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There's no way I play if I'm Forte. And as a fan, I'm 100% fine with that. The Bears have [expletive] with him. He owes them nothing. That is complete nonsense. Sure, it's understandable if he doesn't play. But the Bears offered a fair contract and it would be absolutely stupid of them to pay him what he wanted. He had the opportunity to cash in and he chose not to.

I don't really buy into the notion that there is too much football.

Maybe sign 3-4 new offensive linemen and some wide recievers? McNabb won't be ready for this week, and he probably shouldn't be counted on for the following week either. If they signed him today and let the QB coach work with him to catch him up to speed, then maybe he's ready to play a game manager role in Green Bay. But at that point, they won't be needing a game manager, they will need to score to win. Had they managed to win ugly yesterday I could see the point in bringing in McNabb to try and boost the team's chances by the final game, if Cutler is still out. But the Bears shot themselves in the foot and have very little chance of making the playoffs now. There's very little point.

Seriously, you're a wide receiver playing a football game and in the middle of a pass play in which you are running a route. When you look back in the general direction of where your QB was the last time you saw him, you can probably assume any brown things coming toward you is a football, and you shouldn't knock it down.

The worst part is that he has continued to get playing time all year long despite sucking balls all season long. They didn't miss anybody in the draft, considering free agency was long after the draft.

Roy Williams should die of gonorrhea and rot in hell

nobody cares about Andy Reid I started watching right after DVRing through the thursday night shows, and I was mostly annoyed at the announcer for saying a FG does you no good there, when it absolutely could have done them some good.

Is that his "don't talk about the system when it comes to McNabb" commentary? I read like 2 paragraphs and gave up.

did anybody talk about how much time Andy Reid wasted in last night's game? He was down 17 points late in the third. He needed three scores either way and didn't have a lot of time to get them*. I think he should have settled for a FG to end the third quarter, then go into the 4th with all the time and down 2 TD. Instead he goes for it on 4th and 1 starting the 4th quarter, takes three more plays and 2 more minutes, to finally score, and the end result was he still needed 2 scores. But he had less than 13 minutes to get them. Philly didn't get the ball back again until less than 8 minutes remained, still needing 2 scores. When you are down that big, nearly 3 minutes of time is not worth the extra 4 points. Their defense sucked, and there was no guarantee of stopping them, but after already taken off 8 minutes at the end of the 3rd you at least had a fresh defense ready to go back out there. I think kicking the FG right there gives you a lot more leeway with the remaining time. You could have gotten the ball back again with more than 12 minutes to go in the 4th and down by 14, instead of getting it back with less than 8 minutes and down by 10. *As a side note, the broadcaster said something to the effect of "a field goal doesn't do anything for you here". Um, yes it does, if you are down by 17 points you need 2 TD and FG to tie, a FG absolutely helps you there. It's not like Seattle's offense went back out and scored, it was Philly's crappy QB who gave them their next and last TD.

http://nhl-red-light.si.com/2011/12/01/its-the-time-of-the-season-for-nhl-coaching-upheaval/?sct=hp_wr_a4&eref=sihp Scotty Bowman talks to SI about firing coaches.

I'm with you. Completely forgettable organization.

It think it's absurd to call that the pessimistic low end.

Yeah, if you take the rosiest prediction, assuming last year was just a blip and not a sign of early decline, and assume his defense is as good as some stats indicate (something I highly doubt), he's worth more. I just think it's getting way ahead of ourselves to expect such a thing. We should expect him to be about worth his contract, nothing more.

Dude already kind of covered it. Just wanted to add that Jeffrey Loria is a horrible, deceitful, bottom line-humping businessman who hates baseball and now he's being forced to acknowledge his unfathomable wealth. They also get a ton of money from the Yankees every year.

I'm not sure we should be expecting much more value over what we're paying. They probably paid as much as he's worth.

He's not coming from Europe.

I think most happen on Sunday, but normally a handful come out before because there's no other option or an automatic tie. Some circumstances like the Big East's cluster and none of the service academies or Hawaii reaching eligibility yet may cut down on that this year. The increase in number of championship games means the conference standings are somewhat in flux, at least more so than past years, which postpones some invites. Did the Pac-12 and Big 10 have a bunch of accepted invites prior to championship games in previous years? I didn't really pay attention. I thought it was more in the bowls that had non-AQ ties. I vaguely remember at least reading about locks for which bowl they would attend by now. Without the championship game you pretty much had your two BCS likely teams locked in and the rest already figured out. Right now they have 2-3 BCS candidates depending on the outcomes of these games.

It's 50 guys under 25 who have already completed their rookie season. Of course there are going to be plenty of mediocre players toward the bottom.

I think most happen on Sunday, but normally a handful come out before because there's no other option or an automatic tie. Some circumstances like the Big East's cluster and none of the service academies or Hawaii reaching eligibility yet may cut down on that this year. The increase in number of championship games means the conference standings are somewhat in flux, at least more so than past years, which postpones some invites.

I don't think he can do much but McNabb is clearly a better option than Collins and probably better than Enderle. Did you see McNabb play this year? At least Emberle gives you a possibility of not every pass ending up near his receivers toes. The Collins comment was hyperbole but not by a lot. he completed 60% of his passes. He's always missed low

They had an alleged victim with a pretty good story and another potential victim who confirmed something weird happened plus a recording that revealed a hell of a lot of bad stuff was happening. They had a hell of a story that they could have easily chosen to run with. But they didn't run it because ESPN is nothing but a promotional tool for institutions like Syracuse.

. But the tape wasn't recorded illegally. ESPN determined that itself, last week, before it decided to bring out the tape to back up its Bernie Fine coverage. Nothing was stopping ESPN from checking the relevant wiretap laws back in 2003. Just like nothing was stopping it back then from hiring a voice-recognition expert to identify Laurie Fine's voice on the tape. When ESPN decided to run the story last week, those problems suddenly became solvable. The only reason ESPN didn't take those steps eight years ago is that it didn't care enough to try.

http://deadspin.com/5864334/espn-keeps-trying-to-pretend-it-cared-about-the-bernie-fine-molestation-allegations-all-along

They could have confirmed the voice, they waited until the more recent news to do anything about verifying the voice. And considering how outside the lines promotes itself as the moral crusader, especially with regards to amateur sports, this was a piss poor showing by them. But not nearly as bad as what PSU failed to do within their own institution.

I don't think he can do much but McNabb is clearly a better option than Collins and probably better than Enderle.