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  1. WrigleyField 22
    If one of those 3 isn't SF they may well be first team out of playoffs. Even if it was off some fluky W luck. 10-7 and missed PO would be a pretty successful season, albeit bittersweet result.
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    NYT projection had them at 45% to make playoffs (but first put at 10-7 as projection). W over SF would be huge since they have them as projected last spot. Any division and conference wins help more than AFC wins (and those are 2 of the easier chances left). But GB looks like frauds. Split them and sweep AFC opponents and you go into week 17 with a likely chance to clinch against SF. I'd take that (and you still have week 18)
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    Yea Benedet isn't great. Though I saw a good clip from Baldinger who talked about the one thing Benedet does well is stay on his feet. While I'd love for him to just lock up guys like Wright, if he stays upright he's able to recover, especially because of Caleb's ability to evade. How many duds have we seen on OL over the years who are just constantly ending up on their ass?
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    The Pope with this massive accumulation of Chicago sports memorabilia is hilarious.
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    Loveland also with the NVP award and got slimed today.
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    Monangai robbed!
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    Is this remotely true anymore? Like the success of tanking where a top 3 pick vaults the team to a championship is kind of sparse. What the Bulls have lacked is a desire to do just bulk asset accumulation which has worked very well. But the league is littered with stars picked outside the top 5 and often not truely breaking out until their second contract. So while I've seen little to see AK is gonna be a build mode /asset accumulation guy, that's a total valid path and is not reliant on this idea of building a core to drop a established star into. They're playing much better than a mere play-in team. There should be zero regret about cheering for that over a lotto ticket tank. Obviously that may last but if they can be a top 4 seed, I'd absolutely take that over a top lotto finish.
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    Thats an incredible stat. And he's not far off from 4 straight.
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    And they almost certainly won't replace Sauce's production or value.
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    Achilles tear no less. Usually not a quick recovery and he has 13M guaranteed with another 2.25M vesting guarantee in March. I think they may have to just cut him before that vest just to save the extra 2.25M
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    Caleb's sack rate improvement is definitely enough to show that he's capable of making improvements. Sure I'd love if there were 2 or 3 simultaneous improvements, but that was one that even with his prospect hype was a known issue and concern and it's a major improvement not just in comparison to last year.
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    Absolutely. Good teams take advantage of opportunity and overcome bad luck. We've seen both now. Just a really good sign (even though there's a lot else to wish for - you see the bones of a hopefully good org)
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    And neither were close to OPI. You can't set OPI standard on an obvious bad call.
  14. WrigleyField 22
    It doesn't take an expert man. Any casual Sunday watcher of football can watch that and see no OPI.
  15. WrigleyField 22
    Lots of little luck (including penalty luck) variance finally went Bears way after seemingly tons of bad variance past several weeks. I'll take it!
  16. WrigleyField 22
    There's two angles, neither show a push. Wright flailed for the ball because he is a below average CB. Clean clean clean. Any fan would flip of their WR was called for OPI there. Edit - three angles!
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    No way is this OPI
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    No
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    Yea no way they get off in the case. He had to go down by the 15 or 20 or take it to the house
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    A typical Bears result would be like him getting tripped at the 2 and they run out of time to run the spike and lose.
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    Caruso for Giddey was never a terrible idea but they absolutely should have gotten a pick back. I don't care how good Giddey becomes, it was a dumb trade and AK doesn't understand leveraging capital.
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    Progression isn't linear and making that statement off a half a season is pointless. There was defintiely love for Maye among many. So there was always an argument for his skillset and reasonable bets as to him being the better pro. That matters little right now though. It's "can Caleb get there" which is still being answered.
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    Think they're running more power and less zone blocking.
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    Also, this is the offense not clicking. At some point it's ALL gonna cone together and fire on all cylinders at once
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    We're still pretty new to the current economics of rookie deal lengths and size and like half of that time teams were adjusting to their willingness to adapt to college passing concepts, which now makes scouting easier. So a lot of the first round guys are legit and you can develop them but teams suck at it and the leash is still short.
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