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QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 24, 2011 -> 03:37 PM) Seriously, can we just let this go? There is evidence of players playing through it and evidence of players not playing through it. I can clearly recall LT moping on the sideline of the AFC Championship game against the Cotls while Phillip Rivers was running around with a brace on his knee trash talking to the Indy fans. Some guys just seem to want to win more than others. Not saying either is right or wrong for them personally, but as a fan, of course I want someone like Rivers. In the end, the point is kind of moot. Rivers could have easily screwed a good year or two of his career by playing with an injured ACL. One big hit could have put him on the sidelines for the next year. Is it really in everyone's best interest to have Cutler injured for all of next season?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 24, 2011 -> 03:29 PM) LT missed six weeks with a 2nd degree MCL sprain (which is what ptatc thinks it is from seeing the treatment and movement on TV). http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3222896 Oh, and Sanders criticized LT for being a p****, too. Damn, 6 weeks?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 24, 2011 -> 03:22 PM) Todd Collins = Mark Kotsay? Mark Kotsay can at least run into a hit once in a while. Todd Collins can't even complete a 10 yard pass.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 24, 2011 -> 01:20 PM) It's so hard to deal with lovie. On one hand, some CRAZY stupid things done yesterday. on the other...he took a team with so many holes almost to the superbowl. And we held the most potent offense in the playoffs to 14 pts. How do you manage the two? He's both a really good coach and a bonehead. Well said.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 24, 2011 -> 12:15 PM) Dilfer just said that "there's some players who look for a way out of a game, from his history Jay Cutler looks for a way out". Ok, yeah, he was pushed out of town by an insane head coach hell bent on destruction. Jay Cutler also has missed ONE F*CKING GAME in his career. lol what history? That he wanted to get traded from Denver because that idiot Josh McDaniels didn't want Jay Cutler as his QB? Trent Dilfer must never watch Cutler play. The guy gets the s*** whacked out of him every game because of our o-line and never goes down easy on a run.

QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ Jan 23, 2011 -> 07:08 PM) Anyone who watches Cutler play knows he's tough. He doesn't slide. He hangs in there behind a poor line. This is just silly. Exactly. The guy takes huge hits at the end of almost every run. I don't think he just decided to quit.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 23, 2011 -> 06:35 PM) So if Lovie would have waited 2 more plays and Hanie eventually got hurt, he could have put Collins back into the game instead of running a wildcat or having Earl Bennett QB. Seeing what I've seen of Collins, the latter was the better option. You do have a point. But hypothetically say that Cutler feels better in the 4th and can come back. Then what Lovie did with Hanie would have looked pretty bad. Sure, the move didn't cost them the game or anything, but it's something you expect an NFL coach to know and utilize.

What made it look bad was that Cutler was walking and standing. Had he been sitting, the criticism would be a lot softer.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Jan 23, 2011 -> 06:18 PM) Cutler took himself out. Are you seriously saying lovie shouldve risked collins throwing an int? The.bears had no chance with collins. Props for lovie recognizing that early enough No, that's not what I'm saying at all. Had he put kept Collins in for two more plays, and put Hanie in in the 4th, he could have had a backup to Hanie in case he got hurt. It's bad coaching when you forget about a rule like that. Especially when all they did was run the ball two times with Hanie in there for the 3rd anyways.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 23, 2011 -> 05:54 PM) But Collins should have never been listed as #2 qb after that Panthers game. Nor should have Lovie put in Hanie in the third quarter. He should have known the rule.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 23, 2011 -> 05:24 PM) Well said! Huge mistake by Bears putting Collins 2nd on the depth chart. There's also a part of me that wonders if Cutler was injured coming into the game. He seemed just a step slow all game, and not comfortable at all pushing off his back foot. Even the announcers were saying he looked off during warm-ups. I would also wonder a bit. The way he ran around made it seem like he wasn't healthy.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Jan 23, 2011 -> 05:20 PM) The Packers did the same exact thing on multiple occasions. Both coaching staffs were extremely conservative in their decision making. When the Packers did it, they were up by two TDs. The Bears did it down by one and then two scores. I can understand the first one, but the second one was downright stupid. Especially since the net was like 20 yards on the punt.

You just know there will be idiots advocating Hanie over Cutler. The only thing this game proved was that Hanie is the real backup caliber QB. Not Todd Collins.

Those two punts in place of FG attempts really screwed this team.

That call was utterly pathetic.

Penalties are killing us.

Will this be the game known for the legend of Caleb Hanie?

Game's over. Todd Collins, oh god.

This team is dead.

Cutler's knee is banged up. s***

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 23, 2011 -> 03:37 PM) Like somebody else said, this has the feeling of a 30-0 rout. Yet we're down 14 with a whole half to go. We can do this. When J4L posts something positive like this, you know something good might happen.

They gotta come out in the second half patient. Cutler's not gonna do any better if they just throw it on almost every down.

What the hell is Lovie doing? You don't play conservative when you're down 14.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jan 23, 2011 -> 01:02 PM) Just thought I'd re-post my very drunken mass text that I sent out last night, since it has to do with baseball..... "Minnesora gwins are like yhe kids tgar eat crayons thei whole life and tgen get in to harvard" "Got my drunk text on"

QUOTE (beautox @ Jan 23, 2011 -> 02:16 AM) I personally feel that the Rays and Jays will be sitting atop the east when the season ends. I'm not confident in Boston's rotation as both the rays and jays have supeior pitching and depth. I seriously feel unless cashman Hal burns through the yankee's farm system for some legit pitching, it won't matter who they hand the games over to in the 7-9th. Wow, really? If that's the case, you might as well put the Orioles in the mix. I mean, I like what AA has done with that team, but they're just not on the same level as Boston or NY.