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Yeah it is between those 3. I was going to bring Strider up. Strider may win it because the Braves will have the best record.

Justin Steele is 16-3 with a 2.55 ERA. He is having a dream season.

He simply had no run game, had a Reggie Wayne that was good not even great anymore but good which help for 1 year in 2012 though. Ty Hilton is the only scary threat he ever had outside of Wayne's season in 2012. Teams simply just game planned for Luck passing over and over and Luck had too in order for us to win. He also had to run to make the team better. In Luck's 1st 3 years = 48 games, only 1 game was there a 100 yard rusher in those 48. We still won 33 games and only lost 15.

Been a Cubs fan since 1984. I will take any season I can enjoy because we have stunk in many seasons. These seasons stand out: 1984 - we won the Division and played in the NLCS but lost. Ryne Sandberg won NL MVP. Rick Sutcliffe won NL Cy Young. Jim Frey won NL Manager of the Year. 1987 - we were a below .500 team but Andre Dawson won NL MVP, smashing HR's daily. He hit 49 before the steroid era! Fun season because of Andre. 1989 - we won the Division and played in the NLCS but lost. 1998 - made the playoffs but lost in the Divisional Round. Watching to see who was going to hit more HR's between Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire was a delight. Sammy hit 66 HR's! Sammy Sosa won NL MVP. 2003 - we won the Division and played in the NLCS but lost. 2007 - we won the Division but lost in the Divisional Round. 2008 - we won the Division but lost in the Divisional Round. 2015 - made the Playoffs, made it to the NLCS but lost. Jake Arrieta won NL Cy Young. Joe Maddon won NL Manager of the Year. 2016 - won the Division, won the NL Pennant, won the WS. Kris Bryant won NL MVP, Zobrist won WS MVP. 2017 - we won the Division but lost in the NLCS. 2018 - made the Playoffs but lost in WildCard Round. 2020 - we won the Division but lost in the WildCard Round 2023 - I am going to enjoy this ride each day and see how it plays out and as of now we have a 90% chance to make the Playoffs. These collection of Cubs players are my kind of players. The Cubs have perfect chemistry and give 100% every day. The Cubs have leaders and a good Manager in David Ross. Cody Bellinger is our new Kris Bryant and Justin Steele is a great Pitcher. Steele may win NL Cy Young? Bellinger is having an MVP type season but he missed a month earlier in the season + Acuna for the Braves is just having a season for the ages. So Bellinger won't win it but he is the perfect player to fit our team.

I love Jim Harbaugh, even got his autograph when I was young, he's in. So yes. Jim isn't near the QB Andrew Luck was. People may hate the way he retired but this isn't about feelings, it is about was he a very good if not great football player for this franchise. Answer is yes.

I am surprised at their season. I had them winning it all before the season. Baseball is strange, I had my Cubs at .500 at best. Cubs may very well go deep in the playoffs.

If the Cubs win the NL Central, that would be an amazing story. At 1 point we were 26-36 which was the worst record in the NL. We were being mocked by the media and fans. That didn't age well. We aren't the same ol Cubs anymore. Since we got good in 2015 and won the WS in 2016, the Cubs have been 1 of the better franchises in baseball.

Padres are out of it unless they pull a miracle off. Just too many teams ahead of them.

Heck yeah, go Yankees. Do us a solid.

Luck imo is probably a top 40 QB of all-time. Based on just enough of a sample size with his 4 solid seasons = 2012-2014, 2018 + his talent. After about 35 QB's all-time, the list narrows down a bit. He isn't a Hall of Famer though unfortunately. Didn't play long enough. ROH, yes.

When it comes to Luck, he had 4 great seasons here. 2012-2014, 2018. Some could argue and say they were very good, not great because we didn't win a SB in those years. Not a huge sample size but enough a sample size for me to say that he is the 3rd best QB in Colts history. His stats and wins will back up my opinion. He even won 4 playoff games. 1. Peyton Manning 2. Johnny Unitas 3. Andrew Luck is here. I have him ranked higher than Bert Jones. Where he ranks all-time is tough. He just didn't play very long.

Brewers also lost. We are just 1.5 games out of 1st place in the NL Central. We have that 5th spot on lock down. We can actually still win the division. We destroyed the Giants 3 straight games. @HOZER, fly the Flag.

@NFLfan, thanks. That was strange that happened

We have to agree to disagree. To me that is a bad take. "when defenses tried 100%" he underperformed a lot of the time". When Luck had the ball in a 1 score game, defenses didn't play prevent, they were giving 100% and then some trying to win the game in the end. What you are saying is making little sense??

I never said a franchise should be led by RB. It is and always been a QB driven league. Having Taylor would help the team and that is a fact.

I totally disagree. Luck had 7 come from behind victories in his rookie season. Clutch is when you have a QB that has the ball with 3 minutes or so in the game and takes you down for the game winner no matter how bad they may have played earlier in the game. Stats can't measure that. Joe Montana had many games where he didn't put-up huge stats but he knew how to win on many last minute drives. I have seen games where John Elway played lousy for 3 qtrs., then in the last 8 minutes lead his team to victory. He had the clutch gene.

In 2021, without Taylor I think we win 6 games. He made a 3 game difference, JMO. 3 games isn't a lot but still a noticeable difference. Tennessee's downfall is, they went and then stuck with Tannehill when Henry was at his absolute best. They never had the QB to win it all.

Analytics is a good thing, it can show a lot of tendencies of players. It can determine who might be the better player compared to someone else as well. It doesn't measure the Clutch Factor or certain human tendencies is the problem. If someone just went by analytics, they would have said Andrew Luck's rookie year was average at best. Which we know it was damn great because of Clutch play, and his ability to win games in the 4th Qtr.

But what if Taylor plays like 11 or 12 games and we win 8 or 9 games?

Reds could definitely beat the Brewers. They have a better lineup IMO. It is their pitching that concerns me. Cubs would draw the Phillies and that won't be easy. Both series is the best of 3. I think Steele would win his outing, the other games, not sure.

A lot of question marks, will Leonard play a lot this year? Will JT play games 5-17? A lot of what if's. 6 wins is real doable IMO as long as AR plays above average football. I also have more faith in Shane as a coach than many do, I see him as possibly a McVay or Shannahan type coach. I think his offensive mind will fool many teams.

Winning 7 games would be a good season for us since most of the media and some in here think we stink. Bob Kravitz says we will win 3 games I am not saying we will be good and I am an optimist but this 3 or 4 win stuff is comical.

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I think our defense is going to be better than you think, I might be wrong wouldn't be the first time, but they played hard last tyear and kept us in many games. Regarding the division, that 1-4-1 is deceiving. We just blew 2 games against the Texans, 1 by missing a FG so it ends in a tie, then the Texans beat us on a prayer/short hailmary . We really should have been 3-3. Also I think the Titans will not be as good either this year.

Yeah Reds and Cubs both get in. Even if we don't win the division, I am ok with ending it now. Anything can still happen. In baseball, it is really about just making the playoffs. The team with the best record loses quite often. That is what makes baseball suspenseful during the playoffs.