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one of my neighbor's son is a guy named Dax Baumgartner, Dax is a keyboardist and toured twice with NSYNC. He likes to joke about the "boy band" nature of it all, but loved the band in general because they treated him very well and would even pay in cash. When he was touring with them in Europe, his mom told him to send the money home and she would put it in a bank account for him - not realizing the logistics Dax had to go through to filp greenbacks to european money and then wiring that money to the US. As a result, he would internationally mail his mom bags of cash...in his laundry...lol

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9 hours ago, WrigleyField 22 said:

Really the perfect bye week. Kids last game for soccer was last week and it's a great week to get some late fall yard work in before it gets cold.

 

Thanks NFL.

freeze warning at my house tonight. Bye bye bye BUGS! I do hate me some stink bugs. They hang out on on my screen doors thinking I will eventually cave and let them in. Well, some of them do find their way in, and my dogs make them spray or do whatever stink bugs do to stink, and then I'm angry again.

Any word on the severity of Gordon's injury? 

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This is now a Bears power ranking week 7 thread.

Sagarin ratings updated: http://sagarin.com/sports/nflsend.htm

Bears 10th, 29th rated schedule (which tracks, they've played 3 of the 5 worst teams in football).

Teams above the Bears: Vikings, Lions, Packers, 49ers, Chiefs, Bills, Ravens, Texans, Steelers.

The NFC North has lapped the NFL field in terms of team quality.

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I'm trying to not get too focused on predictions and let it play out. This team is oozing with potential and upside.  It sucks that the division looks this tough, but who knows how things will play out, the NFL season is a meatgrinder and the schedule that looks tough in October can be softened up by December.

The defense says good things about Eberflus' coaching and Poles' drafting. This is arguably a top-5 defense.

The offense is bum-slaying, but it's doing it so convincingly that you have to think it's at least average going forward, with the upside for a lot more.

I am as convinced as it is possible to be that Caleb Williams is a franchise QB.  "Franchise QB" is a continuum that goes from future inner-circle HOFer down to the Dalton line, and either end of that spectrum is a plausible outcome for him, but I doubt very much that he's a wholesale bust.

I would really like the secondary to get healthy over the bye week before we play Washingotn, which will be an extremely tough game.  Brisker will probably be back but you never know with concussions. We might not get much Kyler Gordon news because of the bye week, last I saw he was getting imaging done.





 

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I do find the irony in sports pundits discounting the Bears wins for bum-slaying, while 3 days ago everyone was betting on Jacksonville winning outright, enough to push the line like 4 points.

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I do find the irony in sports pundits discounting the Bears wins for bum-slaying, while 3 days ago everyone was betting on Jacksonville winning outright, enough to push the line like 4 points.

I still do not understand that at all.  Why on earth was the line not like Bears -5 to begin with, and why did it not move toward the Bears?

What on earth were people seeing that made them think that?  The best answer I could get out of anybody was "well, the Jags are too good to be 1-5" which is terrible reasoning.

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The Athletic has the Bears 13th: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5843048/2024/10/15/nfl-power-rankings-week-7-ravens-lions/

NFC teams ahead of the Bears: Vikings, Lions, Commanders, Packers, Falcons, 49ers, Bucs

The NFC is stacked, while the AFC has the Chiefs, Texans, Ravens and Bills, followed by...3 other teams that have to make the playoffs in some way. Chargers, Steelers and Colts have the edge, but the bottom half of the conference looks just really bad.

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I still do not understand that at all.  Why on earth was the line not like Bears -5 to begin with, and why did it not move toward the Bears?

What on earth were people seeing that made them think that?  The best answer I could get out of anybody was "well, the Jags are too good to be 1-5" which is terrible reasoning.

“Rookie qb”

 

 

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DVOA has the Bears 17th: https://ftnfantasy.com/dvoa/nfl/team-total-dvoa

Offense 24th (up from 32nd 2 weeks ago), Defense 6th, ST 12th.

Don't have access to DAVE (weighted for more recent production) but I'd imagine they'd be higher there.

Typical suspects are ahead of them, along with New Orleans (those first 2 weeks are being stretched as hard as they can) and Cincinnati (...I don't know why).

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35 minutes ago, bukie said:

I do find the irony in sports pundits discounting the Bears wins for bum-slaying, while 3 days ago everyone was betting on Jacksonville winning outright, enough to push the line like 4 points.

I don’t really get why it’s such a talking point with the bears. The Commanders, Bills and Packers are all four-win teams without wins over top tier opponents. There’s just a lot of bad teams in the NFL.

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33 minutes ago, NotKyle said:

I still do not understand that at all.  Why on earth was the line not like Bears -5 to begin with, and why did it not move toward the Bears?

What on earth were people seeing that made them think that?  The best answer I could get out of anybody was "well, the Jags are too good to be 1-5" which is terrible reasoning.

I think the vast majority of it was that the Bears staff/team hadn't done the overseas thing before and that Jacksonville does this every year and has their routine down.  Outside of that and the Bears DB injuries, I can't come up with a single reason why it would have moved that much.  I took full advantage and won money on them so bully for me.

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Yeah it moved from Bears -2.5 to Jags -1.5 a four point move. It crossed thru 0 which isn't as significant as say moving from Bears -6.5 to Bears -2.5 but still such a huge move.  Vegas got crushed this week otherwise as all favorites went 11-3 against the spread. Only loses were the Jags, Titans and Eagles (who won but did not cover)

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It's looking like the Steelers are surprisingly going to start Russell Wilson.  Guess they really dont want to give the Bears that 4th

 

Edit: looks like I was just beaten lol

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