The Beast

I liked having a guy in the one who just went out and pitched. Shaw performed decently last year so I want to keep him around.

That is a fair point, but even if you remove the new OT rules as a variable, I think you can still get data points from the regular season and/or the playoffs to determine the number of times teams went for it on 4th down versus going for the FG and the win/loss result. I would agree with you it wasn’t necessarily the wrong move, but seeing the analytics would be interesting.

McCaffrey sure looked disappointed after that one. Wonder if he wanted another crack at it. I bet he would have scored…

And the Bears need to find out if Williams is the guy to elevate them like Mahomes elevates his team.

I would have taken the points in the red zone like the 49ers did in overtime, but I wonder what the analytics would say to do.

Because their owner is a penny pincher who doesn’t give a rats ass, just like JR.

The non roster invitees who are pitchers signed to minor league contracts must be guys they want to take flyers on given their numbers. They even brought in a 40 year old Jesse Chavez. Crazy, but not unheard of with where the roster and team is at.

Or maybe it should be repurposed for housing or used for other games. To do nothing with it would be such a waste. The Bears would need to heavily invest in Bridgeport to make it worth it.

Does the state of Illinois really have the money for funding another stadium?

Hopefully the public financing is minimal if much at all. Hopefully there is something done with the existing field because it would be a waste if it weren’t used for anything. If they leave for Nashville because the Bears get the funding for a stadium and they don’t, that would be so White Sox and shitty.

Fine, pick him and trade him like Eli Manning and Phillip Rivers. Or maybe Cowherd doesn’t know s%*#.

Remember, you can only have two prospects for Cease and they have to be O’s fans choosing them without discussion!

Jason Bennetti

I think I’ve figured out the Packers. Get small chunks of yardage, get in short third downs, get one explosion play or pass interference penalty and then score. I feel like I’ve seen this script repeatedly as a lifelong Bears fan.

The SI cards you would get when you were a kid were always fun and welcome. Too bad the parent company is gutting the whole company.

It will be interesting to see where Vrabel, Harbaugh and Belichick interview and end up. I’ll be curious to see if the Eagles actually move on from Nick Sirianni with two years left on the contract.

I’m starting to come around to the idea that Williams should be the quarterback they select with the number one pick. It could be the turning point that the franchise definitely needs. The fact that Williams declared and nothing weird has come officially come out makes me think he’s got good character so far. I’d have to evaluate his football tape but it’s probably very good if he’s considered to be generational. Now I wonder if Poles wants this to be the signature move and hope this turns out like Mahomes like in KC. Then they could trade Fields even if I don’t see them getting a first rounder for him, unless the market comes around for it with Atlanta and Pittsburgh. Maybe the coordinator they hire will reveal what the Bears will do with the number one pick. Waldron is still my number one choice. You’d have to think the Bears asked about assessing Fields and Williams and want to know if the coordinator will stay to develop that quarterback. I’ll be curious if Frank Reich gets an interview because of his relationship with Eberflus.

Maybe they could do what Houston did last year, picking Stroud and then trading up to select Anderson.

If they go Williams, I’m hoping they address the wideout situation and the left tackle.

I heard something about him not declaring for for the draft unless they traded the pick. That doesn’t make much sense because he needs to declare if he wants to be drafted. Otherwise he would need to go to the supplemental draft. I would need to know more about Williams’ character to evaluate him. I just hope he wants to play football and doesn’t want to pull an Eli Manning on the Bears.

Did anyone see anything about Caleb Williams and the Bears today that was true? I saw some rumors around him wanting them to trade the number one pick. I didn’t see anyone reputable report anything so I think it’s a non issue and that he will declare tomorrow.

When is the bonus paid out?

Agreed. They are increasing their subscriber base but alienating viewers. Put the damn game on NBC where it belongs.

Reinsdorf should have booed since the franchise hasn’t done much since 1998, he sucks with the Bulls and White Sox and his organization put on a crappy event. Pippen and Jordan should have tolerated each other and been there. Good for Ron Harper for comforting Jerry Krause’s widow.

I had to look up some of these names to see who you were talking about so this is a great deep dive on potential OCs. Waldron and Bienemy would be numbers one and two and arguments could be made for Dorsey, Bevell, Smith, Kingsbury, Kubiak, Leftwich, Kafka, Moore and even Reich. Hopefully they hire Waldron.