The Big Cat

I don't really think the reason I had in mind would suffice in your eyes.

My bad, bro.

Who--other than you--implied there was a difference?

J5

Did anyone seriously doubt this would be the case?? http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/160626-who-do-you-think-will-start-game-1/#entry2879322

Why was this ever a question? http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/160626-who-do-you-think-will-start-game-1/#entry2879322

I think we've now reached 1,000,000 reasons it should be legalized.

Mine's 28, putting me at the high-end of 'over weight.' I'm fixing to run a half marathon Sunday at a sub-8 pace. BMI is horse ****.

Who's to say there won't someday be a dominant NBA center named Ari Silverstein? Would you bet on it?

Sorry, I can't get the EJ Cody picture any smaller, y'all.

so, something like this, perhaps?

Well, ya can. They were better than at least seven teams last year, of whom four have also had coaching turnover...

and if we win, we'll sneak up to 26. while sitting at the top of our division and neither thing will be more meaningless than the other.

And I don't necessarily disagree with that.

Interesting take. I'd like to string up the "curves are beautiful" crowd myself. Turns out when you're fat, you're not beautiful on the inside, ask your organs that are struggling to survive. But she'll get a lot of go-on-girls anyways because she's up to her 38 inch waist in her 15 minutes of pity. And while the anonymous forces of Internet hate could make the store clerks life a little dicey, without making her the center of attention, she kinda gets away unscathed (though I'm certain some corner of the Internet has already circulated her address, phone number, work schedule, license plate and a list of her fears). Meantime, everyone's a !@#$ing victim anymore. To take my stance to the logical extreme, part of me wishes the girl took a look in the mirror and said to herself, damn it, may be she's right. May be it's time to drop some LB's. Instead, the opposite happened because of our crippling victimhood mentality.

I understand what you're saying. But if you're going to dismiss the validity of stats based on these factors, then all stats are moot. CJ Spiller took it 90 yards to the house because two linebackers missed their assignment, or because the defense only had 10 guys on the field, therefore CJ's stats are meaningless. Also, and more to the point, and similar to what somebody indirectly mentioned already, if New England* forced the QB into bad throws by disrupting the line, by getting into throwing lanes, but pressuring the quaterback, or by forcing the quarterback to go through more progressions, then--by your logic--they have effectively "stopped" Stevie Johnson.

Mother !@#$ing idiots and their mother !@#$ing idiotic yolo.

I feel like I'm back in an argument about Lee Evans...

I think you missed the point.

Fair enough. But every time his antics bubble up, folks like you dismiss it by saying "Stevie's just..." And my argument all along is that said dismissal is fine, if he did it once or twice, and not regularly enough that we have to keep hearing "Stevie's just..." As mentioned already, his antics were enough for one coach to bench him already...

Can he play guard? Can he play corner back?

Yet you don't say why the stats are useless. In this case, we're looking at his history to make a determination about the very subjective assertion: Pats can't stop Stevie. What would "unstoppable" stats look like? I'd venture to say they're a whole lot better than about 4 catches for 60ish yards and less than half a touchdown per game. And if stats don't exist in a vacuum, I welcome you to jump on into the many debates I've had defending Ryan Fitzpatrick, that Stevie wouldn't have gotten 3 x 1000 yard seasons if Fitz was as incompetent as posters here will have you believe.

I did not editorialize. But, if he hadn't been a dumbass, he might have had a great game.

4 catches for 40 yards and a touchdown, fyi.

It's too bad folks with actual photoshop skills did a limited number of these.