Magnetic Curses

king of prussia, duke of lizards

what does that list have to do with anything? dear candidate, do you know any baseball players? do you know mad max or die hard?

I'd rather lose a recruit to Texas Tech than Kansas. Nunn's verbal has already been downgraded to "soft verbal" the lead recruiter on him at memphis was hired away by the aggies, they probably just overwhelmed him. i don't know if the commitment sticks, but I'd rather have a bigger guard like hill anyway. i really don't think there's a chance that we land parker, not that i have anything but history to back that thought up.

http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/29187164.html I remember our field was pure [expletive] at the end of the season before they installed the new surface. It's about time that the Bears do the same thing. i don't understand how that surface isn't just as safe, if not safer, than real grass. i saw an interview with urlacher and he was begging the bears to look at that type of surface and i'm sure a mjority of the players feel the same way. it would be amazing to have something that would allow the team to be safe and still play fast. and come to think of it, they could still have international soccer matches on that surface, right? so what are we waiting for?

sammy used to sprint out into right field with a glove full of baseballs and just toss them into the stands for people, he really did know how to put on a show and even if most of what he did was for attention, i was entertained. i hope he's embraced by the fans again. he's up there with ron as cubs' tragic heroes.

i believe in jay cutler

How can an average fan say there's "no way" that one center from a team you probably didn't watch much is a downgrade from your previous center? But that's pretty much a situation where you have to go off of what scouts, people at NFL Films, sites like Pro Football Focus have to say. yes, the bears suck, we know, we know. if kreutz would have come back you'd say he's too old to get in front of anyone. Oh please. Does it make you feel better that I think the Bears are better than the Vikings this year? Now do you actually disagree with something I said? i don't know, if it's a downgrade, it's not much of a downgrade, kreutz was pretty average the last 3 years. everything that i hear about spencer is that he's average. but what's it to you if spencer's a downgrade?

john lucas had 60 points against durant's summer league team. http://espn.go.com/new-york/nba/story/_/id/6829759/chicago-bulls-john-lucas-iii-60-oklahoma-city-thunder-kevin-durant-41-ny-summer-game

Football Outsiders ranks McNabb, Hill, Henne ahead of him last year. FO counts sacks as passes. Which obviously is a big hindrance for Jay, given the OL. Okay but Detroit's pass protection was worse (last in the league) and Washington's was only 5 spots ahead of the Bears. Donovan was sacked 37 times. Hill was sacked 17 times. Cutler was sacked 52 times. just tell him that "yes, we know, the bears suck" and we can go on with things, here.

If by "brings in", you mean pitched the previous inning, and then left him in so as not to burn an extra pitcher for no reason, then yes. larussa is still a giant penis, and is now a very old, senile penis that wears a diaper and squawks in that old man style when someone questions him. old senile penises often fall down for no reason, miss high-fives and yell at kids playing video games. i would say larussa exhibits all of these.

the umpire is head-butting yadi's fist! what a disgraceful showing by this umpire, we are all worse people for watching him wail on poor yadi's hands today. oh the humanity.

How can an average fan say there's "no way" that one center from a team you probably didn't watch much is a downgrade from your previous center? But that's pretty much a situation where you have to go off of what scouts, people at NFL Films, sites like Pro Football Focus have to say. yes, the bears suck, we know, we know. if kreutz would have come back you'd say he's too old to get in front of anyone.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=nfp-20110802_have_the_bears_made_the_right_moves_in_free_agency looks like da bum strikes again.

Yeah I actually think at some point Webb will be decent. He is/was extremely raw last year and forced into a starting role because our GM didnt build a competent line. But putting him at LT is suicide. i would honestly put chris williams back at LT before webb.

the bears are going to try the worst RT in the league at LT. i mean, this was a guy who was personally responsible for the near decapitation of our quarterback on so many occasions. it's mind boggling. anyone but webb.

What the hell for? i hope not some dumb attempt to make it up to the players for not re-signing kreutz.

this is some interesting logic.

It turned out fine, but do we believe that they really knew what they had in Idonije or did the blind squirrel find a nut? I'd like to think they knew what they had, but I'm not that convinced. Peppers really took to Idonije, which is not something the coaching staff could possibly know would happen. They obviously didn't know what they had since Mark Anderson sucked it up for half the season taking the majority of the snaps at the other DE. It turned out fine for them in the end, but it still doesnt mean it wasnt a dumb decision to cut a productive Alex Brown in an uncapped year. There is no other likely reason why they cut him other than cost cutting. i'm showing that anderson started game 1 and then didn't start again. Yeah well you suck. Regardless, I have no problem admitting that the move turned out ok, but my point was that they made the move to offset the cost of the Peppers move. I don't think they were expecting Izzy to necessarily have a career year. They were hoping Mark Anderson could have a monster year with the opponent focusing on stopping Peppers. They certainly could have afforded to keep Brown, they just didn't, and I've yet to hear a reason why except "they didn't want to spend the money on Peppers and Brown." It's not my money but if they can't even spend up to the projected salary cap in an uncapped year, it leaves me wondering why. maybe they got it right? maybe they saw something that told them that alex brown was going to be less than his mediocre self, which would have been right. brown was even more allergic to the quarterback than normal last season. i'm not going to complain about defensive end, they seemed to do okay with those decisions.

It turned out fine, but do we believe that they really knew what they had in Idonije or did the blind squirrel find a nut? I'd like to think they knew what they had, but I'm not that convinced. Peppers really took to Idonije, which is not something the coaching staff could possibly know would happen. They obviously didn't know what they had since Mark Anderson sucked it up for half the season taking the majority of the snaps at the other DE. It turned out fine for them in the end, but it still doesnt mean it wasnt a dumb decision to cut a productive Alex Brown in an uncapped year. There is no other likely reason why they cut him other than cost cutting. i'm showing that anderson started game 1 and then didn't start again.

i bet it was awesome

This pisses me off because it's so true. The McCaskey's sure seem lax this year. You would think an owner would be so hellbent on fielding the best team they could... Even last year when we made that FA splash and signed Peppers. What did we do right after? Cut Alex Brown...in an uncapped year. For what? Not saying Brown is a Pro Bowler, but he's a solid consistent performer. No surprise that we struggled at DE all year, and traded his replacement, Mark Anderson, midseason. There was no reason to cut brown. We took 2 steps forward and 1 step back. But of course the news didn't go into that angle and praised the McKaskeys for not being cheap in an uncapped year. The funny thing is, I don't think they even reached what the cap would have been if there was one last year. That said, they aren't super cheap, I know they are usually somewhere around 1st-2nd in the division in payroll. i thought the DE's were pretty strong last year, izzy broke through as a starter opposite peppers. i think cutting alex brown turned out fine for them. as for payroll in the north, it fluctuates year-by-year. sometimes thy're at the top, sometimes the bottom.

I copied that delivery whenever I could. when was that?

I'm fine with it really. Bears already got a good core so Okoye/Gholston are backup at the moments (DE- Peppers/Izzy/Wooten/Gholston then DT- Paea/Adams/Melton/Okoye and that's not mentioning other DLs either). If you got a good core, why not take a chance on 2 young guys who are low risk/high reward? They still need to sign at least 2 OLs though. It's the most pressing need on the team. as far as gholston goes, he's been a 3-4 DE under ryan's system for 3 years. it's going to be a little easier for him in lovie's 4-3, just because he can use his athleticism a little more and focus on just getting to the qb.

Sure, it was total luck. By your logic it was "lucky" the Bears even made the NFC Championship because they got to play the woeful Seahawks. GB went on a great run, and played the teams in front of them. I don't know what else you would have expected them to do. AND it was with a bunch of the regulars on IR. Just wait until the season starts and we have a lot of those guys back. it was lucky that a "bunch" of those guys got hurt because as "bunch" of those backups were better than their regulars. but please get your hopes up for a "bunch" of titles.