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October 12, 2009
SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Was he starting the Seahawks defense that week in fantasy football?
He's obviously not starting on his own fantasy team, though he is on mine.
How are the Titans this bad?
posted by tron7 at 10:07 AM on October 12, 2009
MLS explores playing indoors to shift schedule - As part of the bid to host a World Cup commissioner Don Garber said they would look at getting roofed stadiums to permit an August - May schedule. Let's say I'm skeptical.
posted by billsaysthis at 10:26 AM on October 12, 2009
From what I saw when Tennessee came to Jacksonville, their main problems are the world's softest pass defense and a quarterback whose deal with the devil must have been a one-year thing.
The fall of the Titans reminds me of what happened to the Jags after 1999. They reached the AFC Championship game as a 14-2 team, lost to the Titans, and then lost six of the next eight games they played and were never the same again. Some great teams have an expiration date.
posted by rcade at 10:39 AM on October 12, 2009
How are the Titans this bad?
A lot of things went really, really right for them last year. Momentum is a powerful thing, especially to a quarterback who was getting a last lease on his career out of it.
posted by dfleming at 11:40 AM on October 12, 2009
Page2 riffs on some NFL logos
posted by geekyguy at 11:45 AM on October 12, 2009
I went to the LSU-Florida game in Baton Rouge on Saturday (great tailgate and in-stadium atmosphere; pretty boring game and bad result for the home team). Heard a pretty funny joke from the guy whose tickets are behind my father's, in reference to the LSU-Mississippi State game from a few weeks ago (where MSU had three chances from inside the LSU 1 yard-line towards the end of the game and couldn't get it in):
Q. What's the difference between a hooker and Mississippi State?
A. A hooker don't choke on 4 inches.
posted by holden at 12:09 PM on October 12, 2009
How are the Titans this bad?
They really miss Albert Haynesworth.
posted by cjets at 12:10 PM on October 12, 2009
How are the Titans this bad?
They really miss Albert Haynesworth.
I think they miss Jim Schwartz way more than Haynesworth.
posted by bender at 12:46 PM on October 12, 2009
The Lions gave the Steelers a run for their money, but three straight sacks at the end of the game was straight up ugly.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 01:34 PM on October 12, 2009
On fourth-and-1 at the Seahawks' 2, Jags quarterback David Garrard did something I don't recall seeing before. As all of his receivers were covered and he was being approached by several tacklers for a sack, he intentionally threw the ball away out the back of the end zone. He didn't try to force it in anywhere and risk an interception, just for a chance to score.
Was he starting the Seahawks defense that week in fantasy football?
It was a bad omen in an eventual 41-0 loss.