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Wow. What a load of malarkey. This is really reminding me of those final Waanstedt years, the meandering around for extra seasons of the same old crap over & over again. Our fearless leaders have no clue what to do, and our owners don't have the stomach to fire them. It's really as simple as that. If the Bears do improve next year, it will be nothing but blind luck. More likely, 2010 is going to be an ugly season of Bears football. Possibly even catastrophically ugly.
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"Sometimes you just don't have a good year." :banghead:
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What the hell? He just used Green Bay as an example of why you should stick with the same scheme. Huh? Green Bay changed to a 3-4 and turned from a bad defense to a top defense in one season YOU DOLT!
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So they couldn't tell us this on Monday? This just just a lot of junk. Why did they need to wait an extra day? This is just status quo nonsense, all the way around.
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LOL. "Evolvement." He just said that.
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And here's Jerry...
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Does anyone have a hook? Pull him off the stage. Sheesh.
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Yeah, this is really a load crap from top to bottom. What I'm getting is that nothing will really be done different, but we're going to call it "big changes." People will be brought in, but to do things exactly the same way Lovie has been doing them all along. Oh, and money has nothing to do with why Lovie and Jerry are still here. Yeah, sure. And I'm Santa Claus.
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And he just said the coordinators that will be brought in will follow the system Lovie wants.
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He actually just said money was not a factor. Good Lord.
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Phillips is just blowing a lot of meaningless smoke.
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:thumbsup: The Hiestand firing is just as big for me, if not bigger. Maybe we can finally get someone in here who knows how to develop OLine talent effectively.
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Relegate Lovie to the role of figurehead. Bring in OC/DC who may very well be the next HC. Sell it to them like that. Lovie is head coach in title only. Essentially a cheerleader for the real workhorses.
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Yeah, it's just not enough change IMO. It just falls short of what is needed.
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Yes, that's an important point to make. Alot of people just assume that since we aren't winning games, that means the players Lovie has to work with suck, so it isn't Lovie's fault. That logic has a flaw in it: it assumes that all our players have reached their full potential under Lovie Smith. Untrue. There's strong evidence that he's not getting all that he needs to get from these players.
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There is zero reason Lovie shouldn't be receiving his fair share of vitriol.
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I agree, there's a certain likelihood that it will be Martz based on the relationships and his availability. And then Lovie will be canned next offseason. New coach, 3rd OC for Cutler (4th in 4 years). Yikes. Hope you know what you're doing, Mr. Angelo.
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I think your latter statement is more likely.
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Soul replied to Tim's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Bruce, Votto, Stubbs. They also have Dickerson and Janish getting a lot of AB and you could expect improvement probably. Certainly more young talent that could 'break out' than say the Astros or Pirates. The Reds could at least plausibly find themselves over .500 if things go their way. They've had Bruce, Votto for awhile already. It hasn't lifted them yet. The question I would want answered is, why would 2010 be any different for them? I don't see why anyone would be afraid of Stubbs right now. His first ~200 ABs in the majors weren't anything special: .267/.323/.439 -
I don't get what is boring about it. It's a new game. Some of the games involved 2 teams playing with purpose, some involved one team with much more purpose than the other, and some involved 2 teams playing for next to nothing. I think you are likely to see some different outcomes this week. It is very difficult to beat a good NFL team twice. It's a new game, but it's the same teams. I don't get what you don't get about it. Sameness is boring. Different-ness is less boring.
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Got my tix for the Feb 13th game in Chicago. First Blackhawks game I will attend since old Chicago Stadium.
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I think it's kind of interesting. And I disagree with those who said the end of the season sucked. There were meaningful seedings questions (especially when that involves domed teams and cold weather teams), and the entire AFC was fighting for 2 wild card spots. I enjoyed the last two weeks of this NFL season much more than I enjoyed the last month of baseball. When was the last time an NFL wild-card playoff game featured a week 17 rematch, much less three? It's definitely happened more than a handful of times. I am drawing a blank on examples but it's happened multiple times in the last maybe 10 years (1 rematch that is) It's happened. I think it's kind of boring though. What would make it interesting is if one of the losers comes out and turns the equation on its head. If all the week 17 winners just win again, it will be one of the least interesting Wild Card weekends in memory.
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Those sound like pretty marginal changes. The fact that our new OC will be working for a coach on the hot seat (read: lame duck) will limit our choices. A new DC will be brought in, but again, for a lame duck coach and likely another Lovie type guy. So the defense will essentially be the same -- unless Lovie magically decides we should try a new defense.
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I'd take that. Wish the OBP was a tad higher.
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Yeah, it's something I'd like to do once just to check it out, but that's about it. Not that there's anything wrong with it.
