lostfan
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Matt Eberflus is a sentient jar of mayonnaise who would fit right in as one of Jerry's employees, if the Bears were a Reinsdorf team. Dude has mastered the art of deflecting blame and shielding his staff from accountability at the same time.
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39 minutes ago, Vacheron said:
Could be worse. They could be the Giants.
The Bears looked like the '89 49ers compared to the Giants
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Fields was bad today but not bad enough to be singled out. Literally the entire team (except Santos) was ass today. Getsy's game plan was the most asinine I've ever seen - Fields had 3 passes attempted over 10 yards on 37 attempts. They didn't even TRY to get anything to Moore. The OL and DL were bad. The Packers offense wasn't really doing anything in the first half so the defense LITERALLY just let the Packers' mediocre, inexperienced WRs get as wide open as possible (one time they did this on 2 straight plays as if they were making up for it not working the first time).
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47 minutes ago, Dick Allen said:
Sox AAA affiliate is 35 games under. The AA affiliate is 30 games under. How does the farm director get promoted?
White Sox (made of prospects acquired and developed from failed rebuild) 28 games under .500AAA affiliate: 30 games under, last placeAA affiliate: 11 under, last placeHigh-A: 6 underLow-A: 3 underRookie: 14 under, last placeJerry Reinsdorf: let's promote the guy in charge of this farm system and make him GM. My reason for doing this is that he is familiar with our organization. This is a good reason.-
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I can't even get mad about this. I just don't even fucking care. I think that is actually a level below anger.
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It could always get worse, Reinsdorf could hire, say, Dave Wilder for GM
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I would feel even better if Jerry announced he was selling the team and retiring so we wouldn't be the 2010s Washington Redskins of baseball anymore, but I'll take what I can get.
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Robert is one of the few areas of genuine excellence this team has
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Do people forget what absolute clown shoes Ozzie was at the end of his time managing? He got fired for a reason
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My takeaway from this is that TA cares more than people think, or give him credit for.
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You don't get more dramatic of an ending than a walk-off grand slam
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Damn baby, you must be the Chicago White Sox, cuz you look bad as hell
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On 5/28/2023 at 8:52 AM, Dick Allen said:
Bulls execs admitting off the record Lonzo is most likely done.
There's just no path forward for this roster as it exists without Lonzo, he's what made the whole thing work
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Robert looked like ass a few weeks ago, and then suddenly he didn't. If only the rest of the lineup could figure it out like he did.
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Right now I would just settle to see him have a positive WAR season first. Baby steps.
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43 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:
Lotta OGs not around much anymore. As much as I tussled with him it's sad to see Ray mostly gone as well. Same with Parkman. I'm mostly just s%*# posting. There's really nothing to talk about other than how much they suck. There isn't really one interesting playing on the roster. If there are some in the minors, they will inevitably fail to develop under this coaching and development staff.
Well also a lot of the regular posters and longtime members that are still active are old as hell now. I was 25 when I joined this board, now 41, and I think I'm probably in the younger quartile of members on here. All parts of this board used to be active well after midnight, now everyone's in bed by 9 pm
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I really don't remember people being optimistic and excited until the COVID season tbh
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57 minutes ago, Bob Sacamano said:
This. He was pretty untouchable up until like 2021ish.
I think a lot of people turned on him in 2019 after (predictably) failing to sign Machado and/or Harper, at least to my point of view. People were steaming mad
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I remember when she said this I thought it was kinda odd that she commented but I wasn't mad. I was like, well yeah. That is after all how they ended up with Dallas Keuchel in the first place.
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5 minutes ago, FloydBannister1983 said:
My work colleague and I used to comment that these guys didn’t need agents, the fans did their work for them.
Perusing the boards from 2017-2019 you have more people than should have been proclaiming Roberts and Moncada and Jimenez future Hall of Famers. We had threads that told us we should picture Kopech and Giolito as future Verlanders.
So you can forgive their overconfidence a bit.
Hahn should have known to underpromise and over deliver.
I mean to be totally fair Yoan was elite in 2019 and we thought he turned a corner in the way that Anderson did the same year. Then he s%*# the bed and started getting injured every 10 games, that's not really overconfident of us, imo
Yeah we kinda did overhype Jimenez, he's an above-average hitter who can't field and who is as durable as toilet paper, Giolito didn't live up to the hype but he's honestly not been that bad.
Kopech and Robert we were just going off the talent we knew they had and the flashes of brilliance we saw from them but they've both been significantly derailed by injuries, and then being swallowed by the general shittiness of this team. I don't think we were overhyping them though, we were talking about their ceilings as players if they properly developed, which didn't happen (or hasn't yet).
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17 minutes ago, CWSpalehoseCWS said:
Robert = Alex Rios 2.0
Harsh, but fair
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Prior to this year I used to think Luis Robert was amazing and hyped him up so much, now I'm not sure anymore. Dude has gotten his hitting numbers out of the shitter and back to respectability, but he gives these vibes where he seems like he's checked out or only partially engaged. I didn't think that about him before. It's like he absorbed it from the team somehow.
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When I read these quotes last week the one that stood out to me was when he said he never cared about making money and he only wanted to win. LOL how stupid does he think everyone is?
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2023-24 NFL Season Thread
in A and J's Olde Tyme Sports Pub
Posted · Edited by lostfan
Is the Bears' offensive line good? No. It's not
Is Luke Getsy designing game plans to help get the most out of Justin Fields? No... I honestly have no idea what he's even trying to accomplish actually. He's only had 4 designed runs all year, that is coaching malpractice.
That said, first acknowledging those things, Justin's absolutely been a factor in his own failure here. The pass protection isn't great but it doesn't help when Justin stands there for 4 seconds staring at open WRs and doesn't throw the ball. The thing about playing QB is if you're good enough to start in the NFL, you'll see evidence of it even if everything around you is on fire and you're not able to play to your full potential. If you asked me last season if I saw that in Justin Fields I would've said yes, of course, and the list of reasons you'd give for his lack of production wasn't excuses, it was explanations. But now the future is here and he's regressed - some of that is on the coaches, but if you have the goods, you'd do something other than passively sink to the level of mediocrity around you. Fields has out-of-this-world physical tools and he was said to have extremely high intelligence, he's gotta be better than this.