At 10/5/09 11:29 PM, EternitySpent wrote: Brett Favre is a beast.

I couldn't believe that game. The passion he brought in was ridiculous. It's funny how someone can play for 19 years and still be as passionate about it as he was the day he got drafted. He's truly a piece of work. No matter what team you follow, you've got to admire the guy.

A couple of news to report.

Michael Crabtree has FINALLY signed with the 49ers, and the Browns have agreed to a trade with the Jets which would send Braylon Edwards to New York for Jason Trusnik, Chansi Stuckey and a couple of draft picks.

Come on Mich, when are we gonna see the update so we know where we stand?

At 10/7/09 07:47 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: Come on Mich, when are we gonna see the update so we know where we stand?

He said that he was busy with army "stuff" I hope to see someone update it soon, i want to see ho i did last week.

At 10/7/09 10:11 AM, pepeatumi wrote: A couple of news to report.

Michael Crabtree has FINALLY signed with the 49ers

I hate all the stupid drafts picks who hold out. It doesn't do anything but hurt the reputation and sends the other teams good mesages when you hold out. Damn spoiled players.

Well, since our rubber tire friend is acting like a Firestone tire lately and since I saved all the data from last week, I figured I'll go ahead and update the standings. Some notes: if there was a tie I sorted by rankings from last week and then by alphabetical order.

Week 4 Standings

Most Wins This Week:
TheThing - 12 wins

Most Losses This Week:
36Holla and Tluck-Person - 6 losses

[Rank] [ W - L ] [ Win% ] [ User, Win% Rank ]
>>>01 ] [ 45 - 16 ] [ .738% ] [ TheBlackDahliaMurder, 2 ]
>>>--- ] [ 45 - 16 ] [ .738% ] [ Molotov, 3 ]
>>>03 ] [ 44 - 17 ] [ .721% ] [ 36Holla, 1 ]
>>>04 ] [ 43 - 18 ] [ .705% ] [ pepeatumi, 3 ]
>>>05 ] [ 42 - 19 ] [ .689% ] [ reverend, 4 ]
>>>06 ] [ 41 - 20 ] [ .672% ] [ Fro, 5 ]
>>>--- ] [ 41 - 20 ] [ .672% ] [ jonthomson, 5 ]
>>>08 ] [ 39 - 22 ] [ .639% ] [ EternitySpent, 9 ]
>>>09 ] [ 38 - 23 ] [ .623% ] [ Tluck-Person, 5 ]

>>>10 ] [ 25 - 21 ] [ .543% ] [ SlntCobra1, 10 ]
>>>11 ] [ 27 - 18 ] [ .600% ] [ michelinman, 11 ]
>>>12 ] [ 25 - _5 ] [ .833% ] [ TheThing, -- ]
>>>13 ] [ 20 - 10 ] [ .667% ] [ idiot-buster, 12 ]
>>>14 ] [ 19 - 10 ] [ .655% ] [ Crashman, 13 ]

Week 5 Schedule:
Cleveland at Buffalo -
Dallas at Kansas City -
Minnesota at St. Louis -
Oakland at NY Giants -
Tampa Bay at Philadelphia -
Pittsburgh at Detroit -
Washington at Carolina -
Cincinnati at Baltimore -
Atlanta at San Francisco -
Jacksonville at Seattle -
Houston at Arizona -
New England at Denver -
Indianapolis at Tennessee -
NY Jets at Miami -

Bye: Chicago, Green Bay, New Orleans, San Diego

Most Losses This Week:
36Holla and Tluck-Person - 6 losses

Ugh, nothing went right this week.

Cleveland at Buffalo - Buffalo
Dallas at Kansas City - Dallas
Minnesota at St. Louis - Minnesota
Oakland at NY Giants - Giants
Tampa Bay at Philadelphia - Philly
Pittsburgh at Detroit - Pittsburgh
Washington at Carolina - Carolina
Cincinnati at Baltimore - Baltimore
Atlanta at San Francisco - San Fran
Jacksonville at Seattle - Jacksonville
Houston at Arizona - Houston
New England at Denver - New England
Indianapolis at Tennessee - Indy
NY Jets at Miami - Jets

At 10/7/09 09:14 PM, reverend wrote: [Rank] [ W - L ] [ Win% ] [ User, Win% Rank ]

>>>10 ] [ 25 - 21 ] [ .543% ] [ SlntCobra1, 10 ]

Week 5 Schedule:
Cleveland at Buffalo - Eh, not my cup of tea, but I'll got with the Bills on this one.
Dallas at Kansas City - Cowboys over Chiefs
Minnesota at St. Louis - Vikings, Favre
Oakland at NY Giants - Giants.
Tampa Bay at Philadelphia - Eagles
Pittsburgh at Detroit - Steelers
Washington at Carolina - Carolina
Cincinnati at Baltimore - Ravens
Atlanta at San Francisco - Falcons
Jacksonville at Seattle - Seahawks
Houston at Arizona - Cardinals
New England at Denver - New England
Indianapolis at Tennessee - Colts
NY Jets at Miami - Dolphins

Bye: Chicago, Green Bay, New Orleans, San Diego

WTF is up with these "byes" recently?! NO ONE HAS EXPLAINED THIS TO ME YET!

At 10/7/09 09:57 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: WTF is up with these "byes" recently?! NO ONE HAS EXPLAINED THIS TO ME YET!

The correct term is 'bye week'. The NFL season is 17 weeks but teams only play 16 games. A bye is a team's week off. In the playoffs, the top rated team in each conference will receive a 'bye' advance to the next round of the playoff, as a reward for having the best record. Essentially, the teams don't play that week.

I list them as a convenience so people will know who is playing and who is not.

Cleveland at Buffalo -

Bills

Dallas at Kansas City -

Cowboys

Minnesota at St. Louis -

Vikings

Oakland at NY Giants -

Giants

Tampa Bay at Philadelphia -

Eagles

Pittsburgh at Detroit -

Steelers

Washington at Carolina -

Panthers

Cincinnati at Baltimore -

Ravens

Atlanta at San Francisco -

49rs

Jacksonville at Seattle -

Jaguars

Houston at Arizona -

Cardinals

New England at Denver -

Patriots

Indianapolis at Tennessee -

Colts

NY Jets at Miami -

Jets

Bye: Chicago, Green Bay, New Orleans, San Diego

Lol at who doesn't know what a bye week is. XD

At 10/7/09 09:14 PM, reverend wrote: Most Wins This Week:
TheThing - 12 wins

To bad I'm not that awesome with fantasy teams.

[Rank] [ W - L ] [ Win% ] [ User, Win% Rank ]

Shouldn't it be ranked by win percentage? A few people have come in late, and they will never be able to trump those who've had an extra few weeks. Yeah, I know that'll put me in first, but there are other people who are in similar predicaments.

Week 5 Schedule:
Cleveland at Buffalo
This is the Toilet Bowl for the week. Hell, I can't even get excited about my own team anymore, but if we can't win this one... Bills.

Dallas at Kansas City
Cowboys blow out the Chiefs.

Minnesota at St. Louis
Again, a blowout. Minnesota

Oakland at NY Giants
Giants in yet another blowout.

Tampa Bay at Philadelphia
Eagles, and another blowout?

Pittsburgh at Detroit
Jesus, the picks are just too easy this week - Steelers.

Washington at Carolina
Another Toilet Bowl. I guess Washington.

Cincinnati at Baltimore
Ravens is a closer than expected game.

Atlanta at San Francisco
49ers are hot right now.

Jacksonville at Seattle
Jaguars, the lesser of the 2 sucks.

Houston at Arizona
Cardinals. It's amazing how much individual talent the Texans have, yet still suck.

New England at Denver
New England sends the Broncos their first of many losses this season.

Indianapolis at Tennessee
Colts. Not even close with how hot Manning is right now.

NY Jets at Miami
The Jets destroy the Fish.

Buffalo
Dallas
Minnesota
NY Giants
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Carolina
Baltimore -
San Francisco
Seattle
Arizona
Denver
Indianapolis
Miami

Week 5 Picks
Ravens
Bills
Redskins
Steelers
Cowboys
Giants
Eagles
Vikings
49er's
Cardinals
Patriots
Jaguars
Colts
Jets

At 10/8/09 12:06 AM, TheThing wrote: Shouldn't it be ranked by win percentage? A few people have come in late, and they will never be able to trump those who've had an extra few weeks. Yeah, I know that'll put me in first, but there are other people who are in similar predicaments.

It is but you have to take in account of how many games picked. Right now every on who is on par has picked 61 games. Every one below has picked 46, 45, 30, 30, 29, respectively, so it's not really fair to just base it on winning percentage. Maybe I could rank the rift raft peeps regardless of amount of games picked ... I dunno.

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Week 5 Schedule:
Cleveland at Buffalo - Bills
Dallas at Kansas City - Cowboys
Minnesota at St. Louis - Vikings
Oakland at NY Giants - Giants
Tampa Bay at Philadelphia - Eagles
Pittsburgh at Detroit - Steelers
Washington at Carolina - Panthers
Cincinnati at Baltimore - Ravens
Atlanta at San Francisco - 49ers
Jacksonville at Seattle - Seahawks
Houston at Arizona - Cardinals
New England at Denver - Broncos!
Indianapolis at Tennessee - Colts
NY Jets at Miami - Dolphins!

Libel anyone?

Buffalo Bills > Cleveland Browns
Pittsburgh Steelers > Detroit Lions
Dallas Cowboys > Kansas City Chiefs
Minnesota Vikings > St. Louis Rams
New York Giants > Oakland Raiders
Philadelphia Eagles > Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Carolina Panthers > Washington Redskins
Baltimore Ravens > Cincinnati Bengals
Atlanta Falcons > San Francisco 49ers
New England Patriots > Denver Broncos
Arizona Cardinals > Houston Texans
Jacksonville Jaguars > Seattle Seahawks
Indianapolis Colts > Tennessee Titans
New York Jets > Miami Dolphins

Cleveland at Buffalo - Buffalo
Dallas at Kansas City - Dallas
Minnesota at St. Louis - Minnesota
Oakland at NY Giants - NY Giants
Tampa Bay at Philadelphia - Philadelphia
Pittsburgh at Detroit - Pittsburgh
Washington at Carolina - Carolina
Cincinnati at Baltimore - Baltimore
Atlanta at San Francisco - Atlanta
Jacksonville at Seattle - Jacksonville
Houston at Arizona - Arizona
New England at Denver - New England
Indianapolis at Tennessee - Indianapolis
NY Jets at Miami - NY Jets

San Diego

Cleveland at Buffalo -

Buffalo

Dallas at Kansas City -

Dallas

Minnesota at St. Louis -

Minnesota

Oakland at NY Giants -

NY Giants

Tampa Bay at Philadelphia -

Philadelphia

Pittsburgh at Detroit -

Pittsburgh

Washington at Carolina -

Washington

Cincinnati at Baltimore -

Baltimore

Atlanta at San Francisco -

San Francisco

Jacksonville at Seattle -

Jacksonville

Houston at Arizona -

Arizona

New England at Denver -

New England

Indianapolis at Tennessee -

Indianapolis

NY Jets at Miami -

Miami

Bye: Chicago, Green Bay, New Orleans, San Diego

At 10/8/09 11:45 AM, Idiot-Finder wrote: Libel anyone?

Rage mode initiated, trolling commenced.

At 10/8/09 04:45 PM, Molotov wrote:

San Diego

Up yours Molotov.

<3

Damn Chargers are on a bye week. At least theres MLB playoffs.

At 10/8/09 08:59 PM, TheThing wrote:

At 10/8/09 11:45 AM, Idiot-Finder wrote: Libel anyone?

Rage mode initiated, trolling commenced.

http://www.truemuscle.com/steroids/walte r-payton-could-have-died-of-steroid-abus e/2008

I'd take it with entire container of salt.

Week 5 Schedule:
Cleveland at Buffalo - Hopefully. HOPEFULLY an easy win for Buffalo.

Dallas at Kansas City - Dallas

Minnesota at St. Louis - Minnesota Brettkings

Oakland at NY Giants - NY Giants

Tampa Bay at Philadelphia - McNabbs back. Philly.

Pittsburgh at Detroit - UPSET Detroit!!

Washington at Carolina - Carolina

Cincinnati at Baltimore - Baltimore

Atlanta at San Francisco - San Francisco

Jacksonville at Seattle - Jacksonville

Houston at Arizona - Houston

New England at Denver - Denver Defense

Indianapolis at Tennessee - Indy

NY Jets at Miami - Jets

Bye: Chicago, Green Bay, New Orleans, San Diego

Let's not forget about making picks for UFL games. Apparently, it's the new rival to the NFL (or an attempt to be a developmental league). :P

Anyways, my obligatory college football post for this week:

Key Games:
Boston College at 5 Virginia Tech
17 Auburn at Arkansas
Wisconsin at 9 Ohio State
13 Oregon at UCLA
Michigan at 12 Iowa
3 Alabama at 20 Ole Miss
1 Flordia at 4 LSU

If I were to pick an upset, BC over VTech would be it. It seems to happen to each other every year.

This week has been all about Tebow and will he or won't he play for the huge match up verses LSU. If he was smart and wants a future career in the NFL he would sit out this week because one more hit like he took it's game over.

Sam Bradford (Oklahoma) will play verses Baylor which will be his tune up before the huge rivalry game against Texas. Hopefully the defense will decide to show up this week.

At 10/9/09 11:14 AM, DELUCA2400 wrote: Oakland at NY Giants - Giants Even without Eli the Giants are still going to win.

He actually practiced today, so its looking good for the Giants.

Happy birthday asshole.

At 10/10/09 11:30 AM, Molotov wrote: Happy birthday asshole.

I'm sure you would love to do that to the guy who made a negative video about Walter Payton.

Man. I actually cannot wait to watch the Giants destroy the Raiders this week, just because being on the upper East coast I never get to watch Raiders games (especially now that I'm not at home and don't have a TV). Been trying to use SOPCast, TVAnts and the like to stream live games but the connection is so choppy it really hasn't been worth it, so i've just been keeping up with live box scores and such. Better than nothing.

Prolly gonna try and cop a seat in my friend's room because I know he's a huge Giants fan. Even if I have to sit and endure shit from him while watching how inevitably poor pretty much the entire team will perform, getting to watch them is good enough for me. Still waiting for Chaz Schilens to come back from his foot injury, but at this point he might as well just take all the time he needs. JaMarcus can't even get the ball off to Zach Miller, and Miller is an amazing talent at TE stuck in a shithole offense.

Swung a nice trade in NG FFB, managed to dump Thomas Jones, Larry Johnson, Zach Miller and Pierre Garcon and turn that into Brandon Jacobs, Jonathan Stewart and Tony Gonzalez. Really changes the entire look of my team, which, now that most of my best guys have had their bye weeks, is looking fairly strong.

QB - McNabb, Garrard
WR - Andre Johnson, Boldin, Mike Sims-Walker, Kevin Walter
RB - Jacobs, Westbrook, Stewart, Michael Bush, Sammy Morris, Jerome Harrison
TE - Brent Celek, Tony Gonzo
K - Jeff Reed (but i tend to go week-to-week with kickers)
DEF - Pittsburgh, San Francisco (again, generally a week-to-week call)

maybe I'll actually nail down a playoff spot this year. football isn't really my game, fantasy-wise.

Personally, I'll be keepin' an eye on how the Pats split carries now without Fred Taylor. I expect Sammy Morris to end up getting the bulk in the long run, which is why I picked him up over Laurence Maroney. Maroney was a late-round flyer of mine, but has shown jack shit on-field as usual, so I can't really expect them to once again try and make him a featured back. BenJarvus Green-Ellis could be a wild card here, too.

I'm interested in seeing how the Saints will split carries amongst their backs now too, now that everyone is going to be healthy coming up after this bye week. Tough call on how to split carries amongst 3 good backs, but I think Pierre Thomas gets the bulk of the carries, Reggie Bush takes on a Kevin-Faulk-type role as a change-of-pace back, and Mike Bell gets a Le'Ron-McClain-type job as a goal-line bruiser/short-yardage back.

Jets are another interesting conundrum. I got rid of Thomas Jones knowing full well that at some point this season he's going to lose a good portion of the carries he's getting now, as is obvious from his declining agility and speed and the organization's newfound commitment as Leon Washington as an eventual every-down back (which I fully support, because he's always been fast as hell). But there's also Shonn Greene to worry about. I feel like by the time the end of the year rolls around, it'll be Greene and Washington getting a good majority of the carries, with Jones being relegated to light running duties.

As for KC's RB sitchu...I'm glad I got rid of Larry Johnson. I had held out some hope for a grand return to past years when I drafted him this year, but 2.7 YPC ain't gonna cut it, especially in the KC offense (or lack thereof). Todd Haley is fucking batshit though, so it could be a while before Johnson gets phased out of the offense in favor of a Jamaal Charles. That's what happens when you drop a kickoff return the first time you touch the ball in a game. Haley was saying he might not even activate Charles to play, that's how pissed he is about that muffed catch.

I feel like this year has seen a lot of failures in the RBBC scheme. Miami of course has it nailed down as always with Ronnie Brown and Sticky Icky Ricky, and Baltimore once again is doin' it with Rice, McGahee and a little sprinkle of Le'Ron McClain. But pretty much everywhere else it hasn't been working out.

- Dallas hasn't been able to keep it going with Barber/Felix Jones/Tasard Choice because of constant injuries to at least one per week
- Oakland's ground game has nothing and DMac got injured
- Washington barely gets to use Clinton Portis because of how fucked up his body is at this point (bone spurs in both ankles, shoulder pains, etc.) so Ladell Betts is getting play as a full-time back, which he isn't.
- The Giants haven't really opened up the ground game yet, but Jacobs has been receiving the bulk of the carries anyway, although Bradshaw is so fast he really doesn't need an equal amount of carries to produce well.
- Denver's RB committee is sorting itself out now thanks to injuries and ineffectiveness, but for the most part it's been a conundrum all season with Moreno, Buckhalter, Hillis, Jordan and others
- the Pats have their ridiculous RBBC
- the Titans seem to have relegated LenDale White to backup-RB amounts of carries per game, basically giving Chris Johnson the ability to show off his talent as a full-time back
- Purple Jesus has taken over in Minny and Chester Taylor really gets most of his time riding the pine or getting change-of-pace plays.
- San Diego hasn't gotten the ground game off at all; LT is still hurtin', Sproles is too small to be able to play as an every-down back.
- Tampa's three-headed beast of Cadillac Williams, Derrick Ward and Earnest Graham is floundering.
- Indy's pairing of Donald Brown and Joseph Addai has been a lukewarm success at best, and Addai is really looking like a one-year wonder these days, but since Peyton is so fucking good, his arm makes up for whatever failures the running game has presented thus far
- Arizona has no running game whatsoever with Hightower and Beanie Wells; their offense has looked fairly stifled all year thus far, but playing the Texans this week should bring about a lot of offense, although most of it is likely to come by the pass
- Cleveland's RB situation is just straight ugly; Jamal Lewis is constantly hurting and it might be time for him to think about getting ready to call it career; Jerome Harrison is fairly mediocre but ends up with somewhat gaudy numbers because they're now throwing him 25-30 carries a game because their passing game is still in shambles and they have no other backs
- Carolina can't get the offense running like it was last year with Stewart and DeAngelo Williams, especially since Delhomme looks pretty much cooked, and Stewart has been dealing with foot/toe injuries all season so far, leaving Williams to try and create the entire offense himself, and we've seen how that's been going

Really, at this point the only successful RBBCs are appearing to be Philly (which appears inevitable between McCoy and Westbrook), Pittsburgh (which suddenly has a running game now that Mendenhall decided to show up as an NFL RB and Fast Willie is still hobbled by turf toe, leaving Mewelde Moore to get some changeup carries), Nawlins, Baltimore, and Miami. I guess you could argue the Giants or Jets too, but right now both of them are depending mostly on their stifling defenses to take care of most of the game (and for the Giants, their passing game has really taken over). Buffalo remains to be seen, but I think Freddie Jax and Lynch will work out.

All I can say is that it's a strange fucking fantasy year when backs like Rock Cartwright, Heath Evans, Patrick Cobbs, Laurence Maroney and LaRod Stevens-Howling all have produced more at RB than LaDainian Tomlinson.

At 10/10/09 04:32 PM, Buddhist wrote: Man. I actually cannot wait to watch the Giants destroy the Raiders this week, just because being on the upper East coast I never get to watch Raiders games (especially now that I'm not at home and don't have a TV). Been trying to use SOPCast, TVAnts and the like to stream live games but the connection is so choppy it really hasn't been worth it, so i've just been keeping up with live box scores and such. Better than nothing.

funny that the feed that we can supposedly get to watch any game outside the US (which is fucking pricey) has epically failed basically every week. so i'll just watch whatever sky has.

but this week's game will not be pretty.

Cleveland at Buffalo - Bills
Dallas at Kansas City - Chiefs (No joke)
Minnesota at St. Louis - Vikings
Oakland at NY Giants - Giants
Tampa Bay at Philadelphia - Eagles
Pittsburgh at Detroit - Steelers
Washington at Carolina - Panthers
Cincinnati at Baltimore - Bengals (Again, no joke)
Atlanta at San Francisco - 49ers
Jacksonville at Seattle - Jaguars
Houston at Arizona - Cardinals
New England at Denver - Patriots
Indianapolis at Tennessee - Colts
NY Jets at Miami - Jets