I don't think Rosenfels is as far below Cutler as people think. Cutler is a good young QB with some upside but he still makes a lot of retarded decisions. With the Broncos he had the benefit of having a ridiculous pass blocking offensive line and a pretty good group of receivers, even if Brandon Marshall is ridiculously overrated. He's still a good franchise QB guy, but I think the Vikings are better off with Sage than breaking the bank for Cutler.
Also, I think Sage is probably better than Garcia at this point. Leftwich might be close but I haven't really seen him enough since Jack Del Rio is an idiot.
My beef with Sage is that he is basically just a slightly better version of Frerotte, which is not what the Vikings need. He can throw for some good yards, but he turns the ball over a lot. We need someone who is careful with the ball and wont turn it over so we can just put the game in the hands of AP and Taylor.
Man I keep seeing all these QB's on the free agent market and I just keep thinking why the hell did the Vikings get Sage when they could have picked up Garcia, Leftwich and now Cutler. All of those QB's are 20 times better than Rosenfels and T-Jack.
I'm a music love in general (most any genre except some of the really out there indie and country music) and I do have a soft spot for a good pop song. Justin Timberlake is one of my favorites, Cry Me a River is still a great song.. actually pretty much every single he's put out since being out of N'Sync I genuinely enjoy. Rhianna is pretty good, I really like Live Your Life, which brings up the point that outside of straight pop I really like the pop-rap. TI in Live Your Life is great, as well as whatever you like, which is basically just a pop song.
Going back, MJ is obviously great, with Off the Wall being one of my all time favorite albums, and Thriller and Bad are great too.
Whats really funny about Durant is if you look at games where he hasn't played this season they are 2-1. Most of those games were against far superior teams.
Because that really means anything. At one point the Celtics were like 5-1 without Garnett. Does that mean the Celtics are better without Garnett? No, that just means people stepped up when their team leader was out. In the long run, having Durant on OKCThunder makes the team much better.
If Cutler really wants out and is available the Vikings really need to go after him aggressively. Quarterback is probably the weakest position out of all the skill positions (and maybe overall) and having no quarterback puts a ceiling on the team of the playoffs. If we can upgrade to someone with as much of a future as Cutler with his skills, we can be a serious Superbowl contender. Having him also gives us a better set up for the future, and if we can pick up someone like Lance Moore to be opposite Berrian and then AP in the backfield we could have one scary offense to go along with the dominating defensive line.
Pretty much the reason it isn't inforced is because of Shaq, who has never adheared to the rule. I will say that he gets away with an above average amount of missed fouls, but so does most of the superstar level players. It's technically not cheating since Shaq didn't pay off the refs to begin with, anyways.
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BTW I don't have an issue since every team has at least one person that gets away with murder.
Well as to Shaq getting away with fouls, you have to admit Shaq gets an inordinate amount of fouls on him that aren't called. He's just to big and too powerful to contain without fouling.
So what do you guys think about Matt Cassel and Vrabel to the Chiefs for a 2nd rounder (mid thirties overall)? I honestly don't see where the Patriots are coming from. It seems like they could have gotten a better pick than that for Cassel alone.
I'm personally not a fan of them acquiring Marbury, I just think there is more risk than reward. He has a terrible attitude and is a me first kind of point guard, which isn't the guy you want distributing the ball when you have the big 3. Sure the guy can score, but he isn't going to play any defense or do anything else substantial. I just can't see how he is going to gel with this team but time will tell I guess. I do like Mikki Moore going to Boston. Definitley a step up from Big Baby.
See the thing is I really don't see how they are taking any risk. It seems like if Marbury decides he needs to rip up the locker room and be Starbury on and off the court, they can just cut him and their back to a championship quality team. He needs them way more than they need him, if he doesn't perform this season with them then his career is pretty much over. Who would take on a player who was so much of a cancer that he couldn't work with these ridiculously strong and team oriented Celtics?
And as for him not being as necessary when you have the Big 3, really the only one who handles the ball out of the Big 3 and is still fully effective is PP. Allen is much more effective as a pure shooter, and Garnett obviously doesn't do too much ball handling. When Rajon and PP are on the bench, Allen or Eddie House are forced to become the ball handler, and both of those guys are more effective when they can just shoot.
What do you guys think about Miki Moore and (probably) Starbury to the Celtics? I think this makes their 2nd team so much better, as they had basically no scoring off their bench. I think this gives them a much better chance of repeating. Until these moves were made, I thought that they really couldn't stand up to Lebron and co this year to make it to the finals.
I loved Ledger's performance, but he was far from the film's only strong performer. Caine, Freeman and Oldman all brought a lot to the film. And I thought Eckhart's turn as Harvey Dent was the real centerpiece of the film. As great as Ledger was, I think his death led to a bit too much hype for the Joker which took a lot of the focus off Eckhart. A sad thing, if you ask me since he put in some outstanding work.
Nothing against Eckhart, I loved him in Thank You for Smoking and he had a good performance in TDK, but I really think the Two-Face plotline actually took away from the movie. If the film had ended with the Joker hanging outside the window and the next film had that conclusion in it I think the film would have been a lot better. It felt like one of those tacked on endings, like LOTR 3.
Does that surprise you? I wonder if things would have turned out differently if he was still alive. He might not have even been nominated if he hadn't died. Then again, I haven't seen any of the performances by the other nominees, so I really have no reason to say that he didn't deserve to win. I guess I'm just a bit cynical.
That is pretty cynical, especially if you saw The Dark Knight. I mean, just being honest here, he basically completely carried that movie. I don't know anyone who saw that movie whose favorite scenes or parts don't have him in it. With a less greatly acted Joker that movie is half the movie it turned out being.
I too dropped Heroes, which makes me sad cuz it had so much potential. But tonight's Psych was good, last nights Burn Notice was good so I'm all good. I also picked up Leverage and Trust Me on TNT and I'm liking them, at least for now.
So what do you guys think about how the Season is going? It seems like every episode is just tacking the advancement of the plot on in the last 10 minutes, which I actually kind of like because the main appeal of the show is the different scenario every episode.
My beef with Sage is that he is basically just a slightly better version of Frerotte, which is not what the Vikings need. He can throw for some good yards, but he turns the ball over a lot. We need someone who is careful with the ball and wont turn it over so we can just put the game in the hands of AP and Taylor.
Going back, MJ is obviously great, with Off the Wall being one of my all time favorite albums, and Thriller and Bad are great too.
Because that really means anything. At one point the Celtics were like 5-1 without Garnett. Does that mean the Celtics are better without Garnett? No, that just means people stepped up when their team leader was out. In the long run, having Durant on OKCThunder makes the team much better.
Well as to Shaq getting away with fouls, you have to admit Shaq gets an inordinate amount of fouls on him that aren't called. He's just to big and too powerful to contain without fouling.
See the thing is I really don't see how they are taking any risk. It seems like if Marbury decides he needs to rip up the locker room and be Starbury on and off the court, they can just cut him and their back to a championship quality team. He needs them way more than they need him, if he doesn't perform this season with them then his career is pretty much over. Who would take on a player who was so much of a cancer that he couldn't work with these ridiculously strong and team oriented Celtics?
And as for him not being as necessary when you have the Big 3, really the only one who handles the ball out of the Big 3 and is still fully effective is PP. Allen is much more effective as a pure shooter, and Garnett obviously doesn't do too much ball handling. When Rajon and PP are on the bench, Allen or Eddie House are forced to become the ball handler, and both of those guys are more effective when they can just shoot.
Nothing against Eckhart, I loved him in Thank You for Smoking and he had a good performance in TDK, but I really think the Two-Face plotline actually took away from the movie. If the film had ended with the Joker hanging outside the window and the next film had that conclusion in it I think the film would have been a lot better. It felt like one of those tacked on endings, like LOTR 3.
That is pretty cynical, especially if you saw The Dark Knight. I mean, just being honest here, he basically completely carried that movie. I don't know anyone who saw that movie whose favorite scenes or parts don't have him in it. With a less greatly acted Joker that movie is half the movie it turned out being.
So what do you guys think about how the Season is going? It seems like every episode is just tacking the advancement of the plot on in the last 10 minutes, which I actually kind of like because the main appeal of the show is the different scenario every episode.