007
Dallas Cowboys Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
McElroy, Dan 11 QB 8 42 42 1 yr.
Yoo, Jack 17 QB 8 39 39 2 yrs
Ellard, Aaron 1 QB 8 22 25 1 yr.
Newton, Bryant 14 QB 8 15 19 1 yr.
Torres, Tyrus 23 RB 8 61 61 2 yrs
Fling, Jack 47 RB 8 19 19 1 yr.
Fletcher, Chester 34 RB 8 16 16 1 yr.
Maloney, Marcel 41 FB 8 37 37 1 yr.
Rasmussen, Reuben 84 TE 8 45 45 1 yr.
Reynolds, Leon 86 TE 8 28 28 1 yr.
Farr, Oscar 16 TE 8 20 20 1 yr.
Powell, Harris 83 FL 8 67 67 3 yrs
Ramsey, Lawrence 19 FL 8 23 31 1 yr.
Okobi, William 6 FL 8 28 28 1 yr.
Reeves, Jerry 88 SE 8 64 64 2 yrs
Segraves, Preston 82 SE 8 26 26 1 yr.
Fredrickson, Wendell 85 SE 8 6 6 1 yr.
Patchet, Orlando 53 C 8 56 56 3 yrs
Turnbull, Wayne 55 C 8 36 36 1 yr.
Blake, Preston 69 LG 8 43 43 2 yrs
Corbett, Pat 58 LG 8 29 29 1 yr.
Malone, Vinny 66 RG 8 41 41 1 yr.
Murphy, Ellis 62 RG 8 31 31 1 yr.
Dotson, Dennis 68 LT 8 52 52 2 yrs
Sutter, Joe 67 LT 8 37 37 1 yr.
Dotson, Darryl 73 RT 8 39 39 3 yrs
Ramirez, Bart 71 RT 8 34 34 2 yrs
Gomez, Tracy 13 P 8 87 87 2 yrs
Sigman, Fernando 2 K 8 28 28 1 yr.
Van Pelt, Butch 95 LDE 8 29 29 2 yrs
Hill, Peter 94 LDE 8 12 12 2 yrs
Caldwell, William 90 RDE 8 37 37 1 yr.
Malcomson, Willie 91 RDE 8 28 28 2 yrs
Garrard, Cedric 79 LDT 8 40 40 3 yrs
Brody, Darrell 99 LDT 8 30 30 1 yr.
Hicks, Floyd 98 RDT 8 35 35 1 yr.
Jenkins, Billy Joe 74 RDT 8 12 12 1 yr.
Houston, Toby 44 MLB 8 38 38 1 yr.
Turnbull, Raymond 93 MLB 8 36 36 2 yrs
Haslett, Eric 56 SLB 8 25 25 1 yr.
Bernhardt, Artie 50 SLB 8 13 13 1 yr.
Bronson, Shane 97 WLB 8 24 24 1 yr.
Campbell, Lorenzo 44 WLB 8 16 16 1 yr.
Augustson, Chris 22 LCB 8 24 24 2 yrs
Buchanan, Jonathan 43 LCB 8 14 14 1 yr.
Copeland, Jerry 45 LCB 8 13 13 1 yr.
Ramon, Robbie 35 RCB 8 26 26 1 yr.
Kerr, Kyle 27 RCB 8 15 15 1 yr.
Robinson, Walt 38 SS 8 38 38 1 yr.
Domenici, Gino 30 SS 8 20 20 1 yr.
Kinney, Lee 40 FS 8 43 43 2 yrs
$$Hammond, Andy 37 FS 8 24 24 1 yr.
Andersen, Kerry 39 FS 8 19 19 1 yr.

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 53
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 52

Salary Cap: $109,000,000
Cap Room: $24,280,000
Maximum for New Player: $24,800,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $0

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $54,060,000


Post-Camp Roster is up.

[Abe Sargent]

We have a seriously detiorating defensive. We will not be able to keep up the good records for long, I suspect.

I have players with 12/12. 12/12. 14/14, etc. Nasty

[Abe Sargent]

I hope you don’t mind me speeding through the season as fast as possible without quick simming.

We go ino thte 17th game tied with the Eagles at 11-4. They beat us in the first game, but we are playing them in the final. Win, and get the division crown Lose, and go on the road for the playoffs.

Our conference records:

Us at 12-14 after our 17-13 victory over the eagles
11-5 Eagles
10-6 Redskins
10-6 Giants

We have both of the wild card teams and the Giants are left out. With a 12-4 record, we are the number one seed. We have the most wins tin the NFC this year.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2015 Playoffs:

Wild Card Weekend:

11-5 Philadelphia at 8-8 San Francisco
10-6 Washington at 10-6 Carolina

Both of our division rivals are knocked out.

Divisional Playoffs

10-6 Panthers at 11-5 Lions
8-8 49ers at 12-4 Cowboys

Getting the 8-8 team at home is not a hard call, but they did defeat the eagles, so we can’t take them for granted.

We win 22-14. The Panthers also win, 27-20.

[Abe Sargent]

NFC Championship


So, if everyone had won like you would have thought, we would have had the 11-5 Eagles, who put 43 on us in our own house this year, and then the 11-5 Lions, but now we had the8-8 49ers and the 10-6 Panthers.

Can we finish another season and take it to the house?


Scoring Summary for each team:

Us:

Sigman hits a FG in the 2nd
Ramon gets a pick and returns it 68 yard for a score in the 2nd.
Reeves caught a 46 TD pass in the middle of the 3rd
Torres plunges it in from 5 yards out in the late 3rd


Them:

1 yard TD run with a minutes left in the 1st
13 yard pass TD under the two minute swarning in the first half
9 yard pass TD in the late third
FG with 1:56 left in the game


Wait a second, isn’t that a 24-24 score? Yep, after they tied it with 1:56 left, in the game, here is what happened:

Tyrus returns the Ko to the 32.
3 yard pass to Torres
38 yard pass over the middle to backup WR Okubi
Fling run for 0 yards
Fling run for 0 yards.
Torres ran for 5 yards

And then, with 4 seconds left in the game, Sigman, the kicker of woefuness, kicks an 18 yard FG, which frankly, even he can make. 27-24, us.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2015 Super Bowl


The NFC Champions, 12-4 Dallas Cowboys

Vs

The AFC Champions, 13-3 San Diego Chargers


Can we go 2-2 in Super Bowls, or does San Diego have an answer to our balanced offense and weak defense?

The Charger’s star QB is out for the year, went down late in the season, but they continued to advance and make it through the playoffs, so I am not taking their backup for granted. Could be a Hoffstetler.



We hold them to 16
We only score 13

We have lost the 2015 Super Bowl

Ah well

[Abe Sargent]

Awards:

DE William Caldwell, All League First Team
CB Robbie Ramon, All League First Team
RB Tyrus Torres. All League Second Team

[Abe Sargent]

Forgot to post this earlier


Front Office Football 2007
Dallas Cowboys 2015 Regular Season Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attend Weather
Week 1 at New York Giants W, 31-14 60,900 Sunny, 72, 9 mph.
Week 2 MIAMI DOLPHINS W, 24-22 57,400 Sunny, 67, 11 mph.
Week 3 at Green Bay Packers W, 36-21 62,400 Sunny, 72, 11 mph.
Week 4 at Carolina Panthers W, 27-23 73,100 Sunny, 68, 4 mph.
Week 5 at Tampa Bay Buccaneers W, 24-10 54,300 Sunny, 59, 4 mph.
Week 6 at Washington Redskins L, 14-19 63,500 Sunny, 44, 1 mph.
Week 7 NEW YORK GIANTS W, 33-16 58,900 Sunny, 68, 5 mph.
Week 8 NEW ORLEANS SAINTS L, 28-34 58,200 Sunny, 79, 7 mph.
Week 9 ATLANTA FALCONS W, 26-6 58,900 Stormy, 81, 47 mph.
Week 10 at Philadelphia Eagles L, 33-43 69,700 Sunny, 43, 6 mph.
Week 11 OPEN
Week 12 BUFFALO BILLS W, 20-17 58,200 Rain, 68, 8 mph.
Week 13 SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS W, 41-23 58,200 Sunny, 72, 9 mph.
Week 14 at New England Patriots W, 20-13 64,500 Sunny, 28, 6 mph.
Week 15 WASHINGTON REDSKINS W, 14-13 58,900 Sunny, 44, 9 mph.
Week 16 at New Jersey Jets L, 13-31 63,100 Sunny, 39, calm
Week 17 PHILADELPHIA EAGLES W, 17-12 58,900 Snow, 31, 17 mph.

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 54,500
Stadium Capacity: 70,000

[Abe Sargent]

Stats:

McElroy: 3233 yards, 23:17 ratio, 88.9 rating, sacked 26 times. This was definitely a down year for him, more like Jack Yoo’s stats.

Torres: 1363 yards rushing on 343 attempts for a 3.97 ypc. 12 rushing TDs. 2 more TDs in the air. Down year for him too. He got his ypc up, but Fling only scored 3 TDs rushing, so our rushing offense and passing defense were a bit down. If this trend continues, with a declining offense and a poor defense, nothing good will be happening.

Powell: 1035 yards, 7 TDs

Reeves: 944 yards, 9 TDs

Torres was second in KR yard average. He scored 3 KR TD. Preston Segreaves got a PR TD as well. Those four TDs really helped our offense out in a declining year. Sigman missed just four FGs (29 of 33), Gomez was down to the 10th punting average in the league.

DE Caldwell, 12.5 sacks, 8 passes blocked, 22 hurries, 5 FF.

Our tackles machine this was was former backup LB Houston moving to the starting position after Turnbull continued to deteriorate. He nagged 93 solo tackles. DE Van Pelt, after having two serious, season ending injuries, had 11.5 sacks this year. No one else had more than 3.5


Robbie Ramon: 9 more Ints for this 26/26 corner. 11 Passes Defenses which is more than ever for him. One Pick returned for a score.

Walt Robinson led our team with 17 passes defensed.

T Dennis Dotson led the team with 30 KRB

Domenici was second on the team with 25 special team tackles and Leon Reynolds took bake this crown with 26.

We scored four TDs on defense. With 8 TDs scored on defense and special teams in the regular season, you can see how we were able to keep up despite the lsackluster production from our offense.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:

Offensive Player of the Year: RB Tyrus Torres. It’s hard to choose someone. HE scored three less rushing TDs and only two in the air, yet he got his ypc back up. He is the only player on the offense to show improvement from last year, where Powell and Reeves were at the same level, and most others went down.

Defensive Player of the Year: DE William Caldwell. I could have put Ramon here agin, but instead, I’ll stick with Caldwell. 12.5 sacks is a great amount, and he led the team in FF, hurries and pass blocks as well. Good job!

Special Teams Player of the Year: K Fernando Sigman. He got a last second FG in the NFC Championship, went 29 of 33 during the regular season, and didn’t miss a FG in the Super Bowl (I would have been upset if we had lost to Sigman). He’s gotten it together here.

Heart Award: MLB Toby Houston, in his first season as a starter, Houston had a lot of tackles, was second on the team in FF, and had FumRec for a TD. Good job Toby!

[Abe Sargent]

Next year? Honestly, ? I expect we have reached the end of our dynasty. The challenge ill keep coming, but I doubt we’ll get this far in the playoffs next year. Sure, our Cohesion obliterates all remaining teams (65 is the highest Defensive Front, for example, after our 100). But that’s about tonot matter with our el stinko players.

[Abe Sargent]

Year pre-one 0-16
Year one 5-11
Year two 7-9
Year three 10-6 wild card #5 seed (10-7 total record)
Year four 10-6 won divison #4 seed, won first game (11-7 total record)
Year five 12-4 won divison #2 seed, won first game (13-5 total record)
Year six 15-1 won division #1 seed, won Super Bowl (18-1 total record)
Year seven 14-2 wild card #5 seed, won first game (15-3 total record)
Year eight 12-4 won division, made it to Super Bowl (14-5 total record)

[Abe Sargent]

End Season

Overall 85 – our highest score

Team Performance 86
Franchise Value 42
Profit/Loss 99
Roster Strength 75

[Abe Sargent]

Jack Yoo and Peter Hill have retired.


I sign our Offensive Coordinator to another deal.

Ticket prices are raised across the board.


The salary cap rose. About time.

I extend contracts of players like Reeves and Torres

[Abe Sargent]

Front Office Football 2007
Dallas Cowboys Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
McElroy, Dan 11 QB 9 40 40 4 yrs
Ellard, Aaron 1 QB 9 23 23 2 yrs
Newton, Bryant 14 QB 9 12 12 3 yrs
Torres, Tyrus 23 RB 9 53 53 2 yrs
Fling, Jack 47 RB 9 15 15 3 yrs
Fletcher, Chester 34 RB 9 11 11 3 yrs
Maloney, Marcel 41 FB 9 31 31 2 yrs
Rasmussen, Reuben 84 TE 9 42 42 2 yrs
Reynolds, Leon 86 TE 9 24 24 3 yrs
Farr, Oscar 16 TE 9 15 15 3 yrs
Powell, Harris 83 FL 9 66 66 2 yrs
Ramsey, Lawrence 19 FL 9 22 27 3 yrs
Okobi, William 6 FL 9 26 26 3 yrs
Reeves, Jerry 88 SE 9 62 62 3 yrs
Segraves, Preston 82 SE 9 27 27 2 yrs
Fredrickson, Wendell 85 SE 9 3 3 3 yrs
Patchet, Orlando 53 C 9 48 48 2 yrs
Turnbull, Wayne 55 C 9 35 35 2 yrs
Blake, Preston 69 LG 9 34 34 3 yrs
Corbett, Pat 58 LG 9 22 22 2 yrs
Malone, Vinny 66 RG 9 39 39 2 yrs
Murphy, Ellis 62 RG 9 27 27 1 yr.
Dotson, Dennis 68 LT 9 41 41 3 yrs
Sutter, Joe 67 LT 9 36 36 2 yrs
Dotson, Darryl 73 RT 9 36 36 2 yrs
Ramirez, Bart 71 RT 9 33 33 3 yrs
Gomez, Tracy 13 P 9 87 87 4 yrs
Sigman, Fernando 2 K 9 30 30 2 yrs
Van Pelt, Butch 95 LDE 9 20 20 3 yrs
Caldwell, William 90 RDE 9 36 36 2 yrs
Malcomson, Willie 91 RDE 9 26 26 2 yrs
Garrard, Cedric 79 LDT 9 29 29 2 yrs
Brody, Darrell 99 LDT 9 28 28 2 yrs
Hicks, Floyd 98 RDT 9 33 33 2 yrs
Jenkins, Billy Joe 74 RDT 9 8 8 3 yrs
Turnbull, Raymond 93 MLB 9 36 36 3 yrs
Houston, Toby 44 MLB 9 27 27 2 yrs
Haslett, Eric 56 SLB 9 25 25 3 yrs
Bernhardt, Artie 50 SLB 9 11 11 3 yrs
Bronson, Shane 97 WLB 9 24 24 2 yrs
Campbell, Lorenzo 44 WLB 9 14 14 2 yrs
Augustson, Chris 22 LCB 9 23 23 3 yrs
Buchanan, Jonathan 43 LCB 9 12 12 3 yrs
Copeland, Jerry 45 LCB 9 9 9 3 yrs
Ramon, Robbie 35 RCB 9 20 20 2 yrs
Kerr, Kyle 27 RCB 9 12 12 3 yrs
Robinson, Walt 38 SS 9 38 38 2 yrs
Domenici, Gino 30 SS 9 13 13 3 yrs
Kinney, Lee 40 FS 9 33 33 3 yrs
Hammond, Andy 37 FS 9 17 17 3 yrs
Andersen, Kerry 39 FS 9 14 14 3 yrs

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 51
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 51

Salary Cap: $115,800,000
Cap Room: $35,050,000
Maximum for New Player: $35,050,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $1,890,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $81,860,000


No Jack Yoo is dangerous. This game could be over as soon as McElroy goes down. He was fragile early in the career but hasn't had any problems as of late, but the more he gets sacked, the wrose it gets.

[Abe Sargent]

Since this could end any week now, again expect me to sort of quick sim through the season.

We leave the preseason with a 2-2 record and our tema intact except for a few minor injuries. Time to keep trucking.

We win the first game by 3 with a TD with 3 seconds remaining and down by four. Good job all! It was thrown by Ellard, because McElroy was banged around the game. He comes out probable, and will start next week, but already in the first game of the season, we have a scare.

The first quarter of the season is through and we are 3-1 with our only loss to a Detroit team that hung 41 on us in our house.

We beat the Giants, but McElory is knocked down to Questionable. I cannot allow the game to end with him exascerbating his injuy, so I will start Ellard and move him to 3rd QB.

Ellard goes 1-1 and gets us to our bye week in Week 8. Coming out of the Week, McElory is healed and ready to continue starting.


We go into the half 5-3.

[Abe Sargent]

Three weeks alte,r McElory is knocked Porbable again, but I’ll start him anyway. I’m finding hard for a Wild Card spot and we are 6-5/ He manages to lead us to victory, giving us 7-5 and a nice shot at the playoffs..

Now Ellard is getting upset that he’s not starting. I gave him freedom and he doesn’t want to get back.

In a major game, we beat the eagles at our place. We are still dimly in contention for a division spot. With the Eagles one game up and just two games to play, we need them to stumble.

We keep up our end with a 31-28 win over 5 win Cleveland. They lose, bringing us both at 10-5 with one game left in the season. Exciting!

We defeat the Giants in the finale 36-31. The Eagles win too. How do the tie breakers break down? With both of us at 11-5 and we split the series, who wins the division?

They did. Boo, That’s points we lost right there.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2016 NFC Playoffs

The 11-5 Cowboys go to the 9-7 falcons
The 9-7 Seahawks travel o the 9-7 Rams


We hang 41 on the Falcons. The Rams defeat the Seahawks.

[Abe Sargent]

Division Round:

The 11-5 Cowboys at the 11-5 Lions (Who beat us badly in our place this year)
The 10-6 Rams at the 11-5 Eagles

Detroit takes us out with a 35-10 score. If we had only won the tiebreaker, we’d have played the Rams this week.

The Eagles win


NFC Championship

Detroit puts 41 on the Eagles.


Super Bowl – Detroit defeats the Chargers 24-13.

[Abe Sargent]

Awards:


None

[Abe Sargent]

Stats:

Torres: 1022 yards, 4 TDs, 3,45 ypc. That’s a downgrade. Cuaght 3 TDs.

Fling, 4.37 ypc, 6 rushing TDs, 616 rushing yards. Outshone Torres.

McElroy – 14 starts, knocked down several times in game shand had to have Ellard finish. 3231 yards, 94.2 rating, 25:14 ratio. 17 sacks only. Still had a good year though, and a bounce back from last year QB Rating wise.

No one had a 1000 yard receiving season Reeves had 7 TDs, Powell had 10.

Segreaves had another PR TD and was 7th in the league in PR Average.

Torres was third in KR Average.

Sigman went 22 of 33 and missed a PAT. Anotehr downgrade,

Gomez was 6th in the league in putning average.

I have Turnbull his starting job back after an early injury to Houston, then played Houston at SLB or WLB after he came back to help out with injuries there. He led the tam again with 115 solo tackles. 11.5 sacks for Van Pelt, 8.5 for Caldwell.

Just four picks for Ramon.

18 KRB for Dotson was our top.

4 FF for Van pelt, 3 for Reynold son special teams who also led the team in special team tackles.

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards

Offensive Player of the Year: RB Jack Fling. He was the only person on the team to improve, as he had his best year ever running the ball, with a nice ypc, and a solid performance.

Defensive Player of the Year: MLB Turnbull. After sitting the bench for a year, Turnbull came back with a classic performance, led the team with many tackles and had a solid year. Good job!

Special Teams Player of the Year: TE Leon Reynolds. This is sort of a career award for him For years, he led the team in special teams tackles, and does so again this year. He had 3 FF on special teams. Good job!

Heart Award: QB Aaron Ellard. With a lot of playing time in games and two starts, he led the team and got a win spelling MeElroy when we were down by 4, and then got a win as a starter. He passed for over 700 yards, had a 8:3 rating, but threw a lot of incompletions for a 88.1 rating. Still, when your backup QB goes 8:3, you are a very happy coach/GM.

[Abe Sargent]

Year pre-one 0-16
Year one 5-11
Year two 7-9
Year three 10-6 wild card #5 seed (10-7 total record)
Year four 10-6 won divison #4 seed, won first game (11-7 total record)
Year five 12-4 won divison #2 seed, won first game (13-5 total record)
Year six 15-1 won division #1 seed, won Super Bowl (18-1 total record)
Year seven 14-2 wild card #5 seed, won first game (15-3 total record)
Year eight 12-4 won division, made it to Super Bowl (14-5 total record)
Year nine 11-5. wild card #5, won first game (12-6 total record)

[Abe Sargent]

Next year? Will I be able to field a team after retirements? Let’s find out…

[Abe Sargent]

Final Score:

74

Performance: 66
Value: 44
Profit/Loss 86
Roster Strength 74

[Abe Sargent]

The following retire:

TE Reuben Rasmussen
RB Chester Fletcher
DE Butch Van Pelt
OLB Shane Brosnon
OLB Artie Bernhardt
OLB Eric Haslett
CB Jerry Copeland

[Abe Sargent]

Can I even field a team? Let’s find out.

I move SE Wendell Frederickson to RB
I move MLB Toby Houston to SLB
I move FS Andy Hammond to SLB
I move RDE William Malcomson to LDE


I don’t have anyone else on my roster I can move to LB, so I have to tell my guys to hit the weights later and hope one can move later.

Okay, I’ve given weight instructions to a buch of my players. Let’s see if post-camp, anyone cam move to LB for me.

I move SS Gino Domenici to WLB.

I can now field a team!

[Abe Sargent]

Here is what likely will be the final roster, post camp


Front Office Football 2007
Dallas Cowboys Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
McElroy, Dan 11 QB QB 10 39 39 3 yrs
Ellard, Aaron 1 QB 10 23 23 1 yr.
Newton, Bryant 14 QB 10 7 7 2 yrs
Torres, Tyrus 23 RB RB 10 50 50 1 yr.
Fling, Jack 47 RB 10 10 10 2 yrs
Fredrickson, Wendell 85 RB 10 0 0 2 yrs
Maloney, Marcel 41 FB FB 10 27 27 1 yr.
Reynolds, Leon 86 TE TE 10 15 15 2 yrs
Farr, Oscar 16 TE 10 8 8 2 yrs
Powell, Harris 83 FL FL 10 60 60 1 yr.
Okobi, William 6 FL 10 23 23 2 yrs
Ramsey, Lawrence 19 FL 10 17 17 2 yrs
Reeves, Jerry 88 SE SE 10 53 53 2 yrs
Segraves, Preston 82 SE 10 25 25 1 yr.
Patchet, Orlando 53 C C 10 45 45 1 yr.
Turnbull, Wayne 55 C 10 35 35 1 yr.
Blake, Preston 69 LG LG 10 32 32 2 yrs
Corbett, Pat 58 LG 10 18 18 1 yr.
Malone, Vinny 66 RG RG 10 37 37 1 yr.
Murphy, Ellis 62 RG 10 23 23 1 yr.
Dotson, Dennis 68 LT LT 10 40 40 2 yrs
Sutter, Joe 67 LT 10 35 35 1 yr.
Ramirez, Bart 71 RT RT 10 33 33 2 yrs
Dotson, Darryl 73 RT 10 27 27 1 yr.
Gomez, Tracy 13 P 10 87 87 3 yrs
Sigman, Fernando 2 K 10 30 30 1 yr.
Malcomson, Willie 91 LDE LDE 10 23 23 1 yr.
Caldwell, William 90 RDE RDE 10 25 25 1 yr.
Brody, Darrell 99 LDT LDT 10 25 25 1 yr.
Garrard, Cedric 79 LDT 10 23 23 1 yr.
Hicks, Floyd 98 RDT RDT 10 23 23 1 yr.
Jenkins, Billy Joe 74 RDT 10 7 7 2 yrs
Turnbull, Raymond 93 MLB MLB 10 31 31 2 yrs
Houston, Toby 44 SLB SLB 10 21 23 1 yr.
Hammond, Andy 37 SLB 10 7 15 2 yrs
Campbell, Lorenzo 44 WLB WLB 10 11 11 1 yr.
Domenici, Gino 30 WLB 10 4 11 2 yrs
Augustson, Chris 22 LCB LCB 10 23 23 2 yrs
Buchanan, Jonathan 43 LCB 10 9 9 2 yrs
Ramon, Robbie 35 RCB RCB 10 17 17 1 yr.
Kerr, Kyle 27 RCB 10 9 9 2 yrs
Robinson, Walt 38 SS SS 10 37 37 1 yr.
Kinney, Lee 40 FS FS 10 32 32 2 yrs
Andersen, Kerry 39 FS 10 10 10 2 yrs

$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.

Players Under Contract: 44
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 44

Salary Cap: $122,600,000
Cap Room: $42,910,000
Maximum for New Player: $42,910,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $1,000,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $35,470,000

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, a crappy team getting crappier. Will we have enough to keep going? Or will a lack of depth and quality catch up to us?

With just 44 players, if only one players retires at the end of the year, we are done (need 44 to sim a game)

Let’s quick sim our final season

We start 0-2 before getting our first win. 1-2, are we beaten r can we overcome the early losses?

A few games later we are 3-3. Can we go 4-3 on the road at the Rams? Nope, we lose 45-30.

We win two in a row to go to 5-4. We actually beat the then 7-2 Eagles at our place, 17-14. Puts us at 6-4.

One of our LBs goes out after another win. I move Kerry Anderson to SLB

We then win again to go 8-4. The Eagles are one game up at 9-3. Can we win the division in our last season? Four games left.

We lose then win. Lotsa players have been ging down this season. They are getting old.

We then lose our final two as the injuries pile up. 9-7. Did we get a wild card?

No. The wildcards are 12-4 and 10-6. Our final collapse did us in.


Phily loses to San Diego in the Super Bowl

[Abe Sargent]

Awards:

WR Harris Powell, All League 2nd Team
WR Harris Powell, League’s Fastest Man

[Abe Sargent]

Stats:

Torres, 1284 yards rushing, 7 rushing TDs, 4 more in the air. 8th highest KR average in the NFL.

McElroy: 3873 yards, 97.7 Rating, 35:15 ratio, 25 sacks. No kidding, in his final year, he had his best season, with more yards and TDs than ever.

Powell: 1373 yards, 10 TDs. This late, he’s still a machine. He was worth the top pick of ours. Nice to see him get honors in his final season.

Reeves: Missed four games due to injury. 954 yards, 9 TDs. Would have been much better had he been in.

Okobi got 8 TDs

Sigman got 18 outta 30

3rd highest P average in the league still

Turnbull had 104 solo tackles, 3.5 sacks

DT Darrell Brody led the team with 8 sacks.

Ramon had just one pick. The magic is over for Robbie Ramon.

C Patchet bounces back with 33 KRB

Caldwell had 6 sacks and 6 FF.

Domenici led in special teacms tackles again with 29

[Abe Sargent]

Team Awards:

These awards will be for the course of the dynasty, and not just for this season:

Offensive Player of the Dynasty: RB Tyrus Torres. He regularly had 20+ touchdowns offensively during his height, had 1200-1600 rushing yards for years, and was a weapon that brought us a balanced rushing attack. He was a good pick for us, although I saw OJ the other day developed into a bigger and better back. Still, he wa a good pick for us, and I am glad we took him. Tyrus Torres!

Defensive Player of the Dynasty: CB Robbie Ramon. This guy got picks and more picks, and each year you thought he was going to stop getting the picks, only to get more and more picks. Until this year, he as an interception machine. He had a pick rating in the 50’s and 60’s, and poor coverage stats, but he got the pick. Let’s hear it for Ramon!

Special Teams Player of the Dynasty: P Tracy Gomez. He was always in the top five overall punting average except for one year. Even at the end of the dynasty, he was third. Today, when everybody has devolved into the 50s, he still has a rating in the 80s. Gomez was a great player, and a vital weapon in our dynasty.

Heart Player of the Dynasty: SS Walt Robinson. If Ramon hadn’t been so dominating, he would have gotten this award instead of DPotD. This little backup SS selected fin the 7th round late as a backup to previously selected safeties distinguished himself on the pitch. While fellow starting safety Lee Kinney had the skills, Robinson had the heart and the stats. We was rarely the tackle leader, but he was one of the top five. He was rarely the pick leader, but he was usually top 5. He finished our dynasty second on the team with tackles and second with picks. This 7th round wonder gave us heart on the pitch, and we give him the award for the Dynasty.

[Abe Sargent]

Year pre-one 0-16
Year one 5-11
Year two 7-9
Year three 10-6 wild card #5 seed (10-7 total record)
Year four 10-6 won divison #4 seed, won first game (11-7 total record)
Year five 12-4 won divison #2 seed, won first game (13-5 total record)
Year six 15-1 won division #1 seed, won Super Bowl (18-1 total record)
Year seven 14-2 wild card #5 seed, won first game (15-3 total record)
Year eight 12-4 won division, made it to Super Bowl (14-5 total record)
Year nine 11-5. wild card #5, won first game (12-6 total record)
Year ten 9-7

[Abe Sargent]

These are all of the records we have at the end of the dynasty:

CB Robbie Ramon:

Career, most picks, 57. The next highest has 51.

Tied with two others for most picks in a season at 10, 2009

Tied for fourth most picks with 9, 2015 (tied with 7 others)


RB/KR Tyrus Torres:

Career, Most All Purpose Yards: 27,253. The next highest is in the 18000s.

Career, Most Yards from Scrimmage: 17,092, over 1000 most than next highest

Career, Kickoff Return TDs with 6, next highest is 3.

Career, Kickoff Return yards, 10,161, which is 5000 more than the next guy.

Career, Most Rushing Attempts, with 3281, 300 more than next guy.

Career, Most Rushing Yards, 13243, highest 12637.

Career, Rushing TDs with 110, next highest was 88

Career, 100 Yard Rushing Games with 56, runner up was 53.

Single Game, Most Rushing TDs with 5




SE/PR Preston Segreaves:

Career, Most Punt Return Yards, 2229, Next highest is 1950.

Career, tied for Most Punt Return TDs at 3 with one other



DE William Caldwell

Career, Second Most QB Blocks, 52. Winner has 57, 3rd has 47

Career, Third Most QB Hurries, 193, Winner had 253.

Career, Fourth Most sacks, 75.5, Winner had 107


FL Harris Powell

Career, fourth most receiving TDs, 80. Winner had 97

Career, Second Most TPR at 17.65. Winner had 17.68.

Single Game, Yards Per Reception, 41.67


QB Dan McElroy

Career, 2nd Best QB Rating at 97.2, highest was 98.0

Career, Best yards per pass attempt, 8.04, 7.80 next highest.



Imagine what would have been if only I’d started McElroy earlier…

[Abe Sargent]

End Season Score:

66

Team Performance 54
Franchise Value 55
Profit Loss 76
Roster Strength 74

[Abe Sargent]

8 players retire

[Abe Sargent]

Alright - final score:

Year pre-one 0-16
Year one 5-11
Year two 7-9
Year three 10-6 wild card #5 seed (10-7 total record)
Year four 10-6 won divison #4 seed, won first game (11-7 total record)
Year five 12-4 won divison #2 seed, won first game (13-5 total record)
Year six 15-1 won division #1 seed, won Super Bowl (18-1 total record)
Year seven 14-2 wild card #5 seed, won first game (15-3 total record)
Year eight 12-4 won division, made it to Super Bowl (14-5 total record)
Year nine 11-5. wild card #5, won first game (12-6 total record)
Year ten 9-7


Total Record, including playoffs:

127-77

Winning percentage

.623

Times one hundred

62


Number of wins:

127


2 Points per division champion:

8

2 Points per Super Bowl Victory

2

Total Points:

127+2+8+62=

199

[Abe Sargent]

Thanks for reading!

[Abe Sargent]

I went and rechecked the scoring to make sure my memory was correct and saw that it was 2 points for winning your Conference, not 2 per division win. Therefore, deduct four points from my score to give me 195

[Narcizo]

You were asking about guys you cut who others kept and I kept LT Dusty Drayson and CB Emmitt Spencer but I wouldn't say you missed out on much. Drayson was a back up for a long time but eventually took over as starter for me when my initial starter dropped rating. I think he topped out around 45. Spencer was my nickleback when both my corners were fit (fairly rarely - so he started a fair bit). Maxed out around 35 and rated around 79 over his career (which is acceptable for me. I usually want over 80 from a starter).

I was interested in your battle between Yoo and McElroy. I took McElroy at the top of the 5th round as a back up and he tended to perform pretty well considering. Towards the end of my career he didn't get any snaps at all but his current rating kept on bumping up 5 points in training camp, something I've never seen before. I've not really played a lot of SP so I don't know if this is common but it made me happy anyway. I'm perversely happy to see that he could have carried the team to a Superbowl win had he been given the chance.

[Abe Sargent]

Yeah, my team was alright, and made it to the playoffs, but exploded when McElroy took over. Even the last year he had a statistically great year, where eveyrbody else is decaying around him.

[Abe Sargent]

I went and checked everybody else's dynasty to see if anybody else took Ramon, the guy who exploded for many picks in my challenge. No one else even took him.