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On a related note, I'd like to look at Brian Schottenheimer as a potential head coaching candidate if (when) Lovie gets canned after this year. If you're not gonna go after a big fish like Cowher or Gruden he's the kind of young, offensive mind I'd be interested in.
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It's the NFL. There's only one lock every season and that's Peyton Manning winning 12 games. Everything else is a bit of a crapshoot. If Sanchez develops they'll win a lot of games, IMO. If he sucks, they'll struggle because they probably won't be as good in the other phases as they were last year. I think they just have less question marks outside of QB than most teams. I'd kill for their line play. Shonn Greene is gonna put up 1300 yards and 10 touches easily if he's healthy. LdT is a bum though.
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John Tesh's Roundball Rock is a national treasure.
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It just won't be the same as it was on the NBA on NBC. Still cool though.
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The Jets new cornerback knows how much of a beast Greene is. http://i45.tinypic.com/5kkln4.jpg
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Why is Caleb Hanie even in the NFL?
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They also made it to the AFC Championship Game and were leading until Peyton went into God mode. So they squeezed in but they have a lot to build on (if Revis plays of course). I don't think they'll miss Thomas Jones too much...they'll have Edwards for the whole year and they brought in Holmes to help out. Sanchez will have a lot more of the playbook open to him this season.
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It must be nice being a Cowboys fan knowing you'll get all the coverage you could want with Ed Werder having been parked up Jerry's colon for the last decade. Meanwhile the Bears get as much coverage as Tampa Bay. Largest unshared football market in the country and they have no [expletive] clue how to market th team.
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27 different metrics? That's as many dimensions of compatability as eHarmony uses!
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I haven't listened to Lovie in years. Even among NFL coaches where saying a bunch of words without saying anything at all is an art form, he's a stand out.
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Schefter and Seifert both say Cutler threw to the TEs a lot. Probably playing it up for the ESPN guys before they leave town so they can go talk about the Cowboys some more.
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Yep, the Pats have been looking at him.
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I'll give Urlacher the benefit of the doubt. I think it was a freak injury. Whoever even heard of a dislocated wrist? Briggs has missed 3 games in 7 years.
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Re: NHL (Blackhawks included) offseason thread
SpongeWorthy replied to Prizefight's topic in Other Sports
Yeah I get that. 26 is an old rookie considering how many sub 23s are leading their teams. Still is it out of the question that he settles in nicely as an above average goalie? I'm not questioning the move, just wondering. -
Peanut and Briggs are older. Urlacher and Pisa basically had a year off and that allowed some young LBers to get on the field. Ogun/Brown to Pep/Anderson is younger on balance. Tommie isn't too old he's just inconsistent and hurt a lot. I'll give you the offensive line...they can't possibly be worse at run blocking though. Cutler may get killed, however. Of course it is the NFL and teams collapse/rise all the time in one season all the time.
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Re: NHL (Blackhawks included) offseason thread
SpongeWorthy replied to Prizefight's topic in Other Sports
Is Niemi already a finished product? Wasn't he basically a rookie last year? -
I just don't understand how we got worse over the offseason. 5-11 is predicting an utterly disastrous season for Cutler isn't it? The defense should be better. Whatever, preseason football predictions mean squat.
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I don't know what Ole Miss' QB situation is like otherwise but I think Masoli is going to be a disaster in the SEC. System QB through and through. I could be wrong but the guy is way overrated in my book. He's definitely a rhythm QB in that when he's rolling he can destroy you but he leaves a lot of plays on the field with bad passes and dumb decisions. Plus the Ole Miss system is nothing like Oregon's.
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More like if you didn't hear about him you just weren't watching any Tennesee games, especially early in the year. 101 carries for a true freshman playing behind a good back like Hardesty with a QB that can't consistently move the chains isn't exactly being buried on the bench.
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Defense better be ready to kick some ass this year. I'm confident C. Harris and Peppers produce. If that happens and Urlacher and Pisa can stay on the field this should be a pretty damn good unit. Mark Anderson needs to step up and if T. Harris wants to dominate again that would be grand.
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D. Manning is a very good kick returner. Doesn't score as often as Hester did but he has a lot of good returns. He's also less fumbly than Hester. Bennett was a pretty good PR as well but yeah, I'd love Hester to start doing some damage there again. I thought he showed some signs of being able to handle the PR and being a full time receiver too. Edit: Forgot Knox too, averaged 29 yards a kick return. That's damn good.
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I don't have a problem with Hester, really. The biggest problem is that he's the guy defenses key on and he has to play a style that requires him to do something other than act on pure instinct. If he can be a solid weapon and avoid the crippling mental errors (like falling down coming out of a cut because he doesn't know what foot to plant) he'll provide value. I do think he's afraid to get hit though. In the Atlanta game last year we were scrambling and he made one too many cuts in the open field when he could've housed it because he was afraid of getting blindsided.
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I didn't follow Martz too much once he left St. Louis because he coached such nondescript teams after that but he strikes me as a guy that likes to follow trends, loves gadget plays, and will adapt his scheme to personnel. I'm worried about the receivers running complex routes as well and I bet Martz will dumb it down. Hester's still learning the position (and isn't a rocket scientist to begin with) and Knox was a raw burner from a tiny school. I bet we'll see some wildcat stuf and a pretty dedicated screen game with Forte and Chester. Probably a few packages with Forte and Chester on the field at the same time too.
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I'm hopeful that Forte decides he doesn't want to be knocked down by stiff breezes this season.
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I use that 10 game stretch because after week 4 the Bears were 3-1 and Cutler had played 3 good games in a row which made the repeated boners against GB in the opener seem like an aberration. And then the season went in the tank after that. By the time he started playing really well again the season was out of reach. Although you saw his talent in those games for sure. I'm not saying there isn't reason to be optimistic or anything. As memories fade and a new season begins people are forgetting that Jay Cutler was pretty much a walking punch line for most of the season. You got [expletive] for being a Bears fan and it was almost exclusively because of Cutler. The worst was when the Broncos got off to such a great start and Orton was playing really well. Luckily that faded.