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https://www.facebook.com/KING5News/photos/a.74925066475.78273.6276351475/10152617037531476/?type=1&theater Kearse reception as registered by seismometer

WOW... Kearse, Baldwin... pedestrian receivers, all...

Impressive drive by Carolina.

Angry Doug!!

Stupid penalty Lane Lockette. Stupid.

Stupid penalty Lane. Stupid.

I kept wondering if the refs were the same crew that worked game 7 of the 1993 Suns vs Sonics Western Conference finals...

If the Hawks win out, then the Hawks are the #1 seed. If the Hawks beat Arizona next week, then they stand a good chance to be no worse than the #2 seed and don't have to beat the Rams. If the Eagles win tonight and lose to either Washington or the Giants, then the Hawks go into their game against the Rams clinching at least #2 whether they win or not (but with the win the #1 seed is theirs). All this as laid out by KJR's "Mr Playoffs" starting at about the 20 minute mark of this audio: http://www.sportsradiokjr.com/media/podcast-mitch-in-the-morning-ondemand-mitchinthemorning/129-mr-playoffs-25663504/

because a safety is the only way in the NFL that a team can score without possessing the football.

It's more likely that Ray Rice or Adrien Peterson would be the #1 RB than Christine Michael. As others have noted, he just isn't showing anything except on special teams. Turbin is proving to be a solid if unspectacular RB, so I'd bet they roll with him and bring in either a 2nd or 3rd Rd RB to compete for the b/u with Michael or bring in a FA RB if they can get him at a good price.

12 Team PPR, 1 player keeper per team. I inherited a bad team and elected not to keep anyone. Two QB keepers were Kaepernick 7.10 and Rivers 13.4. Including keepers, I drafted Wilson 7.11 and Cutler 8.2 as the 12th and 13th QBs taken. Manning 1.1 Rodgers 1.2 Brees 1.4 Luck 4.4 Brady 4.6 Stafford 4.7 Romo 4.10 Ryan 5.12 Foles 6.5 Kaep 7.10 (keeper) Wilson 7.11 Cutler 8.2

I drafted # 4 in a 14-team league – Doug Martin and David Wilson were my fist 2 picks. I intended to draft WR/WR/WR in the next 3 round but, at the end of the 4th round, Eddie Lacy was available so I went best player available and drafted him. Later on, Le’Veon Bell was available in the 10th round and I grabbed him. I wound up at the end of the season rotating Lacy, Bell and Andre Brown which turned out pretty well for me but I could’ve been sunk by those first 2 picks. Overall, tho, I had a pretty crappy draft but it wasn’t because my strategy was bad, it was because I did a terrible job of evaluating talent this year. Other than Lacy/Bell, my only other quality pick was grabbing Julius Thomas in the last (16th) round – the rest of my picks were mediocre at best. Any draft strategy is flawed if you don’t also allow for the flexibility to change if the draft starts to tilt in a different direction than you anticipated – in my case, there were 13 other people with different strategies and talent evaluations and any strategy that can’t adapt to the unexpected quirks of a live draft might as well be no strategy at all. Auto-drafts, for example, are never as rewarding as a live draft – I’d argue they almost always turn out poorly because they are not flexible enough. At some point in the middle rounds, every draft strategy must change to a best player available mode (regardless of positional needs) and auto-drafts (and by extension a rigid draft strategy) often fail to adapt to the play of the draft board. As an example of planned flexibility: I rarely draft QBs earlier than the 5-8 rounds, especially lately, because there is often good value to be had in drafting a couple middling-projected QBs that I think will blow up. This year I told myself that if Peyton Manning was still available at the end of the 2nd round I would have to think about drafting him and/or cross my fingers he was available on the return in the beginning of the 3rd round. As it turned out, he went early in the second round, but the point is that I had a global strategy of RB/RB/WR/WR/WR yet built in a few contingency plans if certain scenarios played out. I wound up drafting Dalton/Vick in rounds 7/8 then picking up Cutler/McCown later in the year (Cutler was dropped when he was injured). I kick myself that I didn’t draft Foles instead of Mohammed Sanu in the 15th round! FYI – I limped into the playoffs as the last seed, beat the #1 in the first round, lost to the eventual champion in the 2nd round, and won the 3/4 game to finish in the money.

move to the West Coast - mid-afternoon start. Problem solved.

Keep framing it as Sherman vs Denver's receivers, if you want; I think Earl Thomas, Kam Chancellor, Byron Maxwell, KJ Wright, Walter Thurmond, Jeremy Lane, Bobby Wagner and Malcolm Smith will have a ton of influence, as well. Sherman is the mouthpiece and lightning rod that draws the ire while the rest of the D quietly makes plays. Of course, Sherman is the least targeted DB in the NFL this year and also led the league in INT, so he's doing a good job of cashing the checks his mouth writes. Bottom line, it will be a battle and I can't wait for it to start!

Yes, you're correct - quarterbacks rarely throw at great cover corners. Sherman was the least targeted CB in 2013. He's at that level now. http://slumz.boxden.com/f16/richard-sherman-leads-league-interceptions-despite-being-least-targeted-corner-2017977/