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I drafted him in round 6 of my first real draft with the expectation of 6 (hoped for 4) games missed mid season. I also did this because the nature of how I drafted meant I did not even need Rice to be a flex player. I was viewing him as a bonus starter for weeks 1-4 and 12 on. I think I probably feel better about getting the 6 games out of the way and viewing him as a rd2/3 value being added to my roster in week 7.

i didn't list him just because he already acknowledged dues. I don't want to be too timhacky

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I won't be around tonight. Thursday/Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon night I can make any of those work. Or even Wed night 9/3 squeezing it in.

but where is the subtle jab in that? i enjoy Big Ole TDS. it's a classic FF name with a 2025 relevant twist

Denver is often the top DST pick so if you’re a streamer they won’t work for you. I don’t usually stream to start the season in the sense that I’m not worried about having Arizona over, say, Seattle who was a very good D last year and yeah playing San Fran but at home. … because with 3 game preseason and starters playing next to nothing, offenses will be sloppy for a lot of mid level teams and it may take 2-3 weeks to identify which teams to stream against. yes, NO will probably be one. Probably the Indy Jones’.

i listed 5 sites that have him ranked #15 or better including ESPN and FantasyPros which I would argue is used most by people who are a few steps above casual. As for ESPN not having better rankings (they still have Sherwood ranked #15 which means you aint getting him if you're smart or your league is all dumb), we agree that IDP is still a niche and big companies like that don't have much incentive to put out content in regards to it. Their bread and butter $$$ maker is typical fantasy football catering to newbies and sheep. It's not just ESPN... ever watch NFL networks FF shows? I used to watch them sometimes just for entertainment. Cynthia Frelund , at least a few years ago. But they put out waiver segments full of players who should be rostered in most competent leagues. They use availability % in NFL.com public leagues which we all know are full of absentee owners who just wanted to draft. Without quoting your second post, if you are playing in a league full of average FF players, maybe you need a more competitive league? My main league certainly has different levels of football obsession but no owners who are just showing up with a fresh printed ranking sheet. Maybe in a work league. Otherwise, i'd like to have some fun and challenge.

I was in a superflex long ago before anyone called it that and it just wound up being a 2 QB league. very rarely did anyone not flex a second QB

sounds like rusty is out of luck then as it makes no sense to swap a date that works for 11 people to another date that only works for 11 8/28 is the current and 9/1 seems like the only backup plan unless Gladiators can make 8/31 work. Sunday evening, but its a holiday weekend so understandable if its a no go.

I'm not arguing as much as I just love FF discussion but I disagree as far as the example of Sherwood. There are enough places with him properly ranked, including all the major sites that casual drafters would be utilizing that you won't have much of an advantage with players like that. You may personally think he should be LB #5 or whatever but you're going to have to draft him higher than any IDP should even be drafted if you want him. IDP is filled with so much variance, so many mediocre NFL players, so dependent on simply playing inside backer or SS for any team, especially one whose defense will see the field a lot, that it only makes sense to draft them all at the very end or at least very very late. Assuming a 12 team league where you have to or can start 2 LB, You are not getting Sherwood at any sort of discount that involves skill. I can see your case with someone like Landman but I can very easily google and find info on Cody Barton, Jack Sanborn, Akeem Davis-Gaither, etc. If you think other people in your league are just going to go off rankings and not do minimal research on "sleeper" IDPs, then you can gain an edge... really the edge is more about you picking depth offensive players or lottery ticket offensive players while they are over drafting the bigger name defenders.

Fantasy Pros #7, ESPN #15, DraftSharks #15, Nerds #13 overall, FantasyData #5. You know your league obviously but he should be a highly drafted LB, even by players who don't follow defense and will be rankings drafting.

And I can understand that what you are talking about is skill in the same way it was skill for bigger football diehards even in the early 2000s in respect to offensive players because we didn’t have the abundance of online resources, fantasy shows, YouTube channels, etc that we have today. Everyone at your draft didn’t have the same fantasy pros ADP in front of them. You could argue that it used to reward those with more time. For me, as an early teenager, the NFL and fantasy football was my biggest hobby. Now there might actually be more real skill in identifying overvalued/undervalued players where as before you sometimes had an advantage just by knowing the names or not using an outdated street and smith magazine. It’s debatable as for IDP I can Google sleeper IDP picks, undervalued IDP players and come up with tons of names. Names I can’t even utilize because I’m not going to roster more than 2 bench LBs, 2 DBs and 1 DL. Sherwood is a top 10 ranked LB. Admittedly I don’t know much about Landman. I know he was a Falcon just from football knowledge and he did not come up in my 5 min of searching but a little more time I may have found something on him. Maybe I should have clarified that for IDP I didn’t just mean website rankings as much as I meant articles specifically about undervalued IDP plays since very mediocre defensive players can be IDP stars.

My point (and I don't know for sure because I also am not a Red Lobster expert) is that I would GUESS they always intended to be a restaurant for everyone as opposed to ever having a business plan where they catered to Senior Citizens, for example.... but that the black community became their largest demographic on it's own, naturally. So what confused me about your previous post, and this post is that if you don't think they drove away blacks specifically, then why would they need to specifically focus on getting them back? Either they were doing well and then did something to drive away their biggest demographic so that it does make sense to bring them back or they just had poor business practices in general and focusing specifically on bringing back black people wouldn't really make a difference....

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Well I literally said, which you left out of your quote of me, that they probably always intended to be a restaurant for everyone. I am confused by your statement bolded in red. Why would it make sense to specifically try to get back black customers if they did not stop eating there at a higher rate than other groups?

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This would have been Phil's captaincy if the PGA of America wasn't butt hurt over LIV. Thankfully they made the right decision with Majors but I am pretty certain if LIV never happens, Phil would have been up for this one as he is also a NE darling, specifically the NY/NJ area. Same way the Euros stripped Stenson of his captaincy. Which is just odd for both sides since they allow LIV guys to play in it. I remember Rory was against them playing in it until Rahm went to LIV. This younger trend has been happening since 2018 and it feels weird. Even Stricker, Harrington, Zach Johnson and Luke Donald las time felt odd. Keegan is another level of odd because he's still a top tier player. I'm not sure if it was always a thing to have like a dozen vice captains, but it seemed to start to trend in that direction, at least for team USA, when they began inviting whoever they wanted to invite to be a vice captain. I definitely remember ryder cups with Tiger and Bubba there as vice captains. You've got Kisner, Webb Simpson, Snedeker and freaking Gary Woodland there this time along with Furyk. I know it's potential grooming for future captains but sometimes it feels like they just want these guys in the team room playing ping pong with the boys.

possibly but not necessarily... If blacks were already their largest market (possibly by a wide margin) and the business was failing, doubling down on the same target market is not likely a winning strategy. If red lobster was booming in the 90's and early 00's (i have no idea), you might just have to take a look at what practices were working back then as well as what the demographics were back then, as it's possible it became a predominantly black establishment over time. But it is also possible that the better strategy is to rebrand as a restaurant for everyone. I understand they probably always intended to be a restaurant for everyone, but clearly that's not how it shook out. I have never even sat down to eat in a red lobster. I once ordered take out and it was a nightmare picking it up. Absolutely horrendous experience. They have a separate take out area and I was ignored by the 2 girls working it, only to have them immediately turn around when a black woman showed up to pick up her order. Only then did they finally ask me what I needed and they actually cut me off to take another take out order that had not been placed ahead of time. I wasn't in the mood to start an argument, and when they tried to skip me a 3rd time, the other customer put them in their place (peenie must be shocked that racism goes both ways ). ... only to be told that the order I had called in 30 minutes ago was not ready yet... it took another 30 minutes waiting. But the one near me had been there forever and the parking lot was always packed that I can remember. When I first saw they were going out of business I figured they lost a lot of people to a similar place that opened up across the highway from them, I did not know it was a company wide bankruptcy issue.

1. They are all criminals by definition. 2. strike beat me to it. Hence my forest for the trees comment.

I’d be more sad if my business catered only to criminals, such that I might fear going out of business without them. ignoring the obvious exaggeration of the OP, seems like it would be a poor choice of location by the owners

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What date is the kool-aid mixer?

Maybe you and your “girlfriend” of 15 years can get out of the apartment for a date night after your shift at the post office

I am open to 8/30 or begrudgingly 8/29 basically if if works for everyone in the league I will shuffle things around to make it work aside from 9/2 when I have another draft.