The Bears have become an offseason internet meme.
As most of these types of things go, it was entirely unintentional. Here’s how it happened.
The Chicago social media team put out a video describing the team’s process of trading the No. 1 pick in this year’s draft. The video included a brief discussion regarding the team’s analytics evaluations that took place, which seemed to include a “catch-all” analytics cylinder that showed just about everything involved in player evaluation being filtered into “analytics.”
Here’s the video in question, showing team general manager Ryan Poles describing the “analytics” process, which includes the diagram that has set the internet ablaze. The image pops up around the four-minute mark.
And of course, here are some of the best reactions to Chicago’s analytics evaluations…or lack thereof.
If you’re 20-30 and your main circle isn’t discussing:
— Jacob Infante (@jacobinfante24) April 12, 2023
• Increasing economic inequality
• Rare fish insider trading
• Mongolian people
• Cemetery real estate
• Bears analytics cylinder
Then it’s time to find a new circle pic.twitter.com/TQ4d45QYRo
I figured out what has been bugging me most about this slide.
— 𝐌𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐧 (@ProFootballPSI) April 12, 2023
It's that the cylinder says "Analytics". Like it's some magical mystery stew.
I would have put A-Score and the 1-100 scale inside the cylinder and the arrow pointing down to the Bears A-Score Leaders. 🤷🏽♂️ pic.twitter.com/pvoSmytBsZ
https://t.co/13N5SdaFms pic.twitter.com/SFiuCK3aU1
— Steven Ruiz (@theStevenRuiz) April 12, 2023
It’s called ‘analytics’, T. Brad Pitt and the fat kid from Superbad invented it to get a bunch old scouts canned. Now apparently the Bears are keeping it in a tube at Hallas Hall. https://t.co/0rjjZbmYKN pic.twitter.com/boQS97JXFU
— Tony Bearprano (@BearsSopranos) April 12, 2023
