Suspect Seventh Circuit standards?

Bill Theis has this extended post at the Seventh Circuit Blog raising a series of thoughtful questions and concerns about the recent plain error work of the Seventh Circuit it Paladino and Lee (discussed here and here).  In addition, a few readers and the comments here have suggested that Judge Posner’s statement in Paladino that a trial judge “must justify departing from the guidelines, and the justification has to be reasonable” indicates that the Circuit ascribes to Judge Cassell’s view of the guidelines still having heavy weight post-Booker.