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I wouldn't consider Rutgers at home in OT a great win and I'm not sure how significant the double bye is. Last night felt good though. I thought the refs were going to go USSR in the '72 olympics and keep giving them chances to score until it was at least tied.

Yah I really think we hit a perfect storm of lousy perimeter defense, lousy halfcourt offense, and some pretty bad luck. I mean Lol @ the flopping charge calls on Rick in the G'town game in addition to some of the ridiculous 3's against us. Interestingly Lunardi still has us as a 5 seed. Hard to imagine we can drop much further if we just hold serve vs. Rutgers & Depaul; obv. it'd be nice to get another road win or two.

Very well said. I know it's a copycat league but please stop copying other teams' ugly uniforms.

Thank God. I hated these things the minute Bledsoe showed them off in the summer of '02. Lets just pretend these last 9 years never happened.

How far away is Rosanne Barr from Angelina Jolie?

Official panic time was the Seton Hall disaster. I mean it's easy to trash this team now after 4 straight L's, but really the other 3 in isolation weren't so bad. The Hall game was just a killer. I don't come away with a lesser opinion of them after yesterday's game because you're right; Marquette played well and the officiating was a joke. On another note, does anyone else think Fair is our 3rd best player?

Is 13 years and no ring ok? That's what it took Cowher.

This x100. It's sort of like a speech from the President. If you vote for the other party you invent a reason to say it sucked.

Really though, since when do you care about the PR effect of the Bears trainers? That's all such obvious backpedalling after being wrong for calling out the guy's toughness/heart. And to think MJD "I sat out the last two games which my team needed to win" was leading the cheapshot parade

That was the worst game I've ever seen (at least the Depaul massacre a few years ago was a road game). Time to gear up for 2012. Hopefully this Christmas/Cooney/Carter-Williams class is the real deal.

The Super Bowl will definitely validate his position. If Pittsburgh wins it's because their defense ranked higher. If GB wins, well, their defense was better because they played better and at some key point in the game they will have made a play. Easy game this internet.

But if it were me you would've had to kill me because I'm a tough guy! ARGGHH! Perhaps the coaching staff had more important things to worry about than what Maurice Jones-Drew or RJ might perceive.

Disagree a lot. I actually thought the last sequence and the postgame reaction was a good example of the media and fans being ridiculous hindsight 2nd guessers who never say a peep when something works. If I can take 40 sec's off the clock and make Sanchize go the length of the field in 75 seconds and no time outs, I love my chances - and I'm usually a big advocate of aggressive playcalling. There is a huge difference between mounting a drive down 3 TD's when the other team is relaxed (or moving into FG range against the Colts) and punching in a game-winning TD in that situation, against that defense.

That Colts defense was dead last against the run all year, and they were shredded the week before by Brady throwing to a bunch of scrubs. Yes they played better than the Bears in that game (it helps when Rex Grossman is the opposing QB) - how exactly does that rationalize whatever point you're trying to make? The Rams defense was good that year, but they also played an uber soft schedule and get shredded by Minnesota in their own building in the playoffs. Nobody on earth outside of some stubborn poster on a message board thinks the better offense & worse defense didn't win that Super Bowl. We can all move the goalposts and flip back & forth between season-long stats and individual games to make our point, depending on what's convenient for us.

If only it were that simple. It's not because very few OLs fall in to either of those two categories.

That about sums it up.

Easy to say that now. Do you know how many annoying Jet fans would come out of the woodwork that you never knew existed though? Think NE 2001 and multiply that by 2 or so. The annoying Steeler bandwagon is already as full as it can get.

Complete nonsense. Why isn't there a smart franchise out there who recognizes JP could be great in their system? "GB is a model of stability despite coaching turnover"? You might as well say "they've lucked out that their last 2 QBs have been awesome".

Absolutely. Saying that "the winning team ran for more yards" is almost akin to saying they scored more points. Winning teams usually run the ball more because they have a lead. As neither the Packers or Steelers OLs are anywhere near as good as the Jets, I wouldn't say yesterday's game is the best example of trying to make a point about the Bills problems (although I am in the "I wish we had more/better 'fat guys'" camp).

Yes I can. Can you say losers?

Yah I do think that's what it is. You don't know what "bum knee" means because you're not him. I guess living in Philly that mentality just reminds me of all the ignorant Iggle fans who always said "McNabb doesn't care 'cause OMG look at him smiling on the sidelines!" It's just stupid, that's all.

Or if you don't give your team as good a chance to win as the healthy back-up... How are you not the guy who pushes for players to play hurt?

I like this breakdown too. Wanndsteadt is not going to win us any games by outwitting the other guy but at least he is a legit "nfl guy" who should prevent us from losing any. I mean he basically had the same kinds of years that Jimmy Johnson did, only with Jay Fiedler as his QB.

Agreed. The zone is kinda like playcalling in football - fans only complain about it when the other team makes ridiculous shots (or our QB sucks). My biggest concern going forward after this game is the lack of upside on this team since, I didn't think we played all that terrible - we shot pretty well from 3 too, Joseph looked 100%, and we're still never really in the game in our building. I sorta felt that way before the game too - it's a deeper team than we're used to, but I don't think we have the star-power to win the whole thing. We certainly can't beat a good team when Scoop doesn't play well, as JB said.

2004 Pitt - 13-3, SU - 11-5 (1-1 vs. Pitt) 2005 Pitt - 10-6, SU - 11-5 (0-2 vs. Pitt) 2006 Pitt - 10-6, SU - 7-9 (1-1 vs. Pitt, neither game was in the Dome) 2007 Pitt - 12-4, SU - 10-6 (0-1 vs. Pitt, SU was in the NIT) 2008 Pitt - 10-8, SU - 9-9 (0-1 vs. Pitt, SU was in the NIT) 2009 Pitt - 15-3, SU - 11-7 (0-1 vs. Pitt) 2010 Pitt - 13-5, SU - 15-3 (0-1 vs. Pitt) So basically we beat them twice when we shouldn't have, and lost 3-4 we shouldn't have (and that's including the infamous '08 double digit Paul Harris collapse when we weren't really "better"). We have also beaten West Virginia a disproportionate % of the time (under both Beiline and Huggins)...but who cares? You want to find another coach who designs a program that's built to beat Pitt? Why?