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  1. Banedon
    Ok, but that was mostly a question of "can the offense be good enough to overcome the defense/special teams". I really don't recall anyone thinking that the offense would be worse.
  2. Banedon
    And they get paid the most of all!
  3. Banedon
    You aren't wrong for saying he had a bad year, many Cutler supporters have made that very same point. You are wrong by characterizing him as an anchor. It's dumb. And even "looking at it more carefully", without knowledge of how this year was gonna go, it was still the right move. Nobody at all thought the Bears were gonna win only 5 games this year. Nobody thought Cutler would play like he did. Even Cutler haters didn't expect this kind of year out of the Bears offense. This season was an entirely unpredictable scenario, and it's unfair to go back and say "why didn't they account for this?" Emery probably got fired because of the Cutler deal...which isn't really fair, as he was mostly praised for it at the time, but he had plenty of other flaws in addition to it, so I'm not upset about it.
  4. Banedon
    There's a few elite QB's that maybe someone could say justify their contracts. Then there's a whole middle tier of "meh" QB's that get paid too much because nobody wants to be stuck with the really crappy ones. The "meh" QB's get paid too much and can never live up to the money they get. It's just how the NFL works. Too much by what standard? Simplistic reactionary standards. People can look at Brady/Rodgers/Manning and say "man, they are worth every penny". People can look at the bottom of the league QB's and say "man, they don't deserve to get paid any more than the little they're getting paid". But that whole middle tier of QB's are where fans can point and say "OMG why do they get so much?" And it's because NFL teams would rather pay to have an middle tier QB and pray that it's enough, or that they turn into someone special, than not pay and have a bottom of the barrel QB.
  5. Banedon
    There's a few elite QB's that maybe someone could say justify their contracts. Then there's a whole middle tier of "meh" QB's that get paid too much because nobody wants to be stuck with the really crappy ones. The "meh" QB's get paid too much and can never live up to the money they get. It's just how the NFL works.
  6. Banedon
    You're picking and choosing at this point. And the 22.5 mil last year was ranked? Where his DYAR was 16th, DVOA was 21st, and his QBR was 25th among the qualified QBs? That's right, it was the largest cap hit in the League. That's kinda my point. Where he ranks contract-wise doesn't matter, because they structured the contract to give him more money in the first year simply for cap flexibility later in the contract. It looks ridiculous now because he clearly had a bad year. But at the time, it made a lot of sense. The other point is that there's some mediocre QB's that are making way too much money (Smith/Bradford) because there's such a dearth of QB talent out there. Yep, Bears gave Cutler too much money. Emery lost his job over it. That doesn't change the fact that Cutler is the best the Bears can do as far as QB talent right now, and the best move is to make the best we can of it. The problem is you're worrying about him being "worth the contract". Put it out of your head. He's not going to be "worth the contract". Like you said, it's almost impossible for him to be so. There was almost no way for Alfonso Soriano to justify his contract, and there's little chance that Derrick Rose ever justifies his contract. That doesn't mean that those players can't, or in Soriano's case didn't, perform very solidly and be a highly productive member of their teams.
  7. Banedon
    Jake Johnson, from The New Girl, wrote an open letter to Cubs fans on Grantland. http://grantland.com/the-triangle/chicago-cubs-jake-johnson-curse-new-girl/ Caution: it's debunking the already debunked Billy Goat Curse and the various curses.
  8. Banedon
    Yep, one beer ought to put a professional athlete well over .08. He didn't do a breathalyzer, fwiw.
  9. Banedon
    Very interesting... Just realized the futility of Cle or is lining up something with Mike? There's been a lot of "Shanahan package" rumors, especially in Buffalo, which apparently is going to now interview Kyle for HC today.
  10. Banedon
    Cutler will be the 11th most paid QB in 2015. Slightly more than Alex Smith, slightly less than Sam Bradford.
  11. Banedon
    The mlb website has data by plate appearance, but not anything pitch-by-pitch. Basically it has a game tracker and you can kind of back-of-the-napkin calculate the stats. http://mlb.mlb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=l133&t=t_ros&cid=685 Clearly I miss baseball season. I'm glad there's people that enjoy the mathy parts of baseball like this. I enjoy seeing stats, but calculating them? Blech.
  12. Banedon
    As of today (I'll round up to Tuesday), only 89 days until Cubs-Cards season opener. That's too far away. Gotta look forward to Spring Training first. I never look forward to Spring Training. http://media.giphy.com/media/cvPFXYE1D0yWs/giphy.gif
  13. Banedon
    Not to diminish how he played, but he got lucky too. The disallowed goal, and a couple of pucks that got by him and didn't go in because of quick reactions by defensemen. But anytime someone gets a 50+ shot shutout, the goalie played damn well.
  14. Banedon
    Keep in mind, Rose is playing through a hip injury right now. Not to make excuses for him...I'm sick to death of him taking jumpers...especially 3pt shots. When he's driving the basket, it opens up the rest of the floor for the rest of the team. They just have to hit a shot, which they couldn't last night.
  15. Banedon
    I'm sure it's national broadcasts. They've not announced any more than the opener, but that accounts for one!
  16. Banedon
    Will WGN America carry those games too? I replied to Levine to ask, but I'd guess not, or it'd have been mentioned. I'm hoping for some kind of local simulcast, like they're doing with some of the WGN Bulls games right now.
  17. Banedon
    @MLBBruceLevine Source -Chicago Cubs and WGN TV will announce new multi year deal .WGN will broadcast 45 games this season . Should be announced this week.
  18. Banedon
    Seen on reddit....Randy Johnson's photography logo is a dead bird....hahaha...
  19. Banedon
    http://prod.static.dolphins.clubs.nfl.com/assets/images/imported/MIA/article-thumbnails/news/2012/June/Gaine_Brian.jpg
  20. Banedon
    Same age as Carroll. Oldest coach to win a Super Bowl was Dick Vermeil at age 63. George Halas won a championship at 68.
  21. Banedon
    Apparently there were writers that left off guys they knew would get in, like Johnson and Pedro, so they could vote for guys at the bottom of the ballot. Matt Spiegel was ranting that they need to remove the 10 vote limitation, and while I really could give two [expletive] about the HoF, it sounds like a good idea to me. The percentages will still work out. That's what he did to get other worthy options more votes. Tranmere and Raines I think. Not Darin [expletive] Erstad. Trammel and Walker was what I'd heard...didn't read the article. But yeah...
  22. Banedon
    Apparently there were writers that left off guys they knew would get in, like Johnson and Pedro, so they could vote for guys at the bottom of the ballot. Matt Spiegel was ranting that they need to remove the 10 vote limitation, and while I really could give two shits about the HoF, it sounds like a good idea to me. The percentages will still work out.
  23. Banedon
    Yeah, some are reporting contract details while others say there's no acceptance, or offer.
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  25. Banedon
    OUTRAGE Just wanted to be the first.
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