cubweiser03

This is the DH lineup i bet. Spreading out jones and floyd. If/when murton sits we could see jones in 2 hole also with floyd batting 5th.

I miss the Pete Carlisle led Princeton Tigers. One of my most favorite underdogs.

How many times will this be heard....Penn, now these are the REAL student athletes.

Old Dominon mascot plays the drums....whattup.

Tutt needs to play for the cavs at next level. They'd then have King James and King Tutt. At first i thought i heard james brown say king tutt, i did a double take.

i wanted to pick ODU but i didnt because earlier in the year i saw Butler in the top 25 and was like...if that small school can be ranked they must be really good then. so i already had my mind made up. i was kinda pissed they drew ODU.

i really wanted to vote for (my wife says that) oral roberts but lots people were hyping WSU. i went with the mob

I always pick against bobby knight in my brakets. This i tried to reverse trend. If i would just stick to his teams bowing out early. Damn.

my tv just switched to the D/Maryland game. Its about 1 minute ahead of MMOD

someone might score 100 in davidson maryland....maybe both

i just got that too. other than that its been solid. MMOD is powered by mlb.com so anybody interested in mlb.tv this is a good test. Premium would have twice the quality. I actually kind of thought that must be the case-their answer to if you can run multiple video players at one time is word for word what MLB.TV says, so I figured they must be connected in some way. Multiple....hmm Are you doing that?

i got that before too. later i logged on again and it showed my position #

i just got that too. other than that its been solid. MMOD is powered by mlb.com so anybody interested in mlb.tv this is a good test. Premium would have twice the quality.

mmod is awesome. thanks guys! only took about 5 minutes to get in.

Im going to watch more basketball today than i have the whole year. Hurray for March Madness.

If Looper is a servicable starter, LaRussa and Jockety should get contract extensions to infinity. Wainwright has a lot of upside, but thats a lot to expect from a guy pitching out of the pen last year. Losing Wainwright hurts their pen so they robbed peter to pay paul a little here too.

Miller gives up another hit followed by 2 K's to end the inning.

Byrnes with a leadoff HR off of Miller.

last year the box scores sucked, at least thats what i remember. i dont remember it was live like this detail. yahoo really sucked. they just showed HR's

you're saying that tampa has been wasting money on derrick brooks, too? no, in the tampa-2, the will better be fast, he better be quick, and he better be equally as proficient against the pass as against the run. the sam, on the other hand, is the position of no consequence in the tampa-2. the defense is built around the excellence of the will, and the bears have the right guy for it. The Tampa-2 isn't a defense built around the will linebacker. the will is the most important position in the scheme. No, the defensive line is the most important part of the scheme. The ability to get pressure with only the front 4 without blitzing is the big reason why the Tampa 2 works, and the team will always pick pass-rushing defensive linemen over any linebacker. The two safeties and the WILL are the next important, and the other two linebackers and the corners are the least important in the scheme. The big change that Chicago has made is to modify the system so that Urlacher becomes more important to the scheme to utilize his talents. Correct. Every defensive line position is more important than the WILL linebacker in the Cover-2. wrong. while the defensive line is impoprtant, it's importance is judged as a unit. as a unit, it's only important as the first wave of attack. when sacks and pressure aren't happening, which they weren't on a majority of snaps for the bears last season, the linebackers are revealed as the most important positions in the scheme. if the bears got more pressure on the QB last season, i agree, they wouldn't need such excellent LB's. but you can't assume QB pressure, ever. The Bears got plenty of pressure until Harris went down-they finished 8th in sacks (which I know is the not best indicator of QB pressure whatsoever). When Harris went out, the Bears had to compensate by blitzing more, which led to teams going for more yards. In fact, out of their first 11 games before Harris went down, Chicago allowed 300 or more yards 1 time. In the 8 games after (including the game he went down) they allowed 300 or more yards all 8 times. The Bears were able to stay afloat because of their great ability to force turnovers, but they were no longer able to keep people from driving up and down the field on them. No, you cannot always rely on consistent pressure on every play. That's why the Cover 2 defense is designed to not give up the big play. They force opponents to make long drives down the field, and if the front 4 is good enough they will get pressure on at least one crucial play during the drive and force a big play or turnover, or at least a 3rd down incompletion. I thought the Bucs defense was so good was because of Warren Sapp and Simeon Rice. Those guys wreaked havoc up front. Ronde Barber, Lynch and Brooks were key components too, but i thought the guys up front were the foundation for their success. Harris is the Sapp of this defense. I agree DT and a superior pass rushing end are where this whole thing starts. If the Bears had Freeney or the Colts had Harris the defense would be crazy awesome.

Does Briggs live in a vacuum? He's not the only person tagged with a frachise tag this year AND hes not even the best player tagged. Freeney and Samual have more of a gripe than Briggs does and i dont hear anything from those 2 guys. Add that Samuals team is throwing money all around this FA period, unlike the Bears, he has the biggest leg to stand on with "If they loved me, they would pay me' line.

If Briggs wants to be the man like Brian, how bout he try this one on for size and take a page out of the Brian Urlacher how to handle the media book. "If i have to talk, i'll talk. If I don't, i won't."

Well, if we do that, we better hope the whole team cools down-Theriot has had a very good spring so far, but if you compare him to the 8 starters he would only be having the 6th best spring out of the 9 players. How do you say? AVG wise only Lee is better. He is tied with Barrett at .400 but has a higher OBP. I havent looked at OPS. Izturis and Lee are better in AVG Izturis and Lee are better in OBP Lee, Izturis, Ramirez, Barrett, and Murton are better in OPS. Ha, i forgot about Iz. Maybe that was Freudian slip. :wink:

Well, if we do that, we better hope the whole team cools down-Theriot has had a very good spring so far, but if you compare him to the 8 starters he would only be having the 6th best spring out of the 9 players. How do you say? AVG wise only Lee is better. He is tied with Barrett at .400 but has a higher OBP. I havent looked at OPS.

The Riot is so hot im worried he's using all his hits. :) Kinda hope he cools down a little. He made 2 really nice plays at 3b on saturday.