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RE: 2015 NFL thread
August 21, 2015 at 11:39 am
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(August 21, 2015 at 8:36 am)polar bear Wrote: (August 20, 2015 at 11:30 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: The Falcons should be winning that division every year.
KB is my rookie keeper in.my $150 fantasy league. The last two years have been disastrous. I traded Marshawn away last year for draft picks because I already had AP.
Now I am down a rookie and have to use a roster move day one. I have to keep a rookie in the league if I want to keep two other players. I am keeping AP again. I can't keep two at any position, so I have to keep an injured Kelvin.
FML.
So you have to keep a rookie from last year? This is KB's 2nd year...what kind of fucked up league are you in steel? Sounds brutal.
Yep. It's a keeper league. 12 years running. You have to keep 3 players from your previous roster, none at the same position, and one has to be a rookie. I only have two rookies on my roster from last year, Benjamin and Isaiah Crowell. Since Crowell is a RB, and I am keeping Adrian Peterson, I can't keep both. So I either drop AP and keep Crowell, Emmanuel Sanders and either Philip Rivers or Zach Ertz, or keep AP, Rivers/Ertz, and a broke ass Benjamin.
My roster imploded last year after AP got suspended indefinitely. I had a dead spot on the roster (couldn't drop AP, need him this year) Ryan Mathews and Nick Foles went down, and I traded away Marshawn Lynch for draft picks at the draft because I had AP.
It is a brutal, brutal league. I got 11th out of 12 last year. Which is good, because 12 gets to have their team named by the runner up. Last year's loser is still named " Felch and Goal."
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RE: 2015 NFL thread
August 21, 2015 at 11:54 am
(August 14, 2015 at 4:45 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (August 14, 2015 at 3:37 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: Hatred (or at least strong dislike) of the Raiders is the one thing fans of all 31 other teams can agree on.
I put the Cowboys and Steelers in the same category. The Eagles too, but in that case it's more about hating the fans than the team. For some reason, every Eagles fan I have personally known is a raging douchenozzle.
I've met some cool Eagles fans. But after the Bounty Bowl, I wish we could burn their stadium to the ground every time we won in Philly -- after evacuating the fans, of course. Just burn that fucker down.
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RE: 2015 NFL thread
August 21, 2015 at 11:56 am
(August 18, 2015 at 4:19 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Gotta ask my rival Cowchip fans, are you just as annoyed that the scedual over the years lately has had the Skins and Dallas playing both games later in the season?
It used to be mostly one game near the beginning of the season and the second mid or late in the last half of the season.
Yes. Used to be we'd open Monday Night Football with a barnburner of a game. The last few years we've opened with the Giants ... just doesn't have the same juice to the game.
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RE: 2015 NFL thread
August 21, 2015 at 1:22 pm
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RE: 2015 NFL thread
August 21, 2015 at 1:54 pm
I love how Steel gave us the wikipedia link for "Felch," just in case we weren't sure of the meaning.
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RE: 2015 NFL thread
August 21, 2015 at 2:06 pm
I do what I can.
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RE: 2015 NFL thread
August 21, 2015 at 2:21 pm
(August 21, 2015 at 8:41 am)lkingpinl Wrote: I can't do FF any more! Too frustrating on Sundays  On top of that, I'm a Lions fan so I have enough frustration in the football season.....
I think wasting Barry Sanders the way they did is one of the greatest crimes committed against a sport. To draft a player of such immense talent and refuse to actually build a team around him was disgraceful.
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RE: 2015 NFL thread
August 21, 2015 at 2:24 pm
Agreed. Make up for their mismanagement by managing a team of your own!
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RE: 2015 NFL thread
August 21, 2015 at 2:31 pm
Don't even get me started on Barry Sanders. He put in seven years in the Lions, and when he finally realized he needed to be on a different team to get a ring, the fans hated him for wanting to leave. People were even wearing his jersey with his name crossed out. It was pathetic the way the Detroit fans treated him.
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RE: 2015 NFL thread
August 21, 2015 at 3:53 pm
Meh. It's hard to really blame the fans after the way the front office treated him, but I guess there is some share to go around. It was just sad to see a team with such a talented guy and still no-one feared them. Sure, Barry could break of 250 and three touches, but the Lions would still lose 31-21. I was surprised that he retired when he did (still had a bit in the tank) but I was more surprised he retired a Lion.
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