toolie Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 (edited) So I played a full season using "only" Andre Waters. Here were the conditions. 1. On offense, the only plays you may call are Field Goal and Punt.2. On kickoffs, you may advance the ball to the 5 yard line. For any kick that doesn't go that far, run straight out of bounds.3. On defense, you must always control Andre Waters. You are also allowed to defend with your kicker and punter.4. You are allowed to advance the ball on any turnover or blocked kick. 5. Punt returns are OK, since they are powered by Andre Waters. Results... Well as you can imagine it was a rough season. I started off halfway decent, but I think I lost my last five games and finished 5-11. Two losses really hurt me; one to the Cowboys and one to the Saints. In both cases I gave up a late TD where the receiver got a JJ and Waters auto-dived. Late-season games against the Oilers and Giants were hilarious, as they were in juiced mode and didn't care that the hapless Eagles were sub-five-hundred. Feagles racked up over 120 punts and quickly maxed out yards at 4095, which killed the average. Adding to the misery of the season was that the NFC was juiced and after about 11 games it was clear that my chances to getting into the playoffs were pretty much zero. Waters finished with 5 sacks and 4 INTs. 5 INTs if you count the one he coughed up. Tough challenge. I commend anyone that makes the playoffs. This was much more difficult than playing with my eyes closed. Edited February 7, 2014 by toolie bob sacamano and buck 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buck Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 A "Pure Waters" challenge sounds brutal. Tupa and I did something similar to this a while back, the "bad boys" challenge = all Waters and McMahon. http://tecmobowl.org/topic/11202-bad-boys-season-cpu-challenge/ but that doesn't compare to this...I might try a couple games of a "Pure Waters" season and see how it goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob sacamano Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 So I played a full season using "only" Andre Waters. Here were the conditions. 1. On offense, the only plays you may call are Field Goal and Punt. 2. On kickoffs, you may advance the ball to the 5 yard line. For any kick that doesn't go that far, run straight out of bounds. 3. On defense, you must always control Andre Waters. You are also allowed to defend with your kicker and punter. 4. You are allowed to advance the ball on any turnover or blocked kick. 5. Punt returns are OK, since they are powered by Andre Waters. Results... Well as you can imagine it was a rough season. I started off halfway decent, but I think I lost my last five games and finished 5-11. Two losses really hurt me; one to the Cowboys and one to the Saints. In both cases I gave up a late TD where the receiver got a JJ and Waters auto-dived. Late-season games against the Oilers and Giants were hilarious, as they were in juiced mode and didn't care that the hapless Eagles were sub-five-hundred. Feagles racked up over 120 punts and quickly maxed out yards at 4095, which killed the average. Adding to the misery of the season was that the NFC was juiced and after about 11 games it was clear that my chances to getting into the playoffs were pretty much zero. Waters finished with 5 sacks and 4 INTs. 5 INTs if you count the one he coughed up. Tough challenge. I commend anyone that makes the playoffs. This was much more difficult than playing with my eyes closed. No offense man, but this one seems to be an unbelievable waste of time IMO, hahaa. I can't imagine ANYONE getting to the playoffs using this. The one change I would make to give yourself even the slightest chances of making the playoffs would be allowing KR's. Even then, I don't see anyone getting to 7 wins. Personally, I've done about 7 or 8 TB/Haddix only challenges, where I wasn't allowed any offensive output, but could KR/PR, FG. While the playoffs was a common theme, the best I finished was losing to SF in the conf title game. This challenge is just absolutely impossible in my mind! Kudos for finishing a season! P.S. I imagine you didn't change your opponents playbooks did you? I've found myself doing this, to best embrace plays that we actually play against against humans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toolie Posted February 7, 2014 Author Share Posted February 7, 2014 I didn't mess with any playbooks. It's pretty much impossible to exploit any one play too badly with Waters at DB4. It would make a bit of a difference with called plays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Tailback King~ Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 So I played a full season using "only" Andre Waters. Here were the conditions. 1. On offense, the only plays you may call are Field Goal and Punt. 2. On kickoffs, you may advance the ball to the 5 yard line. For any kick that doesn't go that far, run straight out of bounds. 3. On defense, you must always control Andre Waters. You are also allowed to defend with your kicker and punter. 4. You are allowed to advance the ball on any turnover or blocked kick. 5. Punt returns are OK, since they are powered by Andre Waters. Results... Well as you can imagine it was a rough season. I started off halfway decent, but I think I lost my last five games and finished 5-11. Two losses really hurt me; one to the Cowboys and one to the Saints. In both cases I gave up a late TD where the receiver got a JJ and Waters auto-dived. Late-season games against the Oilers and Giants were hilarious, as they were in juiced mode and didn't care that the hapless Eagles were sub-five-hundred. Feagles racked up over 120 punts and quickly maxed out yards at 4095, which killed the average. Adding to the misery of the season was that the NFC was juiced and after about 11 games it was clear that my chances to getting into the playoffs were pretty much zero. Waters finished with 5 sacks and 4 INTs. 5 INTs if you count the one he coughed up. Tough challenge. I commend anyone that makes the playoffs. This was much more difficult than playing with my eyes closed. You shoulda' made it the "JOHNNY JOHNSON CHALLENGE"........life woulda' been much less frusterating 4 u, and hell, you probably woulda' won the SUPERBOWL. manYo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brookstonfowler Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 i went 4-12 with this. winning games v GB, PIT, NO, and DAL (in wk15). waters got 4 picks and almost housed one offa aikman in wk3. my next one will be less frustrating-- a "how bo can you go" challenge. toolie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrintervention1982 Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 You shoulda' made it the "JOHNNY JOHNSON CHALLENGE"........life woulda' been much less frusterating 4 u, and hell, you probably woulda' won the SUPERBOWL. Or it would have ended up like me... poor J.J. going out in the first game. J.J.'s good, but PHX tends to be accident prone to me. Him and Hershel anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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