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As it's been pointed out, looking it in terms of games they "almost won" or "should have won" is a mostly faulty approach. Ultimately the Bears played a lot of very close games last year, but that's not necessarily a good thing, win or lose. yes, but we aren't judging their place in last year's mix, we're trying to predict how good they'll be this year. if they got even a little bit better, they could be a playoff team. The issue is they needed to get significantly better, not a little bit. You're really grasping and looking at last year through rose colored glasses. They were bad. They needed to make substantial steps forward, but in my eyes they have really only gotten a little better.

hahahahaha, the workers in the store told us to spend more or it would be gone those people should go work in accounts services at wells fargo genius

they were a professional bad team last year. The talent was fairly similar to the amateurish bad team from 2014. But they were bad last year.

10 would be a big surprise and 11 would shock me they weren't that far from 10-6 last season. the problem is Fox's game management late and close. I remember in the first Detroit game, Detroit was driving and Fox wasn't calling timeouts when it became clear that the clock wasn't really going to help them. Then Ratliff went down with a fake injury to stop the clock, and Fox hits the roof telling him to get up. The next week is when Ratliff had his episode and he never played another down for the Bears. They were very far from 10-6 and fox is still the coach.

10 would be a big surprise and 11 would shock me

If Landon's statement is to be believed, after the Galaxy lost like 3 guys in a week(mainly Zardes for the year) they joked with him about coming back, and then after some thought he was like "well, okay" I'm sure I'll be in the minority on this but I think this is a stunningly bad decision on LD's part. Maybe LAG should use one of the very promising academy prospects instead. why is it bad on his part? Seems like a desperate and sad move by the team but if you're him, what's the harm?

I just don't see them being that bad. I see them being 7-9, which is where they've sat for the better part of a decade and so, so bad.

I don't actually exert any energy hating everyone to the contrary the hate is what fuels me

Marge Schott, Pete Rose, Mario Soto The Reds have been affiliated with many hateable people.

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next year they will have 3 first round draft picks unstoppable

MLB regular season is over, football starts tonight. We get 2 MNF games this week (I will watch about 2 minutes of tonight's game, most of the Bears game, and probably nothing else). NFL Lines For Week 1 - NFL Football Line Week One NFL Line 9/8 - 9/12, 2016 Date & Time Favorite Line Underdog Total 9/8 8:30 ET Carolina -3 At Denver 41 9/11 1:00 ET At Atlanta -3 Tampa Bay 47.5 9/11 1:00 ET Minnesota -2.5 At Tennessee 41 9/11 1:00 ET At Philadelphia -4 Cleveland 41 9/11 1:00 ET Cincinnati -2.5 At NY Jets 41.5 9/11 1:00 ET At New Orleans -1 Oakland 51 9/11 1:00 ET At Kansas City -6.5 San Diego 44.5 9/11 1:00 ET At Baltimore -3 Buffalo 44.5 9/11 1:00 ET At Houston -6 Chicago 44 9/11 1:00 ET Green Bay -5.5 At Jacksonville 48 9/11 4:05 ET At Seattle -10.5 Miami 44 9/11 4:25 ET At Dallas PK NY Giants 46 9/11 4:25 ET At Indianapolis -3.5 Detroit 50.5 9/11 8:30 ET At Arizona -6 New England 47 Monday Night Football Line 9/12 7:10 ET Pittsburgh -3 At Washington 50 9/12 10:20 ET Los Angeles -2.5 At San Francisco 43.5 [tweet]https://twitter.com/506sports/status/773570419660054528[/tweet] Team 2016 Season Win Total Lines Arizona Cardinals 10.5 Atlanta Falcons 7.5 Baltimore Ravens 8.5 Buffalo Bills 8 Carolina Panthers 10.5 Chicago Bears 7.5 Cincinnati Bengals 9.5 Cleveland Browns 5 Dallas Cowboys 8.5 Denver Broncos 9 Detroit Lions 7 Green Bay Packers 11 Houston Texans 8.5 Indianapolis Colts 9 Jacksonville Jaguars 7.5 Kansas City Chiefs 9.5 Los Angeles Rams 7 Miami Dolphins 7 Minnesota Vikings 9 New England Patriots 11 New Orleans Saints 7.5 New York Giants 8.5 New York Jets 7.5 Oakland Raiders 8.5 Philadelphia Eagles 6.5 Pittsburgh Steelers 10.5 San Diego Chargers 7.5 San Francisco 49ers 5.5 Seattle Seahawks 10.5 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 7.5 Tennessee Titans 5.5 Washington Redskins 7.5

I drank beer with Rod Beck at his RV, and it wasn't at all creepy. it was the same night my ex-wife yelled at Bobby Hill for being a douche silly woman, cartoon characters cannot hear you

I don't see how that is true. The major downfall to any win expectancy is injury to key players. There is no corollary to that on the upside. If 8-8 is a baseline, then some things working out better than expected may take them to 10-6 but things working out worse than expected plus a Cutler injury and you can rack up a lot of losses in a hurry. The upside is when you stay healthy and everyone else doesn't. If you've got 20 of your best 22 and the Vikings have 13, things improve considerably. that is one team, not everybody. It's not an equal corollary.

an equally persuasive argument can be made that the Bears will only be the better team in three games this year. Philly, Titans and 49ers.

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I think it's butters. We can wait for him. they're still playing games?

the problem with forte was he could never dong. he was never a big play impact RB that could dominate a game. he was a good reliable and productive back for a relatively long time, but never a dongsman.

I don't see how that is true. The major downfall to any win expectancy is injury to key players. There is no corollary to that on the upside. If 8-8 is a baseline, then some things working out better than expected may take them to 10-6 but things working out worse than expected plus a Cutler injury and you can rack up a lot of losses in a hurry.

Yeah, maybe I will have to eat crow on this, but I think the Forte loss is being hugely overstated by many. He wasn't even THAT special of a running back. Great in the passing game, as everyone knows. And I'm not just saying this now...I wasn't crazy about signing him when he was holding out for the contract too. Just block and hand other guys the ball. I consider Bennett more of a loss, not that I'll miss him off the field. I always appreciated Forte but was never enamored. My point was he was a durable, proven productive RB, and even when they had that they weren't a good offense. Now they don't have that, among other things. I feel like the only way this team squeaks out an 8+ win season is if the defense makes a huge leap and then they play a special kind of keep away ball with the offense. For a while it looked like that was the goal this offseason, signing 7 linebackers and all that. But at the end of the summer those additions look more like minor improvements to me (inside linebackers don't win football games). The pass rush remains in doubt. The secondary remains in doubt. The first round draft pick is a big question. It doesn't look to me to be a talented enough defense to make the leap I was hoping for to make the team a boring defensive led contender.

but they got a backup linebacker

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another bad season probably puts QB atop the draft board