We have our first vetoed trade in the NFC. This wasn't even close. LeSean McCoy is a big name, but he's missed two games already due to injury (and, when he's been in the lineup, he's been ineffective). Jeremy Kerley is zero percent owned. Zero. He's projected to score 2.39 points the rest of the season. And who was Leal getting in return for these two? Eddie Lacy and Julian Fucking Edelman, who is the third-highest scoring WR in the OIL. Granted, Lacy has been a disappointment so far. He is averaging nine points a game, but he started off last year slow as well. The aforementioned Jeremy Kerley has games of 0.65, 0.00, 1.60, and 0.00 to go along with one standout game of 18.75 points. What does Yahoo! think of this exchange? Well, it would net Morgan 152 fewer points over the course of the season. Did I mention that Morgan is 1-4 while Leal is 4-1? There is no plausible explanation for this trade outside of collusion. Therefore, the trade was vetoed by our third-party reviewer.
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'MERICA! My Arrogant Americans were staring at 1-4 going into the week five matchup with the Whackers, who were also 1-3. But did we give up? Of course not. Arian Foster, Doug Martin, Larry Donnell, and Marquess Freaking Wilson made sure we got one step closer to the playoffs. MANIFEST DESTINY, Y'ALL! Meanwhile, Bruesch stayed on top of the league standings with Leal nipping at his heels. And early season favorite Henderson and the NARCS lost, not only week five, but Jamaal Charles as well. We'll see how he adjusts his roster with JC no longer carrying the team on his back. Week six previews after the jump.
A quarter of the way into the season, teams are starting to separate themselves. Bruesch beat the 'Mericans to claim the top spot in the standings (leapfrogging Henderson, who lost to the AMMODOGS). Five teams are 3-1 while another five are looking at 1-3 (with the Whackers getting their victory of the season last week). Those 1-3 teams (mine included) have their work cut out for them if they want to make the playoffs, but it can happen.
Sitting at 1-2, Cliburn and Schmidt decided to shake things up. Schmidt gave up the number one TE in the game to Cliburn for the fourth-highest scoring TE and the fourth-highest scoring WR (Jordan Reed and Steve Smith, respectively). It's a risky move for Cliburn, who now needs to find a WR3 somewhere in a crowd that includes names like Darius Heyward-Bey, Marqise Lee, Devin Funchess, and Devante Parker. Meanwhile, Schmidt gets more depth at WR and not too much of a drop off at TE. After the trade, Cliburn's projected victories went down by two, and FantasySP.com's trade analyzer liked Schmidt's haul more. But Cliburn is undeterred. With Gronkowski on a bye, it's possible the 'Mericans fall to 1-3, but this puts them in a better position for the playoffs if they can find a replacement-level WR3 in the interim.
Only two teams in OIL history have begun the season 0-3 and gone on to make the playoffs:
I told my wife I'd welcome 0-3 . . . because, when I ended up making the playoffs and winning the OIL Bowl, "they'll write books about our comeback." Her response? "Well, we know you'll write a book about it." But fret no more: the Arrogant Americans beat Dead Again to avoid an 0-3 start. Similarly, the Hard Targets got their first win of the season as well. But the same can't be said for Morgan, who now hopes he can be the third team to start 0-3 and still make the tournament. Conversely, only twice has a team that started out 3-0 missed the playoffs:
After Trovillo and Duffy opened the floodgates, three more trades happened in rapid succession in the lead-up to week three. The DARC NARCS got their handcuff in Knile Davis. Lucky Enuf invested in Martavis Bryant, and the Arrogant Americans sent Chris Ivory-handcuff Bilal Powell and steady-Eddie WR Jeremy Maclin to the AMMODOGS for what Cliburn hopes is a buy-low, high reward WR in Brandin Cooks.
There has still yet to be a single trade in the AFC and PFC. You guys need to fix that. Week one was exciting. There were close games, blowouts, upsets, and disappointments. Congratulations go out to Rogers, whose AMMODOGS were far and away the top team in week one. We were all impressed with his 2015 draft and week one did nothing to change that. Here are the rest of the matchup results with week two analysis after the jump.
The good men at RateMyLeague.com took the time to preview The OIL's NFC and AFC. The PFC had too many teams without defenses or kickers yet, so it'll get previewed at a later date. If you like this, be sure to shoot them a message of thanks on Facebook.
The OIL is proud to announce updated logos across the league. First is a special 10-year anniversary logo for the league. It is based on Breakfast Supply Co.'s streamlined version of the original OIL logo. Hector of Breakfast Supply Co. also designed the Liberty Bowl logo and streamlined the logos for the OIL's three conferences.
2014 NFC and overall OIL champion Christopher Trovillo received his championship jersey this week. Here he is showing off the Harrington Trophy, the Tenequer Memorial Trophy, his Dirty Hippies jersey, his Dirty Hippies mini-helmet, and his son.
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