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NFC Championship rematch for two teams out of the playoffs. Playing for pride.

Indifference; to be used when one simply does not care. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=meh

I'll do the Offensive Starters first: QB - Grossman - Sign to an incentive-laden contract. He would be the fall back option if nothing else happens. RB - Benson - Stays, started to show some signs before injury, even with brutal O-Line. FB - McKie - Stays, solid play for the price OL - Miller & Brown - GONE, Metcalf - needs to compete for job WR - Moose - GONE, try to trade, if not, cut after June 1st; Berrian - keep if the money is right, otherwise look for a comparable FA acquisition TE - Clark - Keep, Only makes a $1mil in 2008, and is last year of his contract. Olsen needs to start though. So for offensive starters, get rid of Miller, Brown, and Moose.

The whole point is they do the voting too early. Players who come on strong at the end of the season basically have no chance at the Pro Bowl. BearSox mentioned Fred Taylor. He is a prime example of this. He had zero 100 yard games thru Week 11, and now has had 5 straight since Week 12. The problem is if they started to vote around Week 12 or 13, then he would've not looked like a Pro Bowler. His teammate, Jones-Drew already had two 100 yard games at Week 10. So it would be hard to pick Taylor around Week 12/13. However, right now it would be a pretty easy pick. There is reason why they cannot wait until the day after the regular season to start voting, or at least the last week of the season.

Exactly, thats the point.

Was Brian playing that good because of that or because Briggs was not in? Also, didn't Kennedy play for Lovie in STL?

Now the one thing that is the wild card is injuries. If we get some of these guys back at 100% for next season, some of the holes will be filled already.

That is true. Someone else mentioned that as well. Performance-wise there is little difference, but pay-wise there is. Looking at that, I could see them going QB or RB with that pick.

Crazier things have happened. I am still thinking that the Bears pick up someone no one is thinking about.

YES!

I hate NE.

I guess most of the GM's are dumb then. Only 7 OLinemen have been drafted in the Top 16 (first half of the first round) in the last 5 years. That is 7 OL selections out of 80 picks (8.8%), even though the OLine makes up over 20% of your starting team. That number goes up to 11 out of 80 for the 2nd half of the first round (13.8%). If you move into the first half of the 2nd round, that number goes up again to 15 out of 80 (18.8%). Also, no OLinemen has been selected with the #1 pick in the last 10 years. Orlando Pace was the only one selected #1 since 1968 (selected in 1997). OL = unsexy

Classic.

Since OL is not a sexy pick, hopefully other teams will go with RB, WR, and QB, and leave us with a solid OL pick.

The only plus is that they don't have to travel too far. Games in SD, SF, and SEA are brutal for travel, especially with tight schedules.

Felix, love the Sig. A Pirate hat would be sweet.

5 Dome games, and 1 with a Retractable roof.

It will be nice to get a look at some of these guys during the bowls.

New QB and new OC. I am all for McNabb.

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Hopefully the Giants running game shows up like they did this week. That will at least make it a game, because Eli is not going to win the game for them.

Some OL take a year or two to get used to the speed of the game. I wouldn't count any Linemen out until they've had an opportunity to start on a regular basis.

I am not fudging any numbers. I think you missed the point. I was saying since 2002, so 2002 until 2007's draft. Not just the 2002 draft and how many Pro Bowls they made. My data was the total # of players to make at least one Pro Bowl since being drafted in 2002 until now. What other measure would you use for top players? The only time it is a popularity contest is after their first selection - just like the Gold Glove in baseball.

Top 10 picks are not necessarily a guaranteed success, but the odds of getting a Pro Bowler are 1 in 3 for the Top 12 picks. That is pretty decent odds. Since 2002's draft, 24 draft picks in the top 12 spots have made the Pro Bowl. That is 24 out of 72 picks or exactly 33%. For picks 13-32, that goes down to 17 out of 120 picks (14.1%). For the 2nd round, only 14 made it out of 192 picks (7.3%). For the 3rd round, only 7 made it out of 192 picks (3.6%)*. For the 4th round, only 6 made it out of 192 picks (3.1%)*. * The 3rd and 4th rounds actually have a ton of compensatory selections, so the percentages are actually much lower. So based on the numbers, the higher you draft, the better chance you have for an impact player.

I would say the money priority should be Harris, Briggs, then Berrian.