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Also, the Stuart Highway (and most roads) are crowned (sloped toward the edges for drainage). Driving on the left, the left side canopy will be on the low side of the road, and further reduce its shadow size.

So are Eagle Rare, George T Stagg, and Pappy van Winkle, all good choices.

The sort of 16 year old who can get into Harvard is probably better off than the average 18-year old most high schools are churning out, regardless of gender.

Considering much of any Ivy class is made up of rich legacies, you're going to run into knuckleheads there as well.



I mean, our last two presidents went to Harvard and Yale, and chances are you consider at least one of them to be a knucklehead regardless of which side of the aisle you're on ;)

Sounds like she's mature beyond her years. This should be a non-factor, as long as she's comfortable.



We're talking two years here anyway. At college, most people won't even notice unless you tell them.

Unfortunately you can't count on this - there a lot more really smart 9th graders than there are slots at Harvard. At that level most scholarships are in some fashion need-calculated.



FWIW I was also a grade-skipping (only one though) 12 year old 9th grader - ended up with 35 on my ACT, took tons of AP classes, and took differential equations at a community college while still in high school. I got into Michigan Engineering with a roughly 50% scholarship, but got turned down by MIT. Like I said, crapshoot. Being female would have helped with MIT, but probably not the case at Harvard.



Sorry to be a dose of cynicism, just wanted to add some perspective from someone who was a lot like you describe your girl when I was her age. You and her are both askin the right questions.

My point with desktops is that you probably wouldn't own a really good one unless you have some dedicated function - be it gaming, video editing, simulation, etc.



Otherwise, if you've got a desktop it's probably a glorified Internet box.



Again, I've built a high end PC and enjoyed it. But now a $500 laptop can easily do everything that I use a PC for, and if I want to set up a big screen at my desk I can. And the cost to go from that $500 laptop to a gaming rig capable of running new titles is much more than the $400 cost of a PS4, which also would serve as my "main tv" media server / Blu Ray player / Netflix box

FWIW, Game Informer had an article this month where several indie developers, including the creator of Super Meat Boy, went off on how terrible XBLA was to work with, particularly in terms of updates (costs developers $40k to release a bug fix) and promotion.



The gist was that Microsoft led the way a few years ago, but has rested on their laurels since, while Sony and Nintendo have been making up ground, and that Sony seems pretty serious about making PS4 attractive to smaller developers.

When your DRM makes SONY look like a GNU crusader, you're doing it wrong.

Pretty much the same here. Red Dead Redemption is awesome you guys!

Arizona's copper helmets are great - good look (still a solid color with the classic A), and the copper ties into state history (Arizona was and is a major copper producer). I'd actually be okay with Sparty doing a copper helmet with a block S for the same reason (much better than the "bronze" they tried).



The rainbow numbers on the Arizona unis are, however, awful. And apparently they require an NCAA waiver since numbers are supposed to be a solid color contrasting the main uniform color.

Supposedly Russell Bellomy is moving around pretty well too. I know we haven't talked about him much, but if he's on a similar timeline to Jake, he may be a viable option this year as backup QB

Seems to me that offer would entail an ultimate commitment.



The difference between involvement and commitment: at breakfast, the chicken is involved, but the pig is committed.

Dantonio doesn't have the heart either. /mocking coaches serious health issues

You beat me to it. I don't mind thoughtful updates to the uniform, particularly the aways. And I'm in the apparent minority that thinks yellow maize looks better than orange.



But I HATE alternates, because they are almost always gaudy for the sale of being gaudy. Plus, big games are when I really want us in the classic jerseys. Instead someone making a retrospective of the Hoke-Meyer 10 year war 2 is going to see UM and OSU in different uniforms every. Single. Year. Blech.

To be fair, I think ND has a series against Texas coming up - Texas for Michigan is a closer trade in terms of prestige of opponent. So I doubt their 2015 will be much easier than their 2014. That said, to hell with 'em.

How "lasting" was the "legacy", if you "catch my drift"? /fartjoke

His point is that if a player is OFFERED a medical scholarship at school A but decides INSTEAD to transfer to school B and ends up playing there, it looks fishy.

Parity based scheduling could actually be good, if and only if they make the division record the number 1 factor in the division title (right now, it's total conference record). That way, the concerns about a decent team sneaking into the title game over a good team by womping an easier cross division schedule are eliminated.

Rule #1 is no politics, and while the line is fuzzy, I don't think there's any doubt you crossed it. Your comment would not be unusually flamey or out of line on a political blog but it's out of place here.

 In case you think it's just you, note the locking of the "DB running for Senate?" thread. Extending the courtesy of an explanation since your points indicate you're a rare poster.

Not sure about stripes, but I guarantee you the Mackinac Bridge would go from green and white to an absolutely blinding shade of Maize (which would change every 3 weeks).

Sure, but you gotta admit some of the flaws are inherent in the system when anybody, bitch or not, can get that worked up about people being quiet and awkward at forced-pairing social events, and then be defended (sort of) by numerous others who apparently suffered through similar indignities as Greek officers.



Don't worry, this is not intended as an insult - despite not being in a frat I've been in my shares of organized and unorganized insular groups (like say MGoBlog) with their own idiosyncrasies that they (or a vocal subset of "they") often take WAY too seriously.



I think the life lesson here is to occasionally sit back and consider what you look like to someone on the outside looking in, and be able to laugh at what you see.

I agree on the sad abuse of "begs the question" - but what idiom do we have that has the actual meaning that "begs the question" abusers are going for?



I guess you could say "raises the obvious question", but I don't think that has quite the impact people think they get with "begs the question".

Key words "to accommodate the large number of requests". It was expanded because there were students purchasing tickets. If students are not purchasing tickets it will shrink. DB is not sitting on unsold seats just to make sure the "student section" is a given size.



The point is that all students are accommodated as a policy. It's not as if 1000 students were being turned away every year and they finally gave in and added to the student section. They didn't decide anything, other than where to stick the students they had already guaranteed seats.

"Likely to only compound an earlier departmental mistake, which was to expand the amount of student seating in the first place"

I keep hearing this, and it's dumb. All students who want one and can pay up are guaranteed a student season ticket - there is not a lottery and nobody gets turned down. The size of the student section is entirely a function of how many students purchase season tickets.

Well, again, why wouldn't we? You don't seriously think they tracked no shows just to shame us, do you?



Anyway, they were always be no shows, and not just because of apathy or poor fandom. The fact that you can't buy single game student seats basically guarantees a certain number of no shows as long as student season tickets are effectively cheaper than single game full price seats for the few games a year that more casual fans want to go to. Even marquee games will suffer some number of fans who just can't make it but couldn't or didn't sell their seats for whatever reason.

Why does it have to be whole sections? Rope off the top half of a section and sell single game seats in the nosebleeds. Student seats have to be bought well before the season - plenty of time to work out the ideal section size and sell single game seats for the remainder, just as they do with other season tix.

I don't think the student section was the same size/ shape for any two consecutive years while in college. Always fluctuated year to year.

Everyone is missing the big obvious thing when they say "yah but seats will still be empty" - There WILL be over sold seats. Which is to say, the AD has worked out that x% of student tix will be no-shows for a given game, and the student section will be shrunk accordingly to allow full price asses to fill the remaining seats.



I predict a fuller student section, with more severe crowding higher up the bowl for bigger games.

I was responding mostly to the implication that McLimans got the proverbial "firm handshake" regarding his 5th year.



It seems fairly obvious that Beilein would find a spot for him if he really wanted to stay.

Hell I just liked not having to hit the mens room troughs 3 times a game.



I think GA would have been nice to sit with friends without having to play ridiculous games with your tickets to "sneak" people into your section, which happened all the time anyway.

What makes you think the current divisions are going to last 10-15 years? Will the BCS/NCAA resemble their current form that far in the future?



Long term planning only makes sense when the long term is reasonably predictable. With this level of uncertainty, "get while the gettins' good" is rational.

I don't know the details of the lawsuit (or what EA is accused of), but in the email it said one of the terms of the settlement is that EA will not pursue exclusive contracts with the NCAA after the current one expires in 2014. So, maybe this means another company can get in the game?

Maybe he's just a really bad Sparty janitor?

Why can't we have nice things? I suspect you'll soon be leading a personal invasion of La Paz.

I guess if you're into squeaky over singing. She clearly has a good voice, but in some of her songs (rolling in the deep included) her voice cracks more than a pubescent boy's.

To be fair we played lousy the first half of our first game both weekends. A week off leads to some rust.



But this is still painful.

I get that point of view, but it's a little naive. There are lots of things a coach does that ate considered part of their job that would result in sanctions against a professor. Totally different environment with totally different expectations.



Obviously Rice crossed the line, but yelling, cursing (to a point), touching (in a non abusive way, eg to demonstrate form), and enforcing physical punishment (go run the stairs!) are all normal, accepted behavior for college level coaches but not for professors.



Again, no excuse for Rice, but hopefully you can see why there's a bit more gray area for a coach.

Pretty sure the AD did say that, or at least that they've been closely monitoring the program to ensure the coach was behaving.



Now obviously you wouldn't expect him to say anything else, but it's the only evidence provided on either side t this point.

According to the AD, his suspension included all team activities. And supposedly the counseling/monitoring was ongoing.



The issue to me was that this didn't look like a guy "losing his temper" - this just looked like a bully who saw nothing wrong with his actions. I don't think any single incident on the video would necessarily warrant an immediate firing, assuming the guy handles his suspension well, but the repeated nature of the offense merits canning, I think.

Pretty sure that IS English, but it's not American...

Did you see the comment he was responding to? The quoted bible passage works as a nice, clever comeback to the preceding barb. Banter is not bible thumping, and overreaction to any innocuous mention of religion is indeed pretty flamebait-ey.

So, he's never ok?

The Fibonacci option is interesting, but the traditional option works fairly well when there are some clear favorites for the final 4 - then, either chalk makes it to the FF and the early rounds matter a lot, or chalk gets upset in the middle rounds and people who pick that are justifiably rewarded.



The problem with the Fibonacci version, to me, it that it overvalues the first round, which is where random stuff like the crazy guy down the hall that let's his kids pick all the bird mascots can do really well.



If you want to value good basketball knowledge and judgement, the late rounds do need to weight highly.



That said, I like chaos and don't usually play money pools, so go Fibonacci!

All I know is that Brendan Gibbons wears that hat when he wants to channel Keith Stone.

Ask the team if they feel like successes right now. "Failure" is a statement of fact, in this case.



This season was a tale of two failures - first, the miserable regular season, and second, the inspiring but ultimately failed playoff run. I think exploring the meaning of those two different failures is interesting.

I feel precisely the opposite. A first round exit would have me thinking, gawd that team was irredeemably awful let's learn from it and move on. Instead we learned that there really was a decent team in there, if only they'd brought it out a little sooner.



Turning it on at the end is better than not turning it on at all, but it also confirms that there was something to be turned on in the first place. Which is the infuriating thing.

Well, they were either heartless, or talentless, or Red did an awful job coaching. Which sacred cow do you want to murder? They were not a good team this year and leadership / off ice issues seemed to play a big role. They showed what they COULD be at the end after resolutely failing to do so earlier in the year. So heartless it is, I guess.



Finding the silver lining is optimism. Ignoring the cloud is delusion.

I hear Germany vs. Russia in 1943 had even worse conditions.

They lost in the second round to FLORIDA, fer crissakes. The same Florida that spent most of the year in the top 5. It's not like they got run off the court by FGCU...

We can get Oberon in AZ year round (nah nah na boo boo, stick your head in doo doo)

Well, for the best chance to win, I want us to face the weaker team. So I guess I'll take the loser of today's game.

Unless we replace everyone's knees with titanium joints and carbon nanotube ligaments, you can't really prevent these. You can't really grow or strengthen ligaments the way you can muscles.



All you can do is train your flexibility and leg strength and hope for the best, but any sport with hitting and quick direction changes is going to be an anti-knee minefield.

Well sure, but that's also true of pro athletes in any team sport - much of the value of an Aaron Rodgers jersey comes from the fact that its also a Packers jersey. Yet that doesn't prevent Aaron Rodgers from leveraging his celebrity status for lots of money.

If we had skipped the camo pattern and replaced it with, say, a pattern of low contrast block Ms in the same color scheme, I'd actually like these. But the camo is gross.

And the worst country had a 4.1? Seems the scale needs to be recalibrated.

"a winner on that board said that women sometimes lie about sexual assaults, which only, you know, flies in the face of fact and history". How can something that is demonstrably true fly in the face of fact and history? It's not jumping to conclusions to take you at your word.



Your follow ups make me believe what you really meant was that reported sexual assault allegations are true most of the time, making an assumption that they are false without further information illogical. This is of course true and I agree, but not what you originally said.



I hoped my invocation to take a formal logic course would come across as obviously tongue in cheek, but I guess we both failed to make ourselves perfectly clear.

Athletes are probably presented with more opportunities to have consensual relations, and probably find themselves in dubious situations more frequently as well. They also spend a lot of time in a particularly male-centric subculture. Finally, when one of them does commit a crime, it's more likely to be widely reported.



Not sure we should blame it all on testosterone levels though. I seem to recall some study that said athletes actually commit crimes at the same or lower rates as equivalent non athletes.

Yeah, not sure why "some victims don't speak up" and "some accusers aren't victims" are mutually exclusive. Take a formal logic class, seriously.

I really think we ought to consider some protections for the accused in cases like this, particularly since charges have not and may not be filed.



Sexual crimes are so heinous that even being accused of one is a serious black mark on a person with real, negative consequences on their life. So we should try to mitigate that until (if) they are proven guilty. Save the (entirely justified) shaming until then.

It's speculation that anyone is guilty (or innocent) of anything other than being named on an investigation document.

See, this is precisely the road that the Duke Lacrosse thing went down - players assumed to be guilty, victim assumed to be raped, because it fit the stereotype of male athletes taking advantage of women.



Is sexual assault a problem? Absolutely. Will classes help? Eh - we were all required to get an orientation lecture that basically gave the message "any sex you have where a drop of alcohol is involved is probably rape but only men can rape". Not sure that changed any minds of anyone you had to worry about.



But in any case, trying to use individual rape cases as morality plays for the larger problem, particularly before all the facts are in, leads to bad Duke-like things that not only hurt the people involved but also work to delegitimize actual rape victims. So let's hold off on the moralizing on this specific case for awhile, okay?

They did for ASU, or were at least heavily involved in the logo change.

He also failed to inappropriately bone any subordinates. Sheesh, what was he thinking?

The letter makes it pretty clear that it applies to publications - I doubt they're coming for your skinny M New Era caps (unless you wear them sideways with a flat brim and the sticker still on). And I'm assuming the floor and ice Ms stay blue.



This has been university wide policy for several years now, an the AD is either just bringing things in line or felt the need to reiterate.



I'm surprised we aren't arguing about Official Maize - they give print colors right there in the bottom left!

The main problem with the impact metric is that he's basically basing it on "does the guy start every game, play situationally, or ride the pine?" In other words, it's relative to the team.

I think we can all agree that Alabama is a very, very good team, and their talent depth has a lot to do with that. So a 1 on 'Bama might well be a 3 on a MAC squad or, sad to say, a 2 or even 3 on Michigan (at least in certain positions).

The only way to compare impact between Michigan and Bama is to assume Michigan is (or will be) just as good as Bama. Which clearly begs the question.

What the impact metric DOES measure well is, "what percentage of the coach's recruits end up helping the team?" But that's only interesting for the first few years of a coach's career and only relative to the total number of recruits taken. After all, every team has to line up 11 guys on each side of the ball, whether they're great or incompetent.

I think an interesting thing to do with the data would be to compare the Rivals ratings of your "3" players from team to team. In other words, is the team starting mostly 4 star talent? Or are they finding diamonds in the rough (or being forced to start the rough...)? What percentage of their highly rated recruits bust? How does their average "3" player compare to their average recruit? This might bust or confirm the idea that teams like Bama take more chances on recruits who "aren't as good at life" - If that were true, you'd expect more of Bama's 4-5 stars to bust (which they'd make up in volume) while "high character" Michigan men would be less likely to wash out.

Anyway nice work over all, this clearly took a lot of thought and effort.

The thing you labeled as a sculpture of a Masonic symbol is actually the "Bent". It's the symbol of Tau Beta Pi, an engineering honors society.

There is also a Bent on the arch to the EECS building (in your picture) and another on the engineering arch on the Diag.

Why should RR know better? He owes Michigan nothing at this point, we pretty much treated him like shit, particularly on his way out the door (no Gator Bowl ring, fired him too late for his staff to get jobs).



He came here, did poorly, and got fired. We left on less than good terms. Why is he obligated to play nice about former players at Michigan?



It's no worse than what Harbaugh said, and we just had a blog come-to-Jesus moment about how Harbaugh is still "one of us". Why should we hold a guy we never let into the "Michigan Man" club to a higher standard?

How has nobody done a photoshop of Lloyd Carr and grumpy cat yet?

Most of us will spend most of our lives being older than most active professional athletes. If you feel weird about that, then any adult seeking any autograph should seem weird to you.

Why do people keep saying he can't take punishment? The dude had as many carries as a "feature back" in 2010, and somewhat fewer but still a lot of carries in 11 and 12. All while running the offense and throwing an additional ~20 times a game.



Denard played just as hard as a feature back - even the toughest RBs usually take a breather after every couple of plays. Denard didn't. And through all that, his worst injury only kept him out of a couple games. Sure he had to sit for a few drives and halves in that period, but what RB doesn't? And besides that many of his injuries were ones that made it hard for him to be a QB but he probably could have kept running if necessary (being the star QB, we probably were more cautious than we'd be with an RB with a minor boo boo.)



Denard is tough. Some of his best runs cone from working in traffic up the middle. He could be a feature back if allowed and if he learns to block. WR is a waste - Denard begs to be fed behind the LOS so he can make LBs and crashing safeties look stupid.

As of a couple years ago, the Phx Coyotes still had retired numbers from the Winnipeg Jets at their arena. And some fans, many of whom are originally from Canada, would wear old Jets jerseys to the games. But I haven't been there since the new Winnipeg Jets, who used to be the Thrashers, started playing, so I don't know if they kept the retired numbers.

By "sometime last year" I really mean "shortly after she died". I'm guessing Manti found out it was fake sometime around Lennay's death.



I mean he either a) didn't give a damn about this girl who he claimed was the love of his life and therefore never bothered to try to see her when she was dying or go to her funeral or b) he would have gotten really damn suspicious when his desire to see her or go to the funeral was rebuffed.

Denard + RGIII or Kaepernick in a backfield = nightmare for defensive coordinator. NFL version of White/Slaton

But if Ron was using an actual person to pose as Lennay, why would he use photos of someone else entirely? The "in-person" version would clearly have to be in on the hoax, so why not just use her photo?

Your username is strangely appropriate here.

Turns out the soul food place exists, but is actually a rib joint called "FreDonna's '51 Cafe". They serve you ribs but call it catfish. It's delicious but heavy food, tends to slow you down.



South Bend officials are calling FreDonna's "fried catfish" a cruel hoax perpetrated on unsuspecting restaurant goers.

That's fine, except the math is more like Denard against bad teams = exceptional, Denard against good teams = above average. Total = very good. How many 100 yard rushers did USC give up this year? Denard's career yardage as a runner alone is way beyond what "just a good player" running backs typically achieve.



Plus Denard is a god as much for his persona and the implicit excitement of watching him play as he is for his actual output.

BREAKING NEWS: offenses perform less effectively against good defenses. That's why they are good defenses. Obvious conclusion is obvious. More at 11.

Exactly - there's a leap between "Junior Seau had CTE" and "CTE caused his suicide".



Didn't someone come up with a number that said current and former NFL players were actually committing suicide at a lower rate than other males of similar age and demographics?



There are a lot of guys in the NFL. Statistically, it's likely that some will commit suicide. You will hear a lot about their suicide. But so far I don't think it's been proven that CTE directly contributed to the suicides (only that CTE may be linked to depression).



That said CTE is bad and there are plenty of other reasons to avoid it.

Kelly is worried about keeping up his high level of success, so he's considering a job with.... the Eagles?

And hell, an 8-4 Michigan taking USC to the wire.

But they can't spell it.

An interesting example, but not a great one. He didn't actually end up at Michigan or OSU, maybe for class size but maybe academics played a role there too.



And until he hits the field, or at least starts classes, the commitment to Miami doesn't mean he's made the cut there either.



Again my main point is its kind of silly to say one school's requirements are much higher than any others. It's a fact that at all major D1 programs the academic qualifications of the football team are quite a but lower than the rest of the student body.

This seems odd - Narduzzi could get an HC job if he wanted it, why go to USC to be a coordinator for one of the few guys in the same douche league as Dantonio?

Now if only will still had Bill Martin...

I'm not saying its harmless, I'm saying that the sensationalism of the article is overblown. They are trying to make it seem like this is some exotic ultra dangerous superdrug that only unscrupulous docs doing anything to win would use. It's clearly nothing of the sort.

I will note that taking painkillers to continue performing with an injury is usually a Bad Idea - pain is our bodies telling us to stop. But athletes being what they are I doubt we'll ever eradicate them. Just keep the doses where they should be and discuss the risks, as with any drug.

Sport coats might limit receiver range of motion. And I doubt that topsiders have good traction in wet turf.



We'd look good though.

82-67, Michigan

I have been pretty dismissive of the Nike über alles crowd, but it's getting really hard to defend Adidas and Brandon's handling of the Michigan brand (both are to blame). On the one hand, Nike's pro combat unis are often ridiculous and tradition assaulting, but at least they tend to look cool in the abstract and have some "wow factor". E.g. MSU's unis last year. They didn't look at all like MSU uniforms, but at least I can see how someone would look at them and say, "these are a neat concept and look badazz". Even if that someone is a teenager who listens to terrible music. I hate that that matters, but it does.



On the other hand, Adidas' alternate unis for Michigan have been bad from both the tradition and fashion standpoints. The only exception has been the Sugar Bowl unis, but there was nothing "wow" about those - they just looked like classy football uniforms that a team other than Michigan would probably wear as their standard uniform. It seems we've abandoned the sacred uniform tradition. Can't we at least look cool doing it?

Disagree with the call all you want, but it hardly cost us the game. The next play hurt, sure, but that shouldn't affect your opinion of whether the fake was a good call. Failing to block Clowney could have just as easily occurred if we called that play on the preceding first down. The FUMBLE hurt our chances in the game. The fake punt helped them.



And at any rate, WE TOOK THE LEAD ON OUR NEXT POSSESSION. It emphatically did not cost us the game. We suffered effectively the worst case scenario of the fake and were still in fantastic position to win with 20 seconds on the clock. A stop on either of SCs last two possessions wins us the game. That's a pretty damn good scenario against a top 10 team.



Lost the field position battle? Lolwut? There was no field position battle. The next three possessions resulted in scores and kickoffs. SC got theirs yesterday almost entirely on big plays. This was not a grind it out every inch matters game by any stretch. You're thinking of the last three quarters of the Rose Bowl.

He was actually pretty good as a senior. His usage prior to that was suboptimal, but nothing like what poor Kenny Demens was subjected to.

If your girlfriend insists you lift heavy things after you were just in a car crash, you should probably find a new girlfriend.

That was weird, bad iPhone. Anyway there are a lot of scenarios in which Stacee could have helped even if she can't carry a linebacker up a flight of stairs.



At any rate, apparently Jerry died of blunt force trauma to the head and neck, so the time taken to get him out of the car doesn't seem to have affected the outcome. Hell maybe dragging him out of the car made it worse.



My only point is that the fact that it took a guy who had just been in a rollover a couple minutes to get his head in order and act doesn't affect my opinion on him, and it shouldn't affect yours. He's a bad guy for driving drunk and crashing. He's not a bad guy for getting shook up by a major crash.

The first thing you learn in a first aid class is "I'm first". That is, before approaching a person in need of help, make sure doing so doesn't put you or someone else at a high risk of injury. More injured people just make things harder for the professionals when they arrive and may well make things worse for the originally injured person.



Now that said, I generally agree that I personally would want to do something to help in that situation. After all, a friend is hurt and I was at fault. Decent people ought to want to help, ASSUMING THEY ARE COHERENT AND RATIONAL. That's a big assumption, and the description sounds like this guy was not. That's partially his fault for being drunk, but to the extent that being injured in a serious car wreck made him irrational, that's something you can't fault.

Okay, but it's not like she tried. She's condemning someone for failing to do what she herself was unwilling to attempt.

Soooo if it's so easy how come the people doing the coercing weren't pulling the guy out? What was the eyewitness doing to help that lets him pass judgement? Anybody who's been in a serious car wreck knows that your higher brain functions don't work quite right even if you didn't get a whack on the head or whiplash. Some people overcome that and act like heroes. Some people do stupid crap trying to be a hero and get themselves hurt even worse. Some people get the shakes and are functionally worthless for awhile. It's tough to judge character from that.



If "not wanting to jump back into a flaming wreck you just escaped from" makes you an asshole, well, most everyone is an asshole.

If Denard's "terrible" QB play makes running impossible, how was Denard able to run so much? I don't think Denard was a better thrower last year, yet Touissant got many more yards.



And the Gardner games hardly change my perception of 2012 Fitz. He got a couple big runs and a lot of futile carries for 2 or fewer yards. He was not a guy like Hart who could carry the ball 20 plays in a row and keep the chains moving.

They did, even though they were much better for eliminating in.