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Yahoo's NFL Halfway Point All-Underrated Team:

This week's FO Playoff Odds predict the Bears tying the Saints for the 6 seed at 10-6. Which, of course, is the only tiebreak scenario the Bears would lose this year. 1. Packers 13-3 2. Niners 13-3 3. Giants 11-5 4. Falcons 10-6 5. Lions 11-5 6. Saints 10-6 ---------- 7. Bears 10-6 8. Cowboys 8-8 9. Eagles 7-9 10. Bucs 7-9 11. Redskins 6-10 12. Vikings 6-10 13. Seahawks 5-11 14. Panthers 5-11 15. Cards 5-11 16. Rams 4-12 EDIT: The projected AFC, for completeness: 1. Ravens 11-5 2. Texans 11-5 3. Jets 10-6 4. Chargers 8-8 5. Bengals 11-5 6. Steelers 10-6 ---------------- 7. Patriots 10-6 8. Bills 9-7 9. Titans 8-8 10. Raiders 7-9 11. Chiefs 7-9 12. Broncos 6-10 13. Browns 6-10 14. Jaguars 5-11 15. Dolphins 4-12 16. Colts 2-14

In a shocking move, NBC has decided to flex the Pats-Colts game on week 13 back to noon. A replacement night game hasn't been named yet, but likely candidates are Cincy-Pittsburgh, Detroit-New Orleans, and Green Bay-NY Giants.

Of course, the Eagles' fastest player can likely do a 40 yd dash in fewer than 9 seconds. Maybe we could try blocking them. Sure, because that's worked so well for them this year.

Of course, the Eagles' fastest player can likely do a 40 yd dash in fewer than 9 seconds.

Sagarin ratings for NFL teams as of week 9: HOME ADVANTAGE= 2.57 RATING W L T SCHEDL(RANK) VS top 10 | VS top 16 1 Green Bay Packers = 32.01 8 0 0 20.16( 17) 3 0 0 | 3 0 0 2 San Francisco 49ers = 30.43 7 1 0 19.94( 18) 2 0 0 | 3 1 0 3 Detroit Lions = 29.18 6 2 0 21.53( 7) 1 2 0 | 2 2 0 4 Chicago Bears = 26.38 5 3 0 22.93( 2) 1 3 0 | 2 3 0 5 Baltimore Ravens = 25.48 6 2 0 18.42( 24) 1 0 0 | 4 0 0 6 New Orleans Saints = 25.43 6 3 0 19.16( 23) 1 1 0 | 2 1 0 7 Atlanta Falcons = 24.68 5 3 0 21.42( 9) 1 2 0 | 2 2 0 8 New York Jets = 24.51 5 3 0 20.17( 16) 1 1 0 | 2 2 0 9 Cincinnati Bengals = 24.34 6 2 0 18.08( 27) 1 1 0 | 1 1 0 10 Buffalo Bills = 24.30 5 3 0 19.88( 19) 0 2 0 | 2 3 0 11 New England Patriots = 23.87 5 3 0 20.52( 13) 1 1 0 | 2 3 0 12 Houston Texans = 23.38 6 3 0 17.08( 31) 0 2 0 | 1 2 0 13 Pittsburgh Steelers = 21.96 6 3 0 17.87( 29) 0 2 0 | 1 3 0 14 Philadelphia Eagles = 21.56 3 5 0 21.74( 6) 0 4 0 | 1 5 0 15 Dallas Cowboys = 21.49 4 4 0 21.35( 10) 1 2 0 | 1 4 0 16 New York Giants = 21.09 6 2 0 17.02( 32) 1 0 0 | 3 0 0 17 Tampa Bay Buccaneers = 20.40 4 4 0 23.20( 1) 2 4 0 | 2 4 0 18 San Diego Chargers = 19.66 4 4 0 19.74( 20) 0 2 0 | 0 3 0 19 Tennessee Titans = 17.43 4 4 0 17.91( 28) 1 1 0 | 1 3 0 20 Oakland Raiders = 17.03 4 4 0 19.16( 22) 1 1 0 | 2 2 0 21 Denver Broncos = 16.84 3 5 0 21.17( 11) 1 2 0 | 1 2 0 22 Minnesota Vikings = 16.48 2 6 0 21.45( 8) 0 3 0 | 0 3 0 23 Carolina Panthers = 15.84 2 6 0 20.34( 15) 0 4 0 | 0 4 0 24 Washington Redskins = 15.38 3 5 0 19.52( 21) 0 2 0 | 1 4 0 25 Jacksonville Jaguars = 15.29 2 6 0 22.33( 3) 1 3 0 | 1 5 0 26 Kansas City Chiefs = 15.18 4 4 0 18.20( 26) 0 2 0 | 0 2 0 27 Seattle Seahawks = 14.40 2 6 0 21.92( 4) 0 3 0 | 1 5 0 28 Miami Dolphins = 14.25 1 7 0 20.37( 14) 0 1 0 | 0 4 0 29 Cleveland Browns = 13.31 3 5 0 18.21( 25) 0 2 0 | 0 3 0 30 Arizona Cardinals = 12.55 2 6 0 17.56( 30) 0 1 0 | 0 3 0 31 St. Louis Rams = 9.89 1 7 0 21.78( 5) 1 2 0 | 1 5 0 32 Indianapolis Colts = 5.96 0 9 0 21.05( 12) 0 3 0 | 0 5 0

Win next week, and the Bears would basically own the biebreaker against any team they're fighting with for wild card position...except the Saints.

If coming into the game you knew that the Eagles would get 14 points off Forte turnovers, you'd think the Bears would have had no shot, right?

*nobody cares* I just won my fantasy matchup on that last 8 yard grab by Maclin, by 0.1 points.

Don't kick it at all, just run around for 9 seconds.

Not going to be able to take it all the way down.

Maybe so, but they'd be hard pressed to get that kind of production value.

The Niners are 7-1 and play 5 of their last 8 against their own division. They could win their division by 10 games.

I'm resigned to the fact that the Yankees and Red Sox both desperately need pitching and will spend to get it, so I have a feeling Darvish goes to one and Wilson goes to the other. Of the remaining options, though, I'm apparently higher on Edwin Jackson than most everyone else, because I think he'd be easily the best option among the rest due to age and availability.

Losing your all world safety certainly doesn't help. Matthews is not at 100 percent and I think they miss Cullen Jenkins more then they thought. I also believe they really take their foot off the gas at times. They did it last year against the Bears in the NFC Title game. They did it against the Saints. They did it against the Vikings 2 weeks ago and they did it today. They were up 45-24 with 10 min left. Is this defense as good as last year? No, not even close. But when your QB is playing at another level your defense doesn't have to be elite like it was last year. Also, Capers has always had more success in the 2nd half of the season compared to the 1st half. Am I worried about it? Yes. Am I panicking yet? No. Yep, that about sums it up. Hopefully getting Mike Neal back in a few weeks improves our pass rush somewhat. Fortunately (for them), the only game this year they actually needed the defense to step up, they did.

Yeah - I can delete one for you if you like. Yeah, go ahead and delete the earlier one (the bottom one in the list)

Huh, it kept my 50 person submission and my 25 person submission.

Also, this page will help keep up with the Cubs current contracts for next year.

Texas thinks pitch counts are for "c-words". That is why they've had a pitcher throw over 132 pitches just once since Maddux became pitching coach there, haven't had a single pitcher among the top 10 in PAP, and only had one pitcher among the top 30 in any year. I guess the c word is champions. Of the AL, of course. Twice.

It's debatable, but the Twins asked for Braun to open the negotiations, because it's what teams do to open negotiations.

"Seems to be" in this context means Wittenmeyer wants it to be.

Yikes, his system is not optimistic on Illinois. EDIT: But it is optimistic on the Big Ten, putting 11 teams in the top 61.

7 points up on Detroit just 12 games into the season.

Denver may not have a very winnable game left on their schedule. Maybe KC at home week 17. How funny would it be if Tebow's magical comeback against the Dolphins cost them Luck?

Did Theo say that or are you just speculating? 35%