bionic77 said:Pats defense is going to suck again this year. Loss of Seymour is huge. And Harrison being a cheater is no surprise to anyone I am sure.
Jets to slay the dragon in week 1 guaranteed.
The sad thing is on that team Harrison might actually have most sportsmanship and courage (mainly because the team is made up of a bunch of satan worshipping cheaters) on the Pats.Tamanon said:Most ironic part, Harrison was selected by the Pats for the Ed Block Courage award.
The honor is bestowed annually upon the player who, according to his teammates, best exemplifies the principles of courage and sportsmanship while also serving as a source of inspiration.
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This is the Raiders we are talking about. They are probably both right!Tamanon said:BTW, ESPN is reporting Culpepper will start for the Raidas, whereas Adam Schefter is reporting Josh McCown will start.![]()
You would never get a job as an offensive coordinator of the Raiders with your antiquated thinking.Karakand said:Why settle for 2? You can line one up at the position and the other 2 in the backfield as a fullback and a tailback.
(It's a shame Uncle Al doesn't read GAF. I'd probably get the offensive coordinator gig with thinking like that...)
iapetus said:Got my last fantasy draft of the season coming up in two hours - the GAF EA fantasy league. Hope everyone's planning on being there for the live draft.![]()
I would argue that the Silver and Black have not abandoned running the ball, counselor. Their "big" free agent signing was Dominic Rhodes and they spent a draft pick gambling on a high-risk, high-return running back (Michael Bush). They even used a LOL pick on a fullback from a LOL football program. (Though those last 2 pieces of evidence could perhaps indicate the team has decided to go full-on Redskin copycat when it comes to the draft rather than continuing to support a ground attack on offense.)bionic77 said:You would never get a job as an offensive coordinator of the Raiders with your antiquated thinking.
There is no more need for a backfield anymore. Backs went out of fashion along with horse drawn carriages at the turn of the century. The team of the future is going to employ only quarterbacks, receivers, safteies, and cornerbacks. If only you could see the future the way the Raiders and Lions can see it (John Gruden is also one of the visionaries). Everyone always says the quarterback is the most important position in football, so it only makes sense to have as many on the field at the same time as possible.
Uncle Al is a football visionary and using two qbs at once is just the first step to a game that will be played with jetpacks and laserbeams.
Seymour is good, but you're forgetting they still have Vince Wilfork and Ty Warren on the DL.bionic77 said:Pats defense is going to suck again this year. Loss of Seymour is huge. And Harrison being a cheater is no surprise to anyone I am sure.
Jets to slay the dragon in week 1 guaranteed.
Gigglepoo said:I'm taking LT with my first pick if you're wondering.
iapetus said:Damn it, and there I was hoping he'd fall to third.![]()
Striker said:Seymour is good, but you're forgetting they still have Vince Wilfork and Ty Warren on the DL.
2006 for Seymour and Warren:
Seymour: 41 total tackles, 4 sacks, INT
Warren: 84 total tackles, 7.5 sacks, FF
Doesn't Seymour command double teams though?Striker said:Seymour is good, but you're forgetting they still have Vince Wilfork and Ty Warren on the DL.
2006 for Seymour and Warren:
Seymour: 41 total tackles, 4 sacks, INT
Warren: 84 total tackles, 7.5 sacks, FF
sorryaboutdresden said:You'll find a nice consolation prize barring something unexpected at the third pick. At least if you go by what KUBIAK says.
iapetus said:Josh Scobee will still be available?(Seriously, though, I'm hand-modifying KUBIAK to avoid some players I've picked in my other fantasy leagues that I wasn't too happy with or don't want to rely on too much... Mister Betts, we're looking at you here...)
sorryaboutdresden said:Hahaha Scobee is one of my kickers. The other is the monster GOSTKOWSKI whom I have in the United GAF League. But, I think you know who I'm talking about. KUBIAK is sky high on Mr. Betts, but its really too hard to predict what's going on in the heads of Gibb's and his legion of coordinators and assistants to make a good prediction of Bett's carries.
Tamanon said:Hell, it wouldn't be a season without a Portis injury.
iapetus said:Yeah, but I need it to happen week one in one of my leagues.![]()
Karakand said:Can we allow one more on the MJD Love Train guys? Feels kind of cramped in here already...
[b]RANK TEAM DVOA RANK OFF. DEF. ST.[/b]
1 NE 31.90% 1 1 9 7
2 PHI 26.00% 2 3 12 18
3 JAC 24.70% 3 6 1 19
4 BAL 12.00% 4 11 7 22
5 WAS 11.20% 5 15 4 3
6 TB 10.50% 6 14 5 17
7 CAR 10.50% 7 17 3 5
8 PIT 10.20% 8 19 2 26
9 SD 8.80% 9 4 29 6
10 NYJ 7.80% 10 7 19 12
11 IND 7.00% 11 2 32 23
12 GB 5.70% 12 12 8 32
13 CHI 3.80% 13 20 6 2
14 DEN 0.20% 14 9 24 21
15 ATL 0.20% 15 16 11 28
16 SEA 0.10% 16 13 22 16
17 SF -1.50% 17 22 10 14
18 CIN -3.50% 18 8 27 20
19 NYG -3.50% 19 10 25 29
20 NO -4.50% 20 5 31 15
21 BUF -4.70% 21 23 21 1
22 TEN -6.60% 22 18 23 9
23 MIN -9.00% 23 25 16 25
24 DET -9.50% 24 28 13 11
25 CLE -9.70% 25 27 17 10
26 DAL -9.80% 26 26 18 24
27 OAK -12.20% 27 29 15 8
28 MIA -14.30% 28 32 14 4
29 HOU -17.30% 29 21 28 27
30 ARI -18.60% 30 31 20 13
31 STL -24.30% 31 24 30 31
32 KC -25.60% 32 30 26 30
iapetus said:Damn it, and there I was hoping he'd fall to third.![]()
Karakand said:Unless you went to UCLA it's unpossible to be the conductor of the train. You are however right about there being enough love to go around. Welcome aboard!
There will always be double teams, but the guy had DOUBLE the amount of tackles and nearly twice the sacks.sorryaboutdresden said:Seymour is constantly double blocked. Basically he gets double teamed on every play freeing up Warren to post impressive numbers. Don't get me wrong, Warren is great, but a lot of it is due to the impact Seymour has on the field.
Striker said:Football Outsiders is sometimes strange.
Their stat lines last season had the Giants OL in the top five in terms of both rushing and pass protection.
Yet when they related with a FOX Sports OL rankings, they put them in the 20's.
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There will always be double teams, but the guy had DOUBLE the amount of tackles and nearly twice the sacks.
That speaks volumes.
My first year at UCLA was his last season there. So many fond memories.sorryaboutdresden said:True. I liked him a lot coming out of college. I only saw one game of his, but thats where the crush started. I had him on my winning team last year and he's on both my squads this year. So yeah I'm pretty gay for him.
Major moron. If anything the Raiders have the advantage in negotiations now that LOLpepper doesn't look like he's special needs and McCown looking alright.Tamanon said:Is Russell's uncle a moron? Saying that the negotiations are getting close because the Raiders realized they were wrong? He's an awful negotiator!
sorryaboutdresden said:I'm not saying that Warren isn't a great player just that you can't fully judge Seymour by his conventional statistics.
The main reason they point to a decline for the Giants Oline is a lack of consistency in terms of their starters. According to them, consistency is a crucial aspect of an offensive lines play and you guys lost Petitgout and Bob Whitfield and Diehl is moving to tackle isn't he? I'd say thats a pretty big shake up with the line's personnel.
maynerd said:What network has the game tomorrow?
Gigglepoo said:I think it's NBC.
PantherLotus said:The DVOA thing has me confused, at least when it comes to KC's defensive ranking. I mean, I know we were ranked around 15th in the league last season, and it's widely agreed that we could have a top 10 D this year.
But that site has us at 26th?
And it has the team with LJ offensively ranked at 30th?
I won't dismiss the site entirely but I'm guessing that there's a lot of other things that play into it that are based more on opinion (like "Coaching Experience") than actual number-crunching brain activity.
Football Outsiders said:San Diego: This is an interesting one because Ive made some changes between the book and now. The main reason for the projected San Diego decline is not the new coaching staff, but rather the very specific problems that the defense had last year. The Chargers had the worst red-zone defense in the NFL and ranked 30th in third-down run defense. Third-down run defense is a negative indicator, separate from the overall "third-down rebound" trend. However, I realized over the last couple of months that it might be worthwhile to project San Diego using only the weeks when Shawne Merriman was in the lineup. The defense was significantly worse without him, and he should be there for the entire 2007 season, barring injury. This change improved San Diegos overall projection by a small amount not enough to suggest that they might match last years 14-2 record, but enough to move the Chargers ahead of the Broncos as the most likely winner of the AFC West.
Why didnt removing Weeks 9-12 have a larger effect? While the overall San Diego defense was much better with Merriman in the lineup, both of these negative indicators were actually even more negative once we removed the weeks without Merriman.
PantherLotus said:And yet at the beginning of the article/website/method of calculation this person describes this being completely based on stats with no manual manipulation. Clearly, it's a lie. I certainly won't say the projections are completely wrong, but if they're right, it won't be because of this calculation; it will be because they were manipulated to fit expectations.
Basically, bullshit.
PantherLotus said:And it has the team with LJ offensively ranked at 30th?
I won't dismiss the site entirely but I'm guessing that there's a lot of other things that play into it that are based more on opinion (like "Coaching Experience") than actual number-crunching brain activity.
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