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Buckeye Fan 19
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re: Mike Tomlin was overrated and mediocre
Posted by Buckeye Fan 19 on 1/13/26 at 8:01 pm to The Detroit Lions
It was time… but going 19 straight seasons in the NFL without a losing record is objectively a remarkable accomplishment.
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re: Mike Tomlin "stepping down" as HC
Posted by Buckeye Fan 19 on 1/13/26 at 1:53 pm to whatiknowsofar
It was time, but 19 seasons without a below .500 record is crazy.
re: Tomlin stepping down
Posted by Buckeye Fan 19 on 1/13/26 at 1:48 pm to 7Tiger7
Keep this board open Chicken.
re: Caleb Williams is a winner
Posted by Buckeye Fan 19 on 1/12/26 at 10:46 am to slobhorn
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A rare sane, logical post here and spot on. My wife is from Chicago and I am glad the Bears won. A big reason why some (but not all) LSU fans dislike Caleb has nothing to do with him and everything to do with the bizarrely antagonistic takes from some more vocal online Bears fans re: Jayden Daniels. Both guys can be good at the same time.
Yeah, I mean, it’s 50/50 on who ends up better between Daniels and Williams. I’m very comfortable saying I’d take both over Penix and McCarthy (and probably over Nix), but wouldn’t take either over Maye.
ETA: But again, Bears could’ve traded down and added so much draft capital…
re: Notre Dame HC Marcus Freeman accused of Battery at son's wrestling event
Posted by Buckeye Fan 19 on 1/11/26 at 9:53 pm to PowerTool
re: Caleb Williams is a winner
Posted by Buckeye Fan 19 on 1/11/26 at 1:06 am to witty alias
I truly have no idea what to think about Caleb.
Cons:
1) He’s pretty much complete arse through the first 3 quarters of most games.
2) He routinely misses layups, and is generally not accurate with ball placement. His completion percentage is very poor, and other metrics like QBR and ANY/A are pretty meh.
3a) He’s the beneficiary of being under the tutelage of an offensive guru (Ben Johnson).
3b) He’s the beneficiary of the Bears investing a TON into offense recently. For as inept as Trubisky/Fields were at times, they had nowhere near the weapons Williams does. Fields got one year of DJ Moore (the best year of his career was with Fields) and a rookie Darnell Wright, but since then, Wright emerged into an All-Pro, the Bears drafted Odunze top-10, drafted Loveland top-15, used a 2nd-rounder on Burden, traded for all-pro Thuney, traded for Jonah Jackson, signed Dalman to a big deal, signed Swift, and found a late-round gem in Monagai. BUT…
Pros:
4) He does seem to thrive in clutch situations. Now, it’s largely his fault he has to come from behind so frequently, but he does come through more often than not in the clutch.
5) He still has extreme arm talent / playmaking / ability to make something out of nothing (hence why he was drafted #1), even if he’s often inaccurate.
6) His leadership seems fine, even if not elite, and his teammates generally seem to like/respect him.
Long story short… I don’t know. I kinda feel like the Bears need to win now (i.e., the next 2-3 seasons) because once they have to pay him, Wright, Odunze, Loveland, Burden, Monagai, etc., plus a guy like Thuney ages out and they don’t have the cap to re-sign Moore, I don’t think Caleb is good enough to carry a meh roster to the playoffs the way a guy like Allen just did, but we’ll see.
Regardless, they’d have been much better served trading down for Maye and adding an additional couple of first-round draft picks. Would probably be legitimate SB contenders this year with Maye plus another 2024 first-rounder and another 2025 first-rounder on the roster, instead of just winning the “Chicago Super Bowl” (beating a #7 seed GB sans Parsons in the playoffs).
Cons:
1) He’s pretty much complete arse through the first 3 quarters of most games.
2) He routinely misses layups, and is generally not accurate with ball placement. His completion percentage is very poor, and other metrics like QBR and ANY/A are pretty meh.
3a) He’s the beneficiary of being under the tutelage of an offensive guru (Ben Johnson).
3b) He’s the beneficiary of the Bears investing a TON into offense recently. For as inept as Trubisky/Fields were at times, they had nowhere near the weapons Williams does. Fields got one year of DJ Moore (the best year of his career was with Fields) and a rookie Darnell Wright, but since then, Wright emerged into an All-Pro, the Bears drafted Odunze top-10, drafted Loveland top-15, used a 2nd-rounder on Burden, traded for all-pro Thuney, traded for Jonah Jackson, signed Dalman to a big deal, signed Swift, and found a late-round gem in Monagai. BUT…
Pros:
4) He does seem to thrive in clutch situations. Now, it’s largely his fault he has to come from behind so frequently, but he does come through more often than not in the clutch.
5) He still has extreme arm talent / playmaking / ability to make something out of nothing (hence why he was drafted #1), even if he’s often inaccurate.
6) His leadership seems fine, even if not elite, and his teammates generally seem to like/respect him.
Long story short… I don’t know. I kinda feel like the Bears need to win now (i.e., the next 2-3 seasons) because once they have to pay him, Wright, Odunze, Loveland, Burden, Monagai, etc., plus a guy like Thuney ages out and they don’t have the cap to re-sign Moore, I don’t think Caleb is good enough to carry a meh roster to the playoffs the way a guy like Allen just did, but we’ll see.
Regardless, they’d have been much better served trading down for Maye and adding an additional couple of first-round draft picks. Would probably be legitimate SB contenders this year with Maye plus another 2024 first-rounder and another 2025 first-rounder on the roster, instead of just winning the “Chicago Super Bowl” (beating a #7 seed GB sans Parsons in the playoffs).
re: NFL Various Games - Wildcard Weekend...Texans at Steelers Tonight
Posted by Buckeye Fan 19 on 1/10/26 at 8:31 pm to SirWinston
Bears could’ve traded down for Maye and gotten an extra first round pick or two to go with it. Just amazing.
re: NFL All-Pro teams announced
Posted by Buckeye Fan 19 on 1/10/26 at 12:55 pm to CoonsAllDay
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Bijan makes 1st and 2nd team, lol
Yeah, I hate that the NFL allows that. I’m completely fine if a guy is an All-Pro STer and All-Pro offense in the same season (or if a guy like Hunter can become All-Pro on offense and All-Pro on defense in the same season), but being able to be named All-Pro offense twice in the same season as both an RB and APB is stupid.
Honey Badger was selected first-team All-Pro as a DB in 2019 and second-team as a safety, and I thought it was similarly dumb.
re: Playoff committee got it right
Posted by Buckeye Fan 19 on 1/9/26 at 7:43 pm to Louie T
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The dropping of ND at the 11th hour was completely moronic, but that was due to their even more stupid decision to have ND that high (and above Miami for a ton of it) so early in the season.
Fair, and this was also part of the problem that’s been lost a bit. If Miami was always ahead, the issue would’ve never arisen. And while I think Bama correctly dropped behind ND after OU, the optics ended up being even worse for moving them back ahead after struggling against Auburn. I don’t think keeping ND always behind Bama would’ve been the right call… but it would’ve looked way better than flip-flopping them for no apparent reason.
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This isn't a power ranking playoff, and your ability to win as judged by theoretical spreads is irrelevant.
It’s hard to know what exactly it is. The criteria, technically, is “best”. What does that mean? It’s not strictly quality of wins/losses / most deserving. In 2023, Bama went over FSU because the committee deemed them “better” even though FSU had the better/more deserving resume. Further, I think Miami’s run and the SEC’s CFP/bowl struggles also show that maybe Bama’s SOR / SOS / “most deserving” advantage over ND wasn’t as large as everyone thought pre-playoff.
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I guess the solution would seem to be not having a season that results in you grouped in with these teams you think are so awful and undeserving.
Fair enough.
re: Playoff committee got it right
Posted by Buckeye Fan 19 on 1/9/26 at 6:01 pm to beauchristopher
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I am so glad ND didn't get in. The built in rule for ND next season is BS.
The MOU (which was agreed to by all conference commissioners) means nothing. The committee will just move ND down to #13 if they otherwise would have had ND at #11 or #12.
Also, its origination was in case the CFP went to a guaranteed number of bids per conference. It happens that it’ll still be in place, but it was designed in case the B1G got 4 guaranteed no matter what, the SEC got 4 no matter what, etc.
re: Playoff committee got it right
Posted by Buckeye Fan 19 on 1/9/26 at 5:58 pm to GeauxPanthers2
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Lmao at the butthurt Notre Dame fan still having to cope after Miami makes the natty
Correct. Anyone on this board who’s a fan of a team that could’ve legitimately won a championship but didn’t get the opportunity over at least four teams that were worse (two due to a dumb format, and two due to poor committee decisions) would be coping through the playoff’s end. :lol:
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While beating his other team along the way
I (unfortunately for me, given their Meyer/Day run) haven’t been an OSU fan since the end of the Jim Tressel era haha. Just can’t change the name.
re: What was wrong with Chris Fowler last night?
Posted by Buckeye Fan 19 on 1/9/26 at 4:33 pm to Ingeniero
He very frequently makes errors, I’m not sure why he’s so beloved on this board. He was an outstanding Gameday host, but he’s not a good PBP.
re: SEC misses the national championship for a 3rd year in a row
Posted by Buckeye Fan 19 on 1/8/26 at 11:14 pm to Buttermilk Pancakes
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And in games not against SEC opponents they finish 2-7 in bowl games and 1-1 in the CFP.
1-3, not 1-1. And the win was against Tulane. :lol:
re: Only reason a smu and Louisville loser not acc champion team got in
Posted by Buckeye Fan 19 on 1/8/26 at 11:04 pm to JamalMurry27
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If Notre dame was horrible and not even in the top 25 Miami wouldn’t have gotten it which makes no sense because the win would be weaker.
Huh? Wouldn’t that make more sense because Miami’s SOS would be even weaker?
re: Playoff committee got it right
Posted by Buckeye Fan 19 on 1/8/26 at 11:00 pm to Lgrnwd
They put in two teams worse than ND (Alabama and Oklahoma) so they did not get it right.
re: Game Thread - #10 Miami vs #6 Ole Miss
Posted by Buckeye Fan 19 on 1/8/26 at 10:30 pm to Fus0623
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They really about to play a National Championship in their home stadium. That’s dope af
As the designated visitors. :lol:
re: Rigged Cal vs ND mens basketball game
Posted by Buckeye Fan 19 on 1/3/26 at 1:41 pm to REG861
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I didn’t think there was any foul at any point. Looked like the Nd guard whiffed on the attempted intentional foul and didnt make any contact in the act of shooting whatsoever
The reach-ins maybe/probably could’ve/should’ve been called on the floor. But yeah, calling that a shooting foul is egregious (and that’s being kind).
re: Ouch, they said that no one would watch the Pop Tart Bowl without the Irish.
Posted by Buckeye Fan 19 on 1/3/26 at 1:28 pm to ronricks
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ronricks
Yes, Bob Davie, Ty Willingham and Charlie Weis were awful college football coaches, and Brian Kelly is a mediocre one. (And yet, all of them were better at ND than their other head coaching stops. Interesting, wonder why that is…).
Thanks for the info. You’re a true college football savant.
ETA: Claiming the championship game was “over” at halftime last year when it was a one-score game with OSU facing a 3rd-and-long with about 3 minutes left is a very liberal definition of the word.
re: alabama got beaten by a combined 66-10 in the Rose and SEC Championship
Posted by Buckeye Fan 19 on 1/1/26 at 9:18 pm to Stidham8
Bana lost to a 5-7 ACC team by 14. Got completely obliterated by a team that went back-and-forth with OSU, Iowa, PSU and Oregon. Bama sucks.
And not a great look for the SEC that they went 7-1 in the conference…
And not a great look for the SEC that they went 7-1 in the conference…
re: Alabama had NO business being in the playoffs
Posted by Buckeye Fan 19 on 1/1/26 at 5:53 pm to Vandergriff
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ND deserved that spot. That is painfully obvious
Easily. Anyone who disagrees is an SEC homer.
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ND ran for more yards the week of the SEC Championship than Bama did.
ND lost by 3 at Miami, doesn’t seem too bad now, does it?
Bama sucks. The SEC is good, but not the juggernaut it used to be. BEFORE this terrible performance today, ND was better than Bama by FPI, SP+, FEI, Sagarin, etc etc., and the gap will only widen now after today. Every advanced stat/metric says ND was significantly better.
re: Alabama got dog walked again
Posted by Buckeye Fan 19 on 1/1/26 at 5:44 pm to CecilShortsHisPants
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