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If Landon's statement is to be believed, after the Galaxy lost like 3 guys in a week(mainly Zardes for the year) they joked with him about coming back, and then after some thought he was like "well, okay" I'm sure I'll be in the minority on this but I think this is a stunningly bad decision on LD's part. Maybe LAG should use one of the very promising academy prospects instead. why is it bad on his part? Seems like a desperate and sad move by the team but if you're him, what's the harm?

I just don't see them being that bad. I see them being 7-9, which is where they've sat for the better part of a decade and so, so bad.

I don't actually exert any energy hating everyone to the contrary the hate is what fuels me

Marge Schott, Pete Rose, Mario Soto The Reds have been affiliated with many hateable people.

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next year they will have 3 first round draft picks unstoppable

MLB regular season is over, football starts tonight. We get 2 MNF games this week (I will watch about 2 minutes of tonight's game, most of the Bears game, and probably nothing else). NFL Lines For Week 1 - NFL Football Line Week One NFL Line 9/8 - 9/12, 2016 Date & Time Favorite Line Underdog Total 9/8 8:30 ET Carolina -3 At Denver 41 9/11 1:00 ET At Atlanta -3 Tampa Bay 47.5 9/11 1:00 ET Minnesota -2.5 At Tennessee 41 9/11 1:00 ET At Philadelphia -4 Cleveland 41 9/11 1:00 ET Cincinnati -2.5 At NY Jets 41.5 9/11 1:00 ET At New Orleans -1 Oakland 51 9/11 1:00 ET At Kansas City -6.5 San Diego 44.5 9/11 1:00 ET At Baltimore -3 Buffalo 44.5 9/11 1:00 ET At Houston -6 Chicago 44 9/11 1:00 ET Green Bay -5.5 At Jacksonville 48 9/11 4:05 ET At Seattle -10.5 Miami 44 9/11 4:25 ET At Dallas PK NY Giants 46 9/11 4:25 ET At Indianapolis -3.5 Detroit 50.5 9/11 8:30 ET At Arizona -6 New England 47 Monday Night Football Line 9/12 7:10 ET Pittsburgh -3 At Washington 50 9/12 10:20 ET Los Angeles -2.5 At San Francisco 43.5 [tweet]https://twitter.com/506sports/status/773570419660054528[/tweet] Team 2016 Season Win Total Lines Arizona Cardinals 10.5 Atlanta Falcons 7.5 Baltimore Ravens 8.5 Buffalo Bills 8 Carolina Panthers 10.5 Chicago Bears 7.5 Cincinnati Bengals 9.5 Cleveland Browns 5 Dallas Cowboys 8.5 Denver Broncos 9 Detroit Lions 7 Green Bay Packers 11 Houston Texans 8.5 Indianapolis Colts 9 Jacksonville Jaguars 7.5 Kansas City Chiefs 9.5 Los Angeles Rams 7 Miami Dolphins 7 Minnesota Vikings 9 New England Patriots 11 New Orleans Saints 7.5 New York Giants 8.5 New York Jets 7.5 Oakland Raiders 8.5 Philadelphia Eagles 6.5 Pittsburgh Steelers 10.5 San Diego Chargers 7.5 San Francisco 49ers 5.5 Seattle Seahawks 10.5 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 7.5 Tennessee Titans 5.5 Washington Redskins 7.5

I drank beer with Rod Beck at his RV, and it wasn't at all creepy. it was the same night my ex-wife yelled at Bobby Hill for being a douche silly woman, cartoon characters cannot hear you

I don't see how that is true. The major downfall to any win expectancy is injury to key players. There is no corollary to that on the upside. If 8-8 is a baseline, then some things working out better than expected may take them to 10-6 but things working out worse than expected plus a Cutler injury and you can rack up a lot of losses in a hurry. The upside is when you stay healthy and everyone else doesn't. If you've got 20 of your best 22 and the Vikings have 13, things improve considerably. that is one team, not everybody. It's not an equal corollary.

an equally persuasive argument can be made that the Bears will only be the better team in three games this year. Philly, Titans and 49ers.

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I think it's butters. We can wait for him. they're still playing games?

the problem with forte was he could never dong. he was never a big play impact RB that could dominate a game. he was a good reliable and productive back for a relatively long time, but never a dongsman.

I don't see how that is true. The major downfall to any win expectancy is injury to key players. There is no corollary to that on the upside. If 8-8 is a baseline, then some things working out better than expected may take them to 10-6 but things working out worse than expected plus a Cutler injury and you can rack up a lot of losses in a hurry.

Yeah, maybe I will have to eat crow on this, but I think the Forte loss is being hugely overstated by many. He wasn't even THAT special of a running back. Great in the passing game, as everyone knows. And I'm not just saying this now...I wasn't crazy about signing him when he was holding out for the contract too. Just block and hand other guys the ball. I consider Bennett more of a loss, not that I'll miss him off the field. I always appreciated Forte but was never enamored. My point was he was a durable, proven productive RB, and even when they had that they weren't a good offense. Now they don't have that, among other things. I feel like the only way this team squeaks out an 8+ win season is if the defense makes a huge leap and then they play a special kind of keep away ball with the offense. For a while it looked like that was the goal this offseason, signing 7 linebackers and all that. But at the end of the summer those additions look more like minor improvements to me (inside linebackers don't win football games). The pass rush remains in doubt. The secondary remains in doubt. The first round draft pick is a big question. It doesn't look to me to be a talented enough defense to make the leap I was hoping for to make the team a boring defensive led contender.

but they got a backup linebacker

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another bad season probably puts QB atop the draft board

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Well injuries aren't BABIP. You don't typically suffer a lot early in your career and then get all super healthy later on. It's not about a predisposition to get injured but rather a collection of injuries that take a toll.

This talk made me think about the 2003 Braves, who won 101 games and got bounced by the 88-win Cubs. Which made me try to remember Game 5 of that series, of which I could really only remember Borowski closing it out. So I looked it up on B-R and of course Dusty Baker sent Wood out there for the 8th with 106 pitches already thrown and a three-run lead. So basically now I'm just remembering how much I hate Dusty Baker and how much I love how our pitching is being managed this year. I might be crucified for this but in a winner take all game and a very shaky pen, I'm not necessarily opposed to Wood pitching the 8th in that situation. if he hadn't already used Wood (and Prior) like that all season long then I'd be all for him pitching in that situation in an elimination game.

are you for serious? For one, Zach Miller had a couple good games. He's a middling TE. Kevin White has to be fantastic to make this an above average offense. There is no running game, the line remains a huge question. The offensive coordinator is a pud. The head coach is the most conservative coach in the league. I mean, they've had offenses with Forte, Jeffery, Bennett and Marshall struggle to achieve mediocrity.

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