Nice work getting some trades done this week. I don’t expect to join in any of the near deadline trades myself but it’s interesting to see some moves being made.

*Week 8 Review

I totally expected Dave to put up no fight at all. With his team all on bye. Wasn’t the case. I almost didn’t get there. I didn’t expect Lewis to go off like that. Guess he makes up for Britt’s points. That Redskin DTD saved my ass. They were useless all night but that DTD was huge. Thanks to Dave for benching Fitz as he pulled in 2 TDs. Sunday night’s game was very exciting as neither of our teams scored many points. I was trailing by a few points all game long. Glad I pulled through in the end.

Rhett gets a nice win over Brian and it puts Rhett one game ahead of Brian in his division. Brady has been unimpressive lately. Maybe even a liability? I’m amazed Ryan Mathews finally gets a TD. Tolbert didn’t steal this one. Nice job by Brian playing the Raiders DST this past week.

Chris continues to juggernaut over the rest of the league. Scoring 121 points in a very low scoring week to get the week’s top score. How about that kicker for 19 points. Eat your heart out Hartley. Kevin had some bad luck getting paired against Chris this week. He would have beat almost every other team. One point less than the 2nd top-scoring team. Nice job playing the Bucs DST. Garcon couldn’t do that much even though most of the good receivers are injured for the Colts.

Tim’s team continues to show how fragile it is. Lowest scoring team this week. Only Foster broke double digits.

Derek got a nice win over Alex. How did Derek get a win with his 2 starting RBs out for bye week? How did he do it without trading for a RB? By being a waiver wire superman. Blount went off for 24. And he also nabbed Stewart. Stewart should have been a nice start since Williams was out due to injury. Not that Alex put the injured Williams on his bench. Nope. Third week Alex has left players in his lineup that didn’t play. Bowe continues to fool Derek into playing him. He could have started Lloyd instead and gotten 22 points.

*Best plays and worse plays

Dave left Fitz on his bench the one week he goes off.

The coach of the Chinese was brilliant when he started the injured Sjax instead of Bush or Charles.

Brian, what is TO doing on your bench? I get the feeling you just don’t trust the man since you benched him then traded him.

Rhett got and started the right Mike Williams. His got 16. The one playing for the Chinese got 2.

Did I mention Alex started another player who didn’t play?

*Interview – Thanks Dave

Newsletter: How did your draft go? Were you happy with what you got on  draft day?
Dave: I live in Japan. Japan has zero access to live video of the NFL. Hence, we don’t have ESPN’s 5 week long in depth specials on how to draft on 3 times a day. Hence, I just used the shitty ass CBS Sports rankings to determine who to take next. About the only decision making I did was how soon to draft draft backups for each position. I thought I did ok in the draft, but now can see that I did shitty. I can never seem to get any good receivers and my RBs have sucked too.

Newsletter: Some of your top draft choices have been under performing. Do you see any hopes of them improving their production down the road?
Dave: Nope, not really. But I haven’t seen any of them in action. To me, they are just numbers on a screen.

Newsletter: It was a close one this week. Watching that Pitt vs NO game was nerve wracking. And all your guys were on bye. I don’t think you intended for your whole team to be on bye at the same time but it kind of seems like a good idea. Trying it again next year?
Dave: I kinda started to draft that way in the later rounds. I figured that it would be a guaranteed loss, but if my wide receiver didn’t go down, or if my kickers team had been stopped inside the 20 just once instead of scoring five fucking times, I would have bested you.

Newsletter: Is it time for some make it or break it blockbuster hail mary trades?
Dave: Can you honestly say that anybody wants anybody from my team? If you do, please let me know, I am open to a trade. Except from you Rhett, you always offer the shittiest trades of all time, all fucking time!

Newsletter: So I know I haven’t gotten you the league fees yet. My fault. How many other losers are like me this year? I’m sending you a Christmas card with the cash in it. So please get me your mailing address.
Dave: My mailing address is :

700-0854
Kita-Ku Tooka-Ichi Higashi-Machi 4-31
Okayama-shi
JAPAN
David Fulvio

replace all periods with dashes, my World of Warcraft keyboard is fucked up and only does periods for some reason…
Get me the fees, cuz I am gonna get a trophy this year. BTW, if you know where I can get a trophy made in Japan, please tell me.

*Trade Rumors

Thomas Jones for TO. Good trade.

Green-Ellis for Jackson. Tim got a good deal.

I look at Matt’s team and I see a ton of great RBs. Maybe too many. Make a trade man!

*What about me? (Ramblings about my team)

Charles fucking went off! Now I need him to do the same this week when my top 2 RBs are on bye. Bush is continuing to develop. Not fast enough to trade, though. Colston is finally scoring. Gates is the best TE I’ve ever seen. He’s hurt though. And I won’t be in position to get a backup if he doesn’t play this week. Collie is getting healthier. Once he comes back, my team will look really good. I don’t expect to make any trades because the guys I would want to trade are not at the peak of their value.

There will be an interesting Thomas Jones vs Jamaal Charles matchup this week when I take on Brian.

Know what sucks? The unmarried division is winning far more than the married folks. But catching Chris seems hard. Tim is ahead on the other side but he could have easily ended up at 4-4.