Sometimes I hate this game!

AlexB · 07-17-2005, 05:43 PM

In my Cardinals franchise, I have more booms busts and injuries than I can ever remember. Rookie highlights/lowlights below:

2013
Pick 1.14 - traded up to get a T with great combine stats who proceeds to bust immediately from 22/65 to 11/38 and goes unsigned

2014
Pick 1.14 - sleeper WR goes from 35/54 to 52/64 at the beginning of his 2nd year, then serious injury drops him to 33/38

2015
Pick 2.01 - traded up (by trading away my 69/75 franchised T) to get a T with great combine stats who booms from 26/52 to 33/63 midway through 1st season, then major injury drops him to 17/27

Pick 7.22 - nearly traded away the pick as I didn;t see anybody worth a bonus, but took a flyer on a projected #4 DE who immediately booms from 19/38 to 37/71 before dropping to 38/65 in camp, but still the biggest boom I've ever had

2016
Pick 1.03 - traded up to get a T with great combine stats who proceeds to bust immediately from 39/83 to 27/63, but I sign him anyway as I really need a T now!

Add this to a number of veterans (all seemingly WR/T/DE getting horribly injured, my coach with VG injury prevention is canned for one with Excellent, but slightly lower other skills.

I've had a number of other rookies boom or bust +/- 10, and am beginning to wonder if it's my GM style: as the Cards make a loss every year, I am trying to minimise costs to restrict the losses, including paying my staff $1.5m a year and my scout $150k a year - even though they are ranked at least good in every applicable skill set, could the low wage be the reason for the increased fluctuations & injuries?

This game makes me want to tear my hair out at times! (But I love it really

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BigJohn&TheLions · 07-18-2005, 12:50 AM

Have you considered the built in "reality" factor in the game? I mean, the Cardinals tend to completely blow pick after pick...

This just goes to show: You are no Denny Green, man.

AlexB · 07-18-2005, 03:23 AM

Hadn't even thought of this reality! lol. And if I'm no Denny Green, I may as well just hang my boots up now!

mrsimperless · 07-18-2005, 07:39 PM

My advice to you is to not trade up to get a T with great combine stats.

gottimd · 07-18-2005, 08:13 PM

My advice to you is to cowboy up.

stevew · 07-18-2005, 11:16 PM

My advice is to get hit by a car.

stevew · 07-18-2005, 11:17 PM

dola

Before the Ban-sabre gets broken out, the previous post was intended to be a joke. I do not endorse getting hit by a car.

AlexB · 07-19-2005, 08:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrsimperless

My advice to you is to not trade up to get a T with great combine stats.

There is a kind of pattern developing there isn't there!

BigJohn&TheLions · 07-19-2005, 05:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jari Rantanen's Shorts

There is a kind of pattern developing there isn't there!

Yes. You need to start trading up to grab tackles with horrible combine stats.

07-18-2005, 12:50 AM	#2
BigJohn&TheLions College Benchwarmer Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: New York	Have you considered the built in "reality" factor in the game? I mean, the Cardinals tend to completely blow pick after pick... This just goes to show: You are no Denny Green, man. __________________ In the immortal words of a great alcoholic, "Can't we all just get along?"

07-18-2005, 03:23 AM	#3
AlexB Pro Starter Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Newbury, England	Hadn't even thought of this reality! lol. And if I'm no Denny Green, I may as well just hang my boots up now! __________________ 'A song is a beautiful lie', Idlewild, Self Healer. When you're smiling, the whole world smiles with you. Sports!

07-18-2005, 08:13 PM	#5
gottimd Dearly Missed (9/25/77-12/23/08) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: DC Suburbs	My advice to you is to cowboy up. __________________ NAFL New Orleans Saints GM/Co-Commish MP Career Record: 114-85 NAFL Super Bowl XI Champs In memory of Gavin Anthony: 7/22/08-7/26/08

07-18-2005, 07:39 PM	#4
mrsimperless College Prospect Join Date: Apr 2003	My advice to you is to not trade up to get a T with great combine stats. __________________ "All I know is that smart women are hot. Susan Polgar beat me in 24 moves in a simultaneous exhbition. I slept with the scoresheet under my pillow." Off some dude's web site.

07-18-2005, 11:16 PM	#6
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	My advice is to get hit by a car.

07-18-2005, 11:17 PM	#7
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	dola Before the Ban-sabre gets broken out, the previous post was intended to be a joke. I do not endorse getting hit by a car.

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