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Leno plays for Washington now. Washington is who gave him the contract extension.

I discovered this board while Googling something when I was 15 and started reading regularly. However, I had some previous trouble with my grades because of getting too involved a message board so I "banned" myself from actually joining until I finished high school.

A couple weeks ago, Ian Book started at QB, and there was a graphic on the screen noting that ND quarterbacks had lost 23 straight starts in the NFL. Last win was by Brady Quinn. They need to land a 5-star QB.

MLB Network's ultimate function is to be PR for MLB though. From your living room, it looks a lot like ESPN or any other network covering MLB, but it really isn't. At the end of the day, MLB is signing your check so you can't go out there and trash them.

There are other outlets where you can objectively report on MLB though: ESPN, Fox Sports, Sports Illustrated, The Athletic, etc. If you're going to work for MLB Network you have to understand that the rules are a little bit different. How long do you think Scott Merkin keeps his job if he tweets something trashing Jerry Reinsdorf?

MLB Network is owned by MLB, so Rosenthal was essentially an MLB employee. I don't know any company where you can publicly trash your company's CEO and retain your job.

Here are the tiebreaker rules: So if the Bears beat the Vikings head-to-head would be split 1-1. Division record would be tied at 3-3. Common opponents are LAR, CIN, CLE, DETx2, GBx2, SF, PIT, BAL, ARI, SEA. I had these records wrong in my previous post. Both teams were 4-8 in those games. Conference records would both be 5-7 Strength of victory will change as the week 18 games are played, but is currently .441 for the Vikings and .354 for the Bears. I don't think it can change that much. Vikings will essentially finish ahead of the Bears because they beat Green Bay once. Someone please check my work. I made a mistake in my previous post so I certainly could have made one here.

I'm not 100% certain, but I think the Bears still finish in 3rd place even if they beat Minnesota. They would both end up with 7-10 records with a split in head-to-head. The next tiebreaker is record vs common opponents and I figure that at 3-9 for the Bears and 5-7 for Minnesota. This matters because 3 games on the 2022 schedule are based on the place a team finished in the division, and one of those three is against the AFC South, where the 2nd place team plays the Colts and the 3rd place team plays Houston. So, the Bears can't hurt their first round pick by winning because they don't have one, and they also can't hurt their schedule for next year.

How many lawyers do you think have already called those fans?

The Giants offense vs the Bears defense - the movable force vs the resistible object.

Coan is an almost perfect passer when he has a clean pocket and his first or second read is open, but he was never able to perform under pressure which is why he got benched as Wisconsin. ND never really tried running the ball and I'm not sure if that's because Ok St had such a good run defense or if there was a lot more dropoff at RB behind Williams than I thought. Not going for it on 4th and 1 from their own 40 in the 1st quarter was a bad decision as was not taking a shot at the end of the half with over 30 seconds left and 3 timeouts. Hopefully these are just rookie mistakes by Freeman.

OK, probably not a celebrity unless you're a football fan, but Dan Reeves died this morning at the age of 77.

Notre Dame has not gotten anywhere near the talent of those other schools, at least not under Brian Kelly. Things may change under Freeman.

Only three NFL franchises have ever played a game without Betty White on this earth.

The gap between Georgia, Bama, and to a lesser extent Ohio State and Clemson, and the rest of college football in recruiting of 5* players is obscene.

My very first gaming console/game was Madden 13 on the PS3

What I expect to see out of the offense is a top 5 offensive line. Once you have that, you have flexibility in basing your offensive scheme around the strengths of your skill players as opposed to basing it on how long you have until your quarterback is getting hit. If you continue to let the offensive line be shit, then it doesn't matter what scheme you run.

When you're already eliminated from the playoffs it should be going for two 100% of the time. Absolutely no point in playing overtime and incurring added injury risk.

He did give up one sack, but overall he was good. If this team can get a couple really good OL and one good WR, they can have a Top 10 offense next year. Montgomery is a really tough running back. Definitely want to keep him around.

Why do I still watch this?

Give me the Colts OL (the starters, not the guys that played last night) and J Taylor and I can make just about any QB look good.

This is why the players have to be able to go so far as the owners making zero money before they will get any concessions out of them. If they players aren't willing to sacrifice an entire season for long-term gains, then they might as well cave now and have a full season in 2022.

Farther than I even thought possible.

Well, the Bears aren't the only ones suffering from awful officiating. Seahawks got totally screwed last night. There are far too many games with outcomes decided by officiating. Something needs to change. I never did a lot of sports betting to begin with but my football bets are zero now. Don't trust the outcomes.

From 2005-2016, there were 3 Stanley Cup wins, 2 World Series wins, and one Super Bowl appearance. Not too bad.