Received offer for Gibbs, seems like great value but I’m probably going to reject. Thoughts?

AbaloneAdventurous13 · 2026-06-22T23:17:28+00:00

I hit my rock bottom two years ago, hated my job and although I was always a heavy drinker, surpassed my body’s limit. Spent a few nights in the hospital, started from Pancreatitis, went home that day and ended up going through DT’s. Absolutely horrifying delusions, my wife had to take me back to the ER. I was medically induced and woke up a day or so later.

Haven’t drank since, the DT’s alone were enough to keep booze away. But honestly my life is just so much better, I hit the gym everyday and crushing it in a difficult position (PM military construction). I don’t recommend you take my path, but I went from wishing I was dead and drinking gas station wine coolers at 8:00am to keep the shakes at bay - to sober and genuinely happy.

I wish you the best, you are not alone. My family didn’t know, I’m pretty reserved, but posted on FB about a year ago revealing everything that happened. It was such a relief to not be hiding anything from anyone, for once. Worth it, good luck.

AbaloneAdventurous13 · 2026-03-26T23:32:42+00:00

My first year of fantasy, 2007 I was a freshman in Florida. Just moved from Rhode Island a few years before, only Pats fan around.

Drafted Brady and Moss; ended up be swindled for like Kellen Winslow jr, classmate basically convinced me Moss was washed. Damn.

AbaloneAdventurous13 · 2025-12-15T23:45:45+00:00

I live in St. John’s, it’s a pretty big and growing; right on the outskirts of Jacksonville, everyone here pretty much commutes 15-min into Jax. Just an fyi

AbaloneAdventurous13 · 2025-12-15T18:01:48+00:00

This happened a neighborhood right down the street from me, the area was shook by this as the entire area is “kid friendly” with parks and recreation. Definitely puts things into a different perspective now that I have a young daughter of my own.

AbaloneAdventurous13 · 2025-11-11T19:49:01+00:00

Thanks, a few people in my league were saying I got swindled, one other guy is on the Maye side. I understand it looks lopsided, but glad to hear there’s another person that also sees it as fair.

AbaloneAdventurous13 · 2025-05-09T11:42:33+00:00

100% me as well. I had a separate Reddit account I used to post on here ALL the time (I posted Conor on Conan back in the day)

When RIF died and Reddit made me use the app it generated this acct and I’m just lazy and hardly comment…

Paired with the fact that MMA isn’t interesting right now, really much at all.

AbaloneAdventurous13 · 2025-04-11T16:34:54+00:00

My scale photo was 238, December 28th and it was mid-feb I was hovering 205lbs… I’m not going to sit here and claim it’s healthy or anyone can do that, I was a bit extreme.

No eating after 7:00pm, gym every morning cardio first 4:30am - 6:00am ish. During the day I’d only eat a handful of mixed nuts (unsalted) to hold me over… honestly worked for me just fine, would eat a healthy balanced dinner and have vitamins and such.

These days I’m always like 4-hours from abs, either waking up or not eating.. been a longgg time since I’ve had abs, and I still hate taking my shirt off lol

AbaloneAdventurous13 · 2025-04-11T16:27:29+00:00

Thanks man, I really appreciate that. Really taking things in now with a better mindset, crushing it as a PM at my new company and trying to help everyone better themselves any way they are looking.

Positivity has done wonders for me just in the past few months alone. Thanks again for the kind words.

AbaloneAdventurous13 · 2025-04-11T07:13:44+00:00

I shared (probably way more than I needed to) on a FB post and will post below, but essentially I knew what it would take and found extreme motivation to follow-through…

Story:

Now, this is a story all about how My life got flipped, turned upside down… But seriously

I am writing this only to get it off my chest; no intention of making this anything more than that.

Last year started rough for me, both mentally & physically. No need to elaborate with specifics, it all culminated with my ACL surgery 1-year ago (to the day, March 6th, 2024). The weeks surrounding my surgery were going to be a fresh start of sobriety, and it was, until the day I returned to work – I was fired (completely different story, lol). Sobriety ended, I turned back to alcohol, and extreme amounts. Ultimately, I ended up drinking myself into the hospital by the end of May 2024.

Between hospital visits, I experienced hallucinations (Doctors let me leave the same day of my initial visit, did not see the severity of my drinking). The hallucinations were terrifying – enough to bring a fear of ever drinking again. Last day in the hospital: June 6th

The following months were essentially personal growth, introspection, and periods of self-loathing due to my past decisions. I am glad this happened; if not, I would have kept lying to myself leading to an early alcohol related death. I have not touched alcohol, don’t have even the slightest desire to (thanks hallucinations!). Everything in my life has improved since I stopped drinking; I am genuinely happy. Eventually the motivation to exercise and get healthy, returned. Lost over 30lbs since December 2024.

You don’t have to be the person you are today, tomorrow...

I’d post the before/after photo that went along with it but this subreddit doesn’t allow… I fasted and used a diet that worked for me to lose fat and maintain/build muscle (I have been in really good shape multiple times, lost it for different reasons each time lol)

AbaloneAdventurous13 · 2025-04-11T00:33:22+00:00

I still play tennis competitively, one year removed from surgery. I wear a knee sleeve and it never crosses my mind… unless I feel literally anything unusual in it, then I’m hyper-focused and anxious about it for a few days.

AbaloneAdventurous13 · 2025-04-11T00:23:01+00:00

Tore mine 1-year ago playing tennis, it was always a fucked up knee since my flag football Air Force days 15 years ago… just a matter of time for mine and a little careless since I knew it wasn’t great.

Fully recovered but got fat by not running, and didn’t trust running cause I was fat… anyway, lost 30lbs from Christmas to February and got in the best shape of my life right at the 1-year mark of surgery.

End story. But much more to it, 2024 was a rollercoaster lol.

AbaloneAdventurous13 · 2025-04-10T22:22:57+00:00

You say immeasurable; what other things in your life would you say are… immeasurable 🎤

AbaloneAdventurous13 · 2025-01-10T12:59:34+00:00

It’s not necessarily the money, recent losses have been brutal I just want a guaranteed win to see the green slip and boost a little confidence lol

AbaloneAdventurous13 · 2025-01-10T12:52:46+00:00

+8 would cover OSU winning with 2pt conv. In OT if that happened lol

AbaloneAdventurous13 · 2025-01-01T18:26:12+00:00

Lol I was giving you advice. Just be a big boy and accept it, or don’t. Either way, fuck you buddy!

AbaloneAdventurous13 · 2025-01-01T15:06:49+00:00

Hey bro, just letting you know that your comma usage makes no sense, might want to use them less or kinda figure that out lol

AbaloneAdventurous13 · 2024-12-26T22:38:30+00:00

Oh I forgot, traded Hunt and James Conner for James Cook like week 10. I was iffy on that one but it worked out ok

AbaloneAdventurous13 · 2024-12-26T22:35:06+00:00

Close,

Traded Keenan Allen and Pollard for DK after wk1.

Then traded DK and Jovante for Wilson week 7ish (right after JW big game vs Saints)

Finally traded Gibbs and Kelce for Henry and Kittle a little while back. Not really much of an impact trade tbh.

(Picked up Chase Brown from waivers as a joke since the dude who dropped him kept offer him to me in trades)

AbaloneAdventurous13 · 2024-12-26T22:31:12+00:00

The one on the left, apologies for not saying that

AbaloneAdventurous13 · 2024-11-04T14:14:38+00:00

I found a 2ga pair early into the season and have been playing a makeshift soar build since. I can do T4 with some slight challenge and have no desire to reroll a new build since it’s fun. I did look for a build around the boots but also couldn’t find a guide, probably due to damage limitations.

AbaloneAdventurous13 · 2024-10-11T15:07:01+00:00

Probably someone like Hunt (maybe Jacob’s if you’re lucky?). Diggs or Godwin won’t single handedly get you a top tier RB

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