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#24 Next Champ
I guess one thing I've overlooked evaluating this game, and their season in general, is how bad the Bears offensive line is, they suck
Feel bad for Cutler
What a fake...nicee
JohnShaft
They have been complete a**e, I have to agree.
Cutler has held on to the ball too long at times though. I don't know if that's him, the WR's not getting open, or the routes being too long. We also need to rollout.
elway93
Everyone in the league could tear up this awful pass defense of the Packers. Wait, everyone except Cutler apparently...
That's not a pick, but they'll call it one
What's the point of these reviews if it's impossible to overturn a call? That ball without a doubt hit the ground
Chillez
Rodgers hasn't been his amazing self compared last season. I know it's early but I think Manning will have better year. Who do you pick?
They overturned the 12 on the field call.
They didn't overturn the blatantly wrong call on Sunday when GB held two on a PR TD.
GB's been getting ref help for years. Seems replacements are no different.
Yeah that GB offense has looked out of sync. I'm sure they'll snap out of it eventually though. I think Manning could potentially have a better season. I'm glad to see Cutler struggling, as usual!
InElwayWeTrust
There's already a thread about Cutler's zero points.
The Boldin TD in BAL was without a doubt the worst non overturned call ever...obvious no TD but nope it wasn't "conclusive"...BS
I was way way more scared of GB coming into the season. Now not so much. It's early but I don't fear them much as before.
Bears need back it up on offense they played poorly in 1st half.
I was predicting Green Bay and Chicago as the two best teams in the NFC this year. I'm second guessing myself.
ERoyal248
Rodgers, Bears play him well.
Same with the Packers on Cutler. I think he had like 1 TD, 5 or 6 INT's in Lambeau.
Bears and Packers games are always like this.
They know each other so welll.
Also, really impressed with Tim Jennings.
Broncos-R-Great
Cee Lo Green,really? They couldn't find anybody better?
God this is rough. No way Packers D is this good. Bears O always saves its worst games for their Swiss Cheese D.
Wasn't Cutler talking trash about how the Packers defense wouldn't be able to stop him? He must have meant they wouldn't be able to stop him from embarrassing himself...
Wow Bears... Chicago is cursed, it's cause they built the city on Indian land
More like Jay BUTTler!!! Amiright?
Hmmm, shouldn't have started Marshall in fantasy
They do I agree. But Rodgers and O don't look as good or efficient compared last season thus far.
Game over. That INT killed them.
KoolBreeze
The interception machine strikes again. Go Cutler! Haha
It's just 2 games but eh who knows right now. Yeah Tim Jennings does look good.
Cutler sucks
Tebow>>>>Cutles
I started Marshal too... and Cutler:doh: They've gotten me -2 points.
Ouch man. That sucks. :ugh:
Lol, that's rough. I really thought Cutler and Marshall were going to light it up
Bears OL is turrible.
I won't want to imagine what the Niners Front 7 will do to them...
This good, no, but they aren't as bad as last week showed.
And for whatever reason, they frustrate the crap out of Cutler.
This good, no, but they aren't as bad as last week showed. And for whatever reason, they frustrate the crap out of Cutler.
I think he knows how big the games are. And he gets amped up to much, or feels the pressure.
Same happens with him in night games in general.
He needs to get past it.
That's what I thought. The Packers D gets torn up all the time, but for whatever reason they own Cutler.
Imagine how many sacks we put up against them. I gotta say maybe 10 sacks. :eek:
As Cutler fan man this might be worst game as a pro. Time to go back to bench he's playing horrible. Ugh... "sigh"
Frenchy180
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9ers front is better than ours
one5beast
@JosinaAnderson: Classic---> RT @peggykusinski: Cutler asked if after last week he thought this could happen, "yeah I dream about 7 sacks & throwing 4 picks"
Every time I watch Cutler play the Packers I go from hating him to feeling sorry and embarrassed for him.
I agree but still if Bears offensive line shows up tonight like they did, 10 sacks not out of the question for us. We also have better front line than the Packers.
Too bad we're not playing the Bears this season
Unless it's the SB but that wont happen.
CoryWinget81
Superbowl?
BEARS?
SUPERBOWL?!?!
HAH.
I meant them not us lol. They wont make it.
Orangeisback
Jay Cutler deserves a lot of this, even though his line looked bad. He doesnt go to his hot reads. The Packers were not doing anything to disguise any pass rush. When they are coming and showing it, the QB needs to know where the hot reads are, or call them in the form of audibling. He doesnt. He seemlingly cant.
He doesnt have the excuse that Martz wont let him audlible.
No, it cant be such a coincidence. I will also remind everyone here that in 2008 Cutler was sacked 11 times in 616 attempts. Read that again. 11 sacks in 616 attempts. Cutler still had the second most ints in the league and the most red zone picks in the NFL.
No, I am sick of the excuses people use for this guy with his disgusting attitude and it is a disgusting attitude.
When things dont go his way, there are 7 year old children that dont act like he does. He leaves little in the form of inspiring the team around him.
rusty_thomson
I just watched his post game interview here: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000062062/article/charles-woodson-on-cutler-same-old-jay
And there are so many subtleties of his actions which just make me think he's not a team player and a cancer.
- The Video shows him yelling at lineman etc and even following lovie smith down the sidelines where he is ignoring him
- His sarchastic responses and non-caring attitude even though he says he cares ("yeah I dream of throwing 4 picks and being sacked 7 times")
- He says he cares and if they want a quarterback who doesn't care then get somebody else (seems like he doesn't have any pride for his team, just let me go)
- Kept reiterating GB was playing 2 man and almost deflecting against his performance (e.g. wasn't my fault)
- Seemed to blame the coaches game plan for not adjusting and letting GB's defense have an easy game
- His haircut looks so stupid now haha
- One thing is however he doesn't say "you know" anywhere near as much as he used to, so much less annoying haha
In total I am happy he's gone. I didn't think it at the time but now I am super happy. It helps we have peton now too :D :D
Great arm, but cant read a defense to save his faith. I think he's so waaay over confident in his ability to get the ball downfield that it creates problems. Just not a team player. The image of him taking himself out of the NFC Championship game 3 years ago will be his lasting legacy.
Hadez
If I remember correctly there was a time when Peyton was being given crap because he said in an interview too much about his OL being responsible for a playoff loss.
Think it was the playoff loss to Pitt in fact when Pitt then beat us next week in the AFC Conf game. IIRC the Colts OL could not block the OLBs for Pitt and Manning said his OL needs to do a better job...then of course people like the OP bashed him for saying too much and not being a "team player"
Point is...people get on these players far too much imo
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Spice 1
Old Jay reared his ugly head last night. You guys see the post game interview? Guy is kind of freaking out. I think he gets a little neurotic during games. Maybe that's part of it. Who knows. Can't keep forcing throws like that though. Definitely not the answer. If he turns back into the old Jay, it opens the door for Detroit.
"Disgusting attitude"?!! The guy was out there giving it all, trying to make something happen. Did you see Rodgers throw a childish temper tantrum (that's 7-year old for you right there) at James Jones because he threw a pick that was someone else's fault? Jones cut off one route and it wasn't costing them the game, just hurting Rodgers' numbers. Have you ever seen Rodgers that mad when they lost a game?! Cutler has never gotten after his line when they were simply getting him beaten up, if they were ahead.
As for the interceptions, did you even see the game last night?! The majority of Cutler's sacks happened before he could finish his drop. Two of his interceptions should have been overturned (ball hit the ground and defender didn't have control) and one was Bennett's fault. The worst throw of the night was Rodgers hitting Briggs between the numbers, and that wasn't intercepted.
Cutler made some bad throws, mostly in the second half when his team was down two scores. But that's something you expect from a guy like him. Shanahan once said that some QBs care more about their numbers than winning the game. Those guys have the high passer-ratings but very few come-from-behind victories. Guys like Cutler who don't care about the numbers and only about winning will try to make something happen and if it doesn't come off it looks ugly (like last night), but there's a reason guys like him have a lot of comebacks. The Bears were not going to come back in that game if Cutler kept throwing the ball away. The only way something was going to change was if he took chances. Unfortunately for him and the Bears, they didn't pay off. But his "attitude" is to care more about the team and winning than his own personal stats.
Wow, schadenfreude is one thing, but this is ridiculous. I'm thrilled we have Manning and would pick him every day of the week over Cutler (or Rodgers for that matter), but to not realize that this is a guy who has been getting hit more than any other QB in the league is plain stupid. He faced this in Vanderbilt, his first full season with us (2007) and his entire tenure with the Bears. The one year he wasn't running for his life (2008) he played lights out and went to the Pro Bowl.
He's on the money about saying he cares about winning. He's gotten run over because of poor offensive lines and not said anything as long as it didn't cost his team the game. Contrast that with Rodgers chewing out James Jones because he cut off a route. The resulting pick wasn't really going to affect the result of the game at that point, just Rodgers' personal stats. if Rodgers can do that after ONE pick that wasn't his fault, what do you think he would do after multiple years of being rag-dolled because of crappy offensive lines?
Are you kidding me? You may very well be the only one that doesnt see the attitude of Cutler.
In 2008 when the Broncos collapsed it was all because of their defense. True their defense was horrible, but in their 8 losses that year, the offense AVERAGED 15.5 points per game. Read that again.
Well, in Denver in 2008 he was sacked 11 times in 616 attempts. I dare you to find a better sack to pass attempt ration than that. He was still the 16th rated QB and was second in the NFL in ints and led the NFL in red zone picks.
While the OL didnt do well, Cutler also deserves blame for not reading blitzes. Not audubling or knowing where the hot reads are. Dont tell me that he wasnt holding on to the ball on at least 3 of the 7 sacks. Dont tell me that he didnt have hot reads he could go to or audible to on 5 of the 7 sacks.
Face it, those of us that thought it was ALL MCDANIELS were DEAD WRONG!
Just admit it.
Even if the Broncos in 2009 traded him away for NOTHING, it would have been better for this franchise. Addition by subtraction.
Oh and as you give him his predicatble excuses about his ints that he threw, it evens out because the Packers DBs dropped at least 3 ints. INTs that were right in their hands.
So, please. Stop with the excuses for this guy. There is a reason why his peers voted him the most hated player in the league over a dog killer and a rapist.
Bronco'sSince77
Jeff George 2.0
Al Wilson 4 Mayor
I remember that interview. His exact words were, "we had protection issues", which could be directed at scheme, not just blocking.
BroncoFanBoy
I am amazed that he still can not mature. He is in his 7th NFL season, yet he is still ignoring coaches.
He's got good receivers now, can't use that as an excuse. His offensive line could still use improvement, but he's worked around it before. He has never had a good o-line, yet he took the Bears to the playoffs once. Besides, he can tell the line exactly where to block.
Gsam
I would have paid a lot of money to see his left tackle body slam his pansy ass on the ground. He's a petulant child.
Read my post again. You say he was sacked 11 times in 2008. I said 2008 was the only year in his career he wasn't running for his life, and he made the Pro Bowl. So you agree with me that if he isn't running around for his life, he's a damn good player. Put any other QB with the o-lines he's had (outside of 2008) and you get pretty much the same result.
You must be one of a handful of guys that still thinks McDaniels, the lying, cheat who has had more run-ins than anyone else was in the right then. Heck even Elway said he wouldn't have traded Cutler.
The bottomline is that Cutler has been taking more hits than anyone else the last few years and yesterday was one of the worst examples of it. What makes matters worse was that for once in his tenure in Chicago, he actually had receivers on the outside he could throw it to, if he was only allowed to complete his drop. Rodgers had ONE route cut off and he threw a temper tantrum because it spoiled his passer rating (the game was pretty much decided at that point) and you have ZERO problems with his attitude, but a guy getting on his left-tackle after a game's worth of poor blocking (following a season's worth of poor blocking the year before) shows you an attitude problem. Go figure.
The fact is that you made an intellectually lazy judgment from a few shots shown on television. And you don't like his facial expression. You think that you are so smart that you can judge his character from his facial expression. People like you are the sort that would find fault with philanthropists because you "don't like how he looks". I hope for your sake that you're not in a profession that requires judging people if this is the amount of thought you're going to put into it.
Can't we all just agree that Cutler is an embarrassment to the National Football League?
He was completely correct in saying that. His line got him killed. Manning, like Cutler, is incredibly competitive and if someone screwing up is costing them the game, they're going to say something.
What shocks me is that no one is talking about Rodgers ripping into James Jones for a route he cut off. The play wasn't going to have any meaningful impact on the result of the game, just Rodgers' passer-rating. That's a shocking example of me-first petulance. Yet, you don't hear anyone talking about it. I guess it helps to have the "athlete of the year" award from the Pro Football Writers Association for being the most accommodating to the media with interviews and such.
Pro bowl? Really?
Let me give you a few facts about that ridiculous game and what happened that year. Did you know that the pro bowl used to be determined by week 13? Do you know why they stopped that and made the pro bowl selection after the last game? Take a guess. You got it. The fact that Cutler made it over the number 1 rated Rivers and the #2 rated Pennington. Both teams that won their divisions.
Yeah, when Cutler was voted into the pro bowl it was after the Broncos were 8-5.
That game is utterly useless and if we are going to decide pro bowl, we should remember VY was a pro bowler and rookie of the year. That is besides the point. Plummer was a pro bowler in 2005 and had his best season as a pro when he led the team to its last winning season and win over the Pats, breaking their 10 game play win streak.
So much for pro bowls and that insidious point.
Cutler has been a pouty, crying child and he is not inspirational. When things go bad.....he literally pouts like the self entitled, spoiled brat he is.
I know, this all goes back to McDaniels and it is the root of everything that he did. Yeah, Belichick thinks so lowly of him, that he has him as their OC again. Is BB just being nice? Really? Nice?
The point is Cutler has shown it over and over and over again. It was obvious to everyone after that NFCCG where he of course had that torn MCL. Sounds horrible to those who know little about that injury.
MJD played 14 games with that injury. Rivers played a whole game with a far worse version of that injury where he needed surgery. You know.....Cutler hardly limped, jogged to the center of the field, jogged off of the field, and never needed surgery.
Stop making excuses for the guy. He is an embarrassment. I am so glad he is gone, and this franchise is better off with out him and his little childish way.
I also didnt necessarily blame Cutler for yelling at his tackle. However it is his over all gate. The manner in which he carries himself with that sour pus look onhis face that EVERYONE else seems to see except you.
Again, you can make excuses for the 4 ints. I will remind you that GB DBs dropped 3 right intheir hands and therefore things even out.
I will also say that the sociopath did drop that ball, but the ball was not perfctly thrown. Really wasnt.
If it meant his left tackle would do his job, I'm betting Cutler would gladly offer it. One body slam by Webb would be much more preferable to the amount of hits Cutler has taken over the years.
TH3JUICEMAN
Man the hate for a QB that hasnt been on this roster in how many years is astonishing.
I don't miss him one bit, but..........wow I guess sums it up
Packers own the Bears since Cutler has been QB.
Cutler struggles badly vs them.
He's beaten them once his entire career since with the Bears, and even that game was lucky.
Also, I should mention that he has the freedom to audible this year. Doesnt have that excuse this year. Martz is gone. Ironic, considering his best stretch as a Bear statistically was last year under Martz when he didnt give him the freedom to audible.
How ironic. Please dont tell me his best year was when they went to the play offs with 30TH RANKED OFFENSE in 2010. With a win over the worst play off team in NFL history.
The bottom line is Cutler needs to identify the rush and go to his hot read. Dont tell me he didnt hold the ball on at least 4 of the 7 sacks.
He can audible now....to check downs and hot reads.
Sometimes, the sacks are on the QB too.
You know that right?
LOL at AC still defending him after that god-awful game.
Rodgers wasn't great by any stretch, or his usual self, but Cutler was AWFULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL. And yes, the GB DB's dropped at least 2-3 more picks.
Cutler plays like crap vs GB, even if they have a "horrible D"
The #'s don't lie.
flosstein
U mean the good receivers who drop wide open TD passes? Or the ones who don't know how to help their QB in a scramble drill and come back to the ball? He has never worked around that poor excuse for an OL. Matt Forte has been his leading receiver for the past 3 seasons. And just because the QB calls out protections doesn't mean squat. The OL still has to complete the task of blocking the correct man.
I understand that some of you around here don't like him because u all feel butt hurt about some of the things he said on his way out. But you all trashed him repeatedly FIRST!!! So what he wanted out, if somebody wanted to trade u for Matt Cassell, u would instantly see that he was a McDummy and not want to play for him either. But nooooo u all sided with the tool bag of a coach and it brought us right to the basement of the NFL. Thank goodness Bowlen acted so quick and we were able to right the ship so soon. Otherwise 1 more McD season and we would have swapped places with the Lions.
Is he perfect? No. But let's not make stuff up because we want to hate him instead of the hack that tried to trade him for a backup. Then ultimately did trade him for an even worse backup.
I will also say that the sociopath dod drop that ball, but the ball was not perfctly thrown. Really wasnt.
You're just reaching now -
1. The Pro Bowl is decided at the same time every year. In 2008, the only QB that did more to carry his team more than Cutler was Peyton Manning. Cutler took the worst starting field position in the league and had the best drive-success-rate that year. He also exposed his defense to the second fewest drives in the league (only the Manning-led Colts faced fewer drives on defense). With a better defense than ours, equally good OL, better pass-catchers and Tomlinson and Sproles in the backfield, Rivers was 5-8, whereas Cutler had us at 8-5 before more injuries in the backfield. For the last three games that Rivers won that year, his defense averaged 3 turnovers a game, whereas ours averaged more than 30 points. Yet, we were a tie-breaker away from the playoffs.
But of course, you chose to ignore the point that the one year Cutler didn't have a terrible line, he played extremely well.
2. Again, you throw out the line that Cutler is a "pouty, entitled brat" as its own evidence. Where is the proof? Your godly "body-language reading skills"? And how does a guy get a sense of entitlement growing up in a blue-collar neighborhood where he worked construction jobs as a teenager? Or playing for lowly Vanderbilt and getting beaten up against the SEC, without once complaining?
Would a "pouty, entitled player" really go through an entire season with undiagnosed type-1 diabetes despite losing 30 pounds, because he never complained about it?
Would the first time you saw a "pouty, entitled player" laying into one of his teammates be after multiple games worth of not doing their jobs? (As an alternative, I give you the great Aaron Rodgers who ripped his teammate on national television after ONE mistake, that affected his personal stats more than the team win).
Would a "pouty, entitled player" tell his friends not to speak to the media about his charity because he doesn't want to draw undue attention to it or refuse to do commercials in his new city until they win a playoff game?
3. You're one of the few remaining people still on McDaniels side. And did you just use the master of spygate, Bill Belichick as a character reference? Wow!
4. You're also one of the last handful of people questioning Cutler's toughness. Ask Urlacher or Kreutz what they thought of the injury (Kreutz was shocked the Cutler went back in for the start of the second half when his knee was buckling when he walked). Rivers left the game where he HAD the injury and played the week after (and was horribly ineffective). MJD sat out the last two games as his team was vying for a playoff position.
5. Every QB has dropped INTs. None was more egregious last night than the throw Rodgers made to Briggs that, to quote Mayock "hit Briggs between the 5 and the 5" which he dropped. While we're on Mayock, his quote on the Marshall TD drop was "I couldn't have walked over and handed him the ball any better; perfect throw". But don't let that inconvenience your own, masterful personal judgment.
RocketArm006
Sure seems like there is always a cutler or tebow thread around here.
I personally think we, as a fan base, should get passed the sour grapes of it all and just simply be happy with what we have now.
It is possible to be excited and happy about the current team without being all haha neenerneener about it.
Just reminds me if that psycho exgirlfriend who still needs to point out how happy she is without you. Let's just move on and enjoy some pfm while it lasts
Your guy Rodgers has certainly looked better than Manning so far this season, right? And his "usual self" showed up in week one against SF when down by a score late in the fourth quarter he played true to form (3-18 record in those situations).
And in the game last night, Cutler played poorly but he never really had a chance with his pass-protection. We saw how well Cutler played week one once his OL gave him time. You think Rodgers would have done any better behind that sieve of an OL last night? How did you like Rodgers ranting at James Jones for spoiling his passer rating? Can you imagine what he would have done to his OL if they had played like that of the Bears?
Neither QB played well last night. Despite the final score, the difference in the game was the fake FG for a TD that was brilliantly called and executed by the ST.
One player from each team will wake up today feeling embarrassed on national television by his QB. The difference is Webb knows Cutler has waited until the second game of his second season of atrocious performance at LT to lay into him. Jones will wonder why the first route he cut off leading to a pick (that wasn't going to affect the game) led to him being treated the same way.
#87Birdman
Yes because a 20 point lead with over 8 minutes left can not be over come. I mean Tebow never did anything similar to that in less time. You give the ball up that close to the endzone that could be costly. If you are throwing the ball that means you still believe the other team can make a come back. But yup a me first player lol. Bias is strong in that post.
PowderAddict
He's a crybaby, and a terrible leader.
Jeff George 2.0 is a great comparison.
OhBehave30
I do think that he's calling out his coaches subtly and for good reason. Cutler's not that bad of a QB, I really do think that he is severly hindered by the play calling and joke of a coaching staff. Lovie Smith and Mike Tice? Get real.
Cutler did more to "carry his team?"
Dude, seriously. Let me clarify some more facts. Other than the fact that Rivers and Pennington were ranked 1 and 2 in the NFL in passing for teams that won their divisions.
After the first 3 games in 2008, the Broncos went from averaging 36 points per game to 19.6 over their last 13. He had a great OL. He had great WRs. In fact the WRs led the NFL in YAC with 1,895 that year.
Cutler did little to lead this team. The defense was horrible in 2008, but in their 8 losses the Broncos offense only averaged 15.5 points per game.
He collapsed and whined back then the way he whines now.
He is childish punk who tried act as though he was sooooo offended when Mcdaniels fielded calls about a trade involving him.
Yeah, the power play pulled by him and Bus Cook to get him a big contract.
The fan base of course (many of the fan base) bought into that crap.
Players are always discussed in trades and far from a big deal. I didnt see Cutler do much to garner him a franchise QB contract.
Uhh, look who he is playing against. The Niners defense makes a LOT of QB's look bad, and Rodgers wasn't that bad against them.
And the Bears play Rodgers well, and he was missing Jennings. And yes, Rodgers wasn't great last night but they had a few drops.
Yes, the OL was crap, but could of dumped it off or passed it out of bounds. Rodgers is a MVP, and a SB Champion/SB MVP, Cutler will never be in the same strastosphere as Rodgers.
Same ol Jay showed up last night, he gets frustrated and chucks it up. Packers own Cutler, he's beaten them once since he's been with the Bears. They own him, and are in his head.
Couldn't agree more, gave them a short field with time on the clock. Not good. You don't give a team that kind of gift. As for Cutler and his line- They may not be great but Cutler/play calling/WR's didn't do much to help them. Check down every once in a while, do some rollouts, anything different. To keep doing 5 step drops and expecting different results is stupid. Cutler is not a leader. He pouts, he yells and when he gets success he gloats. What a waste of a ton of ability.
I love too how I am on Mcdaniels side cause I am happy Cutler isnt here.
That is a good one.
Love that one.
BroncoFanDK
The difference is that Rogers (and Manning) are consistently great QB's, that lead and manage their teams. They are class acts, so it is forgiven when they do things wrong.
Cutler is grotesquely overrated. Behaves like a child, and is stupid enough to disparage a corner that has picked him off 4 times in one game. He is 2-11 against Chargers and Green Bay (while in division with them). When you consistently have problems against your chief rivals and you act like a super star people figure it out.
Cutlers ego gets in the way, he cannot read defences to save his soul, and his claim to fame is that he is a Jeff George clone.
They own him the same way Chargers owned him when he was the Broncos QB - it is a pretty sad fact for an "elite" QB to have a 2-11 career record against your top division rivals.
I disagree entirely.
Rodgers should have ripped Jones. This particular play may not have mattered, but it could have cost them dearly in a game that was closer.
Sometimes, the sacks are on the QB too. Despite being a Bears (and Cutler) fan, I take your post as a very accurate summing up.
Cutler's head was scrambled by the early pressure (which was exacerbated by the pass-heavy, run-lite, early playcalling).
I just hope they all learn from this one.
If you choose to ignore things that are repeatedly pointed out to you and underlined, you are engaging in a discussion with yourself that no one can really help you out with.
If you want a better response, you should extend that courtesy first yourself.
You're mistaking "playing badly" for the "same old Rodgers". Against the niners, Rodgers did the same thing he's done throughout his career - put up good numbers and choke in the death (a record of 3-18 when facing a deficit of one score in the fourth quarter). He's a great QB to have when everything is going well. But as Shanahan said, QBs differentiate themselves by how they play when the chips are down. You tried to suggest that Rodgers is better than Brady and Manning earlier this offseason. Neither of them are 3-18 in close games. Rodgers is an elite QB no doubt (and a better QB than Cutler right now), but he has a long way to go before he can be in the same stratosphere as Brady and Manning
As for Cutler, he can do better checking down (we're assuming his check downs were open), but most of his interceptions came in the second half when nothing on offense was working and he was trying to make something happen. One could argue that throwing interceptions doesn't help the cause, but throwing checkdowns on 3rd-and-long when you're down by two scores isn't going to bring your team back. What it does is help your passer-rating. It's clear which of the two Cutler would rather have - better passer-rating or an outside chance of winning. Surely, even you have to give him that.
The thing that amazes me is that a guy like Cutler has had two games in the last three years with 7 and 9 sacks. It's quite evident that he's really good at escaping pressure and getting rid of the ball quickly. One can only wonder what would happen to a QB who doesn't have those strengths, behind that Bears OL.
Would you extend that same evaluation to Cutler ripping his left tackle?
Also, have you ever seen Rodgers that mad about losing a game?
It isn't a Cutler thread without some ridiculous post from you. So Rodgers (I refuse to put him in the same breath as Manning) can "lead" a team because every time he does something which shows poor leadership, you excuse it saying "yeah but he can lead his team". You might want to look up the definition of "circular reasoning".
Despite being a Bears (and Cutler) fan, I take your post as a very accurate summing up.
I don't know that he had a lot of options. The Bears ran a lot of max-protect with only two or three WRs running patterns. The running back and tight-end almost invariably stayed in to block. The shocking thing is the amount of pressure the Packers got even with the Bears running max-protect.
But I agree that they should learn from this. Your line is not built for big plays in the passing game. I would hope the Bears will have a little extra something for the Packers when they meet next time, especially with the way Woodson was diving at Cutler knees.
Yeah, he didn't come back, Niners D makes a lot of teams look bad. Let's see how your boy does against them later in the year. Nothing wrong with that, Niners D is scary good, they make plenty of QB's look bad.
You can make the argument he is regardless of what he is in close games, the hate you have for him is absolutely HILARIOUS! Rodgers will always be a better QB then Cutler. Cutler isn't in the same strastosphere as Rodgers is. Rodgers is a MVP, a SB Champ and widely regarded as one of if not the best QB in football. Putting Cutler and Rodgers in the same sentence is a disgrace to Rodgers.
And right now, Rodgers will always be a better QB over Cutler, not sure what more you need to see to change that. There aren't even Bears fans who would think that. But hey, you think Rodgers is a system QB or is only good b/c of the weapons surrounded by him. Keep making excuses for Cutler, it's cute.
Peyton never had great lines in Indy but was never sacked that often. Vintage Jay showed up last night, when he gets down, he pouts and chucks the ball, throws INT's, etc. Simply put, he played like crap last night, no way to sugarcoat it.
Rodgers is 3-18 in close games. Was he playing the niners in every single one of them? :rolleyes:
And Cutler was trying to make something happen, which is what results in those interceptions sometimes. But it's also the reason he has more than 3 comeback wins. But go right ahead and judge QBs based on the talent around them. Rodgers is the better QB today, but Cutler was better in 2008 when they both had some scheme stability, and given similar stability in schemes could do so again in the future.
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Can't decide what was worse: The game itself (ugly game for both teams albeit much worse for chicago), the officiating, or the announcing-mike mayock was really annoying. Also, I'm tired of seeing that weirdo in the blue suit with the beard associated with football.I don't know who he is ( kind of like a clone of the fat guy from hangover) but the nfl needs to get rid of him.
Ok, so he's not good in close games, yet he has one of the best passer ratings of all-time, won a league MVP and SB, he must be doing something right.
And no, Cutler will never, ever be a better QB over Rodgers at any point his career, he's a mental midget. And Cutler wasn't better then Rodgers in 08, the only thing he was better in was yards.
I don't know what more you need to see who the superior QB is, not even Bears fans would say this. It's pretty clear who the better QB is, and will continue to be, and it sure as hell isn't Cutler.
Cutler in 08- 62.3%, 4,526 yards, 25 TD's, 18 INT's, 86.0 QBR.
Rodgers in 08- 63.6%, 4,038 yards, 28 TD's, 13 INT's, 93.8 QBR.
So b/c he had more yards means he had a better year?
So please tell me how Cutler was better in 08, in before you make an excuse of him not having a running game and the defense was crap.
Let me clarify as best I can. I was happy when we drafted Cutler. But within a year or so I heard some negative stuff about the guy, which I tried to sweep under the rug......because he was our QB. As time went on, I realized that this guy made some poor decisions, AND seemed to lack class.
Sure, loved his arm......when he was not trying to force balls into tiny windows.
Then came the split......really started to dislike the guy. And if Alex Smith has a good year, after hearing rumours about Manning coming to town, he is by far the better man than Jay. Jay thought he was the franchise, whereas Smith loves his franchise.
And since (with The Bears)......well, lots of excuses. Some very poor play mixed in with some decent stuff. And whether ot not he totally deserves it, he is not popular with his peers. Can't even break the top 100 players, based on peer rating (2 straight years). And was very much critized by them in that NFC Final, regardless of how badly hurt he was.
Last night he looked like the Cutler of old......sulking and pointing fingers. And then, giving a hopeless postgame session, although I should have expected it. Not a good loser, to say the least!
Overall, I am very happy that we traded him (although not the trade I would have made). I don't care how good he can be. BUT, I sometimes wonder if he will ever be a top tier QB, given that he doesn't seem to learn much. Last night he should have been picked off about 6 times, and some of those throws were very poorly executed.....he still thinks he can accurately throw passes while employing off balance stances. I don't understand. And even though he was pressured, he had time to throw to alternate targets (other than Marshall), given there must have been a number of man to man options.
Anyway.......maybe Rivers and The Chargers were right about him all along!
One last thing........as for Rodgers comparisons.......not even worth discussing.
one of Cutler's former teammates has some pretty damning words about him:
http://touch.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-72300545/
Seems like his attitude is his biggest problem.
It's notable that it's a former team captain stating this.
As fan of Jay this comparison is pretty close if you think about it. I wont say this players name though. :smug:
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Comments by Adewale Ogunleye.
Ogunleye used examples of Super Bowl winning quarterbacks Tom Brady and Peyton Manning as guys who may get on teammates but aren't over the top.
"People really like them," Ogunleye said. "I've met Tom Brady many times and played against him. Genuinely, he is a good person and you want to see him successful. The problem with Jay is we're not sure about his emotions. The only thing we see is when he is really angry. Even when he does a really good job he doesn't show a sense of happiness.
"There is no good to Jay, there is no smiling. All we see is when he is pissed off, when he is angry and that reflects in the way people might view him in the locker room. But a guy like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, genuinely they are nice people and they overextend themselves. Tom Brady can be the biggest diva in the world – he has that right, he has won Super Bowls – but he is not that guy. I think that is why he is even more likeable."
Pretty spot on Dave. :thumb:
Further........I don't live close to Colorado, but I find it interesting that people I talk to here pretty much all don't care for Cutler. It's pretty much unanimous. He just turns off average fans, here there and everywhere. These are everyday folks who don't necessarily pull for The Broncos, or know too much about the storyline here.
I guess we'll hear the old comeback......."once you get to know him". Apparently some of those folks don't care for him either.
Finally.......if teams play the GB way and shut down Marshall, watch out for some more of his antics, even if just the on field stuff (like kicking footballs.....you know, standard tantrum stuff).
I'd seriously expect Tice, and even Cutler, to be preparing right now for the inevitable eventuality of Marshall being constantly double-teamed. The team then needs to exploit other matchups, such as Jeffery or Bennett.
One play in particular pissed me off on Thursday. Watch the third pick. There's a single high safety in the middle of the field when the play starts (Marshall wide left, Jeffery wide right). At snap the safety runs straight over to Marshall's side, leaving Jeffery in a one-on-one, running a nice comeback route, deep.
Cutler just locks in on Marshall from the snap, doesn't seem to bother to read the safety, and throws straight to double-covered Marshall, instead of hitting the single covered Jeffery 20-odd yards down field.
If he continues to do that it is going to be a long year (of like 8-8).
That was the same Cutler when he was here. He would lock onto Marshall and force it when players like Royal and Scheff where running fairly open.
He used to do that here, always locked onto Marshall and force it into triple coverage when Stokley, Scheffler or someone else was open or had 1 on 1 coverage.
Everyone who was here back then knows I was a big Culter supporter and HATED the fact we traded him.
But as bad as McDaniels was for this team, it looks like he did get one thing right: Jay Cutler wasn't and never will be a franchise quarterback.
He's just way too selfish, moody, and inconsistent. And he's not a 2nd or 3rd year player anymore. He's a 7-year vet, and if he hasn't figured out some of this stuff by now, he's never going to figure it out.
I think this is the season.
Not the season he does it necessarily, but the season that's his last chance. He either changes now (older, with Marshall back, and a new OC, and his old QB coach) or he never does it. Because he's got all he could reasonably expect (sure the line isn't good, but you can't have everything).
I'd really like him to come out midweek and say "it's on me too". He stunk it up on Thursday. He got on the O-Line, who were to blame early. But not on himself (who deserved much of the later blame).
I do think we'll dig ourselves out of this psychological hole in the coming weeks. But I don't know how well.
SoundsOfSuccess
Cutler's leadership questioned by ex Co-Captain.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/15/ex-bears-teammate-ogunleye-questions-cutlers-leadership/


Joseph Barnett is proud to announce the birth of his baby sister, Emily Claire. Emily was born on January 4, weighing 6 lb., 6 oz., and was 19.5 inches long. Joseph and Emily's parents are Kendall and Teresa Barnett of Jonesboro. Grandparents are Robert and Marilea Barnett of Pocahontas and Wayne and Jo Ann Bradley of Imboden.


Buona Festa Italiana! Come celebrate with the Borough of Glassboro on Saturday, September 15th for the Annual St. Anthony's Italian Heritage Festival.
The 14th Annual Glassboro Car Show & Food Truck Festival drives into Glassboro August 31, 2018. Thousands of car enthusiasts will gather in Glassboro, New Jersey.
The Annual Car show drives into Glassboro on August 31, 2018. For the 14th year in a row, car enthusiasts will gather in Glassboro, New Jersey at the 2018 Glassboro Car Show & Food truck Festival, the premier car show in South Jersey. The viewing area will be in Downtown Glassboro and the Town Square. An anticipated 4,000 attendees will have the opportunity to view over 350 vehicles while listening to live music, racing scale slot cars, listening to DJ Pepper Paul 92.1 and the Olde City Band, and enjoying the best food trucks and local cold craft beer.
Glassboro has commissioned a bronze Glassblower Sculpture and created an art festival to commemorate our namesake industry.
This inspiring festival will include dozens of local and area glassblowers, sculptors, painters, metal-smiths, and woodworkers, plus a multitude of other hand-crafters that will offer their items for sale and be demonstrating their skills and artisanship right before your eyes!
Introducing the new Glassboro CommUnity Day!
Welcome to autumn at the Town Square in Downtown Glassboro.
Glassboro is the place to be this summer as it introduces its first ever annual Summer Fest.
Glassboro's heroes honored with a military flyover on memorial day.


LATROBE - Ainsley Battles is back in a Pittsburgh Steelers uniform. Battles, a safety, was brought in as a free agent to provide depth in the defensive secondary.
Battles, who played his college ball at Vanderbilt, was one of the few undrafted rookie free agents to earn an opening day roster spot for the Steelers in 2000. He spent two seasons with Pittsburgh and one with Jacksonville, playing in 45 games, starting 17, and intercepting three passes.
But, Battles lost his love for the game last year and quit just two weeks into training camp with the Buffalo Bills. He did not play in the NFL the entire 2003 season.
"I just told the coaches that it was a decision I had to make for myself. I just had to walk away," Battles said following practice Thursday afternoon at Saint Vincent College.
"That's what I felt was best for me at that time in my life. I realized that playing football for me wasn't about the paychecks. I wanted to do something that I enjoy doing."
Battles now seems grateful for the second chance he is getting with the Steelers. Aside from making the team, he is looking to provide leadership in the secondary and contribute on special teams.
"I just figure that as long as I'm on the team, I'm going to get my chance," he said. "That's how I look at it. Every day just be grateful for it and try to make the most of every opportunity I have."
Said head coach Bill Cowher, "Sometimes after you get away from the game a little bit you realize how much you love it. He still has a lot of playing left in him. It's a good fit here. We're glad he joined us."
There's no question Tommy Maddox will enter the season as the Steelers' starting quarterback. Barring a major meltdown, first-round draft pick Ben Roethlisberger will do little more than hold a clipboard on the sidelines this fall.
If the Steelers believe they are a legitimate playoff contender, which they do, Charlie Batch is the logical choice to back up Maddox and Roethlisberger will have plenty of time to learn from both of them.
The Steelers won't carry more than three quarterbacks on their roster. So where does that leave Brian St. Pierre?
St. Pierre, who was drafted out of Boston College in the fifth round last year, seems to be the odd man out even though he spent all of last season as the third quarterback.
But, Cowher said that St. Pierre has looked good so far.
"Brian is obviously more comfortable in the offense," Cowher said. "He's also just a second-year guy. I think its obvious in this camp that he looks a lot more comfortable than last year. His decision making is quicker. His comfort level is very good. He's done a good job."
Roethlisberger completed his second full day of practice on Thursday and the rookie quarterback said he feels more and more comfortable each time he steps on the field.
"I'm still learning, trying to get the feel of the offense and the players around me," he said. "I think I'm catching up pretty quick. I think the biggest thing that hurt was not being on the field with the guys. But, I'm trying to catch up as quick as I can."
After holding out the first four days of camp, Roethlisberger, the Steelers No. 1 draft pick, signed a six-year deal on Tuesday that could be worth as much as $40 million.
An NFL officiating crew was on hand Thursday to monitor the Steelers as they spent the last hour of practice competing in a full scrimmage.
One thing the officials kept a close eye on was the new changes in the enforcement of pass interference this season.
"The points of emphasis this year, particularly in the secondary, is that the contact beyond five yards is going to go up," Cowher said. "There's going to be a lot more calls. The grabbing of the jersey is going to be called, where as in the past, they had a judgment call on whether it really effected the receiver. This year if they see any grabbing their going to call it. There's going to be a lot more flags.
"I told the corners to talk to the officials so they have a clear understanding of what's allowed and what's not allowed. Having these guys in here is really a benefit right now, particularly with some of the points of emphasis as it relates to the secondary."
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St. Vincent Expands 2014 U.S. Tour, Coming to Fillmore Miami Beach
S. Pajot
S. Pajot | April 29, 2014 | 10:30am
"Get back to your seatssssss."
That's just St. Vincent, snarling so glamorously for your attention and "all of your mind." Because the art-rock artiste, otherwise known as Annie Clark, has just expanded her 2014 U.S. tour.
After helping to close out the current season of Saturday Night Live, Ms. Clark will travel across Australasia, zip over to the Euro continent, and then spend summer in Canada before returning to the homeland and bearing "Digital Witness" at the Fillmore Miami Beach.
Just check the cut for St. Vincent's American dates so far.
See also: Win Free Tickets for St. Vincent at Fillmore Miami Beach
St. Vincent's Fall 2014 U.S. Tour
September 5 Hopscotch Music Festival, Raleigh, NC
September 6 Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, CO
September 30 House of Blues, Cleveland, OH
October 1 Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH
October 6 Fillmore Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL
October 7 Beacham Theater, Orlando, FL
St. Vincent. Monday, October 6. Fillmore Miami Beach, 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. The show starts at 8 p.m. and tickets cost $25.50 to $35 plus fees via livenation.com. Call 305-673-7300 or visit fillmoremb.com.
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Uncategorized Self-Spreading Vaccines Are Under Development
Whether you are for or against vaccines of any kind, it is hard to ignore the seismic changes that have affected how vaccines have been developed, licensed and regulated during the COVID-19 pandemic.1,2 Some researchers are taking the next step, hoping to develop a new type of vaccine that self-spreads through the environment.3
Since the pandemic was declared by the World Health Organization in early 2020, federal and state lawmakers have been persuaded to build a pandemic response around a single experimental biological product, which has generated billions of dollars in profit for liability-free drug companies.4,5,6
Yet, as soon as pharmaceutical companies announced they were developing the vaccine, doctors, scientists, researchers and other experts began raising warnings7,8 about the historical problems of creating a coronavirus vaccine and the propensity it has to produce antibody-dependent enhancement, which made vaccinated individuals more susceptible to infection by the virus or a variant.
Subsequently, one study9,10,11 found the South African variant of SARS-CoV-2, which accounted for 1% of all cases of COVID-19 in Israel in April 2021, caused greater illness in people vaccinated with Pfizer's mRNA vaccine than in unvaccinated people. To ensure more are vaccinated, no matter the cost, vaccine passports are being rolled out across the world, including the U.S.
As reported by former U.S. Rep. and physician Ron Paul in his Liberty Report12,13 that streamed live March 29, 2021, the Biden Administration is "seriously looking into establishing some kind of federal vaccine passport system, where Americans who cannot (or will not) prove to the government they have been jabbed with the experimental vaccine will be legally treated as second-class citizens.�
Paul warns that this system "will quickly morph into a copy of China's 'social credit' system, where undesirable behaviors are severely punished.� I've been saying the same thing for many months now, and there's every reason to suspect that this is indeed where we're headed.
The newest Frankenstein iterations of vaccine development are those that self-disseminate through humans and wildlife. Using this technology, which researchers say already exists,14 the government wants to strip away one more layer of your civil rights.
This Prevention May Be Far Worse Than the Illness or Cure
The headlines read: "Vaccines of the Future Could Be as Contagious as Viruses�15 and "COVID-19 cure: Scientists Plan to Develop 'Self-Spreading' Coronavirus Vaccine.�16 Scott Nuismer and James Bull, authors of a paper in Nature17 calling for "Self-Disseminating Vaccines to Suppress Zoonoses,� told a New Scientist reporter, "Prevention is better than cure, so we should start using genetic techniques to stop dangerous animal diseases jumping to humans.�18
Some scientists are publicly19 calling for self-disseminating vaccines to spread vaccinations for infectious diseases that start in wild animals and may make the leap to humans. They cite diseases like SARS, MERS and COVID-19.20 This vaccination program would ostensibly be a complementary approach to reduce or eliminate the prevalence of the infectious agent within the wildlife communities.
To make the case, they cite the example of rabies vaccine programs that have significantly reduced the transmission of rabies in the U.S. and Europe and compare them to how rabies continues to affect people living in Africa and Asia, where the cost of vaccinating wild carnivores prevents the countries from attaining a sufficient level of immunity.
Apparently, the solution is to create a self-disseminating vaccine that relies on a radical change in development and production. The idea is to insert a small piece of genetic material into another virus that already spreads within the animal community, thus immunizing the animals that acquire the new virus.
The technology to achieve this has been used in field trials in wild rabbits to protect them from a viral hemorrhagic fever. Researchers are now investigating prototypes for Ebola and Lassa virus.
The public relations approach is to call for an ounce of prevention,21 weighing it against the ongoing costs of finding a cure for COVID-19. However, cost effective treatment protocols for COVID-19 already exist. The problem is they are so cost-effective for pharmaceutical companies to generate enough revenue using them.
Opinion pieces22 begin by touting the effectiveness of the current vaccine programs against smallpox, rubella, tetanus and measles. What they fail to mention is that those vaccine programs are vastly different from the genetic experiments being proposed. The idea is to:23
"… tamp down the spread of HIV and other contagious diseases and immunize people who would not otherwise be protected. Plus, the strategy would be cheaper than vaccinating everyone by hand.â€�
Self-Spreading Vaccine Virus Is a Ticking Time Bomb
You should know there is a drawback to these types of vaccines. The live vaccine may mutate to revert to the virulent form, which increases the risk of the illness for which the vaccine was developed. This has happened with the oral polio vaccine.24
Although it was not intentionally designed to transmit vaccine-derived polio viruses, there is a version of the oral polio vaccine that briefly spreads to other people. The polio strain that had been eradicated in the wild may have mutated and reverted to its virulent form.
The World Health Organization subsequently switched the oral polio vaccine,25 but also played down the issues from circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus26 saying the strain could be rapidly stopped by immunizing "every child several times with the oral vaccine to stop polio transmission, regardless of the origin of the virus.�27
Since they are still using the oral polio vaccine in some countries, today vaccine-derived polio infection numbers far exceed natural case numbers. In 2020 by the end of October there had been 200 wild polio cases and 600 vaccine-derived cases, according to an NPR report.28
With self-spreading vaccines, the chance of an intentionally designed transmissible vaccine to revert to the more virulent form is higher than in regular vaccines since there is the chance to replicate more times before dying. Scientists think that altering the transmissible vaccine to make it weaker may not eradicate the disease, but could reduce the risk the virus would revert and would require less people to be directly vaccinated.29
Nuismer postulates that using benign viruses to carry the genetic material may prove effective. For example, cytomegalovirus (CMV), which is common in humans and mammals, often creates no symptoms. If genetic material were injected into CMV, the vaccine would only lose effectiveness if the CMV reverted.
However, since CMV spreads easily and up to 80% of adults in the U.S. have been infected by age 40, using it as a vector may not work. Researchers are also investigating a transmissible vaccine for HIV intended for people who are infected. The "vaccine� would act as a parasite to compete with resources inside an infected cell.
The hope is these therapeutic interfering particles (TIPs) would lower the level of circulating viruses, prevent the spread of HIV and slow the progression to full-blown AIDS. Yet even the researchers who are attempting to develop such a vaccine acknowledged there are possible monstrous aberrations.30
For example, since the TIP can replicate it can also evolve. This is another way of saying it can develop a mutant variant that could become uncontrollable. If the TIP should revert to HIV, the researchers think that it would simply infect the person who was already carrying the virus.
However, because the TIP is transmissible, it can spread to people without HIV. In the initial development, the TIP cannot replicate in the body without HIV. However, after several generations of replication and possible reversion, is that a risk worth taking?
Scientists Are Blatantly Ignoring Informed Consent
Setting aside the health risks, it's important to note that scientists and experts who are proposing the use of transmissible vaccines are blatantly ignoring your right to informed consent. This is a federal law,31 which says you have a right to receive information about the treatment you're undergoing so you can make a well-informed decision about your medical care.
Medical practitioners are bound by ethical and legal obligations to disclose the risks and benefits of medical treatments before you receive them. To meet the legal standard, every person in the U.S., and in fact the world, would have to provide informed consent before a transmissible vaccine is released into the wild.
This kind of blatant disregard for your civil rights reared its ugly head in human testing for the COVID vaccine. Considering the unprecedented speed32 in which the vaccines were developed and released, it is not possible to provide participants in studies, or those taking the vaccine, a full list of the potential risks.
One of those significant concerns that researchers and doctors are aware of is antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE). Anyone receiving this experimental genetic procedure would want to be informed of the potential to worsen the very disease they're trying to avoid.
Despite researchers' strong recommendation in October 2020 that this risk should be "prominently and independently disclosed,�33 it was not part of the informed consent disclosure. The International Journal of Clinical Practice researchers wrote:34
"This risk [ADE] is sufficiently obscured in clinical trial protocols and consent forms for ongoing COVID-19 vaccine trials that adequate patient comprehension of this risk is unlikely to occur, obviating truly informed consent by subjects in these trials.�
We are on a slippery slope. Unless researchers, pharmaceutical companies and governmental agencies are held accountable and watched closely we will continue to lose more and more of our civil rights until they have completely eroded.
How Will Big Pharma React to Losing $50 Million Each Year?
Nusimer estimates the cost savings from a transmissible vaccine may be roughly $50 million every year. He said, "It's astronomical the amount of money you would save, even with a weakly transmissible vaccine.�35
However, that number is likely far from the financial loss pharmaceutical companies would experience. For example, if the flu vaccine were to be transmissible it would put a big dent in the $3 billion a year36 they reap from a vaccine with an overall effectiveness of 30%.
By February 2021, Pfizer had estimated their COVID-19 vaccine was worth $15 billion and would be the "second highest revenue-generating drug anytime, anywhere.�37 AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine netted $275 million in the first quarter of 2021, despite being one of the more controversial of the four released under an emergency authorization for use.38
As has been reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System,39 there are thousands of people who have reported vaccine injuries and deaths, and likely hundreds of thousands who have not.40 In fact, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was previously paused to teach doctors how to report vaccine injuries. As Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said:41
"… a key component of why we are on this pause is so we can educate the clinicians about how to diagnose and treat this condition because the usual treatment could actually make things worse … but also to report it, because we don't know if we've missed some cases, whether the risk really is 1 in a million or perhaps more than that."
The pause has since been lifted and vaccination with the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine has resumed in the U.S.42 It's important to remember, meanwhile, that once a transmissible virus vaccine has been released, it cannot be recalled. Any variant or mutation that causes devastating damage, disability and death is irreparable. The financial cost and the cost in human life may reach apocalyptic levels.
COVID-19 Uses Metabolic Poison to Bind to Human Cells
In late 2020, a different group of researchers from the University of Bristol revealed they had discovered groundbreaking information that the virus had a pocket on the surface into which they hoped to be able to inject antiviral drugs.43 The virus uses linoleic acid (LA) to attached itself to human cells and then begins to replicate.
According to the original laboratory research,44 the linoleic acid stabilizes the locked SARS-CoV-2 spike to the cell and that reduces angiotensin-converting-enzyme 2 (ACE2) interaction. One of the lead researchers said:45
"We were truly puzzled by our discovery and its implications. So here we have LA, a molecule which is at the center of those functions that go haywire in COVID-19 patients, with terrible consequences. And the virus that is causing all this chaos, according to our data, grabs and holds on to exactly this molecule — basically disarming much of the body's defenses.
Our discovery provides the first direct link between LA, COVID-19 pathological manifestations, and the virus itself. The question now is how to turn this new knowledge against the virus itself and defeat the pandemic.�
I believe that LA is likely the contributing cause of nearly every chronic disease from the last century. In my interview with Tucker Goodrich in December 2020, we discussed the health benefits of avoiding omega-6 fats as a key component to good health. Specifically, omega-6 fats found in vegetable oils and conventionally raised chicken, which are fed LA rich grains.
Linoleic acid accounts for up to 80% of all omega-6 fats, which according to research Goodrich cites makes up nearly 20% of all the energy in a western diet. As Goodrich noted, levels of linoleic acid in the diet are associated with an increased potential for cancer, obesity, heart disease and even sunburn.
Evidence suggests that LA plays a role in severe COVID-19 disease as it helps the virus attach to human cells, giving it the opportunity to replicate and grow. You can see the interview and read more about the significant damage associated with consuming LA in my article, "How Linoleic Acid Wrecks Your Health.�
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The Welshman
March 9, 2015 March 11, 2015 / Matthew K Barrett
Lieutenant Colonel A. Pryce-Jones
113th (Lethbridge Highlanders) Battalion
Why is it that we never hear our O.C. condemned for little things which are common in other units?
Answer: The men are just beginning to realize that he is every inch a gentleman, every fiber a soldier and above all, every ounce a man. Always ready to listen to any man's story and just under all circumstances, he cannot but hold the respect of the men under his command.
(Lethbridge Highlander, 16 Sept 1916, 7)
Born in Newton, Wales on 26 May 1870, Albert W. Pryce-Jones was the son of Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones, a former Conservative member of the British House of Commons. He attended Cambridge University, became a noted sportsman and joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He moved to Canada in 1910 and established the department store Pryce-Jones Ltd. in Calgary.
A militia officer in the 15th Light Horse, Pryce-Jones was appointed second-in-command of Lieutenant Colonel George B. McLeod's 63rd Battalion in early 1915. By December, he was authorized to raise the 113th Highlanders from Lethbridge.
Departing overseas in September 1916, Pryce-Jones sent a message to the citizens of Alberta:
Whenever and wherever the Lethbridge Highlanders may be called upon to do their duty in this great struggle for freedom, I know that they will not fail to uphold the glorious record of those Canadians who have already preceded them to France!
The colonel's twenty-year old son, Lieutenant Reginald Ernest "Rex" Pryce-Jones, who enlisted in December 1914, was one of those who had preceded the 113th to France. While fighting with the 50th Battalion, Rex was killed at the Somme on 18 November 1916.
Shortly after arriving in England, the 113th was absorbed into the 17th Reserve Battalion. Private F. Robinson wrote home to the Lethbridge Herald:
You will regret to learn that event closed the existence of the 113th as a battalion. Our colonel addressed us after the inspection… He was greatly disappointed at leaving us, and was much upset; but wished us luck and explained how urgent the need for drafts was, and thanked us all for loyal support.
After the breakup of the 113th, Pryce-Jones remained in England with reserve units before proceeding to France as a staff officer. He died on 17 August 1946.
Further Reading: LCol. Christopher Kilford, On the Way! (Trafford Publishing, 2004)
113th Battalion, Albert Pryce-Jones, Lethbridge
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Oradell Animal Hospital Leads NJ Search and Rescue Dog To Complete Recovery
by d2030478 | May 14, 2012 | Community, Featured Articles, General Information, Hot News
On September 5th, 2011 around 8 PM, NJ Search and Rescue received a police request to search for a lost hiker in Norvin Green State Forest. Chris Kempey, Operational K9 Handler arrived on the scene with his search and rescue dog Moosie, around 11 PM. At approximately 12:30 AM and in torrential rain, Moosie and Chris found the lost hiker in a hypothermic state, wandering the trails of the park with no map, compass, rain jacket or flashlight.
Not more than two weeks later, Moosie was in need of having her own life saved. After multiple examinations and much testing at Allendale Animal Hospital and Oradell Animal Hospital, she was admitted to Oradell Animal Hospital with what the doctors in both hospitals believed to be acute Lyme Disease with multiple organ involvement.
After being treated and released from Oradell Animal Hospital three days later, Moosie went back to the hospital every two to four weeks for blood and urine testing. Chris was cautioned many times that Moosie may never live a normal life again, let alone return to search and rescue work! This was heartbreaking to him and his family.
Six months and many examinations, tests, and much special care later, Dr. Mary Ann Crawford at Oradell Animal Hospital (internal medicine department) called to inform Chris that Moosie's results had all come back within normal ranges and that she had completely recovered. Not to mention that Moosie would be able to return to search and rescue work! "I was, and still am, beyond words", says Chris.
As written by Chris Kempey, " I wanted to take a moment to thank you and your staff at Oradell Animal Hospital for not only saving Moosie's life, but for providing her with exceptional treatment that allowed her to recover completely. I am beyond grateful she is healed and can continue to make a positive contribution to this world as a search and rescue dog (and to be the most wonderful pet I have ever had). I simply cannot thank you enough or tell you how amazed I was by Moosie's complete recovery (which I attribute in large part to your work). Thank you is simply an understatement. I have made a donation to the NJ Search and Rescue K9 Team in your name"
Moosie on her first day back at work after six months of rest and recuperation


Year-on-year growth in industry-wide revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) slowed to 6.2% in July, down from 8.1% in June. Nonetheless, the July outcome marked a solid start to the peak passenger demand season and underlines our view that 2018 will be another year of above-trend growth for industry-wide RPKs. Passenger volumes have increased by 6.9% over the first seven months of the year compared to the same period of 2017 – in line with the average pace seen over the past five years. That said, and as we have noted before, the pace of growth this year to date has been slower than that seen in the same period of 2017, during which RPKs grew by 8.1% in year-on-year terms. This supports our view that RPK growth, while remaining robust, will slow moderately in calendar-year 2018 relative to last year.
This view reflects a number of factors, particularly the increase in airline input costs, which stems in large part from higher fuel prices. Upward pressure on input costs is translating into a reduced boost to demand from lower airfares, which has been a key driver of the strong RPK growth rates seen in recent years. As we pointed out in a recent note, declines in the value of a number of currencies relative to the US dollar will exacerbate the impact of rising US dollardenominated fuel costs for airlines in some key emerging market economies. Meanwhile, business surveys also indicate that the underlying economic backdrop has become more mixed too – particularly when compared to the best of the synchronized and broad-based pick-up in economic activity seen at end-2017.
Volatility a year ago was also a key factor behind the slowdown in year-on-year international RPK growth for African airlines in July (to 6.8%, from 11.0% in June). Indeed, the upward SA demand trend remains strong. Higher oil and commodity prices have supported the economic backdrop in a number of countries, including Nigeria, although business confidence remains fragile in South Africa.
Annual growth in industry-wide revenue passenger kilometres made a solid start to the peak demand season in July (6.2%), underlining our view that 2018 will be another year of above-trend growth for passenger volumes.
The industry-wide load factor posted a record high for the month of July (85.2%), led by European airlines (89.0%).
Airlines based in Asia Pacific posted the fastest annual international RPK growth rate for the first time in three months. Meanwhile, the domestic India growth rate remained in double-digit territory for the 47th month in a row. Download the full document here.


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Does Social Capital Explain Community-Level Differences in Organ Donor Designation?
4:18 September 15, 2015
MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. —A new study finds that the characteristics of one's community may be as important as individual factors on the decision to become an organ donor. The study, published in The Milbank Quarterly, shows an association between sociodemographic/social capital measures and organ donor registrations across 4,466 Massachusetts neighborhoods. In order to increase organ donation registrations, the research suggests that future health policies adopt a community-level focus.
The shortage of organs for transplantation has reached unprecedented levels. Organ donor registration rates vary widely despite both national and state campaigns to increase donations.
"We found that community-level sociodemographic and social capital variables explain more than half the variation that we observed in organ donor registrations in Massachusetts," said first author Keren Ladin, Ph.D., M.Sc., an assistant professor and health policy researcher in the department of occupational therapy at Tufts University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. "Neighborhoods that have lower social capital, as measured by high levels of both racial segregation and violent crime, and low socioeconomic status and voting participation, also have lower levels of organ donor registration compared to other Massachusetts neighborhoods."
The factors that appear to have a positive relationship to increased donor registrations include higher income, employment and owner-occupied housing. The findings also suggest that when populations are less isolated and better racially integrated, they exhibit higher rates of altruistic behavior such as organ donor registration.
The authors point out that the study reinforces the importance of tailored messages at the neighborhood level and strategic partnerships with community-based organizations in the effort to increase organ donor designation.
Using 3.3 million geocoded records from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles that were linked to sociodemographic data from the U.S. Census, Ladin and colleagues obtained community-level measures and social capital characteristics including residential segregation, voter registration and participation, residential mobility, violent-death rate and religious characteristics.
The combined data included 4,466 Massachusetts neighborhoods and used geospatial modeling to account for the spill-over of adjacent block groups and multivariate regression analysis to examine the relationship of social capital and community-level characteristics with organ donor registration rates.
"Research has focused on individual-level determinants, without much consideration for contextual factors, such as neighborhood environment and social organizations. A better understanding of these contextual determinants of organ donor registrations, including social capital, may enhance efforts to increase organ donation. The findings may help explain differences in rates of organ donor registration among communities of color and suggest that interventions tailored to communities, rather than individuals, may help to increase organ donation," said Ladin.
"Like voting or vaccination, organ donor designation is a collective action problem. The community benefits are significant, but individual incentives to participate are low. Social capital increases the probability of collective action by fostering norms of reciprocity and cooperation while increasing the costs of noncompliance," she continued.
Ladin is also an assistant professor in the department of public health and community medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and director of the lab for Research on Ethics, Aging, and Community Health in the occupational therapy department and community health program at Tufts.
More than 120,000 Americans are waiting for organ donations, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.
Additional authors are Rui Wang, Ph.D., of Harvard Medical School; Aaron Fleishman of the Transplant Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Matthew Boger of the New England Organ Bank; and James R. Rodrigue, Ph.D., of Harvard Medical School and the Transplant Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Ladin was supported by the Neubauer Faculty Fellowship at Tufts University. Research reported in this publication was supported in part by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under award number D71HS22061. Rodrigue was also supported by the HRSA of the HSS under award number D71HS24204.
Citation: Ladin, K., Wang, R., Fleishman, A., Boger, M., and Rodrique, J.R. (September 2015). Does Social Capital Explain Community-Level Differences in Organ Donor Designation? The Milbank Quarterly (93, 3). 609-641 DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12139
Tufts University, located on three Massachusetts campuses in Boston, Medford/Somerville, and Grafton, and in Talloires, France, is recognized among the premier research universities in the United States. Tufts enjoys a global reputation for academic excellence and for the preparation of its students as leaders in a wide range of professions. A growing number of innovative teaching and research initiatives span all Tufts campuses, and collaboration among faculty and students in the undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across the university's schools is widely encouraged.
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Russian Health Ministry Says Vaccination Demonstrates High Efficacy of Sputnik V Vaccine
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V has demonstrated a high level of efficacy and safety during the trials and national vaccination, Russian Deputy Health Minister Viktor Fisenko said on Tuesday.
"The Russian vaccine Sputnik V has demonstrated high efficacy and safety during the clinical trials and mass vaccination," Fisenko said at a press conference.
The deputy minister added that "the decision on the registration of the vaccine was made given its high efficacy, including the information regarding the safety of the use of the adenoviral vector platform that had been used to develop other vaccines of the Gamaleya center."
Fisenko stressed that this decision was reasonable amid the pandemic, because it gave an opportunity to protect the Russian population from the virus within a short term.
"The similar way was used by foreign regulators in the US, the EU, the United Kingdom: the use of Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca drugs for mass vaccination is being conducted along with the continuing clinical trials," Fisenko said.
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Russia's RDIF Continues to Work With Hungary on Approval of Coronavirus Vaccine Sputnik V
Earlier in the day, the head of the Gamaleya Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Alexander Gintsburg, said that Sputnik V has been thoroughly tested and that major foreign vaccine producers had followed their example.
In August, Russia became the first country in the world to register a COVID-19 vaccine, named Sputnik V. The vaccine, which is based on a human adenoviral vector platform, was developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. During clinical trials, Sputnik V turned out to be more than 90 percent effective at preventing coronavirus infection after three control points and demonstrated 100% efficacy against severe cases of the novel virus.
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How to write the perfect design dissertation
By Nick Carson 18 September 2017
Tutors and students from top design colleges share their advice.
Studying design is about crafting a great design portfolio that will wow potential employers, right? Well, yes. But don't discount the importance of astute creative thinking, and expressing yourself eloquently through the written word. In short, your design dissertation matters.
"I don't believe that design students should be focused entirely on portfolio work," argues Myrna MacLeod, programme leader for Graphic Design at Edinburgh Napier University. "They should also be able to demonstrate an interest in the contexts that underpin their work, and the histories and connections that have informed our practice."
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"Think of a dissertation as an opportunity, not a burden," urges Craig Burston, Graphic and Media Design course leader at London College of Communication (LCC). "It gives us visually-minded people an opportunity to demonstrate that we too can construct arguments and distil complex notions."
As Burston points out, this is not just an academic exercise: the power of persuasion is often key to success as a commercial designer. "Clients seek clarity, and project concepts or proposals need to be put into context," he says.
Read on to discover some top tips from leading tutors and their students for nailing your design dissertation…
01. Treat it like a design brief
"A great dissertation should be a designed artefact, and portfolio-worthy in its own right," says Burston. And like a design brief, it should be about solving a problem: "Make sure it has clearly stated aims, strong focus, and doesn't lack opinion or rhetoric," he adds.
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"The value of a designed dissertation as a portfolio piece is that it's a holistic view of the individual," agrees Sarah James, senior lecturer in Visual Communication at Arts University Bournemouth (AUB).
"It shows, type, editorial, research and aesthetic skill, as well as the personal interests and convictions of the individual."
For her AUB dissertation on responsive type, Maarit Koobas conducted an extensive research process
James identifies AUB student Maarit Koobas, who investigated responsive type in both her dissertation and final project, as a particularly strong example of this. "Her design version was one of the most authentic, restrained and elegantly expressive I have ever received," she enthuses.
Koobas conducted a huge amount of initial research into both the contexts in which responsive type can be seen – such as advertising, product design, science and material cultures – and the theories behind its analysis, including semiotics, philosophy and politics. "Creating and analysing ideas, before they end up in your portfolio, is what design is all about," argues Koobas.
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02. Write about your passion
"To develop essay questions, AUB students are asked to consider what they love, hate or are puzzled by in their practice – essentially, what moves them," says James.
"A poor dissertation is inauthentically chosen for ease as opposed to interest," she adds. "It rambles and blusters, using complex language to mask insufficient research."
"You can tell a mile off when the writer isn't interested," agrees Burston. "How can you expect the reader to care about it if you don't? Write about something that reflects your interests, focus and direction. I've read fascinating dissertations on topics as diverse as patterns in nature, and Brutalist car parks. Make me interested in what interests you."
Research by Napier graduate Fiona Winchester on typography in graphic novels
For Edinburgh Napier graduate Fiona Winchester, this topic turned out to be typography in graphic novels. "I love reading them, but I think people still don't take them seriously as an art form, which is a shame," she says. For her dissertation, she conducted qualitative interviews using modified pages with and without imagery (shown above).
Her advice is simple: "Narrow down your idea to be as precise as possible. The smaller your question, the easier it is to research and try to answer it."
If you're struggling to get the ball rolling on the actual writing process, Winchester advocates starting with whichever bit you have ideas for. "If you're stuck, it's so much easier to write in whatever order it comes to you, and then edit it into a dissertation, than to try write straight through from beginning to end," she insists.
03. Don't be afraid to talk to people
"I always think my students get the most out of the new streams of knowledge they find from talking to people," says McLeod. "It breaks down barriers and allows them to find answers to problems. Hopefully they will adopt that approach when designing for people also."
In some cases, this can involve interviewing your design heroes. "Students are very surprised when they send a question to Stefan Sagmeister, Milton Glaser or Michael Wolff and they reply with the most precious nugget of knowledge," smiles McLeod.
But remember: it's your dissertation, so don't get lazy and expect your interview subject to do all the heavy lifting.
Kaori Toh's CSM dissertation on Mapping as a Creative Agency: Revelations and Speculations in the Age of Infrastructure
In other cases, it could be as simple as asking friends or family to help proofread. "It is quite daunting writing such a large body of text," admits Kaori Toh, a recent graduate from Central Saint Martins, whose dissertation explored the politics of design and technology.
"I often felt I'd get lost in all that text and research," she confesses. "Therefore, I would often send my drafts to a couple of friends to have them look through, and keep my writing cohesive."
04. Reflect on your design practice
Most of all, dissertations are an opportunity to reflect on, and develop, your creative process as a designer. "Ultimately, it's your job to make your work relevant and credible, and the dissertation helps you learn how to do this," adds Burston.
Of course, writing doesn't always come easily to visually minded people – and Burston highlights the fact that dyslexia is not uncommon amongst designers.
"You're not on your own – in our profession, quite the opposite in fact – so do seek academic support, and just enjoy thinking and writing about 'stuff' that informs your practice," is his advice.
Entitled New Faces, Tom Baber's thesis at LCC discusses the craft of type design in the 21st century, inspired by his own experience creating a working typeface: Elephant Grotesk
One of Burston's stand-out students from this year, Tom Baber, welcomed support from the university to help with his dyslexia. Baber's dissertation focused on type design, and particularly the extent to which the longwinded design process is worth the effort, compared to using an existing typeface.
"I saw it as an opportunity to approach other type designers and see what they thought. Turns out I'm not the first to ask the question," he smiles. "Writing my dissertation helped me change from a 'maker' mentality to a 'designer' mentality, and be more critical of my ideas."
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