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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Looks like his contract with ESPN was up in Feb. and they decided not to renew it. Apparently Salisbury was upset because more popular athletes were paid more than he was even though he was a better broadcaster/analyst than some were. Isn't Salisbury the one who sent out pictures of his wang?
  2. jersey cubs fan
    He's been here for a lot longer than 2 years, and in order to win those 2 divisions (with weak competition) he absolutely sold out the future. He needed unprecedented financial freedom to win those titles. We've had to deal with some absolutely horrible teams during his tenure and it's virtually assured that we will deal with the same problem very soon because of his horrible management decisions. A monkey could win divisions with the money Jim had at his disposal the past 2 years. A good GM shouldn't have to shell out the contracts he did for the guys he got. The foundation should have been in place years before. A good team should have had the Cubs winning 85 games each and every year with multiple 90+ win seasons.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Blah blah blah sample size. Is there anything specific about Peavy that makes you think he's inclined to pitch poorly in the playoffs? He's a gutless choking dog?
  4. jersey cubs fan
    this....you NEVER take points off the board...it was a stupid call at what turned out to be a critical part of the game. the coaching this year has been horrible. This wasn't taking points off the board. Taking points off the board is accepting a penalty on a made field goal. This is going for it on 4th down from the 1, which teams do all the time, and should do all the time. To pretend that you should NEVER eschew the field goal for a potential TD is absurd.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    I'd go on 4th down inside the one every single time if I have a good defense. Granted, Peanut screwed up badly, but you put a defensive team like the Bears against a team w/ their backs against the endzone, the Bears should either come out of there with either a safety and a short field OR a punt and a short field. In previous years, that punt also meant a potential return TD. Good defensive/ST teams should be able to get their offense right back in position to score again if they fail on 3rd down. Also, nothing was wrong w/ running the ball. The FB dive was stupid. And the 4th down call was stupid because it was a slow developing play. If Forte hits that hole hard and straight ahead, it's a score. JSC was pretty bad. Orton was pretty bad. Rashied was bad. I was all for going for it on 4th. But running 3 of 4 times definitely was stupid. It's a defense that can't be moved with an offensive line that can't move anybody.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Is that a bad thing? Are they supposed to say one thing at the beginning of November and stick with that until spring training, no matter how things change or progress during the offseason?
  7. jersey cubs fan
    I don't know the details of his contract, but I'm fairly certain he's getting paid a whole heck of a lot less than the league's best. I say let him make a couple returns per game. I would never have him return punts when he's back inside his own 20. He's such a moron that he's a risk to pin you back deep in your own. When teams have to punt from inside their own 35, put him back there to tempt them to kick out of bounds or something.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Completely disagree. The odds that he will have any sort of prolonged success as an amazing returner are extremely low. I think he's lost that step he had and he's not going to get it back. But he's shown enough in his 1.5 as a receiver to make me believe he can keep getting better, and he's going to have much more of an impact there than at returner. I just don't think he has the hands to be a good/great receiver. He might have lost a step, but that could have to do with his hip injury early in the season. I'm hopeful it returns. But even if it does, I don't see that making him some great receiver. In any case, I fear we've seen the best of Hester already... Regardless, he's not going to help the team more as strictly a returner. That's done. He's not a #1, but he could be a tremendous weapon if the Bears actually had a good WR on the other side, and an offensive line that could block for more than 2 seconds.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    The Bears are who we thought they were. The offensive line is still a significant weakness. John St. Clair has to be replaced asap. Williams better be the man, and they still need to draft line early next year. The defense has clearly taken a significant step back from 2005/2006, and they probably need some sort of stud drafted in the first next year to think they can improve it.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Completely disagree. The odds that he will have any sort of prolonged success as an amazing returner are extremely low. I think he's lost that step he had and he's not going to get it back. But he's shown enough in his 1.5 as a receiver to make me believe he can keep getting better, and he's going to have much more of an impact there than at returner.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I'm still highly skeptical that this ever happens.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    No they haven't. They may act like they knew exactly what would happen after the fact, but every single one of the ones I've heard talk about this has sounded extremely confused why this is taking so long. It's an odd story that should not be dragging on this long.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    If Hendry let Wood go in order to avoid insulting him, he's a bigger idiot than anybody every claimed he was. Come on, don't nitpick the choice of words. Hendry knows/thinks Wood was going to get a long term deal, and since they weren't going to give him a long term deal, they aren't pursuing him, a fan favorite coming off a great year. With that level of certainty in Hendry's mind, I find it hard to believe he avoids offering arbitration on the chance Wood needs to come back to the Cubs for a one year deal breaking a hypothetical budget he's under. I don't see how that is nitpicking.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    If Hendry let Wood go in order to avoid insulting him, he's a bigger idiot than anybody every claimed he was.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    I think the third game should be guaranteed to be an AFC/NFC matchup, and in the event that Detroit or Dallas sucks, the networks will have an opportunity to move Detroit/Dallas to NFL Network for the other game. They can rotate every year for priority. The AFC/NFC matchup won't really matter to the equation. Networks are determined by the road team, so every year Detroit and Dallas either host an AFC or NFC team, putting them on CBS or Fox. If the third game is AFC @ NFC, and a crappy Detroit team is hosting an NFC team, that's a Fox matchup. So you will have to throw out the AFC/NFC broadcasting rules if you want that flexibility. But I doubt the NFL has any interest in devaluing their own network's game.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Now that they'd added a third game, I don't see much of a need to axe Detroit. But maybe they can change it up and rotate Detroit/Dallas every other year.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Actually, now that I think about it, one of my friends hates him and wants him gone at any cost. The other guy has a soft spot for him and while he thinks the team has to trade him, he's of the belief that he's extremely valuable and doesn't want him traded for anything less than top notch blue chip players.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    are you upset ball state is not going to a bcs bowl? if i were you i'd be happy. Several million dollars plus that huge exposure would do a lot more for Ball State's football program than any win in a lesser bowl game. They could really use the money up there. Plus, there are probably 3 other teams who are no better than they are in the BCS (Oregon State, ACC Winner, Big East winner) so if they somehow got matched up with one of the last two they'd have a pretty good shot of winning that game. Let's just put it this way. Ball State can go to the Motor City Bowl and play bad teams a lot. There aren't a lot of chances to get the huge exposure of a BCS bowl. Even if the worst case scenario happened and they simply got destroyed, it would still be better for their program than the alternative. I doubt the difference in exposure is all that meaningful. And don't they have to split that money?
  19. jersey cubs fan
    I think he's more strange and creapy than buffoonish.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Hub Arkush is a buffoon. Their hearing was last Thursday. Every NFL "insider" was saying going into it that no one would be suspended before Week 14 because it's a unique case. I mean every Glazer, Mortenson, Clayton, King was saying this last week. It shouldn't be a surprise. Hub is just an idiot. Did he ask why the 3 players from the Saints haven't been suspended yet? Their appeal hearing was before the Williams'. It sounds like there's a decent chance they may all be let off the hook because there were some major discrepancies. The hearing lasted 12 hours and they had multiple doctors and trainers testify. The banned substance wasn't included as an ingredients and wasn't on the hotline that players are supposed to consult with. How is he a buffoon for saying it has been unusually long? It has been long. It's been far too long.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    There's no such thing.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    They probably don't get attached to their best or even average players because they will likely be gone sooner than later. That leaves Jack Wilson to love. He was the face of the franchise. And I don't just mean that in an ugly face = ugly franchise sense. He was the guy in all those commercials on FSN Pittsburgh a few years back.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    If Wood accepts and brings him much closer to that budget, he couldn't afford any of those players, which would be the problem. No necessarily, it just means he might have to trade Marquis to pay for Wood's contract. If he does have a firm budget, I still can't see how they're looking at Peavy, Abreu, or Ibanez regardless of Wood's situation. A) You can't just decide to trade Marquis. Odds are you'll have to pick up a huge chunk of his salary. B) If he's got, let's say, $12-14m left, he can look at any of those guys. But if Wood accepts he can't. I really don't understand why you are having trouble understanding the limitations of a budget.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    I will never understand that organization or fan base's infatuation with that guy. I have a couple friends who are Pirates fans, and they'll bitch and moan about the team, but don't have any complaints about Jack Wilson. He's had just 2 acceptable big league seasons, is over 30 and ugly as sin. I don't see the attraction.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    If Wood accepts and brings him much closer to that budget, he couldn't afford any of those players, which would be the problem.
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