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  1. UMFan83
    New AP poll is out. Nothing too insane. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/usatpoll.htm 1 OU (43) 2 Bama (9) 3 LSU (7) 4 FSU 5 Boise St. 6 Stanford 7 OK St 8 Texas A&M 9 Wisconsin 10 Nebraska 11 Va Tech 12 South Carolina 13 Arkansas 14 Oregon 15 OSU 16 MSU 17 Miss St. 18 Florida 19 Missouri 20 Penn St. 21 Texas 22 Auburn 23 ASU (NR) 24 WVU (NR) 25 TCU (dropped out: Notre Dame and Georgia)
  2. UMFan83
    What a surprise, Ryan Braun still looks like a giant douche.
  3. UMFan83
    Fingers crossed. Rams receivers will be completely over-matched by the Philly secondary, but this will allow Lance Kendricks to begin his ascent as the greatest tight end in NFL history. He's going to eat up the weak Philly linebacker corps. My pick is just a feeling. While I am not biting on Bill Simmons' theory that the Eagles as a whole will be overwhelmed by playing in a dome, the fact is they are starting a really inexperienced offensive line, so that should hurt playing in a potentially loud dome.
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    I do feel a little better knowing that there are 6 teams that actually have more cap space than us, according to this: http://blogs.nfl.com/2011/08/29/updated-salary-cap-space-numbers-for-all-32-teams/ Of course the teams with more are smaller market or not contending teams like KC, TB, Cin, Jax, Den, Buf. I do think it would be stupid to spend money just to eat up cap space, but with the number of WR and OL out there this FA period it just dumbfounded me why we went dumpster diving.
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    Yay now we get tentative, don't get injured Forte this year. So the Bears are going to play a season nearly $20 mil under the cap. Thanks Jerry. We'll be sure to remember who made this possible when our season falls short due to one or several fatal flaws. Personally, I don't think giving Forte (or any RB) a huge pile of money is a great idea. That said, I do think he has outplayed his contract and have a hard time being against rewarding him. I just don't want him to go to FA without a deal. I'm just annoyed because I kept hearing the Bears didn't spend more in FA in part because a chunk of that cap space was going to Forte. Now we are just sitting here 17-18 million under with no desire to spend it. It is possible that Forte was being unreasonable with his demands though.
  6. UMFan83
    Yay now we get tentative, don't get injured Forte this year. So the Bears are going to play a season nearly $20 mil under the cap. Thanks Jerry. We'll be sure to remember who made this possible when our season falls short due to one or several fatal flaws.
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    Angelo also said that these are the four best safeties that he's had on the Bears. I'm trying to figure out if he's including Venable, Conte or Steltz in that statement. Somewhere Mike Brown is crying
  8. UMFan83
    Hey, I'm sure you have some insights on Meriweather that we don't have. Can you give us a scouting report?
  9. UMFan83
    Packers Bears Texans Bills Titans Browns Rams Ravens Buccaneers Chargers Redskins Cardinals 49ers Jets Patriots Raiders
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    I guess Major Wright has to wait a bit longer to get his shot. He looked really good early in the preseason but wasnt as impressive later on. Will be a good 3rd safety this year hopefully. Meriweather-Harris is a pretty good safety pairing.
  11. UMFan83
    In a win no less. At one point this year I thought that the Bulls might end up with more wins than the Cubs. 3 more wins and that can't come true, plus we'd avoid a 100 loss season. Yay?
  12. UMFan83
    Damn, signing him was the first thing I did in my Madden franchise.
  13. UMFan83
    Colts fans were surprised by this one, but from ESPN writer Paul Kuharsky: Geez, what an idiot.
  14. UMFan83
    That works for me. Means I don't miss any of the game. Pretty solid opening game. You have to be thrilled with the defense in the 2nd and 3rd quarters. We scored 34 points without really needing Denard to do anything. Sent from my MOTWX435KT using Tapatalk Agreed. Shaky start on defense but really really picked it up later in the game. They actually looked like a real Michigan defense.
  15. UMFan83
    So um...Michigan wins The game was called with 1 minute or so left in the 3rd quarter. I can't say I've ever seen a football game called due to weather.
  16. UMFan83
    Yeah I believe he is amongst the worst closers in baseball this year. He's still right up there amongst the most blown saves in the league.
  17. UMFan83
    I don't know. The last time they were legit national title contenders was in the mid-90s (save that one year around 2006). Most years they are mediocre or bad. Most people who are in college right now don' have much of a recollection of the ND glory days. Hell, I barely have much of a recollection of when ND was great as I started watching college football in the Ron Powlus days.
  18. UMFan83
    Wow, a INT return for a TD and a fumble recovery for a TD in one game for Brandon Herron. Good to see some stellar performances on defense
  19. UMFan83
    If they can't come back, that will make the Cubs 2-6 this year against the Pirates at Wrigley Field
  20. UMFan83
    lol Marmol really loves blowing saves by giving up grand slams doesn't he? lol @ this season
  21. UMFan83
    200 yards of offense for western michigan in the first half.
  22. UMFan83
    Was Desmond Clark an expected cut? I find it funny that in Madden 12, Desmond has by far the best rating of all Bears TEs. Also Frank Omiyle has a 75 at LT, and the starter Webb has a 69
  23. UMFan83
    You fire the GM and then before hiring a new one resign the mediocre farm director. I bet Crane Kenney had something to do with this.
  24. UMFan83
    Damn, I come home 15 minutes late for the start of the Michigan game and already their D has given up a touchdown. I guess I shouldnt be surprised tho.
  25. UMFan83
    Exactly. And the analysts hang on this "faced 3 3rd string QBs last year.". The three teams they are referring to are the Lions, Dolphins and Vikings. Do those analysts really think it was that much of a break that Cleo Lemon or whoever it was started against the Bears instead of Chad Henne? I can understand the argument if we beat the Packers without Rodgers or the Eagles without Vick, but come on.
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