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Out of curiosity, was the Campbell signing a good move for the Hawks short and long term or a bad one? To me it seems like Campbell is a Soriano like signing. On the surface it looks really good, but there are serious things missing there. I thought last year everyone was saying the Defense was really bad and led to a lot of goals, so it doesn't make sense to kill all your cap space on an offensive one.

Khabi is the number 1 goalie now?

I can't think of one game this season where the Vikings looked especially good. They are easily the worst 3-3 team in the league based on how they've played. Regardless, the Bears aren't a particularly good team either, and I don't like the matchup that well. Anyone know who Allen will match up against on the Bears o-line? That matchup might decide the victor.

Yeah he recovered that fumble and then randomly fumbled the ball again while trying to get up. I don't mean to rehash this, but I will. I didn't actually hear an explanation. He tried to down himself, or thought he did, but nobody blew the whistle? Is that the explanation? Just a tough break. He said he tried to get up to run with the ball and the ball just wedged between him and the ground and sorta popped out.

It should be illegal to generate a ridiculous amount of excitement followed so closely by a ridiculous amount of depression. So being a Cubs fan should be illegal?

It was the equivalent of taking the lead in the top of the 9th only to have your closer blow it in the bottom.

Thanks Deadspin http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/deadspin/2008/10/DustyConference02.jpg

The defense misses Tom Brady. Actually a lot of people predicted a huge letdown by the D this year. With Samuel and Colvin leaving, it was bound to be weaker than last year's team. Losing Brady has actually hurt the defensive effort as well. Sounds strange, but give me a chance here. Cassel turned the ball over twice in situations where Brady almost certainly would not have. I'm pretty sure the Chargers turned those into 10 points - meaning there's a good chance if Brady is in there, you could deduct all or most of those points. Also, Brady is much, much better at putting together long drives than is Cassel. The longer the drives by an offense, the less the opposing offense gets the ball. Oh I completely agree. I figured that was the most obvious answer.

No but I mean if we are building a team to win next year why would we trade the pitcher who was just about the best statistical reliever in baseball year? It's not like we are to expect him to decline suddenly next year. Everyone knows bullpens are a crapshoot, so if you can find a consistently dominating one, you gotta keep him because without him our bullpen becomes a major question mark.

The defense misses Tom Brady. Actually a lot of people predicted a huge letdown by the D this year. With Samuel and Colvin leaving, it was bound to be weaker than last year's team.

I like the idea of blowing tons of games next year. Are you serious, selling high? Let's trade Geo too while he still has some value.

Yeah he recovered that fumble and then randomly fumbled the ball again while trying to get up.

But weren't there like only seven people at Windy City Football...and I was one of them and not even a Bears fan. They had like 10-15 page game threads just like we do here.

See guys, this is why we need to keep going to Windy City Football, and why the Social forum won't suffice.

It's a Cubs message board, not a Bears message board. If you want a Bears only message board, go to the cesspool that is the message board on chicagobears.com. But I don't want to.

When's the Falcons/Eagles game thread going up?

OK, it was a bad call but nowhere near as bad as Marty Mortingwig or whatever his name is. The worst call I've seen Lovie make is to call a TO with 1 second left in the playoff game vs. Seattle, thinking they would punt to Hester, which obviously all it did was give Seattle 1 play to attempt a game winning hail mary. A bad call is a bad call period. Both decisions are directly tied into the game's final score. Both were moronic decision. I don't how you can say it was "nowhere near as bad." Lovie's decison clearly is as bad as Mornhinwege's decision. The Mortywig call directly gives the ball to the opposing team in a sudden death opportunity. The squib kick could have easily bounced all the way to the 20, or the returner could have easily been tackled by Hillenmeyer. Even after that decision was made, they still had to make one play of at least 25 yards within 6 seconds and stop the clock for it to hurt anything. Yet the squib didn't bounce the way the Bears needed it to, and the Bears did the Falcons a SERIOUS favor by cutting the field in half which lead to the lucky pass by Ryan which lead to the kick. It was Marty espque bad, no matter how you spin it. Well people choose to take squib kicks all the time, yet Mortywig is the only person I know of to give the ball to the other team after winning the coin flip in OT. That puts Mortywigs (i know im not getting his name right) call on a different level than Lovie's

OK, it was a bad call but nowhere near as bad as Marty Mortingwig or whatever his name is. The worst call I've seen Lovie make is to call a TO with 1 second left in the playoff game vs. Seattle, thinking they would punt to Hester, which obviously all it did was give Seattle 1 play to attempt a game winning hail mary. A bad call is a bad call period. Both decisions are directly tied into the game's final score. Both were moronic decision. I don't how you can say it was "nowhere near as bad." Lovie's decison clearly is as bad as Mornhinwege's decision. The Mortywig call directly gives the ball to the opposing team in a sudden death opportunity. The squib kick could have easily bounced all the way to the 20, or the returner could have easily been tackled by Hillenmeyer. Even after that decision was made, they still had to make one play of at least 25 yards within 6 seconds and stop the clock for it to hurt anything.

Vikings fans not invited :( (just kidding) This thread is up early, but I figure we'd rather talk about next week than look back to last week.

Wow, with the Vikings improbably winning today, and the Packers looking so so, next weekends Bears/Vikings game might be for sole possession of first.

For the record, your comments didnt really bother me one bit Vanilla, but I know that if it was Packers fans celebrating in a Bears/Packers game thread, I'd do everything in my power to get them banned, so I have to stay consistent here :) Either way, this little back and forth has allowed me to momentarily suspend my suicidal thoughts, so thanks.

Try it and find out. I think it has to do with 75-80% of the posters on this board being Bears fans that it is given special immunity. If it were up to me, I would create 2 subforums. The first one being "Other Chicago sports" and the second being "Other sports talk". Let Social be about non-sports discussion, and given us Chicago sports fans the freedom to talk about our other teams so we don't have to pile all discussion into 1 thread, like we do for the Bulls. This is how a lot of other sports forums do it.

ive been here the entire game, and look at the title of the thread. its not the bears thread. its the bears vs. falcons game thread. Can't wait to see next weeks Falcons thread pop up. Also, take note of the bolded.

OK, it was a bad call but nowhere near as bad as Marty Mortingwig or whatever his name is. The worst call I've seen Lovie make is to call a TO with 1 second left in the playoff game vs. Seattle, thinking they would punt to Hester, which obviously all it did was give Seattle 1 play to attempt a game winning hail mary.

Bears pythagoean record (using an adjusted formula for football) is 4.04 - 1.96. Amazing that with a 6 game sample size theres a full 1 game deviation.