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What was 100% wrong? I do think the token interviews they gave yesterday reached WTF levels like they almost went out of their way to pick the worst people imaginable. Beyond that, I don't really see anything wrong with the search they conducted and how (impressively) quickly they acted. They are also getting hammered in some circles for not interviewing a minority candidate. If they were just trying to throw a couple of interviews together to save face, im surprised they didnt find one minority candidate to give an interview to.

I know I'm a total cynic about all things Bulls org but this sounds like something they are floating out there so candidates know that Pax won't have any oversight. He said he would step down if the Reinsdorfs ask him to. I highly doubt the Reinsdorfs would do that. And it sounds like this doesn't explicitly give this new VP any power to remove Pax so its a whole bunch of nothing.

My biggest concern is that the Spring Training parks will not be viable places to play by June when the temps start to average over 100 degrees daily, and can go up to 115. I'm guessing the plan is to play until the virus infections are low enough to potentially play in major league parks (still without fans) and loosen some of the isolation restrictions on the players. But what if that doesn't happen as quickly as they anticipated? Is their fallback plan to move every game to Chase Field, or are they going to have to shut down again? We're still at a stage where its difficult to predict with certainty how things will look in 2+ months.

What I’m wondering is, the schools get money based on making the tournament. That money comes from the tv deal. That money supports all the non revenue sports. Did the NCAA just pocket all of that money by not releasing a tournament? Do they still get money from the TV deal if they don't actually broadcast the tournament? I highly doubt they would pocket the money. The NCAA is likely in a panic right now about getting a football season in. If they had to cancel the season it would likely have dramatically dire results to all but a handful of programs.

Good points from everyone. I guess the first test of whether the new person is a GarPax stooge is how long Boylen is allowed to remain head coach.

Woj goes on to say that they are likely to find roles for both Gar and Pax to stay on but the new GM has full authority. I'm sorry but you don't have "full authority" if Pax is in an advisory role. Sure you can make that move that Pax advises against, but whats going to stop him from crying to his daddy Jerry Reinsdorf that the new guy isn't listening to him? Getting any legitimately big name candidate should be very difficult based on this alone. My guess is that whoever they hire is or becomes a Pax stooge and nothing changes. They are just making this move to appease the fans.

For those that have the Athletic, how do you guys typically navigate the site? Sounds like a weird question but I signed up again because they had a 3 month trial offer, and its the same as every time I subscribe. I can never find enough good articles that interest me. But when I'm not signed up, it seems like every time I see an interesting article tweeted out, it's an Athletic article. Do you guys actively surf the site or only go to it when you come across an article link? Edit: Also I realize that partially this is because there are absolutely no sports going on globally, but it matches my experience other times Ive subscribed.

He put on an absolute base running clinic in Game 7 I just saw a video on YouTube that showed a bunch of star's 1st hits, and I completely forgot that KBs 1st hit was a blooper and when Rizzo tried to get to third and made it, KB used heads up baserunning to get to 2B. Sign of things to come. Bryant's hit starts at 1:22

Add David Schuster (Bulls pre/post) and Rick Camp (producer) to the list. Score is going to be really thin on hosts. They might have 1 host per show all day. Dan MacNeil said his contract is up next Tuesday so we might end up with Bernstein, then Holmes, then Parkins, then Grobstein.

Coronavirus related firings on the Score today. So far I've seen Julie DiCaro and Connor McKnight post goodbyes. Not sure who is going to take over the Bernstein/McKnight show or if Dan will just being doing it alone.

Sucks but expected. I bought tickets to the game but hadnt yet purchased flights to London. It sounds like the London Series agreement was only for 2 years, but since the first one was a big success and I believe this year's game was sold out, hopefully it gets rescheduled in 2021

Oh that's right, I forgot that Pace decided to flush our 4th away for Foles. Fantastic. Gambling on a 4th round QB in the draft or trading that pick for an established starter in Foles. I'll take the Foles trade. 4th round QB and maybe cap space spent elsewhere is a consideration as well, though I'd still probably take Foles Or use the 4th on someone else and sign Newton, but it looks like they favored Foles

They still have a 4th rounder. Weird I just looked up an article and it said we only had the compensatory 4th that we ultimately traded for foles.

Cant believe we only have 2 picks (both 2nds) in the first 4 rounds. At least it means I only have to pay attention for like a 45 minute period in the 2nd round between picks 43 and 50, then can just read about who the Bears drafted with their 5(!) picks in the 5th-7th rounds.

Love that you brought this up. That sac fly score was amazing. He probably would have been out with a lower throw but that’s the point, he caught them so off guard that a throw was rushed and he scored.

Coronavirus is a biological weapon created by Boras to give KB an extra year of service time without playing

PFF’s biggest draft busts since 2014. Ryan Pace has made 4 first round picks as GM. Guess how many are on this list of 10?

I mean definitely the fact that I wasn't quite sure is what makes that so great as a joke. It must be a photoshop....I don't see his check-down receiver 2 yards behind the line of scrimmage You won’t believe how that play ended

Holy horsefeathers tell me this was photoshopped rofl. :lol: It wasn’t but a still frame makes it look a lot worse. Still pretty bad though https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/examining-if-the-bears-mitchell-trubisky-really-did-miss-a-wide-open-td-against-the-packers/amp/

Steelers fans are rushing to the replies to inform Bears fans how bad he is

This is completely speculative because obviously a million things would have changed if teams were playing for 7 playoff spots a conference vs. 6, but just for fun, how much different does the lovie era look with the new playoff format. As it stands, they made the playoffs 3 times in 9 seasons, twice getting a 2 seed, once getting a 1 seed. If we kept the standings the same (meaning no butterfly effect), the Bears make the playoffs 3 additional times during Lovie's tenure, including the final 3 years before he was left go. Those years are 2008, 2011 and 2012. 2012 they definitely were a legit playoff team as they finished 6th in DVOA and could have made a playoff run. 2011 is a little harder to say because Jay Cutler missed the final 6 games of the season at a point where the Bears were rolling at 7-3 (they finished 1-5 without him). IIRC, Jay potentially could have played week 17 if the Bears were still in the playoff hunt, so we have reason to believe he would have been back for the playoffs. In 2008 I remember them being pretty mediocre led by Kyle Orton. They had a rather easy schedule and blew a game against a crappy Texans team in week 17 to miss the playoffs. Not sure they deserved to be there. Also changing...the 2010 team was fairly average by DVOA (15th). They earned a bye with a pretty low record for a bye team at 11-5. They then had the fortune of playing possibly the worst playoff team in a long time (the 7-9 Seahawks) at home to advance to the NFC championship game where they lost to GB. I believe in the new playoff format the 7 seed would have been the 10-6 Giants which could have easily been a loss. Long rambling post about hypotheticals from a decade ago. I'm stuck in a quarantine and work is slow today, I have to do something. And regarding the playoff format, I hate the idea of a 7th team added, but I really like the idea of getting rid of one of the byes. It just seems so much of an advantage, though I guess guaranteeing that 1 conference championship team will be playing their 3rd playoff game in a row is a gigantic advantage for the 1 seed.

I would love to see Belichick say horsefeathers it and not grab any QBs. I'd prefer that would result in them falling on their faces, but I guess it wouldn't be awful seeing him somehow make a Jarrett Stidham led team turn into a super bowl contender

Great to see we now have both QBs from last year's exciting 16-15 playoff game

New Deadspin is desperately trying trying to rebuild Deadspin's image by spitting hot takes, not really realizing that this was not the essence of what made Deadspin great. Here are 2 of the articles I've seen so far: "Tom Brady is the Most Overrated QB in History. New England Should Be Glad He's Gone" "Rick Pitino is Back in College Basketball. A Black Coach Would Never Be Able to Pull This Off"

Really? It was one of the 3-4 most commonly speculated landing spots.