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I think the Bears made the right choice when they cut Robbie Gould.
From the sound of things last night the majority of those at Soldier Field disagree with you. They needed more than just a placekicker last night though. It might have been a good decision if I knew where that money they saved by releasing him went. If it went toward Cutler's salary then I'd say it was a bad move.
He's not the problem but he certainly doesn't help. If the Bears ever got the rest of their ducks in a row I'm not sure Cutler would lead them anywhere though.
So far this year, they're only playing 2 quarters a game.
I was being sarcastic.
I thought you may have been, but as I pointed out they needed more than a kicker the other night. And now they need a whole lot more with Cutler out.
They also made a good choice cutting Matt Forte. 
In fairness, the Bears didn't cut Forte, they just didn't re-sign him because he was essentially looking for a retirement-length contract with a not-insignificant amount of guaranteed money to stay in Chicago and Ryan Pace wasn't willing to tie up that much cap room on him. I can understand the thinking on both sides, considering he's on the wrong side of 30 and is bound to be suffering more and more injuries as he ages.
I have to say, though, that as much as I said it last year, this year I feel it even more: I just have a really, really hard time caring about football anymore, especially the NFL, given what's happened as of late with CTE, concussions, the league's cover-ups (and Goodell's general incompetence), etc. It feels like bloodsport to me at this point. It's hard for me to watch any given snap and think, "Yep, half these guys won't be able to walk normally in ten years, and the other half won't be able to think coherently in twenty."
I have to say, though, that as much as I said it last year, this year I feel it even more: I just have a really, really hard time caring about football anymore, especially the NFL, given what's happened as of late with CTE, concussions, the league's cover-ups (and Goodell's general incompetence), etc. It feels like bloodsport to me at this point. It's hard for me to watch any given snap and think, "Yep, half these guys won't be able to walk normally in ten years, and the other half won't be able to think coherently in twenty."
That's interesting that you say that
I made the mistake of watching Concussion, and I can't look at things quite the same anymore. I relish a tough hit, followed almost immediately by a slight sense of guilt for enjoying it.
Last weekend I watched the Bengals/Steelers, and I thought of Mike Webster, then I thought of Big Ben: 13 years in the league, he's been knocked around something fierce. I wondered to myself how he'll be in 15-20 years...
I made the mistake of watching Concussion, and I can't look at things quite the same anymore. I relish a tough hit, followed almost immediately by a slight sense of guilt for enjoying it.
Last weekend I watched the Bengals/Steelers, and I thought of Mike Webster, then I thought of Big Ben: 13 years in the league, he's been knocked around something fierce. I wondered to myself how he'll be in 15-20 years...
I find myself thinking along the same lines, especially as people like Tony Romo suffer gruesome injuries and the response from the media is to track his "recovery" and discuss the "fantasy implications" instead of asking "Should this guy ever play ball - EVER - again?"
I know I would never want my son or daughter to ever play the sport, and I don't enjoy sitting through entire games anymore.
Maybe I would feel better if I didn't get the sense that only a handful of teams have a legitimate shot at winning it all, and those teams aren't going to change anytime soon... I don't know.
And even Concussion was heavily, heavily sanitized from its original script because the NFL threatened to sue the movie's production out of existence otherwise. All the details that have come out from the concussion lawsuit have really soured me on the sport, and it kind of sickens me that it took so long for me to think, "Wow, maybe dudes ramming their heads against each other and trucking into one another at full speed, helmeted or not, is not, in fact, conducive to prolonged health."
Just a side fact that astounds me is that Joseph Maroon, the guy in charge of the NFL's sham of a concussion treatment program, is also WWE's medical director. HURF.
I'm a fan of an NFC team, living in the city of another NFC team, so I don't ever have too much to get upset or excited about when it comes to the Patriots. They've never bothered me and I have never really understood the intense hatred so many Americans have toward them and Belichick/Brady. But seeing them (so far, at halftime) shut down the Texans with a third string rookie QB named Shinobi Brisket, or something, I think I'm starting to understand why those haters are always so upset.
He's using a banned performance enhancing dry rub.
Over the Patriots, so over the Patriots. Literally invincible.
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