Madden 11 GWJFL (360): Season 1, Week 7

Grumpicus wrote:
Kush15 wrote:

Cleveland Browns (2-4)- Xbox at
New Orleans Saints (5-1)- Grumpicus

Game played. I was trying again to see if I could hit 100 but ended up a little short.

Ah well, after at least one game a week for over a year... I'm bored. I've dropped from the league and this game is getting sent to Amazon tomorrow.

Thanks for a good run, all.

Dan Kelly will get rights to the Saints if he wants them. Thanks for being a part of the league Grump, you will be missed! You are welcome back at any time.

Vikings owner (MashinUouT) what times are good for you? I'm available in the evenings.

onewild wrote:

IUMogg - going have to cancel tonight because I have been roped into doing a 7-12 in the morning at work. Can play another night this week though, just let me know sorry about that.

I can play tomorrow (weds) evening or Thursday evening. let me know what works best for you.

Kush15 wrote:
Grumpicus wrote:
Kush15 wrote:

Cleveland Browns (2-4)- Xbox at
New Orleans Saints (5-1)- Grumpicus

Game played. I was trying again to see if I could hit 100 but ended up a little short.

Ah well, after at least one game a week for over a year... I'm bored. I've dropped from the league and this game is getting sent to Amazon tomorrow.

Thanks for a good run, all.

Dan Kelly will get rights to the Saints if he wants them. Thanks for being a part of the league Grump, you will be missed! You are welcome back at any time.

And much as I love them (in good times and in now), I think I'll stick with the Packers for the league. I've gotten used to them and their playbook. (I just hope they go to a Saints fan.)

The Seahawks claw their way back to .500 with a 27-13 win over the AI controlled Cardinals. Mediocrity never tasted so sweet. POG is Lofa Tatupu, with 6 tackles and a Pick-Six that I sort of contributed to.

Man, owners are dropping like flies. It's Survivor: Madden Edition.

JohngPR wrote:

Man, owners are dropping like flies. It's Survivor: Madden Edition.

:-P

this happened last year...we started with about 20ish and around week 6 lost 5 or 6 of them...its ok...so long as we stay above 12 or so...we are fine...I wont worry til we get to that point.

Paging Bill to the white courtesy phone....

Second attempt.

EFF, when are you available to play again?

SECOND ATTEMPT:

Vikings owner (MashinUouT) what times are good for you?

IUMogg wrote:
onewild wrote:

IUMogg - going have to cancel tonight because I have been roped into doing a 7-12 in the morning at work. Can play another night this week though, just let me know sorry about that.

I can play tomorrow (weds) evening or Thursday evening. let me know what works best for you.

Tonight (weds) is good for me. About 7 your time yeah?

Dan Kelly wrote:

SECOND ATTEMPT:

Vikings owner (MashinUouT) what times are good for you?

I let him know you are trying to contact him, and that scheduling should be done through the site.

Kush15 wrote:
Dan Kelly wrote:

SECOND ATTEMPT:

Vikings owner (MashinUouT) what times are good for you?

I let him know you are trying to contact him, and that scheduling should be done through the site.

Thanks...

If he tried to contact me over XBL, I won't get it. I don't usually turn on my Xbox except to play my league game... at least not until CoD:BO comes out next month.

SO...Ihaida and I tried playing our game and yet again the net goes down faster than a hooker on crack. Its kinda weird, when he lost connection, it told him that the EA servers were down, but it told me that my opp have quit and I'd have to quit too. sucks....cause now i am off to work. We will try again on Friday...

onewild wrote:
IUMogg wrote:
onewild wrote:

IUMogg - going have to cancel tonight because I have been roped into doing a 7-12 in the morning at work. Can play another night this week though, just let me know sorry about that.

I can play tomorrow (weds) evening or Thursday evening. let me know what works best for you.

Tonight (weds) is good for me. About 7 your time yeah?

I'll be there

Great game IUMogg, Brandon Marshall has magnets for hands, if the ball was made from metal, which it is not but you get the idea. Which leads me to a question, can you double team people in this game? Also how the hell do you get your QB to slide?
Also that was a lot less laggy, still lag but nowhere near as bad as when I played my last game.

onewild wrote:

Great game IUMogg, Brandon Marshall has magnets for hands, if the ball was made from metal, which it is not but you get the idea. Which leads me to a question, can you double team people in this game? Also how the hell do you get your QB to slide?
Also that was a lot less laggy, still lag but nowhere near as bad as when I played my last game.

There are some defensive formations that will allow you to bring the safety down and double cover a guy. I never use it because it usually ended up two people chasing 1 guy instead of having a safety to back you up

To slide, tap x. Holding it down makes them dive.

I liked how the NFL2k games allowed you to double up a receiver.

You might be able to do something in your formations. I haven't gotten that in depth yet.

Couple of news and notes, I started updating the scores and MVPs this morning, I will finish that off within the hour, work take precident. 5 more games to go this week. I didn't realize that the deadline should be Saturday morning. Since Redneck and I are going to play at 9:30am on Sat morning, the sim will be held off until after our game completes, and the next Sim period will start at 7am on Sat, Oct 23. I will be in Las Vegas at that time, so unless we sim this next period early, I will pass commissioner rights to Zell.

Kush, what happens if EFF can't make the game?

Leroyog wrote:

Kush, what happens if EFF can't make the game?

You're EFF'ed?

Seriously, since I don't see any posts from him in the thread, my policy would be that he gets booted and you get to play. Was there any communication between you and EFF? Normally he posts, so that is odd that I didn't see a post from him this week. Let me know if you can play tomorrow, and if so, and I don't see any response from EFF, then I will boot him, invite him back, and you can play your game vs the XBox.

ZellbrigeN26 wrote:

SO...Ihaida and I tried playing our game and yet again the net goes down faster than a hooker on crack. Its kinda weird, when he lost connection, it told him that the EA servers were down, but it told me that my opp have quit and I'd have to quit too. sucks....cause now i am off to work. We will try again on Friday...

Just wondering if anyone here is playing with a wireless connection. I used to have my XBox set up wirelessly, and let me tell you, playing Madden 10 games sucked balls when it was vs another human. I have since switched to a wired connection, and I have found a huge improvement in gameplay online. The better news is that I may be switching to Verizon FIOS, which should improve my connection even further.

onewild wrote:

Great game IUMogg, Brandon Marshall has magnets for hands, if the ball was made from metal, which it is not but you get the idea. Which leads me to a question, can you double team people in this game?

a. You can call a play like "double X", "double Z", and "double TE", or

b. call a play where you have the guy you want to double cover in man-on-man with a couple of guys in zone and then hot route the nearest zone guy with coverage skills to cover him.

Hot routing defense has to be done quickly, so I'd recommend practicing it a bunch to get the keystrokes down, but it can be done.

Kush15 wrote:
Leroyog wrote:

Kush, what happens if EFF can't make the game?

You're EFF'ed?

Seriously, since I don't see any posts from him in the thread, my policy would be that he gets booted and you get to play. Was there any communication between you and EFF? Normally he posts, so that is odd that I didn't see a post from him this week. Let me know if you can play tomorrow, and if so, and I don't see any response from EFF, then I will boot him, invite him back, and you can play your game vs the XBox.

Would this same policy apply to Vikings owner (whom I have not heard from yet)?

I haven't seen him post and I dont have any PM's. I put my availability in my sig for convenience. I am availabile tomorrow after 4pm. (got to hit the grocery store after work) Other than that, I'll be lost in the world of Civ 5.

Dan Kelly wrote:
Kush15 wrote:
Leroyog wrote:

Kush, what happens if EFF can't make the game?

You're EFF'ed?

Seriously, since I don't see any posts from him in the thread, my policy would be that he gets booted and you get to play. Was there any communication between you and EFF? Normally he posts, so that is odd that I didn't see a post from him this week. Let me know if you can play tomorrow, and if so, and I don't see any response from EFF, then I will boot him, invite him back, and you can play your game vs the XBox.

Would this same policy apply to Vikings owner (whom I have not heard from yet)?

Abso-EFF'in-lutely. I sent him an XBox PM yesterday, he is on playing today. I don't like being ignored, and I don't recommend it (when it comes to this league, outside the league, you're more than welcome to ignore me, lol). Obviously, he may not have seen it, so you can feel free to PM him on XBox Live. Unless I get a message from him in this thread, he will be booted (with a re-invite) when I get home, and you'll be free to play the XBox.

Leroyog wrote:

I put my availability in my sig for convenience.

That scores you points in the commissioner book, that is awesome, and very conveinient.

Oh yeah, your commissioner gets back into the XBox scene tonight after not playing for about a week. Thus, this thread is now FULLY OPERATIONAL!!!!!!

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Remaining Games, just as an FYI:

Washington Redskins- EFF (2-4) at
Chicago Bears- LeroyOG (2-4)

Buffalo Bills- Ihaida (0-5) at
Baltimore Ravens- ZellbrigeN (6-0)

New England Patriots- Iridium (2-3) at
San Diego Chargers- Bill Bonney (3-3)

Minnesota Vikings- MashinUouT (1-4) at
Green Bay Packers- Dankelly613 (6-0)

New York Giants- Kush15 (4-2) at
Dallas Cowboys- RedneckBiker (3-2)

Iridium884 wrote:

Paging Bill to the white courtesy phone....

Still nothing. What should I do?