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How is Fromm possibly worse than Glennon?
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What? You don't kick FGs down 17-3 in the 4th quarter. 17-3, you need 2 scores. 17-6, you need 2 scores. You have to play to minimize the number of times you need to score when the time is not on your side. Cutting the deficit to 11 with 8:40 to go and assuming you get the ball twice more when your defense is shutting the other team down and your offense is moving the ball isn’t the absurd choice you’re making it out to be.
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Nagy declined to kick field goals - 32 and 27 yards - on two consecutive drives in the fourth quarter, giving it up on downs. Kick those field goals and then a 2-point conversion at the end ties the game. The defense was playing great and the Vikings were doing nothing on offense. Take the freaking points!
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Bonds, Clemons, Schilling and ARod should all be no brainers. It would be the height of hypocrisy for ARod to get in with Bonds and Clemons being left out. As far as I can see, the only reason Schilling has been excluded is that he’s a jerk. He is a jerk, but that’s not a good reason. I’d also vote for Manny, Rolen and A Jones. I have a hard time differentiating Sheffield, Sosa and Abreu. I think they should either all be in or all be out. I think I’m more tepid on Sosa than I should be because I’m afraid my Cubs fandom is biasing me in his favor and then overcorrect.
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The wind was insane. On consecutive possessions Buffalo missed a 33 yard FG into the wind and NE punted the ball 72 yards with the wind.
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Weren't his Wisconsin teams quite successful? 68-24 over 7 seasons with 3 conference titles and 3 top 10 finishes.
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Luke Fickell was Ohio St’s co-DC. Brian Kelly was Grand Vally State’s DC before becoming HC. He’s been a HC ever since. Some guy called Nick Saban had been Michigan St’s and the Cleveland Brown’s DC before becoming HC of Michigan St. Urban Meyer was never a coordinator on either side of the ball, but got his start as a d-back and linebackers position coach.
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how the hell did that team only win 44 games (or 37 if it was the year before) They played no defense at all.
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Gomes is a nice final piece to a championship caliber team that has everything else it needs to win.
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Thanksgiving Bears game at Lions & Matt Nagy's last game(?)
champaignchris replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
And he denies he’s been fired. -
A 2-loss Iowa team? Possible, but they'd need to get into the Big Ten championship game of course which I believe they need some help to do. Even then their 2nd best win (with OSU/Mich being the 1st) would be at home against Penn State. I guess technically they have two top 10 wins, but both Iowa St and Penn St have really ranked since Iowa played them. Looking at their schedule, their best wins are home against 7-4 Penn St and Minnesota teams. Goes to show even in a P5 conference, you can put up a pretty gaudy record without ever really beating anyone. This is something I have very little experience with as an Illinois fan.
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Huge help for Cincinnati, Notre Dame and 2 loss Alabama. Keeps Oklahoma State/Oklahoma winner alive too but would need chaos. But screw it lets have chaos: -Alabama loses to Auburn and Georgia -Cincinnati loses to Houston -Michigan beats OSU (lol) and then loses to Wisconsin -OK State beats OU and then loses to them next week in B12 championship game Who the heck besides Georgia and Notre Dame get in? Ohio State and Houston? Lol A 2-loss Iowa team?
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There’s absolutely no way that Trout, Ohtani and Syndergaard will ever all be healthy at the same time.
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Not overly concerned, it was the first game and none of their top 4 scoring options were present. If anything it was one of their few chances this season to get a serious look at the back half of the rotation with some serious minutes, but there is nothing of value to take away in terms of overall team expectations from this one. I'm only worried about the ballhandling for ASU, not the season in total. They've got some decent players and we could end up with an ugly looking loss if neither Trent nor Curbelo can play. Both Trent and Curbelo could have gone against JSU. They’ll be in against ASU. Hutchenson is the one I’m worried about. Not sure if he’ll ever be healthy.
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Week 9 - Bears (3-5) @ Steelers (4-3) on MNF
champaignchris replied to UMFan83's topic in Other Sports
I should add that I am not in any way, shape or form advocating that Nagy and Pace be back next year. I would have canned them both after last season. It just looks to me like they think they’ll be back next year regardless of making the playoffs. -
Week 9 - Bears (3-5) @ Steelers (4-3) on MNF
champaignchris replied to UMFan83's topic in Other Sports
Idk, I think Nagy would need to show success in the playoffs this year to stick around, at the very least make the playoffs Never underestimate the McCaskeys capacity to settle on mediocre leadership. Right. Last season was considered acceptable. Ownership knew the plan was to acquire a young qb starter heading into the season and had to understand there’d be a learning curve. Nothing else about Pace’s and Nagy’s actions this year have indicated a playoffs or bust attitude. I think to return Nagy and Pace just have to sell ownership the idea that Fields has improved enough to take them to the playoffs next year. There’s probably a win threshold they need to get to in order to achieve that, but I don’t think it’s much more than 6 wins. -
Week 9 - Bears (3-5) @ Steelers (4-3) on MNF
champaignchris replied to UMFan83's topic in Other Sports
Not I. The phantom clipping call that called back the TD was the difference in the game. -
Road wins over top 20 opponents sandwiching a home loss to Rutgers is the most Illinois thing ever. It kills me that blowing that game against MD is probably going to be what keeps Illinois out of a bowl in BB’s first season.
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“Seemingly harmless weirdo” made me think of Trevor Bauer until you qualified it with “without committing a crime.”
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Right. He’s not selling when he’s a game out of the playoffs in a weak conference. He absolutely, totally should. But he won’t.
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Wouldn’t Nagy/Pace sign off on any trades only if they thought they were coming back next season? If they think their jobs are on the line, they’re not going to trade any asset that could conceivably help them eke into the playoffs.
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So, so, so predictable. No team handles success worse than Illinois football.
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Who would have thought that the Pacers' plan to just replace the coach and then pray their chronically injured team can consistently keep its starting lineup together would work out this well again?
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You think sexually assaulting the 11th overall pick in the draft who’d just scored 52 goals in Spokane may have impeded his development? Were the Hawks’ brass scratching their heads and wondering why the kid wasn’t working out?
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I might have agreed with this, but this year’s qb draft class is abysmal.