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  1. Soul
    Didn't see the game. Heard Turco was pretty good. We got a point on the road. I'm good :)
  2. Soul
    I've been thinking the Bears have been using the shotgun more this year. It's interesting they are still at league-lows. I think the reality is, they were just not using it period before except for the very rare case. Now they've done a little more, but it's still really really low in terms of percentage. I don't get why Kreutz would stop them from using it. He does do it. If he was so against it wouldn't that mean that he doesn't want to do it at all? Plus -- do we really think Olin Kreutz is telling Martz what formations and plays he can call? Maybe he is, I don't know. But I find that strange.
  3. Soul
    Yes for 2 reasons: 1) Haine doesn't have a noodle arm like Collins has. I'm not saying he has a strong arm but he can move it down field if need be. He's better suited to run watered down version of Martz's offense 2) He is definitely somewhat mobile, which Collins is anythin but. So if the offensive line fails as it has in some or all of the 4 games we've played, we have Collins in there waiting to get plowed or Hanie who can get out of the pocket and at least run a couple yards forward instead of 7 yards back. I think the lack of mobility might be good in this case. Cutler was getting himself in trouble by not just dumping the ball off or throwing it away when he was under pressure. They need a qb this week that takes his drop and gets rid of the ball. Trying to buy extra time and scrambling around is just likely to cause more problems. I think I'd rather have Hanie, but it's an argument between 2 pretty blah alternatives.
  4. Soul
    It might be a good thing that I won't be able to watch this Sunday's game.
  5. Soul
    God this is ridiculous.
  6. Soul
    Ill give Martz credit, he definitely doesn't point the finger at other guys, or shy away from taking the blame. Its pretty refreshing to have a coach in Chicago like that. With that said, man he makes it sound like the Bears are a bunch of dummies. It is refreshing. But I agree with you -- there's 2 sides to that story. It was week 4 of a season after an entire offseason of work, and he's saying they can't handle a short week and a few extra wrinkles without suffering a complete and total catastrophe? What does that say -?
  7. Soul
    That's pretty great. Of course I missed it working, but stii pretty great
  8. Soul
    Yeah, if Ricketts needs someone to tell him his GM is an idiot, then we're in deep trouble.
  9. Soul
    Of course he's going to say that. Lots of older players are going to say that. I guess we're going to find out if it's true in his case, whether we want to or not.
  10. Soul
    Well of course. What, did they think the league was just going to let him skate by? This is sounding so stupid.
  11. Soul
    If you & raw are right I might have to kill a few puppies. I don't think I can take Angelo's insane 300-lb elephant routine on draft day again.
  12. Soul
    I don't know, but I can't remember a team go from riding high on a 3-0 start to spontaneous combustion in about 48 hours. I'd like to know what the hell is going on over there.
  13. Soul
    LOL, what the hell man.
  14. Soul
    What I remember most about '85 was all the adults around me freaking out during the 13-game losing streak. That left a wound on my psyche that persists to this day :) '84 was all about my Dad having champagne on ice after we won the first 2 games of the NLCS.......and watching that champagne sit, day after day until the inevitable death of the dream. This year was about expectations for mediocrity, and then watching those expectations happen. Nothing really surprising at all, good or bad. I guess I would characterize '10 as a season where my interest in the Cubs was relatively low from the beginning, and stayed that way throughout the season. I just didn't care all that much compared to other seasons, outside of seeing how our home-grown and younger players performed. I'm looking future with this team. The now is pretty blah.
  15. Soul
    Nailed us down pretty good. Missed on the Reds though.
  16. Soul
    Yeah, this year wasn't stellar but not even close to the worst.
  17. Soul
    Man, if only the professional athletes in Chicago were as tough as you. They would be unbeatable Kids these days, I'll tell ya. Why, when I was younger we rubbed dirt on it and gritted it out.
  18. Soul

    NFL Week 4

    Soul replied to ELCABALLO45's topic in Other Sports

    Bess isn't half bad. I like him more as I watch him more
  19. Soul
    Carolina has 4 sacks all year, Im willing to bet they get 4 in this game by itself. That's what? An improvement of 8 over yesterday? W00t!
  20. Soul
    Off the mat and dusted off. Also in the positives column: Carolina doesn't rush the passer nearly as well as the Giants.
  21. Soul
    8 weeks takes to around December 1st or so. I guess we can go that long without him. It'll suck though. Kind of like the whole Hossa thing.
  22. Soul
    Yep...it was in David Haugh's column this morning. He's the only one that apparently noticed though. Others are saying that his teammates on the sideline noticed he wasn't acting like himself in the second quarter. They thought something was up. I'm just criticising to criticise at this point, but if teammates noticed him acting strange on the sidelines, he walked to the wrong sideline for a play, and on several plays he was for some reason unable to get the ball out of his hands while staring at an open target, why did it take until halftime to put 2+2 together and get him out of the game? Not that having Collins in earlier would have done anything but still. Denial. They looked at Collins and Hanie and went "nah, Jay's OK. He's got to be...."
  23. Soul
    Well it just so happens it occurred right when our big offseason acquisition suffered an injury, so I guess that's why there hasn't been much talk of it. A good chunk of change though. I guess they see what a lot of us hope we're seeing with Noah. A very active big man who is still young and hopefully still on an upward trajectory.
  24. Soul
    That's kind of a weird comment, isn't it. Because with concussions I'm pretty sure everyone is going almost solely off what the doctors say, not what coaches obervations are. And Lovie doesn't mention the doctors at all in that quote. So if it's just Lovie saying "There's no visual signs, that I can tell" then no disrespect to him -- but what he sees doesn't really matter. What does the doctor say? That's what pretty much everyone is going to want to know.
  25. Soul
    I honestly don't know if I would. He looked useless last night. Not in the same sense that all Bears players were useless last night, but in the sense that he looked his age and moved even slower. I'd take Hanie over either of them. Collins had this look on his face that I didn't know what to make of. Kind of like he wasn't really sure he wanted to be running any plays....at all....under those circumstances. A real "I've been playing NFL football for 15 years and I know a death trap when I see one"......sort of look.
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