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Maybe not as a competitive advantage (though I'm sure there are idiots who believe in that), but I've seen more than a few people saying that Bears football needs to be played outdoors and not some sissy climate controlled dome I'm not saying playing indoors is "sissy" or anything ignorant like that. I just like seeing football played in the snow at times. I've been to games in the snow and it's an experience. I admit I'd be disappointed if the Bears played home games inside. I've been to Bears games in the snow too and it was miserable. But that may be because the Patriots won the game 36-7
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Maybe not as a competitive advantage (though I'm sure there are idiots who believe in that), but I've seen more than a few people saying that Bears football needs to be played outdoors and not some sissy climate controlled dome
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Limited in practice again yesterday. He's day-to-day, just like Teven Jenkins. Nagy is probably saying the arrow is pointed up just like he has the last 4 weeks
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I would still prefer them to play in Chicago if all things are equal but my ultimate preference is a state of the art retractable (or just enclosed) stadium with a capacity that reflects the size of Chicago (aka not the smallest capacity in the NFL like Soldier Field is) and can host the types of events that go to other cities like the Big Ten Championship game, not to mention Final Four and an occasional Super Bowl. And if that can only be done in Arlington Heights, lets do it. Watch the McCaskey's blow it and do an open-air stadium because they believe in the meatball concept of Bear Weather.
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No message, just documenting it for the next time we’re good and look back on this barely existent game thread and laugh.
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In a perfect world, I think that'd be great, but we all remember what happened with the Lucas Museum. Seems like a similar situation to the Lucas Museum except that museum was going to be built on a parking lot essentially, and this hypothetical museum would be built in place of an existing structure. Not sure if that changes the "Friends of the Parks" case against building anything on the lakefront. Heck even the Obama Presidential Library had years of delays because of NIMBYs that objected to Jackson Park being used. While understanding the desire for park space, it seemed like a no brainer to me to build a presidential library in Chicago but what do I know.
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A couple ideas I saw floated on twitter, none of them that good: 1. Northwestern moves there (why leave an on campus stadium that you can't fill anyways?) 2. Do a renovation to reduce seating and turn it into a soccer-only facility for the Fire and Red Stars 3. Do either a renovation or a complete teardown (most likely) and build a new White Sox Stadium there 4. Lure a 2nd NFL team to Chicago to play at Soldier Field. I'm trying to think of a situation where a city has 2 NFL caliber football stadiums with only one in use by an NFL team besides situations where a college team also plays in the city (which is what several cities have - Seattle, SF Bay Area, LA, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Miami) The only example I can think of is the Cotton Bowl in Dallas which does not currently host any teams and is located in the heart of the city while the NFL Stadium is in the suburbs. I'm not really sure what the purpose of the Cotton Bowl is. It doesn't even host its namesake game anymore, though it does host the Red River Showdown annually between Texas and OU. I'm not sure how its financially viable to upkeep, but at least its located on land less valuable than Soldier Field.
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So you're saying we can build the stadium and still keep the historic Arlington Park grandstand so future generations can appreciate the history? Like make the grandstand apart of the stadium? Maybe if they want the junkiest stadium around. Or is it like protecting the colonnades and they'll just drop whatever the f they want on top of it. lol was just making a joke reference to the colonnades at Soldier Field. Lets build another stadium on top of another sporting facility.
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So you're saying we can build the stadium and still keep the historic Arlington Park grandstand so future generations can appreciate the history? you could almost build TWO stadiums inside the trackway and race horses around them during halftime Beat THAT Soldier Field
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Oh if there's enough space in the existing Arlington Park footprint then never mind me, I was mostly thinking of the surrounding streets. Well in that mackup they ran over a bunch of the actual AP property. It's more L shaped, not a trapezoid. Basically that bottom left corner you have to exclude. But yea it's a huge property and can fit so much. The actual stadium all the way to the exterior walls should fit inside the racetrack basically. So you're saying we can build the stadium and still keep the historic Arlington Park grandstand so future generations can appreciate the history?
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Im sure some people are sick of reading about the debacle that was last week but the Ringer piles on about how mind boggling the gameplan was, particularly the emphasis on 5 man protections. They talk about how in the preseason they were using max protect on some of Fields best play, and even last week the drops by Mooney and ARob were both plays where he had extra protection and was able to get out of the pocket. Its so strange that the gameplan would shift dramatic against Fields' strengths, unless the conspiracy about Nagy sabotaging him is true (its not). It also suggests that Nagy was trying to limit his decision making after the snap and running a bunch of short routes allowing him to pick out the best matchup before snapping the ball. Basically going against his strengths and treating him with kid gloves. https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2021/9/29/22699492/matt-nagy-bears-offense-justin-fields-first-start
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he also said Dalton and Fields are both practicing today and if Dalton is healthy he will start Sunday. I would love just 1 game of Fields under Lazor
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If there's enough space(IIRC there's not a ton but it's been 6 years since I lived in that area), you'd still need to get some more events/tenants to justify that, right? 10 Bears games a year wouldn't sustain those businesses I would think, and Arlington Park was a higher foot traffic baseline than an empty lot. the Arlignton site is 326 acres, there is more then enough room. for comparison, here is Foxborough including the shopping areas (outlined in red) over the Arlington site (unofficial 1000' google meter comparison): laptop resolution check Link doesn't work for me. Kinda crazy but Foxborough is actually closer to downtown Boston than Arlington Heights is to Chicago (30 miles vs. 38 miles). I've driven from Boston to Foxborough before and it definitely feels like you leave the Boston suburbs and are in a standalone town, still in the fringes of the Boston area. Arlington Heights feels like its still in the heart of the suburbs of Chicago. Chicago metro is pretty much twice the size of Boston though so I guess that's why.
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If there's enough space(IIRC there's not a ton but it's been 6 years since I lived in that area), you'd still need to get some more events/tenants to justify that, right? 10 Bears games a year wouldn't sustain those businesses I would think, and Arlington Park was a higher foot traffic baseline than an empty lot. Maybe....its still a very populated area and could be a destination outside of football games. Maybe stealing some traffic from downtown AH and even the Woodfield area. I'm sure someone will crunch the numbers to see if its feasible.
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I grew up in Palatine and I agree its strange to think about a SB being hosted there. I'm assuming that a bunch of retail/restaurants/bars would spring up around the park (assuming there's enough space) and it would almost act like its own little stadium village. If you drove through downtown Foxborough you would never expect a giant football stadium to be located in the town...its a quaint little New England town. I imagine it to be a little like that.
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It could still fall apart I’m pretty sure. This gives this exclusive rights to buy the park but they still need to negotiate terms. (I haven’t read the article yet but I’m pretty sure that’s what they said the next step would be) The odds have gotten better for them to move to AH but if I had to guess it’s well less than 50% still.
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Probably either to announce whoever is starting at QB this week or maybe announcing he’s giving up playcalling duties.
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they should have just kept kb/darvish/kimbrel/baez, let rizzo walk, added on, and continued competing. they chose not to compete. They put themselves in an impossible place this offseason. They could have done what you suggested but they would have been capped out (the Ricketts version) so I don't think they would be able to add on as you suggested. They be stuck with a middling farm system and a core that has somewhat underperformed (relatively speaking since they won 95 games in 18 and won the division last year) and all 30 or older (or will be soon). I don't know if that was the right approach, or what they actually did do which was strip the entire identity of the team and start over. Or something in between. There was just no obvious direction to go IMO. -
They still gained almost 400 yards of offense in the game which the Bears have only done once in their last 17 games and 4 times since the start of 2019 (for comparison's sake, the Chiefs have gotten 400 yards of offense 22 times in that span, and 4 more games with at least 395 yards of offense)
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Feels like a 20-14 game where the Bears either score a defensive TD, or the defense gets a turnover to give the offense a very short field to score a TD. The game will end with the Lions driving down the field getting inside the 10 yard line before a last second pass is broken up.
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It is hard to take a "wait and see" attitude with this ownership, but all things being equal, the Cubs are in a good position to nab talent and get right back into contention in a very mediocre division. I'm not demanding playoffs next year but I want to see a solid step in the right direction this offseason otherwise I'm going to be pretty disillusioned. I think I care less about the team right now than I did during the rebuild, and it seems like based on attendance and activity on boards like this that I'm not alone.
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I know that there's this Nagy-Pace alliance where they seem in lockstep, but if Pace is all about self-preservation wouldn't it benefit him to not go down with the Nagy ship and give himself a chance to show that he built a decent roster? (I'm not saying he necessarily has, but I'm sure they are better than what they've shown so far)
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This guy again….he’s speculating based on what he heard within Halas Hall that Nagy could be fired if he loses to the Lions. I don’t think that would happen but who knows
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Remember how much we laughed when Brewers fans thought their front office and future outlook was better than ours? What idiots they were What exactly have the Brewers done to make you envious? Not been the Cubs. But in all seriousness nothing. I’m not particularly jealous, it just annoys me to think about the reversal of fortunes
