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.
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- Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: Predicting the Bears Offensive Success
- Replies: 19
- Views: 763
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:45 pm
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: I think we Bears fans are traumatized
- Replies: 86
- Views: 2434
Re: I think we Bears fans are traumatized
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 ...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 2:27 pm
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: Is It Too Soon For Thoughts On Pick #9?
- Replies: 438
- Views: 12590
Re: Is It Too Soon For Thoughts On Pick #9?
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...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:55 am
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: Justin Fields traded to Pittsburgh for conditional pick
- Replies: 242
- Views: 5324
Re: Justin Fields traded to Pittsburgh for conditional pick
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.
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:42 am
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: What Bagent is up to
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1730
Re: What Bagent is up to
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 ...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: Who will wear #13 for the Bears in 2024?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 656
Re: Who will wear #13 for the Bears in 2024?
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...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:10 pm
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: Who will wear #13 for the Bears in 2024?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 656
Who will wear #13 for the Bears in 2024?
Silly topic, I know. But I couldn't resist.
Lay out how you think it will go.
Lay out how you think it will go.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: Justin Fields traded to Pittsburgh for conditional pick
- Replies: 242
- Views: 5324
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:35 pm
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: Bears sign DE Jake Martin
- Replies: 14
- Views: 489
Re: Bears sign DE Jake Martin
A 236# 4-3 edge? I know there's some guys close to that size who are really good. But that's REALLY light.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:32 pm
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: What Bagent is up to
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1730
Re: What Bagent is up to
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...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:59 pm
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: Bears New Stadium Nonsense Repository
- Replies: 1032
- Views: 109577
Re: Bears New Stadium Nonsense Repository
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...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: Bears sign S Kevin Byard to 2yr $15m deal
- Replies: 51
- Views: 1560
Re: Bears sign S Kevin Byard to 2yr $15m deal
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.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:10 pm
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: JF1 + Caleb options are exceptional opportunity?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2009
Re: JF1 + Caleb options are exceptional opportunity?
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...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:04 am
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: JF1 + Caleb options are exceptional opportunity?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2009
Re: JF1 + Caleb options are exceptional opportunity?
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...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:02 am
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: JF1 + Caleb options are exceptional opportunity?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2009
Re: JF1 + Caleb options are exceptional opportunity?
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...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:17 pm
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: Edit: Update - Barkley signs with Eagles
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1959
Re: Loosest of speculation: Bears may push to sign RB Saquon Barkley
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.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:11 pm
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: JF1 + Caleb options are exceptional opportunity?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2009
Re: JF1 + Caleb options are exceptional opportunity?
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...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:46 pm
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: JF1 + Caleb options are exceptional opportunity?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2009
Re: JF1 + Caleb options are exceptional opportunity?
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 ...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:05 pm
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: Bears trade 5th rd pick to Bills for OL Ryan Bates
- Replies: 212
- Views: 4440
Re: Bears trade 5th rd pick to Bills for OL Ryan Bates
If indeed the day 3 talent is weak (which I'm not smart enough to know), then this deal makes a lot more sense.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:50 am
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: JF1 + Caleb options are exceptional opportunity?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2009
Re: JF1 + Caleb options are exceptional opportunity?
I think I'm with Yogi. If we can't get good value for Fields on the trade market it's a blessing in disguise. Draft CW13 (or another QB) and let him sit and marinate for a year under Fields as an investment for future success. (See Mahomes.) That has more value to me than throwing CW13 (or whoever) ...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:10 pm
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: Bears trade 5th rd pick to Bills for OL Ryan Bates
- Replies: 212
- Views: 4440
Re: Bears trade 5th rd pick to Bills for OL Ryan Bates
If he's right and he's a + starter at Center for 2 years, it's a good deal. No doubt about it. How it plays out in real games trumps anything we say in March. Same with draft pick praise and criticism for that matter. Remember how we thought Getsy bringing his guy Patrick was a good move at the tim...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:07 pm
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: Bears trade 5th rd pick to Bills for OL Ryan Bates
- Replies: 212
- Views: 4440
Re: Bears trade 5th rd pick to Bills for OL Ryan Bates
I simply see this as Poles knowing the positions he’s targeting with his early picks and knowing that he couldn’t get as quality of an IOL as Bates in the 5th based on his own draft projections. If that's the logic, then Poles should trade every day 3 draft pick for more sure thing players then, ri...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 5:51 pm
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: JF1 + Caleb options are exceptional opportunity?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2009
JF1 + Caleb options are exceptional opportunity?
I've heard this stated a number of times. Maybe it's my Bears losing fatigue talking, but I see it rather differently. For starters, both sides of the QB debate make really compelling points, at least IMO. So whichever way they choose to go, there's no way to say "it was really the only reasona...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 11:02 am
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: Bears trade 5th rd pick to Bills for OL Ryan Bates
- Replies: 212
- Views: 4440
Re: Bears trade 5th rd pick to Bills for OL Ryan Bates
This tells me that 1. The Bears have already gotten a trade in place for Fields that will recoup that pick and probably a bit more 2. The number 9 pick is for sale, big time This is the head scratchiest move I've seen yet from Poles. Free agency is coming up in a few days where he could sign an exp...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:06 am
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: Bears New Stadium Nonsense Repository
- Replies: 1032
- Views: 109577
Re: Bears New Stadium Nonsense Repository
It would be absolutely amazing if they could think outside the box and save $$$ by building one truly convertable stadium for the two teams instead of a baseball stadium with NFL lines painted on it with poor viewing as has been done previously. Probably not possible, but something to consider. At l...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:32 am
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: Bears New Stadium Nonsense Repository
- Replies: 1032
- Views: 109577
Re: Bears New Stadium Nonsense Repository
Great discussion, fellas. Well thought out points all around.
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: Justin Fields Megathread - A story of Lovers and Haters
- Replies: 6733
- Views: 277195
Re: Justin Fields Megathread - A story of Lovers and Haters
https://twitter.com/NFLNotify/status/1762559067766018355?t=uTVk5juNb_k74OJjvT7zWA&s=19 🤷 I don’t believe this at all. Part of me wonders like when people have a sick dog. I’ve lost dogs. There’s a denial. I love my dog. He can’t die. I love Justin Fields. He got a total screw job here. But some...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:09 pm
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: Sounds like Kevin Warren favors a trade back...
- Replies: 101
- Views: 4303
Re: Sounds like Kevin Warren favors a trade back...
Warren was brought in as a half football half business middleman layer between GM and ownership, and it was a move that is super important to the franchise. He is Ryan Poles boss, not George. His input does, and should matter to Poles as any bosses input would. It’s just input though and if Warren ...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 12:30 pm
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: Kingsbury backs out of Raiders job, joins Commanders
- Replies: 54
- Views: 1083
Re: Kingsbury backs out of Raiders job, joins Commanders
I struggle to imagine our getting Washington's 2025 R1 pick to move up 1 spot, although I get the arguments about why they'd pursue Williams aggressively. I think that's the absolute best we could hope for. More likely IMO it might be their 2 R2's and their R2 next year.
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: Halas Hall
- Topic: Caleb Williams News and Rumor thread
- Replies: 2203
- Views: 43053
Re: Caleb Williams News and Rumor thread
What has you not on board with Williams? Part of it is the Stroud Effect. I think it's unfair to assume that Williams will be able to recreate what Stroud was able to do. Part of it is the Bears history with highly drafted QBs. It's not great. Part of it is that Fields' intangibles are unquestionab...