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getting so annoyed with fantasy. When my marginal players show up, my consistent players will give me their worst outing. Yeah, totally, of course if the saints score 45 points jimmy graham will have had his second worst game of season, obviously. Sure, yeah wes welker will have only a handful of catches. Yay.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Nov 11, 2013 -> 01:02 PM) Nah, just not nutting myself if someone has 2 good weeks. What would J4L post about then? I'm excited for Anthony Davis. I didn't know how much stock to put into last year, I was only half paying attention with his injury. He was so remarkable as a freshman at UK, he allowed their guards to press up like hell because he'd swat anyone that drove. Still haven't seen him this year, want to catch a Nola game soon.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Nov 11, 2013 -> 03:11 PM) I agree...and then you look back and realize that starting him in the first place was just stupid to begin with. I get that, I don't know a lot about groin injuries. I know he did look pretty sharp in first quarter and then slowly deteriorated. Through no real fault of his own though, I think this is is the game that seals Cutler not getting a big contract next year. He's far too injury prone. He's barely gotten hit this year and he still falls apart.

I was fine with letting Cutler start, but as soon as it was clear he was injured he should have been pulled. First things that go with Cutler when injured are mechanics. And he was missing a lot of throws just sidewinding em. Add to that we are playing dirtiest defense in NFL and his injury could have gotten way worse. It was a really poor decision.

So I'm benching Rice rest of season.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Nov 10, 2013 -> 07:32 AM) It's been that way for Alabama before the season started. Auburn?

Dorial Green-Beckham with a ridiculous catch just now for his third TD. http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photo....gif?1384025882

Aw yeah they are so generous giving ten f***ing percent. Screw them.

Oh hey Sixer's victory.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 10:42 PM) That what he tells us. New and improved and better and stuff. Not some some prehistoric policy. He keeps telling us what is good for us. He should put his two kids in the exchange. LOL Yeah, we KNOW what's good for us, we know that when we were denied health care policy because we had cancer, that's what was great. Now he's telling us that's bad? Ugh, usa used to be free baby. used to be FREEEE

Remember Peter Warrick? Man I thought he'd be awesome.

There was a WSJ Op-Ed where someone's policy was canceled, she had cancer, and was now stuck with a plan where some of her providers were out of network. It is sad, and that does suck. But, it turns out that provider had been struggling with their individual plans and were talking about cancelining them months before. Had this happened 5 years ago she would not have been able to get any coverage because she had pre-existing conditions.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 09:03 PM) I will point out though, that if he fires Sebellius, and he has to go through a Senate confirmation... well, why bother? So if that is a confirmation-level position, then I wouldn't fire her either. I'd just tell her to go focus on something else and have her direct report on this report straight up. This.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 08:37 PM) How would you like to be one of the people promised they could keep their coverage and now they can't? Can wipe out life savings in an instant. I said "one of" the biggest embarrassments/fiascos ever. Again, if you are the one affected by this, you have a right to be outraged. The American dream is not supposed to include the President screwing you over where now you get sick and have nothing! It takes, what, a week in the hospital to wipe out a bank account. The fact I actually voted for Obama shows you what a wreck of a country we have. A lifelong Republican who couldn't stand the thought of the other candidate. If I had it to do over, as much as I detested the sight of Romney and hearing him speak about issues, I'd reverse my vote. What Obama has done here saying people could keep coverage and lying about that is despicable. You realize if your policy was canceled you can still get other policies right?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 06:41 PM) You do realize most conferences have 2-3 good teams? Where are these unicorn conferences with all great teams? Florida beat Toledo so they are awesome?!?!?! Georgia beat North Texas!!! Auburn beat Wash St by 7 @ Auburn, AMAZING!!! What exactly makes you believe in other conferences so much, when every other conference is as insulated as the big10? Its all hype, no one really has a clue how good any of these mid- low level teams are. Ok, great. But I'd take Alabama LSU Auburn Ole Miss Texas A&M Mizzou USC and UGA over the top 8 of b1g with a healthy margin. Doesn't mean OSU UW and MSU wouldn't win 3/4 to all games over those teams, just means there are 8 good teams there that when beaten are impressive wins. I just don't think people feel that way over wins vs Minnesota, Nebraska or PSU right now, though PSU probably closest.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 06:44 PM) We added Hawaii in the hopes in 5 years they will be good again. Its like playing the stock market. I mean, look at if you scheduled Baylor 10 years ago. Big 12 especially is in an interesting shakeup mode right now. The only reason this is coming up is b/c it looks like there may be 3-4 undefeateds so people are trying to figure that out. If this was 2007 OSU would be in catbird seat and nobody would give a s***. But even if that were the case, I'd still say B1G sucks this year and be fine with it.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 05:34 PM) The problem also is schedules are made so far in advance. We put Cal on the schedule 10 years ago. It looked like a better move than someone like Oregon at the time. We just put Oregon and Texas on the schedule for 2022, who knows if they will be good or not? Right.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 05:26 PM) When OSU beats Alabama in the NC, then the Big10 will still be bad because Iowa isnt good? What type of logic is that. Its like saying that Alabama isnt good because Arkansas would be the worst team in the Big10. Just does not compute. I think it's probably that when people thing of the b1g they think of a conference and not a single team. If FSU wins the National Championship does that make the ACC a great football conference? No, they have 2-3 good teams a year and then HUGE drop off and trash. The difference b/w OSU and FSU right now is FSU has been beating the s*** out of everyone. OSU has started to do that and it's probably going to help that out. B1G typically has a solid 5-6 teams that are good, some "bad" conference teams that are still competitive and then 2-3 trash teams. This year it's more like 1 great team 1 top 15 team, and then a whole lot of teams that I guess have ok record but nothing that makes you think they are dangerous.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 05:16 PM) We'll see. If they win big bowl games then the view will change 180 degrees as usual. I don't think it's the big bowl games, it's the median teams in the big 10 that need to show off on those days because they really aren't exciting anyone in the ole eye test dept.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 05:08 PM) The Big is awful because that is what ESPN tells you. Havent played anybody? Alabama has played 0 ranked OOC games. FSU 0 ranked OOC games Its impossible to tell how good any of these teams are. But OSU hasnt lost in 2 years, and that should mean something. Pretty sure B1G is awful just because it's awful this year.

Trade Deng so you can afford Samuel Dalembert?

I've yet to see this "make people use their REAL identities" do anything to actually make comment sections better. The things that make comments better is heavy moderation. If you can't supply that, don't allow comments, they aren't interesting.

Every team faces injuries, yes. Some programs can overcome them with their deep bench of 5-star talent. Doesn't mean that beating a team with their largely healthy playmakers may be a more important victory than that same team 4 weeks later with many injuries to their playmakers.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 05:32 PM) Northwestern was ranked and thought they were a contender too. Rankings have no relevance until Nov. ...and has since been dealing with a lot of injuries.

That clemson team may not be top ten, but going into Clemson when they are very much confident and thinking they have a national title team, and not just beating them but obliterating them was the best win that could possibly happen this year. I think it's helpful to think of teams where they were ranked at the time. Sometimes they were really good wins, and that team just got killed by injuries rest of year.