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  1. rawaction
    Why doesIowa make teams play like that? Ugly game. So many foul calls away from the ball. IU didn't hit a 3 until 45 seconds left. Both teams well under 40%.
  2. rawaction
    This is like the Illinois game a little. If IU could hit shots this game would be over already. Got like 9 offensive boards and 2 second chance points. 11 turnovers forced.
  3. rawaction
    They evidently can't handle presses. IU's press pretty much destroyed them late in that game--and IU isn't a pressing team (of course, one wonders why the press wasn't used more that game, but I digress). They're a lot closer to a bubble team than many think right now. VCU is a quality team, though. This is more your forte than mine, but wins over Indiana and Gonzaga pretty much have to be trump cards, right? (Add to that Marquette and North Carolina.) But since beating Gonzaga the only team they've beaten worth a damn is Temple (6-5 since beating Gonzaga). They'll still probably make it, but they failed to win any of the four games they played against the quality A-10 teams, and took a terrible home loss to Charlotte in the process. Butler is in. No question. Does the A10 get 5 this year? LaSalle is ahead of Butler in conference play with wins over Butler and at VCU. Also beat Villanova. Temple is probably more iffy, but they did beat Syracuse and Saint Louis. End with VCU at home and if they can win that, I think they should be in. Of course they are in a dogfight with a bad RI team right now.
  4. rawaction
    I assumed because they beat J twice and nobody else beat another top 16 twice. I might still pick my 4 even knowing who they are (IU, Gonzaga, Duke, Miami).
  5. rawaction
    E, D, H, A would be my rank
  6. rawaction
    From the Bears point of view, you could spend 70-80 Mil on him now and he could get another concussion, not take the offense to the next level and you're stuck paying him for the next 5 years. You got a new coach who is a renowned QB expert and an OC that worked with Drew Brees, and a relatively new GM that may be looking to completely clean house before his tenure is in jeopardy. Also a potentially good QB class next year. The downside is you pay him 100-120 Mil in his next contract, but you have a proven elite level QB at that point so it won't matter.
  7. rawaction
    I'm 100% down again. I think a good time to start would be after pro days (though, I'd just as soon do 1 now and 1 then to see what changes). But I'm thinking beginning of April would be when most things are settled. Should be no more prospect moving up boards, and only players moving down who get arrested or comes out they failed a drug test or something.
  8. rawaction
    Cutler is not getting extended this offseason. Its the Flacco situation. The team will wait to see if Cutler can get them over the hump. Cutler is not going to take a non elite offer because he obviously thinks he's elite.
  9. rawaction
    Has he restructured as a Bear? If so, I stand corrected. Didn't think he did.
  10. rawaction
    With Melton back in the fold, the Bears have 9 of the 11 defensive starters back (counting Wootton who started the last 7 games at DE). And it sounds like Urlacher will be back, so that would mean on the only starter on D that needs to be replaced is the position that comes off the field about 1/2 the snaps anyway. Offensively, while technically 9 of the 11 who started most of the games are back.......4 of the 9 could stand to be upgraded (LT, RT, C, TE).
  11. rawaction
    Why is asking Peppers to restructure iffy? I don't understand the logic, but I've seen it several places. He'll still get his money. He'll get most of it upfront instead of taking it this year and getting cut next year. I think you'll see Davis, Hester and Spaeth all get cut. Hester may be disguised as him being asked to take a pay cut, which he will decline, and then get cut. Tillman will get extended (restructured) and help out. Tim Jennings may get the same. Actually, Jennings may get done first so he doesn't have Tillman as the measuring stick for his contract extension. Earl Bennett and Robbie Gould would be good ways to save a couple million each. Brandon Marshall is a sleeper to get restructured, but that one may be saved until this time next season when the team dangles the reason being re-signing Jay Cutler as the motivation for him.
  12. rawaction
    724-328-4044
  13. rawaction
    Not entirely accurate. They didn't keep track of blocks until like 1973, so I'm sure Russell and Chamberlain did it a few times each. Still pretty amazing though. A couple of those are surprising. Shaq wasnt a shot blocker and Bradley probably rarely scored 20 points. Don't remember him being much of a rebounder either despite being almost 8' tall.
  14. rawaction
    The tourney should just have 8 #2 seeds.
  15. rawaction
    Noah going HAM! 21, 18 and 11. Triple double. Love celebrating the triple double mid play!
  16. rawaction
    Don't know but its a road game against a non terrible team. I'm rooting for a Duke loss tonight and win over Miami this weekend. Gonzaga also to lose at BYU tonight and IU just might stay #1 after a loss for a second time this year.
  17. rawaction
    Hahaha. WTF? Penn State?
  18. rawaction
    Really? Alexander was real solid in 2012 and I don't recall any talk about that condition (this is the first I've heard of it so it clearly didn't bother him much). If it's the same condition I wouldn't worry about it. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000145102/article/star-lotulelei-can-exercise-despite-heart-condition
  19. rawaction
    Will Beatty just re-signed with the Giants. Another option gone off the FA market.
  20. rawaction
    Same condition as Frank Alexander from Oklahoma last year (went to Carolina actually). He still went 4th round and he had a 4th round grade. Star won't drop out of the top 8.
  21. rawaction
    The problem is nobody is going to trade for #1 because there aren't any QBs worth taking there. QB won't go top 3 now, so a team can give up less and trade for 3 or 4. Joeckel isn't trade up worthy considering how close Eric Fisher is on his heels. Nobody's trading up for Star now. Nobody's trading up for a pass rusher. They're probably keeping #1 or getting monumentally less than the Rams got for #2 last year.
  22. rawaction
    Yeah, but he's a borderline player as it is. If you're Jake Long, it's just weed. If you're J'Marcus Webb, it's a potential career threatening offence.
  23. rawaction
    But the point is he was hyped as top ten in places based on the intangibles, which were completely erased with the hoax story. It was stupid to hype him like that before, but it is not stupid to have this hoax exposed. The 40 reiterated that while he was a nice college linebacker, he's not a physical stud deserving of some of the praise he received before. He can be a solid player. True. Intangibles don't mean [expletive] for a LB though. So I still can't imagine why he was ever that high.
  24. rawaction
    Wow. What a dumbass.
  25. rawaction
    Ive heard the FO wants Urlacher, Roach and Idonije back. I think change is good and u can upgrade at least 2 of those defensive positions while also getting younger. I suspect they'll try to keep the D as stable as possible so they can get another year out of it, in order to focus on fixing the offense this year. Thats fine and all but u upgrade when and where u can. Idonije became a backup and u used a 1st round pick on his position. Roach has always been replaceable. You can either replace spare parts now or replace everyone at the same time (Urlacher, Roach, Tillman, Peppers, Idonije, Jennings, etc).
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