Jake

Managers just don't matter that much. I'm not too worried about it.

People watching over MLB.tv and internationally are also not included in the ratings

How does the kid/family deal with all of that unreported income?

Not knowing much about CA, I've always thought about what it might be like to live there. A big turn-off is that my impression is that not many of the metros in CA are at all walkable/easily navigated via public transit. One of the big things I've always wanted to have in a potential "dream destination" is the ability to liberate myself from the need to drive everywhere.

I'd be surprised if the Sox brought somebody in to take ABs from Semien. My guess is that both Sanchez and Semien are on the MLB roster to start the year, the question is just what roles they will play. It almost seems as if they prefer Sanchez, which is very surprising to me. Semien shouldn't be relegated to a platoon role at this stage in his career.

Age is a turn-off for me. Great 27-28-29-year-old pitchers rarely make it to market and there's a good reason why. You don't want to compound the built-in risk of pitcher contracts with the many risks associated with aging players.

Yeah you could read it as UIUC playing the game (throwing money at these guys gets their attention) or refusing to (charismatic coach but no $ doesn't bring home the big dogs)

Jay has always had awful fundamentals when it comes to ball security in the pocket. He is very averse to putting both hands on the ball and he tends to hold it low. You can't pick and choose when to secure when you often don't see the threat coming - it's surprising to me the fumbles haven't been a bigger problem in the past, when he was sloppier and sacked more often.

You should be more worried about the existence of the credit card for security. President Obama recently signed some sort of legislation/order that will require the tech on these credit cards to change because of the ease with which bad people can steal your info from them.

One thing with PFF is the point allotment can have to do with things that can't easily be conveyed by looking at other statistics. For instance, in their ReFo for yesterday's game, they said they didn't reward Tannehill handsomely for his hot start because he had several easy throws where he threw them inaccurately, costing the receivers (who made good plays to catch them) chances at getting YAC

PFF for Bears yesterday: Best O: Kyle Long (+2.4 overall, +1.6 pass block) Martellus Bennett (+2.0 overall, +0.9 pass) Matt Forte (+1.9 overall, +1.8 pass) Worst O: Jay Cutler (-2.2 overall, -1.0 pass) Jordan Mills (-2.2 overall, -1.1 pass block) Alshon Jeffery (-1.5 overall, -1.6 pass) Best D: Jay Ratliff (+2.6 overall, +2.0 pass rush) Tim Jennings (+1.7 overall, +0.9 pass coverage) D.J. Williams (+1.6 overall, +1.9 run defense) Worst D: Khaseem Greene (-3.4 overall, -2.4 pass coverage) Jared Allen (-3.4 overall, -1.9 run defense) Sherrick McManis (-3.0 overall, -2.6 pass coverage) Some season numbers for the defense: Top: Ratliff (+8.5 overall, +4.2 run defense) LaMarr Houston (+4.3 overall, +4.4 pass rush) Willie Young (+4.3 overall, +6.4 run defense) Lance Briggs (+2.9 overall, +4.5 run defense) Also of note... LaMarr Houston leads all 4-3 DE in QB hits with 10, despite his 0 sacks. 5th in hurries. Second in football regardless of position, after JJ Watt (who has 20 f***ing QB hits for Christ's sake). Bears O ranks 8th in NFL, just 3 spots ahead of this past week's opponent MIA. Bears D 18th. ST improves one spot to 30. Green Bay, in spite of reputation, ranks number one in pass blocking.

FWIW, I don't feel like Chicagoans coddle Cutler all that much. I think, over the course of his time here, he has tended to receive more blame than he has deserved. I do think that nowadays he tends to not receive enough blame, but early in his tenure he was seen as more responsible than he probably was for the awful offense.

Brandon should probably make that catch

I would be surprised if Mills starts next week

Kyle Long was beastly on that one

You do have to grade on a curve here. The defense was constructed to be slightly better than average at best. Now, I'd say they are around average. Null expectation would have been "must not be worst in league" as they were last year. The team was built so that it could be good if the offense was elite. Entering today, the offense was merely better than average. After today, it's looking like it's just average. It has been far below expectations and doesn't have convenient excuses for it. ST have been bad too, but we didn't have high expectations and they just don't matter as much.

Rosario, always the good teammate, trying to take some heat off of his QB

That might be the first kick we've taken across the 20

I'd say the defense is about average, which is remarkable considering how much they've been affected by injuries

Don't forget guys, the problem with this team is the defense

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 19, 2014 -> 02:56 PM) Please tell our defensive ends to stop overpursuing on the options. Looks like the play call had Shea ccovering the QB

Shea McClellin looks comfortable in his role as defense's worst player.

Right now, I don't see anything to the Royals model except you can win less than 90 games after a decade of brutal baseball then get lucky in the playoffs. I'm going to need to see more seasons of success before I see anything worth emulating here

Defense is not the side of the ball worrying me today.

The Nexus line (at least, the phones) just isn't built for "average consumers" and this release seems to confirm that. Google thinks the Nexus 5 is still a plenty good phone and their priority is to get a phablet-sized reference device for developers. As far as the price, it is unlike any previous Nexus phone because it absolutely souped up in just about every possible spec. No cut corners to reduce cost. Also, what a bummer with the iPad Mini update. I've got all kinds of Apple enthusiast friends pissed off that all they did was add TouchID (not even an upgrade to the A8x processor) and jacked up the price.