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  1. Soul
    That is interesting, especially now. Just a little story: I had a chance to explore the Ducks practice facility a couple years ago while visiting Eugene. I didn't really know much about Kelly's philosophy at the time other than it was an uptempo team that was doing well in the Pac 10. Anyway, their main practice field is indoors, and all around the inside are posters with sayings like "the difference between winning and losing is a hundreth of a second," stuff like that. It was all about eeking every last little bit of speed. The posters are huge, stretching half the length of the field. I thought, wow, indoctrination (not necessarily in a bad way). It was an off day, so the place was completely empty. Except for one car in the parking lot: coach Kelly's Benz SUV. You could tell by his customized license plate. After reading that article, I kind of wish I had managed to see one of the practices. Would have been fun to witness.
  2. Soul
    I'm glad it didn't leak out last year.
  3. Soul
    Pretty much matches my expectation for this game. Which, of course, means the Bears win 41-37.
  4. Soul
    in which they're 3rd in yards per game, just a foot behind Denver in 2nd (they were 15th last year) It's a little early to make statements about teams yet, but if you look at their first two games, they faced two defenses that are bringing up the rear in the NFL in pts/game. KC's defense, on the other hand, is near the top. What sticks out to me is Philly's terrible TOP. I thought the idea was to run a ton of plays and keep the ball.
  5. Soul
    But I wanted my new wildcat to rant about.
  6. Soul
    It's likely they're coaching him to tuck it and run on pass plays rather than force throws with a lead. He's mobile enough to gain a few yards running. My impression of him has always been if he starts forcing throws, really bad things will happen.
  7. Soul
    Bad link.
  8. Soul
    Expecting more of Martellus. You've got to know it was Wilder.
  9. Soul
    They didn't realize "blur offense" meant a blur of mistakes, bad coaching calls, and misfires -- leading to a 10 point deficit.
  10. Soul
    That's more the Rose/rationalization thing. Whatever, play well and I won't care about much else. We just need to see him on the court every other night so that his words don't matter anymore.
  11. Soul
    Yeah, but the whole thing sets up kind of a sucky situation for Browns fans, who will now watch every Colts win in dismay. Every Colts win with a big play by Richardson will likely have some snarky headline attached to it in the Cleveland papers, with their own team's latest debacle buried on page 2. It's just incredibly horrifying to be a Browns fan, and I don't blame them for being upset.
  12. Soul
    Trying to get a decent prediction on this one, and I'm coming up defense. I do think the Bears D should be able to do enough to shut down the Steelers, even at home, given all the problems they've had in the first 2 weeks. Maybe they won't put Big Ben on the turf, maybe they will, but I think containment is more realistic and it should be enough given their terrible run game. But I also think the same will generally hold true with PIT's defense. They've been the better half of the Steelers so far, and given this is the first road game of the year for Trestman's new scheme, there should be enough there to keep the Bears scoring down as well. I'm going to go Bears 20, Steelers 17. Another close one, nail-biter, largely defense-dominated game. I'll try to keep my usual game-thread negativity to a dull roar :)
  13. Soul
    Because spending money on a competent manager would be madness. If competency is the standard we judge on, then I think Sveum qualifies. I think we might be a year early on the real debate over Sveum's time here, but I also don't see anything in particular that would be hard to replace. He'll probably be measured against Rizzo and Castro's career path and just given the axe if they don't pan out.
  14. Soul
    Common sense revocation process. We are applying common sense, and revoking your award.
  15. Soul
    why is an engineer from prometheus on the cowboys logo? Those all look like they belong on an AFL team. Terrible. The Bengals one looks like some kind of weird tiger embryo. The Chicago Bear got braces. The Packers new logo looks like it was designed for a small regional state college. Freaking terrible.
  16. Soul
    As with all preseason activities in any sport, just don't tell me someone important was injured.
  17. Soul
    No, he says the Steelers will win because the desperation factor will propel their badness into goodness. That's some solid football prognostication, right there.
  18. Soul
    That's basically giving Sveum a license to suck with no consequence. After all, no matter what he does, you can't really judge because the team isn't a contender yet. To me, the problem with this theory is that you might never become a contender, and part of that might be due to Sveum not getting the most out of the players he has been put in charge of developing into real difference makers in the major leagues. To me, Dale was brought here to get something out of what has been given to him. If he doesn't produce measurable progress on that front, he's got to be gone.
  19. Soul
    If ever there was a game for the Bears D Line to get healthy, this is it. Steelers can't run, have trouble protecting, the whole thing. Bears need to show up on the road and pin Roethlisberger to the turf.
  20. Soul
    I know people want to be cute, and get on TV & stuff. But man, it is damn creepy to see some guy at a football game in full-out Thing garb, realizing he probably left home with that on, and walked through the parking lot, the whole bit. Halloween is a month and a half away.
  21. Soul
    2002 was "that year" and everyone should refrain from discussing it further. It has no bearing on this season.
  22. Soul
    Looks like those Miami fans in Orlando are going to get whitewashed again. Enjoy your obligatory Jags coverage. Mwhahahah.
  23. Soul
    Whenever someone makes the "most rings = best QB" argument, I ask them if they think guys like Trent Dilfer and Brad Johnson were better than guys like Dan Marino, Jim Kelly or Warren Moon. I usually get a "they were better when it counted" or "they were more clutch" or some sort of hot garbage like that. It's total meatball logic. In no way, shape or form is Eli Manning even comparable to his brother in terms of quality of play over their careers. I fear that your head hurts alot, because NFL coverage is rife with these kinds of arguments.
  24. Soul
    I know, it was pathetic.
  25. Soul
    The only positive I get from having the Bears on late is being able to fully utilize the Sunday Ticket machine, which is definitely glorious. I prefer the noon starts though, just too much awesome having a Bear win out of the way and being able to enjoy the rest of my Sunday.
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