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They were only 10-6 last year with him and lost at home to a one dimensional Jets team. They have also gotten worse. Given how poorly they have done building around Manning in recent years, and the fact that Manning probably won't be anywhere near his best if he does come back, there are plenty of reasons why they may not be Super Bowl contenders for the next 4 years.

So they export their kidnapping needs to the Colombians?

field the best 25 man roster you can. You will have success.

So then do they trade the picks for as much as possible or keep Luck on the bench? Because spending that much money on a backup QB when your starting QB makes so much is going to make it very difficult to add to that horrible team.

I wouldn't exactly call it a beautiful situation. It's a silver lining to a pitiful season, but there are tough decisions to be made. Let's not pretend that cutting Manning won't have some negative effect on his relationship with the team. If they do trade the picks, they should ignore the desire for 3 #1s and get as many early picks in this year's draft and next as possible, to restock the team for Payton's last 3-4 years. Personally, the more I see of Luck, the more I doubt him as a can't miss guy. If they do cut Manning and go with Luck, they still have a god awful football team that needs to be completely rebuilt.

This is so idiotic it infuriates me. To clarify. This isn't a rumor about sally from accounting sniffing glue. This isn't a rumor about the branch manager from scranton banging the hr lady in ny. This isn't even a rumor of the new video coordinator having a cocaine problem. The coaching staff is a small group that spends an incredible amount of time together. There are maybe 10-12 core guys on the staff, and if there is one who has been there for 20+ years, is in the middle of his prime coaching years, considered for the head coaching position, has had numerous incidents of innapropriate behavior with children, and he's just pushed out the door, this isn't a rumor you can avoid or ignore.

Needs more Forrest Gregg. Detroit is despicable and probably going to miss the playoffs for 50th straight time

And now an sb

Bases juiced for a cub with reliever scahill coming in. Wow junior lake reminds me of Castro. RBI single to rf

Maybe, though the kid said he met him, and it wouldn't be easy to confuse McQueary with Sandusky. Oh, and the kid's father said that Sandusky attended a football camp in Utah last summer on behalf of Penn State: / Deadspin seems to think it is false.

Not sticking up for Dusty at all, but the scenario you just suggested is one where Mike Maddux may leave his pitcher in. He was the pitching coach for Nolan Ryan's team who was very open about ignoring pitch counts. Now would Maddux have let Prior stay out there during that inning without so much as a mound visit? I doubt it. Just saying, Maddux isn't going to make that decision based on pitch count. As someone posted, they were very good about not abusing pitchers though. So while they build up arm strength thru conditioning, Maddux isn't likely to have guys throwing 130+ pitches all the time. Yeah, Dusty had Prior throwing 120+ with regularity as a kid throwing more innings than he ever had before (not to mention after he had a collision with Marcus Giles where he landed on his shoulder). CJ Wilson went over 120 twice this year. Prior went over 130 three times in September alone, and again in his first postseason start. The big three averaged 113, 111 and 107 pitches per start in 2003 (Prior was the most), while CJ averaged 105 this year and the next two highest were at 100. Don't mistake coaches willing to build up arm strength with what Dusty did to his pitchers. He abused the crap out of them and should never be excused for his ignorance. http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/stats/pitching/_/name/tex/seasontype/2/cat/pitchesPerStart/order/true/texas-rangers http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/stats/pitching/_/name/chc/year/2003/seasontype/2/cat/pitchesPerStart/order/true/chicago-cubs http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/gamelog/_/id/4936/year/2003/mark-prior Thanks Dusty, you despicable human being.

I'm going to go ahead and assume the kid is referring to McQueary. His face has been in the news as much as Sandusky. There's no way he was going out on recruiting trips.

if there is any place that embraces tacky and hideous, it's miami.

“He came to my last spring game going into my senior season. He liked how I moved, laterally, and how gifted I am,” said Ah Ching, ranked last year by ESPNU as the 26th linebacker prospect in the country.

espn running a breaking news ticker that mcqueary was placed on administrative leave, not sure if that's indication that they are planning on firing him eventually or just getting him away from things.

http://deadspin.com/5858414/10-things-that-are-still-happy-about-happy-valley Deadspin tries to get past the recent string of bad news by listing some still happy things about happy valley.

nice save, but the us is getting dominated

stun guns are serious business

Screw that, I want Joe Morgan in there interviewing for a job with guys who never played the game.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/breaking/chi-bears-carimi-will-have-knee-surgery-20111111,0,5017451.story No timetable.

From blackshoediaries: So now the story is if those guys didn't go to the cops Joe had no reason to think he should have. In other words, the face of Penn State football took his cues on how to react to this situation based on how a graduate assistant reacted and since he didn't do a whole lot, Joe figured he had no reason to do much either.

Something Franceca said was about how so many people at Penn State are all about Penn State and have always been at Penn State. Unlike many schools that strive for blending outsiders into their system to bring many viewpoints, Penn Staters are all proud about how many of them have always been Penn Staters and always will be. They take pride in their insularity. I'm guessing people who have always had full control of their little island don't think too much about how things can't always be contained.

sorry, just trying to make it less confusing. how about R Day?

I'm hoping for 95%. But my guess is they will be more daring.

Hey guys there is a big game this weekend, not sure about the implications to the fashion world but the result does have a lot of implications for playoff scenarios.