But first, lets have a doddering old guy (actor?) on to talk so we can make fun of the aged mentally infirm.

If ESPN had on anything better than Waddle & Silvy, I'd have tuned out completely years ago.

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Bernsie is so weird?

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To my knowledge Bernstein has the same law degree I do. It is my understanding that since these guys are public figures, for them to win a case against Kluwe they would have to show some type of serious damage financially. If the are both able to find other jobs after this in the NFL, they couldn't win a suit.

Could someone tell me if I am completely wrong on this?

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So basically Alex Brown is advocating squeezing Shea out of a job.

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Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

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Not to come off as a defender of Cutler, and not saying this is your argument, but I never thought this was a strong criticism of Cutler. A GM should try to acquire as many talented players as possible, not to appease one or two other players, but as a matter of strategy, and basically out of logic, too.

So the Bears should have tried to get someone like Marshall anyway, irrespective of Cutler clamoring for him or not, and so on.

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T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

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True, but there has been a pretty consistent narrative since he arrived in Chicago that the reason Cutler has never looked like a big-time quarterback is due to factors beyond his control, i.e. constantly changing offenses, terrible players around him, etc. I can't think of any other quarterback who has been given such excuses by many fans and even much of the media.

And it's really not pertinent. When Jay wasn't great "because his offensive line was porous", Aaron Rodgers had a worse line and was on his way to being considered among the best of all-time. Great quarterbacks are great and the average fan knows they're great. It doesn't take poring over statistics on sites like Football Outsiders, Advanced Stats NFL, or Total QBR. Jay isn't great. Surrounding him with a team of Hall of Famers won't make him great.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I think the narrative has fallen apart because, as you point out, Cutler just isn't that megastar franchise QB, but at the same time it is true that his supporting cast sucked. So for me, both are true: Cutler was/is overrated, and the supporting cast did suck.

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T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

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^ meaning that it was still a poor effort by Angelo to surround your (at that time) star QB with the likes of Devin Hester, Roy Williams, and a miscast Johnny Knox as "primary" weapons. Even though we know, in retrospect, Cutler wouldn't have vaulted the Bears into contention with upgraded pieces anyway, it still doesn't invalidate the personnel criticism. On the other hand, to be fair, Cutler did get the Bears to the championship game with those second-class WRs as his primary weapons. How that happened is beyond my comprehension.

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Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

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Defense, special teams, and playing the Bills/Jets/Dolphins, probably.

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Oh, I think he can win. But it won't be because of him. It won't be in spite of him either. It will be because he didn't fuck anything up. That's who he is. A middle of the pack kind of guy. He has an arm and feet that make you hope and think that he will one day be better. Maybe he will. But that's like hoping Gavin Floyd is better. It's not really something I would count on. And I sure wouldn't pay for that hope the way they have.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

No, you are right. They would have to show the statements were made with a malicious intent. Very tough to prove.

Danny doesn't seems to realize that it might not be a big enough deal to these guys to spend $100,000 on attorney fees.

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I wonder if Chris Kluwe is even liked among the SJWs at Reddit. Do they embrace him for being a Strong Male Ally, or do they talk shit about him for being a dork who plays video games and represents the patriarchy? I bet that shitlord wears a fedora!

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oh wow, if you use the term "SJWs" in context have you heard about the feminist software foundation? they're working on a programming language called c+= (c plus equality) where there's no 0 or 1 logic because 1s look like a phallus and hearken opporession from CIS scum who need a privilege check. i have no idea how they're doing the logic, but one of the huge ideas is that everything is equal in that programming language because why can't everything be equal in a programming language?

it's one of the few times i've been really proud of something to eminate from 4chan, suffice to say.

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I haven't heard of that, but that's awesome. That'll show le STEM SAWCSMs.

I really don't get the whole SJW/Tumblr/ShitRedditSays thing. Somehow they've decided that the worst people in the world are introverted guys who fuck around on the internet, the same conclusion reached by every date-raping alpha-male fuckhead you ever knew in grade school/middle school/high school. Two sides of the same coin; I'd say they should just get it over with and fuck already if I weren't so sure it's happening as we speak.

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I kinda wish I didn't look up the terms SJW, SAWCSM, etc., although from what I read about SJW (A pejorative term for an individual who repeatedly and vehemently engages in arguments on social justice on the Internet, often in a shallow or not well-thought-out way, for the purpose of raising their own personal reputation), it does seem to describe Bernsie.

The feminist software foundation stuff is pretty funny.

I don't know if the Bears will feel the weight of his full contract like teams in the MLB or NBA feel when they sign bad players to big contracts. They will pay 50 or whatever million in guaranteed money to a second class QB and hope, and reasonably so, that he can do just enough to get them to the Super Bowl. More than any other sport, I think, there are plenty of guys on the street who can do what NFL players do (e.g. Warner, Brady, Romo, Foster, etc.), so even if this contract doesn't work out, it's not like the Bears will be set back in any substantial sense.

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Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY