BigbadB

Allen Robinson is the only valuable player on offense, and he won't be here next year. There is a slight chance Lawrence stays in school to avoid being drafted by the Jets. He won't have that option the following year, even though he may not favor being drafted by a team that has an even worse QB history than the Jets. So while it is unlikely, there is a chance the Bears could be tanking for Trevor for 2022. Even if he comes out, they could be putting themselves in position to get the best QB prospect in that draft. So over the next year, they should bring in a new GM and coach and draft OLine heavily and then start trading off defensive assets for draft capital in preparation to make a big splash in the 2022 draft. I see nothing on this roster that leads me to believe they should prepare to be competitive next year. That ship has sailed. Last night's game was one of the most difficult offensive games I've had the displeasure to put myself through. I'm ready to move on from this disaster, blow it up and start over.

Insanity does happen. I had a decent lead going into Sunday night, but my opponent loaded up on Eagles (Boston Scott, Wentz and Fulgham) against that atrocious Dallas defense, and I managed to win somehow. Thought for sure I was going to lose.

Apparently Gardner-Johnson ripped his mouthpiece from his helmet and threw it to the ground. Wims was removed from that particular series. It wasn't until the next offensive series that Wims was on the field that he retaliated. Stupid. Seems like Gardner-Johnson will likely be at least fined for poking a finger inside Miller's helmet and ripping off Wims' mouthpiece.

Apparently Wims retaliated against Gardner-Johnson because on a previous play GJ tried to purposely poke Anthony Miller in the eye. This is the supposedly the same guy that Michael Thomas punched a few weeks back. Sounds like a real nice guy. Doesn't excuse the stupidity from Wims. By my count, the Bears could try and pick up two new WR's this week. Wims is nearly worthless, and Ginn is worthless. I don't even want to talk about the game. All kinds of stupidity. I watched a lot of the Chiefs game before the Bears game, and the fluidity of their passing game doesn't look anything like the train wreck that Nagy tosses out on the field each week.

Hearing it is super windy in Chicago today, which doesn't bode well for the kicking game. Don't expect much of an impact on the long pass play, since neither team is good at that with the current personnel anyway.

Even though the Bears give him no incentive to play. It's not looking good for an extension.

My buddy Dave set up a round at Ram's Hill on Wednesday. It's one of the best public courses in the US, and was actually ranked #1 in a few publications over the years. It's only about 1 3/4 hours away from my house. I offered to drive. We got a little over an hour in, and Dave's wife calls and says his house is flooded. He just happens to be a plumber and he had the same problem 5 years ago. He gets her to turn off the water at the main, but she's pretty useless for pinpointing the problem. Water was definitely coming from upstairs. The other 3 of us don't even want to golf without Dave since he was the one that set it up. But, the round cost $115 each and there was no postponing. So I worked it out where my wife met us at the freeway, and we drove Dave back to meet up with her. She took him home and the other three of us headed back to the course. You have to see this road to appreciate what I personally had to go through to get us most of the way up there, turn around and go back to the freeway, then back to the course again and then back home afterwards. My arms were tired from all the curves. Not to mention driving like a maniac to get there. Dave gets home and it turns out that his sick kid was in bed and his wife turned on the shower for him. She hollered in that the shower was ready and then went downstairs to work on some breakfast for him. A towel had fallen in the shower and blocked the drain. Dave was not very happy. He probably could have just golfed with us. He was more concerned about an actual plumbing problem which forced the water to be turned off. Poor guy. I had 2 birdies. Long day of driving, though.

Maybe Houston and Minny gut their teams even more at the trade deadline. However, needing teams to gut their roster prior to playing them isn't really speaking with much confidence in the Bears to be a threat even if they make it to the playoffs.

I don't think Nagy's play calling was even in a "must win" mode at any point last night. There was one point where a receiver caught a ball and turned upfield along the sidelines rather than get out of bounds and stop the clock. Might have been Graham. The very next play was a run play up the middle for a short gain with time running off the clock. There was another point earlier where they were still huddling up down by three scores. This offense makes me sick.

Ginn has no purpose on this roster.

Goodbye Ginn!

You need three scores and you are running the ball?

Haven’t been able to run all night. So they run on 4th and 1.

Mooney wasn’t even close to being open there. Pathetic.

Thought for sure they could screen to Monty. There is no rhythm to this offense.

Establish the pass. Score some points and then run the damn ball.

This should be Ginns’s last game as a Bear.

That Mooney pass should have been a td to Miller. Wise open

Big day for the Bear TE’s. Gotta get the ball out quick against Aaron Donald. Maybe more receiving yards for Monty than rush yards tonight. I think they win a defensive battle.

Yeah, that's one theory. The other was that they had always planned to get Tua ready over the bye week, but their bye week got changed due to all the rescheduling. I wouldn't be surprised to see Fitz to Dallas within the next day or two. They can still have a bunch of offensive talent and could make the playoffs in a terrible division. Not that it'll do them any good ultimately, but their too proud not to go for it. They need a ton of help on defense. Might be the worst defense in the league. The Jets actually did pretty well against Buffalo on Sunday.

Didn't realize that the Dolphins were on their bye week when they made the early announcement that they were going with Tua as the starter for their next game. That makes me believe they did it to try and get a good draft pick for Fitz prior to the trade deadline. Announcing that he was being relegated to the bench after a couple of good games keeps his stock up higher than it might be otherwise. Especially after seeing what happened in Dallas.

Check with each course. Some will let you tee off on the back 9 before the 18 hole golfers get to the 10th hole. If you go early enough, you should be able to blow right through those holes pretty quickly.

It's sad we always have to hope for a QB that doesn't make too many mistakes and puts just enough points on the board to win games. I do think another decent WR can give Foles the extra ammunition to be a middle of the pack QB at worst. 7 days left to the trade deadline. We've been lucky so far on the injury front, so hopefully Miller is ready soon and they get a Jamison Crowder type WR to solidify the offense.

Actually reading through this, I think it was a little more complex than "knows Hou will score". It would be dumb just to concede a score. But you do want to use your TOs in succession to stop after 1st down, 2nd down, 3rd down. At 2 and 1 you give them the 1st and 10 and try to get 3 stops with 3 successive TOs. The 5 yards therefor is what might analytically be worth the extra time, with the expected point change being minimal I assume. It would have to be 2nd and 4th or less to make this a potentially desirable move I think. This game was a few tv's down from the game I was watching, but I was a bit blown away with how it ended, and I didn't even know about the purposeful 12th man on the field penalty. It was actually after that penalty that things got weird for me. The score was 30-29, Houston. Houston got into the endzone to make it a 7 point game. Instead of kicking the extra point, they went for 2. I'm thinking to myself, an 8 point lead is a guarantee of no worse than a tie with no time left. Why in the world are they going for two here? They don't make it, of course. Tennessee marches down the field and gets the TD and kicks the extra point to send it to overtime and then on to victory. An interim coach trying to go up 9 instead of a cozy 8 point lead which in turn loses you the game. Ouch. I mean, I get that the Titans have Derrick Henry and trying to keep him from running 2 yards is hard, but it only takes one goal line stand.

Lots of spot on comments in this thread already. I would predict a low scoring game for both teams. Donald is scary good and our line....not so much. Quick releases will be important in this game. Screw the running game. Let Montgomery throw a block and swing out for more screens or dumps. I'm worried about the Bears vs. the TE's in this game.