[sweetka]

Friday night I lost to both Jim and Norbert. For the first time in my life I quit out of frustration. I had several fumbles on plays that would have got me back in the game, numerous penalties, six in a row that committed personally. My day was horrible. My team was playing great but every time I got up the box knocked me back down. To add to that my game plan against Norbert totally sucked. Couple that with his great team and I lost by the largest margin that I could remember.

To sum it up I make enough mistakes on my own and that box piled on me to the tune of about 15-17 negative calls and the calls that went for me was Jim losing his QB for the game and another player for the game. We joked about what is he going to do switch boxes. Hopefully I'll catch the same breaks but to be honest I wouldn't want that to happen to none of my leaguemates.

I think that fumbles should only count when you make tackles, period. It is like Yahtzee when you get rewarded with something that in no way correlates with what happens on the field. I don't like going in the end zone uncontested and the board stops both disrupting your players run and then running back thirty yards to fumble. We average anything from 20-40 tackles a game. That's up to 40 opportunities for a fumble a game. One time I stopped the board for a fumble and Jim's man fell over right as he was cutting toward the end zone. He eventually scored but what if he didn't?

The passing box is now a total contradiction to the fumble rule because there is no way possible to throw an INT even if a guy is sitting directly to the right or left of the player. The 12 means nothing unless someone is in the path but you can fumble with both double 1's and double 2's. I think that needs to be corrected. 12 should be an INT no matter what. In hindsight the rule should have been left alone. Reginald put those rules in for a reason and it is clear to me that they should have simpley been left alone. This ruleset is designed for small tweaks, not modification.

I could afford to lose to both Jim and Norbert because it will all come down to taking care of business in my own division. The positive is that I learned a lot about my team and the potential of OSU is tremendous.

The negative is that in week one the rules for the passing box was 8-12 for interceptions which meant that I would have had four interceptions. After that the rule was modified so now Jim has total control of risking an interception. Us TTQB passers do not. The recipient of that first week gift was the commissioner, now it seems twisted and overcompensated for Jim's opponents. Jim and I talked about this so don't expect or look at this as a knock on him.

I think that last year was more fun and if winning becomes the only factor for playing then I am out after this year. Some of the modifications clearly suggest that to me.

Just my thoughts.