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You can be in position to interfere with the receiver and not in position to make a play on the ball. It's much more difficult to go up and beat a receiver for the ball rather than just trip the receiver or something similar. I don't really see that many long PI calls that are questionable. Generally the calls are guys who are clearly out of position doing something out of desperation to keep the receiver from catching the ball. Those would only increase if you encourage players to commit penalties more often.
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Never mind, Couch committed to Tennessee yesterday. Fantastic get if we can hold onto him.
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Yeah, football is generally better with quarterbacks on the field. The Titans had QB injury issues entering the game and Vince likely shouldn't have been on the field even after Collins got knocked out. Then we took out two of your QBs. The Titans played like crap, Moss only got 2-3 balls thrown to him (caught one) and both Vince and Kerry are hurt. I was feeling a whole lot better before the San Diego game than I am now. We need to get a QB healthy since we have the Redskins and Colts coming up.
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Please don't blow this thing against Vandy. I haven't felt this confident about reaching a bowl game all season. Kentucky will be tough, but winnable. As for Vandy, just don't screw up too much. Their offense isn't very good, but if we give them extra opportunities, they could beat us. VolCub, Any word on Maurice Couch? He's really confused me with his commitment/de-committal and then statements that we still have a big lead. It sounds like we're likely to get him, but it concerns me that we seem to be such a frontrunner, but he won't commit. He's probably one of the top two or three guys we really need in this class. He, Antonio Richardson and AJ Johnson are important pieces to this class if we can get them/hold onto them.
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This. Not to take anything away from the Vols, but I don't know if I've ever seen a football game where one team benefited more from blind luck like they did today. That's not hyperbole either. That game was simply stunning. I thought Tennessee clearly outplayed Ole Miss most of the game, but it was a 38-point margin because of breaks. Without the luck, I'd say a 2-3 touchdown win would have been the outcome. I'll take the luck happily, though. This team needs a confidence boost and back to back blowout wins should help that immensely.
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Bad, bad mistake there by Cal. They needed a touchdown and they got nothing.
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I don't think we really overpaid in the Gregg trade at all. It's hard to know how much value Ceda actually had around the league, but he was questionable at the time (weight, I believe) and has been hurt since the trade. Also, I know we gave up Dontrelle in the Clement trade, but we didn't give up much of anything else. For what we got in Clement (a solid, but not great pitcher), we gave up a pitcher who had two good seasons and was solid at best otherwise. I can see overpaying there, but not by that much.
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What a huge win for Tennessee today. I figured this would be our most likely loss this month, so beating Ole Miss is huge for our bowl hopes. Kentucky's still going to be really tough, but we'll have the extra momentum of the 29-game winning streak and an imminent bowl berth (with a win) on our side. Bray looked really good for the most part today, though we caught more than a couple breaks. He made some really questionable decisions with throws into coverage, but no dumb throws. And Justin Hunter is ridiculously athletic, the kid's going to be a stud. I'm also a big Eric Gordon fan. Just two wins away from a bowl berth. Please beat Vandy and Kentucky.
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That would have been pretty funny if Georgia had won the SEC with a 5-6 record. Pretty devastating for UGA, though. Go from possibly winning the SEC to missing a bowl game entirely in the span of one game.
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No other sport (that I know of) merged two leagues like the NFL and AFL did to create their own championship game. Pre-Super Bowl you had an NFL champ and an AFL champ, but those two have combined now. I'd say that's a big part of why the NFL does that.
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That's my thought. I'd keep playing him, though. Might as well try to win the title and then make them vacate it since at least half your wins would be vacated anyway.
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It must have been the 90s because I don't think Bama was on probation in the 80s. They've been on probation so often, though, that I can't keep up with when they were and weren't.
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Yahoo! Sports Charles Robinson tweet:
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Bond and Rogers are supposed to be interviewed by the FBI next Tuesday per one of the articles I read and will turn over supporting evidence to them at that time. If they have evidence that is truly damning to Cam, then I imagine he'll be ruled ineligible soon after that. It may move faster, but the NCAA is generally incredibly slow about making decisions. It'll be interesting to see how quickly they move here.
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If Cam becomes ineligible prior to the NCG, then Auburn should have to vacate all of the wins for this season....so they wouldn't be playing in the NCG anyway. that said, i doubt TCU jumps AU if AU beats Georgia tomorrow. I doubt a decision would be made in time to affect the title game, but the looming potential of ineligibility and a possibly vacated BCS champion might be enough to get some voters to go with someone other than Auburn.
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I actually was reading this the other day. The win total is one route to becoming eligible, winning a conference is the other. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowl_eligible Thanks. That scenario probably almost never happens (I don't recall it happening) so it's pretty moot, but interesting nonetheless.
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I think Woodhead will get a lot of dump off passes. I was trying to figure out whether he'd get enough YAC to be worth starting ahead of Ronnie Brown, but I think he's probably better than Amendola in a PPR league this week.
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I always seem to have Ronnie Brown in at least 1-2 leagues a year, even though I don't intend to draft him entering the year. He just always seems to be at a value spot in my mind. Maybe it means I overvalue him without really liking him that much. Thanks for the advice, starting Fitzgerald scares me at this point so I was trying to get an unbiased opinion or two.
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What happens if, theoretically, a team wins a conference and is not bowl eligible? For instance, a team finishes 5-7 overall, but all five of those wins come in conference and the rest of the conference is horrendous? I would assume the team still goes to a bowl, but is that really addressed since it's an incredibly fluky thing?
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Non-PPR: Woodhead @ Pitt R Brown v Titans Also not PPR: Pick 2 Blount v Car Fitzgerald v Sea Mike Williams (TB) v Car Jacobs v Dallas
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This is why you and Jersey aren't going to see eye to eye Haha, we rarely see eye to eye. Debates are good though.
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My point was, the Cubs got better production from Silva last year than Bradley produced. Thus, the results of the trade were good to this point. Now if Silva reverts to being crappy or if he's too injured to pitch but we still have to pay him, then that changes the view on the trade. To this point, however, it was a good deal even if the signing of Bradley should never have taken place. If Silva comes in this year and posts another 3.90 xFIP like last year and the Cubs let him walk, then it's a great deal. It was a bad idea at the time, but whether from blind luck or from Rothschild fixing a flaw that nobody else caught the results have been positive so far. Whether or not you want to assign "points" to somebody for that is your prerogative, but I'm simply stating the results from the trade have been positive.
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DeWitt is an upgrade over Theriot. The key to whether the trade was good is how the two prospects develop. If they become good major leaguers, it was a good deal. If they flame out, it was a poor trade. And so far, as has been said, the Bradley for Silva deal has had good results. The trade may have been a bad idea, but it's worked out so far.
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That's definitely a concern. If they sign Westbrook, hopefully they'll go with a rotation of Demp/Westbrook/Wells/Z/prospect-Silva-Gorz and move either Silva or Gorz to the pen. That's my hope, at least.
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My hope is that Hendry feels we need one pitcher, be he in the bullpen or a starter. Hopefully he'll sign Westbrook and then be done with the staff - if he insists that we need another pitcher.