UMFan83

Win 1 week and 1 game to go, the Colts are still alive for a playoff spot. But they have a 0.03% chance of making the playoffs (roughly 1 in 3300 chance). They get in with the following scenario: DEN over CIN IND over TEN JAX over HOU BAL over CIN DEN over SD BUF over NYJ ATL over NO OAK over KC MIA over NE PIT over CLE

Aaron Rodgers QB rating over the past 9 weeks is 81.1, lowest among all starters over that span.

Damn...well at least if the Bears don't win next week they are guaranteed to jump to 12 at the very least since they would be losing to the Lions and one or Philly and NYG have to lose (assuming no ties). I understand why they do lower SOS as the tiebreaker, but it kind of sucks. Get beat down by a tough schedule and then because of that lose draft tiebreakers.

Hope our draft spot wasn't hurt too bad with the W

Insane that a team that was once 1-5 be the 3rd team in the conference to clinch a spot (and not a shitty 8-7 team winning a horrible division either)

Wow What a bizarre ending to the Jets-Pats game

We might have seen Fortes last action as a Bear :(

Oh man I already see a TD, conservative 3 and out, game winning FG in the Bears future Edit: maybe not?

Good God Amos make a play

Amazing how big of a 180 this season took after the GB win. I have no idea why I'm watching. I'm guessing because the football offseason is the longest of the 4 sports so I'm getting my last fixes in

I enjoyed the Brendan Ryan era much more than both the Aaron Miles and Jose Macais eras.

Doing a Google search for "Bernstein Derrick Rose" is fun. That dude hates on Rose so much you'd think his daughter was the defendent in Rose's civil suit.

They should have won that NW game too. If you look at the teams they've lost to there are no terrible losses, all to power conference teams, except Arkansas Little Rock who was undefeated until last night. OK who am I kidding, they are horrible, GW was probably overrated based on their win against Virginia the first week of the season.

The problem with the cap exploding is that many teams will have a ton of money and the Bulls have always lost out in those scenarios. Also I'm not sure exactly how this works but I believe that with the cap exploding the cost of a max contract explodes as well. We might have enough for a max guy but possibly not much else. And yes the 3 star method has been a successful model in the past but one of those stars has to be a top 10 guy. Curry, LeBron, Dirk, Kobe, Garnett, Wade. The exception was SA (Leonard wasn't at top 10 level at this point and might be now) but they have the best coach in the league. The Bulls don't have that and it will be difficult for them to find that guy in the draft or FA.

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SPOILERS also don't you remember him being a kyle meme for any value-sink player making the roster At some point in late 2012 I blocked out any of kyle's doom boner posts

Wait not only played for the Cubs but started on opening day?

I saw Ball State's HC is resigning to be an assistant at Maryland. Does this happen a lot? I find it a little odd that a head coach would resign to be an assistant for a rookie head coach at a bottom tier Big Ten school.

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Tampa a 3 point favorite I keep hearing people saying that the Bears will get up for this game because its against their former coach. I count 4 projected starters that played for Lovie on the Bears. Cutler, Forte, Jeffery and Shea. Jeffery and Shea were both rookies in his final season, so yeah, I don't think any of them care that Lovie is on the other sideline.

It's debatable. He's having a good year though. On pace for his highest QB rating and has a chance to finish with the lowest turnover rate he's ever had. He's also given a pretty bad team a chance to win at the end of most games. However, I actually thought he was playing his best football in 2011 under Martz before Knox fell down. Similar low turnover rate. I think that 2011 team could have done something in the playoffs had he stayed healthy. yes to all of this The Chargers game was the high water mark. At the time before Jay got hurt, they were one of the top teams in football. Jay was playing like a hero. People were calling the Bears one of the most dangerous teams in football before he went down. They were definitely looking like contenders and Jay was playing awesome. In retrospect that play altered the course of the Bears for the next several years. Because Jay was out, the Bears tanked and went 1-5 down the stretch against an easy schedule. Jerry Angelo was fired and replaced with Emery after the season and Lovie came into 2012 with a playoffs or bust mandate. Despite going starting 7-1 and finishing 10-6, Lovie was indeed fired so Emery could pick his coach, who was a disaster. Meanwhile several non-impact drafts later the aging defense faltered and there was no one younger to step in and the Bears are where they are now

I don't think this a one or two FA fix (unless its a guy like LeBron or Durant), but I could just being overly dramatic. I count 4 players on the roster who are long term fits for the team, Butler, McDermott, Niko (for now), and Portis. Other than those 4, what assets do we even have that will bring us something back that we can use in the future? I guess we could package up something like Gasol + Dunleavy to a contender for an unprotected 1st rounder a couple years from now and hope that team sucks. Again, maybe I'm being overly dramatic, I havent thought about the future of the Bulls in depth. It just sucks that recently we had a ton of pretty good assets like Niko's rights, the Bobcats pick, low paid Jimmy Butler, the Sacramento protected 1st, plus had a few guys we could get really good returns from in a trade like Rose, Noah and to a lesser extent Taj. Now Niko is disappointing (but still time to improve), the Bobcats pick turned into 1/2 of McDermott, the Sacramento protected 1st is probably going to end up being a 2nd round pick, Rose and his contract are an albatross, Noah has some value as an expiring but is simply not the same player he was 2 years ago, and Taj is 30, oft injured, and no longer a guy that other teams might consider a starter. We do have all of our 1st round picks which is good, but I am not sure if the team is going to try to be the NBA version of the White Sox (same aging owner) where they try to keep patching it up and remain a middle of the road playoff team that's a non-contender or if they would consider starting over. I think the off the court stuff is going to be more interesting than the on the court action for the next couple of years at least. Hope I'm wrong.

Man it takes years to get [expletive] done in Wrigleyville. I had long forgotten about this....had to be proposed originally around 2007. The triangle building has been discussed since at least 2004 and is finally going up.