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  1. BigbadB
    You know, it won't be that long until the Cubs will have folded 15 years ago. Fandom is fandom.
  2. BigbadB
    Finally got a local feed to pick up CHSN, but most of the time every 4-5 seconds, the screen freezes for a split second and jumbles the picture and makes an annoying audio noise that drives my wife up the wall. I've resorted to setting up a tv next to our regular tv and we (I should say I) watch Bulls/Blackhawks with no sound. The picture is fantastic minus each 4-5 second hiccup. Suppose I'll have to research how to fix that if any of these teams ever decide to become relevant.
  3. BigbadB
    No one is trading for him. He'd be on his 4th team in his 6th year, and he's coming off a year where he averaged 3.8 YPC. He's only had one 1000 yard season, so getting someone to want to pay his salary next year over drafting "a guy" in the 4th or 5th round is highly unlikely. Fix the line and hope you get better production from Swift. Draft a guy to challenge him for the early down plays.
  4. BigbadB
    Part of why you are likely in North Side Jail is because you seem to be purposely destroying the English language to get a rise out of people. You show a lot of knowledge of the minor league players and you do make some decent posts on this site on occasion, but the "smert bidness" and "theck" and "2.0" nonsense drives everyone up the freaking wall. Just stop already. We've seen all of this nonsense ad nauseum. I've seen you make great contributions to this site at times. More of that please and stop making us waste our time trying to extrapolate what you are trying to say. It makes no sense for you to continue posting here if you have no audience because they all clicked the ignore button. And if your intent really is to drive everyone away, there are much quicker ways to get that result.
  5. BigbadB
    After reading up on Mr. McCarthy, as much as I hate that he was a Packers head coach, he's now my #1 choice to be the next head coach. He has the NFL results that you want from an experienced head coaching candidate, and it's possible that an experienced coach might be a better way to go if the right choice is there. His determination to get into coaching was rewarded, and I'm sure that means a lot every time he takes the field. Calm down, Tunzi. You had absolutely nothing to do with my change in direction. Ben Johnson and Joe Brady are still my #2 and #3 option. I'm not fond of any of the other experienced candidates outside of Kingsbury, who is #4 on my list.
  6. BigbadB
    The short handed goal almost seemed like Mrazek was inviting it. He lifted his leg at just the right time for the puck to go underneath and right into the net. Something really needs to happen there, and soon.
  7. BigbadB
    Agreed. If the Cubs land Sasaki, who cares about the Rea signing. And actually, the Rea signing kind of mirrors the Thiass signing. Look at it as an insurance policy in the event other things transpire/don't transpire. The Cubs landed a catcher, making Thiass trade fodder. If Sasaki signs here, they haven't blocked anybody significant if Rea is relegated to long relief. If Sasaki doesn't sign here, they can still trade for a starter. They may already have a deal in place with a team like San Diego depending on how the Sasaki sweepstakes unfold. If Rea was the back end of the rotation starter plan all along and the Ricketts' bank 40m in unused cap money, they deserve all the ire people throw their way. But, we aren't at that point of the offseason to know for sure.
  8. BigbadB
    Welcome!
  9. BigbadB
    The Bears 2024 salary cap was $260m. The Bears spent $254m+ and had $5m+ to improve the team at the trade deadline if the team was anything similar to a playoff caliber team. They were not a playoff caliber team, so that 5m+ can be applied to next year's cap. It's not that they are cheap. It's that they have been clueless on how to successfully build the team to win.
  10. BigbadB
    Apparently. Definitely not how I would like to see this play out.
  11. BigbadB
    Not sure how Padres or Giants would look appealing to Sasaki. Facing that Dodgers team several times a year along with being in the same division as the Dodgers would lessen the chances of winning the division for the foreseeable future.
  12. BigbadB
    I feel like his gross is overblown because the Bears offense rarely crossed the 50 yard line, forcing long kicks at a disturbingly high number. We can probably all agree that the 4th round designation for a punter was a horrible decision. It's not bad if your roster is so well stocked that you can afford to be wasteful on a punter in the 4th. The Bears were not that.
  13. BigbadB
    With the help of the referees, of course. I'm actually picking Detroit to beat the Bills.
  14. BigbadB
    Yeah, I think Jalen Carter is a much more impressive disruptor on each play. He commands a lot more attention. But, I'm not arguing that they should have drafted Carter.
  15. BigbadB
    Welcome. Oh, and there are better ways to torture yourself than watching a White Sox game.
  16. BigbadB
    Yeah. Nothing is leaked, but there seems to be some obvious undertones that he's getting kicked. Of course, there are also undertones that he isn't going anywhere. But, this was a god awful embarrassing season and he isn't worthy of an extension, and some of the better coaching options aren't going to want a lame duck GM in charge of their future. Ben Johnson has pretty much already stated such. He wants stability wherever he goes, if he even leaves Detroit. I'm sad it hasn't already happened. It is only 6:15am, but hell, we are waiting..........
  17. BigbadB
    While it felt great to see the Bears get the monkey off their back against GB, the game wasn't fun at all. They played not to lose rather than to win, and that's been Eberflus' theme as a coach, and it seems his understudies didn't learn anything from that. That game sucked. Go out and get real coaching. I'm still in favor of #1- Ben Johnson, #2- Joe Brady and #3 Kliff Kingsbury. I want an offensive minded coach. I don't think you have to have a veteran coach. None of the others in the NFC North are previous head coaches. Get a creative offensive mind who is willing to sling the damn ball.
  18. BigbadB
    The OLine needs a HUGE overhaul. Only Darnell Wright and Braxton Jones seem worth saving, and Jones probably needs to move inside. Shelton could be a decent backup/placeholder at Center, but I think you need a better Center. Jenkins, Bates, Borom and Curhan can kick rocks, but maybe you do bring Jenkins back as a backup G. I don't think you can just give him the starting gig or give him a bunch of money to be such a part time player. Pryor and Murray seemed okay as backups, and honestly, they likely can't replace everyone. I don't have any idea what to think of Amegadjie. If he could play G, he might be useful as a backup there, but I doubt you can trust him to be a starter there with so little game time. It would be nice if they had better internal options, but I think they will need to draft at least two OLinemen and sign 1 more, with more free agent contracts for depth. Draft your starting LT with the first pick, sign a stud G in free agency. Draft your Center.
  19. BigbadB
    I'm not so sure you can claim this so easily. First off, Eberflus had not been fired. He most likely should have been, but Harbaugh was coming off a season where he'd been suspended twice and the Bears already had a coach. Harbaugh wanted out of his situation and may have been uttering he'd go just about anywhere to get out of Michigan, but do we know that Chicago had no interest in him entirely? Maybe Harbaugh said he might interview, but maybe that wasn't enough for the Bears to fire their coach and all of a sudden be in a coaching search if Harbaugh still chose the Chargers. All I remember him saying is that he wanted to be in California and working with Herbert. His ties to California crush his ties to Chicago. Chargers player, University of San Diego HC, Stanford HC, '9ers HC. His kids probably all grew up/live in California.
  20. BigbadB
    4 goals on 9 SOG in the first period. Jeez Chicago sports is so hard to watch these days.
  21. BigbadB
    Maybe we are looking at this all wrong. TV is also comedy. Maybe the Bears are trying to be the funniest comedy. Every week is a plot where they find the strangest ways to lose games. They've kind of run out of ideas, but heck, let's end up stopping Caleb's INT streak by letting the defense rush 10 guys all at once, saving the only other guy to catch the game ender. Horrible play calling. Horrible time management. Horrible line play. More pre-snap penalties. WR's not catching passes that are EASY to catch. Is Eberflus still running this team by phone? Nothing has improved since he got canned. Might even be worse. Now I'm scared someone on the Packers is going to George Martin our dear Caleb in the final game of the season, and we will then have nothing to ever look forward to ever again.
  22. BigbadB
    Yep. Was it Baseball Digest that went out once a week? There might have been two like that. I used to get that every week along with Baseball America. The weekly one was miniature size and was usually pretty thick. When they did a team by team analysis (like preseason), it was usually several pages long.
  23. BigbadB
    There is nothing on this team right now to freak out or overreact, so my suggestion would be just take it for what it's worth. If we lose, which we will most likely be doing, enjoy the fact they are not hurting their draft position for next year. If they win, let's hope it's because Caleb is awesome. Meanwhile, with some traffic cone or dude from Sec. 124, row 17 seat 4 standing it at LT tonight, I don't have much hope for Caleb to be awesome, so I'll just hope for good instead.
  24. BigbadB
    Vrabel's rumored OC target is Josh McDaniels. That would be pretty crazy to see him back in New England again.
  25. BigbadB
    I think I'd rather have gotten Quinn/Kingsbury over Harbaugh.
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