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Matas getting booted from the Caleb-PCA superstar cool kid Chicago gang
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I refuse to get excited about any coaching hire, sure. Any. There's only clear bad hires, and he isn't.
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Who really knows.
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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.
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2026 Chicago Bears Offseason Thread
WrigleyField 22 replied to Outshined_One's topic in Other Sports
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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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2026 Chicago Bears Offseason Thread
WrigleyField 22 replied to Outshined_One's topic in Other Sports
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 -
2026 Chicago Bears Offseason Thread
WrigleyField 22 replied to Outshined_One's topic in Other Sports
Don't be a bunch of ninnies -
But then the average owner would be worth only $3B instead of $5B wah
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Man then they really should have done a better job negotiating this whole process.
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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.
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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....
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Most likely for the best. But a fun display of government disfunction at end. (they eventually filed amendment to fix it)
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Chicago market will get exactly one SB. Indianapolis gets a FF only about 1 ever 5 years. And those events aren't free to host either. The actual potential revenue potential is really small, and it has to be supported with infrastructure demand (and cost to maintain).
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It's plenty big enough. But Bears aren't waiting until a new Sox stadium can get done to make that happen even if they liked the site. Bears have never shown any interesting in Chicago that wasn't Soldier Field.
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I mean at least a Bears only pilot bill would have limited impact over the state wide monstrosity that pilot would have been. Unspecified 800M infrastructure demands on the other hand...
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Just as one proxy of domed Chicago stadiums' potential. https://www.billboard.com/top-stadiums-2/ https://www.billboard.com/top-stadiums/ https://www.billboard.com/2023-year-end-boxscore-charts/#pmc-protected-embed-3 With exception of Vegas, the top stadiums for concerts is usually just a market size list. And Soldier field a bottom half of top 10 venue globally. How much growth potential does the market actually have? The extra 5-6 months or whatever don't matter much because tours just aren't popular then. Or the ones that are active target 20k type venues. Or the Bears aren't gonna want the turnaround times that hosting concerts entail during their season. Then you get into things like the mega events. The Bears own optimistic economic projections was still only like one mega event every 3 years. When it's said and done one every 5 years would be lucky. But so many of these events look for their own tax breaks and/or come with massive hosting and security costs they don't cover the incrimental revenue. Whats left? As convention center? Again, would that actually be additive or just displace Rosemont and McCormick convention opportunities?
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Probably not. You can dig around other large capacity venues and there isn't a great track record for doing significantly more shows. It will most likely just displace tax revenue with just small gains in new taxes.
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Theres no real evidence to support that. Maybe that's the case, but ultimately what Bears and AH negotiate and what Bears actually build is a black box. Bears desire for tax certainty isn't being met with any certainty of larger development. Aka they'll come looking for more to get the entire parcel developed.
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I thought same thing early on. Chicago gets way more spillover benefit from Hammond on tourism based revenues than in Arlington Heights... Whats gonna be really effed up is if this PILOT I'll goes through and Bears still bail for Hammond. Because it has potential to really exploit local taxpayers. Though interestingly there's several Chicago based projects that might use the PILOT bill too (One Central and Ishbia's new Amtrack track development).
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2026 Chicago Bears Offseason Thread
WrigleyField 22 replied to Outshined_One's topic in Other Sports
Overthecap.com says 10m of 2027 became fully guaranteed on March 13. I have a source that says only 8m. Full 10M is already injury guaranteed. In any case, he's basically around for 2027. -
Tons of politicians coming out swinging now saying the Bears are incompetent. Which is totally believable. Warren:
