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gamescore

May 05, 2011
0:37 AM

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05/04 : Spartans sneak by Rejects 12-10

Spartans improve to 4-3 on the season, while Rejects drop to 2-5.

Coupled with a win in their previous game, Spartans has now won two in a row.

The loss comes on the heels of a Rejects victory in their last game. .

This was the first meeting between these two teams.

Next up for Rejects is Collision (1-4). That game is scheduled for May 12 2011, 22:00 at Lake Fairfax#4.

Spartans will face off against Badboyz (3-4) on May 09 2011, 22:00 at Lake Fairfax#1.

recap

May 05, 2011
7:37 AM


;	? Not really the big win i thouhgt it would be. Are spartans learning to pull flags?

Actually....

May 05, 2011
8:24 AM


;	Spartans are trash. All talk, and actually a lower level A team. They are beating the below average A teams and acting like it`s some great thing. Wow, KDAW and Rejects were beaten by the Spartans!

D.O.
Novacaine

May 05, 2011
8:42 AM


;	You can say we only beat this team or that team fine, but same teams you say we beat have beaten the top ranked teams or tied them. Plus Rejects probally put there best team this year on the field last night Carlyin was back they had good numbers we only had 9, and kicked of twice cuz we only had 7 at coin toss. We beat novacaine, loss to mags by 2pts, and TC by 5 we ran out of time on final possesion, and we loss to "robots" who beat mags. I think playoffs will be very interesting, also go check rejects have played thy"re last two opponents tough one being TC. I dont believe any team in A isn`t competive except maybe Kdaw.

^

May 05, 2011
8:55 AM


;	and Collision this season....

"Credit where its due...Good Game 7 pt."
Spartans

May 05, 2011
8:57 AM


;	Damn...lower level A team though? You sound dumb buddy...Like D.O. said, we haven`t seen a team that doesn`t bring their "A" game against us...if we were sooo bad, why do people get up to play against us?

2 weeks

May 05, 2011
9:05 AM


;	2 more weeks

i say

May 05, 2011
9:08 AM


;	based on your wins and losses so far, a lower level A team is pretty accurate

@Tdot

May 05, 2011
9:23 AM


;	you might be confusing, "getting up to play against us", with "normal competition".

haha

May 05, 2011
9:24 AM


;	yep! and lower level is about right...right now, i see about 5 teams that have separated themselves

D.O.
Novacaine

May 05, 2011
9:25 AM


;	No thats not what he means. It may just be luck of the draw when we played kdaw they had about 17 people, then week later they only have 8, rejects all year been short not last night solid 12 plus new QB its all fun you want everyones best to prepare us later.

D.O.
Novacaine

May 05, 2011
9:34 AM


;	out of those 5 teams we havent beat any of them huh lol

Dumbells
Novacaine
coach

May 05, 2011
9:45 AM


;	Unless you play in A you need to stop commenting on "how good a team is". In all honesty, I get more worried about playing a team like The Rejects than some of the top teams in the division right now. Their defense is intense and they know what they`re doing. Any A team at full strength, can beat any other A team at full strength. Watch, playoffs will prove that. These games are so short, its all about who minimizes mistakes, which most A teams do. So every game is as tough as the next.

@do

May 05, 2011
9:47 AM


;	you`re right, you have beaten 1 out of the top 5

Vet

May 05, 2011
10:15 AM


;	Listen to Dumbells, if you don`t play in A shut the hell up. Everybody ****s on Collision, Kdaw, Rejects, Greyhounds, etc but fact of the matter is that no team that isn`t dumb sleeps on another team in A because they can and will get beat. A league this year is the best it`s been since the Kerns, Kilroys, My Plumber, Big Belly Canes, and all those teams were around

LOCS aka The Most Interesting Man In Flag Football
Spartans
coach

May 05, 2011
10:35 AM


;	I`d like to see all the teams in A make the playoffs. I know injuries and other sh*t happens but I hate to see teams like the Rejects not make the playoffs. You can`t tell me that a Rejects team with Carlin at QB isn`t a top 8 team in A.

LOCS aka The Most Interesting Man In Flag Football
Spartans
coach

May 05, 2011
10:38 AM


;	I stand corrected. As of today the Rejects are in the playoffs.

CodyW
7 PT Spread
asst coach

May 05, 2011
10:47 AM


;	If this were a league where everybody made the playoffs, the regular season play would be diluted.

LOCS aka The Most Interesting Man In Flag Football
Spartans
coach

May 05, 2011
11:04 AM


;	@Cody - Nah, not at all. It just means that teams that may have injury issues early in the season or teams that have new personnel now have a chance to win it all. Everything takes time to gel or bake. Over the course of 9 games in this division your margin of error is minimal. EVERY possession matters.

LOCS aka The Most Interesting Man In Flag Football
Spartans
coach

May 05, 2011
11:07 AM


;	@Cody - Also at 4-4-1, 7 point may not make make the playoffs this year. But you did and you see what happened.

it

May 05, 2011
11:11 AM


;	happens...you gotta play hard during the regular season

CodyW
7 PT Spread
asst coach

May 05, 2011
11:16 AM


;	i disagree, because then you`re putting more emphasis on a "good tournament run". Then what you`ll have are teams/players that have no commitment during the regular season, then come playoffs they have 12 fresh faces. Might help them, might hurt them, but i said it dilutes the league because at that point it only becomes a "roster management league". You stack your roster, get who you can to show up, then bring all the horses out for the playoffs. Margin of error is not that minimal, last few season the final seed has made it in with 2 wins, i`m guessing this year that magic number will be 3 (with some help). If you can`t muster 2 or 3 wins over the course of 9 games, this probably just isn`t your season.

LOCS aka The Most Interesting Man In Flag Football
Spartans
coach

May 05, 2011
11:30 AM


;	You will get the teams that stack their roster for the playoffs. But I can assure you that they won`t win over a team that has built chemistry and cohesion throughout the season. I don`t think I`ve seen that happen in this league and it rarely, if not, happens for tournaments. Tom and I had that discussion. He`s rarely seen, if not, seen an all star team put together that wins a tournament.

CodyW
7 PT Spread
asst coach

May 05, 2011
11:45 AM


;	Agreed, that`s why I said, may or may not work. I`ll give an example. Collision. Anybody with a lick of common sense know they are a solid quality A league team. This year, they seem to be hampered by injuries, schedules, etc. From what I understand, the Collision we faced a few weeks ago, is not the same Collision that takes the field these days. What if they just hobbled through the regular season, kept those Wolves players on the roster, got the last seed because everybody makes the playoffs. Then come playoffs they break out an entire new team. Can they still win it all, sure. Can they still lose in rd 1, sure. However "IF" they do win it all, did they really have a formidable season or a supe`d up playoff team that made a good run? As opposed to a team that fought to make the playoff, "earned" the last seed (kinda the position they are in now), then "won" it all. Which team do you respect more?

LOCS aka The Most Interesting Man In Flag Football
Spartans
coach

May 05, 2011
11:47 AM


;	@75cents - I know we`ll make the playoffs. Not worried about that. My point is it takes 4 - 5 games for a team to gel. And by that time sometimes your fate is already sealed. I`d like to see the teams that take that long to gel have a chance to compete in the playoffs. I`ve seen many 1 seeds lose to 10 or lower seeded teams.

CodyW
7 PT Spread
asst coach

May 05, 2011
12:03 PM


;	Locs, It`s agreeable that it takes NEW teams time to gel. However there aren`t any NEW teams besides yours in the A league. In addition, if anybody thinks their team needs time to gel, Tom offers a B and C league for you to participate in (and B+ in the Fall). If you`re looking to gel in the A league, that`s cool and respectable, but you`re going to take your bumps and bruises along the way. FACT. So after the fact you can`t be complaining that your just got your **** together in week 8, and now you`d be a force to be reckoned with. If you miss the boat, the league will just have to feel that force next season. *If Rejects and Collision had been healthy all season I doubt they`d be in their current positions.

LOCS aka The Most Interesting Man In Flag Football
Spartans
coach

May 05, 2011
12:07 PM


;	@Cody - I see your point. However, I still put my money on a team that has played together all season and now has that chemistry opposed to a team that has added some players at the last minute for the playoffs. Let`s say your example occurred. Collision would still have to play a first seed. So again, I put my money on that first seed that has played well all season. And the 1 seeds that I have seen lose to a last seed is, again, a situation where the last seed just took 4-5 games to start playing well. Respect, that`s another topic. For me honestly, I don`t care who a team brings out. I will never dispute a roster. If a team comes out to a championship game with Vick, Fitzgerald, Moss, etc., and won, my thought would be it took for them to bring Pro Bowlers to beat us. I wouldn`t have less respect for them. I always want to play against the best. That`s why were in A.

LOCS aka The Most Interesting Man In Flag Football
Spartans
coach

May 05, 2011
12:11 PM


;	New teams aren`t the only teams that it takes time to gel. 7 point last year is one example.

Swami Sez

registered poster

May 05, 2011
12:35 PM


;	Good discussion here. New teams do take time to gel, sometimes an entire season. I do believe adding league vets to a new team help with that though. Theo, do you think losing league vets like Staph and Shaggy early on hurt your cohesion? I certainly think it took away from your team`s understanding of the game as it applies to this league, and probably led to being a more penalty prone team (ie against the Magnums)

LOCS aka The Most Interesting Man In Flag Football
Spartans
coach

May 05, 2011
12:46 PM


;	Maybe, maybe not. Can`t dwell on that now. We have cohesion now and that`s what I`m focused on.

^^^

May 05, 2011
12:47 PM


;	7pts played half of the season without their QB! They didnt need time to gel. So whats up with TC they loss some key players and they look like they are fine. Last year they lost in the playoffs but they had new faces so whats your point LOCS?

LOCS aka The Most Interesting Man In Flag Football
Spartans
coach

May 05, 2011
12:49 PM


;	@^^^ - You sound angry.

Gang Green
7 PT Spread

May 05, 2011
1:13 PM


;	Our first season, Spring 2010 we lost 1 game which was our first season playing together.

@gang green

May 05, 2011
1:59 PM


;	to be fair it was an Open season, not true A

Gang Green
7 PT Spread

May 05, 2011
2:17 PM


;	kinda like what this spring feels like

Gang Green
7 PT Spread

May 05, 2011
2:40 PM


;	just sayin like the open league last spring you have the teams that should be in B and the teams that should be in A thats all.

Gang Green
7 PT Spread

May 05, 2011
2:55 PM


;	they are all A level teams no doubt. no sturring on that subject. try again tomorrow

yup

May 06, 2011
12:39 PM


;	agreed. #1 is loud

95

May 06, 2011
12:42 PM


;	so is 95 and 6 tho

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