The Big Cat

kewl. must have seen a good opportunity to lure people in last year with the digital pass through madden worked. i will buy this

Thought this was going to be a thread about Snow Piercer.

Yeah, exactly. But when Pettine was hired by Cleveland, a lot of the same posters who bawled and moaned over our run defense then used his departure to paint him as the second coming of John Madden.

Use it too often, and you start looking like Guy Fiery.

Yeah, that's right. Online banking. Yep. Online banking.

Incognito tab, bro. you'll find they work well for...other...things too.

A top 15 offense in 2013 would have put us in the playoffs A top 20 defense in 2012 would have done the same

A top ten offense, defense and special teams? That's a division winner. That's your expectation?' I love it.

We could say the same thing for every member of the defense, particularly those who played in 2012 and 2011, in what could be considered the NFL's worst "scheme" of the last decade. But, keep in mind, Wanny's rampant incompetence could actually lead us to question just how much impact Pettine really had. Any coordinator worth his spit would have brought some level of improvement to our talented defense. And don't let the numbers fool you. Last year's defense wasn't that good.

His rep coming out of UT was being a thumper. Glad he's getting the chance to excel at that.

We have a winner. This guy gets it.

+1

i actually don't think that's right. i looked it up, and found it nowhere.

what was king of the hill a spinoff of>?>

It's gotta be Frasier. Also in contention: Family Matters (spinoff of Perfect Strangers). Classic 90's sitcom schlock, but you can't deny its cultural impact.

You know, i'm completely shocked by your reaction to all this.

Yeah, but in spite of your best effort, you were a dick about it.

I It's a testament to the political climate that the mayor isn't making gun violence his banner issue, particularly six months from re-election. As far as optics go, it's a fight he can't win because the issue won't ever be eradicated any time soon. So why get in front of cameras when every effort you appear to be making is rendered a failure each time someone catches a bullet? But given that we agree the primary solutions exist at the grassroots level, I'm not even sure what level of public resources could be adequately spread around the City to address the chaos effectively, anyways. So it's a lose lose for him. I can, however, say that certain soft-initiatives like a Whole Foods in Englewood will have an impact on the community's prosperity, as will the recently recommended hike in the local minimum wage with exemptions for youth employment. II In no way shape or form did I intend to single out women. I understand that the example I gave was about a woman, but I was speaking to the family structure, in general. Which, by and large, hasn't changed much over the last few decades, but that doesn't mean its unraveling is not a catalyst to these issues. Sadly, the idea that communities prosper when families stay in tact is a GOP chorus that gets lost in some of their other gobbledygook like abstinence education, etc. In fact, among the African American community, there's a fear that what's broadly, and accurately referred to as 'population control' is code for 'eugenics.' So, what is an otherwise important message gets lost. III There are so many other ways to frame issues of class and racial friction as being rooted in a 'victim' mentality, but this is not one of them. And there's nobody in these communities, in City Hall or on the Fifth Floor letting this issues wash over them, shrugging their shoulders saying 'whatcha gonna do?' And the admission of powerlessness is hardly a surrender. It is, however, why we hold elections every four years, and I can assure you some of the leaders in these hot spot areas are shopping their resumes as we speak. These problems are so deeply systemic, that it should come as no surprise to you that the 10% of residents who did show up to vote in these neighborhooods, picked a person who falls woefully short of having what it takes to right the ship, Again, this isn't rationale to give up on finding a solution, I'm just relaying the reality of what these areas face. I'm not suggesting they can't be more civically engaged, I'm simply pointing out that they are not. And you don't have to take many steps down the line before that translates to people getting shot at. I would agree.

Who gets to say what is and what isn't fat?

ESPN is still a thing?

Was expecting to find this here I spend too much time on the Internet

But what can leadership do? Obviously our strict gun laws aren't doing much to put a dent in the problem. Are we supposed to have tanks patrolling our streets? Should Emanuel turn Chicago into the next East St. Louis by accepting Quinn's staties? I was just having this conversation this morning with our director of constituent services. It's really up to the communities to solve these problems. Don't want to wrap it up? Fine. Want to have five kids before you're 25 with a sixth one on the way (as was the case with the young woman gunned down yesterday morning)? Fine. But the community--the extended family, the neighbors, the folks you share a pew with at church--they've got to step in and keep these kids from growing up to be the cold-blooded, armed to the teeth monsters that are running wild and wreaking havoc in the neighborhoods. If we're going to be lax on the responsibilities involved with bringing another human into this world, then someone has to pick up the slack, and sorry, but that someone is not Rahm Emanuel. And if no one nearby cares to pick up the slack, then it's high time we do something (what I'm not sure) about changing the culture of reproduction in communities of need. To your point about history: I would say that Chicago's violent history is no different than any major city's. Unfortunately, the lack of social safety nets (want to have that conversation?) has let some of areas of this city devolve into chaos. It's pure, unfettered chaos. The compliance you speak of is not at the city level, it's in the communities. And they're getting fed up too. I still hesitate to call what we have here "organized." Of course that exists here, but it's just a piece of a much larger puzzle.

To the latter: my point exactly. To the former: but where was Dillinger shot? Under the marquee of the Biograph theater...which is? You guessed it: directly across the street from The Bills Backers Bar.

Ha...of course

I wasn't referring specifically to you. This conversation (like most about violence in Chicago) seemed poised to spiral quickly into "see Obama's crony Emanuel can't keep blood out of the streets even with their second-amendment-violating gun laws!!!!!!!11!!"