This year is for resetting and ripping the bandaid off to set us up for the window of years 3-5 of Fields' rookie contract. If every move this offseason is viewed through and supports that plan, I accept it as a necessary consequence of a swing and a miss to build off 2018, and the eventual fallout ...

Damn, seems like people live on the edge and their moods, lives are dependent on these FA signings. RELAX peeps, this was not a Super Bowl ready team for 2022. Let Poles do his shit. Sit back, drink some beers and wait until we are 4-6 weeks into the season before contemplating jump from the ledge....

thunderspirit wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 6:40 pm Hurt in 2019.
Hurt in 2020.
IR after seven games n 2021.

The return is fine.

Yeah, age and injury for a non-QB player definitely brought the value down. If he hadn't been hurt this year, and had stayed on pace, we probably would have been able to get a 1, or at least a 2 and a 3 for him

Fuck my keeper league further, Calvin. Goddamn it...

Gipson has always looked more like a DE to me than a OLB. I think the transition back to DE will be fine. I don't know if Snowden has a place in this defense though. Dude is built more like Leonard Floyd than a true DE. Yea agree. Gipson I think benefits from a switch to 4-3 DE whereas Snowden I th...

Not much new but it beats bitching about the weather. https://dabearsblog.com/2022/dannehy-scheme-changes-can-help-bears-narrow-off-season-focus Some Overall Thoughts Finding offensive tackles and interior defensive linemen is difficult and expensive. The Bears need to solidify both positions this ...

There are definitely some things that warrant optimism about Kmet. His trajectory, though, has been rocky at times. He's had a few head scratching performances to go with his shining moments. Last year vs Arizona, for example, was just an awful showing with three drops. Two that went off his hands ...

So, the Peter principle is a concept in management, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in on...

What's the current betting for when Virginia shuffles off the mortal coil?

IE wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 8:58 am
I want my team to be feared, and to win. There's not a single player I love more than that. Not even Jesper Horsted. LOL

**The Legend of Jesper Intensifies **

I've watched thousands of football games, and can't think of a better one. Both quarterbacks were brilliant and both teams played at a high level (0 turnovers, 4 penalties). I'm starting to think Josh Allen is Manning to Mahomes' Brady. I was saying to some friends last night, it was absolutely in ...

https://www.windycitygridiron.com/2021/12/28/22857350/fact-check-update-windy-city-drafts-nfl-chicago-ryan-pace-khalil-mack-draft-trades-revisted Belief #1: Ryan Pace is Bad/Good at Drafting Itself "He should have 25.3 three players whose careers lasted 3+ years and 12.6 players who spent at le...

My (fantastical) hope for how George finally deals with Ted.


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Evaluating rookies is difficult, even more difficult when evaluating rookie QBs. From the outside looking in, it's hard to assess how much of a player's production (or lack of it) is due to the player's talent, their decision-making, the scheme, the playcalling, the opposition, etc. In clicking arou...

It's almost too bad that the Bears don't find a defender who's ready to retire and tell him "go break Rogers, we'll hire you as a 'Special Scout' for the next 10 years, 10 hours of work a week, max. Make sure he can't walk off the field." I say almost, because that would open things up to ...

I still like Kellen Moore but he is totally unproven. The bears is not a place to learn how to be a HC. We need someone who we know can do the job. Yes. I'm generally not a fan of re-treads, but in this case I think the situation calls for it. That's why I like Bowles. Good coach that is respected ...

I liked this piece on him https://ontapsportsnet.com/2021/11/09/brian-daboll-future-head-coach-nfl-bears/ Pros: Shows ability and willingness to adapt his scheme to his quarterback. Willingness to try new things to put his players in positions to succeed. Analytically driven play-caller with willing...

Today, I'm brewing and drinking beer and firing up the smoker, with an open invite to local friends, vets and otherwise, to drop by if they're in the mood.

This weekend, I'll probably play poker, play some music, and still catch whatever game piques my interest on Sunday.

I want to give a game ball to Mark Sanchez, for having the guts to do what most announcers won't, and call out bad officiating. I wouldn't be surprised if he loses his job over it, but he made it impossible for the rest of the ESPN crew to gloss over how bad some of those calls / non calls were. I ...

Win or lose, Nagy should grow a pair and accept, for the good of the team, that he's going to get fined, and just rip the officiating up and down in the post game. If he starts off with his usual schtick, and then says something like "you all know I try to stay positive all the time. But I'm go...

Even my Steelers friends are commenting that the Refs seem to be intent on fucking the Bears tonight. This is not remotely subtle.

No one can reasonably watch this game and say the Refs are impartial.

Again, I would ask -- during the 2018 hiring cycle, look at the candidates that were interviewed for HC -- Of those candidates, who should we have hired instead? Vic Fangio, John DeFilippo, George Edwards, Pat Shurmur, Josh McDaniels -- the Bears reportedly requested to interview Steve Wilks, but I ...

I love Monty but would trade him for a 2nd in a heartbeat. Primarily because Roster Building 101 for me personally says "don't overpay for a RB". And he's gonna command a decent pay day soon, so if we can get some real draft capital back for him I'd do it. I'd WAY rather have a great OL t...

Say it with me Rookie QBs Herbert last year was a historic exception. Most Rookie QBs are going to look bad, to some degree or another. Fields has looked bad against 4 playoff teams. That was expected even without considering the triage unit that passes for our OTs right now. https://pics.me.me/gent...

I keep seeing people describe Pace as a no better than average GM, but does anybody know of any analyses of GMs? There are stats galore for players but I honestly have never seen one for GMs. I'd be really interested to see a comparison between Pace's drafting and his peers. We know all about Pace'...

I'll agree that Paces (and the Bears overall) treatment of the line does leave something to be desired over time (dating back to before Pace's tenure, especially noting Angelo's repeated draft misses on the line), but we also have to acknowledge that he's been investing in it more the last few years...

When you point to the fact that Borom was a 5th round pick but our 3rd pick in this draft, that's not a good thing and it isn't considering that Pace created that issue himself with his constant trade ups. We routinely lack draft capital because he trades up so frequently - twice just in the last d...

Every view has issues. It's a cost-benefit question for me. I wouldn't been upset with the player, I would have been upset with the necessary cost. Since I live in the DC area, I've seen a lot of Trent Williams. He's good, he may get into the HOF but I don't think he's a slam-dunk, and given our exi...

It does continue to amuse me how people keep bringing up the Peters signing as if it's an example of a failure rather than adapting to circumstances -- without the context of having drafted two tackles (or at least guys with experience playing tackle in college) late last year, with an eye to hoping...