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13th in attendance, had 81% attendance rate this year, not too shabby

i agree, both sides win. i just think arod gets the edge here cuz the yanks took a really hard stance with him which made his opting out riskier. if they never took that stance, and he opts out to test his market value he knows in the back of his mind that the yanks are still playes too. what the yanks tried to do was eliminate this safety net for him and making his opt out riskier, hoping that this risk would keep him from opting out. so in a way he still got to test his market value, found out he wasn't getting more than what the yanks were offering, and got to go back for a two mil raise and another 7 years of security--i think that gives him the edge here

i hear that but boras always had a bad rep anyway. true no team could meet their demands but what happened to the yanks strong stance about how a-rod wouldn't be a yankee if he opted out and didn't sign an extension?

nah, boras wins. he still gets paid, and he successfully called the yankees bluff.

another thing is that i think he'll be useless in the lions gameplan, they rarely run the ball and he's the type of guy who needs a lot of rushes to get going. last week they ran kevin jones four times, even four times we still gotta keep an eye on him cuz he can break one of those 4 rushes for a big gain, but duckett? at best he'll get 20 yards if he gets 4 rushes

he's not the same player he used to be though, plus he's a lot better as a complimentary back

and obviously plax's situation has gotten worse, it was pretty obvious that the gameplan was to target the hell out of shockey. it's not like coughlin woke up one day last week and said "hey, you know i haven't gone to shockey enough over the past 3.5 years, let's switch it up even though we've won 6 in a row". if you ask me i dont think the coaching staff planned on plax being anymore than a decoy last week and maybe if the game wasn't so important he might not have played at all

i've sprained my ankle a million times too, sometimes i could walk on it the next day, other times i needed crutches for a few days and the swelling took weeks to go down. now imagine playing football once a week and getting hit while running on that ankle--it's certainly going to slow down your recovery.

of course they are still in the a-rod running. they currently don't have a right handed power bat and boras wasn't stupid enough to seriously believe that the yanks would let a 27 mil subsidy be the breaking point in a 300+ million dollar contract

they dont run enough to scare anyone, but jones is still a talented player who might not play--that can only help us

he's back this week.....finally. i've won 7 in a row in my money league, 8-2 and now i got andre johnson back. i get larry johnson back by the playoffs it's all over

i got lj, jacobs, kevin jones, and graham, i thought i had a ton of depth but i might be down to 2 rbs now

yeah but im pretty sure he's going to play. i got him too but there's no way im playing him against the giants d. thank god schaub got healthy

me too, luckily i have earnest graham to back him up

Nov 13 The Lions are considered holding Jones (foot) out of Sunday's game against the Giants in order to preserve him for the Thanksgiving Day contest against the Packers, MLive.com reports. Recommendation: Jones has needed four or five days to let his foot fully recover after each game, and it complicates matters further that he had to leave Sunday's loss to Arizona twice because of soreness in his surgically-repaired left foot. With the Thanksgiving Day game, he'd be very doubtful to play next Thursday against Green Bay in the wake of a Sunday contest against the Giants. We'll see if this is something the Lions plan on following through with leading into Sunday, but Jones owners may want to scoop T.J. Duckett up off the waiver wire just to hedge their bets for the next two games. -from rotowire.com His numbers aint great but he's only played in 7 games, and he's scored a TD in 5 of those games. After him there's a serious dropoff in talent as tj duckett would start for them if he doesn't. they don't run the ball much anyway (jones only ran 4 times last week but scored) but not having jones in there could seriously help us out as we most certainly would never have to put 8 in the box

im not talking about the trade, im talking about how good all 3 players are

i'll be honest, im not that sold on gb either, but they are still a team with 1 loss so in retrospect they are a team that we weren't supposed to beat.

at least we can take rivers out of this argument

i think we are 3rd in the NFL in 3rd and short efficiency, and i can understand it cuz droughns is a bruiser too, but i just think we aren't playing our best hand in these situations and i really hope it doesn't end up biting us in the ass

yeah we've beaten the teams we're supposed to beat and have lost to the teams we were supposed to lose to, and both those teams are a combined 16-2 (or something like that). there's really no shame in being in the situation we're in right now. my only fear is that we'll fall apart after this big game like we fell apart after the bears game last season--but that remains to be seen. eli and coughlin are really going to be tested these last 7 games

the game plan was sound but i think the situational playcalling was atrocious. i also think droughns should've gotten more carries in the first half to keep jacobs fresh for the 2nd half. i mean ward spelled jacobs a LOT when he was healthy and droughns has proven that he is a capable runner even in the role as a featured back, he's a great asset to have considering what we gave up for him so why not utilize him more? oh and i think the giants are absolutely retarded for designating droughns as the short yardage/goal line back. yeah when you have a guy like jacobs as a reserve and the starter is a guy like tiki barber it makes sense to use the big guy as the goal line back, but droughns is no better in this role as jacobs was last year and no better in any short yardage situation as jacobs is, so why do it?

hey the yankees had their day as far as winning and shit talking goes, let the sox fans have theirs.

agreed 100%. i can't count how many times i thought the playcalling drove me nuts this season and last--even in wins. the truth is eli and plax have bailed out the play calling a ton this season

we didn't get it done because the cowboys played better than us down the stretch. yeah it's not what we wnated to happen but we went toe-to-toe with the best team in the NFC twice, and all 3 of our losses have come to two teams who have 1 loss each. we gotta forget it, move onto the next game, and work on getting better so we can take our vengence in the playoffs. the season is FAR from over for us

jacobs averaged over 4 yards per carry before getting hurt in game 1, and he had 95 yards today and would've broken 100 yards and added a td had it not been for one of the holding calls you mentioned above.