Playoff Preview
Capo @ Flannel
Take 3. Flannel begins their title defense against a familiar opponent. Flannel swept the regular season match-up between two teams who are quickly becoming strong Right Division rivals. In fact, Flannel's victory over Capo in the last game of the regular season established them as the division winner and #1 seed in the playoffs while setting Capo back to the last wild card.
Flannel won the division last year as well and ended up winning the FLOF Bowl. Capo was Right Division champion and FLOF Bowl Champion the year before that (beating Flannel in the playoffs that year). In fact, a Right Division team (but not always the division champ) has won the last 4 FLOF Bowls.
Flannel has not lost a game since week 9 on the strength of a very good defense and a periodically good offense. The offense produced only 19 and 39 points in Flannel's last two games but had consecutive 70+ pt efforts in weeks 10 and 11. Capo's offense has also been very Jekyl and Hyde (although perhaps everyone has the same story this year). They scored 114 on offense in week 12 -- the highest offensive output over the last 2 years. But followed that up with consecutive games of 36 and 34 offensive pts.
Flannel is one of only 3 teams in FLOF history to win multiple FLOF Bowls (Hamburglers and Deadheads are the other 2) and could become only the second franchise to win back-to-back FLOF Bowls were they to win this year. Capo has now made the playoffs in all three of their years in the league.
Drow @ Malleus
Drow got in as the second wild card after just missing out on the Left Division championship. Malleus toppled Bill for the Middle Division championship on the last week of the regular season.
Malleus comes into this game as one of the hotest teams in FLOF -- winning their last 4 regular season games and scoring no fewer then 52 offensive points while doing so. Drow stumbled into the playoffs -- winning only 2 of their last 6 regular season games. More recently Drow have been very hot or cold scoring 87 and 82 in week 13 and in last week's wild card game respectively while scoring only 45 and 57 in weeks 12 and 14.
Both teams have made a flurry of trades in the last couple of weeks to shore up their teams and are positioned to be very active in free agency. In that respect this game may gave started last week as both teams may have been competing for trade and free agent acquisitions.
Malleus is the only team left in the playoffs to have not won a FLOF Bowl yet. Drow have been to the most (3) of any team left in the playoffs but have only won once.
Take 3. Flannel begins their title defense against a familiar opponent. Flannel swept the regular season match-up between two teams who are quickly becoming strong Right Division rivals. In fact, Flannel's victory over Capo in the last game of the regular season established them as the division winner and #1 seed in the playoffs while setting Capo back to the last wild card.
Flannel won the division last year as well and ended up winning the FLOF Bowl. Capo was Right Division champion and FLOF Bowl Champion the year before that (beating Flannel in the playoffs that year). In fact, a Right Division team (but not always the division champ) has won the last 4 FLOF Bowls.
Flannel has not lost a game since week 9 on the strength of a very good defense and a periodically good offense. The offense produced only 19 and 39 points in Flannel's last two games but had consecutive 70+ pt efforts in weeks 10 and 11. Capo's offense has also been very Jekyl and Hyde (although perhaps everyone has the same story this year). They scored 114 on offense in week 12 -- the highest offensive output over the last 2 years. But followed that up with consecutive games of 36 and 34 offensive pts.
Flannel is one of only 3 teams in FLOF history to win multiple FLOF Bowls (Hamburglers and Deadheads are the other 2) and could become only the second franchise to win back-to-back FLOF Bowls were they to win this year. Capo has now made the playoffs in all three of their years in the league.
Drow @ Malleus
Drow got in as the second wild card after just missing out on the Left Division championship. Malleus toppled Bill for the Middle Division championship on the last week of the regular season.
Malleus comes into this game as one of the hotest teams in FLOF -- winning their last 4 regular season games and scoring no fewer then 52 offensive points while doing so. Drow stumbled into the playoffs -- winning only 2 of their last 6 regular season games. More recently Drow have been very hot or cold scoring 87 and 82 in week 13 and in last week's wild card game respectively while scoring only 45 and 57 in weeks 12 and 14.
Both teams have made a flurry of trades in the last couple of weeks to shore up their teams and are positioned to be very active in free agency. In that respect this game may gave started last week as both teams may have been competing for trade and free agent acquisitions.
Malleus is the only team left in the playoffs to have not won a FLOF Bowl yet. Drow have been to the most (3) of any team left in the playoffs but have only won once.
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