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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I remember he was a career college coach and part of that staff of "teachers" Lovie originally, and unsuccessfully, put together. He should be competent enough to coach the line on ND though.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Looking at his wikipedia profile it reads like the guy has gotten multiple OC jobs simply out of default because he was there and the team sucked and they didn't want to go get somebody else.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    What are you talking about? They have more than half a dozen guys that can go out there and not embarrass themselves for a season or two.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Well that's not confusing or anything. When was that tweet? The trib, Biggs I think, already wrote an article about Olson interviewing for the job this week. Not sure TODAY needed to be emphasized. Anyway, he was QB coach with the Bears under Jauron, and has been TB's OC. He was around when Freeman emerged as a solid QB, but also around when he regressed into garbage. Overall he ran a pretty horrible offense in his tenure there. He may be qualified, but I think he's a completely uninspring selection.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    he's got such an ego that he can't just ignore people trolling him. i love it. I turned on CTL last night just as he was about to introduce a "well yesterday it looked like Kerry Wood was leaving and now it looks like he's staying" segment and the smirk on his face just screamed, "damn right I'm the reason this got done".
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Wait what HOW WAS THIS ALL BUT MISSED. It was not missed, more like ignored.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    I guess I don't disagree, but I'm kind of surprised you put so much stock in that. It's not like he was pitching in an empty Miller Park this year, but I suppose our media could easily break him. He's white. Just have him wear eye black and a dirty uniform. He's a goofy, stammering man-child. I don't think our media will like him - mental midget, anti-leader, and all that. They were nice to Quade.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    He's not going to dictate that Lovie has to be his head coach forever or anything. He wants Lovie to stay this year. That is not a big deal. If Ted gives Lovie an extension this offseason then it will be a problem, but a GM doesn't have to clean house on day one to get the chance to build the team how he wants. And if Lovie doesn't win next year he'll have the chance to find another coach. Angelo was given the chance to work with the incumbent coach for a couple years, then he hired his own new guy while having a full decade to do what he could with the team. The new GM should expect something similar, a decade to make it work as long as he doesn't tank and an opportunity to hire a new coach if he needs one. It doesn't make a lot of sense for a new GM to clean house on day one here anyway.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    You can still get a quality GM to take the job under a team president, quit obsessing over the freaking president's role. It exists in sports.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/images/11/2012/01/6c286785295fefa97bea072acf8a0946.jpg
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Depends on what you mean by "mediocre," "slightly," "better" and "worse." don't forget "is".
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, he's the only one on the list that's interesting.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Well, I never thought they were doing nothing, and with a list this uninspiring it really doesn't do anything to assuage my fears.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    I disagree with the Grienke can't handle Chicago nonsense. If the Cubs suck the media will get snarky and it would inevitably end poorly, but it's not about going down with class and style. It's about trying to be good, and if the guy can handle pitching in major league baseball he can handle pitching in major league baseball.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Castro will be good. Rizzo will be good. Jackson might be good. In the meantime, we need people to fill in the other spots. So stop obsessing over meantime fill-ins.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    he only managed a .270/.325/.385 MLE in AAA, and even giving him +7 between defense & baserunning keeps him at "substandard" in a full season of PA MLB LFer hit .255/320/408 last year, so that wouldn't exactly leave him wildly trailing offensively. Going with 270/325/385, the closest comp I can find last season would have been Juan Rivera: 258/319/382 in 132 games. Take out Rivera's baserunning and defense and plugging in a +7 for Sappelt and prorate it out to 150 games, and you get 1.7 fWAR. That would have placed him 10th among qualified LFers last year. I know it's semantics because even at 10th among qualified LFers, nobody's getting geeked about a 1.7 fWAR. But given that Soriano is deep into his decline phase and gave us 1.3 fWAR last season, and that Sappelt has some upside given his age, I see no reason not to give him the LF job and be comfortable with it for 2012. A lot of people play LF in MLB, being a little below average compared to all of them isn't good. I think you need to stop obsessing over the idea of justifying not good players getting playing time and start thinking more about what players will be good. Not sucking isn't a goal.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Greg Olson as the passing game coordinator and some two bit scout being hired GM would just be so GD annoying.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    It's certainly not as easy as trading a solid starting pitcher, but it's definitely happened and is possible.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    ESPN insider doesn't say anything, they just collect rumors based on reports of other sites, all stories we've heard. http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/the-gms-office/post?id=3217
  20. jersey cubs fan
    I tend not to believe a word of this I think there's a clear distinction between shopping guys and listening to offers. I think the Cubs shopped Marshall, and when a team knows they aren't going to keep a pending free agent, they will shop him. But the Cubs made it clear early on (remember Peter Gammons insisting Garza would eventually be dealt back in November?) they would listen on Garza but aren't necessarily shopping him.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    In MLB, the best baseball players will win. In the NFL, talent does not translate in the same way. You can't just acquire the best talent and go play. Scheme matters, game planning matters, and getting that talent to play together matters. Coaches are the key there. The NFL doesn't have Theo Epsteins. This was the main reason why I wasn't ecstatic about Angelo getting fired. He was pretty good at his job, but there's no telling how good the next guy will be.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Right. An NFL coaching staff is much, much more important than a baseball coaching staff, but as the Bears have showed, talented coaches can only mask the deficiencies of inferior players for so long. But those coaches determine a lot about what talented is selected and the future of that talent. And there are loads of very talented players that don't pan out, due in no small part to a bad fit in a coach's scheme.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Lots of sports teams have business men in between the GM position and the owner. There's no good reason to compare this to the Cubs situation. NFL GMs aren't the difference makers that MLB GMs are. Coaches determine the direction of the team.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    The Score isn't exactly a great place to get your information. Ted Phillips is an annoyance, but a cancer? There's no reason why the next GM has to report directly to the owner. The McCaskeys are not Jerry Jones/Dan Snyder or even Jim Irsay types. They aren't in their making any sort of decisions from an ownership perspective. They hired a guy who is capable of being what a president/CEO type needs to be. There's reason to doubt if he will, but he's been around the NFL for decades and should be capable of hiring the right person.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Essentially, yes. Phillips went from an accountant to a team executive in the 90's and became CEO/President in 99. When he went through the Hatley dismissal and Angelo hiring he was pretty new to the job. He hired a pretty good candidate who stabilized a fairly pathetic franchise and became pretty active in league-wide activities as the executive face of the Bears. He should have contacts he can trust who can answer his questions, he should have a pretty good idea of who is out there, who is available and who the right guys are. He's got the resume of a guy who should be able to hire a good GM, and he's not an idiot. He may be looking at this in too much of a cocky "we want a person who wants to be a Bear" mentality and he may end up screwing it up, but he's capable of hiring the right guy.
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