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Jackiejokeman

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Re: NFC North (04.12.11 - 09.10.15)
« Reply #1230 on: January 18, 2014, 09:56:48 pm »
 You wanna know what scares me ?

 Any BEARS fan born after 1986 has not known what its like to win a SUPERBOWL.

 We let our own children down ... to become Cubs fans ... a never ending spiral.

 Hey baby ...

 FUUCK YOU !

 

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« Reply #1231 on: January 19, 2014, 07:21:45 pm »
Had to mention Bears and Cubs in same sentence, didn't ya J......ugggh.....

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« Reply #1232 on: January 19, 2014, 11:39:20 pm »
Had to mention Bears and Cubs in same sentence, didn't ya J......ugggh.....

 Hey Sporty,

 Ya wanna know whats scares me ?

 No cubs fan born in THIS CENTURY has seen the Cubbies win a World Series.

 Actually if you were born in 1909 IN THE LAST CENTURY ... the same thing applys.  :o

 Jesus ... world society hadnt invented World War I yet ... the Titannic hadnt sunk ...

 Arizona and New Mexico wernt states yet ... Adolf Hitler was 19 years old ...

 White Castle was 13 years away from being invented.

 Kimberly-Clark had not introduced Kotex yet ...  :o

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« Reply #1233 on: January 20, 2014, 01:22:09 am »
I couldn't be a Cubs fan, no way no how. Why follow a club as totally pathetic as that??? I don't get it at all.....isn't the point of sport to actually, ya know, WIN??? Why bother otherwise?? Get paid millions to lose constantly.....nice life if you can get it I guess...

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« Reply #1234 on: February 10, 2014, 08:24:55 pm »
 
 THE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THE NFC NORTH IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2014
 
 Is this anybodys division in 2014 ?
 
 Is it the same Packers own it ?
 
 Those are the two questions.
 
 Two coaches got fired because they couldnt beat the Packers.
 
 Is the CHICAGO coach the soon to be third ?

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« Reply #1235 on: February 11, 2014, 07:35:10 pm »

 THE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THE NFC NORTH IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2014
 
 Is this anybodys division in 2014 ?
 
 Is it the same Packers own it ?
 
 Those are the two questions.
 
 Two coaches got fired because they couldnt beat the Packers.
 
 Is the CHICAGO coach the soon to be third ?

What teams will remain healthy and which not?

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« Reply #1236 on: February 13, 2014, 10:08:30 pm »
What teams will remain healthy and which not?

 If anybody can predict that, they can walk on water better then me.

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« Reply #1237 on: February 14, 2014, 06:35:15 pm »
True, true.

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« Reply #1238 on: February 14, 2014, 08:17:22 pm »
 
 Packy one thing DA BEARS cannot do is CONSTANTLY BEAT the Packers.
 
 If my beloved BEARS can once again cross that threshold,
 
 the rest is automatic.
 
 The whole NFC NORF is in a state of flux ... out side of Green Bay and Chicago...
 
 nobody knows anything so far.

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« Reply #1239 on: February 15, 2014, 03:53:58 pm »
Last time the  Bears went to the SB they were 14-2 if I remember correctly. And their two losses were to GB.  GB ended up 13-3.  You really don't need to beat the Pack to go to the SB.  I hope that I'm remembering that right.

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« Reply #1240 on: February 15, 2014, 04:02:18 pm »
Bears split with the Packers this year.  Would have won both is it were not for the most once sided officiating I have ever witnessed.

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« Reply #1241 on: February 15, 2014, 08:10:40 pm »
Bears need a crapload of help on D to even be competitive this year. Peanut will probably be gone. Briggs isn't the Briggs we've known and loved. Age is catching him. I see another 8-8 season unless we get some top quality talent on the D side, especially the line. Do that, we got a decent shot at being pretty darned good and HOPEFULLY this staff will be smart enough to retain McCown for when Cutley goes down for his annual injury whatever.

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« Reply #1242 on: February 16, 2014, 06:25:24 pm »
Bears need a crapload of help on D to even be competitive this year. Peanut will probably be gone. Briggs isn't the Briggs we've known and loved. Age is catching him. I see another 8-8 season unless we get some top quality talent on the D side, especially the line. Do that, we got a decent shot at being pretty darned good and HOPEFULLY this staff will be smart enough to retain McCown for when Cutley goes down for his annual injury whatever.

Yeah if before the season started last year you would have told me BEARS would end the season in top 5 in scoring I would have shrugged it off to fan over enthusiasm.
 
 Now its a fact ... all we need is a defense to compliment that.

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« Reply #1243 on: March 13, 2014, 01:49:23 pm »
 
 So we are signing defensive players day one , sombody must have seen the obvious at HALAS HALL.

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« Reply #1244 on: March 18, 2014, 10:01:46 pm »
For every reason the Julius Peppers signing doesn't make sense for the Green Bay Packers, there's another reason it does.

Some crtiics will point out that Peppers is over the hill at 34 years old. But with those years comes veteran savvy and experience, something new teammate Tramon Williams complained was lacking on this perpetually-young Packers team.

The argument can also be made that with big 325-plus lb. bodies like Ryan Pickett and Johnny Jolly currently no longer under contract, the Packers defense is getting smaller and less stout with Peppers replacing them on the roster. On the other hand, Peppers brings an element of pass rush those run stuffers never had.

But perhaps one of the best reasons the new $30 million investment makes sense for the Packers is that Peppers essentially improves two positions at once. Meet Clay Matthews, the Packers' newest inside linebacker.

Julius Peppers wasn't kidding when he predicted "something different" in the aftermath of the his signing.

No, Clay Matthews probably isn't about to become a true inside linebacker anytime soon. But for anyone wondering how the Packers are going to put their best pass rushers and arguably their best athletes on the field all at the same time, lining up Matthews at a traditional inside linebacker spot makes the entire Green Bay defense a whole lot scarier.

Skeptics will wonder why the Packers would move Matthews from his outside linebacker position as an edge rusher. "If it's not broke, don't fix it," they'll argue.

But the addition of an equally effective pass rusher like Peppers will essentially offset any concerns about where the pressure off the edge is going to come from.

When the Packers are in their nickel and dime packages (which is majority of the time), their front four players on the line of scrimmage could theoretically include some dangerous combination of Mike Daniels and Datone Jones as the interior rushers and either Mike Neal or Nick Perry lining up opposite Peppers on the edge.

Rather than have Matthews or any of the afore-mentioned players sitting on the sidlines, the Packers can instead take either A.J. Hawk or Brad Jones out of the game, replaced by Matthews.

As the saying goes, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. And Matthews can get pretty darn close to the quarterback from inside linebacker, especially if the QB is lining up under center. With Matthews' cat-like quickness, the Packers can really take advantage of situational football.

Voilą. The Packers defense just got a whole lot more athletic, multiple and unpredictable.

Is Matthews going to blitz or drop into coverage? If he blitzes, is he going to the right side or the left side of center? Are Daniels and Peppers going to run a stunt? Or is it Neal and Jones?

No one knows the answers to these questions, least of all opposing offenses.

To think Matthews at inside linebacker is a stretch, it's not as if this isn't something the Packers haven't done already. Granted, it's not something they've done frequently, but they've already utilized Matthews as a pass rusher, charging up the gut. They've also used him there to spy athletic quarterbacks.

By no means is anyone suggesting a full-time conversion to inside linebacker is in the works. Matthews taking on guards, filling lanes and spilling runs probably isn't something the Packers are interested in seeing, or at least not very often.

Whenever the Packers are in their base 3-4 front, Matthews lining up at his old outside linebacker spot is still probably where he's his most effective. Maybe even at left outside linebacker, thereby allowing Nick Perry to rush from right side, where he seems to have his most success. And that's only if Peppers isn't there first.

The addition of Peppers also guards against injury, as observers of the Packers have become so used to seeing the past several seasons. If Matthews is hurt, the Packers can get by with Hawk and Jones at inside linebacker. But it's nice to know that could be Plan B, not Plan A.

The same goes for any of the edge rushers. If Perry, Neal or Peppers is hurt, Matthews can just as easily line up where he always has the first five seasons of his career too.

That's what makes the addition of Peppers such a genius move.

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Brian Carriveau is the author of the book "It's Just a Game: Big League Drama in Small Town America," and editor of Cheesehead