I have been watching the anti-Chicago bias grow more and more over the past couple seasons, every since Toasty made that disastrous trade with Austin. He was doing what he thought was best for the team and he cannot be faulted for that. However, that one trade put a bad stigma on the rest of Chicago's trades. When we traded up for 1oa last year, it was a mutually beneficial deal and one could even say that Chicago came out on top of it We ended up with the top player in the class and a simmer in training, along with 5 games of a 200 TPE DT. They ended up with Osiris Firestrom-Fjord, Thorian Skarsgard, who is a max-earning DT who, while in regression, is an invaluable member of a war room and does wonders for the activity level of a locker room that has barely 5 active members by all accounts, for roughly 4 seasons based on his TPE at the time of the trade. They also ended up with Leighton Lee out of the deal, who they traded our second they acquired, and $2m in cap space. So arguably, they gained an extra 3 seasons of a DT and swapped an inactive for a war room member. They got a decently-high TPE LB. They got a top-earning TE. Who can argue against that trade?
The bias, anger, ridicule, and laughing against and at Chicago needs to stop. Now. We, as a community, have worn down on the GMs of this team to the point that they are leaving the league rather than continue to try to turn the team around. Steel had very good ideas for the team and was trying to maximize on the window that he had available to him because he wanted the team to try to compete while they had the chance. He was well on his way to making it happen too. If you look at the roster Chicago had two or three seasons ago versus the roster they have now, you can see that there has been an insane amount of progress made.
If you shit talk a team, and shit talk a team, and shit talk a team, guess what's going to happen? They're going to take it to heart. We, as a league, have turned Chicago into what it as perceived today. Some of you deliberately make fun of Chicago every chance you get. Some of you, like myself, don't defend them enough. There are some of you out there, many of them GMs or people who should be, that realize that Chicago is not as bad off as people have been conditioned to believe. It's just a crowd mentality shouting the same thing over and over and over until it is widely believed.
If you're reading this, stop. Stop talking shit about Chicago. Stop telling their GMs that they're terrible for making the trades that they do. Stop making fun of them. Stop throwing them under the bus and making them the runt of the league. Stop writing articles about what they need to do to fix the team, because they damn sure don't want or need your (largely) uneducated input on what a team should be doing. And trust me, it is uneducated. I have been GM for nearly 4 full seasons now and I am still learning more each and every week.
If you're reading this, Start. Start being understanding that a turnaround from a floundering team cannot happen in one season. It takes 4, 5, 6, maybe even 7 seasons to completely turn around a team. Start being kinder to the people of Chicago and understand that the only reason that they are given a bad rap is because you are putting that bad rap on them. Start respecting the people of Chicago for putting up with the bullshit that you as a community have been giving them for three. Damn. Seasons.
The NSFL, despite the acronym, is meant to be a place of community and a place where people can trust each other without having to worry about running into more problems. This is, for a lot of people, a place where they can go to escape and get away from the real world and all the shit that happens. Especially right now. People are scared, worried, concerned about everything going on. Personally, I work an "essential" job and at am very high risk of getting sick. It scares the piss out of me. I hide it because this is a place where I come to relax, have fun, distract myself from life. For the love of God, stop being condescending to Chicago and start being supportive of each other. Spread love, not hate.
If I see you talking down on anyone, Chicago or not, I will call you out on it. This is your warning.
The bias, anger, ridicule, and laughing against and at Chicago needs to stop. Now. We, as a community, have worn down on the GMs of this team to the point that they are leaving the league rather than continue to try to turn the team around. Steel had very good ideas for the team and was trying to maximize on the window that he had available to him because he wanted the team to try to compete while they had the chance. He was well on his way to making it happen too. If you look at the roster Chicago had two or three seasons ago versus the roster they have now, you can see that there has been an insane amount of progress made.
If you shit talk a team, and shit talk a team, and shit talk a team, guess what's going to happen? They're going to take it to heart. We, as a league, have turned Chicago into what it as perceived today. Some of you deliberately make fun of Chicago every chance you get. Some of you, like myself, don't defend them enough. There are some of you out there, many of them GMs or people who should be, that realize that Chicago is not as bad off as people have been conditioned to believe. It's just a crowd mentality shouting the same thing over and over and over until it is widely believed.
If you're reading this, stop. Stop talking shit about Chicago. Stop telling their GMs that they're terrible for making the trades that they do. Stop making fun of them. Stop throwing them under the bus and making them the runt of the league. Stop writing articles about what they need to do to fix the team, because they damn sure don't want or need your (largely) uneducated input on what a team should be doing. And trust me, it is uneducated. I have been GM for nearly 4 full seasons now and I am still learning more each and every week.
If you're reading this, Start. Start being understanding that a turnaround from a floundering team cannot happen in one season. It takes 4, 5, 6, maybe even 7 seasons to completely turn around a team. Start being kinder to the people of Chicago and understand that the only reason that they are given a bad rap is because you are putting that bad rap on them. Start respecting the people of Chicago for putting up with the bullshit that you as a community have been giving them for three. Damn. Seasons.
The NSFL, despite the acronym, is meant to be a place of community and a place where people can trust each other without having to worry about running into more problems. This is, for a lot of people, a place where they can go to escape and get away from the real world and all the shit that happens. Especially right now. People are scared, worried, concerned about everything going on. Personally, I work an "essential" job and at am very high risk of getting sick. It scares the piss out of me. I hide it because this is a place where I come to relax, have fun, distract myself from life. For the love of God, stop being condescending to Chicago and start being supportive of each other. Spread love, not hate.
If I see you talking down on anyone, Chicago or not, I will call you out on it. This is your warning.