I think this is a very good topic. I don't agree with all of the points in the original post. But the ones that hit home for me are... New offensive staff... new scheme... several new players... rookie QB. I think we're going to struggle early on offense. While are defense isn't new, it hasn't been ...

Moriarty wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 4:35 pm Whether it came from him or the team, it's a favor to him to try and get invited somewhere he has a shot at winning the job.
Let the other guy hang around and be the camp leg.




Also...good riddance

And could help us get a comp pick in 2025?

Sale: Larry Borom for a 2025 R7 pick. Good size, has some starting experience and cheap. Come one come all.

I bet #9 is still available. If this guy is Mark Anderson (whose Jersey I bought, btw) from R5 of a very shallow edge draft, it's a grand slam.

Post-draft thoughts... There's always that debate between drafting for need or BPA. Poles continues to show that he leans harder toward BPA, while still considering need. If he was a "gotta fill needs" guy, Odunze wouldn't be a Bear as WR is not the need that starting DE is. And with the r...

What leaps out, but nobody is talking about is what a breath of fresh air Williams is in interviews compared to JF1. He's very relaxed in that environment and expresses himself clearly and confidently. Note that this not meant to be a criticism of Fields in any way. He just has introvert wiring and ...

1983 was pretty darned good...
Jimbo Covert
Willie Gault
Mike Richardson
Dave Duerson
Tom Thayer
Richard Dent
Mark Bortz

And none of those players also involved paying an exorbitant salary which come along with Sweat and Allen.

He plays DL, therefore I’d be happy with the pick. Sure. And let's not forget that we never replaced Justin Jones at DT. Even if you subscribe to the Dexter improved enough to start argument, there's little behind him to rotate in. That would be quite a rotational pair. Or put them on the field tog...

I've been running this logic through my head and I'm not liking the answer I keep coming up with. WR just isn't making logical sense to me. We traded a 4th for Allen. We are taking CW at #1. Allen is a UFA after this season, and we aren't really in a position to think Super Bowl this year. So, a lo...

https://heavy.com/sports/chicago-bears/ol-larry-borom-trade-chip/ I didn't realize it, but Borom had enough snaps in his first 3 years to trigger the automatic pay escalators https://overthecap.com/proven-performance-escalator (He's the only one this year, but a truckload of Bears will hit it in 25...

Draft prediction... When Williams is picked, he WON'T wear jersey #1, which is customary. Instead, he will have already picked his new number and will wear that for jersey pictures. And in interviews when asked why, he'll say that's JJ's number and he needs to respect that. And it won't be #13 eithe...

Good question.

I’m torn between bottom 10 and the middle. Rookie QB with entirety new O staff is a huge degree of change. But an experienced O staff with KA13 and a whole year of quality defense pushes my prediction barely out of the bottom 10. Barely.

I’m a big “law of averages” guy, so I feel near certain that we have a big run of good football coming our way. We are way past due. We often agree. But this logic is a head scratcher in my eyes. This assumes great similarity among NFL ownership competence which is clearly not the case. If this is ...

Bunch of articles today on Poles staying at #9 to take a second blue-chipper in the 1st round, that he's not stressing about the low number of picks. Of course, no GM worth his salt is actually going to reveal anything concrete about his draft plans a month out, it's all part of the poker games goi...

Couldn't we have gotten a much better comp pick in 2025 if we just released him and let him go wherever he wanted? Wouldn't that outcome have been better for us and for him??? He was a full time starting QB in 2023 after all.

If the plan is to sit Caleb a) Strongly believe you need 2 vets ahead, so that one injury doesn't ruin your plans b) I'm not at all comfortable with locking myself into 17 games of Bagent, no matter what I'm grabbing somebody like Bridgewater, if that's the plan So you don't like Brett Rypien? lol ...

I'm voting for Keenan Allen, because he's the most experienced and highly paid player who would want that number. He can outbid CW. Tyler Scott will be happy to make some extra dough by taking another number. Hell, he should probably want to take another number to make everyone forget his 2023. It'l...

Silly topic, I know. But I couldn't resist.

Lay out how you think it will go.

Hate it.

A 236# 4-3 edge? I know there's some guys close to that size who are really good. But that's REALLY light.

Love that kid. Imagine the following... Team wants to let Caleb Williams (or whichever drafted QB) sit and absorb the offense the first year and just hang onto Fields to wait for an injury to wake up the trade market. Week 2 it happens and a team throws us a high draft pick in 25 for Fields, who dep...

I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to this stuff. What about this high level plan? - Bears and White Sox build their own stadiums and can lease out areas within the stadiums for various vendors, shops, etc. Teams own their own stadium, but pay property tax to the city. - Bears additionally pay to dem...

That we signed a significant contributor who starts the season at 31 means what Poles is looking for and how he views the team has progressed beyond just rebuilding.

Perhaps this is off topic, but I've been watching tape on CW13. I think the people who think today that he should start on day 1 should take a close look at the offense he ran at USC. There's a whole lot of same concept on both sides of the field, pre-snap look the defense over to pick a side of the...

I think Fields is a stand-up guy when he's the starter. This is not some attempt to assassinate the dude's character, but it's widely reported that Fields did NOT want to work with established vets like Dalton and Foles because he believed he was the unquestioned starter. This is the first I've hea...

Here's how this works out if we keep Justin and draft Caleb: -Justin is the presumed starter from the get go because if we're keeping him, the plan is to bring Caleb along slowly. -Then Justin gets his yearly injury, Caleb is thrust into the starting position when Justin got all the first team snap...

Not a fan of this move at $12M or whatever it would be for a RB who has an injury history and is heading toward declineville. I'll take the opportunity cost of that $12M to spend elsewhere.

Have to agree with the Wabster here. This is not a case where you can split the baby. By drafting Williams you are saying, "We think this guy is worth more than all the players we could get by trading the pick." IMO, that means you're pushing all your chips to the middle of the table on h...

Can you really bring up GB and how they have went about their QB situation? Favruh was pretty much a HOFer when Rodgers was drafted. Plenty of teams passed on Rodgers. QB needy teams felt he wasn't the one. He fell into GB's lap. Love was drafted at the time Rodgers was perceived to be an HOFer as ...

If indeed the day 3 talent is weak (which I'm not smart enough to know), then this deal makes a lot more sense.