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  1. jersey cubs fan
    He makes that little because his skills have declined and his attitude has kept suitors away. A non-dick TO could have been making over $10m this year.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Yesterday the line was 3.5, it's already down to 3. Are there that many Bears fans who picked them this early? I felt pretty good getting that extra .5 point.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Date & Time Favorite Line Underdog Total 10/18 1:00 ET At Washington -6.5 Kansas City 37 10/18 1:00 ET At Cincinnati -4.5 Houston 45 10/18 1:00 ET At Pittsburgh -14 Cleveland 38 10/18 1:00 ET At Minnesota -3 Baltimore 43.5 10/18 1:00 ET At Jacksonville -10 St. Louis 42 10/18 1:00 ET At New Orleans -3 NY Giants 47.5 10/18 1:00 ET Carolina -3.5 At Tampa Bay 39.5 10/18 1:00 ET At Green Bay -13.5 Detroit 48.5 10/18 4:05 ET Philadelphia -14 At Oakland 40.5 10/18 4:05 ET At Seattle -2.5 Arizona 47.5 10/18 4:15 ET At NY Jets -10* Buffalo 37.5* 10/18 4:15 ET At New England -9.5 Tennessee 43.5 10/18 8:20 ET At Atlanta -3 Chicago 46 Monday Night Football Line 10/19 8:35 ET At San Diego -4 Denver 44 Six more games with a line over a touchdown.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, I'm sure he's here for at least this season. Maybe next year they'd pull the plug though.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    The suggestion is to do what you can to make the team better. Keeping TO does nothing to help the team win, trading him for picks that could make a difference going forward would be better. The fans might feel slighted early, but in the long run they should realize the benefits.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    McMahon and Harbaugh were both good enough to be franchise QBs in the right system. Say what you want about 60 years ago, but Turner has been in charge of the offense for most of the past 16 years. And in between he spent a lot of time at a Big Ten school that sucked. I'm not giving the organization a pass, Angelo's struggles with finding offensive lineman was evident when he was with Tampa. It's a combination of an organizational failure to fix the offensive line and relying on an offensive coordinator who is unable to maximize the talent given him or provide enough influence to find better talent.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    It might come to that with Huet, just an outright release. I'm certainly not up on how the cap hits work, but I'm sure Bowman will see if there are any trade options out there first. If eating some of his salary would be more beneficial than the cap hit from releasing him, might as well see if there is interest in him. I can't imagine there would be, but who knows. He has shown in the past he can be a stud, albeit for very short periods. I ended up listening to the 3rd period online. Wiedeman is a great listen. I think I've read that an outright release would simply erase a contract from the cap, although they'd obviously still owe it. I think the Blackhawks might actually be willing to do something like that as part of their solution to the Tallon mess. But it would have to be the last resort obviously.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    So what are the odds that the eventual solution to the salary cap mess includes releasing Huet to get his contract off the books next year or the following, like they almost did with Khabi last year? My faith in him was tenuous at best this offseason and he's obviously been very disappointing so far. As a directv customer I couldn't watch the game, but first time I checked on the phone it was 3-0, and literally the next two refreshes went to 4-0 and 5-0. I checked it when it was 5-1, then didn't see the score until it was 5-4, but since I couldn't watch, I went to bed and checked this morning. Wow, crazy game. Would have been nice to watch.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    You had a 4-0, 3-1, and two 2-2 teams that are considered playoff contenders on a bye, with every single bad team playing. This coming week you have a true headliner matchup at 1 and two more "should be decent games". The afternoon games kind of stink, but both primetime matchups at least look good on paper. But you're also missing a 5-0 team on a bye, a division leader, and a contender. But at least there's a bad team on a bye in Miami. I would be hesitant to call a team that leads the league in both rush offense and rush defense a "bad team" (especially when you're 1-3 and have been playing from behind most games). They outplayed the Colts on MNF and didn't play too badly on the road in Atlanta or in San Diego. They certainly won't be a playoff team, and as tough as their schedule has been so far it doesn't get any easier, but I could still see them winning 7 or 8 games. They are 1-3 and not a contender, I don't feel bad calling them a bad team.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    A handful of events spread out over 1600 games doesn't really reflect "better time" to me. 2003, 2007, 2008 had a lot of good times, most of the rest of the decade was filled with crap and/or disappointment.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Every one of those veterans would have held out as well, and it wasn't like he had a Crabtree situation. Also he did not suck initially. He sucked after he finally got the job when the offensive line fell apart. That group peaked when Jones was still around, but they started to show their age in the Super Bowl season and completely disappeared a year later.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Benson made things difficult, however, much of that difficulty was apparently due to being alienated by a group of veterans led by Olin Kreutz. The fact that Kreutz can win a battle of wills with a potential franchise back is a bad thing. As for Orton, I don't think it's a matter of better organizational focus. I think it has to do with having a weak OC and bad line. Orton was a guy who could do wel with a good line and a solid OC*. The Bears focused on QB a lot. But they ignored the line, and the one constant through the past two decades of struggling young QBs has been Ron Turner at OC. Sure there were a couple years where he was gone, but he has been at the helm for a very long time and the only times the Bears have had anything resembling stability at QB with him here is after acquiring established veterans. Going to Denver was absolutely the best thing that could have happened to his career. *Should also mention that Marshall is making Orton look much better than he is.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    You had a 4-0, 3-1, and two 2-2 teams that are considered playoff contenders on a bye, with every single bad team playing. This coming week you have a true headliner matchup at 1 and two more "should be decent games". The afternoon games kind of stink, but both primetime matchups at least look good on paper. But you're also missing a 5-0 team on a bye, a division leader, and a contender. But at least there's a bad team on a bye in Miami.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    There might not be any gimmes, but there is only one good team in that division as well. Both the others are mediocre.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    How much does the success of Benson and Orton in other uniforms reflect poorly on the Bears offensive line and Ron Turner? I think it's pretty significant. Throw Olin Kreutz name into that discussion. Your center should not be your best offensive lineman. It might be the 4th or 5th most important of the 5 spots. Everybody talks about how wonderful it is that this team is Olin's team and he's the leader on offense, but I don't think that's a good thing. They had to spend big on a proven franchise QB (not to mention an approaching washed-up status HOF tackle) just to become a decent offense. Orton and Benson both had abilities that the Bears could not maximize, partly because their coordinator isn't any good, and partly because their line has been a major weak point.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    i think that's still highly unlikely, probably more 6-8 range We probably only have 3 solid wins on the schedule at this point (Buf, StL, Sea) and considering Seattle as any kind of a solid win is probably stretching it a bit. We'll likely be 0-6 entering the bye and we have Jacksonville and San Francisco immediately after it. 0-8 to start the year is a real possibility. This team as it's playing now isn't likely to win 5 games. Yeah, they aren't going to win at Seattle, but they should win against Jax at home.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    And what a magic word it is.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    I think the Cubs should trade him down the line, but who out there who could take over for him at a decent level of production? I could see trading him next offseason if guys like Castro and Barney develop as planned, but trading him now? That'd be an issue, imo. i guess it depends whether you think that blanco could be not-horrible offensively. he'd certainly be well above average with the glove, but at the plate he'd probably be a complete black hole. Would it be too weird to sign Chone Figgins for shortstop and start Blanco there on days Figgins plays another position or gets a day off? I know Figgins hasn't played much at the position recently but it doesn't sound too far fetched. Theriot's trade value is tied to his affordability and relative youth. As he enters his 30's and gets closer to free agency, his value plummets. And I don't see how Figgins can be thought of for SS. He turns 32 this winter and hasn't played an inning at short since he was 28. He hasn't played any significant innings there since he was 26, and only had 80 innings there. 30-something middle infielders are risky, not to mention guys that haven't been playing middle infield.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    The last out of game 5 in Atlanta.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    So the line is Atlanta -3.5, a little higher than I thought it would be before they went out and blew-out an overrated 49ers team. I think I feel pretty comfortable taking the points in this one. Still a good chance Chicago loses, but the bye week should have them prepared for this game. How they do will say a lot about the coaching this season. If Lovie doesn't have that defense primed for a big game, I will be disappointed.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    This was about the only part of the game I watched and I thought it was really weird how they obviously missed Jeter telling Cano to "watch this" on the jumbotron. Why they decided to show dugout reaction to a HR from much earlier makes no sense.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    http://baseballprospectus.com/chat/chat.php?chatId=660 Isn't that something to get excited about? Compared to a year ago maybe, but I feel that's been his calling since he was drafted - safe bet to make the majors, very unlikely to have much of an impact.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Oh ye of little faith raw. I'm telling you, this is following the script. Minnesota will falter.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Gus is fantastic. He's a love or hate kind of broadcaster. I personally hate him, but that's just because he sucks. Actually I'm sort of indifferent to him, but I hate all the over the top praise the guy gets for screaming.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    depends on what kind of contracts the local announcers have signed with their local affiliates. beyond that, there's this ridiculous thing that NATIONAL broadcasts need NATIONAL announcers. TBS would probably think they were slumming to use the Fox Sports Midwest crew for their broadcasts. But it's not limited to baseball; NFL broadcasts are just as bad Well there aren't local TV crews at all for the NFL, so thats not really an avenue that can be pursued. True, but they over value people like Joe Buck and under value people like Gus Johnson Gus should broadcast baseball games too. Oh yeah, screamy sreamison needs an opportunity to scream more
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