We finally get details about what happened at the Auction and how the decision to waive Brees and Foster came to be.<\/p>\n
1. Why did you go offline towards the end of the 2014 Auction and cause it to be delayed even further, nothing really seemed like such a big deal? Were you abusing any substances we should know about and\/or try ourselves?<\/p>\n
What happened at the end of the auction was ridiculous. No one communicated a course of action to me and teams started bidding via the chat function without having unanimous agreement from all parties with money left.<\/p>\n
Totally unacceptable.<\/p>\n
If everyone on the phone had come to a consensus on how to proceed then someone should have reached out and communicated this consensus so that we could have determined the best way to proceed.<\/p>\n
I had no idea what was going on and who, if anyone, was taking responsibility for it. No one who was throwing out bids had any idea how their actions would be addressed in the software. As usual, I had to do a lot of manual adjustments in order to deal with this. I posted on the chat that I was against proceeding in that manner. My comments were ignored and swept away in the flood of nominations and bids. Ultimately, I felt that I had to no choice but to disengage.<\/p>\n
2. You unexpectedly dropped Brees and Foster, why? Some have speculated your account was hacked or a disgruntled family member may have done it. Can you walk us thru the circumstances and your analysis (if any) of this move? Was Shades there?<\/p>\n
My rationale for cutting Brees and Foster is as follows:<\/p>\n
1. I mismanaged my auction and was left with too few players and no cap space. I either had to cut someone or move Stacy or Golden Tate (my only $2 players), both of whom I am planning to start, to PS.<\/p>\n
2. I reviewed my roster and determined that Brees and Foster were, by far, my most overpriced players. I determined that any other player that I could would not clear waivers. I thought that Brees and Foster might clear waivers because:<\/p>\n
a. Brees, at $28, would require extensive cuts by most teams and since every team already had a pretty good QB situation, I didn’t think it really made sense for many teams. I figured multiple teams would bid on him during free agency, but I didn’t think anyone would actually put in a waiver claim. Ted was my biggest concern, but I had reason to believe that he wouldn’t put in a claim. Warning to other QFL owners: Ted cannot be trusted to honor a gentleman’s agreement.<\/p>\n
b. Foster, at $21, was more affordable, but also had and will continue to have injury concerns. Also, Foster is a Q2 and is due a 25% raise next year, so I definitely wasn’t going to be keeping him beyond this year.<\/p>\n
Obviously, it would have been better to come to these conclusions prior to trading for Foster and giving up draft picks for Brees, but I try not to let pride cloud my decision making and didn’t want to compound those mistakes by continuing to overpay for them at the expense of team development and flexibility.<\/p>\n
I think my rationale with these two is somewhat supported by the fact that only 1 team put in a claim for Brees and only 2 put in claims for Foster.<\/p>\n
3. My intention was to pick them up on cheaper contracts, but that obviously didn’t pan out.<\/p>\n
4. I considered only dropping one of them, but, again, I wanted to lower both their salaries and was pretty confident that they would clear waivers. I thought that the sooner I did it the better as waiting would only bring us closer to the time when teams had to cut people anyway.<\/p>\n
5. I acknowledged that there was a chance that I wouldn’t get either player back and ultimately determined that it would be okay, because:<\/p>\n
a. Some other team would be hamstrung by the high salaries.<\/p>\n
b. Any team picking up these players would be forced to cut players, many of whom are likely to be better values.<\/p>\n
So far I have Josh Gordon, Ray Rice and a bunch of longshots that I’m gambling on.<\/p>\n
I’m not nearly as concerned about my team as everyone else seems to be and am willing to lay bets that I don’t end up in the bottom 4 as QSN claims many people think.<\/p>\n
3. What do you envision for the future of QFL Masters?<\/p>\n
I love the idea of relegation to improve the membership. There are some issues to work out there though. In the meantime, it was fun to take part in a wide open QFL auction for the first time in 15 years.<\/p>\n
4. What rule would you change about QFL?<\/p>\n
I’ve always thought that kick and punt return scores should go to the individual players, which would decrease value from D\/ST and increase value for borderline ownable WR and RB. I’ve given up on this though. <\/p>\n
5. Who is your favorite 2014 sleeper?<\/p>\n
Hawkins, Turbin, Donald Brown.<\/p>\n
6. Who is the best team in the QFL this year?<\/p>\n
Not really afraid of anyone, but I think Benny and Hans look like the strongest teams.<\/p>\n
7. Both teams are so different now but what are your feelings about the timing of the Quince Bowl VX rematch coming week 1?<\/p>\n
I think it’ll be a good match up. Both teams are starting guys with high ceilings and low floors. No one is is particularly scary aside from Green and Graham, but any of them could put up big numbers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We finally get details about what happened at the Auction and how the decision to waive Brees and Foster came to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19,20],"tags":[161,40],"class_list":["post-5572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-qfl-nation-news","category-qfl-prime","tag-interview","tag-soq"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5574,"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions\/5574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}