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Why? What is even the point of doing something like that? To accomplish what, exactly?

One more day until some poor bastard has to play for Cleveland!

Of course teams draft for need, what team lets good players fall to them at random without some sort of strategy involved while they ignore needs on their roster? The thing is you can't get too wedded to this concept or you'll end up reaching. You draft "best player" in the NBA where the rosters are smaller and you figure out a way to make it work (with exceptions - obviously the Bulls wouldn't use the Bobcats lottery pick to draft a point guard you project to start). Guy looks like an All-Star power forward, but you were already stable at that position... make that work somehow because the idea is to stock assets and develop them. MLB is like that too, you take the best player on the board and don't draft for need because it just doesn't f***ing matter since you're not playing these guys on the major league club for a minimum of 2 years, 9 times out of 10, and it's a crapshoot where it's also relatively easy to make trades. (I have this exact same debate pretty much every April btw)

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 24, 2013 -> 02:27 PM) A lot of Patterson's value ought to be in the fact that he's a kick returner as well. The Bears already have substnantial cap invested in that spot. Just for this year barring the unlikely occurrence Hester suddenly "finds it" again and becomes the ridiculously explosive guy we knew from 2006-early 2011.

Yeah the first round isn't for taking chances, second round either. You can do that in the third round and later.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Apr 24, 2013 -> 02:10 PM) If the Bears have Patterson ranked as by far the best player on the board when they draft, I bet they would take him. They have lots of needs, but if they think Patterson is the next Julio Jones, they will probably take him. I wouldn't say the Bears have a lots of needs as much as they have no glaring area that stands out among the others the way they have the last 5 years. So they could go any direction and take whoever they think is best, like you are suggesting. Right now, I'd say their areas of need are LB (depth, and hedging their bets on Williams and Anderson) DT (razor-thin depth) Interior OL (Garza is old and bad) LT (perennial need, but not a priority in this draft for a change, only depth/competition) WR (missing the vertical dimension that Knox brought, should be easy to fill in this draft) QB (need a backup, and also a project for Trestman, though this is a very weak QB class) The rest of the areas like CB, DE, and TE would just be luxuries to have and if there are quality players there, great.

I think the point was how the Packers have drafted WR when it wasn't a "need" and ended up with a ridiculously stacked WR corps, and they lost their best receiver and haven't really missed a beat.

Matt Taibbi is a fantastic writer. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs...rt-iii-20130423 He talks about the underdrafted white WR thing too

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Apr 24, 2013 -> 01:55 PM) Or you could end up like the Packers. Who I think take a WR in the second round almost every year. If Cordarelle Patterson falls to the Bears in the first round and the Bears have him ranked as the number 1 or 2 WR in the draft. How do you not take him. I wouldn't use a WR in round 1 for value reasons (considering there's not any real reason to doubt Jeffery yet) but I wouldn't exactly be upset if they did that. Still I'd rather take someone like Ryan Swope later on who'd accomplish the exact same thing. i'm guessing Swope would be there in the 3rd because... you know... he's white. Same speed as Tavon Austin though.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Apr 24, 2013 -> 01:33 PM) The video is probably compressed more than the audio, causing it [the audio stream] to process faster. You can solve this by using your receiver as the A/V hub, which is especially easy with HDMI cables. Connect all of your devices to the receiver, and connect the receiver to the TV, this way all the audio/video streams run through the receiver, and the receiver controls not only audio output, but video output, too. This is what I do - there shouldn't be any inefficiency or signal desynchronization or anything. That's weird.

We are at the point in draft coverage where everything that could have been said has been said, every scenario discussed ad nauseam and the only ones talking are Joe YouTube who thinks he knows everything. This time next weekend will be where Joe YouTube loses his s*** because the draft didn't go exactly the way he wanted it to go and b****es about it ad nauseam until training camp starts.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 24, 2013 -> 12:05 PM) They also offer some pretty solid corporate discounts. I'd check and see if your company is on the list, or even ex-military. Pretty sure it is. They have "unlimited everything" for $109.99 (before discounts and fees)

Sprint looks like it does have the best prices and they have huge subsidies on their phone, the HTC One is $99.99 (plus I have the $100 manufacturer's rebate from signing up early). Seems like AT&T is the best speed from what I can tell but their prices are pretty awful. Gotta see what people in Baltimore and DC say about Sprint's coverage.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 24, 2013 -> 10:55 AM) Sprint. Best prices anywhere. Everything 450 plan cannot be beaten. How's coverage and data speed?

Since T-Mobile isn't offering discount pricing on the HTC One or Galaxy S4 and on some bulls*** I'm seriously thinking about switching carriers. Input anyone? I currently use T-Mobile and as long as I'm in or around a major city, it's ok. They have the best prices so I haven't felt compelled to change.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 24, 2013 -> 10:37 AM) This is like Chicken Soup for the Agendas Soul Immigration check Muslims check Truthers check Gun Control check CTE check Jews check The "false flag" or "government conspiracy to police state" crowd too

Derrick Rose is returning his movies to Red Box before he gets back to Chicago

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 23, 2013 -> 11:46 AM) I'm going to throw him out there since he had a great game : Boozer crushed the glass last night. I wonder what his rebound rate was b/c with my eyes it seemed like he was getting everything (despite the fact that brooklyn was constantly allowed to push our rebounders in the back and try and knock them out of bounds). Add that to his offensive performance, and it was a hell of a night for him. I meant to mention this in the post I made about Noah, got sidetracked and forgot. Boozer was a beast. He even had that nasty block.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 23, 2013 -> 09:43 AM) I'm OK with everyone else venting, but would you give up this f***ing attendance act? The Sox have drawn well in April like 1 time in the last 15 years, and they had to win a World Series the year before that happened. The fact that they're averaging 20,000 is encouraging enough for me. I thought it was just me, I'm so bored by that topic. I'd rather talk about the team, as mediocre as they might be.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 23, 2013 -> 10:06 AM) Would only apply if they explained how they'll deal with the radiation problem. Have not done so. Mars has radiation? Or do you mean the lack of a magnetosphere?

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 03:22 PM) Anyone know anything about that lineman bears signed yesterday? (talent wise) I think he's a second round version of Chris Williams, needs to prove he's not a bust.

Joakim Noah was pure balls last night. He took over the 4th while hobbling on one leg. He, Deng, Gibson, and Hinrich have been practically coughing up blood this year playing through pain.

QUOTE (Tex @ Apr 22, 2013 -> 08:34 PM) The part of this I find silly is the argument that criminals will not follow the law so it wouldn't stop x, y, or z from happening. Of course not. By definition criminals break laws, that is why we call them criminals. Laws establish the punishment. Capone didn't pay taxes on his criminal profits and went to jail. Of course criminals will not pay taxes, but it's why he is in jail. So when the police catch someone with a gun and no background check, etc. or any other legal nicety, the criminal does time. No need to wait for him to commit a more violent crime. If we used this non-logic we could just get rid of every law we have and not pass any again, ever. After all, criminals won't follow them. What's the point?

Alex Jones isn't even trying, either he's just lazy or he thinks his readers are stupid. For example, if there were Navy SEALs at the bombing, why would they wear hats identifying them during this SUPER SECRET operation?

The government shouldn't need a confession though. Most terrorists don't have a picture of themselves placing the bomb or run over their accomplice in a SUV as a dozen cops see it.