I wish I could claim some kind of perfect insight into saying yes to this trade, but it seemed like a marginal improvement over what I had so I jumped at it. I got that and plenty more. I should probably buy a lotto ticket tonight…
I’m kind of astounded. After starting 0-2, I figured I was done for. I was even making plans to announce a fire sale if I lost in Week 3. But now pretty much everybody is 2-2 and I imagine the rest of the season is up for grabs.
Yup, I deliberately made the last minute QB switch when the news came out that Cutler was active.
I’m still not hugely worried about it because Abdullah is obviously the long-term answer in Detroit but Freeman will probably still be splitting reps with Coleman when the latter comes back. But still.
I dont’ think that Abdullah is ever going to be the sole “long term answer” anymore than Coleman and Freeman are. He could become a very good Bush-esque change of pace back, but I don’t see him ever being a “the guy” RB. However, I could see Coleman doing that.
furt said the same thing earlier in the thread, because he thought he’s 190 pounds (he’s 205). Honestly, if I was surprised by anything in this trade, it was that the Falcons would be willing to run the ball near the goal line. They never have before (though to be fair I did not take Kyle Shanahan into account).
This has to be among the lowest scoring weeks the league has ever had. A lot of good teams put up very bad scores.
RNATB is going to lose, which takes the sting off my loss a little, but my loss is a divisional loss so not so much.
I need Calvin Johnson to score 12.14 points, which would be a given in previous years but not so much in this one, for Varlos to beat Petey, keeping me afloat in the division.
This was just a terrible week for established NFL players. In almost every game it was backups and scrubs doing the scoring; case in point, Khiry Robinson vulturing Ingram’s TD last night. If you were starting Devonta Freeman, you won; if you owned Jeremy Hill and were desperate enough to leave him in the lineup, you won; otherwise, there were no points out there.
Of my four SDMB teams, two currently have 63 points or less with one player left, and the other two have 81.4 points. This is the only one that could plausibly finish with more than 90, and even that would require a relatively big night for a kicker.
Weirdly, I scored 110 points in my no-PPR, no fractional points money league, despite leaving Jeremy Hill on the bench (I had Freeman playing in that one, along with Doug Martin).
ETA: Holy shit, dale is going to be in first place by himself in our division. Nobody would have predicted that.
Actually, if I could pick starters better this would have been a heartbreak week:
If I chose Larry Donnell over Max Williams, which I should have seen coming, and
if I chose Rashad Jennings over Bilal Powell, which is reasonable, and
if I chose Tavon Austin over Carlos Hyde, which is a stretch but not unthinkable,
I would have lost 129.65 to 129.46. Ouch!
I could have won if I did all that AND started the Giants DEF instead of Jets or Buffalo, but I wouldn’t have done that in a million years.
I shouted a curse word at the end of regulation in MNF last night, which my Kicker missed the game-winning FG. It was a 4 point swing, and I badly needed those 4 points.
Across my leagues, I’m like 70 or 80 points down in kicker score. I hate kickers.
Well, I would have predicted that.
Wow. I win because Calvin Johnson fumbles on the goal line.
I pick up Ted McGinn at the last minute and he gets the same as Calvin Johnson and Cobb combined.
YOU’VE GOTTA BE FUCKING KIDDING Me. JESUS CUNTSUCKING FUCK.
Jesus. And evidently the refs missed an “illegal bat” that would’ve nullified the turnover and given the Lions (and Johnson) another chance at the goalline.
Yeah, that hurt me too, Varlos, since it could’ve meant Petey getting stuck well at the bottom of the division.
Results are pretty funky after 4 weeks. Average scores by division are:
Northeast: 474
Midwest: 461
Sunbelt 447
Stringer is actually currently in 12th place, which seems impossible with his roster. And it’s not a total matchup fluke - he’s 9th in points scored. Dale is on top of the Sunbelt division, and the Northeast Corridor is in a 4 way tie.
I really don’t know how this year is going to shake out. I’m going to count myself lucky if I squeak into the playoffs with my utterly devastated roster full of injuries and suspensions.
Random note: Travis Benjamin is the #4 scoring receiver so far this year. He’d probably be good for one 50+ yard bomb TD a game if Manziel were starting.
1.01 here we come!
Your record is a fluke and I think you and I may be contending for the wildcard down the stretch. And I’m not a huge fan of my chances from where I sit now.
I very much disagree, my team is quite bad!
Well, Antonio Brown is clearly not Antonio Brown without Roethlisberger (his 5 catch/50 yard streak was snapped one game into the Vick era), Forsett and CJ Anderson were obviously flukes last year, Jimmy Graham doesn’t fit the Seahawks’ offense, Marshawn Lynch is injured and was already ineffective, and Arian Foster is rusty as fuck.
Other than Gates coming off suspension and Foster working back into form, I don’t see a huge improvement coming. I think you’ll be competitive the rest of the way, but not dominant like before.
Just a few more losses and I’ll be trading away everyone, so come knocking in about a month.