DrunkBomber

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/11541346...adrian-peterson

I thought this was an interesting graphic they used for this article.

I named my black lab The Bunny just to avoid situations like this. Here she is playing bags.

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 07:18 AM) My cousin named his beagle Bailey. http://dogtime.com/top-100-dog-names.html Apparently its the 2nd most common name for male dogs and 9th for female dogs. I just realized my uncle named his human twins the 1st and 2nd most popular male dog names, so thats something I guess.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 10, 2014 -> 11:37 AM) For me, it's a no-brainer purchase. What's missing is stuff like the EASHL which is something I never do anyway. Apparently it's a great game of hockey, the franchise mode works (which is all I ever do - the quest for Toews/Kane dual 100 point campaigns is always fun), and online play against my friends works. I picked it up yesterday, though it didn't get to spin at all because Destiny is so amazing. No worries, NHL always has a super long shelf life for me. You're a big fan of the EASHL, right Joe? If that's the case, apparently EA will be adding it back in as a patch, so you can probably just pick it up when it drops to $50 or when you can nab it for $40 on eBay. I dont think theyre adding EASHL with a patch. They plan on adding OTP which would be 5 vs 5 using real NHL teams and players with computer goalies and you wont be able to easily jump in games with your friends because it will do random matching. EASHL is basically the only game mode Ive played since NHL 10 so Ill be skipping NHL 15. What EA did on the 360 and ps3 is even worse. They released NHL 14 again and just put 15 on it. They didnt even change the menus. When I first saw gameplay I thought it was a joke. For people who just play vs or hut the next gen versions should be fine, the gameplay seems much improved. I just cant believe they couldnt get EASHL into the game, they were the only sports game to not release a next gen version in 14 because they said they didnt want to rush it and then they still cant finish the game. #FIRERAMMER on twitter will get you some entertaining reactions from fans about NHL 15.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Sep 10, 2014 -> 07:59 AM) It's not exactly the same thing, but Hope Solo is still playing professional women's soccer and is still part of the USWNT despite her incident earlier in the year Even though nobody in the NFL would ever admit it, the caliber of the player factors in on stuff like this. A team is less likely to keep around a player involved in something like this when they past their prime and likely being overpaid. If Calvin Johnson did the exact same thing the Lions wouldnt release him.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 10, 2014 -> 02:46 PM) That's just holes in the zone. http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2014090702/2...&tab=videos I agree for the most part that it was a gap in the zone but with the high throw and the fact that Woods had to leap like that and essentially landed unscathed because it looked like Conte had his head down and just missed.

Even though it looked awful I dont think many people are gonna say the Conte play cost the Bears the game, but there were a handful of plays where he was too deep and was giving up wide open passes 10-15 yards down the field. A few of them were terrible throws too, I think it was Woods who made a leaping catch right in the middle of the field and Conte was too far back to make a play on it.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 07:28 AM) I tied. How lame That was against me right? I got pretty lucky with Cam not playing. I dont know if you were watching the late MNF game last night but I had Novak and Allen going and when I was down 2 with a few minutes left and the Chargers were in FG range up 5 on third down and Rivers got sacked and it pushed them out of FG range. Fortunately Allen had a 13 yard catch to tie it at least. Also, f*** Calvin Johnson.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Sep 5, 2014 -> 01:59 PM) Last year they were 7-1 at home and 6-2 on the road. They lost by a combined 15 points in those three games. Without Percy Harvin. He would've been good for 16 points. Seattle can win on the road, it's not the past anymore. Im not necessarily disagreeing with what youre trying to say but you basically just said "Its not the past anymore" while using Seattles road record in the past as an example.

I dunno, Spiller vs the Bears rush D might not be a bad play either.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Sep 5, 2014 -> 12:24 AM) I didn't see every snap closely, but I feel like a lot of the time he wasn't on Nelson, or was I just imagining that? I feel like you'd lock him on him the entire game, no? That has to be an odd feeling. You know you are good and affected the outcome, but you didn't really do that much, so to speak. He seemed to be covering Boykin most of the game.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Sep 4, 2014 -> 11:02 PM) In my league a guy had the Manning-Demaryius combo in the opener last year... I had that combo last season in the talkbears keeper league, also had josh gordon and charles. I lost week 1.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 4, 2014 -> 09:58 PM) And some people thought he'd break down this year... Still possible, but he's got a great o-line blocking for him and he's pretty damn awesome. I dont think people are shocked to see him have a big game in week 1. However last season after week 11 he didnt have a single game with either over 100 yards or multiple tds. In the fantasy championship week he had 70 yards and 0 tds. I had him last year in a league and needed 5 points from him on MNF vs the Saints in week 13 to win and he ended with 4 points.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 3, 2014 -> 02:51 PM) Anyone have opinions on the following: QB: Brees WR: AJ Green WR: Cobb RB: Ellington RB: Vereen TE: Martellius Bennet Flx1: Ridley Flx2: Pierre Thomas Bench: Reggie Wayne Hartline Tannehill J. Stewart Dalton Bruce Ellington Anyone have an opinion on whether I should bench a patriot rb for Wayne? Its a 14 team league so my team is pretty loaded Id play Wayne over Ridley easily

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 2, 2014 -> 02:49 PM) Maybe I am misunderstanding what leaguesafe is/does. Does it only take care of the money part? Or is it a fantasy league site as well? Fanball was an alternate to ESPN/Yahoo for me, and actually had a tab where I could track the money with the owners. And if they didnt pay, i could lock their team so they couldnt access it. Ya leaguesafe is strictly for securing payments. It doesnt tie into your league at all. So you will still need to set up a free league on yahoo or espn and then just use leaguesafe for the payments.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 2, 2014 -> 02:28 PM) how does leaguesafe actually make money? Id assume just by volume. Fantasy football is an enormous business. Between the small processing fees, check fees and late payments Id imagine they do ok.

Unless by locked out you just mean that leaguesafe wont let them pay if its late. You can set a deadline to pay and then turn on "allow late payments" and if its after the date is when they have to pay the extra $10, which goes to leaguesafe and not in the prize pool. The latest you can set the deadline is Sept 16th. But you do have the option to not allow late payments but Im not really sure what would happen to your league if someone didnt pay in time and then didnt have the ability to pay late.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 2, 2014 -> 02:16 PM) Is there a point in the season where a owners team is completely locked due to nonpayment? Or is that commissioner discretion? Commish discretion. Leaguesafe isnt integrated with any ESPN or Yahoo leagues so all they really know is who has paid or not. So it depends if its people you know in the league and how much you trust them to pay late. I use it for the talkbears keeper league that been going on for like 6 years and everyone always ends up paying but there are always 2-3 who dont pay until the end of the season. I have a rule that they have to pay before the final playoff seedings are set or I will lock their team though. If its people you dont know as well youd be better served making everyone pay before the draft. The one thing I like better about Tilt is that when you set it up you tell it how many people you want to join before it "Tilts" the payment. So if you set it to 10 the first 9 people who pay arent really paying yet, it just reserves the money and then it charges everyone when the league fills up.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 1, 2014 -> 09:04 AM) Does anyone here use leaguesafe.com? I hear their commercials all the time on the score and I was wondering if their fantasy set up is nice. I used fanball.com one year and wasn't impressed enough to go back to it from the free yahoo or espn version I have used leaguesafe for years and Im overall very pleased with it. It has two ways to allocate payouts, majority vote or the commish has full discretion. There are really no fees as long as everyone pays before Sept 16th. Then Leaguesafe imposes a $10 late fee to the owner paying late. If you pay with a debit card they add a small fee to process the payment. Its like a dollar I believe. It also has an autonag option which emails people who havent paid yet and reminds them every few days. At the end of the season you can either receive payment via prepaid debit card, check or leave it in your leaguesafe account. Its also nice for keeper/rolling leagues. When a new season starts I can just reinvite people from last years league. It allows the commish to make payments for other people too. Ive had to do that a few times for people who would rather just use paypal. ESPN has a new system called Tilt also. Im trying it in one league just to see how it is. Ive already noticed its not as good as leaguesafe because it wouldnt let me pay for someone else who sent their entry fee to me on paypal.

Disappointing that NHL 15 wont have 6 vs 6 EASHL online team play on next gen. Im liking Madden though, much better than last years abortion.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 28, 2014 -> 10:11 PM) Drunkbomber's ppr league plus some other different rules. QB- Cam RB- Ben Tate RB- CJ Spiller WR- Calvin Johnson WR- Dez Bryant TE- Jason Witten Flex- Antonio Brown D- Arizona Bench WRs- Torrey Smith, Brandin Cooks RBs- Stephen Jackson, Lamar Miller, Shonn Greene, Terrance West I ended up with Kaepernick Lacy, Vereen Marshall, Keenan Allen Gronk Crabtree Nick Novak Chiefs DST Pierre Thomas, Reggie Wayne, Freeman, Shorts, Mike Evans, Deangelo Williams Probably should have drafted a backup for Gronk but you only yolo once.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Aug 28, 2014 -> 09:55 AM) Jurko sucks but I like Waddle. This

If anyone is interested in joining a 12 team $20 ppr league on ESPN thats using the new Tilt payment collection method and drafts Thursday at 9 pm central pm me.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/26356603...aded-journalist