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So, defense not great in that first quarter.

If you go for a mobile guy like Ridder or Jamie Newman, then this newfound gameplan would translate well to the young QB too. Just gotta take the coaching staff to not be stubborn and learn from their mistakes, which remains to be seen

Rams lose against the Jets. Steelers lose against the Bengals. I would say the Bears need to be careful, but I don't see the Jags giving up the gift they just got from the Jets. Hell, you got the mayor of Jacksonville calling the Jets win the biggest moment in the history of the Jags franchise. Be nice if they can extend the 30 point scoring streak.

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... I saw on Twitter the same situation. Dude had a 0.45 lead, and left Juju AND Ebron in because of potential stat corrections. Juju had -0.5. Ebron had 0 and got hurt. He lost by 0.05. Also saw someone who lost by 0.02 because Ben took a knee with 8 seconds left down 10 points instead of getting some cheap yardage.

Bears are probably in Trey Lance range, depending on how the NFL feels about Zach Wilson (think draft Twitter likes him more than NFL does). A lot depends on what happens with Trubisky. If Trubisky is gone, they almost certainly have to make a modest move up for a QB to ensure they get one. They can't throw Foles out there. If Trubisky does come back, they can afford to wait for a QB, though I certainly wouldn't pass up Lance or Wilson if in reasonable trade up range or if they fall to wherever the Bears pick. I absolutely LOVE the top tackles in this class. Christian Darrisaw is coming to the Bears in a lot of mocks, but I think he's a top 10 pick. He's every bit as good as those 4 guys who went top 13 last year (2 of which will be all rookie team). Jalen Mayfield (Michigan), Rashawn Slater (Northwestern), Liam Eichenberg (Notre Dame), and I hear Samuel Cosmi from Texas (haven't watched him yet) are all worthy of a pick in the range the Bears will finish at.

Well, I moved forward to the finals in my tie. Feel pretty bad for the guy I tied with, but he beat me in the finals 2 years ago and has won 2 of the last 3 championships. I guess to BE the best team, you have to actually BEAT the best team, which makes sense. But tough to lose without even losing.

Trask moves like a slug. After watching Foles play, I'm not super keen on a QB who can't make plays off his mark. Granted, he's much more mobile than Foles, but when you move him off his spot you get a guy that looks like Cousins on that 4th down yesterday. He panics and can make mistakes when not allowed to sit in the pocket and find an open guy. I just think you need a near perfect offense around him (OL, receivers) for him to have great success. yea, I hate the idea of drafting him and what I mean is that he is a later round project IMO. But I imagine there are other Kyle Murray/Russel Wilson types out there for the taking who would be more worth the gamble (ie shorter, less attention during college, but more athletic). I just don't know who. D'Eriq King from Miami is a very late pick who makes Kyler Murray look big (probably 5'8-5'9) but super athlete. Desmond Ridder is a nice 2nd or 3rd round guy who kinda has a Kaepernick style vibe to his game. Though my comp for him is Deshone Kizer (take that however you want). Sent from my SM-A115AZ using Tapatalk

Is that a sign the AFC is good, or bad? Every team in the NFC has as many wins as the bottom 3 of the AFC has combined. And only 6 of the 16 NFC teams will have a losing record in the inter-conference games when the Bears beat the Jags this weekend.....with 3 of those being NFC East teams. Kind of cherry picking there. There are also only 4 NFC teams with winning records against the AFC this year. One of those almost certainly won’t last (Atlanta plays KC) and the other might not (Green Bay plays Tennessee). Meanwhile 8 AFC teams have winning records against the NFC. AFC is also 33-26-1 against the NFC as a whole. Additionally, the good AFC teams across the board destroyed the NFC teams as those 8 good AFC teams are 26-3 against the NFC. I’d say the top of the AFC is definitively better than the top of the NFC while the bottom of the AFC is definitively worse than the bottom of the NFC. Didn't mean to cherry pick. Really just looked real quick. But I think the top 1 is better than the NFC. I think GB, Sea, NO, and depending on the day LAR are better than every non Buffalo AFC team, with Buffalo below GB. Browns have a negative point differential, Steelers are well, terrible apparently. Sent from my SM-A115AZ using Tapatalk

Kevin Greene dies and the 2 teams he spent most of his career with take the worst losses of any team this season. Sent from my SM-A115AZ using Tapatalk

I don't think I've ever seen a QB with a HOF resume play as badly as Roethlisberger is right now. Holy hell!

Yep a 10-6 team (possibly even 11-5) is going to miss the playoffs in a year 7 teams from each conference get in. Is that a sign the AFC is good, or bad? Every team in the NFC has as many wins as the bottom 3 of the AFC has combined. And only 6 of the 16 NFC teams will have a losing record in the inter-conference games when the Bears beat the Jags this weekend.....with 3 of those being NFC East teams.

not in the first. 2nd, 3rd maybe Trask moves like a slug. After watching Foles play, I'm not super keen on a QB who can't make plays off his mark. Granted, he's much more mobile than Foles, but when you move him off his spot you get a guy that looks like Cousins on that 4th down yesterday. He panics and can make mistakes when not allowed to sit in the pocket and find an open guy. I just think you need a near perfect offense around him (OL, receivers) for him to have great success.

In a trade you don't pick up the guaranteed salary hits, just pro-rations from bonuses. So theres 5M in guaranteed 2021 (4) and 2022 (1) the new team picks up. Bears just eat the signing bonus pro-ration from signing bonus from the restructure. In a cut, the Bears eat that pro ration and the guarantee base salaries. I'm admittedly starting to go on a bit of a "the base salaries are all that matters crusade.". The signing bonuses are all sunk costs and you don't want to fall into a sunk cost fallacy with your decision making. So even moves that people say "cost you" cap space really are net savings in a big picture. The cap hits year over year are pretty fungible so there's almost always ways to move around dead hits without increasing guarantees. Basically if you can get out of unearned cash payments, these moves always save cap. If you cant get out of new cash payments, they don't. So if he's traded (rather than cut), the new team takes the cap hit on guaranteed but not-paid-yet money, right? That would be his 2021 salary, $1m of his 2022 salary, and a 2022 $4m roster bonus. Also, if Trubisky manages to stay healthy and play these last two games, we avoided any of his escalator clauses. Yes. Here's how the Foles contract breaks down for the Bears concerns. If a Bear in 2021: Bears 6.67M cap hit (4M salary, 2.67 signing bonus). If traded: Bears 5.33M cap hit (sum of 2 years of remaining signing bonus already paid 2.666M + 2.666M) If cut pre June 1: Bears 10.33M cap hit (though there may be some offset language that cuts the Bears' hit by whatever another team signs him for If cut post-June 1: 7.67M cap hit So, basically it only costs 1M to cut Foles w/ a June 1 designation.

I have no idea what to think anymore about this team. So much has changed multiple times this season. I think it's pretty safe to say the Pace, Nagy and Mitch still aren't going to lead this team to a championship and consistent playoff contention, but do you actually get rid of them all? I think most assume if they make the playoffs, you run it back. But does Trubisky want to come back? What's even his market? I was thinking he'd be in the Tyrod Taylor, Ryan Fitzpatrick range (2 years/$11Mil). But he's younger than both with some upside still in there. So, does he get the Mariota deal (2/$19M)? Does he get more? After all, Mariota lost his job, never got it back, and his replacement went on to play at an MVP level since. But all of a sudden, Nagy's decision making is looking good with him giving up the playcalling. Pace's roster moves are looking good, with 3 starters from the 2020 draft, 2 UDFAs playing well on the OL, and Ifedi being one of the more stable parts of the OL this season. But what if they don't make the playoffs? They'll beat the Jags next week. But what if they lose to the Packers and miss? What if they get embarrassed again? Do you fire a coach who never had a losing record and is 8 games over .500 in 3 years? Do you let the GM have another shot at a QB? This is a weird situation where if they want to run it back, they might not have the QB on board with them. Either way, we still aren't close to being sure if this is the right GM, coach or QB. If they don't run it back, they end on somewhat of a hot streak where players and coaches may be figuring this thing out. It's so Bears to get in a "damned if you do/don't" situation.

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 He has the points edge. I had the better record/seed. He beat me in the regular season. League manager said he was going to see if the site moves one of us forward on Tuesday and that would decide it. I'm not going to make a huge stink either way, but I have documentation on my side. Sent from my SM-A115AZ using Tapatalk

Indiana doesn't have 3 losses. Sent from my SM-A115AZ using Tapatalk

The 5th year option rule is changed for players drafted in 2018 and beyond, meaning if you accept their 5th year option, it's fully guaranteed immediately. For players drafted in 2017, it was the last year that the 5th year could basically be rescinded (like it was with Floyd). So, it looks like a 5th year option decision coming back again to bite Pace in the butt. Did NOT exercise option for Fuller- forced into transition tag and long-term deal. Not necessarily a bad outcome, but unnecessarily risked losing him before 2018. DID exercise the option on Floyd, only to release him to get out of the 5th year, give more money to Robert Quinn, and have Floyd go elsewhere and have a career year. Did NOT exercise on Trubisky and is at risk of losing him this offseason or potentially overpaying him to stay.

I could see several teams willing to trade up for Fields. If they don't, and the Jets do take Sewell (him and Becton would be sick) then everyone will contact the Bengals to move up because it sounds like Carolina could go QB and they're at 4 right now.

Carolina is in one because the ACC has a contract with the Orange Bowl for its best non playoff team. That's also why Virginia was in the game last year over a whole bunch of more deserving teams. Iowa State is still in there because the committee ranked them higher. Couldn't tell you why. Barta from Iowa said something about Iowa State had more quality wins. But...they also lost 3 games. Indiana lost ONE game and it was to the #3 team in the final ranking. As an IU fan I am pretty frustrated with the entire process. Granted, I never in a million years expected to be discussing College Football Playoff frustrations in regards to my school. 2020 sure has the market on strangeness cornered. They beat Texas (#20) and Oklahoma (#6) who just avenged that loss. IU has no ranked wins now, but 3 when the games were played. Still 1 in 7 games to 3 losses in 11. I still blame the damn Big Ten conference. If they stuck to their own horsefeathering rules, it would be IU/NW winner in a NY6 and Ohio St still in the playoff with a win over Iowa.

It is very possible. Packers win next week, they win the tiebreaker of the Saints because of the H2H win. But if the Seahawks win next week and Week 17 vs. the 49ers, they'll win the common games tiebreaker. However, if Seattle loses against the Rams next week, which they already did this year....then GB wins HFA with a win. That being said, 0 chance the Packers take the final week off and let the Bears in the playoffs. Also, they'd be the only team with a bye under the new format, so it would essentially give them 2 weeks off which could cause a fear of rust. Worst case, they play a 1/2 with their guys if Rodgers is getting beat up. But last time they played, the game was over by halftime anyway.

Not as Bears as a "win and in" game Week 17 against the Packers in a game that is moved to Sunday Night Football after the Cards lose next week. Then having a late lead taken away by Aaron Rodgers.

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.

Gotta be horsefeathering kidding me! I am in a dead ass tie 150.6 to 150.6. He has Tyreke Hill still playing. I'm pretty sure the tiebreaker is bench points and he has the edge there. So unless Hill fumbles, I'm going to lose a tie game.

Arizona is going to hold off the Eagles. The Cards finish with the teams that just lost to the Cowboys and Jets today.

Ha! They won! The Jets won! I never root for a team to go 0-16, but damn they just lost Lawrence as they'll most likely lose the SOS tiebreaker to the Jags.