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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 12, 2014 -> 10:30 AM) I love not hearing Boozer screaming anymore That was actually one of my favorite features of the Booz Cruise

http://theweek.com/article/index/269549/wh...from-socialists Roger Scruton, conservative philosopher, released a new for-the-masses book. I would agree with the above article's author's sentiment that he's one of, if not the only present-day conservative thinker whose work will have real staying power. I am not myself conservative, but there's nobody who can explain and argue on behalf of this worldview like Scruton. He has a way of explaining conservatism that nobody in American politics can, where it sounds like a discrete, coherent, and logical ideology. Full disclosure, I've met Roger and am a fan of his work on aesthetics, so I have some reason to like his stuff beyond just thinking it's good.

If the Republicans don't take the governorship, this proves that they are just completely inept in IL. My totally anecdotal read on things is that nobody likes Quinn

So, the story is that everyone's a f***ing asshole?

Switching teams, the ultimate under the radar move

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 10, 2014 -> 03:23 PM) My personal favorite prospect. Haywood is a real good kid.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Oct 10, 2014 -> 03:51 PM) I don't think so. There is like Pro Football Focus, but I don't think the bases anything league average. The +/- goes around league average in 2009 when they started. This would make it possible to make some judgments about league trends since they started grading, but their intention isn't really to make league/year/context-based adjustments. In some ways, it embraces the contingent nature of the grades

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 8, 2014 -> 11:45 PM) That 2012 team basically SHOULD have been at 84-78 with Peavy, Rios, Dunn, Sale, Quintana, Konerko, Alexei, Viciedo having a strong rookie year, AJ's offensive performance, a pretty solid bullpen. Tha main argument in Robin's favor was blending in all of those inexperienced pitchers/rookies and keeping the team together until the very end, as well as whatever magical pixie dust he spread around the diamond to get above-average defensive play for most of that season. The bigger enigma is how the 2013 team fell so far off from what they were capable of producing...at least based on their historical performances coming into that year. Of course, there were injuries, but that's only PART of the story of why the team imploded in the 2nd half. And trading our two best players, having our best RP get hurt and traded (Crain), another RP get traded (Thornton), and somewhat intentionally tanking for a draft pick

At midseason, it wasn't outrageous to predict that Ned Yost would be fired

I prefer the Oliver projections so I don't have to fool around with thinking about playing time. In my mind, I want to think about "what will this player do compared to that one if they both play full time?"

Hmm...this is a ploy to get us emailing our friends about Marqana!!!

I still like Trayce.

I think it is an absolute must for tablets, though, so I'm glad they're developing it.

I love Barry Melrose. Picks the Hawks every year

He's one of the few "turns chicken s*** into chicken dinner" coaches around. Might as well sign him up, especially considering the preponderance of chicken s*** they have over there

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 8, 2014 -> 09:17 AM) Sour grapes even before the guy spurns you. I don't know that I believe it, but if people think he's saying he likes other schools when he actually has already made his choice, that would be a plausible explanation

"If I add intrigue, [actual target school] will give me more money"

They're making the next Nexus that big to get developers a reference device for that screen size

I loathe the Cardinals

Jay has a larger cap hit than all of the best QBs in the league this year. Next year his cap is $1.5M less than Aaron Rodgers. That means he has to be absolutely fabulous or the team has to be lucky and get production for less-than-market-value from other positions. We're getting less than what we paid for from Jay, evidenced by the fact that every team with a better QB is taking a smaller cap hit

PFF stuff... Bears Best O performers yesterday: Brandon Marshall (+2 overall, +1 screen blocking) Alshon Jeffery (+1.4 overall, +1.8 pass) Martellus Bennett (+1 overall, +1 screen blocking) Worst O: Matt Slauson (-2.3 overall, -3.3 pass blocking) Jay Cutler (-2.3 overall, -3.1 pass) Ka'Deem Carey (-1.3 overall, -0.8 pass block) Best D: Ego Ferguson (+2.3 overall, +1.2 pass rush) LaMarr Houston (+1.6 overall, +1.2 run defense) Willie Young (+0.9 overall, +0.8 run defense) Worst D: Jared Allen (-1.7 overall, -1.4 run defense) Kyle Fuller (-1.3 overall, -1.5 pass coverage) Jon Bostic (-1.2 overall, -0.8 run defense) **32 snaps Shrugging my shoulders on the Fuller one. PI in the end zone cost him obviously, but they only have CAR 4/10 for 60 yards against him. Must have dinged him for stuff that doesn't show on the stat sheet. Jennings had a much worse day it would seem and fared better grade-wise (5/8, 114 yards against) Season nos. for Bears... Top O: De La Puente (+8.7 overall, +6.8 run block) Martellus Bennett (+8.1 overall, +4.5 pass) Bushrod (+5.5 overall, +3.6 run block) Ola (+3.7 overall, +3.4 pass block) Kyle Long (+2.1 overall, +3.7 pass block) Others of note: Marshall is +2, but only based on strength of blocking grades. Alshon would be in the top 5 if not for multiple penalties. Worst O: Jordan Mills (-5.8 overall, -4.1 pass block) Jay Cutler (-4.5 overall, -7.1 pass) Santonio Holmes (-2.9 overall, -2.7 pass) Top D: Jay Ratliff (+5.3 overall, +3.7 run defense) Willie Young (+2.6 overall, +4.1 run defense) Kyle Fuller (+2.6 overall, +2.1 pass coverage) Briggs (+2.0 overall, +3.5 run defense) LaMarr Houston (+1.5 overall, +1.3 pass rush) Worst D: DJ Williams (-5.8 overall, -2.6 pass coverage) Will Sutton (-3.7 overall, -4.2 pass rush) Chris Conte (-3.2 overall, -1.8 run defense) Isaiah Frey (-2.8 overall, -3.4 pass coverage) Jared Allen (-1.6 overall, -3.1 pass rush)

Bears threw 35 passes yesterday. Only 10 landed more than 10 yards beyond the LOS. Only one of those was beyond 20.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 5, 2014 -> 04:43 PM) IDK if anyone noticed, but pretty much all of Cutler's throws down the field were absolute crap today. Very inaccurate. We dink and dunked the Panthers the entire first half and that worked. They figured out that's all we're going to run in the second half and shut our offense down. Early on, it seemed like we were just responding to the blitz but we continued to dink and dunk even with the pressure off. That pass to Holmes on the last drive looked like it had to hurt coming out like that

All I'm going to say is I'd rather be running some mixture of journeymen/Orton/rookies out there for essentially no cost and miss the playoffs than pay Cutler more than Aaron Rodgers and miss the playoffs. We took the big bet on a non-horrible QB and it didn't work. Move on.

Mike Shannahan Rick Dennison Ron Turner Mike Martz Mike Tice Lovie Smith Jerry Angelo Marc Trestman? Aaron Kromer? How long before we consider firing the QB?