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I disagree on DL and LBs. Bears starting DL sacks last year: 31.0, Bears also have Gipson with 7 and Watts with 5 as backups. 49ers starting DL sacks last year: 26.0, SF has Ridgeway with 2 sacks, no other SF backup had a sack. That is 43-28 in just sacks, pressures/hurries are very similar. The SF line is not the same from last year, lost Key and Ford. For LBs, technically Smith is superior to Warner in every statistical category but somehow Warner is better. Warner 79 solo, 137 total tackles, 0.5 sacks, 7 TFL, 0 INT Smith 95 solo, 163 total tackles, 3.0 sacks, 12 TFL, 1 INT, 1 TD For WRs, Deebo is clearly the best of the bunch, Mooney next, then Aiyuk, so I will agree that they have the edge 2-1 for WRs. Edge to SF there. For OL, SF wins the edges, but the Bears have a better interior. Analysts are saying that OLine is one of the 49ers weaknesses, so a push seems reasonable. We have not even seen the Bears new line with Patrick.

Bears vs 49ers Positional Comparison: QB - Fields vs Lance, edge Bears (I feel like Lance is a huge boom or bust candidate) RB - Monty/Herbert vs Mitchell/Wilson, push (Mitchell and Monty are fairly even) TE - Kmet vs Kittle, edge 49ers (Kittle has the experience edge and has produced some huge seasons) WR - Mooney/Pringle/St. Brown/Jones vs Samuel/Aiyuk/Jennings/McCloud, push (Samuel is the best WR in the group, but after that, the Bears have the edge) OL - Jones, Whitehair, Patrick, Jenkins, Borom vs Williams, McGlinchey, Banks, Brendel, Burford, push (SF has the edge on the outside, Bears on the inside) To me the offenses as groups are pretty darn even. SF has the highest end players in Kittle and Samuel, but the Bears have the next 3 in Fields, Mooney, and Kmet. DL - Bosa, Armstead, Kinlaw, Ebukam vs Muhammad, Blackson, Jones, Quinn, push (when you consider the Bears have Gipson and Watts as rotational guys, they might have a slight edge) LB - Warner, Greenlaw, Al-Shaair vs Smith, Morrow, Adams, edge Bears (Warner and Smith are pushes, Bears depth with Sanborn and Weatherford trump Oren Burks and Flannigan-Fowles for SF) CB - Ward, Moseley, Lenoir vs Johnson, Gordon, Vildor, edge Bears (Bears top 2 CBs are a better duo than SFs) S - Ward, Hufanga vs Jackson, Brisker, edge Bears (this position group may be the biggest advantage of all position groups) The Bears defense by position group look better than the 49ers. ST - Gould, Wishnowsky vs Santos, Gill, push (Kickers are a wash, Wish has bigger leg, Gill has better inside the 20 skill) Using last year's stats, SF had a better offense and a slightly better defense than the Bears. The Bears had a better ST. Coming into this year, we can expect the Bears offense to improve considerably (+10), and the defense should be slightly better (+5). SF might start out slightly worse on offense (-5) (with Lance), and the defense is basically unchanged from last year (+0). Where am I going wrong?

Someone would file a missing person report on me in that amount of time lol.

6 days to root? Good luck with that. Bermuda is all over down here in Alabama. It is actually a weed and stays really short. It should be like a putting green and fast.

So no live radio in car, no social media, technology black out. That's impressive.

Nice, are you going to look at game updates live, or wait to watch the game later without knowing the outcome?

49ers draft picks: 2nd (61) Drake Jackson, Edge, 3rd (93) Tyrion Davis-Price, RB, 3rd (105) Danny Gray, WR Jackson is a rotational Edge guy, Davis-Price is 3rd on the depth chart, and Gray is WR6 Spencer Burford, is a rookie 4th rounder starting at RG. On defense, their OLBs are Greenlaw and Al-Shaair? Emmanuel Moseley is a starting CB, Strong Safety is Talanoa Hufanga? So right there it seems like they are going to be weaker against the pass with a suspect OLB group and secondary. Their 4 starting secondary had a total of 5 INTs last year.

LET'S GO! The Bears had the lead against the 49ers last year before the defense shit the bed. The Bears offense was completely broken last year and Fields still had a great game with some insane runs. The Bears lost 33-22 (Santos missed a PAT). With the new scheme and players, it is hard not to be optimistic because Nagy was that bad. I feel like the Bears offense will score more than 22, and the defense won't allow over 30 again. For my prediction, I am going with Bears 27 - 20. Fields, 65% comp, 285 yds passing, 60 rushing, 2 TDs passes, 0 INT, 0 fumbles, 2 sacks. Kmet and Blasingame with TD receptions Monty with rushing TD Bears win turnover battle 1-0, Brisker with INT.

A Bears win with Fields performing better than Lance would be a great start to the season. The national media is just waiting with stories already pre-written on how Fields will fail because of X, Y, and Z. Dan Orlovsky and crew can't wait for the first incompletion to deem Fields a bust. God forbid he throws an Interception as it will be dissected down to the shoelaces, frame by frame for weeks.

Waddle and ARob as flex is a strong roster. I have Gabe Davis and Amari Cooper as my flex players.

In the first, wanted Mixon, went one pick ahead of me. In the 6th, I was waiting on Kittle, went one pick ahead of me. Then in the 12th, I had a brain fart and went defense for some reason with a good 10-12 other players I should've picked. Likely was one of those guys.

If you look back, most wins occur when your top 3-4 guys go off. It's always one player that tops 40 that decides the game. Even though we are always waiver wire hunting, the bottom 2-3 guys on the roster rarely matter.

Just based on QB alone, Fields vs Jones, that seems like an easy sell.

Caleb Johnson was picked up by the Jags. Most of our other guys ended up on our PS.

Yeah, huge news. Especially with the Arlington Heights stuff ramping up. I'm assuming Poles will move into President of FB Ops and they will promote Cunningham to GM.

hahaha. Sometimes if feels like the other GMs know my draft rankings. I can't tell you how many times the guys I was about to draft come off the board within 2 picks of my pick almost every round, then I am scrambling for the next guy and do a panic/safe pick.

Oh man, I was wondering about the defense picks. There are at least a few decent QBs (Ryan, Tua) and TEs (Tonyan, Fant) available.

Last year's 53-man, strikethrough players gone, bold+strikethrough are players on the PS this year: OFFENSE (26) QB (3): Andy Dalton, Justin Fields, Nick Foles RB (3): David Montgomery, Damien Williams, Khalil Herbert WR (6): Allen Robinson, Darnell Mooney, Marquise Goodwin, Damiere Byrd, Nsimba Webster, Breshad Perriman TE (5): Cole Kmet, Jimmy Graham, Jesse James, Jesper Horsted, J.P. Holtz OL (9): Jason Peters, Cody Whitehair, Sam Mustipher, James Daniels, Germain Ifedi, Larry Borom, Alex Bars, Elijah Wilkinson, Lachavious Simmons DEFENSE (24) DL (5): Akiem Hicks, Eddie Goldman, Bilal Nichols, Angelo Blackson, Khyiris Tonga OLB (4): Khalil Mack, Robert Quinn, Jeremiah Attaochu, Trevis Gipson ILB (5): Roquan Smith, Christian Jones, Alec Ogletree, Joel Iyiegbuniwe, Caleb Johnson S (4): Eddie Jackson, Tashaun Gipson, Deon Bush, DeAndre Houston-Carson CB (6): Jaylon Johnson, Kindle Vildor, Duke Shelley, Xavier Crawford, Artie Burns, Marqui Christian ST (3): Santos, O'Donnell, Scales Only 18 players from the 2021 53-man roster made this year's 53-man roster. 8 offensive players, 8 defensive players, and 2 special team players. That's 35 new players!

This is an approach we are not used to. I feel like Poles is hedging his bets with Fields this year. He has created a ton of roster flexibility and can lock up players next year that are deserving while still adding talent from other teams. If for some reason Fields is not the answer at QB, the team is young enough that they could bring another young QB in next year and roster age would not be an issue. This roster may not have a high ceiling (unless Fields balls out), but it has a pretty high floor.

He scored 2 TDs against the Bears last year on a total of 5 receptions on the season. In Week 17, he had 3-103, 1 TD against the Bears.

SF's 2021 draft already looking suspect: Trey Lance, Aaron Brooks, Trey Sermon (cut) as their first 3 picks in rounds 1-3.

Biggs is saying that they will put Harry on after 3pm so he will get the IR-Return Designation which allows the 21 day ramp up period (before activation). That also means the Bears need another WR.

Yep, I agree. Nagy didn't help him though. He is probably a career backup, spot starter type of QB. He can even come in for some gadget plays or the Wildcat.

Weatherford is a beast: Outside of 12 pounds, he is a taller, faster Roquan (minus the instincts).

Current 53-man, after first waive of cuts (31 AUG): QB: Fields, Siemian RB: Montgomery, Herbert, Ebner, Blasingame, Tonges TE: Kmet, Griffin, Wesco WR: Mooney, St. Brown, Pringle, Jones, Pettis, Harry, Sharpe-IR OT: Jones, Borom, Reiff OG: Whitehair, Jenkins, Carter, Leatherwood (OT/OG?) OC: Patrick, Mustipher DE: Quinn, Muhammad, Gipson, Robinson, Kingsley DT: Jones, Blackson, Pennel, Watts LB: Smith, Morrow, Sanborn, Adams, Weatherford CB: Johnson, Gordon, Vildor, Jackson, Jones, Blackwell S: Jackson, Brisker, DHC, Cruikshank, Hicks P: Gill K: Santos LS: Scales