UMFan83

Was thinking a Rams loss tonight would make things interesting for a bye but they finish with Arizona and SF. Bears would have to win out and hope one of those teams could beat them.

Barring a Rams or Saints collapse, the Bears will play on Wild Card Weekend for the first time since 1994

Also rmacks twitter feed during the game is great. They guy has no idea how to enjoy anything

I really want to go back and find all the comments on Packers boards after the Mack trade was made saying it was a dumb move because the Bears aren’t even competing this year

Why do Bears kick returners love taking the ball out of the end zone so much?

Rodgers starting to pick apart the D

They should trade Eloy for Almora just to make sure they get him

Aaron Miles, Jon Jay, Daniel Descalso. Why do we keep ending up with these gritty former cardinal players?

The whole ‘Cubs finally win the World Series but are owned by a evil scumbag billionaire that helped get a giant piece of crap elected’ scenario really seems like the result of someone making a deal with the devil.

Confused why the Indians make this trade. On the surface they have basically the same exact contract and their production in 2018 was pretty even. Santana is 3 years younger though so maybe they are trying to avoid relying on a 35 year old slugger.

LaRussa is such a sanctimonious piece of horsefeathers http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/25518933/tony-la-russa-calls-harold-baines-detractors-weak

Wouldnt you rather fix the former problem rather than the latter? You seem to be upset about the seedings proposal but both problems would be fixed if you just joined the damn ACC like all of your other sports. You aren't the first to bring up that kind of seedings proposal, and I just find it ridiculous that anyone would seed a better team behind a worse one for no apparent reason other than 'hey, these guys aren't playing by our rules, screw them'. If you're going to have this system, seed the teams correctly. And if you want ND out of the playoff, as I assume you do, you should be thrilled they're independent. Their schedule is almost always more difficult as it is than it would be in the ACC. 2 of their 3 best wins this year, Michigan and Northwestern, aren't on the schedule if they're in the ACC. Instead, in this scenario, they're playing like Virginia and North Carolina or something. I don't understand how that change makes them worthy of a higher seed. I don’t want ND out of the playoff. They are certainly worthy. How is seeding conference winners higher as a benefit of winning their conference different than seeding the abraves and dodgers ahead of the Cubs because the Cubs didn’t win the central? I guess it’s possible that you don’t like that too but no one seems to throw a huge fit about it in general. Just like in baseball a team plays the large majority of their games against their conference/division so there should be some weight to conference champ

this guy is tweeting scoops like every 5 minutes. Either he is the most connected insider ever or he's having a lot of fun making this horsefeathers up.

lol I just think if we have this conference setup and all but 4 teams (I think) play in a division that leads to a championship, that championship should mean something. In basketball its an autobid to the NCAA tournament. Same thing here (at least for P5). It's just stupid to make some special accommodations for basically 1 team because they just have to play Navy every year. If you want to be different for the sake of tradition fine, but since the rest of college football plays under different rules you might get screwed somehow. They're literally the only team in the Power 5 that pretty much isn't allowed to lose a game. Everyone else gets a freebie extra game at the end if they're good enough to be in contention. I'd say that's plenty enough of a disadvantage without rigging the seedings of a playoff for no real reason. Clemson should get to play a Washington or something in the 1st round of this thing rather than an unbeaten team Wouldnt you rather fix the former problem rather than the latter? You seem to be upset about the seedings proposal but both problems would be fixed if you just joined the damn ACC like all of your other sports.

i should have saved the email but I was hating Sulley so much at that moment that I just deleted it. If I remember right the spoiler was something about Tyrion killing his father. oh god dammit

Yeah I love going this route and that structure. I would put some sort of condition though that the G5 team has to be in the top 20 or something to get a bid, otherwise its a 3rd at large team. I realize that this could make it so that the committee can artificially rank a G5 team lower to keep them out of the playoff, but I think top 20 is enough of a cushion where if an undefeated UCF wasn't in the top 20 it would cause significant uproar. Also doing so ensures that the G5 teams are still incentivized to seek out non-conference games against P5 teams. I would also seed the P5 champs and G5 team 1-6 and the wild cards automatically 7-8. If you don't want to play Bama in the first round, win your conference. Also, ND doesn't want to be seeded 7th or 8th or thinks its unfair that they have less of a chance of making it to the playoff? Join a conference fully. Also your scenario didn't include a Pac-12 team. My scenario would look like this: 8 Georgia vs. 1 Alabama 7 Notre Dame vs. 2 Clemson 6 UCF vs. 3 Oklahoma 5 Washington vs. 4 Ohio State For the horsefeathering life of me I don't understand the 'let's screw over ND for no reason to make them join a conference' attitude that permeates everybody. ND played 10 Power 5 teams this year, which is at least as many as the vast majority of any other Power 5 teams played (Clemson played 11 and I think Ohio State did too, but rarely does anyone play more than 10). Why does it matter if ND's 10 happen to be in 4 or 5 different conferences rather than a maximum of 2? Why does that justify seeding horsefeathering Washington, they of the 8-3 record against Power 5 teams, over an ND team that went 10-0 against them? Here's a looney-tunes idea: If you're going to have 8, seed them in order of how good they are, not based on some stupid arbitrary distinction like 'they won their TV cartel's championship'. Of course, the only reason we're even going to get 8 is because some conferences are pissed off they're not getting enough preferential treatment, so I expect your idea will take hold somehow. lol I just think if we have this conference setup and all but 4 teams (I think) play in a division that leads to a championship, that championship should mean something. In basketball its an autobid to the NCAA tournament. Same thing here (at least for P5). It's just stupid to make some special accommodations for basically 1 team because they just have to play Navy every year. If you want to be different for the sake of tradition fine, but since the rest of college football plays under different rules you might get screwed somehow.

Then you’re potentially screwing over the No. 1 seed by making them play a much tougher team than they could be. Yeah I know, its not a perfect solution and I'm not married to that part of it. But if the first round sites are played at the higher seed's stadium, that certainly gives the higher seed quite an advantage.

I mean he may be fake, but saying there will be a massive announcement about a Cubs trade in 20 minutes is pretty damn specific. I'm sure his next tweet will be "Oh man, looks like the trade fell apart at the last minute. Sides may still be talking but it looks like much less of a possibility"

Trade [tweet]https://twitter.com/WTraymor/status/1072943779299164160[/tweet]

More from the random guy I just learned about 20 minutes ago and am now obsessively refreshing for no good reason: [tweet]https://twitter.com/WTraymor/status/1072943108747345920[/tweet]

Theo to intern: Dammit when I said photos of dongs for the Harper presentation I meant home runs Edit: Took too long in crafting my joke

Well time to find out how legit he is [tweet]https://twitter.com/WTraymor/status/1072940864941580290[/tweet]

all i got from this is it seems like it's gonna be a long horsefeathering time before the bears are slated to play in vegas Would be fun to play the raiders at whatever temporary home they are apparently going to play at next year after the Oakland lawsuit

Yeah I love going this route and that structure. I would put some sort of condition though that the G5 team has to be in the top 20 or something to get a bid, otherwise its a 3rd at large team. I realize that this could make it so that the committee can artificially rank a G5 team lower to keep them out of the playoff, but I think top 20 is enough of a cushion where if an undefeated UCF wasn't in the top 20 it would cause significant uproar. Also doing so ensures that the G5 teams are still incentivized to seek out non-conference games against P5 teams. I would also seed the P5 champs and G5 team 1-6 and the wild cards automatically 7-8. If you don't want to play Bama in the first round, win your conference. Also, ND doesn't want to be seeded 7th or 8th or thinks its unfair that they have less of a chance of making it to the playoff? Join a conference fully. Also your scenario didn't include a Pac-12 team. My scenario would look like this: 8 Georgia vs. 1 Alabama 7 Notre Dame vs. 2 Clemson 6 UCF vs. 3 Oklahoma 5 Washington vs. 4 Ohio State

18 losses in 21 games is elite level tanking