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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.
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IMO, that’s a little bit of a reach, but 2nd place seems right. they were 3-13-1 last year. To leapfrog both the Bears and Vikings would suggest a big/promising offseason to get to #2 which in all likelihood would have to mean 8,9 or 10 wins even in this division. With Jared Goff at QB. I could totally see the NFC taking its turn as the horsefeathers division though where it's just a bunch of bad teams between 6-9 wins, and so the order could be whatever. I mean GB probably still separate from the pack just based on Rodgers, but a small change or injury there and it's ugly.
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You could add Cincinnati 2021 to that list as well. A bit more quality at the skill players, but an terrible Oline and D A bit more quality at the skill positions is understating it considerably I'm a bit less muscular than Dwayne Johnson.
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Final corresponding moves: Joe Thomas and Caleb Johnson cut/waived. Tajae Sharpe to IR. https://www.chicagobears.com/news/roster-moves-bears-claim-six-players-off-waivers-alex-leatherwood-alabama Wonder if Harry is still destined for IR. Would mean another move and basically has to be for a WR with the current health/depth. Trade in works? Vet FA non-waiver target? Also I think the 2022 UDFA count is at 7 now. I think the "Bears have worst supporting cast" media guys are pretty validated when a team is set to roll out 7 new UDFAs week one.
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Incredibly active waiver period for Poles. No guy should feel comfortable with their roster spot.
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Yea they'll just pick up the remaining money not the old bonus amortization. It's expensive as far as waiver claims go, but it's nothing in the grand scheme of things. Bears at least 3 years away until they'll realistically have any cap discomfort (and even then, the cap is fake). In a few years when they're extending Fields it won't have mattered they wasted a few million along the way.
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Heyo
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A few interesting choices, but pretty tame 53 deadline. Will have at least one move in the next few days if Harry is IR bound.
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They all horsefeathering suck so it’s not even worth my time comparing. But yes leaving politics out of it id take Ricketts over JR. just need to decide if it’s worse to be an outward trump supporter or a quiet one. If it's just based on merely dollars, Laura could be out lifting her weight among all Chicago owners. Plus Reinsdorf is pretty split in his political donations. Not sure if he is a quiet Trump supporter. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/inside-the-political-donation-history-of-wealthy-sports-owners/ In any case a damned way to pledge pro sports support. Could take up WNBA fandom I guess.
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They're gonna be able to do dick all with that money anyways. Even if I allocate the rookie pool for a number 1 pick, they'll still have like $65M in new cash they have to spend by 2023. But that number could grow if they trade/cut any high priced players under unguaranteed deals for 2023 (i.e. Whitehair, Quinn). Then if they finish better that worst in league it quickly adds up to another 5,10,15 M. Now Poles could obviously spend big in FA to that tune, exclusive of Smith, but if you're looking at roster construct and his behavior in 2022, it's maybe a coin flip that he'd be spending that money on premium positions verse other lower value positions.. like, I don't know ILB. They'll probably be not much over 90% of the minimum cap spend anyways. Maybe 95%. There's diminishing returns of holding back so much spending. Any real money they give Roquan would be paid out before they are even close to having serious cap decisions to make (with an extended Fields, hopefully).
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Very funny watching some of the Twitter commentary on this and people struggling to reconcile SEC's status as the unequivocal talent juggernaut relative to their media standing against Big Ten.
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Former Bear news. He has to be the worst player to ever actually be traded for twice in a career. How does he have any value?
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It's absolutely just negotiating. I understand the consternation given the offseason to this point, but every contract hold out/hold in/whatever looks exactly like this. Eh, I think it's safe to assume that Smith being self represented does make a difference here and adds to the variability. That fact makes it a way different starting point.
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I understand the sentiment, but the Bears are so far removed from concerns over roster cap efficiency and showed little signs of life of actually utilizing the boatload of available cash they have, and cash they have to spend before 2024. Guarantee they'll throw worse contracts to meet the cash floor, rather than just making Ro the top paid ILB. And the real guarantees would be done before any Fields second contact money hits too. Even with an extended Ro they'll have boatloads of cash to spend next year. Basically you'll have to believe that Poles can have a 2022 Jaguars like offseason and use it all more efficiently than on an extended Ro.
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