Topic: 🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈 - page 189. (Read 58743 times)

Sept. 3rd, 8 PM EST

Be there or be square.

Should the players in my team not always be in the same bye weeks?

I reckon the timer should be edited into the first post of every page by DireWolfM14 hehehe. In any case, I am excited and nervous for this. All my picks on the mock drafts I have joined do not end in the way I planned.

Should the players in my team not always be in the same bye weeks?

Let's see if I can make this simple...

Let's see if I can make this simple...

That is fine with me and I will update the league with this info, however there is a minor detail, technically speaking the east coast of the US is not observing EST(Eastern Standard Time) but the ET(Eastern Time) or more precisely EDT(Eastern Daylight Time) and the NFL and ESPN do the same, while most of the time this will not a big deal, if a member of the league unaware of this were to use one of those time zone calculators to see when the draft will be conducted at their local time and they used the EST they will arrive one hour late to the draft as EST is UTC -5 while ET and EDT are UTC -4, so I think it is more precise to say the draft will happen at Sept. 3rd, 8 PM ET? Or am I wrong with my assumption?

We also nailed down our draft time which is:

Sept. 3rd, 8 PM EST

Be there or be square.

I suggest we just use EST as our standard time. ESPN and NFL usually list game times according to EST anyway.

Don't mean to be a bummer but we talked it over and decided it's probably just best to keep things as is. Mainly because we are a newb-heavy league, some of whom have been practicing 8-team drafts already. No disrespect meant to ChiBitCTy. Next year we'll definitely do a 10-team league.

We also nailed down our draft time which is:

Sept. 3rd, 8 PM EST

Be there or be square.

Still haven't decided on a #1 pick.

Don't mean to be a bummer but we talked it over and decided it's probably just best to keep things as is. Mainly because we are a newb-heavy league, some of whom have been practicing 8-team drafts already. No disrespect meant to ChiBitCTy. Next year we'll definitely do a 10-team league.

Sept. 3rd, 8 PM EST

Be there or be square.

Sept. 3rd, 8 PM EST

Be there or be square.

Still haven't decided on a #1 pick.

I would definitely back chibit for the league.  If we could at least get this to a 10 man league that would make it more competitive.  8an leagues are OK but make the waiver wire irrelevant which should be a critical part of a championship team.  Anyone else down for a 10 man league?  We could get chibit and I could find one more forum ember for sure.

Jimmy G is terrible.

I don't think it will be very long before he loses his job.  Of course it's not like he really owns it atm anyhow, they are just bringing Lance in slowly like the Bears are with Fields.

This guy is primed for a huge year. I'm def targeting him in all my leagues.

I would be fine with any draft spot I could get.  Buy-in is no problem. I am also available to draft literally any time, any date.  If I'm being honest, 8 man leagues are pretty silly ( wheelz could back me up on that one ).  8 man means there are tons of great players on the waver wire at all times and it almost completely takes the competition out of it.  Here's just one example of why 8 man isn't fun : you're in a playoff game, you've built a great team and the team you're playing against, who completely lucked their way in to the playoffs, has a good player get hurt/suspended or whatever and now they are able to go in to the waiver wire and get a very good player that shouldn't have even been on the waiver wire in the first place.  You worked your butt off to get to the playoffs, or championship game and then some lesser team who lucked in to it in the first place easily picks up stud on the wire and ends up beating you.  That takes the competition out of it and adds more luck to the equation. In FF, you want to remove as much luck as possible. 10 man is still a little shallow for my taste, because there are still too many good players on the waiver wire, but it's much much better than 8 man.  I say with a ton of experience, you'll be very happy moving to a 10 man vs 8.  I could provide more examples why a 10 man makes a lot more sense too.  I would make 9 and I'm pretty confident we could find a 10th pretty easily.   We are still a ways out from opening day.  Would love to play w/you guys!!

Just tried to find a gif of it but the results came up with soo many Cam fumbles I can't wade through them all!

Thats gonna be that guys legacy.

Maybe the ball is made of Kryptonite?

Garapallo is done stick a fork in him.

LOL just when I was typing this Lance almost got picked then threw one to no-where.

and sacked as I hit send Doh!

First attempt; on the money, Aiyuk drops it.

What do you think Belichick would give us for him?  


Lol, yeah he is a rooky.  He's bound to make some mistakes.  Like he just fumbled as I'm writing.

It's his physical attributes where he really stands out.  Learning the offence and avoiding mistakes will come with experience.  He's obviously an intelligent kid, it's just a matter of time.

Garapallo is done stick a fork in him.

LOL just when I was typing this Lance almost got picked then threw one to no-where.

and sacked as I hit send Doh!

First attempt; on the money, Aiyuk drops it.
Second attempt; gets sacked.
Third attempt; throws the long ball to Trey Sermon for an 88 yard touchdown play.  Nice.

He's looking pretty darn good for a rooky.  His first series was against the KC's first team defense.  He took sack, which is better than making a stupid mistake.  I don't think it's going to take long before he replaces Garoppolo.  Maybe the steep price they paid to get the third over all pick is justified after all.  I know it's only pre-season, and I am trying to contain my optimism, lol.

Justin Fields had as good of a debut as Bears fans could have hoped for. I know it's a preseason game and we often overreact, but dude had some great plays, 140+ pass yards, a pass, and a rush TD (106.7 RTG), not bad for the rookie.

Lance about to take his first snap