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JGdmn posted:Isn't that game generally won by the visitors? I mean in the Saban/Miles years at least? Not particularly, seems pretty evenly split between home and away. Since Saban's been at Alabama LSU is 1-2 at home against the Crimson Tide and Alabama is 2-2 at home against the Tigers. It slightly favors the away team, but not significantly.
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dude789 posted:Not particularly, seems pretty evenly split between home and away. Since Saban's been at Alabama LSU is 1-2 at home against the Crimson Tide and Alabama is 2-2 at home against the Tigers. It slightly favors the away team, but not significantly. Yeah and it seems like LSU is overdue for a win. I'm hoping we beat Auburn but I already feel kind of resigned LSU gets us this year. Strangely enough the team I'm worried about besides you guys is Tennessee--this is really the year Butch Jones puts up or shuts up, and Lane Kiffin hate will fuel them, and it's at Neyland.
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Jaguars hopes and dreams: Bortles is so terrible that Gus Bradley and David Caldwell get fired after the season because they picked such a bad player at #3 overall when other non-QB top level talent was available. R.D. Mangles posted:My biggest hope for the NFL season is bortles. You arent a Jaguars fan! Real Seahawks East hopes and dreams: Henne is competent enough and healthy enough to keep Bortles off the field. The free-agent corpses that Gus Bradley recruited on the D-Line help the talent starved Defense be not terrible. Joekle returns from his injury and isnt Real Bad. The rest of the O-Line finds a way to be competent.
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I didn't do one for my college team let's do that UNLV Rebels Find a good replacement for Tim Cornett: Even if he wasn't the best, he produced a lot for the team. Gotta replicate that or we won't have a lot of success. Have a cool and good QB: Sure, Caleb Herring could get the job done sometimes by running the ball, but I would enjoy a QB that could pass decently. Oh, and maybe keep the running there too. Keep the Fremont Cannon: There's no postseason play even if we qualified, so this season is going out with the battle. It would be great to not lose to the UNR scum.
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Bills Don't move away  Beat New England and Miami at least once. Make this year's Bills vs. Browns the most epic game every played.
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I'll do one for my Alma Mater as well, because it's slow and why not? Bowling Green State University Realistic ones: - Win MAC East title - Split Indiana/Wisconsin - Beat Toledo. We've lost to these fuckers 4 years in a row, I'm done with that - Stay Healthy, it's already been an ugly offseason losing Chris Gallon Hopeful: - Win the MAC again - Keep the intensity on defense that we had last year. That was great - Win a drat Bowl Game - Undefeated in MAC Dreaming: - 13-0 - Matt Johnson gets invited to NYC for the Heisman Trophy award (I know he won't win)
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HOTLANTA MAN posted:I hope Mark Richt gets fired. Mark Richt has the highest win percentage of any Georgia Coach since the 1920s.
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Raku posted:Mark Richt has the highest win percentage of any Georgia Coach since the 1920s. And all those national titles too! Not to mention the SEC titles now that the SEC isn't a two horse race! HOTLANTA MAN fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Jul 9, 2014 |
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HOTLANTA MAN posted:And all those national titles too! He came within a hair's breadth when they nearly beat Saban in 2012. He's never had a bowl-less season, and the only *bad* one was the 6-7 2010 team. Who the hell do you think you can actually hire and get better results?
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Raku posted:He came within a hair's breadth when they nearly beat Saban in 2012. He's never had a bowl-less season, and the only *bad* one was the 6-7 2010 team. Who the hell do you think you can actually hire and get better results? Kirby Smart Realistically, I hope for a trip to Atlanta, another crushing loss because we're UGA, then a pity trip to Orlando.
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Raiders 1) Not poo poo ourselves 2) Not poo poo on each other I think at least 50% of that is obtainable this season.
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I'm not as optimistic about this season for Alabama as I've been in years past. Since 2008, I've sincerely believed that Alabama's toughest opponent in every game it played was itself, which was pretty much true. The only times they had their rear end kicked in that stretch were the two Sugar Bowls (Utah, 2009; Oklahoma, 2014) and the 2010 game against South Carolina. In a six season stretch, that's pretty drat good. This year, unless they un-complicated the defense a little bit, Auburn, LSU and Tennessee could be good chances to lose games, because I really believe teams have just simply figured out about as close to a formula to beat Alabama as there is going to be. I also don't particularly care for the recent coaching changes. We have a bunch of awesome recruiters now, most of whom with questionable coaching acumen. Now that my complaints are out of the way... Hopes and goals for Alabama: 1. Run more base defense and simplify things (a la LSU and FSU) because that is actually the best way to counter up-tempo offenses. 2. Develop a kicker (not happening, but this is a hope!) 3. The team has better chemistry this year than in 2013 and shows any character when adversity hits. 4. Lane Kiffin doesn't continue to be the worst coach on the field in every game. Switching gears to NFL and the Saints. Rob Ryan is my new favorite coach on staff, and I love the direction the defense is headed. The team was actually fun to watch when 2007-esque Sean Payton playcalling wasn't bogging the offense down at times, especially early in the season. I'm much more confident about their prospects. Hopes and goals for the Saints: 1. The defense keeps improving. 2. The offensive balance with running the ball we saw at the end of 2013 continues, because it worked! 3. Mark Ingram keeps developing as a legitimate NFL-caliber back (this is wholly dependent on item #2 I think.) 4. A consistent placekicker is found. 5. Jimmy Graham at some point learns to block and be physical
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Bort Bortles posted:Jaguars hopes and dreams: You make me so sad sometimes HOPES: Beat the Texans and Titans, one each Dont be an embarrassment against the Cowboys Bortles never has to start, Henne stays healthy DREAMS Sweep the Texans and Titans, Win in London, Pozluzny somehow gains immortality, Gus Bradly obtains football enlightenment and becomes NFL Buddha, Jaxon DeVille comes to my birthday party.
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I just want the Ravens offense to not be complete poo poo this year. The defense was great last year but got burned in the 4th quarter by big plays since they were all exhausted from being on the field for 90% of the game. If we have anything close to representing an offensive line and a mediocre running attack, they should be at least formidable this season. My main hope is just to get Torrey Smith extended ASAP before he has a monster season and wants a Mike Wallace contract or something like that.
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Sour Diesel posted:I just want the Ravens offense to not be complete poo poo this year. The defense was great last year but got burned in the 4th quarter by big plays since they were all exhausted from being on the field for 90% of the game. This, but for the Giants. Almost word for word. Our defense deserved better than the pile of dog poo we put out on offense.
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The Giants and Ravens were mirror images of one another last year. Good quarterbacks with meh receiving targets and no rushing game throwing up a huge amount of interceptions behind some of the worst o-line play seen in the past decade.
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The Puppy Bowl posted:The Giants and Ravens were mirror images of one another last year. I understand your olines were bad but lets not be extreme here.
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Bort Bortles posted:I understand your olines were bad but lets not be extreme here. Watch our games against the Panthers and Chiefs. It's like the line didn't exist. I know those defenses are good, but they didn't even have to try. It got better later in the year though so yeah, a touch hyperbole. It was the worst Giants line I'd ever seen though for what it's worth.
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The Puppy Bowl posted:The Giants and Ravens were mirror images of one another last year. Hahaha. You just referred to Eli Manning as a good quarterback.
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MrLogan posted:Hahaha. You just referred to Eli Manning as a good quarterback. Truth is funny to some people like you I guess?
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The Puppy Bowl posted:Good quarterbacks with meh receiving targets and no rushing game throwing up a huge amount of interceptions behind some of the worst o-line play seen in the past decade. I've been there man. It gets better.
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MrLogan posted:Hahaha. You just referred to Eli Manning as a good quarterback. Eli owns 
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I hope the Chargers can get to and win the Super Bowl, but I do that every year and eventually I'm going to kill myself over it. Realistically, winning a playoff game, getting better in the secondary and taking a game from the Broncos would work for me.
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Breaky posted:Truth is funny to some people like you I guess? Sour Diesel posted:Eli owns
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Titans -transition from 4-3 to 3-4 isn't disastrous -locker plays entire season injury free -locker proves to be a franchise qb -have a top 10 oline -sweep jags -murder luck -split texans -win division -trade shonn green and/or mccluster for anything
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Metapod posted:-trade shonn green and/or mccluster for anything Where did you find enough time to come around to hating McCluster already? Not that I blame you too much, but he's got at least some value as a returner.
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Grittybeard posted:Where did you find enough time to come around to hating McCluster already? Not that I blame you too much, but he's got at least some value as a returner. I have watched plenty of chiefs games to know who he is, what he does, and it pains me that he is on my team now.
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MrLogan posted:1.5 good seasons after 9 years in the league counts as good? He's not terrible, but he's a below average QB over the length of his career. Eli has been ranked around #10 by Football Outsiders (Which is normally pretty mean to Eli and the Giants offense in general) since 2008, the first year after the 2007 SB. ESPN and QBR has him slightly higher on average. Outside last year of course, but last year was a perfect storm of suck and it's hard to pinpoint just how much blame he deserves. Certainly not all of it. He's not great, and he's inconsistent, but he is not below average. He really found himself in 2007's postseason and has looked different since.
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Febreeze posted:Eli has been ranked around #10 by Football Outsiders (Which is normally pretty mean to Eli and the Giants offense in general) since 2008, the first year after the 2007 SB. ESPN and QBR has him slightly higher on average. Outside last year of course, but last year was a perfect storm of suck and it's hard to pinpoint just how much blame he deserves. Certainly not all of it. he has two rings and that totally makes him an elite QB because you can't be a great or even good QB without dumb idiot rings. so sayeth febreeze
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Eli is inconsistent but when he's on he's really fun to watch. Same goes for Joe. Since the Ravens' only QB that wasn't awful in franchise history before Joe was a worn down McNair, I'll always think Joe is awesome because of that. I guess I just like giant dork QBs who are streaky but will randomly pull a miracle play out of their rear end. Both QBs can put a game on their shoulders (though not reliably). ROSS MY SALAD posted:he has two rings and that totally makes him an elite QB because you can't be a great or even good QB without dumb idiot rings. Sour Diesel fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Jul 23, 2014 |
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ROSS MY SALAD posted:he has two rings and that totally makes him an elite QB because you can't be a great or even good QB without dumb idiot rings. lets do some math 2 eli rings divided phillip "zero" ""ringless"" rivers = eli is infinitely better than your garbage not-ringhaving quarterback. numbers don't lie. and now to skip with today's Hot Take
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Febreeze posted:Eli has been ranked around #10 by Football Outsiders (Which is normally pretty mean to Eli and the Giants offense in general) since 2008, the first year after the 2007 SB. ESPN and QBR has him slightly higher on average. Outside last year of course, but last year was a perfect storm of suck and it's hard to pinpoint just how much blame he deserves. Certainly not all of it. Ignoring his first four years of pretty bad play will make his career look better overall.  Same if you discount 2011 and/or 2009, his career stats look terrible. I'll split the difference in the argument between below average and above average and call him an average QB.
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Eli Manning denied the Patriots of two Super Bowls. I will declare him the greatest of all time because of this and will brook no argument.
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