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Isn't this something dictated by your league/commish? Probably but I think we're just set at the default. Will suggest a rule change for next year. The good news I was up 17 points going into last night and despite Vernon Davis being awesome RGIII [expletive] the bed and I took home the 1 pt win and game up on the final playoff spot. Take care of this week and I'm in the playoffs with a pretty solid roster. Pre- rant retracted.

Yup plus a buyout but I'm not sure if that counts for the cap Capped at something like 600k. Anything else we pay to the buyout is against cap. Not sure if teams exercise third channels or not though. I'm sure the Russian would.

Mirotic won't be rookie scale. We'll have to use cap space or MLE/whatever on him.

So how exactly does all the different ownership levels go between Comcast, NBC, and Comcast Sports Net? As long as it's a net revenue win for Comcast they wouldn't stand in the way right?

Oh even with a healthy Rose I think there was a high chance we don't pay the tax, just because of repeater issues, but as far as total outlays go, I'm thinking of things like the Boozer amnesty and whether they actually would try to use saved tax money or say, "well we're still paying Boozer, so we can't use the MLE or make this trade." Stuff like that.

I'm open to trading anyone not named Rose, but realistically I'm not going to force any deals, even Deng, unless the value is fair. Even in our state, we can make a decent two round run in the playoffs and rack up a few extra games of playoff revenue. And I know it shouldn't be a big deal, but with us being a tax paying team now, I want any additional revenue we can. Unless you're willing to fire Thibs, we just can't be bad enough to make a meaningful tank.

Mostly Shirt-sees for me, but real jerseys Bears- Urlacher, Marcus Robinson, Curtis Conway, Jay Cutler Non Bears NFL- Elway, Deon Sanders (Cowboys) Bulls - Rodman Never a real Cubs or Hawks. No colleges either Shirts-sees Cubs- Ramirez, Fukudome Bulls- Rose Hawks- Kane

I'm gonna put in a pre rant about the long wait times on ESPN fantasy trades. Jimmy Graham puts up 16 but I need to wait til Tuesday when he's mine. I'm sure he'll put up like 4 straight 4 point weeks now.

Players not drafted aren't eligible. Graham out of keeper options, and Brady just expensive, so I'm all in on this year for those guys.

Still have Luck this weekend, then going forward I'll play the Brady/Foles option which I'm kind of dreading as I previously didn't have any QB decision. As far as the keeper auction goes, it was hard to lose Luck as QBs tend to get overrated in the auction, but I still have 5-6 solid WR/RB keepers with a limit if 3 so I felt I could afford to give up some keeper status to go big this year, and I'll just have to funnel some of my WR savings into a QB next auction.

Well it ended up being two separate trades, but this is what I ended up dealing: Andrew Luck, Tony Gonzalez, and Michael Crabtree For Nick Foles, Tom Brady, Jimmy Graham, Chiefs D. (While dropping Rob Housler and Pats D to accommodate.) The one trade won't go through until after this week so really hoping Graham doesn't have an absurd week as this will be my make or break week for playoffs most likely. How'd I do?

Since this post names Martin Short but leaves the manager unnamed, is it a wash or does it only count as a Martin Short post? I guess I'm just adding to the problem.

Flex, Donald Brown @Ari, Bobby Rainey @ Det, or Shane Vereen v Den. Non PPR. Somehow got Rainey at 6th on the waiver wire.

Yea, I have no problem with taking the knee on the return. The field conditions sucked and the minimal chance is not worth the huge risk. Just rewatched the 2 minute drill. I can understand the perspective from not calling the TO from the 5 with 1:15. The explanation makes sense. But right out of the two minute drill, they got a first to the 16, and 1:55 was on the clock. Not sure why you don't call the TO there. If you stop them 3 times and use all your timeouts, you're still looking at about 50-55 seconds. The thing is, they're still in a possible passing situation there, so if you make a stop on a pass, you may get a free stoppage and get the clock with well over a minute left, albeit with no timeouts. The only other thing that crosses my mind though is that if you make a stop there, it was a run play, and now Baltimore is in the position of maybe burning timeouts, or you can still stop the clock just as you would if you had called it prior to that play- still gets the same end result, 3 stops and one full play clock, but Trestman took the running clock for first down when the defense was reeling rather than stop downs 1-3. From a time perspective timeouts on 1-3 are no different than timeouts 2-4. Is either better? You could probably go really deep trying to break down the offenses possible responses, but if you let up a first down its all moot. It was a really bad performance from the D to give up a first like than in a short play. If your D makes a better play there, the timeout situation looks better. Timeout or not, there were two back breaking first downs in a row there though. If you make stops, Baltimore is the one stopping the clock. Mostly I'm just glad there seems to have been a very conscious and deliberate strategy that wasn't meat-bally, even if it was ultimately questionable and risky. I also disagree with your assumption about the other team scoring.

As mad as I was last night, I feel quite a bit better after the explanation.

When did Jennings almost die, because I only remember Steltz brain nearly exploding.

So as crazy unlucky as our defensive injuries have been, its even crazier to look at our offense, and despite Jay missing time we've been really freaking lucky, because we do not have any depth. We've basically used 2 WR, a TE and a RB to get all our yardage, with our 3rd WR making just enough of a dent to get mention, but not really be a significant part of our offense. So as much as we have many needs to fill on our defense, some depth on O is needed as well. Is there snap stats? What percentage of plays is Eben Britton one of our eligible receivers, because it really feels like a lot. And to go along with the lucky health, our OLine has started every game as a unit. So our one real injury is our QB and our backup has done just about as well as you could hope for.

So same guy is looking to deal, and he is in the tank and looking for keepers. RB consistency has been my weakest link, but I'm not sure his roster helps me with that. Side by Side Roster comparisons My Roster (Keeper value) QB: Andrew Luck($24) RB: Reggie Bush($29) Zac Stacy CJ Spiller($23) Donald Brown Jonathan Stewart WR: DeSean Jackson($14) Antonio Brown($10) Alshon Jeffrey($4) Aaron Dobson TE: Tony Gonzalez($14) Rob Housler D/ST: Carolina New England Buffalo K: Prater($2) IR: Vereen($9)(needs to come off next week most likely) and Crabtree($3) His Roster, excluding guys who are off the table with him. Not posting keeper value as they all are ineligible or too high) QB: Nick Foles Tom Brady RB: Andre Ellington DeMarco Murray MJD WR: Larry Fitzgerald Hakeem Nicks Eric Decker Steve Smith TE: Jimmy Graham D/ST, who cares I don't immediately see anything I love, but Jimmy Graham keeps jumping out to me. I think Foles or Brady could out-produce Luck as well. I really like my keepers going into next year, but I'm capped at three, so I feel like I primed to make a move for now and still carry over 3 good keeper options next year. I'm very attached to my three big WR, but having trouble on which one I'd part with. I don't think I can go into next year using all three keepers on them, but they're also pretty critical to this years run. Any thoughts?

We're gonna go 10-6 and miss on the tie-breaker again, while the AFC lets in a 8-8 or 7-9 team.

It's entirely possible McCown would be more productive in Trestman's system than a gimpy Cutler for the remainder of the year. Yes, Cutler's health is a huge question mark, but I don't believe anyone making those statements is factoring in health to the equation.

Did Trestman start crying there?

Holy [expletive] steltz. My feed froze right as he made contact and I knew he was gonna be knocked silly.

Yea the downside was way more likely then Hester taking it to the house on this field.

What the [expletive]. I'm really thinking Trestman forgot about clock management since the clocks stops all the time in the CFL. Seriously, what the [expletive].

Even though I just got owned by a loophole, my mind is blown that one side of the fronts is going to get that good.