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I'm irrationally excited for a 3-4 pass down package that includes Shea and Bostic. It must be offseason.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Mar 26, 2014 -> 04:20 PM) In passing situations, Houston will definitely move inside and Young can play outside. In the modern NFL, you can't have enough pass rushers. And the Bears are still really only three-deep with proven DE talent, so there is definitely enough snaps to go around. Plus, Allen will probably be more effective with less snaps so he can stay fresh. Izzy has proven competent in specialist roles. I don't have a problem with him taking up snaps.

How about Kirk Hinrich's random aggressiveness recently? When he actually tries to force his will shooting and driving it opens up our offense so much more. Much better than dribbling until the shot clock expires.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 26, 2014 -> 03:05 PM) He's probably going to play 70% of the snaps. The Bears aren't just going to let Willie Young sit for 90% of the time. Lamarr Houston can play DT too. There are lots of ways to rotate in Young.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 26, 2014 -> 02:59 PM) While I do think Allen's regressing, he's an upgrade over Peppers at half the price (if we would have kept Peppers). I'm assuming only the first two years of the contract are guaranteed ($15.5 million over 2)? He's obviously getting older, but I think 2 years in we'll be solid. Last year vike's O was so bad he was on the field a lot, and I'm guessing saw more run plays. Despite all that he got 11.5 sacks last year. I hope we get double digit sacks from him but 8.5 to 9.5 plus lots of pressure is fine with me.

Yeah I still wouldn't hate a DT/DE in first round. Regardless of 2014, we need to develop cheap talent at that position. We can't keep buying Oline/Dline, though it's remarkable in 2 successive years we essentially have brand new both. Let's hope this is as successful as the oline rebuild was.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 26, 2014 -> 02:38 PM) Caught some movies on plane rides this weekend: Wolf of Wall Street - again, good solid movie, very entertaining, but not great. Why Leo was nominated is beyond me. He's literally just playing Leo from every movie he's ever made. Same with Hill - he was funny, but what was so great about that performance? Minor gripes, since the movie itself was pretty good. Typical Scorcese though, 20-30 minutes too long. I think Leo role was damn good. My main gripe with the movie was the poo-pooing of what they were actually doing illegally really hurt the movie. I thought Kyle Chandler was the best role in the movie and would have preferred he play a bigger role (the boat scene was by far the best). I saw it this past weekend, and after seeing it, I think a lot of the criticisms of the movie were pretty valid. It was just a bro-heaven genre movie. The last 30 minutes when the party stopped did not redeem that.

Last year was the first year I really wanted to go and didn't get tickets. This year, I'm pretty sure I'll never go. That is awful. Because so many conflicts and the damn heat, I'd take quantity of mid-tier bands I want to see over a few really great bands. And the quantity and quality suck this year.

Years and money more than I thought he'd get but oh well at this point just happy he's on he team.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 11:18 PM) It was 2 years ago. Drummond or Beal would have turned out much better, and Barnes would have been better too (not counting Lillard because they weren't taking a point). Cleveland (Waiters) and Sacramento (Robinson) can't be any happier. I mean, they kinda shoulda had Anthony Davis.

MKG will be Tony Allen without a 3pt shot. Maybe that's just Ronnie Brewer.

Rather than adding another rule to safeguard NBA owners from running their franchise into the ground, as a fan I'd prefer Adam Silver take on the derelict, terrible owners out of the league. Maybe if more teams were run like San Antonio we wouldn't think there was a talent drop off. No league has more rules to prevent owner incompetence than the NBA, and the number of incompetent owners just seems way way too high.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 06:05 PM) I do agree eight years is crazy for a pitcher. Even with Verlander last year, it already looked like he was losing his invincibility with all the rumors out there about diminished velocity from him and King Felix. It is crazy, on the otherhand, people are going to go crazy for his first 3 years production and deal with years 7 and 8 when they deal with it. I'm not sure why Scherzer should care about that though. Tigers have spent like crazy for talent, but Scherzer should take a team friendly deal?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 05:33 PM) FoxSports.com's reported offer of six years and $144 million would make Scherzer among the highest-paid pitchers in baseball – not to mention the second oldest of those with $127 million-plus deals. He's 29 now, turns 30 in July and only rotation-mate Justin Verlander (30) got his $100 million-plus more wizened. When he signed, Zack Greinke was almost a year from his 30th birthday, Johan Santana just shy of his 29th. CC Sabathia and Cole Hamels were 28, Matt Cain 27, Clayton Kershaw and Felix Hernandez 26, and Masahiro Tanaka 25. Enormous pitching contracts that encompass lots of years and feature a high average annual value are the domain of young men, and Scherzer's age plays against him. Of course, he and agent Scott Boras can argue his wear and tear pales compared to those peers and thus positions him in the proper place to seek more. When Kershaw signed his seven-year, $215 million deal, he did so with 18,643 regular-season pitches thrown. That's on the low side. Hernandez got seven years despite 24,872 pitches, Verlander seven with 25,424, Sabathia seven after 26,252. Scherzer's total after six major league seasons: 17,316. Here's the truth: If Scherzer is healthy – and the Tigers wouldn't have offered him what they did if he weren't – a six-year, $144 million for a pitcher coming off a Cy Young season and entering free agency with a little more than 20,000 pitches after this season simply isn't a deal to which Boras or one of his clients will agree. It's stupid money. Insane money. Untoward money. It's not the market, though, not when $9 billion course through the game and the players seek their rightful share of it. Hamels got $144 million over six years in July 2012 with 20,069 pitches thrown. Los Angeles gave Greinke $147 million over six, plus an opt-out, in December 2012 as he approached his 24,000th pitch. And Tanaka, whose pitch count is horrifying to even consider, scored seven years, $155 million and an opt-out. The ceiling is now Kershaw. Boras doesn't traffic in floors. Even if the intent wasn't to make it personal, the wording of the Tigers' statement ensured it came off that way. One general manager posited the only rational explanation behind Dombrowski releasing it was to prevent Boras from going to ownership and negotiating a deal himself, which is wildly cynical and makes complete sense considering his history of goading the Tigers into guaranteeing nearly $350 million to Pudge Rodriguez, Magglio Ordonez and Prince Fielder. I agree with that article's sentiment. Regardless of whether that's a large amount of money, if Tanaka just got what he did, it's probably worth the risk for Scherzer.

Great game, great effort. Jo was eating hibberts lunch tonight

I hope he does well buy I am a little nervous about how many passed balls I saw from him this spring.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Mar 24, 2014 -> 09:53 PM) I think Scherzer is dumb too. If he regresses at all or is just unlucky in general, he's costing himself tens of millions of dollars. Scherzer goes out there, loses a MPH on his fastball, puts up an ERA/FIP of 3.85/3.40, but everything else remains virtually unchanged, does anyone believe he is still going to get a 7 or 8 year deal worth $25 million per? Do the Dodgers and Yankees still exist?

QUOTE (SCCWS @ Mar 24, 2014 -> 09:19 PM) Your living in the 50's. These players all have big time agents. Do you actually think their agent is advising them to take a huge risk and blow their own cut???? They all have special policies that in the case of injury their income is protected for life. Once they sign the mega deal they drop the policy. It is why colleges are able to get a one and done player a policy to protect them until they make it to the NBA. Agents = $$$ Insurance = $$$

Honestly if I was a young pitcher who is already successful I'm not sure I could pass down a team friendly deal in hopes of a huge FA payday. That is such a huge risk that a freak baseball to the elbow even will cut your value to nothing.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Mar 24, 2014 -> 07:12 PM) Hahn has gotten Sale and Quintana (at the time of both extensions) for 14 years (4 of which are options) worth a total of 107.5 million. Unbelievable. Man, wrapping up a true ace and true #2 for roughly 15 million per year/avg. through the decade is crazy. That gives us a lot of ability to over allocate resources to other positions.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 24, 2014 -> 03:58 PM) so teams dont want to draft a guy who has a freak knee injury? Must be a very good scout. I have a hard time believing players like Embiid would drop too far even if he suddenly showed a stress fracture or something like that.

I think this year kind of taught us not go get caught up in the pre-conference play numbers. There was a lot of great offensive performances early in the year and that just dropped off like a brick as soon as conference play started.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 23, 2014 -> 02:33 AM) Bulls expect Rose to be back for the playoffs Not this s*** again. I don't even want him back. He's not going to be good and look what's happened to Westbrook this year after a similar injury. Westbrook is fine.

QUOTE (fathom @ Mar 23, 2014 -> 12:47 AM) Saw Hawkins bat a few times today. He has no plate coverage at all. Unless it's on the inner-half, I can't see how he makes contact. I thought the same thing. He took a fastball down the middle.

2 straight MEATBALLS from Paulino leads to a 3 RUN HR