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[Flasch186]

you kicked my ass, you deserved it...i was just frustrated at the game, of course, not you. you were great, especially that one defensive stand.....the sack(s)....awesomely done.

[BigDPW]

RPI-Fan - I am available this afternoon if you would like to play our league game...

[gstelmack]

Recap posted for the Carolina / Kansas City game.

[Eaglesfan27]

Pumpy,

I ended up getting home from work on time. I'm eating some lunch but I should be ready in ten minutes. I'll get on X-Box live around 2:00 PM. Hope to see you online.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally Posted by Eaglesfan27

Pumpy,

I ended up getting home from work on time. I'm eating some lunch but I should be ready in ten minutes. I'll get on X-Box live around 2:00 PM. Hope to see you online.

Oops. Ended up sleeping real late. Going down the street to pick up a late lunch right now. We'll catch each other. No worries!

[Eaglesfan27]

Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

Oops. Ended up sleeping real late. Going down the street to pick up a late lunch right now. We'll catch each other. No worries!

No problems, I'm glad we got to play today.

Pumpy was a total class act throughout the game, and this was my first X-Box live game ever and the voice chat is just so awesome. I need to get some of my friends in New Jersey to get an X-Box so we can chat and play at the same time. Anyway, I'm hoping all of the games in this league are like this, good fun game with no cheese tactics. I'm confident that this is going to be a fun league

Edited to add: Also, I'm quite happy that this was a lag free game that ran quite smoothly.

[RainRaven]

MoneyG let me know what times are good for you to play our league game

[Ironhead]

There isn't any kind of free agency pool is there? I lost my starting strongside linebacker for the season and I only had 4 outside linebackers to begin with.

[gstelmack]

There is trading, but I don't think there is a free agency pool.

[RainRaven]

Ping MoneyG I can play anytime tonight up till about 10:00 pm eastern time so let me know if you can play

[cartman]

Originally Posted by RainRaven

Ping MoneyG I can play anytime tonight up till about 10:00 pm eastern time so let me know if you can play

Hey, I'm free in about 30 minutes, so anytime after 6:30pm Eastern will work for me

[cartman]

Originally Posted by cartman

Hey, I'm free in about 30 minutes, so anytime after 6:30pm Eastern will work for me

dola,
cartman=FOFC
MoneyG=Xbox Live

[RainRaven]

Good idea posting that cartman, I was searching earlier trying to figure out to this mysterious MoneyG fellow was I'll be ready by 7, do you have an AIM SN?

[cartman]

Originally Posted by RainRaven

Good idea posting that cartman, I was searching earlier trying to figure out to this mysterious MoneyG fellow was I'll be ready by 7, do you have an AIM SN?

Yep, in 30 minutes will be fine for me as well. My AIM moniker is ggowins.

[RainRaven]

Me and cartman played our league game but it had some lag throughout and at the 4quarter LIVE said it was unplayable (I disagree with that sentiment but considering their network seems to have gone down after that I guess they were right in the end) In any case I was up 27-7. Good game by him considering the conditions and I hope they get the network issues fixed since I had excellent online games last week with DPW.

[cartman]

Originally Posted by RainRaven

Me and cartman played our league game but it had some lag throughout and at the 4quarter LIVE said it was unplayable (I disagree with that sentiment but considering their network seems to have gone down after that I guess they were right in the end) In any case I was up 27-7. Good game by him considering the conditions and I hope they get the network issues fixed since I had excellent online games last week with DPW.

Yep, the lag was pretty noticeable. All of my turnovers didn't help me either. But it was fun, and only the 1st of 16 games.

Quincy Carter is officially on the trading block. Any offers will be considered.

[JeeberD]

Sack is gonna kick my ass in aproximately two and a half hours...

[ageofquarrel]

Hmm checking out the league page right now . It is showing that Dallas has won in the standings and also on the scores page, even though they lost. Hopefully it is just a bug that will be corrected.

[SackAttack]

Jeeber, I'm ready to initiate said asskicking at any time.

[Sun Tzu]

Mgadfly...when did you want to play our game?

[JeeberD]

Logging on now, Sack...

[Eaglesfan27]

Originally Posted by ageofquarrel

Hmm checking out the league page right now . It is showing that Dallas has won in the standings and also on the scores page, even though they lost. Hopefully it is just a bug that will be corrected.

Wierd, it shows Dallas being outscored 27-7 but they get credited with the win. Was this the game that the lag ended up making unplayable? Maybe some wierd disconnect thing?

[JeeberD]

Hell of a game, Josh. I thought that you had me beat.

Shut my ass down in the second half...

Titans 27
Packers 21

[SackAttack]

Jeebs, I might've if those last three damn passing plays hadn't had the fake handoff involved. That took away any time I had to throw against your blitz (never mind that I was jamming the pass button and Favre wasn't responding).

Wasn't a sure thing by any means, though, you were shutting my passing down all night long even without Favre being a dumbass.

Great game.

[JeeberD]

Heh, that's how I felt all night long. Kept telling McNair to throw the dang ball but your guys kept getting to him first...

[SackAttack]

That was all I could do after you went up 20-0. Even stacking the line, George was getting 4-5 yards a carry with three guys hanging on him, so I figured the best thing to do would be to try and get to McNair ASAP.

I still say that was a fumble, incidentally.

[JeeberD]

Bah! The booth is NEVER wrong!

Flasch, I'm scheduled to play you next. I'm going to be out of town until next Monday night. I probably won't be able to play until Tuesday at the earliest. Of course, you might have dropped out of the league by the time I get back...

[gstelmack]

Originally Posted by Eaglesfan27

Wierd, it shows Dallas being outscored 27-7 but they get credited with the win. Was this the game that the lag ended up making unplayable? Maybe some wierd disconnect thing?

If it thinks one of the players quit, it may give the win to the other. No matter what the score is. Sounds like one player had a good connection to Live, the other didn't, and it gave credit to the one with the good connection who could report the scores (that's where the arbitration thingy comes in).

[Sun Tzu]

I'm thinking that we need a better way to arrange meeting times than using this thread. I think either making one thread per week, solely for people to arrange a time, or using the message board that is on the league site via espnvideogames.com.

[RainRaven]

I usually have a great cable connection so I was unsure if it was me or cartman who had the bad connection for that game. I think they just had a horrible night on that LIVE network. I picked the Arbitration option considering It didn't give an option for the league to vote on the outcome which I would've found more appealing or even for the two contestants to decide what the result should be. I thought the L was a clitch since I mean it's not like i was up 14-13, It was a substantial margin with about 4 min. to go in the 4th quarter. However it was a good game and is only one game out of the season.

[Sun Tzu]

gstlmac, you have a PM.

[RainRaven]

If anyone wants to just play a non league game tonight let me know.

[SirFozzie]

If I'm not totally distracted by the Dawn of War Beta, the CoH group I hang out with, or trying to get FOFC FBCB under control.. I'm in.

If you see me online, just send me a message.. I might just be playing a Franchise game, but will always sim it for a real online game

[gstelmack]

Originally Posted by RainRaven

I usually have a great cable connection so I was unsure if it was me or cartman who had the bad connection for that game. I think they just had a horrible night on that LIVE network. I picked the Arbitration option considering It didn't give an option for the league to vote on the outcome which I would've found more appealing or even for the two contestants to decide what the result should be. I thought the L was a clitch since I mean it's not like i was up 14-13, It was a substantial margin with about 4 min. to go in the 4th quarter. However it was a good game and is only one game out of the season.

Once two players are connected, Live is out of the equation. This just means there was a bad connection between the two of you. If you had a good connection to Live (i.e. your results went in) and he didn't (his results did not go in), Live's arbitration may well have given you the victory, figuring the bad network on his end did you in. There are other factors as well that we may never know about.

[mgadfly]

Sun Tzu, I replied to your PM a couple days ago and haven't heard back... Just let me know when you want to play.

[Sun Tzu]

Sorry buddy. I'm up for a game anytime before 5pm PST tommorow (Friday). Let me know either via PM or posting here what time is best for you and we'll get it set up.

[mgadfly]

I'll be home all day long. I'll check the board when I wake up to see if you had a time that'd work best.

[Sun Tzu]

How does 3pm PST today sound to you?

[mgadfly]

Sounds good. See you online then.

[Sun Tzu]

Hey man, are you around right now? It would actualy be easier for me to get the game in now.

[mgadfly]

I'm around right now. You online?

[Sun Tzu]

getting on now..

[Sun Tzu]

Hey guys, I dropped from the league. Sorry but maybe I was expecting too much from the guys here to actualy expect realistic play, and playcalling. I hope everything involving the league works out for the best.

[SirFozzie]

Sun Tzu:????

[Sun Tzu]

If I wanted to play a game of blitz the house on every play/only call no huddle, I'd go back to Madden 2004 on the PS2. Sorry fellas.

[mgadfly]

Sun Tzu, do you want to PM me with your concern? I didn't plan to go no huddle for more than two plays (especially since my players would die of exhaustion). I just wanted to pick that first down up while you only had four linemen on the field (I think a real NFL team wouldn't make a substitution if it was 3rd and 1 and they had the proper personnel on the field and the other team didn't).

Anyway, I don't want to start a big thing or anything, just wanted to say that I wasn't (nor would it be successful) planning on doing that all that much (less so than some real teams who use quick huddles to take advantage of defensive personnel).

[mgadfly]

Blitz the house every play? I rushed 4 guys (all linemen), 5 guys, 4 guys, and 6 guys in my four defensive plays. I got a sack and fumble, but one blitz in four plays and 3 soft zones isn't "blitzing the house"

[Sun Tzu]

I've said my peice, you know what you were doing. Don't make it more than it has to be.

[mgadfly]

I just don't think you know what I was doing, but whatever. You played all of 9 plays and got sacked once and I ran two "no-huddles" (in real life they'd be plays where I wouldn't switch packages, but there isn't an option for that here). Sorry. Plus, if you had a concern, you could have PMed me, or sent an ESPN message, or anything, but instead you came here and posted that message.

[mgadfly]

And on both of my no-huddles, I ran plenty of clock, I sent a man in motion, and gave you plenty of time to go through your audibles to call an appropriate play. I was just trying to keep your same guys on the field for the short yardage situation (which almost every NFL team would have done).