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That’s twice we’ve gotten into FG range and the drive ended without a score or FG attempt. we have to lead the league in drives where we advance to the opponents 30 and don’t score or attempt a FG

Now a 3rd and 10 conversion. outside of Caleb this might be my least favorite Bears team in my lifetime and believe me they’ve had plenty of competition

I don’t know, figure it out. Maybe don’t use a 3rd round pick on him when clearly the Bears have plenty of pressing needs going into a win now year and only 4 total draft picks

3rd and 17 conversion lmao

The fact that there was ever a situation where Amegadjie had no choice but to start at LT against the best pass rush in football is a massive failure for Poles.

This isn’t even a fun bad team. It’s not even really watchable.

That was gonna be my reply. Have you paid attention to any Bears/Packers games over the past…30 years?

I’m worried about giving up too much in this trade and would rather consider other options before going this route but whatever

yeah...if we have the QB already, I would much rather him get a few wins to end the season on the high note (in addition to good vibes and confidence, it likely means he played well). I'll drop to the 14th pick or something for that. If we were tanking for a QB, tank away.

whoops, so used to them losing thanks. Either way, the scenario is the same. Need to win 2 of 3 and the Bears lose out for Chicago to pass them.

Not a great day for the Bears draft pick hopes. Of the teams ahead of them in the draft pecking order, the Giants (1st), Patriots (3rd), Jaguars (4th), Panthers (5th), Titans (6th), Browns (7th) and Jets (8th) all lost today while the Raiders (2nd) play the Falcons tomorrow. The only hope for the Bears moving above the 9th overall pick is one or more of the Patriots, Jaguars, Panthers, Titans, Browns or Jets winning at least 2 of their last 3 games while the Bears lose out. We could finish 4-13 after losing 11 straight games to end the season in a year we expected to compete and still only end up with the 9th overall pick because we played a ridiculous gauntlet of teams that beat our brains in all year (along with us beating our own brains in). Such is life as a Bears fan… For the record, 4-13 with a .555 SOS (like ours potentially this year) would have gotten us the 4th pick last year, 4th pick in 2023 and 6th pick in 2022 😡

I know Kyle will just roll his eyes if he sees this but looking at the standings and playoff picture I can’t help but wonder the effect of coaching on some of these surprise likely playoff teams. Tomlin has had some middling Pittsburgh teams and QB issues but has never had a sub-.500 season despite being the longest tenured coach in the league. His Steelers are 10-4 this year. I laughed when the Broncos took Nix 12th and thought it was an overreach. Sean Payton came into a situation where the team wasn’t performing well, they had a mess at QB and traded 3 first round picks to acquire that mess. Seemed a few years at least from turning it around. Now 9-5 and going to the playoffs. Chargers were known for being perpetual disappointments. Hired Harbaugh and even with his reputation, the general expectation was a short rebuild in LA, especially after trading Herbert’s top 2 WRs away and replacing them with a 2nd round rookie and not a ton else. Just feels to me like hiring the right coach really does make a tremendous difference in many cases. Though admittedly I’m not putting a ton of thought or analysis into this post, I’m sure there are examples of well regarded coaches falling flat at a new job and there’s the argument for teams like Minnesota and GB: are they good because O’Connell and LaFleur are elite coaches or are they good because they have good rosters and GMs. Or is it a mix of both? Either way, I really really hope the Bears don’t botch the head coach hire…again

Unbeatable Blackhawks. Except for the 2 games that they were beaten during that stretch.

Sounds like Kiran Amegadjie is in line to start. At Left Tackle. Against a team that relentlessly blitzes and is top 5 in pressures and sacks

Thought this was in interesting look back at the Sweat trade. The main piece is from Barnwell but I can’t share it because he apparently blocked me at some point.

Seems like this might be the reason for the Hawkins quote on Bellinger today: Yankees probably feel like they have some leverage now with the Tucker deal official and the Cubs are saying they can find a spot for Bellinger on the 2025 Cubs.

Serious question: why do people seem down on acquiring Castillo? Is it the mix of age + remaining contract? Or the fact that he profiles more like a really good number 2 rather than an ace and we want to aim higher? There are definitely more exciting options out there, but I don't hate the idea of Castillo being the big add, especially if he comes at a lower cost than other names being discussed due to contract. Willing to be persuaded otherwise though.

This is what I was saying the other day about commenting on the Yankees sub. Their fans had no idea why the Cubs would be trying to get Tucker since in their minds the Cubs aren't currently trying to win. That's the perception a lot of baseball fandoms seem to have of the Cubs.

Some of the info here might be outdated as this was written at the end of May...but then again maybe it isn't because it explains how Tucker suddenly went from a consistent 5 WAR player to one that was on pace for closer to 9 last year, albeit pace is doing heavy lifting since he missed half the season with injury. But there were some changes to his game last year that help explain the rise in his performance from already star level to superstar level: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/tuck-on-roll-the-astros-have-a-new-best-player/

Jesse Rogers was on ESPN 1000 and said he’d heard something similar when told about Boob’s report.

Here is the article in full: https://archive.ph/xbZWJ Very long and detailed report on whats going on at Halas Hall. Definitely pretty negative in tone but Dan Wiederer does try to balance it out a little by pointing out the positives that are out there. The anonymous quotes throughout the article make it seem like other teams view the Bears and their FO/ownership as a complete joke though, which I totally get. The other interesting thing was the evaluation and hiring of Eberflus. Sounds like people were really perplexed at why Poles hired Eberflus, and the article even states that the Colts were looking to fire Eberflus as DC if he wasn't hired by the Bears and likely would have had to have taken a positional coach role somewhere. Eberflus was just a really bad hire and it was clear he was a bad hire last year. But Poles kept him around and that ultimately might be the decision that seals his fate in Chicago as it really illuminated many of the other mistakes that Poles has made. A coaching change may have bought him some time and ultimately allowed the Bears to overcome some of the shortcomings of Poles' roster.

This is somewhat similar to squally's wRC+ stat, but dumbing it down to pure SLG%, Tucker had a .585 SLG% last year. Since 2006, there have been a grand total of 2 Cubs that have had 100+ PA and a SLG% that high: 1. 2019 Castellanos had a .646 SLG% in 225 PA for the Cubs 2. 2021 Schwindel had a .613 SLG% in 239 PA for the Cubs That's it...no other hitter had a SLG% of .585 or better. Derrick Lee (post-2005), ARam, Soriano, Edmonds, KB, Rizzo, Schwarber, Javy, Willson, Bellinger, none of them had a season where they slugged as much as Tucker did last season.

Not a lot of scenarios where I say "jaw dropping" and my jaw actually drops. That's incredible.

I'd like a solid bat that can play 3B, 1B and DH or something like that. One that doesn't have to have a permanent position but is good enough to get regular ABs. Not sure who would fit that profile though.

Reading a lot of Astros takes that are ok with this because Tucker's postseason numbers are poor lol. Sure send him out of town because of a few small sample size performances