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Originally Posted by 58-4ever

Everyone knew Blount was slow and consistently out of shape. Anyone with a brain knew Martin would take over.

Would you like to cite a reference instead of spouting your hindsight into the situation?

The only information on Doug Martin pre-FFdrafts and pre-pre-season was that he was working hard. Nobody made a mention of him being a fantasy prospect until the pre-season had started.

And there I was keeping tabs on him long before that.

Originally Posted by sedated

You must not pay attention to fantasy at all. Martin was a pretty common mid to late round pick, Blount was rarely drafted at all. Everyone expected Martin to be the main back for the majority of the season.

If he was listed as RB3 in training camp, it was likely just typical rookie treatment to keep him motivated.

I played in 5 leagues last year, winning 4 Championships, my closest friends and I run an 8 man money league with specialized scoring, we watch the games religiously every sunday and have a cookout, weather permitting. We have jerseys of our fantasy team's starting QB's, RB's, and WR's, and wear them accordingly, we pay for NFL Redzone because it is a better option than Sunday ticket, and we have miniature "figures" of our starting QB's, as our league and group are a very QB centric setup. We have fantasy football thanksgivings, fantasy football christmas's, we have a live fantasy football draft, a fantasy football facebook group and chat so we can keep up to date on our phones, on top of having the fantasy app on our phones for our teams. We trade players and draft picks like the NFL, in back channels and often blocking out other teams from making trades with certain people, as I was the recipient this year of the blockade over Peyton Manning. We create our own in depth analysis of each player as they score in our league, we provide our own projects and interations, and keep up to date beyond the fantasy site, about our players health, projections, and game conditions going into the game.


To say that I must not pay attention to fantasy is about as wrong as you ever could be, I AM FANTASY football. I live it, eat it, breathe it, sleep it.

On the topic of Doug Martin, you're ignoring my point, which is, up until the pre-season games, he wasn't on the radar, for anyone. Well, that is to say, not on the radar for anyone unless you KNEW to look for the signs and wait patiently on the news of what "might be". Long before you people even knew about Doug Martin's "draft prospects" I was already hot on his trail for months following his camp progress and watching that camp battle closely, and then taking what I had learned and written down, and compared it to draft stocks, analysis, and so forth. Up until the very last game of the pre-season, when it became clear that Doug Martin would be taking over the #1 spot for TB. IT was then, that the mainstream sports media decided to discuss the hype that was Doug Martin, past the whole "Watch out for this kid" that we hear every year from half the running backs who enter the league.

The point I made, the point you aren't understanding is that I said before the pre-season.

Typical drafts happen after or at the very end of pre-season. We drafted after the 2nd week of pre-season. At that point I was all but certain that Doug Martin was going to be the starter, why? Because I paid attention.

You act like after he got drafted, it was set in stone that he'd be the starter, or that there would even be a remote chance the second he was drafted, that he'd take over Blount's role. That wasn't the case, and in an interview the coaches even stated that.

If you don't believe it, go do your homework like I did.

Doug Martin was never a lock to be a #1 and to be a breakout star, until the end of the pre-season.

So yeah, when most of you drafted, you knew about Doug Martin being a star, but that doesn't take away from the fact that he had to fight through camp from #3 to get to #1, he was just that good.

The interesting part here, is people like you thinking he was drafted to be the #1 guy, being ignorant of everything the team did up until you drafted.

PS, when most pre-draft valuations went out, Martin was at or below Blount, not the other way around.

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

the last past is funny.

I could easily figure out what anyone meant if they had said "you were 110 percent wrong about Welker's deal"


You were wrong about the team, money, and years.

Flat out wrong.

Then you said since he was resigning with the pats for at least 7.5 per on at least a three year deal. Amendola would go back to the rams, and the pats would sign Edelman.

Which part was right?
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I didn't say that at all you idiot, please, quote me saying that I said Welker was re-signing with the patriots on a 3 year deal worth 7.5 per.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Exactly.

That's certainly the easiest way to find it - just check out the FFB draft guides. Look up 'Doug Martin sleeper'.

It was common knowledge that Martin was going to be the starter in TB - the end.

Just because Wes Welkers mom didn't know it doesn't mean it wasn't commonly accepted.

Commonly accepted that he was a sleeper pick.

A sleeper pick is a boom or bust pick.

The reason he was a sleeper pick? He had climbed up the depth chart, the roster, from #3 to #2 at the time of those valuations, and was challenging Blount for the starting Job, which after pre-season, they gave to him.

The exact same shit I was telling you about.

So why are we arguing?

Because I made a statement talking about Doug Martin coming in and fighting from #3 to #1, and you don't think that was right, because unlike me, you are more of a casual FF fan compared to me. You start your valuations maybe a week before your draft, and read up as much as you can and place most of your stock in what others have written about the players, and you likely cross-reference two or three different valuation sites to make your selection.

You read about Doug Martin being a sleeper, that was it.

Doesn't make me wrong, but makes your argument with me wrong.

Originally Posted by DTLB58

So what was worse? A claim by Kiper that Stanzi would be the the best QB of an entire draft class and he never saw the field in a regular season game, or the claim that JaMarcus Russell was gonna be the next or better than Horseface?

What is worse?

The fact that Stanzi might be the best out of his draft, and he's never taken a snap.