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< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 > Last ›neither QB is gonna get you 25 PPG, but at least with tebow, you have the potential to have a 10+ minute advantage in time of possession, and while that doesn't put points on the board, it does prevent your opponent from putting points on the board.
considering how rex ryan made his bones in this league (with fierce defenses that had a nose for the ball and the endzone), tim tebow is really the kind of QB i would expect to excel with ryan as coach.
Losing by one TD a game instead of two wouldn't make me feel much better.
Even better, Seattle went for it up 21.
Theoretically. In reality last year the Broncos under Tebow never had a 10+ minute advantage. They did have a 5+ minute advantage three times, and went 1-2 in those games. The did have a 5+ minute deficit twice, including a 15 minute disadvantage. They of course won that game.
Why does the NFL play overtime if a tie is one possible result? Ties are very scarce under the current overtime rules, and almost not worth caring about, but it's a bit like calling a baseball game a tie after 12 innings or something. Why not just send everybody home early and get some rest?
but otherwise, the stats back up what i saw. he was very inaccurate in the 5-15 yard range, and he never really challenged the defense deep.
so basically, he was michael vick.
in other news, the offensive line roulette continues as julian vandervelde was released and jake scott was signed. i'm a fan of that. this season is over, but the eagles will have at least one hole on the offensive line next year, and as many as 4, depending on the rehab of jason peters, jason kelce, and todd herremens, so if you bring in a guy that can play now, that's one less hole that you have to worry about in free agency/at the draft.
Meh. If Jake Scott could play now, he wouldn't be available. So many teams need offensive line help, if you're picking a guy up off the street that says a lot and none of it good. He won't be on the team next year, but then again many players won't.
Hockey's got a weird problem because the hockey media world and hockey world in general is tiny. I get the sense a lot of them are under pressure to report things a certain way to keep their sources hap. Bob McKenzie, who's probably the biggest of the insider types is basically not covering the lockout, I assume in part to avoid poisoning a bunch of relationships that he has.
In any event, it's asinine. We'll see how much I watch when they sort it out. PL/Championship/Bundesliga/Champions League are filling the hole fine.
The Chiefs drafted Blackledge in '83 but, according to Pro Football Reference, he last won a game as a starter in Week 1 of the '87 season. So it's only been a quarter century since the Chiefs won a game with a (terrible) QB they drafted. Just feels like it's been 30 years.
personally, i'd have fired him in 2008 (that's the year they made their last run to the NFL championship game) after the eagles played cincinnati to a tie in week 11. at that point it was clear that he'd lost his edge, and when the eagles made their run that postseason, all that meant was that bought us was the last 4 years of mediocrity. if reid was fired at that point, there's no michael vick era, the donovan mcnabb era ends, and kevin kolb gets his shot as the starting quarterback without giving himself whiplash as mike vick takes the job away from him week 1.
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This season is toast. Unconscionable.
I had no idea that the NHL was in lockout mode until this thread.
Now that I'm 41, I can easily say I'm a bigger baseball fan than a hockey fan.
I still prefer hockey playoffs over baseball playoffs, and I'm more likely to go insane about a Maple Leafs playoff run than a Blue Jays playoff run, but I am far more likely to watch a full baseball game than a hockey game.
I definitely will watch a baseball game involving two teams that I don't root for (say Boston vs Texas). There is almost no chance I'll watch a regular season NHL game unless it involves the Leafs.
I'm also more informed about all the players in the American League than I am in the Eastern Conference.
I've attended about more baseball games in the past season than I have attended NHL games in the past 15 years.
The problem is that the NHL is basically losing every facet of this negotiation so far, and they by and large are looking terrible while they do it. And the question is do they realize this and make a deal, or do they hope the NHLPA shatters first. I have little confidence Bettman makes the right decision.
I personally believed all the positive ESPN coverage of his college career got Tebow to be picked in the first round. No way a team would have picked what projects to be a backup QB at best with a first rounder without the insane coverage around Tim Tebow.
edit: The part where the morning Sportscenter program and 1st Take are battling each other for Tim Tebow news (and the ratings I guess it generates is particularly crazy.) ITS THE SAME NETWORK. COME ON GUYS. THIS ISN'T HARD. YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO COMPETE AGAINST YOURSELF.
I've been working in the Arlington area a lot lately - are there any restaurants there you can recommend? I'd settle for something in Grand Prairie.
And to get somewhat back on topic, I've started posting writeups of old NFL games again, in case anyone is interested. Sorry for all the Raiders games, but that's what's available now.
I don't know about that. It was an incredibly bad QB year and three guys who were arguably worse went ahead of Tebow in the first round.
I think that has more to do with Josh McDaniels and the attitude that he was smarter than everyone else. He's not the only New England coach who has had that attitude.
Pho Palace at Collins and Pioneer. Prince Lebanese, about 2 miles west of the Ballpark on Randol Mill Road, is well-known and very good, but so is Beirut Rock just south of UTA campus on Cooper Street. There are two good Indian restaurants of long standing: Tandoor at Randol Mill & Fielder, and Star India at Cooper and Park Row. Of the newer downtown restaurants, I like the Mellow Mushroom on Center Street, just south of Division. It's a (minor) chain (as are the other places downtown); the ones I've mentioned and prefer are the real inexpensive-storefront deal.
Grand Prairie, I've only been to a few unmemorable places, but there is a string of long-standing Mexican restaurants on Main Street that must be doing something right. Best Mexican in Arlington is probably La Isla on Park Row just east of Cooper. They have a second location on Pioneer just west of 360.
And I will add Old Timey NFL to my bookmarks commencing now. I probably saw a lot of those games live on TV.
Huh? The only QB to go ahead of Tebow in that draft was Bradford at #1. The incredibly bad year part is correct - none of the 11 quarterbacks picked after Tebow have outperformed him.
One of them actually is though.
The most popular guy in town is often the backup quarterback until he starts to play and people remember why he was the backup in the first place.
RG3 is having a pretty fantastic day.
Yep, I fully expect the Eagles to announce that Vick is over his concussion as soon as this game ends.
1, between the phillies and the eagles, the phillies still have the more recent win.
and 2, the eagles are 4 points away from being 0-10.
Reid should be immediately fired if he does, since Vick isn't ready for basic testing yet.
this offense has a terrible combination of attributes right now. they don't throw the ball deep, so defenses can put 8 in the box. but their blocking is so terrible that they don't even need to do that to rush the passer or stuff the run. i honestly think that the eagles could have played this entire game with an 11-10 advantage in manpower and still lost by double-digits because they're so ####### terrible on offense.
Romo did one thing I'd never seen before: argued a penalty and got it reversed. He was called for intentional grounding, which offset defensive holding on the same play. Romo pointed out that the Browns were holding the receiver he was trying to throw to, so naturally the pass wasn't going to reach him – and the referee bought it.
I honestly think it's the latter of your options. I think d-line is just getting faster, stronger and far more athletic than the o-line counterparts.
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