2007 Dallas Desperados season

2007 Dallas Desperados season
Head coach Will McClay
Home field American Airlines Center
Results
Record 15-1
Division Place 1st
Playoff finish L 66-59 vs Columbus
Timeline
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The 2007 Dallas Desperados season was the 6th season for the franchise. They look to make the playoffs again after finishing 2006 with an 13-3 record. They had a 15-1 record and qualified for home-field advantage throughout the National Conference playoffs.

Contents

Schedule

Week Date Opponent Home/Away Game Result
1 March 4 New York Dragons Away W 60-7
2 March 10 Tampa Bay Storm Home W 59-40
3 March 16 Kansas City Brigade Away W 66-54
4 March 26 Orlando Predators Away W 70-49
5 March 31 Austin Wranglers Home W 68-64
6 April 5 Columbus Destroyers Home W 53-51
7 April 16 Philadelphia Soul Home W 51-41
8 April 21 Georgia Force Away L 78-63
9 April 27 Nashville Kats Home W 69-62
10 May 4 Utah Blaze Away W 66-59
11 May 14 Chicago Rush Home W 52-48
12 bye
13 May 26 Columbus Destroyers Away W 56-47
14 June 1 Philadelphia Soul Away W 59-56
15 June 9 New Orleans VooDoo Home W 80-79
16 June 16 New York Dragons Home W 67-13
17 June 25 Colorado Crush Away W 77-58

Playoff Schedule

Round Date Opponent Home/Away Result
2 July 7 (6) Columbus Destroyers Home L 66-59

Coaching

Will McClay started his fourth season as head coach of the Desperados.

Stats

Offense

Quarterback

Player Comp. Att. Comp% Yards TD's INT's Long Rating
Clint Dolezel 375 533 70.4 4475 107 9 49 128.2
Nick Browder 17 27 63 208 5 1 22 110.8

Running Backs

Player Car. Yards Avg. TD's Long
Josh White 93 278 3 10 22
Will Pettis 14 33 2.4 2 8
Clint Dolezel 10 5 .5 1 4
Marcus Nash 4 5 1.3 3 3
Andrae Thurman 1 4 4 0 4
Willis Marshall 4 2 .5 2 2
Nick Browder 1 0 0 0 0
Duke Pettijohn 3 0 0 1 1

Wide Receivers

Player Rec. Yards Avg. TD's Long
Will Pettis 130 1471 11.3 40 46
Marcus Nash 77 1080 14 20 45
Andrae Thurman 65 839 12.9 19 49
Willis Marshall 66 747 11.3 12 48
Dialleo Burks 18 243 13.5 9 30
Anthony Armstrong 10 126 12.6 2 34
Terrence Dotsy 16 102 6.4 6 15
Josh White 9 72 8 3 13
Devin Wyman 1 3 3 1 3

Touchdowns

Player TD's Rush Rec Ret Pts
Will Pettis 46 2 40 4 278
Marcus Nash 23 3 20 0 142
Andrae Thurman 19 0 19 0 114
Willis Marshall 15 2 12 1 96
Josh White 13 10 3 0 78
Dialleo Burks 9 0 9 0 54
Terrance Dotsy 6 0 6 0 36
Anthony Armstrong 2 0 2 0 18
Clint Dolezel 1 1 0 0 6
Bobby Perry 1 0 0 1 6
Duke Pettijohn 1 1 0 0 6
Devin Wyman 1 0 1 0 6

Defense

Player Tackles Solo Assisted Sack Solo Assisted INT Yards TD's Long
Jermaine Jones 87.5 82 11 0 0 0 7 71 2 40
Bobby Perry 60.5 51 19 0 0 0 3 0 0 0
Will Pettis 59.5 56 7 0 0 0 3 1 0 1
Chris Brown 58 53 10 0 0 0 3 24 0 13
Duke Pettijohn 43.5 35 17 6 5 2 0 0 0 0
Bobby Keyes 39.5 38 3 0 0 0 6 67 1 30
Colston Weatherington 19.5 17 5 10 10 0 0 0 0 0
Rickie Simpkins 16.5 13 7 .5 0 1 0 0 0 0
Waine Bacon 13.5 13 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Willis Marshall 13.5 10 7 0 0 0 1 4 0 4
Peter Lazare 13 9 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Josh White 12.5 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Andrae Thurman 9.5 8 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Daleroy Stewart 9 6 6 1.5 1 1 0 0 0 0
Devin Wyman 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dialleo Burks 3.5 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Anthony Armstrong 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Todd Sievers 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Terrence Dotsy 1.5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jermaine Brooks 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jeremy Calahan 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
James Cannida 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Clint Dolezel 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Special Teams

Kick Return

Player Ret Yards TD's Long Avg Ret Yards TD's Long Avg
Will Pettis 58 1229 4 58 21.2 2 18 0 18 9
Willis Marshall 29 485 1 56 16.7 0 0 0 0 0
Bobby Perry 1 7 1 7 7 0 0 0 0 0
Andrae Thurman 1 6 0 6 6 0 0 0 0 0
Jermaine Jones 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0

Kicking

Player Extra pt. Extra pt. Att. FG FGA Long Pct. Pts
Todd Sievers 115 119 8 13 49 0.615 139
Dustin Bell 11 17 0 1 -- -- 11

Playoff Stats

Offense

Quarterback

Player Comp. Att. Comp% Yards TD's INT's

Running Backs

Player Car. Yards Avg. TD's Long

Wide Receivers

Player Rec. Yards Avg. TD's Long

Special Teams

Kick Return

Player Ret Yards Avg Long

Kicking

Player Extra pt. Extra pt. Att. FG FGA Long Pts

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Playoffs

Week 2: vs Columbus Destroyers

1 2 3 4 Total
(6) CLB 21 7 17 21 66
(1) DAL 21 17 0 21 59

at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas

The Destroyers blew a 30-point lead and lost to the Desperados earlier this season 53-51 and they lost the 2nd game in Columbus 56-47. This time, it looked as if Dallas, after a shaky start ,would continue their dominance over the Destroyers. Leading 38-28 at the half, the tide turned on back-to-back kickoffs by Columbus kicker Peter Martinez. Dallas, who had deferred, got the opening kickoff. However, the ball bounced off the goalpost and into the hands of Columbus' Josh Bush. On the very next kickoff, a nearly identical play occurred when the ball again bounced off the goalpost and Columbus recovered at the 4-yard line. On the next play, Damien Groce ran the ball in to give Columbus a sudden 42-38 lead 58 seconds into the second half. After a Clint Dolezel interception set up a field goal for Columbus, Jason Shelley put the game away with a 28-yard reception with 12:55 left in the game to give Columbus a 2-touchdown lead that they held onto to pull off the upset against the Desperados.

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