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Of the three potential Carolina round 2 opponents (I'm assuming Philly wins tonight), I definitely want to see San Francisco the most. Chip Kelly and Aaron Rodgers both scare me.
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Carolina gets the #1 seed if they win, SF wins, and Seattle loses. Slim chances, of course, but crazier things have happened. A win means a bye, so that's vital. Will have to do it without Smith, who's out for this game with a PCL sprain.
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I'm shocked you guys won that game on the last drive. I remember looking at Cam's facial expressions on that drive and thinking how pissed I'd be if I was a Panthers fan because he looked either confused or looked flippant about the situation he was in. Guess I was wrong. He rarely changes his facial expression much on the field outside of celebrations this year, I have noticed. I didn't read too much into how he looked. But after the previous few drives, to see him suddenly locked in, making great throws and standing tall in a collapsing pocket was a spectacular sight. Jesus, other people talk about the facial expressions of QBs too? I'm coming for Skip Bayless's job, he'd better watch his back.
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I'm shocked you guys won that game on the last drive. I remember looking at Cam's facial expressions on that drive and thinking how pissed I'd be if I was a Panthers fan because he looked either confused or looked flippant about the situation he was in. Guess I was wrong. He rarely changes his facial expression much on the field outside of celebrations this year, I have noticed. I didn't read too much into how he looked. But after the previous few drives, to see him suddenly locked in, making great throws and standing tall in a collapsing pocket was a spectacular sight.
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Stunning that a guy who threatened his teammate's rape accuser wouldn't be classy.
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2.5 years ago: King is getting killed today. He was perhaps a bit hyperbolic, but Cam was pretty much [expletive] for 59 minutes in the biggest game of his life (and if Carolina had lost their playoff hopes would be on life support now as they would lose any tiebreaker to Arizona). I didn't have any problem with what he said.
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I didn't think too much of that hire but he did a great job this year even with Carson Palmer trying like hell to screw it up.
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ND's Jerian Grant booted out of school for an academic matter. That's one way to make the Ohio State loss sting less.
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Holy [expletive] Luke Kuechly. Holier [expletive] Cam Newton. A win over crappy Atlanta from the #2 seed. I'm stunned.
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I thank the Basketball Gods that my cousin inadvertently spoiled the game (I was recording it) by texting me about it. Probably were owed one of those after the Louisville madness last February. Oh, well.
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Much as I would loathe having Paul Pierce on the Bulls, any opportunity to get Boozer's contract off the books has to be explored.
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First time in 99 years (back when Fielding Yost was leading the boycott). The 2015 schedule looks a little light (Temple, UMass and Wake in the same year...oy), but overall some pretty good work. Swarbrick said in the press conference that getting SEC teams on the schedule beyond 2016 will be a priority, and that's part of the reason for the reduction in B1G games. I'm all for that.
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On a recent Simmons podcast, his guest (Cousin Sal Iacono) said the NFL had phased them out, but I have no idea why. It flies in the face of the NFL's mission to run every single day of the sports year.
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Here's to New Orleans playing badly outdoors. The gulf between #2 seed and having to go on the road to face Megatron, the Bears' offense or potentially Aaron Rodgers in round 1 is vast.
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2014 Winter Olympics (Beware, no spoiler tags)
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Wait, Brian Boitano is not openly gay? I don't think he is gay at all. Contrary to popular belief. He just came out today, just to prove you wrong, I'm sure. :twisted: -
Future scheduling tidbits coming out today: Florida will play Michigan at AT&T Stadium in 2017. It'll be the farthest Florida has traveled for a regular-season game since 1991. Notre Dame and Purdue will play at Lucas Oil Sept. 13 next season, then not again until 2020. With Purdue now off the schedule in 2015, ND will now have 12 games scheduled in both seasons, which means maybe we'll get the schedule announced sometime before August. Purdue scheduled a home and home with Virginia Tech - West Lafayette in 2015, Blacksburg in 2023 - and will soon finalize a home and home with Missouri - Columbia in 2017, West Lafayette in 2018. Michigan pushes its game with Ball State from 2016 to 2020 (interesting only to me).
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In the NFC, Seattle is the only team that's actually clinched a playoff spot. The #1 seed (Seattle if they win 1 more time) and #2 seed (NFC South champion) are more or less settled, but none of the four others are even close. This is going to be a wild final couple of weeks.
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It's spelled Gerry. There was a bit of a hubbub when the Sandusky scandal originally broke because he was getting hateful Tweets from morons who don't know how to spell (or read enough to know who they were insulting)
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If I were them, I'd throw the kitchen sink at Briles after all these high-voltage potential hires don't pan out. Seems like he'd be a natural at UT.
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The 8th seeded 6-7 team that knocked me out scored 48 points this week in the semis while my 12-1 team has 101 and still two more guys to play in the consolation bracket. Bah humbug.
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This was the first game all year ND played anything resembling defense. Nice game from Grant, nice second half from Connaughton. Much-needed win.
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I'm not even arguing specifically anything related to the SEC. I just think it's folly to try to project what anyone can or would do against completely different schedules – as A&M and Missouri have borne out over the last couple of years. There's just too much variance (who you play, when you play them, where you play them) to say with any degree of confidence that the 2012 A&M team, or anybody else, would've definitely made a BCS game in another league. I mean, what if A&M were in the Pac-12 (which, if you recall, wasn't that far away from happening) and had to play Stanford and Oregon last year? What if they played in freezing weather? What if their 2012 SEC schedule were rearranged and their game against Bama were in September, as it was this year? All we can definitively evaluate is what actually did happen. The hypotheticals, especially as they relate to the conference pissing matches, are nonsensical IMO.
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Well, that's nice. The counterpoint: Would A&M have gotten to #9 in the BCS outside the SEC? A&M had two losses early in the season where they looked pretty bad (at least in the second half of the Florida game they looked bad, and the LSU game was Manziel's worst of the year). If they played similarly poor games in another conference, they wouldn't necessarily have had the luxury of shooting up the polls the way any SEC team that wins a few games in a row does (see Miss St getting to #11 last year without beating anyone even worth a [expletive], let alone an actual good team). Most of A&M's momentum came from the Alabama game, a game that wouldn't have been played if they were in another league last season. To paraphrase you, anyone that definitively says A&M's 2012 season would've played out the exact same way it did if they had played a completely different schedule is dumb.
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That's a silly thing to claim. For one thing if A&M was in the Big 12 last year they'd have had to trade out one of their tomato can victories out of conference for an actual opponent. To say nothing of all the other variables. You mean these teams? Wofford, Buffalo, Louisiana-Monroe (twice), Tulsa, and yes, Notre Dame? Those are the nonconference opponents for this year's Big 12 BCS teams. I believe his point is the SEC has 8 conference games to the Big 12's 9. I actually didn't catch that. Gotcha. But still, it follows this maddening narrative that the SEC is the only place that schedules cupcakes. Lord knows that doesn't happen anywhere else. They don't all do it, but A&M certainly did last year, and they were the subject of this silly hypothetical. Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk
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That's a silly thing to claim. For one thing if A&M was in the Big 12 last year they'd have had to trade out one of their tomato can victories out of conference for an actual opponent. To say nothing of all the other variables.
