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Man the schedule gets ridiculously rough from here for awhile. 9 of next 10 on the road, 7 of the 10 against 2020 playoff teams
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If they don’t decide to flex Rams/Cardinals to SNF I’m really hoping they move the Bears to late afternoon game so that it’s played at same time as LAR. If the Bears play and lose in the early games, the Rams take the field knowing they just clinched the playoffs and suddenly all their motivation to win/play starters is gone. Same scenario if that game is flexed to SNF but I can understand why the NFL would flex a game that is guaranteed to clinch a playoff spot for the winner
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Post away guys. Our team isn’t really providing us with much to talk about. At least positive things to talk about
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They lost their last 2 games prior to this by 3+ scores. But those blowouts were against Baltimore and Tennessee so at least were in good company.
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Maybe but it would be good to see how his play is affected if the Bears managed to get within 5 feet of him
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Umm thanks Kittle. Feel free to sign here whenever
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Was just thinking about Week 17 flex if the Bears win tomorrow. There’s a chance that the game is meaningless for both teams (if the Cardinals lose week 17 and the Packers clinch the number 1 seed) so not sure if NBC would pick that. An interesting scenario is if WFT loses to Carolina, Giants lose to Ravens and Eagles beat the Cowboys tomorrow. That would make week 17’s WFT/Philly game a win and in for both teams. Even with their ugly ass records, that’s probably the game NBC wants to see flexed. It’s also very possible the Cardinals and Rams gets the nod. If the Bears win tomorrow and the Rams lose to Seattle tomorrow, then the Rams/Cardinals game is a guaranteed win and in game for Arizona regardless of how the Bears do vs GB. Confusing scenario but here’s why: If Bears beat Packers: -Then Rams/Cardinals becomes a win and in for both teams with the loser eliminated. If the Bears lose to the Packers: -Then the Rams clinch but the Cardinals will need to win to get in So I would say Bears Packers is at least the 3rd most likely game to be flexed
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I don't think the Bears can get the 6th spot because non-division wild card ties go to the head-to-head matchup which the Rams have Wouldnt it be a 3 way tie with Arizona at that point? I’m not saying your wrong but that could be a factor?
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I have Thielen and am going against Cook. I was scared after that first drive. Then Thielen added like 3 catches, 40 yards and a TD in garbage time. For my sake, I'm hoping Kyler is the one that steps up. Yeah I looked at Dalvin Cook didn’t have a touch for the last 19 mins of the game including an entire 10+ play TD drive late in the 4th that he didn’t even step on the field for where the Vikings had 4 straight plays inside the 2. I get that they were down so not running a ton, but their entire season was literally on the line (eliminated with a loss) so I don’t understand why Cook wouldn’t step on the field for an entire desperation drive unless he was hurt -
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Traded my first round pick next year midseason for Cook. He's been solid with a high floor, but in the championship he disappointed IMO despite having an ok game. 9.3 points on the Vikings 1st drive, then 4 points the remaining 10 drives. Vikings had 1st downs inside the 5 yard line 4 different times, and scored TDs but not by Cook. Total luck but damn that horsefeathering sucks. Really need Adams, Kyler or Lamar to step up or I'm screwed. My depth is being screwed with injuries to James Robinson, Ezekiel Elliott, Tyler Boyd, Mike Williams, etc. -
The Bulls are surely not as bad as they played tonight. But man if they don’t play a lot better this team may be like 3-17 by the end of January v IND v GS @ WAS @ WAS @ MIL v DAL @ POR @ SAC @ LAL @ LAC v BOS @ OKC @ DAL v HOU @ CHA v LAL v BOS @ MEM v POR
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How did Patrick Williams look tonight? LaMelo Ball with a solid 0 points, 3 assists, 3 turnovers on 0-5 shooting in his debut tonight.
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There's been some painful ones, -The 1995 scenario you mentioned. -2008 we got the help we needed but then lost to the Texans -2012 The Bears needed the Packers to beat the Vikings on Sunday Night Football. Packers were playing for a 1st round bye so they had every reason to try to win but they didn't. -2013 Obviously was a 'win and in' game that we lost. At least in 1994 we were in a win and in situation and lost, but backed in as we won a tiebreaker over the Giants, and were fortunate to have Atlanta beat the Cardinals who I believe would have won the tiebreaker over the Bears if they won.
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Yeah but the mayor doesnt play or coach for the Jags. I'm sure many of the Jags players and coaches know they won't be on the team next year so the benefits of the number 1 pick won't impact them, and they are probably playing for jobs. The Jags played a lot of decent teams close early on in the season. Beat the Colts, lost to Tennessee by 3, Packers by 4, Browns by 2, Vikings by 3. They are not a good team but they shouldnt be taken lightly IMO (not that the Bears will be).
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Bears cannot clinch a playoff spot in Week 16, but they can be eliminated with a Cardinals win vs. San Francisco and a Bears loss (or tie) Edit: Some news
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I had a Draftkings lineup for the Monday night game only. You get to pick a player to be worth 1.5X more than normal. I picked Ebron, and as the game was such a horsefeathers show, I still wound up cashing somehow. In other news, my brother had a 1.6 point lead in his semifinals match up, with his opponent out of players and my brother only had JuJu left. He decided to brave a stat correction loss and benched JuJu, who went on to score negative 2.6 points... Field Yates posted on Twitter that some guy had both JuJu AND Ebron, but was only up a half-point I think and ran them out there to avoid the stat correction loss. Absolutely brutal morning for whoever that was. More bad beats: I saw someone on twitter that was down 0.75 points and had Ebron and Boyd going on MNF in a 1 point PPR league and of course lost because both left with injuries without catching a pass. -
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PPR or not PPR? With 5 mins left Claypool has 3 catches for 54 yards and -6 yards rushing so 7.8 in PPR, 6.3 in 1/2 PPR and 4.8 in non-PPR Higgins has 3 catches for 31 yards. So 6.1 in PPR, 5.6 in 1/2 PPR or 3.1 in non PPR Most likely you are sweating this one out! -
The good news is that ZIPS is rarely right How did their projections for last year do against how our pitching staff actually performed? I guess thats hard to figure out since the season was so short, but I'm at the point where I dont care how bad they are projecting our pen to be...we've obviously been able to cobble together something resembling a solid bullpen most seasons. I'm not sure if a projection system can account for the Cubs scooping up trash heap guys and quickly rebuilding them into passable bullpen arms. All teams do this to some extent but it seems like the Cubs either manage to do it more, or have a higher success rate.
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Can "It might still be enough" be our team slogan for 2021?
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Might not matter but way to give your opponent some added motivation
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Since he has all that dead money, knowing Pace he will trade Foles and a 4rd round pick for a conditional 7th rounder to get rid of him. But in all seriousness, having Foles stuck on the roster should not hinder the Bears from trying to find and develop a potential QB of the future.
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I think at this point it makes sense for them to run it back even though I'd prefer that not be the case. Pace has 1 year left and Nagy 2 right? They won't be in a position to take a 1st round QB, but they absolutely should take one in an early round as a developmental piece. Look at what Hurts has done for the Eagles. Not sure if he's a long term fit or not but he is giving Eagles fans some hope in a lost season. The Bears are still arguably in their weird competitive window. I wouldnt mortgage the future to keep making incremental improvements but they are at a position where it also doesnt make sense to blow it up (though maybe some disagree, I'd be willing to accept arguments on the contrary). All that said it makes sense to try to get Mitch for 1-2 years with the 2nd year being partially guaranteed, let Nagy and Pace play out another season and then either extend or fire. I can't believe I am even suggesting this but here we are.
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That is really tough. Higgins has stayed somewhat consistent even with the 3rd string QB in. Claypool has been a bit boom or bust. I’d go Claypool based on the better QB and going against the Bengals D instead of the Steelers. But I could go either way -
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Well the league has no tiebreaker set up. Have a league manager and the former league manager in this league (been in it for 12 years), who both think bench points is the tiebreaker. But it's not stated anywhere on the site. And a Google search shows tiebreaker goes to the higher seed, which would be me. My opponent wins easily on bench points with Tannehill (39.75), DeAndre Swift (22.5) and Marvin Jones (27.5). But I also made it known that he has an illegal lineup with James Connor on his IR, which he is not eligible for with a questionable status for tomorrow's game. But even if he activated him and cut any player he'd still have the edge in bench points (I didn't put McCaffery on IR when I knew he was out). If I had just started GB defense instead of Tampa, I'd won. He had Justin Jefferson in and switched to Jonathan Taylor last minute, which got him +1.1 points. I don't think he had a logical play for Swift, Jones or Tannehill. That’s rough. I don’t like bench points as a tiebreaker. Why wouldn’t it be like regular season points or like you said seed? I’d rather reward the team that has had a better entire season than the team that happened to leave the most points on their bench -
Well Bucs and Cardinals win. Bears still a game behind Arizona and 2 behind TB for the last 2 WC spots with 2 to play
