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Did I miss something on the Colts schedule this year? You play the Patriots some time, right? Wait, no? Okay...Still trying to figure out the big deal of the Pats obsession on here when you don't have to go through the torture of playing them this year.
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On 5/12/2017 at 8:27 PM, WoolMagnet said:
I heard Goodell paid EA Sports 20 million of his own money to get Brady on the cover.
Good thing no one takes the worst commissioner in national sports seriously...
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21 hours ago, NannyMcafee said:
Isnt andrew luck the next Steve young? So would that make Jimmy the next Andrew luck?
Young won a Super Bowl within 4 years as a starter and 2 MVP's; and for the longest time, had the highest QB rating and percentage completion rates back in the 90's era. Young sadly does not get a lot of credit for his accomplishments. A serious argument could be made that he was the best quarterback of the 1990's decade.
Luck has a long ways to go before he can properly be compared to Steve Young IMO.
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If Brady goes down, it will be due to his age and not the superstition of the "curse". The Madden curse itself mostly goes back to Daunte Culpepper IMO. He was not the same QB whatsoever after that back injury put him out. The before and after was truly sad.
He will be 40 years old in August. I don't care about how amazing and awesome his diet is that gets brought up over and over. Remember what happened to Brett Favre? He still had a cannon arm at 40 years old and proceeded to post his best season since 1996 back at 40 years old. All it took was one awful, rough game with a bunch of hard hits and age caught up to him that night and he wasn't the same again in 2010.
IMO the Pats need to hold onto Jimmy G and probably will. He has far greater potential than any of the previous Brady backups that people fell in love with. But at Brady's age, the window is fast closing and they're going to need a replacement soon. I am not of the belief that any QB's body is going to withstand past the age of 40 without a serious decline.
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Cavs take a commanding 3-0 series.
And the LeBron haters really thought Toronto could take them to 7 games. There was no chance Toronto had a real prayer in this series. They play like they're traumatized. From game 1, as soon as those dunks started happening, they looked scared. They looked even more afraid in game 2. Tonight they looked OK until getting worn down mentally.
For the LeBron haters, here you go....
He's not scared of Ibaka whom was hyped up as a "LeBron stopper" when Toronto picked him up months back.
MVP right here
LeBron still averaging 30+ points a game in the playoffs with 35, 39 and 35 again tonight vs Toronto.
Keep hatin, haters....
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32 minutes ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:
You and Bogie both constantly call him the GOAT on your Profile pages when you talk about him, go back and look at the archives. Tons of Posters that are Cavs fans do the same thing on ESPN. Everyone on ESPN has him 2nd behind Jordan at worse, I mean everyone and they always say can he catch Jordan for the GOAT? How is he even 2nd? What makes him better than Magic or Kareem or Kobe? What has he done those guys haven't done.
This is beyond ridiculous....
For one, we don't call him the GOAT. We call him one of them. It's subjective, something you don't seem to understand at all....Like I said, you literally are the biggest LeBron hater I have ever seen. I never even seen you mention Kareem before until I did. Before it was just MJ. I noticed a while back, you never mention any of these guys; Magic, Kareem, MJ, whatever unless you are bashing LeBron.
In terms of modern NBA, yes, I believe LeBron is hands down, the greatest player of this generation and the greatest player we've seen in the modern era after the changes of zone defense. There you go, if you want me on record calling him one of the greatest to ever play the game.
For two, This post is a great example of exactly what I am talking about...You hate LeBron, we get it. You have to bold this out, to make it known "look, these people think he's the GOAT and it bothers me so bad, cause they don't agree with me."...
Who cares if we like LeBron? Who cares if ESPN ranks him behind MJ? Christ, that's not enough for you. You want them to hate LeBron just like you do.
As I told you, you need to start naming names in "the media" that put LeBron as the GOAT, cause just saying "the media" as a scapegoat ain't gonna cut it. ESPN loves MJ. I mentioned several people who worked and previously worked for ESPN to you. I don't just say "the media"...Steven A Smith, is the one who flat out tells people, quote for quote "it's blasphemous" when someone gives praise to LeBron. He loves that word "blasphemous" and goes off on tirades about how MJ is the greatest thing ever. Maybe you should try watching ESPN, you'd find that you would agree with the talking heads, since they go in circles criticizing LeBron and propping up MJ up.
Any time someone gives LeBron praise, I wait for you to go "yeah, but he'll never be as good as X, Y, and Z, and i'm going to give you a lecture on why."
Your X, Y, Z is usually always the same - MJ, Magic, and Kareem. You know, guys from a different era....an era before there was zone defense.
Your hero MJ even protested the rule change of zone defense, citing that he would not have had the career he had if he had to play in zones. Many superstar players hate zone defense; Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett hated it, protesting it for years. Even Dwayne Wade in the past decade has said before how much he despises it.
And these 3 guys who also played on historically great teams, much greater than any of the teams LeBron has ever been on. LeBron was on only one historically great team - the 2011-2013 Miami Heat. Magic Johnson won the Finals his rookie year with a loaded Lakers team. Magic also went 0-4 in the Finals without a healthy Kareem, and MJ's playoff record without Pippen speaks for itself. MJ couldn't get out of the first round for years until he got help with Pippen and others (and a rule change. The extended foul penalty that began in 1991 took the Bad Boy Pistons out of the equation. Before that rule change, MJ got owned by the Pistons.)
LeBron is the bad guy to you, but none of these guys for playing with other superstars. I get it. You still prop Durant up as a hero, even though him going to Golden State is much worse than what LeBron did. That would've been like LeBron literally going to L.A. or Boston at the end of 2010. The Heat team he went to had practically no depth and was in rebuild mode.
The NBA is a different animal from what it used to be. But I've told you that a dozen times before, I even showed you a video some time last summer demonstrating the changes of zone defense of modern day vs the old rules. You still went on about how bad LeBron is.
I get it. You hate LeBron. You're hands down, the biggest LeBron hater I have probably ever encountered on a discussion board. Congrats.
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On 5/4/2017 at 4:36 PM, 2006Coltsbestever said:
No I am cool, LeBron is a Great player. Let me ask you this though, what if the Cavs lose to the Warriors? What will be the excuse or your thoughts on his greatness? Just asking because I know you love LeBron. Cavs have a Great team so it's not like he doesn't have help. They will be in the Finals.
I think a better question would be what will be your excuse? I know if LeBron loses the Finals, you're going to go nuts hating on him. That's a given.
You are the biggest LeBron hater I think I have ever seen on a sports forum, and I used to hate LeBron myself. I pretty much don't engage with you on this topic of LeBron, cause you always end up going in a circle of saying "Yeah he's great, but let me tell you why X, Y, and Z is better, and why he'll never be close to them!". I never see you talk about LeBron, without bringing up a bunch of other names from past decades to say how he's not as good as them. And most of the guys you bring up to compare him to, are impossible to truly make a side by side comparison, cause they played in different eras back when there was no zone defense. The change of zone defense has made the game far more complex than it ever was. Watch a game from the 80's or 90's and watching a modern game today is like apples and oranges cause the defenses are completely different and the style of play has been forced to evolve around the rule change of zones.
I've seen a lot of LeBron haters over time, but none of them go the length you go to overly slam him every chance you get. It's truly mind-numbing at times. I almost want to ask if you're going to suggest it's "rigged" if he repeats this year, but you've already made those kind of suggestions before.
LeBron don't have to beat the Warriors again to accomplish greatness. He already established his greatness last year coming back from a 3-1 deficit to beat a historically great team as a major underdog. He will go down in history for accomplishing that feature that had never been done before. Only LeBron haters, come up with this saying that he has to beat them again to earn some respect. I learned last year, that nothing will ever satisfy this man's haters. Even if he wins it this year, I'm sure there will be some other excuses not to give him credit. It will be something, I'm sure of it. Just the fact LeBron don't get credit for beating them last year, proves that nothing is ever enough for his haters.
The Warriors won 73 games last year, and this year they got another super star and still won 67 games.
They are the overwhelming favorite to win the Finals. Just like last year, probably even worse this year. Most sports outputs are giving them over 50% chance of winning. They were overwhelming favorites during the regular season.
The Cavs are a good team, not a great team. If they lose the Finals, it won't be a shock to anyone since Golden State is such a loaded team and they got a new superstar.
How about your boy Durant? Not like he don't have help, going to a team that won 73 games without him. Durant's team is way more stacked than the Cavs. You would be crazy to even argue that the Warriors aren't a loaded team with superstars.
I went over this with you last year, when I showed you that article from Five Thirty Eight that demonstrated as good as LeBron is as an individual player, he's rarely ever been a favorite in the Finals. Only twice was LeBron a favorite in the Finals; 2011 vs Dallas and 2013 vs San Antonio. He went 1-1 as a favorite. LeBron was a slight underdog when he beat OKC in the Finals 2012, and a major underdog this past year when he won again.
It's no different this year. LeBron haters can try to say the Cavs are "great" but they're not compared to Golden State.
So if he loses, it won't be a shock since he's going to be a major underdog yet again. But I am positive to his haters, they'll just use this to label him a choker, regardless of the fact he came back down 3-1 to beat a historically great team last year, and they'll circle the wagons to talk about MJ and whatever to bash him. Same story it always is.
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2 hours ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:
If I had the talent LeBron James has had and I was being compared to Jordan and Magic straight out of highschool, being a face of a franchise would be very important to me. He was of the Cavs and now is again but IMO he wasnt In Miami and that is where he won 2 of his Titles. Maybe I am old fashioned but I think it's very important. It was to Reggie Miller being a Pacer his whole career. It was to Peyton Manning as well, Peyton would've been a Colt his whole career but he got pushed out. Durant was the face of OKC and trust me had he won it all there, people would've looked at that as 100 times better rather than joining a loaded team like LeBron did with the Heat as well.
Except what Durant did was far worse....He went to a loaded team that went 73-9 without him and beat him in the playoffs.
LeBron went to a Heat team that was in rebuilding mode....and took a massive pay cut to go there (Wade and Bosh took pay cuts too, something Durant did not do at all, as GSW had to let go of that awesome bench to pay for his cowardly act of ring chasing)
Durant is no different, and even worse than what LeBron did. But since his name isn't LeBron James, it's totally fine.
Haters gonna hate.
1 hour ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:A lot of the media just push this GOAT stuff on everyone and some buy into it. I would love to get all the ESPN people in a room that say LeBron is the GOAT or 2nd behind Jordan and ask them to present facts instead of hype. LeBron actually doesn't compare to Kareem in anyway possible. I am talking Kareem, not even Magic or Kobe. Kareem is the all-time leading scorer, has way more Rebounds, his FG% is better so he was way more efficient too. Efficiency is what a lot of LeBron lovers brag about all the time. I only mentioned Stats not even Championships or MVP's. Kareem 6-3 in Championships, 6-4 in League MVP's. When Kareem played, nobody could stop him period. Give me 1 reason why LeBron is better than Kareem other than you love LeBron and he's built like Ivan Drago and he plays today.
Here you go.
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On 4/29/2017 at 0:18 PM, bababooey said:
What's misleading? This is the reason he fell so far.
It's half the reason he fell. His behavior issues at Alabama had a lot to do with it too.
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27 minutes ago, Chrisaaron1023 said:
But we're talking an entire conference. At least the NFC has had some different looks over the years. The AFC has literally been 5 teams.. for 20som' years.. 1996. With Titians and Raiders exceptions lol. You mentioned every what, 13 teams in the West in NBA have been to the conference finals just since 2009?
NFL is fun, fantasy is great.. Sundays are awesome.. but really, the NBA seems a bit more interesting now doesn't it?
Yeah, I agree with you there. The NBA is just more fun. Win or lose. It's not a militant and as serious as the NFL is taken by it's fans at times with legacies and wins. The rivalries get more fun in the NBA too, since there is a large line of respect on both sides making playoff runs more interesting.
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10 hours ago, oldunclemark said:
Cavs did the same thing to Toronto that they did to us...they 'blitz' DeRozen with a double team and dare the others to make shots.
Raptors have to stop crying about the refs...
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...you don't get calls on the road against the league champs
What calls do you want? Come on, the Raptors have no chance. They're lucky to just be there at this point. Same with the Pacers, take PG13 off that team, the Pacers wouldn't have even made the playoffs.
They played this game like they were traumatized the minute those dunks started happening. They constantly left guys wide open for 3's and had nothing to stop LeBron in the paint, at one point everyone was dunking on them. They had no answer once the Cavs started the fast breaks and overpowering them at the rim.
LeBron is having his best season since 2012-2013 when he last won MVP - averaging 30 points a game so far in these playoffs. If he continues dominating like this, he should win the MVP again and deserves it. The Raptors will be lucky if they win a game in Toronto. The king isn't losing to these guys. They play like they're traumatized and don't know what to do. It has nothing to do with the calls when they constantly leave guys wide open for 3 pointers and don't know how to defend in the paint. The Cavs aren't scared of them.
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10 hours ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:
Kings had their chance in 2002 to win it all and just choked. Chances like that don't come around that often, they had the Lakers down 3-2 and had HCA and still lost in the WCFinals. Some say Game 6 was fixed but they still had Game 7 at home and went 2-20 from 3 and 15-33 from the FT line. The winner of that got the Nets which was perhaps the worst Eastern Conference Champion of all-time. Lakers swept them as I think the KIngs would've as well. Blown opp by Webber/Bibby/Divac and the boys.
If you're referring to this game 6
Yeah...A lot of people think that was fixed and for good reason. Many NBA insiders say this was one of the worst officiated games in NBA history, and in this video you see a lot of people in the media were upset about it. Still to this day, this game gets brought up all the time when it comes to horrible officiating. Can't get more blatant home cooking than L.A. received in that specific game, and I still believe there isn't a game worse than this. Kings go on to win it all that year if this didn't happen. Most of the anger over that series is because the Kings fell to pieces after it was all over and their franchise is as irrelevant as what happened to the Rams after losing the SB.
IMO I don't think it was intentionally "fixed" for the Lakers. It's just classic home bias, or 'home cooking' as it's called. Everyone benefits from this at times, especially in the NFL - look no further than the Pittsburgh Steelers who have benefited greatly going back to the 90's and even in the 70's with calls going their way.
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1 hour ago, oldunclemark said:
.they also said that John Fox found out about the pick when he saw it on TV like everybody else
John Fox is not a bad coach, but they're setting him up to be the fall guy. After all, Chicago did fire the only other coach in their history who got them to the SB after posting a 10-6 record in a rare year where 10-6 didn't get you a wildcard playoff appearance.
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Bill B must not have been a fan of this draft. The Pats are doing something strange, almost like a "win now" mode in desperation which is so unlike them. It's as if they know Brady and Bill B don't have much time left and they are trying to repeat as quickly as possible (yeah, I know, Brady says he can play 5-6 more years, but I highly doubt it. Brady is one bad game like Favre in the NFCCG from facing an injury IMO.)
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8 hours ago, Chrisaaron1023 said:
Lol that is great parity. NFL should learn from this.. but after thinking about it.. it's really close but the Kings have been doodoo since 2004... so just slide that back to 2002 LOL which is still better than NFL since 2002 we still have the same 4 teams dominating AFC..
Yeah true, some NFL teams have suffered a similar fate - the Rams made the SB in 2001, then have only made the playoffs once since then (2003) and are a dumpster fire. Tampa Bay isn't that far off either, haven't won a playoff game since 2002 and haven't made the playoffs now in 10 years.
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2 hours ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:
Oh I agree, I think Daddy Ball was way out of line. I loved it when LeBron told him to shut up. LeBron seems to be a great father and has never been in trouble with the law, etc.. I don't hate LeBron the person, I just don't think he is near the GOAT but he is still the best today and Top 10 ever I admit that. Daddy Ball probably doesn't want to mess with him as that guy is built like Ivan Drago
. Like I said to Jules it will be Cavs/Warriors again but I have a huge thing for the Jazz for a ton of reasons. I just like them.
LaVar Ball is going to be a nightmare for whatever team ends up with Lonzo, and I'm praying it's not the Lakers.
This is the recent stunt he pulled...
QuoteNever in the history of modern-day shoe endorsements have the big companies all stepped away from a potential top pick nearly two months before the NBA draft. But LaVar, who has been representing Lonzo in the deal, has offered something that has no precedent.
Last week, Nike consultant George Raveling, at SportsBusiness Journal's World Congress of Sports, called LaVar "the worst thing to happen to basketball in the last hundred years."
The way LaVar sees it, Raveling's comment is indicative of what longtime businesspeople say when the way of doing things changes.
Says a lot when these companies are already backing away from endorsement deals since LaVar is even enraging them.
And this is from yesterday. LaVar Ball managed to get his son's high school coach fired.
LaVar Ball made comments months back that he was "OK" with the UCLA coaching staff and didn't have to interfere with them. This offers hints that he's probably going to try and meddle with whatever NBA team drafts Lonzo.
IMO Lonzo is a tad bit overrated too due to his father. He has weird shooting mechanics and his form is slow, where it's going to take some time to transition into the NBA. Fultz is the highest graded player in this draft, and many experts think Fultz will automatically be a game changer.
That's cool you like the Jazz. I can tell you most of us on the gulf coast had our fingers crossed that Tom Benson could've successfully got the Jazz name back to New Orleans, instead of the hilariously, cheesy 'Pelicans' name that we hate (insert Al Pacino Scarface joke here)
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3 hours ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:
LeBron told him to keep his mouth shut after Daddy Ball questioned him as a father
. I haven't seen him say one thing about LeBron since then.
His comments at LeBron were ridiculous. It wasn't so much of him criticizing him as a father, he was criticizing his kid with this idea that his kid some how has to become a basketball player like him, or "better" as he said. He said similar things about Kobe Bryant and Steph Curry "their fathers were mediocre, that's why they were good.", but went opposite on LeBron. LeBron basically told him to shut up about his son, and if he wanted to, he could criticize him, but keep his kid out of it.
LaVar Ball is doing everything to set his kid up to be one of the most hated players in the NBA. Just watch Lonzo's first game against Golden State or Cleveland; Steph and LeBron are going to light him up for the fun of it, since his dad decided to motivate them by running his mouth about them.
I'm starting to believe the conspiracy that the Lakers intentionally screwed up their tank late in the season just to try avoiding him, cause whoever gets Lonzo Ball is in for a nightmare having to deal with his dad, who is bound to try and meddle with the team and be in the media 24/7. I can already see this being hell on earth for the Lakers, since Luke Walton would probably put him on the bench like he did Brandon Ingram this year, and then LaVar Ball would freak out over that and run to the press to shout his anger.
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46 minutes ago, Jules said:
Oh btw, farewell to Paul Pierce. He had a great career. Too bad it had to end with the Clippers.
Fun fact - since 2009, every West team has made the WCF at least once......
Except for the Clippers.
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That was the greatest troll job ever.
Drew Pearson belongs in the Hall of Fame. I have no idea why he isn't in there yet. 3 time All-Pro receiver, had 1,000+ seasons back in the era of run-heavy offenses. His numbers suffered a bit when Tony Dorsett came to the team, but he was still a clutch receiver who is remembered for catching hail mary bombs to win games (including the infamous one against Washington in 1975 and against the Vikings in the playoffs). It's a sin he's not in the Hall of Fame in 2017, yet the 70's Steelers players can automatically get in with ease.
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I'm sure he's ready to suspend Brady or Sean Payton for it.
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They traded up one spot to draft a QB no one cared about.
Trubisky has bust written all over him. Don't forget, this is the same team who fired the only other coach who got them to the SB cause he went 10-6 in a rare season where 10-6 didn't get you to the playoffs. They set themselves up to fail.
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It would never happen for any of them but I would be OK with it.
The last of those teams to reach the AFCCG was Tennessee in 2002.
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Great pick, that's who I was hoping the Saints would've selected.
Ballard is doing a fine job thus far reversing the damage that Grigson caused to this team.
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I get the feeling Houston tries to look for a quick fix at QB, and they were probably banking on getting Romo some how before his retirement. Team is probably better off with Savage or another young guy they can try to mold as a QB. Brock was clearly not the answer at this point and nor was Hoyer in the past.
And the LeBron haters really thought Toronto could take them to 7 games. 
. I haven't seen him say one thing about LeBron since then.
Jay Cutler reportedly interested in broadcasting career. Possibly will retire.
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Well apparently, you don't have to be a very good quarterback to become an analyst anymore. I wonder why Jeff George didn't get a gig after he retired. Neither Romo or Cutler are going to be in the Hall of Fame ever, but nice that they could get broadcasting gigs like it's nothing.