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17 30 Without Dre and Mario, I think the Texans give a good fight, but can't hold off the Ravens for four quarters.

21 23 I think the leg of Robbie Gould wins this one.

If the Eagles don't win here, they are done. And I think they know it, and that the players-only conference may have helped some too. 24 16

I think Tampa surprises a lot of people here. If they suffer back to back blowout losses, then they're in serious trouble. But I think this is a game worth watching. Nonetheless 30 24

17 :Patriots: 31 Exactly what Ben said.

21 27 Think this should be a pretty good game, but the Bengals D gives them the advantage.

46 13 It only doesn't go higher because Green Bay just runs the ball for the entire second half.

Without Julio and with Gonzo obviously hurting? I don't think so. 31 20

Bills have the most INTs in the league. They're not exactly horrible. 31 23

What rock have you been living under?

Eefluxx for Carolina's coach?

Okay, so here's my scenario. In week 7 I am going to lose Brady, Shady McCoy, and Hakeem Nicks to byes. On my bench for replacement I have Jahvid Best, Eric Decker, and Tim Tebow. (And Victor Cruz, but he also has a bye in week 7.) Best is a solid start, he can replace McCoy. Decker is... not so much, especially with Tebow at QB. And Tebow himself is... a huge question mark. If I lose, it probably isn't that big of a deal, seeing as I'm sitting at 5-0 right now, but I'd rather try to do everything I can to win it. The QBs available in my league are, (that don't have a bye in week 7, otherwise I'd take Alex Smith from SF), Jason Campbell, who plays the Chiefs in week 7, Jay Cutler, who plays at Tampa Bay, T-Jack, who is hurt and questionable, and plays Cleveland, Matt Cassel, who plays Oakland, Colt McCoy, who plays the Seahawks, and Rex Grossman who plays at Carolina. I was thinking to roll the dice on Cassel, or possibly just letting Tebow take the start and hope, (he has a pretty favorable matchup against the Dolphins). WRs I have a lot of options. Doug Baldwin, Early Doucet, Brandon Marshall, Denarius Moore, David Nelson, James Jones, and Devery Henderson are all available for pick-up. If Andre gets back, this section is moot, because I'd play him injured over any of these guys. Here I was thinking either Baldwin, Moore, or Jones. Any advice?

We don't have enough bench space for me to justify picking up Marshall just to have him sitting there. As I mentioned, for WR I currently have Steve Smith, Andre Johnson, Hakeem Nicks, Eric Decker and Victor Cruz. I'm probably already going to have to drop Decker and/or Cruz to pick up people to play week 7 for byes, I can't have Marshall taking up a bench spot when I highly doubt I'd ever start him over my big 3 guys. But yeah, those were my two. Cassel seems to be doing better, unfortunately, the Chiefs are on a bye, so I don't know if it was just a fluke. Same problem with Tebow. Edit: Besides the fact that Marshall already is owned, lol.

Hahaha! I just think he should have been fined more like $50k. It was obviously intentional, he felt no remorse after the fact, and basically said he'd do it again in the same situation. Knocking someone down like that and potentially injuring them after the play was over just because you got beat is the act of a child throwing a tantrum. I would say he should be suspended for the obviously blatant intentional hit... but that would actually make the Saints secondary better.

Damn. Carolina really needed a #2 WR, first Lloyd and then Wayne. Two good receivers, and now apparently neither one is going to the Panthers.

Koravel34. I haven't been able to play all that much since the first week of Dominion.

Dragon Age: Origins again. Dragon Age II was so bad I had to go back and play Origins. Also, the Witcher 2 and League of Legends.

I have Tom Brady, LeSean McCoy, MJD, and Andre Johnson as keepers, with Jimmy Graham possibly taking one of their spots. That's just loaded in a ten-team league, IMO. Basically I only have to get one guy in the draft and I'm set, and I can keep them forever with no consequences or loss of draft picks. I have a friend of mine who plays in a two-keeper league, but you can't put a keeper on someone you drafted prior to the 3rd round. In addition, every year you hang onto that person you forfeit a draft pick that gets closer and closer to the top. If one of your keepers was a 5th-rounder last year, then if you keep him for a year, you forfeit a 3rd-rounder. If you keep him again, you forfeit a first-rounder, and after that you can't keep him for a third year. I think what I really dislike about it is I have almost zero incentive to make a trade with anyone. Generally a well-drafted fantasy football team is going to have a strong point and a weak point. And you try to cover the weak point by trading someone at whose position you have good depth. I agree about the bench, though, we should have at least six slots, if not eight.

This is not what you do, especially as a team captain. By all means, get on to the guys if you think its their fault, but not in front of everyone. Talk to them in the locker room.

Yeah, I dislike having four keepers, it screws up the parity. If he doesn't come back, I'm going to send around an email and see who else wants to cut it down to 2 or even just 1 keeper. I figure since I have one of the better teams, maybe my asking for it to happen will sway the couple of people I know won't like it.

So now that we're a bit more than a quarter of the way done, I'd thought I'd resurrect this topic. Re-done rankings: 1. The only reason St. Louis is above Miami is because of their schedule. Of course, they do have the Hawks and Cards to play twice... but the way they are playing right now, I'm not sure even those are winnable. 2. The 'Fins signed Sage Rosenfels instead of Garrard. They are clearly in it to win this thing. 3. The Colts are looking much better, but they are still 0-5. Need to figure out a way to put some wins together. 4. And Gabbert is definitely playing like a rookie. They better be careful that MJD doesn't single-handedly take them out of the picture here. 5. While they are 2-3, and I suppose you could stick some other teams here, (Carolina, Minnesota, Philly), I'm just not impressed since their two victories are over two other winless teams. However, if they win a 3rd game, that may take themselves out of contention entirely, the way the Rams and Fins are playing.

You and me both, man.

Next thing you know, the NFL is going to start fining people for false starts. Of course, the entire Bears offensive line would go bankrupt in short order.

I wish I was where Vin was. I'd get to see the entire NFC South play. @ @ @ :Patriots:

Well we can agree to disagree. I think you're giving the Israelis the short end of the stick. They would be capable of taking out Iran's nuclear capabilities, IMO, which is what would make them a threat. Anyway the entire comment about Israel was half-joking. I did not mean Israel would take over Iran, merely that they could remove them as a threat, whether with nuclear missiles or their vastly superior air-force. The POINT of the comment was that WE don't need to stop Iran, let someone else do it. I don't really care who it is, (if Iran ever needs to be stopped). Regardless, let us hope it never comes to that. We don't need another war, especially not in the already messed up Middle East.