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  1. bukie
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  2. bukie
    Mitch was no help tonight and the Bears still beat the Rams by 2 scores.
  3. bukie
    With the Eagles and Panthers results earlier, does a win here clinch a playoff spot for the Bears?
  4. bukie
    The organization is more than a President and GM, but nobody in the organization remains from the 98 championship, so they don't get credit for it. No organization has let their current President/GM preside over such a long period of absolute ineptitude from top to bottom like the Bulls continue to do. Give them a longer leash for the unfortunate bus8ness with Rose, sure, but since the first injury they've struggled to make even one good move, from selling Butler for 25 cents on the dollar, to giving away second round picks as if they're meaningless, to trading up for McDermott, to failing to tank well enough last season to get one of the blue chips, to resigning Payne and Valentine, to letting Nwaba walk for nothing, to bringing in a coach to run an uptempo offense with a mismatched roster, then firing the coach the day after they finally get the roster he wanted. The Kings and Knicks are the poster choldren for bad management , but at least they knew enough to clean out the front office when things weren't working.
  5. bukie
    6 championships the last 28 years, best record in the league with Rose recently, got rid of Butler at the right time, drafted pretty well for where they were at, and have been at the top of league attendance total for years. Weren’t winning in the East with LeBron. The Bulls have a solid core right now too. I think the statute of limitations has expired on the jordan era bulls success counting in the plus column for the current management Considering current management had zero to do with the Jordan era Bulls, they shouldn't get credit for it at all just because they happen to run the organization now. I'm not sure the Bulls have a solid core, either. Lavine and Parker play no defense, Cam Payne is still a thing the organization refuses to admit mistakes on, Valentine is useless, the entirety of their solid core is Lauri and Wendell, having spent 10 years building a team of ball first PGs and stretch 4s with no cohesive plan and wandering aimlessly through FA every summer assuming players will want to play here because Jordan 25 years ago.
  6. bukie
    No, this interim coach is Jim Boylen, different from the Jim Boylan that was interim head coach 10 years ago. Is this the worst run organization in pro sports?
  7. bukie
    How management continues to be allowed to make decisions is astounding to me. Clean house, everybody out.
  8. bukie
    After yesterday's results I wouldn't be surprised if Clemson is at #1, followed by Bama, ND and choice of OU/OSU. Fun fact, among the 4 undefeated teams, the one with the toughest strength of schedule is ND.
  9. bukie
    Though...winning this game is enough to be concerned about for now.
  10. bukie
    Conference record, which the Bears would automatically win in any tie with the Saints.
  11. bukie
    The once and future Cub.
  12. bukie
    After the Houston win Monday, with 5 weeks left in the season 8 playoff spots are all but set (90+%), and 7 of the 8 divisions are practically set (85+%). Basically, the only things left to play for are the NFC East (Dallas 52%, WAS 38%, PHI 20%), the NFC wild cards (SEA 75%, MIN 66%, CAR 33%), and AFC Wildcard #2 (BAL 41%, IND 40%, DEN 20%)
  13. bukie
    Alternatively, beat the Giants and Niners and guarantee a playoff spot.
  14. bukie
    Ties, though more prevalent this season, have occurred in 2 of 176 games, about a 1% occurrence. Planning for that possibility is a waste of effort. As for tiebreakers for wild cards, the Bears own the tiebreaker with Seattle, and they've got the common opponent tiebreaker with Carolina wrapped up, being 4-0 vs 2-2 with just the Giants game remaining. What about 3+ team tiebreakers? The only way the Bears could lose out on the playoffs on this is if Seattle loses to KC and the Bears still lose enough to tie them and the Vikings win out to pass them and some other team wins enough to pass the Bears, because they finish at worst 2nd with any 3+ team tiebreaker (thanks Miami loss).
  15. bukie
    If they tie any game, tiebreakers could come into play with Vikes for the division. Or if they lose grounds to the Vikes, tiebreakers could come into play for WC. Ties, though more prevalent this season, have occurred in 2 of 176 games, about a 1% occurrence. Planning for that possibility is a waste of effort. As for tiebreakers for wild cards, the Bears own the tiebreaker with Seattle, and they've got the common opponent tiebreaker with Carolina wrapped up, being 4-0 vs 2-2 with just the Giants game remaining.
  16. bukie
    Reminder that ther isn't a single situation where tiebreakers will come into play for the Bears this year unless they run the table and tie the Rams/Saints for a bye Most likely, the week 17 game will be meaningless for the Bears, having locked the 3 seed ahead of the game
  17. bukie
    Bears have already scored more points than last year, 317 to 264.
  18. bukie
    Lost in the injury news is that the Lions are very bad, and the Bears are very good. Bears by 11.
  19. bukie
    Fun fact, if the Bears win the Super Bowl and the Raiders get the #1 pick, the Mack trade would result in the Bears tradin the #32 pick for the #33 pick.
  20. bukie
    Mitchell Trubisky has now started 22 consecutive games at QB for the Bears, which is the longest streak for one Bear QB since Jim Harbaugh in 1992.
  21. bukie
    FO updated their playoff odds. Bears up to 80% to win division, 94.7% to make playoffs, 20% to earn a bye. Bears now 4th in weighted DVOA behind Chiefs, Rams and Saints.
  22. bukie
    Second tie, plz.
  23. bukie
    The NFC East could easily be a 9 win team, though it's also looking much more likely that a 9 win team will be a WC team The NFC East winner could easily go 8-8 at this rate. Washington had a huge potential advantage that got lost when their only QB went down, so now it's a fight amongst the dregs to grab that all important 4 seed.
  24. bukie
    The other thing you can look at at this point is what teams are even contending for the playoffs in the NFC? You can basically write off the 49ers, Cards, Bucs and Giants up front. Detroit is hanging by a thread, they'd basically be done if the Bears win Thursday. Philly and Atlanta are already in win-out-or-season-over mode, Washington has no QB, which means the Cowboys may make the playoffs by default. Rams and Saints have practically wrapped up playoff spots at this point, even though the Saints closing schedule is brutal. That leaves 3 spots for the Bears, Vikings, Packers, Panthers and Seahawks, keeping in mind that even if the Packers win out, they get to 10 wins.
  25. bukie
    Bears now project to finish the season 11-5, which means the Packers can't catch them and the Vikings only can if they win out to go 11-4-1 against one of the toughest remaining schedules in the NFL.
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