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I am thrilled to get to share this story with football fans. Yes, it's about the
#bears
but I think any NFL fan will find enjoyment here.
Thank you to
@iidonije
,
@ATHLiTACOMiCS
, Kate Lewis, and the
@ChicagoBears
for talking to me about this story.
.
@gridironborn
dives deep into the colorful world of Chicago
#Bears
artwork in his new piece!
Brushstrokes of Genius: The Legacy and Revival of Chicago Bears Artwork
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Both of the hotels are completely booked up already...
Site of the 2025 NFL Draft, Thursday April 24 through Saturday April 26:
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And the
#bears
end the 16-game era with zero 4k yard seasons from a QB. Impressive run
NFL is expected to expand the regular season schedule this week to 17 games. The league had played a 16-game regular season schedule since 1978, by far the longest stretch without a change in NFL history.
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Screw ships. Give me two characters that just fucking hate each other.
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What if, and stick with me here, Matt Nagy is telling us to look for the y's and not the whys. He knows and is trying to tell.
#bears
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Stick with me here...
Did Mitchell Trubisky deliver a performance that reinforced what people on both sides of the argument think of him? 🤷♂️
#bears
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The
#Bears
interviewed Bill Walsh but hired Neill Armstrong, interviewed Bill Belichick but hired Dick Jauron, and interviewed Bruce Arians but hired Marc Trestman. I know we like to talk about QB misses but that's pretty crazy too
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Kyle Fuller should be extended and play out the rest of his career in a
#bears
uniform. He's exactly the kind of guy you want on your team and parting ways with him because you can't manage the cap would be another unforgivable sin for this front office. Get it done
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Man... If only the
#Bears
had an all-time great player, revered above all, that had so much emotion in his heart that it overflowed from time to time...
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Heard a local radio guy / former player/ octogenarian complained about this celebration. 🙄
It's a monster play that maybe a handful in the league can make that sure looked like an absolute dagger in the moment. Hell yeah, celebrate the big play. More of this, please. 🐻⬇️
#Bears
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#Bears
🙌
I don't think Rome struggles to separate at all. He's not an absolute burner so you don't see him gain ludicrous separation like Nabers got but he's a much more fluid route runner and gets much better separation than those guys. Plz refer to the sacred image
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Alexa, show me a
#bears
helmet design that would make half the fanbase melt with white hot rage:
NFL approved alternate helmets today for teams wearing throwback uniforms starting in 2022, per league sources. This opens the door to the defending world-champion Bucs wearing the old white helmets with the orange swashbuckling Buccaneer as early as 2022.
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🥜🥊
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Folks, there are times when we can all put aside our differences and appreciate a truly terrible football take.
A time to put down headier topics and just have a chuckle.
I present to you, this masterpiece ⬇️
@robertkschmitz
I like Keenan Allen but I'd take Allen Robinson over him. Younger, less mileage and still good im sure.
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Overheard near the
#Bears
helmet - "yeah, I'll be a Bears fan - Rome is a client of mine so I'll be cheering for the Bears real soon"😳
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Adding 5 W's would absolutely not be "HISTORIC"
'21-'22 Jacksonville 3➡️9
'17-'18 Browns 0➡️7.5
'13-'14 Texans 2➡️9
'12-'13 Chiefs 2➡️11(!)
'11-'12 Colts 2➡️11
'09-'10 Rams 1➡️7
'07-'08 Dolphins 1➡️11(!)
'03-'04 Chargers 4➡️12(!!)
'02-'03 Bengals 2➡️8
9 X's in 20 years
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Eddie Jackson getting the business end of Coach Flus for not giving full effort 😬
#DaBears
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This NFL Quarterback compared himself to Michael Jordan and the Last Dance before losing to the San Francisco 49ers in the playoffs for the 4th time in his career.
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“No one pulling for Justin Fields more than me” 🤨
No one pulling for Justin Fields more than me. He’s an incredibly talented and impressive young man.
But reporting on his play so far this preseason is silly. 3 -3, over 100 yards, 2 TD’s is great, but he had about as much to do with it as I did. It was all Moore and Herbert.
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A loss to the
#Bears
requires a blood sacrifice. A coach, a quarterback, a first born son - it does not matter so long as the offering is made.
Vikings will “evaluate” their QB position during their upcoming bye week. After watching QB Josh Dobbs throw four interceptions in the 12-10 loss to the Bears, HC Kevin O'Connell said he will spend the bye week reviewing the best path forward. “We're going to take a look and
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Caleb Williams first 3 games passing yards totals so far:
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Obviously, next week will be over 500 yards with this growth rate
#math
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Jacob threatening to do the Lambeau Leap… 😜
If the Packers draft Jaxon Smith-Njigba, I will jump into a pile of garbage.
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Interesting clip from Courtney here. Poles may have chosen Pittsburgh over a better offer with an entrenched starter (Philly?) to give Justin a potential path to play this year. "Do right by Justin" seems to have been a true statement.
#Bears
From
@SportsCenter
: The Bears were waiting for the right team, time to move Justin Fields. Though they’d hoped for a better market and return, here’s why sending Fields to Pittsburgh now vs. dragging this out to the draft in hopes of finding a partner was the direction Chicago
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Chicago
#Bears
HC records thru 37 games:
Nagy 24-13
Fox 10-27
Trestman 13-19 (2 seasons)
Lovie 21-16
Jauron 15-22
Wannstedt 19-18
Ditka 19-18
Armstrong 19-18
Pardee 15-22
Gibron 10-26-1
Dooley 11-26
Driscoll 14-9-1 (2 seasons)
Hunk & Luke 23-11-2
Jones 21-10-6
Halas 28-6-3
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Eddie Jackson has more turnovers (10 INTs + 5 fumble recoveries) than Chuck Clark has NFL starts (14).
Who is Chuck Clark & why is this person comparing him to 1st Team All Pro Eddie Jackson?
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Nate mentions Kyler Gordon here and ends with this little nugget on the
#Bears
cornerback group:
Breakout players! Come get your breakout players!
Now up on
@YahooSports
, I give a candidate (or candidates) for a 2024 breakout player at every position.
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How is everyone celebrating Ryan Bates Eve tomorrow? Just two more sleeps until we find out officially that he's on
#DaBears
😆
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Literally zero attempts beyond 20 yards. Zero. 41 pass attempts. 🤦♂️
The year is twenty twenty-one.
#bears
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My 15:
Trubisky / Mahomes
Trubisky / Baker
Trubisky / Rivers
Trubisky / Brady
Trubisky / Big Ben
Trubisky / Watson
Trubisky / Luck
Trubisky / Darnold
Trubisky / Allen
Trubisky / Rosen
Trubisky / Mariota
Trubisky / Foles
Trubisky / Jackson
Trubisky / Flacco
Trubisky / Dalton
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Okay... Thinking about this...
Rush 4 instead of 3, you escape that game with a W.
Rush 5 instead of 3, you escape that game with a W.
Use one of your 3 TO's to get the call & go over the fundamentals, you escape that game with a W.
Etc etc etc
All-time stupidity from
#DaBears
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Do you guys remember the time that John Fox challenged what he thought should’ve been a TD that was then overturned as a fumble out the back of the end zone for a touchback?
#Bears
football, baby!
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Patterson is playing out of his mind as a returner & is the best gunner I've ever seen. Absolutely love that he's in Chicago.
This play was amazing & should've given the
#Bears100
an early chance. This one is going to make me angry for awhile. 🤬
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But Aaron, a Jaylon Johnson is a Jaylon Johnson. The draft pick could be anything - even a player as good as Jaylon Johnson!
#Bears
😂
Not rewarding good players on a bad team makes your team even worse though…
Like, cool. He’ll get more draft picks but sometimes folks like to assume draft picks automatically equal upgrades. As we’ve seen, that’s not remotely the case.
#Bears
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Gervon Dexter was credited with 2 half sacks yesterday. He shared one with DeMarcus Walker and the other with Kyler Gordon. 0.5 + 0.5 =1
He has 4 sacks on the year - a great start to the season!
#DaBears
(Please stop sharing that he has 5).
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Caleb Williams is a whole 38 yards behind pace to break the single season franchise record for yards in a single season.
A 264 yard performance next week would catch him up to that pace heading into the bye week.
#DaBears
Caleb Williams with his 2nd 300 yard game of his young career.
He's 2 away from trying the single season franchise record of 4 such games.
#DaBears
Nice start for the rookie.
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I don't fear Jordan Love is going to be awesome & haunt Bears fans for the next 15 years... & I don't think the Packers org believes that either.
I DO have fear that he'll be bad enough to get GB in range for Williams or Maye in '24
That keeps me up at night
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From Randy Mueller in the Athletic this morning. I'd probably throw the airplane napkin away.
I'm guessing Mueller hasn't watched Wright or Whitehair play this year (falling back on his college evals) or looked at the Bears roster at guard (Jenkins & Davis) or cap...
#Bears
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Charles Leno was a 7th round pick, took over at LT early in his second season and has made 93 straight starts, never missing a game.
If you think he's "soft" I simply can't talk football with you. Keep it off my timeline.
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You should read the Tarik Cohen article. Do it now. If you're one of those people he referred to who called him soft on Twitter, you should read it twice.
You have zero idea what anyone else is going thru, physically, mentally, emotionally.
My 💙🧡 goes out to him & his family
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DB drills - highpoint the ball on the INT. Jaylon, Gordon look very natural - as does Lamar Jackson. He's catching my eye...
#DaBears
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Remember when the
#bears
traded Greg Olsen because Mike Martz didn't know how to use TEs? Or Thomas Jones bc they for some reason drafted Benson?
Releasing All-Pro Kyle Fuller for nothing in return beyond "cap relief" is worse! Keep & pay your good players!
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#bears
🐐
"I promise I won't cry. It's just a single frame from a sports moment."
What's a sports moment that brings tears to your eyes?
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Diante has
#DaBears
6th in the NFC and an important note to Bears fans ⬇️
Week 1 NFL power rankings just dropped! 🥹
@DianteLeeFB
is controlling the sticks this season, and of course he has Patrick Mahomes's Chiefs at the top.
Which teams are too high and low?
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A lot has been said about Trubisky vs the Lions but if you take his last 4 game against them & extrapolate out to a 16 game schedule, you get:
352/508 4,432 yards, 48 TD, 4 INT. MVP numbers
#bears
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What’s the identity of this
#Bears
offense right now? Screens are a change up, not your fastball, stop acting like that’s an offense.
Your best target is DJ Moore - run the offense thru him. It’s not Cole Kmet or Khari Blasingame or Cap Boso —> it’s DJ 🤬 Moore. Use him. 😤
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Ends by saying "Bear Down"
🐻⬇️
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#Bears
remaining 2024 draft capital as of now:
1st (Panthers)
1st
3rd
4th
4th (Eagles)
5th
Really good player, almost certainly will get an extension and be a building block. Hate the move strategically with where the
#Bears
are at this season and where that pick will wind up for next year's draft. Just mismatches with a 2-6 team that likely won't retain their HC
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@wiltfongjr
Bears sign all the speed. Bears take 14 weeks to figure out how to use it. Sounds about right
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Guys... we need to talk. I understand that you're upset but Tyler Bray isn't the answer to any question.
#Bears100
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Glad to hear someone say it - what a terrible decision by Matt Eberflus to bring in Luke Getsy to run this 🐂💩 offense. Let's hope Ryan Poles is interested in a modern offensive play caller to orchestrate the talent he's assembling.
#Bears
DJ Moore on the Bears' offensive identity moving forward.
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You know that moment when you fall in love with a player on your favorite team? 💙🧡
#Bears100
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I will say again... McCaskeys are not rich enough to own a modern football team. Seems kinda crazy but I firmly believe it. They absolutely need to sell to a billionaire to get a stadium done right.
#Bears
Chicago Bears, schools are $100M apart on tax value of former Arlington Park, complicating stadium proposal
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Whitehair looking like he's got a vet day off. Expect rookie Zach Thomas to get the 1st Team reps
Reiff - Thomas - Kramer - Carter - Borom in initial warm up lineup
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Update... Montez Sweat on the
#Bears
and
#Commanders
is a Wildcard contender. Bears & Commanders without Sweat are challenging for the
#1
overall pick.
Sweat: 8-8
No Sweat: 3-13
@_sweat9
for all the awards
#Bears
without Montez Sweat: 2-6
#Commanders
without Montez Sweat: 1-4
Montez Sweat: 6-7
Montez Sweat for President
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File this one under "I believe my favorite player is worth 10x what he is in reality because he plays for my favorite team"
Ah, the off season. Breathe in the cloying stench of meatballs
Who wins this Maxx Crosby trade?
Raiders or Bears
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Monty career games with 20+ carries
21-53🤮🤮
27-135👍 (5 ypc!)
20-86😐
23-113👍
21-89😐
32-146👍
23-95😐
22-69🤢
20-61🤢
23-106👍
21-90😐
21-45🤮🤮🤮
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20-72😷
The modern game is about explosive plays. He didn't have it.
@Johnathan_Wood1
I feel bad that Monty never got the amount of work he deserved. He needed 20-25 carries a game to really get going.
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I would consider myself a fairly level-headed
#bears
fan but as I read more and more of the anti-bears stuff out there, I find myself getting more and more defensive of this squad. I think it's time to get to real games, post haste. 🐻⬇️
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Watching
#bears
d-line tape is known to aggravate back injuries...
Richie Incognito is questionable with a back injury. He didn't participate on Friday.
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This is dope but 🤬 I can't get over "The Ball" 😂
#Bears
I made a mock intro for if the Bears were on training camp Hard Knocks this year 👀
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Betting on myself. Starting my own consulting company.
First big victory ✅
Cheers, friends! 🥂
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If Caleb Williams is who we think he is...
And the
#Bears
roster build is where we think it's at...
2024 Pick 9 should be the last top ten pick for the foreseeable future in Chicago.
Does that influence what Poles does with the pick? Take the 🔵 chip WR, OT, or DL? 🎧⬇️
#Bears
fans, give
@gridironborn
&
@wiltfongjr
a listen on their brand new 🐻&⚖️ discussing how the various options at the 9th pick will effect the roster construction and usage.
🐻⬇️&🔊⬆️ wherever you get your podcasts!
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For the
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100th season, I'm planning on sharing some game history for each day of the calendar on this thread. 🐻💯
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Leatherwood - worthy 🎲🎲 given athletic ⬆️
Weatherford - feels like stealing🥷
Watts - instant contributor💥
Wesco - big blocking TE 💪
Kingsley – Bills were loaded at DE🔥
Blackwell - slot defender 🎰
Smith-Marsette - absolute dawg w high upside🐶
💙🧡
#DaBears
new "class"
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