Football

[Ran]

My work league drafted Thursday. After the draft, one of the new guys asked me if I wanted to be in another league that drafted Sunday. I passed because it was $100 to join. The next day he said he was impressed with my draft in our league and that he would pay my entry fee in that other league if I gave him half the winnings. I agreed, but they found someone else to fill the last spot.

I picked 6th out of 12 teams. My team ended up like this:
QB: Eli Manning
RB: Jeremy Hill (kept him for a 15th round pick), Jamal Charles, Gio Bernard, K. Davis, D. Freeman (I didn't want to draft a Falcons' RB, but did anyway)
WR: AJ Green, D. Hopkins, Keenan Allen, J Landry, Larry Fitzgerald
TE: Kyle Rudolph, Heath Miller (Usually I'm against drafting 2 TEs, but it happened)
K: J Tucker
St Louis' Defense

Overall I'm happy. I wish I waited a little longer on QB. I don't value QBs as high as WR and RB. Still pissed about taking a Falcon's RB.

[jjreason]

The only pool i'm settled into so far is a suicide wins pool - I have carolina in week 1 because I'll get hit by a car if I pick against the bears to start the year.

[Tom Foolery]

So our 14 person league consists of seven managers and seven employees.

One of the employees proposed a trade to me today. I give him Marshawn Lynch and he gives me Mike Crabtree(Oakland WR) and a Dallas RB so far down the list I can't even remember his name. I lol'd and responded
"You want to trade me garbage off your bench for arguably the best Back in the league? Lol. Pass."

One of the other employees dropped Alex Smith for Tim Tebow. Then had to drop Tebow for Derek Carr since Teebs didn't even make the 53 roster. Hahah.

But I am seriously hurting in the WR dept.
what do you think of Stevie Johnson in SD? Good underdog pick?

[Slicker]

One of the other employees dropped Alex Smith for Tim Tebow. Then had to drop Tebow for Derek Carr since Teebs didn't even make the 53 roster. Hahah.

This is one of the reasons why people need to wait to do their drafts. This and injuries. How many people had their draft boned when Jordy Nelson went down? But people will do anything to try and rush the beginning of the football season so they'll do drafts even before the preseason.

[Ran]

Stevie Johnson is somewhere around the 50th best WR. He's going to be the #2 WR in SD. It sounds like you have people in your league that don't know what they are doing. Try trading Brady or your extra kicker to the guy who has Carr for one of his WRs. You can find a backup QB or K for the week your starter is on his bye.

[Slicker]

I completely agree with trading a great QB for a WR or RB. Most every QB will get you 15-20 points per week and the good ones may get you 20-25. A good WR or RB will get you 20 points by themselves per week whereas a normal one will get you maybe 10 on a good day. Whenever I draft I always go for a WR or RB with my 1st and 2nd picks and then get whatever starting QB is left.

[vynsane]

yeah, totally. sports.

[Ran]

My first 7 picks are usually RB and WR. The drop off in points isn't as great among QBs as it is with RBs and WRs, so I'm willing to take the 8-12th best QB if it means getting top RBs and WRs. I'm happy with a middle of the road TE. Typically I'll grab a top 10 defense, then add/drop the defenses and just play best match-up.

[Tom Foolery]

Oh man, our draft was all over the place.
One guy picked up Brees and P Manning as his 1st and 2nd picks. Where's that guy's head at?
Other guys were just letting the auto-pick do it's work.
Still other guys were just trying to screw our General Manager over and pick Colts because that's his fave team.

And then there were just dumb people not knowing what they were doing. And it was a snake draft and I was third in line.
So having any kind of plan was screwed from the get go. Knowing I would have to wait 22 picks followed by 2 almost back to back definitely had me adjusting my attack.

In the meantime, someone dropped Edelman and I'm hoping to snag him on waivers. Then I'll have Torrey Smith, Edelman, and Sammy Watkins. That's a decent WR lineup. Considering I've got top shelf at the other positions.

One kid was unhappy with his entire lineup and said he might not worry about this league since he's in others. I told him if that's the case I'd trade him some bench garbage for Gronkowski behind everyone's back.

I was gonna pick up Detroit's TE as my backup but then realized Seattle and Detroit have the same bye week so what would be the point.

[Tom Foolery]

What the Everest-climbing-fuck, Detroit?!?

[jjreason]

Super ugly. But they have the same record as Seattle which can't be all bad, can it?

[Slicker]

In my shop I've got one of the exact reasons why the NFL doesn't give a fuck what it does because the fans will always watch. He's a Bills fan. That's fine. But while the game was going one he has numerous pages open reading about every play and he's also watching a game on TV and watching all of the other scores. When it came half time he got up on the shelf and put his ear right near the TV (it's really loud where I work) so he could hear about all of the other scores. He constantly tries to talk to me about football when I've repeatedly told him a) I'm a Lions fan b) if it's not the Lions I don't care and c) I'll survive without knowing it. The NFL knows that they've got people by the nuts such as this therefore they don't care what they do or how stupid they are with off field issues. The people that actually watch the games don't care about the off field shit.

[Ran]

I quit watching any of the pre-game shows last year. They are pointless. This weekend DirecTV had free Sunday Ticket, so I watched the Bills game, then switched over to the Red Zone channel as I did other stuff. By the Sunday night game, I had enough football and didn't care about who was playing.

For the rest of the season, I'll pretty much just put on NFL Network after the games start because they just bounce around talking about all the ongoing games. At some point during the day I'll watch the highlights. The Bills haven't made the playoffs in over 15 years, so I haven't watched much of the playoffs. It is hard to watch when you don't care about the teams. Hockey is different for me. I can watch it as long as it is a decent match up.

[Slicker]

I like watching Detroit...but if I miss the game I won't lose sleep over it. But he was watching games just because it was football. And hockey makes for good background noise so I'll usually put a game on if I see one is on.

[Diabolical]

I like watching Detroit...

Goddamn liar. Nobody likes watching the Lions. People do because they feel like they have to.