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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Wait, what? Quote one post of someone being a Butler "over-supporter." http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view4/3224199/head-shake-o.gif
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Look, Cliff Floyd belongs in there for one reason, dammit.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    I know this is painted on your wall: http://blog.thenewstribune.com/mariners/files/2012/01/Guardado-8-Eddie-480x360.jpg
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Pretty sure Rose finished this game like he did as a direct "[expletive] you" to UMFan. So awesome.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    I'd agree with that if you were talking about an incidental prospect, but when you've got someone like Baez, who radically changes the entire nature of your team if he's good (or even through a major trade if he looks like he can be good), then they would be completely in the wrong if they don't do and try anything and everything to help him make it. There's simply no excuse for not taking that approach regardless of who actually drafted Baez.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    For a lot reasons. So explain. If Baez pans out he's be an insanely valuable player on this team. Hell, at the very least, if he just looks like he could pan out he'd be an insanely valuable trading chip. Why would they not be as invested as possible in trying to get Baez to somehow be valuable?
  7. Sammy Sofa
    I'm not the one wondering such a ridiculous thing; given what his potential is, why would it matter whether they picked Baez or not?
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, they're probably not all that invested in a power-hitting SS because they didn't pick him; those guys grow on trees.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    I thought, "wow, I thought Byrd completely broke down and retired after the Pirates."
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Action! Things happening! Yay!
  11. Sammy Sofa
    DO SOMETHING, YOU MOOKS.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Oh God, Oh God, this is their offseason, oh God, oh God
  13. Sammy Sofa
    http://media0.giphy.com/media/PztcmOlezEKMU/giphy.gif
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Madness. Is this based on injury concerns?
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Everyone knows his role and reputation as both a leader and how he directed the defense on the field. You run into a point, however, where a player is likely to be off the field more often than not and that their ability to play is rapidly disappearing. If he had been willing to take a cheap 1 year deal where they could have had him around to effectively transition to a new defense, fine, but the reports were that he wasn't willing to take a short or cheap deal and as such it was just time to end things. Given that he didn't end up anywhere else speaks pretty loudly to both his unwillingness to back down on cost and/or his health.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Of course it was good; but he was going to run into the same wall.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Maybe, but aren't we still looking at mostly the same collection of players on defense? They had a LOT of scrubs out there. Yea but playing the hypothetical if they could have gotten the OC version of Trestman somewhere maybe the offense looks close to what it was in 13 without the drop off of 14. Either way I'm happy to have moved on, just sucks two years are down the drain on Trestman. I'm even more baffled by Mel Tucker; with Trestman I get what they were going for. Trestman had a limited history, but you could see what they were going for. Tucker has almost always sucked. To go from Lovie and Marinelli managing your defense to Tucker is an astonishingly bad downgrade even before they played their first game with Tucker.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Maybe, but aren't we still looking at mostly the same collection of players on defense? They had a LOT of scrubs out there.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Yes. I think a pretty significant part of the reason the defense fell as far as it did was coaching and, given what we've heard about the Lovie guys not buying in, probably motivation to some degree. The other major reason was a ton of injuries which, who knows. Butterfly effect and such. I think the 2013 defense would have been better with Lovie, but the offense would have been worse and they would not have won enough. That's why I said at best they would still been 8-8; having Lovie and Marinelli would have made a big difference from the coaching standpoint, but the talent/health simply wasn't there. This latest season they MAYBE would have been 6-10 or 7-9 instead.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Having Lovie last year means you likely wouldn't have seen the short-lived bright spots of the offense responding under Trestman. So couple that worse offense with an aging defense that Lovie couldn't save unless he was a sorcerer and it blows my mind that you think they would have been better; at beast you would have likely seen the same .500 record. Guys didn't break down because Lovie was gone. There's only so much he could have done with the resources at his disposal because he and the other people in charge had failed so spectacularly for years to properly draft and develop new talent.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    This may be the craziest thing you've ever posted here, and that's saying something. Lovie's teams won because of the defense. Lovie's focus was on the defense. The defense, however, would not have been immune to the wall of age it ran into if Lovie stuck around. If anything, Lovie got out at the right time because last year probably would have been even worse under him. They had successfully cycled through top defensive players while not bottoming out in the past. Tommie Harris, agunleye, alex brown, vasher, mike brown etc. lovie was good at getting guys into his system. I have no doubt the defense would have continued to be better than average. There was no cycling happening at the end of his run; their draft picks were failing left and right, so do you honestly think that in a single offseason the presence of Lovie Smith as HC alone would have been enough to suddenly reverse that course and prevent the old defense from collapsing into the cellar? Lovie Smith doesn't reverse the aging process on Briggs and Peppers. Lovie Smith doesn't prevent Tillman from being injured. Hell, the only thing he possibly changes is them stupidly retaining Urlacher and he was nothing at that point.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    This may be the craziest thing you've ever posted here, and that's saying something. Lovie's teams won because of the defense. Lovie's focus was on the defense. The defense, however, would not have been immune to the wall of age it ran into if Lovie stuck around. If anything, Lovie got out at the right time because last year probably would have been even worse under him.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    If he was mad from the standpoint that he thought he was basically running the show or that he had a equal say in the final call, yeah, that's ridiculous on his part. But if he was mad because he thought Trestman was a terrible choice and he felt they completely ignored his input, OK, then I get being pissed off.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    I completely buy that people did not want to be involved in situations where you had to keep the head coach, or you had to use certain assistants. I do not buy that quality people are choosing to stay away from the Bears because of the presence of Ted Phillips. There has been no indication whatsoever that he is a meddler, that he has input on draft day or tries to go around people's backs. You read about that kind of nonsense with many teams out there, including Oakland, SF and to a lesser extent the Jets. Yup. If there was something there we would have heard about it. Hub is being the hackiest of hacks to try and imply otherwise, because it shows there's nothing to it, but he's still trying to dangle that plotline.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Sure, I just think the talk from some about how he needs to go as part of cleaning house is often an overreaction; if the guy is good with the "business" side of thing and the McCaskeys are comfortable with him in that role then shifting him to that isn't a problem. It's not like a coach or management figure who can't (or, lets be realistic, almost always wouldn't) be shifted like that.
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