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  1. jersey cubs fan
    That's dumb. Heh to each their own. I dont care if anyone wears 23 around the league, but it wouldnt be the 1st time the league has retired a certain number. I think this is also a way for Lebron to change to his favorite number, which hes hinted hes wanted to for awhile now. I thought the Gretzky thing was a slap in the face to Jackie Robinson. Oh this guy, integrated the sport, and was helpful to the civil rights movement! Yeah, well this guy scored a [expletive] ton of goals and made hockey popular in LA for 3 years!! Jackie Robinson integrated hockey?
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Just because a team plays a guy against lefties doesn't mean he's not a platoon player. if you can only hit righties, you are a platoon guy. It helps that most pitchers are righties, so you are the more valuable part of a platoon, but you can't run a guy out there everyday if he absolutely cannot hit against the type of pitcher throwing that day. And since they already have a guy like that in Fukudome, it would be a big problem.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    That's exactly part of the problem. I would say 2/3rds of his INTs this year have been a direct result of him trying to force something desperately trying to avoid a sack, or desperately trying to get a TD instead of settling for a FG in the Red Zone. He seems like a reasonably smart guy, but when the pressure is on and the ball is in his hands, he completely loses sight on perspective, and fails to assess the risk of his actions. He becomes intent on only one thing: don't get sacked. That is a bunch of moronic nonsense. The guy gets hit on nearly every play. Seriously, that is stupid. He has to scramble on nearly every play and they aren't even deep drop backs. Maybe he gets too focused on one thing, "make a big play", but "don't get sacked"? Afraid of contact? He's a risk-taker without any receivers capable of bailing him out or blockers capable of protecting him, not a pansy.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    I just walked by David Stern on the street, much shorter and chubbier than I thought he was.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    A potential franchise SS for a platoon CF is a bad idea. I'd include Vitters and just about anybody else though.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Everybody always freaks out about how this city is going to treat a player. I get the issue, but it's really not an issue. Cutler isn't some in over his head nobody trying to make it big. He's an established quarterback who recently signed a substantial extension and will be the QB. There is no QB battle. Even if people freak out about him, nobody is going to build up a lot of support for needing a new one. Even his most vocal critics admit the problems mostly lie elsewhere. Everybody thought the Bears were great except for Grossman, nobody thinks this Bears team is just an upgrade from Cutler away from domination.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    This wasn't the NFC championship game for a team with one last chance to win it all. The 2009 season was virtually over before they even kicked off last night. What is there to forgive him for? The city isn't going to eat him alive and spit him out. People say that's what happened with Grossman but his problem was he wasn't particularly good. He had a handful of quality games on his resume, but nothing else. He didn't leave big drives on his own, and he was actually on this team the last time they had a quality offensive line. Cutler moved the offense all by himself last night. His jackass offensive coordinator decided to run two doomed to fail dive plays and a freaking play action pass when the defense knew they had to pass and yet they had no receivers on the field. Why was Kellen Davis featured so prominently last night and why was Olsen on the sideline on goal line? Sure the last pass was also bad, but again, every play during that drive he was scrambling for his life and/or dealing with his teammates drawing penalties that kept negating gains. He got knocked around all game but stayed on his feet and in the game. I hardly doubt the venom of the city is going to destroy him. If they ever put a decent team around him, they'll be good and he will flourish. Cutler has job security. Lovie and Angelo have some, but not nearly as much as Jay. They will be spat out long before Cutler is.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Not really. They got gashed repeatedly on the stupid draw plays and did give up 100 yards to Gore. They stopped the pass, because Alex Smith is not a good QB.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I can't believe what a free ride he's had for several years now. I really hate Kreutz. Even when he was at his best he was routinely sabotaging drives with horrible personal foul penalties.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I don't have a problem with the repetitive lines. I don't really care what he says. I do have a problem with the same issues coming up over and over and going on three straight years of no playoffs, and four of his six seasons with the Bears ending after week 16.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I hope not. They need a better offensive player at 2nd than Theriot, and by the time that happens Theriot will be making significant arbitration money, and his only value is really in how cheap he is. Theriot is entering his 30's and this should really be his last season with the team, unless it's strictly a platoon situation where he's only facing lefties. You have to expect, accept and plan for a lack of production from Casto whenever it is that he begins his career with the Cubs. To do that you have to patch up holes elsewhere so you aren't getting bottom of the barrel production at multiple positions.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Can any conference question the credibility of other schools if they already have the AZ schools around? Is Boise St. even considered a lesser instittution than those?
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Lovie did not build the Bears from scratch. By the time he was brought on in 2004, Urlacher, Brown, Brown, Briggs and Tillman were all on the team. The only core piece brought in under Lovie was Tommie Harris, and he's a basket case who cannot be trusted. You can give him credit for putting it together, but the Bears had the makings of a dominant defense before Lovie was brought in.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Maybe a 3rd, probably a 4th, and that would be difficult. He's got a roster bonus due to him early in the offseason that he may never see.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    When Olin Kreutz is your line's leader, that crap is expected.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    such a poorly coached team
  17. jersey cubs fan
    it was horrible play calling in the red zone. Two boring runs with a bad rb behind and bad line, then a play action without any recievers. Unbelievable. Cutler forced it because he probably had to.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    how do you justify not having Greg Olsen on the field in goal line? Ron Turner, you are incompetent.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    you made your facebook status a question that was asked on PTI?
  20. jersey cubs fan
    That is essentially my complaint about Lance. He wanted to be the guy, he's being paid to be an impact guy, and although he hasn't been horrible, he hasn't made a positive impact either.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    I would be more than happy to trade Marmol. And I'd deal Castro without hesitation, but it would have to be in a deal for a much better player than a platoon CF. The only thing worse than Phil Rogers articles is hearing his mushmouth speak.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    San Fran is favored by 3. Cousin Sal guessed it exactly, the sports guy guessed 3.5, and his response was "I don't agree with that line". My god this man is an idiot. I hate that he's considered the quintessential "new media" guy. Vegas picks a line a half a point off from your guess and you whine about it? Shut up you moron. I also hate the Bears.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcnorth/post/_/id/5893/tracing-the-bears-defensive-decline Lovie is a huge disappointment as a DC. With his rep around the league, it's pretty amazing how bad he's been calling that D. He doesn't really have a long history of calling defensive plays, correct? He was a LB coach in Tampa, and went to STL where his defense enjoyed a 1 year resurgance and then returned to mediocrity. That's 3 years of calling defenses, and the last time was 6 seasons ago. That's somewhat out of the loop in my opinion. Lovie was given the benefit of the doubt after the SB when he fired Rivera, the Babich failure forced him to use up his free pass, and now that he's calling things there are no more excuses. I wonder if those morons in the media are still standing on the winningest NFC coach since 2005 not counting Coughlin BS?
  24. jersey cubs fan
    I expect them to trade picks for more quantity. It still pisses me off how much this team's struggles trace back to the disastrous post-SB draft and increase of Lovie's personel power. I think the 2007 draft really screwed this team. Nobody from 2008 has lived up to the hope yet, and the only positives from 2009 have been late round value picks, the top half have done nothing.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    The reports that I've read say the Rangers want Bradley only if the Cubs pay a big portion of his contract. I know the Rangers have money issues and I understand trying to make the best deal possible, but I don't understand all of this poor-mouthing. Their payroll for 2010 is $39 million (a drop of $37 million) without including Millwood as part of a deal. Including Millwood would put their payroll at $27 million (a decrease of $49 million from 2009). Today's Tribune wonders if they would send a couple of middle-level prospects for Bradley if the Cubs pay $9 - $10 million of the $21 million owed. Isn't their owner in dire financial straits? So they are paying their entire team what the Cubs are paying Soriano, Lee and Zambrano combined and they are in financial trouble? Wow Actually, I believe that figure only takes into account what they are paying about 3-4 guys in 2010. They still have to field a 25 man roster. And their owner has fefaulted on some debt, I believe.
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