NFL Hard Knocks on HBO Presents: Your 2024 Chicago Bears Season Preview / Bye Week / Whatever Update (and Tuesday Night Open Thread)

Banner Photo Credit Interior, vape filled room of indeterminate location. Could be Hollywood, Bristol, Lake Forest, or an underground bunker in the UP. All we know is that these folks are grizzled, unchiseled, and confident they made something that sizzled.  Executive Producer: We fucking did it. Magic in a fucking bottle. EVERYONE

Bears at the Bye: 2022 Boogaloo

Honestly, I thought about having the whole post be the banner image/gif.  Then I thought about bringing back my other kind of bear gimmick (not that one).  Then I took a nap.  Then I decided I would just say the following: We knew this team would suck.  In the season preview,

Go Home, Fate, You’re Drunk: 2019 Detroit Lions at the Bye

[INTERIOR, STAGE WITH CLOSED CURTAIN. From offstage, muffled and slurred shouts are heard, mostly inaudible but include variations on "Not goin' outthere!" and "You an whose army, cock-knocker?"] [Eventually, REVEREND MAYHEM is shoved through the curtain and stumbles into frame, one hand clutching a bottle of brown liquid labeled "JJ Fozz

Bye Week Update: New England Patriots

The New England Patriots head into their bye week with the best record in the NFL at 7-1. They are better than your favorite team. Their quarterback has an infinitely better life than yours. Their fans remain insufferable as hell. They once drafted a murderer. And despite the sheer annoyingness

Raiders at the Bye: Hope Springs Eternal

EXT. COUNTRY CLUB PATIO LOUNGE - DAY Three well-dressed gentlemen sit comfortably in chairs around a circular table. A splendid array of hors d'oeuvres sits in front of them. A waiter arrives with a tray of cocktails and sets them down. XAVIER: [takes a sip of his Vesper martini] Ah, bye week. HENDRICK: