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Giants driving for the lead against the Rams. Bears playoff odds are still alive!

holy horsefeathers fields. even for him thats incredible.

Number 1 pick update: Jags up 16-0 over Panthers (need Jags win to clinch number 1) Playoffs update: Rams up 20-10 over Giants (need Giants win to stay alive)

Ohhh so fields just needs to ask for the penalty

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Right...Koo was short from 50 on this side of the field earlier.

Eberflus asking the Bears to blow it now so they can’t add the 95% blown games list

Defense isn’t getting the job done today

Rocking a perfect QB Rating right now

In playoff updates, the only game that matters in games on on right now is LAR/NYG. NYG need to win but the Rams are winning 7-0

We’ve reached the point I’ve reached multiple times this year where I think “well maybe Fields is the guy”. This usually leads to an underwhelming rest of game and ending the game still unclear about anything regarding Fields

Ridiculous that they would decide this before the season is even over still plenty of time to blow a couple more games with over 90% win probability this year.

Just use the Insider’s Forum *checks the Insider list* Disregard

ahh crap i didnt realize they were already baked into the SOS. OK, well at the very least Caronlina, Washington and NE are all very close in SOS so there are a lot of variables that can easily shift things in one direction or the other. I do worry about Carolina playing a free falling Jacksonville team without lawrence and then TB who may be playing a meaningless game while sitting starters because they've already cliniched the division. But I'll still lean on the improbability of all 6 things going against the Bears.

Obviously there are other variables that affect SOS (like how the teams you already played do), but the Panthers have 8-7 Jacksonville and 8-7 TB left. They would both finish either 9-8 or 8-9 (because they'd lose to the Panthers in this scenario). Comparitively Washington has SF and Dallas left, and would be giving them each an additional win (to tie the Panthers). I don't see a pathway for Washington to leap Carolina unless some really wild stuff happens with the teams they've already played. New England is a bigger concern as they play Buffalo and the Jets. But the Jets could actually lose to NE (they already have once). I know what you are saying about just wanting to clinch it and remove any lingering doubt but it would take a crazy scenario like: -Carolina beats 2 straight +.500 teams fighting for playoff spots. -Arizona losing their last 2 games (if tied the Panthers will win the tiebreaker so they have to lose out) -New England losing their last 2 games and clinching SOS tiebreaker It's definitely possible but all 6 of those games have to go against the Panthers (meaning Bears) for them to slip out of the top 2, and even then Carolina might crawl ahead of NE in SOS. Feel free to quote me and laugh (and cry) when the improbable happens because, Bears

I read somewhere this week that the Panthers (err Bears) currently have a 99.3% chance of picking in the top 2.

It’s a tough balance between maintaining the culture of the board which you’ve repeatedly said you are trying to do, and be a welcoming place for new visitors with all different types of beliefs. I don’t know what the right answer is. There are a lot us old timers that considered the Social forum as important than the other forums during the leaner days of site traffic and changing the dynamic of that forum would not be received well. Maybe consider a post limit required to access the Social forum? Maybe 100 posts is enough for a user to get established in the community and “hooked” on the Cubs related discussions and they won’t necessarily be turned off if they access Social forum and realize that 95% of the posters share similar views that are different than their own. At that point they can choose to stick with the Cubs discussions they already enjoy or enter the fray and attempt to be a contrarian viewpoint. And then from our perspective, after 100 posts you start to recognize the newbie as a regular poster and we aren’t so quick to jump on that person for saying something disagreeable because you’ve valued their contributions to Cubs discussions. Just a thought. All that said if you go into that thread and start spouting Fox News talking points they are always going to be ripped apart. There are respectful disagreements from time to time and while it might feel like an echo chamber sometimes, there are different viewpoints expressed and defended, just not extreme ones. Also I agree with TT that the initial response to the article in question was a bit extreme. Like I said in the thread I didn’t agree with the premise of the article, I don’t really think many people are questioning whether Chicago is undesirable for MLB FAs, but I didn’t think the article was controversial at all. But because it did veer in that direction you made the right call moving it to Social

Haha I saw the thread from him last night about what if the Bears stick with Fields and he doesn't work out next year, it was very entertaining.

Man this season needs to end and the Bears need to make a decision with regards to a QB. This civil war amongst Bears fans on twitter in the pro-Fields and pro-Draft a QB camps is tiring.

After all the Ohtani drama recently, I am very skeptical about all reporting, assuming its all to push the agenda of an agent or a team. Could definitely just be speculation as these reporters are frequently asked to come on shows and talk about the hot stove regardless of whether they've received any intel or not.

https://x.com/goodmanhoops/status/1740450630949343347?s=46&t=0_jG0mfAmSwG-21Uluk7Vw uhh, well horsefeathers not sure why it’s not embedding but Shannon Jr is suspended after being charged with rape

this account is followed by media people. Take it with a huge grain of salt. The only reason I’m even posting this is to laugh at the thought about us discussing whether we’d rather trade for Glasnow or a Bieber/Clase package and the Dodgers saying “horsefeathers you we’ll trade for both, and sign the 2 biggest FAs to unprecedented contracts to add to our team that won 100 games last year”

Ok but I guess what I meant to ask and accidentally ended up framing in a “should we really take a QB at 1” type of statement is what is the read on Daniels and Nix, mostly Daniels? I kind of know what he does well but what keeps him from being in the conversation with Williams and Maye?

The more I think about it the less enthused I am about Caleb and Maye. I’ll be the first to tell you I don’t know the first thing about scouting QB, and there’s no reason neither or both don’t turn out to be good QBs, I’m just not enthusiastic about them. All this to say, how do people here feel about the second tier of QBs, mainly Daniels and Nix? Last year people were high on Young but many had a similar unenthusiastic feeling about him. Anthony Richardson was sort of in that next tier and while injuries crushed his rookie year when he played he looked very promising. Just wondering if it’s better to take MHJ with their top pick and go after Daniels or Nix if available with the Bears pick. Probably wouldn’t take MHJ 1 so it depends on whether you can trade down a couple spots and still land him but Daniels/MHJ/Moore seems pretty good, if you actually like Daniels

I'm not doing this because I have any hope of making the playoffs, but because I'm a nerd about these things Here are the ways the Bears can be eliminated this weekend: 1. Lose (or tie) to Falcons 2. Both the Rams and Seahawks win 3. Both Rams and Packers win 4. Both the Rams and Vikings win 5. Both the Seahawks and Packers win 6. Both the Seahawks and Vikings win To make the playoffs the Bears would need this entire scenario to happen: Bears win last 2 games and Seahawks, Rams and Saints all lose their final 2 games. For some reason the Vikings and Packers results don't play into this, guessing because there are 2 playoff spots at play and the Packers would lose to the Bears in the previous scenario.