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What a godawful take https://twitter.com/peggykusinski/status/1543233052599525376?t=GpnlQ8upiJDvURCktUEI8w&s=19 Oh the two players arrested also have direct ties to the HC and GM.

So prob one more minimum+ type signing.

Obviously every experience is different to some degree. I looked it up after making that post yesterday and some websites of unknown authority made some bigger claims about ALS and pain but the well known sites like Mayo Clinic and ALS org downplay it's pain effects. So :shrug: It's an awful disease but based on any first or second hand experience I've had with it, those who suffer often times have a pretty peaceful end, and not, "I just wish it would end" mindset. It isn't the writhing in pain experience. It's very difficult to watch and care for though. And obviously it's difficult to experience for the patients. But when I think about the "I pray for it to be over for them" type attitude, it's a way more complex situation than other types of death I've watched for ill people. Whether it's severely sick patients who are basically comotose from the pain management meds and sever physical pain, or people who have lost their mind and aren't even there mentally.. It's just a lot different.

Ok, I've been trying to figure out this comment but I'm really not sure what you're saying here. LOL. read an article yesterday about mcmichael having a fentanyl patch on him at all times. yeah, the dude is in constant pain. Huh, my understanding of ALS is that sort of pain and pain managemt isn't super common. But I guess it's possible. That sucks if it's the case. Even thinking of family members who I have watched die in hospice from organ failure related to age, the pain management plan wiped out any quality of life. ALS patients (again from everything I've personally known) generally maintain all their mental faculties (if they lose it it may be related to some other concurrent issue), and if they aren't in pain or their pain management needs require very low doses of stuff that don't turn them into a glazed-over shell of themselves, than the idea of merciful pleas re: their life may be misguided.

Pain/discomfort wise it's, to my understanding, not physically so. Mentally is of course a different story. Not to minimize that aspect, but having lost a uncle to a similar disease to ALS, I'll say the emotions around end of life care and quality of life and such are generally much more complex that say, someone who's body is being wrecked by cancer. Ok, I've been trying to figure out this comment but I'm really not sure what you're saying here. LOL. Addressing the pain/discomfort comment. My understanding is that from a physical pain component, ALS is generally not a painful disease.

Heart breaking. Yeah, at this point I want it over for him. Has to be in unbearable pain and discomfort. Pain/discomfort wise it's, to my understanding, not physically so. Mentally is of course a different story. Not to minimize that aspect, but having lost a uncle to a similar disease to ALS, I'll say the emotions around end of life care and quality of life and such are generally much more complex that say, someone who's body is being wrecked by cancer.

Does he replace PWill when he goes in the Gobert trade?

For a guy who got famous among baseball fans for being a sabr guy, he's shockingly number illiterate. He's had some takes during COVID that show he doesn't super get math. Was he ever explicitly a sabr guy or did he just make a funny running joke about a fictional law firm using sabr stat names?

I think this is an unneccsarily complex way to say that if your bad, being worse than bad is whatever. Kinda. It's more saying you aren't worse. Pro athletes are the tip of the bell curve, but it starts to widen out as you move down. There's a big difference between the 1st and 5th best tackle you can get, but there's probably no real difference between the 6th and 10th. Eh, if we're talking 6th to 10th we're still pretty far from replacement level too. More like 20th to 40th. The only real depth they added was day 3 rookies who rarely out produce replacement level vets.

If you have the time the free park and ride really isn't a bad bet. Although my parents used it a few weeks ago and at that time they werent dropping you off right at the stadium. Not sure if that was still the case or a short term thing cuz there was/is construction. Edit - nevermind that's only nights and weekends.

I think this is an unneccsarily complex way to say that if your bad, being worse than bad is whatever.

.........the GM and assistant GM were NFL O-linemen and know what to look for for OL prospects. Is the go-to reasoning for people being OK with a severe lack of talent added to an already bad OL. Not only is it the go to reasoning, but 9 times out of 10 the people saying it are very indignant about it all lol.

No you see you don't need depth or actual good players because

Good news: breaking the law is the new market inefficiency New? Belichick has been for 2 decades.

Sulley telling other sports fans to relax. It's official our country is done.

That schedule is at least half the reason for optimism for the 2022 Bears (ha, got it right that time). The other half is Fields. Just very funny to see a segment of Bears twitter that's so upset the media is discounting the Bears roster. And objectively those media guys are right, but there's a decent chance the smoke and mirrors of an easy rschedule will obfuscate that and make those takes look bad in 9 months. Then going into 2023, the Bears will spend a boatload in FA and probably get another boost. If Fields becomes a real star in that timeframe, Poles then gets easy sailing from there on out. But you can look over at the Browns for instance, and they were still trying to figure out Mayfield into year 4, but still liked him enough to pick up a guaranteed year 5 option, only to trade a haul for Watson less than a year later.

I think that's more or less the plan for 2021. Not that they won't try and develop Fields progressions and stuff, but I think they'll lean on a run game and hope to end up in positions where they're just playing from behind and have to throw.

I see it as one of 2 things: 1) They don't believe in Fields and/or putting him in a position where if he's elite he'll show enough despite being hamstrung by resources or he'll prove to be a bust in which case they can justify dumping him and picking their own QB 2) They do believe in Fields and/or are natural on him and think that having a superior coaching staff/offensive gameplan and their handpicked scrap heap guys they added will make a giant difference. If its the second one, then either they are really smart and have proven they have a strong ability to identify coaching and player talent, or they suffer from the same 'smartest guy in the room' syndrome that has been the downfall of so many other executives and coaches throughout the NFL. I don't believe they are outright sabotaging him though necessarily. If Fields sucks so they trade him off and he becomes a star elsewhere, all the sudden Poles looks like a moron and his seat starts getting warm. You can count on one hand the number of 1st round QBs that fail on their original team and then become a star elsewhere. Brees...Favre...probably 1 or 2 I'm missing. Technically Favre was in the 2nd round but he was one of the first few picks of that round. You can probably count on one hand the number of 1st round draft pick QBs who've been abandoned by a new regime. I think there's a 3rd option in there. They have some level of faith in Fields but not enough to carry this team in 2022, which is what they'd need to contend this year. They aren't giving him weapons because if they did he'd be expected to use them? So they are going into 2022 with the hopes of being a run first, second and third team, maybe throwing 18 times a game just to mix things up. Load up on young depth on the offensive line, pound the ball, create an identity on offense while not actually scoring points, let the defense keep you in the game and maybe you win a couple unexpectedly. There are enough bad teams on this schedule that they can beat a few just with competence and turnovers, and then you load up in the 2023 draft with all the talent you can give Fields to open it up. If Fields stumbles in 2023, you draft your QB in 2024 and hope that guys shows enough in his 2nd year to net everybody a contract extension. Or if Fields survives this gauntlet you get that contract extension even sooner. Because by then you should have the surrounding cast to help a young QB. The other issue though is I don't see how this defense can be anywhere close to dominant enough to keep this team in games this year. I think both of these posts are basically right. Looking at the schedule and QBs they'll face, the D definitely could keep them in most games. Even if they have like a 3 win season, if it's Lions 2021 like people are probably going to view it somewhat favorably as they rarely got blown out. He's banking on that good will. And if they surpise up to like 8 wins, it's house money.

Ugh that's awful.

I thought I read that the coin flip didn't technically cost them that lotto pick. Them and Sac already had their own lotto numbers. Coin flip just determined positioning only if both stayed put.

That WR room is pretty loaded.

Wow, has it been that long since the Bears had an "elite" rushing attack? :D not gonna lie that definitely crossed my mind I had a non internet friend, but one who I do interact with in Twitter screenshot a tweet of sulleys making fun of him. And I got to fill him in on all the cool nsbb details of what a mad rambling sports fan he actually is lol

Yep. I've heard Bears consistently draw well on prime time viewers too. Makes sense as its the largest 1 team market in the NFL but man recent Bears primetime games have been so incredibly awful and unwatchable with the exception of the Steelers game last year. Yea the large market helps, but even outside the Chicago media market they apparently just draw really broadly. I remember reading a article or tweet from some guy who used to work for Nielsen.

Because it's the Bears and between Packers, chance of Lions on thanksgiving, and the need to fill at least 2 primetime games every week, and often more, plus the limits on the best teams doing it every week, the league doesn't have many better options. Yep. I've heard Bears consistently draw well on prime time viewers too.