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  1. BigSlick
    You're crazy, Joniak is great* *Fully prepared to admit I just like the guy
  2. BigSlick
    This one feels like a loss tonight. It reminds me of the 2006 season after the Cardinals comeback. A huge, improbable, historic comeback in a game we shouldn’t have won - and the next week we lost badly to Miami. It just seems like a hangover loss - and the Niners looked totally unstoppable on offense on Monday night. Our defense just can’t stop anyone if we don’t get turnovers. hopefully we do some fun things offensively but I’m expecting a loss and I’m totally ok with it. We’re in baby. It’s all gravy from here.
  3. BigSlick
    It’s funny, I hadn’t thought about it much but the Chris Conte Fall Down loss feels worse to me in my memory than the loss in the NFC Championship. I’m not even sure why, given we lost out on a Super Bowl bid vs the Packers of all teams, but losing the NFC North on a last second pass… that was more painful. Maybe because that whole back half of that season was a slow motion train crash I was wishing beyond hope to see avoided. Everything went wrong when it needed to go wrong for them to miss the playoffs. Seeing that was worse for whatever reason.
  4. BigSlick
    I’m not picking on you but I do want to comment on something that I’ve seen others say about this last game; Caleb didn’t start slow this game. He was actually incredible from go : he made several amazing, in rhythm throws AND improvisational throws (the one to Zaccheus in stride in particular) on the opening drive and let’s be honest, Ben Johnson boofed it on 4th down, The Bears only had one more real drive the whole half. We got into Packers territory and a Wright false start threw off the drive. After that theres semi-aborted 2 minute drill (Caleb makes two nice throws) that stalls out in Green Bay territory on 4th and 4 with what I’m still not sure was a purposeful delay of game or not. What makes it seem like Caleb started off slow is a really bad momentum swinging play and execution near the Packers goal line and a defense that couldn’t get off the field. Packers effectiveness controlling the ball plus the Bears with a run heavy attack meant we had very limited drives throughout the game.
  5. BigSlick
    I hate HATE that we're very likely to face the Packers again in the playoffs. Facing nearly anyone else I would be 100% ok with the Bears getting bounced in the first round of the playoffs. Merely getting here and getting 11+ wins is such a tremendous achievement by Ben Johnson and co. But good lord. There's no way I could feel fully satisfied if they do all that and then we have a repeat of 2010 Caleb Hanie BJ Raji Dancing in the End Zone Is Jay Cutler Tough Enough Diabetes NFC Championship. I'm 15 years older and my heart is not in good enough shape for that.
  6. BigSlick
    Poor Detroit fans. Their sufferings are worse than ours, and really the only people who should get this kind of torture from the refs are the Packers. i would love any playoff scenario that doesn’t involve playing an NFC North rival in the first round of the playoffs. Can we get that? Because I can’t survive another 2010 style meeting.
  7. BigSlick
    The Bears have officially clinched a playoff spot. 😇
  8. BigSlick
    Ok I was gonna say I don’t believe in jinxes but after seeing Pittsburgh doink a close to game-seating field goal,…
  9. BigSlick
    Oh my god the Steelers are gonna do it i would be so depressed if I was a Lions fan. They’ve retained basically the same roster and they’ve really blown games they shouldn’t have all year. This should be an easy playoff team, but… the buzz saw of football came for them
  10. BigSlick
    Steelers have taken the lead on a safety! For the first and hopefully only time in my life, I’m rooting for Aaron Rodgers. Deliver us a playoff bid buddy!
  11. BigSlick
    I really do hope this signals at least a period of parity with the Packers. Let this finally be a rivalry and not a decades-long one-sided humiliation ritual. I mean, I hate to say it, but out of these two games the Packers looked like the more talented team. They withstood catastrophic injuries and managed to stand tall and not just be competitive but have leads, control the football, and give our offense fits. We were inches away from losing this game at home while they were down their best offensive and defensive players. And yet, the Bears prevailed. And the Bears now have a near certain grasp of the division. And we’re the younger, hungrier team with the younger, hungrier coach and QB. to be here, a year ahead of schedule. It feels good. I’m not even worried about sustainability. Sure crazy things can happen, look at Washington, but I feel very confident we have years and years and sustained success ahead of us.
  12. BigSlick
    I don’t hate him with a burning passion like I might for other guys with a case of the drops, but man… he really has a knack for dropping crucial passes doesn’t he
  13. BigSlick
    This link has the final 30 minutes or so of the radio call synced with the game. Very fun.
  14. BigSlick
    Good. Let them hate. He’ll continue stacking dubs
  15. BigSlick
    I have had this uneasy feeling in the pit of my stomach seeing breaks go the Bears way, particularly against Green Bay. It doesn’t feel right. These things never go our way, aside from flukey years like 2001. And they never happen against Green Bay. I have seen some iteration of this game play out 37 times over the last 25 years and it always ends with Chris Conte falling down or Jay Cutler being injured or Aaron Rodgers deciding he doesn’t want to trail anymore and just win the game. it still feels so weird to win these games. And of course they’re getting some luck, but also, they should get some luck. Last year wasn’t just bad coaching, the Bears also had some of the most abysmal luck I’ve ever seen in a single season. I didn’t expect karma to swing back so soon, but god damn. I’m happy for it.
  16. BigSlick
    Caleb Williams is Him.
  17. BigSlick
    Go the Bears. Death to the Packers.
  18. BigSlick
    I'm never going to get over the fact that the SF "renovations" reduced capacity and gave the Bears the smallest stadium in the league in the biggest single market in the country How... how does something like that happen
  19. BigSlick
    I believe the lease at Soldier Field is up in 2033. They could renew it of course, but that does give you some idea of an immediate deadline. I listened to that "expert" on 670 and he sounded like a complete Owner partisan, and was laying all the blame on the state. I... just don't buy it. I really don't. The situation can be extremely tough for the McCaskeys, I think it is, but that's not the state's fault. And the McCaskeys have handled it in a very boneheaded way, alternating between crying poor and making threats of leaving. They aren't going to horsefeathers Gary. I don't think there's anyway they go to Indiana. They already have the land in Arlington Heights. It's not ideal, but it's pretty horsefeathers good location for a stadium, especially for the people who are actually shelling out big bucks for season tickets. They need to figure out a way to get more money to build the stadium. It's probably not gonna come from the state. It shouldn't come from the state.
  20. BigSlick
    We’ve virtually been without Rome for 3-4 weeks now and we’ve been ok, but losing Burden really sucks. He’s really developing a great chemistry with Caleb. I suppose all things considered I’d take this situation if it means no Micah Parsons, but I ain’t happy about it. Run the ball early, run the ball often, throw to Colston Loveland.
  21. BigSlick
    God DAMN it
  22. BigSlick
    I really think there’s 0% chance the Bears move to Indiana
  23. BigSlick
    Yeah from what I’ve read this is the rare case where the owners simply don’t have the money to build the stadium, it’s not simply just greed, it’s plan facts. The only way Bears ownership could get financing to build the stadium on their own would require them to leverage more of their ownership of the team (because they are so cash-poor) and I may be wrong, but the NFL puts limits of how much an ownership can do that. Of course, one solution would be for the McCaskeys to sell the team already, but I don’t think that’s in the cards. all that being said, I don’t want a penny of public money going to a new Bears stadium. Always a boondoggle, it never pays off for the taxpayer.
  24. BigSlick
    It is pretty baffling that this isn't getting done. Everyone knows that they're going to end up in Arlington Heights. They own the property already. They've cut deals with the AH local government. You're not getting more money from the State. Give up already. Every year you delay is another year where they don't have a stadium and you're spending millions on real estate taxes with nothing to pay for it. Soldier Field has a capacity of like 58,000 and they're missing out on tons of missing revenue because it's so goddamn small and worse for everyone: the team is getting good and will probably stay good for at least the next few years. Will we get a stadium by 2030? It's looking dicey.
  25. BigSlick
    I really hope that we don't have to go into this game with Devin Duvernay being our #3 receiver. That would suck. And I'd totally take a flyer on Judon for like, the practice squad. See what that dude can do, or have anything left in the tank. Joe Tryon-Shoyinka has actually provided some value for us. Sometimes a change of scenery does a lot for a MF.
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