JLowe
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Red River Shootout. I want to believe, but at this point I'm just hoping my team doesn't quit and the offense shows some sign of a pulse.
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Cedric Benson wants back in the NFL
And there are enough teams with shitty RB situations who should at least give him a call
He can join the other former Longhorns in Carolina
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Okay, so I just picked up Branden Oliver off the wire as a short-term replacement for Rashad Jennings. With Megatron out for at least this week, here's how my WR/RB situation looks:
RB: Branden Oliver (vs. OAK), Andre Ellington (vs. WAS), CJ Spiller (vs. NE), Doug Martin (vs. BAL), and DeMarco Murry (vs. SEA)
WR: Randall Cobb (vs. MIA), Cordarrelle Patterson (vs. DET), Andre Johnson (vs. IND)
Brian Quick and Justin Hunter, two guys that have been named as waiver wire targets by several "Fantasy Gurus", are available in my league. I feel like I should pick up another WR for insurance, in case Andre Johnson's out this week. I'm thinking it might be time to cut Martin loose, or maybe Spiller. What do you guys think?
Also, I need 2 RB, 3 WR, and a WR/RB in the flex spot. Considering the first question, as well as the fact that return yards count in my league, who should I go with this week?
Thanks!
Fred Jackson is hurt, so now isn't really the time to cut Spiller. Martin hasn't been very effective. It remains to be seen if Oliver is more than a 1 week filler.
I can't believe that Brian Quick is still available, you really should pick him up as either your #3 WR over Patterson or as your flex. If you have a back-up TE or D drop them for him IMO.
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I've always been one to use a mid-round draft pick for a dominant defense, figuring that the 5-6 ppg difference at that spot was worth more than your #4 WR at that point. But I'm starting to warm to the idea of streamer defenses (already do that with kickers to a degree), especially after getting mad points from the packers last night. Not sure yet if the success rate really carries over from week to week, as many guys are homers with their Ds.
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I'm gonna watch these matches when the GF is away tonight. No way in hell could I explain my love for goofy Japanese wrestling involving Survival Tobita...again
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Undefeated in our Emeritus league...the only free league I'm in.
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My Longhorns play Baylor at home. I may have to sneak a full pint of bourbon into the game to make it through to the end.
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Supposedly Red McCombs (big money UTexas guy and former Vikings owner) wanted Gruden as the UT football coach and had started making overtones to his people, and was thus petulant when he was essentially laughed at by the AD and other "Big Cigars".
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Heads up y'all:
Detroit has the #1 defense in the NFL.
For their sake, they better be careful celebrating that fact.
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One of the greatest parts of FunFunFun Fest is that they do 4 nights worth of FREE "Nites" shows for passholders. This includes bands already playing the festival, as well as bands brought in just for the Nites and a lot of local bands. It's another reason it's the best fest!
Here's this years list of Nites bands:http://funfunfunfest.com/nites
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Both Jonathan Stewart and Mike Tolbert are getting MRIs
With DeAngelo Williams already hurt - the Panthers have no healthy RBs at the moment
Damnit, why did Fozzy have to get hurt too! This was the chance I was hoping he would get there!
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Yesterday at about 11 am Guided By Voices announced a handful of new shows for the tail end of their current tour, including Detroit on 11/29.
About 4:30 yesterday afternoon, Guided By Voices announced they had broken up again, and the remainder of the tour is canceled.
That's So Pollard!
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I can't imagine wanting to be coked out while working in a toll booth.
When I was young, I thought The Barber was cool. Of course, I also hated Greg Valentine. I'm grown up now.
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Thought this would be an interesting idea. What are your controversial TV/movie opinions?
-Lost in Translation is an awful film saved only by Bill Murray's fine work.
-Dark City is way better than The Matrix
I agree with these two, and definitely felt that way about Dark City over Matrix at the time.
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Things I learned this weekend: Yahoo doesn't automatically fill a spot if you drop the active player and acquire a replacement on the waiver wire. 2 of my 3 Yahoo teams went without a defense because of this, and one game i will lose because of this. The shitty mobile formatting didn't help either.
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A ton of Penn State kids are celebrating at the football stadium tonight. The police are gearing up for the fairly regular riot at Penn State.
This is why they needed to shut down that program.
I went to college about 20 miles from State College. That region is brutal in so many ways. And there is almost nothing to do in that town, or within 2 hours (although I did see Public Enemy, Ice T, and House of Pain there back in '92).
Old joke: how are a porcupine and Beaver Stadium alike?
They're both full of pricks.
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Bruins, despite thinking that it's 1998 again and that defense is something that the PAC-12 just doesn't do, should beat Texas. UCLA is traditionally tough out of conference.
UT also has an atrocious offensive line, no speed at the offensive skill positions, and a starting QB who is badly limited and will likely end up at another position once we have any semblance of depth. UCLA only needs 2 TDs to win.
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EDIT - you the 4:30 games on Sunday is going to be the saddest Red Zone ever since there are only two games
That weird arc in rural east-Central Texas for the Browns cos of Johnny Hancock
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Picked up some Dogfish Head Festina Peche last weekend. First had this at a craft brew pub last year, gave it a try because I like fruity beers and I love peach. It was my first ever sour and I've been a huge fan since. The Festina Peche isn't too sour, and the peach is rather subtle. It's definitely refreshing, and if it weren't $10.50 for a 4-pack I'd probably make it my regular while it lasts.
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Hell, you could do two weeks alone on former West Texas State (which is now called West Texas A&M) football players; that program was basically Dory Funk's Amarillo fed feeder.
edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_West_Texas_A%26M_University_people
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Even as I wrote that, I had a faint memory that Wahoo was a recent WOTD. Ernie Ladd seems like the best guess. I'm going to assume that Kevin Greene doesn't count, even if he was better in the ring than Mongo.
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My Longhorns get BYU at home, in what had been considered a chance for sweet, sweet payback for last year's massacre (which led to Manny Diaz's blessed firing and ultimately Mack Brown's demise). I don't see Charlie Strong and Vance Bedford's D letting Taysom Hill embarrass us again. But I don't see our offense putting more than 10 points on the board, maybe 17 if we're given a short field by the D twice instead of the one time I'm already counting on.
10 points on offense may be optimistic after Strong's latest suspensions. Both projected OT starters.
Stolen from another board, which stole it from somewhere else:
"The Texas offensive line now consists of Jake Raulerson, a poster of Dan Neil, a barn cat, a rancid pickle and poem by Bill Little."
That all popped off last night during my last Fantasy Football draft. Rumor/speculation on an insider board I'm on is that 1-game suspension is cover and that they're gone, being given time to arrange transfer.
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OK, I'll ask, who are the top two?
Your hint is that one will be the WOTD tomorrow and the other one was wrestling before World War II
OK, so Nagurksi and...Wahoo?
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Yeah - that is the one thing I will give Mongo credit for.
He sure at least wanted to be there.
And of the footballers who went wrestling full time - he probably had the third best NFL career
(Yes - I am very Meltzian in my qualifiers there)
OK, I'll ask, who are the top two?
DVDVR Fantasy Football 2014 Catch-All Thread
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I'm in a 14-team league with too many bench slots, and the waiver wire is to the point where I think there are only 3-4 RBs on the waiver wire that are projected to score any points at all, and Peyton Hillis is the #1 guy available.