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QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 20, 2014 -> 02:42 PM) To be honest, I don't think that was the case last year. Cutler did not benefit from near as many Jeffrey WTF catches as McCown did. And this year, I can think of about 1 WTF catch on the season which was that Marshall catch in the San Fran game. Otherwise I can think more about our wideouts big drops then big plays, which is sad in an of itself. The majority of McCown's success was just steadily moving the ball downfield and not making a dumb play. Cutler has gotten plenty of great catches from Marshall or Bennett or Jeffrey to make him look good. I think over 6-7 games all that stuff evens out.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Oct 20, 2014 -> 02:17 PM) Cutler likes to change out of plays a lot. He's given a lot of freedom which is why he likes Trestman. Marc is also a wimp so Marc won't say anything to Jay. No one in this town will. Waddle, Silvy, Carm and Jurko all just talked about how they may have hired the wrong coach. Carm seemed like he was ready to bring up Cutler by talking about the turnovers being the other huge problem, but they right away went back to Trestman. Trestman was never a great hire, but he does know offense. The problem is Jay. Until he's gone, this offense will never reach it's full potential, or even 75%. I mean they have a Jay Cutler show, so they have to keep him happy or they lose out on a big draw Monday afternoons. Really I was surprised how much Silvy "went after" Cutler a few weeks ago when it came down to clock management/play call issues that Cutler was apart of. Waddle made sure to justify/excuse everything he did though. That pompous ass-hat Wilbon is actually the most critical. In his special way of humble-bragging how great he is, he calls out Cutler constantly for being a mediocre QB that will never lead the Bears to a Superbowl.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 20, 2014 -> 02:37 PM) McCown got very lucky with that ratio. He threw a lot of dropped picks and had quite a few bail out Jeffrey catches. Sure, but the same can be said of Cutler.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Oct 20, 2014 -> 01:54 PM) Can you imagine what Rodgers would do if he had Marshall, Jeffrey, Bennett and Forte as his weapons? Downright scary... Let's all just admit it, Jay is a mediocre QB, at times brilliant and at other times disastrous. That is the very definition of mediocrity. It's getting to the point where I'd like to see what Trestman could do with someone else. Jay finally has an offensive line, a pair of great WRs, a big solid TE and probably the best all around RB in the league and the Bears could only muster 14 pts at home with the usual idiotic turnovers. NO MORE EXCUSES. See last year when Trestman and the Bears had the best QB in the league for 6 games. And you know what he didn't do in those games? Turn the ball over. I think he had 8 td's to one interception.

The second episode of The Affair was still good. That show is definitely making the rotation. I love the story telling device: 30 minutes from his perspective, 30 minutes from hers, subtle and not so subtle differences in each. And all leading to some whodunit mystery.

Yeah, another way for Nucky to try and redeem himself. It really sucks that the show is ending and that this last season is compressed. Getting Capone and the rise of Luciano and Lansky could have been entire seasons. Instead it's basically taken care of in 1.5 hours. I think they're also making the characters act in ways to match the plot instead of the other way around. I have a hard time believing Nucky would just show up to that meeting and expect Luciano to keep his word. These are guys that have tried to get you wacked multiple times. Why not call up the other New York boss and have him come with his X amount of goons and trap Luciano and Lansky right there. Also, it's hilarious that a song "My Girl's p****" was (1) an actual song and (2) a popular song.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 20, 2014 -> 12:35 PM) The one thing that kills me, is by and large, this year Jay has actually been very good. Unfortunately other issues have cropped up that have put further magnitude on some mistakes that he makes and that most QB's make. His QB rating has been very strong in all of his games and this really was his worse game but it also appears that in many games we have hand cuffed him with question play calling. It also seems like in all of our losses we have certain drives killed by other offensive players coughing up the football after a Jay turnover too, which further amplifies the issue. My point being, we are not a very precise team across the board. Yes, players deserve blame for that but so do coaches. This past week was the worst game of the season for me because we literally didn't look prepared. I was upset with other games, with the other one being the Carolina game where I feel our play calling, amongst other things, singlehandedly lost us that game. Buffalo game I give some excuses for since we were pretty much playing without our top wideouts for a good chunk of the 2nd half. There is no excuse for what happened against Miami and against Carolina. None. Even GB, I'll give some excuse cause our defense has no chance against Rodgers. He's been good in half the games and terrible in the other half. Pretty typical for him. Again, 10 TO's in 7 games. Unacceptable. But I do agree with you that there's a lack of precision. The fact that receivers are running the wrong routes is really bothersome. Maybe preseason or even the first couple games, but we're in week 7. That stuff just can't happen.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 20, 2014 -> 12:29 PM) We are 20th in the league in offense. That is unacceptable under any standard and if we stick at that point, with all the other stuff, including intangibles, then things need to change. If we finished the year with a top 8 offense and a bottom 10 defense, I'm okay with Trestman staying around. However, a poor offensive production, without legitimate excuses such as significant injuries, is just unacceptable when combined with everything else. Rex Ryan would be great for our defense but he likely gets another head coaching gig. Our QB has 10 turnovers in 7 games. How is that the HC's fault? He's done all he can to keep Cutler from making those mistakes. He's dumbed down the play calling to the point that it's been a lot of dink and dunk stuff to Forte. And even though that works, Cutler feels the need to make a big play and that's where mistakes happen.

I don't really see Trestman being the fall guy here. I know in reality he's hooked to Jay, so if Jay is run out of town, so will he, but there's no way the Bears are giving up on Trestman after 2 or 3 seasons. They're putting up historical franchise numbers. An offense the franchise has never seen before. The system is fine, it's the player (QB) running it that's the problem. That's not to say Trestman doesn't have some faults - his time out usage, his end of half management, etc. are all a little puzzling (at least there's a theory behind it, even if I don't agree). And even his play calling seems too boom or bust (calling a bomb on 3rd and 1 instead of just getting the first down.) But that's not the MAIN problem on offense. The problem with this team is Cutler. And yeah, that might be my anti-Cutler homerism coming in to play a bit, but when the guy doesn't turn the ball over, the team wins. And they score a ton of points. When he plays like s***, the defense is on the field way too long and they lose. It's that simple. It can't be ALL the coach if the same plays result in wins and scoring and big plays when the QB makes the right decision. For next year, my wish is that Rex Ryan gets canned in New York and agrees to be the DC in Chicago like his daddy.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 20, 2014 -> 08:33 AM) It's running on the same theme that Ta-Nehisi Coates addresses here: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archiv...ologies/359841/ When a group of black people do something, such as the discord in Ferguson, a lot of people including our media is quick to lump all black people together, talk about "black culture" etc. When a bunch of white people riot over pumpkins or the removal of a coach of a football team for covering up decades of child sexual abuse, these same sorts of things don't get said. Those tweets were saying what was said about Ferguson more or less verbatim, just swapping black for white and Ferguson for Keene. lol, way to downplay it.

I feel based on reactions of players that this team couldn't give a f*** that they're losing and about to be under .500.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 19, 2014 -> 02:06 PM) I mean, this is still absolutely the case. The Bears offense just isn't elite like it was supposed to be but overall the team's weakness is still the defense, no doubt about that. The offense has 7 points. And now 3 turnovers. Except for the GB game, they are the problem in every loss.

Lolololololol. Remember when this offense was going on be elite?

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Oct 17, 2014 -> 12:16 PM) That is just awesome, LMAO. Knock knock, here you go. And then they'll blame your dog for it, and try to get him in trouble. I clearly don't know enough about cats...but if you put it inside and leave it there, isn't it now magically an "inside cat"? Is it outside all winter in below zero temps? Someone's letting it outside, no? Is it possible to have an electric fence or a leash on it or something? I don't think the answer is "well, it can do whatever it wants, it's an outdoor cat." Man this thread is getting great. Throwing poop back, chucking tennis balls at faces. Uh oh, if Steve jumps in this thread it's going to get ugly. But hey, your marriage must be pretty good if that's the most divisive issue so far, so good stuff. True story: As I said, we have two indoor cats. Both are assholes. My wife and I went to some family thing and left for a weekend, Friday-Sunday. I return home to find our bedroom closet open. The closet has 2 sliding doors, which the cats will open from time to time (this is another annoyance, since the 3 bedrooms in the house have the sliding doors and they always try to open them in the middle of the night, waking me up). at first I didn't think anything of it because they always open them. So I start closing the door and I smell this awful scent of piss and s***. Turns out, they used my half (just my half) of the closet as a litter box for the entire weekend. No reason really. It's not like they couldn't get to the litter box or the litter box was full. They just are assholes like that. All of my shoes are on the floor, including multiple pairs of nice leather work shoes. All pissed and s*** on. All ruined. And the kicker: one of these f***ers mounted a shoe so perfectly that when it s***, a single solitary turd went inside of the shoe and moved down into it. One single turd about 4-5 inches long right in the middle of the shoe. I'm still not sure how the asshole managed to do that. It defies physics really. If the cats had not hidden they would have been outside within minutes. But lucky for them I couldn't find them. And I tore apart a lot of the house to get them. My wife and I yelled for an hour or so and then didn't talk the rest of the night. The only time in 12 years I was so pissed I didn't want to be near her. The cats are still around, unfortunately, but the wife understands that if something like that happens again there's no argument. They're gone.

We had a neighborhood cat that walked through my backyard almost daily. It didn't bother me because he would just be walking by and my boston terrier would chase after it and it would run away. Then I started finding out that it was using our raised garden beds as a litter box. A couple of perfectly thrown tennis balls to its face seemed to have solved that problem, but it still comes around from time to time to hang out under some bushes. Cats are the worst. And my wife brought two into our house. They puke and s*** and get hair all over the place. I've been extremely close to drop kicking them outside. It's the most divisive issue in our marriage by far.

Wow, The Affair pilot was really good.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Oct 16, 2014 -> 02:44 PM) You mean you've never seen that before in Homeland? Because Breaking Bad inserted their theme music in to the end of episode S05E15 - Granite State. I meant in any TV show. I guess if you say it happened in BB it's not unheard of. I didn't remember that BB did that.

Golf is a sport where you will not do something right and be pissed about it 90% of the time, but the 10% of the time when you do the right thing and hit the right shot it makes up for it. If you're the type of person who gets frustrated quickly and can't roll with the punches, don't pick it up. If can enjoy it for what it is, 4-5 hours of relaxing, outdoor fun, then go for it.

I'm not sure what Homeland is trying to be these days. Pretty boring episode this week. And they used the theme music of the show in the episode. I've never see that before.

Big Ten media with Illinois finishing 8th. Seems low if the shooting/offensive jump is as good as expected.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 12, 2014 -> 06:39 PM) Illinois deserves whatever governor they get. I don't really agree. Most people south of I-80 don't like the liberal policies that have ruined the state. But they're stuck at the mercy of the people of Chicago, a large percentage of whom are dependent on the government and liberal politicians. They're so brain washed they've RE-elected criminals.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Oct 12, 2014 -> 08:02 PM) That and those attack ads probably have merit about him laying off workers and obsessing over profits. I mean, that's business albeit probably not a very ethical way of doing it; and people are going to blow a gasket if he does something to that helps his rich buddies and leaves the middle class voter out to dry. He's offering to reverse Quinn's income tax hikes. That'll play nicely with most voters. It still saddens me that rich guy = horrible person in this country. Or more accurately, rich guy who is a Republican. Quinn isn't nearly as rich but he's still rich, as are most politicians these days.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 13, 2014 -> 10:07 AM) 2 problems. 1. Marijuana arrests are incredibly common in the African American community. From your perspective it's really difficult to be caught. That's not the case for everyone, the comment you just made is one of those "Check your privilege" kind of comments where you aren't realizing what benefits you get for being you. You don't get an arrest rate 4x as high for one race over the other by that race just using it out in the open more often. On the latter part, I partially agree with you...there's a lot of depth to that number of course, but it absolutely feeds into the community's perception here that it is under siege from an out of control police department. One good way to understand that would be for the country to actually keep solid statistics and reports on when police-involved shootings happen, but for some reason police departments nationwide do not produce that data, which is a hint in itself. Not that alone, but it's about where those people live and what they're doing. If you live in a poor neighborhood with more crime the cops are going to patrol it different than an affluent area with no crime. That means more traffic stops, more car searches, etc. and the result is going to be more arrests. To me that shows it's not about race, it's about income class and geography. Sitting in my ivory tower on the internet, that's why I think the race-baiting in these national stories like Ferguson are actually counter-productive. Screaming "it's because we're black and you're all racist" doesn't sit well with whites and other minorities, so nothing is done. If it was more of an economic argument, or even a power-hungry, militarized police argument, maybe there'd be more progress.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 13, 2014 -> 09:42 AM) See now you're putting words in my mouth. No where did I say "nothing has changed". Of course things have improved, but that doesn't mean that people cannot have civil rights issues in the modern day. We're a society where African Americans, especially African American men, are hugely overrepresented in the criminal justice system. Studies have shown that African Americans are arrested for Marijuana possession at a rate hugely beyond that of whites even though whites use it as often or more often. A study just out 2 days ago suggests that black men are shot by police roughly 21 times as often as white men. That's literally what this issue is about...this community feels completely disconnected from the police, feels that the police are basically at war with them, and to them it is a civil rights issue. You may disagree with that claim, you may think they're wrong, you may think those things are completely ok. But you're not bewildered about what a sit-in is and you don't sit here thinking "oh well if they do that they're going to be maced and beaten". That's exactly the point and that's why I went to the most blatant example...because the person posting that clearly seems to have no clue about the history of sit ins, business disruption, and police beatings in reply. The marijuana study is kind of dumb if it's just looking at usage rates and arrest rates. Pot isn't a drug that cops are investigating thoroughly. You have to be doing it in front of them and/or driving with it and/or being dumb with it to get caught. And as Y2HH pointed out, what's the comparison to whites and blacks shooting or threatening police? If the news is any indication, you've got a lot of black teens being morons with cops and getting killed because of it. And I admit it's a pretty terrible cycle because often times they're doing so because they've been told not to trust cops.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 13, 2014 -> 08:57 AM) I think that the thing which cheapens both of them is what just happened here, a person who has absolutely no understanding of the history of his own country and the history of the very acts he is complaining about. Go read the words. If these people are shutting down the businesses of unrelated people just because they put up with the system in place they're going to have bad things happen to them, they're going to be beaten. You may not agree with these protestors that this is a civil rights issue. You told us why you don't. That's a heck of a step up from having no idea of the history of sit ins and why the people don't care if the police rough them up in this case. People protesting the killing of a criminal who attacked a cop is not the same as people protesting the treatment of people for the color of their skin.