David

http://www.northsidebaseball.com/archive/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=52926&p=2090310&hilit=thick+onion+gravy#p2090310 LOVE THAT CHICKEN FROM POPEYES sidenote: when i was younger, i used to love that fried chicken from long john silver's that gets mentioned later in the thread.

Wait really? I'm shook. Must be confused cuz of the cheese sauce and posts about drinking a gallon of apple juice to cut down his sugar intake. yeah the gravy is 100% for sure not da bum. it was some rando

It's been keeping me up at night since we got him. go back to nameless jerseys

yea, I mean justin fields was also thought about as being a pocket passer .... but he ALSO had amazing physical traits: https://thedraftnetwork.com/2021-nfl-draft-scouting-report-qb-justin-fields/ Kyle, I feel like you want to be right about something no one else was right about. I think it would give you a sense of accomplishment, a feeling of mental superiority. That's cool I guess...you be you as they say....but also accept that you really don't know much nah man he's just super pedantic because of the way his brain is wired. i get it. i'm not as bad, but i get it. it sucks even more IRL because I often find that i can't have a conversation without arguing if i don't agree (assuming it's something i care/know about), and a lot of people don't respond great to that.

You mostly get used to it, but it's always a little frustrating. The best explanation I've ever gotten is that neurotypicals speak in vibes. The actual words aren't important, they are just vehicles for the general feeling being conveyed. So to me, "Justin fields coming out of college was better than Bryce young coming out of college" is a completely different statement from, and this is the exact quote from the third link: "Mhmmm can’t make a statement like that. I’ll be shocked if Chicago don’t trade back or don’t go above and beyond to build around Justin!” But they both generally convey a pro-fields vibe, so to a lot of people, they are apparently functionally equivalent? Actually, if you go back and click through to Parson's actual tweet, he was specifically saying he *couldn't* say that fields is better than young, but he still thinks the bears should build around fields. So besides not being a draft expert, which is what we were talking about, it involved the player being quoted directly refusing to say the thing most draft experts are allegedly saying. But linking it and saying "lol due diligence" felt like a rebuttal, it had the vibe of a rebuttal,.so the actual words didn't matter. i often have issues similar to this and do my best to filter it out probably why that whole robot thing started

It's possible this is true, but I personally have not heard it from anyone but bears fans I listen to a lot of sports radio. I have no idea if there's a tweet out there that said it, but Matt Miller, for one, said on the Score that he'd have Fields #1 in this draft, easily. This is the closest I can find to proof of that in under 30 seconds. I can vouch for having heard Nate Tice say it too on a podcast. (calling him an NFL scout is a stretch)

I'm really stretching here, but if they like multiple QBs equally, they could possibly trade down to 3 and get an extra pick or two and trade Fields for picks/players. I think they are more or less tied to Fields now and won't even think about trading him. However, I must say after reading his college scouting report at the time of his draft, he still has the same issues he had when they drafted him. That does not bode well for his future unless the Bears have some quality coaching to get him to where he needs to be. They really flubbed by not getting rid of the former GM/coach before his draft. Most prominent draft guys would put Fields coming out of college ahead of any of these guys this year. The only people saying otherwise are an awful former executive in Mike Tannenbaum and hot take artists like Colin Cowherd whose job is to say horsefeathers to drive engagement even if it contradicts stuff they said 3 weeks ago. Fields obviously has horsefeathers to work on but to me he's shown more than enough to be as confident as you can be that his floor is a productive NFL QB if given something other than an offense that is like 80% made up of guys who should be 2nd and 3rd stringers on a good offense. Look at the clean pocket stats. The lack of passing production is primarily a product of an offense that frequently elected not to pass in obvious passing situations because they knew they couldn't protect it.

this was posted on their website, they didn’t have a website when they made that erroneous coaching announcementYou don't think they had a website then? I remember in the early internet day they didn't have the Bears.com domain, but they had a site. That was 1999 when they flubbed that. https://web.archive.org/web/20000415000000*/chicagobears.com i did think i remembered them posting it on their website... (also, if you look at the archived page from 2000, it's got a copyright date of 1999) i might be thinking of cubs.com having a don baylor profile up early or something like that.

It amazes me that people still engage Kyle after almost 20 years of this horsefeathers, sometimes myself included

I hate barstool too but I heard some really good snippets from this interview today and figured I'd share for anyone who wasn't aware of it (not sure if the timestamp will work on here but it's on there)

I'm going to need to check your work on that one. His ERAs from the past three years are 3.02, 3.22, 3.50 That ain't a "bottom rotation pitcher" yeah, he's an horsefeathers but he's a pretty good pitcher.

i know i've been a bit checked out on the team (esp the bottom end of the roster) but i can't imagine any permutation of this team where none of those guys are on the big league club, particularly the first two.

probably, but also McKenna died yesterday i had to look up who the hell this was. a minority owner? RIP to that guy and all but nobody cares lol.

Greg Gabriel? I don't know if it was Gabriel or someone else, but there was a tweet going around that made it seem like the Bears had decided recently to keep Fields and not draft a QB The Gabriel tweet was the opposite. It was also ridiculing the idea that the decision had just been made or that trading him was even under serious consideration. I'm thinking it was everybody running with the Albert Breer comments on the Rich Eisen Show where he said he expects the Bears to keep Fields and trade the pick.

while we're on this, pretty cool that justin (and mooney also) gave him some dap

hahahahahahaha

the replies to that (sulley) tweet are...something though. lmao

I mean Von Miller basically said the same thing so horsefeathers it, I'm going with it

yeah, same. figured that part was obvious.

In this scenario using the #7 pick on a LB should be a firing offense. yeah. no, thank you

? The jury is still out for me, personally, partly because I wanted an offensive head coach and partly because I have to grade him on a curve with a roster that was intentionally loaded with 2nd and 3rd stringers as starters and practice squad players as backups. That said, they did seem well-coached for as much as a team with this little talent could. They stayed in games they had no business being in (thanks to Justin, too), and they didn't *seem* to catch a lot of dumb penalties. The effort appeared to be there. There's also this. I'm not sure how legit this is, but there are some good teams/coaches around him on this list. Sidenote - The second half vs first half thing is interesting and almost adds some credence to the narrative that they didn't go out of their way to "risk" winning games later in the year. Or it's just happenstance small sample stuff (as is everything with football stats) and a bad team. But a pretty stark difference, either way. At worst, it wasn't a coaching clown show like Nagy, Fox, or Trestman. We'll see what it actually looks like when there's $110+M (or whatever the number is) and a #1 pick draft worth of talent added (and, yes, some of that cap space will go toward extensions).

Yeah, the 2011 team was rolling when Cutler got hurt and I wanted Martz to stick around, despite the warts.