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  1. CubmanPi
    *pinch* Enjoy it, Bears fans. I love all you guys, and I love the whole Bears team. I love you Rex. I love you Thomas Jones/Cedric Benson. I love you Offensive Line, you scrappy veterans. I love you Bernard Berrian and Muhsin Muhammad (and you too Rashied!). You guys have made the plays when they needed to be made. When they needed to be made. I love you Defensive Line. You guys circled the wagons and have regrouped since losing your best player. Keep it up. I love you Linebackers. You guys are the best in the league. That means you too, Hillenmeyer. I love you Defensive Backs. I'll always have a love hate relationship with you guys, but you're constantly put into tough situations and have come out victorious more often than not. See how good our DB's can be when we have Tillman, Vasher and Ricky Manning all healthy? I love you Robbie Gold. I love you Devin Hester. Most of the time. Where's the love for Brad Maynard? His punt shifted the momentum back to the Bears. Clark and McKie say they want a little bit of love too. Shucks, I forgot about Maynard. Clark and McKie get some love too. Maynard was definitely one of yesterday's sexiest Bears. Also, I've been down on Jones quite a bit, and never gave him his due. I'm glad he made me look stupid yesterday.
  2. CubmanPi
    I'm leaving soon to go watch the game at a friend's place. I thought it would just be a few people, whom I was pretty sure were all Bears fans, but now it seems like there could be up to ten people there, greatly increasing the odds that I'm going to have to kill someone by halftime. On the bright side, I had a dream lst night that, going into halftime, Grossman had aleady thrown for 350 yards and 5 touchdowns, and the Bears were leading 54-14. Here's to dreams coming true. Enjoy the game everyone*! *By "everyone," I mean Bears fans.
  3. CubmanPi
    I'm so freaking nervous and jittery there's no way I can spend all day thinking about the Bears. I'm gonna spend the day skydiving, in an effort to build up to the adrenaline rush for tomorrow.
  4. CubmanPi
    I was thinking about it five minutes ago, and just made up my mind ... I'll steer clear from here until gameday.
  5. CubmanPi
    That means the game thread will have time to get up to, what, 150 pages by kickoff? Actually, probably more than that, because there will be quite the increase in Bears-related press during those two weeks as well. *IF* the Bears get there, that game thread will swarf the Soriano thread in mere days.
  6. CubmanPi
    Regardless, 4400 yards is nothing to shake a stick at. Maybe without the RBs, his total drops to the neighborhood of 3,500, but the no offense claim is pretty tough to defend. It just won't be enough offense to get out of Chicago alive 8-)
  7. CubmanPi
    Yea, there have been multiple writers to come right out and say that they don't like the Bears because they don't have a story. In the media, the lack of a story equates to bad football, because there's no way to appeal to the masses with anything sensational, just boring statistics. So they opt out with the overhyping on the negative side, making the Bears out to be this lucky inconsistent team who doesn't belong. I like it though, and I think the Bears do too.
  8. CubmanPi
    :puker: Article about the Saints :pukel: The way the Katrina angle keeps getting played up, I am hoping more and more that this game is a nasty lobsided blowout. It's getting obnoxious.
  9. CubmanPi
    I'm still in disbelief that, with 5 minutes left in the game and the Bears down by three, they send TJ left tackle for one yard. They hadn't run that well since the first quarter against the Seattle D, and a first down was as absolute must, as giving Seattle the ball with 5 minutes and a tie game was a very bad idea. It still worked out and all, but the play calling has me seriously worried right now.
  10. CubmanPi
    I'm just glad the media is finally being honest about why they hate the Bears. They need hyperbolic stories about against-all-odds comebacks or superhuman accomplishments in order to lead the week-to-week bandwagon regarding who the hot hand is at the time. Since the Bears don't provide any such stories, they choose to complain about it, rather than resort to something as dry and pointless as substantial analysis based on statistics and in-game events. Stories like these tell us way more about the media and what the general population looks for out of them than it tells us about the Bears or what to look for in the game Sunday morning.
  11. CubmanPi
    You have a very good point. And a rockin sig.
  12. CubmanPi
    Estes and Bako starting - that game had 'Cubs Win!' written all over it before it ever started.
  13. CubmanPi
    This poll ranks up there with the hottest chick polls in terms of diversity in qualified options and the weight of personal taste in the final outcome. That said, I went with Jor Morgan, simply because of how painfully obvious his personal biases show through in all his sportscasting and the level of stupidity that goes with them. That can be said for others (ie Buck, McCarver), but Morgan's just get to me more. Also, I'm going to have to stick up for Muskat here. Yea, she selects questions like that of Edward K. from Indy for her mailbag and her 'analysis' can hardly be described as such, but she's also not really in a position to provide any real insight to begin with, lest she go the way of Steve and Chip. Her job seems to me like it's at least as much about propogating optimism and enthusiasm about this team as it is providing any amount of analysis, and that's definitely not a job for anyone who cares to write about them for the way they really are. Plus, she also gets more scrutiny just for being a Cubs talking head. I'm sure there are dozens of other beat writers and local coverage types who qualify just as much as she does, we'll just never know as much about them as we do about her.
  14. CubmanPi
    How does this affect the Bears' chances? Wow, I am a huge idiot, I can't believe I wrote that knowing full well the Bears controlling HFA I still pick the Saints though I think the Saints have a good chance at the NFC, and I voted Chargersfor the whole thing, but I'm still holding on to my Cubs fan-like optimism that Grossman and the defense magically figure it out and take it all.
  15. CubmanPi
    While the punch was quite nasty (those with pics in your sig should post them), I must say that the foul tip had to have been nastier. Nothing against Carrie, but this is one topic she surely has no speaking rights on. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/cubbybear314/Random%20Cool%20Shit/Barrett_AJP.jpg
  16. CubmanPi
    But they don't have any offensively worthless players who play with more grit, scrap, and heart than everyone in league history combined, so they'll be done at latest in the second round.
  17. CubmanPi
    How does this affect the Bears' chances?
  18. CubmanPi
    Pick me, pick me!
  19. CubmanPi
    In the Jaguars-Patriots game this week, there was a play where a Jax linebacker was blitzing, didn't get there before Brady got rid of the ball, and put a forearm in Brady's chest with only enough force to cause him to take a SINGLE STEP backward, and he got flagged for it. I think those kinds of calls have been a trend across the league this year, but I also think that the Bears have gotten the short end of the miscalls plenty more often than not this year.
  20. CubmanPi
    I don't mind it. He's a comedian. I think it's good that, despite the entire world knowing his tendencies, he can keep it fun and respectful with any of his guests. If the guests are willing to keep it light and fun, so will he, and I think that's a good thing. If he wanted to be more pointed, his name would be Keith Olbermann. I don't remember who the guest was or when, but it was sometime around a year ago, and one of the administration's talking heads was a guest on his show. For some reason, I started getting the distinct impression he was trying to lead the conversation to a point where invading Iran was a logical and understandable conclusion. Stewart was quite impressive in heading the guy off and calling him out in just the right way, but he only did that when the guy put him in the position where he had to. I don't mind that at all. As a side thought, I remember a guest of Colbert's who was promoting a book, and Colbert kept interrupting with pre-written jokes and didn't go back and forth with the guy very well. I'm very unimpressed with him.
  21. CubmanPi
    I agree that Fisher and Mangini deserve some strong consideration for coach of the year, and that Peyton should get it regardless of what happens in the AFC. Hester and VY have done enough to earn some ROY considerations, but if the MVP isn't a (nearly) unanimous vote for LT, every NFL sportswriter in the country needs to be fired immediately.
  22. CubmanPi
    Yea, he's not retiring. If he does though, his career numbers against the Bears alone are enough to make him a first ballot HOFer. Though I respect him as one of the best quarterbacks the game has seen, he's almost solely responsible for me learning to dislike the Packers the way I do. I would love to see the Bears get the last laugh on him. Not only would they be getting the last laugh after being embarrassed by him most of his career, but it would also mean that the questionable Bears D got it together against a capable Packers offense playing with desperation. Ideally: 16/34, 119, 0/4, Bears win 55-3. That said, I also wouldn't mind seeing him have a good game while still losing.
  23. CubmanPi
    The whole Brett Favre thing would be enough by itself.
  24. CubmanPi
    Hysterical - I never heard about that before. What's the over/under on the odds that the guy they kept showing in the crowd wearing a Cubs hat is a poster here? For the debate at hand, it's a very easy TDS vote for me. It just seems to me a better thought-out show in which the humor is much better related to the content, whereas the Colbert Report (which receives points for title pronunciation and the Final Word segment) seems to rely too heavily on Colbert's theatrics to make the show funny and not enough on making fun of the outside world.
  25. CubmanPi
    Since the Bears have nothing left to play for except practice, I wouldn't be terribly surprised if they didn't end up winning this game. The only implications it has is on next year's first overall pick, so the Lions may not be terrible interested in winning either, but it's not out of the question that the Lions take this one. (I'm giving the guys on Sportsline the benefit of the doubt and assuming they're using the same logic. If they just think the Lions will surprise the Bears hands down, then...) The Lions will completely meltdown at the 8 minute mark of the 2nd period when all of their fans walk out. :wink: No way. At the 7:55 mark, Millen will be fired. By 7:15 in the 2nd, they will have hired a new GM, and by the second half, the new GM will have a fully competent team on the field, and all the fans that left will have magically solved all the Lions' troubles!
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