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I know the Bears are seriously lacking in talent but wyd Eberflus? Top 3 pick seems legitimately doable

I don’t think that’s the case. Clemson sucks but the committee already rated them over Michigan when both teams were undefeated. Clemson would be 12-1 with a conference title. Their best win is currently at number 19 FSU and their loss is at number 18 ND. The magnitude of the loss may be a factor. Michigans best win would be home vs number 11 PSU and their loss at number 2 OSU. The other wins Clemson has have all gotten much worse and their struggles against those teams will be a factor but the committee is unpredictable and I could definitely see them taking Clemson over UM. If it’s OSU that may be different. That said I don’t think Tennessee or USC is losing tonight. We’ll see

This dude is obsessed with Fields lol

Meanwhile Bielema is still upset about it

Lot of illini fans saying Michigan should have gotten flagged for a pick on that 4th down and looking at the replays they may be right. I’ll take the W. Looked ugly, illini are the second team in the last 2 seasons to physically dominate both Michigan lines, the other being Georgia. Illinois is legit, don’t care what their record says. I was yelling that in real time; dude took out 2 corners. That game was equal parts Michigan playing poorly and Illini playing better than I thought they would. I’ve seen enough to now say Michigan/OSU next week is either going to end 51-47 or 13-11. Either way, I think Michigan is the better team if everyone is healthy. I didn’t notice it because my brain is trained to only look for penalties against the opponent and I was too focused on Michigans undefeated season being on the line but seeing the replays it should have been called. Health will be the major factor going into next week. At the end of the game Michigan was missing their top 2 RBs, the 3rd string was hobbled, 40% of the offensive line was out, their top 2 TEs were out and their best pass rusher was out. The running back that caught the pick play pass with the game on the line was a walk on. Ohio State has been struggling with injuries to their skill players all year too. Because Corum was able to play one snap in the 2nd half I’m feeling confident he can play but at what capacity we’ll see.

Lot of illini fans saying Michigan should have gotten flagged for a pick on that 4th down and looking at the replays they may be right. I’ll take the W. Looked ugly, illini are the second team in the last 2 seasons to physically dominate both Michigan lines, the other being Georgia. Illinois is legit, don’t care what their record says.

Drama

I'm really starting to wonder about AKME. Seems like everything he's done besides getting DeRozan has been the wrong thing. He took GarPax's crummy roster and decided Zach and Coby White were the keepers and got rid of Lauri, Carter, Porter, the 1st that became Franz Wagner, and 2 more future 1sts. He signed Zach to a max contract which I was in favor of at the time but he looks like he's lost his explosiveness permanently. One of the oldest teams in the league, missing 2 future 1sts (get 1 back from Portland), on pace for 31 wins and backed up against the luxury tax line that JR wont go over.

This is a horsefeathering trainwreck. What did we do to deserve every single team in the city sucking at the same time for an extended period?

Do you trust Kupp will be back for the fantasy playoffs? I haven't read too closely into it because I don't own him but it was a high ankle sprain right?

I just offered a trade to the last place team and to my surprise he accepted it. I trade: Miles Sanders, Brandon Cooks, 1st round pick next year. I get: Kamara, Hopkins and a 3rd next year. May be vetoed but my league has been pretty kind towards tanking trades in the past. If it goes through my roster: QB (start 2): Fields, Kyler RB (3): Barkley, Kamara, Patterson, Foreman, Pacheco WR (4): Jefferson, Adams, AJ Brown, Hopkins, Garrett Wilson TE (1): Friermuth K: Butker DEF: Cowboys

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MLB prefers to reward teams who get public money to complete stadiums/renovations. The Cubs took no public money and then spent 3+ years crying poor and fielding less competitive teams using the excuse (among others) that they took too much debt on. The Cubs will get one eventually but can't help feeling like they are being punished. Boob reports that the Cubs along with the Jays, Orioles and Braves are the leading candidates for 2025.

Another ASG not at Wrigley: Cubs have hosted 1 ASG in the last 62 years. 2026 is spoken for already, so if the Cubs don't get awarded the 2025 game, it will be 2027 at the earliest.

To give them a little credit, it didn't seem like they thought Ball would miss half the season at that point and thought LaVine's issues would be cleared up. But yeah the offseason made no sense even with JR concerned about lowering his massive profits by going into the luxury tax. The 2 biggest solvable issues the Bulls had were 3 point shooting and interior defense (IMO) and they solved neither. Don't get me wrong Dragic and Drummond when healthy have been fine but they are still 28th in the league in % of points from 3 pointers and have no plan to stop the Embiids and Giannis's of the league. If there is one positive its that the Bulls struggles are 90% tied to offense. They are actually ranked 6th in defensive efficiency this year. Maybe that's a fluke but if its not that's huge. On offense they are something like 22nd and sliding. Given the amount of offensive talent on the team and their performance last year you would expect that to improve. I'm not sure where you go from here though and I'm very skeptical of AKME at this point. Not that he took over a team with a lot of talent but they had one of the youngest teams in the league, owned all of their 1st round picks, had very low payroll obligations. Fast forward 3 years and we have one of the oldest teams on the league, do not own 2 of our next 3 1sts, are up against the luxury tax and our team is kind of bad. Like what are we doing here? I hate to go tank again, but with an ownership that refuses to pay the luxury tax, we don't have a lot of choices to acquire the talent needed to compete for championships.

Yeah I’ve tuned them out. The least enjoyable type of basketball team to watch is a veteran team that is not good. There’s no point in watching.

Here is how ESPN is predicting our group/knockouts (Yes I'm bored): England 2-0 Iran USA 1-1 Wales Iran 0-0 Wales England 2-1 USA Wales 1-1 England USA 2-0 Iran R16: USA 2-1 Netherlands France 2-1 Argentina (aet) Denmark 1-0 Poland England 2-0 Senegal Spain 1-0 Canada Brazil 2-0- Uruguay Germany 3-1- Morocco Portugal 1-1 Switzerland, Portugal advances on penalties QF: Brazil 2-1 Spain (aet) France 2-0 USA Germany 2-1 Portugal Denmark 2-1 England (aet) SF: Brazil 2-1 France Germany 3-2 Denmark Finals: Brazil 2-0 Germany https://www.espn.com/sports/soccer/insider/story/_/id/35034039/world-cup-2022-predicting-every-game-again

Chase Strumpf, Cam Sanders, Kohl Franklin, Riley Thompson, Luis Devers

Herbert went on IR....

Riz back to the Yankees

Can't discount Fields' motivation this week for his hometown Falcons passing on him in the draft to take Kyle Pitts. This is probably a game he really wants to ball out and win.

I started AJ Brown, Miles Sanders and Taylor Heinicke (emergency SuperFlex QB with Kyler out) last night down 11 points. They were projected to score 40.88 points and all 3 were projected to score at least 13.5 points. Yahoo had me as a 98% favorite for the week going into the game. They ended up combining for 12.04 points. Such a really weird night..happy to get the win but I was hoping to take 1st place by winning the points scored tiebreaker and I fell short by 2 points.

DePaul wins at Minnesota for the 2nd time in 4 years

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