Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Colin Coward had this to say regarding the Bears being, hear me out guys, an example for other teams to look to to rebuild.
It's not that hard to turn things around.
And for the record, the Raiders have been in that group. And I watched that draft last night and I'm like, this is the Chicago Bears model. They get Ben Johnson. They fix the old line. They've got their quarterback.
Ryan Poles has really developed into a sharp little GM, young guy.
The bigger picture is he thinks the Bears are the example now.
Whoa.
My, my, my.
Well, well, well. How the turntables... Can we just examine one specific thing that he said there? Because let me tell you something. I've been talking about sports for a long time. Not as long as Colin Coward. But significant. But a significant amount of time. And whenever someone throws the word little in there as a descriptor...
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Chapter 2: How do the Bears serve as a model for rebuilding?
There's so many different things, but little took over that entire phrase.
Ryan, you seem to enjoy belittling me, so I decided to belittle you.
Pulse has gotten better. Yeah, that's fair. But yeah, little can be... Belittling? I'm not a grown man to grown man. I don't know that position, but I could see why that would be.
Oh, I'm telling you, that's exactly what it was. It was almost like under Ben Johnson's tutelage, he's become a nice little GM.
Call that what it is, though.
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And once again, this is something we touched on yesterday, Marshall. Both baseball teams are not out of it in town. And that's the first time I've been able to say that in years. We will talk about the White Sox and their 500 month coming up at 1045. And we start with the Cubs who appropriately, I think, picked up where they left off against the Padres, you know, taking the series.
I think of that playoff series and home here at Gallagher Way where we set up camp and to see them move on yet again, taking two or three in another really entertaining season. Comeback type of game where you had to really manage. Bullpen was not at full strength, as we know. Jamison Tyone gives up a couple dingers, including a deep drive to left by Nick Castellanos, and it was a tie ball game.
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Chapter 3: How are the Cubs performing at the end of April?
Yeah. And to know they're coming home and Craig Council gets a chance to reset, I'm interested to see what roster moves are made, not just in adding Daniel Palencia back, but what they decide to do with their starter tomorrow. There's a lot of questions to be asked, but I don't think Craig Council is asking questions about his offense right now.
And that's taking a lot of pressure off of him as far as building a lineup each and every day. He has excess options, in my opinion, when he writes out that lineup card every day.
Well, and that's part of this. I think Craig Council Marshall talked about this with Spiegel and Holmes earlier in the week. He talked about the offense being a focus of this team, and at times I didn't. As you know, I did not necessarily think that was true or that was the case, but yet again it comes through, and it's also thanks in part to Nico Horner. I love this text from 630.
Highlight is definitely Nico being a psycho and laughing running down the line after taking 90 miles an hour to the Dome. But when you know you're in somebody's head, you know you're in somebody's head. That makes things real easy. Nico had one of the best months of his career, you know, when you consider what he put together. And that's after last season.
Tied for fourth in Major League Baseball in F4 at 1.6. Only Jordan Alvarez is higher. Eli De La Cruz is among this company at 1.7 and Aaron Judge at 1.7. So, L.A. Delacruz's F4, you could argue, is a massive reason why the Reds have the record they do. Horner's slash line, 291, 370, 449. Four homers, eight doubles. That's the one that got me.
He hit that eighth double in the game before yesterday.
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Chapter 4: What insights are shared about Jamison Tyone's performance?
And I'm like, man, he's already got eight doubles on this season. I love a good home run, there's no doubt. But when you already have eight doubles to your name, the double makes me feel inside happy things. That's when I know you've got a really productive offense to your name that's going to bring a runner across, and it's not always the outcome of just either home run or strikeout.
That speaks to what he's doing.
What I look at with Nico Horner and what gives me – kind of this idea that the Cubs are going to have a better offense than they did last year in totality. Let me point that out. So they're third in the league, third in Major League Baseball, excuse me, in runs scored, right?
But the key stat I just keep going back to, I cannot ignore, Layla, is that even though the Nationals and the Braves have scored more runs than them, not many, like five or six more than them, so they're averaging over five runs a game,
Nationals had trouble against the White Sox.
With runners in scoring position, they've had 319 at-bats. That's more than anybody else in baseball. That means they're getting the opportunities. And really, even in games that they lose, right, it's usually we're lamenting, oh, you didn't get it done with runners in scoring position. You left too many men on base.
But if you keep doing that, with the way this lineup is built lengthwise, it feels like they're not all going to go cold that often.
Well, that's it. Your job when you're building a lineup is to make sure that it's deep enough to where somebody goes through a slump, somebody else is contributing. I think the White Sox are a good example of that being a difference maker for them this past month. The Cubs have done that, as we've seen. It takes the stress off of the hitters, I think six through nine in the lineup.
That has been exemplified. And then all you need is a couple of hits, you know, with Peeker Armstrong batting ninth and then again showing more pop in his bat. That's why the stress is taken off of everybody. You're right about the runners in scoring position. It was one of the issues in the Dodgers series. The difference is it's going to be one of the issues in every team's Dodgers series.
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Chapter 5: Which Bears draft pick would you redo and who would you select instead?
If you could redo one of the Bears draft picks, which one would it be and which player would you select in its place?
Okay, so I've thought about this and it's too risky. It's too risky to assume that Emmanuel McNeil-Warren, who went one pick after the Bears picked in the... Yeah, who went? Emmanuel McNeil-Warren went at a place the Bears couldn't pick them, is my point.
Chapter 6: Could the Bears have traded up in the draft?
I don't know why my brain doesn't want to work on this. Yeah, he was after Logan Jones. I was looking at the third round for a second, then my brain went hazy because, well, third round and Bears.
Ah!
And it's big. The idea of redrafting, it's a lot, especially after we just went through the draft.
And that is incredibly hindsight 2020. Yeah. That's like hindsight 1510 to be like, oh, well, they could have just waited and gotten Emmanuel McNeil-Warren. Nah. That was insane. So Dylan Thienemann is still your first round pick. Then it becomes, could you have traded up into with some of the picks? You get the pick from Buffalo, as we've mentioned.
Could they have traded up?
Could they have traded up, yeah, into the second round where the early action was, as Ryan Poles mentioned, regarding edge. But then you also see, speaking of that third round, which traumatizes me day in and day out in my life, that Sam Rauch was the pick number 69 and Romello Height from Texas Tech and edge rusher was number 70. Could it have been that simple?
If you were going to pick somewhere, if you were going to risk something, would that have been the place to risk? Do you think that you could have gotten Sam Roush at the Xavion Thomas pick at 89? That's where I think there may be some wiggle room there. I know it's default for me to talk about the third round. But that's where the Bears take risks. Period. Paragraph.
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Chapter 7: Who is the MVP of the Cubs series win over the Padres?
So if that's the case, would you be willing to risk your draft capital there? But I don't think it was as simple as, oh, you could wait for Emmanuel McNeil-Warren, who went one pick after Logan Jones. I don't think the equation is that easy.
Here's the pick on the Bears that, excuse me, the pick that the Bears did not take in the draft that someone else took that I will be watching this season and beyond for very specific reasons. If you go to the third round and the Zavion Thomas pick, taken, traded up for just three picks later by the Dallas Cowboys, was edge rusher Jay Sean Barham. Ah, yeah.
And when you read about Barham as a guy who was an edge rusher and played off-ball linebacker at Michigan. and you read about Dallas' need for him and why they needed him and how he fits a similar profile to another guy that used to be on the Cowboys and now plays for the Packers, it feels like a pick they could have made at 89 instead of Xavion Thomas.
So Romello Height, edge rusher graded the 15th best, And the Beast, third round grade, so he was drafted appropriately according to the Beast. And then Ja'Sean Barham was 16th best edge rusher.
You hear me then, don't you?
Third, fourth round grade by the Beast. So we're both in the same zip code here when it comes to how we want this draft possibly reconfigured. And that's not discrediting Xavion Thomas. It's just consensus board. consensus so putting everybody's draft boards together clearly they're drafted clearly differently
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Chapter 8: How many days will the White Sox spend in first place in the AL Central?
And because that wasn't a trade situation. So it's very much, hey, we think Xavion Thomas is better than Jayshon Barham. He could do more for our team and has more draft potential. Because remember, it's draft and develop. That develop part is going to be interesting and to see how these players come through, right?
We're still waiting on some of the traits of some of these draft picks to shine through.
I can't wait to hear Antoine Randall-El describe him and hear what he's going to do to make him even better than he is now as a drafted player, Xavion Thomas. But I got to tell you, if Jay Sean Barham messes around and gets double-digit sacks in one of the first two seasons, I'm going to have questions. It's not unlike when they took Darnell Wright. You know who I had questions about.
An all-pro guy up front named Jalen Carter. Yes. Same types of things apply here.
They still needed an offensive line, though. Sure. They had so many needs at that point that I... Now, Jalen Carter showed you who he is and his effect on a game.
If Jalen Carter goes to the Hall of Fame and Darnell Wright does not, I'm going to be like, you took the wrong guy. I just am.
I think the bigger red flag there was also the fact that in us saying the obvious, which was, I don't know that the Bears have the infrastructure to support Jalen Carter. There was a bigger discussion to be had about the Bears infrastructure overall. Like Jalen Carter may have been the symptom, but he wasn't exactly the entire cause here.
The tell on that is there's no indication of anything that's happened since then that said the Bears did have the infrastructure to support a guy like Jalen Carter. And that is an indictment on the whole freaking organization.
Would he have gotten Matt Iberflues fired faster? Maybe that would have been the discussion to be had.
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