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Week 8 Morning-After Thread: Bears at Chargers (alien.top)

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[–] Draker-X@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Want to feel worse?

According to Pro Football Reference, the Bears have played the third-easiest schedule in the league so far according to their strength-of-schedule algorithm. (Only the Dolphins and Bills have faced softer competition.)

By "SRS": (Simple Rating System) the Bears are the 4th-worst team in the league. Guess who's below them?

Washington
Denver
Las Vegas.

The Bears' SRS is -9.9. Here are the ratings of the remaining teams on the schedule:

@ New Orleans: 1.4
Carolina: -8.1
@ Detroit: 3.7 (chance to improve on that tonight, facing the Raiders)
@ Minnesota 1.0 (though that will fall like a rock without Cousins)
Detroit again
@ Cleveland 6.4
Arizona -5.1
Atlanta -4.0
@ Green Bay -6.2

My God. The Bears are going to play all the worst teams in the NFC by the end of the season (Minnesota post-Cousins, Green Bay, Carolina, Atlanta, Arizona, already played Washington...the only awful NFC team the Bears miss is the NY Giants, and the only really good NFC team they play is Detroit.

And even against this soft-ass schedule, they're going to win how many games, at most? 5? 6? And if the Bears finish up the season looking "better" in their final three games, THIS IS FOOL's GOLD. Do not fall for it.

Awful, awful, awful. Everyone should be fired. Even Poles.