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  1. SpongeWorthy
    For some reason I thought there wasn't going to be a a Thursday night game this week. Pretty good match up as it turns out.
  2. SpongeWorthy
    It's not going out on a limb or anything to predict that Matt Hassebeck might outplay Derek Anderson, Alex Smith, and a talented rookie who is liable to get killed by opposing defenses.
  3. SpongeWorthy
    I'm not criticizing the Giants because I'm a Bears fan, not a Giants fan. If the Giants want to shoot themselves in the foot we should welcome that. I'd rather it be the Packers but at least they're an NFC team. In fact if the rest of the teams in the NFL want to be boobs about personnel and business decisions I'd welcome that too.
  4. SpongeWorthy
    You also have to consider that several of the teams ahead of the Bears on those rankings are there because they have won bigger, more recently than Chicago has. The Bears can fall ass backwards into a huge, captive market without ever having to win much to maintain a relatively high valuation. The Patriots were as nondescript as NFL teams got until at least Parcells.
  5. SpongeWorthy
    I'm criticizing their performance on the margin of things not because I think they're killing the viability of the Chicago Bears to be an ongoing concern. So yes, they're meeting and exceeding that very low hurdle. That isn't any reason for them not to attempt to do better. I also think you'd have to take some outrageously stupid risks, or literally set piles of money on fire, to jeopardize the Chicago Bears as a viable NFL franchise. So what some would call conservative leadership I think I would call unnecessarily losing out on the risk-reward payoff. And as I said, I think that is indicative of a losing culture or at least not a win-maximizing one. The operations/player personnel decisions aren't totally divorced from the business side. The latter informs and shapes the former.
  6. SpongeWorthy
    Being able to run a profitable, privately held business that you inherit from your highly innovative father/grandfather isn't really a sign of great business acumen. You take a valuable, highly visible asset in a captive market and you don't run it to the ground...sorry if I'm not singing your praises as an incredible business genius.
  7. SpongeWorthy
    I'm not sure Snyder and Jones are ridiculed for being bad businessmen. They're ridiculed for their egos and in Snyder's case, a lack of success on the field. Anyway, the Bears are run poorly from a business perspective and I don't think there's any disputing that. Now if it doesn't affect the product on the field then I could really care less but the 2nd article says the Bears have not been in the top 10 in payroll once since 1998 so I think we can assume it's a problem. From a larger perspective I think it's indicative of a culture that doesn't embrace change very well and isn't really cut throat about winning. That's why we get all these nice leader of men types as head coaches and no real innovators. Plus I'm really just annoyed that the Bears are treated like the Tampa Bay Bucs while the Eagles and Cowboys of the world have their own personal ESPN reporters. It's not a huge deal or anything but it sticks in my craw.
  8. SpongeWorthy
    So there's no prime time ABC game this week? Pretty dumb not to put the Miami @ OSU game at 8 EST on ABC, IMO. The Shoe is awesome at night plus there's already a glut of great games at 3:30 EST.
  9. SpongeWorthy
    http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/25/most-valuable-nfl-teams-business-sports-football-valuations-10-intro.html The Chicago Bears are only the 9th most valuable franchise in the NFL. That's pretty pathetic. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0913/nfl-values-10-bears-chicago-football-money-midgets-midway.html
  10. SpongeWorthy
    Coaches Poll is 1/3 of the BCS formula.
  11. SpongeWorthy
    No he was the best player.
  12. SpongeWorthy
    Tyrod Taylor was the best player on the field by a country mile.
  13. SpongeWorthy
    The play was whistled dead much earlier than the hit OOB.
  14. SpongeWorthy
    That guy was wide open for a TD except Kellen Moore can't throw it that far.
  15. SpongeWorthy
    Tyrod Taylor looks like Nas.
  16. SpongeWorthy
    Yeah, he's really good and considering how much Rex Ryan loves to blitz (IIRC, they blitzed on a far higher percentage of plays than any other team), he's really important.
  17. SpongeWorthy
    Can we really call a QB who never has to (or can't) throw the ball harder than a junior high softball player a Heisman Trophy candidate?
  18. SpongeWorthy
    Yep, spoke too soon about this being over. You've got to like Tyrod Taylor's poise and decision making.
  19. SpongeWorthy
    If this game is any indication of their play, I don't see them beating Georgia Tech, UNC, or Miami. Or maybe BC. They always do this though. Look crappy early and then grind out a bunch of wins to put themselves in position for a conference championship.
  20. SpongeWorthy
    This game is over. Now Virginia Tech will reel off 9 or so straight wins playing largely unwatchable football to win another ACC title.
  21. SpongeWorthy
    ridiculous Every time a new stud comes on the market (or holds out I guess) he becomes the highest paid X player ever. I don't think it means all that much.
  22. SpongeWorthy
    The OSU/Miami line strikes me as too high and the ND/Michigan one is a total stab in the dark, IMO.
  23. SpongeWorthy
    Early lines of interest: OU -9 FSU ND -4 Michigan OSU -10 Miami Oregon -13 Tennessee Alabama -12 Penn St
  24. SpongeWorthy
    I think it would be harder for a Boise State type of team to get ready for a quality, BCS conference opponent (almost) every week than for it to get geeked up and game plan for the one powerhouse on its schedule. That's where the biggest difference lies. I'm not against a non-BCS school getting a shot at the national title in theory though.
  25. SpongeWorthy
    That's PI by the book but whatever. Catch the ball. Oh well. College football is back :cool:
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