TruffleShuffle

I know. Average fan won't care though. Well on 2nd thought do Cardinals fans/media really lay into their coaches? depends, do the cardinals have fans? does the arizona media cover the cardinals? judging from the fact that 90% of the crowd is rooting for the cowboys, i'm gonna say no.

It was blocked b/c it didn't get 3 feet off the ground. well maybe the kicker let up too. all i know is, it didn't look like a normal kick. some of the players let up because the whistle blew.

the double-sided coin came up heads

the kick was blocked because everyone stopped blocking when they heard the whistle.

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Squib kicks should NEVER be a part of a kickers arsenal, period. If the Bears were up 3 or 7, where the end product of a squibber that the Falcons tied it up is one thing, but when you a nursing the slimmest of slim leads let in the game you can't give them a workable field and they took advantage. Calling for a squib kick is "never a good idea" regardless of the situation. But there are situations in which it is serviceable, but a one point lead is NOT one them. Kick it deep, kick it far. A big return still takes a good 5 or more seconds off the clock, which makes getting into FG range and then kicking it very remote. It was a stupid decision, and it's these kind of decision is why the Bears are 3-3 and not 6-0. also the bears really aren't that good, that's another reason why the bears aren't 6-0. watch out, truffle. speaking disparagingly against the bears in this thread....well people will remember it.

Squib kicks should NEVER be a part of a kickers arsenal, period. If the Bears were up 3 or 7, where the end product of a squibber that the Falcons tied it up is one thing, but when you a nursing the slimmest of slim leads let in the game you can't give them a workable field and they took advantage. Calling for a squib kick is "never a good idea" regardless of the situation. But there are situations in which it is serviceable, but a one point lead is NOT one them. Kick it deep, kick it far. A big return still takes a good 5 or more seconds off the clock, which makes getting into FG range and then kicking it very remote. It was a stupid decision, and it's these kind of decision is why the Bears are 3-3 and not 6-0. also the bears really aren't that good, that's another reason why the bears aren't 6-0.

lol @ eagles, we suck balls

Todd Walker was better than Erstad. Erstad had one quality season. Plus, Pedroia is going to be a great player. He put up a 123+ OPS with a .376 OBP and .493 SLG, with good defense. He might not have reached his prime, yet. pedroia already is a great player, he was #3 in the american league in vorp

lol, darin erstad in his prime? you mean that one time he had a fluky year and was good?

because he is friends with the players and keeps the house in relatively good order. when you build a team with that many misfits, that's pretty important. He just looks lost and clueless on the sideline. Its very weird well yeah he's not a good football coach.

because he is friends with the players and keeps the house in relatively good order. when you build a team with that many misfits, that's pretty important.

apparently we're in the ivy league portion of the patriot league schedule.

except im on the other side now!!! Seriously, shut up. +1. Seriously. uh why, this is not a bears message board. yall would talk the same to me Ice, Let me help you out here. While really and technically you aren't breaking any rules, I'd suggest treading lightly. When the Cowboys whooped the Bears hiney 34-10 last year in week three, I tried to stay out of thread as much as I could. Not because it was against the rules, by why piss off half the board that I normally like to discuss baseball with. It's not against the rules, per se...just common courtesy. This. If Cub fans were over on a Braves board whooping it up in the face of a Falcons loss, I'd say the same thing. It's common courtesy. If you don't want to do it, fine. But people will remember... ooh terrifying grow thicker skin, it's a football game and his team won, he's not dancing on your mom's grave. people will remember. hahaa you laugh, but just wait until a band of angry nsbb bear fans shows up at his house and tears him limb from limb.

i won my survival pool today.... there were 2 people left and 2 games that everyone picked today; i picked the right one (minnesota) and the other guy picked the wrong one (washington). i'm shocked that those games were even close. i mean, how do you win at dallas and at philly and then lose to the frickin rams?

haha if you believe this then i've got some prime beachfront property in arizona for you...

I think it's pretty clear that he didn't call plays in 2005, and isn't calling them this year. There is no chance that Paterno would cook up something called "The Hi-Def Offense". This is all Galen Hall right, obviously the offense is galen hall's doing, but even last year they went into super-conservative mode against michigan and it cost them the ballgame (along with, of course, anthony morelli). this year they haven't shown the conservative game plan in road games, nor have they really taken their foot off the gas in the fourth quarter.

I guess there must not be very many "good" teams in college football if Missouri "isn't very good." well there's texas and florida, i guess maybe oklahoma and penn state too. four very good teams and everyone else sucks.

only one of byu and utah can go undefeated, and only one of the big xii schools can go undefeated. so really, you have: alabama - sec ball st. - mac boise st. - wac byu/utah - mountain west penn st. - big ten texas tech/texas/okie st. - big xii tulsa - conference usa alabama's toughest games left: @lsu, neutral field vs sec east winner in the sec championship game ball st: @central michigan, home vs western michigan, neutral field in mac title game boise st: @san jose st, i guess? @boise? as always, the wac sucks. byu: @tcu, @air force, @utah utah: vs tcu, vs byu penn st. - @ohio st, vs michigan st texas tech: @kansas, vs okie st, vs texas, @oklahoma, big xii title game vs mizzou/kansas. yikes. texas: vs mizzou, @texas tech, @kansas, big xii title game vs mizzou/kansas. also yikes. okie st: @texas, @texas tech, vs oklahoma. yikes again. tulsa: @arkansas, @houston, c-usa title game vs whoever.

Oh come on, this is not what I needed to see. They were practically looking for plays to overturn all night and they missed that? They did seem to unnecessarily review a bunch of plays. Looking at that screen shot, it's hard to believe they missed that. yeah at least on tv, they blew off that view and kept trying to look at one from the front, but the cameraman hadn't panned down fast enough and the ball wasn't even in the shot. to me it's really stupid that they missed it because on the first replay i thought i saw the ball underneath the guy's body, and i grabbed the dvr remote and rewound it a couple of times and saw that it hit the ground. how does the replay booth not catch that when a guy with a dvr can see it clearly? what's the point of replay if you're still going to get a wrong call wrong?

yeah well i hope voters are intelligent enough to figure out that a neutral field loss against the #1/#2 team in the country is a lot better than a home loss to ole miss or a road loss at oregon state.

this ump is out to lunch

No, I didn't. Every undefeated BCS team goes ahead of Florida (yes, including a team like Northwestern going into the day). Florida is my 2nd best 1 loss team behind USC. Are you for real? Wow. Yes. Do I think Northwestern is better than Florida? No, and it proved out on the field. Rankings right now mean very little, it will all sort itself out by the end of the year. It's pretty simple, you both play in BCS conferences, a zero loss team is ahead of a one loss team. What gets tricky is when you get 0 vs. 0 or 1 vs. 1 or a non-BCS team gets thrown into the mix. right but the problem is that a team like northwestern has only played 3 bcs teams in their 5 games, and they were against terrible syracuse, lousy duke and lousy iowa. byu and utah are non-bcs teams, but they've both played two bcs opponents, and air force is a better team than someone like syracuse. some bcs teams are undefeated simply because they've only played teams in the bottom half of i-a. i'm also wondering how much joe paterno is really coaching penn st anymore. one of the biggest knocks on paterno, and it's a valid one, is that when he'd go on the road to play an outclassed opponent, they'd just run the ball all day, not throw over the middle - basically "play not to lose." last week purdue couldn't stop the run, but penn st had an even mix of runs and passes. this week they passed the ball 30 times, including some passes in the 4th quarter with a big lead. paterno-coached teams have traditionally been a lot more conservative than that, and would just consistently run into the pile with a good-sized lead in the 4th quarter. at this point, paterno may not be much more than a figurehead.

also, one of the great things about college football is that every week matters so much. that's why you can't miss ou-texas or okie st-mizzou. if undefeated duke and unc play in the middle of the college basketball season, you want to watch it, but at the end of the season, they're both going to head into the ncaa tourney as #1 seeds and have to win 6 games to get the championship. i don't care if usc has the most talent and wins every game the rest of this year by 100 points, they chose not to show up on a thursday night in corvallis, so i'm not giving them a ticket into the title game if a team like penn state goes undefeated, showing up for road games like purdue and wisconsin and wins those with ease.

the outcome of games is probability based. im tired of that argument. you either get or you dont. its not very tough to understand. yes that's very convenient for you, when you get a game wrong you can just say "well most days that wouldn't happen, it's just a fluke." and from what i have seen, you put too much stock into athleticism and raw talent and not enough into how well a team is actually playing like on the field. i don't care if every player on florida was an 8-star recruit who runs a sub-4.0 40, they just weren't a top 10 team last year. whatever "it" is - cohesion, chemistry, coaching, who knows - they didn't have "it."