Ramius

RPI does suck. Go Clarkson!

The playoff is 10 races long, and there's almost no room for error. One crash or DNF due to engine problems does major damage to your championship shot, and 2 bad finishes basically kills you. If someone can run in the top 10-15 for all 10 races, there's a good shot they are going to win it all. Most drivers, aren't that lucky to survive all 10 races.

Officially no. But NASCAR has the "debris on the racetrack" caution, which can be used like a holding penalty in football. I've seen a good number of races where someone is running away with the race with 10-15 laps left, and officials mysteriously find "debris" on the racetrack and throw the caution for 1-2 laps, while they "clean it up".

Lets use some simple logic (which apparently evades you). The owners are so willing to stick it to the NFLPA that they opt out of the deal to better the deal for themselves, or 2, they realize they got a raw deal and got out of the CBA asap. Every national sportswriter and everyone with a brain realizes #2 is what happened. Only in your little patsy*-fan loving bahston world was the old CBA an "awesome deal" for the owners.

I forgot, you're the jackass who thinks the 2006 CBA was a great deal. Those owners loved the CBA so much that they voted to get out of the contract within 2 years of signing it. Sure seems like they loved it sooo much. And the cap problems of those teams werent the only reason, but you're extremely naive if you dont think they played a sizeable role in the big guys pushing hard to get the POS CBA signed.

It was well documented that the skins, cowboys, your patsies* and a handful of other teams would have been way over the 2006 cap of $85 million. The only thing that saved them was a cap increase of $17 million in the new **** CBA. They would have been screwed with a cap increase of the old standard 3-4 million per season.

Good thing he went to DC, where they dont get anywhere the amount of snow Buffalo does...

With Reed gone, the real question becomes, what happens to the "Josh reed in a single WR set, go in motion, and telegraph the run to that side" play we always ran?

Rolle didn't put up the numbers down here, but he did make an impact. And lots of times teams simply avoided him and attacked weaker parts of the defense. That being said, rolle's biggest problems are that he's a safety/LB tweener in reagrds to size and speed, and his hips are a bit stiff. Still, a hell of a player and a hell of a guy (he worked in my collaborator's biochem lab when i was in grad school), and you can't go wrong with a guy like him on your team. I'd guess a late 3rd/early 4th round would be the time to take him.

I hope you dont ever visit anywhere more than once or twice. If you have and follow your little "tipping" rules, you've eaten more than your fair share of pubes, boogers, dingleberries, etc. But hey, keep doing it if it makes you feel good about stiffing high schoolers or college kids making $3/hr. You're sure showing them.

It wasn't just Ohno in the 500. Its been rampant throughout the Olympics. There's a serious problem in short track about what constitutes a DQ. 95% of the time its a judgement call.

While i'd prefer a one possession per team rule in OT, i'd be ok with the "first one to 6" rule that they are proposing. It makes the first team consider whether to try the FG and then try to stop the other team, or to continue to push hard for the TD.

Well said. On the radio yesterday they mentioned that the Rams were seriously looking at Bradford and were meeting with his agent. Still a realistic that 1 QB goes at #1, which means the other guy probably wont fall past washington or seattle.

Way to see short track speedskating go the way of figure skating with the "judging" and DQs. In the 500m final, either DQ both apollo and the canuck, or let them both stay in their medal positions. But no, you have the canadian judge ignoring a canadian push-off to give one canadian the gold, and DQing apollo to give another canadian the bronze. I guess the key is to flop like a soccer player when you get touched.

Whitner was hardly a "luxury" pick. A luxury pick is a pick like McGahee, or Roscoe Parrish. We had a huge hole at the safety position after Milloy was let go. We should have taken Ngata or Bunkley, because they were/are better players. But to say Whitner was a luxury pick is foolish. Just because he wasn't a bit fat guy doesn't mean he was a luxury. He filled a position of need. But, i forgot, this board is filled with a bunch of chubby chasers who don't believe in drafting anything but linemen in the first 3 rounds of every draft.

Ahh, the old adage of "if i keep repeating it, it must be true". Whitner is NOT one of the smaller safeties in the league. He's right in there as average sized for an NFL safety. Contrary to what you and many others portray, the league is NOT full of 6'2" 225 lb safeties. You only trade Whitner if you can get a good return for him, and cutting him would represent the height of stupidity. I know you guys like to froth and foam at the mouth that Whitner should have not been taken at 8, and thus spastically underrate him on and off the field (because its Whitner's fault that we drafted him that high, obviously), but you simply don't cut or trade a player because he isn't living up to his "draft selection."

Good. Addition by subtraction. Maybe if we're really lucky, you'll leave TBD altogether. Sadly, this is one of the more intelligent things you've ever posted, given the normal tripe you type out and spew all over the board.

No, Trent Edwards isn't any good, even when healthy. Spare me the "concussion" bullcrap. The guy is a nancy who checks down and has issues throwing a deep ball (not arm strength, but the way he throws the deep ball) He wasn't any good even before his concussion, as he "won" 4 games against 4 of the worst teams in the league. He also has a loser, defeated attitude and is the QB version of Dick Jauron. The sooner he's gone, the better.

That empty netter shure shut gordie the hell up. Now, if only CCCP can knock off Canadia tonight.

Amen. Remember, its much more important to get "offended" by something trivial and go after the "bad guys" than it is to actually do something worthwhile that matters.

No, he's declaring your bull **** statistical analysis as skewed by several anomalies. Which it is. I'd be the first one on here (well, second maybe) to trash Holcomb's arm for faulty statistical analysis, but in this case, his criticism of yours is dead on. You are counting each super bowl won by brady and/or warner to count as a separate QB in attempting to once again prove your asinine "Aisle 8 QB" theory. In fact, they aren't. Brady and Warner are 2 of the biggest exceptions when it comes to finding QBs. What a dozen years tells us is that aside from 2 anomalies (having an all-time great defense or hitting the once in a generation QB jackpot in the later rounds), super bowls are won by 1st round QBs. Furthermore, take a look at any season and which teams are in the playoffs. The teams that make the playoffs are largely QB'ed by players drafted early. But lets make a bet. I'll take the consensus top QB in each draft, and you can take a 3 QBs from each draft, selected in rounds 5-7. We'll see who has the better QB first.

Hey Cynical, whats the rotation for the SEC conference football schedule? Here in the ACC, your team plays the 5 others in your division, 1 rival from the other division (in FSU's case its miami), and then you play 2 from the remaining 5 on a rotational basis where you play a home-and-home and then don't play them for a few seasons. I'm wondering if you guys have the same type of setup, and how the Big Ten(eleven) would set it up if Texas joined.

dwight, how long does it take you to fry noodles?

I meant player wise into the draft , but i guess it holds true for team contact as well. Its been well documented that Jimbo is structuring and organizing the team in the same manner saban does at 'Bama. We'll see how thing unfold when the spring game gets closer. I am excited about having an actual spring game this season instead of a series of scrimmages.

Harris needs to show more consistency and take care of the ball a lot better. He started off on fire last season but really cooled off towards the end. He's gotta stop making dumb passes and throwing INTs (17 last season). The kid does have some really good potential tho. If he can fix some of the mistakes and inconsistencies, he's got the raw talent and potential to be really good.