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He looks like he just listened to the dark side of the moon from Pink Floyd.

I havent seen all the rookies, but Hawes has done a great job. I can see his role continuously growing this year and the next. No defensive player wants to tackle him. You can just imagine a LB, or Safety once Allen tosses him a short pass, “OH CRAP”.

Agreed, we need to find a way to win through the air. The ground game is great, but if there isn’t an air threat, opponents will load the box. What I saw was positive was the Hawes dump off pass, but it wasn’t in the backfield. It was about 8 yards plus you try and take that Mac truck down. The one catch I can remember from Cooks was. Nice and need a lot more. They tried to get more out of Davis, and that has to increase. The ground game was so impressive, but will be even more impressive if we get more air yards down the field. It wasn’t in nice to see the defense really step up. As far as the Pats, I believe we can, but doesn’t mean we will. Lastly, the Eagles do not look that impressive all year on offense. Their defense is impressive, so we’ll see. The Bengals obviously looked better with Burrow back, but their defense is still horrible. I can see us 12-5.

It doesn’t make sense to compare teams of other rosters, other coaches, front offices. Those comparisons never make sense. Three Rivers (not calling it by its new name) will have a healthy amount of Bills fans there. At least if we keep Coleman on the sidelined, there is always a chance the current WR room may have better fortune tomorrow. Kinkaid has been a maybe with limited status, so there is a chance. If not, Knox and Hawes need to chip their DE’s and at least one of the two a dump off for Allen, along with either Cook or TJ. Not bubble screens, or anything behind the LOS. A healthy run game will help. Maybe Brady can get his head out of his behind and actually draw up an intermediate route for Shakir, and one of the two Palmer or Cooks a deeper option. The deception of 12 personnel and possibly a short to intermediate pass vs. run on 1st would be a start. I’d much rather see a 6-7 yard pass even if stopped to 2nd 2-3. Then run. What a novel idea? So I don’t accept we can’t win tomorrow. Even with our tackles out, we’ll have to run heavy to compensate with the TE’s. I truly believe we can beat the Browns even as good as their defense plays, the offense is bleep poor. The Pats is a huge threat. We still have a chance. That’s how I see it. The only ho e serious challenge at home is the Eagles, and they didn’t look like the SB champs yesterday. They’ve looked vulnerable all year on offense. Defense has kept them in games.

Exiled, please don’t misunderstand I have zero against the Bears or their fans. They’ve barely been relevant since that vaunted 85 season and was happy for my corporate buddies based out of Chicago. They went to that one SB against the Colts and were no match for Manning. The Bears also have been mismanaged for so long, for example Lovie Smith wasnt the first coach to get them relevant again and was a double digit team under him and they eventually fire him and fire other coaches ever 2 to maybe 3 years at most. They keep blowing up their team, pick at the top and choose poorly like Trubisky, Fields, etc. They may have finally paid off with all those high picks. The problem with the Bills during the drought is often we’d often finish 7-9 to 8-8, and I think maybe one 9-7 year. We’d never pick outside of a couple of horrible years and when we did, we’d blow it with awful top picks like Mike Williams, and so on. Anyway, my sentiment is just I’m glad to see the Bears show real progress and challenge the Lions, Vikings, and Packers. Good for them.

Amen. Sleep in on a Sunday, relax after you youngins party, whil us middle aged guys throw pretzels at our TVs.

That’s great. Some good news the day after thanksgiving. I’m sure well deserved.

I’m happy for Chicagoans as they’ve been in the desert probably longer than we were for our 17 years. It was not good timing for us on Ben Johnson. McD can’t win that much for half a decade and fire him. It would be disastrous for Pegula if it backfired. He already blew Wrex and the Sabres perpetually for 15 years. I see his reticence to make drastic hangers to a division winner for 5 years, and if we make it 8 out of 9 years.

No worries Bud. Not at all. BTW- that’s Ray Davis, not Gabe. I thought that was obvious given his success in these new kickoff rules. Gabe is not a ST guy. I hope I didn’t confuse anyone. I thought it was obvious given their histories recently.

Yeah, Kelly Lofton’s stride actually reminds me more of Davis than Cooks. I too am hopeful Cooks can do something, but my fundamental distrust is the olay caller in Brady. At least Kelly had Marchibroda, vs. this guy who is in over his head.

I forgot about that history, but you're right. I guess us middle aged guys need to stick together.

That didnt make sense to me either as they could have had the 7, and then let the 2pt. Happen if they scored again. They had to go to the onside which is far less likely to work. Im not sure what the guys in the desert were thinking as the Eagles don't look the same just like Chiefs, Bills, Lions, Bucs, and Ravens all look off. The Bears have been growing all season as more and more complete with each week. I have access to all the games so it’s not a surprise if you wont make bets based on reputation, but what they are doing in this current year.

Honestly, unstable if they dress 5 and Palmer is healthy, then.. Palmer Cooks Shakir Davis Shavers and only if they dress a 6th, the Coleman is the 6th. He doesn’t have a ST impact. We have Davis for kick returns, and Shakir for punt returns. The only way I see Coleman as the absolute last option is if Palmer can’t dress. Coleman is turning out to be possibly a worse bust than Elam.

CB, you have solid points, but it’s going to happen whether we like it or not. I like Augie’s idea the schedulers make every effort given two byes to have before the TR night games so they actually get quite a bit more time before and after. Those are concessions the owners could make for the almighty dollar.

Again agreed my friend, just guessing what they will do, not what is better. Probably.