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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not Rappaport
  2. jersey cubs fan
    It's easy to ignore because it's not true. The Cubs didn't have some crazy calamity befall the team. They put an awful product on the field and got awful results. The things that went wrong was the whole trying to be bad thing that made them worse than they would have been if they tried to be good.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    I think the "doesn't want to pay 2 coaches" line doesn't hold up. The Bears spend, and in the NFL teams pay out contracts to fired employees all the time. Also, most GMs want their own guy in there. But Emery isn't like a lot of GMs. He's not some young up and comer. He's a boy scout. He's not some super aggressive megalomaniac. I don't think he's trying to reinvent the wheel or even leave a huge impression on the game. He just wants to find good football players to put on the team and let the coach coach them. Frankly I'm not even sure he's plugged into the league enough to know who should be the next coach anyways. He was a strength coach at also rans schools for most of his football career and has only been a scout in three organizations for little over a decade. I'm not even sure I want this guy hiring a new coach.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    And Pioli gets to keep his job because... ...he doesn't allow candy wrappers to collect in the stairwells
  5. jersey cubs fan
    this is exactly what i think It will tell who really is making the call. If Emery really has the authority to make the call, Lovie will be gone. Why would you say that? I think Emery is inclined to keep Lovie around if he can. I think he genuinely respects the job he has done and thinks he can continue working with him. I am going to assume Lovie stays with some turnover at the OC job, again. Maybe if they actually put some effort into finding a suitable offensive line it will work.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Given the fact that very few people care about hockey before the holidays and that teams probably lose a lot of their money by staying in operation early in the season, conversely making their money late in the season, that does make sense.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    File this under, "probably doesn't matter":
  8. jersey cubs fan
    me too
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Because being close to .500 isn't exciting. with 2 wild cards, being around .500 means you're probably still in the playoff race in september. yes, that's exciting. I don't see that as exciting. It should be a given that a Cubs team is capable of flirting with .500. That's like bare minimum for an acceptable season. It's going to be exciting when this team actually looks like it may be very good.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I just wasn't sure how to respond to it. If the draft is so different now that everything that came before is meaningless, then there's not much for us to go on. If anything, I suspect that the changes make the non-first picks even less important. You aren't going to have many useful talents slip when they cost a lot less to sign. My guess is you'd see the 50 best taken in the top 50 now instead of having a handful of those guys slip into the later rounds for signability reasons. It should strengthen the first 2 rounds and do away with a lot of guys who were overdrafted just because the better players wouldn't be signable.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Because being close to .500 isn't exciting.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Because the odds of them becoming a useful MLBer are inextricably tied to their trade value. Teams don't trade for prospects because they are shiny and cool. They trade for them because they have a chance to be major leaguers someday. Yes, a chance. But they don't actually have to become useful major leaguers to maintain value as a trade asset for multiple years before actually never being a useful major leaguer.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Yes, but that value has to be considered in addition to the money you have to spend on that player you want in the first place. It's not the negligible value which you've described.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Sanchez is back baby. If it wasn't such a vital national priority to defeat the New England Patriots, the New York Jets Follys would be a tremendously entertaining program. NFL Lines For Week 17 - NFL Football Line Week Seventeen NFL Line 12/30, 2012 Date & Time Favorite Line Underdog Total 12/30 1:00 ET At Buffalo -3.5 NY Jets 39 12/30 4:25 ET At New England -10 Miami 46 12/30 1:00 ET At Cincinnati -2.5 Baltimore 41 12/30 1:00 ET At Pittsburgh Off Cleveland Off 12/30 1:00 ET Houston -6.5 At Indianapolis 46.5 12/30 1:00 ET At Tennessee -4 Jacksonville 42 12/30 1:00 ET At NY Giants -7.5 Philadelphia 46 12/30 8:30 ET At Washington -3 Dallas 48.5 12/30 1:00 ET Chicago -3 At Detroit 44.5 12/30 4:25 ET Green Bay -3 At Minnesota 46 12/30 1:00 ET At Atlanta Off Tampa Bay Off 12/30 1:00 ET At New Orleans -5 Carolina 54 12/30 4:25 ET At Denver -16 Kansas City 42 12/30 4:25 ET At San Diego Off Oakland Off 12/30 4:25 ET At San Francisco -16.5 Arizona 39 12/30 4:25 ET At Seattle -10.5 St. Louis 41
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Except the money allocated for a 2nd round pick means you have more money to afford the BPA in the first.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    I'm hardly in love with Bourn as the answer in CF, but even with my rather lukewarm view toward him, I'm not at all concerned with giving up a 2nd round pick for him. If it were a first rounder, that'd be a different issue, but draft picks in MLB are such a crapshoot that if you can guarantee yourself even the average/above average production that Bourn will give you, it's well worth giving up a second round pick. It's the money vs likelihood of decline that scares me about Bourn. It's the draft pick and the financial flexibility that comes with that pick's allocation that concern me.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    The league's most celebrated ball turner-over and the most celebrated ball taker-awayer, I guess it makes sense.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    You aren't going to have sustained success while relying on a strong defense to carry a poor offense, but it does happen a year or two at a time quite frequently.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    The NFL is doing away with this week's Bears game? That doesn't seem fair.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    romo
  21. jersey cubs fan
    That has nothing to do with his huge drop off on punt returns. He's a returner. History tells us those guys are flashes in the pan and do not last. He also hasn't taken anything resembling a step up as a receiver and probably should have been the guy released this week.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    So I've read this post a couple times and still have no idea what it means.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    I could see them giving him up to 4 years if the money is reasonable enough, or giving him a bit more annually on a shorter contract. I'm "tourn" on Bourn. On one hand I think at 4 years, he'll still provide great value the first couple years with only marginal decline the last couple. But it will cost a second round pick. I think I could be convinced to be happy either way. On one hand Bourn is another solid bat who provides a different type of offense with great defense I hear, and is a nice piece to add to the ever improving ML team. On the other hand, the 2nd pick netted us Underwood and Vogelbach, and we will have a very HIGH 2nd round pick next year. Both of those scenerios are good, either add a high quality guy to the ML team, or add what will likely be a high quality guy that will probably slot into our top 15 in a great system. I wouldn't call Bourn a solid bat myself. The guy is basically a tick below average as a hitter. His position provides the value, but his bat really doesn't. Even among CF he just provides average production at the plate. His value comes via the much less reliable assumptions made about his defense and baserunning. It may or may not be real productivity. I don't see that value as real myself, although I wouldn't mind if they signed him at an extremely lower price point than has been discussed to date. He's just not worth those extreme numbers plus losing a pick.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    That's not true. I disagree. Go look at Football Outsiders. They have the number one ranked defense in terms of efficiency, the 4th ranked ST, and the 24th ranked offense. Basically this means that if the defense isn't damn near perfect they're screwed. I realize history will show that some teams can win this way (2000 Ravens come to mind), but I'd venture to say that it's the exception rather than the rule. Also, the Bears SOS has been tough, but not as hard as it might look on paper. Again according to Football Outsiders, Detroit's has actually been a bit tougher, as has Minnesota's, Seattle's, and San Fran's. I'm not sure how you go through that thought process and still think it justifies saying this team is closer to 7-9 than 10-6. Hell, if Earl Bennett could catch a ball they'd already have 10 wins and would be looking at 11.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Should QB size really be that big a deal anymore? Yes. Those scrambling QBs don't last for the long run. They will have great games, and amazing stretches and possibly even terrific full seasons. But over the course of their careers they will get too banged up to be consistently great like the big mostly pocket passers who dominate the league.
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