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I'd guess there's still a ton of industry specific knowledge Sinclair brings. Now apparently Kenney wanted the Cubs to do it on their own before. What would be interesting is if the Cubs have any sort of right of first refusal or anything like that and the capital and motivation to make that happen and just take back Sinclair's half. Or if they just have the power to pressure a sale to a strategic partner they'd like. Its certainly looking more and more like the market on the carrier side just really sucks for these RSNs. Direct-consumer model looks more and more likely (but the blackout hurdle is still large)

It does. They'll get a 6th for him now. its too bad we wasted a 2nd on him tho Yea well Tom Brady was picked in the 6th round so I'm pretty sure those are more valuable.

Decided to look up his stats since he's getting extended for somewhat decent $$. Figured he must be producing... I was wrong. 5 receptions/58 yards/2 TDs so far. 95% of that came this past week. That is shocking. Do they just need to meet the spending minimum or something? Hopefully bodes well for the conditional pick (7th to 6th) the Bears got for him.

Well the Bears kind of suck at running, so I'm more concerned about the opponents pass D's honestly. The Bears will run well only if they can open up the passing game... that's looking apparent to me. Quick analysis, but based on defense pass rating; https://www.nfl.com/stats/team-stats/defense/passing/2020/reg/all Current defense passer rankings; Texans; 32nd Saints; 30th Vikings x 2; 29th Packers x2; 28th Jaguars; 27th Lions and Titans around middle of the pack. Through 7 games maybe there's still some noise working its way through passer rating, but even if you look at other defense pass stats like Y/A, Saints, Packers, Vikings, Texans all look weak. If we jump into advanced and go DVOA https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/nfl/team-defense/2020 Team - Pass Rank- Run Rank - Total Rank Saints - 16 - 4 - 9 Packers - 20 - 22 - 24 Vikings - 15 - 20 - 18 Jaguars - 32 - 24- 32 Lions - 14 - 23 - 17 Texans - 24 - 27 - 27 Titans - 19 - 16 - 19 Per the link, the opponent strength adjustment is currently at 70% until week 10. Compared to IND-TB-LAR, those are still top D's overall and especially pass D (top 3 for that first two), still top 10 for LA. So all these teams still represent relative steps down for the pass O to get something going. So comparing the two lists, perhaps the Saints poor Pass D is a reflection of game situation (teams catching up), and if DVOA is right about their run D, that's going to be tough to do anything against. The rest of the teams though... all pretty much bad D's. So I guess there's just a lot of Great O v Great D and Bad O v Bad D games to look forward to. But Bad pass D's can lead to a lot less predictability overall.

The Packers and Saint's have bad enough pass defenses, that I really don't think its fair to say those are almost certain losses. I don't know what the Bears are going to do about Henry and they have a decent enough D, so I'm okay chalking that up to a L. Now I actually don't think 9-7 is an unrealistic expectation, but the Bears D is probably good enough to carry them a few wins alone, so it really comes down to whether the offense can be consistent or not (even if they're consistently below average). 8-8 is probably my floor, but I don't think 11-5 would be crazy shocking because they've got a lot of house money with their early wins they've squeaked out, and a couple bounces or two can quickly lead to that 2-3 W spread. IF they do go 11-5 I'm already ready to call them the worst 11-5 team ever though.

Is that before or after Harris negative value is added? Well if we're doing negatives we're back below 2 OL too

I felt like there's 1 whole one, a half and 2 quarters, but I admit I'm an optimist. yeah i figured you were probably counting fractionally I mean, as long as we're counting fractionally with that small of units I'd say we have over 2 WR then too. We even have near a full TE!

I'm willing to let Foles try and start bum slaying some D's before I call for Trubisky again. There really isn't any very good passing defense left on the schedule now, and in fact many of them are very bad.

Do you think punt.. watchers(?) just grow on trees?

He's just a platoon guy.

Put Eddie Jackson on offense.

Honestly not a bad idea. He’s obviously doing something right if this team is mostly winning. Must be a players coach. But his playcalling is so head scratching. Delegate that sit and focus on what you are good at Not gonna happen. Unless you force him to. And if you gotta force him to...

This offense lol. Please tear it down next year.

Everyone says this. But the defense is fine. Not dominating, but 17 points thru 3 quarters should win games with a normal offense. They've played on half a field most of the game too. They haven't been in great spots, but also have looked really sloppy at times. Bad tackling in particular.

There's no going back to Mitch. Tyler Bray is the future now.

Jesus horsefeathering Christ

This team stinks and I was always right to hate them.

Send Coward home.

Cole Kmet, your table is ready.

I would remain unconvinced, but then again the superstitious part of me keeps saying that's working out...

I have Mahomes/Herbert and I'm really fighting the urge to shop Mahomes. I feel like if I did, Herbert would immediately fall back to earth, because of course. ...why not shop Herbert? I doubt he'd carry much value. But fair enough. I'll def do shopping before the trade deadline.

Ha, oddly enough I have Kyler and Herbert too (I just picked up Herbert a few weeks ago). I told my league I'm willing to listen to offers for Kyler (who's locked in at $12 for next year) to see if I can upgrade the rest of my lineup. I'm about to lose for the first time this season, though, in large part because I didn't start Gio Bernard over Jerick McKinnon yesterday - I'd grabbed Gio just to block other people from getting him and should've put him in. That was a dumb move on my end. I can still win today but it would take a pretty bad bed-crapping from Jared Goff. I have Mahomes/Herbert and I'm really fighting the urge to shop Mahomes. I feel like if I did, Herbert would immediately fall back to earth, because of course.

https://theathletic.com/2154673/2020/10/22/could-the-blackhawks-really-trade-their-core-evaluating-the-possibilities?source=user-shared-article Tldr: None of Kane, Toews, Keit, Seabrook likely to be moved. Definitely not Kane or Toews. Seabrook only shot would be with expansion Seattle. Keith doesn't want a full rebuild, but if everyone else is staying he prob will, but don't expect full rebuild.

He's had one short stint of great play and looong stretches of below average-mundane play. Bringing him on was simply trying to catch lightening in a bottle. I still hate we traded for him when others like Dalton, Bridgewater, Newton either became available or were available. Foles is better than all those guys though. Maybe not better than Bridgewater, but just clearly outplayed him head-to-head (of course didn't face the same caliber of defense). Not to mention a better fit. I know this is unpopular, but I kinda feel like this is going to be a best case scenario type of season. Foles is winning games, but not playing so well that the Bears do something stupid like giving him more money or pretending he's a long-term answer. They should still go out and get a long-term QB in the draft, and they don't necessarily have to throw him on the field right away or have pressure to do so like they did with Trubisky, because they should have competent play ahead of the rookie. It's a lot better scenario than losing a bunch of games, still not losing enough to get the top QB, and not having a competent bridge guy for your potential franchise QB. Yea, if Foles and the D can win ugly, at least Foles won't hit a bunch of incentives. And then he's basically the perfect bridge QB in terms of ability and contract. Next year is still a train wreck waiting to happen due to the cap situation (potentially REALLY bad due to lost covid revenue), but Pace's moves have pretty much always pointed to a short 3-ish year window (as is typically the case with windows built around an elite D).

Frauds for sure, but frauds that should make the Playoffs.