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It's the French Open of football fields.
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A large part of the Bears trouble in the red zone had to do with their poor rushing offense.
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i really have no idea what dyar, but id' say both of them played relatively well. does dyar factor in the route that knox broke off on, which he does every single week at least once getting his qb picked off or almost picked off? Yes, it affects both the WR and the QB, every pass attempt does, since it's difficult to discern who is at fault on occasion for those kind of plays.
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Going by DYAR, Knox was better than Aromashodu last week. Knox was the 18th best receiver, Aromashodu was the 18th worst. Granted, neither was Greg Olsen bad.
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More on Bruce Pearl. Apparently, those self-imposed sanctions (no off-campus visits to recruits for a year) don't start until the 24th, so Pearl and his assistants are going all out this week to visit every recruit they can and do damage control.
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He wasn't. He was the only good thing (other than Forte's pass catching) in the offense last week. VAR has him as the 4th most effective QB last week (Peyton, Brady...Orton?).
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FO quick reads on Bears offensive players: Jay Cutler: Although it's obviously not incorporated into these statistics, I'm of the volition that Cutler wasn't at fault on the stripsack at the end of the third quarter. Right tackle Frank Omiyale just stopped sustaining his block. Can't do that. While most of Cutler's production came on those two touchdown passes to Matt Forte, Devin Aromashodu also dropped an easy touchdown in the end zone that would given Cutler a 38-yard touchdown. And yes, his interception -- an attempt to hit Johnny Knox on a dig -- was a bad decision. Matt Forte (rushing): So, how bad was Forte's day? Using the data and likely conversion rates from that essay, Forte had the third-worst game near the goal line of any back since 2000.
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How bad of a shape is your program in if you have to end up vacating a season that was so bad it got the coach fired just on merit?
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I didn't notice this until just now, but apparently FO's DVOA projections really like the Bears this year, particularly the defense. Predictions were average on offense, #2 overall defense, and top-tier special teams. They were projected 8th overall, 4th in the NFC behind the Eagles, Packers and Falcons (just ahead of the Vikes). After week 1, however, they're up to 6th, and 3rd in the NFC behind Green Bay and Atlanta (VOA indicates the Bears did actually dominate the game, but the offensive performance was pretty lousy). EDIT: Individual performances: - Cutler: 6th overall QB - Forte: Least effective rusher, most effective RB receiver - Taylor: Average rusher - Olsen: Second to least effective TE - Knox: Borderline top 20 receiver - Aromashodu: Borderline bottom 20 receiver Also, overall offense was 24th, dragged down mostly by the atrocious rushing. They were above average for passing.
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They put Hillenmeyer on the IR when he didn't think he needed to, so obviously they deemed him expendable. Well, I also happen to deem Hillenmeyer expendable.
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That is your opinion, so by definition, it is questionable. Okay, without question from reasonable people. Well, apparently the Bears' coaching and front office disagree with you. They traded one for another guy they thought they needed. Do you think they had the choice of which one to trade? No, I was mostly trying to set up a "Bears' coaching and front office isn't exactly filled with reasonable people" joke. Whatever the reason, they deemed Williams expendable.
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That is your opinion, so by definition, it is questionable. Okay, without question from reasonable people. Well, apparently the Bears' coaching and front office disagree with you.
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I'd say Cowboys-Yankees and Patriots-Red Sox would be more appropriate matches.
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During Federer's prime years, his main age-comparative competition was Andy Roddick, Lleyton Hewitt and Nikolay Davydenko. Right now, Nadal's main age-comparative competition is Novak Djokovic, Robin Soderling, Tomas Berdych and Juan Martin Del Potro. I'd say it's pretty comparable.
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Somehow, knowing that someone out there interprets the events that way makes me hate Pearl even more. I didn't know that was possible. Jimmy Collins is loving it, though.
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Bledsoe under investigation for a shady high school transcript, where he never got above a C in any math class except Algebra 3, which he apparently aced a semester before he took Algebra 2: http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Report-Eric-Bledsoe-s-transcript-contains-confl?urn=ncaab-269552
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So far, my decision to blow my entire auction budget on Chris Johnson, Peyton Manning, Calvin Johnson and Antonio Gates is working out just fine.
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So what you're saying is, the trick to preseason football is to go 2-2.
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Also, the only team that doesn't have at least one win in either the preseason or regular season is Indy.
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I would say that 99% of the time you go for it on 4th and 6 inches from the goal line. The only situation where I would kick the FG is if it gave you the lead in the fourth quarter against an offensively inept team, while at the same time your team's offense is incapable of gaining a half yard when rushing consistently.
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Dana O'Neil apparently has no idea what happened in 1990: Pearl incident 'ironic' Apparently blowing the whistle on a rival program by secretly and illegally taping a teenager is a heroic deed.
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I have a much bigger problem with the Bears punting four times in Lions territory (3 times inside the 40!) than I did with them going for it on fourth from the 1. The thing I'm annoyed about is that they didn't once just call a stupid QB sneak. They know the line is terrible, and any play that takes more than a second to develop in a goal line situation is not going to work.
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Fixed. See how that works?
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In the current system, sportswriters have zero say. The coaches poll gets 1/3 of the weight, the Harris poll gets 1/3 of the weight, and all the computer models put together get 1/3 of the weight. Steadily taking away the computer influence in the process has led to it becoming more and more subjective. At least the computer models were objective in their reasoning, even if the only thing it determines now is who played the toughest schedules. The best way to give every team a reasonable shot at a national championship in football is to have a playoff. Even with an 8-team playoff that favors the big 6, there is enough wiggle room for a Boise State/TCU/Utah/Hawaii to grab a spot in that playoff on regular occasion. If you have to have a 16 team playoff to include all current FBS conferences a-la the NCAA Basketball Tournament, get ready for some blowouts in the first round involving Sun Belt/MAC/WAC/CUSA teams. "Balancing" conferences is a pointless endeavor that is made worse by the effort to balance them based on how teams/programs are currently performing.
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It has nothing to do with how teams are currently performing. I divided it up geographically, and took an even amount of teams from power conferences (SEC, Big 10, etc) and teams from non-power conferences (WAC, MAC, etc). And of course it would never happen, I just thought it was fun. The problem, though, isn't in the conference structure so much as it is the postseason structure. It's not only a terrible plan to drastically realign conferences and blow up any rivalries you apparently couldn't remember at the time, you also seem determined to dismiss any criticism with "oh, there's that NSBB negativity" without stopping to consider in how many ways this is an awful proposal that would get laughed off the desk of any AD in an existing power conference. Would Ball State love the realignment? I'm sure they would, but it's not really up to them to change everything.
