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QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Dec 29, 2009 -> 07:00 PM) Remember that before Hester we also had some pretty explosive return-men. Azumah was lethal, Vasher was above average. Hester was the best, but these other guys were amongst the best in the league as well. Devin isn't the only probowl return man Toub has had. ...and then there was Wade

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Dec 29, 2009 -> 05:30 PM) This is one time where I hope I am wrong. It is starting to feel like the Shah in reverse with Twitter replacing audio cassettes. I wasn't alive in 1979 obviously but I've read stuff about that and it wasn't clear then what was going to happen either, just like now.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 29, 2009 -> 05:15 PM) Here's the bottom line, IMO. To say that Obama is personally responsible makes about as much sense as saying Bush was personally responsible for 9/11. Obama is not responsible for this. With that said, to want to make nice and want to "reach out" and be "friends" with these assholes is a mistake in policy. An appeasement policy doesn't, hasn't, and will never work, and Obama's policies are more closely to that side then where we were. While his administration's policies don't DIRECTLY correlate to these sorts of attacks, indirectly they do because you can't handle this as a "police matter" or "as it happens", you have to screw over these assholes and put them in their graves before they do any of us, no matter how ugly this may seem to the bleeding hearts. Who are we being nice to? Al-Qaida? Dude, no. Never. Perpetual warfare is a self-fulflilling prophecy (what do you think dominates al-Jazeera coverage, it's either Gaza or crying widows in Iraq or Afghanistan). There are ways of going after terrorist cells overseas without mobilizing multiple divisions and occupying random countries for decades at a time, I won't even get into moral reasons or why that makes terrorist networks grow rather than shrink, because it's just not practical or economically viable. The actual goal of any counterterrorist policy is to REDUCE the threat of terrorism, not to inadvertently make it worse. One of the unintended consequences of Iraq was to create the third wave of global jihad, the effects of which we really haven't totally seen yet). I think everybody is confusing Obama's low-key approach (hyping it up plays into their hands actually, it's something they hope and expect us to do) with not treating it as a priority. We're never going to defeat it with straight-up military force, that concept is just absurd on its face.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 29, 2009 -> 01:18 PM) I'd much rather have that than nothing at all. The fact is the terrorists don't do anything abnormal. You're never going to get a tip that says "there's a group of middle eastern men hiding bombs in their shirts heading towards an airport." Also, more than anything, those tips help put together what happened/how it happened after the fact. Yeah I totally agree, like I said, you can't exactly tell them not to report stuff, you just thank them and move on. A lot of times it ends up being useless information but that's why we have analysts.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 29, 2009 -> 06:17 PM) So Hester has the tools, but you can't deny that the Bears have essentially replaced him (thanks to the system) with 2-3 guys that have been better than average at returning punts and kickoffs. At this point Hester is expendable. If they can get a 2nd round pick, or maybe a couple of 3rds, I'd say do it. I would say that Hester in 2006-2007 (more 2007 since he did a lot of dumb rookie s*** in 2006) is far better than Bennett, Knox, or Manning, but Toub has a really great system going where basically any fast guy is explosive. Not to where opposing special teams coaches s*** themselves before games or anything and have to puss out by kicking the ball away from the return guy, but enough to break off the occasional TD, and a couple of long returns a game.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Dec 29, 2009 -> 12:32 PM) It is being reported that Cutler and Turner have had a ton of battles during the season regarding the play-calling. Doesn't shock me we saw Jay play well. It was one of the only games he has had solid protection more often than not and he was able to get outside of the pocket where he excels. Yeah that doesn't surprise me at all, you could read Cutler's body language a lot of times and you could tell he wasn't running the plays he wanted to run.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Dec 29, 2009 -> 11:29 AM) The development of players in the NFL does not happen and I am not sure if this is Lovie his staff or who....Josh Bullocks could be the worst football player I have ever seen. The fact that Armoashadu and Bell were not allowed on the field until they ran out of players is really sad and a further indication of this staff being unable to groom and evaluate talent. I do not know what role Jerry Angelo plays in this. Cedric Benson, Marc Columbo and Chris Harris are three players that could really help the Bears. These are guys that Angelo brought in and for various reasons did not work out. I still think Angelo can eveluate talent, it happened before Lovie took over and I am not certain why it has fallen apart except that Lovie is having a say in things. Lovie got a lot more say in personnel decisions after his extension, he is basically a co-GM. If you want to lay a lot of the roster management at his feet that's probably appropriate. Chris Harris for the record would be a totally different player in Chicago IMO... he plays in a different scheme in Carolina. He's better than the safeties we have out there right now but I think people liked him in Chicago because he hit guys hard.

QUOTE (Baines3 @ Dec 18, 2009 -> 11:30 PM) With me it would be a toss up between Jerry Owens and Brian Anderson. Both of those guys did way, way more than Andy Gonzalez or Brent Lillibridge even though they sucked.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Dec 29, 2009 -> 12:19 AM) Hey! look what happens when you don't run it up the middle on first down everytime!!! s*** opens up you stupid f***ing coaches The fact that our coaches/office considered cutting Aramashadu should cost all of them their jobs Agree 100%, it would be one thing if that was an anomaly but it's not.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Dec 29, 2009 -> 12:07 AM) Cutler checked down out of a run play for that last TD to win it. Well that's not checking DOWN, but yeah, point remains.

Cutler finally has a great game and leads a comeback victory in a prime time game against a superior team. He was due for a good game

That's my first time seeing Gould miss a FG in that situation inside the 50. Ever.

The Bears D blows leads like a crack whore blows a random guy for a 10.

QUOTE (fathom @ Dec 28, 2009 -> 11:25 PM) It's really pathetic, isn't it? That's about the norm. National broadcasts with Favre as QB are intolerable.

QUOTE (stretchstretch @ Dec 25, 2009 -> 12:33 AM) I was at games 1 and 2. Game 1, once JD hit that HR to right field, there was no doubt. Game 2, I took my father to for this 60th BDay, cost me 4Gs for two tix 10th row 3rd base line.... sitting in the 45F cold and rain was brutal, when PK hit that GS I didn't think it possible to feel that high, when Jenks gave up the tie, I didn't think it possible to feel that low. I have 3 kids who I love more than anything in the world, but when Pods hit that walkoff and the park exploded in a way that you had to be there to comprehend, I can say in total honesty, the feeling was better than becoming a father, and that's really saying something... I'm fourth generation die hard Sox fan, and losing that game in the ninth or extras, for something I planned so hard and spent so much to make happen, as a once in a lifetime experience for me and my old man, would have been pretty hard to bear. I can still remember jumping around like a lunatic, hugging every stranger within 15 yds in the rain when Pods ball went out. In retrospect, that night was easily worth 2-3X what it cost for the euphoria and memory that can never be taken away. My father always talked about the decades and decades where his father would sit in front of the radio night after night listening to the Sox, after 82 yrs of being a fan, died 6 months before the world series, never to see them win it in his lifetime, to this day I firmly believe he was there that night making sure my dad and I got to see a win togehter.... My dad's family is Cubs fans, and basically my dad is the turncoat in the family because he got tired of the Cubs breaking his dad's heart all the time (his dad died in 1990). The '84 NLCS was the straw that broke the camel's back for him.

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Dec 28, 2009 -> 11:02 PM) From what I remember didn't Paxson tell Collins the job was his until Reinsdorf put the axe on it? Same with D'Antoni if I'm not mistaken. I think D'Antoni was more of the Bulls not wanting to pay him. I think if you're gonna give the great GM duo the blame, Reinsdorf has to take his share as well. It's obvious the Bulls are just his cash cow while the Sox are his baby. I think D'Antoni was more seeing the $$$ the Knicks gave him and he signed the contract without going back to Reinsdorf to get a competitive offer.

QUOTE (MurcieOne @ Dec 28, 2009 -> 10:43 PM) Last two drives have been eerily reminiscent of the CIN, ARIZ, MIN games earlier in the year. Favre is spreading us out like a (insert sex reference here). cheap heroin whore

Cutler has time to throw, and a running game to sell play action, and guess what - does not suck

QUOTE (MurcieOne @ Dec 28, 2009 -> 10:21 PM) Bears OL played their best half of football, and the offense moved the ball. Quite a formula. I don't really know what this is worth, but Williams got moved to LT and lo and behold, doesn't suck.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Dec 28, 2009 -> 10:20 PM) I have never seen a team have receivers stop on routes more than this years Bears team. I'll give Bennett and Knox a pass on this since it's Bennett's first full year, and Knox is a rookie. There is a learning curve for WRs.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Dec 28, 2009 -> 09:53 PM) not gonna lie, those stories were... a big let down. was hoping more for stuff like that lady who called 911 because her husband refused to eat dinner. Yeah there are those too but it's harder to make them up with specific details (I wouldn't re-tell exact reports unless they were in the open media or something). There was one guy who reported his ex-boyfriend because they had a bad breakup after the boyfriend left him for another dude, but he swore the stuff he was saying was true. lol. And plenty of pissed-off girlfriends trying to dime their boyfriends out.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Dec 28, 2009 -> 09:35 PM) well, open up the files! I wish to read these reports. lol. And then I get fired, totally awesome. Put it this way, I'll give an example of what one would look like. Say you have a guy coming to work and he sees an Arab dude walking back and forth at his train station that he hasn't seen before. The Arab guy stops to look down the tracks and periodically stops to look at the various signs on the platform. Eventually the train comes, he steps in the doorway, looks around at the passengers, and boards the train. So Mr. I'm Being a Good American calls the FBI and says "I saw a Middle Eastern Male conducting what looked like pre-operational surveillance." Um, no guy, he was pretty much going to work or otherwise going from Point A to Point B, checking the schedule to see when his train would arrive, and looking down the tracks to see if the train was coming. You're supposed to report UNUSUAL activity, being a brown stranger doesn't count. Also people will report things like a person taking pictures at tourist attractions where other people take pictures. Those make me laugh.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Dec 28, 2009 -> 09:27 PM) Of course not. Even if I noticed he was lighting some explosives. But i'm totally non-racist and would rather go down in a fiery plane crash then be seen as anything else. I really wish you guys could read some of the ridiculously dumb things people report to the FBI as "suspicious activity" sometimes... the thing is you can't really get mad at them and tell them to not report anything, they think they're doing the right thing.

QUOTE (MurcieOne @ Dec 28, 2009 -> 09:14 PM) They should have hired one of these coaches to begin with, VDN should never have been hired. His hiring alone should be justification for Paxon or Forman's firing. I mean my goodness... didn't VDN's hiring seem like a poor decision from the time it was made? Yes, it totally did... I mean you know you are a moron when the meatheads and mouth-breathers that call into radio shows really do know better than you. I tried to think of a single good reason at the time, I couldn't. I just kind of crossed my fingers and thought "I really hope they know what they're doing." They didn't, pretty much.

I think the injury concerns with Carlos are legit but otherwise, there really is no comparison at all.