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Bears GM Ryan Pace Voted Sporting News Executive Of The Year For 2018
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"EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR" THE NFL VERSION OF "CAR OF THE YEAR"
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Re: Bears GM Ryan Pace Voted Sporting News Executive Of The Year For 2018
Funny story from my life...
Close Friend was a VP with Monster.com when it was a big, came in to NoLa for one of those big Monster.com Convention/Rally's about ten years ago and we met in the evenings while he was in town for the week... Anyways, he was hosting VIP recruiters each night and Monster paid for dinner, entertainment as he hosted and as I acted as the local eatery and tour guide showing them different places about town... One night he had a couple of people from Sporting News there recruiting HR recruiters for sports writers and Mark & I got into a discussion with them about the previous Executive of the Year, Mickey Loomis... Mark still laughs about the looks on their faces as priceless when I flipped their congratulatory tone for having the Executive of the Year and how smart he was for picking Marques Colston in the seventh round... "Haslett did everything in his personal lifestyle to get fired, including consecutive years humping co-eds in Thibodaux, resulting in personal/team paternity suits, but was really fired because of his Brooks love... ...so the stars lined up and Payton and Brees came to us as their other options didn't want them so they fell to us. And if Colston in the 7th won it that's a joke as all 32 teams passed on him for 6 rounds... Let's not forget Loomis is also the guy that gave up two mid-first round picks for Jonathan Sullivan, including passing on Troy Polamalu..." Mark & I have some great sports stories together including gettin' into it with Lou Pinella at Fenway on the local news, talking SoLa charter fishing with Red Aurebach, and flying 1st class next to Ted Williams... but that's still one of Mark's favorites... |
Re: Bears GM Ryan Pace Voted Sporting News Executive Of The Year For 2018
Raiders get: 2019 first-round pick, 2020 first-round pick, 2020 third-round pick, 2019 sixth-round pick.
WHICH TEAM GOT CLOSER TO THE SUPERBOWL? THE BEARS OR THE SAINTS? |
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DOINK!!!! CODY PARKY CONTRACT Contract: 4 yr(s) / $15,000,000 Guaranteed at Signing: $9,000,000 Average Salary: $3,750,000 Total Guarantees: $9,000,000 |
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2017 Bears 5-11 2018 Bears 12-4, Division Title |
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Interesting trend going on....
In the past three seasons, a second year coach has made the SB. Dan Quinn with the Falcons in 2016 Doug Pedersen with Philly in 2017 Sean McVay with the Rams in 2018 Will Chicago continue the trend with Matt Nagy? I'd feel really scared of the Bears had they kept Vic Fangio. They were the one team that I feared meeting in the playoffs the most last year due to Fangio's history of disrupting our offense. That defense should be fine this year, but Pagano is no where close the coordinator that Fangio is. Would be interesting if this trend is kept alive from an AFC coach. Frank Reich will be a second year coach in Indy next year and for my money, the Colts are the team to make a serious run. I don't believe Kansas City has what it takes to beat New England. There really isn't anyone in the AFC for the Pats to worry about except the Colts, if they continue to improve. |
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Bears? With that defense? In that division? Maybe. It'll be Year 3 for Trubisky. Problem is Nagy hasn't figured out (as Payton forgot) you have to pound the rock as well as pass and they traded Jordan Howard...
Now, I don't know if they can survive the toughest division in the NFL, the AFC South, but I'd keep an eye on Frank Reich and the Colts; same goes with Vrabel and the Titans, but they still need a QB to step up... Jon Gruden is quickly, and wisely, getting the Raiders house in order, doing a great job of accruing some serious draft capital, but there two years away as they reset that team's culture as well... Matt Patricia had a great teacher, but again they've got a team culture problem there is well, and he's attempted to address it; but I'm not sold that Lions' QB Matthew Stafford is a winner... Pat Shurmur is also getting the G'nats House in order and can get it done if he can get an offensive line that can protect, keep Eli Manning upright before his age becomes a factor... Wilks didn't make Year 2 with Rosen, nor does it matter if the Cardinals reset at QB after one year, without an offensive line, they're going nowhere with the Rams, reloading 49ers, Seahawks in their division... |
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Living in Indy I was sure it was going to be a Saints - Colts rematch in the Super Bowl last year. I think the Colts got the "true" brains behind the Eagles offense.
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TIME OR THE "YOLK" OF THE EGGSPURTS
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I don't see where the AFC South is really a strong division at all. That has been the worst division in the league since the division realignment in 2002. With the Colts back on track, it's starting to look like it did 15 years ago when Peyton Manning's Colts would steamroll through it for an easy division title. Andrew Luck has an undefeated record vs the Titans. The Texans will never go anywhere with Bill O'Brien and Jacksonville got a reality check last year after benefiting from the #2 easiest schedule in the league in 2017. If the Colts continue to improve, they should be able to run away with that division like the Manning years. I think the Bears can replace Howard. I am not of the belief that RBs are magical cause history has proven that they are inter-changeable. What really helps Chicago is that the rest of their division is shambles. Green Bay is running their team like how the Lakers did in Kobe Bryant's last years, allowing Rodgers to call every shot (and overpaying him the way they did will prevent them from building a team around him). I don't trust the Lions and I think Minnesota peaked in 2017. Completely disagree on Gruden. He can easily screw this draft up and he's running an offense straight out of 1998 that was easily exposed this past year. Gruden had a track record of ruining QBs in Tampa Bay and it didn't take him half a year to turn Derek Carr into his brother. He better hope he drafts players that will be better than the ones he traded away. 100% agree with you on Stafford. On another NFL site I go to, he is a hot topic of debate about passers with inflated stats whom don't win games and also among the most overpaid QBs. The Giants offense really did not improve that much last year despite winning more games. Even though Barkley looks like a stud, they still should've drafted their QB of the future (Sam Darnold). Barkley really did not help their passing game much despite the rushing numbers he racked up. (A good example that RBs are inter-changeable). They are really going to need to be thinking who is going to be their next QB of the future. Eli should've retired a few years ago, he's as mediocre as ever and even below that standard in the past few years. I think the Cardinals are one of the most dysfunctional teams in the league. Wilks was fired quickly, and I don't think Kingsbury is an improvement. You are definitely right about the lack of offensive line. That entire team was a dumpster fire last year and they have serious problems with how they manage the team. |
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If Adam V makes his kicks, that's a 24-17 ball game going into the 4th quarter. Andy Reid was doing everything to blow that game with horrible play calling. He quit running the ball and started going for it on 4th down, which was backfiring except the Colts offense did nothing. Speaking of K.C., they had a 2-4 record last year against teams with a record above .500. They beat the Chargers who were the biggest pretenders last year and they beat Lamar Jackson's Ravens, that was it. In the playoffs, they got lucky that the Colts offense laid a huge egg. I only wish the Patriots would've blew them out so we wouldn't have to hear all this talk about changing the OT rules over them losing. One more thing, Andy Reid is officially 1-5 in the conference title game. That one win was 2004 when the Eagles got to play a banged up Falcons team before going on to coach a horrible SB against the Patriots. All this talk about Mahomes redeeming his bad playoff record, LOL.... His playoff record so far in K.C. mirrors the early years in Philly. |
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