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  1. Soul
    Nice collapse. Yes, let's just hand them the football game. Great idea!
  2. Soul
    Unbelievable. Alstott's never run for 14 yards in his life. Nice job.
  3. Soul
    Come on no touchdowns.
  4. Soul
    I doubt the Skins will hold on and win that one. I can dream though. 8-)
  5. Soul
    Time for Gould
  6. Soul
    Nice. I'm totally Jonesing up here in the UP without my Bears. Packers/Det: blek!!
  7. Soul
    They're taking the tough route these past 2 games, but hey winning is winning. Nice job.
  8. Soul
    Anderson can'd handle that. We absolutely don't have the personell for a 3-4, our d-line is too small, and you really think Scott/Boone can be a nose tackle for a 3-4? Ya, right. We've still got 3 DTs. Scott, Boone, and Izzy. We're pretty thin without Tank, but it will be a 4-3 alignment. We'll need to blitz to get any pressure whatsoever, so Chico better use these last 3 games to start getting his blitz packages polished and in good working order.
  9. Soul
    from what i've heard, tank may be lucky to suit up for the bears ever again. one chicago writer is speculating that he'll be deactivated for every game here on out and then cut, much like the eagles did with TO. Speculation is exactly that. Speculation. However, I don't know how the Bears are supposed to deal with this. If they *do* inactivate Johnson on their own (i.e. outside of the NFL's authority), then it becomes a union issue. The union can file a grievance on Tank's behalf---and the only reason they didn't in the TO situation was because TO himself didn't want to play for the Eagles any more. The NFL isn't going to do anything until the facts come out in the justice system. So after this week, it becomes a cloudy situation. If Tank wants to play, and the Bears just inactivate a healthy player without court-solid facts to back them up, then there could be trouble.
  10. Soul
    Meh. I'm not really bothered by the fact that he had or collects guns. Those types of weapons (i.e. AK-47, AR-15) can be obtained perfectly legally. It's more the fact that he's dumb enough to illegally possess these weapons after already having been brought up on illegal weapons related charges in the not-so-distant pass that gets to me. Indeed. How could he be so stupid? He's jeapordizing everything. Man, that guy must not care about anything but himself. The entire team depending on him and he pulls this crap? Wow. Word is, he was caught because neighbors were deathly afraid due to the fact that he insisted on shooting these things right in his back yard. That's completely [expletive]. Kids running around that neighborhood and everything.
  11. Soul
    Well, I kind of expected that. I wonder how the Bucs' run game is. 'Cuz we now have one gaping, massive hole in the middle of that line. We'll need to blitz to get any pressure up the middle too. The Bucs can't run the ball. Caddy having a bad year? I really don't pay attention to them because, to be honest, it's not worth the time.
  12. Soul
    Well, I kind of expected that. I wonder how the Bucs' run game is. 'Cuz we now have one gaping, massive hole in the middle of that line. We'll need to blitz to get any pressure up the middle too.
  13. Soul
    Wow. Link yet?
  14. Soul
    Yet they are 20th in offensive yards and 3rd in defensive yards. (This is probably true, but I dont remember the source of the info) I think much more important is the fact that they're dropping in the rankings. Let's see what rank they are for the month of December after the 31st. That will be a much better indicator. With Tommie & Brown gone, it's really not correct to lump in the spectacular numbers of the defense with those two, when it's pretty clear the unit is not nearly as stout without them.
  15. Soul
    Really? I see it as close to 100% that Pie will suck offensively. How will that increase his trade value----when he's posting .280 OBPs and whiffing more than once per game? I don't get it.
  16. Soul
    I don't see how spring training will tell us much about Pie. Spring Training stats rarely mean anything. If they did Sing would be our 1st baseman. I just think this is a bad idea. We need someone else.
  17. Soul
    I thought we were assuming Jones is long gone. And Lee----we're just going to pencil him in for 40 homers even though he struggled long after his wrist injury was healed? I've had a major wrist break before. It can take longer than a year to really feel better. Used to have all kinds of pain in it long after the break, sometimes just from the change in barometric pressure from storms. Nasty stuff. I was thinking Lee, more like 25 homers. Jones gone. The argument, I thought, was whether we were going to have Pagan getting significant time, with perhaps even Pie being the starter. I think that's pretty bad.
  18. Soul
    crapity crap crap. bad news. gettin' me down. crap.
  19. Soul
    I don't know exactly what the Nats have asked for Church, but it's likely they've started with Rich Hill. They're famous for this kind of stuff. It's possible a trade could happen late in the off-season or during spring training. I've not heard the name of Gross mentioned with the Cubs. Schuerholz complained about that crap in his book. Some GMs think it's fantasy baseball time come trade time. He also mentioned that Hendry doesn't do that and he's a great guy to deal with, expects to give and get value and doesn't waste time making ridiculous offers and negotiating down to a fair price. LOL, if they started with Rich Hill then I can totally see why Hendry is looking elsewhere. How stupid. That could explain a lot.
  20. Soul
    Crap. I just heard about this. Come ON, there's always something that ruins a good run by a Chicago team.
  21. Soul
    i hate that name and i cant stand jeff joniak Why (hating Joniak)? i dont like his voice for whatever reason, he calls a good game, his voice just annoys me though. I've grown used to it. And I've grown to dislike the accepted "professional play-by-play" voice that so many guys have trained themselves to imitate. Well, more like grown tired of hearing the same vocal tone over & over again from guys. Joniak's original sounding, if a little amateur-ish. And he knows Bear football very, very well. If I didn't have the DirecTV delay I'd turn down the volume and turn on the radio broadcast every game.
  22. Soul
    i hate that name and i cant stand jeff joniak Why (hating Joniak)?
  23. Soul
    There's a name I haven't heard in a bit. Wasn't Huff going to sign with the Stros?
  24. Soul
    I think he might be good too. Or Wood. I don't think we have a closer 'problem'
  25. Soul

    Rotation

    Soul replied to Bruno7481's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    I'd rather see a 4-man rotation than a 6-man rotation. Why is that? Too hard to get your good SP's the appearances they need to lift the ballclub on their shoulders. Also---many people believe SP's start to get rusty after too much time off. There's a school of thought that says the old way (4 man rotations) was actually better because it taught SP's to lay off their arms and learn to pitch, and it also made them do it more often so they got better at the "art" of pitching. Now guys take the extra day of rest and just try to destroy everyone without investing the energy into learning to hit spots, choose the correct pitch, etc. I'm not saying I totally buy it, but I accept it as a decent argument. Really hard to put together 6 good pitchers, too...
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