jersey cubs fan

I mean, it's a standard. I think the McCaskeys appreciate that they made a playoff run and are in the hunt this year after being pathetic for a few years.

I've been thinking the owners want to do away with constant turnover at the GM/coaching level which has been going on repeatedly since Lovie left. Pace has done enough to build a quality team that really just needs a solid QB to be a real contender. Nagy had the team playing about as well as it can, without a QB. I've thought owners would be happy to give Pace and Nagy an opportunity to find their QB together, giving them an opportunity to right the ship and potentially be a stable force. I don't trust them to go out and get better execs. There aren't a ton of them out there anyway. But they would be justified in trying.

I disagree with every word of this. First, Pace gets plenty of heat. Many predicted the Trubisky draft would get him fired by the 2018 offseason. Instead, they won the division. People were grilling Pace for trading assets for Foles when they could have had Dalton or Newton. Bears fans definitely get on Pace pretty consistently. As for him being horrible.....the Trubisky was weird. It was immediately ridiculed for the trade up. But I'd say about 70% of draft publications had Trubisky rated as the highest QB in the draft, ahead of Watson and Mahomes. And obviously, that pick has been ridiculed since those 2 have become elite QBs. And horrible is a little much. The early round picks are obviously killers. Trubisky, Kevin White and Shaheen were bad picks, but he's also drafted several building blocks for this team (Jackson, Goldman, Smith, Whitehair, Cohen, etc) and Hicks may be the best FA signing of the last 10 years. He has a better draft record than many GMs. I'm not trying to say he's "good" by any means, but he's not horrible. The Bears can and have done worse (see every GM since 1987). I also wouldn't shed a tear if they got rid of him tomorrow. Whoa, hey, Jerry Angelo did an admirable job and only started making bad moves once Lovie gained enough respect and power within the organization to influence the draft.

Because he took over a team that was a laughingstock and made them respectable again. This ain't the Jets.

but seriously it might be about time for a good old fashioned ass kicking blowout loss.

oh now what will they do without mitch?

Ginn gone

Am I a bad fan for not knowing any of these names of lineman who are out with covid/injury?

I'm also grading Foles on a Bears QB curve. He's still bad. But I thought he was decent yesterday (at least compared to what most are saying) and don't get the calls for Trubisky. Don't think that game gets to overtime with Trubisky. Gotcha. Yeah, definitely not calling for Trubisky. It's pretty pointless. He's gone after the year. Foles is under contract. Might as well see if he can be a viable bridge guy for 2021. Only if that bridge is trying to get the number 1 pick in 2022.

Dusty was the wrong guy at the wrong time, but he was a perfectly legitimate candidate for a lot of teams (that weren't wholly dependent upon the dominance of young arms). Dusty was hot off a run of great success. He was also in his mid-50s, more than 20 years younger than LaRussa is now.

You got ‘em, broseph!

That’s just standard old white man talk regardless of his employer.

I don't get the anti-dodgers sentiment. It's about the only team in baseball willing to pay for talent and they've had a great run as a result and have won the world series. That's a good thing. horsefeathers the penny pinchers.

That timeout was taken with 12 seconds on play clock and everybody seemingly disoriented. Foles did't look comfortable with whatever was about to happen. It was a big momentum bummer, but that sack was worse and I think it was avoidable. I'm not a big PLAYCALLING! guy, but that game left me quite confused about their intentions. However, it still comes down to ability and the Bears don't have much of it on offense. There's maybe 1.75 receivers and 2 lineman. They've got nothing in the backfield. 2 linemen seems like a stretch. I felt like there's 1 whole one, a half and 2 quarters, but I admit I'm an optimist.

That timeout was taken with 12 seconds on play clock and everybody seemingly disoriented. Foles did't look comfortable with whatever was about to happen. It was a big momentum bummer, but that sack was worse and I think it was avoidable. I'm not a big PLAYCALLING! guy, but that game left me quite confused about their intentions. However, it still comes down to ability and the Bears don't have much of it on offense. There's maybe 1.75 receivers and 2 lineman. They've got nothing in the backfield.

This game as gone from 5.5 to 6.5 point spread in the last day

Won me a CAR, Cle, Buf, GB, LAC, TB, KC parlay today. That was fun.

Stafford just had the weirdest roughing the passer call I’ve ever seen in his favor. It’s like he forgot defenders could tackle momentarily and the refs just felt bad for him.

Cubs dredge the Sledge

Theo's tenure, bust-boom-bust. He brought a WS, but a very mediocre overall result. The boom was great fun while it lasted. They tanked, then were great and declined into well above average. They had 4 90+ win seasons which is a benchmark for actually being a good team rather than just in the running. 3 straight NLCS appearances, four straight playoffs appearances, 5 in 6 years. I think bust boom bust is a fairly inaccurate assessment.

when? If 2018 is recent past he started 5 games and had a vastly better YPA (7.2 vs. 5.8 this year), completion percentage (72 vs 62) and QBR/Rating. Small Sample size, but he was also coming off the Super Bowl run the year prior where he performed like an elite QB. He was not actually an elite QB mind you, but the numbers he put up were elite. 2 years is a long time and the 2018 numbers wouldnt really constitute a very good QB but if he was performing at that level in Chicago this year it would make a big difference moving forward. Don't think he will for various reasons but he's probably capable of playing better than he has thus far. Didn't he more recently suck in Jacksonville? He went to the most talented team in the league at the time and helped them win a Super Bowl, but it was hardly his doing. He famously pretty much stunk until getting hot in a couple playoff games. I would say his level of performance with the Bears is pretty much on par with expectations.

I would like to hope there is room for improvement with the offense. Maybe he is in decline or maybe its the talent around him but Foles has performed much better than this in the past, even in the recent past. when?

I think calling it a rebuild is a great way to incentivize some guys to talk about buy outs, retirement or removing no movement tags. A full "trade Kane" rebuild is kind of pointless in a sport like hockey when so many teams make that playoffs and the finals are not preordained in a NBA style. There's nothing wrong with going halfway with the rebuild and trying to load up on young guys for the final years of Toews, Kane and Keith with hopes of maybe surprising people in a year or two.