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Yeah that was a classic TAL episode based off amazing work by the village voice.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 17, 2013 -> 03:56 PM) Such a bizarre day at work. I spend a lot of time working with data from the previous day, except that for today, the "previous day" is September 30. Congrats on being back!

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 17, 2013 -> 06:59 PM) Sounds like his injury is minor, he should be good to go in week 8. Season saved.

Has there been any news on Jimmy Graham?

I'll defend Teague. College PG to pro PG is a lot harder than other transitions, and he came in as a 19 year old (He's only 20 now). His learning curve was going to be a lot higher but he has gotten better. Problem is bulls don't have time for projects.

Amaaaazing graaaaaaace

QUOTE (scs787 @ Oct 16, 2013 -> 09:55 PM) Well s***, should I even be starting Matt Ryan? Just picked up Foles, he's probably a better play vs Dallas than Ryan with out his 2 big guns against Tampa Bay, correct? Yeah, I think I'd play Foles there. Especially if it's an away game for Ryan. But I wouldn't listen to me on fantasy, i'm 5-7 b/w two leagues.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Oct 16, 2013 -> 06:51 PM) In my dub flex league I need some opinions on picking 2.... Zac Stacey vs Carolina Le'veon Bell vs Baltimore Chris Johnson vs San Fran Joesph Randle vs Eagles Leaning towards Stacey and Randle here. also With Julio Jones out, and Roddy White getting a week off to "heal up" is it finally time to expect something good out of him? Would you start him over Steve Smith or one of my new favs Keenan Allen? re: White, apparentl;y he injured quad last game and that would take more than offweek to heal. Sigh.

sit them.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 16, 2013 -> 07:02 PM) The Senate has reached a deal. I've yet to see any sign that this will pass in the House. I've seen a lot of Senate spox quotes saying Boehner has agreed to vote on Senate bill, meaning Dems will pass it with like 20 repubs.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Oct 16, 2013 -> 05:03 PM) Congress making a deal so they can leave Washington DC and take another long vacation again till after New Years and they will do the dance all over again. Not to defend congress and all, but their "vacations" consist of meeting with constituents daily for hours. They leave washington to meet back home so their voters concerns can be met, and then brought back to Washington for next session.

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 16, 2013 -> 02:54 PM) I am developing a lot of empathy for Boehler. He is in about the worst situation that any speaker has had to deal with, and I honestly do not believe it is even 10% his fault. I don't think anyone could have provided a solution that would work in this situation. Basically as I am now seeing this it's like a poker player getting a crappy hand, no matter how you played it you were going to have to fold. Boehner could have put a bill that would pass weeks earlier. He's doing this to save his job role (speakership). Considering how many people would actually lose their job, I have no sympathy.

I was annoyed before, but figured it would work itself out. I'm honestly scared now.

I can't believe this. I can't believe this. I can't believe this.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Oct 15, 2013 -> 04:39 PM) My wife works for a major insurer, and as i was b****ing about Ocare at dinner, she informs me that her company was doing testing of the site for the Feds. Or at least they were supposed to. Apparently about 4 months ago they started missing deadlines of making parts of the site available for testing. Then 2 months ago they (the company in charge of the website) terminated the testing contract, having missed 4 other deadlines for submitting pieces to be tested. I laughed a bit, then shook my head in sorrow. Right, but the thing is, deadlines ARE usually missed when building a web site. Stuff comes up. But they had years to get this ironed out and only ironed out what they wanted in Spring 2013. It's just madness.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 15, 2013 -> 04:23 PM) That's an odd report given that as of last week, you could see unsubsidized plan prices without registering and the wording about "obamacare's true costs" instead of "health insurance's true costs." Seems more like an opinion piece than tech reporting. I've seen other reports that indicated that based on the RFP and the requirements (and the general government procurement process), there was essentially no way that it was going to work well on Day 1. First, just the massive traffic load on October 1st was something you could either spend a ton of money to address or just deal with for a couple of days until traffic loads drop off a bit and then you'll never have to worry about it again. Would it make sense to spend say $50M for additional hardware when you're only going to see this peak load once? The second is that the website is a middleman that has to communicate with multiple different state databases that aren't structured in the same manner and many of which aren't compatible. It's a non-trivial problem. It's fairly clear in the NYT report over weekend that the issues go way beyond traffic and will not be resolved for months. You are right that the communication to state databases is a burden which is why 6 months of build and testing is not enough to get a competent product out (especially when you have 3 teams not communicating).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 15, 2013 -> 03:56 PM) The defense is just decimated right now. Now it is, but the D being terrible isn't a last 2 weeks thing. My only hope is this stretch of one game in 23 days rests up Tillman to be 100%, gets Pea healthy, gets Tucker time to correct mistakes and we improve rest of year. I'd also be willing to trade a draft pick next year for D tackle help. I don't think with our age we have the ability to waste a year with this talent.

Did anyone see the tweet yesterday that the Bears are like 4th in scoring O but 26th in scoring D? I swear, we can't ever be good at two things at once.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 15, 2013 -> 04:31 PM) AP is a freak for sure. CJ hasnt come close to the same production. Jamal Lewis and Terrell Davis fell off the table as well AP won't come close to yardage, but fantasy wise he's still so valuable cause he is like the only RB that they leave in during goal line situations and they almost always run b/c their QBs are puke. Nothing like that in the NFL right now.

The report that the specifications for the site weren't handed out until spring, meaning that build was only 6 months ago for this massive site is ridiculous. Napolitano absolutely should be canned for that, especially that they decided to have no real backup beside the site.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 10:23 PM) RB is obviously insanely thin this year but I highly doubt it ever becomes standard to go to 1 rb only spot. You are right but I'm just annoyed that I have to start these crap players.

QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 09:32 PM) I wouldn't be surprised if there are leagues with QB, RB, WR, WR, WR, TE, RB/TE next season. I'm starting to think this should be the new standard. In one league I had drafted AP, Frank Gore, and Ryan mathews. 3 starting RBs, in a 12 team league that should be a luxury. This came at the cost of real WRs. 5 years ago this would have been a huge advantage. But frankly the norm now is 15 carries for 44 yards with TDs for RBs being way more luck than ever before. Even the Goalline back doesn't exist, it just seems completely random. Obviously I didn't think Ryan Mathews would light the world on fire. But the adage that players with more touches should have more chances to do something isn't really true for RBs anymore. Getting 10 points from them is a luxury. Getting 30 yards from Ray Rice is far too normal now. I basically plan to get 3 points from him. But what else can I do? There's nothing else.

The death of the RB is really killing fantasy for me this year. I said the same thing last year, but this year is worse.

Slightly better news on James Franklin (QB-MIZZ not HC-VANDY). He'll only miss 3-5 weeks, not the season as was reported. Hopefully it's the lower end, though we'll still need Mauk v. our big games of FLA and USC.

I continue to think that if we throw them a bone, we will see same scenario six months from now. Crisis governing.