Still Gotta Come Through Chicago
The Bears Draft, Tony La Russa, and the Bulls Quest for Glory
Welcome back Chicago!
I had some obligations that tied me up over the last couple weeks, but now I’m back and planning on a flurry of newsletters in the coming weeks for y’all.
Thanks for reading — as always — and spreading the word about the newsletter. You’re all the greatest, and don’t think don’t notice those of y’all who put on for SGCTC for no other reason but putting on.
Two housekeeping items that have been in the works:
T-shirts are finally here. Holy shit have you all been patient. I think I first teased t-shirts in like 2019. I will attach the mock-up of the tee on the next newsletter (probably Monday), but it will essentially be a long sleeve shirt with the SGCTC logo and “Still Gotta Come Through Chicago” on the back. For a lot of reasons, it would mean a lot if you all grabbed a shirt. They’ll be aesthetically pleasing, but it also increases awareness of the newsletter and furthers the community feeling of this blog. Prices will probably be $28 — I’m not trying to make money off these, just trying to get you guys some merch. If you want to reserve a shirt and a size, you can comment on this newsletter what size you want, email me at andrewdonlan0@gmail.com or DM me on Twitter @stillgottaChi. Thanks for your support.
The second and more exciting housekeeping item is that I am officially planning that SGCTC party I have been talking about for two years. May 15, 7 p.m. It’s the Bulls second to last game, and hopefully will be 1) a celebration of hitting that 30-win threshold 2) potentially watching THE coveted 30th win 3) m̶e̶ ̶d̶r̶i̶n̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶a̶w̶a̶y̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶s̶o̶r̶r̶o̶w̶s̶ ̶b̶e̶c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶B̶u̶l̶l̶s̶ ̶c̶o̶l̶l̶a̶p̶s̶e̶d̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶I̶ ̶l̶e̶t̶ ̶d̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶f̶r̶i̶e̶n̶d̶s̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶f̶a̶m̶i̶l̶y̶. Either way, it will likely be an important game as the Bulls fight for their playoff lives. Obviously, if you don’t feel comfortable coming still, I won’t be bothered. For those of you that are going out, it would mean a lot to see all of the SGCTC fans out together. The bar is still TBD, as I am looking for the best location possible for the bash of the year. T-shirts will be there as well. This party is a long time coming — let’s go!
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Now let’s get into it.
The Bears unfortunately are tasked with doing something tomorrow, and that something is the NFL Draft. They have a bad quarterback (which they chose), the least amount of cap space in the league, and don’t have a high enough draft pick as of now to grab one of the top-5 quarterbacks in this year’s draft.
That would usually mean a tame night. But with Ryan Pace at the helm, that makes me absolutely terrified.
The Bears right now are a sweaty kid with bad hygiene after hitting the gym. They fucking stink. What’s worse is that they’re going to do the only thing that a sweaty kid at the gym can do to make his situation worse: they’re going to try to put some cologne on. Nothing makes me gag more than the scent of body odor unsuccessfully being masked by cheap cologne.
Besides, of course, the Bears mortgaging their entire future and doing something absurd tomorrow to try to put lipstick on the pig that they are. If the Bears draft one of the top-5 quarterbacks tomorrow, it will mean they signed Andy Dalton to a $10 million deal for no reason (that’s already sort of the case) and that they mortgaged their entire future for whoever that quarterback is. OR, it means that they reached on a non-top-5 quarterback, and we’re going to have to hear Ryan Pace talk about how they liked Florida’s Kyle Trask or Texas A&M’s Kellen Mond — who are not top-5 prospects for clear reasons — better than any of the top-5 prospects (Lawrence, Wilson, Jones, Fields, Lance).
The Bears’ front office has already committed unforgivable offenses, and a good draft won’t win any goodwill back. The only thing that could mitigate a hail mary tomorrow is if Bears ownership takes away the drunk guy’s keys (Pace) and don’t allow him to trade three first round picks (likely what it would take) to move into the top-10 of this year’s draft.
Former front office executive and current analyst Scott Pioli explains here that if the Bears want to make a big trade, ownership will have to sign off on it. Given how things have been going, and that Pace and Matt Nagy should be on their last chance, Pioli doesn’t believe they would sign off on one.
I hope that ownership wouldn’t allow Pace to mortgage the future in order to try to save his own ass one more time, but then again, George McCaskey and his CEO Ted Phillips also are clueless.
The fact that they have kept those two around for as long as they have shows that they have some absurd, misguided confidence in them. So while ownership in the NFL would generally not sign off on this type of move in this type of situation, I’m not sure conventional wisdom holds for your Chicago Bears.
This year’s QB class is enticing, but the cost to move up is just too tall. The only way the move would make sense for a team that is clearly on the way down (the problem is, they may not think so) is a trade to a team like Atlanta who has a quarterback and thinks they’re a couple good players away from a playoff roster. If you gave up some established, impactful players (think Khalil Mack or Roquan Smith types) and held on to meaningful draft capital in the future, it may make more sense.
Of course, it would hurt to give up a young player like Smith no matter what.
The best teams in the NFL generally understand that the draft is largely a crapshoot. Therefore, the logic goes, the more picks you have the better chance you have to hit on good players.
The Bears do not abide by that logic, something that teams like the Ravens and Patriots have done for years.
In fact, Ryan Pace has traded up in the draft over 10 times and sacrificed serious draft capital on the way. His biggest moves up in the draft were for players like Mitch Trubisky and Leonard Floyd — both of which had their options ultimately declined by the Bears down the line.
In Chicago Tribune reporter Brad Biggs’ last mock draft, he had the Bears trading with the Falcons all the way up to no. 4. We’ve already discussed what the ramifications of that deal would be, but it would allow them to take Trey Lance or Justin Fields.
The reason that mock is potentially important is that Biggs has regularly hit on big Bears rumors, and has shown that he has real sources inside Halas Hall. The reason that mock is potentially not important is that Biggs wants people to read his article (don’t blame him) and it therefore serves him well if he includes a Bears splash in there.
As for the draft as a whole, my stance is the same as it’s always been. I don’t pretend to know who is going to be good and who won’t be good. I’m biased towards the players that I’ve seen play a lot during my college football consumption in the fall. Are those players always good NFL players? Certainly not.
Still, remember the formula: Do I know this player? Yes — good pick. Do I know this player? No — bad pick.
What I can judge is the process that each team takes in the draft. Trading up isn’t bad when you need to fulfill a need and the reward is higher than the risk. The Bears are well past that place, unless they really find a generational quarterback and can mend their draft capital woes later by trading off established pieces.
I abstain from judging Pace’s specific picks too often. I am one of the people that actually believes the Trubisky pick wasn’t all that bad. Of course, it’s awful in retrospect. But at the time, he was the chalk first quarterback off the board. My problem then, as it is now, was the process in which they arrived at Trubisky.
So this weekend, I’ll be doing the same. Pace and Nagy are already solidified incompetent fools in my mind, and they won’t be winning any of that credibility back during the draft.
All I’m hoping for is the lack of an absolute disaster. But with the Bears, perhaps that’s too much to ask.
Everyone has their dream stories — they’re never particularly funny or enjoyable to listen to. Yeah, your cat turned into a dog and then your grandma fell down the stairs but then was evil blah blah blah blah blah.
Buy my dad once dreamt that there was an intruder in his room, hopped his defensive-tackle, 50-year-old build off his bed, promptly twisted his ankle, then ran full speed into his 1,000-pound armoire and knocked that bitch into the wall.
He ended up with a severely swollen ankle and shoulder, having only neutralized an inanimate object in the corner of the room. The intruder either got away, or more likely, was a figment of his psycho-imagination.
Likewise, I once got home from doing some underage drinking, and as I slowly made my way up the stairs at a snail’s pace, I heard my brother wake up, move around a bit, and then belt out a song for 30 seconds that I had never heard — and still haven’t heard since.
(This was not funny and, in fact, quite scarring.)
Point being, some people dream about random shit, some dream about saving their households from make-believe intruders, and I dream about Tomas Satoransky — the Bulls back-up point guard — being on the injured list for last week’s game against the Celtics.
I spent my entire day Monday worried about my beloved Bulls’ chances to win the game that night without ol’ Tomas. For those of you who don’t follow as closely, Tomas Satoransky is not what we’d call a ‘star.’ Or even close to it. You would not recognize him on the street, that’s for certain.
Before you laugh, though, he’s done this since my dream:
Do I personally think he’s vital to the team’s success? Of course, and my rants defending him into the abyss have probably led me to a place where I am dreaming that he is on the injured list for that night’s game.
But why am I having a nightmare that a role player on the Bulls will miss one game?
I think I have an idea — and it has to do with you all. Yes, I stood on top of my soap box and begged and pleaded for you to take the Bulls over this year. I told you they’d make the play-in game.
But every time the Bulls lose a goddamn game, no matter the circumstances, I get berated.
“What the hell happened to your Bulls last night, dude?”
It’s hurtful, frankly. First of all, I didn’t chuck up an air ball. I didn’t commit any turnovers.
Secondly, the only analogy I can compare it to is when I was in a college group project and a girl in my group didn’t show up because Donald Trump won the presidential election. Listen, I’m sorry that happened to you, but now I’ve got to do this entire presentation by myself.
I’m sorry the Bulls lose a game here and there, and there, and there. But we’re supposed to be in this together. They’re not ‘my Bulls,’ they’re OUR Bulls. Alright? And if we’re going to be drinking a beer together talking about the Bulls pick and roll offense at an undisclosed location in mid-May, I need to know that you were on this boat with me the whole time.
So put the guns down, Chicago!, as Mike Epps would say on 92.3 during their “10 songs, 10 joints” drive time special.
Let’s win these next 11 games together. When we do, it will feel that much more special. Because I have a dedicated folder in my phone for all of the doubters (not a joke) of this team and their ability to win 30 games, and I have all the receipts if the Bulls win those 30 games.
As for the Bulls, they picked up what may have been the best win of their season Monday night, all things considered. They beat the Miami Heat without Zach LaVine and Troy Brown Jr. to keep the 30-win and playoff hopes alive.
LaVine and Brown Jr.?
Yes, Brown Jr. too. Want to know why? Because him being out is the reason why we have to watch Denzel Valentine and Ryan Arcidiacono play NBA minutes on a night-to-night basis.
It’s not Arturas Karnisovas’ fault. It’s not Billy Donovan’s fault. They’re working as well as they can with the resources they were left with. But my God, those two “guards” cannot hit an open three.
Valentine’s only theoretical use in an NBA game is to hit wide-open threes. He’s shooting 32% on threes, well below league average, and is shooting 38% from the field. I cannot explain to a non-NBA-stats person how insanely bad that is.
Yet, he plays, because he has to. I’m sure many of you have already seen the thread dubbed “Denzel Valentine is the worst player in the NBA.”
Its highlights include an array of embarrassing highlights from Valentine’s year and career, but it leads with one from Saturday night.
The Bulls clawed all the way back from a 20-point deficit against the Heat just to watch Valentine shoot a 35-footer four seconds into the shot clock with the Bulls down 5 with a minute left.
As he’s wont to do, he missed the rim by around two feet. It’s not hyperbole to say he may be the worst player in the NBA, especially on a minute-by-minute basis. Yet Donovan is forced to play him thanks to GarPax and a slew of injuries.
Either way, the Bulls wins over the Celtics last week and the Heat this week (in addition to the Hornets win) were legitimately inspiring efforts. The fact that Donovan has this team competing without their primary scorer and playmaker is too impressive to put into the words.
Daniel “Big Balls” Theis (still workshopping that one) has quickly become a fan favorite. The Celtics gave him up for virtually nothing to get under the luxury tax. One man’s salary dump is another man’s treasure.
If you watch the games, you realize how important he’s been to the team since the deadline. He had 23 points, 12 rebounds, 5 assists, and 2 blocks Monday on 77% shooting. His effort is astounding, and God does it make Lauri Markkanen look bad.
Theis was a throw in, and he can shoot (even from the perimeter), make plays for others, and defends.
In other words, he’s everything Markkanen is not — and Lauri was once considered the centerpiece to this team.
If I’m choosing between one or the other this offseason, I’m taking Theis for half the money and double the production and effort.
You may also notice that Theis regularly gets whacked on the head and there’s nary a call from the refs. You may also notice that this happens to every other Bulls player as well.
I’ve said it a million times — I am an objective viewer. I don’t cry at the refs for no reason because my team is on. It’s just an indisputable fact that the Bulls don’t get the same calls from NBA referees that their opponents do.
We have the data to back that up now. Until Monday night, the Bulls had less than 20 free throw attempts in the last 12 games. That was the longest such streak in decades. And I can tell you this, it’s not that they’re not getting fouled.
Even the Bulls best players — LaVine and Nikola Vucevic — do not get “star” treatment from the refs. It’s incredibly frustrating.
Heading into the fourth quarter on Monday, Jimmy Butler had more FTAs alone than the entire Bulls team. Still, the Bulls pulled it out, in large part thanks to Theis and Vuc — the two main trade deadline acquisitions — as well as Coby White (and of course Thad Young).
A word on Coby White: when did 20-year-olds on low-talent teams have such high standards set for them? Last year, I was the one saying that White should stay on the bench while the rest of the crowd screamed to start him because he had a 30-point game.
Now, it seems that the fans have turned on him, despite over 40 second-half points in the last two games that led to a win in one and a near-terrific comeback in the other one. White is always busting his ass. Does he have problems with his game? Sure he does. Is he a great defender? No, but he fights over screens and tries. That’s the part you can’t teach. He hits big shots, and regularly comes up large in the waning moments of the game.
So for Christ’s sake, give the kid a break. He’s a work in progress, but he’s working, and that’s more than you can say about Lauri Markkanen.
As for LaVine, he has COVID-19, and has already missed seven games thanks to that. Due to the NBA’s cautious protocols, he’ll probably miss another two games — at least — and hasn’t even been able to shoot around or work on his game at all. He had to quarantine, now he has to test negative on consecutive days, then he has to go through “cardiac protocol” in order to get cleared to play. Hopefully, he’ll be back for the Hawks game on Saturday.
In the biggest stretch of the Bulls season, they’re missing their top scorer. These are the things you can predict, just like you can’t predict a blockbuster, roster-shuffling trade in the middle of the season.
I don’t know why people think NBA teams can acquire good players, throw them on the floor, and have it all work out right away. It will take time for LaVine and Vuc, for instance, to mesh together. That’s how the game works. Their struggles should not be an indictment on either of them, Donovan, or the trade.
These things take time. LaVine has been great this year. Vuc has been as advertised, averaging 22 points and 10 rebounds on 52% shooting from the field and 45% shooting from three. He’s been the focal point of the offense while LaVine has been out.
Once these two figure themselves out — and Thad Young figures out a way to keep making an impact while on the court with both of them — the Bulls will be a legitimately good offensive team. I just hope that comes quickly.
The Bulls already are the 3rd most improved offensive team in the entire league from last year. Their defense of late has been far better, holding the Heat and Celtics to modest offensive numbers.
Currently, they are the 11th seed, just one game out of the 10th seed, which would give them an opportunity to make the playoffs. They’ve got the Knicks tonight. If they win, and the Wizards (who’ve won 8 of 9) lose to the Lakers — they’ll be back in. They own the tiebreaker over the Wizards and the Raptors (who are a half game behind them, with one more head-to-head matchup). The Pacers are only three games ahead of the Bulls for the 9th seed, which is important for the play-in home court advantage.
The Bulls have the fourth hardest remaining schedule in all of the NBA, but Brooklyn (who they play twice) and Milwaukee (who they also play twice) will likely not be playing all of their starters in the final contests of the season.
Right now, it is my belief that the Bulls will win 30 games or more and will make the play-in tournament. To reach that 30-win threshold, they’ll have to go 4-7 over their last 11. So let’s do it.
LETS GO BULLS.
Speaking of dreams, it’s past this man’s bedtime.
La Russa’s press conferences remind me of the time that I convinced my father to stay up late and drink with my friends and at 2 a.m. I saw his eyes fluttering while my buddy was talking about Rocky 4 in his ear.
Just let the guy go to bed, man.
If the White Sox succeed this season — which I think they will — it will be in spite of Tony La Russa.
And I feel bad for White Sox fans, who have now been subject to bad managerial decisions for what seems like a decade.
La Russa is a hall of famer — that’s what I keep hearing. Yes, he is. He’s had a wonderful career. Phil Jackson is also a hall of famer, and when he took the Knicks’ president of basketball operations job on the brink of 70, he promptly signed our beloved Joakim Noah — who had been plagued by injuries in his final year with Chicago — to a 4-year, $ 72 million contract. Noah went on to play 53 total games with the Knicks, 16% of the games his contract suggested he would. He averaged 4 points and 8 rebounds during his tenure.
Jackson followed up that move with a litany of other head-scratching, borderline-disastrous moves. And guess what? He’s still got 11 rings and is arguably the greatest basketball coach of all time.
A criticism of La Russa’s handling of this current White Sox team is not negating his career. All managerial decisions should be viewed in a vacuum, just as Joe Maddon’s were at the end of his Cubs tenure despite his contributions to the Cubs first World Series in 108 years.
Some of the White Sox biggest question marks were answered a mere dozen games into the season, but problems still presented themselves, as La Russa trotted out Nick Williams time and time again to the plate. Williams has now been DFA’d by powers other than La Russa, but he still took 13 plate appearances away from more talented players — accumulating a grand total of zero hits — and some of those were in crucial spots.
The reason La Russa offered up for supplanting Williams over rookie Andrew Vaughn was that Vaughn needed to “earn playing time.” That begs the question, how do you earn playing time without playing time in the MLB, where the team plays every day? On top of that, what exactly had Williams done to earn his spot? He did not do a single redeemable thing during his time with the White Sox, and hit 86% below league average last year with the Phillies, according to OPS+.
La Russa batted Leury Garcia and Billy Hamilton, two of the worst offensive players in all of baseball, with the team down a few runs late last night. The Sox went on to lose to a Tigers team that made 5 errors and had lost 10 of their last 11.
On the bright side, the aforementioned question marks have been almost completely erased. Vaughn has looked like a more capable fielder than Eloy Jimenez just a dozen games into his career, making zero errors, a bevy of routine plays, and one spectacular one.
The guy is just a baseball player, as corny as that sounds. His bat will wake up undoubtedly, and if he can be a long-term solution at left field for the White Sox, I can’t imagine better news on the South Side.
(Vaughn’s progressions this year are similar to Coby White’s. Give him time — he’s barely played professional baseball.)
Adam Eaton — another question in right field — has been more than serviceable. He’s slashing .243/.333/.446 with three home runs and 18 RBI, making him one of the most consistent hitters on the team this year outside of Yermin Mercedes.
He made one of the worst base running mistakes I’ve ever seen in the MLB yesterday, but his signing has been a generally positive note thus far.
Speaking of Yermin Mercedes, the 28-year-old rookie is having one of the best starts to his career in MLB history. That is not hyperbole. His numbers (.429/.474/.671), with 4 homers and 15 RBI) are on part with Albert Pujols’ numbers in his first year, and Pujols run the Rookie of the Year by a landslide — and came in fourth in MVP voting.
We’ve got a long way to go in the season, and pitchers will undoubtedly adjust to him. But based on his approach, I don’t see him falling completely off a cliff. His walk rate is not high (7%), but that’s hard to gauge right now considering that he’s tearing the cover off the ball almost half of the time he’s up there. Plus, he’s only got around 70 plate appearances, so those numbers aren’t representative of how he’ll be in his career. He’s also striking out at a great clip, just 13% of the time.
Based on the eye test, he’s been pretty disciplined, which is impressive considering how easy it’s been for him out there. He went from an afterthought rookie to one of the more important pieces of the White Sox in the first 20 games.
When he entered into pitch in the Sox matinee against the Red Sox last Monday, he became the first position player to make his major league debut on the mound since 1936. And this King was shaking off pitches! He can do it all.
Some of La Russa’s head-scratching moves will be phased out, organically and inorganically. Rick Hahn sent Nick Williams packing and gave La Russa no choice but to no longer play him. Tim Anderson returned from injury, which has (sort of) forced Leury Garcia out of the everyday lineup.
Yasmani Grandal’s early absences from the lineup were probably the hardest to curtail, and one of the most nonsensical moves that La Russa has made. Not only will Grandal be making the most money out of any player on the Sox this season (18.25 million), but he’s also really good.
Grandal has had an above average OPS in every single season he’s played. He’s also a better catcher than Zack Collins.
The Sox have not gotten off to a great start, and yet they’re still in fine position. They’re two games above .500 despite La Russa’s miscalculations and their best players struggling. They’re behind the Royals, who have zero chance of keeping up the pace that they’re at.
Another question mark that has been answered is Carlos Rodon. His no-hitter was as inspiring of a moment I’ve seen in baseball in a long time, and he deserves all the praise that he’s receiving. The dude has had multiple surgeries and still stuck with it, bet on himself with the Sox this year, and has an improved motion and better control than ever before in his career.
And while his no-hitter is the obvious highlight, his following start was almost as important when considering the trajectory of his career. He lacked his best stuff and still toughed out a good start, something he was unable to do when he was younger. He’s 3-0 with a .47 ERA thus far.
Michael Kopech has been the icing on the cake. He has 27 strike outs on the year and has only allowed 7 hits and four walks. This is great for the White Sox, and not so great for Dylan Cease.
On a pitch limit, Kopech lasted further into his spot start the other day than Cease has all season. The Sox are right to take Kopech’s bullpen-to-starter migration slow, but as this team gets into more important games later in the year, it may get hard to justify having Cease in there over Kopech.
Despite all of the bad players hitting for no reason, the injuries, and the Sox best players struggles, they are still one of the best hitting teams in all of baseball this year.
A couple of those losses have also been in extras thanks to an MLB rule that was taken from 7th grade baseball tournaments when there’s no lights and the sun is going down. The man-on-second rule is absurdly dumb.
Either way, the Sox will be just fine. But it won’t be thanks to Tony La Russa.
(I am running out of space for this newsletter, so conserving space here for Cubs highlights and lowlights):
The Cubs are 10-13, and went from being the worst hitting team in all of baseball, to a really good one for a handful of games, and then back to being bad generally. I expected them to be hovering around .500 the entire year, but didn’t expect the volatile ebbs and flows.
Javier Baez is hitting better than people realize. He has an above average wRC+ and OPS+. His strikeout rate is around 47% however, which is dreadful. Its climbed each year since his near-MVP year, where he struck out just 25% of the time.
Kris Bryant was finally healthy, until he sat out yesterday’s game with a bicep issue. He should be fine, and hopefully he is, because he’s been back to being the KB we grew to expect earlier in his career. He has a near-1.0 OPS, slashing .289/.375/.618. I’d like to see the Cubs get a long-term deal done with him sooner rather than later.
Willson Contreras has been fantastic a year after his name was put in every trade possibility imaginable. He leads the team with 7 home runs.
Jake Arrieta has been the Cubs best pitcher thus far, which is tough. But it’s also great, because he’s back with the Cubs and pitching well again despite declining stuff. After a tough first inning in his last start, he was fantastic the rest of the way. He’s the only Cubs starter with a sub-3.0 ERA — or even close to it.
Nico Hoerner has been fantastic since being recalled from the minors. Why he was down there, I don’t know, considering that he is far superior to every other option, a part of the future, AND the Cubs did not even succeed in service time manipulation. Just a bad look overall.
Next newsletter (space constraints) will lead with Andrew Shaw’s retirement. Shaw contributed to multiple Stanley Cup runs, and he finished with 116 goals and 131 assists in 544 regular-season games and 35 more points in 72 playoff games. But his lasting impact will be his desire and connection with Blackhawks fans.
Cheers to a great retirement my man.
Don’t forget to comment on the newsletter and tell your friends… also, let me know if you’re in on a t-shirt and/or the upcoming SGCTC party. Thank you for reading, Kings and Queens.
To clarify, the leg injury was a rug burn from lunging out of bed and dipping down low like a defensive end for the contact. Also, you forgot the large white glass decorative bowl which fell off of the top of the armoire on my head..... I moved quickly but the assailant apparently got away.
When you say the Bears are in one of the worst financial positions I sit and wonder who in good god's name that money is tied up in? I will sit down and watch the draft with the same anxiety I have when Instagram shows me some young girl getting up on a bar to dance.
Lastly, if you Sox fans don't tear Giolito a new asshole for 1) saying he "isn't a morning person" after the Patriots Day beating and 2) "I had little left in the tank" throwing his manager under the bus when he failed last night, then you need your "South Side" card pulled.
Ive got a lot of dirty laundry to air out. Let start here, I dont think I have ever been this unexcited for an NFL Draft since I gained consciousness and became a Bears fan. The logical thing for the Bears to do would be stay where they're at and Draft a lineman to bolster up one of the worst lines in football, but logic gets thrown out the window with the Bears. I love the idea of them drafting a qb in the middle rounds while still fixing the weak spots. If the QB doest work out then we're 4-12 football team and will be primed for a high draft pick, while still filling holes with young talent. In no way shape or form is this a playoff contender, regardless of the man under center.