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#DustinByfuglienisSoFat is trending on twitter now i like this one: Apparently we've been pronouncing it wrong. It's actually pronounced Dustin Buffet-Line
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Melvin's floor > Colvin's ceiling and i never understand the assertion that you can't put 2 CFs in your OF, many teams are doing that right now to great success
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Fangraphs is placing his value at $18.3 million so far this season. His offensive numbers are really good, but not elite, but considering that he has such a high value and WAR placed on him, I imagine his defense is second to none? I have not seen any highlights of him so I wouldn't know, I'm just assuming he's arguably (or unarguably) the best OF defender in all of baseball? hard to say definitively with limited data, but it's certainly a defensible position http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/a-critique-of-peter-bourjos-mlb-com-highlight-reel/ for the past two seasons, only Brett Gardner has been graded better by UZR, but it's worth noting as a LF he's being measured against some of the absolute worst fielders in the game like Ibanez and Carlos Lee
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even assuming fortunate luck to maintain that line of .760 OPS (hard to do when his LD and IFFB have been utterly woeful) and +10 COF defense, which is right about where he's been, that still amounts to a below-average position player i want Colvin nowhere near the everyday lineup next year
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lost in the Trout hype, Peter Bourjos is very quietly producing like a superstar player in just 641 MLB PA, he's registered 5.9 WAR (Adrian Gonzalez is at 5.7 WAR in 601 PA for the season) and in the 2nd half, he's hitting .298/.351/.556. with his off-the-charts superlative defense, he could absolutely be a viable candidate hitting just .300/.350/.475
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Why do people think Olsen is the Christ? I don't see how Martz being able to run the offense more like he wants should be considered taking a step back. Besides, the guy barely had 400 receiving yards last year, which should be obtainable with our current group of TEs. Manning was solid last year but is still replaceable. We upgraded at RB and WR (yes Barber and Williams are upgrades regardless of how much of an upgrade). Replacing Rashied Davis with Sam Hurd is also an upgrade. These are just as much upgrades as losing Olsen and Manning are downgrades, mostly because they aren't much of a downgrade at all. Tight end and safety aren't exactly the biggest impact positions on the football field either. Losing Kreutz, Harris, Tinoisamoa, and all the other players listed below them does not really hurt the team. In most cases, like you said, it makes them better. i hated Olsen because we couldn't ever seem to cover him; even if he underachieved in receiving yards, i think you put a lot more focus of the defense on him than you would Matt Spaeth or Kellen Davis or whoever
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Greg Olsen and Danieal Manning, mainly; Tinoisamoa, Tommie Harris and Kreutz ('s pass blocking), to a much lesser extent understandably, losing Collins, Manumaleuna, Maynard, Taylor will assuredly only help though
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Bears preseason week 4; Thursday, 9/1 vs CLE
sneakypower replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
damn, he's cooling on us... http://www.prideofdetroit.com/2011/7/31/2306747/detroit-lions-news-peter-king-super-bowl-prediction -
Division winners: Eagles, Packers, Saints, Rams Wild Card should be Falcons and one of: Giants, Bears, Lions, Cowboys Philly's going to beat the Cowboys twice and the Giants are already getting decimated by injuries, and Bears (imho) took a step back, talent-wise honestly i think we're about a 9-7 team, and that should give us a decent chance. i'd feel much more confident if we still had Leshoure, though. he'd provide exactly what we're sorely missing on offense feel free to tell me what a homer i am
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Roethlisberger and Marino were both 22 Stafford's shoulder is no more problematic than Bradford's or Brees'
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his rookie numbers would interest me if there were any historical precedent whatsoever; 21 year old NFL quarterbacks just don't succeed in their rookie years, it's never happened
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hey, don't be hating because my QB plays through injury Stafford has missed 19 games in 2 seasons. He has 19 TD's to 21 Int's. And if W-L Record is your cup of tea, he's 3-10. I don't think you wanna start comparing QB's. comparing Cutler to a rookie is setting the bar pretty low, don't you think? Peyton Manning had even worse numbers his first 13 games in the league (2-11, 21:25 TD-Int's), so suffice it to say i'm not too worried about Stafford's prospects at this point
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hey, don't be hating because my QB plays through injury
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it's an asinine comparison that people are making, because our wins in '08 were mostly just meaningless Drew Stanton preseason 4th-quarter Comeback Specials™, whereas this year our starters actually look terrific (rushing offense excepted) anybody with a pair of eyes should have known we were doomed for failure in '08; i think i forecast a winless year like 3 weeks into the season
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yeah, what's to get so excited about a former #1 overall pick putting it all together to the tune of a 154.0 QB rating? go ahead and talk about how much preseason games mean to the Lions when our starters were all sitting on the bench watching Brady, Mayo, etc. still playing for nearly another whole quarter of play, visibly frustrated nobody's getting excited about stupid preseason wins, they're excited that our first-stringers are having their way with other team's first-stringers, which is all you really care about in preseason action but hey, if you have a strong feeling about it, you definitely should be jumping all over the under for wins, at +150 right now
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i think he's in the weight room somewhere trying to set a new PR for bench presses
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Justin Verlander earns 20th win.
sneakypower replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in General Baseball Talk
he's been pretty impossible to hit this year -
i know full well it means nothing, but watching our defense terrorize and effectively rattle Tom Brady was still a lot of fun; he must have bounced a good four or so normal passes tonight
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Bears preseason week 2; Monday August 22nd at the Giants
sneakypower replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
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Bears preseason week 2; Monday August 22nd at the Giants
sneakypower replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
believe me, Roy Williams will never lack (false) confidence whoa there, jaydee -
i didn't explain that well- GB gets KC @ Arrowhead, where they're always very tough (7-1 last year), and Denver gets a game against them on the road
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Detroit 7.5 (-155)o/(+125)u
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looking at the schedules now, i backed off on the Rams a little; that's a pretty grueling slate Packers have New Orleans, Atlanta, St. Louis, San Diego, NY Giants, KC and a tough division; 5+ losses is a lock Denver has Oakland x2, Cincinnati, Tennessee, Miami, Minnesota, Buffalo, KC x2; there might be 6 wins in that group alone
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Rams over 7.5 (even) Packers under 11.5 (-150) Broncos over 5.5 (-140) Panthers over 4.5 (-135) seem like easy money too
