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lol. you guys post it when I'm at work too so I come back to like 5 more pages every day

Jesus Christ. I would split all this stuff off in its own thread but it's like a 10 page argument.

I'm blocking the next person who posts end-days bulls*** on Facebook

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 11:51 PM) I'll never be that cocky in the playoffs. We had a hell of a time against Indiana. I think we match up well with Atlanta, but you got to play the games. I know the Bulls will be prepared, Thibodeau doesn't play that s***. My opinion, however, is irrelevant. I just try to not act like an annoying douchebag on the internet

http://twitter.com/#!/KristinCav/statu...808667560067072 Yay we got an offensive lineman!!! Go bears I lol'd at this

Looks like the Bears were trying to trade with Baltimore to take Baldwin, but they didn't get it in time. Carimi to the Bears. Solid pick.

It doesn't matter, because the Saints are going to pick Ingram and Carimi will be there at 29

Typical Bears

WHOOPS Ravens. Missed their pick

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 10:52 PM) The bears are trying to trade down for sure. Nice reach Pete I think Carimi is going to make it... Angelo was openly shopping the 29th pick though. I wouldn't be too mad at a trade down

Come on Bears, it's not too late to draft a TE you don't need or draft a safety from some D-III school because of his 40 speed and then cut him in training camp

Thibodeau was probably going to stay up late Sunday night making game plans, but then he saw the Hawks won and went ahead and took a nap. I don't want to count my chickens before they hatch or sound too overconfident, but I can't see this taking longer than 6 games... probably 5.

Bring on the Hawks.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 09:25 PM) Great... double team Suh to get raped by Fairley. Nothing the Bears can do to outmatch that, just pretend it didn't happen. What's the Bears answer to that? Olin Kreutz. And he's not even signed

Suh next to Fairley... umm... kind of scared

Ponder to the Vikings. Okay now I think they are just randomly pulling QB names out of hats

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 08:43 PM) Bears spent less than that on a potential franchise QB with experience, not a rookie WR. Wow. Yeah... not even close to that much actually. A franchise QB who had just gone to the Pro Bowl and people were saying it was too much. Jesus.

Jake Locker, well that was unexpected.

Holy s*** what is Atlanta doing?

Act like you've been there before Dwyane.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 09:27 PM) 10? I'd say 20-30. Don't training camps usually start with ~80 ish person roster. Yeah, you're right. Nate Jackson's post on Deadspin that a couple people have referred to makes this point, those guys still count as NFL players and they go through the whole process, signing contracts, etc. Goodell is basically saying none of these guys matter.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 09:22 PM) Yet, here we are, today... I'd rather he had just ignored it, I was pretty amused by watching wingnuts foam at the mouth and try to distort reality. It was just kind of distressing that it was SO MANY of them.

Yesterday I made an observation about Goodell's op-ed in the WSJ and it wasn't really appropriate to put in the NFL thread. Goodell's main argument was that the players want to f*** up the NFL and destroy everything about it that makes it competitive and great. The NFL's status quo has been a huge success because of its revenue sharing and keeping the teams on equal competitive footing, everybody having the same opportunity because of the draft and salary cap as long as they manage their teams competently, etc. This is... umm... "socialism." Then he was saying that letting the players remove all these rules and controls by decertifying their union (that's really not what the players are trying to do but that's beside the point), and that it would be like a survival of the fittest system where the big market teams will succeed. That's... wait for it... free market capitalism. I'm a free market kind of guy (just not to the point of it being a religion I blindly follow) and certainly don't endorse socialism, but the irony of Goodell arguing that a socialist-style system is great while a capitalist-style system would be an unbalanced disaster in the WSJ of all places was lost on most of the commenters there because a s***load of them were agreeing with him and siding with the NFL vs. the players, i.e. big business vs. workers. Oh, for good measure, it only took about 2 pages for someone to mention that the judge who issued the ruling was an Obama appointee. As if all federal judges weren't appointed by the president.

If owning an NFL franchise was such a s***ty deal they'd have all sold their teams long ago. Come on. The owners can't function at the level they do without the players and vice versa, this isn't really that controversial a concept or hard to understand/explain, otherwise the Arena League, Lingerie Football League, and what used to be the XFL would be drawing in billions in revenue per year too or at least putting a meaningful dent in the NFL's popularity. They're essentially arguing over percentage points but the owners don't really feel like they have to fully argue their case, they want to dictate, not negotiate. They just have much better PR consultants than the players to make it sound all noble and s***, while the players make dumbass comments about slavery and other stupid s***. Also when people think "player salaries" they think of Tom Brady and Julius Peppers. For every one of them there's probably like 10 other random guys who are just trying to make a NFL roster and make nowhere near 10, 15 million a year.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 12:47 PM) The Bulls need to improve and work in Boozer. The guy is a very very efficient offensive player and unfortunately, given the team wasn't able to practice with him and hasn't had a lot of time playing with both Noah and Boozer, they just haven't developed the appropriate offensive rhythm with Carlos. I expect him to play significantly better next year (from an offensive efficiency standpoint) and I still think they'll get him going better the rest of the postseason. Boozer is a guy who has produced pretty well, from a historic standpoint, in the playoffs and against longer players (he's had some strong playoff series against the long Lakers). The first half of your last sentence is true, the second half is the opposite of true