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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Well, I think they have shown they are more than willing to address more than one hole via free agency. We're getting into Forte extension territory soon though.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    As bad as Taylor and Manu have been, I still don't see them being cut as the Bears still have some holes to fill. Unless they think two guys who got a combined 0 plays this year, Bell and Unga (respectively) can fill those 2 spots, I think both of those guys are back next year. Anybody can fill backup RB, especially at the success rate of Taylor.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Teams that are aggressive in FA tend to either be teams that didn't make the playoffs and therefore needed to be aggressive, or crazy spending teams. The Bears went 7-9 in 2003 then went out and got Ogunleye, Tait, Brown and Jones. Then they sucked the next year and sign Muhammed and Miller. After 2005 and 2006 free agency money had to be sunk into keeping all the defensive stars. They still went out and spent a chunk on Archuleta. After 2008's close call they went hard after Jay Cutler, not a free agent, but an established and luckily available star who they had to give up a lot to get (draft picks and money). They also spent a ton on Orlando Pace and two other offensive lineman. And last year they went bonkers in free agency. I really don't think it's a matter of the Bears not being aggressive enough in the offseason or spending enough. They've made poor decisions and ignored specific problems too long, but they go after guys when they can. I'm not sure there's a more aggressivley successful team when it comes to free agency. Washington signs them and sucks. Dallas signs them and stumbles. The Jets got aggressive one year. The best teams year in and year out, Pittsburgh, Philly and New England, seem happy enough to let guys go in free agency more than aggressively acquiring them.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    I'm trying to figure what they meant "excellent placement". Good question. Maybe he's not sending them through the end zone but right inside the goal line? Or he's doing a good job putting it to side where coverage is concentrated? Weird way of phrasing that one though.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    I don't really see disagreeing with your "overwhelming favorite" statement as being about semantics.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Atlanta is 2.5 point favorites. I didn't mean in Vegas. I meant in everyone I hear predict the game. I just don't see how you can say everybody is picking GB and they are the overwhelming favorite.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Atlanta is 2.5 point favorites. That's up...I think they opened as 1 point favs. I've seen 2.5 from the start.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Just to clarify: 2010 Chicago Cubs 1B production was .254/.325/.397. 2010 Carlos Pena production was .196/.325/.407 Cubs 1B were pathetic. But so was Pena. Any reasonable improvement by him would be a considerable step up from what the Cubs got. Cubs 3B production was .262/.321/.450 which means Ramirez has to do a bit more to actually be a step up from 2010. Hardly inconceivable though. I wouldn't count on much more C productivity though. .257/.343/.431 last year. Soto has to play at least as well as last year, and get a bigger chunk of the playing time to make a difference.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Atlanta is 2.5 point favorites.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I won't go nuts if he goes for high quality and still addresses OL elsewhere. It is not just the lack of high draft picks spent on offensive linemen that is troubling, but also the lack of secondary picks spent on them. They've spent a little free agent money, but they have either overspent on guys with not much tread left on the tires or spent big on mediocre players. What they can't do is go into the next season with Cutler remaining the only elite offensive talent on the team. You can't saddle him with mediocre receivers, second rate running backs and a bad line. If you can't find an elite reciever or RB talent to add to the mix then you absolutely have to improve the line.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I didn't finish listening until yesterday afternoon. Simmons is completely schizo with the Bears. He hated them early in the season, thought he'd found a sleeper after the hot start, started relishing the opportunity to bet against them in the playoffs by midseason, listed them as one of the best teams, then decided they sucked again except for a brief period of time where he thought they were legit. And now he thinks they suck again. He's blind to the actual weakness of the NFC South and Tampa's major flaws. He epitomizes the 30,000 foot view of the Bears that most people have and have had since the summer.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    The problem with a lot of this is these guys don't have long to give cheap production. For Soto, this is it. He's going into arbitration and will be expensive very soon. If you spend these guys cheap years playing mediocre ball then all you are doing is wasting that cheap production. Jackson is really the only one who is going to be a part of providing cheap performance so the Cubs can have the flexibility to do more elsewhere, if he makes it. Because for 2011 we already know there's no flexibility. They needed that cheap production just to get to mediocrity.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    No link, but he's not the guy to play him if he conts to regress. It should be noted that I believe he still hit RHers better than Byrd. What evidence is there that Quade would do something 99% of managers wouldn't do?
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Would you still think that seeding isn't an issue? Not an issue that MUST be addressed. It's not going to happen anyway. But I still don't like the idea of a 11-5 wild card team being seeded higher than a 10-6 division winner when it could just as easily be about getting to face weaker competition. If they want to force you to be over .500 to host a game, sure, but adding in those kinds of qualifiers still seems weird to me.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    i can't really think of two teams that have committed more resources towards their CBs, really weird preferences Why not prefer teams that pay cornerbacks? Because they likely have less money to pay a cornerback at this point, because they already have so much money tied up in that position. Yeah, but he's a cornerback who sees just a handful of teams that actually spend a ton on cornerbacks. He's not going to want to go to New England. And since none of those contracts are guaranteed, and the Jets can just cut Cromartie or GB could cut somebody they could conceivably make room. It's not that ridiculous for him to prefer teams that seemingly emphasize paying cornerbacks.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    I'm guessing the Seahawks are rated so highly becuase if they got to the SB it would be the ultimate underdog story. But for some reason, the seahawks don't seem very appealing to me (beyond the fact that they must lose this sunday). It's not like they were a perrenial loser that comes out of nowhere to get to the SB. They just got done with a long run of playoff teams culminating in a SB appearence in 2005. If they made the SB, the 7-9 thing would hold some appeal, but it really wouldnt be a SB that I'd look forward to watching very much. The thing about Seattle in the Super Bowl is the only way that conceivably happens is if they upset Chicago (everybody will say that was just an indication of how bad the Bears really were) and then get to play GB in Seattle and have homefield advantage. They aren't winning in Atlanta. They aren't going on a barnstorming trip around the toughest venues in the league. They would have won 2 home games due to luck of the draw/system.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    i can't really think of two teams that have committed more resources towards their CBs, really weird preferences Why not prefer teams that pay cornerbacks?
  18. jersey cubs fan
    that sounds great. but it's hard to sign a new coach to a contract until the current coach is fired. and if the target coach is in a bowl game and wants to coach that bowl, there isn't much you can do. this could have been handled much better, i think. but it's not as simple as "don't fire richrod until you know you have harbaugh." that's not really possible. It's actually very possible, as most organizations make sure they have their ducks in a line before they make a move, or at least fire their guy early enough to be in on the bigger pool of candidates. The combination of waiting so long and still not knowing they could get their guy reflects very poorly on their management skills.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/don_banks/01/11/super-bowl-xlv-scenarios/index.html?eref=sihp Don Banks is at it again. He ranks the 16 most entertaining possible SB matchups. Chicago doesn't appear until 6 (vs Patriots), and Chicago/Pittsburgh is 15th, with every potential Seattle matchup besides the Jets being rated as more entertaining. I think Chicago/Pittsburgh is probably a top 3 potential marquee matchup.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Maybe. But they did seem to have a need for RH bat that could play some 1B and 3B. It seems like he's a candidate to fill that role plus emergency catcher rather than competing with Hill for backup catcher.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    It's not hate to value him lower than better players. Correct. It's hate to be absolutely convinced that he sucks now and will suck in the future when he's still pretty young and has shown some potential. I agree with those that value him lower than Brett Jackson and I am concerned about his ability to be selective at the plate and have a good OBP. But sometimes, they way he's talked about is rather absurd. Colvin has his issues but he seems to rarely make weak contact, he may never be a high OBP or even a .300 hitter but with some improvement he could potentially hit 30 homers and put up a .260/.320/.500. Defintely a serviceable player if he is a #6 or #7 hitter in the lineup. Plus he is cheap. The biggest problem is he's a right fielder. He's a 4th OF, and if they use him like a 4th OF that woule be great. But he just makes far too many outs to be an everyday corner OF.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    I would not describe the Blackhawks as having superior high end superstars. Their stars are very good, but not MVP types. They have 4 of them (I think you mean Keith), but due to a combination of things only one has really played like it all year.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Even in the muffed kick situation you are probably getting it on the 10 or 15. Safeties are pretty hard to get unless the ball is inside the 2 or 3. I think what happened to the Bears against the Jets is much more likely. Kickoff results in possession starting on 20, penalty brings it back to 15. Stuffed play goes back to 10 and then pick 6. Nobody is going to play it safe if they somehow get possession deep in that scenario. Most QB's are probably going to toss up a desperation heave instead of taking a sack in the end zone.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    It's not hate to value him lower than better players.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not in full hockey mode yet this year (once the Bears bow out, err, win the Super Bowl, I will be), but from what I've seen it seems like they have one guy [expletive] the bed at a critical moment all too often. That's not luck, just crappy play by guys who wouldn't have made last year's roster. I went back and watched Games 5 and 6 of the cup finals this weekend. That was an amazing team. I think the bigger problem with this year's team is that the star players, namely Kane, Hossa, Seabrook and Keith, are playing like average players. Kane and Hossa have two good games over the weekend and what happens? Four points. Yeah, it's not crappy play by guys who wouldn't have made last year's team. It's crappy play by stars that has hurt.
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