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January 08, 2011
SportsFilter: The Saturday 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.
Today is the worst day in a Chicago Sun-Times sports editor's career.
posted by rcade at 12:52 PM on January 08, 2011
Whose turn is it to buy ?? Four small beers please !!
posted by tommybiden at 02:33 PM on January 08, 2011
With the Rams on the upswing this year, if the Pete Carroll roster rodeo pans out in Seattle and Harbaugh is able to make things happen at the pro level in SF, suddenly the NFC West is a lot more intriguing.
I'm sorry, did you just use the current state of the NFC West--a division that will be represented in the playoffs with a 7-9 champion--to reason that the NFC West is getting better?
posted by bender at 03:33 PM on January 08, 2011
The Nets offered the Pistons Troy Murphy and Johan Petro for Richard Hamilton and the Pistons 1st Round Pick, mistakenly thinking that the former Bad Boy running the Pistons is Isaiah Thomas and not Joe Dumars.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 03:46 PM on January 08, 2011
Hey, good on the Seahawks for winning yesterday, but my statement was about the NFC West, not Seattle.
posted by bender at 10:55 AM on January 09, 2011
Things are looking up in the NFC West because there's nowhere to go but up. Saturday's unbelievable win for Seattle doesn't change the fact that its division completed the worst divisional performance in NFL history.
posted by rcade at 11:16 AM on January 09, 2011
did you just use the current state of the NFC West--a division that will be represented in the playoffs with a 7-9 champion--to reason that the NFC West is getting better?
Although I said intriguing not better, I should have used better grammar in saying that the NFC West may become more intriguing (and yes, more competitive) in the future based on what is happening there as of this week.
The Rams went from 1-15 in 2009 to 7-9 in 2010.
Pete Carroll has made a large ongoing number of roster moves since arriving in Seattle which may ultimately result in an improved team (I used the word if). The roster is still very much a fluid work in progress. All this is disregarding yesterday's game result. Nonetheless, at the end of the regular season, they were two games better than in 2009.
What Harbaugh will be able to do in SF is unknown. Which is why his ability to coach at the pro level is included in my speculative musing. But as of this week, he, not Singletary is part of the current state of the Niners. I consider his hiring to be an upgrade. I expect SF to be better in 2011.
Just having Harbaugh and Carroll in the same division is ample cause for expecting (or hoping for) more intrigue.
posted by beaverboard at 02:15 PM on January 09, 2011
I have never given a hoot for the Manning brothers matchups that the NFL makes such a big deal out of.
But a Harbaugh brothers matchup is appealing, even with the Niners having a ways to go to get to the Ravens' level.
With the Rams on the upswing this year, if the Pete Carroll roster rodeo pans out in Seattle and Harbaugh is able to make things happen at the pro level in SF, suddenly the NFC West is a lot more intriguing.
Carroll must love that Harbaugh has landed in his division. Many cozy post-game moments to look forward to.