Jim Dabrowski

Packers @ Bears game prediction: This is going to be ugly. Rodgers will simply torch the Bears all game long. No pressure, no secondary - damn right I’m starting Christian Watson in Fantasy. He alone will probably win me my matchup this week. With Fields likely starting, I’d take the over on 70 points scored this game. 40+ to 30+? Oh yeah.

Rebuilding

All I keep hearing about is how bad the current Bears roster is. No building blocks for the future, need total rebuild on both sides of the line, no receivers, etc. etc. If this roster is as bad as everyone is saying, there is no way next year will be much better than this one. Even with a gazillion dollars in cap space there are only so many players Poles can acquire in the off season. That's a bit disappointing.

Bears Ownership

When does Virginia McCaskey get some blame for the current state of the Bears. When a team is bad, year after year despite changes in players, coaches, GMs, etc. the only one left to blame is the ownership. Sure you can blame Michael and now George the previous and current Chairmen of the team, but she put them in those positions and throughout both their tenures (most of my life), the Bears have pretty much sucked. The Bears need new ownership.

Should Justin Fields Play vs the Packers

I don't care. The only reason to watch the Bears play any more games this season is to watch what Fields can do. For that reason alone, I want to see him play. Without him, it's going to be dreadful and I'll probably do something I almost never do: shut the game off before it's done because you know Rodgers will be screaming he owns the Bears multiple times, flipping off fans, mooning them, whatever. So play him, don't play him, do whatever you think best Matt and I'll watch for however long I can stand it.

Next Season

Guess that's it. As is becoming pretty usual for a fan of this team in December, it's time to start looking forward to the draft and next season. "Wait til next year!" our perennial cry. Also, as usual, it promises to be interesting. Justin Fields sure looks to be "the guy" the Bears have draft picks and cap money to spend. Will be interesting to watch.

JIm

Packers @ Bears game prediction: This is going to be ugly. Rodgers will simply torch the Bears all game long. No pressure, no secondary - damn right I’m starting Christian Watson in Fantasy. He alone will probably win me my matchup this week. With Fields likely starting, I’d take the over on 70 points scored this game. 40+ to 30+? Oh yeah.

Bears @ Jets game prediction: I think Bears fans will see how unwatchable this team would be without Fields and with a bad defense. Not saying it’s a blowout, but I do think the game will be borderline unwatchable. Look for a big day from the punters.

Bears @ Jets game prediction: I think Bears fans will see how unwatchable this team would be without Fields and with a bad defense. Not saying it’s a blowout, but I do think the game will be borderline unwatchable. Look for a big day from the punters.

Bears @ Falcons game prediction: My prediction is more of the same. The Bears on offense, and Justin Fields in particular, will continue to shine and score 30+ points. The defense will continue to struggle resulting in giving up 30+ points. Who wins? Who knows? It’s a toss-up.

Bears @ Falcons game prediction: My prediction is more of the same. The Bears on offense, and Justin Fields in particular, will continue to shine and score 30+ points. The defense will continue to struggle resulting in giving up 30+ points. Who wins? Who knows? It’s a toss-up.

Since the purchase of Twitter, Elon Musk has done a lot of things that sure seem stupid, and plenty of people on Twitter and on the internet in general have made that observation. Musk isn't stupid, but yet he seems to be doing a bunch of stupid things.

Everyone with half a brain knew if you eliminated the verification part of Twitter's blue checkmarks and turned it simply into a badge indicating you paid your $8 there would be a complete flood of people impersonating corporate and personal accounts for malicious purposes or simply for laughs. Musk isn't stupid, he too knew that, and he did it anyway.

Twitter's primary source of income is from advertising. In 2021 $4.5 of its $5 billion in revenue came from advertising. Major brands, however, don't want to be associated with anything remotely controversial so they only advertise on "safe" platforms. Musk isn't stupid, he knows this. Despite knowing this, he removed the verification system, he retweets and supports conspiracy theories, threatened war against those brands if they removed their ads and with his "free speech maximalist" stance has signaled there will be many more controversial posts in the future. None of this makes Twitter a "safe" platform on which to advertise.

In today's economy and in the wake of Covid, workers enjoy the freedom to be more flexible in the location and time they work. Especially in the high tech industry programmers are in high demand and an employer has to be willing to do what it takes to keep their talent and to attract high caliber talent. Musk isn't stupid, he knows this, he's been in this exact industry for years. Yet, he immediately fires half the staff. Starts publicly denigrating and firing people who speak out against him. He is instituting a demand that everyone has to work in the office and even announced that anyone staying has to be ready to work excessive numbers of hours - basically saying to hell with "work-life balance". Musk knows all this but he does all this anyway.

It's easy to see all his actions and conclude he's some tech billionaire who is actually clueless about how the entire high business world runs despite years of actually being involved in it. I think that conclusion is wrong. Musk isn't stupid. He does know all this. If he knows all this, we have to ask: Why is he doing it? The only conclusion to draw is he is deliberately trying to destroy Twitter.

He made an ill-tempered decision to buy the company and when he realized he wasn't going to be able to buy his way out of it, that he was actually going to be held accountable for his actions, he immediately reversed course and went through with the deal solely so he could destroy it out of spite. Every action he has taken since his take-over has shown this to be his intention. It's sad to see something like Twitter go since it's been such an integral part of the Internet for the last 10 years. But as they say, all good things must come to an end.

JIm

Lions @ Bears game prediction: Little late posting this today, but still holds. I think the Bears defense has a bounce-back game. Eberflus will not let the defense continue to look as bad as they did last week vs the Dolphins.

Lions @ Bears game prediction: Little late posting this today, but still holds. I think the Bears defense has a bounce-back game. Eberflus will not let the defense continue to look as bad as they did last week vs the Dolphins.

Dolphins @ Bears game prediction: Don’t know what the over/under is for this game but I predict we’ll see both teams with 30+ points. Gonna be a shootout.

Dolphins @ Bears game prediction: Don’t know what the over/under is for this game but I predict we’ll see both teams with 30+ points. Gonna be a shootout.

Bears @ Cowboys Game Prediction: Not a prediction this week as much as a desire. Last week the Bears had a great offensive game plan and the players executed it perfectly. Win or lose, I’d like to see that happen again this week.

Bears @ Patriots Game Prediction: Bill Belichick is the best head coach in NFL history. He spent over 7 minutes and 1,000 words earlier in the week praising the Bears which I take to mean, he’s salivating at the thought of how easily he’s going to be able to completely overwhelm and crush them. My prediction: Justin Fields does not survive the game and spends more than half of the remaining season on IR.

Commanders at Bears game prediction: I think the Bears a .500 team and will hover at +/- 1 game of .500 all season. Therefore I predict a Bears win just to keep them even at 3-3. My only worry, everybody is predicting a Bears win so that right there might just doom them.

Commanders at Bears game prediction: I think the Bears a .500 team and will hover at +/- 1 game of .500 all season. Therefore I predict a Bears win just to keep them even at 3-3. My only worry, everybody is predicting a Bears win so that right there might just doom them.

Bears @ Vikings game prediction Unfortunately, I think this week’s prediction is pretty easy again. The Bears have, by far, the worst run defense in the league. The Vikings have Dalvin Cook. The Bears have a rookie corner who has been picked on and looks a bit lost in coverage. The Vikings have Justin Jefferson. Enough said.

Bears @ Vikings game prediction Unfortunately, I think this week’s prediction is pretty easy again. The Bears have, by far, the worst run defense in the league. The Vikings have Dalvin Cook. The Bears have a rookie corner who has been picked on and looks a bit lost in coverage. The Vikings have Justin Jefferson. Enough said.

Bears @ Giants game prediction This is my annual pilgrimage game seeing the Bears play against every other team in the NFL. Unfortunately they haven’t done so well when I go to these games so my prediction is the Bears lose just because I’m here. Let’s hope I’m surprised.

Bears @ Giants game prediction This is my annual pilgrimage game seeing the Bears play against every other team in the NFL. Unfortunately they haven’t done so well when I go to these games so my prediction is the Bears lose just because I’m here. Let’s hope I’m surprised.

Texans @ Bears prediction These are two not good teams but todays game might tell us something about each club’s direction. I expect both teams will struggle on both sides of the ball in a low scoring affair. Coin toss.

Texans @ Bears prediction These are two not good teams but todays game might tell us something about each club’s direction. I expect both teams will struggle on both sides of the ball in a low scoring affair. Coin toss.

Sometimes on Saturday mornings I like to sit and watch what I call my "Saturday Morning Cartoons". I'm currently working my way through season 11 of Dr. Who, the first season with Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor. Overall I like the show, it's not bad.

During the episode I watched today, The Doctor encountered an evil alien in a reprisal from their appearance in the first episode of the season. During the episode, The Doctor accused the evil alien of killing people "for no reason" and it got me thinking. That wasn't entirely true. In that first episode, the evil alien was going about the universe killing people to gather trophies of their kills to go back to their home world and demonstrate they were such a good warrior they should become the leader of their people. Now, that strikes me as a perfectly good reason for killing people. I (and The Doctor apparently) may not agree with that reason, or like that reason, or think that reason is kind of sick and disgusting, but that's not the same thing as NO reason.

Which then got me thinking some more. We use that phrase "for no reason" when we want to discount or otherwise dismiss other people's motivations for doing the things they do. We judge that reason as not being "good enough" rather than making the effort to see things from their point of view or understand their motivations. It's easier to just dismiss it out of hand and say they had "no reason". It's harder to try to have empathy with others and to understand why they do the things they do. We may still not agree with their motivations and reasoning and that's OK, we don't all have to always agree with each other. However, if we all at least try to do this, it might make the world a bit better of a place.

JIm

Bears @ Packers Prediction I sure would like to see the Bears beat the Packers today. I don’t know I’m quite ready to drink the KoolAid and predict a win. The Bears put up a fight and look competitive, but unless the Pack plays like crap, I don’t see the Bears pulling out the win.

Bears @ Packers Prediction I sure would like to see the Bears beat the Packers today. I don’t know I’m quite ready to drink the KoolAid and predict a win. The Bears put up a fight and look competitive, but unless the Pack plays like crap, I don’t see the Bears pulling out the win.