I Am the Stig

So you think having a extra startable RB through the thick of bi-weeks isn’t worth it?

I'm just explaining how I read his take. I also specifically said "last night" meaning, yeah, it was one game and really not much to draw any conclusions about. Dak certainly had his way last night. It is a one game sample size. I have Dak on one of my teams and I was thrilled with how he played last night. It looks like he picked up where he left off last year which is great.

I'm not sure his point is that Dallas' D is good but more Tampa's D was overrated last night.

Was the contract dispute that the Saints were offering more money to Murray because they valued him so much and Murray just isn't that kinda guy to take it?

This doesn't make much sense. His price went up once there was a demand for his services. What ever they may not have wanted to pay him before certainly wasn't what they NEED to pay him now. Bottom line, if the Ravens thought he was better than what they had already they would have added him and cut the player they believed was the odd man out. So he is now a JAG, but a JAG who once had a good career and was productive. He hasn't been productive in a couple of years. If he had anything left in the tank Reid would have used him. All that said, I believe he gets some opportunity just due to the nature of the Ravens offense but he isn't worth adding and I wouldn't drop any Ravens back due to his presence either.

At 446 pages, you should hope to find someone who loves you the way the Shark Pool loves talking about Josh Gordon.

And The league ruled what they wanted to do. Another league may have done nothing. I’m not trying to convince you of anything and you aren’t going to change my mind. It is ok that we see this differently.

We have laws against murder. We also have laws that allow killing under specific circumstances. There was no rule either requiring disclosure of or forbidding extra conditions on trades.

I say you do and you say you don’t. That’s the beauty of different leagues with different opinions and rules. This league will decide for itself how to handle this.

There was no requirement to disclose the conditions as there is no league vote on trades. Stop projecting your league rules and standards onto this league. It was a bad oversight but legal within the framework of the league. The trade would be collusion in your league. Both things can be true.

All well.

And yet there are laws against exposing oneself as well as public urination.

How thick does a bylaw have to be to say: "All conditions of a trade beyond player currency, must be made available for league review." ?

Lots of things can be written to address the spirit of the unwritten rules to cover unforeseen scenarios. In fact several rules and procedures could have been put in place to prevent this type of trade from being processed. The reality this league was woefully short on rules and this is what happens.

While in your league such “currency” may not be allowed in this league it was not expressly forbidden. You can’t look at this as what is right or wrong in your league. What only matters is how the affected league rules are and how they will address this moving forward.