Agreed. But at least it's easy to identify the hero call in this case. Last year it was Cody Lattimore. I just ignore the advice when I don't necessarily agree. I like most of Blooms work. But I do find his waiver bid amounts oddly skewed some weeks as you pointed out.
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Christine Michael Volume 3: Inevitable Greatness Soon Achieved (5 Viewers)
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VaTerp
Footballguy
My $0.02 on the continuing theme of paid content and subscription value.
Dr. Brew, do you not see the irony of continually bashing the paid content of this site while at the same time playing up the info found on a FREE message board maintained by the resources of this site?
You suggest others start their own website like its that easy to host a site with this much traffic and all of the demands. Dodd's response to you in whatever thread that was in was perfectly reasonable. Perfectly. You have choices as a consumer. If its not worth it to you to suscribe then don't.
I subscribed for the first time this year. I have always been successful at FF and did a lot of research on my own and got insight from these boards and other places. This year with a second kid being born and other life stuff I paid basically for DD because I had done so little prep. The weekly content could be better but I view it as just more info out there in the FF internet sphere. I know whose opinions match up more with my way of thinking and who's don't. Some of the content is better than others but in the end its all just opinions based on certain data points and subjective info.
The value to me is in DD, the subsciber contest, and supporting the resources that allow this board to be up and running every day with tons of knowledgeble and varied info and opinions that has helped so many, including me, get a head start on guys like Diggs, and Dion Lewis, C. West, and others.
And its on this board that you get the monstrosity of discussion known as the C-Mike threads.
Oh yeah......C- Mike
Dr. Brew, do you not see the irony of continually bashing the paid content of this site while at the same time playing up the info found on a FREE message board maintained by the resources of this site?
You suggest others start their own website like its that easy to host a site with this much traffic and all of the demands. Dodd's response to you in whatever thread that was in was perfectly reasonable. Perfectly. You have choices as a consumer. If its not worth it to you to suscribe then don't.
I subscribed for the first time this year. I have always been successful at FF and did a lot of research on my own and got insight from these boards and other places. This year with a second kid being born and other life stuff I paid basically for DD because I had done so little prep. The weekly content could be better but I view it as just more info out there in the FF internet sphere. I know whose opinions match up more with my way of thinking and who's don't. Some of the content is better than others but in the end its all just opinions based on certain data points and subjective info.
The value to me is in DD, the subsciber contest, and supporting the resources that allow this board to be up and running every day with tons of knowledgeble and varied info and opinions that has helped so many, including me, get a head start on guys like Diggs, and Dion Lewis, C. West, and others.
And its on this board that you get the monstrosity of discussion known as the C-Mike threads.
Oh yeah......C- Mike
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Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
bagger
Footballguy
there is zero evidence that c Mike is a home run. None. He has never done anything in his nfl career which at this point is more than halfway over.It's just stupid, terrible advice.
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jdoggydogg
Footballguy
but will certainly get overlooked amidst all the Bloom bashing, CMike sarcasm, and thread mocking...
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Ok, so I exaggerated.
If someone spends a huge chunk of their free agent budget hoping that McFadden helps them win the next two weeks, I can understand the logic. But McFadden has skinny legs that have been injury-plagued his entire career. Counting on McFadden for more than two or three weeks goes directly against the data.
bulger2holt
Footballguy
dropped his sorry ### tonight for the 3rd time
Gandalf
Footballguy
Here's a nice statistical analysis: http://www.numberfire.com/nfl/news/6583/halting-the-christine-michael-hype-train
To summarize: "It is time to put the Christine Michael hype to bed."
To summarize: "It is time to put the Christine Michael hype to bed."
Alexanderson
Footballguy
DFS lock. I can't wait to count my millions. My fanduel commercial is already filming.
SproutDaddy
Footballguy
Every week it's the same.........we're getting closer.
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
So Cbs (per Dallas Morning News) is reporting that Randle threw a fit upon learning that McFadden would be the starter and left the facility. Apparently at some point he returned or at least will be back tomorrow. But at any rate it sounds more like a demotion than a substitution while injured. Stay tuned.
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oddsbodkins
Footballguy
Randle just neutered himself. Choo choo??
duaneok66
Footballguy
KingPrawn
Footballguy
http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-corner-blog/article41776050.html
Randle went AWOL on Wednesday. Status with team to be discussed on Thursday
Randle went AWOL on Wednesday. Status with team to be discussed on Thursday
I Am the Stig
Footballguy
timbrah_ho
Footballguy
So basically we're one DMC ankle tweak away from complete bedlam on this thread. This has been worth the price of my fantasy buy in alone right here.
jurb26
Footballguy
So he left for a personal issue that hasn't been disclosed yet and this is the Dal media spin?Have we not learned how unreliable they are by now?
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You're right, it had nothing to do with being demoted. And his history is impeccable.
Maybe he was having baby?
jurb26
Footballguy
It helps if you actual read things...From the article;
"Per a source, Randle did not leave the facility because he was upset about being surpassed on the depth chart by running back Darren McFadden, a move owner Jerry Jones announced Tuesday."
spreagle
Footballguy
Beer pong guy was right all along. The combined weight of the Michael signing and McFadden being named the starter caused Randles fragile ego to snap like a dry October twig.
Still, his decision to go AWOL and miss a treatment session has frustrated a Cowboys staff that has grown increasingly impatient with Randle’s litany of troubles.
Randle was arrested twice in a four-month span from last October to February as he was investigated for shoplifting, marijuana possession and domestic violence.
He further drew the ire of the Cowboys in May when he disrespected 2014 NFL leading rusher DeMarco Murray by saying he left some meat on the bone during his team-record 1,845-yard season.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-corner-blog/article41776050.html#storylink=cpy
Believe what you want to believe. He could just explain what was so "personal".
Alex P Keaton
Footballguy
Maybe he had to run out to swipe some new underwear?
jurb26
Footballguy
There is nothing of substance in that article other than he left for personal reasons. I'll wait until we actual get some facts to believe anything. I'm certainly not going to believe thus terrible peice of spin.
I am not dropping michael yet. Everyone was massively disappointed last week BC McFadden got the opportunity, but frankly we were all expecting rankle and McFadden to stay ahead of michael in that game. All of the news in the day or 2 before the giants games up until kickoff pointed to everyone staying in their respective roles but that michael would get more carries...which he did...and he did well with some of them. And he received praise from his head coach for that after the game.
So overall he is trending in the right direction, and now randle is injured and/or insane and the coaches seem fed up with him. McFadden is the new starter but he is injury prone ND also who here believe that they are going to continue to give McFadden 29 carries each game? How long do you think his chicken legs will last with that workload? So let's say McFadden gets 15-20 carries per game, there's plenty of room for michael to start getting 8-12 carries per game. If he shows well with that workload and McFadden slows down or gets nicked up the door is wide open.
I still view michael as a lottery ticket worth holding onto (admittedly just barely worth it).
So overall he is trending in the right direction, and now randle is injured and/or insane and the coaches seem fed up with him. McFadden is the new starter but he is injury prone ND also who here believe that they are going to continue to give McFadden 29 carries each game? How long do you think his chicken legs will last with that workload? So let's say McFadden gets 15-20 carries per game, there's plenty of room for michael to start getting 8-12 carries per game. If he shows well with that workload and McFadden slows down or gets nicked up the door is wide open.
I still view michael as a lottery ticket worth holding onto (admittedly just barely worth it).
Did you not just say it helps, "if you actually read things"? Clearly, I did.jurb26 said:
And then you went on to state that there is nothing of substance from the article. Nice backtrack. I simply illustrated my take on on it.
Just so we're clear, you accused me of not reading it. Then when I pointed out what I saw in it, you decide the article is a "terrible piece of spin".
You can spin any of this how you want, but again, thinking this malcontent didn't run away from being demoted is ignorant, at best.
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
On RickyG's point I do think the Boys will have to run a lot and I don't think the coaches really want to hand Mac 30 touches again. Last week the Randle injury caught them off guard and CM wasn't prepared for a bigger plate. I think they will have to give him at least one series to himself. However I doubt Randle has been demoted to 3rd string, just 2nd. If and when Michael gets a full series he will have to make it count. No matter what happens he won't be pushing Mac out the way though barring injury.
The funniest part of the above is that gerbil27 selectively quotes the one part of the article he likes (or what he wants to see in it).
And then turns right around only to denounce it, telling me "it helps if you read things". Yet when I pointed to the part he doesn't want to acknowledge, he goes back to "a terrible piece of spin".
See what you want to see gerb29 but it usually doesn't work out so well like that.
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simey
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I thought it was reported that the Cowboys were going to give CM more reps during the bye to prepare him for more work, so how was he not prepared for a bigger plate last weekend coming off the bye?
Dinsy Ejotuz
Footballguy
Randle left for personal reasons.
Also, Greg Hardy is a leader who inspired his team.
Also, Greg Hardy is a leader who inspired his team.
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
Right I agree but I don't know, maybe they gave him just what they planned for, ~5 carries. But now they have a week knowing that Randle will be out, facing the Seahawks, starting Cassel, and knowing McFadden's history, they can gameplan differently. Maybe Linehan indeed doesn't like the way CM does certain things, but do you really think they will put 75% (29-11) of the rushing game on McFadden again? After Randle went out between the 2 RBs it was 29-5 in carries. Also, Whitehead got 4 carries last week, is that going to happen again? A 20/10 split doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
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jurb26
Footballguy
I picked it because it was one of the few parts linked to well... an actual source. You're spin is almost as good as theirs.The funniest part of the above is that gerbil27 selectively quotes the one part of the article he likes (or what he wants to see in it).
And then turns right around only to denounce it, telling me "it helps if you read things". Yet when I pointed to the part he doesn't want to acknowledge, he goes back to "a terrible piece of spin".
But yeah, you read the article so you already know that, right?
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
Holy cow, he left for personal reasons, or he left out of anger, does it matter? Both ways it's him going Awol - ie without leave/permission. He missed a treatment session, that's not ok. Actually personal reasons would be worse because then he just left and no one would have known why. The report is he left the locker room with his pads on and just didn't come back.
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All I know is that you claimed it to be Dallas media spin.I picked it because it was one of the few parts linked to well... an actual source.You're spin is almost as good as theirs.The funniest part of the above is that gerbil27 selectively quotes the one part of the article he likes (or what he wants to see in it).
And then turns right around only to denounce it, telling me "it helps if you read things". Yet when I pointed to the part he doesn't want to acknowledge, he goes back to "a terrible piece of spin".
But yeah, you read the article so you already know that, right?
Then when questioned, you actually cited it to prove your point (bias). You yourself turned to it minutes after discounting it. Ironic to say the least.
Then you tried to say I didn't read it. Which was false.
And when I quoted parts of it, which you obviously did not like, it became a "terrible piece of spin" again.
In short, backtrack and flip-flopping galore. Nice work.
Detroit Revival
Footballguy
Randle might be gone a while.
shady inc
Footballguy
bigbrownbag
Footballguy
It's been happening for 2 1/2 years now. Did you miss out?georg013 said:
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
Kuz
Footballguy
I guess I may as well jump on & hope for the best.. Not expecting anything but just lost Foster so I need to find something - Fingers crossed..
Hahaha this thread is hysterical. Emotional roller coaster at its finest.
Im in! Just picked him up.
I'm out! Guys a turd
Ok I'm back in! Here's hoping.
He sucks! His coaches know it.
He oozes talent. That's why he's getting more oops.
He'll be the starter out of the bye.
He's still the 3rd string and maybe 4th behind laquesha whitehead!
Pure gold
Im in! Just picked him up.
I'm out! Guys a turd
Ok I'm back in! Here's hoping.
He sucks! His coaches know it.
He oozes talent. That's why he's getting more oops.
He'll be the starter out of the bye.
He's still the 3rd string and maybe 4th behind laquesha whitehead!
Pure gold
