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Cody Whitehair also rumored to have a significant knee injury, but nothing confirmed from the Bears yet. I'm not big on sitting Fields so he doesn't get killed. I think he needs the reps. But yeah, potentially playing him behind an OL of: Braxton Jones- Ja'Tyre Carter- Sam Mustipher - Michael Schofield - Riley Reiff/Alex Leatherwood and with a potential WR room of: Byron Pringle, Dante Pettis, Nsimba Webster and Velus Jones Jr is not ideal.

I agree that the stories are very entertaining because we've all been there. The couple I just read are very relatable. I started Aaron Jones over Rhamondre Stevenson as well. Rhamondre put up 24.8 which would have put me in the clubhouse Sunday with a W. I need Jones to put up 17 points, which he hit point 18.something after his receiving TD in the 3rd quarter. I said, well as long as he doesn't fumble and get injured on his very next carry, I'm good. He fumbled. But luckily for me, he added a few yards before hand (including before he fumbled) to mitigate that -2. Also probably good that AJ Dillon got hurt because Jones had to get all the carries late and if Dillon was in there, who's to say that wouldn't have been Jones' only carry in the 4th. I won by 4.

Eagles are good but not great. But it's difficult to know for sure because they aren't tested that often due to the weak NFC. If I was laying money I'd put it on them to come out of the NFC but not because I think they're awesome. Agreed they can be had in the playoffs. Home field advantage would be a big deal. The only real contenders in the NFC are the Vikings, Cowboys and 49ers. Vikings have a terrible defense. Cowboys have inconsistencies all over the place. Niners are starting a 7th round rookie at QB. I'd give the Cowboys the best shot on paper, but Eagles have a chance to beat them twice this coming weekend.

I agree. I'm a casual observer and don't get to watch a Bears game every week. Fields clearly improved from the last time I saw the Bears. He was mostly very impressive. However, he is inaccurate in the short passes that a good high school quarterback could make. It has to be a mental thing. I'm not sure if the receivers are where they are supposed to be or what, but it looks like he picks a spot and throws to the spot instead of where the receiver is positioned. Bears took 0 deep shots yesterday. Based on the combination of bad WRs and an OL that couldn't block the best pass rush in the sport without their best lineman for all but like 4 plays. It's actually amazing Fields had the game that he did and it still could have been better.

Been an awesome weekend in the tank standings This probably locked up the #2 pick. Houston very well could have won 2 weeks in a row against quality opponents. However, they play an inconsistent but playoff bound Titans and previously mentioned Jax team ending the year against Indy. Don't be so sure about the Titans being a playoff team. They've lost 4 straight and are just 1 game up on the red hot Jags who they play on the road in Week 18. Jags already beat them to start this streak. Both teams have the Texans. Titans have the Cowboys, Jags have Jets. I'd put my money on the Jags the way the teams are playing right now.

That was kind of a weird game. I felt like Fields outplayed Hurts. He outrushed him, but Hurts got 3 TDs. He had 2 TD passes to 0 for Hurts, but Hurts also had over 300 yards passing. Despite a career game from AJ Brown and 100+ for Smith, I thought both Jaylon's played pretty well at CB somehow. In good position most of the day (as was Gordon on the deep one to Smith), just some perfect throws beat them. Though, Fields outplayed Hurts, IMO. I do think he missed some layups. The 4th down throw on the first drive to Pettis was behind him. An NFL caliber WR probably makes that catch, but Fields gotta throw a better ball to these scrubs, especially since it was a 4-yard throw. He also missed a swing pass to Ebner, a screen pass to an outside WR, and the deep rollout to a wide open Kmet which could have been a huge play. The 4th down throw and the miss to Kmet would have led to points. So, he's still leaving points on the board. Hopefully, this won't happen going forward, playing with a professional OL and WRs.

I need 17 points from Aaron Jones tomorrow night. Stupid Patriots lost me potential points from Jacobs/Adams in OT. OF course, I could have started Rhamondre Stevenson over Jones and have a win notched already. Jones is projected for 15.8

Darnold for sure of those options.

Jared Goff Kirk Cousins Carson Wentz Trevor Lawrence Kyler Murray (gave up 42 yards on 4 QB runs) Cooper Rush (who despite his name, literally had 0 rushes) Kenny Pickett Davis Mills Taylor Heinecke Matt Ryan (LOL, hasn't broken triple digits rushing in 3 years, never over 147) Aaron Rodgers Ryan Tannehill Daniel Jones/Tyrod Taylor (gave up 66 yards) Only Lawrence, Murray, Pickett, and Jones have over 100 yards on the ground all year. Murray and Jones combined have 60 more yards on the ground than Fields. Justin is easily the biggest QB run threat the Eagles D will face outside of practice.

Cody Whitehair has a higher PFF grade than the Eagles LG, Landon Dickerson. Teven Jenkins is better than Seomalu, the Eagles RG. But yeah, you're looking at Jenkins, Brisker and right now Kmet because their TE is on IR. I also think Montgomery is a better player than Miles Sanders, but Sanders is the better fit in both schemes (if that makes sense).

Looks like Justin Fields did not practice today due to illness. My fantasy teams needs him to go this week. It's horsefeathering playoffs!

Yeah, that's why I've been pretty adamant about thinking they will win a game. It's probably good for the overall morale and future of the team. And frankly, Fields deserves to celebrate a win after all he has done the last couple months. But also, I don't think it will make a big difference anyway. I know everyone wants the 2nd pick for this huge trade haul, but there's always been a couple issues with that, IMO. One, people are operating under the assumption that Seattle and/or Detroit were going to trade up for a QB, and they appear to be good with what they have. Two, they were never going to trade their multiple 1sts to move up 1-2 spots anyway. Three, these QBs may not even be worth trading up for. Young is considered QB1, but he's tiny in height and bulk. I've seen people have Stroud as QB1 over Young because he has decent NFL size, but he's nowhere near the prospect Fields was, and he went 11th. Levis has the measurables, but meh performance on the field. Best chance was always Carolina or Indianapolis trading up, and that would take away Bears' fans dreams of trading down and still getting Anderson or Carter.

It's all about how much I care about the results. In year's past, I've skipped watching games because I don't care and there was nothing worth watching. This year, I only did that in the Jets game when Fields didn't play. So, I will watch every game (assuming he plays them all) and will actively root for them to win as the game is going on. I will complain about playcalling, mistakes by players, questionable calls. But at the end of the day, if they lose, I won't be upset like I usually would be with a loss. That ship sailed after the Detroit game. I was genuinely pissed off about that game. But it's now in the "it's actually good we lost" phase. And I won't complain about a worse draft pick. Still a path to contention if you hit on the draft picks.

Eagles run D isn't great in terms of YPC. Actually, it's 24th in the league. Their pass D is amazing though. But to be fair they haven't exactly faced a Murderer's Throw of QBs. Faced Detroit week 1 when they weren't good yet. Vikings Week 2. But since then it's been: Wentz, Lawrence (again not on a roll yet when they played), Kyler, Cooper Rush, Pickett, Mills, Ryan, Rodgers, Tannehill, Jones. I do think the Bears will be able to hang around most of the game. Coming off a bye, at home, game sandwiched between 2 division rivals (NYG last week, Dallas next). But the Eagles will likely pull away late. If it is close in the 4th and the Bears do lose, I surely hope it's because the Eagles pulled away late and not because of an overanalyzed late offensive drive and Fields trying to come back with a bad OL and XFL WRs.

I know he's still pretty good, but I have 0 interest in Hopkins. He's going to be 31 next season, was just suspended this season for 6 games due to PEDs or whatever, and has a huge 30M cap hit. While it would only be 8.15M to the team trading for him, Arizona would be eating 22.6M in that trade. And he seems like a guy that would ask for an extension in any trade since his deal is up after 2024 and he'd be a bargain to his new team.

Eh they've also shredded Ds because Fields can create 50 yard plays at any moment. They're a 5-8 team with bad variance luck if you believe expected W-L at all. Luckily all the 4 teams they play are still much better. But there's a plausible chance that they pull off a win here in the next 4 games. Luckily even with an extra win they still can't drop below 5th. And I'd say a fairly good chance that they don't drop past 4th, even with a win. I will take that. Detroit and Minnesota both have an even point diff. They are beatable, and the Bears could have easily beaten both last time. Spotted Minnesota like 17 or 21 points and a late stupid fumble lost the game. And that was before Fields really became a weapon in the run game (though is this the game he had the TD called back?). Detroit is obviously hot right now, but the Bears definitely should have beaten them last time. And call me crazy, but I'm looking at a potential upset in the Buffalo game. I don't know how the Bears stop them, but Allen has only surpassed 240 yards in the air 1x in the last 6 games, and they historically don't like to run the ball much (been much more willing and able as of late). Allen has also been prone to the occasional turnover. Throw in it's a Christmas Eve game, they are traveling and this game is sandwiched between 2 big matchups vs. AFC contenders (Miami, Cincy)....and stranger things have happened.

The Patriots D scored 25 points How many teams in your league if you are playing guys like Boyd, Chark, Pacheco and Homer? Yuck! Was a 6-team bye week. I was missing 4 starters in my "must win" league. I started Tyler Huntley, Demarcus Robinson and Nick Westbrook-Ikine in a 12-team league because it's a 2 FLEX and waivers were all picked over.

Nevermind. I turned it and hes back in. Just caught a 2 yard pass to win it for me.

My other money league, I'm going to lose by 0.1. Lol. It's fine because I'm going to the playoffs. But Rhamondre Stevenson needed 1 point tonight for me to win, and got hurt (like apparently everyone else in this godforesaken game) with 8 yards rushing.

Remaining schedules Houston - KC, @TEN, JAX, @ IND Denver - ARI, @LAR, @KC, LAC Chicago - PHI, BUF, @DET, MIN Houston probably isn't winning 2 more games, especially because it looks like they are gunning for number 1. Denver has a tough schedule. Arizona is winnable but they probably won't have Russ (is that a good or a bad thing?). Bears will probably lose out. Seem destined for the 3rd pick but crazier things have happened. Seems pretty annoying that the Bears have played the hardest SOS in the NFL and also have the hardest remaining SOS in the NFL. Even though it helps us lose, it continues to kill our tiebreaker I think everyone is discounting the fact that the Bears could win a game. Probably not happening against the Eagles, but Fields has been stacking good games. Granted, he's had a week each in between his last 2 games, but I still contend that it's tough to lose every single time when your QB is the best player on the field for either team. Won't have that problem against the Eagles, but Josh Allen hasn't been great recently and they've struggled to score. Detroit has struggled to stop people and the Bears should have beaten them before. Then there's the even point differential Vikings, who may or may not care about the game. Houston almost beat the Cowboys and probably should have. The Jags are rolling a bit. Denver put up their best offensive game of the season. Bad teams have good showings late all the time. I still think anything can happen. And I can see the Bears pulling out 2 wins in these last 4 games.

My team [expletive] the bed completely against a 2-11 team. I picked up Tyler Huntley to start at the last minute over Brady against the #1 defense. Brady only got 10 points, but Huntley ended with 6.6 because he got hurt in the 1st half of the game. Additionally, Tee Higgins got hurt in the 1st quarter and finished with 0.0 points. DJ Moore, I don't think was hurt, but had 0 catches and a 6 yard run. 0.6 points. Dallas D, instead of dominating a terrible Houston team platooning QBs, only managed 4 points due to a Hail Mary INT on the last play of the game.

Lovie may not even have a job next year. They fired their coach last year that had a similar 1-win roster that Lovie has this year, but led them to 4 wins. Plus, the Texans are notoriously racist and only hired Lovie because they would have looked bad hiring a white guy after firing their previous black coach in 1 year after he overachieved. And it was the same time as the Brian Flores stuff was going on, so I'm convinced they hired Lovie (which was out of nowhere) because they were supposedly down to 2 candidates (Flores and a white guy, can't remember which one) and didn't want to pick the white one while Flores was suing the league for being racist. It's also possible the Texans fall in love with Anderson at 1 and are willing to use their other 1st round pick (from the Browns) to trade up for whichever QB falls past 2-3. If Kiper is right and some teams like Levis as QB1, then they could potentially move back for one of the guys that most consider the top 2 QBs. that last paragraph has me entirely confused, they love Anderson but would trade back for the possibility of 2-3 qb's? Do they have 2 1st round picks? noted on the Texans being racists. I mean, when has that not been true for all Texans (save old style) ETA: I would also be very sad if Lovie didnt get another year...or 8 Yeah, I was mostly rambling. But my thinking is they feel Anderson is unequivocally the best player in the draft. They do have 2 1sts (Browns pick for Watson). If they take a QB 1, they won't get Anderson. If they take Anderson 1, they may be able to get 1 of the top 3 QBs by trading back up. And a trade up for a QB is much more justifiable than a trade up for a DE.

we arent, that's why some of us really want Anderson/Carter if we get pick #2. They very well may not drop, in fact lovie at #1 may likely end up taking one of Anderson/Carter I believe Lovie may not even have a job next year. They fired their coach last year that had a similar 1-win roster that Lovie has this year, but led them to 4 wins. Plus, the Texans are notoriously racist and only hired Lovie because they would have looked bad hiring a white guy after firing their previous black coach in 1 year after he overachieved. And it was the same time as the Brian Flores stuff was going on, so I'm convinced they hired Lovie (which was out of nowhere) because they were supposedly down to 2 candidates (Flores and a white guy, can't remember which one) and didn't want to pick the white one while Flores was suing the league for being racist. It's also possible the Texans fall in love with Anderson at 1 and are willing to use their other 1st round pick (from the Browns) to trade up for whichever QB falls past 2-3. If Kiper is right and some teams like Levis as QB1, then they could potentially move back for one of the guys that most consider the top 2 QBs.

I am firmly in team trade down just because I think having more spins at the wheel is your best chance at some semblance of certainty when acquiring talent, but if I were drafting there and he's available (and were taking defense), I'd rather have Carter. Just seems interior guys like that are harder to find than good edge guys and would make a huge impact on this defense. Nothing like a guy who can wreck shop and generate pressure from the interior. Fully willing to admit that I don't follow college whatsoever, though, so all I know is what I've seen on Twitter and draft scouting reports. I agree with every word of the first paragraph. It's a toss up on who's the better prospect, though I do think Carter is more unique because like you said, there are more impact edge guys out there than impact DTs. I think Bears' fans attachment to Anderson is in part due to the fact that I think it's a pretty safe assumption that the Bears will add a DT in free agency. They tried to pay big money for Ogunjobi last year, when they had no money. Now they have a ton of cap and a loaded DT class.

Yeah, that's how the Broncos win the futility tiebreaker. Worse strength of schedule = lost to worst teams = must be worse than team that lost to better teams. And the same way the Bears can address OL and WR later, they can address DE later. I agree it would be tough to pass on Anderson, but I think you're more likely to find a capable DE in the 2nd round in this draft than you are a WR or OL, especially with the late 2 from the Ravens. If you trade back, that also potentially gives you an extra pick (or 2) before the late 2nd so the dropoff is even less. So it basically becomes: Anderson + late 2nd round OT/WR vs. potentially the top OT/WR + early 2nd round DE + late 2nd round OT/WR, not to mention potentially getting an early pick next year. To give you a couple names, just did a couple quick mock drafts. Anderson + Zay Flowers in straight up draft Traded 2 for 6, 39 and 2024 2nd to Carolina (didn't take the insane 4, 15, 2024 1st from Detroit) and got Quinten Johnston (WR) + Anton Harrison (OT) + Andre Carter (DE).