UMFan83

Feel like the Purdy injury helped his stock. People were saying Purdy wasn’t that good and it was just the system. I get it Josh Johnson is a journeyman QB who hasn’t been relevant in years and did not prep with the starters this week. But Purdy was Mr. Irrelevant and as a rookie led an admittedly talented and well coached team to the conference title game. He’s definitely something. Maybe not a good QB on another team but a decent one

I lost track of where the cap space number was going to be but this is saying we were anticipating $110m - $120m and the actual figure is $92m

hell yeah lets go

Wtf Will happily grab him if he’s sitting there in the 2nd round lol

Yes please

Gio again: Cant wait to see him in a World Cup for the US

Yeah I was a fan of his most of the time...he was doing the Waddle and Silvy appearances and was wildly entertaining, a side of him that he didn't otherwise show to the public (but we'd see later with his reality tv appearances and unfortunately his podcast). There were also stories out there about him doing a lot of charity behind the scenes, particularly for juvenile diabetes, but he went out of his way to try to keep it out of the media. On the field his inconsistency always made me believe that he wasn't given the right tools around him to succeed, and in some ways that is definitely true, but after several years you are who you are for better or worse. Unfortunately it turned out he was a right wing trumpist douche so horsefeathers him

He's 4-36 from 3 since injuring his hand recently, and just said he has trouble shooting and handling the ball but he's going to continue to gut it out. Even though he's actively hurting the team by playing. wtf

This is completely random but was talking to my friend whose not a Bears fan and somehow we started talking about the 2011 Bears. I knew all this information already, but somehow going back through it really reminded me of how snake bitten the Bears were during that era 2010 season ends in the NFC championship game against our archrivals when our starting QB tears his MCL in the first half leaving a 3rd string QB to play the second half. Rodgers played like horsefeathers and the Packers offense only scored 14 points in the game, thus we probably win with any sort of competent offense. But that's 2010, just mentioning this to set the stage for 2011.... after a slow 2-3 start, the Bears reel off 5 wins in a row to go to 7-3 and firmly in the playoff picture. I remember the discussion at the time being that the Bears should be considered legit contenders in the NFC. But all this horsefeathering horsefeathers all happened to torpedo the season: -Cutler breaks his thumb making a tackle on an INT that wasn't his fault in the final minutes of a game that the Bears were winning by 11 points. Completely unnecessary INT, completely unnecessary attempted tackle, completely fluke injury. But he's only expected to miss 6 weeks meaning he can come back for the playoffs if the Bears make it. -Ultimately 3-3 in our final 6 games would have gotten us into the playoffs as we had already won the tiebreaker over the eventual 10-6 6 seed Falcons. This is the schedule we had remaining: @ Raiders (7-8 without the result of the Bears game) - Hanie played bad but the Bears were driving for the winning score late. Hanie completes a pass and rushes to the line to spike it. Inexplicably he takes a step back before actually spiking the ball, making the play intentional grounding and necessitating a 10 second run off which ends the game vs Chiefs (6-9) - The Bears lose 10-3 as the offense does absolutely nothing and the only offensive TD of the game, the difference in the game, was a hail mary at the end of the first half by Tyler Palko. @Broncos (7-8) - The Bears were up 10-0 with just over 2 minutes left in the game. The Broncos score a TD from Tebow to Demariyus Thomas with 2:08 left. The onside kick was unsuccessful, so the Bears had the ball at midfield with 2:05 left and the Broncos had 0 timeouts. Assuming the first play lasts until the 2 minute warning, the Bears can get the time down to about 25 seconds left if they punt back to the Broncos. And since they're at midfield a punt probably really pins the Broncos back. Of course anyone reading a Bears thread on the 15th most popular Cubs website out there knows what happened. Barber runs out of bounds, the Broncos get it back with 1:06 left instead of 25 seconds, Prater kicks a difficult 59 yard FG, the Bears get the ball back in OT and drive all the way to the Broncos 38. Barber gets the ball and looks to be putting the Bears in reasonable FG range and a first down when he inexplicably fumbles the ball away. Tebow leads the Broncos down the field and Prater kicks another 50+ yard FG to win it. Just a dumbfounding loss if I've ever seen one Seahawks (6-9) - Don't remember anything about this game but it looks like we got trounced @Packers (14-1) - A loss eliminates the Bears @Vikings (3-12) - Yay we finally win one. Really easy horsefeathering schedule that you'd think even with Hanie starting you could go 3-3 in. And they easily could have gone 3-3 even though Hanie played like garbage! It was right there. A couple ridiculous plays away from a 10-6 Bears team with a healthy Cutler being the team no one wants to face in the playoffs. Then to finish the trilogy, the Bears start next year 7-1, falter down the stretch but still finish 10-6 and are unfortunate enough to be one of the rare 10-6 teams that misses the playoffs because the Packers rolled over against the Vikings on SNF (before of course beating them the next week). Despite leading the team to 11-5 and the NFC championship game, then 7-3 before the starting QB got hurt, then 10-6 Lovie is canned and we hire a CFL coach to replace him. OK I'm done venting

Amazing at the end they had 2 tries to inbound the ball down 2, first time Lavine is the inbounder, so obviously DeRozan was double teamed and they had to call their last time out (which is critical in a game where its very likely you'll need to advance the ball). Then the second time they forced a bad throw into Vuc for essentially a game ending TO. Just brilliant stuff from our amazing tactician coach.

Almost posted in here when they were up 21 near halftime saying that maybe the Bulls will turn out to be decent but something told me to hold off.

I don't know who 90% of those dudes are he had to have slipped 2-3 fake names in there

Geez, I just saw the pictures the victim posted on social media and horsefeathers. If true (and pretty sure it is), I hope he never plays again.

Hope this is what his agent leads with when calling teams.

I'm guessing neither. He'll be good to go in like 3 months, and should have no long-term issues. The Cowboys signed Gallup for 5/57M last offseason and he actually had a torn ACL. While that's maybe a slight discount, they SHOULD cut Elliot and re-sign Pollard for whatever it takes. Zeke has a 16M cap hit next year and they save 11M if they cut him. Damn that seems like a no brainer. Zeke just hasn't been the same back the last couple of years even with a reduced workload to help with wear and tear. Wouldn't go near him. I also see a lot of people on twitter suggesting making a run at Barkley and I kind of feel the same way. A little different situation because he was still productive on a per carry basis but the Giants really throttled back his workload the second half of the season as his production started to decline rapidly. Don't know if you can trust him to be a three down back, and I'm sure he'll want to get paid like one.

Tony Pollard broke his leg yesterday. Wonder if this will depress his value a bit or if it makes it more likely he takes a friendlier deal to stay with the Cowboys

Don't think Everton is going to be able to stay up this time. Man what a mess. At least they'll have the best stadium in the Championship

That’s the MO Says dumb horsefeathers, get outrage clicks I wish people would realize this more. There are many people out there in the media whose sole purpose is to generate outrage

Well, if they played in Paris when we could watch it would be at midnight over there. They have these things called "weekends" when most people are off of work. I'm sure the NBA gets more revenue for games on the weekend so I'm sure they'd rather have weekend games in the states. It's just one game, though it does suck that its the only Bulls game in an 8 day stretch.

Because why the horsefeathers not? lol

I saw this thread bumped and though 'which POS franchise signed him?'. I'm hoping he gets Addison Russell'd and end up in Mexico but he's probably too good of a player for some POS team to not take a risk by signing him.

That draft was insane. 5 QBs drafted in the first round, 3 of them being historic busts (Couch at 1, Akili Smith at 3, McNown at 12), 1 being a solid pro (Culpepper at 11) and one being HOF caliber (McNabb at 2). McNown was a complete disaster but I'd argue that Smith was an even bigger bust and worse pro QB.

Sometimes teams just have "their guy" and will trade almost anything to get him, even if it means trading up just one spot. :banghead:

Do you think the lack of a consensus number 1 QB helps or hurts the Bears? Seemed like Young was atop almost everyone’s mocks until recently now I see more Levis than Young. Like if Trevor Lawrence was coming out this year and the Bears were sitting on the number 1 pick (assuming they don’t draft Lawrence there), I’d expect teams to throw everything they can at drafting a seemingly no doubt star QB. But with no obvious home run pick waiting there at the top, it might affect what the Bears can get from a desperate team. I guess that if that doesn’t help us, it at least helps that the Texans are sitting at 2 and a virtual lock to take a QB. That means if you want your choice of the top 3 you have to trade up with the Bears. If you don’t trade up you are left with the 3rd choice or no 1st round QB at all.

With all this activity I expected the Bears to have traded the number 1 pick or something lol