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On the first post poll: If were talking favorite fantasy universe to be in or play, Im writing in the Warcraft series or Pokemon.

If were talking entertainment value from watching, Ill abstain bc I actually havent seen over half the list >_>

damn Seahawks are destroying me, did not expect 90 points in this game

cmon Vikings don't let the red rifle beat you just bc you're in redcoat territory

Miami Dolphins
Minnesota Vikings

Week 4
Cleveland Browns
Dallas Cowboys
Detroit Lions
Tennessee Titans
New York Giants
Philadelphia Eagles
New York Jets
Buffalo Bills
Los Angeles Chargers
Carolina Panthers
Green Bay Packers
Las Vegas Raiders
Kansas City Chiefs
San Francisco 49ers

I wonder when the last time was that I picked the Jets, the Giants and the Lions in the same week. maybe never..?

^sorry, maybe slightly confusing, don't want to edit though. the TB is just for 'tiebreaker', def picking chiefs not Tampa Bay

Browns: 28
Seahawks: 20

TB:
Bills
Chiefs

tag

the best week and the saddest tiebreaker. I'll take it I guess

Can I advance off a Miami underdog pick two weeks in a row?

Level 3:
Miami (+3.5)
Detroit (-4.5)

Bonus: Bills

Miami Dolphins
Minnesota Vikings

Thorn posted...

if nfl offenses always played hurry-up scores would be like 90-84

I think the rest time non-hurry-up provides offenses (and both opposite units on the sidelines) is valuable; you'd see more mistakes and out of sync plays without it, and probably more sacks from tired O line. It's the opportunity to enforce when the hurry-up happens that makes it like ez mode.

Also afc south 3-0 against the afc west today just saying. Group of death?

aww man Tua

there goes my level 2 pick in all likelihood

I'm telling you, my tiebreaker score not gonna be pretty.

Let's try both sides of a single game this week...

Saints - 21
Panthers - 20

TB: Raiders

def not touching either of those other two games

Level 2: Miami

Bonus: that's a mean question. I'll go with 2.

Might as well make Buf/Mia even more fun to watch!

Ravens for posterity

Cleveland Browns

Week 3
Chicago Bears
Las Vegas Raiders
Kansas City Chiefs
Buffalo Bills
Minnesota Vikings
Cincinnati Bengals
Philadelphia Eagles
New Orleans Saints
Los Angeles Chargers
Los Angeles Rams
Atlanta Falcons
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
San Francisco 49ers
New York Giants

Cleveland Browns

Here's a fun note for everybody's tiebreaker except Han:

https://twitter.com/nextgenstats/status/1571651858686709761?s=46&t=KRLiVokzkbbmvwu90tY0gw

Level 1 - Packers
Bonus: 5

may change to one of the 4 o'clock games depending on how I feel during the early window

LA Chargers

Week 2
Cleveland Browns
Detroit Lions
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
New York Giants
New England Patriots
Indianapolis Colts
Baltimore Ravens
Los Angeles Rams
San Francisco 49ers
Cincinnati Bengals
Denver Broncos
Las Vegas Raiders
Green Bay Packers
Buffalo Bills
Philadelphia Eagles

6-10 but on a knife's edge from 10-6. what a week 1

LA Chargers

hmm I wonder if the sum of my tiebreaker score and my leaderboard score will be positive by the end of the year...

Patriots 14
Rams 27

Tiebreaker:
Browns
Raiders

since I wasn't around to post this yesterday

just want to say that I fully blame the Titans loss on the --delay of game-- near the end of the last series. inexcusable

Edit: sorry, I mean letting the play clock run down and having to use the timeout to avoid a delay of game

Evan McPherson started that game by making the longest field goal of any Bengals players ever.

What a game of twists and turns

This is why I just take the points in division rivalries

2 ties in week one?

aww man I was pretty proud of that Falcons pick

Zac Taylor is not a good coach

latest proof: not challenging easy call Chase TD & instead snapping quickly just to do the most predictable goal-line run call & lose 2 yards

Colts are losing

...I am amused.

The media this week will be much more fun

Bills

Week 1
Atlanta Falcons
San Francisco 49ers
Cincinnati Bengals
Philadelphia Eagles
Miami Dolphins
Baltimore Ravens
Jacksonville Jaguars
Carolina Panthers
Indianapolis Colts
Tennessee Titans
Green Bay Packers
Kansas City Chiefs
Las Vegas Raiders
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Denver Broncos

WiggumFan267 posted...

hey there

not to co-opt this but if you also felt like playing in a version of ladder league with like 100 people that a few people and I created a dedicated website to host it please give it a try here:
http://ladderleague.us

just sign up with an account
then join:
League Name: Public League
Password: publicleague

I often wondered if someone would do this. Interesting to see it carried out. Props!

Titans

not the safest pick, but looks like a busy year for me. maybe going out would be a blessing

LeonhartFour posted...

AFC North

1. Bengals
2. Ravens
3. Steelers
4. Browns

AFC South

1. Titans
2. Colts
3. Jaguars
4. Texans

Not gonna lie, definitely worried about the Titans. Losing AJ Brown is a big blow to the offense and Landry being out for the season is a big blow on defense. I'm just tired of the Colts though. Every year since Luck retired, people keep expecting them to be better than they are, and I'm not a believer in Matt Ryan. Jaguars might be sneaky not terrible this season. The Texans will be not so sneaky terrible.

Some reply comments...

I like the Bengals team on paper, but do they buck the super bowl loser hangover trend while also competing against a Ravens team that can't possibly be as injured as last year? Although Lamar is obviously essential, I would also say if their secondary stays healthy, yikes that is a scary team to play.

On the Titans... I've found it consistently hilarious & typical this offseason how much people have written off the Titans. It's like by losing AJ Brown we are back at square 1 even though actually, not much besides that changed and passing was never the identity of the team. Will there be a gap left by Brown? Sure, but there's no reason Titans won't be pushing Colts for first place in the division.

And the Colts, I do think Matt Ryan is potentially the best of the one-year QBs they've had the last three years, but you're 100% right that the Colts are always the media darling for some reason in terms of predicting their ascension. It seems like given equal situations people just favor the Colts by default for some reason.

And real quick on the Saints - I think it's still the Bucs division. Dennis Allen doesn't seem a coach who will reign in Jameis. Probably more like (ironically?) when he was on the Bucs

any guesses what the top score will be at the end of the season?

less than 100? around 150? 200+?

well I have no idea how to strategize what order to pick teams in for this so uh...

Jets - 13 points
Falcons - 17 points

Bonus:
Packers

Level 1 - Colts
Bonus: No

sure, the Ravens are more of a lock, but the Colts making me wrong by losing would be way funnier

Bills

Down to be a replacement if you need someone!

Is there a B8 fantasy football league?

I run a lot of leagues on Sleeper, could make one if there's interest

Leonhart4 posted...

He doesn't have to do much for them to get more than 3 wins with the talent they have

I second this... Eagles and Saints are two teams with LOADED rosters that may just be held back by coaches or injuries

Crescent-Moon posted...

I think it's not that they signed him that's so offensive. It's that they signed him to ridiculous amount of guaranteed money, but also made it so being suspended would cost him nothing. That's what makes it feel so much worse to a lot of people. I actually think it's a good thing for the NFL (and sports in general) if Watson did nothing to live up to that contract.

I.... think it's that they signed him at all. The money made it worse, but money aside, and this year aside, the team basically forced fans to ask themselves, do I care about winning more than care about rooting for someone who has allegedly done these things? and not just rooting for the team with him on it, but have him be the center of it all, the face of the franchise? Have my kids wear his jersey? etc. And the answer for a lot of people is no.

Granted, fans have turned a blind eye to similar things before, but in this case, there's no hiding it, there's no pretending that he's just a cog in the machine of the team and the team isn't really about that. He will touch the ball on every play, he will be in all the promos, he will be in all the media clips. And then beyond that, you have to sign up to be behind future decisions made by a front office that thought this decision was an okay one.