🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈

[suchmoon]

The one big move this year was Saquon Barkley moving to the Eagles.  I think that'll be huge for his numbers this year compared to last.  If Breece Hall had not been available it would have been a tough choice for me between Saquon and JT.  Both are a bit of a gamble this year anyway.  I figured you might have been struggling with the same indecision.

I was hoping you would go for a receiver in the second, and leave Kyren Williams for me.  I had him above Isiah Pacheco, actually.  And for the third round I knew if I took Deebo you would have taken Allen, so I took Allen left Deebo for you.  

I was 100% determined to get two RBs first. We'll see how that works out. JT over SB... I think both have a substantial chance to miss half a season with injuries so it's a roll of a dice.

I would not have taken a QB until round 6 though, but thanks for being so considerate and leaving Deebo for me

[DireWolfM14]

I would not have taken a QB until round 6 though, but thanks for being so considerate and leaving Deebo for me

In the mock drafts I did Josh Allen would always be gone before my 4th pick, and since I wasn't getting CMC (and passing Tyreek Hill) I figure I'd at least get the most consistently productive QB in the third.  I hope It doesn't come back to bite me seeing as how my WR corps need upgrading already. 

[morvillz7z]

HAHAHA, I took Mosert over Achane, should be interesting at the end of the season to see how bad a decision that was!

Given that Mostert and Monty are typically taken in the sixth or seventh round, seeing them both drafted so early and ahead of Achane/Gibbs is unexpected.

There is no chance Mostert sniffs anything close to 20+ TDs again. Achane has been getting crazy praise in training camp, citing "being involved in everything", he is likely the Dolphins' third-best pass-catcher, and Jaylen Wright has also looked awesome in preseason.

I love my team, but when i check at what everyone else has, i see stacked teams everywhere...man, i hate 10-team leagues.  


Btw, didn't we have two IR spots last year, or i'm trippin'?*

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Btw, didn't we have two IR spots last year, or i'm tripping?

you be trippin!

Yeah, it was another league...

[Hueristic]

Btw, didn't we have two IR spots last year, or i'm tripping?

you be trippin!

[nutildah]

I love my team, but when i check at what everyone else has, i see stacked teams everywhere...man, i hate 10-team leagues.  

Don't worry, by Week 4 we'll all have lost at least 1 star player, some of us will be more hurting than others. This competition is a game of attrition & the talent scouting of replacements is just as important as the draft itself.

Btw, didn't we have two IR spots last year, or i'm tripping?

you be trippin!

Weird because I had 2 IR spots in 1 league for sure, guess it was the other one.

[DireWolfM14]

Btw, didn't we have two IR spots last year, or i'm tripping?

you be trippin!

I only remember one last year.  Maybe the first year we had two?  IDK.

With 12 players having two IR spots would be nice, but with 10 players 1 seems plenty.  Going back to 10 players after having had 12 last year makes it so obvious how fewer participants allows you to stack your team.

Not that it makes that big of difference in the long run, we all have stacked teams so it'll just result in higher scoring games.

I don't know if you guys saw this; sportsbet has a prediction contest for Thursday's opening game, and giving away free bets to the three most accurate predictions.  Usually you have to be enrolled in one of their pools to participate, but there's no such restriction for this week's contest.  I'd like to see how your predictions go. 

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5507739.msg64476410#msg64476410

[Hueristic]

Btw, didn't we have two IR spots last year, or i'm tripping?

you be trippin!

Haha, nope, your not trippin, Reading comprehension failure on my part.

I thought I read that we didn't have 2 IR spots last year.

Weird because I had 2 IR spots in 1 league for sure, guess it was the other one.

No, my bad yes we have 2 IR spots just like last year.

The only settings that were changed can be seen on the league main page at the bottom where Yahoo displays any change made by the commish.

Here is the list of changes made for this year which is basically none except 12 to 10 teams.

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    Custom snaking draft order set for all rounds

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    Draft Order changed from 'random' to 'custom'

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    5 days ago

    Draft Time changed from '' to 'Sat Aug 31 9:00pm EDT'

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    5 days ago

    Draft Type changed from 'Offline' to 'Live'

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    Aug 17 2:14 pm

    League Pickem changed from 'Yes' to 'No'

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    Aug 17 2:10 pm

    Unique URL set to 'https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/bitcointalk2024'

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    Aug 17 2:09 pm

    Max Teams changed from '12' to '10'

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    Aug 17 2:06 pm

    removed Saylor Jerkers from league

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    Aug 17 2:05 pm

    removed tẁΈńtĩώãn from league 

I don't know if you guys saw this; sportsbet has a prediction contest for Thursday's opening game, and giving away free bets to the three most accurate predictions.  Usually you have to be enrolled in one of their pools to participate, but there's no such restriction for this week's contest.  I'd like to see how your predictions go. 

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5507739.msg64476410#msg64476410

Cool, i'll have to do this tomorrow while checking out the other one.

[yahoo62278]

The one big move this year was Saquon Barkley moving to the Eagles.  I think that'll be huge for his numbers this year compared to last.  If Breece Hall had not been available it would have been a tough choice for me between Saquon and JT.  Both are a bit of a gamble this year anyway.  I figured you might have been struggling with the same indecision.

I was hoping you would go for a receiver in the second, and leave Kyren Williams for me.  I had him above Isiah Pacheco, actually.  And for the third round I knew if I took Deebo you would have taken Allen, so I took Allen left Deebo for you.  

I was 100% determined to get two RBs first. We'll see how that works out. JT over SB... I think both have a substantial chance to miss half a season with injuries so it's a roll of a dice.

I would not have taken a QB until round 6 though, but thanks for being so considerate and leaving Deebo for me

JT will get a lot more touches if Anthony Richardson goes down again for the season. I think if both stay healthy, JT gets less touches as more passes will be called and AR will be running a little.

2 more days!!!!

[South Park]

No, my bad yes we have 2 IR spots just like last year.

The only settings that were changed can be seen on the league main page at the bottom where Yahoo displays any change made by the commish.

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Just checked and I could add two players to the IR without dropping anyone.

The only season in which we had one IR spot was the first one, in which you and I got completely decimated by injuries and this was the first rule change we asked for.

[bbc.reporter]

Is it only 5 minutes before your draft? Good luck to everyone, please share your draft picks later hehehehe. I very much regret not joining this year.

https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/595995/draftresults

shit man you should have joined us in discord.

was a good time, would have like to see you there.

Hehehe I have forgotten about this. Is the discord presently more active? It was very silent before.

I will find my password and log in again. There will certainly be live games that will bring laughter for this season. This might be the Chiefs vs. the 49ers for the AFC vs. NFC games, this will be on October 20. The Chiefs will not be lucky again similar to their luck during the superbowl.

Also, thursday night football might tell the fans that in the regular season, the Ravens will standover everyone in AFC.

[Hueristic]

Is it only 5 minutes before your draft? Good luck to everyone, please share your draft picks later hehehehe. I very much regret not joining this year.

https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/595995/draftresults

shit man you should have joined us in discord.

was a good time, would have like to see you there.

Hehehe I have forgotten about this. Is the discord presently more active? It was very silent before.

I will find my password and log in again. There will certainly be live games that will bring laughter for this season. This might be the Chiefs vs. the 49ers for the AFC vs. NFC games, this will be on October 20. The Chiefs will not be lucky again similar to their luck during the superbowl.

Also, thursday night football might tell the fans that in the regular season, the Ravens will standover everyone in AFC.

It was pretty funny, here's a snippit.

[DireWolfM14]

It was pretty funny, here's a snippit.

I should have kept my mouth shut about Mason.  He's going to be special, this might be his year.  I would put him in que in all my mock drafts just to see if anyone snagged him, but he always went undrafted.  I was even thinking of just letting him slide into waivers but I knew Hueristic or morvillz7z would have him on their radar, so I was going to take him with my last pick.

Still pissed about that!  

[Hueristic]

It was pretty funny, here's a snippit.

I should have kept my mouth shut about Mason.  He's going to be special, this might be his year.  I would put him in que in all my mock drafts just to see if anyone snagged him, but he always went undrafted.  I was even thinking of just letting him slide into waivers but I knew Hueristic or morvillz7z would have him on their radar, so I was going to take him with my last pick.

Still pissed about that!  

It didn't matter man I was grabbing him there already so all you could have done is taken him earlier so you didn't change what I was going to do. I just thought it would be funny to play dumb and then snag him.

[DireWolfM14]

I just thought it would be funny to play dumb and then snag him.

Am I really that predictable?   

[Hueristic]

I just thought it would be funny to play dumb and then snag him.

Am I really that predictable?   

San Fran Fan ... so I knew right away it was Mason

[ChiBitCTy]

For posterity, so we can look back at this later and laugh at how inaccurate it was (like every season):



Would have really liked to pick up Achane and J. Allen but as the Rolling Stones once said, "You can't always get what you want."

BTW the strategy of not picking a Kicker or a DEF... interesting.

I never keep the same defense throughout the year so I never worry about drafting defenses.  Rather draft more receivers or running backs amd figure out the defense situation at game time.  Definately went a different direction than I wanted but I guess we will see where this lands.  I like my top 3 wide outs, jjettas, Garrett Wilson and advantage Adam's isn't a bad trio to roll out weekly. Running back has to over perform for me this year to compete.

Where did you find this at?  I'm pretty sure I saw that my draft grade was an A+ which I'm actually completely unhappy about.  Typically draft grades, unless they've recently changed it, is based off of whom THEY think will be the best performers, esssentially you always got a better draft grade if you went and selected the next person on the list, or draft board.  I surely didn't do that, so maybe it's a little "smarter" than it's always been.

Can't believe tomorrow is kick off for the season, so EXCITED!!  Pretty sweet we've got a good game on Friday as well!

[bbc.reporter]

Who is Eli-2 Brady-0? He is last to pick on the draft? If this is yes, then it appears that he made very good picks on Justin Jefferson on the 1st round, Garret Wilson on 2nd round and Travis Kelce on the 3rd round heheheh. I thought everyone would want to be picking Justin Jefferson after Christian McCaffrey. However, I reckon CeeDee Lamb, Tyreek Hill, Breece Hall, Bijan Robinson and Jonathan Taylor all very good picks after Christian McCaffrey on the 1st round.

[DireWolfM14]

Who is Eli-2 Brady-0?

The only Giants fan among us. 

I thought everyone would want to be picking Justin Jefferson after Christian McCaffrey. However, I reckon CeeDee Lamb, Tyreek Hill, Breece Hall, Bijan Robinson and Jonathan Taylor all very good picks after Christian McCaffrey on the 1st round.

I remember Justin Jefferson was all the rage before last year's draft, but he kind of turned out to be run-of-the-mill in most of the games he played.  I don't blame him so much as his situation.  He also missed a bunch of games last year due to injuries.  Also, 2022 and 2023 he was playing his ass off to win a fat contract since his rookie contract was about the expire.  Now that he has that fat contract...  It's sad to say but in the past it has affected a player's psyche.  It's unknow what affect that will have on him, but I think that's one of the reasons his stock fell this year.

wheelz1200 may have scored big by picking him up, only time will tell.

[Hueristic]

.. I thought everyone would want to be picking Justin Jefferson ...

Cousins went to Falcons and the new rook they drafted to replace him got season ending injury in pre season so the poor guy has Sam Donald now.
And what DW said.


And in other news:

https://x.com/i/status/1831062077500440879

[DireWolfM14]

https://x.com/i/status/1831062077500440879

Lol, the underhand Hail Mary.