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this I understand, I was making more a comment on my age vs wrigleys in fact I'm almost to young to really remember Vince Evans, but...alas Vince Evans? I'll up your Vince Evans, I remember Bob Avellini.
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Just listened to Brad Underwood preview tomorrow's game, talked quite a bit about Sasha Stefanovic, he was the difference in the game at Champaign. I don't expect the Illini to stop Ivey, stopping Stefanovic is doable and I expect them to remove him from the equation tomorrow. Will it be enough? Maybe. They may also try to get Edey moving, if they do that, they'll get him foul trouble, of course, Purdue is better with Williams on the floor perhaps, its not so good Williams could see more time. Another point is Purdue is vulnerable to a penetrating PG, saw it with Curbelo in Champaign so, if he's healthy enough, Curbelo could be a key to an Illini victory.
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Warren Moon Randell Cunningham Don't remember but, wasn't Moon more of a pocket passer? Cunningham, on the hand, was certainly mobile and had a big arm.
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If they could ever get their whole team on the court at the same time . . . huge win at IU - this was a trap game for sure and to win by 17 on the road is big. How was that a trap game? Honestly, I expected the Illini to lose, improved Indiana team at home, very good defensively, wouldn't have been shocking. Thought, if they could somehow manage a split on their Indiana road trip, they'd be good shape to win or share the Big Ten regular season title. Well, they've got the split, now on to Purdue, don't expect them to win but, it would sure be sweet. As a side note, saw Edey nail Dickinson with the same elbow with which he smacked Kofi this time, however, he got called for it, I've no doubt he'll do it again on Tuesday. If I'm Brad Underwood I'm working the officials before the game, reminding them of Kofi' concussion and the no call on Edey in Champaign. I believe the bad calls even out over a season, given the missed tripping of Curbelo yesterday and others, the Illini are way overdue to get some beneficial calls.
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Yeah, seriously, horsefeathers the Vikings, there's no guarantee Harbaugh' the answer for them just as there is that Poles/Eberflus aren't the answer for the Bears.
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In hindsight guess one may say the Bengals - Chiefs really turned on the Chiefs not scoring right before the half. Even spectacular offensive performers and play callers have brain dead moment, that call was pure Nagy. With that amount of time, how the hell did they think not throwing the ball in the end zone was going to work? Most especially to Hill who appears relatively easy to tackle? I'd think, for such a play, they'd want to go to someone who could break a tackle, power his way for a yard or two.
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They didn’t just not score. The Illini got the rebound and tossed it all the way down the court for a dunk. Rough game. Kofi didn’t get a lot of help on the offensive side of the court. They need Curbelo to finally come back. Frazier looks gassed out there. I don't know what's the deal this season however, an inappropriate number of bad calls have gone against the Illini this season. They're not even of the questionable variety, the Illini are getting called for fouls when they literally don't touch the opposing player, no calls when one of their players gets hit in the head multiple times - Nebraska and, of course, Edey on Kofi. I know this tends to even out hence, there should many favorable calls in the Illini' future.
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Me neither, along with this whole HC must be someone with an offensive background. Yes, I to would have felt better about a HC with an offensive background. Bottom line is if Fields truly has the goods and the OC has a system/play calls/game plan that aren't the total brain fart that Nagy' was, he'll succeed and so will the Bears.
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Probably true. Although with Nagy specifically, he seemed to nail the first drive most often, and then suck after that. It felt like he needed a week to prepare his script of plays and then as soon the other team adjusted he was unable to make adjustments in turn. That's just me being a fan without really knowing what I'm talking about in terms of what was happening under the hood, but that's how it seemed anyway. This is why the Bears were almost historically incompetent in the 3rd quarter over the last few years. Teams would adjust at half time and Nagy was completely and totally incapable of adjusting back himself. This and I remember reading about Nagy' scheme was primarily set up to have only open receiver at a time? If so, how could any QB succeed in such a system? To be that stubborn and foolish to think the defense won't be able to take away the primary and only is a recipe for disaster. Depending on your talent this kind of scheme could work in college, never in the pros, not consistently anyways.
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I'm apprehensive about poaching any offensive coach from GB, in the regular season, at least, Rodgers is good enough to inflate everyone around him coaches, players, etc. Adams may be the real deal but, guys like Jones, Tonyan are all a product of having a future HOFer as their QB.
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Don't know how much of this is Stephen A. Smith fucked up logic however, he's suggesting the Broncos hired Hackett to increase their chances of acquiring Aaron Rodgers? While Rodgers has spoke glowingly of Hackett he's replaceable, the Packers will bend over backwards, prop the primadonna horsefeathers up on a pedestal and venerate at his feet along with doing whatever else is necessary to keep him a Packer. I say good, I want that horsefeathers to remain a Packer when the Bears start beating them.
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Whoa, wait a minute, does he mean take advantage of what the opponent is giving up, adjusting, going after their weaknesses? WTF is that?
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Maybe its the hair or am I the only one who thinks Meatloaf - RIP - at first glance? I think of his brother, then my mind immediately goes to his weird foot fetish, then I get sick to my stomach. Well, OK, think the Meatloaf thought works better in this case. I can see the whole foot thing making one sick to their stomach.
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OH horsefeathers HOW DEEP DOES IT GO? Maybe its the hair or am I the only one who thinks Meatloaf - RIP - at first glance?
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We'll see who's hired at OC, etc. hopefully soon, for me and this setting a very low bar, if we see a Bears offense that's able to overcome some negative plays and keep the drive alive. That may mean they're trending upwards on offense, basically, for my lifetime, I've never seen a Bears offense that was able to overcome the occasional negative play. Certainly, through the whole of Nagy' time you knew a negative play was end of that offensive possession.
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Well many were excited about Nagy, we know how that turned out, whereas, many are not excited about Eberflus. So, maybe, this will turn out to be successful? I know, I'm just grasping at straws here but, it sure doesn't come off as a good hire.
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How the hell did this happen? Out rebounded, out shot at the FT line, still managed to win, much like the Illini' loss to OSU last season. Nice to be on the other side for a change.
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Indeed, this is the one George McCaskey has to get correct, if so, everything else falls in place and the Bears will turn it around.
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I'm certain this is mainly speculation however, read Polian was making a big push for Brown as GM, Caldwell as HC whereas, Poles is outside of Polian' sphere. If so, I like it, apparently Poles is coming with the authority to find and hire the next HC as well, no internally preferred candidate to be pushed upon him ala Pace/Fox. Sounds good to me.
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Quinn's a hard pass for me, thus far, I've got Harbaugh, Quinn and Frazier as hard passes, my top three, in no particular order - Daboll, Flores, Leftwich - just please no re-treads with defensive backgrounds.
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If they go with Caldwell I guess it would be a bridge type of situation where the Bears want to get the franchise headed in the right direction. I don't necessarily agree with that strategy but that has to be what they are thinking. Either way, the Bears seem to be doing the opposite of what the most successful franchises are doing these days. The 4 conference championship coaches are all offensive guys, 3 of them young offensive guys. But the Bears are looking at old dudes with a heavy concentration of guys with a defensive background. Isn't it what many of us were expecting? The youngish hot offensive coordinator approach didn't work with Nagy so, lets go old and/or defensive background maybe that'll work. I'd like to think we're all overreacting but, such stupidity in approaches is ingrained within the McCaskey's.
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Mainly, for me, regardless of the GM aspect it shouts wrongheadedness, I'm probably being irrational. However, I could totally see George McCaskey getting up there introducing Frazier as the next HC babbling about "Bear" football - defense, TOP run the ball 40 times a game completely under utilizing or failing to develop Justin Fields. You know the whole opposite approach thing - went an offensive slant with Nagy that didn't work so, try going the other way. Never mind that Nagy was just a shitty X's and O's coach, all that McCaskey probably got from it was the offensive slant did not work out.
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Not that McCaskey should be basing the next Bears' HC on one or two games but, if yesterday' Buffalo - KC game doesn't scream offense is the way. Then nothing will, you had Buffalo' league leading defense, headed by Lesile Frazier, get sliced, diced, chewed up and otherwise abused, there wasn't a damn thing they could do to stop KC from scoring. Frazier would be an a colossal mistake as the next Bears HC, its so obviously wrong and this is what scares me. Because if there's one thing the Bears do well its make the wrong decisions almost always. Although firing Pace did give me some hope but, Frazier as a possibility is still there, why can't the Giants, Jags or Dolphins just go ahead and hire him so McCaskey can't.
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This. 100%! This is the thing that gets most Packers fans. To have 30 consecutive seasons of HoF QB play and only 2 championships in 3 tries is baffling. And last night wasn’t the first time STs has ended their playoffs. Also mind boggling how the organization has not really addressed this unit as a whole for most of the last 20 years. That said, the Twitter-roasting is hilarious. I think my favorite was the OAN and 1. I honestly thought they were the best team going into the playoffs, clearly the favorites to win the Super Bowl. A few weeks ago maybe, it was during the last Bears Packers' game someone mentioned special teams and I thought will that be the Packers playoff Achilles heel this time around? I thought, no, unfortunately, their pretty good, they should be OK. It's got to be even more frustrating because Garoppolo is Trubisky level terrible, he's an awful QB and Packers managed to lose to him twice.
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Most definitely, I'd like them to run it back hell, I wanted them to be coming off a SB with Rodgers when the Bears start beating them. Although, the prospect of seeing if LaFleur and Co. are truly brilliant at coaching and seeing if Aaron Jones, Corey Dillon, that no name TE, etc. look like Pro Bowlers with Jordan Love as their QB is appealing. I strongly suspect Green Bay will do whatever it takes to retain Rodgers, they know their chances of being good are all tied to him.