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Sorry, never provided an explanation for leaving. Get ready! I got a new job where my work blocked NSBB and I have basically stopped following baseball very closely. That's it. Checked back in a little while back after the Shark trade to see what people were saying. I still love you all. There was a long running meme here that you had died. Saw that. Considering how active I was, I should have at least checked in. That was shitty of me. But I needed a baseball detox after the 2008 and it has never really ended. Alright, back to the Bears.

http://replygif.net/i/743.gif Agree with Stewart.

Sorry, never provided an explanation for leaving. Get ready! I got a new job where my work blocked NSBB and I have basically stopped following baseball very closely. That's it. Checked back in a little while back after the Shark trade to see what people were saying. I still love you all.

I'm not sure if you're only basing it on that chat response but if so, I wouldn't put much stock into something from that setting. Especially given all the political ramifications of that question. I've come around to really liking Emery's ability to address needs on this team. The two bad moves he's made so far is hiring Trestman and picking Shea in the 1st round. Lamarr Houston and Jared Allen have been pretty [expletive] signings so far. His drafts have been pretty craptastic so far as well although he's for sure done better than Angelo. Houston has been one of the reasons the Bears D has improved against the run. While he doesn't have sacks, he has gotten to the QB. Before the last game, he was second on the team in QB disruptions (sacks/QB knockdowns/QB hurries). He's been solid but I would agree that I thought he would have a bigger impact.

That's just Khaseem Greene turning his back despite being in zone. Horrible. He's really really bad.

I agree 100%. I think Trestman may be in over his head. After last year, I kind of had him pegged as an offensive (no pun intended) version of Lovie. Now, he seems like a B- version of Lovie - at least Lovie's defenses were elite. We're consistently seeing a team that doesn't appear to be prepared on a week to week basis. Honestly, at times it doesn't look like they are playing hard. They didn't pick up the fumble in the Packers game last year or against the Panthers this year, and the tackling attempts after Jay's interception yesterday were pitiful. It doesn't seem like they have a culture of accountability on the team. Speaking of which, why is Shea McClellin getting his starting job back after an injury? How exactly has he earned that? He looked like he was drunk out there. Just awful. On offense, the Bears don't really seem to spread the ball around that much. Sure, the box score might show it, but it seems like they go through long stretches of the game where they totally focus on one outlet. I think that makes them easier to defend because Jay will just stare down one guy for long stretches. I don't have any stats to back this up, just an observation from watching the games. I could be wrong. On the defense, they have these games where there are just gaping holes in the middle of the field. Here is a pic Adam Hoge just posted on Twitter: What exactly is going on there? You could draw a 12 yard circle around that dude. How exactly do you leave the middle of the field open like that? If they roll like that against Tom Brady next week, they are going to get eviscerated. If they don't turn it around soon, I hope this was just a 2 year experiment with the Trestman era.

super lame, but i've been thinking the exact same thing guaranteed bears w next week NE's defense is really soft without Mayo. They match up terribly against the Bears offense, imo.

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I like it.

um...what the crap? where is fonz? Fonzie's on the DL, man.

Couldn't be happier about this trade.

Sig. i'll play your game, you rogue! Wow, I'm feeling pretty burnt here. My error of predicting the future was way worse than your error of accurately assessing the downright obvious. Must have taken you a while to find that one. Maybe if you spent less time on this sort of stuff you'd be able to get laid.

Sig.

Personally, I'm surprised to see Ender here being a giant homer.

"Francoeur Baseball's Superman" got 13,000 hits. "Francoeur is Hitler" got 8,000 hits. "Francoeur lives on Jupiter" got 8,040 hits.

They adjusted to him by psyching him out into throwing really wildly? He's been adjusted to over the course of the last two games, I guess.

Wow.

Soriano singles to left (44).

Wow, you're just determined to stir up trouble with these petty little potshots, aren't you? We're not really talking "facts" here so much, but whatever. If you disagree with me on baseball opinions there's no reason to go where you're going here. You'll notice I asked about the possible high school guys and such. Which no one really bothered to answer, but okay. The "fact" is that it takes between 3-4 years to have a decent idea of how well a draft went. To savage the decision makers at this juncture is premature. This is done in sports all the time. And it's stupid.

Dempster with a no-hitter through 2.

Why are we sweating strikeouts again?

I don't understand why people say this. What is there to not understand about this statement? It's obviously true to even the most casual observer. I understand what it means Ok, then try to understand that's he's trying to inject some perspective into this discussion.

I don't understand why people say this. What is there to not understand about this statement? It's obviously true to even the most casual observer.

Draft threads are always my favorite.