Posted on 09/14/2009 8:46:12 AM PDT by big black dog
If the plan is to slice Mike Bell's carries by 70 percent or 80 percent when Pierre Thomas is healthy and Reggie Bush is less rusty than he looked in the season opener Sunday, maybe it should be rethought.
No. Definitely, if that's the New Orleans Saints' plan, it could stand a revision.
Bell at least earned that much Sunday, in a 45-27 victory over the Detroit Lions, as he picked up from where he left off during the exhibition season, when he showed he was a keeper.
A career-high 28 carries for a career-high 143 yards gave Bell the kind of regular-season day he might have considered unattainable at this point in a 25-game career than entered its fourth season, with his third team. It gave him the kind of day he probably never could have had if Thomas had been healthy, and Bush had been able to produce something a little better than 14 yards on seven carries.
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Ah, general purpose sports stories isn’t really FR’s thing.
I know that sometimes we run exceptional sports stories, or ones involving what sexy-crumpet-of-the-day dating what QB, but we aren’t the sports page....
I picked him up in my fantasy league. He gained a lot of yards, but no TDs. I imagine his playing time will be cut when Pierre Thomas returns.
Look at the bright side...the Pussycats scored 27 points in their opener.
Really, that’s a LOT. Seriesly.
Good for Bell, but I would say that the fact that he has Drew Brees as his QB, and was playing the Lions had a lot to do with it.
Lions have a plausible offense now and same-old-lions catastrophic defense. They had a chance at number 1 round pick and had complete amnesia as to their actual needs. WC Ford probably demanded Stafford for the T-shirt value while Martin Mayhew and the Swartz painfully winced.
Half the Pac-10 could beat the Lions. BFD. New Orleans has to play a few teams with winning records in 2008 season before we can tell anything about their potential, which is probably not much above the Lions, to be completley candid.
The Ford family ruined Billy Sims. The Ford family forced Barry Sanders into early retirement. The Ford family will ruin Stafford.
Let's go for a repeat!
Let’s not get carried away here, my Grandmother could get 100 yards against the Lions’ defense.
the Ford Family had two Heisman trophy winners on the bench at the same time and almost ruined them both. The only way the lions will win is if they fire the owner.
That explains why Sims made a fool of himself at the Heisman ceremony when Bradford got the Heisman.
As usual, the Lions are ahead of all other teams:
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Posted on 09/14/2009 8:41:18 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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Judge was in court talking to a boy about moving him out since his dad beat him all the time. The judge says, I will move you in with your grandfather - the boy started crying saying the grandfather beat him all the time.
The judge then said, I will move you in with your aunt - the boy cried again telling the judge that the aunt beat him all the time as well.
The judge thought for some time and decided ...
I’ll give you to the Detroit lions - they never beat anyone.
Judge was in court talking to a boy about moving him out since his dad beat him all the time. The judge says, I will move you in with your grandfather - the boy started crying saying the grandfather beat him all the time.
The judge then said, I will move you in with your aunt - the boy cried again telling the judge that the aunt beat him all the time as well.
The judge thought for some time and decided ...
I’ll give you to the Detroit lions - they never beat anyone.
LOL! I’m just here for the Sexy Crumpet of the Day!!
The pretty much covers the Detroit Lions, worse organization in professional sports.
Overheard at the Ford Field PA,
“Will the mother of the two boys on the field please pick them up, they are beating the Lions 14-0.”
They're running neck and neck with the LA Clippers.
I was proud when Berry retired. He gave them 10 years to build a team around him. He went out on top and never looked back. What a class act.
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