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  1. Splendid Splinter
    Yes. Minimum veteran plus $1 so Bears can talk to him and sign him anytime after the season is over up to FA if they choose.
  2. Splendid Splinter
    Looks like 1 yr extension. He got 1.5 mil this year so I'm assuming that he got the same or less next year. I think he's ranked like 20th at C from PFF. Meh... Still doesn't stop them from getting DLP again unless the reason they extend Garza is that they don't like how DLP is recovering from his ankle injury.
  3. Splendid Splinter
    Figured he would be a Dodgers fan.
  4. Splendid Splinter
    In case people didn't know how the Bears drives ended in this game... Punt Punt Downs Punt Punt Punt – Detroit ST failure – TD Punt – Detroit ST failure – TD Punt Punt INT Pretty good argument that Cutler is to blame and not the system
  5. Splendid Splinter
    So how was Lynch not flagged for taunting/excessive celebration at the end of his long TD run?
  6. Splendid Splinter
    Don't look, but Raiders are winning games now.
  7. Splendid Splinter
    The funny part is that Bears lost and they're still crowning him.
  8. Splendid Splinter
    So I got bored and was looking at some Cubs prospects in the late 90s/early 00s and I noticed that Felix Pie was in the top 100 prospects 5 straight years. That gotta be a record right??
  9. Splendid Splinter
    Bears can convert that salary into a signing bonus and they take on that salary. So lets say they took 10 mil of it as signing bonus. Titans would only have to pay 5.5 mil this year and Bears have a 14 mil dead money hit and still get 2.5 mil cap space. For someone who knows a little more on how the NFL cap works, is that right? It's something along that line though. If you can bring it down low enough, I can easily see a high pick.
  10. Splendid Splinter
    Even if Titans was stupid enough to swap 1st with Bears, they should have only 1 person in mind for the pick: Leonard Williams. You draft him and just get Kyle Orton-type (as much as it pains me to say that) in FA as a stop gap. 2016 is looking to be a better QB class. Your DTs would be Williams/Paea (re-sign)/Sutton/Ferguson. That's a really good young core at DT. I still take their 2nd in a heartbeat which is basically a late 1st and then shoot for a future 2nd or 3rd. Maybe a future 3rd that could be 2nd depending on how they do or something.
  11. Splendid Splinter
    :lol:
  12. Splendid Splinter
    Boo. I missed Trestman and ESPN isn't showing Kromer. Jay was great though.
  13. Splendid Splinter
    I decided to look at every team. I went back as far as 2004 and see how many QBs that started at least 5 games or more in a season for each team. The reason I'm doing this is I assume that the more QBs you had in that span starting 5 games in a season in the past 11 years, the worse your team has been in that span which also means that once you had a decent/good QB and move on, you went through several before you found another just as good/better QB or you're still looking for one. These are the teams that had 4 QBs or less in that timespan. Pats Giants Cowboys Bengals Ravens Steelers Packers Colts Saints Falcons Chargers Seahawks 12 teams total. 1 of those teams won the past 11 SB. Bengals/Chargers/Falcons/Cowboys didn't make it to the SB. Who's the worst team out of that group in the past 10 years? Bengals? Pats, Giants, Steelers, Packers, Saints, and Chargers with 1 or 2 QBs in that span so they were extremely lucky along with the Colts. The rest had 6-9 and a couple were in the double digits (Bills,Raiders both with 11 IIRC). So if Bears move on from Cutler, it could be ugly the next couple years or maybe we'll get lucky.
  14. Splendid Splinter
    We all thought the same when McCown took over last year True, but Jeffery/Bennett/etc aren't catching everything within 10 ft of them and being double teamed like last year.
  15. Splendid Splinter
    Yeah that'll work. I just knew Nelson ran a 4.5s so I used him. Wes Welker is another example. He ran like 4.65ish??
  16. Splendid Splinter
    Yeah I was thinking of someone like Jordy Nelson. He's not "fast", but gets open a lot because of route running. He can run the whole route tree, get out of the cuts/breaks/etc cleanly, and get great separation (vertical and lateral). I don't care if the WR runs a 4.6 like Jerry Rice or whatever he ran if he can get separation like that. Isn't Boldin considered a very good route runner? I was thinking more along that line more so than a Eddie Royal or Johnny Knox type, but either one works though. I also was thinking about this, but why don't the Bears call slants? The opposing teams does it a lot against the Bears D, but Bears rarely call those. It should replace some of the 173249845 WR screens they call each game.
  17. Splendid Splinter
    I got about 3.5 hours in the same timespan. [expletive] gout.
  18. Splendid Splinter
    People keep talking about fast WRs or someone who can go down the field is what Bears need. I'm in the camp that they need a WR that has great route running and get separation. Doesn't matter if he runs a 4.3 or he's Jerry Rice slow. That's the problem with the Marshall/Jeffery/Bennett. They got great size, can go up for the ball, and most of the time... very good hands, but Cutler is either throwing high or in a tight window because the DB is hanging on them.
  19. Splendid Splinter
    this is a pretty emphatic no he's earning $15m more than Fitzpatrick, who can easily be argued has outproduced him...without the benefit of hindsight, try cutting $13m in players off the Texans and then look at their roster with Cutler saying Cutler's a top-20 QB and it's not his fault the defense is so bad misses a huge component of the problem; similarly productive QBs like Orton, Fitzpatrick, Hill usually don't take up much cap space at all and you're left with so much more capability to fill in holes And to be specific on the Texans here, If they had Cutler, they probably HAD to trade Andre or something to be able to extend Watt. I don't think they would've been able to give Watt that deal if Cutler was with the Texans on the same deal.
  20. Splendid Splinter
    private jet use is typically referenced in terms of hours. You don't buy a ticket from New York to Puerto Rico, you use X hours. Ok that makes sense. Thanks. The private plane part went right over my head.
  21. Splendid Splinter
    http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/12/15/breaking-down-jon-lesters-contract/ Just curious. Is this an odd perk or no? Like I know Fukudome got like 8 round trips to Japan every year in his contract and see that in others, but to be specific on hours instead of round trip to wherever or that you can use it for X amount of hours? Just seem odd to me and was wondering if it was common or not for big signings.
  22. Splendid Splinter
    Cutler cap hit is 18.5 mil this year and 16.5 next year. Only 2 mil savings. http://overthecap.com/player/jay-cutler/130 ---- look at the cap number
  23. Splendid Splinter
    My favorite is the non-player analyst saying Cutler is the highest paid QB this year and actually said $22 mil when Big Ben and Eli have a bigger cap hit. Bring 3rd isn't any better, but jesus, get the facts right. LOL
  24. Splendid Splinter
    http://i.imgur.com/ab0nOTf.gif
  25. Splendid Splinter
    Yeah I can't figure if he's still injured a little, zero confidence, or just completely suck at the moment.
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