Nationals V Game Recap

By Maliki

At 14 - 14 in the first quarter, The Realist is picked off by Gunnz. Gunnz is then stopped on 4th down. The Realist is picked by Gunnz. again, and The Gunnz scores. 21 - 14

The Realist is at the 25 yrd line or so with under 2 minutes in the half. He tosses one to Faulk in the corner. Its ruled out of bounds, then the booth challenges and overturns the call...but does not give Realist the yards! So there is a break in gameplay to review the play, they decided for Gunnz to go offsides until the Realist is at the 3 yrd line. He runs twice and is stuffed, throws on 3rd - PICKED OFF! End of half!

At 21 - 14 Gunnz, The Realist gets the ball at the half, scores. 21 -21 Then he (Realist) stops gunnz and scores again. Gunnz then scores to make it 28 - 28. The Realist scores 35 - 28. Then Gunnz goes for it on his own 14 with just under 5 mins to go in the game, only down by 7. The Realist stops him, next play to the house by Faulk! 42 - 28

Gunnz scores on corner route left, corner route right, corner route left...td 42 - 35 Realist. Then The Realist kicks a 32 yd. FG to go up 45 - 35

Gunnz scores, goes for 2 fails 45- 41 doesnt get the onsides. Its a wrap!

Guns ran mostly goaline runs and threw out of shotgun normal. He had probably 5 ints. Realist ran like 5 times the whole game, the rest was shotgun 2back. Mostly a crossing play that Gunnz couldn't defend unless pressure got there, which it rarely did. The double crossing play was Realist bread and butter. He also went deep several times, resulting in those picks, but also alot of big plays for over 20 yrs and 2 TDs.

The Realist ran a blitz, possibly qrts undersmoke that Gunnz couldn't handle from his shotgun normal set. Gunnz running game from the goalline was, of course, nice. with one spectacular run in the second half for a TD by Duce.

I think gunnz saw more 4th and 5+ than The Realist.....he would go to shotgun normal, Realist countered with qrts blitz and stop gunnz on several series. The only consistent passing game Gunnz had was corner routes to the TE and Pinkston. Mcnabb probably had 5 yrs rushing...if that!

It was a good game, they both did an excellent job just reaching the finals. congrats to both. They are both great CPU catchers as well!