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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I would guess this would be a standard Hendry/Veteran minor league contract where they will grant the players release by a certain date if he's not on the big club.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    So that last spot on the roster will be between Perez, Ramirez and Johnson?
  3. jersey cubs fan
    He's the NY governor?
  4. jersey cubs fan
    I'm pretty sure this is the case. Really? If you agree to terms with an arb eligible player without going to arbitration how can you just void that? Probably doesn't matter either way as this organization clearly values the guy.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, pretty much what all the "personal services" talk was eluding to.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    He's had similar interviews. Too bad he wasn't any good.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, I want a true change of pace guy or track star type. There's no point in having three of the same type of non-dynamic RB.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Well, if they do that without signing him to an extension, so be it. Using resources in back to back years on the same position doesn't bother me if it means improving the spot in a cost effective manner. Taylor is an expensive and bad backup running back. Take any street free agent and get the same thing. He's getting every chance to earn his contract this year, but that doesn't tell me they will just bring him back because he's more experienced than Bell.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    I don't really see disagreeing with your "overwhelming favorite" statement as being about semantics.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Atlanta is 2.5 point favorites.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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?
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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?
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