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Trading for some picks makes sense to me. But tell that to a GM who traded a pick for a kick returner just 20 days ago.
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600 passing TDs in Brady’s career. Quick math says that’s equal to averaging 30 TDs a season for 20 years. The Bears have never had a QB throw for 30 TDs in a season.
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Illinois is a mediocre qb away from being a good team this year. Unfortunately, they have nothing close to resembling a mediocre qb on the roster.
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There's a large body of evidence to suggest a big offensive leap coinciding with an improving Fields is never going to happen with Nagy. Today' NFL is all about offense, seems 3/4 of league with various weaknesses and strengths can still move the ball and score points at will, it starts at the top. Honestly, is it Nagy's full part? The Bears couldn't get a consistently good offense with Lovie Smith. They couldn't get a consistently good offense with Marc Trestman. They couldn't get a consistently good offense with John Fox (lol). They haven't been able to get a consistently good offense with Nagy. Talent acquisition has to be a huge part of the problem here. The Bears were top half of the League in offensive yards from scrimmage in every season under Ditka except his first. In the 28 seasons since then, they’ve only managed it 5 times, while being bottom 5 in the League 7 times. This season is looking like a strong bid to be the 8th time in 29 seasons the Bears are in the bottom 5 in offensive yards. In those 30 years, the Bears can’t seem to acquire a franchise qb, essentially refuse to draft and develop offensive linemen, and have failed to develop the wide receivers they’ve drafted into impact players.
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If someone’s position is that Ricketts is a lying liar who lies, I understand and you’re probably not wrong. However, it we take that statement at face value, “We have the resources necessary to compete in 2022 and beyond, and we will use them,” is a pretty unambiguous declaration that the Cubs plan to try next year.
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Looking at BR’s contracts pages for each team, all three of the White Sox, Cardinals and Brewers are projected to be at over $200MM in payroll heading into 2023.
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Definitely hard to come up with good moments from a 1st ballot HOF LB, 4-time all pro, 2x DPOTY, who led his team to a Superbowl. Signature moments. Let's hear em. The games against Michael Vick. Urlacher’s lateral speed shutting down Vick’s scrambling. Especially 2005. Horrible cold December game in Chicago. You could visibly see Vick’s desire to be out there fading away.
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Bears were 22-9 vs the Packers from 1976 to 1991. Basically from Walter Payton to Brett Favre. 15-44 since, playoffs included, with a 2-18 stretch and the current 3-19 stretch. What happens when the Packers have had 30 consecutive years of HoF caliber QB play and the Bears… haven’t, to put it mildly.
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…. Uh. That’s bone jarringly stupid. It should go without saying, that’s not the kind of sign stealing the Astros got in trouble for, nor the kind of sign stealing Tepera was alluding to.
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I don’t think either team is very good, but one of these two is going to win the division by default. Probably the Packers, but I wouldn’t be shocked if the Bears snuck out a close win here. I want to revise up my Bears win total expectation after the Raiders win, but I still don’t see much more than 7 wins on the schedule.
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Don't forget about the menacing looks and overall bitchy pettiness. And sweet, sweet neck tats! And sticky chest protectors.
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We are going to lose it anyway. Yeah. Unfortunately, I think the 2020 COVID playoffs were a preview of things to come.
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This past year's market is not going to be a great comparison point for obvious reasons, but looking at the ESPN FA tracker, only 10 SP got more AAV in free agency than Arrieta. 2 were very good in a full season(Morton, Ray), 2 were very good in half a season(Bauer, Kluber), and of the remaining 6 the only one who exceeded 1 fWAR was Mike Minor and his 5.05 ERA. Trevor Williams had 1.2 fWAR in 91 IP. This is the point, the unspoken inference to 'if only they weren't so cheap' is that they'd have done better if they had just spent more money, when the guys further up the ladder are a pretty big minefield themselves. Arguably, the crappy starting pitching free agent market last winter should have led to the Cubs getting more for Darvish. Although now I’m pretty sure the Padres would happily take Caissie and Preciado back in exchange for getting out from under the remainder of Darvish’s contract.
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Starting pitcher is a position where the Cubs have a chance to sign someone in ‘22 who’ll be a big part of an eventually competitive team in ‘23, ‘24 and later. I know the Edwin Jackson signing in ‘13 didn’t work out, but the basic premise behind it - sign someone who can eat some inning now, who can be a piece on a winner in a few years - was sound. And there are a ton of guys who’d qualify for that this off-season. Gauseman, Ray, Stroman, Syndergaard, Rodon, Desclafani, John Gray, Eduardo Rodriguez, Bundy. I’m sure I’m forgetting someone. No reason why the Cubs can’t sign two of those.
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Assuming the Mets decline Betance’s and Pillar’s options, they’ll be below the tax, but only have about $10MM to spend. The Phillies and Padres will be hard up against the tax. The White Sox and Brewers will be a year away from being in the same boat. Assuming after whatever form the CBA ends up being, baseball goes forward with a system roughly the same as they have now, all those teams could be looking to slash salary.
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Jay Hilgenberg should be in before any of them.
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If they struggle to score 20 points and get 200 yards against this Lions defense, you’d almost have to do something.
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The Lions are likely to be the worst defense the Bears play all year. So good measuring stick, I guess.
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Trubisky not being the long term answer and Nagy consistently refusing to put together a game plan to play to Trubisky’s strengths can both be true. And quite likely was.
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#11 overall AND what is almost certain to be a top 10, if not top 5, pick in 2022. you're counting the trade twice here. it was #20 plus that 1st You’re right.
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#11 overall AND what is almost certain to be a top 10, if not top 5, pick in 2022.
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They handed the ball off to Montgomery 10 times all game. In their rookie QBs’ first start, the Bears only handed the ball off to their best offensive player 10 times.
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We’ve seen it for 3+ years. Nagy is either unable or unwilling to put together a game plan for his young qbs.
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Rookie qb making his first start and through three quarters you hand it off to your pro bowl RB 9 times.
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Huh? I think the point he is trying to make is that Nagy has said, "Fields will start when he's ready and we will all know when that is". He wasn't ready last week with Dalton as an option, so why is he ready this week when Foles is the only other option? The only thing that makes sense is they think Dalton is better than Fields, but Fields is better than Foles. I mean, we know they don't want to waste anymore time on Foles, which is understandable. But a lot of us have questioned why they thought it was OK wasting time on Dalton. Yeah. That's what I was trying to say. What does Dalton's health have to do with Fields' readiness, if readiness is really what determines when Fields will be starting? Not that I have any desire whatsoever to see any more of Foles.