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Detroit, MI - QB Devan Mitchem and the Detroit Vampires' blitz-happy defense led wire to wire in what would be a completely different game than many expected. The Vampires only barely won against two of the lower tier teams in the league in their last two games and pundits assumed the struggles would continue. On the other hand, maybe they were looking forward to this tilt against Tennessee...
Mitchem threw a TD pass to WR Von Wyss, but it was K Manns and the Detroit defense that put the rest of the points on the board while cruising to a 36-3 victory over the Tennessee Militia on Sunday.
"Tennessee made it really tough for me out there," Mitchem said after the game, "Rusty was double covered for the whole game and they made their tackles whenever I got the ball to anyone else. There are 52 other guys on the roster though, and the team really came together. I appreciated not having to pull a miracle out of my ass this time!"
OLB Hunter Fulton was cleared for physical contact earlier this week and though a snap count limited his action, he notched three tackles and a strip sack. "I thought he played well coming off that achilles. There's still a bit of rust, but he's been ready to go since he came to Detroit." HC Perkins said, "Really excited to see what he can do at 100%."
Tennessee QB Alex Porto struck out on Sunday, finishing 16 for 24, 0 TDs and 1 INT. He felt the pressure after 2 sacks and a handful of hurries and knockdowns and shortly after his third(!) fumble of the day, QB Jace Kwan finished out the game. Tennessee was coming into the contest top 3 in points per game, but were shut down by the Vampires. It was an standout performance from the Vampires defensive unit with FS Luis Anthony notching his first INT of the season, SS Clay Bech coming up with a pick-six, and just about everyone on the front seven grabbing a piece of the football.
Hopefully a sign of things to come, Detroit and Iowa City continue their fight for first place of the Great Lakes division, but first a relaxing trip to Honolulu.
Great Game Zendog!
Yep, that was about as thorough as it gets. I'm actually thrilled they yanked Porto out of there before he got hurt in a game that was over in the first quarter. The turnovers really killed us.
The experiment with starting my RG at RT and my RT at LT and using my back-up RG was an abject disaster..... Fortunately we will be getting back our back-up LT next week, and our 3rd string LT (converted G) will not be tired anymore.... So if there is anything to look forward to out of this game, it was that we didn't get anyone else injured and we should be getting some troops back soon.
I was a bit disappointed in my defense, but they were often put in tough spots by the offense.....
At least Shreveport and San Antonio lost too......
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