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Honestly I don't think there was any special reason the offense faded in the 4th. Minnesota played sound D all game, played tight coverage, then assigned a spy to Trubisky so that he stopped breaking their coverage down. Trubisky and by extension Nagy didn't have an immediate answer for it.

The main reason the league moved PATs back is because they were so automatic that it made them pointless, so this is an outcome the league was probably expecting or hoping for. Now that kickers are actually missing PATs once in a while it changes the math. It used to be "take your guaranteed 1" or "attempt 2 only in specific situations where It doesn't change anything because you're less likely to convert" but modern analytics suggests it makes more sense to go for 2 earlier even if you fail.

Not a bad read, just everyone covered and he probably wouldn't have made it on foot so he tried to force a throw for a first down. He got lucky. Throws to covered guys in the flat are dangerous and not worth the risk.

I didn't really have a problem with that first interception. Mitch saw Gabriel with a step on his man and saw an opportunity to thread the needle with Gabriel in stride, actually made a perfect throw, but half a second too late gave Harris time to recover. He makes that throw a half a second sooner and it's a huge gain with potential for YAC. Good initiative, just didn't execute because Minnesota's secondary is too good. Against Detroit that's probably a TD because they have a terrible secondary. (It also wasn't triple covered when he threw it, the DBs just close on the ball really fast on long throws).

If you have ever watched the Theismann video it's pretty much exactly that except there's no Lawrence Taylor type of person in a near-panic.

Minnesota's D was playing tight coverage all night, especially in the second half, and Trubisky started forcing passes which isn't something he's done before. His mistakes were usually due to him making bad reads or just missing the throw outright. His reads are MUCH better than back in September but he can't get too reliant on his feet to make plays (even if he's really good at it) and he's gotta start seeing his secondary options at some point, especially against teams that like to blitz. On Cousins's pick to Amos I knew as soon as he threw the ball with Floyd in his chest that it was going right to a Bears DB, the only question was which one. I've seen Cutler do that many, many times.

nah the league's been calling that consistently all year. Hicks grabbed Cousins and slung him to the ground after he'd already thrown the ball. That is an obvious roughing penalty 9 times out of 10 and if it was Clay Matthews we'd be making fun of him. edit: to be clear, I don't like that those hits are called as penalties, but the league has been consistent about that this year.

The last time a Redskins QB broke his leg on November 18, the Bears won the Super Bowl. Just saying ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The opposite situation of the Bears right now. Where they are getting flexed into national games every other week. I guess I explained that poorly.

When the Bulls are bad they're almost never in any national games (or even WGN games). The opposite situation of the Bears.

They try and sneak the 18-game schedule into pretty much everything.

I need this to happen already cuz I keep coming back to this thread expecting it to be something other than "the Sox have never spent money" "do you really think Harper/Machado would actually play for the Sox" "they've never been in this situation before, Reinsdorf paid MJ" and it's just variations on that every time.

I don't know why the current stadium wasn't oriented northeast so that CF has the skyline behind it. I mean I do know the reason but it's a stupid ass reason.

Bingo.

The NFL interprets this as a 18-game season.

Cities aren't businesses.

The first reply on Twitter to DeBlasio was "Go fuck yourself."

No, it's not on the cities, that's why I think this should be illegal. The cities NEED to do this or they get left out.

Operative word of course being "could." Amazon could've done all this research and made the decision on their own, everything they needed to know was publicly available to them but they knew they could get much more out of this spectacle.

For real, people should be more upset about this but for the most part people are just taking Amazon's word for everything and missing the point entirely. Municipalities should not be bidding against one another with what essentially amounts to legal bribes, it's a net loss to the public and the cities are more or less forced to do this to attract business. The only way to stop companies from getting away with this stuff is for everyone to just stop doing it, which would mean making it illegal at the federal level. The companies will get over it because they HAVE to, they expand because they had a business reason to do so and they'll get by without the free money.

What's the point of that if the company isn't paying taxes though? Plus, again, Amazon wasn't ever really serious about that 50,000 taxpayers thing. They're just trying to do the bare minimum.

Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Isn’t Just Shameful—It Should Be Illegal This whole thing really has the feel of an elaborate con. They went through this whole year-long process to conclude that they were just gonna end up opening regional branches in NYC and DC (Crystal City is, for all intents and purposes, DC) and after all that staged drama they were like "we weren't really that serious about doing this in the first place." In the meantime, all these suckers were throwing money at them and Amazon's got the data to know what they can take people for the next time. Now that the public is finally starting to wise up to the idea that subsidizing wealthy sports franchise owners isn't really a benefit to the city, regular businesses are getting in on the sham. People apparently didn't learn from the Foxconn debacle in Wisconsin but Jeff Bezos sure did.

I made this meme yesterday.

I totally read your comment wrong, I thought you were saying "I thought Mitch played, well, bad" and I was like "what game did this fool watch?" then I read it correctly. I gotta say, I think the people who agreed it'd be a good idea to trade Jordan Howard during the offseason were right and I (along with a bunch of other people) was wrong. Save the occasional broken tackle or good discipline to wait for a hole for a long run, he doesn't fit the offense very well and his -2 yard runs ruin the rhythm of drives. It's nice when Trubisky is tossing 20-yard darts and 55-yard bombs or Cohen's running a 75-yard screen, but it doesn't feel the same watching him. Of course maybe I'm completely wrong about this and Adam Shaheen comes in and changes the whole face of the offense.

That was the only reason anybody thought this game was in doubt (it really wasn't). Stafford deserves credit for his clutch play today though. I'd have to look at numbers but every time they were in 4th and long he converted with a huge gain. Without him doing that the Bears win by 30+.