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I don't want to be that fan, btw, but at what point do you start thinking about keeping McCown next season and letting Cutler walk? I'm not about to argue that McCown is actually a better player, but we're rapidly approaching salary cap hell and Cutler is likely to be really f***ing expensive. If Trestman is going to turn any ol' asshole into a starting caliber QB, how much do you want to invest in Cutler? I have to think it has at least crossed the minds of Emery and Trestman that maybe, just maybe, it could make sense to keep McCown, draft a QB high, and invest in the defense. Either way, I'd really hesitate investing in Cutler long term. Franchise tag seems like the smartest way to keep him.

I am feeling really good about Jon Bostic. After a rough first appearance and first start, he's been excellent. He still needs to learn some discipline in the run game, but he's still doing very well. I'm shocked how well he's been in pass coverage. He leads all inside linebackers in coverage snaps per reception with 24, per PFF. The last time they measured a player that high was Urlacher in 2008. We'll see if Bostic can keep pace.

Family Recites Lord's Prayer Together as Tornado Bears Down on Their Central IL Home

Win or lose today, I want to give Trestman a lifetime contract. He has really made chicken dinner out of chicken s*** with McCown.

So impressed w/ McCown

RG3 had 4 points a couple minutes into the 4th. Finished w/ 24

Hold + sack will kill a drive quickly. Gotta see some flash of competence from the offense now

This looks like a blowout in progress

http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/blackhawks...altender-raanta Raanta recalled, Khabibulin has lower body injury of unknown severity

Moon Mullin speculates about whether this is a potential MNF do-over

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 17, 2013 -> 12:35 PM) That's not what would happen. They would take the fans to the field museum to wait it out as well as use the parts of the stadium with cover. That sounds like a smart thing to do.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 17, 2013 -> 12:30 PM) I'm in logan square, I can't see more than a few feet outside. It's just a football game, who makes the call here? NFL or Chicago? Why take this risk? Not sure. I assume the operators of the stadium will make recommendations to the referees/NFL overseers. I'm not sure if it would be good to get 70,000 people to leave the stadium and start driving around the suburbs either

My folks are in Central IL. Baseball-sized hail in Bloomington, tornadoes in Peoria. Several tornadoes sprinkled around other rural areas as well. Peoria TV station knocked off the air.

That Ray Rice guy looks good, he must be having a great year

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Nov 17, 2013 -> 12:13 AM) So what you're saying is no player, not just LeBron, would be successful against the bad boys? What would Rose do? Rose would have had a tougher time in that era since he thrives on getting to the rack, but he doesn't act like a whiney b**** when people knock him down, so I don't know that it would be such a huge deal. D And yeah, I've always liked DeAndre. I don't know that I think he'll be the second-best C in the league, but he's definitely thriving under Doc and he is an absolute gamechanger when he's away from that free throw line.

I'd say the most optimistic projection/ceiling would be 20-25, with the likely projection more like 10-15.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Nov 16, 2013 -> 11:59 PM) Sure he would. LeBron's got 3 inches and 50 pounds on MJ. He'd be fine. Laimbeer, Edwards, Salley, and Rodman would not be afraid of LeBron. LBJ gets bent out of shape by Nazr Mohammed and cries foul when anyone shows the slightest aggression towards him. Teams like Detroit in the early late 80s/early 90s would have LeBron permanently on his ass and he has shown no ability to handle people getting physical with him. He can play through some contact, but he can't deal with people actually bodying up and clearing him out if necessary No. I love DeAndre. He's on my fantasy team and he sure isn't there for points. Dude's a beast

Just another day at the office for DeAndre Jordan - 3 points, 14 boards, 5 blocks midway through the 4th quarter

I'd love to see LeBron play 10 minutes against the bad boy Pistons. He'd quit basketball

I don't care what part of his game is better. I just want better. He's a lot better.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 16, 2013 -> 03:16 PM) If Cano's contract somehow falls into the same range as Ellsbury, absolutely count me in. Based on my standard that "no top level player on the FA market gets less than I think he will", I would be stunned if Cano wasn't a lot higher than those 2. It's more that we could see Ellsbury get up into the $120M range and Cano more like $175M - whereas 12 months ago it looked like it might be more like $75M and $250M

Yeah, I'm not worried about Hibbert when we have a healthy Noah, Boozer, Gibson, Mohammed. We've done pretty damn well with George and I don't generally expect to be beaten by good wings with Jimmy/Luol guarding guys like that. As far as their depth goes, I think Lance Stephenson f***ing sucks. CJ Watson is also not a good NBA basketball player and shouldn't be in the rotation for a title contender. Look at the minutes he was getting on the offense-starved Bulls during the 2010-11 playoff run. George Hill sucks. He's basically a poor man's young Kirk Hinrich. Plays point guard but doesn't point guard all that well, doesn't score all that efficiently, and is an overrated defender. Lance Stephenson seems to have some breakout potential but really doesn't pass the eye test for me. That dude went off a couple times in the playoffs last year and it looked like one of the flukiest things ever. I think his strong start to the season is more of a blip on the radar than anything else, but we shall see. It's not that the Pacers suck, I just don't think they're actually this amazing team that's going to go win the East

I'm going to go back to my original assertion that this Indiana team isn't that f***ing good. You have Paul George, who is great, plus no guards. Hibbert is breaking out and is a great piece. I feel like West never ends up playing up to his ability on that team, for a whatever reason. Maybe I just overrate West. No depth IMO on Indiana. A resurgent Granger could make them quite a bit formidable, though, if that ever exists. Not sure how well he and George would share the floor though.

Yeah I don't use Hangouts to chat with people since most of my (small amount of) IM occurs via Facebook. I have to think that the integration of SMS/IM will come at some point. I've heard of some people having issues with MMS/Group messaging, but luckily that hasn't been the case for me; of course, I had to wait a bit longer than a lot of users to get the update through the Play Store. I had sideloaded the Nexus 5 build and it wasn't working well at all on my One. The Play Store version is working perfectly. Patience is clearly the key

Really enjoying Hangouts w/ SMS. Nice, snappy interface. Will be even better in 4.4, when it (and other third party texting clients) are even more integrated into the OS