College Football Pick 'Em--Week Two

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This year--I don't remember seeing it in years past--Yahoo has started to break up the games into "Games 1-10" and "Games 11-Whatever." And the division held true last week: games 1-10 were a massacre for favorites, with West Virginia just escaping a humiliating loss to Marshall, double-digit favorite Georgia Tech losing at Kansas, and Virginia Tech getting shocked at home by James Madison (in non top-25 action, Minnesota lost to South Dakota, their second loss to an FCS team in three years--they get USC this week). Games 11-19 were more chalky.

Here's what happened this week:

Big Winner of the Week: HowieDawg, our resident Brit scored 13 points, 2 clear of the competition this week and good for the overall lead in the contest early on.

Shameful Dogs of the Week: Dency's Winners and Make Sweet Love to Michigan's Visage tied with a paltry 6 points each.

Here's this week's leaderboard:

HowieDawg--13
Jax Buckeyes Pimp--11
Kpolen4--10
Stewartcj1--10
DaBrowns41--10
Thaak--10
The Hammer--10
Mark O--9
Buckeyes 1968--9
Ballpeen--9
Atenears--9
DieHardBrownsFan--8
Ballantyne Boosters--8
Vegas Lou--8
Pryor 4 Heisman--8
Solon16--8
Beanpot--7
Make Sweet Love to Michigan's Visage--6
Dency's Winners--6

And season-to-date:
1 HowieDawg 24
2 Thaak 23
3 kpolen4 22
4 stewartcj1 22
5 Jax Buckeyes Pimp 21
6 DaBrowns41 21
7 ballpeen 21
8 The Hammer 19
9 Mark O 19
10 ATENEARS 19
11 Ballantyne Boosters 19
12 Pryor 4 Heisman 19
13 Buckeyes 1968 18
14 DieHardBrownsFan 18
15 Dency's Winners 18
16 Beanpot 17
17 SOLON16 16
18 Make Sweet Love to Michigan's Visage 13
19 jlowe 10
20 Vegas Lou 8
21 nmills 1

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fujita
watching him play today tells me that our schemes hasn't evolved very much on offense or defense from last year. it seemed as if fujita knew what was coming before it came and was able to help his team read and react to that all day long. football is a game that takes CONSTANT growth and hitting the old drawing board week in and week out. teams have a lot of game tape on our offense from last year. why does Payton resist evolution?????

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He had a great game...It looked as if he was all over the field....I wish he was still in the Black and Gold...
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I really had a bad feeling that letting him go was a gigantic mistake and his play today confirmed it.


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We can all thank Loomis and Payton who didn't want to pay him......

BIG MISTAKE!


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that's actually a very good point.

clearly other teams have been studying our offense over the offseason - if today's fujita performance is any indication, we haven't done much to counteract that.


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Duncan said that Fujita was reading our sideline defensive signals and then relaying them to his coaches.


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on a serious note, they would NEVER have paid him what he wanted to be paid. the problem is that loomis didn't replace him in the draft or free agency. he played an inspired game today and showed the Saints what he could still be doing in the black and gold. really though, he is the first player in a loooooooooonng time that loomis has let walk that has turned out to contribute to his new team.


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Fujita played against Drew every practice for 4 years. There's no way he could've played that long without learning some vital tendencies about the offense and Drew specifically. Saints didn't account for this. They were flat outcoached today.


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Duncan said that Fujita was reading our sideline defensive signals and then relaying them to his coaches.

we can't go from season to season without evolving our playbook and tweaking it.


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Too many good players on this team to pay Fujita that much. We did the right thing in letting him go. As for Fujita nice game, but your a brown so I could care less bout you.


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He definitely had our number. he knew exactly what was going on at all times. Hurt to see him sack and intercept Drew.


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I honestly wasn't too excited about the Fujita signing, giving what I'd heard about him from a couple Saints fan. He's a high motor, high character guy... obviously intelligent and remembered your offense pretty well.

Thanks for not re-signing him.


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Fujita had a career game, to say the least.


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Quote:
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really though, he is the first player in a loooooooooonng time that loomis has let walk that has turned out to contribute to his new team.

The other one, weirdly enough, is Olindo Mare--not that I think we should have kept him.

We couldn't afford to keep Fujita (at least not vs. what the Browns paid him), and our defense hasn't been the problem this year, so I don't there's a case to be made that Mickey made a huge mistake letting him go. That being said, he is very much missed. I can't say I am happy for him today, but I will be rooting for him the rest of the year.

Your main point--that Scott's seeming ability to know what was coming today denotes some level of complacency by the Saints offense this year--is worth considering.


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Quote:
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I honestly wasn't too excited about the Fujita signing, giving what I'd heard about him from a couple Saints fan. He's a high motor, high character guy... obviously intelligent and remembered your offense pretty well.

Thanks for not re-signing him.

LOL that's probably the best game your boys will play all year. We're not an AFC team, so I don't see how today matters much for you guys at all. Your Browns still aren't going anywhere but golfing during the playoffs.