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It got on one of my PCs last week without either of us here knowing how. Sneaky! It seemed to uninstall and delete with no issues though.

It is to me. To me it overwhelmingly favors and helps the offense and hurts the defense. If a team has to go 25 yards to score instead of 70 is that easier or harder on the offense? If a defense has to stop a team before they go 70 yards or before they go 25 which is easier? I want to see all sports play overtime as close to regulation play as they can, not some goofy hybrid designed to create an ending faster or for the attention deficient. To me it just cheapens the game and disrespects it and I am really glad the NFL did not go that route. Were just going to continue to disagree.

If a drive falters at the 30 it falters at the 30 whether its exciting to you or not. Thats football, some defenses are good. I am fine with both teams getting the same opportunity to finish the game, I see no reason or logic to magically have them start at the 25. I think it disrespects the game, particularly defense.

To you thats fine and good, to me its cheapening the game. I think the college OT rules which ignore 2/3rds of the field and several aspects of the game are every bit as goofy soccer or hockey shootouts. In an NFL game I would prefer to play NFL football to decide the OT, not some goofy 'start on the 25' system. Sorry if you think thats nonsense.

I have heard the same thing, and it did only come out a year after 2 so I am not surprised. From what I read its a full length game isn't it? I hope so. I want to play it online, that sounds really cool.

Oh I thought this thread was about the Orioles.

I only have a PS3. I'd like to play stuff with people I know more often but most of my friends have Xboxes. lol, my brother got a PS3 last fall so we played a couple games of Madden online. You can see when the last time a friend logs in and I can see that he hasnt turned his system on in 12 months. Money well spent.

I think the new rules are OK I have no problem with them. I was OK with the former format too. I am glad they didn't go to the college rules. I don't like eliminating 60% of the field for that format. I think it cheapens the game.

Well the one I know they showed the replay of, with Boldin wide open looked to me like he was open and Joe didnt see him then took off and ran. Either way, I mentioned it to justify Preston's B- grade while stating I would have probably given him a better grade. I thought it was one of Joe's better games I have ever seen from him in all regard and in reading and seeing the field. So? Its neat but kind of meaningless in my opinion. Joe was lucky enough to be drafted by a good team then have the other QBs on the team get injured making him the starter earlier than he may have been. There have been plenty of great QBs who dont start in their rookie year and plenty more who start for terrible teams.

The first one is more walking and horses than the others, but I still liked it. Assassins Creed 2 was a big improvement in many aspects of the game. If I remember correctly there was a whole lot of dead space between cities in the first. Thats all gone in the 2nd. I like the cities, climbing over them and jumping around.

I love Assassins Creed, just got the 3rd in the series but havent really started it.

I would have probably given him a bit higher grade, but he (nor the rest of the offense) didnt have a great start. B- is fair, especially with the replays showing him missing open receivers. To his credit, Joe warmed up and really had a good game the rest of the way. Edit: this thread is based on misinformation. Preston gave Joe an A.

They played very well today. Joe may have played the best game of his career, the defense was after Cassel all day.

I think we are ready this week. I have heard rumors that the receivers are going to be carrying semaphore flags and wave them when they are open. That should help.

Oh I thought this was about a Tony Banks sex tape.

I think Joe has a great arm and if the list was just about arms he should be at or near the top of the list. Overall I think he is a very average QB and figure Clayton made the list by just looking at his stats and not watching most of the games. Talent wise, not personality wise - Joe is a good guy, I'd rather have every single QB on the 'elite' list than Joe.

I have seen Joe watching the same receiver the entire play and never glancing in another direction. Just as often I have seen him look off the primary if covered then get happy feet and look back and forth not seeing anyone and throwing it away or running out of bounds, unless he dumps it off to the running back. And many of the replays show there are guys open that Joe just doesn't see. To me often on the replays and the couple of games I went to I have seen open receiver sometimes near Joe, sometimes far, and Joe just doesn't see them. Or sees them too late like he did with Heap Sunday. I am not saying everyone else on offense if tremendous except Joe, but I am not going to believe that Bolding and Housh suddenly forgot how to run routes when they came here either. The brunt of the passing offensive problems, and what will probably be our downfall in the playoffs, start and ends with Joe IMO.

Now that is something I do blame Cam and Harbaugh for. However if they let him grow into a real QB, perhaps we are not 12-4, maybe not even close. Maybe we would be. Hard to tell. Either way I think they should have.

Well he is certainly the receiver that will fight the hardest for the ball. My sarcastic point was even when the play is not specifically called for Boldin, there are and have been opportunities to get him the ball and they haven't. And I don't think its Cam's fault. Maybe Cam should have more plays where Boldin is the primary receiver but even when he is not a QB should look his way. For some reason Mason has to be the main primary, I guess he needs to be rewarded for complaining and bitching so much.

Well you do know that if Joe's primary target is covered that he can oh I dont know - and I know this is crazy talk - look around for other open receivers. Well most QBs could. Yeah its Cam's fault. If Cam would line Boldin up as a RB for Joe to dump the ball off to, then he would get the ball more.

I am frustrated and surprised by our lack of running game. Where you see our routes taking too long to develop I see our QB taking far too long to see (or never seeing) open receivers. This leads him to hold the ball far too long making a line that has been adequate most games look awful. A good deal of our problems in the red zone fall directly onto Flacco who cannot seem to find anyone open in those situations. Then often with no pressure yet at all he starts hopping around and begins his lope to the sidelines. Many times replays show that receivers have been open, Joe just doesn't see them. Joe also often leaves yards and possibly scores on the field by immediately looking for his RB (often getting them leveled) instead of seeing or even looking for open receivers down field. A lot of people laughed off the ESPN reporter's story about what some people think are Flacco's weaknesses and that his development has hit a wall (would they have taken them more seriously if it had been about Ben?) but whether the reporter made up the insider story part or not, that is exactly what I see with Flacco. And I see the popular scapegoat Cam calling a frequently ultraconservative game plan in order to protect his QB.

Its always nice to be in the playoffs, despite some problems. I think we need line help but feel we should have still been better with what we had. Cam has done a good job IMO, he has coddled and protected his rookie like QB into having some amazing looking numbers. He is a master of smoke and mirrors! I don't think many OCs could do much better with a QB who usually cannot see the field or read the defense, holds onto the ball far too long, gets happy feet, and often reverts to bad mechanics when pressured at all.

Its close to a fail. Why trade for one of the best receivers and utilize him as little as we have? Just by being on the field I am sure Boldin has helped, but I'd dont think we brought him in just to force the defense to cover him.

Maybe its just frustration but I really don't think this is a good team at all, very average in my mind. I guess its possible everything will come together in the playoffs, and I hope it does, but I wont hold my breath. Like a thread I made after our last loss, one really shouldn't overlook how poorly we played today. We played a 4-11 team ranked in the bottom 10 of defense and only scored 13 points and got less than 200 yards of offense. They turned the ball over 5 times and yet were still in a position to win it at the end. Luckily Palmer made a poor throw. The Bengals should have kicked the FG a few minutes earlier. Lucky win that in no way inspires confidence for the playoffs.

Since you capitalized Lions I assume you mean the Detroit Lions. While after the way we played today I do think they would be a tough match for us, unfortunately they didnt make the AFC playoffs so we cannot play them.