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  1. jersey cubs fan
    The point I've been making this entire thread is that we should let Aramis walk to (hopefully) free up the money to sign Wilson and one of Pujols/Fielder. Wilson is a better short and long term investment than Aramis at this point. And that isn't a very smart point to try and make. Your solutions to fill the position are garbage.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    After yesterday's game, most bears fans lost their fan card. Who you kidding? :wink: huh?
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Well that was a nice thorough beat down. Felt kind of inevitable after the strange ego boost the Bears got from the Atlanta game. This pass defense still scares the crap out of me. And the offensive line doesn't have the ability to block enough to hang in shoot outs. Not to mention they have no depth. Definitely the type of game that reminds you 9 wins might be the best they do.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    He is still 28 and doesn't turn 30 until next season is over. Not being a good hitter (which isn't even entirely true) doesn't stop this team from carrying Koyie Hill, Jeff Baker, and Blake DeWitt all on one team. All those guys suck at defense too so that's not an excuse. Lahair is a 1B. Those guys are versatile and/or play premium positions. And I don't think they all suck at defense either. I don't have a problem with the concept of such a player on the bench. But it can't be at the expense of anybody else that matters.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    What does more big plays than last year mean? It should be expected that a rookie WR would fail to do a whole lot in his first game.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Have you been watching the last 7-8 years? Even the increase in expectations the last few years leaves the Cubs with extremely low expectations for a big market big money team. There were lots of people who didn't think Hendry should go after all this time. Meh, after seeing FA acquisitions being Boo'd in April after a slow start, I relalized the expectations were pretty high. Maybe not as high as the Red Sox or Yankees, because ultimately winning brings the highest expectations IMO, but considerably more than probably 25-26 of the 29 other teams. Yankees fans boo their FA when they do well. I've heard Phillies fans bitch about Halladay taking a step back. Cubs fans are nowhere near as critical of their team as other big market teams. Booing an expensive free agent who is hitting .050 in April isn't really unique to the Cubs.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Really, I've never heard that theory.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Have you been watching the last 7-8 years? Even the increase in expectations the last few years leaves the Cubs with extremely low expectations for a big market big money team. There were lots of people who didn't think Hendry should go after all this time.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I didn't realize espn had the bears at 13 going in. That seems fair. Peter King had 'em pretty high, which seemed odd to me, but not the first time he's done it.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    http://cdn.ksk.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/lol-hacksaw-hoooooo-USA-USA-USA.jpg http://cdn.ksk.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/lol-peyton.jpg http://kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com/2011/09/lolnfl-2011-week-1.html
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I wouldn't go so far as to call it ridiculous, but it was a bad call. I'm okay with the NFL erring on the side of safety on calls like this. Safeties launching into receivers is good for TV, but it's really dangerous and I'd much rather see hard hitting tackles than missile shots. He let up, but it probably was far from clear live. I would like to see the NFL explicitly say Manning should not have gotten a penalty. Acknowledge that he took the proper action but continue to enforce this type of penalty, if not this specific play.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Ugly blowout or ugly ugly? It's a good bet to say any game involving Baltimore will turn ugly, just by the way the football is played.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Nope. If this was a different organization I'd probably be cheering for it just for the fun of it. But I don't like having a guy with patience issues trying to get to an arbitrary number of hits by year end. Production isn't about a specific number of hits and Castro still has a lot of learning to do. But oh well, he's good enough to not get screwed up by it.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Interesting, but I'm not sure that tells you anything when you need to account for a speedy player who has constant leg injuries, and plays middle infield. A speedy CF is one thing, but from what I've hard, middle infielders tend to age poorly.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Because that would be dumb and penalize a team for doing something good while rewarding incompetence. A muffed return has to be past the line of scrimmage when contact is made. A block occurs behind the line.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    I could have sworn I heard Gruden say "Sh_t set your feet and throw right there" earlier, but maybe it was Jaws. http://www.businessinsider.com/ron-jaworski-swearing-monday-night-football-2011-9 I cant believe i already found a video of it that's what I was referring to. I remember the split second part because I was barely listening when I heard the S word and my ears perked up.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    I could have sworn I heard Gruden say "Sh_t set your feet and throw right there" earlier, but maybe it was Jaws.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    I'll be the old crotchety guy. I don't want to see this happen. But I think you're right. At some point running will become like "hey they RAN it! Haha, weird." Not sure I want to live in that football world. it's almost like that now. 12 QB's have thrown for over 300 yards this week. i remember that used to be a benchmark that only 2 or 4 guys would reach each week. Yeah, well 6 guys ran for 100 and 11 ran for over 90. It's not almost like that and it's not going to get like that.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    STOP CALLING TIMEOUTS MIAMI LET THIS ONE GO YOU LOST!!!
  20. jersey cubs fan
    I'll be the old crotchety guy. I don't want to see this happen. But I think you're right. At some point running will become like "hey they RAN it! Haha, weird." Not sure I want to live in that football world. NFL football has been a passing league for a decade and it took people a long time to realize just how much the RB position changed. But the running game will always be a part of it.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Okay seriously Tom, just stop.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    i see this repeated frequently, but it doesn't hold up under a more critical eye. How is he defining speedy?
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Okay Tom, that's enough out of you, ease up in the 4th please.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Nonsense. Unless you base your view of Bears fans off of 20 year old SNL sketches. it's not about a lack of fawning. Idiots have routinely labeled the Bears as the worst team in football without any reasonable defense of such picks. The media in general tends to pile on the negativity surrounding the Bears, apparently due to a lack of franchise QBs for several decades. You will occasionally see a guy like Peter King get overly giddy about them. But it's rare. It is justifiable to say you don't think the Bears will be very good this year and/or they will take a step back. 7-9 is a reasonable prediction, and 10 losses isn't absurd. But picking them to be the worst team in the league is flat out stupid, or purposefully inflammatory. My vote goes to "purposefully inflammatory." It seems to me one of the quickest ways to get your name circulated these days is to bag on a team with a large, dedicated fan base that will freak out over the pick. In 2011's world, that means: call the Bears terrible. That's my assumption as well.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    They held on tight in a game nobody wins (opening night in the super bowl winner's home) as opposed to getting blown out at home.
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