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QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Oct 21, 2014 -> 03:34 PM) Nah, it's because Calvin Johnson and Vernon Davis were my 1st and 3rd RD picks and they've both been hurt all year. I'm losing games well within the margin of those 2 guys being healthy. Add to that Frank Gore and Zac Stacy were my RB1 and RB2 and they've been both horrendous over the past few weeks. I drafted a pretty solid team, one that should have me at least over .500 right now, but those injuries and those 2 RB have just murdered me in winnable games. Vernon Davis as a 3rd round pick and relying on Gore/Stacy as your top 2 RBs is exactly the reason you are 1-6. I'm with you on Calvin though, he was my 2nd round pick and hasn't helped me at all since Week 2.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 19, 2014 -> 08:40 PM) I read the rule plenty of times before last night, but I reread it last night, and based on that and the field level angle I'm 100% certain that Mike is incorrect. What about the ACC commissioner? He's wrong too? Even noted homers Mike Golic and Lou Holtz have defended the call. But they're also wrong?

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 18, 2014 -> 11:50 PM) OK, nobody ever gets to complain about ND getting all the calls after that. This is hilarious. It was the most obvious OPI possible. I was watching the game with two die-hard ND fans who are often irrational and they were extremely dejected afterwards because even they knew it was the correct call. I love that ND's gift opening TD goes unmentioned too. Phantom face mask call. Awful spot on 3rd down to give them a first. Phantom DPI in the end zone to set up first and goal. But forget all that, everyone is and was and always will be out to get ND. QUOTE (kev211 @ Oct 19, 2014 -> 12:57 PM) The call was right. It just should've been overlooked in that situation. Let the players decide the game. If it's the right call it shouldn't have been overlooked. Period.

QUOTE (Brian @ Oct 17, 2014 -> 08:25 AM) Sounds like a WWE name. Or a porn name. It's pretty terrible, but he is the #5 ranked recruit in the country

QUOTE (JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Oct 17, 2014 -> 08:32 AM) Any help here??? Crowell has the best chance at a TD. That's gonna be a 65/35 or so split in the Cleveland backfield and Jacksonville is terrible stopping the run

Diamond Stone cut Duke and his final list is now UConn, Oklahoma State, Maryland and Wisconsin. Strange final four.

I love the Thursday games because it's something to watch, but I agree the quality isn't the best. I agree with scheduling them off byes. Have the opener on a Thursday night in Week 1 then start them up again in week 5 and run it through the end of byes in Week 13 or 14.

Need some opinions on this trade. Gotta give slight background to our league. It's my main one with friends that has been running for 7 or 8 years now. It's a slight keeper league. We have 20 rounds in the draft and anyone drafted in rounds 14-20 is keeper eligible and can be traded with the designation still intact. You are allowed to keep up to 3 players every year. I say this because involved in the deal is Julius Thomas as a 16th round keeper. It is PPR and the QB can play in the FLEX spot. All TDs are worth 6 points. Someone offered me Drew Brees, Jordan Reed and Roy Helu for Julius Thomas (K), Alex Smith, Rashad Jennings and Keenan Allen. Thoughts?

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 16, 2014 -> 01:40 AM) Shane Vereen or Keenan Allen this week? Vereen if PPR, Allen otherwise

QUOTE (Brian @ Oct 15, 2014 -> 09:33 AM) Yahoo waiver is screwed up today. Taking my league elsewhere next year after this and they screwed up our draft. Still leaps and bounds better than ESPN, which is complete trash. I've never played on CBS, NFL.com, Flea Flicker etc. so I'm not sure if there are actually better options.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 15, 2014 -> 09:07 AM) I'm not defending the hospital one bit. I've been saying they f***ed up from basically the beginning. Where did you get that? I'm saying "it's not spreading in any unusual way and there's no reason for this silly panic". You responded to a statement about precautions not being taken at the facility by redirecting to the people the man came into contact with on the outside. It seemed like a deflection. I agree with your second statement, but it appears that either through negligence or ignorance, the hospital also messed this up.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 15, 2014 -> 08:41 AM) Take a second and actually think. How many people were in contact with Mr. Duncan before he got to the hospital? Remember all the family and children that were quarantined and the closed schools for decontamination? 0 cases out of them so far and by statements today they've "passed the point of greatest risk". People who were living with him so far are uncontaminated. Why are you trying so hard to defend the hospital? It's pretty obvious precautions and procedures were not followed as they should have been. There are statements from workers backing that up that they were given changing and conflicting orders during this mess.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Oct 15, 2014 -> 01:07 AM) We finally got a pick-up date on our American Brittany puppy. We get her Oct. 26th. She is obviously still alive as of last Wednesday when my dad called the breeder. My dad just bought a second cage that is apparently going to go in my room, in addition to the one in the kitchen. I'm not sure why he wants one in my room, maybe so I become the one to take her out in the middle of the night or something, but I am worried she is going to s*** in her cage a few times and then my small room will stink and I won't be able to sleep. Not loving the idea, although I do like being able to form that close bond with her sleeping next to me each night. We'll see how it goes and I guess worst case scenario I just make her sleep in the cage in the kitchen until we house train her at least. If it goes to the bathroom just clean it? In all sincerity though, puppies don't want to eliminate in their spaces. We have a 4 month old puppy now and outside of the first night, it has only gone to the bathroom in it's kennel or playpen twice, and only one of those times was in the evening. It'll be fine.

QUOTE (staxx @ Oct 15, 2014 -> 01:02 AM) just got offered this: Jimmy Graham and Rashad Jennings for Jordan Reed and Andre Ellington If both were healthy i'd do this in a heartbeat. However, I don't have the RB depth (have Murray, but others are Sankey, Stacy, K.Robinson). Not sure what to do right now. Unless you're like 2-4 right now, I'd take it. Winning in weeks 14-16 is more important than weeks 7-8

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Oct 14, 2014 -> 01:57 PM) Vernon Davis or Dwayne Allen this week? Calvin Johnson or Terrance Williams? Davis and Williams. Calvin isn't going to play. Edit: No, go with Allen. Too many pass catching options in SF and I can't trust Kaepernick at all. Luck is going to throw a ton all year long and he has a lot of faith in Allen, especially in the red zone.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 14, 2014 -> 11:55 AM) Your RBs aren't that good. That's why. You have a bunch of guys who can get you 10-20 points a week when things go their way, but you don't have a guy who will definitely get you 10-20 points a week (Jamaal Charles, Demarco Murray, Matt Forte, etc.). Same with the WRs outside of Dez. A bunch of guys who could (and should) be good but have been very disappointing so far

Todd Gurley is back at practice and there's rumblings he will be reinstated by Saturday. No proof he took money. I think the same is going to apply to Winston. While it's significantly more likely these two took money for their autographs rather than not, the burden of proving it is difficult without pictures/videos.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 12, 2014 -> 11:38 PM) Had to look it up myself. Looks like a lesser Avengers, core members are Hulk, Sub-Mariner(Namor) and Dr Strange. I thought I read that his movie rights were actually owned by someone else

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 14, 2014 -> 12:40 AM) I bet he's out this weekend but gets reinstated Monday Much more likely he's benched following the game while the "investigation continues". FSU has no more ranked teams after ND until presumably the playoffs so it would give them time to attempt to clear him while they have much easier opponents

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 14, 2014 -> 06:37 AM) 3rd last second pick six on the weekend with major gambling implications Yep. Personally got me the over.

Got lucky in one of my two money leagues last night. Went in up 15 and the other guy had Gore and Dawson (K) left. They combined for 12.8 points so I unexpectedly squeaked by. Haven't had great luck the past couple years so I'll take it

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 13, 2014 -> 12:27 PM) I actually think they are pretty decent. They'll probably lose one of those games though cause NFL. Agreed. They are a legit team finally. They have a great O-line and 2 good RBs. Hoyer appears to be a very competent game manager and they have a play making TE and hopefully one of the leagues best WR's coming back soon. Pretty good defense too. This could be a playoff team and I'd love to see it

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Oct 13, 2014 -> 11:34 AM) I am a Rams fan. Cowboys and Rams. 2 teams. That's weird to me. I'm a Chiefs fan and I root for other teams to do well for varying reasons (Browns and Eagles for example), but I can't imagine dealing with fandom for multiple teams. One let down is more than enough for me.

There have been several pretty interesting results in these Euro Qualifiers. Personally, I love it and love that the tournament is expanding in size, but I wonder if some of the big nations not having great showings is due to less pressure of each match to qualify.

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Oct 12, 2014 -> 07:53 PM) Just want to point out both Gates and Royal had touchdowns today and Keenan continues to be invisible. BTW that's 13 TD's for Royal in the past 21 games. At some point it's more of reality than aberration. Eddie Royal had 18 career TDs coming into this season in his 6 year career. Last year he had 8. 5 came in the first two games and the other 3 came in the last 14 games. So yeah, I'm going to take his 70+ game career more seriously than a 3 or 4 game TD hot streak. If you want to go ahead and buy it, good luck to you, but I'm personally not buying Eddie Royal.