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  1. WrigleyField 22
    Hell them and Paea is a solid young 3. And then Ratliffe until he slows down. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk and Young. And I still have hope Allen can be better next year though that would be strictly short term. I really wanna know if there's any chance at Washington being more than a ST. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Hell them and Paea is a solid young 3. And then Ratliffe until he slows down. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Yea my first reaction was definitely OPI so that's where my mindset it at. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Stopping when the play is blown dead is giving up on a play? Apparently the rule works in our favor not to fall on it "just in case" so I'm okay with it... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Is that true? How so? The announcers basically said that since all players stopped at the whistle there isn't a recovery. If they kept going for it and didn't get it, Vikings keep it. I don't know I'm still confused by the series of events. Other instances where hustle hurt the Bears like that was giving up before the whistle. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Only by transitive property of the curse on your teams. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Stopping when the play is blown dead is giving up on a play? Apparently the rule works in our favor not to fall on it "just in case" so I'm okay with it... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    [expletive] hell lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Yea every QB in the league bitches like that and gets no call. I'm going full Sulley in this Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    I'm confused 1. Did Minn "recover" that? 2. Did Cutler say something? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Yea I thought so too and the announcer is calling it "a good block". Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Blue vs Cle. DeSean Jackson vs TB. Alshon Jeffrey vs Min. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Not that I agreed with the pick at the time but is that net or gross avg? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    That's insane on at least two levels. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Maybe they could penalize them on the basis of having a verbal agreement which violates their spending cap. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    I don't care his reasoning, resting him is a good idea. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Lovie was a consistent winner, and he was not a dud personality. He was a strong personality where it mattered, with his players. The problem was simply he did not win enough due to offensive blind spots. Yes. Getting to the SB in Chicago seemed to give him too much power, or Angelo was week and let go of too much power. I actually like Lovie as a HC a lot, Trestman as an OC under him? Could that work? It would have worked and it almost did, but fell apart and we ended up with Terry Shea for Lovies first season. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Because if you're saying that Urlacher wouldn't have been a good player without Lovie I find that ludicrous. It's just a logistical thing. Coaches have better stuff to do than policing small locker room stuff so he empowers certain players to maintain leadership at that level so and steps in if they don't do it well. Thus the coach can focus on bigger things. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Just to be clear here Soldier: Player::General:Coach, right? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Kreutz was terrible and the team was a complete joke for half his time on the roster. There's always a need for leadership and Briggs was also a horrible option for that role. Urlacher filled that role and was a star impact player who made a difference. Kreutz was a freaking center, one of the least important jobs on the starting offense. His leadership was based on being a dick and didn't make anybody any better. He was the face of the offense when the team couldn't play offense. All this. Agreed. Kreutz was a lunatic who did nothing except start [expletive] likely to get himself off. Urlacher I'll give some credit to, but I think a lot more goes to Lovie. I think coaches who can actually manage their players has the most impact as opposed to some monster player-leader creature. I think the coach creates the structure that allows his best/most respected players to take on some of the locker room leadership. Sure, but that still comes back to the coach being the more important component. Precisely, it all comes back to the coach. He is the general and the Urlachers are the platoon leaders. They still gotta be good soldiers. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Kreutz was terrible and the team was a complete joke for half his time on the roster. There's always a need for leadership and Briggs was also a horrible option for that role. Urlacher filled that role and was a star impact player who made a difference. Kreutz was a freaking center, one of the least important jobs on the starting offense. His leadership was based on being a dick and didn't make anybody any better. He was the face of the offense when the team couldn't play offense. All this. Agreed. Kreutz was a lunatic who did nothing except start [expletive] likely to get himself off. Urlacher I'll give some credit to, but I think a lot more goes to Lovie. I think coaches who can actually manage their players has the most impact as opposed to some monster player-leader creature. I think the coach creates the structure that allows his best/most respected players to take on some of the locker room leadership. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Kreutz was terrible and the team was a complete joke for half his time on the roster. There's always a need for leadership and Briggs was also a horrible option for that role. Urlacher filled that role and was a star impact player who made a difference. Kreutz was a freaking center, one of the least important jobs on the starting offense. His leadership was based on being a dick and didn't make anybody any better. He was the face of the offense when the team couldn't play offense. All this. Mainly I guess I just want someone who makes sure we don't do 3 different coverage schemes on a given play. A S or MLB who sees the whole field. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Once we realized other offenses aren't punting anymore we had no use for Holmes anyways. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Hypothetical land- Trestman had to improve all three phases for me to even think about retaining him. Kromer (with 5 games as interim) could improve the offense and get the other two phases to just try a little harder and I'd consider retaining him. Until any of that happens tough the hypothetical land is steered towards complete coaching overhaul. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    2-4 I really don't know what he has done to show he's the guy for the job. OC in name only of a poorly run offense. He was fairly well regarded before Chicago and has worked under good Head Coaches. He supposedly is the OC but it's hard to know how much he actually does. To be plausible it first would require a dramatic turnaround if he became interim and he seems to me the most likely candidate to become interim if Trestman was canned mid season. There doesn't seem to be a great track record of interims who secured a long term role (Frazier, Singletary, Garrett the three that pop in my mind). Just thinking about what it would take for a same offense/new defense scenario and while Trestman has to do a lot more to make a case, Kroner could make a good case just by improving the offense since he doesn't have all of Trestman's current negatives. The offense hasn't been good enough for me to bother thinking of ways to try to keep it stable. Sure, if they fired Trestman tomorrow and everything magically worked the way it was supposed to, then I'd entertain the idea of bringing back Kromer. But you would still have a very poor overall coaching staff and need major changes. I don't have interest either at this point but since Trestman/Rex was brought up, I thought this was a more palatable version if something like that happened (given the pre-reqs outlined) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    2-4 I really don't know what he has done to show he's the guy for the job. OC in name only of a poorly run offense. He was fairly well regarded before Chicago and has worked under good Head Coaches. He supposedly is the OC but it's hard to know how much he actually does. To be plausible it first would require a dramatic turnaround if he became interim and he seems to me the most likely candidate to become interim if Trestman was canned mid season. There doesn't seem to be a great track record of interims who secured a long term role (Frazier, Singletary, Garrett the three that pop in my mind). Just thinking about what it would take for a same offense/new defense scenario and while Trestman has to do a lot more to make a case, Kroner could make a good case just by improving the offense since he doesn't have all of Trestman's current negatives. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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