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  1. jersey cubs fan
    They need to consider a new way to do the seedings. Never been a fan of division winners automatically being #1-4. It's not really a problem.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    5 seed is hardly getting screwed. They get to play the crappiest division winner. The Saints probably shouldn't have had such a blah start to the season, including losses to Arizona and Cleveland if they wanted a better draw. They had to play Atlanta twice, but got to play the worst team in football twice, plus the NFC West.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    I don't know about that. They've been more dangerous, but not all that consistent. They scored 7 against New England. Cutler's struggled to get 200 passing yards, and the team has struggled to get 300 total. To be fair, they are always a threat to score, which is something the Bears generally never are. They have won the only 2 real shoot outs they have been in this year, and I'm not saying I have no hope for the playoffs or anything. This team can beat anybody in the league, and that still includes New England.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Makes no sense unless he's pulling a Wood. The Cubs do seem to have a need for LH power on the bench. They have Fukudome and Colvin who can each play all three OF spots. Baker can handle most backup IF duties, with Barney filling in at MI. But if they do go with the wasteful 12 man pitching staff and only 5 bench spots, you can't really justify a bat that can't play in the field.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    I love that the story after the Bears/Jets game was how ridiculously careless Jay Cutler is and that the Bears shouldn't be where they are, and the story after the Saints win is Drew Brees can overcome mistakes and bring his team to where they should have been all along.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Seriously. Plus, why would anybody doubt the possibility of a Pena extension. They have no impact bats in their system, nobody who could even potentially fill the spot, let alone be a likely candidate. If they don't extend him they will just go out in the market and find the next Pena. He's not an impact bat at the moment, but Vitters still has the potential to be a very good bat and played some first in the AFL this year. And unless they are extended or traded, Fielder and Pujols will be free agents next year... Free agents the Cubs will not be signing. Pena has to be the odds on favorite. And if Vitters ever makes it it will be as a mediocre third baseman. I see virtually no possible way he hits enough to justify a move to 1B.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Heres the thing that everyone misses out on: Everyone Is Susceptible To The Short Passing Game. There isn't a team in the league that can stop a really well run west-coast style short passing game akin to what the Patriots and Packers run. The way the game has been legislated and the rules have been enforced, its basically unstoppable. They'll roll up yards and points on you. Its the way the NFL wants it to be. You just do what you can to hold teams to as few points as possible, and try to get your turnovers when you can. The days of a shutdown defense are gone. What are you even talking about? The Steelers have had a pretty damn good shutdown defense for several years. The Jets were a fantastic shutdown defense last year. Baltimore from time to time has been shutdown. You can't live on great defense for years and years of success. But shutdown defenses do exist in the NFL. There are 16 teams in the NFL that give up fewer passing yards per game than the Bears. That is bothersome to me, especially since their offense is not a consistent force.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    The silliest thing about that article is he only counts marquee games as the ones in which the Bears looked bad. Philly and Green Bay? Don't count. Miami on a Thursday? Nope. Minnesota on a Monday night? Wrong again. The other most stupid point was in saying the Bears defense needed the other team to make mistakes to win...which is basically the entire scheme of the defense. And somehow the jets game wasn't marquee, or a real win. Lots of media has been looking for excuses to dismiss the bears since free agent spending and coaches on the hot seat cannot succeed.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    He'll probably have to at least make the NFC championship for that to happen. Losing, say, consecutive games to Green Bay next week and in the first playoff round would not look good. He's probably getting an extension regardless. He won't be going into next year as a lame duck coming off 11 wins and a division title. The playoffs may determine what that extension looks like though. I see them just adding 2 more years as of now, but if they were to get to the Super Bowl perhaps a 4 year extension with a raise.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Granted on NE, but is giving up 27 points horrible? It's certainly not great, but I think horrible is overstating it. They couldn't stop Mark Sanchez and the Jets offense. NYJ have been shut out this year and scored 3 and 6 in recent losses. Sanchez is easily a bottom half of the league QB and might be the worst one in this year's playoffs.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, it was funny to read Peter King talk about the storm in NYC being the same thing that hit Philly, when there was such a large discrepency. The roads in northern NJ are a joke. We've got 3 foot drifts everywhere, and stalled cars left and right. An ambulance was being shovelled out as I walked to train this morning. But Philly didn't get hit nearly as hard. This had huge fantasy ramifications as well, as anybody who had Vick going was facing a night with weather to a night with nothing.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Might as well add the Seattle game in there, and they didn't do much against Washington either.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    This freaking pass defense still scares the piss out of me. I get being susceptible to the short passing game. But there have been too many breakdowns in coverage deep to try and pretend everything is fine. I really fear what a quality NFL QB can do against them in the playoffs.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Not nearly enough. It was terrible in northern NJ, but Philly panicked unnecessarily.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    I hope my dad doesn't see this note.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    I agree with you, with a couple caveats. There may be huge turnover in NFL coaching staffs this year. It's possible that 9 or 10 spots may open up. Everybody wants the next big thing or a proven Super Bowl winner, but there are only a couple of those. And while he is 59 and older than the trend. Every season seems to bring a franchise or two that hires some old retread that nobody thought would get a job. I don't think many people predicted Norv Turner and Chan Gailey would get another chance. Wade Phillips shouldn't have been hired four years ago by Dallas. I think if Chicago's offense does well in the playoffs, and enough spots open up, there is an outside chance that somebody looking for an offensive spark would take Martz. But I don't think that happens.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    The difference between Forte and Taylor right now is massive. Taylor is just completely unable to get anything going. I'm starting to wonder if they'll keep him, with the money they're shelling out for him. I'm assuming he's gone.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Four straight wins is nice, but this team still needs something like an eight of ten streak to bring some seperation from the bottom of the pack (6-3-1 in last 10). They still only have a three and four point lead over teams with two and three games in hand, respectively. The next five games may be key, going up against western contenders in each one before facing a couple eastern conference dogs.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    They've done a better job protecting Cutler, they have made the running game at least competent when Forte is in, if not really a weapon. But most importantly Jay and the receivers now have almost a full season in the system. I doubt Martz is going to be highly sought after as an NFL head coach right now, unless the offense rolls through to the Super Bowl.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    It's the only game that is meaningful regardless of other games that are played earlier in the day. I know that, but given how terrible St. Louis and Seattle are, I figured NBC would find Chicago-Green Bay more enticing. I'm almost positive STL-Seattle tanks in the ratings. I bet it doesn't. January 2nd, people still recovering from New Years and everybody loves the NFL. It's the only game in town, and it is meaningful. The fact that so many people are talking about potential sub .500 teams making the playoffs only adds to intrigue. I bet it does just fine.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    The good thing is it's really hard to beat a team three times in the same season.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    What didn't Peter King like on Sunday? Seriously Peter? You're going to give Jay Cutler crap for that game yesterday, and really only refer to the fake punt?
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Seriously. Plus, why would anybody doubt the possibility of a Pena extension. They have no impact bats in their system, nobody who could even potentially fill the spot, let alone be a likely candidate. If they don't extend him they will just go out in the market and find the next Pena.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    I'll chalk that up to Australia not having a good feed of the game, but the 5 point differential hardly told the story. All of Philly is laboring under the delusion that that game was actually close. Not from what I have noticed. I know a lot of Philly fans and virtually all of them shut their pie holes and realized the Bears whooped them.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    It's become fairly hard to get value for that pick. A potential new CBA before the draft could possibly change that value immensely.
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