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I don't remember this, but Siefert has an article on espn.com where he says Favre texted the players at the start of training camp last year telling him he was done. Two weeks later he was in camp. Favre is following last year's schedule closely. He just needs to feel loved. How great would be it Childress just said "enough with Favre."

Brett is mad everyone thinks he is coming back when he wants it to be a 'surprise.' He hates it that we all know he loves the spotlight. He just wants more attention and this is his way of doing it. He will be back this year.

Is he still driving the minivan?

1. The NHL's TV deal stinks. 2. The Hawks need to raise their ticket prices. 3. The Hawks shouldn't have to give half their playoff gate to the NHL. Bill Wirtz really lost 30 million in 2007, wow. There has to be a ton of mismanagement there. I had no idea Wirtz and Co. did $1.5 billion in sales last year.

The Blackhawks lost money last year, even after all their success. Season tickets are going up 20% as a result. Rocky had to borrow money from the Wirtz corportion just to pay the bills at times. Yet Rocky says he won't pinch pennies like his dad. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-0730-confidential-hawks-20100730,0,1613106.column

I just don't see them much worse than .500. With a bad o-line, bad receivers, bad linebackers, bad d-line, bad running backs, and bad safeties the Bears were 7-9. This team is much improved, even if heir record won't show it.

While the Bears do have a ton of question marks going into the season, I don't think many aspects of their team have regressed. The coaching is a push. I don't trust Marinelli as a defensive coordinator cause he has never done it before and Martz's system might not fit the team. But Tice was a great hire and brings results. Lovie is not going to feel out players but will make quicker roster moves since his job is on the line. The offensive line should be better now that Olin has had surgery. Williams will be at LT, his natural position, for the entire season. And now the Bears have a full-time blocking TE. The receivers will be marginally better if Aromoshadu steps it up. The running game is improved with Taylor who could be the starter. Cutler can't get any worse. The TEs will be the same. The defensive line is only slightly better in my opinion because Brown was let go. Peppers will allow the defense not to blitz as much, no matter what Lovie said today (he said they will blitz MORE now that Peppers is where - why?). Tommie Harris, for the first time in three years, is going to practice everyday in training camp and looks to be in his best health in years. He is probably the key to the defense. The linebacking crew could be very good if they stay healthy. I have been waiting the last two stinking years to see what Pisa will do here. The safeties have been strongly upgraded. From what I have beard, Major Wright won't start. True or is it a training camp battle? Your third round draft pick has to start when your safeties were absolutely terrible last year. The corners will be just as good as last year which is a touch under average. Gould has a substandard year as far as Gould's standards go. I expect the old Robbie. Maynard is Maynard. Devin has to have a huge year for the special teams. He has to break a few. The Bears are much improved from last year, but they are still a borderline playoff team if most things go right because the division is killer. I think they go 8-8 and Lovie and his staff are fired. Cowher is hired in the offseason.

Maybe so (but do four years as a part time-receiver and returner really ware you down), but I still think he is most valuable to the team taking the kicks and punts. He needs to break just one or two and guys will kick the ball out or away from him giving the Bears great field position. Knox can do everything Hester does as a receiver even better. There really is no need for him there. Aromoshadu is the tall threat. Knox is the speed threat. Bennett is the possession guy. Devin is the fourth receiver who will barely get used and certainly won't lose his speed being on the field a few plays a game.

From what I heard, Martz is the exact opposite. When Martz got hired, he said that Olsen's first priority is to learn to block. That is not adapting because Greg obviously can't block. Then he got the TE he wanted in Manumaleuna, the blocking TE. The receivers have talked about how Martz has not let down and wants them to memorize the phonebook he uses as a playbook. Martz fought with many a coach, most notably Singletary, because he won't adapt. You bring him in, you incorporate his system. I am not debating the merit of that, but I just think this is who Martz is. I don't think you will see the wildcat at all. Mart'z offense is stick the TE on the line, a couple guys go deep, and make big plays down the field while hoping Jared Allen or Su doesn't sit on Cutler's face. Give it to the RB if they get bored blocking once in a while.

The Bears have to keep saying he is learning to become a receiver when he screws up constantly because for some stupid reason Angelo gave Hester a new contract mostly predicated on the fact that he would become at least a number two receiver. I think he knows the plays, he just doesn't have the offensive skills it takes to get open, find holes, and so forth. He just isn't smart and he doesn't have great hands and is afraid to go over the middle and get hammered. I don't care how good Daniel Manning is, Hester is best used taking all the returns and kickoffs. The Bears had the best field position in the NFL when Hester had those two great years. This offense would thrive on that. What a weapon Hester used to be. Lovie screwed up big time.

Boers and Bernstein have pointed out that last year the receivers weren't in the right spots many times and Cutler wound up throwing INTs that weren't his fault. This year, Martz's offense even more so expects guys to be in the right place and the ball be thrown their way even before the cuts are made. I don't think Martz is going to change because the Bear receivers are poor route runners.

"This is atypical," Niemi's agent, Bill Zito, said Tuesday. "It's just about the cap; it's cap management. No one ever said, 'Antti doesn't deserve this or he's not good enough' or anything like that." How much cap space do the Hawks have? Do they have $3 million? If not, why would Niemi even bother asking for that?

Poor Carson Palmer. I wonder if TO will want to move in with him too.

Outside of Orton, how many bad QBs have good W/L records? Orton's record is already beginning to crumble. In the end, he will be sub .500. Your sins find you out.

Archie has a career QB rating of 67. He finished with 125 touchdowns and 173 interceptions. His record as a starter was 35–101–3 (26.3%), the worst in NFL history among QB's with at least 100 starts. He just wasn't that good (although I admit never saw him play).

Do they want $ or the coach back? hasn't the relationship between Fisher and the stloen coach hurt their relationship so that the USC coach wouldn't even want to come back? He would be looked at as traitor by the Titans.

As we learned more about the steroid era, many have noted that hitters and pitchers were both juicing. But now that most steroids seem to be out of the game, pitchers are having their best years (especially 2010) - possibly due to the lack of roided hitters. Were fewer pitchers juicing than we thought? Was there a breakdown on the Mitchell report of how many pitchers vs. how many hitters were juicing in relation to how many hitters and pitchers there are in the league?

Sam Smith agrees with you. http://blogs.bulls.com/2010/07/it-seems-doubtful-the-bulls-have-mcgrady-in-their-future/

What a silly comparison. Asik and Gibson vs. a guy was a game-changing starter. Again, he can talk all he wants; he has to back it up. I was responding your earlier post where you said "Any player's goal should be to be a starter. It's asinine to expect someone to say otherwise." Unfortunately you just called yourself asinine.

Those games were pretty bad. The Baltimore game was along the lines of Grossman's bad games. But Rex had 5 games worse than Cutler's SF game, QB rating wise. Grossman had a better receivers, better backs, and a better offensive line. Cutler did have some terrible games, but I think the team around him last year was far worse. The blocking TE might be exactly what the doctor ordered. And a receiver taller that 6'2" with Aromashadu will help.

I just don't understand those who have no problem with any player publicly declaring that they want to start. How does Asik or Gibson mentioning this help the team?

McGrady coming to the Bulls and insisting on a starting role outweighs anything good he has left skills wise. And he doesn't have much left we now realize. The Bulls have Korver - a slow moving 2 who can't create, can't play D, but can still shoot. McGrady won't allow himself to be the third option.

But the kicker is that he doesn't believe he is the same player he was in NY. McGrady has to ask himself why a guy who is only 31 (which is not too old) and used to be an elite player can't find a spot on any NBA bench, even at a fairly cheap price. He doesn't realize what he has left. He can't find it in himself to admit that he is not a starter anymore. He just doesn't see it and can't evaluate himself properly.

30 what better? 30 wins? He ceratinly can't believe that. Or maybe he just sucks at math and doesn't realize that would put them at 71 wins. Or maybe he thinks he would bring them up to a .530 winning %. Or maybe he has no idea what he is talking about. That makes perfect sense.

Why would I want a washed up, injured veteran who doesn't have starter ability anymore thinking that he should be a starter for a team that has two players slotted ahead of him? How does believing a lie help the team? I'm all for TMac knowing his role and coming to the Bulls. Unfortunately he doesn't know his role. Dan Bernstein made a good point today. Name one wing player who has had microfracture surgery surgery or major knee surgery who ever came to close to being his old self? McGrady has to know his role or at least keep it to himself. He didn't say that. The quote was already posted on this page. I'm not sure how you can gather that he's saying that he should be a starter. I am inferring, but it is a fair inference. By "prove" mean means he has to prove it to the team. In his mind, McGrady has already proven it to himself. 1. McGrady said that if he was the type of player he was in New York, he shouldn't be a starter. 2. McGrady clearly thinks he is better than the type of player he was in New York. 3. Therefore McGrady thinks he should be a starter. He clearly said that since he is not the type of player he was in New York he would have a problem coming off the bench. He was just on the news and said that "the Bulls are a .500 team without me and Boozer." No, they are a .500 team without Boozer. They are a .500 team with you and without Boozer.