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What's the point of that though? Why not do it all now when you had the chance with 1/2 of that equation already gone? And I actually like Lovie. I don't want him fired, but there's no reason to intentionally hire a short-term GM. It might give them time to evaluate Ruskell, and might also give them a buffer if they aren't really liking the other candidates who are potentially available right now. That's just a guess, of course.
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If they went with Ruskell, I hope they do it short term so they can line up the termination of the head coach and GM contracts. Then they can make big changes all at once.
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Castro accused of sexual assault, no charges filed
Soul replied to A New Era's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Hahah, you're a funny guy! Wait, there's nothing for Castro to prove. Oh, joke fail. Please tell me your post was a horrible attempt at sarcasm. Gold-digger? It was not sarcasm. But at 10:40pm last night, I'm glad I wasn't rolling into a checkpoint, if you know what I mean. -
I thought the Bears might wait until playoff teams started dropping out -- look at candidates from actual successful franchises.
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Brad Biggs pointed out this morning on the radio that Holmgren was in Seattle for the bulk of Ruskell's reign, and that it's likely he had a large impact on who was drafted. If that helps you feel better at all. Does it make you feel any better?
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Castro accused of sexual assault, no charges filed
Soul replied to A New Era's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Hahah, you're a funny guy! Wait, there's nothing for Castro to prove. Oh, joke fail. -
The obvious answer is you ride it out until/unless the team goes to a significantly worse record and playoff position. I don't think Q is in any danger this year, regardless. He won a Cup. That buys him time to turn things around, even if it isn't this year. i agree that you wait longer, but the cup is irrelevant at this point. that was 2 years ago. last year i'd say he had a free pass or whatever. the honeymoon is over now. Who really knows, but I disagree. I would be floored if the Hawks dump Q this year unless they completely fall to the bottom of the standings.
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Well, the Broncos continue to entertain whether it's Tebow, the rest of the team, or the media/fans fixation on Tebow. For that I'm thankful. I thought tonight's game would be a laugher, and instead I got entertaining NFL football.
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The obvious answer is you ride it out until/unless the team goes to a significantly worse record and playoff position. I don't think Q is in any danger this year, regardless. He won a Cup. That buys him time to turn things around, even if it isn't this year.
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Castro accused of sexual assault, no charges filed
Soul replied to A New Era's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Prove it, gold-digger woman. Otherwise, he said she said. Shouldn't have gotten so drunk, girl. -
Can he succeed long-term with a substandard ability to throw? I think that's the real question. He's done it short term. Year 2, year 3 -- much different story.
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from the 50% or so of the game I saw, Taylor was horrid on more than that play.
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Yeah! You LOSE Pitt!!! Hah!
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Come on. Try the longest ever.
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Crap. Please blow something Steelers.
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Hard to believe there's no way to give Denver the ball on that play. Very clearly a fumble, and would have likely been the final nail in pitt's coffin.
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This is wonderful. Will twitter crash after the game?
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Why? lovie is a perfectly good coach that the current players already respect a great deal. chances are slim we'd find somebody as good or better. this idea of getting rid of him just to get rid of him is dumb. That idea is dumb, but getting rid of Lovie wouldn't be for no reason. It would be to open up more possibilities for GMs who want to be able to shape the team in their own image. It's also true that the team isn't in chaos. We could win next year, actually. If we do, then it becomes pretty difficult to not extend Lovie. Potential GMs can forsee that possibility. It's not like the GM would be coming in with a true option to fire Lovie after a short while. This person needs to mesh with Lovie potentially for the long term, depending on what happens. That's an extra qualification many won't meet.
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an actual vision for the future and not taking on more bad contracts. let's be realistic, the cubs' core was lousy and the only way the cubs were going to be any good in 2012 was to make at least a couple of expensive free agent signings or trade the few good prospects we have for good major league players on other teams. Doing literally nothing would also help us have a vision for the future and not take on more bad contracts. What do you mean? That would just run out contracts with absolutely nothing in return.
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I think this is the wrong mindset. This is how it looks when a team has a bunch of bloated, underperforming contracts and needs to unload and rebuild from the ground up. Yes, 2012 is going to suck. But it shouldn't be viewed as a single, crappy year. It should be viewed as the beginning of something that will grow into success.
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Yeah that's how I feel. The only possible ways around this are either getting a guy with an offense Jay is familiar with or bringing in a guy at OC who is going to survive if Lovie is canned in the near future. At least the latter way wouldn't mean 4 of 5 years with a new offense. The Jason Garrett scenario.
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This is all very exciting, but I can't agree with keeping Lovie and thus forcing some kind of shoehorn operation to take place in hiring your GM. If you're going to clean house, just clean [expletive] house. Lovie is not important or indispensible enough to warrant limiting potential organizational leadership candidates.
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Maybe we can get Sveum to do a seminar on who the hot chick is next to him in his yearbook.
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Luck needs to shoot a bit higher than Orton's neck beard, no question.
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We'll see, according to some it is still early in the offseason. Give it up. It's a rebuilding year.
