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Chase Daniel Time! Let's go, win it for Mitch!

Looks like Trubisky will be out for Thanksgiving with Bray being called up. The only good part to this move is that Cooper was cut. Hopefully Daniel can come thru and play like he did in the preseason.

I looked back at the game and it seems that he was hurt on an earlier run where he made an awkward slide with his right arm down. He kinda slide over his arm and it ended up underneath and behind him. I think he hurt it there, probably just a sprain. More than likely not any structural damage, just sore with some reduced ROM. I would assume that he would end up being a game-time decision to just let him rest and get treatment up until that point. No reason to reaggravate it to test it before then.

I know it was crazy. He should've had 5 INTs and 3 fumbles which would've been the most turnovers in modern football by one player. It's just funny that people are celebrating the game because it was the wild wild west with no defense. Fun to watch, but if I am a KC fan, I don't know how I feel. When dudes are not wide open, he looks like a completely different QB. I agree that he is destined for boom or bust status, a bunch of TDs and INTs.

As teammates smack his helmet in celebration!

Hopefully that MNF game (which was epic) quells some of the national media narrative. Mahomes had some big plays to completely wide open receivers, but with the game on the line, he completely choked and threw back to back INT's to end the game when all they needed was a FG. He also threw a Pick-6 earlier and lost a fumble that was returned for a TD. He had 5 turnovers total, tying Nate Peterman for the most turnovers in the last few years.

on that conversion.

It was from the Harrison Smith cheap shot near the end of the game. Hopefully just a precaution.

Somehow Trubisky pulled off a QBR of 85.3 on SNF, and is now 3rd in the NFL behind Brees and Mahomes. http://www.espn.com/nfl/qbr/_/type/player-week

Here we go! Another division game and a chance to go to 8-3 with a few extra days of rest after Thursday's game. Detroit is decimated with injuries and will more than likely be without Kerryon Johnson and Marvin Jones. They already traded Tate, so they will literally have two receiving threats, Golladay and Riddick. No other player has more than 12 receptions or 100 yards receiving. There leading rusher will be Blount (who I believed burned us a few years ago). Payback is a bitch. Sweeping the Lions in the season series on Thanksgiving would be sweet. I heard this is the quickest two-game span in NFL history (from the end of the Sunday night game until kickoff on Thursday morning). If so, that's crazy too.

So Oakland is currently holding the #1 pick in the 2019 draft, and at worst they will end with the #3 pick. The Bears, with their current record will draft around #25. If we project those positions to the 2020 draft, the Bears essentially swapped Mack for a 2019 1st rounder and 10 spots in the 2020 draft. That's pretty crazy. The worst scenario for Oakland in this trade was if they were bad and the Bears became a playoff team. It looks like that is exactly what is going to happen.

Bears win 25-20, damn close to projections. A lot of garbage time yards for Minnesota. Defense is legit, offense still a work in progress. They need some underneath routes.

14-0 Bears, I have been screaming on almost every play. Pounding it with Howard is working, need to keep that up. On the Trubisky INT, shouldn't have thrown it, but also a bad play call against 2 deep safeties. Basically throwing into triple coverage. The defense has been absolutely dominant. I would like to see Burton and Shaheen get more involved in the end half. We get the ball to start the half, need points on that drive, preferably a TD and make it a 3 TD game.

Bears force a 3 and out on Vikings first drive.

Sims has had two concussions this year, no need to risk a third. Great news on Shaheen.

I am really hoping for a blow out victory where we can rest some starters in the 4th quarter.

My last one, under Zimmer, the Vikes are 2-2 coming out of the bye, but 1-2 on the road after a bye. Also, they outscore their opponent 23-7 in the first quarter and get outscored 30-16 in the 4th in those 4 games. So it is going to be crucial that the Bears get an early lead and neutralize this advantage.

Some additional numbers: DVOA: Offense/Defense/Special Teams CHI 7.9/-20.1/-5.1 MIN -2.8/-8.4/-2.5 Looking at DVOA, we have a more efficient offense and an absolute dominant defense compared to Minnesota. They have a slight edge on Special Teams (shocker). Looking at Minnesota's games, they had a terrible outing against the Rams, allowing over 550 total yards and 38 points. To ensure that was not an outlier, I removed that game and their best game, and did the same for the Bears to see how the numbers compared: CHI 371 Total Yards (OFF) 29.3 pts/g 304 Total Yards (DEF) 18.3 pts/g MIN 372 Total Yards (OFF) 25.6 pts/g 305 Total Yards (DEF) 22.4 pts/g So the offenses and defenses are literally within a yard of each other. Pretty crazy, but the Bears average about 4 pts more on offense and allow 4 less on defense for an 8 pt differential. If you play our offensive average vs their defensive average, you get 26 pts for us and 22 for them. So a score of: CHI 26 MIN 22 on a neutral field. If you give us +3 for home field or (+2 for us and -1 for them), you get Bears 28-21. So we will see how this goes, I had 27-21 in my first look, so it was interesting to see the numbers come up so close.

By this time next week, we could be 8-3, Vikes 5-4-1, Packers 4-5-1, and Lions 3-8. Crazy.

Trubisky now 4th in the NFL in QBR at 75.1, only behind Brees, Mahomes, and Rivers (75.4).

So much for Trubisky not being able to throw to his left. /Narrative

We are still either -2.5 or -3.0, which means we are favored. We are not underdogs anywhere that I can see. https://www.oddsshark.com/nfl/odds

3 prime time games in 4 weeks, the league must be noticing something. 2 out of 3 at Soldier Field. If KC beats LAR, we could be playing for a first round bye at that point.

If you had to rank the skill positions individually, WR would probably go Hopkins, Hill, Robinson; RB would go Hunt, Howard/Cohen, Miller; TE: Kelce, Burton. So lowest top end talent, but probably the best group as a whole. Also, consider what Trubisky had to throw to last year (Wright, Bellamy, and Inman were his leading WRs).

Alaska, I was being a little tongue in cheek with the actual rankings understanding that Trubisky clearly had more games so would have more raw stats. However, how many top 10 WR's, TE's, and RB's does these QB's throw to? Watson has Hopkins, who is a top 5 receiver, and Mahomes has Hill, Kelce, and Hunt all in the top 5 at their positions. So technically, Trubisky has the worst supporting cast for his career.