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there is some incorrect info that the bears are still on hook for next years bonus. We ate it this year, but saved 8.5 next.

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Sep 28, 2015 -> 12:35 PM) People thought Jerry Jones was insane for spending that many draft picks on offensive linemen. The Cowboys have a ton of issues on defense, still, but they keep themselves in games with a qb with an arm and all the time in the world. I'm just speculating, but it may be that offensive lineman work more as a team of 4-5 to the point where, when one of them needs to get paid, teams break up the line and suddenly that's the end of the line (pun intended). Offensive line chemistry just completely breaks down like it has in Seattle. Hopefully the Bears are ready to keep Long around, because he looks great overall. Bill polian recently said the reduction in practice has hurt the oline most. Says the unit takes a longest to gel as one and identify exotic new looks.

wow, that's awesome.

This is just not a very exciting FA crop to me. But if we signed Gordon, I would be happy with watching our OF defense move from bad to good and seeing how it helps our staff. That obp is nice too. But, it just seems so silly for the team, where it's at, to go all out on that. I keep saying it, but honestly, I don't know how you fix this team.

I still watch most games, go to 3/4, watch all playoff games. Like the portis pick a lot. Love Mirotic, love butler. But it's hard to watch a team be really good but run up against teams that are just superior so many years in a row.

What do people think Alex Gordon will get?

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Sep 28, 2015 -> 12:03 PM) To be fair, while we have swung and missed at big-name players in the past (FWIW, Melo openly said he wishes he came to the Bulls last year), there was no way we could have signed Aldridge this year. Noah-Gasol-Gibson-Miroric-Portis is already a logjam. Say we get rid of Gibson to make room for him, we'd have an even bigger problem, as Gasol-Aldridge is the best duo, but Noah probably wants to start and Niko will develop best with starter minutes. I'm not saying we could have this year, nor are we set-up to add another PF and have it be a good move. But since 2010, we've had all of these plans to get these star players. It would be one thing if they never switched teams, but they have, and we didn't get them. And we aren't going to get Durant. But also, and this isn't specifically at you, but the Bulls are responsible for the makeup of their team beyond one year. That they were not able to add a star player because they didn't have the pieces or the money, that is their fault. Other teams, playoff teams, were able to successfully add FA/Trades for stars. The bulls haven't because frankly they don't want to.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Sep 28, 2015 -> 10:50 AM) I didn't realize that happened this offseason. This year we didn't shoot for anything big, but the LeMarcus Aldridge bulls rumors have been around for years. The Kevin Love rumors had always been around. Melo rumors. Lebron. Wade going home. Etc etc. All those players have switched teams now except Wade...and none ended up on Bulls.

Do people view TVR as an actual piece on defense or just replaceable depth.

Yeah I guess I'm not excited about this year at all. I'm intrigued by Hoiberg, but it's still so maddening to me that the Bulls keep having these elaborate offseason plays to get another star player, and then the other top teams just run circles around them in doing so. Spurs are loaded. Cavs are loaded. Not sure what our purpose is as a team.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 28, 2015 -> 10:02 AM) I still don't dislike Emery. Did he make a bad coaching hire? Yes. But otherwise, I honestly liked what he was doing. The defense aging and declining so quickly was something any GM would have struggled with. I don't have anything against Pace thus far, but Emery just went down with a bad coaching hire. He drafted 3 (one a punter) good starters in 3 years when we desparately needed to infuse younger talent. That was supposedly his strength.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Sep 28, 2015 -> 09:55 AM) There was some pretty awful QB play this weekend. I know a lot of it was because of injury, but it was hard to watch. Honestly, I think it's the crap offensive line play league wide. Peyton is now behind garbage, wilson behind garbage, Newton behind garbage, etc etc. Then Brandon Weeden looks good behind the leagues best o line.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 28, 2015 -> 09:38 AM) \I can't wait to hear that Derrick Rose is in the best shape of his life and feeling better than he has since pre-surgery! I would be really happy to hear this about Noah, though.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Sep 28, 2015 -> 09:12 AM) Eh, maybe. They've been fairly competitive when Jay has been out there. Lost to the Pack by 8 and trailed at the half by 8 to AZ. Those are 2 damn good teams. Yeah but the whole cutting tim jennings, leaving 7 million of cap space available with players like evan mathis around, just seems like they were not too concerned on this year.

Maty Mauk has been 2014 Jeff Driskel territory and lost like 10 players last game. Sigh, reload year. Nice thing is this ridiculous freshman defensive line. But I don't get how our offensive line regressed.

I honestly think the bears are tanking. I think they took over, realized they could do nothing about Jay and all of their major talent was 4-3 pieces too expensive to get rid of and are going to take it on the chin next year and then enter next year with cap space galore and a high draft pick.

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 26, 2015 -> 06:42 PM) Some might recall during one of the budget fights when Joe Biden got together with Lindsey Graham and some other top Republicans to hammer out a workable deal. And they did. That's because those guys have been in the game for a long time and know how to talk to each other in these situations, how to swallow their pride, and to the extent possible manage more unruly peers. You won't see someone like Carly Fiorina ever come close to grasping that kind of working knowledge of governance. See this is where when people think of a CEO as president they would actually be better. Of all of trumps nonsense, his talk about how deals are made, he's not saying you just go into a negotiation and bulldoze them and you magically get what you want. He's said he doesn't go into a negotiation with expectations, but you enter talks and see what you can get. Versus how much of the other Republicans have negotiated which is to start by saying they won't accept anything unless they get all of their sides ideological goals and... Dealmaking is not a unique skill to politics.

I was really hoping the pope's visit would resolve this too.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Sep 25, 2015 -> 02:06 PM) The bar for WC contention, every year, is simply a timely six-week stretch of hot baseball. The scorched-Earth rebuild is a relic of the past, friends, at least as long as the current playoff structure/CBA holds. Then why are we seeing the teams we are in the playoffs?

This isn't a dem topic but i lol'd at this survey at the end of the article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/...e-people-anger/

Because he has 35+ home run power and there is nothing in our entire system that is projecting that except the lottery ticket that Hawkins figures it out.

Honestly I'd probably take Schwarber over Rodon.

I totally recognize that this means nothing, but it was disappointing to me how all of the prospect writers were going crazy this year with the amount of call-ups of big talent, and how completely ignored Rodon was in that. It means nothing, but on the other hand, I like those writers, and I wish the sox gave them more to write about for me.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Sep 25, 2015 -> 12:19 PM) Gotta love Twitter. Start a rumor and watch it spread. Get enough people tweeting it and then you get peoe like Cowherd mentioning it. It really is ridiculous. The EDSBS reader comment about how Kiffin tried to hit on their friend under the psuedonym Joey Freshwater was worth it, though.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 25, 2015 -> 01:13 PM) Could she have gotten that DNA there by hanging out with him in the bar or in the limo? We don't know that was sexual. I actually, have no idea. I still claim the right to call any night club in buffalo area scuzzy.