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  1. USSoccer
    No way. They paid $8,000,000 to have him there every game he possibly can. The national team doesn't factor in their priorities outside of increased marketing exposure for Deuce, EJ and Evans. I don't blame them. When Beckham did it with Milan, it made the Galaxy look bush league. They lost revenue when he wasn't there, not to mention when he blew out his achilles. They targeted Clint to be their face and when your face isn't there for the beginning of the season, you're not getting what you paid for. Excellent point. The only thing I wonder, though, is whether or not the loan thing Clint's team negotiated into the deal specified the loan term.
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    It won't. I'd like him to go back to Fulham. After Jol got canned the odds of that went up. You don't think SSFC would allow it?
  3. USSoccer
    Spurs actually have right of first refusal...it's not at all impossible he'd end up there, although I'd rather see him elsewhere. Everton isn't a very good fit for him; he needs to go somewhere where he's going to get time. Also, FWIW, I hope it's a loan that runs through the end of the EPL season.
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    That's quite an exaggeration. The Bears also had a lot of things go their way also. It was just an amazing collection of errors and [expletive] ups by both teams. Terrible refs helped the Vikings in a huge way This. If that was a Bostic taunt, then that was a late hit on Allen. Terrible.
  5. USSoccer
    His two TD passes were underthrown and only Jeffrey going cheat code turned them into TDs. McCown was bad. He was terrible, but in bizarro bears offense world the team made him look competent. If that was Cutty throwing the ball on the ground like a jackass and stalling the offense all day the meatball brigade would be out en masse
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    His two TD passes were underthrown and only Jeffrey going cheat code turned them into TDs. McCown was bad.
  7. USSoccer
    Opted for a 47 yard FG on 2nd down instead of running another play, which isn't something I've ever seen done ever.
  8. USSoccer
    Nobody forget that this game should never have come down to a Trestman decision. McCown's idiot decisions with the ball in the 4th lost the game.
  9. USSoccer
    Give that man the Pulitzer.
  10. USSoccer
    He was on for 10 minutes and had one touch of the ball. I'd bet money he plays for Germany.
  11. USSoccer
    Somewhere there's a guy staring vacantly in the general direction of a wall, in a dim room. Doing it for hours. That guy is Ted Lilly. One of my favorite Cubs ever.
  12. USSoccer
    Defoe and Adebayor certainly. Has Kyle Walker learned how to cross the ball yet? Is Andros Townsend still shooting on sight from 40 yards on in? Is Sandro still thinking he's better than he is? Watching them play last season was obnoxious at times.
  13. USSoccer
    They don't really have a reason to have confidence. They can't score at all this year and when you fall behind after 15 seconds against a team that annihilates everyone at home, you're screwed. Also, Aguero has scored more EPL goals this year than Tottenham has. Probably shouldn't have sold their two good goalscorers and tried to replace them with assorted parts with no PL experience. Its not that they aren't good players, but the Prem is really not meant for some guys. Well yeah, but you don't really know who is going to work out and who isn't. I've always thought they'd be fine and would get better as the season went along - and they still might - I'm just starting to doubt it right now. This weekend home to ManU will be vital. And as for selling the players, when someone is willing to spend as much as Real was on Bale and the player wants to leave, you don't really have an option. Agreed, but you have to then reinvest that money smartly. That doesn't look like its happened. It probably also doesn't help that they still have the same collection of me-first jagoffs they've had for awhile. They need to clear some of that out as well.
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    The only reason the decision is right is because of the odds of success if your play call is decent. If the play call is horrible the odds of success go way down and the decision is not right. This isn't a series of individual events, they all tie in together. No, the decision is right regardless of outcome. A play call could be poor and still work; it was executed poorly but the decision to not kick a field goal was correct. This isn't any different that baseball decisions that don't work out to pull a pitcher or whatever. Fine, it was more than bad execution though. The Rams knew where the ball was going because it was a vanilla jumbo line set and then the ball went to a back with no speed or cutting ability. You can't just expect to out-execute another NFL team when you just give them an easy-as-hell read like that. That's my whole problem with the thing. It was a bush league junky play call. Which is the execution part. Not the decision part.
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    The only reason the decision is right is because of the odds of success if your play call is decent. If the play call is horrible the odds of success go way down and the decision is not right. This isn't a series of individual events, they all tie in together. No, the decision is right regardless of outcome. A play call could be poor and still work; it was executed poorly but the decision to not kick a field goal was correct. This isn't any different that baseball decisions that don't work out to pull a pitcher or whatever.
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    I'm not sure why you don't think you can separate the decision from the play called and result. One is process. The others are execution and outcome. The important thing is that the process is sound; that decision was dead set correct. The execution (play call) was terrible. The outcome was bad.
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    That guy is such a douche. Agreed 1000%. I never saw PTFC getting shut out tonight. Well done Kreis & Co.
  18. USSoccer
    I dunno...RSL has been a bit fortunate. Valeri should have put one of the two point-blank shots away, and they've had two called back. Still...Portland look a bit....naive, I suppose, would be the word. I expected them to come out guns blazing, and it really hasn't happened. RSL is probably too organized and experienced to allow a 3 goal collapse in a half.
  19. USSoccer
    The only bar I can think of in Waukegan is a notoriously terrible shithole.
  20. USSoccer
    Just let Ponder throw
  21. USSoccer
    Huh. So that's what a successful blitz looks like.
  22. USSoccer
    They don't really have a reason to have confidence. They can't score at all this year and when you fall behind after 15 seconds against a team that annihilates everyone at home, you're screwed. Also, Aguero has scored more EPL goals this year than Tottenham has. Probably shouldn't have sold their two good goalscorers and tried to replace them with assorted parts with no PL experience. Its not that they aren't good players, but the Prem is really not meant for some guys.
  23. USSoccer
    Welp.
  24. USSoccer
    Yes, a clash between a terrible NY team and a perpetually mediocre Dallas team. Lets get pumped.
  25. USSoccer
    Crappy way to lose a game, this one.
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