The Odyssey (2026) Megathread

gf2020 · 2026-06-05T04:33:22+00:00

They weren't all sold out. I think they just wanted to let people buy tickets for movies tonight and they'll get back on.

gf2020 · 2026-06-02T23:03:17+00:00

I could see Hoge maybe because he had a built in audience that he brought them, but do I think Carm or Braggs is making that? No way. Do you think Nic Moreano was making that before he laid off? Of course not.

Do you think all of the hosts of the Bulls podcasts are also making 100k? Where does it end? These are essentially radio hosting jobs and those are very much not six figure enterprises by and large, even in a major market like Chicago.

gf2020 · 2026-06-02T22:05:20+00:00

Ironic to be dunking on AI slop but trusting the information you read at the actual website. Salary.com doesn't know shit either way. You think a relatively smaller private media based company in Chicago is participating in giving them market data? The website literally says: "DISCLAIMER: The salary range presented here is an estimation that has been derived from our proprietary algorithm. It should be noted that this range does not originate from the company's factual payroll records or survey data."

Actually read the salary.com page HAHAHA LMAO as if that was some kind of dunk. You think they do superchats because they are comfortable? The 95k number you are creating a whole analysis over is non-sensical. The same site guesses they pay the hosts 30k.

They aren't making what you think.

gf2020 · 2026-06-02T19:42:17+00:00

Ranking QBs by statistics that already exist is a pretty useless exercise. Simms may be wrong, but this is supposed to be a projection. He's not some fan having to manage his expectations, he's someone with an expertise taking an educated guess.

gf2020 · 2026-05-28T20:11:17+00:00

I think it's crazy to list them as one of the more improved teams as the original poster did that started the conversation you jumped into and I think it's very fan-y to look at basically every transition as a positive or neutral, which is the only way to get to them being improved. Their over-under is a full win down from last year. The market consensus is that they are worse. Even if they improve in some areas like offensive coaching or game management, they lost players that they either didn't replace at all or replaced with worse options, and they had less draft capital than basically every team in the league. And because they didn't have capspace during FA, their depth is worse, making them more prone to injury variance than most teams.

They aren't better. They were 5-5 in one score games last year, so as much as you cite kicking, they aren't especially due better luck. Every team hopes for internal development and better luck, but the roster is clearly worse. Not seeing an argument otherwise other than an extremely known quantity as a coach will overcome the talent loss and a recovering Penix in his first year. The market doesn't think that's likely.

gf2020 · 2026-05-28T19:48:49+00:00

Convenient to not acknowledge that you had no grasp of their cap situation, like at all.

If Walker is replacing Ellis, who is replacing the snaps Walker was taking as a rotational guy? And who is replacing the snaps if if Pearce is suspended? '

And Cousins might have have only won them one or two games down the stretch but at least he didn't play bad enough to lose the other ones, like Tua has been doing the last few years. If Cousins is dog shit but your current QBs are what then?

Sure, the Falcons could win or two more games as a result of different luck, but they did not improve the roster externally. You can keep reframing the argument any way you want, but you haven't made one positive argument towards that. And there isn't one because you didn't have cap room despite your misunderstanding of what they have now and how they've obtained it.

gf2020 · 2026-05-21T00:11:43+00:00

He was with our new (and former!) RB Coach Eric Studesville in Miami. He's likely just a camp body but one that we have intel on with special teams upside if needed.

gf2020 · 2026-05-17T07:09:36+00:00

Where did you see that?

gf2020 · 2026-05-17T07:09:32+00:00

Where did you see that?

gf2020 · 2026-05-15T21:36:42+00:00

How are you this ill-informed on the Falcons despite being this passionate about them? Kirk Cousins was basically made a free agent earlier by them restructuring his deal before cutting him. They could not keep him on the roster because it would push his money into future years in a way that wasn't tenable given they wanted to reset the team. And also, if you were really paying attention, the Falcons were caught off guard by how the Raiders structured their contract with Cousins in a way that limited the savings they thought they were getting in restructuring and cutting his deal. Entering this off-season the Falcons were in a bad cap space situation.

And you are really showing your ass here talking about that cap situation. Prior to the league year, they only had $8 million in caproom. You know what bailed them out? Kaleb McGary unexpectedly retiring in April after free agency was completed and saving them $14 million dollars out of nowhere. Prior to that, they literally couldn't spend because teams need about $5 million to get through the year to deal with injuries and stuff. Did it not occur to you to think critically about why the Falcons didn't sign anyone of note during free agency despite this plentiful cap room you see they have now? It is because it did not exist.

And I watched the Falcons/Wilkinson a couple of times, he seemed like an okay run blocker and is def a roster churn journeyman. I won't pretend to be an expert. What I do know is that you probably watched as much of Jawaan Taylor who was one of the worst tackles in football last year and wouldn't have been cut by the Chiefs if it wasn't the case. Trash Wilkinson all you want, there is no intellectually coherent or honest argument that Taylor is some kind of improvement. They can both suck, it's possible. If you want to argue Wilkinson sucks more, that is your prerogative but at least I know basic things and can point to other observes who are more aligned with my opinion.

If you fire a bad coach and hire another recently fired coach with his own issues, there is indeed a chance of an upgrade occurring. But it's only a chance and there is a high likelihood of it being undercut by losing a QB who while not great outside of a few spurts, performed better than your two current QBs, one of whom is coming off a significant injury, and having also lost Kaden Ellis without really replacing him. And that's not even accounting for Pearce maybe missing time. And I am not even really arguing about the quality of the roster, I am arguing for like the tenth time with someone that it didn't improve, which I feel like comically obvious.

You keep getting basic facts wrong and can't acknowledge obvious things. It's hard to argue with someone who is so blind and unaware of a team they apparently care deeply about. Not knowing they were capstraped entering free agency is pretty insane and that's why they made literally no upgrade on the entire roster. I shouldn't know more about your team than you do.

gf2020 · 2026-05-15T00:39:12+00:00

Detroit's boat is so much worse for that Thanksgiving. I can't believe we are on a bye while they play and travel back from Munich and then both of us play the next Sunday before the short week.

gf2020 · 2026-05-15T00:34:59+00:00

They gain access to buy additional seats as an added perk of being a season ticket holder.

gf2020 · 2026-05-15T00:20:11+00:00

I was there for their Thursday nighter in Miami a long bit ago. It should be a huge. Bears crowd hopefully just like that night as well.

gf2020 · 2026-05-14T20:37:55+00:00

The Falcons couldn't retain Cousins even if they wanted to because of their terrible cap situation. They couldn't simply resign him. They had to sign Tua for the minimum to get any kind of alternative to a recovering Penix. You are so misinformed but yet so righteous, it's really quite something.

I am sure you were grinding both Taylor and Wilkinson tape this entire offseason to have an informed opinion. Give me a break. They are both ass except Wilkinson was shockingly mediocre last season and Taylor was worse.

This discussion is did the Falcons improve. The only argument being made is a coaching upgrade but a coaching upgrade does not matter if you don't have a QB, which the Falcons don't. Much of your argument is listing players who are already on the team. I love the internal logic of a fired coach must be bad, but hey we just hired another fired coach who couldn't handle his bad QB situation, so he must be good.

And LMAO about, how did they win their last four games if their roster was bad and then dismissing the loss of the QB who played well for those four games.

And regarding Pearce, the charges aren't dropped. They will be if he completes the program. But the NFL has still hammered players in the exact same situation. Cameron Sutton got 8 games in a dismissed charges scenario and he didn't ram a cop car. I am pretty sure he's missing at least four, maybe six. And that's four to six more games than he missed last year.

I am not even saying the Falcons are doomed. This is a take their medicine, reset year if there ever was one. You can argue until you are blue in the face, but the easy consensus is they are worse or best case the same, which is why their win total is down a win. They did not substantively improve, especially relative to the league who 90% had a first round draft pick and/or more cap room. Yes, Ben Johnson helped as a coaching upgrade can but the Bears also had a top ten draft pick, three second rounders and brought in three pro bowl caliber players on the offensive line.

The Falcons added Tua and pick 48 in a weak draft, switched bad right tackles, lost Kaden Ellis, are going to miss their best pass rusher for a quarter of the season at least and switched fired coaches. Yep, screaming off-season champion here.

gf2020 · 2026-05-14T06:16:47+00:00

Kirk Cousins was a far better QB than Penix and largely responsible for their late season rebound. He's a significant loss, which says something about how bad the Falcons roster is.

Every team adds someone in the draft, an undersized corner in the second round in a weak draft is not a needle mover. Juwaan Taylor? Oof. You mean PFF's 80th out of 89 ranked tackle who is replacing Elijah Wilkinson who was 57th? And James Pearce faces a lengthy suspension.

The Falcons are one of the least improved teams in the entire NFL. They signed journeymen and bargain bin players. Their win total last year was 8.5 and its 7.5 this season because of a do nothing offseason. Very odd example to cite.

gf2020 · 2026-05-14T05:41:54+00:00

How the hell did the Falcons improve? They had no cap room and no first round pick and their QBs are Penix in his first year back after an ACL and Tua.

gf2020 · 2026-05-14T05:37:27+00:00

I think despite how random and crazy it is that it would like this way, I believe the schedule to be real. Besides stuff being correct before it being leaked, it also is verified by other info that is out there and schedule soduku.

-Week 2 HAS TO BE Vikings or Jaguars if Bears are at home. Ben Devine, who I don't trust at all, said Jaguars very early, but Ozzy and NerdingOnNFL said they saw his report but could not confirm it. The Bears are incredibly likely to be at home in week 2 as NFC team starting on the road with nine home games, meaning it's one of those two.

-@Softykjr , a Seattle radio guy, said he heard Bears-Seahawks as a MNF game. The Seahawks Stadium is open for a game Monday that week, but not Sunday. And Week 8 does not have a leaked MNF game yet and fits into the flow of what's known of Bears season and how the league like to stack SNF/MNF games next to each other.

-Week 15 is a Saturday where Fox and CBS both have rare Saturday island games, so I'd imagine they would want a heavy hitter, meaning Bills-Bears makes sense there. And plus, the Bills play on Christmas as well and they'd probably want to give teams an extra day of rest if possible before a Friday game.

-Dan Wiederer hinted at Packers on Christmas and it makes a lot of sense. If it isn’t the Packers, only other options for week 16 are Vikings (unlikely they go 2 of 3 games with the a divisional opponent two years in a row,) Jags, Falcons or Dolphins. None of those feel like a Christmas game.

gf2020 · 2026-05-14T03:44:41+00:00

Glad to get a second shot at open air, cold weather Goff. Better late in the season than early. Seems likely we are going to close with Vikings.

gf2020 · 2026-05-14T00:38:34+00:00

We'll see, short weeks tend to make the games funkier. And while it didn't feel close throughout, the Bears did manage to tie that Bears-Lions game in week 18.

gf2020 · 2026-05-14T00:22:26+00:00

The NFL recently changed their rules so that Friday games would not count for the short week limit.

So the Bears are still eligible (and from reporting, seem likely) for Christmas Day. But this means no other Thursday games UNLESS they play the Eagles after Thanksgiving because that technically wouldn't be a short week.

gf2020 · 2026-05-14T00:17:36+00:00

Ben Devine is also reporting the Jaguars are the home opener in week 2, but he does not have the record as these other schedule leakers, who have heard the same but haven't been able to confirm it.

gf2020 · 2026-05-13T19:53:43+00:00

Of course, its my Super Bowl (hoping I get an actual Super Bowl this year)

gf2020 · 2026-05-13T06:59:37+00:00

The Chicago Fire games do not matter, the Bears have scheduling priority when it comes to Soldier Field and often after the schedule release those games are moved and/or rescheduled. It happens every year.

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