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lol that's certainly an interesting theory. While I don't really believe that was what happened, the way he threw the towel right in front of the ref basically and kind of stared at him for an extra second would support this. But we've seen kickers drill 47 yard FGs in blinding snowstorms and I think an NFL kicker should be expected to have a reasonable chance of hitting that kick, or at least reasonable enough to attempt the kick when you are struggling to move the ball and put points up. I hope my conspiracy theory was an obvious joke. But based on the XP issues, 47 also clearly wasn't in his range yesterday. That's always something that always has to be updated on GameDay, especially in crazy weather.
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Conspiracy theory: Big brain moment. Eberflus told Gill to clear it with a towel because he wanted the 15 yard penalty for a better pinned punt attempt and knew the FG was to long in the conditions. Provides cover for the kicker and his confidence and deterring questions about the decision not to kick.
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I always do that. I like to read everything being said prior to and during the game after the fact. I would have been there with everyone else with the comments on how horrible they looked in the first half. I'm digging this new coaching staff quite a bit. I hate tacky unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, but I certainly give the punter a pass for his. Glad to see clean football being taught in the locker room. Trying to explain that unsportsmanlike penalty to my wife was fun.
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This is gonna be a wet surface. Bermuda to the test!
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Dieter being called up from practice squad. So seems Patrick definitely isn't ready to snap. Will be interesting to see if he starts at RG over Jenkins though.
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Fwiw, I didn't have to subscribe, so there's probably a free article limit for anyone hesitant to click though.
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Tweet storm from Courtney Cronin
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What would the inherent advantage be? Nothing other than having a centralized location for all their operations and only one place for players to have to commute to. They're obviously not terribly far from each other (30-40 min drive, 25ish miles) but it just occurred to me when thinking of how the Bulls moved their operations near the UC from Deerfield. Way fewer games for the Bears, obviously. Having an even shinier and newer facility if they're investing all of this money anyway. I guess it's probably not worth wasting the land on a few practice fields, though. Yea and I'd think the business of a stadium area would be a nuisance anf possible distraction. I know Dallas combined their stadium and practice facility, but I'm not sure about any other teams who have.
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What would the inherent advantage be?
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Can't they direct it in the sense that design of those things will be built to accommodate the related needs they want for the site? So if a 290 extension is done to accommodate new underpass walk/roadways and specific exits, it will? Or if they want their transit hub to have certain amenities it will? yes, but those are generally paid by the applicant in infrastructure development fees. what I would imagine is the city/state will waive those fees. its money in a sense, but more of a trade-off in saying "look, I'll move here" But won't they also just figure out little tweaks and things that qualify them for federal grants for minor modifications, which then get negotiated between the Bears and whichever entity (say Metra) is applying for the grant?
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Also Twitter reminds me how pretty much no group understands economics way less than the pro parking lot bloc.
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There's probably some federal money to be found if they do something with the Metra station to make it a transit hub. Connect some Pace routes to underserved communities. Can they get some federal money to extend I-290 for that final stretch along 53, and then widen it and add some lanes and new entrance/exit ramps along the way? Outside of that, the onsite hotels/entertainment spots will probably level a tax to pay some additional village/County bonds for road/infrastructure enhancements. I'm sure some TIF is in play, but the starting level which to set the incriment value off of may be a big negotiating point for the village. I'm sure they could get money for doing infrastructure, but the money would only pay for the infrastructure (ie train stops, freeway extensions, etc). the Bears themselves wont be able to direct those funds Can't they direct it in the sense that design of those things will be built to accommodate the related needs they want for the site? So if a 290 extension is done to accommodate new underpass walk/roadways and specific exits, it will? Or if they want their transit hub to have certain amenities it will?
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The comedic factor of replacing Ryan, Matt and Phillips with Ryan, Matt and Phillips makes this a must hire IMO.
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Conceivably, they could include affordable housing as part of the development in order to qualify for various government housing grants through federal/state/local authorities (think HUD or IHDA). More likely, they might offer to construct a new courthouse facility to entice Cook County and Illinois to chip in funding. The Rolling Meadows courthouse complex is directly across the street on Euclid and seriously needs an update. I could see the Bears offering to buy out that land and use it for office facilities and parking. I dont think they can do this "additional funds" = additional investors, tax breaks, direct public funding would be my guess There's probably some federal money to be found if they do something with the Metra station to make it a transit hub. Connect some Pace routes to underserved communities. Can they get some federal money to extend I-290 for that final stretch along 53, and then widen it and add some lanes and new entrance/exit ramps along the way? Outside of that, the onsite hotels/entertainment spots will probably level a tax to pay some additional village/County bonds for road/infrastructure enhancements. I'm sure some TIF is in play, but the starting level which to set the incriment value off of may be a big negotiating point for the village.
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Conceivably, they could include affordable housing as part of the development in order to qualify for various government housing grants through federal/state/local authorities (think HUD or IHDA). More likely, they might offer to construct a new courthouse facility to entice Cook County and Illinois to chip in funding. The Rolling Meadows courthouse complex is directly across the street on Euclid and seriously needs an update. I could see the Bears offering to buy out that land and use it for office facilities and parking. I've heard rumors Bears are buying up residential property at well above market rate too. Anyways the original tweet got deleted, but the official statement is much more clear. They aren't asking for subsidies for the stadium costs. Everything else is where they'll look for public financing (whether direct, TIF, or simply infrastructure improvements). At the very least there is gonna be a lot of new road work to handle the extra traffic, so that will be a myriad of state and local financing there.
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Are all the small boxes along the south part supposed to be little strip malls or some sort of medium density housing?
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Warm weather grass in Chicago. Bold move. I know they'll resod at some point regardless, but seems odd. Apparently this is a new strain created 3 years ago that is designed to withstand cold weather. Yea I ended up going down the rabbit hole of this yesterday, but it seems like even these new strains top out around I-70 as a N/S divider. I don't think it's uncommon for them to do one re-sodding, but the first three home games gets them through October. 4th home game is 11/6, with two in a row. So that grass either gets them through November (first 5 games) or is only for the first 3 games. But even if they got 5 games before transitioning to a cool weather grass they're re-sodding in mid November?
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Warm weather grass in Chicago. Bold move. I know they'll resod at some point regardless, but seems odd.
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Randos on Twitter talking him up as a T. But looks like he only played 1 year there as a rookie. Unless maybe Jenkins is getting bumped back to RT this seems like a bad sign no matter what. Either way, for all the Twitter bros talking up how Poles was gonna be different than Pace for the OL and they're just signing old dude immediately before week 1 again (and it worked last time! But still).
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No idea. They have the Fire as tenets, but they could scale back by like 4 fold and still have plenty of room for what they draw. No idea what maintenance looks like at current Soldier Field. The Bears revenue as is isn't crazy though. I'm sure it could hobble along for a while before it's financially beneficial for the city to do another rear down and rebuild. Also possible future home to the Chicago Jaguars.
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Bumping this thread as the apprpriate spot for stadium news coming later this week and not the Week 1 thread. My dream: The Bears concept is two facilities: a standalone football stadium only (either domed or open) played on real grass and not designed as a multi use stadium. A separate multi use convention center designed for things like a Final 4 and Wrestlemania, but no football consideration. I have idea what the economics really look like except I think I saw an article that Minny going fixed roof over retractable roof was something like 400M-500m savings and they did their whole build for only a little over 1.1B. And it seems like the multi use Football to basically another event setup has to be very inefficient. And roof or not the NFL isn't gonna give Chicago more than one token SB dome or not because it's still miserable Chicago in February and places like NO, ATL, LA, Miami are more attractive.
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I swear to God if JR sells the White Sox but keeps the Bulls..... Its long been speculated that the estate plan for the Reinsdorf post Jerry was selling to Sox to keep the Bulls. The possibility Jerry does it rather than selling it through the estate just forwards the timeline a little. -
But also the order is fine because there basically doesn't exist a org chart in the entire league wherein a football Pres oversees a football GM, like fans imagine it. Go figure out the top 5 sport stadium renos (regardless of league) in recent history and interview a top exec from each. That would be a great start for the Bears candidate list.
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Can't wait for the fans to flip when the new president is a accountant/attorney/marketing professional and not a FoOtBaLL mINd
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More excited than the games this year, perhaps.
