Tips for Tikay

[horseplayer]

Not like i have ever or do ever spend a lot of time helping/suggesting stuff for fred and have done since pretty much day one

If all i did was post pictures of Steve Bruce at weddings then fair enough

[TightEnd]

You been at the WKDs Jaffa?

Not at all mate, just spent a lot of time getting exact facts for that OP, when I basically knew them as a Newcastle fan and had had my own personal bet already on the back of them. Knew that writing generic stuff like "these guys don't score many goals" isn't enough for the great and good of TfT so spent half an hour collating facts to make a proper post, that was blanked by the clique, when my man scores twice to become top scorer it was ignored and the repost was ignored too. I'll spend me half hour looking at pictures of Steve Bruce at weddings in future

sorry Jeff

I didnt remember any discussion about the first post, sometimes bets are missed simple as that, sometimes people don't have an opinion to give

we love your bets, same as anyone else's (with the exception of Tal's)

[horseplayer]

ty tighty will give me an interest

[BigAdz]

Whoaaaa there Horsey......(see what I did there?)

Jeff is a top guy, but he does have a rather tough time of it once a month.

He should really take Primrose Tablets.

It certainly ain't personal.

[scotty2hatty]

You been at the WKDs Jaffa?

Not at all mate, just spent a lot of time getting exact facts for that OP, when I basically knew them as a Newcastle fan and had had my own personal bet already on the back of them. Knew that writing generic stuff like "these guys don't score many goals" isn't enough for the great and good of TfT so spent half an hour collating facts to make a proper post, that was blanked by the clique, when my man scores twice to become top scorer it was ignored and the repost was ignored too. I'll spend me half hour looking at pictures of Steve Bruce at weddings in future

C'mon mate, toughen up

[Tal]

I'd take issue, but I'm too busy shouting at the TV. The Uni Challenge/Only Connect double bill.

[arbboy]

150-100 was a pretty shocking effort by both teams on UC.  Thought Cambridge types were supposed to know it all?  Nice to see US sports and geography combined making a debut on the show.  For the first time in the show's history i managed to get all 4 questions right in a mini section.

[Tal]

150-100 was a pretty shocking effort by both teams on UC.  Thought Cambridge types were supposed to know it all?

Trinity students are a curious breed. Can't compare them to normal Cambridge students. At least they didn't wear their gowns.

[Marky147]

Too many melts ITT

[arbboy]

150-100 was a pretty shocking effort by both teams on UC.  Thought Cambridge types were supposed to know it all?

Trinity students are a curious breed. Can't compare them to normal Cambridge students. At least they didn't wear their gowns.

The gowns were rather odd i must admit. 

[Tal]

150-100 was a pretty shocking effort by both teams on UC.  Thought Cambridge types were supposed to know it all?

Trinity students are a curious breed. Can't compare them to normal Cambridge students. At least they didn't wear their gowns.

The gowns were rather odd i must admit. 

If you're going to wear academic gowns, you should at least have suits on and red wine stained lips.

[arbboy]

Question for Tal.  How would you price up UC pre event assuming all the major uni's were present as usual?  Who would be fav?

[Tal]

Question for Tal.  How would you price up UC pre event assuming all the major uni's were present as usual?  Who would be fav?

Difficult one, as you get four (well, technically five) new faces each year. Plus the Oxbridge colleges aren't guaranteed a place: they are only allowed to send a small number of colleges through. At Cambridge, it was decided by a college quiz league, and I assume it is similar at the lesser place.

Manchester should be reasonably good every year. It has 40,000 students to choose from. Pembroke Cambridge for example by comparison has about 650.

[vegaslover]

On another note anyone think that the Eagles coming back in all of these games might be down to superior fitness due to Kellys high tempo system?  Might be interesting 2nd half plays if that is the case.

part of this is the running game isn't functioning too well, the O Line is beat up. Defense isn't stopping teams either

they are getting behind, then having to air it out to recover

this means Foles is putting up big numbers, but also leading to lots of second half points

of course it helps if you have Maclin, Cooper, Ertz, Sprioles, McCoy and now Matthews. Defense can't cover them all, particularly when the Eagles are trying to get through 90 offensive snaps a game, and its late and they are getting tired

Nate and Carlson were discussing last night on 4.
Carlson said that the Eagles have a totally different conditioning system in place compared to NFL and tailored to how they play.

Still wouldn't like my team to be spending so long defending throughout the season, but they doing alright so far.

[vegaslover]

And any nfl bets for tonight Tighty for the late night workers?

cheers

Jets number 1 run offense and run defense in football through 2 weeks

in particular run defense and scheme is brutal (Wilkerson and Sheldon Richardson). Tough to see Chicago doing much through the ground

Jets will have to blitz a lot to knock Cutler out of stride because they do not match up well in the secondary and Marshall/Jeffrey should have big nights otherwise

the Jets are first running the ball, averaging 179 rushing yards per game.  They have great success running the ball right up the middle behind Mangold. Bears are lightwight on the defensive front, Stephen Paea pass rushes but doesn't stop the run well

the Jets running game splits Chris Ivory and Chris Johnson. Ivory is the better back. He's made 15 defenders miss in two games, Johnson only 2

Ivory week 1 100+ yds vs Oakland 10 carries, wk 2 40+ vs Green Bay 13 carries

Johnson 68 on 13 carries, 21 on 12 carries in the two games

Ivory should go over quotes around 60 yards http://www.oddschecker.com/american-football/nfl/chicago-bears-at-new-york-jets/total-rushing-yds-chris-ivory

He's also 9-1 first TD but here you do have the risk that the Bears can go high octane and score out of the blocks

I like this, Bears have been ridic bad at defending the run and giving up a lot of yards/points. Bears got lots of defensive injuries too.
Forte got absolutely nowhere last week running it.