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I hear ya. Wife has me out running errands! Things are getting tense! 😬 Thankfully my doc has me on a new BP med and horse pill sized vitamin D!

yes! I didnt mean to be critical! i just was making sure i wasnt gonna miss the first 20 minutes?!

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I like this dinner time start as it makes me feel less guilty about drinking! Lol.

Parents lived in Marion for a while (mom taught at Indiana Wesleyan) and it always threw me when I flew into Chicago to drive and visit them how they were on different time zones. And it seemed like I drove pretty much straight south.

Technically yes. I was talking in general terms.

agree - I think all you can take from this is whether a QB is a one read or run QB, after that its too chaotic to really mean much. I suppose the extreme opposite too - if a QB is routinely throwing ti evenly to 1st 2nd and 3rd reads that might mean something too about reading the field. But if that QB is under pressure, it might just be the scramble drill and not even distribution by design?

I thought it was 6:20pm here?

6pm kickoff time in AZ.

I have no clue how to interpret this. First receiver is a good thing ala Matthew Stanford or being a Checkdown king is a good thing ala Kirk Cousins. Then you add in the myriad of variables like does your WR 1 suck or is he double covered forcing you to go elsewhere? Is your OC any good or is he the idiot we had last year who often ran two or even three WR to the same area of the field? Although that made it very easy to progress from 1 to 2 to 3

There should be two versions of this chart - one when blitzed, or OL allows free runners, and the other when facing coverage. Teams have been blitzing Caleb a lot, more than most QBs, so we need to punish them for that with hot reads, screens, draws, jet sweeps etc.

And if we end up winning the division and being the second seed, our first playoff game would be hosting GB. If we end up as a wild card, our first playoff game would be at GB. There are other scenarios, but like 90% of the outcomes are playing GB one way or another.

I don’t think I even know how to understand this. Nor do I think it would be easy for whoever is calculating it to come up with it. Concept is good.

Not all stats tell the story intended, but this is interesting nonetheless.

It's Indiana's fault. We daylight savings to stay with New York.

Crazy how both Mongo and Adam are right on the line from CST to EST but Alabama seems like it should be EST and Indiana CST 🤷🏻‍♂️. Glad this game is on a Saturday for those that will be close to midnight when it’s over.

I'm NE of Indianapolis, EST.

I'm in Alabama, so it's Central for me.

Because I’m curious I assume most of the Talkbears group will be watching live and those that are in the Chicagoland area it’ll be about 7pm kickoff time with AZ area about 6(?) pm. East coast (adam) about 8 pm? Stinger (I assume) will be in Thailand (?) and watching at sometime tomorrow morning? Here in the AK it’ll be 4 pm.

GB now +1, which is exactly where it should be. My congonkulator has the Bears by 1.3, but that is too close to call. Refs can impact the game by +/- 3, so this is well within the margin of a pick em game. To me it comes down to the Bears defense ability to stop GB enough to win. I think the Bears score at least 20, 2 TDs and 2 FGs, but I am hoping for 3 TDs and 2 FGs for 27. The defense has to hold GB to a max of 2 TDs. So 20-23 total pts allowed. 27-23 seems like it is the most accurate projection.

Potato tomato

If someone else gets injured in pre-game warmups tonight, I'm going to be livid. Really worried about Edmunds and Swift, in particular.

Thank you thank you for not calling it a pitch count like all the so called sports journalists.

Right now, the Bears have 3 likely scenarios to get in: 1-Beat GB + SF/DET = clinch division 2-Beat DET = clinch wildcard 3- Beat SF + SF beats SEA = clinch wildcard The Packers game by itself doesn't guarantee anything other than allowing the Bears to clinch the division the following week. The last two games are the most important for the tiebreaker, with DET being the most important due to them already having 6 losses. Beating just SF and getting in is possible, but they'll need help from SEA.