Weirdly enough, the defense and ST might be the canaries here. If those phases keep stumbling but the offense improves...then we elevated a very promising OC. If the whole team cleans things up and starts playing like they can, that's the mark of a serious HC prospect. In any case, I can see Brown e...

Wounded Bear wrote: ↑Fri Nov 29, 2024 5:17 pm Well, I hope to god that they have the good sense to at least give Ted Phillips a call and run any candidates by him first.

That's what collaborative decision-making is all about, right?

They might have. Jackson was an assistant for two or three years before replacing Doug Collins. Or they might not want to. Jackson's previous coaching experience was with the Albany Patroons and a team in Puerto Rico. Yeah - I conceded that point further upthread. The better comparison is when the ...

Brown's going to be tough to fully evaluate, for a couple of reasons. One, he's still working from Shane Waldron's playbook, even though he's tweaked it a bit. What we're seeing is how he works with the team, especially his QB, and the tempo and syncopation with which he calls each series, drawing f...

I've said this before but now is the time for the Bears to hire their Phil Jackson. They might have. Jackson was an assistant for two or three years before replacing Doug Collins. Or they might not want to. Jackson's previous coaching experience was with the Albany Patroons and a team in Puerto Rico.

The OL class is fine – not particularly strong at the very top, but reasonably deep with guys who can contribute. Do any guards jump out at you? Even obvious T>G prospects? I just did a mock and it struck me that I tend to like a few mid-/late-round linemen by this point--Zach Tom types--and that n...

Little experiment here. Fanspeak, Fambase, no trades, moderately high. 1.10: Mason Graham, DT, Michigan. Not just a surpassing talent and a mulligan on the Jalen Carter mistake, but a tone-setter who should help further define whatever scraps of team character remain after Eberflus. 2.38: Tyler Book...

UOK wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2024 7:33 pm That is 100% not George McCaskey’s account. He doesn’t have one. A blue check mark only indicates that account pays for a Twitter premium service. It’s satire.

Gotcha; thanks.

I don't Twitter, and I might not be able to tell a spoof for the real McCoy. Is that really George McCaskey's account? I would have assumed it's purely satire. Who could be so clueless? But it does have a blue check, so who knows? That's the bit that threw me. FWIW, Sports BlueSky is becoming a thi...

Hema2.0 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2024 6:46 pm George McCaskey on fire in twitterland

I don't Twitter, and I might not be able to tell a spoof for the real McCoy. Is that really George McCaskey's account?

Poles needs to fire Flus to save the locker room. He’s a fucking buffoon. Again not knowing the basics of when to call a timeout in a crucial late game situation. It’s just bizarre, I think he freezes in the moment or something. I can't imagine that he hasn't lost the locker room already. The playe...

Reporter: A couple of players said that you didn't have like the normal postgame meeting in the locker room where you addressed the team. Is that true? And what would have been the motive?

Eberflus: No, we typically bring it up for prayer. Right? We brought it up for prayer. And that's what we did.

Someone upstairs has got to get it through their pointy little head that there's actual damage being done here. Eberflus is demonstrably preventing this team from enjoying--even once in a while--the results of its hard work. He's the problem. It's an abusive relationship, and there's nothing noble a...

Wowza. I'd wonder what the plan was in Tennessee if I cared. Nuk is my favorite non-Bear, and it's great to see him round out his career with an actual QB.

Having missed Sleaford Mods, X and Robyn Hitchcock because of divorce stuff, I'm looking forward to missing Richard Thompson in a couple of weeks. Any fans? My favorite guitarist by a whisker over Angus Young, and they both should've recorded with Scott Miller. Face the stares down, Face the lay-dow...

Been catching up on old shows. Vikings, Viking Valhalla, now the Last Kingdom. Dang but it was brutal in England back then. Kind of interesting, each one kind of interprets history as they see fit to make a theatrical show. There is some truth to the shows but no telling how much. The Last Kingdom ...

Good on her; I don't mind it. The Bears are 105 years old and have had two owners: a guy and his daughter. Same number of owners as the Jaguars and Panthers, who are still in their twenties, and two fewer nouveau riche dicks. That's pretty special. Oh, and I trust Papa Bear's judgment of Ed. Papa B...

Good on her; I don't mind it.

The Bears are 105 years old and have had two owners: a guy and his daughter. Same number of owners as the Jaguars and Panthers, who are still in their twenties, and two fewer nouveau riche dicks. That's pretty special.

Oh, and I trust Papa Bear's judgment of Ed.

Our defense has to prove that they can defend a good dual threat QB. I've got a feeling that we're in for a bit of a reckoning, yep. Our defense has a good deal of talent, but it hasn't been tested this year the way it will be against Washington. The line hasn't been asked to contain anyone remotel...

I'd quibble with Greene in the 3rd (I'm rarely high on Kirby Smart offensive linemen), but other than that, I love this draft – even if Starks is , in my opinion, less likely to be availalbe in Round 2 than Warren is to be in Round 5. Milum, especially, is the sort of guy I always favor on the OL a...

What the heck. Fanspeak (basic, no trades), most recent rankings. 1.11: Deone Walker, DT, Kentucky. And the league wept. Huge with a ton of pop, but in a different way than Billings or Dexter. 2.33: Wyatt Milum, G, West Virginia. Elite pass-blocker and an aggressive run-blocker whose arm length argu...

Its a long season, and we just dominated the two worst defenses in the league (no exaggeration). I think opinions on Waldron will naturally vacillate quite a bit this year. Let's update this thread title every week please. Yep. We had a bizarre first phase where Waldron looked like every Bears OC a...

This gets to the factor that seems to be worrying fans most of all: accountability. I think most of us can handle bad news; we've understood that the last couple of seasons were necessarily down years. Shit, I'm a Blackhawks fan, too. But we also need to know that the right people have ambitions fo...

it can only go up from here, right? maybe caleb learns how to deal with a shitty line and oc and overcomes it for a decade (or two!) of excellence. doesn't flus know what waldron is gonna run before he runs it? can't he stop it? that fucking 4th down play is killing me. i can't imagine flus signing...

He's not a great public speaker, that's for sure, and he might be innately inarticulate. The wider the scope of his responsibilities, the bigger a problem that'll be. EDIT: Yeah, it's a symptom, not the disease. He's unimaginative enough to think that when things go wrong, getting the players to tr...

The only way you continue to get better. You learn from your mistakes, and you continue to attack it. And that’s how I want [my QB] to approach the game. I want him to approach the game with an attack-first mindset, and we’re not going to hold back just because he made mistakes. If Eberflus had a l...

malagabears wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2024 9:53 am
So I take it the new hair & beard ain't enough to cut it?

He's gone from middle-aged man going through a divorce to middle-aged man rebounding from a divorce. Nope, the, erm, [checks notes] glowing-up didn't do the guy any favors.

Is Flus part of the problem? Here is an interesting quote, he is a dinosaur in a modern league. Or better put, a DC masquerading as a HC. https://x.com/Schrock_And_Awe/status/1838274871224340597?t=HF_sochjwbE-bcpxaGFc4w&s=19 He's not a great public speaker, that's for sure, and he might be inna...

Think what you will about JT O'Sullivan, but he points out something that flew under my radar during the game: each guy on the line, especially the interior three, drops to a different level in pass pro. Until they get that sorted out, no amount of communication is going to help them block a simple...

Think what you will about JT O'Sullivan, but he points out something that flew under my radar during the game: each guy on the line, especially the interior three, drops to a different level in pass pro. Until they get that sorted out, no amount of communication is going to help them block a simple ...