Civil War and Thursday Night Football - Open Thread
by John Morgan on Dec 3, 2009 4:59 PM PST
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We could all use some football to break up today's business. I understand many fans enjoy the process of building a team as much or more than the football itself. For them, Field Gulls will spare no white man in suit in our search for Seattle's next general manager. I enjoy the football more.
Mark Sanchez faces the Buffalo Bills, the NFL's second place defense by interceptions. Despite playing behind an elite offensive line, that paves the way for a very good run game, Sanchez has the highest interceptions rate among starting quarterbacks: 6%. His draftmate Matthew Stafford is nearly a full percentage point lower. Both players should worry their fans, because both players have done little to prove they will not bust.
I cut Stafford a little more slack because he's about a year younger and plays for a significantly worse team. Sanchez is plain scary. He has become worse over the course of the season, despite suffering no major injuries. He plays on a ready-made offense with one of the best left sides in football. When the Jets run game and defense can not win the game for New York, or when the Jets fall behind, Sanchez unravels in bust-like fashion.
Young quarterbacks are usually bad. Sometimes a Matt Ryan or Ben Roethlisberger lands in a perfect situation and starts out hot, but even Ryan and Roethlisberger have suffered setbacks since. Peyton Manning led the league in interceptions his first season, but also set the rookie record for touchdown passes. Young quarterbacks are bad but give fans reason to hope - successful young quarterbacks do.
Stafford, arguably, had that moment against the Browns. He fattened against a bad team, but fattened nonetheless and led his team back from a big deficit to a heroic victory. Sanchez has had no such moment. Both players are already showing troubling signs of busting. For Jets fans, Sanchez showing anything would be heartening, because young quarterbacks are bad, but few successful quarterbacks were ever as bad as Sanchez is today.
Something to keep in mind next season, when Seattle is most likely breaking in their young quarterback. He doesn't have to be great from his first snap, but if he isn't better than crippingly-bad after his first season, it's time to worry.
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I was doubtful of the significance of Sanchez' struggles a month ago
but I’m coming around. It’s not because he’s playing poor, but as you said, how he’s playing poorly and what how he’s playing indicates. If he’s not getting some real good QB coaching, and responding favorably, it’s pretty bad looking.
A couple of things regarding Stafford and Sanchez:
1) Stafford has an elite receiver, Sanchez has who… Cotchery? Not sure if Edwards will be that guy.
2) Stafford may be a year younger, but how long was he a starter in college? Wasn’t Sanchez only a starter for like a year and a quarter?
Not that I think Sanchez is anything special.
Haven’t seen him play yet. Tonight will be interesting.
I hope I am.
I hate to see first round quarterbacks go belly up.
It's painful
and as a fan, I never wish this on another fan.
I was impressed with Sanchez at USC—I think almost everyone was. He was too risky for my taste, but I do not need him to fail to feel confident in my assessment. His performance does not threaten or reinforce my opinions of him before the draft. He looked like a guy with adequate arm strength that moved in the pocket pretty well, but was very unseasoned, raw in his reads, raw in his decision making and totally unprepared for failure.
One 'elite' receiver does not make an offense.
Detroit has some talent on offense and less on defense. Stafford is regularly playing behind and attempting to pass his team back into games. Sanchez has Jones, that line, Cotchery, Edwards, Keller, previously Washington, Shonn Green and a defense that puts him in good field position and keeps the other offense from pulling ahead.
Stafford started three years in college and Sanchez about 1+. That experience is a part of each player, and Stafford is not somehow advantaged by it. It makes him a better prospect. It does not make Sanchez more likely to break out.
wouldn't that experience allow Stafford an easier transition?
I’m not talking about the long-term, I mean right now. Before the draft the “experts” were saying that Stafford was much more likely than Sanchez to have a chance to be successful right away.
As for that talent, yes, you’re right. But one big, deadly receiver can make a world of difference to a young quarterback. When it doubt, fling it up there. I believe this is why Edwards was brought in for Sanchez so hastily… but I have no idea how that’s worked out so far.
Sanchez has not improved with Edwards
and I do not think Stafford was considered more polished than Sanchez. Sanchez was the polished pick and Stafford the toolsy prospect. The common, and ridiculous, analogy was Manning and Lead, with Stafford playing Leaf.
Yeah, that archetypal way of seeing the top two QB's will be around for a while.
With Manning turning out to be God and Leaf turning out to be Dog, it’s such a convenient way of seeing things. But totally inappropriate.
Not watching the game (at the moment....and I have NFL N)
But I’m willing to bet the Rogers Centre is not full.
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They know Canadian football
Which is like American football but with rosters 50% American and 200% the fun of the NFL!
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God I hate it...
I’m all about the running game. So watching 5 wide receiver sets on every down makes me want to shoot myself.
I'm a running game guy myself (despite the fact I play WR)
But the CFL is a fun alternative for passing-frenzies.
That’s a league where midget QBs can succeed!
Oh and every game is on national TV since there are only 8 teams. I like that.
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I just looked it up...
You are only required to have 7 Canadian players on your team and they are negotiating a new CBA to bump it down to 4.
Wikipedia may not be the best source but
In 2006, the active roster limit was increased from 40 to 42. The import/non-import ratio, which required teams to keep at least 20 non-import (Canadian-born or Canadian-trained) players on their active roster, was increased to 21. Teams may have up to 4 players on their reserve roster, and up to 7 on their practice roster.
I’d hate to think the CFL dropped 17 Canadians from the limit in 3 years.
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Looks like maybe what I read is 7 canadian starters
Import Ratio Explained
Each team may dress a 42-man active roster consisting of:
* 3 QBs (no designation)
* 19 imports
* 20 non-imports
The 19 imports break down as follows:
* 16 imports
* 3 Designated Imports
The three designated imports are players who can play on special teams OR replace an import starter (they cannot start).
Of the 24 starters on a team, a minimum of seven starters must be non-imports. When applied to a starting roster of a team it breaks down as follows (when using the minimum number of non-import players):
* 1 QB
* 16 starting imports
* 7 starting non-imports
Good mechanics, and he has himself a completion?
Um, the WR didn’t turn around. One of the two of them mis-read the play, dumbass.
Sanchez is so goddamn jittery.
Reminds me of Hass a little.
With non-stop Menefee/Moon.
I know they were only there for the pre-season but they are awful.
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That would certainly make it fun for you, hey?
If Brohm came in and beat the Jets, we’d never hear the end of it!
Not much more to say about Brohm actually
He was interesting when he was free, but now he’s just another quarterback. It only frustrates me that a team with an obvious need didn’t sign him.
LOLZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Megatron catches that for a TD.
;)
Not you specifically
May have been a fanpost from a long time ago.
Last time we seriously mentioned Edwards was the trade.
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Here's hoping Fitzgerald lights it up the rest of the year.
Thus negating the need for a QB.
Turner sucks at the line.
Knowing the Huskies they make this FT and give up an easy basket and lose.
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Canfield didn't do much to excite me on that drive
but beyond the shotgun, State runs a pretty traditional offense. It doesn’t look like Canfield is getting garbage yards.
I am starting to think Masoli has a future as a Wildcat quarterback in the NFL
He’s sure built like a back.
Yes. I had it on the Sega Genesis.
Can’t remember the title.
Beast Wars™ was a tv show!
Created by the Canadian animation studio Mainframe, animators of other popular series such as, ReBoot™! Beast Wars™ ran for three seasons, as the heroic Maximals® fought the villainous Predacons® by transforming into “Beast Mode!”
spoiler:
it was Earth all along
no that was Transformers
I would call Beast Wars more of a stalking horse.
…eh, I tried.
I like how the announcer says
“that was just patience on Jones part”
yet he just ran full speed into the big fat hole
They wore these against Cal
they’re throwbacks to their last Rose Bowl win or something.
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If Brockman was a senior this year
Washington could be a title contender.
But they are getting destroyed on the glass. Getting close to giving up.
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What a stupid in-bounds pass.
Heave it deep for a covered Overton and no one in the backcourt?
Washington blows the game. They absolutely need a big man.
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Do you think
If he comes back as GM he’ll possibly come back as coach? I’d tend to think not but I leave the possibility there.
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Awful in terms of being a coach?
After seeing his playcalling take a massive nosedive (that draw with no timeouts deep in Cleveland territory two years ago was it for me) I don’t want to see him as a coach/playcaller anymore.
I don’t want to see him as a GM either but if he returns as coach has me slightly nervous.
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Imagine not well
Holmgren was a great coach, a great teacher and mentor. That’s what he did. He helped make “Favre”. He turned Hasselbeck into a Pro Bowl quarterback. I think about those guys without Holmgren and I see a bust and a backup.
Definite QB guru, it's his handling of most everything else that made him spotting
Plus, I’ve been enjoying Knapp’s playcalling thus far. Although the execution may not be as good as Holmgren managed.
In crucial situations
It was awful. Even he admitted when we were driving against the Steelers in the game we lost 21-0 he had a brain cramp in clock management.
Plus I want to keep my normal looking shotgun formation!
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He panicked/did weird things
On several occasions that particular season.
Shaun/Mo situation was bewildering. He had to have been seeing something different from the rest of us. Shaun was running into piles while Mo Morris was catching passes and getting into the open field.
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Even after it healed
Although did seem to effect him that whole season. Blech, why are we talking about this.
"We got the MVP Shaun back." - Holmgren before the Eagles game
That quote stuck in my mind for some reason.
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Maybe it's too black a subject even for me
now if you were riffing on Rwanda, I love genocide humor!
by John Morgan on Dec 3, 2009 6:49 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I think that's a good spot for him.
And would cheer those Browns heartily.
You think he'd trade for Hass?
That would make me very happy.
His cronyism is symptomatic of his process.
Holmgren decides with his gut like a coach, and not with his brain like a businessman.
"You just nailed yourself." - Jesse Palmer to Erin Andrews
Is that really a good choice of words?
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For whatever reason, I just keep getting the feeling I had when watching Matt Ryan.
He isn’t a college QB.
Busted his shoulder
missed the rest of that season and wasn’t fully healthy until late into practice.
Why did Matt Cassel never get a chance to start?
Oh that’s right, nevermind.
I sure hope so.
That guy is tearing up the NFL
I don't get the expression.
There aren’t windows in the basement I reside in.
by abender20 on Dec 3, 2009 7:09 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I have to walk up into my parents bedroom to throw my statistics out the window
but now they’re just laying on the lawn and dad’s mad.
Its not that bad
Texas has the worst tap water.
People in SoCal would lead you to believe that tap water is undrinkable but this is a lie.
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I got into some of the East Coast stuff while in Boston for Thanksgiving.
There is some interesting stuff out there.
Life sometimes works like that.
The winters there will drag you down though. Do not miss “Do not outside – too cold” warnings ticking across the TV.
Boston is windier than Chicago
fast fact. But, yeah, if you can do Chicago, Boston isn’t so bad. When it’s like March 18, and there’s black snow piled everywhere, it gets to be a drag.
There are a LOT of transplants in Boston.
Most people don’t talk like Mark Wahlberg
'dat's taded
Done in my best Ben Affleckian accent.
I didn't realize he's 309 pounds.
I’m not happy about that fact.
Seattle needs a GM that will draft roiders
that will turn around the franchise. Enough of these church goers.
I know it won't happen
but I wonder how amazing USC would be if they ran Oregon’s offense.
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Just askin'
How about a Matt Schaub-type trade for Kevin Kolb instead of taking a QB with the first 1st round pick? That sounds infinitely better than taking a chance on McCoy or Jimmy Clausen.
Still hard to say if Kolb will be any good.
Should be better then Sanchez though. However, I’d rather take the risk on someone with better upside, especially with this draft.
What the NFL needs is a new helmet
Whoever designs something that combines the shoulder pads and helmet but doesn’t limit mobility, is going to save some brains.
Canfield is a machine.
Where does he stand in the QB pecking order? Before or after Tebow?
It's hard to construct a board right now
Realistically, I could see Caveman, Bradford and Canfield being 1, 2, 3.
Caveman?
CAPTAIN Caveman?
(where the heck was he from, anyhow?)
I toured the Christian Science church in Boston a few years ago.
They have some pretty nifty views on medicine. Like denying a 2 year old diabetic insulin in favor of prayer. That worked about as well as you’d think it would.
There's a big Russian contingent in the northwest?
I didn’t even notice, or know there was a prejudice, but I’m mostly not from the coast
Not from Spokane either
pretty upper middle of the state. Oh i know what he had now, Canadian prejudices. They were the worst fucking drivers ever, so i was told. And they kept trying to invade our lands.
I only remember injun and messican prejudices
White people. Though it went both ways and mostly didn’t really exist.
Oh
it existed. At least where I was and for Mormons and Russians. In fact, most people refused to believe it was a prejudice. They were like “Well, it’s true!”
What the shit?
I remember watching this, but Good God.
Let's say the Hawks get 6-10.
Spiller has to be available at that point. Take Oline (LT/RT) with second first round pick and cross your fingers for Canfield or LeFevour to be there in second round.
It looks like both will be available then
If not much later even.
by Brendan Scolari on Dec 3, 2009 11:41 PM PST up reply actions
Dr. Lou's suit was picked out by a practicing pimp.
His tie is from a cocktail party in 1976.
only if there's three pick-sixes in the next ten minutes.
Clemens sucks.
Heh, I mistook your Civil War reference
I thought you meant the program the Military Channel is re-running tonight @ 8PM, about how Robert E. Lee would have won the battle of Gettysburg if a certain George Armstrong Custer and his Michigan cavalry hadn’t thwarted J.E.B. Stuart’s attempt to swing around the Union flank and attack the center from behind, at or about the same time as Pickett’s ill-fated charge. Good stuff, that. I highly recommend the book on which it is based.
Eh, Gettysburg should never have happened
and the South could have won it in several different ways but Lee screwed the pooch on that one. It is definitely interesting stuff.
Yeah, I think Longstreet was right
and they should have adopted his defensive strategy rather than fight on such bad ground.
Still, the theory outlined in the book and program makes a compelling case that Lee could have won despite the terrain disadvantage.
Could have won
doesn’t mean he should have done it though. Hell, even had he won it it was still a bad decision. No real reason to attack. However, I won’t claim I’m a huge Gettysburg officianado.
Well, as the program emphasizes, Lee was an audacious risk-taker
not unlike some modern-day football coaches who go for it on fourth down deep in their own side of the field.
Lou: The problem with players today is they're not taught respect
Coming from a man whose SC team basically rioted on the field and committed 5 major recruiting violations.
A toast to you and one for Ruskell
I’ll never forgive you for two years of Brian Russell, but you were a good exec.
Trading a second round pick for Denver's first round pick is still nothing short of genius
No one thought Denver would be good. It was bad, or historically bad.
I can't tell if Canfield is a hell of a passer
or making some silly decisions and getting away with it.
Are you seeing enough fundamentals to make him worth a look next spring?
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Damn I wish I had this broadcast over here...
Can I ask what you are seeing from his reads? Does it look like he is making the proper progressions?
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Yes, it certainly seems that way.
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by Carl Shinyama on Dec 3, 2009 8:03 PM PST up reply actions
Sounds like a neat fit for a team that runs alot of seam routes...
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Exactly
I can watch him and see the gears working. He’s reading the route and picking the perfect time to pass.
Wow.
Yes, I like what I see from Canfield. Good vision, lots of patience.
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zzzzzzz
19-13 Jets. Sanchez out. Jets pounding it down with 3:30 left.
I don't care who wins this (although I picked Oregon to win the Pac-10)
I just want to see the winner of this game bitch slap Ohio State.
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I think Oregon matches up better against Ohio State
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by Carl Shinyama on Dec 3, 2009 8:05 PM PST up reply actions
All of a sudden, I want Oregon's offense off of the field so I can watch more Canfield.
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In other words, great locker room material? lol
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by Carl Shinyama on Dec 3, 2009 8:09 PM PST up reply actions
per Wikipedia
Attended Purdue University where he was a four-year starter on the defensive line for the Boilermakers. Amassed 131 tackles (89 solo) and 35.5 tackles for losses of 165 yards. Ranks fifth on school’s career sack list with 20.5. All-Big Ten selection by coaches and honorable mention by media as a fifth-year senior. As junior was honorable mention All-Big Ten by coaches and media. Started every game as sophomore. Appeared in all 12 games and started eight freshman year
well that doesn’t make me feel better
Obviously not much Oregon State coverage over here in Thailand.... haven't seen anything on this guy other than what I have read.
How’s the arm strength?…. and I have been wondering, is he the kind of QB that sometimes has too much confidence in the arm and forces things he shouldn’t?
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Doesn't seem like it.
He seems to make calculated throws, which I find to be a product of his patience. But then, he is getting great protection, so he can afford to be patient.
I’d like to see how he handles his throws when he’s getting pressured.
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by Carl Shinyama on Dec 3, 2009 8:10 PM PST up reply actions
Most of his career
he the only wide receiver of his generation I can think of that had success on so many different teams and with so many different quarterbacks.
Terrell Owens was a fantastic receiver.
Absolutely deadly. Could go deep, could pull down a jump ball, could break a tackle and bust a slant eighty yards. A total dick, but one of the best offensive weapons of the last ten years.
Ok, I stand corrected
I started following the NFL when he played in the SB after being injured and played badly. Personally I don’t remember him being good for the ’boys, but maybe his off-field crap just hid it from me.
Yeah
drops can be overstated because they’re outrageous to the common fan. It’s like “I could have caught that!” But he was a speeding hulk, with huge hands and the presence of a tight end.
I would rather
but if he was a free agent and my team looked to be one player away: Welcome in-his-prime Owens.
Forget the lack of effort (which was terrible)
He totally misjudged the flight path of the ball. I assume that’s considered an important WR skill.
Deon Butler doesn't think so
Good thing we traded up for him.
by John Morgan on Dec 3, 2009 8:12 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
On a serious note... are the instincts your referring to a teachable skill?
or do you think some guys got it and some guys dont?
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It's an ability to track the ball in flight
Honestly, I kind of doubt it. I think if he was kept on short routes and somehow was not destroyed, he could ok.
Sweet... so your saying we are getting your unfiltered editorial.... Me likes
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Nah... It wasn't "Hitler Evil"....
On an evil meter…… It was more “South Park Evil”
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Three seasons
6 INTs, 3 returned for touchdowns, and a kick return for a TD.
I like the midget.
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I feel a Wilson pick-6 again
This weekend against the 49ers. He’ll get a great break on the ball and race down the sidelines for a 45 yard TD.
I love pistol. Ruskell’s 2nd round picks have been money.
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But since this is 2009
it will be called back due to a penalty.
Is it just me being a cynic, or are we getting way more penalties since the walrus left?
All of one season?
Yeah it feels like it but we still are decent compared to the rest of the league.
The penalty thing has just been occurring the past few weeks.
And Wilson is too awesome to be denied a TD. We’re 4-0 when he scores.
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Sorry, trying to be too clever there
Wasn’t meaning to point out a causation link, was just a more amusing way of saying “this year”
Oh wait. They did.
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by Carl Shinyama on Dec 3, 2009 8:19 PM PST up reply actions
This is my favorite part of football season.
It’s when the stakes are at their highest :)
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by Carl Shinyama on Dec 3, 2009 8:23 PM PST up reply actions
Why do they call themselves "Ducks" and "Beavers"? Are they ASKING to be ridiculed?
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by Carl Shinyama on Dec 3, 2009 8:26 PM PST up reply actions
Sorry if the Q was dumb
but surely it’s more than just “Oregon vs. Oregon”, or do people from Florida call Florida vs Florida state “Civil War”?
Bad route
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by Carl Shinyama on Dec 3, 2009 8:24 PM PST up reply actions
Hey interesting thought....
Does a lefty shift the focus from LT to RT because of the blind-side?
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Well now isnt THAT interesting... Seattle already has top level RT talent... YES?
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Interesting.
So if Seattle acquired say…Mark Brunell back in the day, would Walt and Hutch have been the right tackle and guard? Just seems funny to see those two on the other side.
SEA!
These are football players playing a football defense.
I’m still not sure if Gruden is an idiot savant.
Some team this weekend had a backup QB that was a lefty play
I think it was whoever the Colts beat?
Anyway whoever it was, the offense and defense didn’t change where they lined up, just the QB’s blindspot changed.
I was surprised, I expected the whole game to switch sides, but then what do I know?
At the NFL level at-least
but TMQ can explain that, it’s better to be conservative and lose than to take risks and lose.
Eh
Comcast may still pay me money. I have no particular qualms with giant corp. I just think outdated models that restrict information are stupid.
Always root for whomever's behind
works for me. That’s when i just want to see an exciting competitive game.
I swear...
I switched over to the NFL game during the civil war half time and was in a deep sleep instantly.
Missed the entire 3rd quarter. Damn you Jets/Bills
I am exceedingly interested in this RH LH QB thing?
The presence of a couple solid lefty QB’s in the upcoming draft would mean a greatly decreased need for 1st or 2nd round OL. I would love to see a write up about how that could play out.
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The same principles still apply
They’re just reversed to an extent. You still need talent on the line though.
by Brendan Scolari on Dec 3, 2009 11:53 PM PST up reply actions
No one wants to hear about the terrible injury
let’s talk about people having their skulls pounded. TOUGHNESS
Like ones that don't fall off all the time.
Because I’m not looking forward to the first big helmet to face/skull hit.
When those helmets come off, the announcers praise guys for being tough and fighting through it.
If my helmet came off, I’d turn around and sprint for my end zone or a sideline, whichever was more likely to keep me from contacting another human.
I was born in South Africa
Cricket is the first sport I really liked, it’s really not that hard to understand, just hard to understand well enough to sit thru a test (5 day) match.
The new fangled 20/20 mode of cricket is pretty exciting.
Meh.
There’s nothing horrible about Spokane. I resented it growing up because there isn’t shit to do for younger folk, but it is a nice enough town. Great access to nature, great cycling, and very good public schools. I wouldn’t live there as a young college graduate / professional / whathaveyou
Portland is a transplant city and proud
It supports the Blazers and whatever the hell else it wants.
I realise you didn't mean that at me, but personally
I like to watch most sports, anything without motors or wheels.
Football (American), Tennis, Cricket, Football (European), Rugby are my favorites.
Two of my very good friends freshman year are half-Thai/ half-Indian dizygotic twins.
We’d all work on problem sets until 3 in the morning and then watch ODIs. Great stuff.
I have a basic grasp of cricket
Duckworth-Lewis method, number of bowls in an over…what’s a 6, 4, 2, 1, etc.
It’s not good for TV viewing.
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It's great tv watching if you can see the hilight show
have to love a sport where the daily hilights are 2 hours long!
I disagree, but it's all about the environment.
I’d end up watching India/Pakistan ODI series in a room full of people who really cared. Once I knew what I was watching and had an appreciation, I got into it as well.
That makes sense
I skipped a crappy concert at an art show to duck into a Fred Meyer and watch the Ducks with Ducks fans.
It's gotten out of hand.
I’m a white kid form Spokane, Washington who irrationally dislikes Australia because I’m an Indian cricket fan. Ricky Ponting can go get fucked.
While on the subject of Cricket
Graeme Smith is one of the most amazing stories in sports in my opinion.
He’s the captain of the South African team (Captains in Cricket is a big deal. Coaches can’t talk to the team while they are on defense, and they can be there all day, the captain makes all the tactical decisions) who basically forced his way into the tam when he was very young, and has done amazingly well.
My dad played cricket in school
He loves the game but hates when the weather is bad (humid hot day).
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I was just following along online.
He was getting close to historical runs
We get cricket in Canada
but it’s a pay channel that I can’t afford right now. I don’t believe I missed that :(
I always knew Bledsoe was gay
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by Carl Shinyama on Dec 3, 2009 8:38 PM PST up reply actions
You're talking about Logan Payne.
He’s such an amazing route runner.
Oop! Some dude just killed him with a tackle.
OSU has been running pro formations all night
Jesse Palmer, welcome, this is football we’re watching.
That depends
With protection, maybe. But he sure is a much a statue in the pocket as anyone.
He makes Rhea Pearlman look like Michael Clarke Duncan
by abender20 on Dec 3, 2009 8:55 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Rhea Pearlman?
I’m amazed this is what came to your mind.
He also said once in an interview that I watched
that he had spent his vacation in the french riviera, and in his opinion every Indian should go there atleast once in his life.
It's estimated (according to a newspaper I read in Oz) that when Sachin walks out to bat against Pakistan
1 billion people watch their TVs
I hate UO but I give them credit for wearing a modern interpretation of their classic uniforms tonight
I hope you die. I hope we BOTH die.
It's still UGLY
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by Carl Shinyama on Dec 3, 2009 9:02 PM PST up reply actions
Probably should've gone with yellow pants...I say this to myself every morning
I hope you die. I hope we BOTH die.
He needs the ball back
Defense can’t allow anything beyond a field goal…obviously
I would be too riled up to sit through it.
I’d be muttering throughout.
I've puked once watching a movie
and that was a mix of a water perk gravity and vertigo induced by The Matrix. I do not wish to puke again.
I used to throw up during really tense movies. I guess I was a sensitive little kid.
I threw up in the middle of Apollo 13.
What I said!
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by Carl Shinyama on Dec 3, 2009 9:06 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah. What a load of yahoos.
Still, that pizza sounds lovely
I feel proportionate shame for for the sin of eating out of season vegetables.
I however do not feel cardinal shame for eating out of season vegetables.
I feel an emotion resembling sadness for OSU. I know what this loss must feel like to their fans.
I hope you die. I hope we BOTH die.
I actually find myself being sad for OSU.
And I usually don’t give two shits about them.
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I'm actually replaying it right now
Made me think of it.
Not Sabin
Hate hate hate entering his blitz combos every damn time.
I like Gau, he can be a real beast if you take the time to develop him properly.
And now I reveal my true, chicken head in mouth, geek mettle
Gau with the ‘catscratch’, and later ‘flare star’ with the Io rage. Also: Merit Award.
I discovered that Merit Award one on accident once
Made him nearly unstoppable. I was happy because I’m a total FF nerd about that sort of thing. His MBlock% was so high!
Also who do you never use?
Relm’s Sketch has the potential to ruin your save, plus she and her grandpa Strago suck. I get attached to other characters by the time these inferior guys show up, and so I just never bother to use them.
Palidor
Yes I had to look it up…I’m a terrible person.
Also this game is great in spite of all the crazy bugs and glitches (161 in all, someone calculated, not including the Vanish/Doom or X-Zone ‘strategy’ for beating bosses) and translation errors. I learned that the translation had to be shorted and censored to fit the American cartridge and Nintendo’s rules
The secret is out!
I’m interested to know what you think it is.
I would say you are wrong
Except I’m afraid you’d ban me. I thought I was, with the warning and all.
Just a good way to communicate covertly.
I figured that was wrong, but it popped into my head.
I will tell you, because I doubt there are many people still reading this thread and they likely don't care much
It’s Japanese for ‘sarcastic humor’, or so some translation websites have led me to believe.
I think the Ducks match up better against Ohio State than Oregon State does.
Sam Bradford, future Seattle Seahawk.
by Carl Shinyama on Dec 3, 2009 9:19 PM PST up reply actions
Nowhere near as good as it has looked on the Huskies'
Sam Bradford, future Seattle Seahawk.
by Carl Shinyama on Dec 3, 2009 9:19 PM PST up reply actions
Ah, I see what you did there.
Sam Bradford, future Seattle Seahawk.
by Carl Shinyama on Dec 3, 2009 9:20 PM PST up reply actions
Say Brunell beat Ravens in old memorial stadium
He beat the Ravens on his own. Ran, passed, was awesome experience. I watched on the end zone on Soccer bleachers. Was unreal.
It is what it is...
I likey.
Sam Bradford, future Seattle Seahawk.
by Carl Shinyama on Dec 3, 2009 9:20 PM PST up reply actions
Jarmacus might be available for cheap this year
if all we need is arm strength :)
It is what it is...
If I were coach
one thing I would tech is coordination during fumble drills. I hate seeing players of the same team fighting for a fumble.
So - did anyone notice that Moevao was on OSU's kickoff return team?
I wonder what they were planning… kinda sad we didn’t get to see it…
(I’m assuming it’s not normal for them to trot out a QB as a kick returner…)
Sad that my Beavers couldn't win the game
The Beavers played an outstanding game and this is probably one of the greatest games I have ever seen. The Rodgers brothers are amazing and Sean Canfield will be an elite NFL QB. Just hope that the Hawks draft him!
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