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FAVRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭
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Even though I have enjoyed watching the Bucs kills Favre over the years, I think I will be rooting for him this year. That sound you hear
is Aaron Rodgers dropping off the beckett hot list.

JS

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  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,015 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Packers really are making a titantic long term mistake here. Favre is not the right guy for them at this point in time for a team that needs to rebuild at quarterback and other positions. Which is fine with me...one less team in the NFC to worry about being a contender for quite awhile.
  • joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭
    did Eagles fan just say the word contender?? Actually I think you meant, another team to worry about getting the first overall
    pick in the 07 draft!

    JS
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,015 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Eagles are 22-1 at Pinnacle to win the Super Bowl...not good but not hopeless either.

    BTW the Bucs are 38-1
  • SooperDaveSooperDave Posts: 117
    I tend to agree with my new favorite Cowboy TO when it comes to Farve.
    David
    It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them-Adlai Stevenson
  • WabittwaxWabittwax Posts: 1,984 ✭✭✭
    22-1? That's crazy. They should be at least 60-1. Decent teams are in the 22-1 range, I wouldn't put the Eagles there this year.
  • GlynRParsonGlynRParson Posts: 364
    The Eagles at this point in time are the fourth best team in the division so they should be a heck of alot bigger longshot for the superbowl.
  • joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭
    The odd makes don't know squat. They picked the bucs to be 5-11 last year. We were also a 60:1 shot to win the super bowl in 2002.

    It looks like I need to spend a little money at pinnacle!

    JS
  • SoFLPhillyFanSoFLPhillyFan Posts: 3,931 ✭✭

    I believe the Eagles will trade up in the draft.

    Who do the Bucs have to start when Simms goes down again? Cade McCown? Luke McCown? Shemp McCown?

    Can't forget that proven vet backup, Tim Rattay.

    How much better is their O line this year?

    Simms is practicing the new 9 step drop as we speak. Scamper back, make sure you don't run over the ref, now....run for your life!!! Damn, intercepted again.

    Get real. The Bucs are walking a tightrope @ QB right now.

    No room to talk about the Eagles and QBs anymore.
  • BoopottsBoopotts Posts: 6,784 ✭✭


    << <i>Eagles are 22-1 at Pinnacle to win the Super Bowl...not good but not hopeless either.

    BTW the Bucs are 38-1 >>



    Tsk tsk tsk, Steve. What are you of all people doing at Pinnacle?!
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,015 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The odd makes don't know squat. They picked the bucs to be 5-11 last year. We were also a 60:1 shot to win the super bowl in 2002.

    It looks like I need to spend a little money at pinnacle!

    JS >>




    The books make "mistakes" because sporting events are basically unpredictable...ie "On any given Sunday" but it has been shown that the books are uncanny in the long-run at forecasting sporting events as far as odds are concerned. For example a study was done on football games against the spread over a ten year period and the books had it right 49.9% of the time on the favorites and 50.1% of the time on the dogs - uncannily accurate! Of course the books have to be accurate because they make their living from it - and in fact they windup making a killing from it. So the odds are a good guideline, but are simply that - a guideline. On individual sporting events and especially for a season, anything can happen.

    To Boo - As you know, I don't gamble anymore but I still enjoy predicting games. To me it's fun and doesn't trigger me to bet money gambling, and frankly nothing triggers me to bet money gambling anymore especially on sports because I fully realize that yes a sports bettor could get fortunate and win a game or a series of games, but in the long-run and even in the short-run if betting enough games, the books are guaranteed to win and the bettors are guaranteed to lose because of the vig.

    Calvin Ayre has gotten super-rich and he gets richer everyday from all the suckers who think they can outsmart the bookies. That 4.454% juice on games against the spread may appear small, but the accumulative effect grinds out every bettor. Unfortunately though gamblers keep trying, and gamblers keep losing, and Ayre keeps getting richer - but not from me. If Ayre was depending on me for his business, he'd have to do something else because he would have no business - LOL

    Steve
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