GWJ Madden League 2.0 (XBox 360): Season II Week 4

Week 4

Titans(ALC) v Colts(SpyNavy)

Saints v Vikings

Bengals v Cardinals

Bills(Ihaida) v Dolphins

Patriots v Steelers(onewild)

Cowboys(damnsammit) v Giants

Raiders v Broncos

Seahawks v Panthers

Redskins v Eagles

Jets v Chargers (the counsolar)

Buccaneers v Lions(LeroyOG)

Falcons v Jaguars(omega grr)

Texans(StarkMeat588) v Ravens(ZellbrigeN)

Rams v 49ers

LEAGUE RULES

TRADE/FREE AGENT RULES:

1) Trades: Both teams must post the agreed trade in the weekly thread. I will then examine the trade, and if I think it is an unfair trade, I will veto. If both teams would like to "challenge" my veto, we will hold a league vote, and I will need 2/3 majority to overturn my veto by the end of the sim period. If I am involved in a trade, Zellbridge will act as commissioner, and examine the trade, and we will follow the same path. If Zell and I trade, it will automatically be put to league vote. If a trade is approved by the league, it will be processed directly after the league is simmed. Week 6 trades, it will be processed right before the sim, since that is the deadline.

PROPER TRADE REQUEST FORMAT:
Team: (Your Team Name)
Request: Trade with (Team you are trading with)
(Team) Gets:
Player A- Position, Rating
Player B- Position, Rating
Player C- Position, Rating

(Team) Gets:
Player A- Position, Rating
Player B- Position, Rating
Player C- Position, Rating

In the situation of a Human/CPU trade the league will decide if the trade is fair. All that is needed to pass a trade is 5 votes for Yes.

During the Season Free Agency Will Look Like this:

Free Agent Pickups: Any player who is out for 3 or more weeks, may be replaced by a free agent. You must pick up a free agent from the same position. Only exceptions are if the free agent would be used in another capacity, and please explain that in your FA request post (IE- Your tight end gets hurt, but you want to replace him with a WR, because he is your 4th string WR, then you may pick up a WR). ZelbrigeN will gather and evaluate all free agent requests, and on about the last day of the sim period, he will send me a PM with all free agent requests. After the week gets simmed, I will process all free agent pickups, so NO ONE should be touching the free agents, regardless of the situation.

PROPER FREE AGENT REQUEST FORMAT:
Team: (Your Team Name)
Request: Free Agent Pickup
Injured Player: (Name- Position, Injury Length)
Adding Player: (Name- Position)
Dropping Player: (Name- Position)

Up til week one you will have the opportunity to balance your team through FA. Pick up people where you need depth or where you want to. You are in Control. Now this is something also I would like to throw out there. You don't need to replace the position with the position lost. Hence you are happy with your back ups for the position lost but still feel like you need to drop a player. Or better yet just want to drop a player due to lack of production.

5 Day schedule to get in Regular Season Games from when the league is rolled. The League Roll Date is the Date the Forum is Created for the Next Week. If there are games yet to be played after the 5 day period those players will have a 24 hour window to get games completed. Now I will make exceptions if both parties are trying to get it together and its just not happening. If you aren't playing a Human opponent there really isn't an excuse why you would be the last player to play

The league will roll Wednesday or as soon as the games are played

Game is played. If you want to zell we can go ahead and try to schedule our game now. Or we can wait till league is rolled.

ALC,

Let me know when you are available to play.

Spy

Omega Girr wrote:

Game is played. If you want to zell we can go ahead and try to schedule our game now. Or we can wait till league is rolled.

Stark and I are going to try to play tonight, and then we can try...hm...Thursday night? say...9est?

My game crashed (while 17-0 up I might add and after Brady threw two ints on his first two sets, bet he doesn't do that again) and now I'm most likely not going to be able to play it till Monday night/Tuesday. Stupid xbox,

Lions win. Nathan Vasher...lock down nickel corner!!! 3 Ints(2 pic6) for the Player of the game.

TRADE REQUEST
Team: Detroit Lions
Request: Carolina Panthers
Lions Get:
Mackenzy Bernadeau, RG, 78 overall

Panthers Get:
Tony Sheffler, TE, 77 overall

Panthers get a starting TE, I get their backup RG who will become my starting RG. Any objections if the Panthers accept?

Leroyog wrote:

Lions win. Nathan Vasher...lock down nickel corner!!! 3 Ints(2 pic6) for the Player of the game.

TRADE REQUEST
Team: Detroit Lions
Request: Carolina Panthers
Lions Get:
Mackenzy Bernadeau, RG, 78 overall

Panthers Get:
Tony Sheffler, TE, 77 overall

Panthers get a starting TE, I get their backup RG who will become my starting RG. Any objections if the Panthers accept?

Im ok with that.

Also, Stark and I got our game in last night...it was going good until it froze right before the half...it was weird. My game showed me coming out of the huddle, while his went to a black screen that said "loading" and thats where our games stayed...we waited for over 5 minutes until I said forget it, and we restarted...Final score was 59-38. It was a lot closer than the score reflects. He was always within a score of me until the 4th quarter when he had back to back fumbles...thats what did it in for him...
I should also mention he did this without Schaub. The beginning of the second quarter, Suggs dislocated Schaub's ankle and he is out for 2 weeks...

Spy Navy check your Xbox live messages and you will see that i have sent you a messages but if you like to get this game in how about saturday evening. Either 7.30 or later before at least 12 midnight. Let me know either thourgh here our thourgh Xbox live Peace ALC

ALC:

I dont always get on Xbox Live every day - depends what game is striking my fancy of the week. Lets shoot for 9PM EST tonight.

Spy

Must have just missed you. I am available for the next 1-2 hrs and than tonight at 9PM.

Can I just say I love communication

Colts up 35-7 (just under 2 minutes remaining in the 1st half) and just stopped an attempted 4th down conversion. Started to run a play on offense when I got a "your opponent has quit the game message". I am sure it wasn't ALCs best game, lots of turnovers and such. Not sure what the deal was. My FiOS connection was rock solid. Double checked my connection to Live and EAs servers. Green across the board. Anyhow that's the summary.

This guy needs to slow down for starters the connection went out and the way it said it was on his end i wrote him a messages and went to play a game to see if there was any problem on my end then i came back and sent him 2 messages and didnt get any word from him. But yet and still he has given himself the victory. Dont get me wrong yes he has skill but im not a quitter and would have play it out no matter how lopside it would be. I know i dont have much wait around here but his defense is really a combo nano blitz plain and simple. Plus if he has won 2 titles with the colts then go to a low rank team and show what kind of player you are instead of having the best qb in the game and most acurate as well My connection also was soild and i have play plenty of games online and it seem that the game start slowing down especialy on either his defense or offense side of things. If you want to give him the win then that your choice but i dont think it should go out like that. Then he just disappear full of himself whatever ALC

Hey ALC,
The game isnt completed yet so you will get another shot at him...For some reason, Madden's servers just suck. We all have good interwebs but still get dropped. It happened to Stark and I last night...Its all on EA's end. Its stupid, but it happens. Also, understand that Spy is prob the most consistent guy here in the league to win. Yes he's won all 3 superbowls. Twice as the Chargers and Once as the Colts...its all good man...we are just having fun. I got heated the last time I played him and same goes for Indiana...its just hard to beat him and his team
Anyway, reschedule and try to get the game in...we can wait.

ZellbrigeN26 wrote:

Hey ALC,
The game isnt completed yet so you will get another shot at him...For some reason, Madden's servers just suck. We all have good interwebs but still get dropped. It happened to Stark and I last night...Its all on EA's end. Its stupid, but it happens. Also, understand that Spy is prob the most consistent guy here in the league to win. Yes he's won all 3 superbowls. Twice as the Chargers and Once as the Colts...its all good man...we are just having fun. I got heated the last time I played him and same goes for Indiana...its just hard to beat him and his team
Anyway, reschedule and try to get the game in...we can wait.

heated thats funny lol

SpyNavy wrote:

Colts up 35-7 (just under 2 minutes remaining in the 1st half) and just stopped an attempted 4th down conversion. Started to run a play on offense when I got a "your opponent has quit the game message". I am sure it wasn't ALCs best game, lots of turnovers and such. Not sure what the deal was. My FiOS connection was rock solid. Double checked my connection to Live and EAs servers. Green across the board. Anyhow that's the summary.

ALC wrote:

This guy needs to slow down for starters the connection went out and the way it said it was on his end i wrote him a messages and went to play a game to see if there was any problem on my end then i came back and sent him 2 messages and didnt get any word from him. But yet and still he has given himself the victory. Dont get me wrong yes he has skill but im not a quitter and would have play it out no matter how lopside it would be. I know i dont have much wait around here but his defense is really a combo nano blitz plain and simple. Plus if he has won 2 titles with the colts then go to a low rank team and show what kind of player you are instead of having the best qb in the game and most acurate as well My connection also was soild and i have play plenty of games online and it seem that the game start slowing down especialy on either his defense or offense side of things. If you want to give him the win then that your choice but i dont think it should go out like that. Then he just disappear full of himself whatever ALC

Game has not been counted so just replay it.

Sigh... The drama of it all. I have played since the very beginning in every league we have had at GWJ going back to NFL2K5. I have played in this group as the Colts, the Chargers, and Cincinnati winning SBs with all three. Started a league that never finished as the Browns, but never lost with them either. In my earlier post I simply laid out what happened in a clear, unemotional manner. You wre frustrated, your running game was non-existent, you had turnover after turnover, and like anyone who plays with Vince Young you have to deal with his inaccuracy. I was going to make you run and throw because he is horribly inaccurate. I certainly wasn't going to let VY roll right and throw the ball once the receivers cleared the zones. I also shut down the HB screen that folks love to run with CJ. The Titans are a gimmick team and I have played enough to know the gimmicks. HB tosses and Off tackle with CJ along with the HB screen and rolling with a speedy VY to hit Moss or the other WR on the deep route. I played to your game plan and I guessed right more often than not. I play about 6-10 standard defenses centered around blitz left, middle, right depending on the formation you come out in. All of which are based on bringing more than you leave into block. I wanted you to block with your HBs which you eventually did because I don't want to deal with CJ in the open field. When you blocked extra you had more time and I shaded your go to guy. I play 3-5 run defenses that center around strong/weak formations while usering a guy to cleanup. These aren't nanos or gimmicks - it's strategy and understanding the game on more than a video game level. The connection was fine and game was smooth all the way until I stopped you on 4th down with 2 minutes left and than suddenly poof; there isnt a player here that wouldn't find that circumspect. If I were down 35-7 with the game going like it was I'd be frustrated as well. I tried to contact you multiple times and sent a couple of game invites, but heard nothing back other than your rude message after the game disconnected. Your posts here as well as online have been borderline rude/sh*tty. One of the appeals of this forum is the decorum that most folks adhere to. This isn't a Madden website with thug life and E-penis comparisons constantly. Common courtesy and polite behavior are always the rule of the day.

I need to switch to the Colt's defense and use this Nanoblitz. Sounds pretty sweet. I wonder if it's better than my Kilocover that run with the Lions.

You know what is getting loss here is that the connection went out point blank. But what is being thrown around is one person interpretation of this sito. I sent a courtsey messages as soon as it show that the game connection was loss. It ready on my system that my opponet connection was gone. Then i get the messages back from Spynavy that it wasnt his but mine.
Now my sons watch part of the game and it was apparent that the slow down became clear was on his end. But here goes nothing i get back you didnt like my messages and it was rude and all orther bull you havent to sprew to massages your ego. Then you go on some long rant about not liken my postes and this isnt a thuglife and email correspoces all orther nonsense. Look dude get your fact rights i havent post on here but maybe 4 or 5 times. Not in anyone of them have i use a curse word or try to destory some one self worth or character. You need to slow down yes i have an opinion and we all do and you tell me any player here hasnt said something about how the games with you have went. Then you continue to talk about me quitting and it was funny that the connection went out on my end then you come back and say you understood why i would quit. Stop condensending man \face fact you are trying to make something that isnt there. I guess a motivation tool to just say you are the best.
Fine that good but to sprew this racist bull is complete unfounded. But i guess you felt that was the only way to handle things. Again let the record show that after everything went blank that i sent a courtsey messages and told him what i thought to be the correct score of our game. So yes i went to play another game to see if there was any problems and there wasnt
Did i know that he would come back so quickly especialy after he said that the problem was mine and mine alone no. I got back about 10:30 and waited about 10 minutes and messages him twice and then i came to the forum where he had already made his write up about the game events and his victory. Now my question is if he a league vet he should have been the one explaining that the game would either have to be replay or the commish would have to decide the final outcome.
It just seem to me that Spy can do no wrong we all are wrong some point in our lifes. For him to do what he done is crap and to lie and say the email was rude is a bunch of bull. I have tried to follow the guidelines set forth with in the league. When my xbox was down i report to the commish so that the league wouldnt be behind waitng on me. When my opponet was suppose to play our game i waited until the commish said to go ahead and play the game.
Then on this game i sent a xbox messages to Spynavy and this is what i heard i dont always check my xbox live messages. Isnt that what you are suppose to do to try to make the game happen or you could pm me and that would work too. But i guess that doing that isnt what you are suppose to do. Look im going to get off of this but dont always assume that just because a person said it one way that there isnt another side to the story. Peace

OK...guys...look....As I said, It wasnt eithers fault....its just the connection with the server...for whatever reason, this years Madden has been stupid bad about dropping games and send messages of "so and so quit" or "server connection lost". I really think its all on EA's end.
So please just cool it and replay the game. Its not a big deal...

Apparently, my point(s) have been missed. I am quite confident and comfortable with myself and my place in life to not need a video game to measure my self-worth against nor to boost my ego. I have always been polite and respectful of all my opponents. Your posts and your tone with respect to our game sparked my earlier comments. If you have ever participated in, or even viewed, some of the more common Madden web sites you would understand my thug life comment. Be very careful throwing the racism/race card word around before you know the person you are talking to or their life experiences. I have been even tempered in our exchanges and as factual as I possibly could be including my original post. I tried multiple times to contact you after the "disconnect" and your subsequent message; you didnt reply back once so I logged off.

Both of your responses here have been written angry and accusatory. Bottom line you were down 35-7, had just been stopped on a 4th and 2 with two minutes left. I get the ball and go to run the play and get a message that says "Your opponent has quit the game", not connection lost, quit the game. I know Madden servers are crazy, but as I said before the game wasnt going your way and up until that point that was one of the smoothest lag free games I have played in a long time and then suddenly after I stopped you on 4th down and I have the ball the game suddenly goes hay wire... Not a single player here would find that a little bit odd... That's the facts and there is no disputing that.

We started our game at 9PM, the game "disconnected" around 945PM, you sent me a message and I responded. I sent you a couple of invites to play again per your message and yet you never responded. To me thats rude - I wasnt going to wait around for you with no clear idea of what you wanted to do.

You have taken offense where none was offered and inferred things that simply are not true. If you want to play again - give me a good time, otherwise the Commish can figure out what he wants to do. Peace.

Whatever Spy you the one that made the comments now you doing a backslide or a put the blame on someone else as far as this sito goes. I come on here to pm you and see what the deal is and what could be work out about our game. Then you go on this rant not once did you come across with a soultion all you did was rant and go on and on about how you did this and how you did that. But i made the first move to try to get this game play. All you have done is sit on your backside and pass out blame. Plus you come with a very lame accuse talking you dont like my post and it is in a sh*tty way when in fact i have been very cool with reporting what is going on when i need to do that. This lies on you yes you are a very good player take nothing away from that. But to sit here and try to discredit me and say such things in the manner in which you said them is just plain garbage and bulls$$$. LOOK IF THE COMMISH DEEM THIS GAME TO BE REPLAY THEN FINE AGAIN I SAY THAT IF HE WANTS YOU TO HAVE THE VICTORY SINCE YOU WERE In the lead then more powder to you. But to go on this and nobody is right accept for you is just laughable. To say that this and that is being done plus im making angry comments in my post then what about yours? It seem you must have the gift of ESP and that you know what in a person thought process and everything else. Look dude stop if you want this victory so badd then gone and claim it but it seem might small of you to be the only one right and nobody has an opinion or thought orther than U And finaly no quit here so if you want to believe that then go right ahead because on my system your opponet connection is lost. Nobody quits here and i dont care what the score is but if you want to believe that go right ahead GOLDEN BOY
Case in point i tried to play another game to see if the problem would reappear but it didnt and i play a game today and it was there and then it left and the game continue.
Anyway this is a done deal and that the bottum line ALC

ALC,
No back slide. I stand by every word. I haven't made any excuses nor have my posts or behavior called for any. I am still not sure what "lies on me". I'll be perfectly honest I have to reread your posts a couple of times to try and understand what I think you are saying and even then I don't know where some of it is coming from. I haven't become agitated or emotional over the situation as you clearly have become. Not once have I said I am right. I have laid out the facts and my thoughts on them. My solution lays with the last sentence in my previous post, if you want to play again give me a good time, if not the Commish can do whatever he sees fit.
Cheers - Spy

Like i said before...just replay it...if it will not be replayed by the deadline ALC will drop for the week since he was losing the last/only game they played. I don't personally want to see this game simmed. Deal?

If you want my take on this situation i will give it, but the simple idea is knowing how to plan and adjust in game for your opponent...use your audibles and hot routes and then other players will not know how to adjust. Spy has told everyone what he does exactly so technically others should have the upper hand. If you know how the 46 works it can be easily exploited even if its a blitz every down. Remember if he is bringing more men than you can cover you will have an extra man free. Defense has the same amount of players on their side as the offense. I have played Spy, I know how Spy plays, and though it is frustrating its nothing that can't be exploited trust me, he knows that to. Build your team accordingly and you will do fine. Adjust a game plan to shut down his. There are aspects of the game of football that you think outside the box and the game falls into your lap Spy has done just that but its not cheating its knowing your team. I am not going to boot anyone because the fact is the connection was lost...all of us have had that problem and all of us have dealt with it. So lets deal with it again and move on.

Thanks,
Commish

Leroyog wrote:

I need to switch to the Colt's defense and use this Nanoblitz. Sounds pretty sweet. I wonder if it's better than my Kilocover that run with the Lions.

With Suh and your defense it actually would work pretty well I think.

Leroyog wrote:

Lions win. Nathan Vasher...lock down nickel corner!!! 3 Ints(2 pic6) for the Player of the game.

TRADE REQUEST
Team: Detroit Lions
Request: Carolina Panthers
Lions Get:
Mackenzy Bernadeau, RG, 78 overall

Panthers Get:
Tony Sheffler, TE, 77 overall

Panthers get a starting TE, I get their backup RG who will become my starting RG. Any objections if the Panthers accept?

This is fine with me. If there are no objections go ahead and set up the trade Leroy

So I was looking at my Depth Charts and Realized something....My Kicker is my 2nd best QB lol wow...I might have to play with that lol

*new*

oh maybe not...crazy way Madden Online off of the website has my players lol

whats cool about this my star rookie is 46 yrs old haha thats awesome!

no wonder tyree rush got injured he is only 5

Leroyog wrote:

Lions win. Nathan Vasher...lock down nickel corner!!! 3 Ints(2 pic6) for the Player of the game.

TRADE REQUEST
Team: Detroit Lions
Request: Carolina Panthers
Lions Get:
Mackenzy Bernadeau, RG, 78 overall

Panthers Get:
Tony Sheffler, TE, 77 overall

Panthers get a starting TE, I get their backup RG who will become my starting RG. Any objections if the Panthers accept?

im ok with the trade.

For the record....I'm super psyched that I don't play Spy in the regular season.