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11-17-2014, 10:07 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: In the thick of it.
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G-MEN!
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11-17-2014, 10:18 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Troy, Mo
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Thanks Gray.. I have the #1 waiver spot in my FF league and you're mine! Now you'll tank the rest of the season!!!
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11-17-2014, 10:21 AM
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Resident Alien
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Thanks for taking one for the team! |
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11-17-2014, 12:25 PM
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Hockey Boy
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Royal Oak, MI
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I was right yet again! I know the Lions very, very well. Quote:
Yeah, and the spot on the Eric Ebron catch earlier in the game was also horrible. That said, ff your offense can't score a touchdown it's really hard to point the finger. So far, I have not been impressed with Joe "He-used-to-coach-Drew-Brees-In-New-Orleans-Is-The-Grandson-Of-Vince" Lombardi. Everything on the offense is poopier than it was last year. While it's still super early still, it's sadly looking like Eric Ebron is very much "just another guy." I've seen nothing that sets him apart from any other run of the mill tight end. He can't block. He doesn't seem particularly athletic, fast, big, or anything else that would make him something "special" or create match-up difficulties for opposing teams. I didn't not like this pick when it was made and still don't.
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11-17-2014, 12:56 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2013
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Don't worry, the Lions can always draft another TE in the 1st round next year, and the year after, and the year after...
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11-17-2014, 01:06 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: North Carolina
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The lack of urgency and passion the Saints showed yesterday was one of those "Well, if the team does not care about whether they win or lose, then I guess I should not either."
Props to the Bengals, too. Lewis is a good coach. I had a sense that they would react to the Cleveland drubbing by coming out stronger, not by folding. |
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11-17-2014, 01:06 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: North Carolina
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Kind of amazing that either the Falcons, Saints, or Panthers will host a playoff game this year. |
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11-17-2014, 01:28 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maryland
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Oh sure, eliminate the Buccaneers.
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11-17-2014, 01:41 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Troy, Mo
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Always willing to do my part! |
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11-17-2014, 01:53 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Tampa, FL
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Gotta respect the math! |
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11-17-2014, 01:57 PM
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General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Satellite of Love
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But they're only two games out of first place! |
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11-17-2014, 01:57 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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Pretty sure they did that to themselves. Quote:
While currently Seattle and San Fran would be sitting at home. I think having the defending champ sitting at home would be the way to change the current way teams are picked for the playoffs.
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11-17-2014, 02:01 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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Fuck Kevin Faulk until eternity |
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11-17-2014, 02:10 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Colorado
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The "defending champs" should try winning more games instead.
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11-17-2014, 02:13 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: MA
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11-17-2014, 02:23 PM
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Hockey Boy
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Royal Oak, MI
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I concur. It was only about 4 years ago that the "defending champs" made it to the playoffs with a 7-9 record. You have to make the division title worth something.
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11-17-2014, 02:24 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Massachusetts
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I had never seen that before...LMAO
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11-17-2014, 02:28 PM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Somewhere More Familiar
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Despite how silly the NFC South winner's record is going to be, I have no problem with the playoff selection as-is. Win your division, period. If you can't do that, don't bitch.
I'll stand by this even if (when?) the 49ers miss the playoffs with 10+ wins. |
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11-17-2014, 02:32 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Northern Kentucky
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This. I wish college football had put some type of qualifier on making the playoff. Like winning your conference.
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11-17-2014, 02:36 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maryland
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Y'know, the Seahawks actually are the defending champs, air quotes or not.
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11-17-2014, 02:42 PM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Lisboa, ME
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This sentence is false.
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11-17-2014, 02:46 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Northern Kentucky
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I don't know? He's made the Bengals consistently competitive even while working for Mike Brown.
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11-17-2014, 03:13 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Colorado
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Division should be worth something esp when 37.5% of your games are played there.
The Seahawks were the champions of the 2013 season, which has no correlation to 2014. In the nfl, all teams start with the exact same status (SOS notwithstanding), unlike college and their early polls. |
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11-17-2014, 03:23 PM
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General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Mountains
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This sort of thing always pops up in any sport when teams don't end up seeded in the playoffs in order of their record. The whole division structure system is kind of a weird fiction, but it's an entertaining one that adds to the NFL season, especially when those are the teams you play every year, home and away. They could just abolish divisions and the top 6 teams in each conference make the playoffs, but I think the league would lose something. I like that the divisional games matter more, and that the champion of each of those groups are guaranteed to get in every year. It makes the divisions more distinctive, and the structure of the league more intuitive.
It's weird because in the NBA, I hate the division structure and do wish they abolished it - especially after the NBA watered down the whole concept, making the league difficult to follow (the division winners are guaranteed only a top-4 playoff seed, or something, and home court depends on record, not seeding - so it's harder to tell from a glance of the standings who stands where.) In the NFL, it's nice and simple - win your division and you get into the playoffs, and a home game there. 2 consolation wild cards get in, but they have to play on the road. |
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11-17-2014, 03:40 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: NYC
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In a 5 year window, I've heard that the NFC West champ doesn't deserve a playoff spot, not quite as loudly that the NFC East doesn't deserve one, and now it's the NFC South that doesn't deserve one.
Seems like everything is okay. |
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11-17-2014, 04:13 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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He's an enigma. I like him and will forever respect him for what he's done but I don't think he will never get the team to be great. He has the respect of all of his players and they usually play well for him but he cannot get them over the final hill to being a great team. He's a lot of time to do it. All it would take for me to be happy to keep him is a single playoff win. Anything short of that though, and he loses me. He's a likeable guy who has really turned the team around but at some point, that's not enough. He's horrible with his challenges, his teams don't show up in big games, etc. I guess he's a good coach, probaly in the top half of the league, but he's not a great coach. |
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11-17-2014, 05:13 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Here and There
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They are playing the Lions so I wouldn't expect a lot of runs from any Patriot. |
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11-17-2014, 05:24 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
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11-17-2014, 05:28 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Mays Landing, NJ USA
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Team wins their division they deserve a playoff spot. End of story.
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11-17-2014, 05:33 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Mays Landing, NJ USA
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College could learn from that. Win your conference and get in, then add a few at large teams to fill it out.
It would be the best thing for college football. It would lead to the talent starting to spread around with more opportunity to maybe win a title and making for a far more entertaining season. The red neck conference would still have their football lunatics show up but it would also pump up the interest in the other locations. More interest, more opportunity, better talent pool, better season. |
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11-17-2014, 05:57 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Northern Kentucky
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11-17-2014, 06:18 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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What they should do is get rid of the divisions and the top 2 teams in each conference play in the conference championship with the winners advancing to the Super Bowl. Each team in the conference plays the other 15 teams once in the regular season and plays one game against the other conference to get to 16 games. Then we'd really be taking the best teams and not seeing these 9-7 or 8-8 teams get in.
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11-17-2014, 06:33 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maryland
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What they should do is just leave the damned thing alone.
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11-17-2014, 07:40 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Catonsville, MD
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Pick 6? Yuck
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11-17-2014, 07:46 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Catonsville, MD
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The Titans score back quickly though.
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11-17-2014, 07:53 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Northern Kentucky
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NFL isn't giving up playoff games. Might as well forget that. Nor do I think they'd want to give up home and home divisional rivalries.
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11-17-2014, 07:54 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Northern Kentucky
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Roethlisberger is a fucking magician in the pocket.
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11-17-2014, 08:28 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Catonsville, MD
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Oddly enough this game hasn't been a blowout yet
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11-17-2014, 08:42 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Catonsville, MD
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A Ben pick and then a bomb by Tennessee? WOW
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11-17-2014, 09:01 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Mays Landing, NJ USA
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11-17-2014, 09:23 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Catonsville, MD
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Touchdown!!!
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11-17-2014, 11:07 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: The State of Insanity
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Wow. Talk about Delusional.
Sergio Brown, last seen getting thrown into a TV cart by Gronk, who then went Gronk Smash with a awe inspiring TD catch and run on the next drive.. boasts about how he bested Gronk. Sergio Brown Tweets About Rob Gronkowski: ‘I Put The Straps On That Boy’ | NFL | NESN.com
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11-18-2014, 12:47 AM
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Location: The Mountains
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11-18-2014, 07:16 AM
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Seems like this Lions team under Caldwell is different-making news and good at that on the field instead of off the field. I think Coach Arians has Stanton thinking he's an All-Pro QB at this point, so I guess we'll see which versions of our teams show up.
