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  1. That last pass to Kmet puts Williams at 296 yards passing. Will he throw again?
  2. Brisker again prioritizing a hit over a tackle and gives up 20 free yards to put Caroline in FG range.
  3. The run blocking has been a bit better this week, and they've finally discovered Kmet after the first two weeks..
  4. See, this is how a rushing attack works. Chunks of yards on a tired D-line. Bears haven't generated enough line pressure here the last few minutes.
  5. There are 3 new players on the O-line, if anything there's a lack of familiarity going on at this point.
  6. Eventually we'll get a dropback without an unblocked free rusher.
  7. That last one was just a great play by Lasseter. The ball was right to Kmet, who just kept backpedaling and Lasseter jumped in front.
  8. Good play by Stevenson, who's been the abused CB all night long.
  9. He knew he had a free shot.
  10. Only in this thread.
  11. Hey look, other teams can let free rushers up the middle sometimes too.
  12. Free rusher up the middle continues to be a problem for this offensive line.
  13. The White Sox have won 5 series this season, none since the ASB.
  14. So the Bears won and covered the spread, as expected.
  15. PCA beats the play at 2nd on a routine DP ball to SS, leads to 2 runs.
  16. They could still win tiebreakers against the Dodgers and Phillies...
  17. Fun fact, the Cubs are now more than 40 games better than the White Sox this season.
  18. They're going to stop playing the White Sox very soon.
  19. The Cubs just won 8 of 10 and gained at least one game on every team ahead of them in the standings. The Braves lost yesterday. The scoreboard watching doesn't matter unless the Cubs keep winning, and as long as they do they gain a half game on the league every day.
  20. The White Sox are 31-49 in games in which they've held a lead. (and thus have played 54 games in which they haven't had a lead of any kind)
  21. Any endpoint looks bad. They had a 3-22 July, and have followed it up with a 4-19 August thus far.
  22. After this team started 0-3 last year and looked nowhere close to being competitive at any point during them, they finished 7-7 and should have been 10-4, having blown double digit 4th quarter leads 3 times (led 28-7 against Denver, led 26-14 in Detroit, led 17-7 in Cleveland), and the only game that was non-competitive was against the Chargers (lost 30-13). They beat Detroit, won in Minnesota, destroyed a Falcons team that needed that win to win their division. Their weighted DVOA was 11th in the league, emphasizing their second half was good enough to be a playoff quality team, even with a bottom 10 offense. They spent the offseason retooling that offense, adding a QB, 2 WRs and a RB, and I'm optimistic that can finally push them into the top half of teams offensively for the first time in nearly 20 years. So yes, I'm optimistic about the team's chances this year.
  23. At least over the next 3 weeks, we'll have a good idea whether or not these Bears are capable of winning the AFC South.
  24. The White Sox offense this year has been historically bad. As a team, they have accrued a team batting fWAR of -5.7. Of the entire roster of players that has batted at least once this year, only Yoan Moncada has a positive fWAR (in 44 total PAs). Everyone else has provided a net negative relative to an average MLB replacement player. Of all teams tracked on Fangraphs since the dawn of the divisional era (1962), the White Sox have the 3rd worst batting fWAR among all teams, ahead of only the 1977 Braves (-6.6) and the 1979 A's (-9.7). Their pitching has been bad but not historically terrible, at a 7.6 fWAR, good for 26th in MLB (ahead of MIA, COL, TOR and LAA). So, overall, the team has been worth a net of 1.9 fWAR overall.
  25. They need to finish 25-6 to avoid setting a franchise record for losses in a season. They need to finish 12-19 to avoid setting a modern (post-1900) major league record for losses in a season.
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