You know how you almost always leave a bunch of offense on the bench and it seems like they only hit when you don't start them? The baseball gods just fucking with you?

This year, my team is so fucking bad even the bench doesn't put up any offense. Think about that. They are so bad even the baseball gods are like "just leave the poor bastard alone."

This might very well be the worst fantasy baseball team ever assembled.

Mike80 said:

They got lucky to not lose 5 last year (including the bowl game) with a far easier schedule.

I think even the Pedsters have a shot at them this year.

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I don't think @ Minnesota is a slam dunk for them either. They'll beat Rutgers Sparty and UCLA most likely but nothing else is going to be easy for them.

I mentioned, in Julian's thread, I have the 2025 season All-22. I'm making great use of it.

I did want to convey my main bullet point about the 2025 Offense as it relates to 2026- It felt like the opposite to their counterparts from 20 years ago. That 2005 team got better as the season wore on and saved their best ball for the last few games of the season. If not for some special teams blunders and an ill-advised turnover, they would have ending the bowl season putting up a 45 spot and 600 yards on Notre Dame.

The 2025 squad left SO much on the table it's painful. Not just the players, I'm calling out the Coaching staff as well. ( Shout out to the WR's for their lack of intensity in blocking with the running and screen game. A pick six running a stalk block? Embarrassing)

I didn't want to make it seem like I'm picking on Julian alone, so I'm going to point out the OL & the Play calling. This post is all of the stuff the players & coaches need to get away from in 2026 if this team is to contend.


The OL I got nasty with here...

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In terms of the play calling and pre-game preparation, I really have to ask where our offensive coaching staffs heads were at. The Miami defense was pretty well understood in being a 1hi dominant squad that feasted off of their weakside pressures from 2nd and 3rd levels while being aggressive on the perimeter. The Bucks early designs to attack that were RPO's to outside, playing to the aggressive CB nature. Later countering with much more lower percentage throws.

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If that wasn't enough, designing something like boundary flood off waggle just screams 'unaware'.
Twice in this game Carnell was open for what would have been a huge gain or a home-run TD. First one I put on the OL. This one I put on the coaches.





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It was just such a complete hodge podge of play calling that felt like there was no rhythm & consistency. Largely because the opening sequences and designs were so piss poor or badly executed that the coaching staff collectively lost their heads. The Canes defense was in their heads early and often.

Like I said, these are things the offensive coaching staff simply cannot afford to do moving forward. We gave no reason to back these corners off early, while at the same time making giant execution mistakes between QB, OL & WR. To the tune of 4 punts, 1 missed FG and 1INT in the Bucks first 6 possessions.

If not for an outstanding defensive effort and good fortunate, the Cotton Bowl should have been 31-7 Miami.


I'm hopeful, but I'm also bullish. Cautiously optimistic, if you will, for this upcoming season.

20 years ago, I was just a wide-eyed kid. Now I have 10s of thousands of hours poured into football. That 2006 squad, while talented, had some self-destruct button, type of flaws. I'm grateful to them, as painful as that season ended. Since then, I've only increased my command of the game, learned how to emotionally step back, widen the gaze and remove ones self for a more clear picture of the greater issue(s) at hand.

That issue boils down to me having doubts about this teams ability to contend late in the seeason unless the holy trifecta of QB, OL & Coaches find a greater application and consistency in/of their respective abilities.

heisman said:

$100 in 1980 purchasing power is the equivalent of about $400 today. So, a $3 hourly wage in 1980, would need to be $12 hourly today to have the same purchasing power. $17 > $12.

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That might work if it wasn't for the pesky basket of goods you are trying to purchase increasing significantly faster.

$100 of medical care in 1980 = ~$800 today
$100 of tuition in 1980 = ~$1,280 today
~$64K house in 1980 = ~$400K today

Like I said in the post that started this, the math is working against people. If pay goes up 4x and the stuff you need to buy goes up 8-12x...you have a lot less room for error.

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This is just since 200 for a good quick visual. The mistake is to believe the fucking government about "core CPI" and think wages have done anything remotely close to keeping up.

So the real financial mistake people can make is not tattoos or pot. The mistake is getting sick, having kids, getting an education or trying to buy a house.

Electronics are depreciating though. So we've got that going for us. Which is nice.

Bryce at this point seems like a classic case of a kid getting handed a bunch of money and everyone around him telling him how great he is (even when underperforming) then not actually putting any further work in because of that. scUM is the worst possible place for this kind of person considering the sunshine pumping factory up there

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We all saw it during the spring game. They can scream "you can't judge off a spring game" all they want but he looked like the exact same QB as last year mechanically. The foot work is still a disaster zero improvement there and he still throws every pass as hard as he can. At this point he's an over glorified temu version of Joe Milton

Mclain
Friedl
Benson

All need to be gone asap

Dumb

pnuts34 said:

He’s going to have figure it out fast too, because they’re trying to put talent around him, but idk if he’ll be good enough to make the right reads consistently and they will also need to lead in every game early. They won’t have the type of offense to strike fast if they get down like 2 or more tds early.

I just don’t see them losing 5Gms. This program finds the most ugly ways to win. I don’t see them winning against Oregon. But the rest of those games are toss ups to me. And I hate that they can rely on a defense to keep them in tight games.


Underwood couldn’t transfer, he makes too much and I’m sure that contract is ironclad too if Ellison has anything to do with it. Whittingham and his staff are probably the worst coaches this kid can have. they run an offense That is successful, but much more reliant on bigger, stronger as a primary runner than as a passer, but when called upon to pass will almost always move the chains.
I don’t see a snowballs chance he benches Underwood. He would have to be the worse QB in all P4, like multiple turnover games and double digit passing in multiple games type bad! His salary dictates that he starts and Whittingham is coming in knowing that. But he has a built in scapegoat if it doesn’t go well, “he wasn’t my guy, if I had my guy I would’ve been successful “. If they don’t make the CFP, or B1G championship he has that line locked and loaded. And even still, he’ll be stuck with Underwood for another season

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They got lucky to not lose 5 last year (including the bowl game) with a far easier schedule.

I think even the Pedsters have a shot at them this year.