Reality Bites!

[Paintrain]

If we finish 7-9 this year, that's still an improvement over last year. Not that we should be happy about it, but at least it's going in the right direction.

[wolfeskins]

I Have To Say, Since I've Been A Member Here, That Is The Worst Post I've Read From Sc. He's Always Mr. Negative But Damn , That Was Pethetic. Sc, If You Don't See The Difference In This Years Skins Team As Opposed To The Last 5-6 Years Then Your Either Completely Blind Or Just Not A Skins Fan. This Has Nothing To Do With Wins And Losses And All To Do With Heart And Wanting To Play Hard For Your Coach, Your Fans, Your City And Yourselvs. I Never Expected Gibbs To Make The Skins Superbowl Champs In 13 Games But I Do Expect Him To Turn Them Into A Very Competetive Team That Plays Hard Week In And Week Out. The Skins Are Getting There. I Can See It And I Know Others Do Too.

[sportscurmudgeon]

smootsmack:

I start each game looking for positive outcomes. In the past three or four years, those things tend to be very rare and the negatives tend to be very common. So I get "upset" with the negative things and wonder why they have not yet been elimimated.

I do not wager on every game. Part of being successful in gambling is picking and choosing your spots. Obviously, when I do make a wager, I greatly prefer to win as opposed to lose. I doubt that makes me significantly different from anyone else here.

When I say I'm too lazy to go look something up, that merely means I am not going to make up some BS and toss it out there as if it meant something. If I were ever waaay off on one of those guesstimates, I feel certain that half a dozen folks here would be eager get the real numbers and let me know how dumb I am. For example, earlier today I said that I THOUGHT that Ramsey had not won 10 games that he had started and that however many games he had won, he had probably lost twice as many. If I am way off on those assertions, I expect to be corrected - and not particularly politely either.

As for the devotees of "continuity" from this year to next, let me remind you that if you had held to that position last year, our DL this year would have Lionel Daulton and Darryl Russell playing DT. Remember last year when the DL could not stop anybody?

What happened was that they got rid of just about EVERYBODY (save Wynn and Haley who hasn't played much at all) and signed ONE free agent and then got a bunch of guys who hustle and do what the coaches tell them to do. BIG IMPROVEMENT. But that improvement came by blowing up the DL because it sucked wind last year. Don't be too afraid to look objectively at other parts of this team and think the same thing because it can be REALLY beneficial. I'd put the Wide Receiver corps under a microscope just to see if there might be a huge improvement to be made by saving only one of that batch...

[illdefined]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

I start each game looking for positive outcomes. In the past three or four years, those things tend to be very rare and the negatives tend to be very common. So I get "upset" with the negative things and wonder why they have not yet been elimimated.

we get "upset" at the bad things too SC. it's called emotion. only we also get happy at the good things. cuz they ARE there.

[illdefined]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

What happened was that they got rid of just about EVERYBODY (save Wynn and Haley who hasn't played much at all) and signed ONE free agent and then got a bunch of guys who hustle and do what the coaches tell them to do. BIG IMPROVEMENT.

improvement?? c'mon SC

[MTK]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

When I say I'm too lazy to go look something up, that merely means I am not going to make up some BS and toss it out there as if it meant something. If I were ever waaay off on one of those guesstimates, I feel certain that half a dozen folks here would be eager get the real numbers and let me know how dumb I am. For example, earlier today I said that I THOUGHT that Ramsey had not won 10 games that he had started and that however many games he had won, he had probably lost twice as many. If I am way off on those assertions, I expect to be corrected - and not particularly politely either.

To answer your question, I believe Ramsey is 7-11 as a starter.

I could be wrong, but that's pretty close by my calculations.