Dang, this thing is rolling well. Almost through four rounds over a weekend?

Oh yeah, I'm likin' it so far:

Warner
Jacobs
Thomas
D Jackson
S Moss
Gates

Warner in a 6 pt for passing TD league is gold.

Parker was a good pickup for you. I almost took him with my last pick.

I'm fairly satisfied with my draft so far.

Shaub
Jones-Drew
AP
Megatron
Royal
TO
Jackson

I may have reached a bit with Royal and Shaub, I just like both this year and didn't want to take the chance.
Jackson was good value in the end of the 6th.

Rivers, Philip SDC - QB
Benson, Cedric CIN RB
Gore, Frank SFO RB
McCoy, LeSean PHI RB
Westbrook, Brian PHI RB (P)
Gonzalez, Anthony IND WR
Johnson, Andre HOU WR
Gonzalez, Tony ATL TE

westbrook, rivers and t. gonzalez were pretty much no brainer picks as they were the only top tier players left at their positions when the pick came to me. not much thinking on those. a. gonzalez was the first real pick where i needed to think and i went with the more high powered offense. took two RBs on this turn to get some depth (benson) and handcuff westbrook (mccoy). i didn't think mccoy would be there coming back so i opted to lock him up vs. going WR.

overall pretty solid for starting with gore and aj. the rodgers deal would not have been good as rivers is near the top and i used the other pick on westbrook. i'm hoping gonzo makes up for getting my 3rd receiver later in the draft.

If you really come to think of it, the 6th round is in essence the 9th round






I was just hoping beyond hope that one of Benson, Parker, McCoy, or Donald Brown, would be there for my next pick. They're all gone. You guys suck! lol

Even if one of them were there, they were on my draft list. What's up with you guys drafting 4 RBs and 2 WRs? You aren't supposed to do that...you are supposed to go WR and let at least one of the RBs I was targeting come back to me...

Ryan, Matt

Tomlinson, LaDainian SDC
Brown, Ronnie MIA
Graham, Earnest TBB

White, Roddy ATL WR
Marshall, Brandon DEN
Ward, Hines PIT WR

Witten, Jason DAL TE


So far I'm pretty happy with my team. There's a few question marks, but if I get 2 of 3 to hit, then I'm good. Would have preferred Benson or McCoy over Graham, but he's a good filler. I see Sproles (target with my next pick) was just taken...dammit!

If you REALLY come to think of it, I took him in the 3rd rd of the open draft which is in essence the 6th round.

The dangers of a slow draft with other drafts on your mind and rushing to make a pick before dinner...you'd think I'm a Falcon homer...

White
Ryan
Norwood

As soon as I clicked "draft," I realized my mistake...

Ugh...

Being that I was already handicapped in the RB dept. to start with, and then painfully watching as the last few starters got nabbed, I jumped early on a defense. I have never ever been the one to start the D run. But I checked out the league scoring from last year and defenses seem to score pretty well in this league. What's ironic is me, a Steelers fan drafting the Ravens while Justin, a Ravens fan drafted the Steelers. Oh, and I still have no TE, but TEs don't score very good in this league. Even Witten only had 114 points on the year, which is why I didn't keep him. But now I can only hope to find a sleeper that can manage 85-90 points.

Four running right now and left my cheat sheets for all of them at work tonight.

Of the four slow drafts I'm in this week, this is easily the fastest. Great job everyone!

Wanna trade?

Ravens D was on my radar, but I'm not sure I would have drafted a D when I did, except for the fact that you went for one. My target would have been 10th round, but 9th aint bad. I figured that if I couldn't get the best D in the league, then I should lock up the second best. There is definitely a drop off after the top 2.

joking right?

We'll see about a trade when the draft is over. I certainly could live with the Steelers D. Being that my RB situation is/was brutal and the TE I had targeted just went off the board, I didn't want to be the chaser when it came to team D. Besides, TEs in this league don't really do much. Even Witten only scored 114 or so points on the season last year, where the Ravens D scored 167.

Unless we do indeed trade, I think you'll agree that it will be pretty awkward watching the 2 games when our boys hook up. I hate the Ravens with a passion, but I respect the hell out of them. Isn't that the way division rivals should feel?

Unless you're in the AFC West and deal with the Raiders, Broncos and Chiefs...

No, really. We are through 12 rounds. The others (which all started Monday by which time we had, IIRC, 3.5 rounds complete) are through 7, 3 and 8). Yes, one of them is just completing the third round and has been running since Monday morning.

For a "slow" draft, this is moving pretty quick. At this rate, we could have held off to start next week and let more preseason games be played before drafting.

I'm incommunicado from Friday 4th so I'd have had to vote against that.

That was brutal. I've not done a slow draft that I can remember. Guess since I'm online almost 24/7 it's hard to understand those that are not. The disadvantage I see by dragging it out is that it's a bit unfair to those that pick early and fast because injuries, etc from the pre-season games & benefits those that wait on their picks for more practice/games/news to come out. A "slow" draft should take place between games over a set time frame or after the games and rosters are set - IMO.

I'm just glad it over.

Now it's ON!

Forgot to pick up a kicker. When do waivers open?

Week 2

The Duckett/Edge news out of Seattle is the perfect example of the drafting team having an advantage.

However, setting a clock for a few hours to keep the draft moving doesn't appeal to me either. I know several in this league pre-draft, but I have a difficult time doing that as my position selections change based on picks just before me.

Overall, if we can't do it live, this worked great, IMO.


BTW, my comment about starting later was just for reference next year if we have to do this again.

it's over. i win.

ahem

it's actually pretty easy to do that when you're in the middle of the draft order, prioritizing and committing to only one pick at a time. closer to the turn a lot more strategy comes into play.

i cracked the 2 hour per pick barrier ...

enjoy it!

it will be the only time during this season that you'll be in first.

I have 7 RBs on my team and they all suck. Hopefully Brees can keep me in this thing.

Keeping Tillman as a division was a cool move Dan.

What Jax did to my team...

Brees - The man, the tower of doom in thei QB heavy league... you have the kingpin Mark.
RB - Not impressed.
WR - Impressed
TE -
D - Impressed.

With No PPR (unless I have that wrong), your QB could carry you. Best to go QB/QB/RB/RB. rotsa ruck.

Being that Addai was your best RB, I felt that I needed a slight upgrade and only kept 2 players and ended up getting McFadden with my supplemental and still ended up with Addai again in the draft. I could have kept Witten, but no PPR and I looked over what numbers TEs put up in this league and wasn't impressed. A solid QB and RBs are the money positions in this league, but I was behind the 8 ball to start as the top 15 or so RBs were all keepers. I was lucky to land McFadden. I'll do my best to keep your team in the thick of things, but I may have problems with the RB position.

What a year it's been so far with these two D's. Neither are in the top 10 (FFB scoring) and without Troy, (and now one of the D-linemen) the Steelers D has been pretty poor. The Ravens have been giving up a lot of points and are not scoring well either.

I'm starting the Steelers this week (Broncos on bye), but after that, I'll likely be going with the Broncos from here on out (except maybe when PIT plays CLE or DET).

Your Ravens pitched a shutout tonight against the lowly Brownies and I ended up winning by +/- a point. Still not pleased with my team in this league but the luck seems to be with me here. I wish I could say the same for some of my others.

My team sucks.

That is all.