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@ChiRuxinBGO @BillTZimmerman @WestSportsPT Huh?

@BillTZimmerman @WestSportsPT Of course the Ted Phillips mouthpiece is going to speak poorly about Warren.

Just a reminder, when Ben Johnson's agent, Rick Smith, joined my podcast right after the Bears hired Ben and talked about one of the key aspects that drew Ben (and Rick) to Chicago: "I've seen the old Bears, I've seen the dysfunctional Bears... But this is the new Bears, 100%, and I absolutely give credit to Kevin Warren."

@smartfootball what happened to your website man? It's been seemingly taken over by offshore sportsbooks and seedy ads. Are you officially hanging them up?

Read the column here on just how uncertain the NFL win probability vs decision model is, and how flawed it is: bearweatherfans.com/2026/05/ben-i-… Or if you're a Substack freak: @bearweatherfans/note/p-197928636?r=o4d18&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@bearweatherfa…

Fun fact - the Ben Baldwins of the world citing "analytics" as the reason why coaches should go for it on fourth down? Complete horseshit!

The best part about "the catastrophic Matt Eberflus failure that resulted in losing a completely winnable game when he could've just taken a time out" is you have to specify which one

oh no the Packers did something that I like what do I do

This might be the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen a team do and I once reviewed all-22 of Mike Glennon

@AZCardinals @SeatGeek You just know some clueless manager who's all pumped on AI pounded the table for this while everyone beneath them tried in vain to talk sense into them

We asked Big Red to help announce the schedule... he may have taken the assignment too seriously @SeatGeek | #RiseUpRedSea | azcards.social/4eEwJIh

Wright Thompson is the best there is, man

A year after Berstein's firing thanks to threatening a twitter rando over a fishing dispute and thinking about Wright Thompson's take on twitter

@david_perell This is just an all-timer of an interview, man. I could listen to Wright forever, the man is absolutely riveting.

"One great detail will do the work of 50 crappy sentences." Wright Thompson is one of the last great magazine writers in America. He's long been a writer at ESPN, and if you love sports, you've almost definitely read his work. Maybe his profile of Tiger Woods. Or maybe the one about Michael Jordan. Some highlights: - "When somebody says something is overwritten, it really just means that the story is underreported." - Profiles are about figuring out what is a central complication of somebody's life and how, on a daily basis, they go about solving it. - "All of these stories, the few good ones I've written... I think these stories are like a prayer for empathy, to try to understand each other, to understand another human being a little bit at a time. Then slowly, thread by thread, you understand yourself." - On writing well: "One of the things that's missing is that nobody wants to hear what I have to say, which is just reps. Zen is a butt in a seat. There's no mystery. It's just reps." - "I wish someone had told me years ago that if you're going to be a professional writer for decades, writing is not going to be about words, but it's going to be about architecture. Only when you really understand how things fit together and move can you then actually be thinking about the words." - "All writing is trying to say something new that is true and is both specific and universal and that helps the reader understand something they didn't understand before, preferably about themselves." And here are the timestamps: 1:50 Writer's vomit vs. writer's block 8:33 The architecture of writing 11:30 What makes for a good story? 15:57 Bringing characters to life 21:11 "The hammer" 26:26 Writing a vivid scene 33:41 How to bring places to life 39:57 Dialogue vs. quotes 45:49 The role of secondary characters 51:44 The problem with "brainstorming" 1:02:13 What makes for a great ending? I've shared the full conversation with Wright Thompson below. If you'd rather watch on YouTube, or listen to the full thing on Apple / Spotify, check out the reply tweets.

this 3rd down TD against the Raiders. I know there are more flashy plays than this, but this was the throw where I thought things started to click for Caleb in Ben Johnson's offense. A frozen rope thrown early and put on the money.

Result of this play: not a sack

@iamcogs 🫡

I'm making a tier list, dropping this weekend. Comment on this post and I will include you in the inaugural Grim Cutty© Chicago Bears Twitter tier list.

@BearWeatherFans with the definitive review of my book:

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@WangChangBackup Yeah but saying you guys made an awesome accomplishment and you both should be proud isn't as funny, so here we are

@BearWeatherFans Brother I edited a single Google Doc containing the full and more or less unformatted text of the entire book.

Kyle's legitimately a one-of-a-kind combination of Ball Knower, History Buff, Lunatic-Level Bears Fan, and to top it all off, a caustically incisive writer. You will never find a book like this anywhere else. You, reading this - you have to buy it. I'm telling you.

@WangChangBackup And you did what has to be a flawless job as editor. I can't think of SINGLE note I'd have on the execution of this book. Not ONE glaring thing

@BearWeatherFans You can't tell me what to do. Plus I already read it.

@ilannfl18 @startkyIeorton DON'T ENCOURAGE HIM

@startkyIeorton Cover being dagger is enough for me to buy it

I am very excited to share that my book, "Incomplete Pass: A History of Chicago Bears Quarterbacks" is now available for purchase. I hope y'all enjoy. I consider this the culmination of 20 years blogging/podcasting etc about this team a.co/d/0j9Fljxx