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  1. Soul
    They just lost to Buffalo, whom no on even remembers the last time they were good, and they're about to get humiliated on national TV I just think its an interesting reaction. Most of these guys give you the ol' "Its only one game of 16" line. These guys are acting like they will get canned if it doesn't turn around quickly. In Tucker's case that's probably true. Definitely Tucker. But also consider Trestman. His first year missed the playoffs. Now there's significant adversity on the horizon. I'll go back to what some of us said when he was hired. There's no history of NFL coaching to fall back on. His success was in doing exactly what he's good at now: QB development. After that, what is there to say he's going to succeed at all the other things necessary to have success in the NFL as a HC? Not much. It's easy to see scenarios where people begin to lose confidence in him - and fairly quickly too. He turned a bad offense into one of the league's best in one season. The first move would be to replace Tucker if the defense doesn't do something. They spent almost all of their free agency money and the draft on defense. Never said they wouldn't, but thanks for commenting
  2. Soul
    They just lost to Buffalo, whom no on even remembers the last time they were good, and they're about to get humiliated on national TV I just think its an interesting reaction. Most of these guys give you the ol' "Its only one game of 16" line. These guys are acting like they will get canned if it doesn't turn around quickly. In Tucker's case that's probably true. Definitely Tucker. But also consider Trestman. His first year missed the playoffs. Now there's significant adversity on the horizon. I'll go back to what some of us said when he was hired. There's no history of NFL coaching to fall back on. His success was in doing exactly what he's good at now: QB development. After that, what is there to say he's going to succeed at all the other things necessary to have success in the NFL as a HC? Not much. It's easy to see scenarios where people begin to lose confidence in him - and fairly quickly too.
  3. Soul
    I think there are a few teams that would strongly consider signing him following a cooling off period, and assuming no indefinite suspension. Pulled up his metrics because I haven't followed him in detail. On the right side of 30. Probably still will be after a cooling off period. Big time dropoff in productivity last year though. Hard to say if that was him or blocking -- again I'm not following the Ravens very much. You're most likely right, given the right price.
  4. Soul
    Briggs is killing me. If you don't want to be a quality player anymore, please just leave. Go run your restaurant. That's how I feel about him now and it's a shame.
  5. Soul
    He needs to step down. It's a [expletive] shame TMZ is more legit than ESPN when it comes to reporting this. The NFL and ESPN are going to do their best to sweep this under the rug quickly. And unfortunately, they'll probably succeed. Question for Gooney: I'd ask that question in the exact opposite way? Why WOULDN'T the casino give the NFL that tape? That's not the opposite way, but a completely different question. I'm not asking why they would or would not, but rather why they would be obligated to respond to a request from a completely unrelated private institution? That's a matter for the police. The police had and have the tapes and the NFL would have and should have gone through them if they wanted to see them. They probably didn't want to see them, or at least, they didn't want actual NFL officials seeing them. So they had some private security types take a look and report back and can now still say that NFL personnel did not see the tapes. Almost as bad to operate that way -- it's willful ignorance. Manufactured deniability. I guess that's the way Goodell plays things now. It's time for him to resign.
  6. Soul
    49ers 34 Bears 17 I believe this is the game where everyone realizes just how small the improvement has been on D, and just how wrong-headed it was to retain Tucker. My sense is we will start to fail with the running game D, followed by our DBs coming up and then getting torched as a result. But I also don't think the Bears have any kind of answer for a QB who can run out of the pocket to the outside, and the 49ers have that. The one thing I can think of to hang our hat on: 49ers played the Boys last week, and I think they are probably even worse on D. I don't think the 49ers are this powerhouse offense. I just think they are significantly better than the Bills, and when we can't stop the 49ers knowing they aren't that dominating it's going to really suck - even that much worse. Either way it's just bad medicine for us. On the West Coast too. Hits just keep coming. I'll be so shocked if the Bears pull this game out. Hope & pray for a W the following week in NY. Then some kind of Soldier Field magic against GB to get to .500. Only chance in hell of turning this thing around.
  7. Soul
    I know it's just one game, but after seeing Seattle the first night something clicked and it was just like, "oh, right, even if the Bears somehow made it to the Super Bowl that's likely the team (or caliber of team) they'd face and they'd likely be destroyed." And yes, the SB is also just one game, but I've already shifted into acceptance mode and anything positive the Bears pull off is just cake. As much denial I might be in that Seattle is that good, they sure looked damn good on Thursday night. And damn Michael Bennett for not wanting to come to Chicago. That guy is a beast. Yeah, sample size and all, but man, they are impressive even though they dress like they're a made up team from Any Given Sunday. One of these years they are going to full Ducks with those unis
  8. Soul
    http://regressing.deadspin.com/jay-cutler-was-the-most-catastrophic-quarterback-of-wee-1632009572/+kylenw that's more or less why I'm so down. I thought Cutler played up to every criticism about his game. I didn't know about the advanced analysis, but it's been a long time since I've felt that bad about his play.
  9. Soul
    It's a great video. I was too busy watching the Bears melt down to see it live though.
  10. Soul
    Most around here thought it would happen more in July. Then they got to August, people starting getting excited. Boom, all over.
  11. Soul
    Between UMFan & me, it gets pretty bad in here sometimes. Usually Goony comes in Monday and calms things down but today he's like holy crap we're bad.
  12. Soul
    I'm trying man, just can't hold it down.
  13. Soul
    Just needs to hold together for a few weeks. Hard to say how long with that type of injury. I knew we weren't going to get as lucky with offense health this year, but damn.
  14. Soul
    So that's the league's story. Police refused to tell us the whole truth?
  15. Soul
    I'm just glad we have the depth to be able to deal with it for the time being, but agreed...injuries are a concern anytime they happen. Sure, but think about all the other alcoholism-inducing crap that came from yesterday. Slauson isn't topping my list, because Ola held down the fort.
  16. Soul
    So that's not good. [expletive] The backups played well in this case. I'm not all that worried on this piece.
  17. Soul
    I thought the line in particular played very well. Lance Briggs had a terrible game and, because of two plays, gave up 85 of Buffalo's 193 yards on the ground. He completely missed his assignment on each of those long run plays. D Line still needs more pressure, but I thought they played a better game than people are recognizing. In what way? They didn't get pressure and were more or less non-factors. Not being as awful as last year's line doesn't make them ok, let alone qualify as playing well. Paea made a couple good plays early (literally first 2 plays), Ratliff made a couple plays in the 2nd half, Young looked really good early. Allen had 1 play where he forced Manuel out of the pocket. I thought Sutton looked good in limited snaps. But overall, that's just not good enough. Yeah, I feel like we are measuring it against last year to a certain extent. That can't be the measuring stick. I wasn't throwing stuff at the TV because of them, except on the couple long runs (man, Briggs blew that one so bad...) and the fact that Manuel sat untouched most of the game.
  18. Soul
    That would be better actually. As it stands, I'm assuming we just lost to a 6-10 team at home today. A disaster.
  19. Soul
    Because he's loaded with talent, for one. Second, be honest. When Cutler leaves the strong likelihood is, we are going into another era of mediocrity @ QB. People want it to happen, there's nothing wrong with that.
  20. Soul
    Arians is the primary one that comes to mind
  21. Soul
    Bottle of whiskey suddenly calling my name. Too big a day tomorrow at work
  22. Soul
    Saying a QB is a "big winner" is almost as stupid as saying a starting pitcher "knows how to win". The point is he's putting up numbers but it's not translating. Don't give me that weak starting pitcher comparison crap. That's not where I was going with it. It's not translating because it's a team sport. QB stats don't translate directly to wins. That's why it's a stupid point. He had a ton of yards and pissed them away with 2 terrible mistakes that were 100% on him. You're just off target on this one.
  23. Soul
    Saying a QB is a "big winner" is almost as stupid as saying a starting pitcher "knows how to win". The point is he's putting up numbers but it's not translating. Don't give me that weak starting pitcher comparison crap. That's not where I was going with it.
  24. Soul
    Cutlers performance crushed me. I know he will have better games, and games where he will look like the best QB in the league but if there was any hope that Cutler would have a career year where he is consistently a great QB, it's gone now. I guess I shouldn't expect that kind of leap at age 31 anyways. Every QB makes dumb throws. He made 2 in the game, and one of those happened to be severely punished. I think you're overracting. It appears Cutler will go down as one of those very talented players who simply doesn't make it happen. He either blows games like today or he gets on a really nice roll & then gets injured. Or he has to learn another system. Or a bunch of other injuries hurt him. It's a combination of untimely mistakes bad luck. It's not one thing. But if he was going to be one of the top producing QBs and a big winner it would have happened
  25. Soul
    Cutler made a lot of meaningless noise today.
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