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It boils down to winning a super bowl or not. If you don't win a super bowl, you are going to take heat locally and nationally. The details may be different for each guy and how the haters justify their hate, but if you win that goes away (unless you are Eli and turn into Mark Sanchez).

100,000,000+ pounds?

I don't see the oversight. It's not like that $1 guaranteed the Bears could keep him next season. It only meant they could negotiate now. If McCown played well enough with the Bears to earn big money next year, he wasn't going to take a discount to stay. And if some team wants to pay big money to McCown at this stage in his career, let them. Sure, but why wouldn't they spend the $1 extra to be able to negotiate now? Is there a downside? If there's not (I don't know all that much about the NFL cap) then it is definitely an oversight because no matter how unlikely any of this was, $1 is one [expletive] dollar. Maybe the agent didn't want the dollar to prevent his client from getting sentimental and insisting on a deal without the benefit of the open market? However it plays out, I don't care. It's not a story. Jay Cutler is going to get a raise to come back next year, which takes away the amount of money available to spend on a veteran backup.

I don't see the oversight. It's not like that $1 guaranteed the Bears could keep him next season. It only meant they could negotiate now. If McCown played well enough with the Bears to earn big money next year, he wasn't going to take a discount to stay. And if some team wants to pay big money to McCown at this stage in his career, let them.

Still no idea how I'm going to pull off the logistics for attending this game.

If you need 3 in a row why count on the guy that's lost 2 of 3?

Things are looking up.

We are totally winning the minor league FA world series. That new spring training stadium isn't going to sell itself.

And like that, he's gone... http://25.media.tumblr.com/2baff88e7ae548ffaf02bd99e7e7e558/tumblr_ms2fehEIzr1rawb5do1_500.gif

McCown played a large role in that loss.

He's been a good backup QB, I'm glad the Bears have him, I'm impressed with the run he's had, but I want the starter back in there because I think the starter is better in the long run. Not really "minimizing" him all that much there. I'm not necessarily saying that you are, I just don't like to see the other stuff talking about him as some sort of game manager when what he did was nothing short of heroic. There was nothing heroic about the dump he took in Minnesota.

I take issue with this part. He did have a good debut. His production was fine. The numbers behind that production strongly indicate he will not be able to maintain the production going forward. But he could start the year hot, and his tools could make it look like a hot start means more than one might think. He's probably going to look pretty bad out there. But that doesn't mean he didn't produce in 2013.

You acknowledge that there is reason enough for serious questions and worries, and that he may not reach even his modest minor league norms in the major, but still don't get the negative on Lake?

I heard that interview. It didn't go well. Coomer didn't seem "into it", lots of "Ummm" and "you know" and they made fun of him when the interview was over. They speculated that he was a little nervous and didn't know if it would cause issues doing an interview with a competitor station. I wasn't listening closely and it didn't sound that bad to me but Holmes, Spiegs and the producer weren't as kind. It wouldn't surprise me in any way if Coomer refused to do anything else with the score after hearing their discussion after he hung up. The only people more catty about their own kind than radio "personalities" are comedians and teenage girls.

Whooo hoooo, awesome. One less thing to look forward to..., wait.

Putting into perspective is not minimizing.

get that commie euro trash outta here.

Where did I say to ignore them? I'm saying to pay attention to them as what they are...really great numbers against a really bad defense. Until then McCown struggled to get much done in the red zone, and this one game means he and the coaches have suddenly figured it out instead of what it was, which was a terrible defense letting guys get open? Do you preferred to be served in a hero or on a plate with pasta?

No reason to say "no contact". A guy running through home plate who brushes by the catcher should not be penalized. You can't lower your shoulder.

I think you are forgetting that the Bears only had 4 wins when Cutler was injured, and now they have 7. Would you prefer a 4-9 record instead of 7-6?

Hey, he doesn't have any biases against Cutler. Some of his best friends are extremely talented quarterbacks with attitude problems and too much confidence to write checks his diva wide receivers can't cash.

He had two bad passes. You can't hold Marshall and get in a position to make an interception and then say that was a bad throw. But yeah he had two bad passes. And his idiot play against Minnesota that cost us the game. Lets not forget that. Because that was as dumb a decision as you'll ever see. Was that not a "mistake", but a clever ploy to get Kyle Long a reception? Nor his inability to throw a TD in the red zone unless his receiver has nobody within 5 yards of him. And yet, when Cutler has good passes bobbled by Earl Bennett or deflected on a fluke and picked off, it's his fault. It's not Earl's fault that Jay throws too hard while McCown gently places the ball in his receivers' hands.

He had two bad passes. You can't hold Marshall and get in a position to make an interception and then say that was a bad throw. But yeah he had two bad passes. What about the bad throw that ruined their opportunity to win in MIN with a wide open receiver who was only able to gain yard, forcing a 700 yard field goal attempt?

http://www.robertfeder.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Ron-Coomer.png He's certainly got the face for radio.

Well one...why would what the NFL does have bearing on the MLB? You don't think they can judge a collision at home plate because they can't figure out what a catch is in the NFL? And two, this is (apparently) the same rule that is already in play at 3 other bases. Are you outraged over those? No faith does not equal outrage. Collisions at home plate are not equal to making a catch in football. Collisions at home plate can be considered somewhat equal to collisions in football, like the defenseless receiver rule or contacting the qb at the shoulder or above or down at the knees. When a guys foot gets tangled up on the slide, the umpiring crew will have to make a determination as to whether the runner caused the contact with a questionable slide or the catcher caused the contact with a partial blockage of the plate. If you think these will just be simple black and white calls, you are likely mistaken. Calls like this are subjective as to intent, and they blow those constantly with the new rules in football. I don't really see how they can avoid it in baseball. The umpires blow calls in baseball now as it is and now they have something else they have to watch for, which probably means more missed close calls at the plate. So you think these guys will have their feet get tangled up while sliding and the result will be similar to the big collisions they are trying to get rid of?