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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I figured Bummer was some sort of nickname, but nope, there was a relieve named Bummer on the Sox. Quite apropos
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Sure. But it doesn’t change the fact that it isn’t anything more than a 1 year commitment. It probably won’t happen. But it’s only adding one year to the contract. Teams should probably be more willing to take advantage of it in short term even if it’s a guy they don’t want to commit massive guarantees for multiple years. If they don’t find the qb they want in the draft they should just keep adding other pieces and play out the string with Fields if he plays well enough down the stretch to earn another chance. If Carolina wins a couple more games and bears win ~4 more, I’d rather they pick studs at other positions than allow Poles to trade up and select his guy. Then you let Fields remain a placeholder and challenge him to earn an extension.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    That is a very convoluted thought process. If you pick up the 5th year option you are passing in 2024 draft picks and committing 2 years, that is all.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Vegas is begging people to put money on the bears. Line is 8 now.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    I think the most likely outcome is Fields plays well enough to push the Bears pick out of top 5, but not well enough to save his job. He’ll get traded for a conditional 3rd and they’ll draft his replacement and go on a spending spree to save their own jobs.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    I’ve already resigned myself to Flus returning even if they end up 3-14. The narrative is somehow that he’s done a good job and earned it. I’d rather they win and keep him than lose and keep him.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    You really should. It’s arguably the best live sporting event atmosphere. Fast paced, constant action. Two decent breaks and a reasonable timeframe.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Then you have to seriously think about bringing him back to start 2024. yes, you could get a 2nd rounder for what would be a well above average starter.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Define “ball out”
  10. jersey cubs fan
    A third rounder
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I empathize with the schizophrenic nature of your thoughts on fields. But just wanted to comment on your straw/camel and 51/49 - 49/51 fluctuation. I’d think a straw breaking the camels back would push you from 51/49 to 20/80 but I guess that broken back healed. I’ve gone from 100% for fields before during and after the draft to something like 80-20 during his first couple years, to something like 30-70 now. Poles intentionally sabotaged him and that made me grade on a curve but what’s done is mostly done. They pretty successfully broke him and there’s very little chance to come back from that brink. For a variety of reasons I still believe Fields needs to play every down he’s healthy enough to play. Theoretically he could come out of this a better player, and you might as well give it a chance.
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    Lions pulled off a big win on the road yesterday and are 9.5 point favorites in this game. It could be a let down game for Detroit, coming back from the west coast with the division well in hand. Chicago might be able to make a game of this if the defense continues to trend in right direction. But the bears don’t seem to be a team that benefits with more time for coaches to game plan the opponent.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    The one thing I’d like to see out of this is a commitment to drafting QBs regularly, if not every draft. Your backup should be a young guy with upside, not a journeyman with a $9million cap hit
  15. jersey cubs fan
    The game is 9 days away there is no reason to rush.
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  17. jersey cubs fan
    This is all true, but it was a nice rating
  18. jersey cubs fan
    A) I didn’t watch Sweats first game and was driving home from Vermont listening to radio and not commenting on this website. B) Sweat did nothing early in this game and I commented on it, he had one or two nice plays later, but Young was panicking without pressure in his face so it was tough to judge any of those guys. C) I’m shitting on Poles. He’s mismanaged resources and time since he got here. He’s done a poor job but has gotten the benefit of the doubt because a certain segment applauds losing on purpose. Sweat is fine. He’s overpaid and they gave up too much to get him because Poles did nothing to address a known problem. But he’s fine. Better than the free agents Poles signed at the very least. D) claiming that bears fans have to look for reasons to be miserable is a remarkably silly thing to do, when the Bears have done nothing to give fans a reason for being happy with their results.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    You are terrible at reading and way too forgiving of awful management.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    “Poles has had some good moves and a couple mistakes.” that’s the type of embracing the losing mentality that irks me. Poles has done a terrible job. He can’t be trusted to run this team.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Definitely not ideal, but I’d rather baptism by fire this stretch, and potentially final, run of Fields’s career in Chicago than keep putting off the inevitable. He needs to play well and produce in challenging circumstances to justify a 4th season.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Some people who wrote about the team. The broadcasters of the game and that whole crew that praised Bagent after. The problem isn’t so much radio caller types, but there seems to be a growing sense from beat writers that Poles is solidified in his role and he’s happy to keep Eberflus. it’s annoying that the bar has been set so low that an ugly win, without covering the spread, is garnering much positivity about the guys that got us here.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    The Lions are off to the start many predicted and many more scoffed at in the preseason. They squeaked by the Chiefs to open the season, blew out 5 bad teams, lost to a decent Seattle team and got their asses handed to them by Baltimore. This is a team that absolutely deserves to be on top of this division, and favored by 8 against the Bears, but is pretty clearly outside the top group of NFL teams. In other words, they are beatable. Detroit goes to LA this Sunday to face the enigmatic Chargers, who come into the game on the heals of two blowout wins, most recently against the boringly decent Jets. If Detroit wins big, the spread will widen. If they horsefeathers the bed, might it go back under a touchdown? If Fields is back the offense could theoretically be explosive. The defense is not the porous blob it had been over Eberflus’s first 20+ games. It is still easily exploitable by quality NFL veteran QBs, and Jared Goff is apparently playing like one of those things. A win here will go on the top of the resume when it comes to Eberflus positioning himself to stay through the rebuild. A hard fought loss won’t damage his reputation in the least. But another blowout loss is what most expect.
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  25. jersey cubs fan
    Cue pedantic discussion around who exactly is deciding where Morel plays defensively in winter ball.
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