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Yeah I can’t find the tweet now but I saw yesterday that Fields has completed more 10+ yard passes then under 10 yard passes which is completely unheard of

Seriously...I'm sure a lot of the analysis is meaningful but just as much if not more is bunk.

Jed hates the long term contracts but if there's any player that's worth forking over an 8+ year deal (outside of buying arbitration years) its probably Ohtani right?

During game 4, they said Tito said it wasn't fair to Bieber to put that strain on him because he's young and has many years ahead of him. But that was talking about him pitching in relief on 2 days rest. Supposedly he was available in relief today (3 days rest) but I guess not used because they were down 3-0 in the 1st inning.

How much of that is "I'm throwing out of bounds because I'm running for my life and don't want to get annihilated again." Has he really had that many throwaways? I feel like most "running for my life" situations have ended in a scramble or a sack. I could be wrong though.

This was one of like 4 Bears games I've been to. It was like 10 degrees that day and that ending made it an absolutely awful afternoon. I went to the NFC championship game in 2011 (2010 season). I managed to find a single ticket during the week that popped up on Ticketmaster so I went alone. I ended up literally boxed in by Packers fans. Almost my entire row and the rows in front and in back of me were all Packers fans. What a miserable experience it was, though they mostly left me alone.

I thought the word was that LaVines knee was all healed up. A bit surprising and concerning to see him on the injury report for the first game of the season even if he’s likely going to play. In other news, Patrick Williams will be the starting PF tomorrow

For whatever reason the list was craziest losses since 2011 so the Falcons game wouldn’t apply

Good try Cleveland

It's sad that I can remember almost all of these games and the reasons they were considered crazy losses (Moving from left to right) 1. Double Doink 2. 4th and long 45 yard TD pass from Rodgers to Cobb to win division over Bears 3. Trestman has Gould kick long FG on 2nd down in OT and he misses 4. Barber running out of bounds; Tebow time 5. Blew 20-3 lead with doped up Rodgers returning from injury to beat Bears 6. Packers score TD on 6 of their 7 first half drives. The one they didn't score a TD on they lost a fumble inside the Bears 10 yard line 7. Bears fail to score points on 3 drives inside the Washington 10 and 2 drives inside the 1, lose by an inch on 4th and goal 8. This one I'm not 100% about, I'm guessing this is the game Fox challenged a call that would have given them a TD rather than 1st and goal from the 1 inch line, and he ended up winning the challenge but the result was the Packers getting the ball 9. Russell Wilson drove down the field and scored TDs at the end of regulation and then OT to beat the Bears. 10. That ugly TNF opener after the 2018 division champs season 11. Fields first start with record breaking levels of anemic offense 12. After Cutler's injury, the Bears had several chances to score but couldn't. The GW touchdown was scored on a hail mary at the end of the 1st half 13. I can't remember why this one is considered crazy. It was Kaepernick's first start and no one thought he was good so it was surprising that he crushed us, but the Bears were starting Jason Campbell that day so its not like we should have expected to win 14. I don't remember anything too crazy here other than this being the game where Rodgers told Bears fans he owns us 15. Playoff loss; dropped TD, Trubisky NVP 16. Bears lose on 5 Gould FGs 17. Bears needed to win to clinch a playoff spot in week 16 and avoid having to beat Packers to get in. Eagles were still in the playoff hunt but it was already determined that this game had no meaning for them as Week 17 would solely decide whether they made the playoffs. With almost everything on the line for the Bears and absolutely nothing for the Eagles they got throttled 18. London game that everyone expected the Bears to win and they didn't. 19. Big FA disappointment tears his ACL while celebrating his first sack of the season in mid-October, which was against the Patriots backup in garbage time of a blowout. 20. Bears blow a 10 point lead with 3 minutes left and lose in regulation Yes I'm very bored at work

I wasn't going to watch any of these videos this week but I guess I am now. I would say it was his complaint coming out of college and its still a problem in his 2nd season so it should be pretty concerning at this point. Are there any examples of players who overcame a clear inability to process/throw the ball on time?

Holy horsefeathers that's savage I mean, the guy was involved in three plays, all bad. He doesn't have a resume of success I'm not talking about the decision to cut him, I'm talking about the decision to list all the ways he fucked up over the last 2 weeks on the official team press release announcing the move.

Holy horsefeathers that's savage

per twitter, this is the first time something like that could happen: (edited to show my work) Crazy. I thought it happened in the early 2000's but I guess I'm remembering incorrectly. (Edit: I'm thinking of something completely different - the MLB having 2 LCS games going at the same time which happened with Cubs/Marlins and Red Sox/Yankees at least once in 2003). The NBA does this fairly often between the 1st and 2nd rounds

There has to be some personal reason why he's not playing. I know he missed most of last season with an injury and was suspended for PEDs the season before, but he's 28 years old and plenty of teams like the Packers who could desperately use a WR like Fuller.

Postponed. Playing tomorrow at 3, ALCS to start Wednesday in Houston

I would set the bar VERY high for Fields to show enough that you don't just make the pick yourself. To the point that it's almost impossible to see a scenario where Fields has shown enough and the Bears are still picking high enough to get showered with draft picks. Like I know the Minnesota game was an example of a tank win where Fields was great but we still lost, but unless Eberfluss is able to dial up another half dozen of those it feels like a tough needle to thread. I just think the FO is going to do everything possible to avoid having to spend a high 1st on a QB. This is a team that wants to build through the draft and needs everything and a lot of it. I know this goes against everything we've seen with giving Fields no help, putting kid gloves on him, etc, but I do think they are trying to slowly develop him. I'm not sure if they're doing it right. In fact I sort of doubt it. I could be completely wrong though. I just keep going back to it not making any sense to completely ruin Fields just because you don't believe in him. Everyone sees the talent, even the detractors. This is a free season for them in terms of expectations. No one would blame Poles if they let Fields air it out and he flopped. In fact they would probably prefer that if they didn't believe in Fields, so they could quickly move on.

I was reading today about how there should be a lot of QB needy teams out there this year. If the Bears secure a top 5 pick and Fields shows enough to at least bring him back next year, would you consider trading down? I would say trading down to trade down in a bad idea, but when teams get desperate for QBs they tend to give up a ton. Examples: -The 49ers traded 3 first round picks and a 3rd to move up from 12th to 3rd and draft Trey Lance -The Jets traded 1 first round pick and 3 second round picks to move up from 6th to 3rd and draft Sam Darnold (lol) -The Eagles traded 2 first round picks, 1 second and 1 third to move up from 8th to 2nd and draft Carson Wentz (double lol)

Sorry already taken

Might have been a decent pickup for the Bears

I'd be ok with Quinn and Roquan. I'd keep Montgomery through the season because RBs simply arent that valuable unless they are an elite Christian McCaffrey-like back, and you're only getting him for 1/2 season. I'm thinking he would only fetch a 6th or 7th (but I could be way off). I *probably* don't want to re-sign him, but I'd like to keep that option available. The Bears clearly don't trust Herbert's blocking abilities (is that something RBs can improve at this point of their careers?) and so I'm not sure they want to make him a lead back. Keeping Monty at least gives the Bears the option of retaining him, or they can go out and draft/sign a replacement level back.

Every year bad teams accidentally beat good teams. The Jets are famous for killing their draft positioning by winning games they shouldn't. The 3-14 Jags beat the Bills last year. As long as Eberflus keeps the players bought in and playing hard, I bet they'll surprise at least 1 team that should beat us this year. And I think he will have them playing hard considering how much of the roster is fringe NFL players and guys on 1 year contracts. 5-12 sounds about right to me.

Interesting that Belichick tied GSH for 2nd most wins in history last week and has a chance to break it against the Bears. Belichick is 6-1 lifetime against the Bears, the only loss coming back in his first year in New England (2000). At least according to my friend who is a Pats fan, Belichick's teams have historically had issues against teams with mobile QBs, and that certainly tracks since the last time we played the Patriots Trubisky had multiple ridiculous TD runs (and then seemingly never ran again - thanks Nagy). But he's also a mastermind at disguising defenses and scheming for ways to take away the team's best impact player, though I have no idea who that would be for the Bears. The Bears have played the last 4 games within 1 score but the Patriots have blown out their last 2 opponents and Zappe has had 3 100 QB rating games in his first 3 starts (compared to Fields have 1 in his entire career thus far). I have a feeling that this one won't be pretty and will go with Patriots winning 24-13

I kind of had the same thought today too. Im not giving him a pass but I accept that this is how Poles chose to approach things and I'm giving him this season to get through all the tanking before I consider him a failure. But like has been pointed out many times before there is no reason for a rebuild to take more than 1-2 years in the NFL. I expect to start seeing some real success next year. I look at the giants and am reminded why I wanted Daboll, and instead we have Eberflop This is an honest question though, do you believe the Giants are any closer to winning a Super Bowl than the Bears? I’m not trying to defend Poles because there is a path where the Bears could be good this year and still be in decent shape for the future in terms of picks and cap. The Giants may make the playoffs but I’m not seeing where they are set up for long term success. Edit: I guess if you believe Daboll is an elite coach and Eberflus is a turd then you would say the giants are better set up. I don’t think either of those things is confirmed yet, and i don’t even like Eberflus that much lol