With the Soul taking their only day off from training camp today, it would be an injustice for me to do the same. The Soul's first regular season contest in 2012 is only two weeks away from battling the VooDoo in New Orleans on March, 18th. Despite the VooDoo only collecting three wins last season (the Soul had six remember), they seem to be getting off to a pretty good start in 2012.
Yesterday the VooDoo defeated the ArenaBowl champion Jacksonville Sharks 49-28 away from Bourbon Street in a scrimmage. Yes it's only a scrimmage and the Sharks are no where near the level of talent that they had last season thanks in large part to the departures of legendary signal caller Aaron Garcia (to San Antonio Talons), leading receiver Jomo Wilson (to San Antonio Talons), top return man Jeff Hughley (to Philadelphia Soul) and First Team All-Arena DB Micheaux Robinson (to Philadelphia Soul).
The Sharks now have former Florida Gator national championship quarterback Chris Leak battling with Omar Jacobs who backed up Garcia last season for the starting QB gig. The VooDoo showed their improvement in yesterday's game as their defense allowed only one second half touchdown and scored the final 28 points in the game to win it. The VooDoo didn't commit any turnovers and scored two special teams touchdowns (a 58-yard kick-off return and a net recovery) on route to victory.
The Soul need to keep focus because of the VooDoo's impressive scrimmage performance and shouldn't sleep on the VooDoo especially on the road to start the season. With the amount of championship hype this Soul team has garnered, it would be easy to look past New Orleans, but given that the VooDoo didn't commit any turnovers and the Sharks committed three, the Soul need to be just as polished as the VooDoo in order to prove their "top dog" mentality.
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