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imigine what it will be like if we win on monday
 
I'll probably stay away from this place until Wednesday regardless of outcome.

I stayed home on Black Friday too. :)
 
servumtuum said:
I'll probably stay away from this place until Wednesday regardless of outcome.

I stayed home on Black Friday too. :)
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But the day after Monday's game, could provide even better deals on Christmas gifts, than Black Friday ! If the Skins get blown out by the Giants, a lot of fairweather fans will be selling their jerseys the next day, at bargain-basement prices ! What a deal ! So, don't avoid the site if we lose !
 
Drew Brees and the Saints helped up last night.

5 interceptions from Brees.....unreal.
 
yeah and with the rest of the matchups for wildcard contenders this weekend it would be a shame to lose Monday night... could be a second perfect weekend for us
 
History last night - 5 INTs and 0TDs for Brees - his streak ends in probably the worst way possible for a QB of his caliber.
 
Here is a Deadspin article that touches on what D$ was saying earlier, but also suggests it may be incorrect, and players are just using Adderall for whatever reason. Its part of the round-table discussions with Slate that have been fantastic all season long.

http://deadspin.com/5963451/adderall-isnt-helping-football-players-do-anything-but-get-suspended

But then more news came out: The pair had reportedly tested positive not for steroids or testosterone or human growth hormone, but for Adderall, the ADD-treatment pills rich high-school kids pop to finish research papers. As an amphetamine, Adderall falls under the league's list of banned performance-enhancers, but no one expects mere Adderall to turn two scrubs into all-stars. So the logic took its next step: Browner and Sherman had to be lying about what they had actually tested positive for.

This line of reasoning didn't begin with the Seattle pair. At the end of July, when Giants safety Tyler Sash was grumbling about his four-game suspension, Mike Florio laid it out: Confidentiality agreements prohibit the NFL from disclosing what actually shows up on a player's drug screen. So the specifics are supplied through back channels, by unnamed sources. And lots of players, per unnamed sources, have "tested positive for Adderall." Yet some players who claimed they could produce legitimate prescriptions and doctor's notes for Adderall never had their suspensions revoked. (And, besides: Adderall? Why would professional athletes take that? Never mind that athletes have been taking chemically similar greenies for decades.) So, Florio suggested, the anonymous tales of Adderall positives may just have been a cover-up for positive steroids tests. Our own Barry Petchesky wrote something similar.

The season came, and so did many more apparent Adderall suspensions. The league hit Browns corner Joe Haden, then Giants safety Will Hill, then Bucs corner Aqib Talib, then Bucs corner Eric Wright, then Falcons lineman Joe Hawley. And then it got Sherman and Browner. Bill Simmons started flogging Florio's theory on Monday. Now there were many so-called Adderall positives. Clearly they had to be scams!

But there's another explanation, one which a source at the players' association confirmed to us: Players are, in fact, testing positive for amphetamines more frequently than they have in previous years. (We say "amphetamines" because a player can't test positive "for Adderall": Adderall is a brand name for one type of amphetamine, and the NFL's drug screenings don't register which particular drug a player took.) Nationally the drugs are as popular as ever: There's even an Adderall shortage dating back to last year. There's no reason to expect use to tail off. Prescription amphetamines have medical uses and quasi-medical ones, enhancing the performance of people with decidedly non-contact jobs. (There are at least three people within 10 yards of my desk who routinely pop unprescribed Adderall at work.) And prescription amphetamines have party uses too. An Adderall high lasts longer than a cocaine one, and the drug, with its test-prep-in-a-bottle credentials, isn't quite so transparently dangerous.

The NFL classifies stimulants both ways, as drugs of abuse and as performance-enhancers. Does Adderall actually improve an athlete's performance? It's hard to tell. Matt Fedoruk, the science director of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, told us in an email that stimulants can increase alertness and motivation and reduce fatigue. Naturally, about 10 percent of Major League Baseball players have acquired therapeutic use exemptions for Adderall—it helps players overcome the monotony of the season, day games after night games, and the like.
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I have Brees in my fantasy league. :( I have a feeling I'm gonna lose this week although if the Skins make the playoffs, I'd be fine with finishing last.
 
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Jimbo said:
I have Brees in my fantasy league. :( I have a feeling I'm gonna lose this week although if the Skins make the playoffs, I'd be fine with finishing last.
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I didn't even bother this season. last year I had Phillip Rivers as my starter. Dude single handedly cost me 2nd place at minimum.
 
1 Atlanta 11 1 0
2 San Francisco 8 2 1
3 Chicago 8 3 0
4 NY Giants 6 4 0
5 Green Bay 7 3 0
6 Seattle 6 5 0
7 Tampa Bay 6 5 0
8 Minnesota 6 5 0
9 Washington 5 6 0
10 Dallas 5 6 0
11 New Orleans 5 7 0
12 St. Louis 4 6 1
13 Detroit 4 7 0
14 Arizona 4 7 0

NO 13 @Atl 23
SF @StL
Sea @Chi
Min @GB
Ind @Det
Ari @NYJ
TB @Den
Phi @Dal
NYG @Was
 
Dead Money said:
Never really agreed with people flaunting this stat.... its the chicken or the egg kinda deal.
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Yeah, sometimes this is true, but not always. The Cincy & Pittsburgh games are prime examples of when its NOT true.
 
From Kevin Sheehan:

"Skins rooting list in order of importance-- Chicago, Denver, Green Bay (although a Packer loss doesn't hurt either), Philly, SF, Indy, Jets"


Here's to good Cutler showing up against the Seahawks, and not DERPler. Does anyone know if the Seahawks' CBs suspensions start today? Or is it delayed until they appeal?
 
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Lanky Livingston said:
Presented without comment:

Alfred Morris averages 21.8 attempts when the #Redskins win. Carries the ball 16.5 times when they lose.

https://twitter.com/granthpaulsen/status/274613758201036800
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Dead Money said:
Never really agreed with people flaunting this stat.... its the chicken or the egg kinda deal.
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One of the problems is that the number of rush attempts usually increases when a team has the lead-especially in the fourth quarter-and is using the run to use up the clock and therefore the rush attempts aren't directly related to trying to score but are related to preventing the other team from scoring by keeping their offense off the field. It would be necessary to not only look at the number of rush attempts but also at what point in the game and whether the team rushing is ahead or behind, among other things-basically too many other factors to be taken into consideration to isolate the rushing game by itself and formulate any definitive conclusions.
 
servumtuum said:
One of the problems is that the number of rush attempts usually increases when a team has the lead-especially in the fourth quarter-and is using the run to use up the clock and therefore the rush attempts aren't directly related to trying to score but are related to preventing the other team from scoring by keeping their offense off the field. It would be necessary to not only look at the number of rush attempts but also at what point in the game and whether the team rushing is ahead or behind, among other things-basically too many other factors to be taken into consideration to isolate the rushing game by itself and formulate any definitive conclusions.
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Fact.

Lanky Livingston said:
From Kevin Sheehan:

"Skins rooting list in order of importance-- Chicago, Denver, Green Bay (although a Packer loss doesn't hurt either), Philly, SF, Indy, Jets"


Here's to good Cutler showing up against the Seahawks, and not DERPler. Does anyone know if the Seahawks' CBs suspensions start today? Or is it delayed until they appeal?
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How in the hell do you expect me to root for CHI Philly and the J-E-T-S? Hard not to root for Andrew Luck, I could care less how the "trade" is view by outsiders, we got exactly who fits us and I'm happy for them as well. Hard to root for Cutler however you have to give him props for playing so well behind that line! Jason Campbell anyone? Hahah.

Wish I wasn't working today, hard not to watch to see how this all plays out.

Longest weekend.....Ever.
 
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