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I'm glad you made this thread, this was what I wondered with the Russell Martin signing.

I mean, why run the ball when you can just pass it 60 yards to an uncovered receiver.

I would take Stafford/Newton anyday.

My favorite thing is how the entire league's players hate Dwight Howard as much as me.

After the draft, I think I read every bears article written through June. I didn't even watch yesterday. 5k no shows to the game as well. Fun team.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Nov 15, 2014 -> 04:15 AM) Well then. yea yea, not as fun as I thought. The offense is not fun to watch. They have no idea how to play against zones. But seriously, this is a team of freshman and sophomores, and no real big men. The scary thing is in years like these, they can become self fulfilling prophecies. We need big men, but we might not get em if we have a disaster campaign in KAs first year.

There is no way the coach would jeopardize winning during his time to save their 2nd round pick for later in their career. Their offense is terrible. He was performing better than Greene. My point is basically there is no benefit to having him sit to anyone except their GM and I still don't buy it because why would you delay knowing what you have in your new RB?

So last I heard Toronto's energy was behind signing Melky. Is this the end of that shot?

Also, for the record, I don't think any team trading for Cutler is a good move for that team. BUT, it seems to have been established that there is in fact interest in Cutler. So who are those teams? My main guess would be Tennessee because: - They have had no good QBs for years and years - They have a coach who seems to want to use veterans who suck over youth (see Sankey, Bishop behind Shonn Greene) - Their organization seems to be very stupid and boring and trading for Cutler seems like the spicy and stupid move that would make them feel productive.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Nov 17, 2014 -> 06:57 PM) Jake Locker, Jay Cutler. Either way you aren't winning. Cutler may get you to .500 a couple times, but that's about it. Plus he makes a ton more. Better off drafting a young QB and if that doesn't work out, you draft another one. Right now the Titans are drafting 5th. There is a good chance they move up and the couple teams ahead of them probably aren't taking qb's. Good chance to get Mariota. I'd take that to over paying Cutler 17 million to get 6 or 7 wins. But it "seems" like you can win with him.

Except his whole concept is horrendous for their personnel, and modern NBA in general.

That Lakers team is so bad, and I hope some will now realize why I laughed at Byron Scott's retreat hiring again.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Nov 17, 2014 -> 06:45 PM) They would kill to get the QB who has the most turnovers in the league? Who is one of the most paid. I would think they would rather just draft one. I would have thought so, but I don't understand what that organization does. I feel like they are striving to be the best 7-9 team in the world.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Nov 17, 2014 -> 06:01 PM) What teams would legitimately trade for Jay Cutler? About the only team I can think of that would have any semblance of interest is legitimately Buffalo, and that scares the holy bejesus out of me. Tennessee has had garbage qbs since McNair. Send him back to Nashville. Homecoming, etc.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 17, 2014 -> 06:00 PM) Well any QB is a bad fit for Tice. He's a lousy OC. Martz you need weapons and an oline, which we had none of. Jay was actually a fantastic fit for what Martz wanted to do, we just didn't have the personnel to execute it without getting our QB killed. I agree. I still hate that they 2011-12 year fell apart. Before Jay's injury that offense was rolling, with our studly WRs of Johnny Knox, Earl Bennett, Roy Williams and Devin hester, and oh, what an offensive line. I'm not sure this line is considerably better, it may be that we just get ball out faster, but man that season could have been great. Then Caleb Hanie happened.

Was there more to this Cutler trade thing from Michael Wright? Is he just confirming bears COULD trade cutler (and like, ok duh) or that there are rumors they WILL.

I"m pretty excited for Mizzou this year. There are no real expectations since they are so young, so I get to just sit back and relax. But, obviously, would like to see progression as the year goes on.

Irrationally scared of trading away prospects after I just spent an hour reading the fangraphs article on our farm. Oh how sad I will be if I wasted time on that.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 14, 2014 -> 09:27 PM) The hard part is, if only Obama care coverage cut approved rates, then you end up with more doctors who will just flat not accept that coverage. It is already happening and would continue to expand. It does seem that there is so much excessive fat in the entire billing process, etc. Part of it is because of all the complications in how to get something approved, you end up having to have so much overhead with people specialized on the billings, etc, to ensure they maximize the revenue, get paid, etc, that those costs ultimately just push up overall costs (got to make it up somehow). Unless you are referring to medicaid for obamacare coverage, it wouldn't dictate rates. But even in the medicare/medicaid refusals, i highly doubt that number has increased enough to matter. The "cash only" doctors make a lot of noise but the client base for them is too small to be a game changer. The point of ppaca was to allow individual consumers to get group leverage for insurance. PPACA actual did a lot for billing processes to help with costs and they seem to be doing a decent job with what little data we have on it. Costs have, again, slowed the past 5 years and did not accelerate rapidly in 2014. Most PPACA plans are coming in below last years. This bill has been remarkably successful so far.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Nov 14, 2014 -> 06:46 PM) maybe just a little bit. That origin story has only been told at least 5 seperate times since Tim Burtons batman premiered(Batman Begins, Gotham, multiple animated shows and now BvS) Ha, k good. I get that it was the guys prime motivation but I'm tired of seeing a new dough faced bruce wayne run that scene every movie iteration.

Awesome thanks!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 14, 2014 -> 07:42 PM) My personal favorite will always be Lieberman. Trying to find a way to sabotage it close to the time there was a final, passable bill, in December of ~2009 (I think) he did a press conference where he outlined a plan to replace everything that was being talked about with a proposal to drop the Medicare age to 55. As soon as all the Democrats said "Absolutely OMFG YES" he decided that was a terrible idea and never spoke of it again. I actually forgot about his charade. Spector was more passable with PO than him. I remember being pretty happy with Burris around that time because he was pushing PO as far as he could. Absolute P.O.S. taking that Blago appointment but I he was an excellent vote in 2010.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Nov 14, 2014 -> 05:42 PM) I think they should just get Derrick to wear the old Kobe Crazy 8s. Those have great ankle support. I forgot who wrote it but there was an article about how Nike loved working with Kobe because he would come in there and basically say "I want a shoe with top ankle support. I also want it to be a low top" And the engineers would take that impossible challenge and figure it out best they could.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Nov 14, 2014 -> 07:30 PM) I know I probably say this every year about this time, but there is a very simple way to do this: I just got my listing of Federal employee plans/premiums for 2015. There are nationwide FFS plans ranging from $375/month for an individual up to $1650/month for a family, plus there are dozens of regional HMO plans. There is no reason that these plans couldn't be offered to everybody. Much easier solution than the convoluted law we ended up with. Talk to Nelson/Landrieu

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Nov 14, 2014 -> 02:20 PM) So Batman vs Superman is going to visit a never-before-told backstory. We are going to find out exactly what happened to Bruce Waynes parents! http://screenrant.com/batman-v-superman-ba...ers-set-videos/ Is this sarcasm?