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I think a 9-7 Bears playoff team is more likely than a 10-6 one. The Eagles don't matter, they and the Cowboys are both 6-7 and they play each other. Neither one can win the wild card. What?

Man I'm not too confident at all about the Rams dropping 2 of those.

On the plus side if you attend the local HS you are a Flaming Heart.

yes https://www.footballdb.com/games/boxscore.html?gid=2004091907 Holy crap, how did I not realize that the Bears somehow won at Lambeau 4 years in a row? (2004-2007) Since then they've won in 2013 and 2015 Was 13 the Thanksgiving game? Loved that one.

I cannot get on board with this theory, that admittedly has been shared by many others. Mitch was throwing deep before, he wasn't intercepted becuase he'd miss everybody by 5 yards. He also had quite a few "should have been" INTs, and plenty of them on shorter passes as well. The INT last night was really bad. He was not pressured, had plenty of time to get rid of the ball, and should have just thrown it away (although I suspect the film will show he had some open receivers earlier). He's lucky the defense stepped up after Dallas started with a precision drive. He did play great and has rebounded nicely, but I am not for "the interceptions means he's trying more" mentality. His INTs are from bad decisions. From his first 4 games to his next 5 or 6, there was actually a jump in more aggressive/downfield throws per next-gen stats. Last night wasn't actually a great example, but teams having to respect the mid to deep field probably has probably helped to open things up for him in the short game where his lack of pinpoint accuracy isn't hurting him as much to set up big plays on short throws, like the screens that went for big gains last night. I had to transcribe these so hopefully no transcription errors; CAY= Average Completed Air Yards IAY = Average Intended Air Yards AGG Aggressiveness % (throws where a defender was within 1 yard) Y/A = Yards/Attempt WEEK CAY IAY AGG 1 4.7 8.30 26.7 2 2.9 7.30 18.5 3 4.4 5.20 3.2 7 3.3 6.70 5.6 8 6.7 8.20 22.9 9 6.9 10.2 14.3 10 7.7 10.1 38.9 11 3.7 7.00 20.9 12 6.1 10.2 22 13 8.0 8.70 21.1 14 3.6 6.40 25.8 2018 6.00 8.8 17.7 7.4 2019 5.17 7.9 17.9 6.2 My only other reaction, having re-watched most of week 1 was that the 8.3 IAY is probably a little misleading because so many throws were pure throw away's where the coverage was leaving nothing open. The times he was sailing it by 5 yards was probably the best choice.

Over under on the percentage of the Bears fan base clamoring to dump Nagy for Rivera? 85%

The Bears wear the striped throwbacks again Thursday. Some people think these throwbacks suck, and they are wrong.

Since it probably requires winning out, I think hope is dead. That said, here's a scenario where Minn falls apart down the stretch and the Bears can still lose to KC and make the playoffs at 9-7! Let that unrealistic hope soak in baby. http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/machine/_/factor/wins/results/401127871~1~401128031~2~401127991~2~401127997~1~401128113~1~401128103~1~401127964~1~401127930~2~401128040~1

We have a 37 game sample size. Of course the bar is low. Still it's hard to imagine a world where 76% completion with 2 drops, 336 yards, 3 TDs and a 119 QB rating doesn't meet whatever bar you could set. He passed the statistical and eye test other than 2 plays. Not sure if you're looking at your Thanksgiving leftovers, but that's a big ass table if he left a lot on it. He's still not good overall. But he was more than good today. Sent from my moto e5 supra using Tapatalk He still threw a lot of balls that were close enough to catch, but not "catchable". That's going to be Mitch's issue, putting receivers in a spot to advance the ball. And Nagy's version of the West Coast with a lot of passes to the flats and stuff just won't work with Mitch. Today's version with a lot of PA that worked the intermediate field eventually opened up the long game and worked well, albeit against a bad D. Late in the game a few of those passes to Miller he was finally legit dropping dimes, which he's thrown maybe like 6 of all year. Near perfection is probably something Mitch isn't capable of, but today was a very nice effort that was perhaps a few critical plays away from a great outing. A this point theres been incrimental progress going on 4-5 weeks, so that's something at least.

It was the right call on Floyd. Dumb penalty. Obviously doesn't mean the hit to the head wasn't missed, but Floyd's is just a clear and dumb mental mistake.

No.

Not surprised he's active, but I'm guessing Lucas will still start.

The best we can hope for is the next time Pax steps down, JR accepts his resignation. Then hope Collins in a senior advisory role, advises JR on a replacement outside of JRs circle of comfort.

Cordarrelle Patterson wants to solve the Bears TE situation, and with this group it's probably not the worst idea I've heard.

Braunecker was just in the way of the Jesper Horsted train leaving the station. Choo Choo. All aboard. It's been mentioned that Burton is probably done as a Bear, is safe to assume Shaheen is done as well? Unless Burtons injury issues have permanently broke him, he's back next year. He may just be a really expensive backup, but you only save about 1M by cutting him against like 7 in dead cap. I guess he could get beat out by 53 other guys, but if he's back healthy, I doubt it. Shaheen is done baring a major offseason breakthrough.

Oh no. Who’s going to drop passes that hit them right in the hands now? Braunecker was just in the way of the Jesper Horsted train leaving the station. Choo Choo. All aboard.

I think the hidden powers are an average QB, which generally means inconsistent too. I was hoping he had enough to be a slightly above average QB like a Flacco or Manning still, but this year has kind of killed that hope for me. He'd have to have Manning like year 5 leap for that to happen.

Yeah, even though he had a rating in the 60's. I thought he looked as good as good as he has at any point in his career on Sunday. The INTs were whatever. Redzone INT can't happen, but it took a great play by the LB. The deep ball INTs never bother me. Sucked that there was a 50-yard return of it, but if you're going to throw picks, best time to do it is on a deep shot. I've seen criticism of the TD pass to Robinson for being short, but that was a layup pass (that he has missed before) and who cares that it was ugly, he scored. Even the RZ INT didn't bother me that much. Like, yea it sucks, but at this point, if Mitch is being aggressive and is throwing the ball past 10 yards past the LOS or more, I'm okay with some inevitable INT. Maybe I'm giving him an unfairly low bar to cleae, but that's it for me at this juncture.

Sadly even if they do that they absolutely will be missing the playoffs. I dont think there is any chance in hell of them making it this year barring a total collapse by both Minnesota and the Rams. Philly beat us but they are just as bad as us, Carolina = meh Yea in a hypothetical 10-6 pile up, their only clear tie breaker win is Minn and Seattle (who's already at 9 wins). They lose to LA and PHI... Not sure about GB. CAR iffy. Although I won't be surprised if no 10 teams make it from the NFC this year.

Sadly even if they do that they have a pretty good shot at missing the playoffs.

Crawford doesn't have much of a leg to stand on if that's his complaint. I thought it was upper body injuries.

Put the teams in dugouts below the stands. Problem solved.

The tree thing is kind of dumb anyways, but if current coaches is there any current coach who's is better than Reid? You can go all the way up to guys like Parcells, but those "trees" start to get super broad anyways, so of course there's plenty of good ones.

Also, it's weird to talk about Rivera being from the Reid coaching tree right?

You mean super bowl champion Doug Pederson?