I don’t know what goes into making “organic” gummy bears, but they were purchased by yours truly because they were on sale and less expensive than the other ones on the shelf. They’re not as good as chocolate-covered gummy bears, but they hit the right spot when I needed them yesterday.
They’re baaaaaaaaack:
We have finally arrived to one of the most important dates on the football calendar! Between now and the Super Bowl, there isn’t a Sunday in which professional football things aren’t happening. Let that sink in for a moment. Football is here and it’s OK to be excited Everybody rejoice!
Heads up! GM Ryan Pace and Head Coach Matt Nagy will be hosting their camp-opening press conference around 4 p.m. CT as part of the team’s “Return to Decatur” event. It’s pretty neat to see the Bears return to the place the franchise was founded and born. There is nothing like going back to your roots or your humble beginnings.
I’ll be curious to hear how Nagy talks about what has been somewhat of a controversial teaching techniques. In case you missed it this offseason, Nagy has shown replays of Cody Parkey’s season-ending double-doink to his players as some sort of motivational tool. Nagy has since doubled down on taking this particular path, explaining why in recent interviews with SI.com’s The MMQB and with the Cubs’ television booth on the day he threw out the first pitch and sang the Seventh-Inning Stretch. Frankly, I think the obsession with replaying the miss is weird, but being obsessed is perfectly #onbrand with Nagy’s style.
But still … I can understand the method to Nagy’s madness. There is so much to be learned in life from your short-comings and failures. Further, there are things that can be learned by re-tracing the steps you made en route to your mistakes so you don’t make them again. Soon enough, Nagy and the Bears will need to move forward with this season (which will leave little to no time to worry about what happened in the past.”
For what it’s worth, there is an old quote from Mike Ditka that my uncle used to tell me about the past being for losers and cowards. I wonder what Da Coach would think about how Nagy is handling this situation.
Once the pomp and circumstance that surrounds opening festivities come to a close, the Bears will get down to football business. After the way things ended last year, it’s hard not to feel the need to jump right into things. But let’s just be a little bit patient. We still have 46 days between now and when the NFL season kicks off. Sit tight … it’s coming.
The Bears will be under some sort of pressure in 2019, but it won’t be as much as it was in some recent years. Jason La Canfora (CBS Sports) provides a heat index for each of the league’s 32 teams, and you can find Chicago toward the back end of that spectrum. The Bears rank 19th on the pressure scale, with La Canfora noting that Nagy’s remarkable first year — you know, the one where the team won 12 games and a division title — “should be enough to hold off any change for quite some time.” In fact, La Canfora goes as far as to step on the ledge and suggest that much change wouldn’t come — even if the league’s top defense regresses and Mitch Trubisky takes a step back. It doesn’t take too much of a leap of faith to come to the conclusion that Pace and Nagy are in this together, especially since their contracts expire at the same time. Bold stance to take, Mr. La Canfora!
Khalil Mack is a real one, no matter what country he is playing in:
https://twitter.com/NFLUK/status/1152594007622475776
Pretty neat that Khalil Mack showed up at Dwyane Wade’s Chicagoland summer camp:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0KRfrtF_Q_/
Happy birthday, rookie:
https://twitter.com/ChicagoBears/status/1152933747114704897
I couldn’t help myself from asking Bears reporter JJ Stankevitz about the worst individual performances he has ever witnessed in person after Addison Russell’s no-good, very-bad, ridiculously-terrible game while pinch-hitting on the Cubs beat. His response surprised me:
In case you needed a refresher, Peterman completed 31 of 49 passes for 188 yards as his Bills suffered a 41-9 butt-whooping at the hands of the Bears. Peterman threw three interceptions (no touchdowns!), was sacked four times, and was hit on nine more occasions. And while I realize ESPN’s QBR metric isn’t perfect, the 8.7 rating Peterman earned that day feels far more accurate than the 45.3 he picked up on the traditional quarterback rating scale.
One of the most surprising things to ever happen in football changed the fate of the Lions, the NFL, and the league’s rushing record occurred 20 years ago:
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