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  1. Magnetic Curses
    i'd rather have turco, and they'll go with turco. and if i were him, i'd be super-excited to get a chance to play behind our defense. he might put up a sub 2 GAA again. i'd take a pay-cut for another chance at immortality. niemi could make a lot of money playing behind seabrook/keith campbell/toftbo. if he goes anywhere else, he'll be exposed and lose big.
  2. Magnetic Curses
    lol coordination
  3. Magnetic Curses
    why not just let lee go, teach soriano to play first and put colvin left? seems like a cheaper way to go.
  4. Magnetic Curses
    AHHHHHH. within reach, but just out of. meet with truco, see what he'll take before deciding on niemi.
  5. Magnetic Curses
    [expletive] the Cards. Can we just send the Reds Ted Lilly and wnything else we can give them to blow the Cards out of the water? I just hope that the Indians can bend them over like they did for DeRosa. jake westbrook is just a guy.
  6. Magnetic Curses
    i have no idea who.
  7. Magnetic Curses
    i will enjoy seeing marty turco have a resurgence as a hawk, though.
  8. Magnetic Curses
    whoever gives niemi 4 million per deserves to have to hide him in the minors.
  9. Magnetic Curses
    james loney is a pretty bad hitting 1b. but he hit a grand slam against us in the playoffs! he must be great.
  10. Magnetic Curses
    The University of Illinois in Chicago isn't going to hire Jerrance unless the University of Illinois is ok with it. blocking howard from getting a head coaching job would be a huge mistake. Oh I agree, but I think if he goes it won't be like he isn't ever coming back. this is an incredibly unfortunate time to lose him, though. it seems like the illini get out of the [expletive], and then something miserable happens.
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    [expletive] the [expletive] off
  12. Magnetic Curses
    The University of Illinois in Chicago isn't going to hire Jerrance unless the University of Illinois is ok with it. blocking howard from getting a head coaching job would be a huge mistake.
  13. Magnetic Curses
    I still think we'll get Niemi for somewhere between $2.5-3.25mil and will be able to squeeze him in. Don't think this team will be carrying Beach, as some have assumed previously. i'm not assuming that we're carrying beach at all. i would like to, though.
  14. Magnetic Curses
    i think their line is improved, though i thought it was improved last year and it wasn't. we'll see how the receivers perform in martz's offense, hopefully hester actually HAS picked some things up from bruce and it's not just fluff.
  15. Magnetic Curses
    qbs can't throw to receivers, if they throw to receivers they won't throw any completions. the coaches can simplify the routes and tell the receivers to never ever deviate, but again, you'll have cutler throwing into heavy coverage because oftentimes they'll be running into the defense. cutler and the receivers need to get on the same page, whether that means hester getting stronger or knox undergoing a lawnmower man-type therapy to improve his iq to 75. figure it out, martz.
  16. Magnetic Curses
    jerrance howard is apparently interviewing for the head job at uic.
  17. Magnetic Curses
    bickell's cap-hit this year will be around 541,000. that's pretty good. this leaves the blackhawks enough room to bring up beach and have a lalonde/vishnievsky 3rd pairing with about 2.4 mil to spend on niemi, assuming that it will be toivonen as the second goalie and not crawford. CAPGEEK.COM CAP CALCULATOR FORWARDS Patrick Kane ($6.300m) / Jonathan Toews ($6.300m) / Troy Brouwer ($1.025m) Marian Hossa ($5.275m) / Patrick Sharp ($3.900m) / Tomas Kopecky ($1.200m) Viktor Stalberg ($0.850m) / Dave Bolland ($3.375m) / Kyle Beach ($1.170m) Bryan Bickell ($0.541m) / Jake Dowell ($0.525m) / Jack Skille ($0.600m) DEFENSEMEN Brent Seabrook ($3.500m) / Duncan Keith ($5.538m) Brian Campbell ($7.142m) / Niklas Hjalmarsson ($3.500m) Shawn Lalonde ($0.773m) / Ivan Vishnevskiy ($0.821m) John Scott ($0.512m) GOALTENDERS Hannu Toivonen ($0.550m) /Antti Niemi ($2.400m) CARRY-OVER BONUS PENALTY: $4,157,753 CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter) (these totals are compiled using the bonus cushion) SALARY CAP: $59,400,000; CAP PAYROLL: $59,959,090; BONUSES: $610,000 CAP SPACE (21-man roster): $50,910
  18. Magnetic Curses
    cutler threw probably 10 picks last year that were absolutely not his fault, completely independent of the picks he threw because he had like 1 second to throw. turner's offense does not favor inexperienced, dumb receivers at all. knox and hester's ability to read coverages comes in just behind their ability to read books. cutler would throw it to the right places on the field, only his receivers would be in the exact opposite places they were supposed to be. i don't know you could have watched the games and surmised that many of the interceptions that he threw where no offensive players were near the ball were his fault. it's not like he was trying to throw the ball to a defensive player, it's just that he was expecting his receiver to be in front of that player at the time. quarterbacks throw the ball to the parts of the field that they anticipate their receivers being in. if the receivers are nowhere near those places on the field, it's not the qb's fault, it's oc's fault for not hitting the receivers in the head with a tack hammer. knox and hester are fast beyond all belief, but they do not know where to be and they may never know.
  19. Magnetic Curses
    anyways, word is the bulls weren't impressed with his workout.
  20. Magnetic Curses
    dr logic and his logical breakdown of logic
  21. Magnetic Curses
    i agree. i see no harm in trying to catch lightning in a bottle. i think rose will be able to create a lot of opportunities for him to get open shots.
  22. Magnetic Curses
    okay i guess
  23. Magnetic Curses
    and that's the argument, isn't it? "who's driving the dump truck and who's not?"
  24. Magnetic Curses
    in either case, nothing can be proven yet, so it's all conjecture. i just happen to subscribe to the belief that where there's smoke, there's fire. i think weber started recruiting players at younger ages so that he could compete with a self or calipari who can drive dump trucks full of money up to the recruits' houses at the last minute and get commitments. to me, that's kind of a logical way to combat that.
  25. Magnetic Curses
    richmond committed before he was in high school and abrams committed after his freshman year. i doubt they were offered anything in terms of compensation. if you're after money, why sell yourself short like that, anyway? conversely, why offer players money if you're not sure they're going to be worth paying? the mercenaries that kentucky hires are nothing like regular college players. at all.
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