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He covered mine. Good enough.

G. Reaching the SEC Title game was good enough. Everything after that was just gravy. Great season.

My confidence picks are destroyed, so go Utah.

Let's not go that far.

Is Pat approaching fun-bad territory? Every game that he's done for the last 8 years or so has been great just because of how bad it is. And Tech really collapsed. Ouch.

lol Hinrich and chucker Nocioni. I still think Gordon's the other guy that should be kept because unlike others, I think he works pretty well with Rose. The stats don't lie, do they?

Yeah, don't really understand that.

SIU sucks this year. I was expecting a down year but a home loss in your first home conference game to freaking Northern Iowa is never good, especially after being blown out on the road against Bradley a couple days before that. Best thing I can hope for is that the freshmen and Fay continue to gel and hopefully we build some confidence at the end of the year leading into next season. Kevin Dillard has already shown that he's easily going to be the best player on this team for the next 3 years.

It amazes me how USC isn't in the title game every year. With the defense that they have, it's ridiculous that they lost to Oregon State in the fashion that they did. I know that USC came back to only lose by a touchdown or so, but the final score didn't really indicate how bad USC really played.

Deng never deserved that contract in the first place. It's too bad we didn't just let him go to the Clippers. We'd be looking real good in the 2010 frame of mind. I don't think the organization is going to let Gordon go. This year has shown just how important he is to this team. Can you imagine how much worse this team would be if Gordon wasn't back here this year? There's no question that Rose is the best all-around player on this team, but we'd have a hard time scoring over 75-80 a game without Gordon. There's only a couple of other teams that can offer him a big contract and I'm not sure that teams will do that the year before 2010. Surprisingly, I'm not really all that upset with how this season is going. The only thing that really irks me is Del Negro's teaching, or lack thereof, on the defensive end. That Hawks game was murder on the ears last Saturday. Whenever the Bulls would "force" an Atlanta miss, the Hawks would just get the offensive board and put the ball back in the hoop. Second chance points have killed this team this year. Gray, Gooden, and Tyrus are some of the worst interior defenders that I have ever seen.

I guess. Nothing wrong with telling the truth.

Huet isn't very good. Still, this offense went to sleep after the first. We're hardly getting any scoring chances. Quite embarrassing to know that we're not even in Detroit's league.

Big FT's by McCamey. It was ugly, but a win is a win. Great start to the Big 10 season. If we can beat Michigan on Thursday, I'll be pretty ecstatic with how things are going.

Go Cards.

I probably passed you there, the BWW at the Boardwalk is pretty solid. We're heading out to the stadium in a bit. Should be a good game.

That was pretty brutal. Like 6-10 and one of the more disappointing years in franchise history is that much better of an accomplishment. Morons. Oh well, at least Rodgers, Jennings, Grant, Driver, and Wynn went out with great games. And I think people can finally say that Aaron Rodgers is a better quarterback than Brett Favre is right now and that this season wasn't of his doing. I can't wait until Bob Sanders is fired.

Yeah, sort of hard to take the NHL seriously when you have nearly a week off between games. I understand the Christmas break and all, but would it have been so hard for the Hawks to have a game on Tuesday?

I sure do. This defense deserves to be the team to lose to the Lions. Go Lions. On another note, I've heard that Mike Nolan's name is popping up as a potential replacement for Bob Sanders for our D-Coordinator gig. Make that move yesterday, Thompson. Where did you hear that Mike Nolan is being looked at as a possible replacement for Bob Sanders? I've heard speculation that Nolan and Haslett will be looked at as possible replacements. Both will be available and both have worked with McCarthy in the past. Either one of those guys would work for me. Both Nolan and Haslett are huge improvements over Sanders.

I sure do. This defense deserves to be the team to lose to the Lions. Go Lions. On another note, I've heard that Mike Nolan's name is popping up as a potential replacement for Bob Sanders for our D-Coordinator gig. Make that move yesterday, Thompson.

Well I'm pretty surprised about that first half. Wow, that was good.

i wouldn't count out a complete choke job next week at Houston No way. I've seen this movie too many times. Vikings have a chance to wrap it up at home and fumble it away 4 times. Bears need everything to go right, can't do anything on offense but get the usual huge special teams plays, some breaks and pull out close wins. It's over zygi would just file some sort of an injunction to get the vikings into the playoffs. Said injuction would just get tipped, bounce off the league office and into Halas Hall. please. everything has gone right for the queens this year. then their two star defensive players get caught using a masking agent and a minnesota judge overrules the league. if there's any justice, minny will lose, bears will win, and the fat williamses will have to sit out the first 4 games of next year. Yeah just like in the first Bears game when you had (another) punt bounce directly into a man on the return team, our punter inexplicably dropped a perfect snap and of course another tipped ball interception. Or last week when we control the game but fumble 4 times (recovering 0 because those are typical odds) and watch Ryan fumble it into the end zone and go through 3 guys for a touchdown. And you're right, the Williams' are obviously juicing. It couldn't have been that they got caught trying to drop some water weight before training camp so they could meet their required weight. Especially Pat who had to sit out the beginning of training camp two years ago for being 5 pounds over. Hate to take the side of a Vikings' fan, but you're absolutely right. I watched the game with my friend and his girlfriend (who are Bucs and Cowboys fans) and they kept marvelling at how lucky the Bears are. Now I know some of you will say, "But we lost the Carolina and Tampa games due to unlucky play." Ok, I'll give you those games. But the Bears defeated the Saints and the Packers in consecutive weeks when they had absolutely no business winning those games. A ball bouncing off a blocker on a punt right into another Bears' hands? Only the Bears. I hardly ever see that crap happen to other teams. I'll be the first to admit to say that I'm overreacting and that I'm usually far more level-headed than I am right now. I also realize us getting into the playoffs in 2003 was one of the luckiest things I have ever witnessed as we had to beat a Broncos team that was heading to the playoffs as well as hope a 3-12 Cardinals team could knock off the big, bad Minnesota Vikings. I understand that the Bears are 9-6. My friend's dad is a huge Bears fan and even he said that the Packers were the team that should be 9-6, not the Bears. They aren't any good and I can back that up. Kyle Orton is a bad quarterback. Period. It's bull the way that he gets a free pass in Chicago despite having two horrid games in a row. If that were someone with the name Rex, he'd be having some weird meatheads booing him outside of his house. It's just ridiculous that a team with that bad of a coaching staff, that bad of an offense (outside of Forte and perhaps Olsen) and a defense that really isn't that good can be 9-6 and be in position to win a division. And yes, I realize the Packers are bad and are probably deserving of our record because we have an incompetent coach. I'm just tired of Bears fans complaining how their team is so unlucky when they're extremely fortunate they're even in this position to begin with.

Just like the 3-12 Cardinals had nothing to play for a few years back when they beat the Vikings to knock them out of the playoffs? No denying that the Vikes are choke artists. One of the sweetest sports moments ever.

It will be even sweeter when the Bears shut up the cheeseheads and the fairweathered fans that grew up in Chicago and inexplicably decided to root for the Packers just because the Bears had a couple of down years :) Not really, it's a win-win for me as far as I'm concerned. If we win, we eliminate the Bears from playoff contention. If we lose, it just helps our draft pick out and the Vikings should still win the division next week anyway.

I want Bob Sanders (D-Cordinator) to lose his job. Badly. As do I. A loss against the Lions should make that a reality as well as possibly putting McCarthy and/or Thompson on the hot seat for next season.

Go Vikes. Hopefully the Bears are eliminated by Monday and then the Bears beat us Monday night to help our draft pick out. Best case scenario. And I sure hope the Saints don't lose to the Lions, I want us to be the team that loses to Detroit. Someone would lose their job and we could get a top 7 pick in the draft then. Where do I sign up?