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QUOTE (bmags @ May 9, 2014 -> 09:20 AM) The ones from pages ago in this thread that said he could play safety. every single one I saw last night and this morning call him an off-man corner in the NFL. Oh, unnamed scouts in the packers draft article. I thought you were referring to actual scouting reports.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 9, 2014 -> 09:16 AM) You are referring to Bears plans, I'm referring to scouting reports. Which ones?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 9, 2014 -> 09:15 AM) I havent heard that much, not nearly as much as "will replace Peanut" The Bears said he will play corner not safety. He will replace our retiring starting CB.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ May 9, 2014 -> 09:03 AM) I'm not saying it wasn't a good draft. But I think it could have been an even better draft. Think people lost sight of what I was saying. I said that I love Long and that he's the man. But even so, we could have gone a different route that would have ended up with us having a better draft. That's how I feel about this. Earlier I posted that I actually like Fuller a good bit. I just didn't see him as the best fit at #14, especially with the deep CB class. Shoring up two starting spots in the OL made the draft awesome. Second, CB's are more valuable than safeties so you take them all day if you can get them.

Trust me, they were hoping by now someone else would want him.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ May 9, 2014 -> 08:44 AM) Not a fan of Mayock. That doesn't do too much for me, but I acknowledge there are people smarter than me who seem to really like the pick. Well it's simply not a reach. And I'm also not calling Bostic a bust at this point.

QUOTE (farmteam @ May 9, 2014 -> 08:19 AM) Yep! I like Fuller. I would have been fine with any of the defensive backs there. Corners are more valuable anyway. We can grab a safety later on.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ May 8, 2014 -> 02:54 PM) Hey let's hit the panic button and f*** up all the lines. Here's an idea, let's put Handzus back with Hossa and Sharp, brilliant. That's a line from practice today, plus moving Toews away from Hossa. OK then. This team consistently performs in spite of Q, and to a degree, Bowman. It's really amazing how much talent this team has to overcome all of it. Come on man. The team performs in spite of one of the best coaches ever?

QUOTE (dasox24 @ May 8, 2014 -> 11:22 PM) Why? Safety is probably the 2nd most important position on defense these days, behind DL. On the other hand: in order of importance of building a winning football team, Guard would be towards the bottom of the list. What position do the highest paid defensive players play?

QUOTE (dasox24 @ May 8, 2014 -> 11:03 PM) Sort of... I love Long. He's the man. But I like to point out that we still took a Guard in the 1st round. That's generally a poor idea. We could have taken Larry Warford in the 2nd and he would have had a similar impact. And let's be honest, Emery lucked out. We took a guy who started 4 games in college and wasn't considered NFL-ready. Nobody saw the type of year he had coming. Or if you want to go way back: if Emery had taken David DeCastro like he should have in 2012 instead of McClellin, then OG wouldn't have been a need at all last year, and we could have filled a different need with that 1st pick. I'll say it: I'm not sold on Emery. His free agent moves have been good. His drafting makes me scratch my head more often than not. Jeffery was a fantastic pick but anybody with football knowledge could have made that pick. I was screaming for us to trade up and get him when he started falling. Otherwise, everybody has been a reach. Lucky if he hits I guess. What about also getting a starting right tackle later in the draft? It was a good draft.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ May 8, 2014 -> 10:42 PM) f*** you, Emery. 3rd straight year you've done this. What the f*** are you doing? And with that, all of the Safeties are gone. We're stuck with what we have. Conte and Mundy starting at Safety. Yikes. What a joke. Hope he's f***ing happy. I like Fuller. But not at 14. And not when the top two Safeties in the draft are still on the board. Further, this is a very deep CB class. Could have gotten a "contributor" in the 2nd-3rd round. In the 1st, you have to take an immediate starter. Not a guy you "expect to contribute." That Emery quote just pisses me off. It's like when he talked about McClellin being a guy who could contribute on special teams. f*** that. You need to take immediate impact guys in the 1st round (unless it's a QB). Then the Packers take our man Clinton-Dix and laugh in our faces. He'll end up picking off Cutler and we're all going to hurt because he could have been ours. I can just see him making some big play to beat the Bears and send the Packers to the playoffs. They beat us on the field and in the off-season every year. I'm getting sick of it. Id say last years draft was pretty darn good.

I love Cleveland.

So bad already. Lol

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ May 7, 2014 -> 10:16 PM) Can't tell if sarcasm Nope. Really think there is.

Some bad blood brewing between these teams.

Unfrozen caveman lawyer in to pitch for the cubs.

Someone on fb just asked when Kerry wood came back.

Walnuts.

QUOTE (Andy the Clown @ May 7, 2014 -> 08:55 PM) Danks is a piece of trash. I was pissed at the time when they gave him his extension -- felt that it should have gone to EJax. Still do. And there it is.

QUOTE (Jose Paniagua @ May 7, 2014 -> 08:47 PM) Non-fireballers arent hurt by velocity dips? Surely that cant be your meaning Saying "relying on velocity" does not point to a guy whose best pitches have always been breaking balls. He had a plus curve and plus change with a good fastball.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 7, 2014 -> 08:47 PM) 2 runs could of been worse. Thankfully that piece of s*** pitched over terrible defense.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 7, 2014 -> 08:44 PM) It's not the team. Danks just never is going to be the same. And that's yet one more reason why we have to be a bit careful with the payroll than just throwing money at mid-tier free agent pitchers. We already have one of our own who's mediocre at best. We don't need another one. So in your opinion this inning is all his fault? Even though he got two ground outs that were completely f***ed up by his defense?

Lol. That was two feet off the line. Good 3b have that easily.

QUOTE (Jose Paniagua @ May 7, 2014 -> 08:35 PM) This is a perfect example of outcome-based evaluation vs thought process. Danks was bad before that home run; some here just chose not to see it. Bad as defined by -- he cant do the things he's strong at anymore.......as he relied on velocity. He has to totally change as a pitcher if he's going to get back to being really solid like he was several yrs ago. Cubs have an awful offense so the things being said about Danks aren't based off this, but rather larger samples. Danks has always been an off speed pitcher. Not sure how he relied on velocity.

At some point the blatant holds will be called and we will be on the pp a few times.