APF2k8 - Legends League S1 - Week 6

Bean, thanks for the good old-fashioned ass whuppin'. Yes, everybody, that 35-7 score was actually only the score in the third quarter. I think the netcode felt sorry for me and disconnected us. I think it's safe to say he would have won, so let's let the game result stick. When my first play from scrimmage was a pick-six, I knew I was in trouble.

You were definitely in the school of hard knocks last night. Elway through three picks, thats nuts. At least we found tons of stuff to laugh about while playing.

Bean wrote:

Elway through three picks, thats nuts.

The worst part is I thought I was doing the right thing -- that is, you were pressing my receivers in a run-stopper with 1-on-1 coverage. Hypothetically, I should be able to toss it over the top to my silver-star receiver and take it to the house. Instead, you got the points.

It's a good thing that players can't watch film of other games; because if they saw how you exposed all the weaknesses in my team I'd never win a game again. I sure am going to pick a team differently next time.

Beating one on one coverage is just having good timing and knowing when to throw the ball before the play happens.

Jay, did you get your 360?

It'll be tough for me to manage to get our game in before monday or tuesday, but depending on your availability I might be able to swing it in the afternoon sometime this weekend.

DS, maybe we can shoot for Friday night.

Thin_J wrote:

Jay, did you get your 360?

It'll be tough for me to manage to get our game in before monday or tuesday, but depending on your availability I might be able to swing it in the afternoon sometime this weekend.

Yep, it showed up yesterday! As I suspected, poker night turned into a Wiifest until 4am. I'm still still hanging.

For now, I am off work until Midnight Sunday. I can make time to play pretty much anytime you want. Let me know when would be good for you.

I get home from work about 3:15ish in the afternoon today and again every day through monday. The catch is that I'm only really available until about 7ish.

Tonight I'll probably busy, it being friday night and all, but I could probably play after I get home from work on Saturday or Sunday. And monday is, barring any mistakes on my part like last week :oops:, usually a big gaming night for me anyway.

*note: I'm on EST

Do you mean you are not available until 7:00, or is your best times from 3:15-7ish? Either is fine. Just let me know when you would rather play. Today between 3:15 and 7pm would be ideal. Saturday may be better than Sunday, but if you give me a time, I should be able to clear time for either.

frankiemumbles: I'll be on tonight around 9:30pm, let me know if you're good to play?

firesloth wrote:

DS - I'm with Pred...tonight is probably out for me. Too much travel, not enough sleep. Maybe tomorrow late?

Tonight would be good.

Jayhawker wrote:

Do you mean you are not available until 7:00, or is your best times from 3:15-7ish?

I'm available from 3:15 to 7ish. And 3:15 is really a stretch depending on traffic. I don't have much time to myself on weekends.

Tomorrow is unfortunately out now as I'm working a 12 hour shift instead of a ten and am covering the largest bit of the system in the entire airport.. so I'll be running my ass off all day long. I'll be lucky if I can stay awake long enough to eat when I get home.

Is Sunday really ok or would you rather wait for Monday night?

Sunday should be cool, and probably better than Monday. I get off work Monday AM, and it really depends on when I wake up, and whether I need to take care of stuff for the kid.

Great game, DS. The end of the first half saw DS up 10-7 in a defensive battle. The next points weren't scored until 1:30 left in the game when I tied it up with a 44 yard FG. DS then promptly took the ball and drove 81 yards for a TD in about 45 seconds. Well, not to be outdone, I started a last-ditch drive with a 67 yard TD play to Jerry Rice, which sent us into overtime. So, to recap: first 22:30 saw 17 points scored. The last 1:30 saw 17 points scored.

In OT, I got a stop on DS and got the ball with good field position. But, after making a bit of progress, I threw an INT to Ronny Lott on the goal line. DS drove from his own 7 yard line to my 5 before kicking a game-winning FG.

Great game, DS. Player of the game was definitely Ben Coates. I had Singletary shadowing him much of the game, but that didn't work, and he really killed me when I played zone. I definitely needed more running attempts (well, in addition to yards).

Eh, sorry for the no response to the messages from last night Jay, but if there's a movie in notifications are turned off. Plus I fell asleep about five minutes into it.

Hey Gumbie,

I really apologize for missing you the past few nights. When I saw you on on Friday night (I think) I saw you go into Bioshock and opted to wait to see if you sent me a message, which was a mistake. By the time the later evening rolled around, I was into some Halo 3 and totally missed your message. I'm not going to be around until late (11:00 PM EST) tomorrow and Monday night, so if we miss out, it's my fault. Again, my apologies.

This is a long week. I understand Halo 3 and everything, but I think we'd like to keep moving. So let's pick a cutoff day and let's try sticking with it for the rest of the season. Mitigating factors keep piling up and I'd like to finish the season and play another one. I'm sure I'm not alone.

If I can't get things set up with Gumbie by say, Wednesday?

Jayhawker I'm around today and fine with taking the time for our game if you are. I'll be on live anyway, just let me know.

Prederick wrote:

If I can't get things set up with Gumbie by say, Wednesday?

Wednesday makes it what? A 12-day week? 11?

I'm gonna go watch football. I'll try and check back every half hour or so in case you get on Jay.

*edit*

So.. my previously stalwart defense leaked like a freaking sieve and let Earl Campbell run all the hell over the place, and my safeties and cornerbacks, who up to this point had been good about making big plays, stopped almost nothing, even in situations when I really couldn't have called a better play.

Frustrating.

Hate this team so.. so much. Yes, I've won to this point, and I'm standing by the point that many of those wins were on lucky breaks. Suddenly I don't get as many lucky breaks and I lose. Funny that.

Screw you Dan Marino. Screw you and your theft of a gold star position that could have been used elsewhere. You and your little dog Raymond Berry too.

Grumpicus wrote:
Prederick wrote:

If I can't get things set up with Gumbie by say, Wednesday?

Wednesday makes it what? A 12-day week? 11?

That's why I asked a question instead of dictating the solution. This is getting a little ridiculous. Especially for those of us who want to keep playing. It's a 45 minute commitment. If you can't get the game in, we should roll the week forward at a certain point IMHO. But I'm trying not to be a dictator here.

Good stuff, Thin J. I feel the same way. I'd like to change my team dramatically as well. Maybe we should roll the week forward....

DSGamer wrote:
Grumpicus wrote:
Prederick wrote:

If I can't get things set up with Gumbie by say, Wednesday?

Wednesday makes it what? A 12-day week? 11?

That's why I asked a question instead of dictating the solution. This is getting a little ridiculous. Especially for those of us who want to keep playing. It's a 45 minute commitment. If you can't get the game in, we should roll the week forward at a certain point IMHO. But I'm trying not to be a dictator here.

Hey, mea culpa, I screwed up, I admit it. If you guys want to roll it forward tomorrow, that's fine by me. I've been punctual about all my games prior to this, and I had a bad week. It happens. Like I said, I apologize. I don't want the week to stretch out for another five days either. I tossed Wednesday out there as a maybe, since I know I won't be available until Tuesday, at the earliest. If that's not reasonable or feasible for everyone else, i'm happy to take a L and keep the league going forward.

Prederick wrote:
DSGamer wrote:
Grumpicus wrote:
Prederick wrote:

If I can't get things set up with Gumbie by say, Wednesday?

Wednesday makes it what? A 12-day week? 11?

That's why I asked a question instead of dictating the solution. This is getting a little ridiculous. Especially for those of us who want to keep playing. It's a 45 minute commitment. If you can't get the game in, we should roll the week forward at a certain point IMHO. But I'm trying not to be a dictator here.

Hey, mea culpa, I screwed up, I admit it. If you guys want to roll it forward tomorrow, that's fine by me. I've been punctual about all my games prior to this, and I had a bad week. It happens. Like I said, I apologize. I don't want the week to stretch out for another five days either. I tossed Wednesday out there as a maybe, since I know I won't be available until Tuesday, at the earliest. If that's not reasonable or feasible for everyone else, i'm happy to take a L and keep the league going forward.

Yeah it's been a bad week for me too and I've been on time for all my games up to this point. I can probably play tomorrow past 10 central if you want pred or Tuesday night. We should set a firm time. How about 10:30 pm central? If not or too late I can do Tuesday too just let me know a firm time and we'll try to meet at that time.

I will bust my ass to ensure that i'm back from work by 11:00 PM EST tomorrow. If that works, we'll play then, and if something gets screwed, like I said, i'll take the L (wouldn't be the first) and we can roll on.

Prederick wrote:

I will bust my ass to ensure that i'm back from work by 11:00 PM EST tomorrow. If that works, we'll play then, and if something gets screwed, like I said, i'll take the L (wouldn't be the first) and we can roll on.

No reason to apologize. We have bad weeks. I just threw out there whether there should be a harder cutoff. Once you start approaching 2 weeks I think it's fair to say that you risk losing the interest of other people. Unless everyone wants to be on 2 week schedules and agrees to it. I'm just a facilitator/guy who sometimes has to try to keep things on track.

Sorry about the delay for my game. I've been trying to get FrankieMumbles to play but we really were on together 1 time (last Friday night late). I sent him a message on XBox requesting to play, but never got a response. After about 20 minutes, I packed up shop and went to bed. I'll send him a message today, I've been having terrible luck these last 2 weeks playing.

Kush I will be on tonight and tomorrow after 9est let me know what time is good for you.

So what night is the cutoff for this "week", guys? Just need to know so I know when to roll the week forward, award forfeits if there are any, etc. Do we want to set a standard for this rolling forward? I've been going with "hey, stuff happens" and it's working okay, but obviously the 8 week season is stretching out longer and longer.