Sammy Sofa
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Welp, I expect Tice to be terrified to call anymore running plays for the rest of the game.
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Most of us aren't miserbalists who obsess over such things. -
It's mentioned in the comments, but this guy is still my favorite fan-douche: http://boston.3432.voxcdn.com/files/2010/10/yankeedouche4.gif The big fat psychopath behind him is just a bonus.
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The Bears don't have Peyton Manning and Aaron Rodgers. It's ridiculous to bring up guys who have been or are the best quarterbacks in the entire NFL as if that's some kind of "oh, why don't they do THAT?"-scenario. You have to play to the strengths and weaknesses of your key players, and Cutler is clearly a guy whose significant talents are best utilized by getting him as much protection as possible. The Bears have not attempted to do that and have actually exacerbated the issue by barely doing anything to improve an OL that has been glaringly problematic for a long time now (2 draft picks, even in the first round, is not all that impressive given their drafting history and how the line has desperately needed improvement at pretty much every position), essentially ignoring TE and making horrible, horrible choices when it comes to the OC. Cutler, as talented as he is, simply is not the kind of guy that can essentially make do with anything that's thrown out there and the Bears need to stop pretending like he is. He's an incredibly valuable QB, but you need to play to his strengths.
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That was something hardly unique to LaHair; baseball is littered with flash in the pan-guys who, in hindsight, were easy to figure out yet inexplicably had weeks or months of regular success. Probably mostly based out of pitchers thinking something along the lines of, "yeah, but this turd won't be able to hit MY fastball."
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They might have just been doing him a favor and letting him make some money and actually play over there. I think this is what happened. Theo is the one who apparently talked him out of going to Japan last year, so he probably felt like he owed him a shot to make millions of dollars, which would not have happened for a long time in the United States. I bet there would've been a deal out there, but the return would've been uninspiring, so Theo chose to help a guy out. Christ, this isn't sending the family dog to go live on grandma's farm or something. Well, maybe it is, since that story was always bull [expletive] and it means the beast was mercifully being put down.
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He never had any value. Sadly, this is the only bit of Cubs-related good news we've had in a while.
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Awesome guy, and handwriting like a BOSS. Probably smells good, too.
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Newscorp buying big stake in YES Network
Sammy Sofa replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in General Baseball Talk
So, what, this is another potential advantage the Cubs are going to miss out on? Sweet. -
So much denial whoosh.
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Blue Jays sign Melky Cabrera
Sammy Sofa replied to David's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
IT'S BECOME SELF-AWARE. -
3rd Base
Sammy Sofa replied to marc_foust's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
You'll all get the gas face...but especially Kyle. -
How could you possibly say this seriously. Because of the Packers, and the 49ers of old, the Colts. Broncos had Cutler, did better with him than we have, then managed to get Manning. Falcons go from Vick to Ryan. Teams do much better than we do, even if it is difficult. Mostly, the overall point is that the strong likelihood is we will go back to poor QB play after Cutler leaves, barring some kind of organizational overhaul. It's just not a strength of the team. Drafting and developing defense is. Other teams can't do that very well. Somehow you managed to think my response was towards the former and not the latter.
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If a better option than Cutler came along of course I'd like to see the Bears pursue it if it was realistic to do so. I don't, however, think that's likely for the foreseeable future so I'd prefer it they tried to fully capitalize on Cutler's strengths as opposed to just assuming he can make do with whatever they go with. Worrying that Cutler can't make things work out of the team they've constructed is backwards.
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You do realize that at least half of the league has O-line problems and that there are really only 2 teams with top notch fronts. I'd settle for adequate.
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Again, this just goes back to my point about how the Bears have fucked this up in that it seems that they, outside of trading for Marshall, have seemingly gone out of their way to exacerbate Cutler's flaws as opposed to playing to his strengths. Hey, your talented QB doesn't have the best pocket awareness? Shouldn't that be motivation to do whatever it takes to improve the long neglected and universally mocked OL (nevermind bringing in someone like Martz)? I'd love it if Cutler had better pocket awareness, but you'd still have a terrible, terrible OL and nigh-useless TE's critically impacting nearly every game. Cutler having more awareness would effectively amount to him taking sacks "better;" yeah, less turnovers but in the grand scheme of things the offense is still stymied.
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their o-line is also awful. they are much better off at TE, but with all their injuries, i'd put marshall and forte ahead of anything gb has at the moment So would I. Cutler isn't someone like Rodgers or Manning who is going to make lesser players look great, but I think it's obvious to everyone what he can do with those guys and you would think the team would do everything they can to capitalize on that.
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No? I don't really follow the Packers, so I could be wrong, but I always just assume almost any team has a better OL/TE setup than the Bears.
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Cutler isn't Rodgers. I'm not expecting him to be Rodgers and he doesn't have to be Rodgers to have success. And as great as Rodgers is, I'm not completely giving him the credit for success with someone like Cobb. It's a team game, and as ridiculously talented as he is he's got a lot more around him, player-wise and coaching-wise to help him succeed than Cutler does. Wanting things like "getting rid of the ball quicker" doesn't really work when the plays being drawn up and the players you can pass to aren't clicking. Are there key things Cutler could do better or ideally be more consistent with? Of course; but I don't understand the how the Bears' more glaring failings and inconsistencies somehow shift the blame more to him as time goes on. That just means they've dragged out rectifying major issues and doing all they can to maximize their QB's capabilities.
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Oh, so it's as simple as "making better decisions?" Well, that's an easy fix. And he's been nowhere near "the best situation" in his time with the Bears. Not even close. I'm stunned (not really) that someone like you, as vocal as you've been about the OL and the playcalling, would suddenly reverse course like this.
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I don't know why something as completely meaningless and arbitrary as "the excuses are starting to run out" is supposed to have any weight when some of those "excuses" are hugely important things that have not been addressed properly. Having Forte and Marshall doesn't somehow make the OL any less horrible or the playcalling any less bad or the deficiencies with the other receivers any less of a reality. The passage of time isn't some automatic cure-all where problems that aren't fixed just stop being problems.
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But who here has ever said he doesn't make bad choices and has his obvious flaws? My main issue is that until they got Marshall his team had seemingly done next to nothing to maximize his strengths and instead practically went out of their way to set things up to exacerbate his flaws.
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How could you possibly say this seriously.
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2013 Draft Discussion
Sammy Sofa replied to seattlecub's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Yup. Trying to tank a season to coincide with a decent draft is probably neck and neck in terms of pipe dream foolishness as planning to be good at just the right moment when a good FA crop is available.
