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by krytime on Sep 16, 2009 4:42 PM EDT Comment 21 comments

Here’s some questions/comments I have. As always, if I broach upon a topic that one of you have already have, then I apologize for not giving you props for it….

This past weekend, I went two and one in fantasy football (the loss a butt whooping in my Rumblings league), four and two for plus seventy five in a fake betting league, one and oh in a suicide league, and rank fourth out of nine in a confidence pool. Oh, plus I’m atop the leader board in the Rumblings Pick ‘em. Nevertheless, I’d have traded all of that "success" for one particular CB to just...fall...down.

Special Teams had a bad week if you ask me. Bobby April is an angry man I’m betting.

T.O. and Evans need to play better. That’s a lot of money spent for five receptions and less than 75 yards. AVP did a nice job with the overall game plan, but going forward he must figure out a way to get those two involved more.

I thought the officials made some terrible calls, but they were fair about it, so I won’t complain much here.

Please tell me John McCargo is not going to end up on a milk carton again.

Poz’s injury has him listed as being out indefinitely. They say it’s not as bad as last time, but what does that mean - that he’ll be out for only ten weeks instead of the whole season? When is he supposed to have surgery on it? I’ll admit, I don’t have good feelings about this. Every time I refresh the Rumblings page, I’m afraid I’ll see a new headline, something to the affect "Poz done for season".

[Self editing note - I just heard that Poz had the surgery, and will be out six weeks]

Speaking of Poz, I thought they should inquire about extending his contract. He’s got the rest of this year and next. I’m taking that thought back. He's got to stay healthy to get a new contract in my opinion. By the time his third season will be over, he may have only played in about half of his team's games. That's not good enough bang for the buck...

Did Youboty play at all? Why did I not see him? Is that how Byrd saw so much time?

Am I the only one who thinks Buffalo -5 this week is one of the safest picks on board? I don’t think much of Tampa Bay at all…

How many plays did Nelson get? Not enough in my opinion. I want to see more of him this week against the Bucs, even if Fine is supposed to be ready.

I got my season tickets in hand the other day. Nice design I guess. The first thing that struck me is why is the opener ticket is double the size of the rest? I don’t know why, but I don’t like it. The second thing I noticed is that each ticket after the home opener featured one of the "Memorable Moments" in team history. I started reading off the "moments"…Comeback Game, 2nd AFL title, 90 AFC Championship Game, Snapping the losing streak against the Fins, Four Consecutive AFC Championships, and then…"Lights Out?" They featured the SD game from last year? I don’t get it. Who fell asleep on that one? You’re gonna tell me that in fifty years of pro football, that was a top six "Memorable Moment?" I don’t think so…not at all.

Does anyone else agree that what’s going on in SF with Crabtree kinda/sorta hurts Eugene Parker’s reputation? I hope it does. I hate that guy. The worst part is that if I ever needed an agent for anything, I’d strongly consider him.

Hey - didn’t you used to be Josh Reed? What happened to him Monday? If NE was going to take out Evans and T.O., then I thought for sure Reed would have had a stat line along the lines of six or seven for fifty some yards. Nada, zip, zilch. Was he even thrown to?

Would it hurt at all to huddle up every once in awhile? I thought Trent ran it fairly well; I just think it wouldn’t hurt to huddle every now and then.

By the way…would anyone of us ever have guessed that Trent would be about the sixth best fantasy QB this week? I’m sure some would‘ve, based only on the contention that he’d be playing from behind for fifty minutes plus. Other than that, I doubt anyone would’ve picked that to happen.

Sireric and I seemed to have a rough go of it in the Rumblings 2 league. As I mentioned above, I got whooped (my bench scored more than my starting team), but not as bad as he did (190-99). Here’s our rosters - please feel free to throw out a trade I can offer him….

McNabb Schaub

Garrard Delhomme

Flacco

Turner Gore

LT Lewis

Julius Jones R. Williams

C. Taylor Slaton

J. Morwood Wells

Housh Wayne

Ocho Owens

Marshall Driver

Walter Coles

Moore Jenkins

Galloway

Burleson

Daniels Gonzalez

Scaife

Titans Jets

Texans

Bills

Kaeding Akers

I heard of a fantasy league where if you lose, the winner gets to take any one player off of your roster in exchange for one of his. I love that idea, and wonder if it’s not too late to implement it in our league. Hint, hint Mr. Commissioner…

Madden 10 for the Wii is garbage. I want my $8.95 rental back, and the four hours of my life that I spent on that piece of poop.

Who gets more time next week - Ellis or Maybin?

And then, Harris or Palmer?

How did Buggs play a half of football at MLB and not get on the stat sheet? You can just fall down on a pile sometimes and get a tackle.

Is it too early to start talking about a Bell extension? Nothing big mind you. Maybe just a year or two…

To the person(s) who did what they did to Leo’s house - they will find you. If you were stupid enough to do that, you were probably stupid enough to tell people you did it…and I bet those people talk. And once they do, your penance will probably be a lot harsher than what it would be if you just fessed up. Not to mention, do you really want 53 overly large and athletic men angry at you? To tell the truth, I hope you don’t fess up, and your name eventually leaks out, and that frontier justice takes place…

Tailgating starts in four days! Woo-hoo!!! Weather channel says it’ll be a good day. In my tailgate, we usually go simple for the first game - dogs, burgers, sausage, etc. Someone will make a dip of some kind; maybe two. But all in all, we keep it simple for the opener.

Go Bills…

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Great mind dump, Kry.

Like you, I also thought the officials were horrible, but that it more or less evened out.

Reed had a great catch in the 2nd Q that was nullified by a penalty. After that, the problem wasn’t Reed or Trent, but that they were putting Roscoe in the slot. Still miffs me when I think about it. I’m hoping that Rosenhaus did NOT somehow work out a line in TO’s contract that forces the Bills to play Roscoe more. (/mild sarcasm)

I’m not sure about Buggs, but I don’t think he actually saw much of the field (lots of nickel and dime packages).

Here’s hoping they replace McCargo next year in the draft with a real beast.

Wouldn't it be ironic if this team imploded and it had nothing to do with TO?

by thefourwinds on Sep 16, 2009 5:06 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Considering my QBs combined for zero points, I would start there with any proposal.

No weekend spent pantsless is a wasted weekend.

by sireric on Sep 16, 2009 5:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Who would you give up for Flacco? For the record, there is no untouchable on this team.

by krytime on Sep 16, 2009 5:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’m not sure who was the bigger fluke Flacco putting up 33 or Delhome putting up -6. I think that by the end of the season those two could average out about the same. I would be willing to add Flacco, but I’m not going to give up a ton to get him either.

No weekend spent pantsless is a wasted weekend.

by sireric on Sep 16, 2009 5:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

YEAHHHHHHHHHHH BOYYYYYYYYYYYY

by Mark Parisi on Sep 16, 2009 6:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You stepped in serious crap last week. You won’t get so lucky in the rematch.

No weekend spent pantsless is a wasted weekend.

by sireric on Sep 16, 2009 7:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You’d better pray to the god of skinny punks there’s not a rematch.

by Mark Parisi on Sep 16, 2009 8:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I may be a punk, but nobody has ever accused me of being skinny.

No weekend spent pantsless is a wasted weekend.

by sireric on Sep 16, 2009 9:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

What’s that word “skinny” mean?

by krytime on Sep 16, 2009 9:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sireric and I seemed to have a rough go of it in the Rumblings 2 league.

I don’t know why you guys are complaining. I had THE most embarrassing performance in history of fantasy football. I’d make Lions look like a superbowl team.
Congrats to Parisi. Brees and Delhome really give him an amazing number of points this week.

by hightower_mc on Sep 16, 2009 8:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Pick a QB you’d like. Also, what do you think of the idea to snatch a player off of anothers roster after a win?

by krytime on Sep 16, 2009 5:43 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

it is interesting, but I guess it would have to be a unanimous vote if we were to do it.

No weekend spent pantsless is a wasted weekend.

by sireric on Sep 16, 2009 6:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Reed was thrown to

He in fact had a terrific catch for 21 yards that was negated by one of Bell’s penalties. Reed held on despite being hit by, I think, 2 guys. He wasn’t on the field much, however, as Buffalo used Jackson-Owens-Evans-Schouman-Nelson as the base offensive package for much of the night. So, in answer to your point about Nelson, he got plenty of snaps; he just was rarely thrown to. The good news is that he had some great blocks to go along with some less-than-stellar efforts.

I think the Bills need to graft some sort of alloy on Poz’s arm a la Wolverine. Hmmm….some sharp retractable claws could come in handy at the bottom of the pile.

Of course we could make things more challenging, Lisa, but then the stupider students would be in here complaining, furrowing their brows in a vain attempt to understand the situation--Seymour Skinner

by Ron From NM on Sep 16, 2009 7:00 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Now that would be a play you could"disect",Ron.

by Blaise42 on Sep 17, 2009 12:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

They put a much longer plate on it this time, he said.

Playing Realistic Optimist at Buffalo Rumblings since 2008. Ignoring the grumblings on Rumblings.

by MattRichWarren on Sep 19, 2009 8:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I love your dumps

but I hate that I feel so compelled to respond to most of it….I’ll try to keep this short…

I’d take a Bills win over fantasy wins every week. You guys have some crappy players on your teams….Galloway, Scaife, Texans, Bills, Delhomme….there’s gotta be some wavier wire players better than them!

Special Teams was pretty atrocious Monday. The return units were poor, kick coverage was bad, Moorman struggled…at least Lindell nailed a meaningful kick!

We need so much more out of the WR’s. I think TO will get his soon. Him running crossing patterns and picking up YAC is where he earns his paychecks. We need to get him with those much more often. If CB’s are going to play off him, drag him across the field or throw quick slants to him. He’s at his best when he can make something happen after the catch. Evans on the other hand just doesn’t seem like he’ll ever be anything more than a bigtime deep threat with the occasional possession capabilities. He can’t break tackles, he doesn’t pick up YAC and he’s never used much over the middle. He’ll make some big plays when we start throwing it deep to him, but I don’t know what else we should be expecting out of him.

I never think Buffalo (-anything) is ever a safe play. I’d like to believe we’re definitely going to win this week, but with this franchise, you can’t expect too much.

Nelson was on the field a lot as I recall. Lots of 2 TE sets. I hope when Fine is 100%, it’s Schouman losing reps, not Nelson. I think Nelson got a lot of Reed’s reps as we went 2 TE’s instead of 3 WR’s a lot it seemed. However, Reed also lost PT to Roscoe which is inexcusable. That’s just beyond stupid on the coaching staff’s part. If I don’t see Roscoe on offense again, I wouldn’t be mad. He does nothing when he’s out there. Reed is such a great slot option, and I really wish we could understand why Roscoe was getting time there ahead of him in NE.

Wow, those tickets are lame. I guess they wanted a recent addition to the Memorable Moments, and that is one of the few wins we had where something memorable happened. It still doesn’t make a ton of sense though…

Buggs didn’t see much time after the first few series after Poz got hurt because we went Nickel with NE passing on nearly every play.

I doubt we’ll see Harris or Palmer on D this week. Harris is more likely though. Ellis only plays if Kelsay sits out.

It costs $8.95 to rent a video game? WOW, that seems like a lot for a week rental or whatever it is. I don’t know what seems crazier, the $8.95 for a game rental or the $250 my girlfriend spent on Beatles Rockband last week.

Your tailgate isn’t going to have any pierogies? What gives?

~K
"As the governor of Louisiana once said, the only way Chris Kelsay can lose his job is if he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."

by Kurupt on Sep 17, 2009 1:33 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Galloway and Delhome I just dumped, in exchange for Mike Bush and Garrard (via trade with Kry) Scafie is very underrated IMO. Collins always looks to dump it off to him and looks his way in the red zone too. He is my back up.

No weekend spent pantsless is a wasted weekend.

by sireric on Sep 17, 2009 9:49 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You should see slants and crossing patterns

This week against the BUCS who play Tampa 2, and given their performance on Sunday against the Cowboys, they don’t play it very well (They couldn’t take away the big plays). It’s nice to be better than at least one other team on defense, gives you some perspective as to where we’re at.

by syrbillsfan on Sep 17, 2009 1:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs