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3+ loss teams: Florida, Illinois, Notre Dame, Texas A&M, UCLA, Pittsburgh, Georgia, Penn State, Tennessee, California, Clemson That's a pretty impressive list of teams this early in the year. Most of those teams don't usually lose 3 or more games in a season, much less in the first month and a half.
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It makes someone like Devin Hester relevant regardless of his production as a WR. I thought it made more sense than including them with the defensive scoring, because it seemed too often last year that a bad defense could put up a good score. Every score that they give up leads to an opportunity for kickoff return yardage. Yeah, I'm not complaining at all about it. I like oddities in scoring like this in some leagues – it gets boring playing the same standard scoring in every single league. I was just humored that a rookie from Montana that I had never heard of before the draft was who I was staking my win this week on.
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Alabama's a really good team this year (comparatively to the rest of college football, which is down overall) but having McElroy at QB keeps them from blowing many teams out. If they can't run at will on a team, the game will be close because they can't pass effectively consistently.
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It'll be interesting to see how badly Alabama beats us. I am interested to see what the gameplan is for Dooley coming off a bye week – and this team really needed a bye week. I don't expect it to be close, though.
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I'm now relying on Marc Mariani to get me 4+ points in order to win this week. Counting return yards adds a very interesting dynamic to the league.
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That would make sense. I wondered how the middle outfit fit in. Didn't realize that.
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Why is the gameday attire for football a basketball getup? They should have gone with Teddy Roosevelt on the sidelines.
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This is weird for a guy who's looked like a top tier fantasy QB for a couple years now. I never thought my QB position would be in question once I drafted Schaub.
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Admiral Ackbar would have been so much cooler.
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I think Greene can be productive even with a healthy LT, much like Williams and Stewart for Carolina the past two years. Last week I started both in the NSBB league. LT had the yardage, Greene had the TD, and both gave me double-digit points. The problem with a clear backup RB, though, is that if he doesn't get a TD or two, he's completely worthless to me because he won't get the carries to have significant yardage. Greene can be valuable if you already have LT or if he punches in a TD or two, but he will be valuable if LT remembers he's washed up and Greene regains the starting role.
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I'm more likely to cut Knox at this point, I think. I like Bess and, even though I like Knox fairly well, I think he'll be more consistently good than Knox. Greene has more upside than any of them if LT breaks down at some point this season.
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Bears game 6: Sunday Oct. 17 vs SEA on FOX
dew1679666265 replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
Cutler was a senior that year (2005). That was also the year Vandy beat Tennessee and was easily one of their best teams in recent memory. -
Hopefully Calvin will be healthy and I won't have to. Too bad it's Fitzgerald's bye week, or this would be a much easier choice.
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Hmmm...Not a huge fan of any of those really. Actually Bess might be a better option than any of those if you wanna grab him too. I'll probably wait until I hear for sure what's up with Calvin before dropping anybody. I'd hate to drop any of the three (or McFadden after how well he's played), but I'd have to in order to pick up Bess. My only other option is to cut Roethlisberger, but I'd hate to do that with Schaub not exactly lighting the world on fire.
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Thanks for setting me straight fellas. Now for another, related question: Assuming Calvin does not play, do I start Knox or Shonn Greene v Denver in my RB/WR flex spot? Brandon Jacobs v Detroit is another option for that spot.
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More of a pickup question rather than a sit/start question: I currently have Johnny Knox v Seattle as one of my starting WRs if Calvin doesn't play Sunday (sounds bad after hearing Schwartz's comments). I'm looking at picking up either Mike Wallace v Cleveland or Davone Bess v GB. This seems like an obvious choice to me, but I'm having trouble pulling the trigger on Wallace. Am I an idiot for wavering?
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Oregon has the best singular win so far (3 scores over Stanford) but they don't really have another impressive win and they struggled to beat Tennessee and Washington State in the first half - two really bad teams. Ohio State's win over Miami is nice and comparable to anything Boise has done, but they struggled mightily with Illinois and have played cupcakes otherwise. Boise has two solid wins - Va Tech and Oregon State - and have mercilessly beaten everybody else they've played - all cupcakes, however. I'd give the edge to Boise because of the second solid win, but I don't think there's a significant difference.
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All the coaches you mentioned went back to the NCAA because they failed in the NFL – with the exception of Groh. Wanny was a bad NFL head coach with a record of 82-87 overall. Saban was at Miami for two seasons and was 15-17. Jim Mora, Jr. has never gone back to the college ranks, though he was rumored for the Washington job. Bobby Petrino was bad for a year then headed back to college. I'm not talking about fringy type coaches who hang out in between the college and NFL ranks or dabble for a year in the league and then head back to college or are mediocre enough in the NFL that they can get a better job in college. I'm talking about the latter group you mentioned – Ditka, Parcells, Holmgren, Gruden, Dungy, Cowher – who are longtime, very successful NFL head coaches. There's no incentive for them to take on a similar workload in college for lesser stature and more time on the road. Some coaches prefer the developmental aspect of working with young athletes as opposed to superstars. I get that. But a coach like Dungy, Gruden or Cowher likely isn't in that mold – and they are the guys we were talking about.
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I'm talking about coaches the stature of Gruden, Dungy and Cowher. There are fringe coaches like Wannstedt and Devine who bounce around some, but a coach who has had a good deal of success at the NFL level has not made the move back to college football. If it was the easy, plum job you make it out to be, wouldn't more coaches do it?
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He coached four seasons and was 25-27 in those years. I wouldn't call him well-established and successful.
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They go to the TV booth because it's an incredible little amount of work for really good pay and they get to spend significant portions of time with their family. Leaving the NFL to get paid well to do very little work is semi-retirement. Leaving the NFL to go coach a college team for a little less money is taking a step down in stature and something that no well-established coach has done before – and likely for a good reason.
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You seem confident in that opinion. I just don't see an established NFL head coach going to the college ranks. The only ones you see going to college are the failed coaches (Wannstedt, Gailey, Carroll, Callahan, Sherman, etc). I can't think of any established, successful NFL coach going to the college ranks just for the heck of it.
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Oregon and Stanford are probably two of the three best teams in the SEC. Alabama is the only team likely better than them. If Georgia's play Saturday was any indication of what they'll do going forward and Les Miles can continue to be the luckiest man on the planet, then the SEC is right there with the Pac-10. Otherwise, I think it's better.
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Thanks. I remember UCD giving Boise State a fight for a while last year and beating San Jose State, but wasn't sure if those were fluky games or if UCD was legitimately that good.
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It'll be interesting to see what the Titans' gameplan will be against Jacksonville. This is a game we really need to win if we plan on making the playoffs and it'd be nice if this is the game we can get the running game going. However, we've had good success in recent years throwing on the Jags, so that may be the right way to go to, hopefully, continue to loosen defenses up a bit.