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Agreed. It was a little much to expect him to hold up against Boldin 1-on-1 in his first NFL action.
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Yes, that's EXACTLY what I meant....... Do you want Dempster and Fukudome on this team when they are 35? How about Aramis at 34? Z at 31? The way to rebuild this team is by saving money at THAT point and putting guys around the cheap productive players we have at that point. If you really want to keep a couple of these guys, they could be had for probably haf of their current contracts at that point. Which still would conceivably give the Cubs plenty of money to go out and sign some difference makers as well. The bottom line for me is short of spending tons of money this offseason or next, I don't see us as a contender.(and I son't see Ricketts doing that) Of course, the Cubs won't go the total rebuild job either, so signing Dunn and a few others seems likely honestly. But, I'd love to see you show me how we become true contenders before then at the earliest....... I'd love to be proven wrong, but I'm with you. I'm bracing for a couple years of mid-range baseball, in the low 80's in wins and missing the playoffs. Once we clear contracts -- that's when I see the bigger improvement happening.
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The Jets remind me a lot of many Bears teams. That defense is going to have to lift them up, it's not going to be the offense. And it could -- provided they find ways to hide that one CB who is obviously in over his head.
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Stinger. It looks like a neck thing at first but usually doesn't have much lingering effects. That's a problem for us, I think :) Not one of those matchups I feel good about heading in.
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Yes !! Hell, Yes !!! :clapping: :yahoo: \:D/ :yahoo: :clapping: Finally. Well done Wells, and other guys. I watched a little bit and fast forwarded to a point when some guy in the STL booth was talking about the STL way of winning and he started going off on how the Cubs don't have a way of a winning (or some such nonsense) when I think Barney singled to center for an RBI. He tried to keep talking about that subject but then got lost. LOL, that was Lou Brock. He was really incoherent and rambling most of the time. -
I think this is the best scenario for Sandberg if he wants to stay in the organization. If he's really determined to leave if he doesn't get the job right away, then I guess you say goodbye and move on.
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Huh? Where'd this come from?
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I think the Packers will make do with Jackson, pick up a depth guy behind him.
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That's the guy I'd be targeting. Either him or Marshawn. But how realistic is it for Dallas to trade one of their backs to another conference contender? I find it hard to believe.
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I'm more interested in Nadal than Federer. I even switched over to the match last night during the last set to catch him winning the title. That's a big deal for me, but in fairness the Jets/Ravens game was pretty lackluster. I do want to see an American though.
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Looks like I chose a great week to be away from my couch. The sunday ticket app on my iphone was fun though. I forgot to update the OS on my iphone so I couldn't update the app! My bad, I should have known better. I'm all set for this weekend though.
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Awesome. Lions hate \:D/
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With Grant on my ffb team, I'm more concerned with the health of a Packer than I like to be normally. Unfortunately, it's not sounding very good... As long as he's back after Week 6, I think we'll be all right. The schedule gets progressively tougher after that as we face Minnesota twice in four weeks, the Jets on Halloween, Dallas, and Atlanta. I presume all of those teams will have figured some stuff out by then. However, it's interesting that none of them had a particularly good opening week.
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Who? Bears or Cowboys? Bears, obviously. Misplaced rage: the Bears didn't invent the completed catch rule. But the Bears did triple the Lions number of total yards, so I can kinda understand some dislike. True. I'm assuming his comment is all about losing the game on that almost-catch though. But I could be wrong.
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Who? Bears or Cowboys? Bears, obviously. Misplaced rage: the Bears didn't invent the completed catch rule.
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5 late games = a nice, full-featured day on NFL Sunday Ticket, boys.
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Who the hell is asking for more blitzing? I don't mind mixing up coverage and putting on a blitz. However, if you're picking whom you're going to leave on an island, don't isolate your corner who is matched up against Calvin Johnson. Right. My point was though, that last year we complained about blitzing too much, and that Peppers arrival was suppose to make it so you could rush 4 and not have to blitz as much. But Lovie is delusional and thinking that fans are clamoring for more blitzing....which is nonsense. What catches my attention about that quote the most is the little "Football 101" comment that he threw in there. Lovie seems increasingly frustrated with his interactions with the media & fans to me. He seems to feel that people who aren't employed in the game itself are not qualified to comment or criticize.
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Well well. KC with a little more spunk than I recall from them.
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Sorry for the injury, but Grant's not that critical a piece. They can get similar production from alot of guys with defenses scrambling to try to stop the many airborne weapons on that team.
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Too loose with the rock, BAL
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Let me get this straight. You say that Lovie is normally risk-averse to his team's detriment, but then because he took a big risk yesterday, that you didn't agree with, and that ended up hurting the team, you're going to praise him for it? Just because I wouldn't have done the same thing doesn't mean I can't find something about the decision that I choose to like, yes. I like to call those "lowered expectations" I'm just trying to be nice to the guy.
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Comments above. I don't think it was all that unreasonable, given the circumstances, to flip one's opinion from normally wanting them to go for it on 4th and goal to wanting the field goal.
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Let me get this straight. You say that Lovie is normally risk-averse to his team's detriment, but then because he took a big risk yesterday, that you didn't agree with, and that ended up hurting the team, you're going to praise him for it? Just because I wouldn't have done the same thing doesn't mean I can't find something about the decision that I choose to like, yes.
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I'm not going to change my mind that I would rather have seen a FG try there. But one thing I will say is that I spend a lot of time thinking about how Lovie is risk-averse and likes to take the conservative route too often. Here was a case where he really took a big risk. It didn't pay off, but from that perspective it was actually good to see him go for the TD, in hindsight.
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Manumaleuna was the FB on 4th down. He had a great lead block, actually. It was just too bad he couldn't block the other 10, because there were at least 3 people who got through on that side. I also thought it might have been a hole for Forte to run up Manu's back on that play. Push the lead blocker and fall on his back. We don't have a guy that's really built for goaline rushing. Like Biggs mentioned this morning, Forte is an upright rusher, and he's not going to change at this point (nor would you really want to change that). In one of the mailbags I read this week (I think it was Pompei's Q&A), someone mentioned the idea of using Henry Melton in a situation like that. He's played FB before, and could be used like the Fridge in that kind of situation. I was actually encouraged by a lot this week...with the caveat that it's the Lions. But man, our linebackers looked like studs. Urlacher was all over the place, and Briggs' strip of Hill was just perfect timing. I hadn't thought of using Melton there, but the idea has some merit. I'm not sure it makes a difference if the line continues to allow penetration like that, though. There's no way to go but up. Think of it that way :)
