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  1. mul21
    Well Atlanta will still be at home, the 49ers will be traveling almost as far as Seattle did (not sure if they have the late or early game), albeit not 2 weeks in a row. Seattle just destroyed SF less than a month ago...what you mentioned doesn't make up a huge 8.5 point gap between last weeks line and this weeks in my mind. I think it has more to do with SF a) being a more national team with more bettors, and b) beating GB, another national team, soundly the previous week. Still seems like an high line though overall. First, it's a 5.5 or 6.5 point difference. Second, for some reason I was thinking the game was in SF. And yeah, the last thing you did definitely plays into these lines big time. With the Atlanta collapse and near loss combined with SF's domination of GB, there's a little more reason to it.
  2. mul21
    Not really when you factor in all the components that went into it. Early game on the east coast for a west coast team, 2nd trip across the country in two weeks, slow start against Washington and probably bailed out by RGIII getting hurt, rookie QB, Atlanta being a pretty good team playing at home.
  3. mul21
    What the hell is going on with all these huge leads in B10 play? These games are usually pretty close, especially when ranked teams are involved, even if they're on the road.
  4. mul21
    You were saying?
  5. mul21
    Well, I think that's good news from a couple different angles. First, he's got his crap together and second, it sounds like he's certainly not interviewing guys just to say he talked to a lot of different candidates.
  6. mul21
    And that may have been a makeup call.
  7. mul21
    It was obvious at regular speed. It's even funnier that Bobby can't seem to figure out what the hell is going on.
  8. mul21
    Or Griffey, he doesn't really provide a whole lot if he's not making shots. he actually plays good defense, but really, those shots have to fall if he's going to continue shooting Have you looked in the mirror yet and come to acceptance that you are, and I quote, a bunch of "godless chuckers"? DJ is a godless chucker. The rest of them can actually shoot. Although it would be nice if someone besides Paul and Abrams figured out going to the hoop and getting fouled is also a viable way to score.
  9. mul21
    And they're back to being the dumbest basketball team in the country. This is so irritating to watch.
  10. mul21
    And B10 refs continue to prove their utter incompetence. Jesus.
  11. mul21
    At its basic level, Pomeroy's formula takes margin of victory into account, and Wisconsin has a habit of absolutely destroying bad teams. Coupled with their preseason projection based on playing time progression from last year (which put them in the top 10 initially), the overall ranking is going to be hard to adjust without Wisconsin being absolutely terrible this year in conference. Problem is, the formula works really well for the remainder of the non-Wisconsin crowd, so it's a difficult thing to tweak just to try to "fix" one outlier. It's really strange that they are so consistently the outlier though. Even in a constant system like they've got, you would think that things would change over the years with players and abilities moving in and out of the program.
  12. mul21
    That's embarrassing. How does a professional organization let that happen to their field? Is it that hard to maintain the field that gets played on 8-10 times a year? Was there recently a soccer or bowl game there or something? It's something that seems all it takes to maintain is resources (ie money) and Dan Snyder doesn't seem to have a shortage or tendency to not spend that. I think several college games were played at Fed Ex this year and Pittsburgh has high school championship games on theirs. I don't know what the excuse in Chicago is.
  13. mul21
    Not necessarily for a basketball player. About the only 2 things the labrum affects are lifting things up with your arms extended and throwing. I never really had any issues playing basketball when mine was shredded. It's a pain tolerance thing though, so who knows with Howard.
  14. mul21
    Man, I just looked at Illinois' schedule for the rest of the year. Divides into 3 parts pretty easily. If they can win this week @ home vs. Minnesota, that sets them up for what should be no worse than 4-2 in the first 6, possibly 5-1 if they can win in Madison. Then they have a 5 game gauntlet against Michigan, @ MSU, Wisconsin, IU, and @ Minnesota. If they can win a minimum of 2 of those, they then have a pretty soft 7 game stretch to end the season where they should be able to go 5-2 (losses @ Michigan and OSU), putting them at 11-7 in conference. I think that's pretty realistic and probably sets them up for a 4-5 seed in the tourney.
  15. mul21
    Ray is jacked up! I don't know how you couldn't want to run through a wall with that guy as a teammate.
  16. mul21
    They're playing outstanding help side defense today. Every time an OSU player gets by his man, there's somebody to challenge the shot coming from the backside.
  17. mul21
    Yeah, completely intentional and should have been called. Pretty funny though.
  18. mul21
    Well, if you've read what nearly everyone has posted about Bourn, it's all pretty much been an "I'm okay with a 4yr deal for $50-60 million" kind of consensus. Also, factoring in that the Cubs were really terrible last year, you sometimes have to pay a bit of a premium to get guys to come play for you. If that's the case, fine, they can afford it. And if they've deemed they can take the draft pick/pool money hit, well, they're a lot smarter and more plugged in than me so I'll take their word for it.
  19. mul21
    A weak RT who has been injured for his first two seasons should not be counted on at all. Yeah, I don't think you can really plan on counting on a guy who's consistently been hurt, especially if it's a knee again.
  20. mul21
    Isn't the OL repairable? Given one or two solid additions? Assuming so, and with an offensive HC, it's not all that far reaching the Bears offense could dramatically improve. One or two? Its' going to take at least 4 for the longterm. In the short-term you'd need 2 at the minimum and probably three to actually make it a good line. I would imagine they'd be in pretty decent shape if they can sign Jake Long, draft a guy to play LG and then manage to stay relatively healthy next year. At that point, you've stopped the massive hemorrhaging and can then continue building it for the future. A lot of ifs, but certainly doable.
  21. mul21
    Now that's an angle I hadn't considered and very possibly a great point in his favor.
  22. mul21
    And those 5 don't even touch the foul called on Egwu when Hammonds tripped over his own two feet and lost his balance in the middle of the lane without the ball.
  23. mul21
    I'm not either, simply saying that having some good things said about you by Manning may build him a little good will with Cutler and make him a bit more willing to listen to what he has to say.
  24. mul21
    my problem with that kind of ideology is that sometimes you need to force people to develop. cutler can do all the crap that tice wanted him to do, too. that wasn't the problem. I get the impression that he's not a buffoon like Tice, so that may help.
  25. mul21
    That was the game Gruden and Tirico called, so it must have been Michigan-South Carolina. They were comparing it to the Redskins formations with RGIII.
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