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To the Mountain Top – Chicago Hires OC Bill Lazor, Red Rocket to Follow?

Wes French January 16, 2020 0

By now you probably know the Chicago Bears hired veteran NFL coach Bill Lazor as Offensive Coordinator. Wooohooo. We knew this hire wasn’t going to be real interesting, at least not in a style/scheme sense, when Head Coach Matt Nagy announced he would not be giving up play calling duties

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Long Journey to the Middle – Bears Positional Recap: Defensive Backs – Tough Act to Follow

Wes French January 15, 2020 0

The Chicago Bears Secondary was not a problem in 2019. There were concerns heading into the season; how would the team do replacing Adrian Amos with Ha Ha Clinton-Dix and Bryce Callahan with Buster Skrine? How would Eddie Jackson do moving over to accommodate his new safety partner? Would Chuck Pagano taking over the unit […]

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Long Journey to the Middle – Bears Positional Report Cards: Defensive Line – All Sunshine and Rainbows Until Akiem Hicks is Missing

Wes French January 13, 2020 0

2019 is gone and we’re happy to send a lot of the Bears season with it. That isn’t entire the case when you get to the defensive line. The group started strong and battled through an in-season IR stint from team leader Akeim Hicks to produce one career year and plenty of positives to build […]

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Long Journey to the Middle – Bears Positional Report Cards: Pass Catchers – Now Hiring, TE(s), WR3

Wes French January 8, 2020 0

2019 is going to be the type of football year that you just want to throw in the trash, hoping that things get sorted out in a positive manner and you can mostly forget the things that transpired on the field. That’s essentially the case for the Bears pass catchers save for what passes as […]

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Long Journey to the Middle – Bears Positional Report Cards: Running Backs – Running in Place

Wes French January 7, 2020 0

Jordan Howard was sent packing. Tarik Cohen, gem of the 2018 draft, planted his flag as the next Darren Sproles-esque gadget back. Ryan Pace maneuvered ahead of his counterparts in the middle rounds to select David Montgomery, the quiet, no-nonsense, blue collar worker back that was going to excel immediately in the system. Pace also […]

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Bears Safety Net – Eddie gets Paid

Wes French January 3, 2020 0

Well, no one can say Ryan Pace has no idea what he’s doing. He locked in All-Pro Safety Eddie Jackson on a Four year, $58M contract extension on Friday afternoon and managed to deflect at least a little bit of the unsilent majority that’s been killing him for his NYE press conference the last few […]

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Week 16 Preview – Chiefs at Bears: No Sense Dwelling On What Could Have Been

Wes French December 20, 2019 0

 @ RECORDS: Chiefs 10-4 @ Bears 7-7 KICKOFF: 7:15 pm TV: NBC  I’m sure you all read that headline and thought, “please, no, not a post about why this team would be Super Bowl bound with Patrick Mahomes“. Guess what? I WOULD NEVER. No, this is about what could have been for a team that […]

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Bears Week 16 – Chiefs vs. Bears Match Up Spotlight – Still Something Left To Prove

Wes French December 20, 2019 0

The Bears season is not going to end with any kind of post-season glory, so in lieu of a CHI/KC match up, we’re looking at some internal match ups this week of positions/players with something legitimately left to play for. Enjoy. Tony: Wes, I appreciate the idea of re-focusing this week’s matchup on some of […]

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Third Time’s The Charm – White Sox Sign Gio Gonzalez to Shove

Wes French December 19, 2019 0

The White Sox fulfilled half of what GM Rick Hahn said he sought to do to the 2020 rotation (and an organizational prophecy to re-acquire him a third time!) by signing journeyman LHP Gio Gonzalez on Thursday afternoon. The terms are not yet known, but I’d assume it’s a year and under $6M. Again, totally […]

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Week 15 – Bears vs. Packers Match Up Spotlight – Running Away With Things

Wes French December 13, 2019 0

Tony: Wes, I’ve been spending a lot of sleepless nights since last Thursday wondering about how the ground game for the Packers lines up against the run defense of our Bears. I wake up, clutching the pillow in my buddy’s guest room wondering if the Bears could patch up the defense enough to take away […]