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    Really the only thing that makes this makes sense as a career move and not a I've got to get the horsefeathers out of here move, is if he's got a side national job lined up and Marquee said no to him being off for Saturdays or something. If he enjoys radio and wants to call playoff games, maybe that’s more important to Len than moving up the TV food chain. I could see him as the type that just wants to do what makes him happy, not what makes him the most money. What’s a radio broadcaster get compared to TV? Half or less than half? If this was supposedly his dream to call radio, was this never discussed with the Cubs? We’re they not willing to accommodate him or at least have a succession plan to offer him? Was the desire that strong that he had to leave suddenly like this and bolt to the other team in town? I love Pat Hughes even more than Len and he’s only 65 so Im certainly not suggesting they dump Pat. I guess maybe he planned on calling games for another 10 years or so. Anyways this is so shocking and sudden that something just seems fishy.
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    Sorry I don’t buy it. Maybe that’s something he wants to do but I don’t see the logic of making that jump randomly like this
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    Like what in the horsefeathers? This makes no horsefeathering sense unless there was some horsefeathers going on behind the scenes. Shouldn’t have made them horsefeathering dress up. This is bizarre horsefeathers.
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    PTR’s proudest moment
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    There are obviously several things that bug me about that move, but what you said makes sense. If you are willing to give up a pretty decent haul to move up 1 spot on the off chance someone took Mitch at 2, that says that Pace had Mitch ahead of Watson and Mahomes by a significant margin. If they were close in his evaluation, he takes the risk that no one takes Mitch at 2, and if they do lives with one of the other guys. Ridiculous
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    Pretty much the epitomy of an average QB no? Like I said he was fine. He brought consistency to the QB position which is something they havent had in my lifetime.
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    Seems nearly impossible, regardless of the front office they've unable to find a QB guess that leaves lucking into one chances of which are slim to none. eh, they had Cutler, he was decent. unfortunately he was just overshadowed by GB pulling HOF QB's out of thin air. I think the key for the Bears is they simply have to take a "quantity is quality" approach and draft qb's nearly every year until they find one that can stick. I don't mean in the 1st every year either, but in any round where they find someone who has potential and makes sense for that round (ie, not a reach). I would say Cutty, as much as I loved him was decidedly average, but also the best QB I've seen on the Bears since maybe Kramer's one season in the early 90s. At his best he could lift the Bears offense up to win games. At his worst, he was the reason we lost games. We saw more of the latter than the former, but he did have quite a few games where he played good enough for the Bears to win. Clearly he had some issues with coaching staff and personnel put out there. Maybe he could have been a lower rung pro bowl guy with the right coaching, but probably not.
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    Who, besides Ryan Leaf, turned out to be the worst player in the top ten of the 98 draft. I remember being extremely puzzled by Wannstedt trading for Mirer. he flat out sucked and I couldn't figure out why he HAD to be the guy I think they decided that they HAD to have a QB that offseason and all the ones in the draft were garbage so he used his 1st rounder on him. But obviously like you said, he flat out sucked in 4 seasons with Seattle. If they weren't trading him, they had to be strongly thinking about flat out cutting him, he was that bad. This is not hindsight, I remember this being universally panned immediately afterwards. But anyways you could write a whole book with stories of the Bears choosing or signing the wrong guy at QB. I'm so unbelievably frustrated with it and I'm close to my breaking point as a Bears fan. Like I've always complained about not having good QBs, but I've always felt at least a small amount of hope that we'd somehow luck into one. I don't feel that anymore and its eating away at me as a fan. It doesn't help that Michigan is having similar issues putting together a competent QB/offense and really making me question why I follow football outside of my fantasy team.
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    I forgot how much they paid for Chase Daniel. The same year the Bears signed Daniel to that 2 year/$10MM contract, Ryan Fitzpatrick signed with the Bucs for i year/$3MM. But you can do that with that entire list of qbs. They overpaid for Glennon when they could have gotten Case Keenum (among others) for half the price. They traded up for Mitch when they could have traded down for Watson or Mahomes (or Mitch). They spent a draft pick and a ton of cash for Foles when they could have gotten guys like Dalton or Bridgewater for just cash. And none of this is 20/20 hindsight. People were saying these things at the time they were happening. its stunning, in all of professional sports, the Bears are the WORST at evaluating the most important position predicating the teams success, and they've been the worse at doing so for horsefeathering decades You'd think that they'd accidentally get it right at least once. But no, 23 years ago they traded a 1st round pick for a QB that was legitimately awful his first 4 years in the league and now today they are still making terrible decisions in the face of better options. (to be fair, the 97 draft was historically awful for QBs, I believe the best one taken was Plummer but still doesn't excuse targeting that dude with your first round pick)
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    Remember when we talked about Mitch having a relatively low number of INTs because he wasn’t allowed to take chances. Well this is what happens when you let Mitch take chances. Throws into double and triple coverage that are intercepted
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    They’ve had enough time. Whether they are too hands off or not doesn’t matter. What matters is that they can’t lead a team that can field a consistent winner. At the very least they need to get rid of Ted Phillips. Start with him and a new President will clean house. At this point its pretty clear Phillips has been Crane Kenney'd. He's not standing in the way of anything. Well there’s a knock against the ownership then. What’s the point of that? Fire him and hire someone who can do the job. If that’s the case then Ryan Pace is pretty much the top dog with regards to football operations which is crazy. Well run orgs start at the VP level setting the tone and vision for the team. Not to mention we are much more likely to attract an established, highly regarded name to fill that type of role. That’s where the biggest void is with the Bears right now.
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    Probably but after today the Bears have the Lions, Texans, Vikings, Jags and then Packers again. Let’s face it, they could lose all 5 of them and with they way they are playing they probably will. But if I squint hard enough I can see the Bears somehow going 3-2 in those games, finishing 8-8 and sneaking in an extra year with some stupid excuse about never finishing with a losing season with the Bears. Almost certainly though that won’t happen
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    New ownership is needed. Virginia and the rest of the McCaskeys are utter failures too. Honest question, how does a relatively hands off ownership affect a team being futile for most of the last 25 years? The Bears don’t have a good QB, they don’t have the coaching staff that could develop a good QB, they don’t have a FO that can hire the guys that could develop and coach a good QB, they don’t have executives that can hire the right FO that can hire a coaching staff that develops a good QB. But where does ownership fit in? Should they be more like Jerry Jones and be more involved, maybe clean house more frequently (like Ted Phillips) when it’s clear the team doesn’t have the right pieces? Maybe they should be building connections within the game and improving the image of the team? Maybe make changes like artificial turf at Solider Field so it’s not knows at the stadium where speed goes to die? These sound like I’m challenging your viewpoint and I’m not. I just always hear how the Bears need new ownership and I have a hard time figuring out why that would make the difference. I’m sure there are several reasons that I’m just not thinking of.
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    For the first time in their last 12 quarters in primetime, the Bears have scored an offensive TD! Last 2 quarters vs TB All 4 quarters vs LAR All 4 quarters vs MIN Almost 2 quarters vs GB
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    Lol overthrow into double coverage, nice
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    This feels like that Sunday Night game in GB coming off a bye where the Bears gave up 50+. The effort didn’t look great there.
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    Insanity that the Vikings could be ahead of the Bears in the standings after week 12, given that after week 6 the Bears were 5-1 and the Vikings 1-5
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    He has 57 fantasy points in my league and there’s still 5 mins left in the 3rd.
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    Burton with another TD and Mike Glennon with a perfectly lofted pass 30 yards downfield for a TD. Can’t wait to see how Mitch does on another team next year
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    I know a way for Harbaugh to go out with a bang....
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    Doesn’t sound like it’s injury related either
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    Damn. I mean I guess I shouldn't be surprised that he died so young. RIP
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