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Chicago Bears Offseason Thread (the tank must payoff)
bukie replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
I'd be pretty disappointed if that was all they got for the #1 overall pick. Effectively, in that trade, DJ Moore would have to be worth the equivalence of another 1st round pick. The gap in value between 1 and 9 is immense. -
Chicago Bears Offseason Thread (the tank must payoff)
bukie replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
Just as a baseline, here are the Bears current draft picks: Round 1 (1) Round 2 (56) - from Ravens for Roquan Smith Round 3 (65) Round 4 (103) Round 4 (134) - from Eagles for Robert Quinn Round 5 (136) Round 5 (149) - from Ravens for Roquan Smith Round 7 (220) The Bears did trade their own 2nd round pick for Chase Claypool, and they traded their own 6th round pick a year ago to acquire Hakeem Grant from the Dolphins. -
Despite the winning percentage (skewed heavily by the Vikings percentage, aka the worst 13-4 team in history). The only teams with a positive point differential the Bears will play next season are KC, LAC, and Detroit (granted, all on the road). The NFC South was terrible and the NFC North wasn't much better. The AFC West had KC, but Denver and the Raiders are two of the teams in the worst shape right now going forward, it would seem. Cleveland as the crossover game is is reasonable game, and the Cardinals were nearly as bad as the Bears this season, and they should have beat the Commanders this season. Still, a lot can happen between now and then, but hopefully the Bears will make good use of all their capital and could turn around the record in a hurry.
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I replied to that back in Sept and said that while they will likely be underdogs in every remaining game they would probably cobble together a couple of wins and go 5-12. Over the last couple hours random people have replying to dunk on me for suggesting that they may only be 5-12 bad instead of 3-14 bad. It shouldn't take much googling to find Bears fans with much worse takes. even crazier is that fields took that huge leap since then and they still lost all those games lol The defense was also pretty okay for the first handful of games until Johnson got injured and Quinn/Smith got traded and Vildor/Gordon got torched for about 10 straight weeks.
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Let the bidding war begin between the Colts, Raiders, Falcons and Panthers (the Broncos and Rams do not have top 10 picks thanks to the win now deals they made). I'd also be curious if Houston was willing to pull a Trubisky with the Bears and trade a bunch of draft assets to make sure they get their guy at 1, and then trade down again from 2 to 4/7/8/9 to pull additional draft capital. Ending up with something like the 4 pick, and then 33 and 35, and two additional third round picks, and a couple of high 2024 picks, would be quite the haul.
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It would seem that Houston ownership was not thrilled with today's win.
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Regarding RB... I'm not a fan of paying a RB big money in FA, and that a team's rushing attack has more to do with their offensive line than the back. Herbert's not a terrible option if you don't need him to block, ever. That's going to take a lot of line improvement. I think RB overall should be about 10th on the list of concerns to upgrade after about 6 total line spots, a #1 WR, and an LB or two. They've got a ton to spend, and I'd rather see them address those positions with the money they have before they start worrying about resigning Monty.
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Let the bidding war begin between the Colts, Raiders, Falcons and Panthers (the Broncos and Rams do not have top 10 picks thanks to the win now deals they made).
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Seattle misses a game winning FG at the end of regulation, going to OT. If Seattle does tie, I think they are still not eliminated, as they would get in if Detroit and Green Bay also tie. EDIT: I'm wrong, if Washington also wins, the tiebreaker becomes conference record and not head to head, so Detroit would get in with a tie and Seattle tie, as long as Washington holds on.
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The Chicago Bears are on the clock.
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Nice to see Claypool get 5 yards of separation on a deep route, even if it was against the Vikings backups. Of course, the pass was 5 yards underthrown and intercepted, but the separation was nice
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2022 Complain about your fantasy team that no one cares about discussion
bukie replied to UMFan83's topic in Fantasy Sports
I'm curious how many people are in a similar spot as this, looking at the status of the game right now. It should be cancelled, even if it costs people thousands of dollars in fantasy winnings. In the championship of my league and I needed Josh Allen to score a fraction of a point to win, which he has 2.72 now. If the game gets wiped out, I'd lose by 0.03 points. So yeah I am in that situation. Not winning or losing any sizable sum of money either way though. Since both the Bills and Bengals are playing starters today, our league commish decided to just take the week 18 points for the players on those teams to decide the championship. -
He wasn't passing, wasn't putting in effort on defense, and was losing playing time as a result. The season has become a nightmare as there's no cohesiveness and eventually a shoe was going to drop.
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The league has made a decision: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35388199/bills-bengals-game-not-resume-amid-damar-hamlin-continued-recovery Here is a summary: - The Bills-Bengals game is canceled, no result will be kept. - Bengals win the AFC North as a result. However... - If the Ravens beat the Bengals and set up a Ravens-Bengals wild card game, the site will be decided by a coin flip. If they aren't matched up against each other, - If Buffalo and Kansas City win this week, a Bills-Chiefs championship game would be played at a neutral site. - If Buffalo and KC lose and the Bengals win, a Bengals/Bills/Chiefs championship game would be played at a neutral site.
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NFL still figuring out what to do regarding Bills-Bengals and playoff positioning: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2023/01/05/nfl-ponders-playoff-seeding-without-playing-bills-bengals/ Current ideas: 1. Play Bills-Bengals after week 18, alongside the NFC wildcard round, with the AFC wildcard round the following weekend, then eliminating the week between the conference championship and Super Bowl. Nobody likes this idea 2. Don't play the Bills-Bengals game, and play the AFC championship at a neutral site to be "fair" to the teams that didn't get a chance to earn their proper seed. 3. Temporarily expand the playoff field to 8 teams per conference so there isn't a huge advantage to the 1 seed, since the Bills and Bengals lost their chance at it. Do it in both leagues for competitive balance.
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Chicago Bears Offseason Thread (the tank must payoff)
bukie replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
It's OK. Hit both lines hard with 6 new players on each. Probably overkill on OL, but wouldn't complain. The offensive weapons are largely unchanged. Doesn't have Velus on the roster, which he certainly will be. But he adds 3 rookies, the highly picked one from a non Power 5 (I also disagree with his assessment of Rice, not a prototype #1, I see more of a 2 or big slot) and two more on Day 3, who are unlikely to ever amount to much. The RBs are the same. The TE depth chart replaces a journeyman backup (Griffin) with a 7th round pick. That's putting all the eggs in the improved OL basket, and other than Seumalo, who has had a long injury history, those moves are otherwise middling. I think my least favorite thing about it is effectively counting on a 2nd round rookie WR to be your WR1. All the line improvement in the world isn't going to fix the passing offense if none of the WRs can get open or make catches. This is also why I'm in huge favor of either trading some draft capital for a real WR1 (like Adams from the Raiders), or snag any WR1 that ends up a cap casualty on another overburdened roster, since the FA crop is seriously weak (Julio Jones might be the best option and he's not a great option). -
Blackhawks have now lost 27 of 31 games, significantly the worst record in the league now, with only 2 teams within 11 points of them in the standings.
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The game will happen in the week between the conference championships and Super Bowl, and will retroactively affect the playoff seeding, such that the number of points each team scores in earlier playoff weeks gets matched up with whatever their new opponent is afterwards.
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Don't post it, who gives a horsefeathers what Lenny Dykstra things, and I'd rather you didn't spam this thread with horsefeathers.
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18-24 hours isn’t making a difference. Call the game. Playing tomorrow isn’t making a difference with these guys mental states. If he lives and his condition improves, I could see them playing tomorrow. Anything else, I think they will play sometime in the near future. This is just stupid doubling down on stupid. "Near future?" When? They have games scheduled for next week and are both in the playoffs. You planning on having them play 3 times in 7 days next week?
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18-24 hours isn’t making a difference. Call the game. Playing tomorrow isn’t making a difference with these guys mental states. Plus playing tomorrow gives them 4 days rest time for next week's game. I don't know why you can't see a cancellation or tie, there have been 2 ties this year already and it's not really hurting anything competition-wise to call it a tie.
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2022 Complain about your fantasy team that no one cares about discussion
bukie replied to UMFan83's topic in Fantasy Sports
I'm curious how many people are in a similar spot as this, looking at the status of the game right now. It should be cancelled, even if it costs people thousands of dollars in fantasy winnings. -
Just call the game. Either call it a tie or cancel it. The option would cause the following: - Cincy would clinch the AFC north - Cincy would be eliminated from any chance at the 1 seed. Seems like a fair trade-off, don't make the teams come out and play the game.
