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Here's hoping the McCaskey's have zero hearing at all when it comes to football decisions right now
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This is actually very easily accounted for: Last 20 QBs drafted first Bryce Young (lol) Kenny Pickett Trevor Lawrence Joe Burrow Kyler Murray Baker Mayfield Mitchell Trubisky (woof) Jared Goff Jameis Winston (the best in a bad class) Blake Bortles 🤷♂️ EJ Manuel (I legitimately have no idea who this is) Andrew Luck Cam Newton Sam Bradford 🤷♂️ Matthew Stafford Matt Ryan (tough competition with Joe Flacco) JaMarcus Russell (horrible but also there isn't an NFL quality QB in this draft) Vince Young Alex Smith (Aaron Rodgers definitely bests Smith here, but Smith isn't a bad consolation prize) Eli Manning 🤷♂️ Ok - going through the list, I'd say in roughly 10 of these drafts the correct QB was taken first. (There's some argument to be made in some years, like, in 2004, between Eli Manning, Ben Roethlisberger and Phillip Rivers, who do I want? Rivers is the best overall passer but am I upset to end up with Manning and 2 Super Bowls? I dunno) ((There are also years where there's no good option, like 2010 - Bradford vs. Tebow, Jimmy Clausen, Colt McCoy and Mike Kafka. Woof.)) I put this out there to say that it's not as much of a crapshoot as it may seem - or at the very least, it's a weighted crapshoot. You give yourself decidedly better odds with the 1st overall.
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This is the only time I'll say this type of thing - I don't trust the Bears to find the diamond in the rough QB. I'd rather they just settle on the consensus best QB in the draft. They've not shown the ability to get *that* right in history, but they SURE as hell haven't shown the ability to find a steal QB prospect. Just get the guy everyone is pretty sure is really good. I absolutely love #assets but at a certain point its outsmarting yourself
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It's unavoidable - Williams would get that kind of cult-like love for any QB prospect a team drafting a QB would get - hell, I watched Panthers fans desperately try to defend Bryce Young's potential all year long. People are gonna hold out hope for their guy. It's all the worse for Bears fans because we have literally not one had a guy you can say, with complete confidence, is an elite QB. And until we get one of those guys, our brains will remain broken.
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alright friends, i guess i should pay attention to the 2024 Cubs now
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2016 World Series Game 7 watch-along with Maddon/Francona
BigSlick replied to Irrelevant Dude's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I was watching game 7 at the Holiday Club with some friends of mine. When Rajai Davis tied it off Chapman, I walked right out of the bar, into the rain, and onto the Red Line (I lived in Rogers Park at the time). I simply couldn't watch what was happening. I listened to the game on the radio while going up north, got back into my apartment right when the 10th inning was starting and got to see Ben Zobrist take the lead. That game DEFINITELY took years off my life. But I also got to watch one of my favorite teams win a championship, so there's that. -
I don't think thats quite true - or at least, there's wiggle room there. If Williams is adequate, good or very good, and the team around him is very good, Poles will be fine. If Williams is amazing and the team around him is bad, Poles could very well be in trouble. (A QB being amazing and the team itself being bad is a bit of an exceptional situation because its very likely the team will at least be OK if he's amazing, just by virtue of his play, but it can happen)
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Just for the record, I'll just say I'll be perfectly content if we're a 2020s Bills where we're consistently great and lose in the playoffs This would be a significant upgrade over where the Bears have been for the past 25 years
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Legitimately feel bad for Fields. He's probably gonna have to wait another month or so, but it'll be over soon, man.
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I would say its likely a lot easier to build a team around a guy who's a rung below Mahomes (Thinking about Lamar, Josh Allen, Burrow, Herbert, etc.) who even takes a 50 mill/yr salary hit with young talent you get from the draft on first year deals than it is to build the team and hope you strike gold with a Purdy. The other thing about those guys, is it keeps your window open for a long time - you might get several bites at the apple over a 10+ year career while your roster rises and falls, whereas if you do the SF thing, everything has to line up perfectly contract, development, aging, and then it passes.
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As someone who's only paid intermittent attention to the NFL between the Cutler years and when Fields was drafted, I'm simply gobsmacked at how much middling starting QBs can get on a contract. The fact that like, $40 mill a year is like, the standard for a Good QB is astronomical to me. But I guess... that's an accurate market if you value QBs where they're supposed to be. I dunno. It's wild. Seeing that Jordan Love is expected to get 40+ mil a year on his contact extension based on (admittedly a very good!) one year of play is wild. (And obviously there are the obvious blunders like Daniel Jones and DeShaun Watson, which will cripple a team for years)
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It's impossible to know really, there are all sorts of conflicting reports. Some say that Tomlin absolutely loves Fields and wants him https://www.si.com/nfl/steelers/news/pittsburgh-steelers-mike-tomlin-interested-justin-fields All of it is tea leaves reading, unfortunately, until the trades start flying. Its of course in every teams best interest to keep their motives secret and have a bunch of contradictory reports out. But....I am concerned that the market for Fields might not be very strong. Its a great draft for QBs, there are a handful of decent free agent QBs...its not great timing to try to unload him.
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I will NEVER pay money for some nerd to shout numbers at me
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I think the biggest problem with keeping Fields is, ironically, that he's such a nice guy and is very well-liked by the locker room. This would be exponentially worse than the Andy Dalton thing because... everyone likes Fields and doesn't want to get rid of him - how the heck is Caleb Williams supposed to deal with that when it's time for Fields to go. But yeah, I don't think you honestly need a bridge QB. You put Williams out there and see how he does. He's started for 3 years in college, he'll turn 23 during the 2024 season (hilariously enough, he's only 1.5 years younger than Fields), he's a big boy - I don't think you need to worry about ruining him by letting him start out the gate. (Bookmark this post 3 years from now if I'm disastrously wrong)
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It all depends on how good we expect Williams to be coming out the gate. Nobody should expect or depend a rookie to be as good as CJ Stroud was, but on the other hand, this team is significantly better than the 2023 Texans were, so that has to be accounted for. If Williams isn't a disaster, this team should be better than last year. But the range of possible play from him is as wide as the equator - one can expect anything from Cade McNown-unfathomably-bad to CJ Stroud-holy-horsefeathers-this-guy-is-a-stud I wouldn't be shocked, but I would be marginally displeased, if they got a bridge QB for 2024 (or, unlikely, but possible, that they keep Fields for a bridge year). I get it, but I also think Williams is good enough to start, warts and all, plus, as a fan, I'm impatient and I want to see what he's got.
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It was time, but it is sad to see Eddie Jackson go. He gave us some real fun moments, but he's clearly passed his prime and can't stay healthy. I will NOT say the same thing for Whitehair.
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THANK you
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Sudden death when it was a mere field goal was horrible. It would be even worse today where the kick off is virtually eliminated, you get the ball on the 25, and offenses are more high powered than they've ever been. 70% of the time the kicking team would never get the ball again.
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Yeah at no point did I think getting the ball first was definitively the wrong call - but this was literally the first game I've seen where they used the new rules. I wish the NFL just took on Soccer rules and had a full quarter (no sudden death, no trading possessions, just 15 minutes of football) as how overtime works. If, after an extra quarter of play, it remains tied, in the regular season its a tie. If its the playoffs, you keep playing quarters until one ends with someone with a lead. Simple enough. I don't get it.
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This was an exceedingly entertaining game but the thing that most struck me was how the Niners played an archetypical Bears game: Dominate much of the game defensively, mediocre QB play, squander turnovers/chances, lose late to a better QB.
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I would loooooove the Bears on Hard Knocks. It's such a pain in the ass the ownership wants it less than anything else.
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I don't feel any sort of confidence making a bet on the winner of this game. I usually feel some sort of leaning, and if all things were equal, I'd take the 49ers - but given the Niners have come off two of their worst games and the Chiefs two of their best make me feel like I should just stay away from it. It's a coin flip.
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well I really hope I'm not wrong because I'm utterly incapable of doing a backflip
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If you get a 2nd for Fields, I’d be ecstatic. If you get a FIRST for him, I’m doing a backflip
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I don’t truly believe there’s any chance Caleb will refuse to play here but if he does, you trade down to 2, get as much as you can and you roll the dice with Maye. but I really won’t start doombonering about it until someone other than Colin Cowherd trying to get a bunch of attention (which he succeeded marvelously at) reports something definitive. The fact that Cowherd had to walk it back (and it sounded from him that the Williams camp was kinda pissed) leads me to believe there’s nothing truly there.
