UMFan83

The Lions love dancing around before they find out what the little yellow flag is for.

I guess that "beyond a reasonable doubt" doesn't apply anymore. There is no way to tell that ball is conclusively tipped, the officials just guessed. Bull [expletive]

I think its stupid but its not a judgement call. If the ball is tipped you cant call pass interference

I don't think you can conclusively say the ball was tipped. It did waddle a little after passing the defender's hand but its hard to tell if it was like that out of Cutler's hands.

Alright, Lions penalties leading us down the field.

OK, we can't run the ball up the middle. Don't abandon this completely but lets be creative here. Oh look another false start. Whats the record for most false starts in a game?

Do you mean instead of holding the ball out, not towards the 1st down marker as someone is trying to tackle you?

Is NSBB loading very slow for anyone else? It's getting annoying.

Wow Meriweather is such a douche

We still have $20 million in cap space...just saying. When is the trading deadline?

We're embarassing ourselves on national TV yet again. Now Lions win the field position battle

Nice offensive line Angelo. Here comes a sack

lol already a false start for the Bears

He was distracted thinking about what clever tweets he would make after the game. ha ha HA. Get it? He tweets a lot.

The only saving grace to a 2-3 start is that 9-7 might get you a wild card spot this year. Assuming the Lions keep it up, they will get one (or the Packers), but the other one? Atlanta and TB are kind of mediocre right now. The NFC East teams are all kind of floundering near .500 except Washington. There's not going to be a WC out of the West

Wow...Bears are 6-1 on Monday Nights under Lovie. Anyone know what the one loss was? Edit: I think it was a game against Minnesota back in 2007 when the Bears were fading and the Vikings were driving for a playoff spot.

Anyone watching the ALCS? Tigers just got out of a bases loaded, 0 outs situation in a tie game in the bottom of the 9th.

I just realized that the Bears are the last team to defeat the Detroit Lions, who have since played 12 games (regular and preseason), emerging victorious in all of them. Besides being a cool stat, I wonder if it has any merit on tonights game. IIRC Detroit was starting to really be a force in games when he came to Detroit to play them, but the issue was finishing the games. The Lions played the Bears really tough until a late TD gave the Bears a 4-5 point win. Since that point, they suddenly learned how to finish games and have not looked back. Do we matchup well against them in certain areas? We'll find out I guess.

Every MNF game is a 3 hour love-fest, for both teams. We're not just talking about Gruden though.

I would look into the lack of news. This whole thing heated up 10 days ago and we haven't even gotten a legit confirmation that the Red Sox are going to let the Cubs interview the man. Now we don't know what's truly going on behind the scenes, but despite the idea that the Cubs are being really stealth, in this day and age, its crazy to think that a week could go by without any further news coming out.

UM - ND (W) MSU - @ ND (L) PUR - ND (L) IND - UVA (L) NW - @ BC (W) IL - ASU (W) PSU - ALA (L) OSU - @ MIA (L), COL (W) MIN - @ USC (L) IOWA - @ ISU (L), PIT (W) NEB - WAS (W) WIS - OR ST (W) 14 games against AQ schools (and ND), 7-7 record....5 road games (1-4) 9 home games (6-3)....Currently ranked teams played (2, with ND also receiving votes) (L vs. ALA, W vs. ASU)....Overall opponent record 44-33.

I'm assuming you are considering ND a AQ team because not counting them would eliminate Michigan, Michigan State, and Purdue.

No, it's not unprofessional at all. Baseball is a club, it's not like Theo is going to work for IBM. The Sox could rightly say, "it's fair" because the Cubs are taking their chief of baseball operations and placing them at a disadvantage. It doesn't much matter that they have Cherington in the wings. However, that's based on the premiss that the Sox are picking up Theo's option. I don't think they will be getting Castro or Garza, but I think they will get something, probably money. (Second However), they could try to negotiate a package deal where they Cubs take Lacky too and get back some decent prospects. right. Unprofessional might not be the right word. They've already said the other day that they have a philosophy to let their front office interview for non-lateral positions, meaning if the Cubs are offering Theo a president position the Red Sox will let theo interview. I realize letting him interview and letting him leave are 2 different things, but I think if their guy interviewed, the position was offered, and that guy wanted to take the position, the Sox probably wouldn't strong arm him into staying. They would probably still fight for compensation and see what they can get out of him, and who knows maybe the Cubs would give them something of value. But more likely the Sox would end up having to accept some token offer for Theo because they aren't going to force him back into a position he doesn't want to be. Although I'm sure Theo would honor his deal and work his hardest for the Boston Red Sox, its still not a great position to put yourself in if you are the Red Sox.

He was pretty pissed: http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-09-28/sports/30211202_1_art-howe-movie-billy-beane I understand why the director felt it necessary to make Howe another force going against Beane's 'radical' methods, but they could have found a way to do it without ruining his reputation. At least give the guy a redeeming moment at the end where he is won over by Beane. IIRC the book didn't really portray him that well either.

Because there's very little precident of a team offering compensation for another one's GM. And if the Cubs plan on offering Theo the President of Baseball Opps title, isn't it almost unprofessional to block a promotion for Theo by demanding compensation from the Cubs (assuming the Red Sox aren't also offering a similar title if he stays)?