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Matas getting booted from the Caleb-PCA superstar cool kid Chicago gang

I refuse to get excited about any coaching hire, sure. Any. There's only clear bad hires, and he isn't.

Who really knows.

Getting a interim job because the head coach who just hired you is arrested on federal gambling charges. You get that team to playoffs which causes your team to have to convey a protected first round pick from a minor trade like 5 years ago. Get hired by team who just got that FRP. This gambling conspiracy goes deep.

Loveland x3 imo. And probably that way for a while.

There's no way they're broke. At absolute worst, maybe they're cash flow constrained. But even that would be difficult to accomplish, even for bumbling McCaskeys.

Oh you can't touch the political discourse on this. It's all stupid. Darren Bailey made a post that state should make Bears rebuild Arlington Racetrack lmao

No. And if the season ticket waiting list goes from 30 years to 15, also no. But in a bad year, it will be interesting to see. Traditionally a cold as hell SF has done a decent dent keeping away fans from investing in a bad team at seasons end. I honestly don't know what a bad team in a dome in a dumpy hard to get to area does, but it might be worse. Also there are some simple economic issues with the NWI deal. Some of the new slew of taxes do hit the Bears indirectly (like amusement taxes). Sold out stadium with same revenue? Not so sure that's the case.

Based on Bears own statements (and a basic density/wealth population map would support this logically), the majority of fans will travel much further to get to Hammond.

I logged like 20 hour on 26 which was my first Madden in a decade or so. So anyways I'll be buying 27 obviously

Don't be a bunch of ninnies

But then the average owner would be worth only $3B instead of $5B wah

Man then they really should have done a better job negotiating this whole process.

In this case if their ineptness kept them from a bad financial deal... I'll take it. Bears really haven't produced a real shred of evidence that a good deal even existed for IL. And while I can't say what was Bears and what was Prtizker or House, that PILOT bill was a mess in a way that even normal bad stadium deals rarely are. Also my impression is that in this entire 4+ year saga some people are interpreting "no's" as IL pols dragging their feet or whatever. But longest time was still spent on a SF plan with one fairly powerless backer. Before shifting back to AH and a terrible PILOT bill.

I mean they could call a special session at any time. At this point is really comes down to how viable Hammond is (soil testing but also traffic study and site plan + infrastructure needs that wouldn't be in the NWI stadium authority). I've never thought Hammond was a bluff only, but legit interest does not equal a done deal. Bears would have had nothing to lose in past few months leaking any level of detail. That they haven't means either those details aren't ready or that they didn't feel the need to put pressure on Illinois. An early summer deadline wouldn't be Warren's first missed deadline in this whole process if it comes and goes with no decision....