Please, Mr. President Donald Trump, your majesty, don’t run again in 2014on December 6, 2020 at 8:37 pm

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Bears: Bleacher Report video makes 2017 QB decision feel worseon December 6, 2020 at 2:00 pm

LUBBOCK, TX - SEPTEMBER 29: Patrick Mahomes II #5 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders on the field before the game against the Kansas Jayhawks on September 29, 2016 at AT&T Jones Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. Texas Tech won the game 55-19. (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images) — LUBBOCK, TX – SEPTEMBER 29: Patrick Mahomes II #5 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders on the field before the game against the Kansas Jayhawks on September 29, 2016 at AT&T Jones Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. Texas Tech won the game 55-19. (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images)

The Chicago Bears are still taking heat for their quarterback decision in 2017.

Week after week we have to tune into NFL Football and watch Patrick Mahomes and Deshaun Watson light the league on fire. Instead of drafting either of them in the first round of the 2017 Draft, the Chicago Bears selected Mitchell Trubisky with the second overall pick. It is already one of the worst decisions in the history of the National Football League and it gets worse and worse as the days go on. No matter what, the Bears are always going to be tied to their success because they passed on them.

Deshaun Watson seemed like a guarantee to be a good NFL player. He was a National Championship winning quarterback out of Clemson. Everyone knew he would be great in the NFL and now he is one of the five or six best quarterbacks in the NFL. The problem is that as good as Watson is, Mahomes is that much better.

Patrick Mahomes is on track to rival Tom Brady as the greatest quarterback in the history of the NFL. In his first full NFL season, he was the MVP of the league. In the same year, he was one play away from being in the Super Bowl. The following year, he did reach and win the Super Bowl in addition to being the Super Bowl MVP. It has been amazing so far for him and it is only getting better.

The thing is, regardless of how bad of a decision it was not to draft him, people still give Ryan Pace a pass. People like to make the claim that “nobody saw this coming when he was playing at Texas Tech” or “We can rip on Ryan Pace for not taking Watson but nobody knew Mahomes would be this good”. The problem with that statement is that it just shouldn’t be true. Mahomes was awesome in college and was clearly going to be good in the NFL.

The reigning Super Bowl MVP Mahomes has been making big plays since his days at Texas Tech ?

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— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) December 5, 2020

As you can see in this video that Bleacher Report put together, Mahomes was an absolute stud at Texas Tech. He was able to do everything in college that makes him so great in the NFL. He was able to extend plays with his legs, use his big arm to hit guys deep, and throw across his body on the run and hit the target. Any scouts that weren’t able to see this from him should be let go now. The Bears should be ashamed of themselves even more after watching this.

Matt Nagy was with the Kansas City Chiefs before coming to the Chicago Bears. He is the one for them who pegged Mahomes as a generational talent that they absolutely could not let slip away. They ended up getting him but Nagy left to be the Bears head coach. It is a shame that Nagy wasn’t there to give them that wisdom back then. Now, that decision by Ryan Pace is going to get him fired and Nagy will be right there with him.

If Mahomes was on the Bears right now instead of Trubisky, they might already have a Super Bowl with him. That defense combined with the play of Mahomes would be one great combo. It is a shame that this was never able to happen but it all falls on the Bears. Hopefully, they learned something from this catastrophic mistake and are able to finally figure something out in the not so distant future.

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Dave Mason finds its hard to improve on an original classic with “Alone Together Again”on December 6, 2020 at 3:51 pm

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Chicago Bears: Coaches to pursue who may leave their team in 2021on December 6, 2020 at 1:00 pm

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The Chicago Bears could be on their way to completely renovating their coaching staff in 2021.

What happened over the last two years? The 2020 Chicago Bears are a shell of who they were just two seasons ago, and reeling in the worst possible way. Loss after loss, nothing seems to change after a 5-1 start.

One would like to think head coach Matt Nagy finally pulls his head out of his you-know-what and instills some real change, but the Bears continuously put the same old garbage on the field which we’ve come to know week-in and week-out.

A week ago, the defense completely, visibly quit on their coach. This unit is tired of doing all of the dirty work while reaping zero reward. Game after game, the Bears’ top-10 defense continues to play fantastic football and would otherwise be a top-5 unit, if not for an offense that cannot sustain a single drive to save its life.

But, for what? A mere chance at a wildcard spot? A sliver of hope at a postseason bid remaining after starting atop the NFC North?

That’s embarrassing. Things need to change, and things will change. How much change will we see at Halas Hall? That’s the real question.

Throughout the 2020 season, we’ve seen a few other great coaches take a step forward. Some, on the other hand, aren’t exactly in the right spot. Great coaches nonetheless, the Bears should be watching these guys. After all, multiple coaching positions may be up for grabs come January.

Head coach? That seems to be a given. At that point, you may as well say goodbye to Chuck Pagano and Bill Lazor. The Bears’ coaching staff should be (and likely will be) replaced.

Will it be with one or more of the following guys?

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Notre Dame Football: Ian Book takes over in Irish victoryon December 6, 2020 at 1:17 am

CHESTNUT HILL, MASSACHUSETTS - NOVEMBER 14: Ian Book #12 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish looks on after the Fighting Irish defeat the Boston College Eagles 45-31 at Alumni Stadium on November 14, 2020 in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images) — CHESTNUT HILL, MASSACHUSETTS – NOVEMBER 14: Ian Book #12 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish looks on after the Fighting Irish defeat the Boston College Eagles 45-31 at Alumni Stadium on November 14, 2020 in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

Notre Dame Football dominated Syracuse thanks to great play by Ian Book.

It was Senior Day in South Bend on Saturday as the Notre Dame Football Fighting Irish took on the Syracuse Orange. The 1-9 Orange went into the game at an extreme disadvantage against the 9-0 Irish but they started the game off very well. Notre Dame went up 3-0 in the football game before the Orange took over and went up 7-3. That score held for a while before Ian Book decided to take over the football game. The Irish took advantage of a couple of Orange mistakes and started to run away with it.

Ian Book decided to make some sweet passes and have a long touchdown run of his own to help the Irish score 21 unanswered points at the end of the second quarter. The 21 late half points improved Notre Dame’s second-quarter dominance even more. After 10 second quarters this season, they outscored their opponents 141-35 which is wildly impressive. You have to think that type of dominance really helped them in their successful quest to go undefeated.

The way Book took over really set the tone for the outcome of the game. It wasn’t completely perfect as he threw just his second interception of the season which ended a streak of 266 straight attempts without one. That wasn’t much of a big deal as he led the Irish to a 45-21 victory to move to 10-0. It was yet another undefeated regular season for the Irish.

Ian Book was amazing to get to 10-0 against the Orange. He threw for 285 yards and had three passing touchdowns. He also carried the ball eight times for a total of 54 yards. Remarkably, he also had two rushing touchdowns. The 339 all-purpose yards and five total touchdowns are the work of a great quarterback who just had a tremendous game. It was Book’s 30th career victory as Notre Dame’s starting quarterback which is a school record.

There are still some things to be sorted out for the Irish. They await their opponent in the ACC championship but it will be Miami or Clemson. That will be a big determining factor for the College Football Playoff later this season. The Irish are in a great position to be in the playoff and cap off a completely undefeated season.

Saturday’s win over Syracuse was the final roadblock between them and going into the ACC Championship without a loss. They can thank their quarterback, Ian Book, for a large portion of their success. Hopefully, the success continues in his final college games.

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Chicago Bulls: New front office has players’ attention and buy-inon December 5, 2020 at 9:09 pm

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Fans are going to be even more excited about the Chicago Bulls’ new front office.

In less than a week, the Chicago Bulls kick off their preseason. After a 9-month hiatus, fans are going to get to watch meaningful Bulls basketball — and this year, things will be different.

When the Bulls last took the floor, fans saw a 108-103 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers. Before the pandemic took over our world, the Bulls were at least able to go out with a win. But, that was one of very few positives to take away from the 2019-2020 campaign.

During the first stint of home quarantine, fans were able to take a trip back down memory lane with ESPN’s The Last Dance, but during that series, we were all reminded just how stagnant this franchise had been during the GarPax era. The front office took center stage as fans immediately drew comparisons and dreamed for better days ahead.

We all got our wish when the Bulls rid themselves of Gar Forman and John Paxson, bringing in a new set of big guns atop the organization. Vice President Arturas Karnisovas and general manager Marc Eversley are now running the show, and there has been plenty of positive feedback thus far.

These Chicago Bulls will be different — that, you can count on.

Some of the best commentary we’ve heard came today when Thaddeus Young told K.C. Johnson of NBCS Chicago about the team’s recent workouts.

In illustrating how “in it” with the players Arturas Karnisovas and Marc Eversley are, Thad Young said sometimes the executives lift weights with the players.

— K.C. Johnson (@KCJHoop) December 5, 2020

That’s a stark difference between comments the young Daniel Gafford made via Twitch about previous head coach Jim Boylen — what Gafford called “constructive criticism.”

Karnisovas, Eversley and Billy Donovan are such a polar opposite from what this franchise had been dealing with for so long, even before the Boylen days. The Bulls went after proven, respected guys in Karnisovas and Eversley and then hired a head coach with previous head coaching experience. Not only that, but Donovan was arguably the biggest coaching candidate on the open market.

The players now see their executives leading by example. They’re in the thick of the hard work it takes to turn things around. Imagine seeing Forman in the weight room, in the squat rack with Zach LaVine; or Paxson doing box jumps alongside Coby White.

That ain’t happening, folks.

These new guys get it. They understand what it takes to receive buy-in from the players. It’s about leadership, and leadership requires action. It requires showing humility. The old phrase, “I wouldn’t ask you to do anything I wouldn’t do myself” comes to mind when you hear about how much the players love Karnisovas and Eversley.