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The only Packers who missed practice today were Driver and Scott Wells. McCarthy said that both will play on Sunday.

Oh and wtf is up with Illinois? Losing to Xavier? Not one quality OOC win for Illinois.

SIU blew out Illinois State in both teams first conference game of the season. The Dawgs won 68-49. Even though it was only Illinois State (a team that is most likely destined to finish in the bottom 3rd of the MVC), blowing out a conference opponent on the road is always an impressive win. Combine that with the fact that we hardly blow out anyone we play, and I am thrilled with the result tonight. Wichita State at SIU on New Year's Day. That should be a fun one.

Awesome comeback for Tech. I was looking at the updates on my phone and couldn't believe that they got it within 3 with a minute left in regulation. Then I couldn't believe that their kicker hit a 52 yarder to send the game in OT. Now, maybe if Clemson had a kid like that, I'd have been 5-0 in my picks today :x Oh well. 4-1 on the day and 11-6 overall isn't too bad at all considering that I lost 4 of the first 5 games.

Minn nearly lost to North Dakota State at HOME on a missed FG at the end of the game. I didn't think the Gophers were this impressive...

Solid W tonight. A win against Cleveland tomorrow would be much appreciated :)

Why in the hell would you go for it on 4th and 1 at your own 39???

TD South Carolina!

Thanks a lot, Clemson, for crapping the bed in this one. Absolutely pathetic.

In other words, go Redskins.

Ah, there's that great Pac 10 defense that we've all come to know and love.

Besides the first drive, they have been severely outplayed. Clemson has moved the ball down the field every drive so far. Clemson needs to wake up soon. I have 14 points on them...

Kentucky marches down the field and gets an easy TD. Already 7-0 'Cats.

The reason is simple. This defense could play much more physical football----and indeed WANTS to play much more physical football. So they get many more phantom roughing penalties, more of those stupid horsecollars (Bears have 2 of those I believe, and while I'm sure others have gotten them too I haven't seen it), more offsides (including several by Tommie Harris which clearly were not offsides). The Bears defense wants to play like the defenses of yore. But the league's new rules and enforcement won't allow it. the phantom roughing penalties are indeed what is going on from what I have seen. I think the Bears have been called for blows to the QBs head about 8-10 times this year where they either didn't hit the head at all or the blow to the head was an incidental brush by the arm. there have been several downfield plays where the refs call would have been more accurate had he said "personal foul, hitting too hard." back to what you were saying about holding, can't say I agree with your assessment. while holding may be down around the league, I haven't seen defensive lineman routinely tackled from behind by O-lineman without drawing the hanky in any non-Bears game. said scenerio literally happens about 3-4 times per game. in the meantime, the past few weeks I have seen several instances of the Bears offense being called for holding and then even the broadcasters say "not sure where the hold was in that" after the replay. and whoever made the point about the Patriots game was right on. there were 3-4 non calls on PA in the first half that completely changed the game (and that's just the sort of thing that can get into a young QBs head), and the tackles from behind by O-lineman that I just discussed happened on just about every pass play the Patriots ran the whole game. can't block em? just grab an ankle as they pass by. the stripes are cool with that. Bumping this up because it hasn't gotten enough love. If i see more BS from the reffs in the playoffs I'll be destroying parts of my home. Its rough being blue and orange. Every team has been a victim of the roughing the passer BS this year. The NFL isn't just out to get the Bears. It must be so rough being 13-2. Its satisfying seeing your defense ranked in the top 5 after being the victim of just inexplicable stuff. I've kept quiet all year because I know our team will pull it off, but don't act like the NFL isn't getting ridiculous on teams' defenses, and that hurts the Bears more than most teams because thats what they rely on. (BTW who mentioned roughing the passer ? We were talking about hits in the secondary and horse collars, which the Bears have been hit for a lot more than they should be) Why am I even responding to this? I only need to say one thing: "Personal foul: Punishing the Quarterback with his weight." Thats enough to make me even CONSIDER the NFL is rigged. I'm agreeing with you that the QB thing is pure BS. They mind as well have the QB with a red shirt on his jersey as well to make sure he doesn't get hit. We've been on both sides of the penalty this year. We were on the "good" side of the call against the Queens as Favre was touched after he threw the ball and somehow he was roughed. But a couple of weeks earlier, Cullen Jenkins was the victim of an extremely crappy roughing the passer call from a "blow to the head" when what really happened was just Hasselbeck moving his head to protect himself when he fell to the ground. That play was on a 3rd down and that would've made it 4th down, but the penalty gave the Seahawks 15 yards and they marched down the field to score a TD. This has to be one of the main priorities that the rules committee talks about in the offseason. I know for a fact that I've seen more RTP calls this year than in any other year that I can remember.

The reason is simple. This defense could play much more physical football----and indeed WANTS to play much more physical football. So they get many more phantom roughing penalties, more of those stupid horsecollars (Bears have 2 of those I believe, and while I'm sure others have gotten them too I haven't seen it), more offsides (including several by Tommie Harris which clearly were not offsides). The Bears defense wants to play like the defenses of yore. But the league's new rules and enforcement won't allow it. the phantom roughing penalties are indeed what is going on from what I have seen. I think the Bears have been called for blows to the QBs head about 8-10 times this year where they either didn't hit the head at all or the blow to the head was an incidental brush by the arm. there have been several downfield plays where the refs call would have been more accurate had he said "personal foul, hitting too hard." back to what you were saying about holding, can't say I agree with your assessment. while holding may be down around the league, I haven't seen defensive lineman routinely tackled from behind by O-lineman without drawing the hanky in any non-Bears game. said scenerio literally happens about 3-4 times per game. in the meantime, the past few weeks I have seen several instances of the Bears offense being called for holding and then even the broadcasters say "not sure where the hold was in that" after the replay. and whoever made the point about the Patriots game was right on. there were 3-4 non calls on PA in the first half that completely changed the game (and that's just the sort of thing that can get into a young QBs head), and the tackles from behind by O-lineman that I just discussed happened on just about every pass play the Patriots ran the whole game. can't block em? just grab an ankle as they pass by. the stripes are cool with that. Bumping this up because it hasn't gotten enough love. If i see more BS from the reffs in the playoffs I'll be destroying parts of my home. Its rough being blue and orange. Every team has been a victim of the roughing the passer BS this year. The NFL isn't just out to get the Bears. It must be so rough being 13-2.

Wow, Indiana State took down Purdue 89-70 :shock: 9-2 SIU heads to Normal to play the Redbirds of Illinois State tomorrow night.

And it just keeps getting better: After the game tonight, Pat Riley stated in a post-game interview that Kirk Hinrich “pulled [Wade’s] hand” and caused the wrist injury. Said Riley, "He does this all the time. It's his cheap way of playing defense." Upon hearing this, Hinrich just rolled his eyes and shrugged off the accusation. “I wasn’t in any way trying to hurt him… I was chasing him off the screen and then there’s contact. I don’t know if he got tangled up or whatever, and then he started grabbing his hand.” He then added, “I can’t worry about Pat Riley… I can’t really comment.” I think, for once, this is acceptable: :roll:

Surprised you didn't say Chris Quinn as well :wink: I enjoy watching Shaq and Wade, but Posey is a thug, plain and simple. I don't like JWill either. Haslem and Mourning are also very annoying players that get away with cheap stuff game in and game out. This team definitely has its share of characters on the team.

Kendall Gill mentioned this in the postgame show. If Deng is out for any substantial amount of time, this needs to be done.

And there's an ugly drive.

Game. Wow, who would've thought F$U would put 44 up on UCLA??

Holy crap, what a play by Cowan.

There's no doubt that they will all play. Woodson and Driver reaggravated previous injuries in the Minnesota game, but they both came back later that game. Green always seems a little banged up, but he'll play as well. For the most part, we've been relatively lucky on injuries this season.

Gordon with 40. This guy is getting to the line over 10 times a game. That is going to be HUGE for the rest of his career if he can continue to do that. Almost a mirror image of the game yesterday, except we were on the opposite end of it tonight.

TT hits both FT's to make it a 4 point game with 24 seconds left.