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This works for me. Fiber optic cable will be here this spring. I can just get rid of both satellite dishes and save enough money to pay for Sunday Ticket.

What a painful weekend to watch football. My only remaining fantasy football team takes a dump early, leaving me with just my King Of The Mountain roster, and they don't play until Sunday night. I made it another week. It's down to 6 of us for the 25K first place prize. It was bad enough to not have anyone playing until Sunday night as I can't see anyone else's roster until my guys start playing. And then when I can see the live scoring, I'm starting in dead last place. And then I have to put myself through the pain of watching two hapless teams have a kickathon, with none of my three fantasy players doing anything through the first three quarters. Alas, I was saved by a breakaway run by James Conner and an even later rally by Brady. The other two guys above me that were also below the cutline also had Brady. In fact, we were the only three that had Brady. The guy that sat at the last spot above the cut line had Chris Godwin, which is who I had. So I had to somehow jump 3 people who all had similar players to me. Dire hopes almost made me quit watching. Turns out, I'm the only one with Brady to make it another week. Had Brady thrown a TD in overtime, all three of us would have advanced. I feel bad for those guys after knowing that OT gave them one more false hope to make it another week. Brady rallied so well, I actually ended up in 3rd place in points. Rather shocked that Minshew was on a roster this week, but he killed it. Oh, in case I forget, horsefeathers Brady!

Especially with a backup QB as your starter. Take the time out and talk about it. Design a play or two.

I was reading that if the Bears lose out and the Texans win one more game, the Bears move into the #1 spot. Is that right? 3 wins and a tie is better than 3 wins?

I don't remember any bigger name WR's that were reasonably available. Hill, Adams and Kirk signed lucrative deals. AJ and Hollywood Brown cost a small fortune in draft picks. After those guys, you have JuJu, Zay Jones, Corey Davis, Devante Parker, Robert Woods, etc.... Who could they reasonably afford that improves the WR room this past offseason? Granted, I wanted them to go WR with one of those 2nd rounders. But rookie WR's aren't a guarantee to be better than what they have in the first year, either. Kirk's deal was worth the money. Add in Zay Jones too. The last guy I liked who hasn't produced is Cedrick Wilson, but you could at least make a case he's stuck behind Hill and Waddle. When he got snaps in Dallas he produced. Juju has been great for KC. Not sure what type of deal he would have taken to come here as he obviously took a one year deal to prove it with Mahomes as his QB. And then Cooper was available in trade for peanuts. Everyone seemed to believe Kirk’s deal wasn’t worth what the Jags paid, IIRC. JuJu and Zay are in this discussion based on hindsight. The Amari deal would have been great. I’ll give you that one. I wanted Burks, Watson or Pickens if and when the Bears picked. Was speechless they went defense instead.

I don't remember any bigger name WR's that were reasonably available. Hill, Adams and Kirk signed lucrative deals. AJ and Hollywood Brown cost a small fortune in draft picks. After those guys, you have JuJu, Zay Jones, Corey Davis, Devante Parker, Robert Woods, etc.... Who could they reasonably afford that improves the WR room this past offseason? Granted, I wanted them to go WR with one of those 2nd rounders. But rookie WR's aren't a guarantee to be better than what they have in the first year, either.

Beleiving that is exactly the problem he absolutely could have gotten a bigger name WR and OL at minimum to jumpstart the offense and teams rebuilding. This massive cap space they have in 2023 didng materialize out of thin air, but is a direct result of punting in 2022 FA. Believing they can't spend now and extend Fields later is basically owner propoganda. I'm not saying they can't spend now. I'm just saying they have to spend while keeping an eye on the biggest prize (Fields). They are clearly going to be going on a significant spending spree this offseason since the cupboard is so barren.

I have to give Poles a pass on the entire offseason. He had so little to work with, there was really very little he could have done to make this team a success in one season. One of the weakest rosters in the league, very few draft picks and a minimal amount of cap space made it next to impossible to make improvements. He certainly wasn't going to be outbidding anybody for talent. We saw how much WR FA's were going for. It absolutely sucks that there is very little WR talent available this offseason, and that is my one concern with how he goes about handling improvements there. I honestly don't think he can screw up improving the roster everywhere else considering his resources this time. His biggest hurdle will be figuring out a way to spend all of that money while also being able to extend Fields when the time comes.

Bernie Sanders, is that you? He ain't wrong!

Guess they should hope to win a playoff game or two during this spending spree.

I was told that this is Bear weather. Seems a bit more like Bills weather to me.

King Of The Mountain posted the results late this morning, so I'm not going to have much time today to do my normal research. I always like to plug the holes in my lineup right away just to be safe. And today, I put Tom Brady at AZ, James Connor at home vs. TB and Chris Godwin at AZ. I'm a little nervous about the weather this coming weekend, and that one single game avoids all weather issues. And it's the Sunday night game, which means I'll be able to watch it live.

Those drove me nuts as I alluded to above. Williams did almost nothing all game, and the only outcome he could do damage is if the Chargers allowed a TD, the Titans didn't go for 2, and they had enough time for a last drive or got the ball in OT. Of course the Titans scored, kicked the XP and left enough time for Herbert to throw 2 long passes to him. I'd have roughly a 90% chance of winning had the Chargers D stopped them rather than the 57% chance I have now. My bench Defense puts me over the top, too. I've won it all 3 times since 2013 and lost the championship game by 4 points another time, so I guess it's someone else's turn.

I did make it another week in my King of The Mountain. All will be forgiven if I can figure out a way to win that. 46% of the field had Prescott, Miles Sanders and Keenan Allen in their respective scoring categories. I had two of those guys, and that scared me a bit. Keenan Allen was actually my original pick for this week. No one had all three of Prescott, Sanders and Allen. It would have been a winner, but just barely. Every team currently below the cut line has Keenan Allen. Shockingly, McCaffrey, Henry, Dalvin Cook and Jonathan Taylor all showed up on a roster this week. Not sure how you haven't used those guys by now. The guy who had Taylor is watching the rest of this event from his tv set. One guy has Aaron Rodgers (as the only player left to play this week) and he's going to have to match Dak Prescott's numbers to avoid the cut. 9 people left for the Christmas weekend. Family gathering is all day Christmas Eve. I'll have to record the Bears game, but I'd really like to find a way to watch all of my rostered players on another day if at all possible. I won't risk losing for the sake of watching, however. The final weeks will be 9 teams, 6 teams, 4 teams, 3 teams, 2 teams. The rules say that this competition will run until the NFC and AFC Championships games or until it's down to just two teams. I show this will end in the Divisional round. Tomorrow I get to work on creating my lineup.

Great day from my fantasy team yesterday, but the opponent's team played better. Those late catches by Mike Williams did me in. Hopkins was open time and again and McSorley was panic stricken and couldn't complete a pass to anyone. If McCoy doesn't leave with a concussion, I probably win. Also would have won if Fields reaches 100 yards rushing. He ended up with 95. That 5 point bonus along with the extra carry ties me and I had the tie breaker. Grrrr.

None of the high schools around me had soccer when I was going to school. I think they all have them now, but I haven't really looked into it. I have friends that love the World Cup and we have had 4am morning drink fests to watch USA in the World Cup when I lived in California. That's about the extent of my soccer previous to this year. I watched all the USA games and I watched both semifinals and the finals this year. Awesome! Now I wish I got to see Messi play more. That guy is clearly a special player. I've heard his name for years, but this was really my first experience watching him.

What does that average look like if Fields puts 150 rushing on them? He may have to do that if Claypool sits this Sunday.

To me, Instagram is Twitter since I don't have either. You can’t compare the two. It’s apples and oranges. Twitter is more like a rotten crabapple and Instagram is the plastic orange you put out for display purposes only And what's Tik Tok? I do have a Facebook account, so I'm not completely prehistoric. LOL.

Well, to start, as that post clearly says, it's Instagram, not Twitter. To answer your question, if a profile is set to public and not private, you can see all of their follows and followers without following them. To me, Instagram is Twitter since I don't have either.

Not a fan of any of those, but I'd agree with Darnold as the best of the bunch.

Eagles D has held opposing QB's to 21 YPG rushing

New plan. Now I'm going with Dak at QB. Then I'm going double threat from the Eagles with Sanders and Smith. All three play at noon on Sunday in two games, which allows me to put both of those games on two of my bar tv's, and then I can put Red Zone on the other one. Bears really haven't been giving up crazy yards to receivers, so I may still look at other options at WR. Garrett Wilson looks enticing as an option since he's going against Detroit. Jefferson just torched their secondary last Sunday. No Red Zone during fantasy playoffs for me if I go with Wilson. Or do I haul another tv to the man cave Sunday after the World Cup? Hmmm. Just talked myself into it. Hell yeah! Just horsefeathering win baby!

This. No QB pressure against Hurts spells disaster. You give him time to hit one of this three main targets and they will light up the scoreboard. I just hope Fields does a great job trying to keep them in the game. I managed a wild card fantasy berth because of Fields. Need a win this week to make it to the money.

Been doing some research this am and I'm leaning with.... Deshawn Watson vs. the Ravens Miles Sanders vs. Bears Keenan Allen vs. Titans Pickings are slim at WR now. Everyone is a hit and miss fantasy guy each week. I could change to Michael Pittman, but he's really been disappointing this year. Indy's line might be worse than the Bears. I'm guessing Matt Ryan wished he retired. I could go with Devanta Smith at WR, but I still want to stay away from teammates in the same line up. I still have quite a few RB options if I decided to put Smith in there vs. the Bears. Stevenson, A. Jones, Pollard, Elliott, Montgomery to name a few. If this were a contest that rewarded you for having a top line up, I'd worry about uncorrelated plays like RB-WR on the same team. But this is the exact opposite. I wouldn't go out of my way to do it, but I'd actually be looking for opportunities to do RB-WR on the same team. It makes it more likely for you to land in the middle of the remaining entries, which is a win. Sanders-Devanta seems like a great play to me. Interesting thought. Not sure I've seen any teams do it so far, but I also haven't really been looking that closely at the other team's patterns. Brisker and Gordon are expected back this week with fresh legs, which was also weighing a bit on my decision. I think I'm most concerned about QB. Even though it's suggested that Watson is expected to have a big game against the Ravens, the Ravens D has been rather bullish since they traded for Roquan, minus the game against Jacksonville. Granted, they've played rather crappy teams/QB's during that span, but that's kinda where Cleveland falls at the moment along with a division rivalry. I have to outguess my opponents, who likely have rather similar remaining players. Maybe they go Devanta and Sanders. This is the hardest week for me to choose so far. Here are my QB choices this week: Geno Smith vs. SF Trevor Lawrence vs. Dallas Goff vs. Jets Dimes vs. Commanderskins Brady vs. Bengals Carr vs. Patriots Some guy I've never heard of (ATL) vs. Saints Ryan vs. Vikings Tannehill vs. Chargers Dalton vs. Falcons Davis Mills vs. Chiefs Prescott vs. Jags Mac Jones vs. Raiders Heineke vs. Giants Mayfield vs. Packers Somebody (Jets) vs. Lions Somebody (Steelers) vs. Panthers Somebody (9ers) vs. Seahawks McCoy vs. Denver Darnold vs. Steelers Rypien vs. Cardinals Cardinals QB? vs. Denver Maybe this is the week to go with Dallas (Prescott). Dallas is now tied with the Vikings for the #2 seed. They can't be messing around and lose. Maybe Prescott, Devanta Smith and Miles Sanders. Matt Ryan is expected to have a decent day against the Vikings, but will he survive another sack or does he care to try to beat anybody now? My other thought is that I do need to have some playoff QB options once this battle goes into the playoffs. If there is a way to still have Prescott, Brady, along with a few others (Geno, Tannehill, Daniel Jones, Heineke, Tannehill), that would potentially help me in these final weeks if I make it that far.

This could still get much worse. They could spend big (since they have all of this money and a green light) on a bunch of nobodys to try to save face.