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  1. Wombat

    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    At this point I almost hope we pull a Texans and finish the game with 0 points. Would be a nice summary of the season.
  2. Wombat

    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    Chiefs@ Texans Steelers @Bengals Seahawks@ Vikings Packers @Redskins Exhibition round, most of the real contenders (Cards, Panthers, Patriots, Broncos) play next week.
  3. Wombat

    Fantasy Champions (The Jimmy Johnson Memorial Trophy Case)

    Actually, 2014 was unfrenzied regular mode Wombat, aka me. We should probably have everyone in a league post what their ESPN/Yahoo/etc. user names are when they join, as clearly no one has any idea who anyone is.
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    NFL 2016 Offseason Thread - Fins' Quest to Defend Their Crown

    Yeah, I suspect I'll be posting here before you. But to the point: There is no _single_ issue with the Browns. Playing in one of the roughest divisions in football, bad luck/analysis with drafts, nearly zero recent success so they have to overpay for free agents, constantly swapping coaches...
  5. Wombat

    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    Wisconsin Sports Radio's big subject of last week was "Canthe Packers WinAPlayoff Game?" The consensus was Maybe... if we get the Redskins or Vikings. I'm not so sure anymore. The short answer is, yes, write off another season to injuries. It may not have been as clear as in the...
  6. Wombat

    Rerolled FUN Leagues I & II 2015

    You mean 20 points (atm) divided between 7 players isn't a good score?
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    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    Sigh, I was hoping we had until at least next season before we had to worry about the Vikings winning the division. Protip: Letting your CBs walk means you can't use as many early rounders on OL as you should.
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    Spectre (2015)

    As a generic modern "spy" movie it's about a 7 - nothing exceptionally bad or good about it. As a James Bond movie, this is Star Trek: Into Darkness all over again, a sad rehash that does nothing better (or even as well as) the original movies, with a backstory that's downright ludicrous...
  9. Wombat

    Bill Simmons leaving ESPN.

    What's weird is in this Friday's Grantland NFL podcast, they still thought they were coming back to work next week. So ESPN didn't bother mentioning it to any minions until they were out the door. (You'd think Barnwell at least would rate better than that.) Anyway, between ESPN and this, and...
  10. Wombat

    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    I wouldn't count the Seahawks out of this season yet. While the 5th seed seems like a lock to go to whomever gets 2nd place in the NFC South (who saw that coming before the season?), the 6th seed is wide open between the Seahawks, Vikings, and Eagles/Giants(/maybe even Cowboys if Romo gets...
  11. Wombat

    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    Dude, don't taunt the football gods that way. Even if everyone stays healthy, I say the Pack loses @Broncos, @Vikings, and @Cardinals, the last locking up #1 seed for the Cardinals. And given how the season is going, I wouldn't assume everyone (that isn't already hurt) stays healthy with the...
  12. Wombat

    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    Please tell me you aren't already dropping into "The Refs Fucked Us!" mode in the first quarter. Because you'll be dead of alcohol poisoning by the end of the game.
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    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    I'm not even an internet doctor, but... There are defensive players that rely on grabbing, and there are players that don't. JPP's problem is that (until now) his game has been entirely based on grabbing, and (forget the missing finger!) with that stub of a thumb, I'm not sure he can...
  14. Wombat

    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    I had the Bills as my AFC* (non-playoff) team I liked to root for for years, until the bottom dropped out. Take their already solid defense and add fucking Rex Ryan and a newbie QB game manager? I'm scared to love again, but yesterday makes me want to eat a god damn snack. *Excited for...
  15. Wombat

    FOH Auction League 2015

    Yeah, this is just a week from hell for me (I start my new job today... but still have to work my old one thru next Saturday as well!) I have set values, just so whoever takes over (if anyone) knows.
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    FOH Auction League 2015

    AtbestI will be driving on the freeway for at least another hour on my way home at that time. So replace me if you need to.
  17. Wombat

    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    You can never justify delusional homerism. Cautious optimism is warranted here, and hell, IF Bradford stays healthy (and given the issues in Seattle & Green Bay), they could be in the running for the #1 seed.
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    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    It's less optimism than the simple fact that the NFC will have two wildcards. It sure looks like we can rule the North and the South out, and I think nearly everyone would be shocked if the Redskins or 49ers won one. So pick the two healthiest players next year out of Odell Beckham, Carson...
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    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    My last ten minutes: "Oh yeah, there was a preseason game tonight, I should see if anyone got hurt. Well, fuckety fuck fuck." 1) Not sure anyone in the NFC North gets to 10 wins. With the South still crap, that Eagles/Giants/Cardinals fight for the wildcards will be fun to watch. 2)...
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    The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

    I saw it a week ago and now literally only remember two things about it: 1) The 'basket lunch' scene was mildly amusing. 2) What is with casting directors not letting people use their natural accents? You've got in Henry Cavill a Brit playing an American, Hammer American/Russian, Vikander...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I think I was down to just a couple of the glider ones in Nagrand, but man will those (and Arch) be easier.
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    The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

    My last ten minutes: "Oh yeah, there was a preseason game at noon, I should see if anyone got hurt. Well, fuck."
  23. Wombat

    The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

    You can't legally break a contract that way, but teams generally do release the player, without even going after the prorated portion of the signing bonus the players are legally obligated to return. That said, if all these former 49ers suddenly show up on teams next year, I suspect the...
  24. Wombat

    The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

    That depends on how many of these retirements are genuine, and how many are creating such a work environment that people are willing to take a year off to break their contracts. And even then we won't KNOW how many of those retirements were fake, and how many were initially genuine but turned...
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    The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

    Nice to see us getting up to mid-season form. But honestly, in the current Fantasy Football era, doesn't everyone have a rough idea ofeveryteam's likely outcomes this year? Off the top of my head: Packers: Offense should be just fine, defense takes a step back, still win division. Lions...
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    The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

    Again, no one is arguing that preseason should be axed, they just argue it should be condensed down to two games (even if the duration of "Training Camp" stays unchanged). Hell, Preseason Game 4 is widely regarded as almost completely useless (a team might decide between the #4 and #5 WR, and...
  27. Wombat

    FOH Auction League 2015

    I forget, do the keepers have variable prices, or are they "free"?
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    Justified

    Raylan movesnearhis ex (so he can actually be a father), but ex marries some other dude.
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    The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

    Like we've been saying since about the day after the Super Bowl (even before they picked up all the Free Agents), the Colts are probably a worse team than the Ravens/Steelers/etc., but far more likely to be in the AFC Championship game because those AFC North teams beat each other up and ruin...
  30. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It sure sounds like "THROW EVERYTHING WE HAVE IN" to me too. Legion, Naga, Emerald Dream, Pirate Isles? Honestly, aside from "Kill off the Old Gods and Titans", what dangling plot threads are left?
  31. Wombat

    Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

    There was practically nothing in this movie that sticks in my mind two days later. It still may have topped Ultron for my #2 movie of the year. This is no Mad Max, but check it out nonetheless.
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    The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

    That's what many of us have been saying. Vegas still has Packers/Seahawks/Colts as better odds, but I sure as hell wouldn't bet on any of them over a Belichick/Brady team with a grudge.
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    Fantastic Four

    It's as if the special effects for "Oh god, we're hideous monsters" was finished forever ago - long enough ago to be in theoriginaltrailer. It's as if the special effects for "Generic superhero movie #3,417" are being added up to the very last minute, as they rush to turn "Oh god, we're...
  34. Wombat

    The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

    Can we move Bradygate* to a new thread? Because I'd rather have Itlan and Araysar back than listen to Azeth and (especially) Lenardo giving legal advice. Though nicely aggressive of the NFL to file first (presumably to keep it out of Minnesota and David Doty's hands). Safe to say any...
  35. Wombat

    Lord of the Rings Online

    Not only do I not understand what will happen with the servers, I don't even know what used to be going on with them. I.e. my main server suddenly got an EU or UK added to the name a couple months back... but all those servers were and are physically in the US, regardless of name?
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    Dragon Quest XI announced for PS4, 3DS, NX.

    DQ8 was my RPG of the PS2 era, and only the sheer lunacy of Shadow Hearts: Covenant comes close. DQ9 was way more disappointing than most reviewers claimed, filled with archaic design decisions. Not to the game as a whole, but the modern stuff they added. "You can only hold 10 quests at a...
  37. Wombat

    Bill Simmons leaving ESPN.

    Even if Simmons got Sal the head writing spot, I doubt he'd leave Kimmel, especially when late night is about to get weird with Letterman gone. Speaking of which, any recommendations for Monday wrap-up podcasts until at least October? Dave Dameshek signal/noise ratio gets out of hand, Ross...
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    Ant Man. July 2015

    Well, duh. 1) As you said, the 'no meaning' clause means they can bring her back 17 movies down the line if they want to, with an actress younger than anyone else involved. 2) At one of the scales while Scott's shrinking, there's a cloud that looks suspiciously like a woman pointing, so I...
  39. Wombat

    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

    Having Batman be pissed at Superman for the massive property damage and lives lost inMan of Steeland Superman apparently creating his own archenemy, if the rumors are to be believed, due toseems waaaay too smart to be Zack Synder's work and smells more like the DC brass digging out of the hole...
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    Ant Man. July 2015

    Yeah, that was another thing that bugged me. As near as I can tell, that scene takes placeduringCaptain America 3 (I can't recall another Marvel teaser that jumpsintoanother movie), which doesn't just require the audience to know the other Marvel movies to understand it, but requires them to...