Tony

Really nice drive

Here come the s%*# takes!

He’s avoid the disaster plays so well this year…that was brutal

Yeah that's fair

Jaylon is the best player on the team, and I don't think it's that close. Not the most impactful per say, but from a talent and position standpoint, he's the best player on the team. Not having him basically the entire year and them being 7-3 is in fact, pretty crazy.

Listened to Big Cat with Waddle and Silvy yesterday, and thought he summed up the rest of the season well. Bears are now in a Best of 7 series. Win 4, and you're absolutely making the playoffs. 3 wins could still get you in, but you go 4-3 and you're in.

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NFL is weird. On a day where Jacoby Brissett completed 47 passes yesterday, I watched almost the entire SNF game, and Jared Goff, a guy that came into the game with a 70% completion rate this year and last year...was missing guys all over the place, went 14/37 last night. Eagles defense is obviously great, but he was missing guys in bunches last night.

The Bears are in 1st place in the NFC North

They'll lean on "rebuilding" and "development" and add a few C level free agents, I'm sure 1 or 2 will be tagged with the "veteran leadership" tag and it will be another similar season to last. And in some regards, based on where this organization is at, plus the upcoming CBA issues...I can understand that general philosophy to a degree. There isn't one free agent name that screams "this guy would be a perfect addition, they must do anything in their power to sign them" But, as a fan...we're entering the 4th season in a row where the there is virtually no path for the team to even play .500 ball. I'm tired of that, and want to see them make a real effort to improve. Signing a 31 year old Cedric Mullins and a 32 year old Ryan O'Hearn doesn't really accomplish that for me. But I know not to expect anything significant, they've given no indication of that.

For Bears fans especially, the evidence seems very obvious. In 2023, after the Browns game in late December, it was the third time that season the Bears lost a game after leading by 10+ points in the 4th quarter. Then you had the Lions game on Thanksgiving last year, the Washington game...etc. And it's all those little things that lead up to blowing those games. Good coaching prevents those things from happening, Ben Johnson is a really good football coach, and the Bears aren't hurting themselves when the pressure is on. Flukes happen. But when they keep happening, and seemingly keep going your way...they kind of stop becoming flukes and start becoming opportunities to cash in on.

Before the season started, If someone showed me the standings in the NFC North after Week 10…I would have “Yes please” After losing 10 in a row last year, winning six out of their last seven feels pretty good. Probably not going to stay that way, but if they can just go .500 the rest of the way, they have a really good shot at playing meaningfull football in January.

I mean, even last year, he put them in a position to win a lot of games at the end. He has that “clutch” gene, whatever that is.

That’s my quarterback

Truly have never seen so many drops in one game

For some perspective, not that it makes the 1st half anymore enjoyable… The Bills are down 16-0 at halftime, in Miami, against the 2-7 Dolphins. Allen is 9/15 with 73 yards.

Been a bad half for Ben Johnson, don’t like the half he called at all.

Seriously, the drops have been a joke today. On BOTH sides of the ball, Wright should have two picks today already

I'd kick the tires on Fedde again. I know Katz is gone, but no idea who the influencer was on him that made him successful here, but it worked, very little risk in trying it again.

One of the worst passes I’ve ever seen 😂

No you are correct there. It was the most logical move given all the circumstances, but they've seemingly never won a true bidding war on a player that was in high demand.

God damn you. 😂

If Caleb throws for 4,500 yards with a 41/16 TD/INT split, think the Bears will be in really good shape

This is me being nitpicky, but I wouldn't lump Grandal into the category of bad signings. It made all the sense in the world at that moment in time. James McCann put up a great 2019 with the Sox but everyone knew it was kind of a fluke season. The "core" was starting to come together in 2019 with Abreu-Anderson-Moncada-Eloy-Giolito-Cease, with Robert and Madrigal on the way. They added Grandal in November, and wanted to sign Wheeler next. Wheeler ended up signing with the Phillies on December 9th, and the Sox settled for Keuchel on December 30th. Sox really needed some balance in the lineup as their entire core was made up of RHH and his switch hitting power profile made a lot of sense to add to the team. We all know how it ended up going, but that was the right move at the time.

Man, you're so absolutely full of s%*#. First, get the f*** out of here with "recency bias" Since 2015, the White Sox have 726 wins. Only the Rockies are worse, with a 723. Don't act like Sox fans have been "spoiled" with great baseball over the last decade. Second, the goalposts SHOULD move. That's how sports work. Expectations get raised. In 2006, when the White Sox came off their World Series Championship...they went 90-72 and it was one of the most disappointing seasons in franchise history. If the Sox got anywhere close to 90 wins in the next two seasons, fans would be thrilled, understandably so. Also, in the reply you made to me earlier, you said "All fan bases except the championship winner hate their teams' owners." If the Blue Jays beat the Dodgers in the World Series, fans in LA will not be calling for Mark Walter to step down anytime soon, so that statement is objectively false. Lastly, and probably most importantly, having the second worst record in all of baseball over the last 10 years should not be acceptable in the third largest market. We should expect more. If you expect White Sox fans to be more "grateful" for the 2020 and 2021 seasons, I don't really know what to tell you other than going 162-324 over the last three years makes those seasons feel like a LONG time ago. This franchise has been around since 1901 and 2020-2021 was the first time they ever made the playoffs in back to back years. The Astros just ended a streak of going to the ALCS seven years in a row. I'm not asking for a run like that, but really don't think it's asking a lot to see our favorite team have some sort of sustained success for 3-4 years. And if you think it's too much to ask....then congratulations, you found the right team to root for apparently. Jokes on us.