NFL Week 1 thread -- Where we learn the meaning of Vão pássaros

In the FFL league I'm in the winner of the previous season gets to implement a wild rule that will hopefully change everyone's strategy.

This year's new rule: the distance of a FG is the amount of points its worth. Kicker a 50-yard FG and it's 50 points and so forth.

11 kickers were gone in the first two rounds of the draft. It was the funniest shit. Sadly no one picked Blake Grope, who had a 57-yarder and 52-yarder. But the idea that someone could be 100 points and think...."I got my kicker left" will make for a fun season.

 

Make it really fun - missed kicks are MINUS the yardage in points.

 

I suggested that! Because with this system a missed FG should be more than minus-3. That was agreed on, but they didn't go as far as I wanted. We agreed on minus-10 for missed FGs and minus-15 for missed XPs. So far more of a subtraction than a normal FFL.

 

Just imagine you are up one week by 13 points, your kicker is on the team that is losing in the MNF game and is trying a desperation kick from 40 plus out as the clock winds down.

 

The best part was that the guy who probably had the best overall team. Had good QB play, receivers performed, had Saquon, who was the best back in Week 1. His kicker was Greg Zuerlein....1 point.

Lost because Cairo Santos put up a 123 spot on his ass. Under normal kicker scoring, he wins by like 50 points or more.

 

I ended up losing mine because Rodgers completed one more pass to Garrett Wilson.

 

So it seems someone really DOES care, etc.!

 

McAfee is an entertainer, not a reporter. He has made a career out of not giving a damn, so yeah, little rules like getting your facts right aren't going to apply. Maybe it doesn't faze me because I grew up around Yinzers like him.

 

I was in a league once where it was one point per return yard. Considering your average kickoff return that goes nowhere still nets about 20 yards, you can imagine some of the scores that got posted.

It was the year Dante Hall went nuts for the Chiefs (2003 or 2004, I think) and I managed to snag him off the waiver wire before other people glommed onto the screwy stat setting. I think he had almost 300 points one week. Some other good returners regularly had well over 100.

 

That was how Denver operated in Denver with Peyton Manning. When Manning got there the idea was that he was going to be under center more and the Broncos would have a balanced offense with lots of paly action. It lasted about a month before the Broncos handed the keys to the offense to Manning, shifted to being a shotgun team and threw the hell out of the ball. The next three and a half years were the best stretch in the last 30.

 

Dolphins' Tyreek Hill admits he could have handled things differently when detained by police

On one hand, I'll give Tyreek Hill some credit for admitting he mishandled the situation with police Sunday. On the other, that abusive asshole can fuck all the way off with his claim that his life is "all about accountability."