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  1. Soul
    Yeah, but how effective
  2. Soul
    Not sure why I missed this, but I did. Anyway, I find it disturbing that you remember that whole thing.
  3. Soul
    They've been making it up as they go along, for several years now. I'm not sure who to blame: incompetent refs, or incomprehensible rules, or what. Probably a little of both. But the result is you see flags and just cringe -- then many times you see the replay and it's just stupid. And I'll say that about calls that go in the Bears favor, all day long. Plus it makes the games longer and takes the wind out of exciting parts. We can all just go on & on. Worst drag on football in a generation.
  4. Soul
    I watched that live yesterday and it was weird. I'm sure there was an advisor there who was not happy, he's still heavily involved with the League as he mentioned his close relationship with Goodell. I definitely think they're covering it up by playing the dumb card. Judging by the amount of time non-sports news outlets are dedicating to this thing, I'd say the dumb card isn't working. And the obvious league tampering is really starting to anger the wrong people. The NFL better hope another bombing or other disaster occurs to take focus off this, if they want it to go away.
  5. Soul
    I think the line can shut down Gore. It's Kaepernick that we will probably have trouble with out of the pocket. Unless Tucker changes his defensive scheme to include LB's actually do something on defense. If they shut down Gore and Hyde, it'll be because they commit resources to the middle. So yeah Kaepernick will kill them on the outside because of that. They can also do a number of others things to take advantage of that, as you know.
  6. Soul
    Complaining about yet another hyperbolic sports article is like complaining about clouds in the sky. Yeah people continue to do it, but it's pointless nonetheless.
  7. Soul
    Haha, yeah that's pretty awesome. Conte's like, whoa that looks horrible I better bail.
  8. Soul
    Hah, it just got pulled. http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/09/rihanna-cbs-thursday-night-football Goodell interview instead. Looks like Rihanna will be back though.
  9. Soul
    4-12 is much better than 6-10.
  10. Soul
    The bloom came off Reid's rose pretty quick after that Titans loss, didn't it.
  11. Soul
    posts like these mystify me "i hate this guy, i won't specify why, so reward him with clicks!" Sometimes venting is worth the additional 40 cents Clay Travis might make off a column. The good news is most of us know Clay Travis is a jackass and therefore won't click on it anyway. I'd still like a little detail on why the guy is "just the [expletive] worst." There are lots of jackasses writing articles out there.
  12. Soul
    I'm sure he will. I didn't think that I said he wouldn't. All I'm trying to say is that I could see players beginning to question him a little quicker than usual. Could even lead to him being replaced sooner than one would originally think. You said barring a complete collapse... I think that's on the table right now. Detroit looked good. Vikings looked good - better than I thought. GB will put it together in all likelihood. Beyond that it's SF, CAR, ATL, NE, NO. All of those could be losses. Let's say they go 2-4 in division, with another 5 losses outside. 7-9 in his second season isn't going to satisfy many people. It's a game worse than year 1. Another game like BUF and we're talking 6-10. What do you think anyway? I'm just curious. IIRC you were one who said Trestman might have more trouble if the team struggled.
  13. 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
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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
  20. 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.
  21. Soul
    It's a great video. I was too busy watching the Bears melt down to see it live though.
  22. Soul
    Most around here thought it would happen more in July. Then they got to August, people starting getting excited. Boom, all over.
  23. 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.
  24. Soul
    I'm trying man, just can't hold it down.
  25. 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.
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