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My pea brain explanation is Ragone must design schemes well but either sucks at coaching the schemes or coaching up the QB traits, like footwork or whatever. DeFilippos is surprising. Has Philly hired a new OC yet? That seemed like a natural connection before.

Well this is good news (even though the Ragone thing is still a mystery)

I'd demand Maddon be fired for his role in it.

FTFY

warm, pleasant winters? Ricketts already are funneling all the money they can to the GOP to accelerate climate change. Don't give up Bryant for something already in the bag.

Bring college bribes back to the Gold Standard.

Seems kind of meh, but fine. This offensive staff collectively has a lot more experience than the last one, at least.

Eagles also seem like potential competition for Pat Shurmur. Shurmur has been hired as the Broncos OC. Apparently the bears made him an offer and were rejected. Shurmur had supposedly been high on Drew Lock before the Giants picked Jones and is looking forward to coaching him... Additionally, Nagy's control over play-calling and the offense in general vs being 100% the guy in Denver under Fangio are believed to have been important to him. Not a good sign for our search This shouldn't be too surprising. Nagy will be at a disadvantage in hiring experienced OC candidates, like any offensive head coach. While I know most are eager to see Nagy give up play calling, it might be better if he keeps doing it and either figures it out or fails and then they can move on.

They're not wrong.

Winning a playoff game on the road where your QB throws for less than 100 yards certainly is something. It's happened 13 times in the SB era (9 times on gross passing yds, an additional 4 times on net passing yds, which is how pfr classifies it) Link Doing it twice is REALLY something. The only other team to do it twice in a year was the 85 Patriots, who did it once on gross yards, once on net. Titans have done each on gross yards. A fun one from that list... 2000 Ravens vs Titans. Ravens had 85 net passing yards, but only 49 rushing yards. They added a blocked FG returns TD and a INT Return TD for a 24-10 victory against a 300+ yard effort from the Titans. Odd Stat line.

Cubs. Too much money.

Low hanging fruit but $1.5749 million too much IMO. Yes I'm suggesting that he be paid $100 for his services this year. He should have to pay the Cubs to play These little league registration fees are getting out of control.

Who was Anthony Davis's AAU coach. Make him GM.

https://www.bleachernation.com/bulls/2020/01/09/david-kaplan-has-heard-there-will-finally-be-massive-changes-coming-to-bulls-organization/ The Bulls are probably worlds away from a team like Houston as far as how they organize operations. If by chance they're thinking that large scale of a turnover... That's the type of hope I thought would be reliant on Jerry dying/new owners.

I'm not holding my breath, and even if it does happen how confident can we be that Michael Reinsdorf will be able to find the right person. When will this change happen? If they've decided that GarPax isn't their guy anymore, do it today before they screw up another trade deadline. I mean realistically the Bulls are not in bad shape if you remove GarPax from the equation. They have the team in a great cap position, they have fairly valuable trade assets, they have talent just not superstar talent. I don't mind crediting them for doing that. The problem is that I have no faith in them from here, barring getting lucky on a draft pick turning into a superstar. The fact that they replaced Hoiberg with Boylen without talking to anyone else and then doubled down by extending him for no good reason tells me all i need to know about their ability to turn around this team. Pax (removing Gar here) does some things well, I credit him for the baby bulls plan that worked, I credit him for clearing the cap space and having the team in a position to sign LeBron and Wade in 2010 even though it didnt work. I credit him for consistently having the team in good financial shape. But we just need a new voice for the organization. 1 ECF appearance in 17 years isn't cutting it... Yea, Pax had some moments, but this is his basketball ops through and through. If changes don't include him, it's meaningless IMO. Doug Collins is probably the right in house candidate who could help guide Michael's search for a real VP of basketball ops role. Then let him fade away for the most part as well.

Has a Pace Connection. Sounds like he recruited him while at EIU.

Sounds good to me.

A majority would be tough even if the Cubs weren't a sad sack of LT avoiding horsefeathers.

If "having a QB" can be classified as a Joe Flacco or Eli Manning I still have hope the Bears can get that relatively soon. Edit, realized I left Ravens off the initial list. They had the most early success of those examples, but the SB came a little later. Ravens 2007 5 - 11 John Harbaugh becomes HC 2008 11 – 5 2009 9 – 7 2010 12 – 4 2011 12 – 4 2012 10 – 6 (Super Bowl XLVII Champions)

2013 was an interesting draft. Really bad at the top with Fisher, Joeckel, Mingo, Jon Cooper, Tavon Austin, and Dion Jordan failing to live up to expectations. But then you have some absolute studs down in the draft like Hopkins, Slay, Ertz, Leveon, Kelce, Armstead, Keenan Allen, etc. Long probably gets propped up a bit, because he was the face of the franchise after the Lovie era which had a bunch of personalities. He lasted thru the end of the Cutler era, one of the few Trestman era survivors. Basically the Bears version of Starlin Castro. But I agree with that last part. I think fans are looking at it as Pace has had 5 years to turn things around. But I think internally, they see him building a long-term contender. They see the talent he has amassed and I don't think starting over is something they see as an option. May or may not have forced Fox on him as a hire to turn around the lockerroom. Young GM and young coach leads me to believe this is a long-term move. I'm fully expecting Pace to get another shot to pick a QB. that's a good comp Yes, I like this analogy. As for the patience of Pace, I think its clear things could be much worse. I guess the McCaskeys just have to be comfortable with Pace's process and thinking that has led to this. The 5 year record is clearly not good, but if you handicap the "building" years and see 2019 as a blip, I doubt they are thinking of a move anytime soon. I'd still pretty much tie Pace and Nagy together. Right now Pace has 2 years left on his contract and Nagy 3. Nagy would have to be really bad next year to move on after year 3, I think, so he'll get a 4th year, barring a 2-14 season or something. So the question then ends up being if Pace can go into his final year/Nagy's 4th year as a potential lame duck GM. Or if things go well in 2020 again (even modest success like 10-6), they may look to extend them both. I don't love these comps as there is some confirmation bias, but I saw this elsewhere and thought it was pretty interesting. If you're viewing Pace/Nagy as the package deal, there is plenty of evidence to support patience (as long as you kind of wave off Pace's Y1-3 record). Outside of these teams below, of recent SB winners you have the Pats dynasty, Denver who won in Y1 of Kubiak after stalling under Fox, Steelers at the end of Cowher/Y2 of Tomlin basically and extension of that dynasty, and Philly winning in Y2 under Pederson (and then a couple repeat SB winners from this list). But clearly a lot of good coaches/dynasties taking some time to meld. Rams 1996 6 – 10 Dick Vermeil becomes HC 1997 5 – 11 1998 4 – 12 1999 13 – 3 (Super Bowl XXXIV Champions) Giants 2003 4 - 12 Tom Coughlin becomes HC 2004 6 – 10 2005 11 – 5 2006 8 – 8 2007 10 – 6 (Super Bowl XLII Champions) Saints 2005 3 - 13 Sean Payton becomes HC 2006 10 – 6 2007 7 – 9 2008 8 – 8 2009 13 – 3 (Super Bowl XLIV Champions) Packers 2006 8 – 8 Mike McCarthy becomes HC 2007 13 – 3 2008 6 – 10 2009 11 – 5 2010 10 – 6 (Super Bowl XLV Champions) Seahawks 2009 5 – 11 Pete Carroll becomes HC 2010 7 – 9 2011 7 – 9 2012 11 – 5 2013 13 – 3 (Super Bowl XLVIII Champions) The tough part for Pace will be threading the needle from the 2018-2020 window he initially set up, to re-opening the window in 2021 without any reset/retool year.

Bears fan? He's from Naperville. So I'd say yea. Or just not a fan of large waterways.

Obviously injuries are at times somewhat unpredictable. In time will probably will be viewed similarly to the Tommie Harris pick. A little less impact just based on positional impact, but a brief but impactful peak that was cut short due to injury.

Tim, can you work on that thing from Black Mirror where you can block people from your real life. Comp will be sent upon completion of project, thx.

Interesting. I'm not totally following the PPE part. Are they saying he won't be eligible for that escalation now? If that's the case, his "new" 2020 hit is less than a million extra. The 2021/22 hits feel pretty modest, with a lot of the hit going to 23/24 where the cap should be much higher, and it's pretty much all unguaranteed by that point wiht little dead. Basically it's a 2 year additional commitment to Eddie with non back-breaking cap hits.