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They were positioning for a spot in the 2015 NLCS and we took care of that for them.
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I have bad vibes but its most likely a mix of conditioned to expect blowouts against the Packers on prime time and crippling fear that Fields struggles on prime time again. But I'm a pessimist that loves to be proven wrong. Fields was good in his last primetime game against the Steelers. Very true. Just sick of reading about how much Fields sucks by National guys. Would love for him to crush it for 4 quarters and change the conversation
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The game thread from the Mets subreddit already has 1200 messages and it’s the bottom of the 1st. This is glorious reading
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I have bad vibes but its most likely a mix of conditioned to expect blowouts against the Packers on prime time and crippling fear that Fields struggles on prime time again. But I'm a pessimist that loves to be proven wrong.
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The update says mono
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What kind of contract would Turner demand? I don't see Jed wanting to offer a 30 year old more than a 4 maybe 5 year deal. Especially someone who has had significant trouble staying healthy for a full season in his career. (though the last 2 seasons have been by far his healthiest). If he is our significant investment for a bat, it seems a bit risky even if he is one of the top 3 position players in this class, and maybe the best player that will actually be available (assuming Judge quickly re-ups with NYY and Arenado has to exercise his opt out to be a FA) I love the idea of Trea Turner but I'm not sure if its the smartest move for a FO who may not be able to afford too many mistakes on big FA contracts due to PTR.
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Not sure if these were previously announced....
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Completely forgot to do this
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Kap rumors
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Sounds like fun. After returning from injury, deGrom has allowed 8 ER in 7 starts and has a bWAR of 1.9 which is the same as the Cubs pitcher with the highest bWAR on the active roster (Smyly/Stroman)
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Sounds like the team doesn't expect Bahktiari back this week, and Ian Rappaport doesn't expect either Bahk or Jenkins to play. Sounds like Runyan has a concussion so he may be out this week as well. Barnes and Walker at ILB may miss this week too. Not only are there no significant injuries from Week 1 on the Bears side that I know about, there may have been 0 injuries in general. I'm sure there's some nagging issues somewhere, but the only question seems to be if Lucas Patrick can snap and start at C over Sam Mustipher. Is Velus Jones practicing? Given that he's a rookie and got limited snaps in the preseason I'm not sure you can just plug him in at WR2 but certainly hopeful he can contribute this year.
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Just for fun....some of the surprising week 1 storylines I see from last year -Steelers beat the Bills (Bills one of the best teams in NFL; Steelers snuck into the playoffs but very mediocre) -Seahawks blew out the Colts (Seahawks finished 7-10, albeit missing Russ, Colts narrowly missed playoffs) -Lions were surprisingly competitive against the 49ers (similar to this year. Lions finished with #2 pick, 49ers went to NFC Champ game) -Cardinals crush Titans (Titans were AFC number 1 seed, Cardinals slid and ended up getting crushed in playoffs) -Saints absolutely destroy the Packers (Packers NFC number 1 seed, Saints narrowly miss playoffs)
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The AL Central race should be interesting between the White Sox and Guardians. As it sits now, the White Sox are 3 games behind with 21 to play. However, since there are no longer 1 game tiebreakers in place and neither team is likely to be in a wild card position, the winner of that tiebreaker is pretty important. Right now the White Sox are 6-9 against the Guardians with 4 head to head games left. If the Guardians win 1 of those 4 games, they win the tiebreaker.
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I'm in the same boat but hey if the Bears could somehow win this game, their next few games are against the Texans, Giants, Vikings, Commanders, Patriots and possibly Dak-less Cowboys. Maybe looking at 4-4 or 5-3 almost halfway through the season. Still just taking it game by game though and looking for improvements from Fields.
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I'm seeing the Packers as 9.5 point favorites for this one which seems fine even if the Bears won and the Packers looked incredibly bad. Bears and Packers have played a lot of primetime games in recent years and most of them have not been pretty. Hopefully this one is different. One last look at Week 1:
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Damn, I was always hoping he would turn into something as I thought he was a steal in the 6th round. Obviously didn’t show it enough behind the scenes
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Think he was psyched out by the field too. He just physically looked like he didn't want to be out there. After the first missed one (2nd TD iirc), I'm still a tad shocked they didn't go for two after the third TD Meh, unless the conditions really deteriorated, we saw Gould kick and XP and 25 yard FG and Santos also hit his first XP. I know there was the pregame slip by one of the kickers practicing kicks and of course the previous missed XP, but we'd already seen 3 kicks made so kicking an XP doesn't seem like an impossible task. Think he just overcompensated for going wide right on his previous attempt.
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Jenkins was graded 8th amongst guards yesterday. Not sure how snap count affects the grade at all since he was splitting snaps with Patrick
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lol that's certainly an interesting theory. While I don't really believe that was what happened, the way he threw the towel right in front of the ref basically and kind of stared at him for an extra second would support this. But we've seen kickers drill 47 yard FGs in blinding snowstorms and I think an NFL kicker should be expected to have a reasonable chance of hitting that kick, or at least reasonable enough to attempt the kick when you are struggling to move the ball and put points up.
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Damn...highest graded rookie, not just on the Bears but the entire league. I have to be honest, he's maybe the draft pick I've thought about the least for whatever reason.
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Wesneski definitely not as sharp as his first outing. Another HR -
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Guessing they figured going up against SNF Week 1 they would just throw 2 historic teams out there at a historic ballpark and then just throw a bunch of horsefeathers at the wall to see what sticks. But they could have easily done like Braves/Mariners and did the same stuff.
