Cutlers performance crushed me. I know he will have better games, and games where he will look like the best QB in the league but if there was any hope that Cutler would have a career year where he is consistently a great QB, it's gone now. I guess I shouldn't expect that kind of leap at age 31 anyways. Every QB makes dumb throws. He made 2 in the game, and one of those happened to be severely punished. I think you're overracting. 2? I didn't see the whole game and saw more than that. Lucky for him one of them bounced off the numbers of a defender. After Holmes fell down.
I guess I will say that the Bears should have lost to the Lions in week 1 if not for a wacky rule in 2010 and ended up hosting the NFC title game. That said the Bears 2010 schedule was a LOT easier than the Bears juggernaut coming up. They are going to have to play a LOT better to even be 4-5 after the gauntlet ends. You have to look at the second half of the Bears' schedule and see that 4-5 at that point is still in good shape for the playoffs.
Every big play for Buffalo today enhanced by Conte either being there late or not making the play once he got there. Santonio Holmes is no Alshon Jeffrey, unfortunately.
You know people are overreacting irrationally when I bother to mention something about it. But at least we have Kyle here to be inciteful and Sponge to not get it. Irrational sports fans? How dare they! Everyone stop feeling things! I'll go get you another bale of hay for that strawman.
You know people are overreacting irrationally when I bother to mention something about it. But at least we have Kyle here to be inciteful and Sponge to not get it.
Per Schefter it's sprained MCL, not torn, and he shouldn't miss much time. Not considered serious. A moderate sprain partially tears the ligament, producing joint instability, and some swelling.
Texas became the first team mathematically eliminated from playoff contention last night by losing to the Mariners. The Rangers can no longer finish ahead of the A's, Angels or Mariners, and thus can't get a playoff spot.
Trey Martin hit what he thought was a game winning HR in the bottom of the 11th, but it hit off the top of the wall. Since he was watching it, he was thrown out at 2nd. No comment yet from Dave Kaplan as he searches for Martin's cultural origin.
The Cubs have used 46 players so far this year, for a net total of 30.7 fWAR:
Name fWAR
Anthony Rizzo 4.2
Jake Arrieta 3.9
Starlin Castro 2.7
Luis Valbuena 2.6
Travis Wood 2.3
Jeff Samardzija 2.1
Jason Hammel 1.9
Emilio Bonifacio 1.8
Welington Castillo 1.8
Chris Coghlan 1.7
Hector Rondon 1.6
Kyle Hendricks 1.1
Carlos Villanueva 0.9
Jorge Soler 0.8
Neil Ramirez 0.8
Edwin Jackson 0.8
Pedro Strop 0.7
Arismendy Alcantara 0.6
Logan Watkins 0.5
Tsuyoshi Wada 0.5
Darwin Barney 0.4
Justin Grimm 0.4
Justin Ruggiano 0.4
Brian Schlitter 0.3
Wesley Wright 0.3
Chris Valaika 0.2
Felix Doubront 0.2
Jacob Turner 0.2
Blake Parker 0.1
Dallas Beeler 0.1
Chris Rusin 0
Dan Straily 0
Rafael Lopez 0
Ryan Sweeney 0
Kyuji Fujikawa -0.1
Matthew Szczur -0.1
James Russell -0.2
Javier Baez -0.2
Zac Rosscup -0.2
Eli Whiteside -0.3
Jose Veras -0.3
Mike Olt -0.6
Ryan Kalish -0.6
Junior Lake -0.7
John Baker -0.9
Nate Schierholtz -1
30.7
Cubs pull Olt with bases loaded and 1 out in the 9th, because he got his 4 ABs. PH Lockhart promptly botches a suicide squeeze to cause the 2nd out, then lines out on the next pitch to send the game to extras.
Your National League batting average leader: Ben Revere, at .314, with a .330 OBP. I guess what I'm saying is Castro actually had a real shot at this the way he'd been hitting.
Thanks to the Brewers and Braves slides, the second wild card winner is projected to finish 84-78. So, all it's going to take is a 20-2 run to close out the season...
Just as in June, when their Pythagorean was significantly better than better predictive models that showed the cubs weren't as good as the Pythagorean suggestion , now the more predictive models are much higher on the cubs. Their third order win percentage is .503, which translates to 70-70.
10 team league, picked 2nd, non-PPR: QB: Brees RB: Charles, Spiller WR: Cruz, Garcon, Maclin TE: Julius Thomas K: Gould DEF: Kansas City BN: Cutler BN: Gore BN: Lamar Miller BN: Welker BN: Aaron Dobson BN: Heath Miller