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It's actually slightly amusing that two of the Bears prized WR's are injured considering how little they are throwing the ball.

Getting back to the "when I started watching the Bears" discussion, I'm an old timer. I believe 1973 was my first memories of watching the Bears. Bobby Douglass, Butkus, Doug Buffone and Bobby Joe Green were the names that stand out. I have a Halloween picture of me as a 9 year old in a 3 point stance in my Chicago Bears jersey and helmet costume. Sadly, I just missed the great days of Butkus and Sayers. Not sure when I first saw Brian's Song, but it was sometime during that timeframe that it aired on some broadcast network and I was hooked as a Bears fan. I was watching football by myself at that time on a black and white tv. No one else in my family watched sports then. I did enjoy watching the Miami Dolphins go undefeated that year. I also secretly loved watching Fran Tarkenton scramble and that Minnesota defense was fun. The Purple People Eaters.

I thought I was sitting pretty at TE with Kittle and Kmet as my backup. 2 weeks in, and I have zero points from that position. Awesome!

There is working a game plan to Fields ability and then there is not giving him any chance to succeed. It makes little sense to just not try, but the more things change, the more they stay the same. It makes very little sense to not try. Which is why I don't think it's that quite yet. If they know Fields isn't their guy, why not throw him to the wolves and let him sink or swim? I think it's more of a lack of faith in the entire offense. This staff didn't draft Fields, so there is no reason to hide him or protect him from himself.

That's my worry. San Fran ran strong against us. Although theirs was a different type of running game with options and end arounds and such. Not sure who will be able to easily tackle Dillon. Maybe the missing OLinemen will help the defense collapse the running game. I'd like to see Fields really cut loose on the DB's for GB. Cousins made mince meat of whoever was assigned to Justin Jefferson last week. We don't have a Justin Jefferson on the roster, but I feel like we can get some guys open. Anyone have numbers on how many times Kmet ran routes. I feel like they kept him on the line quite a bit more to fend off the 9er's great pass rush. I'd like to see Kmet have a big game Sunday night.

Between those bad decisions and all the stupid penalties, they deserved to lose.

I always do that. I like to read everything being said prior to and during the game after the fact. I would have been there with everyone else with the comments on how horrible they looked in the first half. I'm digging this new coaching staff quite a bit. I hate tacky unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, but I certainly give the punter a pass for his. Glad to see clean football being taught in the locker room.

I actually didn't think Lance would get up after that tackle. Roquan landed his entire body on him while he was going down in an awkward angle. I'll bet Lance is still feeling that one this morning.

Vegas ain’t expecting the betting public to buy into anything that happened today Yup. . The look ahead line was GB -10.5 GB will likely be without Bahktairi in this one, also. Rodgers will still make some adjustments with his young receiving corps, but I think they have a chance to be in this game. GB's defense didn't look very good against Cousins.

I'll look. I've never had Sunday Ticket before, though I've been a DirecTV customer for 17 years I see at least one email was on July 20. Even if you don't get it, Week 1 is always a free preview, so you will at least get all of the games that week. But also, if you have been a customer that long (I think I am about 15 years), you could call and ask for the loyalty department and see if they would give it to you. You could mention you know people that were given it for free. i also got it free last year and this year. Last year only because they automatically give you sunday ticket when you sign up with them. This year I saw a promo while I was pausing something I was watching. I called and got confirmation.

Interesting that Tavon Young and Tajae Sharpe both got put on IR where they are lost for the entire season. But, probably not that big a deal considering neither were likely part of the future in any way. I really like the Leatherwood pickup. A season working behind Whitehair and they might just have a long term solution at both G positions. I always predict the Bears will do better than the predictions, but not going to do it this year. I'm just going to temper the expectations and hope to see a good enough improvement that they can build from going into next season. I am expecting playoffs next year, however.

top 10? $100 Lol it just occurred to you how this is such a win win for you because if you lose, it's so worth $100 to make 17 Sundays much more enjoyable. I should do the emotional hedge more often. I like the chances of your bet. I think there are some hungry guys on this defense and the new coaching staff will inspire them to play well.

That at bat was simply amazing. He started 0-2, then the Pirates pitcher tried to get him to bite on 3 straight pitches nowhere near the plate and then......BAM! I tuned in early in hopes that they gave him a start instead of the craptastic lead off extraordinaire, Ortega. I think he earned a start tonight. The enthusiasm Morel displays is great.

I thought giving up a 1st round pick was too much, let alone the first round pick AND the 100th pick. That trade was very similar to the AJ Brown trade, and I just can't put Hollywood in the same class as AJ in terms of value.

I currently show that the remaining picks after the 3 trades are: 5th round: 166 and 168 6th round: 186, 203, 207 7th round: 254 255

I think this turned out to influence the Velus Jones pick. 4th best 40. I think they really wanted Tyquan Thornton, but the Patriots grabbed him at 50. Jones was the only other WR with top 5 speed, the others were all CBs, which they obviously took with Gordon. With a huge gap in picks, they didn't want to miss out on the last huge speed guy at WR, so they reached fit a guy that probably would have at least made them sweat, if he even made it there. I was shocked they didn't take a WR with one of the 2nd round picks. But then to skip out on Bernhard Raimann at 71 when he was projected as an early 2nd rounder was even more of a head scratcher. Maybe there was a legit reason he fell as far as he did, but I think I would have liked to see a lineman over such a reach at WR at that point. I wonder if they thought that one of the big name WR's would still be there at 71. I can't help but think that they will end up signing one of the free agent WR's still available at this point, because I just don't think you can go into this season with Pringle as your #2. I'm resigned to the fact this is pretty much a rebuild year as there was absolutely no way to improve enough via draft and free agency to be competitive, so I guess I'll just sit back and watch it all unfold. Next offseason we should have plenty to be excited about.

I don’t doubt he’s important just like AC was very important. Lonzo probably more so. But I mean like we just lost to the Middletonless Bucks by 29. Last week we lost to the Suns without Paul and Crowder by 27. I’m just not sure Lonzo is going to be enough to compete with these teams. Having an ice cold DeRozan doesn't help. When he's off, there isn't much to pick up the slack. Levine still isn't 100%. He's showing a bit more quickness of late, but he seems tentative sometimes when the shot is there.

DeShawn Watson is picking Cleveland, which hopefully means the Bears can get Armstead.

Moving to Central Illinois has really slowed down my golf game..........

Trubisky was one of the most inaccurate passers I ever watched play a football game at the NFL level. That said, I always wanted him to be good, mostly for the Bears. I just can't envision a time where he will all of a sudden be accurate on his throws to the point he can be considered a "good" QB.

Sad to see him go, but with a defensive minded coach in place, I'm guessing he understands that for the amount of money Mack costs, similar production at a cheaper rate was going to be available. Building back through the draft is the best way to go. The amount of cap space available down the line will make this a quick rebuild. The key is to find offensive components to grow with Fields and for once in my lifetime, have an offense one can write home about.

I feel like maybe Donovan felt that Coby's 3 point ability was more important in the game with Levine and DD shooting poorly and a big deficit. And honestly, Ayo wasn't stopping Morant. No one was stopping him.

Missing way too many defensive minutes on this roster. Hopefully they can get all three of Caruso, Ball and Williams back soon.

I'm anxious to see who they target in FA at the WR position.

Do you think Rodgers would deliberately consider only teams that can afford / have desire to also bring on Adams? I think it's a good question, although I don't know we'd ever have visibility into that. It's kind of like Brady/Gronk. If he's going to make that move, he takes someone else he knows for a fact he can be successful with. I don't think it is anything like Brady/Gronk. Gronk was a retired dude falling apart physically. Nobody was looking to sign him until Brady went to Tampa. Adams is the best of the best free agents. He'll go where the money goes, not where just where daddy goes. Yeah, I can't imagine Rodgers would want to go somewhere where they aren't already a playoff caliber team. Are there any playoff caliber teams that need a QB and can also afford $30m for Rodgers and $30 for Adams? The rumors I've read is that Adams wants $35m. Doubt anyone gives him that. But, if he really wants money like that, some crappy team with money to burn just might give him a ridiculous contract. Jacksonville?