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Ryan Pace drafted Mitchell Trubisky at No. 2 specifically to extend his own job security as Bears GM

My theory is that Ryan Pace wants to extend his shelf life as a GM... if we draft a quarterback with No. 2, I now have a shelf life. John Fox might be gone, but I get another coach. [GMs] can say to the owner, look, we drafted this guy. We're developing this guy. We all deserve extra time.

Pace did survive the firing of John Fox and got to hire Matt Nagy, extending his tenure until 2021, though the Trubisky pick ultimately failed.

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Aug 14, 2017
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Ricky Fowler is on the hot seat because he hasn't won a major

Hot seat Ricky Fowler. Because he is now in the crew of guys who win majors, and he hasn't won a major.

Ricky Fowler famously never won a major in his career despite numerous close calls.
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Aug 14, 2017·Who's Back
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The wind in Chicago will help Roberto Aguayo's accuracy by pushing the ball back to the uprights

He's so wildly inaccurate that the wind is actually going to push his balls back towards the uprights.

Aguayo's accuracy did not improve; he was waived by the Bears before the regular season even started.
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Aug 14, 2017·Who's Back
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Darren McFadden will tear his hamstring immediately and disappoint fantasy owners

Darren McFadden looks like he's going to get a lot of carries for the Cowboys... And when I say a lot of carries, I mean a lot of carries in the first half of the first game. And then he's going to tear his hamstring. And everyone who drafted him is going to be really pissed off.

McFadden did not get many carries at all; he was surpassed by Alfred Morris and Rod Smith and eventually released in November 2017 without a major injury on the field.

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The goal allowed by the US goalie was the most embarrassing possible

What about the goalie? Yeah, I mean he... that was the most embarrassing goal that I've ever seen. Possible.

While subjective, the blunder by the US goalkeeper (Freeze/Turner) was widely mocked as a 'MAC football' level mistake.
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The USMNT is the 'James Franklin Penn State' of soccer

People were making very mean jokes online that we were James Franklin, Penn State. And it is actually perfectly appropriate because if you look at who we played, we beat the teams we're supposed to beat... and then we absolutely got ass fucked by the team that was better than us in Belgium. We are not who we thought we were.

Subjective comparison.
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We just suck at soccer as a country and that's okay

My take is we suck at soccer and that's okay. Like, I don't care that we suck at soccer anymore. I'm going to root for the US team. I'm gonna get excited when we're in a World Cup. I'm gonna get hyped up and it's gonna be fun to watch. And then I'm gonna be reminded that we suck at soccer and that it's just gonna be like, okay, yeah, that's okay.

Subjective perspective on American soccer.