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  1. BigSlick
    Absolutely inexcusable to keep Velus Jones in this team. Let this guy lose multiple games for the team for no discernible reason.
  2. BigSlick
    Well I mean it's probably going to be a competitive game. Good! I hope so. I don't think anyone serious is jazzing up the Bears as some sort of juggernaut when they were a 7-10 team with a rookie QB. Every game should be competitive, and we shouldn't be surprised by any result. Except the Panthers game. The Bears really should win that Panthers game.
  3. BigSlick
    The 2024 Cubs hate you, the viewer. They don't do it like the 2024 White Sox, that would be far too easy. No, they have a much more exquisite torture for you. Losing the first two games of the series and then winning in a blow out with a no hitter is exactly the kind of torture I'm talking about.
  4. BigSlick
    I’m actually fully expecting the Bears D to regress slightly. (Which I don’t care all that much about) Basically the only dependable thing you can do as a defense is get a good pass rush, and unless we see some big strides from some of our young DTackles (eminently possible!) or something surprising from the collection of non-Sweat D-Ends we’re likely not gonna have an elite pass rush. It doesn’t matter how good your coverage is in lieu of that. Mediocre to good QBs will beat it. Bears D in 2023 was maybe the best you could possibly hope for with one half of a season of one guy who can rush the passer. And we faced a whole lot of bums. but also none of that matters to me at all in comparison to seeing a professional offense for once in my goddamn life
  5. BigSlick
    Yeah I'm actually pretty nervous about how things are gonna go with the new kick off rules. Giving teams an additional 5-10 yards per drive will increase scoring dramatically. Expect a lot of weirdness in returns, a lot more variance. And that will honestly make the value of a very good punter all the less important.
  6. BigSlick
    kinda wild this team has a chance to be above .500. when was the last time they were above .500? June?
  7. BigSlick
    We're so damned close to the season. I'm so excited to see the Bears look like an actual pro football team running a professional offense. I'm probably jinxing it by even saying it but I'm reasonably confident the Bears will look normal. For once!
  8. BigSlick
    I watched a video of all of Justin Fields’s plays in the Bills v Steelers game and the thing that jumped out to me more than anything is how Fields NEVER throws at the top of his drop. Seriously, I encourage you to watch it, I think there are 15 or so plays that go by before Fields hits the top of his drop and throws the football. It’s almost astonishing. Time and again he drops back, hops in place, and then scrambled for a throw or yardage. I didn’t really notice this proclivity until he was in another uniform and we couldn’t blame everything on poor protection/receivers
  9. BigSlick
    I just saw the Cubs have a positive run differential on the season, which I find almost astonishing. Well, not that astonishing because they've made a point of losing in heartbreaking fashion as much as possible, which generally means losing close games. Except, possibly, today. Outside chance of making that R/D negative on the season if they try hard enough.
  10. BigSlick
    I hate to say it but I'm not finding a lot compelling in these first two episodes of Hard Knocks? What I appreciate the most about it is seeing more of our draft picks and Caleb in particular, but other than that, it feels lacking in anything for me to really hold onto. I don't have a ton of experience with Hard Knocks so I'm assuming this is how it usually goes but I thought there'd be a bit more into the fringier players, more fleshed out storylines about what they're working on, challenges, etc. But still, as a hype machine for this season, its working fine enough. Anyway, my only two cents is I really hope Velus doesn't make the team because one of his biggest issues is one of the most damaging qualities a player can have: He can't hold onto the damn ball.
  11. BigSlick
    I thought I'd be the last person who listens to the Score semi-regularly (usually after it airs while walking or at the gym or whatever). Will be sad to see Parkins go, he had pretty good chemistry with Spiegel I thought. Would be awesome to see Jason Goff back in a full time gig, but I feel like he kinda got run out for talking about race and politics "too much" (stop talking hockey, TALK MORE HOCKEY) on the air in those heady days when he was the cohost with Bernstein.
  12. BigSlick
    It’s preseason and blah blah but good lord how exciting to see Caleb in a game setting and actually looking hella competent. Not perfect, but very effective, and created on the move. That shovel pass was Mahomes-esque. so excited for this season.
  13. BigSlick
    i've only been paying spotty attention to this team but the way they lose seems to be purposeful and for maximum heartbreak. nice job!
  14. BigSlick
    Team is officially more painful to follow than the White Sox. The White Sox are just really bad, but in a funny way. This team is really bad in a very unfunny way.
  15. BigSlick
    This team sucks and they hate us, the viewer
  16. BigSlick
    Wasting good starting pitching is the most painful thing to see in baseball because the nature of pitching greatness is so ephemeral - you never know when you get lightning in a bottle and when it's going to end. Watching a team unable to score runs for tremendous pitching is a crime, a sin, against baseball. And they are being punished for their wanton, wicked ways by the baseball gods.
  17. BigSlick
    Chris Morel wrenching his OPS back over .700
  18. BigSlick
    sometimes there comes a point in a baseball season where the team you root for is so infuriating, so disappointing, you begin to hate them. I'm not quite there yet. But the hate is rising.
  19. BigSlick
    I don't think so good, I'm a stupid person. But part of me can't help but think one element of the Cubs offensive woes is that... there is really no dude on the team you can imagine, at max potential, reaching a .900 OPS. There are dudes you can see with an .800, even .850 OPS, but nobody that is just a horsefeathers baller star who just crunches the baseballs. There are Good hitters but no Great hitters on this team. Does that matter for run production? I have no idea. Probably not. It's probably my stupid brain making stupid conclusions. Also, it's really annoying that a .700 OPS is roughly a 100 OPS+. That sucks. MLB needs to do something about that, maybe juice the baseball again or something. Despite all the rules finagling to try to help offense (which I hated in principle, other than the pitchclock which is an unalloyed good), offense is worse than ever. Annoying!
  20. BigSlick
    I would be upset with anything less than a sweep EDIT: Oh i thought we were playing 3 games with them, its only two. Ok. Well they still need to sweep them.
  21. BigSlick
    This year I found a $26 ticket on Spirit (lol) from Chi to NO during Jazz Fest. It can be done. You just have to be willing to fly Spirit.
  22. BigSlick
    Damn. helluva at-bat there Happ.
  23. BigSlick
    it would be cool if this team could score some goddamn runs
  24. BigSlick
    there's literally nothing worse as a baseball fan than watching a team that can't hit
  25. BigSlick
    IMO, doesn't make sense to lump all those guys in with the one dude who had the best rookie season by a QB maybe ever
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