00:00I got the Bears at 11-6.
00:01What's interesting is that Vegas and the various gambling sites very much do not agree.
00:10Nine and a half is the over-under.
00:12That's a good number.
00:139.3 is the statistical suggestion from the ESPN win machine.
00:21Win machine.
00:23They are listed by DraftKings and others as the third best odds to win the division.
00:28The third favorite within the division behind Green Bay and Detroit.
00:34And you could argue that with those numbers, they are not just a regression candidate, the Chicago Bears, but a
00:42flat-out regression prediction.
00:43There's always regression in this league, as well as a team stepping up like the Bears did last year.
00:49The NFL has mastered parity, as we know.
00:53This is bulletin board stuff, I would think.
00:56100%.
00:57In a big way, bulletin board stuff for Ben Johnson and his coaches.
01:01Whatever they need to help motivate them, if people think that they are going to fall backwards, use that.
01:08Use that as fuel.
01:09You shouldn't have to, but if the little extra motivation never hurt anybody, you can use that.
01:14The thing is, part of the reason I don't do that thing is that I'm still trying to figure some
01:20of the stuff out.
01:20I think some of the teams are, too.
01:22You can't tell me who the starting quarterback for the Vikings is.
01:24Without a doubt.
01:25We have an idea.
01:26Right.
01:26But, like, so week two, they get Minnesota.
01:29Is that so early that it's not Kyler Murray?
01:32Right?
01:33Right.
01:33To your point.
01:34So the matchup with Minnesota at the end of the year, when it's week 18, that almost assuredly is Kyler
01:41Murray with a year with Kevin O'Connell under his belt.
01:44How good are they then?
01:45First game against Green Bay.
01:47Is Micah back?
01:48Is he hobbled?
01:49It's week five.
01:50It could be Micah coming back, and that's when Darnell Wright will have to break him again.
01:53How is all this stuff in the offseason?
01:56How are the Patriots as a franchise going to be dealing with this type of stuff?
02:00Yep.
02:01All of it.
02:02There's so much that you don't know.
02:03But I do think that if we're only looking at last year's schedule, and that's the way that people frame
02:09the conversation about the Bears' schedule, that it's so tough because you're taking the records from teams last year.
02:16But this league flips around.
02:19The Bears were a perfect example of that last year.
02:22The Bears were a perfect example of that last year.
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