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That draft day thread could end up being pretty hilarious. http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/04/26/arkush-phil-emery-just-blew-that-pick/

@RapSheet Source confirms @LanceBriggs report: Bears LB Jon Bostic fined for his hit vs. #Chargers. (Lowering the head on a defenseless player's body)

Which show was he on? Having trouble finding it. B an B hour 4 I think. Between 530 and 6. Well that explains it. For some reason I only see podcasts for the first 3 hours.

What a joke.

Which show was he on? Having trouble finding it.

Like Sulley said, Kyle Long is the highest rated rookie through the first two weeks of preseason... https://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2013/08/20/first-rounders-in-focus-preseason-wk-2/

Fixed

@ZachZaidman Jay Cutler on spreading football around: " You guys are hitting the panic button after two preseason games and 30 plays." @ZachZaidman Jay Cutler: "Yeah, we're going to spread it around. We can't just throw it to Brandon and give the ball to Matt."

Over-the-air HD antenna. You can get your locals in HD for free.

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Favre.

Exactly. Everything else I can watch delayed and be fine with. So long as I can avoid N&G's spoilers.

Huh. I'm completely opposite. There's not much that would ever get me to go back to cable. I'm sticking with Directv till going fully online is more feasible for me.

As long as you are signed up for autopay and paperless billing, HD is free on both directv and dish.

How did we all watch sports before HD?

Brent Seabrook just had a baby boy on Friday. The boy's middle name is "seven". Carter Seven Seabrook

Yep, The Score just mentioned this as well.

They shouldn't even play the season if you know who's gonna be in the playoffs.

What's the measure of decision making? Is it subjective? Just something you're saying you need to see more of, and then when he's successful, you'll claim his decision making improved? Or are you looking at some stats? Some fun with QB's with high interception rates: 1998 - Brett Favre - 551 passing attempts - interception rate 4.2% - In the Super Bowl 2000 - Trent Dilfer - 226 passing attempts - interception rate 4.9% - Won the Super Bowl 2006 - Rex Grossman - 480 passing attempts - interception rate 4.2% - In the Super Bowl Cutler's INT% with the Broncos 2006 - Jay Cutler - 137 passing attempt (rookie year, 5 games started) - interception rate 3.6% 2007 - Jay Cutler - 467 passing attempts - interception rate 3.0% 2008 - Jay Cutler - 616 passing attempts - interception rate 2.9% Now Cutler's INT% with the Bears 2009 - Jay Cutler - 555 passing attempts - interception rate 4.7% 2010 - Jay Cutler - 432 passing attempts - interception rate 3.7% 2011 - Jay Cutler - 314 passing attempts (injury) - interception rate 2.2% 2012 - Jay Cutler - 434 passing attempts - interception rate 3.2% So Cutler was doing decently in Denver, gets traded to a team with a crummy offense, and boom, he's crummy. Did Jay turn into a worse player? Maybe after playing on a crummy offense for 4 years, with a new offense practically every year, and getting crushed by defensive lines every night...maybe he has. But if anything, Cutler has very much improved with the Bears. Unless of course we're using some other arbitrary measure of "decisions making" and "elite super-bowlness".

Bears sign QB Trent Edwards.

That INT just stands for everything people hate about Cutler. Brings back bad memories. He just seems to refuse to check down or throw the ball away. When you have trouble scoring like the Bears have, you can't be that careless. I don't think the Bears can win the SB if Cutler doesn't improve. We'll see. But see, people talk about that game like Cutler played badly. He had a 98.3 QB rating. Cutler has always played his worst at the beginning of games. (Career 72.1 QB rating in the first half, 91.9 rating in the second half) It's probably a stretch to say that it was an improvement, given how little the starters played, and that it was preseason, and it was against an awful Chargers team, but it certainly wasn't some disaster.

I feel like there's a segment of the Bears fan base, and the media, that wants the Bears to go in a different direction at QB after this season, with Cutler being a free agent. And thus, the more we poke, and critique his every mistake, the more apt to convince others (and the Bears!) that we need to go a different way. Of course, the fact that we have a dozen or so RFA's after this season, and that we have no better options than Jay lined up to take over at the QB position more or less tells me that it's not a matter of "if" Cutler comes back, but for how long and for how much.

Has there ever been a more discussed preseason interception? like....ever?

lol @ the refs face on the Bostic hit... http://i.imgur.com/25zNzpl.png

there should be a thread for dumb baseball opinions we held as kids i used to tell everyone that shawon dunston was just as good, if not better, than ozzie smith I had complete reverence for Leon Durham, and hated Mark Grace for years for taking Durham's job.