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Here's my problem with that theory: Every time a team drops 7 into coverage on a final drive it's called prevent defense. Any other point in the game and it's just defense--it's not like just rushing 4 is some exotic look, you don't even blitz most of the time. You probably have some extra DBs out there but they're all playing the same areas of responsibility as they usually do and if you played a "normal" rush 4, drop 7 defense as you normally do but with a regular number of LBs you're bound to get picked apart too. If you're sending your safeties way back, then yeah, you're in a real prevent. Also, you never hear about all the times a "prevent" defense ended in a pick or turnover on downs on a team scrambling for a final score. Those get lost in a shuffle. Now that being said, a well designed/timed blitz in those situations can be a thing of beauty. The good coordinators dial those up.
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Put that kicker on suicide watch.
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welp Marshall Nice drive though.
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This is as stupid as the "We're not trading Luol Deng for one of the 10 best basketball players of all time" crap the Bulls pulled last time a potential huge trade was discussed. Joakim freaking Noah is not untouchable! I hope they are just saying this to start bargaining high because they think they can keep Noah and still swing Melo. At the time the Kobe deal was being considered the Lakers were pretty mediocre/bad compared to what they're doing now. The thought was that by giving up some combination of Hinrich, Deng, Gordon, Thomas, etc. that we'd just be swapping their situation for ours. Rose wasn't in the picture, Noah was an unknown. It looks worse in retrospect because Deng and Kirk had a bad couple of years and we never got any better. You put Kobe on a team with Nocioni as your #2, a headcase Noah, and Duhon at PG and you're probably not all that good.
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That'd be glorious.
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Bears game 1: Sunday Sep. 12 vs DET on Fox
SpongeWorthy replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
Yeah but if we beat the Lions 41-10 some malcontent on the Lions will talk about how "ridiculously close" they were to hanging 45 on us. -
I really hope Lebron shows up to the Ohio State game. I'm assuming he'd be in some sort of box and I hope ESPN can show the crowds reaction to him somehow...I doubt they'd put him up on the jumbotron, sadly.
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Deng, Noah -> Melo without a reasonable big to protect the paint arguably makes us worse this year. It definitely makes us a different type of team. But it's a lot easier to find a serviceable 7 footer who can guard the rim, block shots, and rebound (just not as well as Noah) than it is to find elite level scoring. You can find guys like that later in the draft, the MLE, salary dumps, regular trades, ring chasing vets, etc. I have a sentimental attachment to Noah while Melo is kind of a punk but I do this deal.
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Minny's receivers stink without Rice. I'm liking this.
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I'm noticing Minnesota's receivers not being able to get separation.
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You suck Hartley.
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Henderson's femur was cured by the adolescent joy Brett gets from playing the game. I bet his rehab involved wearing Brett's hand me down Wranglers and playing a little touch football in the backyard.
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LOOK AT HIM HAVING FUN OUT THERE
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Bernard Berrian isn't good any more.
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I think if you took Boise's OOC schedule over the last couple seasons and added a MWC conference schedule there wouldn't be too much of an uproar of them getting in over a 1-loss BCS conference school. Moving forward, losing BYU on the conference slate hurts though. Edit: Oh yeah, losing Utah too. I guess the MWC probably isn't enough any more.
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Wasn't the Virginia Tech/BSU game put together just last season? It seems like there's always a big, quality BCS program with an early opening in its schedule every year. Of course that makes Boise's options for scheduling a tough game on the fly pretty limited.
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Is that jealousy I see in your eyes hawkeye? Hmm, yes, drown me in the sweet water of your envy.
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Yeah, I'm not gonna get too invested in this. It's just Melo and the merits are pretty close either way if you do a deal that includes Noah. Reading this thread in the period between July 1 and THE DECISION is pretty hilarious...just a consistent, unrelenting wave of BS being spouted by every NBA beat writer in the country.
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Well Noah isn't being floated, yet, in the rumor mills. Of course if you're Denver and you have any interest at all in dealing Melo you ask for Noah. The question is can you get Melo without giving up Noah. Probably not unless you get another team involved.
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Danilo Gallinari is God-incarnate come to Earth to reign fiery rage on the hapless NBA.
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Deng's contract isn't worse than Johnson or Gay's. On a per dollar, length, and year basis it's probably better. Of course that doesn't mean it's a GOOD contract or anything Denver is necessarily in the market for.
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The NCAAs bylaws aren't what's holding back college basketball from becoming an NBA old-timers league. If those rules evaporated over night it's not like Michael Jordan would immediately signal his intent to play for UNC. But as a pure thought experiment, yeah, I'd be ok with it.
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To what extent should this logic be carried out. Can Lebron play for Kentucky on his off days? Lebron is still being paid as a professional basketball player on his off days so no.
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So Michael Jordan isn't a professional but he isn't an amateur either? What do you call such a person? The NCAA needs a word for it. This is the sort of thing I was getting at--these bylaws lack rigor and inevitably get applied arbitrarily over the years.
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Because in basketball the kid isn't an amateur. Since the NCAA is amatuer athletics, professionals arn't allowed to play it. By that logic Michael Jordan is still a professional basketball player.