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Knile Davis looks so much better than Charles right now. Charles is averaging 5.5 yards per rush, but Davis looks straight up explosive.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Sep 29, 2014 -> 06:21 PM) This game and to be frank the last game of the regular season last year were the two best games Jay has played vs. Packers. Jay played a great game in the first half, probably his second best half of the year. There were very few bad decisions and we more or less scored at will. There was one game back in 2008 or 2009 when we actually beat the Packers on MNF. Cutler didn't play great, but was good enough to get us the win. And man, does the Patriots offense suck right now or what?

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Sep 29, 2014 -> 03:03 PM) How is it? I bought a PS4 a couple weeks ago and was planning on picking it up for it once it came out Visuals are better than last year's game - I love the new lighting. Gameplay-wise, a lot of it is the same, but the animations are better this year and for the most part, keepers are better. A lot of people are complaining that defending is too hard and that only pace matters in this year's game...I haven't found that to be completely true since I still have trouble blowing by slow CBs with players who have pace in the mid 80s on professional. It builds on top of last year's game and I thought last year's game was a lot of fun, so I think it's worth the $60.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 29, 2014 -> 01:44 PM) Wait, where is the other one? Baseball field?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 29, 2014 -> 01:36 PM) dan durkin ‏@djdurkin 47m #Bears Martellus Bennett: "There's two places where inches matter, one of them is on the football field." #Bears Classic Martellus.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Sep 29, 2014 -> 01:04 PM) Yeha. Even when I looked back at the first pick, I will tip the cap to Packers DB who did a nice job on Morgan, although 100 times out of 100 Jay needs to not make that throw, although I know you usually throw the slant off a presnap read and they liked what they saw (and typically with a slant you have little time to adjust, it is a pretty immediate throw I believe based upon how the defense is playing). The other pick though, total bummer, cause if he does run the right route, you are looking at another potential big play. Still, wouldn't have mattered with way D played. Fact that we ran the ball is huge and should open up some things going forward. We still make a lot of little mistakes that we can't overcome, especially given our defense and special teams. Against above average offenses, our offense is going to have to be perfect which is pretty difficult. I still think Jay had 3 TD passes in 1st half and to be frank should have had a 4th. Should have thrown the ball a little lower to Alshon and often times Alshon still comes down with the throw he did make. Either way, that was one you really would like back, same for that series where we shotgunned it on the 1 yard line on 1st down and had the penalty (might be same series). That was brutal in general I would put a lot of the blame on Jay for that first pick. You know the corner is probably going to jump that route (especially GB's corners, they're all ball-hawks) if he's that close to your receiver on the slant. And this wasn't Alshon or Marshall he's throwing to, it's freaking Josh Morgan, so his margin for error is much smaller.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 29, 2014 -> 01:11 PM) I don't know why the NFL doesn't have two cameras from an elevated position (10' or so) looking down the goal line for replays. HD cameras are not that expensive. Or that goal line technology FIFA was using in the world cup, not sure how well that worked. When soccer has better technology than you do, you need to step your game up.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Sep 29, 2014 -> 01:09 PM) I really do think he broke it but somehow we had no good camera angle to confirm that. The issue was that he was still bobbling the ball while he tried to reach over the plane, so he never truly established possession. Even if we did have a better angle at it, I don't think we would have gotten that call overturned due to the bobble. You have to give Clinton-Dix a ton of credit on that tackle. It's not easy to hold back a 6'6 tight end from reaching a yard farther.

QUOTE (TheTruth05 @ Sep 29, 2014 -> 01:23 PM) I think he only comes out the bullpen if they're in a spot to actually compete for a playoff spot come July/August, I can't see him breaking camp with the team, Sox will still be mindful with his clock. Perhaps I took the quote the wrong way, but the way I understood was that they'd start Rodon in the bullpen first if he does make the ML team out of spring training, which seems like a waste of his service time. If they're going to do what you're saying, then I think that's fine.

I don't agree with this at all. It worked out for Sale, but ask the Rangers how it worked out for Feliz. Everyone's different, but if Rodon tears it up in Spring Training and we don't have a better option in the rotation, then he should absolutely be in the starting rotation on opening day.

Anyone play FIFA 15 on Xbox One?

QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 29, 2014 -> 12:08 PM) Morosi and Passan reporting Gardenhire out as manager in Minnesota. Yay. The face of the pirahnas is finally gone.

I think there are a few positives from yesterday's game that were very encouraging. Our run game looked awesome. A lot of misdirection pre-snap to keep the defense honest. Forte didn't get all the carries and Carey looked like a decent backup. One thing I absolutely hate about our offense is our lack of a short yardage bruiser. Forte's a finesse runner and not being able to convert third and short plays without throwing the ball is painful. We had the ball at the 1 yesterday and decided to throw instead of run. We get pushed back because of a false start and throw the ball 3 times. Instead of a easy TD, we get a FG. Speaking of RBs...Eddie Lacy...so bad. He has no burst. If the o-line doesn't give him a huge hole to run through, he's going to get stuck at the line almost every time. He might have had 2 good runs yesterday against a pretty piss poor run defense. Against a good passing defense, the Packers would have been screwed yesterday with their horrible running game.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 28, 2014 -> 11:55 PM) Here are my grades for this season. I'll give the team a C-minus though I wouldn't argue with D. Abreu: A-plus. He had 36 HRS, 107 RBI. Everybody likey. Beckham: D. He stunk and his tenure was blah. (Sanchez in 27 games hit .247; Semien hit .233 in 63 games; both get Incompletes). The eye test tells me Semien will be a good player. Alexei: A. He hit .273 with 74 RBI. Gillaspie: B. I wouldn't argue B-plus. He hit .282 with 57 RBI in 130 games. Viciedo: D. He hit 21 homers and only drove in 58, barely hitting .230. He's an underachiever to date. Eaton: A. We all know he was great. A. Garcia: B to B-minus. Hit .250 in 45 games. Showed a lot of guts to come back so quickly. Flowers: C. Hit .240 with 15 homers. 50 RBIs. Paulie: I'd like to give him an incomplete as a favor to my idol. If I have to give a grade I'd give him a D. Dunn: 20 home runs in 360 at bats. That's not so horrendous. I'll give him a C this year. For his Sox career a big fat D. Moises Sierra, Danks and guys like that didn't play a lot. Not a big fan of that duo. Quintana: B. 3.32 ERA is fine. Sale: A-plus. He's good. Danks: C. He was 11-11? Not bad for an 89-loss team. I realize we don't care about wins and losses of pitchers anymore. Noesi: C. 8-11 record. Carroll: C-. Was 5-10 I love everything about him except his stuff. I'll give all the relievers a D except Petricka and Putnam who get Cs. And Bella of course gets an F. I can't bring myself to mention each guy. Robin: He gets a C. The team was a couple games over .500 at a fairly late date then sucked. I wouldn't argue C-. Hahn: C. He improved the team some but the team is still lousy and not a contender. Jerry Reinsdorf: D. No sense of urgency from the big guy. That's it for now. I think we have some good players. At this time, I'm really down on our bullpen and down on Viciedo. Soxtalk posters: C. I wouldn't argue B-. Still a reluctance to start new threads with people thinking a new thread is evil for some reason. People love the catchall threads more than new threads. Not a lot of activity on the baseball board. Lot of lurkers need to start posting more. The new posters were awesome this season. Of my own posting I'd give myself a B-. I put passion into my posts even if many of you despise me. Cheers to the White Sox. I don't even... Quintana was easily the second best pitcher on our team and only had 0.1 fWAR less than Sale because he pitched the whole year and threw 200 innings. If Quintana didn't have the s*** luck he's had and won 15 games like he should have, you would have given him an A and I don't doubt that for a second. Alexei was great in the first two months of the year, but he was actually a pretty poor hitter in almost every other month. He was solid this year, but there's no way that he was a better player for us than Quintana this season.

Looks like starting Cousins over Foles was actually the right decision...WTF Eagles?

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 28, 2014 -> 05:28 PM) Moto 360 users reporting that recent software update has more than doubled battery life, especially when in heavy use. One user had the backlight turned on for over 24 hours straight before battery died. With normal use, people are now reporting 48 hours The backlight doesn't even keep itself on all the time, though. Ambient mode on the 360 isn't the same as it is on the other Android Wear watches. I got through all of today and I think I still have 55% left. The battery life is now about the same as the other Android Wear watches.

Um, wow, the Steelers just blew a 4 point lead when the Bucs had 40 secs and no timeouts.

So I have Cobb and Nelson (62 pts combined) and I still might lose because I started Cousins. Damn it.

How many times are we going to get screwed by the officiating in this game? I still don't understand how you call a TO and then run the ball when you have 54 seconds left on the clock. What did you call the timeout for if you were going to run the ball again?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 28, 2014 -> 11:43 AM) That is awesome. bad base running is such a huge part of softball, for better or worse. A lot of that play was just dumb base running. The guy on third didn't even tag. You always tag on a fly ball or line drive if you're on third. You're scoring if it drops and you're probably scoring if it's caught. There's no point in leaving the base, especially when it's bases loaded and nobody out. Still, what are the odds right?

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 28, 2014 -> 11:29 AM) Description please. We were up 9-6 to start the inning. Girl bloops one right in front of our RFer. Whatever, nothing hurt. Next guy hits a single. Guy after him hits a pretty routine flyner to our LFer, who misreads it and has it go over his head. So now we're kinda screwed. Tying run on second with nobody out. Then we pitch around the next guy since he hit a 3 run bomb on us in the first. That loads the bases (in this version of co-ed, if the guy hits in front of the girl and walks, he gets two bases and the girl gets to decide if she wants to hit or walk). So now we're f***ed. There's maybe a 1% chance we win this game. Next batter comes up and hits what seems like a single to our RFer. It hangs up and we get the first out. RFer throws to first to get the force since nobody tagged (terrible base running). Then our first baseman fires it to second to get the guy at second, who also didn't tag. Game over. We were all in disbelief. We could have gotten 4 outs on the play if we needed it. In a tournament where half of our team failed to hit period and where we didn't score more than 9 runs in any game, we got to the semi-finals and lost to the eventual winners (who beat the second place team by 21 runs in 3 innings). Had we played like we could have, we could have won it.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Sep 28, 2014 -> 10:48 AM) Jared Allen is inactive today...Hurray for more Willie Young. Unleash Willie Young!

We turned a game-ending triple play yesterday in the quarter-finals of a tournament. They had bases lodaed, nobody out, and we were up by only 1. It's probably the most exciting play I've ever been apart of in slow pitch softball.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 25, 2014 -> 11:45 AM) and now enter the smartwatch... Speaking of that, I've had the Moto 360 for a week now and while it's not as good as I had anticipated, it's not as bad as some of the original reviews. Reviews said the battery was awful...it's not. I've never gone lower than 20% on it yet. You have to charge it every night, but it'll last at least 20 hours if you don't over-use the watch (i.e. play around on it for no apparent reason). Android Wear still needs work. There's still too many annoying bugs, like the watch disconnecting from your phone 4-5 times a day for no apparent reason. They also need to give you more options for quick replies so I don't have to speak into the watch to say something as simple as "see you later" (that's not a quick-reply option, I have no idea why). There's no speaker on it, so you don't get a voice for turn-by-turn and it doesn't do the vibrate once for left and twice for right like the Apple Watch does. It does, however, vibrate twice when you get close to a turn. Overall, it does what it's supposed to do, give you a glance at your notifications, tell you the time, let you set alarms/timers, and use Google here and there (I found out how old Ellen Page was in about 10 seconds yesterday). But in order for it to gain mass appeal, there needs to be a lot of refinement by Google and a lot more development by developers to take advantage of the form factor.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Sep 26, 2014 -> 07:25 PM) On Monday we were down 17-0 and came back to win 23-22. Gotta love it! I was on the other side of that once. We were up 15-0 in the first and ended up losing on a walk-off.