UMFan83

This. They ran more plays in the 1st half than several teams ran all game on Sunday.

It was pretty good yesterday...I like that they replay it immediate after the show (at 6) so I can catch what I missed on my drive home from work

Since no one cares about your fantasy team, or mine, I want to start a catch all thread to rant about fantasy teams. I went 0-3 in my leagues this week. In one league I had Peyton Manning (65 points) and still lost by 2 to a guy who had Victor Cruz, D. Thomas and Adrian Peterson. I had the 2nd most points in the league, 18 more points than the team with the third most but played the team with the most and lost by 2. In another league I lost by 0.86 points because the Redskins went for 2 instead of kicking the extra point needed for victory. The kicker also missed a FG that would have given me the win. In the last league, about midway through the 3rd quarter of the Skins game I was up by 30 points as RG3 (who I was playing again) had -3.40 points. My opponent also had Hopkins. Of course RG3 throws a few garbage TDs, and Hopkins has an OK enough game so I lost by 3. FML. At least its not as bad as the time I lost a week by 0.04 points because Eli Manning took 2 knees (losing 4 rushing yards in the process) at the end of a MNF game.

Chicago owns Cincinnati (over the last 31 hours)

Wow, quite a response by Blatter re: Winter World Cup in Qatar

I read somewhere that they are offering prospective STO's 4 tickets to the final homestand of the year for free to evaluate seats. Anyone get that? I'm way too lazy to check the last couple pages of this thread to see if this has been going on all year or not.

I'm assuming because the Bears are 0-0 against the NFC/Division while many other teams are 1-0 in conference and the Lions are 1-0 against the NFCN

Blame UMFan. sorry, I liked Kyle. Don't get me wrong, I was thrilled to dump his ass to get Jay Cutler, but I enjoyed the 2008 season, however disappointing it was.

Out of curiosity, what sucks about the new Meadowlands? I've heard that from a few people. It looks nice on TV at least.

Over Grossman? I thought Kyle was pretty decent until he suffered that high ankle sprain against the Lions in November. Fake edit: Up to that point (including Lions game) here were his numbers: 8 games, 62% comp %, 90.8 Rating, 1777 yards, 10 TD, 4 INT 7.3 YPA After he returned from the high ankle injury after missing just 1 week: 7 games, 55% comp %, 67.2 Rating, 1195 yards, 8 TD, 8 INT, 5.4 YPA Of course Orton turned out to be a pretty mediocre QB after given chances with the Broncos and Chiefs but I don't know why someone would have hated Orton coming out of the 2008 season.

No. They opened 06 up on the road at Green Bay. They shut them out and a bunch of people won free furniture. Yeah I'm dumb, you are right

They also lose a true home game playing overseas. Last night was Dallas' first week one home game since 2006. Weird scheduling abounds Meanwhile the Bears have started at home the last 4 seasons. And I know they started on the road in 05, 06, and 07.... Not sure about 08 but I remember being annoyed that they kept starting on the road. Weird. 08 they opened up Lucas Oil Stadium on Sunday Night Football, but they actually opened up 06 at home against the Lions (and absolutely pantsed them) 2004 vs. Lions 2005 @ Redskins 2006 vs. Lions 2007 @ Chargers 2008 @ Colts 2009 @ Packers 2010 vs. Lions 2011 vs. Falcons 2012 vs. Colts 2013 vs. Bengals

I can understand those that think this way, but with 9 minutes left my first thought was that we needed to get something there. Being down by 1 makes it so that no Bengals score makes it a 2 possession game, and if the defense stops them, you have most likely 2 possessions to get a FG to take the lead. I'm probably in the wrong, but that was my gut reaction to the situation. Also the fact that the Bears have been stuffed a lot in goalline situations played into my thoughts, even though I have no idea if the Bears convert at a lower percentage than most teams. Also, even if I'm going for it, I never have the balls to call a sweep to Atkins side of the field with 2 rookies blocking him. In short, I would be that annoyingly conservative coach who loses close games with my decisions.

Yeah the Bengals used TO's twice in a row pretty much, one right before the 4th and inches play because they only had 10 guys on the field, and I think one right after that because they almost had 12 guys in the huddle. Reflects poorly on their coaching because it pretty much cost them the game.

Hmm, I feel good about Long improving as the season goes on. Didn't notice any glaring mistakes except on that first possession of the game, but I have no ability to evaluate o-lineman except to notice when they f-up.

Yeah I think he has the potential to be in that second tier of QBs below the elite guys. It helps that he has a decent o-line an elite WR and good TEs.

They also lose a true home game playing overseas. Last night was Dallas' first week one home game since 2006. Weird scheduling abounds Meanwhile the Bears have started at home the last 4 seasons.

Wouldn't be too amazed that he was undrafted and ended up being good. Only 14 of the 32 current starting kickers in the league were drafted into the league. The rest signed on as undrafted FA and fought to stick on a roster like Gould.

Yup. Still [expletive] pissed the Packers rolled over for them in Week 17. Since that point both teams are a combined 1-4 and the one win was against the other so [expletive] them.

Quiz: What event in today's game was Bennett talking about in this quote? His TD catch? Yup...quite a random quote though

Looks like the line opens at Bears -6.5

Quiz: What event in today's game was Bennett talking about in this quote?

I guess you can be excused seeing as you are in Turkey. Scattered thoughts about the game: Pass rush was non-existent almost all game Cutler was good for the most part. One int was rather bad (right to a Bengal) but could have been miscommunication. For the most part he got good protection and particularly in the second half he was able to get the ball downfield and made good decisions and sharp throws. Also did some good scrambling to extend plays. Running game was not all that great. Not a lot of holes. They were able to run the ball well enough to run out the clock in the 4th quarter but didn't really break any long runs, just a bunch of 3-4 yard runs. One of the plays of the TD winning drive was the Bears converting on 4th and inches in bengals territory which they ran a sweep to the outside on Longs side and Forte got good blocking and converted with a 4-5 yard run. Cutlers first TD pass was a great throw to M. Bennett who made a spectacular catch that no Bear TE since Greg Olsen would have been able to come up with. Defense was rather disappointing the first 3 quarters. Tillman and Jennings were getting burned regularly by Green. Their TEs were getting free and getting the ball. Tackling was bad. But Tillman did have 2 nice INTs. Jennings was pretty bad from what I saw, but did force 2 fumbles (and recovered one, the other one he didnt see it he actually kicked it out of bounds). The defense did show up for the last 20 minutes of the game and the d line started getting a little pressure. Overall a medicore at best performance. Pass blocking was solid....no sacks given up! Overall considering there are 4 new starters on the line, it was a pretty good performance.

So I managed to have Peyton manning score 65 fantasy points for me and I'm still going to lose this week.

I'm dumbfounded.