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What an unexciting year this will be


Unless the Polish kid gets in early, I may not even watch the games

If I watch half of the games this year I'll be surprised.

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even bad football gets my plums tingling.

I just crossed two names off the list of super bowl party invitees

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They will be better than last year, as it would be kind of hard not to be.

I think they have a good amount of talent on the defensive side of the ball and it is unlikely they will have the ludicrous amount of injuries on defense they had last year.

I know the long-necked Mike Glennon doesn't have many options at receiver, but the running game will be solid.

6-10 or 7-9

Not great, but not as much of a shitshow as last year.

I think so as well, but we've been singing that song for several years now and have been wrong.

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They were stacking the box on Howard and he still ran on defenses last year.

That Bears D line will be impossible to run on if healthy. They are top run defenders but they also have health issues, except for Hicks.

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Is there a young player to be excited about on the roster?

Lame-duck coach, GM did NOTHING to improve the team near term, all their old injury-prone vets are a year older and more injury-prone...its gonna be a bad year. I would not rule out picking 1.1 in 2018, as both the 49ers and Browns did a ton to better themselves for the coming year.

That vaunted front 7?
Hicks: good/great
Goldman: good/great for 6 games a year, doesn't play the rest
Jaye Howard: good/great, but something is clearly wrong
Floyd: career is in jeopardy
Freeman: good/great, but over 30
Trevathan: might not play this year, or ever again
McPhee: good/great for 6 games a year, doesn't play the rest

This.

If the Bears are healthy, they will be more than competitive.

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Big if.

Thankfully we have fantasy football to focus on.

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There's a lot of wishful thinking here. My guess is 4-12, with all 4 wins in the second half.

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I will guess 6-10 with two of those coming late season when games aren't as competitive.

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It is.

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Yay Competitiveness! 7 wins here we come!

Like Doug, I will probably not see more than half of their games.

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Yup. If they stay healthy their ceiling is probably 7-9. Most likely they are a 4-12 or 5-11 team

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I predict they look good early and win a couple games and get people interested only to fall apart in the last half of the season finishing 6-10.

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Bears games used to be must see TV for me and I think I watched parts of three games last year. They will win 5 games at best.

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Fair weather fans are the worst

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Have you seen the front part of their schedule? They could be 1-7 at the bye.

I agree with your overall win total though. This seems like a 5-6 win team to me.

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When your team is never bad, it makes it a hell of a lot easier. For a Packers fan in their mid 30s, can you even remember a season worse than 6-10?

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Favre's second to last season they were 4-12, iirc. Him and Al Harris walked off the field last game arm in arm. Everyone thought Favre was done.

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So one or two losing seasons in 20 years with a couple SB wins as well. What an arduous journey it's been for you.

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To be fair I'm also a Sox fan

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You have seen 3 Super Bowls (2-1) and a World Series.

There are Chicago fans that lived 80+ years and didn't get to see that.

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5-11

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No doubt that could happen. But it is hard to tell right now. There will be teams people think will be pretty good have bad years and vice versa.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
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Nobody except Wedding Welch Nas thinks the Bears are going to have a good year though.

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