UMFan83

Narrator: And that was the turning point. The Bears would not lose another game that season

I seriously don’t know why I watch this team. Like it just makes me feel miserable for 3 hours but I don’t want to turn away because maybe next drive is the one where Fields puts it all together lol

It’s incredible how poorly coached the Bears are.

And then they end up going 3 and out anyways

Year 4 of Matt Nagy

Seriously how many teams just completely implode to start games like the Bears? 2 offensive penalties, 1 defensive penalty, defense allows touchdown, special teams play for -15 yards and a wasted TO all in the first 6 minutes of the game. What a horsefeathers show

Hey also one of the worst coached teams in the league

Since the start of the 2019 season, the Bears are 3-7 in primetime games. The 3 wins: 2019 - MNF against WFT 2019 - TNF against Dallas 2020 - TNF against TB 2-1 on TNF (loss was the opener against GB in 2019 so higher profile than the standard Thursday game) and 1-6 on Sunday and Monday nights.

I suppose you missed the part when he was worth more WAR last season than ANY INDIVIDUAL CUB LAST YEAR. Let's set aside the issue of WAR (bWAR vs fWAR), for the time being, he hasn't had a season like that in 10 years. Expecting a 35 year old to repeat those results is not a bet most would be willing to make. I'm not sure what people are thinking here. I suppose in the universe where the Cubs need warm bodies to make starts, he's a guy. Just looking at fWAR because I think its better for pitching (correct me if I'm wrong), but Miley has averaged 1.9 fWAR over his last 10 seasons. It's not the 2.9 WAR he had last year and you are right to be a little concerned about age regression but I'm not sure you are doing better in FA if you are looking at a relatively affordable starter with no long-term obligation. But you are saying to set aside WAR. I don't see anything in his numbers that jumps out as an extreme outlier last year. K/9 is actually lower than career average. His walk rate is lower than recent years but not a career low and not out of line with a majority of his career. BABIP is higher than it was in 2 of the previous 3 years, xERA, xFIP also are in line with several other years in his career. I think it was TT that said that if this was $10m of a $40m budget then yes its not a great move, but if its $10m of a $90m budget then I think its a smart move considering the number of holes the Cubs have to fill.

Man, I'll bet that dude went full tankie so damn hard. I doubt he's changed at all, still droning on about England's ruling family and how capitalists suck He's on twitter but I don't see much non-sports tweeting from him. I do occasionally see an 'only my teams' style tweet during Bears games though.

I'm predicting an ugly ass game similar to Pittsburgh's last against Cleveland where they won 15-10. Bears will struggle offensively (duh) but Roethlisberger's noodle arm will keep it a one score game. Bears will have multiple 4th quarter possessions where they can score to take the lead but won't be able to. I'll go 17-13 Steelers.

Forgot we had him. Is this move being made to activate Monty for tomorrow? Sounds like he’s trending towards playing

Can’t compete with Embiid and a bunch of shooters. The sixers were down like 5 rotation guys and they just kept finding guys to hit a 3. If we could get a shooter and a quality big it would make a gigantic difference in their teams ceiling

The goal should be to get them to play well enough that the next GM can sell off every old, expensive vet and get something of value back. Time to clean house. The only goal has to be getting rid of Seth Jones. He’s absolute trash and will kill this team for 5+ years Short of inventing a time machine I’m not sure that’s possible. Would probably have to give up 2 first round picks

Thank God. I’m not going to pretend this team is good but I have to think they are a decent amount better than they’ve played

'OK back of the rotation guy' might be understating it. He was 4th amongst pitchers in bWAR last year. I don't know if I trust WAR for pitchers as much as for position players but that's still pretty damn good.

Looks like the Cubs are spending. Not thrilled with another soft tosser in the rotation but I guess it doesn't matter all that much. Worth 2.9 fWAR last year (6.0 bWAR)

NBC Sports is shutting down at the end of the year. Supposedly most of their sports programming including EPL will go to USA Network, but I bet Peacock will get a bunch as well. https://www.ctinsider.com/business/article/Stamford-based-NBC-Sports-to-shut-down-NBCSN-on-16585897.php In similar news, ESPN Classic is also shutting down at the end of the year. Not surprising, I can't remember the last time I tuned into ESPN Classic

We're never going to see this team at full strength are we?

Tough loss but the Sixers played well and the Bulls went toe to toe with them

I'm not even excited about FA yet because I'm assuming we won't do anything until the CBA is in place, and that probably wont be until like February

This is awesome:

Like 95% of what Pippen has said over the last 15 years is bitterness and whining tbh. And I love Pip anyways

Really? Maybe it's because I'm in Pittsburgh, but this was one of the most fun games in recent years. Wore the throwback jerseys with the orange block lettering. It went to OT and Cohen basically won the game with a long TD run in overtime, but it was called back ruling he stepped out of bounds (he actually didn't) and then the next 2 plays were Howard with back-to-back 19-20 yard runs, including one along the left sideline that featured a questionable hold/block in the back that was let go probably to make up for the call that Cohen was out of bounds. Yeah I think at all the time all I cared about was Mitch starting. I do vaguely remember being surprised/happy the Bears won but nothing about the game. From what you mentioned, I do recall the overturned TD/back to back runs now.