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If it ain't broke... don't fix it. :roll:

I hear this a lot and I can't make sense of it at all. Let's take for instance that game. The Steelers scored a lot and didn't win. Are they insinuating that scoring a lot means you will lose? The Bengals scored more and won! Weird how that works. To me it's the same as the argument, or insinuation, that big time hitters aren't necessary in baseball because the Rockies, Rangers and others score a lot but don't win, and all that matters is pitching and defense. There is a sort of macho man love for defense, while high scoring offenses are assumed to be more finesse. I think that is true across all sports, and drives a lot of the desire for defense over offense. Offenses have been prioritized across most leagues, knowing that scoring = ratings, and a lot of old schoolers resent that, so, like their reaction to Billy Beane & Co. they go overboard in their bashing. You are right. I do hear it a lot from old timers. I am also getting frustrated at the "If it aint broke don't fix it." crowd. If having the lowest rated passer in the league, coverting 28% (31st in the NFL) of our third downs, converting no third downs in the last game, not having a TD scoring drive longer than EIGHT yards for 3 weeks, and ranking DEAD LAST in passing yardage, isn't broke, I'm not sure what is. The baseball equivilent would be to have a pitcher who has an 8 ERA but is 15-0 because he gets 13 Runs a game in support. It's becoming very frustrating to listen to such ridiculous tripe as these morons spew on the radio. It's obvious the offense is frusterated with Orton. Do they think it still not "broken?"

I hear this a lot and I can't make sense of it at all. Let's take for instance that game. The Steelers scored a lot and didn't win. Are they insinuating that scoring a lot means you will lose? The Bengals scored more and won! Weird how that works. Why are good offenses and good defense considered by many as mutually exclusive? Hell, we're not even talking about a "good" offense for the Bears, we are talking about a slightly competent one. If the Bears endeavor to improve their offense they will automatically have a bad defense?

The Coach Sort, is super cool.

I agree 100%. However, it seems like Lovie is going to go with Orton against the Steelers. I have a BAD feeling about that. If we lose that game, and the Vikings win theirs, I think we'll see Rex against the Falcons (Assuming Orton continues to play as he has). I'm worried with the Vikings breathing down our necks. Interesting and terrifing fact: Our longest touchdown drive since the 49ers game is 8 yards.

Orton has to be pulled. Passing for 3 yards in the first half is unacceptable. We can't expect our defense to outscore the offense every single game. We have been unable to sustain drives, we cannot get the ball in the endzone, and we are getting killed in TOP. We didn't even convert a third down the entire game. THE ENTIRE GAME We should have won that game 35-7. We had short fields routinely, and got nothing out of it. It was an embarrassing performance by our offense. Hopefully Lovie can see what everyone else sees, with the QB position playing like it is right now, we can't hope to have much success in the playoffs. Will Rex be better? I'm not sure. He can't be much worse and at this point, you have to try something. The defense was spectacular once again. I'd also like to point out that the much maligned Peanut had a spectacular game.

Farve's "very good" days are behind him. He's average now and has been an increasing liability over the last few years. Can he still tear it up every once and a while? Sure. But the days when he is unstoppable are now much rarer than the days in which he throws frequent crushing interceptions.

Initially, I had some worries about this game. However, the more I think of I, it seems pretty unlikely that we lose. I think we'll dominate the line of scrimage with our lines and both Farve and Gado are eager to give the ball up. I think with turnovers, we'll get the ball in some excellent field position and turn those into easy scores. In regards to Tillman, I think he's beginning to catch a little too much heat. Tillman has been better since the Browns game. Even last game, the deep ball to Galloway was perfectly thrown and Tillman had good coverage. He's also a strong tackler. People are acting like he's actually a bad corner. He's not the best but he's good. While I do think that Vasher is better in coverage, he's also playing against most of the Teams #2. If our #1 corner wasn't at least "good" we surely wouldn't have the #1 pass defense in the NFL.

UCLA shouldn't be in the conversation for the BCS. Perhaps if they hadn't been completely embarrassed by Arizona, maybe, but not now. That was a horrible loss.

I think I'll give the benefit of the doubt to the pregnant woman over the baseball player with a history of psychotic violent outbursts. That's just me though.

Playing a brutal non-conference schedule every year will do that to you. It's worked out pretty well for them thus far I'd say. with all due respect, hawaii is not a brutal team. They're a good team, and they're very good at home. I was also addressing the sentiment of the yearly occurrence too. They cramped up real bad in the second half of that game, and were much better in that aspect against Chaminade. But even disregarding Hawaii, they now have back-to-back games in back-to-back days against top-10 teams, plus Georgia Tech and BC in the next 2 weeks. That's the brutal I was referring to. I'll be happy if they go 2-2 in those games, hoping for 3-1. I understand that, but for the last 3 or 4 years, it seems to me that Michigan State is very overanked in the preseason polls. I follow the Big Ten pretty closely and for a few of those years I couldn't understand how they could possibly be ranked that high. It just didn't make sense. They do play well in the tourney so maybe that's it. I wasn't surprised to see them ranked so high this year, and I wasn't surpised that they lost their first game. Honestly, you don't think they are a top 5 team in the country, do you? I'm not saying that they are a bad team, but I see them more as a 15-10 than a top five this year. I suppose my feelings are similar to my feelings about Michigan this year when everyone said they would be playing for a National Championship.

The annual "Michigan State gets preseason top 5 billing" followed by Michigan State drops out of the top 10/25" really got off to a blistering start this year.

Man, I could watch that return all day. There are some of us who do. We should form a support group. I don't need support to watch Vasher return that FG all day long, I can do it on my own. Sometimes I watch Brown's hit on Marcus Pollard about 25 times in a row.

That was a great play. I thought Smith was going to score before Urlacher came in. I think the play of the game may have been Chris Harris pass defended in the endzone. Not only was it a great play, but it looked like it saved a touchdown which could have changed the complexion of the game. Fantastic play.

That's what happened last time this was brought up. Someone even called him a "joke" of an owner. I would love Mark. He brings a lot to the table and honestly cares about winning. I know that he and his staff have been trying to come up with some more advanced metrics for basketball so that he can more effectively evaluate the value of players. Boy, I'd sure hate to have something like that done with the Cubs.

As much as everyone points out the Bears easy schedule as being intrumental in their success, everyone leaves out the Panthers. Statistically speaking, the Panthers have played an even easier schedule than us. Think about that. Of course, no one mentions this as the Panthers were picked by many to go to the superbowl. This will be a real last season test for both teams. Regardless, this is going to be a tough one for us.

30 pages on Erye? That's almost as exorbitant as Erye's deal!

Could have been worse. Jones is gonna play this week right? Yes. Also, Benson is Gumby. It is also possible that he may be an indestructable robot.

We should be careful. We don't want to throw off our chemistry.

Geez, I remember thinking that there was no way Nomar was coming back this year. Yet, here he is, playing well and starting at 3rd base, a position he hasn't played since high school. The dude's a team player. Of course he is a FA next year so that probably has something to do with it as well. Still, I'm impressed.

I wonder why he has pitched so much better the second half this year (and last if I remember correctly.) Maybe he's like the tin-man and he needs to get his joints loosened up because he's such an old man.

Is there a chance his ERA could drop under 4 this season?

stabbing the first base ump and urinating on the mascot isn't illegal under baseball rules either...but you can't do either of those things. steroids are illegal (by america rule book standards), and they gave him an unfair advantage over other players. he probably would have been a HOFer w/o the steroids, but we can never know for sure. if he took them. Which hasn't been proven. Innocent until proven guilty He admitted taking them. He said he just didn't know they were steroids. He was told it was magic pixie dust. Was this part of the leaked testimony? I honestly don't remember. I believe it was. Except for the Pixiedust. So, to be technical, everyone is indicting him on a piece of testimony that wasn't meant to be made public, and which the courts have chosen not to act on to this point. MMMkay. Yes. His own admission of doing steroids along with an avalanche of circumstancial evidence make people beleive he did it. Unlike the US Courts, in the court of public opinion, we don't have to assume his innocence. Nor should we in a case where it's pretty clear the dude did steroids.

I don't think it's logical to assume that all the papers lied for some reason. Also the reason that no one "in authority" has come out and confirmed it is because leaking grand jury testimony is illegal. The real benefit, in my mind, to Barry's steroid use is that he was able to chase old age off for about 5 years. I believe that he's probably went off them this year, when the heat really went down. Look what happened. To put it simply, the guy is physically a mess. You can bring up Julio Franco if you'd like, but that guy's a physical specimen. Barry was on IV antibiotics after multiple offseason knee surgeries. When Barry probably should have started to wear down, get weaker, and have injury concerns, he instead got stayed healthy and got stronger. So, I think is records are suspect because steroids helped him hit homeruns indirectly by allowing him to remain at peak performance longer than he would have been able to naturally. Edit: I also think Barry is the best hitter of our Era.

In retrospect maybe. Now that we have seen that Pitt is completely awful. Initially, you had to be impressed with back to back wins on the road vs ranked teams. Michigan was top 5. That's more impressive than an OT win @ ND when some of their luster has faded after we found out that Pitt is a joke. It's a double edged sword. It all ends up working out in the end.