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Drinking the Yaterade - Season 70 Predictions

by AST1N | 3 years ago | 0 Comments

RedZone football is back! We have new faces in new places, excitement is in the air, and many guys haven’t hit that realization that they probably aren’t winning anything significant this cycle yet. This is the best time of the year! The media is flowing. The roster moves are flying all over the place as guys prepare their team in their own way. Do I push out my vets to prepare for the future of my team? Do I go all in for Season 70, regardless of the age and development factors? Will I celebrate a meaningless preseason victory in which my 2^nd team was better than my opponents 2^nd team?

Regardless of your answers, there is no doubt that the start of every cycle is the prime time to be in the league. The buzz is electric. You can feel it. You know what else I can feel? Another cycle full of smart predictions from yours truly! Let’s get at it while it’s hot!

I hate to sound like a broken record…

If you enjoyed heading over to the User Hub (essentially RZ Canton), enjoy it while it lasts. The league shifting to an 18-week (17-game) schedule will ruin it all. Throw in an extra game’s stats? Game over. While I don’t know if any of the cycle long records will be broken, I would be surprised if we don’t obliterate some of these records. Rushing and passing yards should be broken. TDs will probably go as well. I would imagine there are some untouchables (Bosa’s 50 sack season), but for the most part we are probably about to witness RZ history go down the drain. Prepare your emotions.

Monty Python and the Holy Giants

Are the Giants a terrible team? Maybe? Am I buying stock in Danny Dimes? Absolutely. If you are a fan of Play Action Roll outs, I would suggest buying RZ Sunday Ticket and watching these Giants (Don’t illegally stream it!). The sad part about it all, is it actually works for him. Defenses need to respect Barkley and once they start playing the run, goodnight. They surprisingly have quality WRs that makes this system work. I don’t know about the defense, as that might be the Achilles heel of the team, but I would expect many high scoring, shootout games. The NFC E should be a very good division, so while I don’t expect him to win it, I think he still finishes over .500 and flirts with that Wild Card spot in the NFC.

Three weeks

What do you mean, three weeks? Are we talking about 1 week longer than the average RZ Flavor of the Month game lasts? How long it takes us until the Scouting update drops? How long it will take until the Jets are eliminated from the playoffs?

No. This is how many weeks it will take before we start hearing some sort of complaint:

“This guy is cheesy because [X].”

“Sliders are broken and [X] needs fixed.”

“The [X] rule should be changed, I hate it.”

“This coordinator thing is dumb. I hate my playbook and I should be able to use what I want.”

Look, I don’t know what the first issue will be, but there always seems to be something. It’s like clockwork. I hope I am wrong.

Watching KC in 8K resolution

Every cycle for the past few years we have always worried about Kansas City’s high octane offense being too overpowered. Today is that day we dreaded. The 2011 New Orleans Saints have the NFL record 7,474 yards in a single season (16 games), and I am scared that KC is going to blow by that and have eyes on 8,000 yards. When you have the strongest arm and the fastest guys… that’s worrisome. This is me putting the league on notice now.

Colt .45 Locked and Loaded

There have been debates on who is winning the AFC South. Let me just shut all that down right now. This division is White Greg’s. As much as we want Andy to make a run, I just don’t think it’s his time. It is hard for me to say what Boggs will do in HOU with a rookie QB or Jim will do with that roster that went 1-15 last season. As long as Gregory doesn’t shoot himself in the foot (it’s okay, he has an open carry license, so it’s legal), he should have this division by at least 2 games.

Season 70 Offensive Rookie of the Year – QB Trey Lance, San Francisco 49ers

We all want it to be close. There are a ton of big names gunning for the award. However, as long as Lance can keep himself out of 3 Pick Sit situations (big ask), he should run away with the award. We should see respectable numbers from some other skill positions (like Chase, Waddle, Pitts), QBs will always have that leg up in an award competition.

Season 70 Defensive Rookie of the Year – LB Jamin Davis, Washington [Insert Team Name Here]

Here are the facts. Defensive linemen are not showing out as much as they have in the past two cycles, especially those who are super highly rated (so basically no rookies). CBs are very volatile for stats and INT dependent. This leaves us with LBs and Safeties. It really comes down to do I trust Pat or Jake more at LB? And will Spittah play mostly user safety with Jevon Holland? All things considered, I lean towards Davis in WFT.

Season 70 Offensive Player of the Year – Lamar Jackson, Baltimore Ravens

Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, wants to vote for Lamar and Adel. Unfortunately, the stats will be too definitive to be able to cast your vote elsewhere. We can all pray up to our Lord (or down to Satan, if that’s more your style) that Lamar gets hurt. That’s about as much as we can do. Adel is locking this and LFTP up with ease.

Season 70 Defensive Player of the Year – MLB Devin White, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

I toyed with either White or fellow MLB Lavonte David winning this, but I speculate that Roc will be usering the speedier White and leaving the better LB in the hands of the AI. White will be able to cover more ground in the passing game and will likely end up picking off balls that QBs think have a chance to get to the receiver. With Shaq Barrett and JPP flying off the edges, opponents will need to make quick decisions, which RZ has shown that we are not very good at doing.

Season 70 Most Valuable Player- Lamar

Mahomes, Brady, and Lance will get a couple of participation votes, but it should be Lamar by a landslide.