The JonT League - Intermediate B
3Happy Week 1, y'all! Celebrate, commiserate, talk trash and trade below.
@JonT
@Kevin
@superjimtendo
@christinewas
@devyanks90
@brandon
@patthetuck
@mtbm33
@dilleo
@smigit2002
@hashybrown
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Could you give us outsiders a link to your league? That way we can follow everyone's progress.
@Teripie http://games.espn.go.com/ffl/leagueoffice?leagueId=1949010&seasonId=2015
@Teripie http://games.espn.go.com/ffl/leagueoffice?leagueId=1949010&seasonId=2015
it's weird how ESPN almost hides the standings in that little corner on the front page. But hey, we're all #1!
@Teripie But you already know what's happening in the best league!
Let me be the first to trash talk: Good luck you bunch of not-very-good-at-fantasy-football people.
@patthetuck Why would you go and talk to every single person in our league except for me? I feel so left out!
@christinewas you people call this trash talking?
@mfladd Do you prefer to see us talk about real trash like the Patriots?
@mfladd you have a very bad hair style and you are incappable of successfully setting your lineup to be most efficient
@christinewas I know how much you crave attention. I'm just toying with you. Fantasy football is like 83% psychological.
@patthetuck So much truer than you may even realize. @mfladd left a suspended player active in one if his leagues last night.
@patthetuck I think that response counts as acknowledgement of my FF superiority. One down, ten to go!
@patthetuck you get a star!
@christinewas and that was your fault!
@mfladd Yep. My fault. Do you know how crazy you are making yourself look here?
@christinewas Nope.
That link says I can't get in 'cause I ain't a member. Asshole ESPN!
@Teripie means they didn't open it up to public viewing just like ours
@Teripie Yeah... I think I saw in league setting that it wasn't public or something like that.
@christinewas @Teripie I can open ours up, if that is what you wish.
@mfladd Go for it.
@Teripie now opened up to the public! View (and mock) away.
@JonT FESUSGL Is also now open.
@JonT Glad I changed my display name from my real name in the A league!
@teripie Did you find the link for this league?
I believe @superjimtendo's spot was taken by @LazyZombie. So... get over here and talk some trash, you LazyZombie!
@christinewas I am good at sniping peoples spots in fantasy leagues. What makes it so great is I'm in the premier IntermediateB League with Meh celebrity JonT... AND I get to play him first week!
@LazyZombie Oooh. And maybe you get to beat meh celebrity JonT in the first week!
Now that team biases aren't going to impact the draft, who are your favorite real-life teams? (How many of you have sold your souls and become Patriots fans?)
@becca Steelers, right?
@christinewas yes! last night was so weird as a Steelers fan -- I have DeAngelo Williams in one league, Antonio Brown in two leagues, Heath Miller in one. I was playing against Antonio Brown in one league and against Roethlisberger in two. I'm going to be so conflicted all the time!
@christinewas I will rarely admit it, but I am a Browns fan. I find that they bring so much disappointment to my life that other things seem pretty okay.
@christinewas
@becca With four leagues, I will always be playing against players I have on other active rosters. And I did a good job of not going crazy with my Broncos bias, so I don't have a lot of my guys in any of my leagues. Which means I will have a lot of real team vs fantasy team conflict. How many leagues are you doing?
@patthetuck Haha! Nice silver lining.
@christinewas Bengals for me. WHO DEY!
@christinewas 3 leagues, 2 eliminators, 2 pick 'ems
@becca I see you made the right choice thur night. Only @MrMark and @Jaremelz went down in flames. BTW @christinewas even picked the Pats to win. That is priceless.
p.s. I think you need a new pick'em trash talking thread.
@mfladd I understand their propensity for winning as much as I understand their yuck factor. I don't have to pretend they can't play football to hate them.
@becca The eliminator thing looks interesting. I've never tried it.
@christinewas I was cursed before I was born and was sent to be raised in Cleveland. I carry the burden of being a Browns fan.
@patthetuck
@mtbm33 WHO DEY ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON -- you dey anyother time especially Thursday night against the Browns
@Kevin
@patthetuck @kevin and I thought people in FESUSGL were messed up.
@christinewas My favorite team is the RAAAAIDERS. Over the last decade or so it's been pretty easy to not draft any of them.
@LazyZombie Haha! I bet!
@christinewas Miami Dolphins.. I gave up a long time ago. Anything above 8-8 is a good season.
@hashybrown You gotta admit, our Phins are a hoot to watch! You never know which "Dolphins" are gonna play each week. It is that one that beat the Patriots 1st week last year? Is it the one that always passes on 3rd and short? Is it the team who's kicker is the only one to rack up points?
@christinewas CHARGERS!!!! GO BOLTS GO! Yesterday was the standard rollercoaster of emotions for a Chargers fan:
"Alright, this is finally our year! I'm excited about this new talent. Let's get Rivers a superbowl ring!!!"
"Okay, well the defense looks pretty bad but we can come back!"
"Holy crap the offense looks bad too."
"We're a second half team anyway………"
[DRINKING INTENSIFIES]
"Alright that looked pretty good!"
"HELL YEAH WOODHEAD!"
"WHAT IS HAPPENING, THIS IS GREAT"
"Oh god, please don't blow this in the last minute of the game…"
"WE ARE THE BEST TEAM OF ALL TIME, SUPERBOWL CONFIRMED"
@JonT @christinewas Read this backward and you have encapsulated my Sunday. I'm glad I didn't put 2+2 together because I would have facilitated some sort of Detroit / SD smack talk beforehand.
@JonT Have you seen my fantasy logo? I cannot look at the Chargers "bolt" without seeing blonde cartoon hair.
@JonT Your description of your Chargers experience mirrors our household watching the Dolphins yesterday.
Are we having fun yet?
@Teripie 1-1 record and this team is already dysfunctional.
What? I'm not in the Jont league? I'll have to check on that
@juststephen Yep. I am.
@juststephen sorry to leave you out! I just copied the post from the main FF thread. What's your team?
Where's the trash talk thread for the beginners @JonT? And maybe the link to the league?
@Teripie I really had to dig to find this one. And I don't think Beginner A has one yet. They're beginners. They have yet to grasp the important role of trash talking in fantasy football.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/ff-beginner-b-smack-talk
@Teripie You could make one if you don't see it, and then remember to tag everyone in the league in the post (including yourself).
@dashcloud I'm not in it. Just wanted to see how the beginners are doing.
Hey guys hows it going. My team is the Falcons.. Kind of weird, should really probably be the Bills because they are the "local" team (well the closest to where I am and a lot of people in my part of Ontario, Canada tend to like the Bills it seems) Anyhow, good luck to all!
@LazyZombie You're going down! I'm 100% sure that the 2 players left to play for you (including DeMarco) will score between 0-1 point and I will win.
@JonT JonT? more like JonL for LOSER! BOOYAAAH!
@LazyZombie Good to see that "lazy" applies to your trash talk.
Well, that was embarassing.
Enjoy your first win, @Kevin. (I'd say "good game", but it doesn't even look like I tried. Good obliterating, I guess?)
Ooooh. And I get the honors for the lowest week 1 score in the league!
@christinewas I thought I was the one that beat you into submission?
@marklog You and everyone else. I only won in one of my four leagues. The sad thing is that I'm still convinced my teams are good and have only made minimal changes this week.
@christinewas right there with ya (1/3 last week)... except I'm not so sure they're good.
In my experience, people never mess with the trading block, but... I've updated mine if you're looking to make some changes to your team. I have a lot of WRs and RBs, so I'm not going to be very clingy with most of them.
@christinewas Hmm, maybe I'll take a look! But then again, everything I'd have to trade is pretty damn mediocre...
Did you guys hear the one about how I'm going to win every match up this week? Well it's true.
@patthetuck Wait... are you saying you're going to win my match-up with @LazyZombie? That is definitely not what I was expecting. I thought this was the week my team was going to redeem itself and score some actual points. Oh well. I guess the important thing here is that @LazyZombie will lose.
@christinewas @patthetuck is such a liar. He only won HIS matchup this week. sheesh.
@marklog shhhhh it'll happen this week
Ouch, @LazyZombie! Your score this week almost makes my humiliating score from last week look good! You might want to change your team name to Corndog's Lazy Zombies, 'cause that's how half your guys performed this week! (What a crazy couple of weeks in the NFL!)
You sure do suck, @JonT!
Hey, screw you buddy!
You're the worst!
@JonT same.
Oh man, lost by a single point this week! My name in the league is "Toronto Torquez" btw. Dont know if I have ever won/lost a match by a margin like that up til now..
@dilleo That was me you lost to. I warned everyone at the start of the week I was going to win. Love a good nail biter.
Who knew that Travis Benjamin was going to have a great game?
Man my team did well this past week. Just... don't look at my bench. It is awful. Complete rubbish.
@smigit2002 what if I told you I looked?
@Kevin Son of a... yeah... well, now you know.
I'm going to get my bragging in now before I'm knocked off my high horse. I'm winning the league and you all smell like week old fishmonger overalls.
@patthetuck Well, don't worry, your luck will continue this week, as I fully expect to be slaughtered! Don't worry, I've made peace with this, and am ready.
Haha @ whoever I played and lost to my garbage team!!
Oh how the mighty have fallen... Antonio Gates with the biggest game of his life. I want to hate him but we share an alma mater.
@patthetuck obligatory "HAHA suck it, my shit team won, woo"
Yeah... I had absolutely no expectation of winning (see above). I'm sure you'll win the rest of the season and make us all look awful.
Wow, Falcons defense, thanks for laying an egg last night.
Actually, 0 points would have been better...
Guys... We really suck at this trash talking thing. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised. I don't recognize several of these names, so some of us could be lurkers. And I cannot, for the life of me, figure out who owns half of our teams. But those beginner leagues really have us beat in this category.
@christinewas you suck
@christinewas I can't get anyone to reply in intermediate league A either!!
@kadagan Hmm. Maybe we just have awesome trash talking skills and we have intimidated people into silence. Yeah... that must be it.
@christinewas I feel like its just you and I playing in the league and on here.
@patthetuck @christinewas
we're not very good at trash talk either, but yeah, probably better than you
@patthetuck It does feel that way. I was briefly encouraged by some activity in free agency this week, until I realized they were replacing a guy who had a season-ending injury two weeks ago.
Your league sucks! How's that for some out-of-the-blue trash talk?
@Teripie Good enough for me! I'll take it!
Assuming Brady Doesn't get 50 points I'm going to beat the 1997 Cleveland Browns. Which should create some fun chaos in the west division.
@LazyZombie You're just lucky all my powerhouse players were either on a bye, injured, or drafted by someone else.
Fat Eddie Lacy has tormented me all season.
also @christinewas sucks
3 teams tied in the west and only 2 can go to the playoffs! EXCITEMENT!
@LazyZombie I believe it will look at W/L record then total Points For to determine playoff rankings. Either way it is exciting.
@LazyZombie Yes, only two... because I plan on beating @patthetuck so that I can still make the playoffs. This last loss hurts. Made my shot at the playoffs much tougher, despite the fact that I have the highest point total.
@christinewas you should make sure you have backup plans since you won't be beating me