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Damn would have been really cool if the WNT didn't lose at England
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Figured it would happen once the Phillies went into to their pen and sure enough
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Speaking of....5 mins before game time in Toronto: Cleveland after the 1st inning: St. Louis:
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Hilarious seeing the number of empty seats in St Louis.
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This TB-CLE game is going so fast its only going to overlap PHI-STL which starts 2 hours after by a few minutes at this rate
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Meanwhile the Seahawks look just about as competitive as Denver so far
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https://theathletic.com/3662490/2022/10/06/chicago-cubs-rebuild-front-office/?source=user_shared_article If you have the athletic, really long sourced article talking about basically everything that’s gone on behind the scenes over the last couple of years and what the FO is focusing on. There’s a lot of interesting stuff in there and I recommend taking some time to read
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Phillies? I mean I don't love Philadelphia sports and their fans but the 11 year drought plus Schwarber plus Castellanos plus the potential ability to say the Cubs went 6-0 against the pennant/WS winner is enough to make me favorable towards them.
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Herbert is really a liability blocking. Like he can't be a starting RB level liability. He gets the flash plays as a runner, but that's literally all he does. Bears probably have to re-sign Montgomery, or else they'll probably need to draft a RB on Day 2 or early Day 3, I'd imagine. Oh and it does sound like they are reconsidering Mustipher starting. Getsy said something about trying to find a combination. ESPN depth chart has JaTyre Carter at LG with Patrick at C. Still have Schofield as well. Carter intrigues me. 4 of 5 OL with less than a season's worth of experience each. Might as well see what you have if Justin's going to die anyway. Yeah it kind of sucks because it would seem like such an obvious move to let Montgomery walk and make Herbert the lead back. If he had a solid pass blocking line/TEs you may be able to get away with it but I'm not sure we are anywhere close to that right now. I still don't think we should resign Montgomery. Solid but unspectacular back but I'm against a 2nd contract for RBs unless they are elite.
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Jose Quintana is starting game 1 of a playoff series by choice in the year 2022 Anyways mostly made this to kick off the discussion but also to bitch about the schedule. Similar to the 2020 playoffs they are stacking a bunch of games early when everyone is working. Yes its nice to have playoff baseball when working but I would have loved to have a 9pm game to watch while I'm enjoying my Friday night. Here is day 1 schedule 11:07 - Rays (McClanahan) @ Guardians (Bieber) 1:07 - Phillies (Wheeler) @ Cardinals (Quintana) 3:07 - the Seattle horsefeathering Mariners (Castillo) at Blue Jays (Manoah) 7:07 - Padres (Yu!) @ Mets (Scherzer) Day 2 schedule is broken up a little better with games at 11, 3, 6:30 and 7:30 WC predictions: Rays over Guardians in 3 Phillies over Cardinals in 3 Mariners over Blue Jays in 2 Mets over Padres in 2 Lets get wild
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what the...
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Yeah, when every drop back is a race between the ball and the nose tackle to see who can make it to Fields first, there tend to be a lot of QB pressures. Fields got about as much pass protection from Mustiphar that he'd have gotten from an automated snapping machine. Though maybe the NT would occasionally trip over the snapping machine and provide a throwing window. PFF grades a corded snapping machine at 31.5 for pass blocking. 10.6 for cordless
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The only way it happens is some combo of: 1) Patrick Williams improves into at least a viable contributing starter (I realize he’ll probably start but if he’s averaging 6ppg and looking tentative that’s not the leap you need) 2) The Bulls manage to swing a trade or 2 at the deadline to improve some of our deficiencies 3) Lonzo does return this year and turns out to be the difference maker that so many Bulls fans are hoping he is based on how the Bulls played the first half of last year.
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Also get a bit sad but then I realize that a) I've watched about 30 minutes of Cubs baseball per week since July (basically if I happen to check the score and its an interesting situation or the 9th inning and the Cubs have the lead) and b) we get to watch playoff baseball almost every night for the next month
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Certainly helped that 8 of those 11 games were against the Reds and Pirates Also 3 of those games involved a starter going 4 or less innings with 2+ runs allowed, but only 1 was earned Now that I've horsefeathers on it, that's still a pretty cool stat and one of the reason Cubs fans can be optimistic heading into the offseason
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Yeah seeing the 4 road games in 5 stretch ticked me off when the schedule was released. But don’t worry we have our own 4 home games in 5 stretch in beautiful December. That combined with our late bye means that the Bears don’t have to leave Chicago between November 28 and December 31. Last oddity, we are in a 9 week stretch where we play almost as many games in the Meadowlands (2) as we do Soldier Field (3)
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10/5 - This is the end. Cubs up 3-0 in the 2nd
UMFan83 replied to UMFan83's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Looks like they'll finish the season 74-88. Seems like roughly what people were thinking before the season, though we got there in an unusual way. -
PFF grades from last week. As many people have speculated Justin Fields did play well last week, at least according to PFF grading. Also for those wondering why Ebner was in so much last week look at his pass blocking grade compared to Herbert's (also sad LOL at Mustipher): Defense:
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No Jaylon at practice today, not great for his chances of playing on Sunday but we'll see what happens. My fantasy team is really excited about this development though.
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Yeah I'm just not that excited about this season, though I reserve the right to pretend like I was should they prove to be good.
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Bote just hit a 3 run HR oppo
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Yea agree, would love to see how many times we’ve thrown on first down. https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/stat/passing-first-down-pct The Bears are 32nd in the NFL with a 28.81% pass percentage on 1st down. To compare, the Jets are 1st in the NFL at 71.95%. Only one other team besides the Bears is under 44%, the Giants at 35%.
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I have no idea if this theory is actually sound but given the Bears ridiculously high reliance on the run, I imagine that leads to less possesions/overall plays. If that theory is correct then I'll make another assumption that less possessions means less opportunity to separate from your opponent, thus a spread that is lower than you might expect.
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Gigantic Willy Style - The Willson Contreras Thread
UMFan83 replied to Sammy Sofa's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
horsefeathers my life. Just imagine the first time a Cardinal gets a big strikeout of a Cub and seeing Willson hopping up from behind the plate and pumping his fist in celebration.
