Life In The DPC!

Editor’s Note: Life In The DPC! is getting a bit of a touch up. The archives will be back as soon I find the Rosetta Stone for FTP.

The football season is over and now I am left in a rutt as I figure out gow to kill my Sundays for the next seven months. I have March Madness coming up but football is my fave and I am little lost. This malaise and  confusion might be a result of the Super Bowl. With a gap in my heart I will focus on Madden 2007 which I never gave proper attention to siince its release.

In this recent edition I have maintained the same ethos as in any prior edition: I will use, speed, four and five wide receiver sets and cannon armed QB’s to out score opponents. I will use the run to keep the defense honest and I will blow all of my draft picks and available salary cap space on over priced wide receivers that can burn off the hash marks. 

“Talent borrows and genius steals.” - Oscar Wilde

As such I am unfortunately a disciple of Don Coryell, Al Davis and Mike Martz. The aforementioned ideology I use in Madden is based upon their respective systems. Coryell is the axis and everyone else(Davis, Martz)  comes after. I have grown sick of explaining on how my system or schemes are part Air Coryell, a dash of The Greatest Show On Turf and many bits of The Vertical Stretch. Since I want to give myself more credit than I deserve from this point forward the logic, ethos and execution of my pass happy mayhem will be known as World War III. 

Why WWIII? If there was ever going to be a third World War in my lifetime it would have been as a direct result of the Cold War. One side would have haphazardly sent off an ICBM and a Dr. Strangelove style nuclear holocaust. There would be no face to face combat. All strikes would be through the air as hell rained down from 5,000 miles away towards a general population that had no idea what was going on.  My offense works the same way in Madden 07. By way of a fantasy draft in franchise mode I have speed with Donte Stallworth, Santonio Holmes, Matt Jones and Devin Hester at the wide receiver positions.(I realize he is DB and return specialist but he is surprisingly adaptable) Drew Carter is my fifth option and a 6′4″ 205 lb. wideout with 96 speed that can overwhelm any dimeback.

Reggie Bush and LenDale White anchor the backfield when I feel the need to flip the script. Though Bush is used primarily as a release valve out and White is a third short kinda’ guy. Antonio Gates is available for three receiver and a tight end set ups. Vince Young uses his speed to dodge defenders while the routes develop.

It all comes together and will be augmented by off season moves that should yield Randy Moss via trade or Ted Ginn in the draft. But does it work? In Madden it does. The three theories I base my offense on won a single Super Bowl and that game was played in a dome. Al Davis’ Raiders didn’t win a Super Bowl with Daryle Lamonica and Air Coryell could never get the Chargers to the promiseland. WWIII works in theory and in the fictious landscape known as Life In The DPC!.