Hey everyone, I'm Walter White in the league, Alex in real life.
First, thanks for letting me join y'all this year. I've been looking for a high stakes league to join, and when thedude24 let me know there was a spot open, I got a nice warm feeling in my pants over the thought of playing with people taking a league seriously and for high reward. I wasn't originally a part of this board because I don't do sports betting outside of fantasy, but I was alerted to the fact that my trade was being viewed as "clown shit". So, here I am defending my honor haha.
First, to everyone, I can assure you there's no collusion between thedude24 and myself. It's laughable to think that. If that were the case, I did a pretty poor job of it then judging by my 0-4 start.
PatsFan1283: I did appreciate your offer for McCoy. But when I compared it to others, and I can promise you that you weren’t the only one that sent me anything, it was the worst proposal:
Colston – Meh, not huge on him. Puts up decent numbers but Brees likes to spread it around. Plus I have Sproles on a different team and I don’t like rooting against my own players in different leagues.
Moreno – Yes, please give me a RB in a 3 back time share with one of the best passing offenses in the league with the Terminator as their QB. Plus, he's injury prone and once Ball gets his act together, his carries will drop.
Bell – I would LOVE to take a busted RB that has a foot injury on a broken team with a broken offensive line playing in a division that has good defenses he has to deal with. Plus, his week 14-16 matchups are good against the run. If by any chance I get into the playoffs, I don’t like the matchups I face.
So I fail to see how that offer helps me with getting more WR depth and still gives me a decent RB that I can rely on every week.
To your point about me "not bothering to counter": Honestly, the only person I would have wanted was Graham and that doesn’t help my WR position. Morris doesn't do anything for me, and Johnson is a train wreck waiting to happen. Maybe if your bench wasn’t full of scrub RB's and had some WR depth to help me out, I would have considered countering. But you didn’t have anything that I wanted. Supply and demand, you had no supply, so I had no demand.
To your point about me "not opening the bidding": The beautiful thing about the trading block is that everyone in the league knows when someone is put on there. I believe if you go back far enough you will see that I added McCoy on the 23rd at 3:14 PM. Which is over a week ago. Hopefully you had the chance to log in and see that then. If not, can’t help that you didn’t see it. I didn't realize that I was expected to announce my every move for a trade to everyone. I'll make sure to outline my strategy for all roster moves in the future.
My intent was not to start any drama over this trade, nor is this post intended on starting anything either. But, calling something "clown shit" and insinuating that I and others have been less than fair in the league is insulting.
TheDude24 had pieces that I wanted, and we were able to work something out. The trade makes us both better, I get some help at WR and a RB that will eventually be a reliable RB2 later on in the season. TheDude24 gets a top 3 RB that's currently healthy, but that could change, and a WR that should get more room to run when the main weapons of NE come back. Plus, he seems to be getting on the same page as Brady and has put up good numbers the last few weeks. Pretty fair deal, IMO.