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An Offseason Plea: Bigger Than The Game

Tony Martin February 21, 2020 0

I don’t like talking too much about myself in these articles, because really who cares? This isn’t one of those cooking blogs where people tell a 500-word story about themselves and then tells you how to make “authentic” Thai Iced Tea or whatever (it’s not? – ED). With that said, I

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Long Journey To The Middle – Chicago Bears Position Review: Team Defense

Tony Martin January 17, 2020 0

AKA #Chuckstrong The Bears dropped from the 1st overall defense in DVOA in 2018 down to 8th in 2019, the first year under Chuck Pagano’s watch. Why is that? Was it the offense constantly trying to get off the field as quickly as possible? Was it the key injuries to certain starters, or the loss […]

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Long Journey To The Middle – Chicago Bears Position Review: Special Teams

Tony Martin January 16, 2020 0

Hey, Bears fans! This year sucked major ass from almost every metric that one can find. I’ve been tasked with looking at the trainwreck with special focus on the special teams unit, a task I find immensely interesting and also difficult, because damn how exactly does one quantify special teams outside of “well, they didn’t […]

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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 in 2020. This job also […]

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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 – Chicago Bears Position Review: Linebackers (or So Long, and Thanks for All The Lynch)

Tony Martin January 14, 2020 0

For the purposes of this article, I’ll be considering edge rushers as linebackers. Roster/PFF Grade/Stats: Kevin Pierre-Louis (90.5) 27 tackles, 0 sacks Khalil Mack (86.2) 34 tackles, 9 sacks, 4 forced fumbles Nick Kwiatkoski (72.6) 51 tackles, 3 sacks, 1 forced fumble, 1 interception Leonard Floyd (69.8) nice 32 tackles, 3 sacks Danny Trevathan (61.9) […]

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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: 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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Sons Of Wilber Marshall – Season Ending Edition: The Long, Dark, Cold Winter

Sam Fels January 3, 2020 0

Our Bears wing gets together one last time to work out their feelings about whatever it was that just went down.  So now it’s all over, and we couldn’t glean anything from the finale. Where are you? How far away do you think the Bears are from getting back to contending next year? What’s most important to you […]