I am just barely old enough to remember the move from St. Louis to Arizona (I was around 10 years old at the time).
I remember being confused because how can a team called the Cardinals not be in St. Louis? (Of course I didn’t know they used to be in Chicago decades earlier.)
Being in Chicago, “the Hawks” is always the Blackhawks. More than once that’s led to confusion with the Seahawks. Almost never the Atlanta Hawks since that team is almost never something people talk about. And naturally we have “the Sox” which is the White Sox in these parts, East Coast Bias be damned. There’s precisely a million “Bears” in college football, so I never can trust an ESPN Breaking News notification.
I would never let this kind of litigious junk get in the way of something really cool.
It’s an exceptionally cool logo. Always liked it.
Kind of reminds me of this Blackhawks alternate which has always been a favorite.
As a side note, I’m consistently surprised by how often in conversation “the Spurs” actually refers to Tottenham and not San Antonio.
I totally forgot about the Blackhawks (again, not a big hockey guy over here). Though my anecdote about the confusion with the basketball team is real, I guess we don’t have a lot of hockey fans in the area (or at least we didn’t before the Kraken).
Not even sports are immune from that damn Cheeto in the White House. Absolutely no escape from the narcissist
Good thing is that I highly doubt I’ll watch any of the draft unless it’s on at a sports bar. The Thursday night beginning usually will almost certainly conflict with NHL playoffs
Trump has decided to cut funding to traumatic brain injuries, presumably including CTE.
Important clarification needed in that: “cut funding for research on traumatic brain injuries.”
Yes, he increased funding for giving people CTEs
Thanks for the clarification. I should have proofread better before posting.
Isiah Pacheco put his time on the injured list to good use and completed his degree. He wore his Super Bowl rings when he crossed the stage.
Good for him. He’s a force on the football field and it’s great that he’s trying to accomplish things off the field too.
I’m not a Chiefs fan but I’m a Pacheco fan.
“He runs like he’s angry at the ground”
One of the best descriptors of a player we’ve had since:
“He runs like a toddler who got a hold of your phone.”
As a Rutgers grad, I don’t get a lot of Alma Mater pride watching pro sports (I’m looking at you Ray Rice…) but this story makes me happy.
I’ve watched a lot of Rutgers football. Without knowing the future if you asked me who would be more successful in the pros, Pacheco or Kyle Monangai, I would pick Monangai. Good 7th round pick up by the Bears.
Successful by individual stats/accolades or team? I can’t imagine Monangai winning many SBs with da Bears.
A better player. Can’t control who picks you. Pacheco did not stand out nearly as much as Monangai in college. Monangai had 2 1200 yard seasons. Neither were used much as a receiver. Watching both I would have picked Monangai over Pacheco. Of course college isn’t always a good predictor of pro success.
I understand the subjectivity in watching your teams, but the Combine numbers are starkly different.
Monangai is 5’8", Pacheco is 5’10". Pacheco is 5 pounds heavier. Monongai ran a 4.60 40, Pacheco ran a 4.37, which is a huge difference considering Pacheco is also the bigger and more physical player.
As a Bears fan I really want Monongai to be as good or better than Pacheco, but it’s dangerous to trust cumulative college stats in a vacuum. It’s honestly kind of weird that Pacheco’s overall totals in college were as low as they were, I didn’t watch enough RU games to know why, he was healthy, seems like the team just chose not to run the ball much.
Pacheco’s never had a 1000 yard season, has never had more than 205 carries a year, averaged a woeful 3.7 ypc last year, and lost carries in the playoffs to old, slow, and so over the hill he’s rolling down the other side Kareem Hunt.
Yes, he was injured last year, and I love his hard running/popping up and running back to the huddle energy, but Pacheco is the very definition of replaceable NFL RB. Which is fantastic for a 7th round pick.
He averaged 4.9 and 4.6 YPC in the years where he wasn’t injured, and last year just brought his career average to 4.5.
Marshawn Lynch had a 3.8 YPC in two different seasons, and 3.6 in another season. (Well, he had a 1.7 YPC in the 2019 season but he only played in three games, and only had 40 carries total; he briefly unretired for the last game of the regular season and 2 postseason games after basically every other running back in Seattle was injured and they needed somebody, and in 3 games he got 4 TDs which was nice.) Does that mean Lynch wasn’t very good as a running back?
Picking one outlier season to say that a player isn’t very good isn’t a good argument. I’ll also note that he came pretty close in his second season to 1,000 yards, and technically in both his first and second seasons he topped 1,000 yards when you include the postseason. (Yes, I know postseason yards are not typically counted when discussing how many yards a receiver or running back had for a year, but still.)
Stat-wise he’s not amazing, I will concede that. But he’s not awful and he’s extremely fun to watch.
Which is almost identical to saying: “I love his hard running/popping up and running back to the huddle energy, but Pacheco is the very definition of replaceable NFL RB”.
And comparing him to Marshawn Lynch? I will take almost any wager you want to make that he doesn’t have a career like Marshawn’s.
I agree with everything you say here, though I’m sure there are teams who’d love to have him as a starter.
It’s called reductio ad absurdum. I’d wager that every great RB has a bad year. They all get hurt at some point. It’s the nature of the position. Judging a back for one injury year is silly.