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Generally agree with all this. I think 120-145 is the right amount of games, don’t hate the idea of designated off days. Don’t know about twice a week though league wide. I like having some baseball on every day of the year for a few months, maybe do something more like AL is off Monday’s and NL is off Thursday’s or do it by divisions or something if the scheduling could work. The point of having two off days during the week is you can go to a 4 man rotation which will improve play as well as manage pens better. There is no way going to 4 man rotations across the board will make play better. It will make pitching better, it will kill offense and may make some games shorter, but it won't make play better. Also 2 off days for everybody per week is absurd. You can't attempt to better market a sport that plays everyday by just deciding to play a whole hell of a lot fewer games with an open slate on 30% of every week. 120? 145 is the absolute floor on something like that and it's not even realistic. You'd be lucky to get any owner outside maybe the Rays/A's/Pirates to even consider lopping off 5 home dates and 10 total broadcasts.

Why would they do that? Well they surely wouldn't finance the whole project, but they could chip in more than the McCakseys. That's basically why they have Soldier Field. A rich and experienced businessperson would have a dome and enough equity to make it very worthwhile, while milking the state for as much as they could. The Bears aren’t in Soldier Field because the McCaskeys are too poor

supposedly no, that was related to existing/planned renovations

312 was also the burbs Dang, you must be old. It will always be to me: 312 - city, but also 773, but only for like... Luna Carpet 708 - cook county burbs (where I grew up) 630 - west collar counties 847 - North collar counties Everything else- here be dragons. Which to me, 331 or 224 is still here be dragon territory even though it's the same as 630 and 847. Like those aren't real area codes. My doctor has 331 and it's still odd to me. Well yeah I'm old. But the first split 312/708 was '89 and more than half the board was alive and kicking by then. The next split 708/630 was '96, and I wasn't even in the area at the time, but technically it was my home.

312 was also the burbs

630 for life! Our house went from 312 to 708 to 630. I kept 630 on my cell phone for ~5 years before committing to staying out east.

Because he doesn't want it to get out what he said? Well, that would explain why the guy doesn't want to press charges. But it doesn't matter what he said or how the guy who got KO'd feels about it. The Pads fan needs to be charged with assult. Well I'm no lawyer but somebody choosing not to press charges is a thing that happens all the time

I sat through a very prolonged flight delay at Newark airport with him in 2019. Chatted about Chicago sports and pretended not to know who he was. I'm pretty sure he was going down to Florida to say his last goodbyes to his father. He wrote about his father's death a week later.

Because he doesn't want it to get out what he said?

Arm band? What is this, middle school softball? What?

That’s exactly what they are doing And every NFC team has 9 road games this year so there are no competitive issues like competing for a playoff spot against a team that had 9 home games They have more of a plan than I anticipated #ClassicDerwood

I don't think that is going to be an issue. If Fields starts and struggles the Bears are going to be losing big every game.

They were absolutely without a doubt 100% taking a QB early in this draft. They may not have felt confident that it would be somebody as good as Fields, but they were getting one. I didn't mean to say the plan all along was a couple games of Dalton. That number would vary depending on which QB they got. But I absolutely think he's going to start the season unless he looks like trash in camp.

I'd rather wait until the first "Fields lights up training camp" tweets. touche Granted, my confidence is based solely on the fact that my theory about Pace/Nagy and their future together based on McCaskey wanting continuity seems to be coming true this year. I always thought they'd get a shot to draft a QB together. I think they will have a chance to develop that QB. It seems fairly obvious Dalton was brought in to start a couple games as a competent veteran until the rookie is ready. Nagy loves the Mahomes got to sit and learn storyline. All they really have to do is show progress on offense this year. So, if they lose a couple games with Dalton early as the defense takes a step back, but then go to Fields and the offense looks interesting, they are coming back in 2022.

if you're that sure of that, you can get pretty reasonable betting odds on dalton as the week one guy bc the books aren't that convinced (he's the favorite but far from a lock). I'd rather wait until the first "Fields lights up training camp" tweets.

The point was more of you can't look at the schedule and say, "oh we can't start Fields because Aaron Donald is on the other team, and it's on the road and in primetime, it may be too much for the rookie". The 2nd paragraph was more of a general statement about people wanting a rookie to sit simply because he's a rookie. Fans and coaches, including our very own Nagy who keeps talking about how Mahomes sitting helped him, think this way and there's really no semblance of proof that sitting for the sake of sitting actually does anything positive or negative. Like Mitch didn't suck because he was thrown in Week 5 instead of sitting all season as originally planned. I would mostly disagree that you can ruin rookies, but I do believe there have been extreme cases (David Carr the most glaring one) where rookies have been ruined by what they are surrounded by (coaches, teammates, bad OL, bad WRs). I don't think the Bears are that much of a disaster that they will ruin Fields by throwing him in week 1 vs. week 14. Obviously, you wait until he's completely ready as a QB but I think it's a dangerous proposition to wait until Jenkins is ready. There's a chance Jenkins can never handle his job. He could be just a bad player. You can't keep Fields off the field because your rookie tackle can't play. That's like sitting Cutler until Chris Williams proved he could handle his job. Obviously, it's the line as a whole, but Cutler's line was pretty bad pretty much the whole time he was here. Granted, he wasn't an inexperienced rookie but I think the point remains. Waiting on the OL to solidify is similar to waiting for a home game against an easy opponent. Those have nothing to do with the QBs ability to run the offense correctly (successfully is a different story). What does Cutler have to do with anything? I'm talking about giving a rookie a few games. And you can't say you disagree you can ruin rookies and then point out it's possible to ruin rookies. You can ruin rookies. Fields wasn't starting Week 1 regardless of timeslot or opponent. That they get the RAms out of the way with that is all for the better. Let Dalton pay the Dalton tax.

Anyway, Bears Rams has always felt like a good matchup because the Bears can more or less shut down a Goff led offense and stay in the game. But Stafford is going to light them up, right? They have to be getting a touchdown in that one, maybe more.

Probably? Hah.

I completely disagree with your assessment. You can ruin rookies by throwing them into the fire. It's easy to say that if he sucks from the start he was going to suck regardless, because the baseline is still that player sucking. Especially this year when there is limited offseason work available AND when they are throwing out rookies on the offensive line which is still a work in progress, you do not want to throw your rookie QB to the wolves in week 1. You have to have 100% confidence that Jenkins can handle his job before you can throw Fields into his. And you cannot have that confidence until Jenkins is on the field. I do not understand lamenting the loss of Leno so you can start Jenkins right away. I'm fine with that move. But Jenkins and Fields on day one with no real running game to fall back on and extremely limited weapons is a recipe for disaster.

Enough with the DUI talk let's focus on the baseball stuff.

So back to my earlier thought on their plans for this season I think all Nagy hast to do is prove he can score points and make the offense look reasonably improved. All these draft picks on the offensive side kind of reinforces that idea.