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This is the 2nd installment of a 3-part series looking at Chicago’s pass rush from 2023. In part one, we learned that the overall team pass rush was among the worst in the NFL. Today, we’ll be examining how effectively Chicago’s defensive ends rushed the passer last year. Overall Efficiency We’ll start with a season-long look at how Chicago’s main defensive ends performed when … [Read more...] about Zooming in on Chicago’s Pass Rush, Part 2: Defensive Ends

This is the start of a 3-part series examining Chicago’s pass rush in 2023 and what expectations should be for 2024. The content covered in each part roughly breaks down as follows: Part 1: Overall team pass rush, and the impact of trading for Montez Sweat. Part 2: Defensive end individual pass rushing efficiency. Part 3: Defensive tackle individual pass rushing efficiency, … [Read more...] about Zooming in on Chicago’s Pass Rush, Part 1: Team Performance

Twitter embeds aren’t working on the site today, and I have no idea why. We’ll just have to make do. Over the weekend, Caleb Williams walked into a Chicago bar and led a ‘Green Bay Sucks’ chant. Coming off of glowing OTA reports last weekend, it seems the young QB is quickly embracing what it means to paly for the Bears. Is it a bit corny? Sure, especially given the team’s … [Read more...] about Another Quiet Monday Within A Quiet Summer Offseason

The Friday column will return to football next week!  There has been a growing conversation on various social media platforms about the decline of modern cinema, but much of that conversation centers around the box office returns of various “failed” studio pictures, i.e. The Fall Guy and Furiosa. But there is a far more serious development than the changing patterns of movie … [Read more...] about HughesReviews Special Report: The Disposability of Modern Movies