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I don't hate it, but it does make me a little uneasy especially with a young team. I hope they don't get too full of themselves. I don't think that's going to happen though because this is a make or break year for McCarthy.

Yeah, its working nicely with Z and Bradley Yep, Zambrano's pitching and Bradley's 390+ OBP are the reasons this team sucks. Quiet you. We need someone to blame and who else besides those two?!?!?!

Raji's out for Sunday but he wasn't really slated to play a whole bunch anyway. It does hurt our line depth, though.

Well yeah, that's true. If they beat Iowa, that easily would've been their biggest win in school history.

I wouldn't use the ten times argument, but I think they'd more than hold their own against Navy. I have a hard time buying into a triple option system working its course against every team. Just because it worked against OSU doesn't mean it works against other teams. It's easier said than done but if you can stop Navy's rushing game, you're going to be victorious. Not to mention I think OSU was looking ahead to its game against USC and took their game against Navy for granted, as much as it pains me to say that.

Depending on the price, I wouldn't be opposed to Valverde. But of course the price will be a major sticking point and I'd rather spend money elsewhere than tie up money to a reliever.

Of course, Iowa drops 15 spots, and Ohio State drops 2 spots after barely beating an arguably worse team. Navy's a solid team. Yeah, Navy's got some good talent and that triple option can be a difficult offense to defend. There's no comparison to Northern Iowa. Northern Iowa would have a good to great chance at beating Navy. Just because they're an FCS team doesn't mean they suck.

I think the general sentiment is that the transition to a 3-4 really can't be any worse than the defense we had last year. We've been very LB heavy the last few years, so I don't think it'll be too difficult of a transition. Dom Capers led defense are usually very stout, so I'm confident that we'll be at least a little better this year. With the schedule we have in place, I think our defense only needs to be average to have a much improved win total this year. It's going to be a fun race. Make no mistake, I wish we were in the Chargers or the Cardinals position where they have a cakewalk to the postseason. The four games against the Bears and Vikes should and will be four of the biggest games that I can remember against those teams.

As long as whoever the GM is trades him at his highest value since 05 this offseason, it's fine with me. I like Lee but he needs to be one of the guys moved in the offseason. Why? And who do you suggest taking over at 1st? Because Lee's not getting any younger and do you really think he's going to repeat his numbers from this year? I don't. I just want to see what we could get for him and how much we could get for him. I think we could get a pretty good haul.

San Francisco, huh? That's ballsy. I think Houston will contend for a playoff spot this year.

Agreed, but the Bears actually won some close games too. The only close game the Packers won was the season opener on MNF against Minnesota. To have that many games go against you is real unlucky.

You know it's a bad week for college football when ND-Michigan might arguably be the second best game of the weekend. Oh and if Illinois struggles against ISU (they were blown out by EIU this past week), I might check to see if fireronzook.com is up for sale.

True, I'm hearing plenty of people up here penciling the Packers into the Super Bowl. And doing it with a straight face -- no exaggeration. I still want to see that defense over the course of a season, but whatever. There's no doubt they'll be able to put up points. That makes them a dangerous team, IMO. Super Bowl might be a bit ambitious coming off a sub-.500 season, before even playing a single game. We definitely weren't as bad as our record indicated last year (and we probably weren't as good as our record indicated in 2007). In 2007, we won all of our close games with the exception of the Bears game at Lambeau. You guys blew us out, and then Dallas was blowing us out for the better part of that game before Rodgers came in to relieve Favre and we made a game out of that. Last year, we lost every single close game we had. People who don't care for Rodgers have unfairly pinned that on him, although many times it was because our defense blew it late by allowing late scoring drives. We lost back to back road games against Tennessee and Minnesota last year in the final seconds, both due to FG attempts. Of course I can't forget the blocked FG against the Bears towards the end of the year, as well. We blew a game against Carolina because we settled for 3 at the goal line instead of going for it on 4th and goal at the 1. Then Steve Smith burned our defense before they ended up winning that one. Houston, Jacksonville, Tampa, and ATL were all more than winnable games too (if our defense could have actually got a stop in the 4th). I don't think I've ever seen a season where a team had that many close games go against them. All of our wins were by double digits, with the exception of our season opener against Minnesota. Keep in mind that was against a very difficult schedule (NFC South and AFC South) as well. I think it's fair to assess with a Dom Capers led defense that the Packers should improve this year and by improvement, I mean a 4 or a 5 win turnaround. I would have loved to be in the position that the Bears are in right now. A lot of 'experts' have us going to the Super Bowl, which is kind of scary especially for a young team. I think being an under-the-radar team definitely helped us out in 2007. I'm not making predictions this year, but like I said in another thread there's about six or seven teams in the conference that can legitimately say they can win the NFC.

the kicking game didn't hurt Miami nearly as bad as it hurt FSU. unbelievable how the kicker keeps hurting them in this series. I'm convinced this is sarcasm now.

I'm going to guess Dew does. Would've been nice if I saw that post before I posed that question.

Not very considering they went for two and got the two making the missed EP irrelevant.

Anyone else think there should've been a second left on the clock?

Were Nessler and the other guy drunk that entire quarter? That was some horrible announcing.

That throw was all kinds of sexy. The reviews are getting ridiculous.

Both of these teams actually look pretty good. Of course, we'll see how they look when they're playing other teams.

Same here.

The upcoming season for the Bulls will be very boring. Rose will be fun to watch, but I don't see how this team's going to finish any better than 7th in the East. I wish we could just fast forward to the offseason.

Apparently they don't have anybody besides Benn who can run more than 15 yards down the field and have a pass throw to them. That was the single most annoying thing watching that game. They never once took a shout down field. The coaching staff is awful based on the lack of adjustments made in game. Also, Gabbert is good. He's huge, fast and man did he make some really accurate throws, both from the pocket and on roll outs. The WR's aren't even close to the problem. Benn's starting to develop a case of being injury-prone, which isn't good at all.

Kosuke should be the leadoff man next year. As for the rest of that, well hopefully they realize that good baseball players win baseball games and we have a shortage of those on offense. Speed won't rectify that. Better players will.

As long as whoever the GM is trades him at his highest value since 05 this offseason, it's fine with me. I like Lee but he needs to be one of the guys moved in the offseason.