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It looks like David and "Run dem Pockets" is going to lock up the 1st seed and a Week 14 bye with a win this week. Congrats! A big win by Kam and "PapaBear" against Brad and "SuperBearsSuperBowl" sets up for what becomes a play-in playoff game in Week 13 between Brad and Andrew. Travis and Adam will be vying for the 2nd seed and a Week 14 bye, while Sully and Kam look to jockey for better seeding. Pending any madness, the standings will look like the following going into the last week of the fantasy regular season: 1. Run dem pockets 9-3* (vs The Bunny - needs win to clinch 1st Seed or Domination Inc loss) 2. Domination Inc 9-3* (vs Cali Bears - needs a win or a loss with 18 more pts than Pepe for 2nd Seed, or a win and Run Dem Pockets loss for 1st seed. 3. Pepe 8-4* (vs El Dragon - needs a win and a Domination Inc loss with 18 more pts than Dom for 2nd Seed) 4. Cali Bears 7-5* (vs Domination Inc - needs a win for 4th seed, loss could drop Cali to 6th based on points for, and a win and loss by Pepe with 36 more pts could give them the 3rd seed) 5. PapaBear 6-6 (vs Nopper - needs a win to clinch a playoff berth, or loss with no less than 30 pts than the loser of SBSB/MadLith game. 6. SuperBearsSuperBowl 6-6 (vs The Mad Lithuanians - needs a win to clinch a playoff berth) 7. The Mad Lithuanians 6-6 (vs SuperBearsSuperBowl - needs a win to clinch playoff berth) * - Clinched Playoff Berth ^ - pts estimate

This week, the Bears need GB, LAR, PHI, and CAR to lose. So far, PHI (5-6) and CAR (5-6) both lost. GB plays SF tonight and LAR plays BAL tomorrow night. If they all lose, the NFC will look like this: NFCN 1. GB 8-3 (@ NYG) 2. MIN 8-3 (@ SEA) 3. CHI 5-6 (@ DET) WC2 1. MIN 8-3 (@ SEA) 2. LAR 6-5 (@ ARZ) 3. CHI 5-6 (@ DET) 4. PHI 5-6 (@ MIA) 5. CAR 5-6 (vs WAS) Our only hope is if MIN loses to SEA, LAR loses to ARZ, and the Bears beat DET next week. That would make it only a 2-game lead for MIN with 4 to play (1 game head to head).

Trubisky ends the game with 25-41, 61%, 278 yards, 6.8 Y/A, 1 TD, 2 INT, 69.0 QB Rating, 1TD Rush. The INT's were awful, but he did have more success down the field. On the 2nd INT, Nagy drew up 4 deep routes with no outlet. Nothing underneath, so Trubisky forced it deep. He still doesn't understand how to throw it out of bounds. The offense had 335 yards of total offense, but only scored 19 pts. The defense allowed another late TD drive that totaled 102 yards. The defense has to clean that up. They also dropped several INTs. Special Teams, outside of one great play by Patterson, has been awful.

You know they are. It's fine. I don't like it, but it is what it is. Wins are hard to come by in the NFL. If they win on Thursday against DET, they will be 6-6 with 4 games to play. I would say 8-8 would be a success, anything less at that point would be a failure IMO.

And the lovely soft defense returns. They have dominated this team all game and have just let the Giants march down the field easily into the Red Zone in the 4th quarter. Can we just close out one game?

The running game is just God awful. RB's are hit behind the LOS every run.

Nagy says "F it" and Trubisky runs in for a TD. Bears going for two.....and an unbelievable sequence occurs, Arob is called for a BS pick away from the play, Bears decided to kick, then get an illegal substitution penalty, then Pineiro misses a 48-yard XP. To his credit, the wind was blowing left to right and he kicked it left, but it never moved an inch right. He needs to just aim and kick dead center. Bears 19-7.

Mack is back, causes a Jones fumble and the offense starts at 1st and Goal.

Trubisky has 250 passing yards (4 from season high), has a season high rushing yards (19), and 7.4 Y/A is only 0.2 from a season high. A 300-yard game and a 2nd TD pass would be a nice finish, and a WIN! Bears up 13-7. I don't like Nagy's play calling near the goal line. He keeps cutting the field in half, which makes it easy for the defense. Keep the entire field open and try to some draws up the middle.

You have to start somewhere I guess. They just need to start putting consecutive scoring drives together.

Holy baby Jesus, a long TD pass to Arob? No penalty? and Pineiro made the XP?

Can anything more go wrong in one game? Now O'Donnell kicks a 13-yard punt, seriously, this is beyond laughable.

We get a 60+ passing play negated by a phantom hands to the face call. We are bad enough without bad officials, but this is ridiculous.

Guess what, another 1st quarter without a score. Shocker.

Braunecker then misses an easy TD catch (he was wide open), then Trubisky throws an INT into the End Zone to kill the drive. This team is just brutal. Ogletree made a better catch in the INT than any of our receivers have made all game.

Based on starting holes or lack of production, we have to address the following positions next year: 3x FA Holes: CB (Prince), S (HHCD), ILB (Trevathan) 3x Performance Holes: TE (Sharton), T (Masso), G (Danward) That would be our 6 picks in the first 5 rounds. Then you can use a 6th on Kicker. Unless someone falls, I don't see the Bears drafting a QB. I heard an interesting thing on the Hoge and Jahns Podcast. What about signing Clayton Thorson off the Dallas PS? We would have to bring him to the 53-man roster, but he would cost the team nothing. He was a 5th round pick in 2019, played 4 seasons at Northwestern, is a local kid out of Wheaton, so he can play in some bad weather. Unfortunately, like any guy on a PS, he is not without flaws (some very similar to Trubisky), but if Nagy thought he could fix Trubisky, maybe he can fix Thorson? What do we have to lose? If not him, I would really consider this option. You can get a young guy with zero risk. If he doesn't work out, you lose nothing.

Right now the Bears are tied for the 12th worst team in the league with CLE and JAX (oh joy). Since we have the toughest SOS, we get the lesser pick (14th) in the first (to OAK) and then the 13th pick in the 2nd, and the 12th pick in the 3rd (to OAK). If the season ended today, we would have the 45th pick in the 2nd round and somewhere around the 52nd pick from the Raiders. Without 3rd and 5th Round picks, the Bears almost have to use one of those to trade down. I would rather use the second one and do something like this: 1. Select #45 2. Trade #52 (OAK) for #60 + late 4th + late 5th 3. Select #60 (from trade) 4. Trade late 4th and Eagles 6th to move up in the 4th 5. Select mid-4th (from trade) 6. Select 4th Round Comp (Amos) 7. Select 5th Round 8. Select 5th Round (from trade) 9. Select 6th Round 10. Select 7th Round This scenario would give us 6 picks in rounds 2-5, where Pace has better success.

Not for that price. He has 20 touches for 117 yards on the season. He got 46 of it on one run. So outside of one big play, he is 19-71 on the year in 10 games. You just can't pay a guy $6M a year for that type of production. Even with the big run, that averages out to 2 touches and 10 yards per game. I know he is big and fast, but that's about it.

Daniels might be salvageable, but he might be playing the worst out of all five. So you have to get at least two new guys on that line at a minimum and a new starting TE. I am sure Floyd won't be back for his price, Prince won't be back, HHCD or Trevathan. So that leaves 4 starter holes on the defense and 3 holes on offense without addressing the QB position. So things are not looking very good with the cap unless Pace can move some of the dead weight guys.

I was wrong, it's $76M with Floyd, and $63M without. Talk about a gut punch. Patterson has $1M in dead money and Gabriel has $2M, so if you take those easy ones away, Fuller, Leno, Burton, Massie, and Skrine account for $51M in cap space or $41M in dead money.

Just look at it this way, in 2020, the Bears have $76M tied up in Fuller, Floyd, Leno, Burton, Massie, Gabriel, Skrine, and Patterson with $44M in dead money if they attempt to cut/release them. Floyd is the only clean out due to his contract only guaranteed for injury. The other 7 have $44M in dead money tied to them. The biggest, Massie at $10.8M in dead money. What the hell was Pace thinking with that contract? Man, I was way, off, edited, from 67 - 76.

You don't pay for bad consistency though. That's where the Bears messed up. Massie was never good or even average, and they paid him like he was. Leno had one good year out of a lot of bad ones and got paid like he had consecutive years of success.

Have you watched Fuller this year? He is the 6th highest paid CB in the league and is not even in the top 50 in terms of coverage ability. He was #2 last year. Talk about falling off a cliff. He is playing below replacement level, meaning you could put a league average CB in his place and the team would be better off.

Ok, I am not in this camp, but I thought it was at least an interesting discussion. I saw this brought up before. Just seeing the effort from the O-Line and then the receivers on the scramble drills (or lack of effort), is it possible that some of these guys are purposely half-assing it to undermine Trubisky? The O-Line (at least everyone except Whitehair who is Mitch's friend) are getting run over to the extent that it's almost purposeful. They can't be this bad. Leno has never played worse. Massie is huge and can't move a guy 50 lbs lighter than him? Daniels who was a promising interior lineman is literally whiffing at dudes a the LOS. When have you seen all receivers just standing on the field while their QB is scrambling for his life? The Bears WR's do it almost every play, they all are stationary or jogging towards the LOS with no effort. It just all seems very odd that so many offensive players could be underachieving at the same time. How about the drops. We were one of the best teams last year in terms of drops and magically we forget how to catch the ball? Another odd anomalous stat. The other scenario was they were undermining Nagy for his ridiculously inept playcalling. What do you think? Any chance this is a silent mutiny against Trubisky or Nagy? I don't think so, but I have seen crazier things in sports.

It is tough, but it all starts up front. It can't be neglected, and what sucks is the Bears threw money at mediocre players. At least put some "outs" in the contracts. Massie and Leno are borderline unmovable unless they can find a trade partner for at least another year. Just watch that video of the Rams game, the entire line outside of Whitehair can't block anyone. They can't even stand in the way, they literally fall down or get pushed aside like they are 100 lbs less than the defender. It's embarrassing. Kyle Long, even though injured, looked completely out of shape in some of the Club Dub videos. Leno has always had work ethic concerns and those have came back to haunt us. I feel like we need to draft one early and late, and get a UDFA, and bring in at least one decent FA. Then make it an open competition in the offseason. Also make these lazy fools play in the preseason.