Banedon

Wade Phillips plans on installing a 3-4 defense in Houston.

I only watch the Bulls on occasion...but I love Stacey King. He cracks me up.

Dreaming of a Packers-Bears showdown http://espn.go.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/35602/dreaming-of-a-packers-bears-showdown

Fixed the broken links, and dramatically reduced the number of links. Figured the advent of the Other Sports forum means we didn't need those links anymore, and I removed most of the individual tv show threads, since they were mostly cancelled shows...Lost, Heroes, 24, BSG... If anyone thinks something should be included that isn't currently, lemme know.

It would've been the Mountain West's luck for Petersen to take off. I'm glad he's staying.

Post-concussion Cutler is the biggest, but those two mattered as well. I would have preferred to face New Orleans in Chicago again, but I think the Bears show up and impress this weekend. Yeah...the Seahawks might be the easiest road. But I really would've enjoyed beating the Saints in Chicago again.

Better yet... Vance's is better.

I got a couple of teams wrong, and mistakenly posted NO as a home team, but I got the scenario of us playing an NFC West team right about 5 weeks ago....heh. http://www.northsidebaseball.com/forum/topic?p=2543784#p2543784

That guy has some weird perception of WR rankings.

Against the Seahawks, the Bears threw 39 times, compared to 14 runs. We balance that out, and we're in good shape I think.

He jumped straight to the Super Bowl congratulations, actually. Ahh...right on. Well done...moving along.

I haven't read the whole thread yet, but I hope you congratulated the Packers on winning the conference, sulley.

Wow. I hope they realize that Jay was still in recovery mode from the concussion. He won't play like that again. Who are you and what have you done with Wilson?

Full credit to this man.

Man, after that first game, this Colts-Jets game is a snoozer. Hasslebeck played a fantastic game. No way he has 2 of those in a row in his pocket.

my god, you're being so annoyingly contrarian at this point it couldn't have made the kick any worse. Crosby kicks the ball, it goes right towards the upright, odds are like 48% it goes left, 48% it sneaks in, and like 4% or something it just clanks off the post I.E. COIN FLIP A.K.A. LUCK, HOW MUCH CLEARER CAN I MAKE THIS You're acting as though the kicker has no impact.

And a lot of coaches looking for extensions are going to be expecting to get paid. Lovie Smith, for example.

Yeah...I don't know how you can say it was a half inch from going in or whatever...it was a half inch from missing entirely too. Why would wind necessarily help the kick? It could've made it worse. If the kicker would've put it in the middle, it'd be a non-issue.

what the [expletive] else do you call hitting the left upright with 1 second left to force OT? Boise State vs Nevada? Oh wait...the upright wasn't tall enough to hit....

I'm actually a bit mad at myself for this argument...I've clearly jinxed things back into GB's direction now. You're welcome Packer fans. Get in here and reverse jinx this for me Sulley.

Or bad coaching. Or poor performance when a game is close and late. Or lack of a running game to run out the clock. Or lack of a run defense to stop the other team from running out the clock... The last two points aren't very good ones. Every game we've lost, we've had to either come back at the very end of the game (where no running is really required), or we've stalled out on offense in overtime. In fact, I think we've been able to successfully run out the clock more often than not this year when need be. Admittedly, I haven't watched all the GB games this season. I was just throwing out other possibilities besides "luck" which seems to be a catch all for people when the results don't match the way the team looks on paper.

I was confused for a minute...at first I thought you were talking about SD, but apparently you just decided to ignore that question. Nobody was arguing that GB isn't one of the 12 best teams in football. no, i was talking about SD that entire post Oh...sorry...yeah I see that now. Actually, it's incredible how similar they are to GB. Strong O and D....terrible ST.

Or bad coaching. Or poor performance when a game is close and late. Or lack of a running game to run out the clock. Or lack of a run defense to stop the other team from running out the clock...

162 games vs 16 games. wouldn't that even further my point? it's intuitively obvious from even the most basic understanding of statistics that you're going to have a better picture of the truth from a sample of 162 than 16, but even then we realize the sample of 162 isn't ideal, because there's so much luck and chance involved in close wins, and that's precisely why we accept pythagorean record as an improvement upon old-fashioned W-L. to look at two teams and say "this one's better 'cause they won one more game" is so patently ludicrous. Similarly, it's patently ludicrous to use solely point differential to determine who's a good team and who's not. If my quick math is correct, GB's point differential between just Dallas, Minnesota (in Minny), SF and Buffalo is +111. The point differential in the other 12 games they played this season...+37. That's cherry picked of course, but it's simply to point out that they had a few huge blowouts against some bad teams...and the rest of their games were mostly close games. So that differential is misleading. San Diego has a +119 point differential and they didn't make the playoffs. How good do you think they are? i absolutely think they're one of the best 12 teams in football. furthermore, i'd probably favor them over NO, CHI, KC, IND and obviously SEA in a hypothetical neutral-field matchup. an abominable special teams performance managed to sabotage the efforts of one of the otherwise most complete teams in the league. I was confused for a minute...at first I thought you were talking about SD, but apparently you just decided to ignore that question. Nobody was arguing that GB isn't one of the 12 best teams in football.