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Yeah, that play is the one that pisses me off more. In real time with the Marsh play, I was like "alright man, get off the field already" thinking they could throw a flag (even though its lame and at that time of the game especially, you don't make that big of a game changing call when it is iffy at best). But the low block that wasn't even a block and was still inside the TE box was so annoying. This is at least twice now Fields has had a BS call take away a TD pass. And of course it was made even worse when they ignored the late hits on the next play or two. I was rewatching the game a few days ago and with 2:11 remaining in the first half, the bears ran a run play to the right where Peters pulled across to the right side and Fitzpatrick absolutely took his legs out (outside the TE box). Peters immediately jumped up and yelled at the ref about it. It was super obvious to me in the moment, but even the announcers talked about it for a while that Fitzpatrick should have been flagged for the low block taking out Peters' legs outside the TE box. Of course it was missed on the Steelers (right in front of a ref) but flagged on the Bears when it shouldn't have been a penalty for two reasons. In these games, I really just want to see Fields do well and don't really care if the Bears win. I even sort of hope he does well while they lose so that we don't hold on to Nagy... but late in that game I really wanted them to win because the steelers absolutely didn't deserve to.

I don't think his hand ever came off the bag (although it is close but it seems his palm is on the bag as it slides across), but I do think he was tagged just a fraction of a second before he got to the bag. I was going frame by frame on my DVR on the replays and it seems to me that when the glove first touches him his hand was a tiny distance from the bag still. It is super close obviously so call on the field stands--but if I had to make a call without the call on the field, I think he was barely out. So I think the ump may have gotten it right for the wrong reason (he made the call based on his thought Verdugo came off the bag). If you play this to about 15 or 16 seconds or so and then pause it and just move it frame by frame, you can definitely see his butt move because of the glove before the bag moves because of his hand... now his hand may have been in contact with the bag before you see the movement in the bag, but the glove was probably in contact with his body just before you see the movement in his butt. Also the other view at about 7 seconds in is hard to see on this because the video is a bit blurry, but on my TV it also seemed like he may have been tagged just before his hand reached the bag.

Kurt Warner breakdown of some good (first vid) and areas of struggle (2nd vid) for Justin Fields:

I doubt it. Loyola is good and play a style that can be a difficult matchup when you aren't used to it. I think they beat OSU and could make a deep run. This isn't making it a michigan thing or anything, but I would rather have faced any team from their region (including Michigan or alabama) instead of Loyola--and I would have said that before today's game.

At this point I would be more comfortable with Foles just calling the plays than Nagy.

Has Harris ever made a catch?

He hasn’t even used his Twitter since mid may of ‘19. Nothing bad happened, right? He was gone for a while before he popped into the Is Duke Silver Dead? thread in February of last year. viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2620&hilit=duke+silver&start=30 I was legitimately relieved and happy when he popped into that thread. Total starlin gif reaction from me at my breakfast table. I could be wrong, but I feel like I remember him saying something about the Ricketts being owners/Addison Russell being on the team as dampening his enjoyment of the cubs before he basically stopped posting.

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I get the impression the documentary guys wanted me to feel bad for Krause, and I about 60% did. The guy was a really good GM when it came to the raw deal-making. Hell, if it weren't for the collateral damage of alienating MJ, pretty much every rumored trade he had on the table for Pippen would've been good moves. But he was just too big of a [expletive] personally, and I'd love to find out what it was about Phil specifically that pissed him off so much. That Phil got credit. He was the Zen Master. And Krause felt "I plucked this guy from nowhere. I'll find the next Phil. His name is Tim Floyd" (lol) I mean generally speaking coaches and GMs eventually clashing is a tale as old as time in sports. Yeah, a few months ago I read Playing for Keeps by David Halberstam (a book just like The Last Dance in that he follows the team for the 97-98 season but it also constantly switches back and forth between chapters on that season and the backstory of the people involved). It talks about how Krause was bitter that he didn't get enough credit and that Jackson and the players were getting all of it. He also blamed Jackson for not standing up for him when there was tensions with the players -- that Jackson owed him because Krause brought him in. Jackson (and Doug Collins before him) thought that Krause was constantly putting himself in places he shouldn't be. Krause frequently showed up at practice and gave input -- Collins at points would yell "why are you here?" He also would ride on the player/coach bus despite the fact that there was a second bus for the staff... It's like he needed to create drama or constantly need to know what people said about him or something. Both Jackson and Collins asked him to keep out of the player's space but Krause would tell them he was free to be wherever he wanted. Krause also was pissed when The Jordan Rules book came out. He already was annoyed he wasn't getting the credit he thought he deserved and then that book gave the information that there were tensions with the players and that they would mock him. He apparently would go around to everyone in the organization and complain about the book with underlined passages he said were lies. He would quote the passages about himself and make the staff confirm to him that it wasn't true. He once made Jackson come to his room and went through each thing he thought was a lie one by one until Jackson told him to let it go. Krause then wanted Jackson to fire Johnny Bach because he thought Bach was the source of the info in the book (and he didn't like that Bach got along really well with everyone including the players and the press... getting along so well with the press was why he thought Bach was the source for the book) -- Jackson didn't want to. Also some other side notes about Krause: On the drafting of Horace Grant: On Krause's need for credit: On Jordan's first non-rookie deal:

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This is most likely the best October 14th of Mark's life.

Sort of along these same lines, I have always thought it was interesting that it seems like the one thing that actually gets a large percentage of fans from a rival to actually defend a player on another team is allegations of abuse or rape. Like the one thing that overrides sports allegiance for a certain group of men is to stick together against the women that dare to bring allegations forth.

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Some nice highlights from the development camp yesterday. Seems like Dach, Boqvist and Ian Mitchell played really well. Dach: [tweet] [/tweet] Boqvist: [tweet] [/tweet] https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/blackhawks/ct-cb-blackhawks-development-camp-scrimmage-20190719-23ulzt67rzgk5kke3mgfonqvsm-story.html

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