All Pro Football 2k8 - Season 3 - Week 8

One straggler game left. Otherwise get your week 8 games in and once the straggler game is played we can roll the league forward officially, then hopefully into the playoffs soon.

Who do I play?

You play me I can play any time between tonight and Wedensday. I will be away after that let me now when or fine me on the X-Box.

Tonight would be a good night for me, firesloth, if you're up for playing. I pinged you last night a couple times, but either the messages didn't go through or you were busy.

DS -- Sorry, I just saw those this afternoon. I was on-and-off with Civ Revolutions, trying to play that and watch a bit of the football game.

I'll see what I can do about tonight. Might be about 50-50 chance.

Frankie and I are done.

Bagga when do you want to play. I'm free any night you want to play

DS and I got our game in tonight. I pulled out a 21-14 victory. I took a 21-0 lead into the 4th quarter, but knew that DS could score pretty quickly...like at 3:45 and 3:00 left in the game. After the 3:45 score, he recovered an onside kick and quickly scored again. I hate Ben Coates. And, as when I play offline, I found myself repeatedly saying "F*** you, Otto Graham."

In the end, my 3 INTs helped out, including one with 1:45 left. I got a bit crazy late in the fourth: I was faced with a 3rd-and-7 with only 1:23 left in the game. I called a shotgun and motioned everyone out of the backfield. I meant to throw it to Campbell, but DS shut that down. Then I tried to roll Cunningham out, but that was about to get swallowed when I noticed Mr. Redshirt (i.e., no-star) WR down field wide open. I threw it to him...I have to say, after I let go I regretted the decision and assumed he would drop it, but he caught a 32 yard pass and stayed in bounds to seal the win.

Great game, DS. Sorry the chat wasn't working.

Yeah! 7-1. Previous two seasons combined to give me 4 wins, so this is surprising and fun! Yes, let's draft teams again.

I added Albo7 to my friends list but it doesn't appear he has been online since the end of July. I'll try to get the game in as soon as I can.

firesloth wrote:

DS and I got our game in tonight. I pulled out a 21-14 victory. I took a 21-0 lead into the 4th quarter, but knew that DS could score pretty quickly...like at 3:45 and 3:00 left in the game. After the 3:45 score, he recovered an onside kick and quickly scored again. I hate Ben Coates. And, as when I play offline, I found myself repeatedly saying "F*** you, Otto Graham."

I was saying that too, but because of the 3 ints.

Seriously, though, stifling defense. Absolutely shut me down like I haven't been all season long. Wow.

firesloth wrote:

In the end, my 3 INTs helped out, including one with 1:45 left. I got a bit crazy late in the fourth: I was faced with a 3rd-and-7 with only 1:23 left in the game. I called a shotgun and motioned everyone out of the backfield. I meant to throw it to Campbell, but DS shut that down. Then I tried to roll Cunningham out, but that was about to get swallowed when I noticed Mr. Redshirt (i.e., no-star) WR down field wide open. I threw it to him...I have to say, after I let go I regretted the decision and assumed he would drop it, but he caught a 32 yard pass and stayed in bounds to seal the win.

Yeah, that was a drag. I had to pay attention to Campbell so much and then Cunningham was killing me, that honestly at a certain point (knowing how bad I am at D) I just let the computer run the show for a few minutes. The computer did better than me at D.

firesloth wrote:

Great game, DS. Sorry the chat wasn't working.

It's okay. Would have been nice to chat when I was getting stomped. That was a drag. But the game did pick up later. I mostly needed to chat with a human tonight. I've been dealing with corporate drones at my job lately. All kinds of crazy stuff going on, so I was hoping to play a game tonight with Goodjers and chat about something other than the state of my company. Was not to be, though. It's okay.

firesloth wrote:

Yeah! 7-1. Previous two seasons combined to give me 4 wins, so this is surprising and fun! Yes, let's draft teams again. ;)

The draft has been surprisingly successful on many fronts. I'm hoping we can get some stragglers to get going or else just collectively decide that they're too busy to participate and move forward. I look forward to another season.

ruthlessmuffin wrote:

Bagga when do you want to play. I'm free any night you want to play

I'm good any night as well. I think tomorrow (Thursday) night at around 10:30 EST would work best. Cool?

Seriously, though, stifling defense. Absolutely shut me down like I haven't been all season long. Wow.

Yeah, well shut you down just enough given you were driving for the tying score with 1:23 left in the game. For the first 3 quarters it was fine, but then things broke down.

I didn't think about it last night, but I've had success inviting someone to the private chat when the in-game chat didn't work.

Bagga that works for me. See you at 10:30 est thursday for my butt whippen

So at what point do we assume Ertic isn't going to be back for a while and call those games? We're like two of his games and 1 other game away from starting the playoffs, I believe.

Well when was the last time he posted on the GWJ boards? I mean he was on his 360 at the end of July.

Edit: Today he got on and accepted my friend request. Maybe he'll be around now?

Sorry man - went on vacation again - this time to Michigan to see some family.

Realize my kids use the 360 more than I do - so it is most likely them when you see Albo7 signed on.

Anyhow name a time and I will be on - maybe I can knock out my game with bagga and you this tomorrow

-Ertic

Dudes. Sorry. Some things were out of my control last night. Are you free Saturday morning/early afternoon?

I know I have been holding things up so I am good for whenever

Name a time for tomorrow and I will be there

Elliott you got a time for today?

-Ertic

ertic wrote:

I know I have been holding things up so I am good for whenever

Name a time for tomorrow and I will be there

Elliott you got a time for today?

-Ertic

My girlfriend's folks are in town. I'll try my damndest but I have a feeling I won't get much private time for a game. At least we know that you're alive now, after this weekend I should be free any evening.

Cool...we're closing in on this.

I have to say, I'll be out of the country Aug 18-24, so the first play-off game may take awhile to finish up if we don't get it started soonish.

ertic wrote:

I know I have been holding things up so I am good for whenever

Name a time for tomorrow and I will be there

Elliott you got a time for today?

-Ertic

High noon, Eastern time. Be there!

bagga i can get on early if you want me to like around 10:30 am est. Or after that if you want

ruthlessmuffin wrote:

bagga i can get on early if you want me to like around 10:30 am est. Or after that if you want

How about after my noon game, so 1-ish?

Bagga i won't be home then because my wife is having a party. So i will have the kids out and about then i will be going to the Dolphins-Bucs game tonight at 7:30 pm est. So let me know if you can play later tonight or tomorrow sometime. I will be on sometime around 11:30 pm tonight if you want

ruthlessmuffin wrote:

Bagga i won't be home then because my wife is having a party. So i will have the kids out and about then i will be going to the Dolphins-Bucs game tonight at 7:30 pm est. So let me know if you can play later tonight or tomorrow sometime. I will be on sometime around 11:30 pm tonight if you want

Nice, have a good time. We could try for tomorrow night... would that be ok for you?

Elliott - it's you and me apparently - lets get this done

Hey, great to see we have only one more game left in this regular season...when's the draft?

Wow, 1 more game and it's off to the playoffs. So I was looking at the stats today after firesloth's comment in the Madden thread about Campbell. 878 yards is nice in a season this short. I guess in that context I kind of shut him down last week.

My favorite stats, though, are that the top two tacklers in the league are Carl Banks and Willie Wood. Both from my time. I don't think this is a good thing, though. It means that you guys are getting right through my porous D-Line and into the second level. Thanks Too Tall and Clyde Simmons...

firesloth wrote:

Hey, great to see we have only one more game left in this regular season...when's the draft? :)

I would like to see it start after the playoffs, personally. If everyone is on top of things the playoffs should go quickly.

Could we get the good folks who created the great Google Docs stuff for the last draft to go ahead and create them again. I think it was a great way to build a draft board and such. We could then spend any more down time by preparing for our draft. I'd love to get started as soon as possible.

A blank version of the spreadsheet we used last season is available online now.

The only part not blank is that there are still names in there for draft order. Email me/pm me or post in the Season 4 pre-season thread if you'd like access to this spreadsheet/want in the league for next season.

http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/40539