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MB, how big were you? Were you a mini-Doug Plank out there?

I was 5'10" 208-ish in college gp. Yeah, I tried to be... hitting and run coverage was my strength since I was a mlb in high school. I waaaaasnt all that strong on the pass coverage side. I got really injury prone in college for some reason (never missed as much as a practice in hs ) so my man college career was a dissapointment to me. But yeah, I liked to drop bombs... with my helmet most times unfortunately.

I thought it was legal..

Hard to say it wasn't "roughing the passer." Harrison saw McCoy release the ball, then lowered his head and launched, helmet-to-helmet, into McCoy. Harrison is getting better at shortening his launch sequence so it's less noticeable, but if you watch the replay, you can see that he did launch.

Supposedly, McCoy was still glassy-eyed after the game. He says he doesn't remember the hit. He should not have been allowed back onto the field after only two downs. His backup was doing well. Yeah, he only threw one pass, but it was a 15 yd strike to (about) the Steeler 5.

Here's a decent vid of the hit, if youtube hasn't taken it down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDvi5vGsY90

I don't know man. This isn't even real football any more. The dude was out of the pocket scrambling. Yeah, when you watch the hit in slow mo it looks bad, but watch it again at reg speed. It's a split second... I didn't even see him throw the ball the first time I watched it.

I get player safety, but common for christ sake.

I have mixed feelings about it. I love the hits, and hate the way QB's are protected by the refs. But I'm just a spectator. I never played the game at a high level. So it feels hypocritical (for me) to defend what Harrison & Co. do. I'm not the one with my life and career on the line.

Also, I live in Steeler country, unfortunately, and have probably seen more Steeler games over the last few years than Bear games. There is no question that the Steeler coaching staff encourages helmet-to-helmet launching. There's no question how dangerous it can be. But still, I used to love watching Planck and Fencik. On the other hand...

yep. bottom line is these guys aren't mine workers or crabmen... they get HUGE money (by any normal standards) to play a game that is the most fun you can have without drugs/high-class call girls (not that I'd know about either). The risks they take are known and are handsomely rewarded.

This is the game. It's changing, and I get why... but all too soon it's going to be like lions and tigers. The game as we all love it is going extinct. I get why it's moving in that direction, but it doesn't change the fact that it's just sad for me personally.

It comes down to this: When da Bears do it, I'm fine with it. When it's done to the Bears, it's croool and somebody better get suspended or I'm going to whine and complain. That doesn't feel hypocritical to me at all.

It really doesn't.

Legal?!

In a war zone, yes. Not on the football field.

If he'd lined up Cutty like that you'd have spent the evening rounding up a posse and a lynch mob and headed for Pittsburgh!

Harrison EASILY could have lowered his shoulder and rocked McCoy in the chest but he insists he has the right to use his helmet as a weapon on drills a guy half his size right in the grill.

James Harrison is an unrepentant, defiant, recidivist offender.

Suspend his sorry ass.

Oh, and type of hit aside, it was BLATANT roughing the passer.

recidivist - good word al

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-total-access/09000d5d824e094b/Harrison-guilty-as-charged

Sanders claims McCoy moved at the last second. He didn't. Harrison hit him straight in the grill for what it's worth.

Yeah, it looks to me like Harrison's head is up - his eyes locked on McCoys - until the final second when he lowers the boom. It's basically the same technique used by rams:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFsnLChVvGE

Urlacher said a good point though " Our offense was playing great during that game and kept us fresh."

On Da Site, he suggests the obvious thing to do with guys like Miller and Duemervil - run the damn ball right at them. Over and over and over. Bear The Shit Out Of Them.

The Bear Defense gave up but 10 points last week and still lost.

That;s plenty of reason to be afraid. VERY afraid.

Could be several long range field goals on tap in the Mile-High air.

last sunday Thayer was running
hanie into the ground
he was negative critical
hanie brought him down

I do not believe hanis sucks
this weekend
and beyond
he may just surprise
his doubters
and if the recievers hold on
he will engineer 3 drives
in the stadium called mile high

Not so sure we'll be able to score on this defense of Denver's, HB. Von Miller and Dumervil provide more of a pass rush than the 7-sack Chiefs. No leading rusher/receiver for us - Barber and Bell can run it, but they can't necessarily do what Matt did for us in the air, and it's Caleb throwing the ball. I won't be taking the 1/2 about Denver but if I wasn't a Bears fan I would.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrjckubzbJ1qcxfhuo1_400.jpg

I did doc. Very nice.

Sadly, nicknames are never every taken... instead, they are always given.

And your given nickname is... Doc. It shall and always will be.... Doc.

~ Big McLarge Huge

Crunch ButtSteak would have been my LAST choice (thanks). But who am I to complain? M Onan Batterload was named after Old Testament splooge. Still, I will miss him.

Let us Tebow.

(I saw how you did that with the t-shirt)

well done buttsteak. Best to give in to it.

Besides, I giggle like a 14 year old every time I read that handle. hee hee.

btw, cats are still creepy (sorry DOM and Johnny)

Ha ha...I've seen that clip like 5 times already, and have laughed my ass off.

Dibs on Butch Deadlift...

Smoke ManMuscle

and

FistRock Bone

were under consideration....

Brilliant! Loved Mystery Theatre back in the day. That clip led me to the best fight scene ever - and is that Cynthia Rothrock ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC2jV8sCv1c&feature=related

With love,

Bolt Van Der Huge.

Doc, I swear I signed that just before I saw the end of your post. I feel like a new man now. Anything is possible, because I am ....Bolt Van Der Huge.

.......I think we can beat the Broncos! YES WE CAN!

Those guys really know how to yah.

No, no...wait! Andrea! I meant Andrea Grant!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vCqNV5lcY48/SwyvKRGpn0I/AAAAAAAAC1A/XtRYYecpBtY/s400/andrea4.jpg.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vCqNV5lcY48/SwyrWGxnbhI/AAAAAAAAC04/fV4CYuzfuOw/s400/Pin-uppoetblack062.jpg.jpg

thank you... jesus. (god I love boobies)

Pippa??? I. Just. Don't. Get. It.

(although in all fairness, that was the best looking I've ever seen her. I think she might have gotten an OZZZEEEE NOOOOZZZEEEE job)

Her ass is to die for. I'm vamished thinking about her royal lump. The bouncing quarter rule definitely applies here.

don't think i've seen it.... sides, I'm not an assman. But you're welcome to it crown.

Hey man... when are you guys going to procreate. Common, might as well fuck yourself like the rest of us now instead of later (I half keeeed.... kids are awesome... most of the time)

well
what can I say about
the reprobates with whom
i have been hangin' out

seeing this is our
turn in the holy land
and we are up against
the anointed
there is but one
thing I can say
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4lEF0xHLxo

Not bad for a white chick I must say.

Lily Thai anyone ?

http://sinophilesunite.tribe.net/photos/0a32e97f-755d-4d18-ba02-d970d7764f53

awesome.

10 character points deducted? I say that kid outclasses that teacher by a mile. + 50 character points! Well done, Anthony.

Did he get that name in prison?

here is some real love
check out the kids
ages and letters
at the end of this read

Karl says sohttp://kumamotojet.com/images/TheMoreYouKnow.jpg

the less you understand
children will save us all

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/08/operation-santa-post-office_n_1135291.html#s532835&title=Ashley_age_4

i know it is ancient
in technology terms
but a letter to santa
not an e-mail or text
still softens
the hardest heart

i love their unspoiled minds
and caring hearts

Banks HATES the Bears. The whole organization, top to bottom.

I don't know what it is. It's hard to argue though, when McMahon and Ditka and lots of other people hate the McCaskeys too. I just wish he have the TEAM a break, but I think he has some axe to grind with the Lovie-Martz ex-RAM clique.

yep. I wouldn't doubt it. That guy sucks... truly sucks. I enjoy the writing of half the guys on this blog more than his.

How do dudes like that get those gigs? He prolly started as an analyst fluffer and worked his way up.

try this MB
hit 'em early
and hit 'em often

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZgVRJ-H8U

Interesting image, yes, the first time one of my daughters stands there and calls her mother a c**t. I hope I'm not the kind of dad who stifles a laugh. As her mother likely won't know what a c**t is, it has the potential for some hilarity.

AMEN
SIR

We must end the WWTTD movement post haste!

Crown... Things getting a little unnerving on the NBA side.

Fuck LA (Lakers, Reid, Gear, (Louisiana), Carmelo's wife (Lala?), Confidential, Law, Kings, traffic, and UCLA)

Sick pic Willie!! Now that is what I'm talking about.

Howard Stern is about to face a huge fire storm. He's acting like the antitrust captain with unilateral authority. He is trying blocking Howard to the Nets as well.

LA would be better to stick with what they got for a last run at rings. Kobe, Paul and no big men doesn't scare me.

Let's get Caron signed by tonight or Nick Young whi is younger and fresher. Caron is 31. I'm scarred about the Crawford return possibility. That guy is a chucker that forces shots to get his, plays sub-par D and doesn't play within the team framework. The worst fit out of all the possibilities.
And please no Vince Carter. I don't want to watch his broken down ass run the court. It would be like watching Roy Williams run a slant.

Corey Wooten is the Kris Humphries of football. He looks like a serious athlete with great potential, but plays more like a broken down Kurt Rambis.

Butler to Clippers.

Wizards can match whatever we can offer (restricted).

It's all Vince Carter at this point.... :\

 
 
 
Wooten looks like a sideshow... His neck is longer than his torso, but Humphries couldn't carry Rambis' jockstrap.

I've always said he looks like a fucking pez dispenser.

I think he's the one second from the left: http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/public/news_images/4/52516_117588_4.jpg

none of you youts remember
but the cubs had a long neck pitcher
bob buhl
his head looked like it was on a flagpole

and andre rogers neck
topped even that

Your strange basketball lingo intrigues me ... yet I accept its existence. Carry on.

Bolt
x

i WILL NOT GIVE UP ON WOOTEN
he is my bear cub
WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR

did I offend u?

I would have to understand what you're writing first to be offended. So, no.

????

Sean, do you know anyone with the number sixteen in their name?

I kinda like the Blues Brothers, Starsky & Hutch, Steltz & Conte :

0:40

http://www.nfl.com/videos/chicago-bears/09000d5d824e3e59/Playbook-Bears-vs-Broncos

Adams is out, no?

He's been inactive for nearly this whole season due to a bad back, but I thought I read that Adams is healthy again.

On the site, he's still listed at NT in the depth chart and not a clue about inj. But who knows?

Adams really helped last year against the run, and the Tebuses are gonna run then run some more.

We're gonna need to cycle those big guys on those long drives in that air.

Our corner's ability to tackle also greatly helps our cause in this game. My worry is that our our young safety's will bite to soon on the Tebow run and let a guy get behind them deep for the easy six. If we avoid that. I see no way Tebus beats us. Not worried a bit.

It's time for the Tebus worshipers to eat their poison pudding.

Yeah, our corners are usually solid tacklers, esp Peanut.

However, the thought of our midgets Jennings, Graham or Moore going head up against Tebow or McGahee won't be pretty. lol

This is why Stelz is good for this game. He's a veteran - he's a good sure tackler, and he's played Tebow before.

Conte I hope is getting brainwashed to stay 20 yds back. He might not even be on the tv screen most of the game.

You mention coaching. I think it's key. Certainly it was key in the KC loss. Unfortunately, the Bronco's probably have the advantage in that department. The following excerpt is from Jeffri Chadiha (sorry if it's abp):
----------------------------
...people truly underestimate how hard it is for head coach John Fox and offensive coordinator Mike McCoy to do what they've done. Instead of sticking with the notion that they had to turn Tebow into a more conventional passer... they catered the offense to his strengths...
[snip]
...The amazing thing [is]... that more coaches haven't taken Denver's revamped philosophy and applied it to their own limited quarterbacks. As one AFC general manager said: "A lot of coaches out there don't know how to win. They think it's more about their systems when it really is about what their players can do....."
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7330773/tim-tebow-real-impact-overlooked
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Btw, that bit about cutting Hanie loose... it didn't come directly from Martz, afaik. It came from Brad Biggs, who said:
"Martz made it clear he needs to cut Hanie loose and let him have the entire menu to maximize his opportunity for success."

So, if Biggs' paraphrase is accurate, Martz intends to let Hanie loose within the system. Hanie ain't going to be free-styling out there; he'll just have more compulsory tricks to perform.

But like you said, you never know.

"A lot of coaches out there don't know how to win. They think it's more about their systems when it really is about what their players can do....."

Nail hit firmly on the head there.

Here's another (listen close at 0:07 for your Christmas greeting).

Been crying for a whole day.

To think. The Blazers had Aldridge, Roy, and Oden. Could've been so good. Sports is cruel.

Sam Bowie anyone?

Ass.

That 92 Blazers team was pretty good...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itwL5y0He-k

this one's for you
as you enter into
the second season

The good Doctor's doin' us proud in second!

Haha, it's all good man. Bring on the smack talk. Hope you don't lose that Post-It though... although that might be the only way you'll need a 2nd one!

Emailing the BF might make the most sense, but I'm not too worried. People on here have pride, and this ain't the Price is Right.

Glad to have you in the confidence league. Win or lose, you'll be welcome next year (but it's going to be win)....

The Confidence league IS fun. I'm digging it. It would be cooler if it was for cold hard cashe.

Maybe I'll try it out next year, if Michael L will invite the blog again.

I just wanted to try out FF finally, and it's sooo addicting, like Mongo warned me. I'm spending way to much time listening to FF podcasts and reading FF chatboards lol

I didn't want to really play other games like confidence or even the Blogfather's pick 'em cuz that would further confuse who the hell I'm rooting for.

It's already bad enough with FF - rooting for Megatron to score 3 TDs, but somehow still lose...

GP has Rodgers - talk about an empty victory lol

That's funny. I'm at the point with fantasy, that I've spread myself too thin. Next year, one money league with my homies. If DBB starts a keeper league I may be coerced into that.

The confidence picks league is different. You don't have to do a lot of homework. You pick the games and you walk away.

maybe he's been programmed by the same person who did Sexy Rexy....lol!

Ha, talking about conspiracy theories, did you see where NASA has misplaced or lost the moon rocks? I still say we never went to the moon. I've seen some very strong arguments that are very reasonable.

I haven't seen any that weren't blown out of the water Trac. The 'no stars' thing is explained by exposure length, and the rest are laughable. Hard to believe they'd burn Grissom, Chafee and White on the ground in Apollo One. Charlie Duke said it best. He said he could understand that there were people who would not believe we went to the moon - but to fake it nine times?

The pinnacle of human achievement, it was all downhill after that. Heady days indeed.

To me the Van Allen Belt is the biggest give away along with the doctored photographs and strong evidence of secondary light sources when by NASA's own admission, they took no light sources with them. I believe they were orbiting the earth during there missions and never went to the moon. NASA controlled all the information and there are serious questions raised when studying the evidence. I've also seen the laughable arguments but there are some very credible ones out there. Check this one out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo5w0pm24ic

Dude can tackle.

i have to believe that Meriweather is better than Steltz. We want guys that will make plays out there, not guys that will most likely injure another member of the team and play 1 step too slow to make any difference.

Waffle, the whole season I would agree with you 100% on VIP over Steltz. But after last weeks game I'm not quite sure.. Did you see the solo tackle inside the 5 yard line? He also led the team in tackles.
Ya know man, this is typical Lovie too. Whenever you see someone making a bunch of good special teams plays they always get rewarded with playing time.
If Steltz finishes the season strong, do we go from not having any safeties, to having.. dare I say.. depth?

yeah, couldn't believe that was Steltz last week. He looked like a man possessed. How do you sit a guy who had 9 tackles in one game? He had more tackles in one game than Roach did in like 3.

IF Steltz continues to play well, I dare say...we DO finally have depth at safety.

not that it will prevent Angelo from drafting another white safety from Stanford or something.

Good luck to you too. I'd really like to repeat in League 1.
It would sooth the pain of losing five in a row to get knocked out of my money league playoffs...on a three-way tiebreaker no less.
Three teams ended up with the same record with two spots. And I had the lowest point total by 11 pts for the season. Had Forte not gotten knocked out with a knee injury, I almost certainly would have scored the additional 4 pts it would've taken to win my head to head matchup with one of the other guys contending for the last spot and ended up with the #5 seed. Instead, Forte gets dinged, I lose by 4 and end up in the 7th spot.
FFL is a pain in the ass. Almost as bad as being a Bears fan.

League 2
#1MBHAP vs #4 TracDaddy
#2Murph vs #3 Irish

You're going against MBHAP in both leagues?

Well, at least Murph made it in the other league. He kinda stunk it up in League II lol

So GP got bumped from the playoffs entirely by one point...dang.

Yeah, and we have some overlapping players - so, it'll be interesting to say the least.

That's why I didn't want to join more than one league. I mean, if I join enough leagues, then I'd end up rooting for everyone, and that kinda defeats the purpose for me.

They are fun though. I used to go out of my way to ignore FF articles and stuff - not anymore.

Maybe next year we should make a bigger league for Da Blog, like 12-14 team league and combine those from Da Blog I and II.

I'd be cool with that. I think there are at least three DBB leagues this year - one auction and two regular.
And then my work league is absolutely cut-throat. 12 teams, everyone has played a few years now...not easy.

oh yeah, forgot about the auction one...this is my rook year at FF, so I just wanted to get down the "normal" FF down before the more exotic stuff like auction, keeper, ppr, etc (didn't even know those terms b4 this year lol)

I'm not even sure how the play-offs entirely work. If I win in week 14 but then lose in wk 15, then do total points break the tie?

All I know is, SCORE more than your opponent.

Those 12-14 team keeper leagues seem hardcore. End up starting guys that don't even realize they're playing on Sunday.

I'd like to get into a keeper league - I think that would be a cool thing for DBB to do next year.

League II was rough. I had identical records in league 1 and the auction league. Its been a crazy year with injuries and parity.

how is the auction league, Murph?

Is it really different than the standard FF?

Yes, GP got Tebowed so to speak..

It's the playoffs already? PLAYOFFS ?

There ya go Michael L. Good luck this week man!

I thought about whether or not to copy your first 4 picks and let it come down to Tebow, but that would have been bushleague. It would have been sort of like that price is right contestant who bids $2 after the person to their left just said 1dollarbob. It's fair game but classless.

I saw someone else suggest such a strategy, but I don't think there are any of the regulars on here that would actually do such a thing. Folks here have too much class to play play it anything but straight.

You can do itttttt!

Caleb 81.5
Tebow 35

never mind, phew