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Summerpalooza IV - Combined Music/Fantasy Draft - Braxton Un-Breaks My Heart (2 Viewers)

I have to add some songs - will do so tomorrow. Due to injuries, byes and general suckieness, I’m starting what may be the worst starting lineup in fantasy football history.

 
Dr. Octopus said:
I have to add some songs - will do so tomorrow. Due to injuries, byes and general suckieness, I’m starting what may be the worst starting lineup in fantasy football history.
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Bye weeks look like the killer there. Mixon, Mooney, Cooks, and Toney is pretty stiff. 

 
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Royce Freeman - RB Houston

Chico Freeman - Moment's Notice

In early on the improbable Royce Freeman renaissance.

Chico Freeman is the most famous member of a famous Jazz family from Chicago. He plays tenor sax on this 1987 recording alongside his father Von who's also playing tenor.  It's interesting to compare the solos from the two generations of Freemans.

 
Okay, back at it. 

Added: Hunter Henry - TE - NE

Song - The Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso

The Modern Lovers are from the Boston area of Massachusetts

Added: Cleveland - D/ST

Song - The Pretenders - Precious

First track off of their first album. 

Added: Daniel Jones 

Song - Television - Foxhole

 
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Ilov80s said:
Anyone want to trade? I’ve got WRs and would love a RB
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If you'd written back when they were hurt, I would have dealt an RB. Now I have three quality backs, but I'm keeping them. All of them. I'm 3-7 and last in points and I still think I have a shot at reaching the playoffs.

*bhad baby voice* Awwww, how cute is that! Wookit widdle wockaction thinking playoffs. Say it like Mora does...say it like Mora 

 
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I am no longer in last. Whooohoooo! I'm steamrolling straight for obscurity in terms of posterity. I'm way behind the 6-5 teams in terms of points scored, so I'd need a heck of a few high-scoring weeks to sneak in here. That's the most optimistic result I could hope for. Down year for the Sisters Christian. Injuries and wide receivers not showing up for the first half (save Pittman and Johnson) really established a disquiet and non-equilibrium within the squad. 

 
Added Tim Patrick WR Denver

Pat Metheny Trio - Capricorn

I've been doing this schtick long enough to know Denver is a desert for Jazz musicians. So the tenuous link of Patrick/Pat allows me to bring Metheny into the playlist.

This is a 1999 recording of a Wayne Shorter tune with Metheny's short-lived trio.

 
Added Ben Skowronek - WR - L.A. Rams

Charles Mingus - Smog L.A.

No Jazz musicians named Skowronek that I'm aware of so I'll pick a song with L.A. in the title by an artist who was raised in Watts.

This quartet session from 1955 features saxophonist Teo Macero who went on to produce Miles Davis' classic albums at Columbia.

 
Oh, yeah.  I drafted a kicker.  I forgot.  I mean, it's a kicker, right?

Randy Bullock (K TEN)  -  Tennessee Flat Top Box  -  Rosanne Cash

And I see we thought of the same person at about the same time.  Sweet!

 
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Added Nico Collins - WR - Houston

Louis Armstrong - Wolverine Blues

Skowronek lasted two days before being declared out for tomorrow's game so I'm taking a flyer on Collins who attended Michigan.

"Wolverine Blues" is an early Jazz standard written by Jelly Roll Morton.  Louis Armstrong recorded it a couple of times, this one is the earlier of the two from 1940.

 
In case anyone wants to offer lineup advice for another league of mine:

10-team PPR with one flex and one Superflex. Pass TDs are 6 points. So playing 2 QBs is heavily incentivized. And my QB1, Rodgers, is on bye. I'm currently in 3rd and 4 teams make the playoffs; the 4th, 5th and 6th place teams are only 1 game behind me and all have more total points (I've been very lucky with points against in this league). 

The main issue is, how do you feel about playing Zeke over a blah second QB. Zeke is clearly playing hurt but Jerruh says he is not going to have his workload reduced. And Zeke is going on a Thursday night against a Saints team that has been mostly good against the run (though the Eagles gashed them). 

Option 1: Start 2 QBs (Heinicke and Big Ben), play Knox at flex, sit Zeke. 

Option 2: Start 2 QBs (Heinicke and Big Ben), play Zeke at flex, sit Knox. 

Option 3: Start 1 QB (Heinicke), play Zeke and Knox at flex and Superflex. 

Gibson and Mitchell will start at RB, Kittle will start at TE. 

TIA for any advice you care to offer. 

 
Pip's Invitation said:
In case anyone wants to offer lineup advice for another league of mine:

10-team PPR with one flex and one Superflex. Pass TDs are 6 points. So playing 2 QBs is heavily incentivized. And my QB1, Rodgers, is on bye. I'm currently in 3rd and 4 teams make the playoffs; the 4th, 5th and 6th place teams are only 1 game behind me and all have more total points (I've been very lucky with points against in this league). 

The main issue is, how do you feel about playing Zeke over a blah second QB. Zeke is clearly playing hurt but Jerruh says he is not going to have his workload reduced. And Zeke is going on a Thursday night against a Saints team that has been mostly good against the run (though the Eagles gashed them). 

Option 1: Start 2 QBs (Heinicke and Big Ben), play Knox at flex, sit Zeke. 

Option 2: Start 2 QBs (Heinicke and Big Ben), play Zeke at flex, sit Knox. 

Option 3: Start 1 QB (Heinicke), play Zeke and Knox at flex and Superflex. 

Gibson and Mitchell will start at RB, Kittle will start at TE. 

TIA for any advice you care to offer. 
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Start 2 QB, IMO, Pip. Reasoning: Zeke's been hovering at about twelve and a half points a game in half PPR for five or so games now (since the bye) and is now touchdown-dependent. Zeke vs. Knox is your real question, and it depends what Knox has been doing. But if it's six points TD passes, you gotta go with the QBs on the off-chance that they throw at least one. Zeke's total rushing yards per game those games: 50, 51, 41, 32, 25. That's not so good. 

 
rockaction said:
Start 2 QB, IMO, Pip. Reasoning: Zeke's been hovering at about twelve and a half points a game in half PPR for five or so games now (since the bye) and is now touchdown-dependent. Zeke vs. Knox is your real question, and it depends what Knox has been doing. But if it's six points TD passes, you gotta go with the QBs on the off-chance that they throw at least one. Zeke's total rushing yards per game those games: 50, 51, 41, 32, 25. That's not so good. 
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Thanks. My gut said Option 1 and that's what I have set at the moment, but Jerruh's comments had me rethinking. 

That being said, I had Zeke in a different league last year and won a title despite benching him most of the time down the stretch. 

 
Added - Tajae Sharpe - WR - ATL

Avery Sharpe Trio - Organ Grinder

I'm playing out the string to try and avoid last place. Due a bunch of WR byes,  I picked up Sharpe because there aren't many musicians named Olamide or Zaccheaus. 

I never heard of Avery Sharpe until yesterday but he played bass in McCoy Tyner's groups for over fifteen years which is an excellent character reference. "Organ Grinder" is a 2009 track recorded with Onaje Allan Gumbs on piano and Winard Harper on the drums.

 
rockaction said:
Start 2 QB, IMO, Pip. Reasoning: Zeke's been hovering at about twelve and a half points a game in half PPR for five or so games now (since the bye) and is now touchdown-dependent. Zeke vs. Knox is your real question, and it depends what Knox has been doing. But if it's six points TD passes, you gotta go with the QBs on the off-chance that they throw at least one. Zeke's total rushing yards per game those games: 50, 51, 41, 32, 25. That's not so good. 
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Zeke was lame but actually outscored Knox due to the insane wind in BUF. Luckily the rest of my team went ham and I won in a blowout, so it didn’t matter.

 
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Easop Winston Jr. - WR - Saints

Easop Jr. was added to the active roster and should get on the field tomorrow against the Jets. 

Eephus said:
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Easop Winston Jr. - WR - Saints

Paul Desmond - Samba De Orpheu

Easop Winston Jr. isn't a deep sleeper that you missed on your list.  I'm making a sentimental pre-season transaction to pick up the son of a family friend.

The Winston family were parishioners of the Baptist church where Mrs. Eephus' step-father preached.  Teenage Easop Sr. was a fixture at holiday get togethers at my in-laws.  He was a good kid who was always kind to @ditkaburgers and her little brother. There's a picture in Grammy and Papa's living room from when he played QB for Lincoln High in SF.  I heard he had a kid when he was playing JuCo ball and moved to the East Bay.  I haven't seen him since but if I ever run into him at a wedding or funeral I can tell him I had Easop Jr. on my fantasy team.

Easop Jr. is trying to make the Saints as a WR/return specialist. The roster projections I've seen show him on the bubble. I'll drop him from my team as soon as somebody else catches my eye but it can't be a jinx if you call it in advance.

Alto sax legend Paul Desmond (1924-1977) was born in SF and graduated from old Poly High, the alma mater of George Siefert.  Desmond has the most wonderful breathy tone on the sax.
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I didn't even make the losers bracket, but at least I didn't finish last. That took tons of effort for very little reward. Thank you Christian, Monty, Miles, and Aiyuk! (I cannot complain about Diontae Johnson or Michael Pittman, both of whom have had decent FF years so far). 

Rough year for The Sisters Christian and other iterations thereof. 

Summerpalooza has finally ended in December. Lol. 

 
Fun season everyone. I though I had a shot this year but losing my top 2 picks of Henry and AJ for most of the year took the wind out of sails. Funny that despite the low stakes, this is always one of the most competitive leagues I’m in. 

 
There was no way my team should have competed. The RB and WR squads were held together with duct tape most of the year, especially the RB2 slot. 

The team was almost entirely carried by Deebo, Ekeler and Rodgers, with help from WW pickups MVS and A. St Brown late in the year. Ekeler missing the semis due to COVID proved to be too much.

 
Pip's Invitation said:
There was no way my team should have competed. The RB and WR squads were held together with duct tape most of the year, especially the RB2 slot. 

The team was almost entirely carried by Deebo, Ekeler and Rodgers, with help from WW pickups MVS and A. St Brown late in the year. Ekeler missing the semis due to COVID proved to be too much.
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In a deeper league like this, I think having 2 or 3 super studs is enough to win most weeks 

 
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