SB Nation User Blog: MFAN

Acta out, Riggleman in.

MFAN — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:09:29 -0000

Acta out, Riggleman in.

Manny Acta is expected to be fired soon and Jim Riggleman gets another interm job.

Wife of D-backs pitcher Schoeneweis found dead.

MFAN — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:33:26 -0000

Wife of D-backs pitcher Schoeneweis found dead.

Sad news in baseball. Thoughts and prayers go out to the Schoeneweis family.

Peterson headed to Pro-Bowl

MFAN — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:16:24 -0000

Peterson headed to Pro-Bowl

Julian Peterson is headed to the pro-bowl, hence the title "Peterson headed to Pro-Bowl"

Is Plack gone?

MFAN — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:52:36 -0000

http://rodpedersen.blogspot.com/

Saw this link on Seahawks addicts, not sure how credible it is, but it's there none the less.

Not sure what to make of this, Plack didn't look very good on Sunday but that might have not been his fault. Plack was awesome in 2006, struggled in 2007 and was hurt at the start of 2008, so I think it is possible the Hawks have decided to move on.

What is everyone's take on this?

2008 DVOA Projections are out

MFAN — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:17:25 -0000

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/2008/09/03/ramblings/dvoa-ratings/6516/

Here are the DVOA projections for 2008 from Football Outsiders. I am a little surprised to see us with the projected 6th best offense and 12th defense. I imagine our 3rd and 1 failures have a lot to do with the rebound in offense along with the solid off-season additions.

For those who don't want to click the link for whatever reason the Hawks projected DVOA for offense is 16.1% and -3.0%* for defense. Special teams checks in at 17th in the league with a 0.2%

* a minus for defense is a positive not a negative.

LL on Yahoo! Sports

MFAN — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:56:20 -0000

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/The-Nail-in-the-Coffin-Your-2008-Seattle-Marine;_ylt=AlXcSNB6l85tE7ruCtieAxQRvLYF?urn=mlb,104148

So according to this article the M's are the 1st team officially eliminated from the playoffs!, which means we'll get to here the front office talk about how we were in it until the end of August.

This article also contains a quote from LL. It's probably not a big deal, but I thought it was pretty cool to see LL getting some attention by the national media.

For some reason being the 1st team eliminated makes everything worth it.

Just go away Carlos

MFAN — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:15:47 -0000

http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/mariners/2008/08/ms_lose_a_yawner.html

I don't think there is anything to say. You're the one with the 4-13 record and an ERA close to 6.

I understand that Silva is frustrated and maybe what he's saying is true, but it sounds pretty ridiculous after a game in which you gave up 5 runs.

This was my favorite quote from Silva: "Maybe Chief has to go and grab somebody from his neck and throw him into the wall and something's going to change,'' he said. "I'm very close to doing that, so write that down.''

Again, you're the one with the 5.93 ERA, someone should probably throw you into the wall.

Go away Carlos, you can keep the money.

Some good news in Hawks Land

MFAN — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:54:26 -0000

Holmgren was on KJR this morning (at least that's what I hear through the grapevine and seahawks addicts, since I don't live in Seattle.) Holmgren mentioned some things that are very encouraging for the Hawks in 2009.

1. Rob Sims is the likely starter at RG. I know John and most of us have been Sims supporters.

2. The Hawks will be going with a running back by committee! No running back will get more than 25 carries a game and Morris should factor in heavily. Sounds like Morris will be a hawk next season! I personally expect Duckett to fill Weaver's role before Strong got hurt last season.

3. sounds like Lawrence Jackson (LoJack) will be the starting DE with Tapp coming in as a situational pass-rusher. This is probably for the better as Jackson is probably a more complete DE. Tapp seemed to struggle down the stretch last year and should benefit from this.

D.D Lewis is back

MFAN — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:39:09 -0000

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/seahawks/2004305356_webhawk25.html

It's always nice to see old faces come back. Lewis should help on special teams.

P.S. What is everyones take on Olindo Mare?

Julius Jones is in town

MFAN — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:24:47 -0000

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/football/archives/133613.asp

I'm not a huge Jones fan, but his signing would be the end of Alexander for sure, unless the team wants to carry 17,000 running backs. I like Morris, but Jones is probably a little bit better...just my opinion.

I also think that Jones/Duckett would be a real good combo.