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It goes to show how important an offensive line is. The difference between last year's Cutler and this year's Cutler is immense.
His performance really isn't all that different from last year to this year.
- leads the league in attempts, was 2nd last year
- 4200 yards projected this year vs. 4500 last year
- QB rating is 76 now vs. 86 last year (both mediocre nowadays)
- leading the league in INTs, was 2nd last year
- 4-5 this year, 8-8 last year
- 62% completion perc. this year and last
Yea, it's down a bit, but he no longer has Brandon Marshall and Eddie Royal to throw to or Shanahan calling the plays, so you should expect a drop.
So he's still basically a guy who can throw for a ton of yards if you give him an ungodly amount of attempts, but as far as accuracy, TD/INT ratio, etc...he's always been a mediocre QB. Throw in WINS, even back to college, and he's FAR WORSE than mediocre.
posted by bdaddy at 05:07 PM on November 13
I kindof agree. In fact I use this point when arguing with others who say that rugby players are tougher than football players (because they don't wear pads).
In my mind, if you take away the helmet, the violence goes down to the level it was back in sandlot football when we were younger. Sure there will still be crazy head-to-head crashes or bloody faces or the occasional lunatic who will still run full-speed headlong into a pile of players....but for the most part self-preservation will kick in and you won't have the equivalent of 30mph crashes on every single play like you do today.
dfleming - I don't think it will be any "un-learning" needed...in fact, all it would take is a single head-to-head crash without a facemask to learn you won't be doing that again. Dogs, young and old, only jump out of the back of a truck one time before they learn to never do that again.
posted by bdaddy at 12:45 PM on November 11
Geez, who does one believe here? Isiah Thompson or Magic Johnston?
On PTI today, they were discussing with the author and both she and Wilbon (both of whom were reporting on basketball around the time) both said that they heard the same allegations of Isiah back then and by other sources than the agent who supposedly told Magic. Basically multiple people were supposedly told by Isiah that he thought Magic was gay.
Given Isiah's lack of popularity by pretty much everyone who has ever known him...I'd probably tend to back Magic's version. He seems to be the consensus "snake".
There is no reason to pretend to be friends with someone who you secretly dislike
He supposedly never did. They haven't been close for years. When they would cross paths he would be polite, but that was it. To me that's pretty classy..not snaky.
posted by bdaddy at 08:52 PM on October 22
But Steve, dude. The little (umm, well.........) 22 year old is sorta....plain.
She's way south of plain.
I feel sorry for the kids. In the letter she seems to be mentioning that he told her that 2 of them are the results of a reconciliation from a previous affair. How would you like to be one of these kids who gets to read a letter that implies daddy thinks of you as a bandaid for a bad marriage. Poor guys. And his wife for that matter.
posted by bdaddy at 02:10 PM on October 21
"almost unlimited TV access"
Well, then they might outta think about getting some of that TV access into people's homes. DirectTV doesn't carry versus and I know it's just one satellite carrier, but it happens to be the carrier which has all the sports nuts.
posted by bdaddy at 09:24 AM on October 09
Even if it was around 4 seconds (which as you mention isn't precise) that's 4 seconds to run 40 yards "with a running start". When people talk about athletes running a 4.4, they are starting from a sprinters stance. Start the stopwatch on them once they are at or near full speed as the ballboy was and they'd be well in the 3's.
His speed is no doubt impressive (which I think is all your saying..and I'm certainly not arguing that), just not ridiculously so...and not on par with those guys running on the field.
Like I mention, watch #41 (a 30 year old safety whose fastest days are far behind him) and he is almost even with the kid at the 40 (maybe a yard ahead), and by the other 45 had 3-4 yards on him and pulling away before he gives up on the play despite running at a 30-45 degree angle while the kid is running a straight line. (not to mention having run the opposite direction 40 yards already, reversed direction, dodging his own player, and running with pads, all of which probably nullifies the "3 footballs in hand" thing). If #41 was running in that same straight line he'd torch him...and 41 isn't exactly the fastest player on that field.
I know I'm over-analyzing it as that wasn't the intention of the post, just trying to add some balance to the argument :-)
posted by bdaddy at 09:43 AM on October 07
sorry, just read the article..it was saying 4.4 speed (your title needs fixing). Also mentions the Fitzgerald thing.
I still say no way it's even close to 4.4. Look at #41 at the bottom of the screen, whose likely no 4.4 guy, and he's running at an angle and is pulling away from the kid until he gives up on the play.
The angles are deceiving because nobody on the football field is running a straight line.
posted by bdaddy at 11:11 PM on October 06
No way it was under 4 seconds...he's not the fastest man alive!
And let's not go crazy..he was fast, but he was keeping up with Knox because Knox wasn't running a straight line, has pads on, and had already run 30-40 yards (especially if you consider he ran from the middle-left side of the field and finished on the right...that's a good 30+ yards there.) Even the defenders are running one way, then have to change direction, and they're all running at angles. The ballboy was running straight down the sideline and was able to get a running start in that direction. (In other words, line the boy up in a 40 against anybody on that field and watch him get smoked).
That said, it's really not surprising there's a ball boy with athletic skills. Not sure who this kid is, but athletes kids get these types of jobs on a lot of these teams. Larry Fitzgerald used to be a ball boy with the vikings and I bet he could run pretty good back then as well.
posted by bdaddy at 11:06 PM on October 06
wow..I was way wrong about this. I was sure it was a guy who was just blindly recording people in the adjacent room and *accidentally* happened to get her as one of his targets.
But based on the case sounds like he targeted her, followed her around to different hotels, and worked to get specifically her. The definition of stalking.
posted by bdaddy at 12:14 PM on October 03
I don't censor my language, video games, TV, music or movies....laugh at them when they screw up
But I guess in today's world that makes me a bad parent
That makes the DEFINITION of a bad parent
posted by bdaddy at 06:07 PM on September 30
And people sit around and bitch during contract negotiations that a "millionaire" is arguing over a few extra million. Hope some of these guys are starting to understand why that is.
- avg career is < 4 years so you have a limited time to make enough to last for the rest of your life
- contracts aren't guaranteed and you can be cut at any time
- life expectancy of an NFL player is some 20 years shorter than an avg American
- retirement years generally filled with pain and surgeries
- increased chance of dementia later in life
- historically the NFL does nothing to take care of its former players
So is it so hard to imagine why a guy making 4 million/year may want to squeeze out of the owner an extra million? Especially when that owner is making money hand over fist?
posted by bdaddy at 09:00 AM on September 30
We don't use handguns. We use knives. It's more personal that way.
Leave it to a Yankee to bring a knife to a gun fight :-)
posted by bdaddy at 01:58 PM on September 26
How could Schuerholz be such a good judge of player talent
You give Schuerholz WAY too much credit. Jermain Dye, Grissom, Justice, JD Drew, Adam Wainwright, Ryan Klesko....there's a lot of bad exchanges in there.
Let's not forget the $ he was working with during most of that stretch
Year W% % > Lg. Mean Payroll Payroll Rank
1993 64.20% 29.19% 4
1994 59.65% 49.24% 1
1995 62.50% 38.82% 3
1996 59.26% 45.32% 3
1997 62.35% 29.78% 6
1998 65.43% 43.66% 3
1999 63.58% 46.79% 5
2000 58.64% 52.25% 3
2001 54.32% 40.52% 6
2002 63.13% 37.63% 7
2003 62.35% 49.51% 3
Regarding Cox's inability to win championships...I just never have been sold on that. In baseball, more than any sport, the "best" team doesn't always win. You can have a team that is lights-out all year, wins 100+ games, and if 1 or 2 players bats get cold in October, they have a 1st round exit. Or get a hold of a team with 2 dominant starters and they can take a 5 game set (ahhhh... Arizona).
posted by bdaddy at 11:56 PM on September 23
Belichick Call Questioned in Pats' Loss to Colts
What the hell was Bill Belichick thinking last night?
I remember when Barry Switzer did a similar thing against Philly, I believe. To think that Bill made a Barry Switzeresque call?