Congrats Steve

[Dean-Atlanta]

Congrats to Steven and the Chargers on winning the 44th PNFL Super Bowl. It's a great win for LA and an accomplishment for Steve to join the very small ranks of currently active PNFL coaches to have won a championship in this league.

For Atlanta it was a bit soon to expect this team to win a superbowl after starting off the season 2-4 in the first 6 weeks, getting destroyed 44-20 by the Jets in a home game against the defending champs which was supposed to show the league that the Falcon had arrived, and finishing the season with the game at GB. There were times this season when this teams showed flashes of what it will be in the future and at other times looked like the KC team that lost 26-25 to the Chargers after taking a 25-10 lead in the 2038 season, or the team and opened in a rain-soaked game in the KC at Jax game where QB Justin Fields looked just as bad as his real life debut for the Bears. Change is coming. News plays in the off-season, some revamped profiles and other changes, and 2 trades already worked out and more coming.

[Steve-LA Chargers]

Thanks, Dean! Congrats on getting the Falcons to the Super Bowl! What I love about your playoff run is that you beat the only two other NFC coaches that have made it to the Super Bowl the past FIVE seasons to get to the big game. That's a helluva accomplishment. Your playmaking and game planning were clearly elevated this season. I'm quite sure you'll get back to the Super Bowl sooner than later. In fact, I am fully convinced that the many innovative plays you added to the pool this season are one of the reasons for your success. I noticed how dangerous those plays could be when I watched your victories over Justin and Jerry. QB Jackson or QB Lance will love being part of your offense. Keep doing what you are doing, make some tweaks to improve where needed and get back to the playoffs to continue to make life hell for Jerry and Justin again. You have turned a major corner and the future is bright for the Falcons!

[Dean-Atlanta]

Thanks Steve. The new plays on offense came from some ideas I had in re-inventing my offense after how poorly it performed in the 2040 season, my last season in KC. some of those plays were experiments in the play editor that evolved into useful plays. They will be good for other teams (yours, Chicago, etc.) but they were designed for passing to the WRs I have, of which nearly all of them are coming back for 2042.

What is shaping up in this off-season is version 2.0 of that offense including some plays that will further stretch the defense in ways that counters the dominant "bend but don't break" paradigm by breaking it. I have some more play editor experiments going on that could see the field of play this season, including a PML play that tested 51 percent for 21.3 yards per catch in 400 simmed games. Several seasons ago, Charlie challenged us to come up with better medium pass plays. I think the challenge now is to create some better short pass plays, I found it a struggle most weeks to identify 6 really good PSL and PSM plays to put in a game plan. When I game planned at times (especially vs Washington, Chicago, and our game) I put in the best plays from the current play pool I could find from my data while I imagined new plays that might better fit those game plans. I have also the last part of this season with my submissions began a similar re-imagining of my defense. I know if I make something that works on offense, others will use it and even use against me, so an equal effort needs to focus on defense to stop this stuff.

The off-season is fun and challenging, and I see why many of you really like the GM role in the off-season. I try to do better at it but really I want to gt my roster in order and go back to plays game plans and profiles and watching games.

Good luck this season. I think you'll force Mitch to really step his game to try to win the division.

[Jerry-Redskins]

Congrats Steve. This is a big challenge to win. Now on the 2042. Washington is coming for the revenge tour.

[Dean-Atlanta]

Congrats Steve. This is a big challenge to win. Now on the 2042. Washington is coming for the revenge tour.

Someone else vowed a revenge tour and the early indications are that that venture is not going very well. Revenge tours generally have a low success rate. That mode of thinking is very popular in Washington DC these days, a big part of why the city is broken. No revenge in Atlanta, our goal this season, as Coach Prime would say, is to elevate and dominate.

[tmurph-Jets]

Congratulations again Steve, great coaching!

[Steve-LA Chargers]

Thanks, guys! I'll do my best to defend my first PNFL title. Definitely won't be easy as there are many proven coaches in this league capable of winning it all and several new unknowns who might surprise too. Good luck in 2042!