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  1. jersey cubs fan
    as opposed to the completely home-grown cubs and their $25 mil payroll. When the Yankees won in the late 90's, how many of their players were home-grown? Weren't a bunch of them like Williams, Jeter, Posada? I am still unconvinced that the Yankees can win by buying a WS. Yes some teams have done it (Florida in the mid 90's), but New York seems to get the raw end of the deal with injuries players with steroid histories. Burnett has a history of injuries. Sabbathia's arm might fall of. Tampa Bay isn't going anywhere. Nobody can buy a WS. You can buy a chance at the WS. The Yankees didn't get any sort of raw deal, they spent money and their record has reflected that sort of committment to winning.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    That's because they are a poorly run team. The Pirates are in a division with no dominant team. There's no reason why they couldn't contend for 3-5 of every 10 years, other than their own incompetence.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    And the Cowboys and the Panthers and the Vikings. Cowboys? They don't impress me. The Bears outplayed the Panthers in Carolina (albeit with no Smith) and they are very much equal with the Vikings.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    It helps when the coach refuses to let him actually attempt difficult kicks.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    I don't know about "getting" unfair. The Yankees have been the dominant franchise throughout history. You have teams like Florida who can win twice in a decade. Oakland was a great team for several years. Tampa is good and has more than 2-3 year window. Teams get to keep guys for dirt cheap for 3 years, then they get 3 more years at below market value. The problem with baseball is so many teams are run stupidly.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    I hate the Red Sox just as much as the Yankees. It's approaching "more" territory for me.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    If you got the money spend it. I have no problems with the yanks and they do put themselves in position for a run virtually every year. What fan wouldn't want that? I think that trend started with the Mike Mussina acquisition. Adding a Cy Young contending pitcher to the team that won 3 consecutive World Series. Then it was the Giambi signing, adding an MVP to a 4 time AL champ. And this really just shows you how hard it is to predict the playoffs. The Yankees just had a "bad" season where they won 89 games, which was the best the Cubs had done in the Hendry era prior to this season. I'd take their 2000s over the Cubs' 2000s in a heartbeat.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    I had that feeling about yesterday's game, and they almost did it until GB refused to win.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Who all got injured? Mike Brown was it right? Brown went off, and Tillman looked like he might have done something to his neck. Hillenmeyer screwed up his ankle, Marcus Hamilton looked like he messed up his knee. And when Olsen started playing more HB/FB I assumed Davis had gotten banged up. Also, Kevin Jones hurt his hammy. And I'm curious about all the time Forte spent not playing. I'm hoping they were just resting him for the end. But he was already banged up going in, and with all the wear and tear, who knows how he'll feel Sunday.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I kind of like that he goes out of his way twice to say an NL club is looking to sign a DH.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Those teams built up those rankings before they played in Chicago in December. The Bears benefitted significantly from playing New Orleans in Chicago instead of the dome and they won't have that benefit Sunday. That is a huge difference. No, it's not a game they should lose, but this is a flawed team that is pretty lucky to have won 3 times in a row. I don't see it lasting.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    I would draft offensive line in the first before I'd go WR. And I don't think Orton will ever be excellent, but I think he can be okay. I'd draft QB in the middle rounds this year and next. They definitely need an upgrade to Peterson for the backup RB, Forte needs to touch the ball a heck of a lot less next season.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Not really stupid. The only games being played during this game are Georgia/Michigan St and Nebraska/Clemson. The Outback Bowl will be nearing its end by then and the biggest game of the day starts after hockey. With the biggest bowl games no longer all being played on Jan 1, it's far less of a problem. You've got essentially the entire country sitting on their couches nursing hangovers and/or laziness and plenty of eyeballs available for viewing. I would like to see them try and do this either during the pre Super Bowl bye week, on Super Bowl Saturday, maybe even during Super Bowl pregames, or a week or two after the super bowl, when the sports world is dead.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Jets fans are going to be fun this weekend. I think they will rather lose to the Dolphins so New England does not qualify than win and send New England to the playoffs.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    The 1st and 3rd definitely matter for both teams, since Baltimore also plays at 4:15, a 1pm NE win doesn't officially eliminate the Jets from contention. http://www.footballlocks.com/nfl_lines.shtml NFL Lines For Week 17 - NFL Football Line Week Seventeen NFL Line 12/28, 2008 Date & Time Favorite Line Underdog Total 12/28 1:00 ET At Tampa Bay -13 Oakland 39 12/28 1:00 ET At Green Bay -9 Detroit 43 12/28 4:15 ET At Philadelphia -1.5 Dallas 43 12/28 1:00 ET At Minnesota -6.5 NY Giants 42 12/28 1:00 ET Chicago -1.5 At Houston 47 12/28 1:00 ET Carolina -3 At New Orleans 53 12/28 1:00 ET At Atlanta -15 St. Louis 44.5 12/28 1:00 ET At Cincinnati -3 Kansas City 38 12/28 4:15 ET At Baltimore -12.5 Jacksonville 35.5 12/28 1:00 ET Tennessee -3 At Indianapolis 38 12/28 1:00 ET At Pittsburgh -10.5 Cleveland 32 12/28 4:15 ET At NY Jets -2.5 Miami 42 12/28 1:00 ET New England -6.5 At Buffalo 42.5 12/28 4:15 ET At Arizona -6 Seattle 45.5 12/28 4:15 ET At San Francisco -3 Washington 37 12/28 8:15 ET At San Diego -8.5 Denver 50
  16. jersey cubs fan
    I've been satisfied with his progress. It was unrealistic to expect much more. You've got a mediocre QB, a line that gives that QB no time and no other threats at receiver. Put Hester on a team with a decent passing game and he'd be an excellent weapon. Maybe this is overly harsh, but I'm not sure Hester is smart enough to play WR. Returning punts is relatively simple on the brain. Run through the hole. Then run faster. We know Hester isn't exactly a brain surgeon. I just get uncomfortable having dumb players on the field. There's room in an NFL offense for dumb receivers. Guys like Jerry Rice are few and far between, combining smarts, toughness and physical ability. Hester is a pretty tough little guy with very good physical ability. His hands are not great, but as long as there are other weapons, I think he's smart enough for the position. Every Super Bowl winner has had their fair share of dummies.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    I've been satisfied with his progress. It was unrealistic to expect much more. You've got a mediocre QB, a line that gives that QB no time and no other threats at receiver. Put Hester on a team with a decent passing game and he'd be an excellent weapon. He already was an excellent weapon, and we ruined it. I think nature was going to ruin that anyway. Hester was never going to last as a strictly return man weapon. It just doesn't happen.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    I've been satisfied with his progress. It was unrealistic to expect much more. You've got a mediocre QB, a line that gives that QB no time and no other threats at receiver. Put Hester on a team with a decent passing game and he'd be an excellent weapon.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Bears are currently 1.5 point favorites. A week ago I would have predicted Houston would be a 4-5 point favorite, considering how well they played down the stretch. The Texans are better than their record, but then they went out and laid an egg, getting smacked around by the awful Raiders. Houston has a chance to reach .500 in a very tough division. Prior to last week the only times they've been beaten badly was against Pittsburgh and Baltimore. They have a weak defense but a great passing game, and I think they should light up the Bears battered secondary. My guess is the luck runs out this weekend. Even if they get a Giants win, or an Oakland/Philly double upset, the Bears will lose to Houston and end 9-7. Good enough for everybody to keep their jobs, and bad enough to make every Bears fan want them all replaced. Without improvements, the defense is bound to take another step back next season and the offense probably stays stagnant.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    What about the horrible waste of a timeout towad the end. They were indecicive about going for it, then tried to change personel, then had to take a timeout when the play clock ran out. It was a sign of a poorly coached team, which the Bears are. I thought that entire drive wasted too much time. Very poor clock management. In my mind, they had to either score on 4 plays or pin the Packers back and force a punt, while still having enough time left on the clock to make one last effort to get in. They got lucky and got into the endzone (they just barely got the first down, although I think if it was short, replay would have still given the Bears a first down), but if they didn't, I'm not sure they would have had enough time to stop the Packers for 3 plays and still have enough time for one more drive. I think the yellow line was the problem on that 4th down play for TV viewers. It didn't look like he reached the line, and the spot was even more short of the line, but the actual first down markers were a good 10 inches shy of the yellow line.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not acting like anything, it was dumb. You don't make plays based on what you thought might have happened. You make the right play. Down it at the 1 and it's either Bears ball on 1 or Packers ball on 1. There was no indication it was a live ball, no ref called the fumble (something they will do and players will notice) and there was no good reason to run that into the end zone. You've obviously not played football then...because when people think there's a live ball they go for the ball. In that situation about 99% of players would have gone for the touchdown and not tried to score on it. When your sprinting down the field and there is a possible live ball your not going to look over to the ref and then back to the ball to make sure it's live Yeah, okay. If you watch the play, pretty much every player acts like a special teamer is supposed to act, positioning themselves to down the ball, except for the new guy, Jones. He's the only one that sprinted into the end zone because he doesn't know what he's doing on special teams.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    What about the horrible waste of a timeout towad the end. They were indecicive about going for it, then tried to change personel, then had to take a timeout when the play clock ran out. It was a sign of a poorly coached team, which the Bears are. I thought that was a GB timeout before the FG at the end. Or am I thinking of a different play? I could be wrong, but I think Goony is referring to the 4th down play that the Bears called time out. Yeah, they had a couple nice gains to the outside, then ran a bunch of short yardage junk up the middle. And when they came up short on 3rd down they acted as if they had no idea there was a chance they might have to call a 4th down play. It was a wasted TO that could have been vital if GB actually hit their chip shot FG. They could/should have called a TO before the 2 minute warning and right after, which would have left them with 1:30 to comeback if necessary. You have to be prepared to run out short yardage offense in that situation.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    What about the horrible waste of a timeout towad the end. They were indecicive about going for it, then tried to change personel, then had to take a timeout when the play clock ran out. It was a sign of a poorly coached team, which the Bears are.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not acting like anything, it was dumb. You don't make plays based on what you thought might have happened. You make the right play. Down it at the 1 and it's either Bears ball on 1 or Packers ball on 1. There was no indication it was a live ball, no ref called the fumble (something they will do and players will notice) and there was no good reason to run that into the end zone.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    No. If they bat if forward it's down where they first touched it or a touchback if it goes all the way in.
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