Hairyducked Idiot

And that's why we didn't open it up until we had no choice.

It's about shortening the sample size of the game. If you chew the clock and lower the number of possessions, you have a better chance of your breaks making the difference. The more plays that get run, the longer than game goes, the more likely the fact that the Packers are superior is to be decisive.

The conservative game plan is why they're in this game against a way better team.

And that's why blitzing sucks

Odds of Rams beating Arizona: 40% Odds of Bears beating Packers: 0.001%

Eventually we're going to have stop pretending that our GM is a president. They're not going to give Boston more compensation retroactively.

lol this season is gonna be something

No one is giving you mlb-ready talent in trades these days. They’d rather just promote and use them themselves

From a baseball perspective, screw pitchers. Always screw pitchers. If you can get a team to give you things in exchange for taking a 35-year-old pitcher with a 3-year deal off your hands, you thank them. Because screw pitchers. But I'm having fun seeing all the Cubs fan misery porn it's producing.

Did the Cubs FO even look at the Padres' top 10 prospect lists on *any* of the major sites before making this deal? Do your due diligence, guys.

Remember when Theo was going to do the Cubs Way and make it so that we never had to do this again. I can't wait to tell an entire generation of Cubs fans that this rebuild thing is new and they've never committed to building from the farm system before.

I know it's just how the business works, and maybe the Cubs even talked to him about it and he's ok with it, but there's something so gross about giving the dude a huge "we want you here" pitch in free agency and then trading him a couple years later.

There's about a 2% chance the Bears beat a Packers team with something to play for. With Goff hurt, we're set up perfectly for the classic Bears last-out.

Not imagining he's really stepped up his play: Someday PFF is going to admit their grades are RNG

The Jags have played lots of teams close during their win streak. Blowing them out is a fine accomplishment.

Has anything happened yet?

I’m just assuming they’ll go 9-7 and still miss. These last-team-out scenarios never go our way. One of my earliest bears memories is listening to this game on the radio and having complete faith that Steve Young and Jerry Rice would save us: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/199512240atl.htm

The constant swing tweaking continues. I won't be able to get any rounds in while kid is on Christmas break, but he's willing to go with me to some range sessions as long as he gets the occasional turn (I'd give him all the turns he wants, but he's happy to one-hand a ball a few feet then call it a day). This video is what finally helped me diagnose my pull: I was trying to get my weight forward on my front foot, and it was causing my upper body to have a forward lean at impact. So what I want is weight toward front foot and moving forward through impact, hip out in front, but spine titled back slightly to create that ) shape in the side. I need to keep doing drills to get all that right. I'm worried it can overcorrect into a scooping motion if I'm not careful. I also used some spray to see where I'm striking the ball, and I'm almost always missing it toward the heel. So I started standing just a little farther away. Some other things I'm trying to incorporate: 1) Baseball grip instead of interlock. Interlock just hurts my fingers and the bottom hand never feels placed correctly. 2) Slightly more outward angle to the feet. 3) fuller hip turn to get the front shoulder down toward the ball at peak backswing 4) Drive the club with the trail hand rather than pull it with the lead hand 5) Derive power from pushing with my lead leg (without fully straightening it). It's all very much a work in progress, but when I catch it like I'm trying to, it absolutely *flies*. Two months ago I was struggling to hit my 7-iron was generally a 95-yard carry club. Today I cleared 150 with it a few times, and I think I've got plenty of room left to improve that.

I’m really not in the mood to draft a linebacker. My preferences for the first round would be o-line, QB, WR I generally hate narrowing down on the first round. Just get the best players you can. Obviously positional value plays some role if you're talking QB v ILB, but I can come up with needs anywhere on the roster basically. I’m talking almost from a fun perspective. BPA is probably the right play if you’re min-maxing but i am so tired of defense. You’re right about basically the entire roster being replaceable with a good first round pick. The only position I would really blink at drafting someone is TE, where Kmet seems to have it locked down

That's pretty much where I am. The emergence of the interior OL, Trubisky and Montgomery is objectively a good thing, but it's somehow made the future of the team even less clear. It's cemented the mediocrity hell even harder. I like rooting for Trubisky. I like the idea of sticking with a QB we've drafted. I think he's shown he's better than Foles, and that he's capable of being serviceable if the rest of the offense isn't a tire-fire (and apparently Nagy's playcalling was a problem). But that just makes things even more awkward, because 1) he's still not the Franchise QB we want and 2) He's not under contract and Foles is, and Foles' contract was backloaded to hell. We're already in enough of a cap space crunch as it is without trying to figure out how we're going to make room for Mitchy T. The defense looks old and thin, and we knew going into the season the defense looked old and thin, and it's not gonna get less old and thin next year. We're in a really awkward spot because I don't think we have an gaping holes. There's no wildly sub-replacement units that we can fix and suddenly get way better. It's just a raging sea of mediocrity all across the roster, and not a lot of cap space to fix it. I guess maybe you just run it back, try to have a good draft, and figure out where you are after next year? If you resign Trubisky, you can draft EDGE or WR in the 1st round, depending on who is there. That frees up letting Arob go or trading Mack. If you draft OL, you will likely have to bring Arob back. Or, you simply BPA the pick I guess the point is if Trubisky plays himself into a new contract you have more options than if he flat out sucked and you HAVE to draft QB in the 1st. I’m really not in the mood to draft a linebacker. My preferences for the first round would be o-line, QB, WR

The man has lost jobs to Gardner Minshew and Case Keenum. He's gotta be used to it by now.

In a trade you don't pick up the guaranteed salary hits, just pro-rations from bonuses. So theres 5M in guaranteed 2021 (4) and 2022 (1) the new team picks up. Bears just eat the signing bonus pro-ration from signing bonus from the restructure. In a cut, the Bears eat that pro ration and the guarantee base salaries. I'm admittedly starting to go on a bit of a "the base salaries are all that matters crusade.". The signing bonuses are all sunk costs and you don't want to fall into a sunk cost fallacy with your decision making. So even moves that people say "cost you" cap space really are net savings in a big picture. The cap hits year over year are pretty fungible so there's almost always ways to move around dead hits without increasing guarantees. Basically if you can get out of unearned cash payments, these moves always save cap. If you cant get out of new cash payments, they don't. So if he's traded (rather than cut), the new team takes the cap hit on guaranteed but not-paid-yet money, right? That would be his 2021 salary, $1m of his 2022 salary, and a 2022 $4m roster bonus. Also, if Trubisky manages to stay healthy and play these last two games, we avoided any of his escalator clauses.

That's pretty much where I am. The emergence of the interior OL, Trubisky and Montgomery is objectively a good thing, but it's somehow made the future of the team even less clear. It's cemented the mediocrity hell even harder. I like rooting for Trubisky. I like the idea of sticking with a QB we've drafted. I think he's shown he's better than Foles, and that he's capable of being serviceable if the rest of the offense isn't a tire-fire (and apparently Nagy's playcalling was a problem). But that just makes things even more awkward, because 1) he's still not the Franchise QB we want and 2) He's not under contract and Foles is, and Foles' contract was backloaded to hell. We're already in enough of a cap space crunch as it is without trying to figure out how we're going to make room for Mitchy T. The defense looks old and thin, and we knew going into the season the defense looked old and thin, and it's not gonna get less old and thin next year. We're in a really awkward spot because I don't think we have an gaping holes. There's no wildly sub-replacement units that we can fix and suddenly get way better. It's just a raging sea of mediocrity all across the roster, and not a lot of cap space to fix it. I guess maybe you just run it back, try to have a good draft, and figure out where you are after next year?