Outshined_One

Best guess is the McCaskeys made a deal with the NFL, where the NFL agreed to pony up a significant chunk of the financing for the new stadium which will be paid off either in the long haul or as part of any sale of the team. The State of Illinois is not in any financial position to assist with this move and the best the Bears are likely going to get from Arlington Heights and Cook County is real estate tax relief. It's possible there's a major lender behind the scenes on this since most of the McCaskeys' wealth is tied up in the Bears, but I don't see how the NFL would allow the Bears to be plunged into that kind of debt to a third party unless that person is going to purchase the team.

I think Chicago would take the money and run if the Bears made an offer to buy out the lease in a single lump sum payment at 75% of what remains owed between now and 2033. The only question would be what Chicago does with Soldier Field if the Bears leave.

This team's going to get knocked out of contention come July when they have a delta variant outbreak that puts half the team on the shelf for two weeks, isn't it?

Ah yes, the Joe Borowski school of relief pitching. Those were the days.

I feel like that video needs to be shown as a "Don't Do What Donny Don't Does" video for 1Bs in training.

He needs to spend more time brushing up on the written rules of baseball. His continued defense of the Twins in this situation is absolutely mind-boggling. Your dude could have been seriously injured if Duffy missed, but that's totes cool because the Twins' fee fees got hurt.

Any thoughts on why he slipped? High level DE types don't usually fall like this unless there are medical or character issues, but I haven't seen anything to suggest either is the case here.

His transition as Brett Favre's heir apparent is almost complete. Can't wait until he spends the next five years retiring and then unretiring.

Is this one of those blessing/curse statements like, "May you live in interesting times"?

Come 2060, all professional athletes will be Buecheles.

Adam Hoge's mock has the Bears taking 2 QBs, Mond (trading back to 25) and Feleipe Franks in the 6th Damnit, I was joking when I said the Bears would trade to get Mond earlier in this thread.

Who's awesome? You're awesome. Too bad all of them will be backups in Buffalo 5 years from now...

The bizarre thing about this is I remember TLR actually doing a decent job of managing the Cardinals' rotation and bullpen. Granted, my points of comparison at the time were Lou Piniella and Dusty Baker, plus TLR had Dave Duncan as his pitching coach back then, but still.

Shohei Ohtani is go(o)d.

Brennen Davis gets a mid-season callup and finishes in the Top 3 for NLROY voting.

I woke up to the depressing realization this morning that the Bears are likely going to trade a top 5 first and/or second round pick in 2022 in order to move up in the draft to select their next bust at QB.

horsefeathers it. Bring back Trubisky, AND draft a QB and make this summer the kicker competition all over again. YES! Screw running back by committee, screw the college of coaches, give me quarterback by committee! :flythew:

Screw it, don't draft a QB. Bring back Trubisky on a one year deal instead.

I'm officially in burn it all down mode. Come on Pace, trade up for Kellen Mond!

All of these QB rumors surrounding the Bears is much ado about nothing, isn't it? Going to end up with horsefeathering Nick Foles as the Bears QB aren't we? At the rate things are going, yes. I fully expect them to pull a Hayden Simpson in the draft when they're unable to trade up for Mac Jones, panic, and grossly overreach on a QB at 20.

I don't know if it's the Wilson rumors having gotten people's hopes up, but Foles, Dalton, and a draft pick is... A totally reasonable expectation for the QB room having gone into this offseason. And we don't even know what Dalton will cost. I've seen way too many "I don't care if it's only $3M" takes on Twitter. No really 3M for a backup QB is fine. Granted knowing all that I'd have looked towards 2021 as a reset year which doesn't appear to be Paces intent, but like, literally people on Twitter claiming this will have them officially done with Pace. It's reasonable, but it's also underwhelming, given the QB talent that has been available so far this offseason. I've spent way more time than I'd want to admit thinking about how the Bears have handled this offseason. Initially, I thought they had no plan going into 2021 aside from "dump Trubisky and hope everything else works out," which I think was supported by the numerous rumors that the Bears were offering the moon for everyone from Wentz to Wilson to Watson. However, the more time goes on, the more I suspect those rumors were leaked either by teams hoping to drive up the price of those assets or were more supposition than rumor, as the Bears were framed to be desperate to address the QB position. However, assuming Dalton is the guy, it's looking more and more like the Bears' plans were to have Foles as the starter going into next season ( :barf: ) with a competent back-up, while acquiring a QB in the draft. It's a hell of a risk for a FO and coaching staff entering a prove it year, and it'll make Day 1 of the draft interesting, but we'll see how it plays out.

So we're potentially looking at Foles, Dalton, and a draft pick at QB next season? Welp.

Let's hope it's some early 90s video game thing where the dumb fake name is actually the awesome star player secretly. I feel like it's the name the appears on the ballot and campaign ads when Bradford C. Workefeller III decides he's bored being a billionaire and runs for the US Senate and then starts running campaign ads holding guns while shirtless with tattoos photoshopped on.

I think the Colts, Eagles, and Wentz did pretty well with this deal. The Eagles got multiple picks, including a first rounder if Wentz succeeds. The Colts get an established veteran QB with upside at a fair price. Wentz is going into a fairly stable situation in Indy with decent odds of making the playoffs next season given the state of the AFC South. Something tells me this trade would have been an outright disaster for the Bears if they were in the Colts' shoes. I'm kind of looking forward to seeing the dead look in Ryan Pace's eyes when he spends an inordinate amount of time explaining why he believes Gardner Minshew is the Bears' QB of the future.

This is a nifty article on him from a month ago brings up some interesting points. It sounds like he's the reserved type who spends a lot of time studying film and isn't particularly outspoken. It also sounds like BYU was desperate for a QB and didn't bother recruiting him until they were pretty much forced to do so, which tells me they knew he was really talented, but they had concerns about how he'd fit with BYU overall. Frankly, I don't think character issues in QBs should be much of a concern. There are and have been numerous successful QBs who are complete weirdos, jackoffs, sexual predators, bigots, and outright idiots. If this causes Wilson to drop into the Bears' lap, awesome, but it's wholly unjustified unless Wilson is doing something like shooting heroin into his forehead during interviews.