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Fister would have been a nice Coop project at some point. Very Garland esque

People want Zooks recruiting, not his coaching. My snake oil comment is in reference to his ability to sell U of I on some pretty good recruits. Kiffins "snake oil" was himself

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Dec 2, 2013 -> 04:35 PM) Ron Zook was great. Don't bring him up with Lane Train.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Dec 2, 2013 -> 04:12 PM) Maybe I'm just remembering some time that we pounded him. I didn't realize his ERA was 4.18. He actually pitched pretty good against the Sox(who didnt?) http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/...t=p#oppon_extra

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 2, 2013 -> 04:13 PM) Absolutely, but boy do they make a lot before they flame out. Oh yea. Thats the crazy thing about Kiffin to me. At no point in his career did he have a really successful season. I suppose 2012 was pretty good at USC, but they really fell off. But the Raiders, and Tennessee, and all of the recruiting violations that followed him around, and all of the crap that came along with him. You would think somewhere along the line he had an incredible season buried in there.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 2, 2013 -> 03:53 PM) It seems that snake oil salesman can have a great career in college sports. They still have to be able to coach the players. See: Zook, Ron

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Dec 2, 2013 -> 03:56 PM) "Isn't that bad" is a nice way of putting it. He is a more than serviceable 4th starter.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 2, 2013 -> 03:38 PM) Whoever hired Kiffin was a moron though, so not too much credit to them. As bad as a coach as he is, it really is astonishing the climb that Lane Kiffin made at two seperate levels of football, using basically his daddies good name. The guy is a supreme snake oil salesman

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Dec 2, 2013 -> 02:43 PM) If you were ever going to transition from Cover 2/4-3 to a 3-4, this would be the year for it. Emery keeps saying it is not going to happen

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 2, 2013 -> 02:53 PM) But going into the season we knew our dline was super thin. You aren't going through an nfl season without injuries to that position. And we need to keep our guys fresh. I think Wootton and Peppers could still be good players but not if they are playing 100% of snaps. We are trying to rotate but it's with garbage players off the scrap heap. It didnt help that the guy they signed to help with depth decided to retire on the first day of training camp(Cedric Ellis). They really got screwed right away on D Line. They have been in street guy mode all season at DT, and were sort of lucky that Ratliff became available, and I only say sort of because the Bears had to wait until he got healthy to play him.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Dec 2, 2013 -> 01:26 PM) Well, he wasn't Leonardo. I thought he was real good. Then again, my standards aren't the best. Basically for me as long as I can't tell you're acting you're good. Channing Tatum? He's all kinds of awful/terrible. He was pretty good in Magic Mike and 21 Jump Street. Especially 21 Jump Street, that movie was hilarious.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 2, 2013 -> 01:00 PM) The only thing that scares me about the Bears under Trestman is they are giving off a sort of Cowboys vibe. A talented offensive team with a bad performing defense and makes stupid ST plays and penalties all over the field, good for 8-8 every year. And we have Jay Ratliff. Its kind of funny that Dallas took Marinelli and their defense has also been historically bad. And for the most part they have had it intact, at least not to the injury numbers the Bears have experienced

everything about this season has screamed transition to me, so Im not going to get overly worked up either way. As fun as the offense has been to watch, the defense has been that brutal. Things need to be fixed, but we all knew eventually the bottom would drop out of this high scoring defense sooner or later. Unfortunately the offense popped one season too late. Emery will have a very interesting offseason ahead of him. Many decisions to be made in personnel

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 2, 2013 -> 09:53 AM) Anymore Chicago sports radio isn't intelligent. It is more say something controversial to get people stirred and maybe generate some calls. Ignore anyone with something intelligent to say, and put the guy on the air who is going to say something stupid. If they say something intelligent, take it out of context, or twist it into something else. It is basically reality TV on the radio. It is an insult to anyone with a sports IQ. It isnt all like this

QUOTE (iamshack @ Dec 2, 2013 -> 08:31 AM) I agree...the reason we have gone backwards in those situations in the past is because of the conservative nature of the calls in the past. We've tried to run between the tackles there and haven't been successful. However, call a play that isn't so vanilla but yet isn't quite a gimmick play. As you say, call a rollout for Josh, or run a flip 90, or any number of plays where you're not doing what the defense expects, but at the same time, there isn't a high degree of difficulty in executing the play. This goes to what Duke and Jake said previously. I don't have as much of a problem with the 4th and 1 decisions to go for it in the past, I just haven't really cared for the play calling in those situations. I still really like what Trestman is doing; I just hope he is taking some notes and learning this year. I think he is for sure. He seems to be intelligent and confident, but not afraid to correct a mistake. Lovie was intelligent and confident, but too stubborn to acknowledge that mistake and correct it. To say he is conservative is just wrong though(not saying you are saying that, shack). Hell, most of the time we have b****ed about his decisions this season is when he is going for it on 4th down. The offense is tremendously aggressive, there is just a few issues(short yardage situations) that need to be fixed. The passing offense is a thing of beauty though.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 2, 2013 -> 08:25 AM) Having him and Brandon Marshall on the same team is just ridiculous. If they had one good, fast receiver, this WR group would be unstoppable. I think that may end up being Marques Wilson. Brandon Marshall was talking him up a few weeks ago

QUOTE (raBBit @ Dec 2, 2013 -> 12:53 AM) I think they're both decent signings but heir other starters are still terrible. Who are they exactly? Kevin Correia? Scott Diamond? Deduno? Hendriks? Is Alex Meyer still a year off? Diamond is pretty good. Correia isnt that bad either. They dont have a true ace, but they have a nice rotation

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Dec 2, 2013 -> 01:06 AM) Alshon has been nothing short of a revelation this season. His hands are amazing

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Dec 1, 2013 -> 10:35 AM) MJ and that cuban gold-digging broad are expecting. I'm sure MJ has quite a prenup after his first wife sliced his bank account in half

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Dec 1, 2013 -> 10:51 PM) Not really a spoiler, but I think the comic book version of tonight's episode was so much better. Source material usually is better, I'm not surprised. It seems like most of the characters killed in the comic during this battle were killed, save But his character really hasn't gotten an opportunity

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Dec 1, 2013 -> 10:38 PM) And a "haha JK it wasn't a first down" That would have caused outrage if they didn't convert the 4th down. But, the pass was completed and the ball was just taken away. Triplett is going to catch hell anyways, that was inexcusable

What a crazy end to Giants/Skins. A strip?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 1, 2013 -> 10:26 PM) Favorite comment so far: Lol!

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 1, 2013 -> 10:23 PM) Top 3 episode of the entire series. Sucks that my favorite character died though.