As expected, all their opportunities to win would be off of raiders turnovers and they have 6 total points, can’t run, and can’t pass block to allow the receivers to break their routes against that weak secondary.
Bears can’t run, raiders strength is their run defense, Raiders weakness is their secondary, Bears strength is their wide receivers….: It’d be nice to use our strength against their weakness but they can’t horsefeathers block.
And Ryan Poles said that’s my guy. He’s also the only round 3-4 picks from the 2022-23 drafts still on the roster. He’ll get some carries today if Swift is out.
This is the least dynamic backfield in NFL history. It’s bad when DJ Moore is ahead of Roshon on the depth chart. Another useless mid round pick from Poles.
He’s been laying off of sliders too which is great too see. They just need Tucker to shake off his rust and hope he’s healthy enough make hard contact. The teams path to a playoff run is the bats which we’ve known all year.
The dodgers and Phillies are the matchup nightmares. Power hitting top scoring offenses have crushed this pitching staff all year long with their susceptibility to give up home runs. Phillies lefties are another huge obstacle. I just hope we’re in a position to have these fears.
Padres don’t hit many homers as a team, a huge weakness of the pitching staff and the lack of left handed starting pitchers are two matchup advantages.
As one of the hyper optimistic, glass half full posters you can take this with a grain of salt but it’s very encouraging to see the big bats like Busch, Suzuki and PCA to a limited degree show some life. Small sample size I know. Just need tuckers bat to wake up too to offset the Horton injury as much as possible.
Of the regulars on Fangraphs, Swanson’s wRC+ is 99 and Shaw’s wRC+ is 93. Baseball reference is much easier to navigate though. rOBA and Rbat+ are baseball references versions of wOBA and wRC+.but they have Shaw at +100 and Swanson at +107 in their version of wRC+ which deviates a lot from Fangraphs.
I guess he does have a $15 million player option. I stand corrected. 3 years $57 million for a MOR starter is the sweet spot for the front office and Taillon is off the books after 2026 too. But yes, It’s a non zero% chance.