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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Your argument is stupid. They aren't successful but they are still good?
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Wright is probably overrated. But he's very good. He's been better than Ramirez.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/12/nfl-no-plans-no-deadline-to-shift-bears-game.html NFL going full bore with TCF. If this game ends up being moved they have handled this so freaking poorly.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    These guys love Mark Grace who never met a bartender he didn't put through college.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    the secondary or the entire defensive unit? we're also much improved since the start of the season, due mainly to C.C. (can't cover) Brown and Wade getting benched, and Levy getting healthy. imagine that. And achieved the 4th most yards per attempt. Imagine that.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    They have had close games, but in a lot of cases teams had leads that Detroit ate away at. The Bears dominated game 1 and should have won walking away until Detroit made it close. The Giants led by 11 going into the 4th quarter, Detroit cut it to 4, then NYG extended it back to 11 before the Lions brought it back to 8. The score was relatively close but the Giants weren't going to throw much in the 2nd half. Philly led by as much as 18 in the 4th quarter but Detroit made it close late, and it was Vick's first start. They lost by 2 at Green Bay but were down by 14 early in the 3rd. The Packers only threw 17 passes that day. Teams probably should pass more against them, but Detroit isn't great against the run either and when NFL teams get leads they generally don't like to chuck it around, unless they are the Patriots.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    It's not awful though. It is when you consider nobody has to pass on them much since the opponent is usually ahead and Detroit gives up the 4th highest yards per attempt. They are in 6th place, 3 off the lead, in sacks. It's quite obvious the secondary is the weak link. I seem to feel like a majority of the games Detroit has played this season have been really close, and quite a few of them had the teams seperated by a score well into the 4th quarter. Some with Detroit leading until the end. Teams have thrown the 6th fewest pass attempts against Detroit and they have given up the 4th more yards per attempt. Nobody tries to pass on them, but when they do, they are successful.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    http://www.dplbaseball.com/images/stories/pena%20dpl.jpg
  9. jersey cubs fan
    It's not awful though. It is when you consider nobody has to pass on them much since the opponent is usually ahead and Detroit gives up the 4th highest yards per attempt. They are in 6th place, 3 off the lead, in sacks. It's quite obvious the secondary is the weak link.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Why is that? He is capable of pitching two innings right now. That is what every pitcher starts off with in spring training and they build from there. So it's not a matter of being stretched out in time. "Waiting until late December" doesn't impact his ability to start at all. What will limit him is the fact that he only pitched 111 innings last season. To take him much beyond 150 this season would be dangerous. That would be 30 starts of 5 innings each or 25 starts of 6 innings each. If Cashner averaged 6 innings per start this season and starts 25 times, I'd be thrilled. It is a matter of being stretched out in time. He made 9 starts last year. He had 24 the year before and he has always struggled to go past 5 innings in the first place.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I'm taping it for my cheap ass non HBO having brother-in-law Pittsburgh fan.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    A team with a payroll recently in the 140m range has to spread out a 1 year contract over 3 years now. That's just awesome! That isn't really the case. He gets an immediate signing bonus, which has been a Cubs staple for some reason. The 2011 salary would appear to be $3m and he is reportedly due $5m in January 2012, which means $10m will be paid out over 13 months.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    You have an interesting notion of who looks young.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    13th in passing yards allowed is elite
  15. jersey cubs fan
    That is a morbid thought.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    I love college football and would prefer a better version of the national championship game. The 16-team playoff is a dumb idea. We aren't really asking what your preference is here. The question is would you watch the slate of games that Raisin listed? It's a meaningless list because that is not how it would play out. It's not just the slate of first round games either, it's letting in teams that do not deserve a shot and destroying a significant amount of meaning of regular season games.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    I love college football and would prefer a better version of the national championship game. The 16-team playoff is a dumb idea.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Recent trend? This has been their strategy for many years. They can't afford the pricy free agents, so they sign the leftovers to 1 or 2 year deals and then hope that those veterans are enough of an improvement to put a few more butts in the seats and then hope they play well enough to get decent value for them at the deadline. This was essentially the Chicago Cubs on the 70's/80's/90's, as well as the reason Pittsburgh's downfall has lasted so long. Teams are wary of selling complete youth movements so they spend some on bums. Tampa did it a lot in their early years as well.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Really? I am in the middle. On one hand it puts a dome team where it's most comfortable - in a dome. On the other the Bears don't necessarily seem like a team that thrives in the elements, so a dome might not be the worst thing ever. The Bears are not a cold weather team like the name/city suggests. But I'd take the Bears chances in cold weather vs. any team that plays in a dome or South Florida/Southern CA. Bear weather obviously isn't real, but Lovie's Bears have had some huge performances in crappy cold conditions. Last year's Vikings game, the conference championship and late 2007 and 2008 games against the Saints. Another 2008 game against Jacksonville. And the 2007 blowout of Favre's Packers. They also had some big wins in late 2005. I do think it's mostly about getting dome/warm teams out of their elements, but also getting Favre outside in the cold.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    I don't know, why isn't this thread in the other 2011 roster thread?
  21. jersey cubs fan
    If it makes the $20 t-shirt I bought my wife meaningful again it's all worth it.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Then they'll lose, and you won't have to worry about them being in a national championship game. Or they'll win, and refute that argument. They will lose boring and pointless games that nobody but the fans of the favorite want to watch. Nah...people watch the March Madness games...people will watch these too. People watch march madness because there are 4 games on at once and at least one usually involves a potential upset, and it's the only thing going on at the time. You will see 40-10 blowouts one at a time in this situation that nobody will want to watch. Meanwhile, NFL races will be coming to a head with their playoffs about to begin.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    That's not really worse case scenario. Assuming the surgery goes as planned, the maximum anticipated recovery time is 10 weeks. I don't think Noah is 25% better than last year, personally, and I think Gibson is better than last year. Of course, further injuries would be worse, but this is a reasonable worst case scenario. The problem is your literal interpretation in the dropoff of WAR. That isn't how it works.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Well of course. Every sports has arguments about teams that just miss. NCAA basketball does. There's whining in the NFL about an NFC West team getting in. It's just the nature of sports. This way though, you remove a lot of the polling from the process. Not completely of course, but if the TCU's and Boise State's of the world really can't compete, they'll be out in the first round, and we'll be down to a real 8 team tourney after that, with real contenders. So then you just start at 4 and it's real contenders right from the outset. Or as I said, 8 at the most.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Then they'll lose, and you won't have to worry about them being in a national championship game. Or they'll win, and refute that argument. They will lose boring and pointless games that nobody but the fans of the favorite want to watch.
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