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I've finally gotten used to the new look, and think it's fine. Would appreciate avoiding yet another change if possible.

I'm starting to question why I play this game. My matchup luck has been absurdly awful. It's been three weeks in a row now that both of my teams have had opponents with players that went nuts. My Colts winning is the only thing salvaging this weekend, unless I manage to find 30+ points out of the Bears playmakers tonight. I've written off League #2 matchup since it would take 60+ out of Marshall, Lacy and Boykin.

Finally... my chance to play Aliens: Colonial Marines and not feel guilty about it. Do I know it's going to be pretty bad? Of course. Do I really care since it's $5? Not at all.

Chris Givens and I both think this is an excellent idea.

Yeah, I'm Twice Lucky in League #1, and the "on his heels" thing definitely feels accurate. Didn't help that my QB1, WR1, and RB1 were all on bye this week and I had to start Doug Martin's backup on an already crappy TB offense. Injuries and poorly coordinated byes have made it a challenge. I thought I would get crushed by pronouncemyname in league #1 this week, but annoyingly Vick getting hurt and turning in a .34 and Murray sitting out and turning in a 0 gave me hope of an epic comeback. Then Roethlisberger happened, the Jags ignored their best receiver for the second week in a row, my TE gets hurt, and Calvin Johnson goes absolutely bonkers and I suffer a loss more stinging than losing 123-80. Why do I play this game again? I also can't believe that the 10 team league has 6 playoff spots and the 12 team league only has 4. Good lord.

W00t, don't call it a comeback! *crosses fingers Hauschka can hold off Russell Wilson and Zac Stacy* Going into the season, I thought my GC #2 team was going to struggle and GC #1 team would dominate. Having a decidedly opposite feeling at the moment.

I'm getting killed by Bye weeks and Doug Martin. Not been a fun week. I have no idea what I was thinking trusting Roethlisberger to have ONE DECENT WEEK while Luck was on bye. That said, I have a wealth of pretty good receivers, so at least I'm not in FK's boat.

Not quite sure how you guys are having trouble with the 8.1 update (at least from 8, not 7). I ran it on my Surface and desktop and it was easy and flawless. Really like the features added to the new start button (right clicking on it). To be honest, once I paired Win 8 with a solid state drive, I have a hard time wanting to work on Win 7 machines. The speeds are absolutely insane.

Rocking a G500, and I lurrrrves it. Still have my old MX518 though, working well and enjoying an easy retirement on a little-used secondary box.

So I'm guessing I can't get Gronk for Bernard Pierce of the Vaunted Ravens Rushing Attack?

Thought I would start up a thread for people to initiate trade discussion. Obviously negotiations should take place in PMs, but the thread could be used as a trade block announcement type thing. I'll start it off: Possibly interested in trading my WR depth for RB help. This is applicable in both leagues. Let me know if interested.

This weekend made me question (once again) why I torture myself playing fantasy football. Absolutely infuriating. On top of it all, the Colts coaches just turned in the single worst coaching job top to bottom that I have witnessed since the Jim Caldwell Era. Not a good weekend.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! *runs home to check on beloved G500*

As a Doug Martin owner who spent 2nd and 5th overall picks on him, I take exception to this statement.

You've really cornered the market on marginal waiver wire receivers this week.

Looks like Team FK caught the injury bug I had last year. Condolences. On another note, I'm still waiting for my top pick (Martin) to start producing as such. Here's hoping the Iggles D is the right prescription.

Everything was looking good in both leagues for me until Denver-Dallas happened. Completely sunk me in Deuce because NOBODY COULD F*^ TACKLE DEZ, and forced me to pray for 3 points out of Roddy White on MNF in the other league (which, considering his year thus far, was asking a lot). That Julio injury though could be a killer - my condolences on your loss, FK.

This is still sitting in my Steam Library, unplayed. If I ever tear myself away from GTAV, I ought to get on that.

My half-auto drafted team is scrapping along and fighting to be at .500, while battling running-back-and-Hakeem-Nicks-related ineptness. My self-drafted team is rolling along after a Week 1 hiccup. If Doug Martin is ever allowed to be Doug Martin again, I like my chances Also, Roddy White needs to quit fooling around and get his ankle healthy. TBT - That was the story of my fantasy season last year. I scored the second most points in the league, but had the most scored on me by a fairly significant margin. I finished second to last.

For the record, Chick, good natured trash talk is a time-honored tradition of fantasy football, and should in no way be taken seriously. No one is trying to offend anyone, just have a good time with it. Fantasy Football is more fun when you can give your friends a hard time and laugh about it. Also, FPS, the season is OH SO YOUNG still. Your comment did immediately make me think of this though: [utube]aYKIcnj1MJY[/utube]

Got it for 360, put about three hours into it so far, and loving it.

Want to legitimately waste time instead of just leaving a browser window open all day? Ginormo Sword (yes, I know this has been posted in these forums many moons ago)

The Jets actually have a good defense. Even a decent to good defense can't hold up a full game when they're on the field for 2/3rds of it. That offense is pretty terribad.

Went to bed near the end of the third quarter, Demaryius had 2 catches for 40 some yards, I was somewhat disappointed. Woke up this morning, and he got three more for 120 yards and two touchdowns. Awesome.

I have a sneaky feeling Vick will be dynamite this year.... for 8 weeks, then he gets hurt and you're relying on Cutler or scrambling for Nick Foles or Matt Barkley Wait.... sorry, this was supposed to be a trying-to-make-you-feel-better moment, wasn't it?