Harry Chappas

How do the players agree to play in those conditions. That is ridiculous.

The rich will get richer and the poor even poorer and the White Sox will wallow somewhere in the middle. Marquee Network, NESN, and YES all win Cleveland, KC, Tampa RSN's all lose Currently MLB controls the product. Also be careful if you tank because people will turn off the stream.

For some reason Caldwell feels like a John Fox move but I like Quinn. I have no rationale for liking Quinn other than the recent success at Dallas. I'd like Quinn as HC and Caldwell as Asst HC and OC especially if they like his plan for Fields.

NFL overtime should be the same as college but you start at your own 25. How there is was no squib kick is just bad football management. The Bears hiring process seems to be going as how most pessimists would have thought - f'd up- the HC listing is down to three candidates. The HC candidate listing should be fluid until the GM is hired. The Bears continue to be a shitshow of epic proportion. How could you watch the Bills/KC game and think the Bills DC is the answer....oh right he was a Bear. 4 of the 5 people on the "search" committee have zero experience (Campbell and the internal VP) or proven ability (Ted and George) to be in the room to make the decisions yet there they are.

The amazing part of the Blackhawks is that Kane and Toews are still around and the team is as irrelevant as ever. The scandal was the final blow but they were quickly sliding that way. The careers of Kane and Toews are sadly going to end where they will put in as many years after winning as they did prior to and winning.

That Hilton has dropped off I would not stay there. You may want to avoid Midpointe apartments as well. I assume you know where those are at and this story should not surprise you.

Da Bears

I was 8 when he was on AM radio on my drive to school. He is a classic.

The history of doing this same process makes it a failed one. What ahs been added to the process that significantly increases it? George is the final decision maker not the other four in the room. George has done nothing to show that his decision making is not a failed one. This is the same process that placed John Fox under Ryan Pace. If they like Leslie Frazier this is the process that will place a coach under a GM because the GM wants the job more than wanting the control to pick their guy. George wants a good guy that likes him and as such may not end up with the best candidate. The 3 in the room could be great but with Ted and George, 40% of those in the room are failures....that 40% has made the decisions previously.

Why are they even interviewing head coaches prior to hiring a GM? George is still being eviscerated in the media in regard to his press conference. The guy had zero experience and was handed the organization and continually fails. Now he has been doing it long enough to think he knows what he is talking about......yet he states he is not a football guy......Polian should have been hired to just be a figure head and we should never EVER hear from George again. This is the same failed process as they have tried before. Maybe it works but my guess is it will not as they go with the person that they like the most, not the best for the job.

I am not against Harbaugh but shouldn't he have better results at Michigan to be given what people want to give him? Is the Big Ten that good that he averages 3.5 losses a season and went 2-4 in the short 2020 season. He is 1-5 in Bowl games. I wouldn't mind him but I do not think they should jump through a lot of hoops to get him.

He tied his wagon a few times to a too to many of the wrong horses. Maybe Fields works out but until we know for sure, too many failed attempts at QB and head coach. Comparatively speaking how is Pace at late round drafting v other teams? He appears to fail often on early round drafting.

Their offense changed when they could run out the clock. They just ran two very safe plays. I do not think they were taking a knee but most likely a safe run that would keep the clock going. After the Charger timeout they had to go for the first down as the Chargers could call timeout after 3rd down and get the ball back. Why the Chargers called the time out is baffling. Was there any explanation? Great news on the Bears as while Pace had done some decent things, they were not enough to beleive the foundation was there. On the NBC football wrap up there was a great dialogue about Pace and the Halas Hall renovation. Kruetz said it best, all he had to do was go to OSU and tell an architect, I want that. For some reason the Bears made it sound like it was revolutionary while it is just what every other team has. Kudos to the architect not Ryan Pace. Phillips will stick around in some capacity if Arlington Heights is real.

Joined in early 03 migrated from ESPN as well never really liked WSI. I think I was around member 100 or 200,

Battled colon cancer for ten years, 12 year old son lost both parents to cancer heartbreaking

I think Jenkins went out in the first quarter. The television production of that game and announcing was embarrassing. I am not a huge Allen Robinson fan. Maybe the system made him look bad but always seemed more like a TE than a receiver to me.

With the heat on MLB owners in regard to the working conditions of minor league players I doubt this will happen.

They do not need to sell the team. They just need a create a structure that can win games. A McCaskey does not need to be the CEO, hell let Phillips be the CEO and hire an actual football guy to be the President. Do that I do not mind letting Pace hang around under the new President.

The Lovie Smith era was pretty good. Maybe I am misremembering as it has been horrific since he was fired. It is amazing he was fired after a 10-6 season and this is what we are getting now. The game was lost due to the terrible penalties extending drives. That was one of the worst officiated games I'd seen. The Bears two personal fouls on 3rd down plays were amazingly bad. Then Minnesota does the same thing the Bears did and Jenkins gets the penalty. Ifedi confronting Jenkins on that the way he did was bad as well. I felt like the Bears were waiting for the other shoe to drop on their defense the whole game and it did not. Nagy, Pace, Phillips and George the ticket manager all need to go. George McCaskey has no ability to run a football team yet here we are.

The problem with a defensive minded HC is that the OC is fired because the offense stinks or takes a HC job if the offense is decent. See Adam Gase. Best case scenario is to get an older OC that isn't looking to be a HC. I thought the Bears had that In Fangio no the defensive side of the ball.

Like Bobby Bonilla. Larry Himes rebuilt it nicely after Hemond so there was never really any missing of Hemond in the 90's

The outpouring of support for him all over the baseball is rather amazing. He was a cool guy that would spend time to tell baseball stories that you never thought you'd hear. Stuff from the 70s is great to hear. As I read all of that I then circle back to how this franchise couldn't retain the talent they produced off the field. I read a story about how he almost traded Arthur Rhoades for Mark Langston on the final day of the season to pitch one game for Baltimore v Toronto for the division title. Dave Dombrowski was the Montreal GM at the time.

George was the ticket guy. Probably the easiest job in America is selling Bears tickets and that was his role in life prior to taking charge of the organization. George probably knows less about football than most folks on this Board, yet there he is along with the team accountant running the operation and wondering why they can't get it right. Pace will take a new title, Nagy with be fired and some other crap will be moved around. Nothing will change but talk radio with continue to spend hours on end trying to fill the airwaves with content while this is nothing that needs to be discussed after about 30 minutes.

I think Pace being gone is 50/50 and if the Bears run the table in the last four I think he stays.

I believe Graham could have been cut and Fuller retained. If that is in fact true it doesn't take a football genius to surmise that the Bears roster is a disaster. 1 CB and 5 TE's