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I consider Kentucky football probably the least annoying SEC football program (aside from maybe Vandy) at this point, so I don't have a problem seeing them doing well and making the playoff. Basketball though? Complete inverse.
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Starting to look like it might be just D'Marco Jackson and Monangai out this weekend:
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I think they're probably better than the Nets, Kings and Bucks. Don't think they're a 20 win team this year even, though.
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Preferable to finishing 10th every year. Wilson is just the first piece. Don't think Buzelis is a long term piece, and Giddey needs to get it going. This was always going to be a terrible team year 1.
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Bit of both. He was bracketed most of the 2nd half, but the Bears D generated pressures on 36% of snaps with almost no blitzing, which is huge for this team's secondary coverage.
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Another thing to credit the Bears defense: JSN caught that wide open TD pass at the end of the first half (damn it Tyrique, stop biting on the double move, this happens way too much), he didn't catch another pass until the game was 34-17 and basically over.
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I don't think the team and staff will let down here. The Bucs are better than their record, and probably still the best team in that NFC South division.
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Pretty much everyone has been glazing the Bears today, but my favorite bit was the Athletic show postgame with Robert Mays (who as I've said in the past is an unabashed Bears fan) trying super hard not to be the smug horsefeathers fan for most of the night because he wants to be as impartial as possible in analysis, but definitely let it slip out at the end of the video. There's also Mina Kimes and Ben Solak who did a nice video on the Bears today.
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Jags lead the NFL in point differential at +85 and are better in almost every metric. Bears are 3rd in the NFL in point differential behind the Jags and 49ers. Bills are right there as well. Bears definitely in the conversation for best team in football right now along with those 3 teams, though (and possibly the Vikings who just don't allow points).
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If the Bears never trail the rest of the season, I have a good feeling about their chances.
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It's ok, so did Sam Darnold.
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Hey, that should get him to stay off that leg for a bit and let it heal.
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Neither of these teams are good. One of the Giants with JJ, Eagles, Commanders and Cowboys is going to make the playoffs and host a playoff game. One of the Panthers, Falcons, Bucs and Saints will make the playoffs and host a playoff game. Two of the Vikings, 49ers, Bears, Seahawks, Lions, Packers and Rams will miss the playoffs.
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I mean, it's not like they can just call up the Packers and schedule a game with them this week. So they've got 3 games and a bye to handle before they start worrying about divisional games.
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If the Bears win tomorrow, they're 2.5 games clear of the playoff cutoff at the halfway point of the season.
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It's halftime of the Falcons-Bucs game. The Bucs have 0 yards passing. Penix has completed more passes to the Bucs than Baker Mayfield has. The Bucs lead 9-0.
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The defense has been really good since the D coordinator who didn't really care about the team left voluntarily after the Purdue game.
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I mean, Lynch was on the Titans last year as well, so he's familiar with 2/3 of the rest of the DL.
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Meet Jeffery Simmons:
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Two years ago, Illinois finished in the top 20 of tempo and had the 3rd most efficient offense in basketball. Last year, Illinois finished in the bottom 20 of tempo and had the most efficient offense in basketball. I'm sure Underwood will retool the offense again to fit his players, and they'll have one of the most efficient offenses in basketball again, regardless of who plays. Based on their preseason games, they'll play faster again. As for Mirkovic, he's a top 5 player (and will be back sooner than later), but Illinois is also a very deep and old team, returning 6 guys from last year's team and adding 5 freshmen, at least 4 of which are better than expected from the jump, so that should allow them to weather the early storm of the schedule while Mirk gets back to 100%.
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Oh, and here's the new batch of mid majors that should account for all the rest of the at large bid contenders, even in an expanded tournament field:
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After a month of hyped up exhibitions, the real games start Sunday. There's a new (to them!) conference called the Pac-12 that is mostly the MWC with Gonzaga. Here's how power conference teams project to play out based on EvanMiya (who insists on only posting to Twitter but I refuse to give bandwidth to them so here is the chart, and go directly to EvanMiya.com for more info):
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It's an overpay in a similar vein to the Micah Parsons trade. Get the sure thing in exchange for two lottery tickets. The odds of getting a top 5 NFL talent with 2 picks in the 20s is, to me, worth the tradeoff of just getting the sure thing. As long as he doesn't blow out a knee in the next couple weeks, obviously.
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The Athletic talking about the Bears and whether this earns them a seat at the SB contender table:
