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  1. David
    You have to be kidding on that link. One guy basically saying Rothschild sucks and then a bunch of people saying that he doesn't. As for those other comments, with no link, it's hard to know if people whose opinions are actually worth anything said them, but it's extremely doubtful.
  2. David
    i'm pretty sure that you don't have to match salaries on sign and trades. they work differently than normal trades. you simply have to have the cap space available. or so that's what realgm tells me.
  3. David
    going from very poor play to about average on the right side wasn't an upgrade? Going from Williams to what they have is not an upgrade. Those short term grades mean very little, especially on an offensive line, which is a unit of 5 players all depending on 4 other teammates for how well his play looks. The fact remains they have one guy, Williams, who is even close to an ideal player for his position. They are old and incredibly shaky at every other spot. And Williams history still leaves him as somewhat questionable. I'll grant you the point about the sample size and even acknowledged as much, but considering the actual circumstances, it's not a big leap to make that Williams would have a hard time on the right side. He was being asked to play the opposite side to what he had played all his life... I believe he only played on the left side (tackle and some guard), and being asked to do everything in reverse can't be easy. When the offensive line really sucked, Williams's play at RT was probably a big contributor (along with, obviously, Pace's horrid play). I can't really argue against being skeptical about it, but all I'm attempting to do is make a case for why the line played better down the stretch (which it did), and why that improved play might not have been a fluke.
  4. David
    going from very poor play to about average on the right side wasn't an upgrade?
  5. David
    I don't see how it is possible to claim it upgraded two positions. And it wasn't much of a move, they just installed the franchise left tackle they drafted 2 years ago to do the job they drafted him for. http://www.profootballfocus.com/by_player.php?tab=by_player&season=2009&page=3&surn=W&playerid=4328 williams graded out very poorly for the time spent at RT, probably because he had played on the left side for the vast majority of his life... it was hard to be much worse than he was... pace was also horrifically bad on the left side http://www.profootballfocus.com/by_player.php?tab=by_player&season=2009&page=&surn=P&playerid=229 while shaffer was ok as williams's replacement on the right http://www.profootballfocus.com/by_player.php?tab=by_player&season=2009&surn=Shaffer&playerid=1206 granted, we're talking about samples of 5 and 11 games, but it's a 16 game season and those are fairly significant chunks of snaps.
  6. David
    I'm not overlooking anything. Williams is the first significant draft pick in nearly a decade on the line. It's he and Columbo and nothing else. There are 5 positions to fill on the line, and simply adding one guy does litlte to solve the overall problem. They still have a way past his prime Olin Kreutz as the highest paid incredibly immature leader of the group, and they have crappy guards and despite the hopes, a huge question mark at tackle. It's 5 spots that need to be filled. They spend draft picks on safeties every year (and suck at it), where you only play 2 guys, but they rarely invest much more than a 7th on the offensive line, which is much more important. i was really responding to sulley moreso than you. my comment didn't really have anything to do with to what extent they've addressed the line in this year's and past drafts and dealt directly with how much better the line should be than it was for most of last year. that one move upgraded two (out of five) positions, and significantly upgraded the most important spot on the line.
  7. David
    they think omiyale at RT is going to be enough, apparently. it's easy to overlook the fact that we made a huge improvement at the most important position on the line last year by going from historically bad performance with pace to solid and young production out of williams... that's significant so is the improvement at RT that came with it, as williams rarely looked comfortable on that side
  8. David
    Look at Rose's numbers from December on (which is about the time his ankle got better)... and then from around the all star break on. They are pure beast mode numbers... he just kept getting better and better as the season went on.
  9. David
    Not everyone can be as deadly from the perimeter as Rose. Rose was one of the best mid-range shooters in the league. That's definitely aided by the fact that every jumper he takes is pretty open, but that's not going to change as long as he can get to the basket the way he can.
  10. David
    that's crazy talk... i sure hope so, but not likely.
  11. David
    While that's true, and I don't think he's going anywhere, we seem to have plenty of guys on this team that can more than handle kick returns.
  12. David
    Pretty much. All I've read was that he graded out very poorly last year, despite the fact that he made the Pro Bowl. There's a reason the Jets released him.
  13. David
    It was Manning.
  14. David
    Really? Harris was a quality (though not great by any means) safety for the Bears during the Super Bowl season. When he was traded, people didn't hate it because we still trusted Lovie at that point, and were kind of rolling with the Adam Archuleta idea. It was pretty clearly a mistake in hindsight. Pretty much. It's really selling him short to say that he showed nothing.
  15. David
    It sucks that I can't fully enjoy how beautifully this game is going with the stupidity that took place earlier today in the back of my mind.
  16. David
    maybe he'll change his mind before it happens like he did after he said that dempster would be starting in 07. then again, that was more of a vague hint than an announcement.
  17. David
    Unfortunately, in reading a couple of other message boards I frequent, there are a LOT of people that think this is way overdue. My guess is the average Cubs fan thinks that Z and Marmol both should be sent down and are ecstatic Hill is playing so much because he plays the right way. Why do you frequent such message boards?
  18. David
    i don't really know what to say about this
  19. David
    i love it
  20. David
    Jesus... he's 36... that makes me feel ridiculously old.
  21. David
    Did Pat Cline ever even make it up? I feel like he may have gotten a cup of coffee at some point.
  22. David
    Brings back memories... I used to pick up this magazine when I'd go to the games... I remember finding out about Wood in like 1996 when I had never heard of him. Him and Pat Cline were the battery of the future.
  23. David
    Yea... I had originally heard early May, as well... and that he had been (and, presumably, is) ahead of schedule.
  24. David
    Ok, we need one more person to say what tv provider they get it on to confirm its existence.
  25. David
    Show respect? Give me a freaking break, what a stupid comment. He sucked last year. He was grossly overrated due to his ties to the Yankees and all the morons who get giddy about 40/40 nonsense. He has a horrible approach at the plate and was always a terrific candidate to fall apart with the Cubs. I can hate him if I want to. Yea... I can safely say I wasn't a fan of Alfonso Soriano, the player, long before we gave him lots of money. That doesn't mean he wasn't productive. I just hated and hate his game.
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