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Man I didn't realize how much people were picking the Eagles last night. -Just heard on CTL replay from yesterday, all 3 picked the Eagles. -Right before the game Hub Arkush (known Bears pessimist) wrapped up his show saying "I'm not gonna make a prediction, but I don't expect anything good for the Bears tonight...hopefully its close". -All 9 ESPN guys had the Eagles winning -Peter King had the Eagles 23-21 -All 5 CBS sports guys had the Eagles, and 3 of them ATS which was 8.5 -All 4 Yahoo guys picked the Eagles -All 9 CHICAGO TRIBUNE "experts" picked the Eagles. I cannot find one person that picked the Bears to win...not one person. Fake edit: I FOUND ONE! On NFL.com so dude named Albert Breer picked Bears 24-23 on a "hunch"
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Bucs play at home this week so it will probably be blacked out. Then again, the Bears are on at 4:15 so they might be on no matter what
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I'm still hung over. Jay missed quite a few passes last night from where I was sitting. He had some open guys for potential big gains that he just missed. He played well overall though. Man I love beating the kiddie rapist supporting eagles. There was a stretch in the 2nd quarter where he was really really off and looked horrible. He got better though.
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Are they doing it again?
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NY Times is reporting that Penn State is planning JoePa's exit from coaching.
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After they told the media no questions about the whole raping minors situation would be allowed. I was really looking forward to the press conference just to see a confused JoePa getting grilled with questions.
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I dunno but every time I completely give up on him, he'll make an unbelievable catch and/or make a sweet play in the open field to get extra yards. Frustrating inconsistency.
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UMFan83 replied to Clem Fandango's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
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Good luck finding someone to willingly rape an 85 year old man.
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they would probably make them replay the down I don't think so. The penalty is loss of down, or in the end zone a safety. Since the other team is hypothetically benefiting from the play, by virtue of getting 2 points, I don't see how or why that would change at the end of a game.
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I believe it can happen on any fair catch Sebastian Janikowski once attempted something like a 75 yard FG off a play like that.
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Ahh yes I remember that now. The Pats did it before as well. Would be interesting to see how it would look from 40 yards out and faster more skilled NFL players going after them. Especially because as soon as return team sees Devin Hester back there to receive the snap, they know whats coming and abort the play and focus on charging towards Hester before time runs out. Also didn't realize that you don't get the free kick if time runs out on the play the safety occurs on. Edit: It was in 2003, and the Pats were trailing by one when they intentionally took a safety with 3 minutes left in the game. It paid off too as their D held and NE got a game winning TD with a few seconds left.
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PS, drunk and happy gooney is probably the best poster on the board.
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I think there is a reason that has never happened in an NFL game. Meh, I don't know about that. Coaches in general are scared of doing anything that's not common football logic, for fear that it blows up in their faces and makes them look terrible. That's why coaches punt on most 4th downs when there are studies that show its smarter to go for it from 3 yards or less almost every time, it's why no one ever experimented with snapping the ball to your running back until one guy succeeded with it and now everyone does it. It could potentially be a very smart decision that's just waiting for the first coach with the balls to try it. BTW, not the exact same situation, but coaches have intentionally taken safeties in end of game situations, and sometimes even intentionally stalled before going down to kill time. But the only situation I've ever seen it happen is when a team is backed up to their own end zone, and the strategy is used to punt from a much better position.
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Like I said, I would need to see how it plays out before being certain it's a good idea. I feel much more comfortable with Podlesh taking 5-10 steps back and punting out of bounds. It's been done before and has worked really well in these situations. If he is able to kill 4-5 seconds and then get 4 seconds of hang time as it travels out of bounds, its game over. I can't remember where the Bears were in field position but I'm not even sure that running to the end zone and waiting to kneel for a safety takes 9 seconds, so if you are wrong you are basically in the exact same situation except that they get to set up their return. Returning a punt after a safety is a little different than returning a punt in a normal situation. Edit: Average player probably runs a 40 yard dash in 5 seconds. Add 2-3 seconds due to being in pads/being blocked (unless you can get through unblocked) and you are really risking that the play really does nothing for you.
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He has cancer so maybe. Welp, didn't know this. yeah, that's actually pretty amazing that he's continuing to work. he looks sick as hell. He's a pretty tough dude:
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Unless you fumble it in the end zone. Or they catch you before getting to the end zone. I like the concept and have thought about that before, but I'd have to see it in action a couple of times before I can tell you if its a good idea or bad.
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Man once we get past these next 2 games against the Lions and Chargers, the schedule really opens up. Oakland is playing poorly and McFadden could be out Kansas City is ok but extremely beatable Denver sucks Seattle sucks Green Bay is a huge test Minnesota sucks except its at the Metrodome 5 of the last 6 games are mediocre to bad opponents. Only Seattle and Denver seem like sure wins at this point but we should be favored in all 5 of those games. If we go 4-1 in those 5 games, we're already at 9 wins regardless of how the Lions, Chargers and Packers games turn out.
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I don't think the punter is fast enough to out run everyone in 9 seconds. Then they get the ball in your territory with a shot to win it. Exactly, that's riskier than just punting it out of bounds. Maybe if you put someone who isn't the punter back there to do it. If anyone catches him it's a fumble near the end zone waiting to happen and the coach that allows that to occur is shot dead within 24 hours. Sounds good in theory. I wouldn't mind the punter taking a few seconds before punting it out of bounds. 4 seconds of stalling + 5 second hang time = win. But now that I think about it, you really risk the kick being blocked and returned for a TD or at least getting the ball in an area where you don't have to throw a hail Mary to score a TD.
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Wow I feel pretty damn good.
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This is the 3rd time in the last 12 games the Bears have had a 6 point lead and their opponent has the final drive of the game. The first 2 times (vs. Jets, @TB) they got an int and won...
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This is gonna [expletive] suck
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Not ideal start to the most important defensive series of the season.
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What the [expletive]. That's not what I was hoping for. Time to get real nervous.
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Running game gotten you here. It's not unreasonable that Forte finds a hole and scores on one of those.
