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Like TT pointed out he's not usually super accurate on the teams, but I find it interesting that the only time the Cubs are mentioned as a fit are for Bellinger and Blake Treinen lol

For the record, here is Puntalytics updated metrics for punters:

Hey when you have Talen Horton-Tucker and Julian Phillips on your team you have to play them. But seriously this team is so poorly built. What an awful game by Pat Williams who the Bulls just gave $90m to.

I just realized that the next 2 games are on the road. This coming after a game in London (considered a home game) and a bye. So the Bears will have gone from October 6th to November 10th without playing a game at Soldier Field. We are at the exact midpoint of that 34 day stretch today. The high on October 6th was 76 degrees. The average high on November 10th is 43. So basically it will have gone from summer to almost winter between true home games.

Meh, Trenton Gill was cut after 3 disastrous games with the Bucs this year. He might not be special and there might have been better usage of that 4th round pick but at least he's an upgrade. Not saying that makes it ok to use one of our 4 (later 5) draft picks in the draft on a punter but it could probably be worse?

3-0 during this stretch and we're looking at needing to go at least 3-5 down the stretch to have a shot. Definitely a big 3 games that we need to take advantage of to make our lives easier down the stretch.

I really hope Daniels plays. Want to see him and Caleb go back and forth trying to outdo the other. Surprised the Bears are 3 point favorites, but I guess it makes sense without knowing if Daniels is going to play, even though their backup put up most of those 40 points they scored. Feels weird being excited about a mid-season Bears game but here we are!

It really is crazy how great the rookie class is looking so far. Caleb and Jayden have looked like future top QBs. Nix after a slow start is solid if not spectacular. Maye showed a lot of promise in his first start, albeit with some mistakes. Even JJ threw 3 TD passes in his first preseason game including a couple of bombs before getting hurt and lost for the season. Rattler hasn't been *good*, but looks much more competent than your average 5th round rookie

It’s probably because Bears fans have never rooted for a good QB. We’ve seen them on other teams but it’s different when it’s your guy and you’re watching them closely. Funny that you seem to want people to feel stupid for agreeing with you now. Just take a victory lap and let it go

ive been loving reading these this week and I think they're spot on observations. Going from Fields who was completely indecisive and had issues with slow processing time to this is quite jarring in the best way possible. Since I've never really rooted for a great QB at the pro level, it is hard to understand what really makes a great QB but when you actually see it in front of you it just kind of clicks, and as you pointed out you start to understand how hollow many of the excuses we've made for QBs in the past are (WR can't get open, OL can't block, etc). I always wondered why the Patriots rarely invested a ton into WRs when Brady was in his prime. Obviously they had Moss for a couple of years but there were many years where it was Welker or Edelmann and some scraps. I'm guessing even though Brady would bitch about getting new WRs, the Patriots knew they didn't need them (at least because they were paying Brady so much). Same thing with Rodgers after they traded Adams and of course now with Maholmes, though Maholmes is really struggling this season. But at the end of the day, the Chiefs could afford to trade away Hill and still continue winning Super Bowls. The Bears will have to make those types of tough decisions in a couple of years, but for now lets take advantage of the rookie contract while we can and ball out.

Holy moly. I didn’t expect to win in Mexico with our B- team but that was a bad beat down.

It's looking like the Steelers are surprisingly going to start Russell Wilson. Guess they really dont want to give the Bears that 4th Edit: looks like I was just beaten lol

Definitely a quality win, though looking at Corsi tells me that it was a pretty fortunate outcome for the Hawks. I'll take them however we can get them though.

Yessss JT made his breakdown of Caleb free this week

More good stuff

Easily my favorite too. As I said at the time, in that situation I’m so used to thinking “agh it’s 3rd and goal from the 9, oh well at least we’ll get 3 here as long as they don’t throw an INT.” Outside of a few times here and there, the Bears were locked out from being able to succeed in these situations. It’s an adjustment (a very fun adjustment) to realize that we have a QB that can beat you in just about every way possible.

All the teams in the North look scary in their own way, but yeah at their best Detroit looks pretty fearsome. That said, Dallas kind of sucks this year so not the best gauge.

He seems to cause that to happen a lot.

Also And that was before the Packers won by 21 and the Lions leading by 28

Live best point differentials in the entire NFL Minnesota + 63 Detroit +50 (game in progress) Chicago +47 Green Bay +41 Tampa Bay +37 Buffalo leads the AFC at +36

I can't wait for Caleb to shut up the 'Jayden Daniels is an offensive ROY lock' chatter in 2 weeks. Favorite pass was the 1st throw to Keenan on 3rd and goal from the 9. I am so used to the Bears being in that situation and saying "Damn, 3rd and goal from the 9, at least we got 3 points here as long as [insert name of failed Bears QB] doesn't throw a pick" But no, we got a perfectly placed back shoulder dart to a WR right over the middle of the field. Incredible, just incredible. The last 3 opponents have 3 of the worst defenses in the NFL so it might now always be this perfect, but clearly we got the guy and I'm so excited to see where it goes.

I understand that viewpoint and as a neutral fan I agree with it...its super fun to see teams like the Tigers come out of nowhere to potentially end up in the ALCS. But if the Cubs ever decide to make the playoffs again, it would annoy me to no end to play 162 games, win the division and have the season end 72 hours after the final regular season game because you had 2 bad games. If that's how they want to do it fine...hopefully one of these years the Cubs will be like last year's Diamondbacks, win 84 games and end up in the World Series. But I'd personally prefer to go back to the 8 team model, every playoff team plays at least 3 games and has at least 1 home game. But I know that is never going to happen now that we've taken it this far.

DVOA (I know just one of many metrics out there) has the Jags as the 27th best team in the NFL, with the 16th best offense and 32nd best defense in the league For reference the Panthers are 30th overall, with the 29th best offense and 30th best defense. Bears 20th overall, 26th best offense and 7th best defense. They have played the easiest schedule in the league so far (rankings of opponents: 26th, 7th, 19th, 25th and 30th) and have the hardest remaining schedule in the league (27, 10, 21, 28, 11, 1, 5, 9, 1, 5, 8, 11) Only some of this was responding to you, I started to go down the DVOA rabbit hole for a minute there 😄

Honestly I know its the Yankees and their not exactly my top choice to make the WS, but its been 15 years since they've been in it. I don't hate the idea of them making it and seeing Judge, Soto, etc on the biggest stage. I realize that not all will agree. The Dodgers can horsefeathers themselves