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He's a smart guy
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Oh great, 90 minutes of dooming this week
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Funny you say that: Looking at the video, the formation changed a little but it looks like they tried a dump screen to Herbert 3 consecutive times so yes they clearly knew what was coming. Stealing an oft repeated line from JT O'Sullivan in his breakdown videos "WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE?"
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No thanks
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Also saw this. Daniel Greenberg has been criticized a lot lately for tweeting quotes out of context and I didn't hear the original interview but based on these quotes, he looks like he's deflecting all the blame to Fields here
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Hey look at that, Braxton Jones looked terrible on TV and PFF agrees:
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You can be rational and realize the team is at or exceeding expectations for the season and still be upset that a team blew a 4 game lead over 2 different playoff spots over a 10 game span where they went 2-8 and lost at least 4 games that could have gone either way (while wininng 1). There's a universe where Wesneski gets 1 more strike on Saturday (or Dansby catches the deflection), Gomes hit against the DBacks at Wrigley goes 3 more inches for a walkoff HR, and Seiya is 1 inch closer and doesn't trap that fly ball in the 1-0 loss and the cubs manage to score. In that universe where very little changes, they are just 5-5 in the last 10 and are still in solid shape But I keep thinking back to what TT said awhile ago about the difference between good and great. The Cubs are a good team (maybe?) and good teams have stretches like this. In fact every single WC contender we are battling with went through an abysmal stretch over the last month where they looked like they were just about finished and all of them bounced back. This is the Cubs turn, and luckily they built enough cushion to only be tied instead of 3-4 games behind. But obviously that assumes that this is the end of that stretch and I have no idea if they will bounce back in time to salvage the season.
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I hate that I'm so angry that the Cardinals blew that game against the Giants last night. Could have been a perfect opportunity for them to botch their tank job with an unexpected win. At the very least we'll have a chance H2H to give them a win but knowing the Bears they will win in some stupid way like last year's Texans win (late game INT from a guy we'd trade a few weeks later) and won't get bailed out by the Colts again this year. Obviously possible that the Bears just settle into Top 10 Bad instead of 1.1 bad and I'm not yet at the point of rooting for losses, but I'm definitely looking at how all the other terrible teams are doing just in case we continue down this path.
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I thought it was interesting that they had 17 pressures yesterday and 1 sack. Should I be encouraged about the 17 pressures or discouraged by the 1 sack? It did seem like the DL was moving through their line much better than in week 1 (obviously the Packers have a strong OLine, but pretty sure the Bucs do too). Re Fields: One thing I am seeing pointed out is that yet again the Bears barely moved the pocket or allowed Fields to bootleg to one side of the field. But I've seen this complain consistently for 3 seasons so maybe there's a good reason why teams cant just move the pocket a large % of the time (guessing teams catch on quickly and blow it up). But I think I saw only 2 times all game where the pocket moved...feel like that number should be higher. Wonder if the coaching staff is basically forcing Fields to prove he can be a pocket passer.
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What are his high leverage numbers like for his career? Is it just a one year blip or is this something we'll have to deal with for 6 more years? My understanding is that the general belief is still that there is not a clutch hitting skill and WPA changes from year to year for an individual player. Fake Edit: I did the work, somewhat Career: .740 (.750 this year) Late & Close: .730 (.683) 2 outs, RISP: .782 (.683) High Leverage: .802 (.680) Innings 7-9: .739 (.636) Vs. Relievers: .745 (.654) So it looks like for his career he hits roughly the same in "big spots" as he does in other situations, just not this season. Though when digging, I found that he was actually significantly above average in a lot of these categories his first 5 seasons and has had numbers like this years for the last 3 seasons (2021, 2022, 2023). No idea why there is such a sudden shift, but there's at least some evidence using 3 years of data that Swanson is doing something different in clutch situations. Even if clutch hitting isnt a thing, while he slumps like he has for the last 6 weeks he should be hitting 7th in the order, not directly between Bellinger and Seiya. He's come up in a lot of big spots and has been pretty much worthless to the team in those spots lately.
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not sure how to do spoilers but the answer is in the Twitter thread
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I wouldn’t even be mad at him. Kid needs to make the best choice for his career and this ain’t it even if Poles and Eberflus are gone. In fact if I’m Caleb Williams, I’d let it be known that I’m going back to USC for another year unless the McCaskey’s sell the Bears before the draft. Ok my fantasy world is leaking into reality now.
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We all knew going in that today would be brutal and it was as brutal as anticipated
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lol saw this on twitter
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They need to go 5-1 at worst. Seriously if they don't go 5-1, you're looking at needing to go on the road and winning series against the Braves and Brewers
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Here is tonight's Diamondbacks starter (with a 5.53 season ERA) last 5 starts: CHC - 3.1 IP, 2 ER NYM - 4.1 IP 6 ER CHC - 5.2 IP, 1 ER SD - 3 IP, 6 ER MIN - 3 IP, 6 ER Pitchers are literally pausing their slumps to dominate the Cubs and then going right back in them If you do the math that's a 3.00 ERA against the Cubs and a 15.70 ERA against the other 3 teams.
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2 runs on 7 hits. Way to show some fight boys!
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I thought Dansby was supposed to be the hypercompetitive guy that hated to lose and has veteran savvy from being on those Braves teams. Instead he's basically leading the charge for this collapse with terrible hitting and inexplicable defensive miscues that can be directly tied to losses.
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GRCubsFan chose "David Ross is an horsefeathers who is hated by his teammates" as a hill to die on and the board mocked him so much he just disappeared and never returned.
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The player David Ross didn't believe that. Remember how he was such a hardass that demanded accountability and effort every game and helped drive a former moderator off this board? But again, we have no idea whats going on behind the scenes, I'm just saying for a collapse they look pretty chill overall. But not sure that means anything.
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After this loss Arizona will be 11-10 in their last 21 games: 6-1 against the Cubs 5-9 against everyone else
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I dunno, we obviously don’t see what’s behind the scenes but the general demeanor of the team doesn’t seem to match the fact that they’ve blown a 4.5 game lead to out of the playoffs in a 10 day span
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Is anyone on the Cubs going to show any concern or seriousness about the severity of the situation? I’m not saying they should be acting panicked but the general comment after games lately has been something like “aww shucks, we’ll start playing better soon. I think we did a lot of things well, just couldn’t finish it off”
