Topic: 🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈 - page 196. (Read 57664 times)

How much to join and and when will the league begin? If it is cheap I will certainly join. I know I am very sure to lose hehe. I am only a casual fan who has only recently tried to follow the sport more closely.

Signed up!

OK I have sent the invite link to Hueristic and nutildah already, lets see if everything is working correctly and they can join the league, I hope we can at least get to 8 members so we can have some additional fun during this season, also it seems I can name another member of the league as a League Manager  and we could manage the league together so if anyone would like the spot just let me know.

Count me in.




Whatever everyone wants afa as this goes is good with me.

Sure, consider me interested and thanks for taking the initiative. I'm not picky about the exact specifications... perhaps we just leave everything as default as possible in the interest of remaining neutral. I'm also pretty open for what people want to do for a prize, or not.

I remembered why I didn't want to play last year:


 

While most likely I am not the best for the job I took the liberty to create a fantasy league on ESPN.

Everything can be changed but tentatively there is a limit of 8 teams, it can be increased if needed, and I selected the Non-PPR scoring as that seemed to be a point of contention for some possible participants one year ago, everything else has been left at the default settings which is I think common practice, but if someone wants a change on some setting we can talk about it here with the community.

The most important points to discuss now are whether this will be just for fun and bragging rights or will we make a small betting pool as well? If it is the latter then we need to get a trusted escrow, second we need to decide on the date, hour and the way the draft will be conducted, I know this is going to be difficult taking into account that we live on different countries but we will have to find a way to make it work.

For those interested PM for the invite link.

The Julio Jones who would the Falcons trade him to saga appears to be over:

source: https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1401564030691647489
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I'm down for a fantasy league this year, count me in.

Yeah, pre-season is just a couple of months away, but it still seems like an eternity.  Lucky for me I do appreciate soccer.  Right after the NFL is over the English Premier League is in the final third of it's season, then America's MLS starts before the EPL ends.  It's not the same at all, though.  Football is literally an addiction for me.  I suffer withdrawals and depression when the season ends.  No joke.

I'll leave you with this:

Yesterday
football season seemed so far away
Now it looks as if its the same way
Can't believe football's still far away.

Don't want to hear about alternate leagues or other sports. If its not NFL, its trash. That's my new hot take. Except for some heavyweight division boxing and MMA competitions, those are a-ight. Sometimes.

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Should we attempt to do a Forum Fantasy League this year? We can make it a whole thing. I think someone was running one last year in this section... but they probably wouldn't mind if we did one as well.

However, it appears that the Jaguars is preparing a year of big profit after a bad season during the corona virus. They have Trevor Lawrence no.1 pick, Travis Etienne might be rookie of the year and Tim Tebow an asset to attract fans. This makes me support Jacksonville to reach the playoff hehehe.

Odds for Travis Etienne to be rookie of the year is 27.00 and Jaguars to reach playoff is 4.00 hehe.

Yeah between playing minor league ball and broadcasting.  Seems like a perfect fit to play tight end in the NFL when you never suited up even in the position before.  I'd be pissed if I was a fringe tight end and get cut because that guy showed up.

His enthusiasm and competitiveness can be helpful in the locker room, and it's been said he has the personality of a "natural leader."  It could be that Urban Meyer wants Tim's influence on Trevor Lawrence for that reason alone.  Of course there's no guarantee he'll make the 53-man roster.  Summer training camps might be the only Tebowing we see this season.

I thought he's in his 40s so I had to look it up. He's 33 and apparently he spent the last 5 years trying to become a baseball player.

Tebow is only a story because...I don't know why lol.  People are fascinated with him.  He is a sub par professional athlete who was good in college.  Linebackers aren't going to have an issue covering Timmy.  He never played a snap of tight end in college, he must have some juice on urban lol.

If I remember correctly many years ago Belichick tried to make Tebow make the transition to a TE during training camp, at the end he was not signed but this was a sign that something like this could eventually happen.

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In other news the 2021 NFL schedule has been released, I did not had the time to take a close look at the schedule of the best teams but I took a look at the schedule of NE and at least it is not as difficult as it was last year, however the difficulty raises up significantly on week 10.

However what a lot of people wanted to know was when we will see the Brady vs Belichick grudge match? And this will happen on October 3rd the 4th week on the NFL calendar.

source: https://www.nfl.com/news/jaguars-expected-to-sign-former-qb-turned-te-tim-tebow-to-one-year-deal

Where would you rank him in your fantasy mock draft, before or after Kelce? 

Now seriously, i thought this was rumors only, a pr stunt or something, but they're actually going to sign him, as a TE...why though???

If Urban Meyer wants him around the team, why can't they just add him as an assistant, staff (or perhaps water boy), this is an insult to all the TEs in the league.

This happened basically because of the media, immediately after the trade that put the 49ers at the third spot on this draft there was a report they were after Jones, it seems the 49ers from the very beginning were after Lance but they let the rumour take place as it played on their favour, but this created a very negative reaction from the media, but why was that? As we know the media is completely in love with Mahomes and his style of playing, this has died down a little bit after his defeat against Brady but it is still there, so when the media began to compare them Lance always came up favourably and they could not believe the 49ers would select Jones over Lance.

Another factor is that the 49ers are going through the opposite of what the Patriots fans are going through, in our case we have had a pocket passer for a very long time with tremendous success so when we see someone like Cam that can barely throw the football we immediately want to go back to the winning formula which is a pocket passer in our case so we were not against having Garoppolo back or getting Jones, but the experience of the 49ers is the opposite even if Garoppolo has done a good job he has been unable to remain healthy and so they want someone that can move in the pocket like Montana or Young, has a big arm and can extend plays, and Lance is better than Jones on those aspects.

NFL experts, what team had the best 2021 draft? From first round, I reckon Jacksonville did very good because of their 1st and 25th picks. However, I also read comments from social media that the Bears won the jackpot because of Justin Fields. Others say it the Patriots or 49ers. How can we know who had the best?

https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft/rounds

I wanna know how Bill orchestrated this?


Man the Pats know how to underpay!

Amusingly San Fran originally was going to pick Jones to replace Garoppolo until the fanbase lost their minds for some reason (if someone can explain this to me i'd appreciate it).