The Beast

Next year doesn’t look better for the Bears in terms of the schedule - Brad Biggs pointed out they would play the Cardinals, Ravens, Bengals, 49ers, the Browns, Rams, Steelers, Seahawks, Buccaneers and the winner of the NFC East. That could help support the argument for blowing things up or staying the course, depending on how you look at next year’s schedule and the outcome of this year. At least they can clear some cap space by cutting Graham, extending Hicks, cutting Leno or Massie, reworking Jackson’s contract or cutting Skrine. Painful moves are definitely going to be made, though the Bears won’t be the only team to have to do so.

Adults can change jobs every 3-4 times on average but careers? How often would someone from business go to nursing and then go to another trained profession in a lifetime? Perhaps I wasn’t clear enough. High school kids need to know what they are good at, what they have an aptitude for and what they are interested in so they know the careers that are available. Let’s say a kid is a journalism major, goes to school and finds out he doesn’t like journalism anymore or where the job market is. He switches to business and graduates. Then he goes and works at some job in business. He finds out that he has an interest in helping people and because he knew what weaknesses could be strengths in terms of coursework, he goes on to be a nurse. Wouldn’t it be better to know what you are capable of, have an interest in and an aptitude for before you go to college? Smart inventories or aptitude tests could at least offer some better guidance instead of floundering and trying on different shoes to see what fits. It might help better decisions being made sooner. Otherwise someone in the working world could have responsibilities and be fucked or slow to make a career change because of responsibilities. I’m probably off base but I do think better career assessments are needed earlier on for high school kids.

You also forgot to mention that if they made another change, it would be hiring both their fourth GM and fifth coach since 2010. Why would hiring another tandem right the ship? Also I was responding to “The Bears need a football minded person to be Pace's boss.” Not even a football mind as president and Pace or Nagy keeping their job would be enough for them.

And yet, this isn’t enough for some Chicago fans and some of the Chicago media. They want perpetual rebuilding and think more moves will bring them closer to a Super Bowl title.

That last 2 minutes was so Bears. Bad INT and interception with a fumble and Smith possibly being injured.

Lol they are letting Glennon beat them. Remember when Pace signed him for 3 years and 45 million?

As an education system and in society, kids and young adults need better assessments of their skills and interests throughout their young lives, taking inventory of all of the possible careers they could be interested in, taking inventory of their skills and weaknesses that could be developed to get them into careers. It needs to be done early and reinforced better throughout high school so that young adults know more about themselves when they are looking at colleges in majors, that way they don’t just pick something for the sake of picking something. Doing all of this would help young adults make better career choices. Even if you are going into a health care profession that requires a BS?

Right, so I don’t get why people want them to lose further. It’s possible George has already made up his mind with the losing streak and some late season wins won’t change his mind. Pace might be the one to go since his deal is shorter than Nagy. We’ll see. Who made THIS roster? (And for your argument who hired THIS coaching staff?) Why is THIS roster underperforming? Coaching alone? I call bull. This team probably can’t win THIS Super Bowl for a collection of reasons. And there are a lot of reasons you could argue for getting rid of Pace and Nagy but a lot of counter arguments that are ignored by members of this fan base (not you) who either just want to b****, have meatball thoughts about coaches like Ditka who get “fired up, care and win” or just want change. Good luck finding that change in a year of teams with lots of staffing needs and with revenue loss. I’m watching for pure entertainment purposes. We can’t do much anyway with COVID so we might as well be entertained.

Better get your Glennon and Rodgers jerseys on and start cheering then.

Can we all at least agree that with a new team president, GM, coach and Michael Reinsdorf that this team is irrelevant, they will sell assets and aim for the highest pick possible even though tanking does not guarantee the highest pick?

James Robinson is out tomorrow. Hopefully the Bears can make them one loss closer to getting Lawrence.

Time will tell what their decision is but I just do not see Nagy being the one getting fired. Pace traded for and drafted Trubisky. Nagy may have wanted Foles but Pace made the move and also fucked their salary cap situation. Something tells me that the amount of openings, a late season surge and the financial impacts of the pandemic will save Nagy’s job.

Bears still have a shot, unless you hate Nagy and want them to lose the last two.

We need more Illinois fiscal politics discussions around here. Hope you’ll join in on discussing pension reform while you’re at it!?

Also going away are some liberal arts programs from campuses as schools lose enrollment in them or students focus on more career focused curriculum. We need more programs that are career focused. What you did with working while getting your degrees made lots of sense. I worked throughout college but I think you had more responsibility the way that you went to school and the amount of work you did year round. I got to the professional world and worked as a generalist in a few fields and I am still thinking of going back to school while working a middle class job so I can have more job satisfaction and maybe avoid more corporate BS by working in health care. We will see. Either way, with automation and a changing workforce there will be more of a need for skills and actual professions as opposed to generalized degrees.

I’m starting to think that Nagy keeps his job if they win the last two games. Pat Fitzgerald? He shouldn’t be coaching in the NFL, it’s an entirely different beast than coaching at Northwestern.

When in the hell did this become about politics?

Good. Now create more of them for different occupations. Well, why not start with fixing loopholes so Amazon pays more in taxes? I don’t think Biden would go for a wealth tax aside from higher tax rates. I’m thinking Warren may be alone on that idea.

I remember the primary debates and I thought I would fit more in the Klobuchar camp with the reduced or free community college. I couldn’t get on board with Sanders or Warren with their proposals for college and Biden’s plan for college once he was the candidate seemed aspirational. I did read about the executive order that you mentioned and would think that some loan forgiveness tied to years of public or community service makes some sense, as does some reduction in student loan rates. I don’t know how something would get done through legislation and seem to think it would have to get done through an executive order.

It’s a nice idea, but how would something like it be implemented and would it be means tested? What were some proposals or arguments that you read on it?

Hahaha it was the first time I listened to him.

What are your top suggestions for semi sweet wines and IPAs this year? Going to Binny’s and could use suggestions. Even if it is not one of these two and is something new you have tried.

Adding it to my playlist for this afternoon, thank you for sharing! Edit: Nice slow beat piano tunes!

Yes, it sure seems like Pence will appeal mostly to the religious right and not the Trump base.

Levin was extremely angry and just ranting about how the election was stolen. Hewitt at least has something interesting to say even if I disagree with him on a lot. If there are other conservatives I should listen to that are better and are not peddling garbage to their base I’d be interested to listen to them. One thing I do notice is that they replay the same cuts over and over about Georgia and election fraud. Gee, I wonder why. Any shot of a 2024 run for Pence?