Does manage to avoid being completely blank

https://dawindycity.com/bears-kicker-st ... jeemxnwnq9

When he was first hired as the head coach in 2022, Eberflus demanded an upgrade for the turf at Soldier Field.

Two plays alone, the Hail Mary and a blocked FG, are half the difference between 4-8 and 8-4. Then there's the last two games which were also there to be won and a terrible performance against the lowly Patriots. Those defeats are why they've fired the head coach. Poles was by all accounts furious ...

I've considered his departure a done deal since April

Odunze's dad has declared (well, reposted) "no DCs ever"

https://www.sportsmockery.com/chicago-b ... candidate/

I said no, Bears cannot keep blowing it all up every 3-5 years and expect to get this team out of the cellar. Getting a new GM doesn't mean blowing everything up. This is isn't a 2021 Bears roster. You bring in someone to go from point B to point C - which is the same thing we're doing with the hea...

Rusty Trombagent wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2024 7:24 am man i just dont see belichick going through the grind of recruiting every year. that seems so weird.

Me, either

Why?

Go on cruises and bang your 20something girlfriends

I still don't think Cutler was the problem. The main problem was his complete lack of talent at WR other than the years he had Marshall and Alshon. When Johnny Knox and Hester are your teams best WRs, your not doing much. Cutler had ton of talent. He still had the gunslinger mentality that was goin...

That was nutty

The first clip of the "new QB"
The unexpected cameo of an old friend
The uncalled holding followed up by the uncalled, ultrablatent face mask

Manhattan Island? Because there were at least a couple of million Bears fans on that island with you. Hmmm, maybe I’m misremembering but I feel like I was pretty ardently shouted down on this board. Maybe not. I was very surprised to go back and find that 16/31 votes wanted Eberflus fired. https://...

https://www.si.com/nfl/49ers/news/bezos-expected-to-buy-the-bears-and-how-that-could-impact-the-49ers-01jeah1k7zpy Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is rumored to be the frontrunner to buy the Chicago Bears from the McCaskey family. :shocked: Um...what now? And, yeah, that's Sports Illustrated reporting tha...

Posted in a few threads :thumbsup: I’m backing out of a few of these discussions for a while as I’ve had my say and I’m bringing myself and everyone else on the board down. I’m pissed off about a few things, not just Bears stuff, so I’ll back off a bit. Sorry for my self-indulgent morose. I sometim...

https://www.chicagobears.com/team/injury-report/

Minimal improvement for today

Looks like we're going to see the Travis Homer Show

He's definitely having a bad 2nd half.
Frustration with Flus, better competition, whatever.


I've also pointed out that last year's rating was very influenced by 4 atypical/gift INTs from terrible QBs.
I've never considered him "a 51 rating corner".

Yeah, he's also going to be 35 I think. I didn't realize he was going to be coming off of ankle surgery in addition. I was kind of thinking he could be a Rueben Brown signing to bring a solid vet presence to a young-ish OL. Say...Rueben Brown would be a perfect successor to Lucas Patrick and Ryan B...

Anyway, back to the original question - I'm very, very on the fence about Poles right now. It is a relatively talented team in rebuild year 3. But the list of things he's done seriously wrong is pretty long for 3 yrs in, too. I'd hate to have him hire a HC, then decide he can't stay 1 year later. Bu...

Not sure if this is or isn't true. McNeil, who's been exiled from Chicago Sports Radio for erratic behavior (among other things), has, for good reasons, had a hard-on for the McCaskeys, Ted Phillips et al going back to the late 1980's. He reported on how Ted Phillips bungled the potential hire of T...

My biggest concern is that Poles is being undermined by Warren and won't be allowed to make decisions for himself. I find that a startling biggest concern, given that, if Warren had been more forceful and overridden Poles about Eberflus, this team would probably be 8-4 and on the way to the playoff...

My biggest concern is that Poles is being undermined by George McCaskey and won't be allowed to make decisions for himself. Fixed it for you, that is the real problem since he was the one who would not let them fire Flus after the Patriots game. You can say that McCaskey not letting Poles fire Flus...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gd-phijWMAAnqOA?format=jpg&name=small If Allen, Moore, Swift and Johnson all end up missing the game then I wouldn't fancy the Bears' chances... Wowza That really filled back up fast And with 3 extra rest days, too My prediction's getting revised if that stays the sa...

Sure, it’s all relative, there are roster fillers. It’s common for “draft experts” to talk up the draft. It’s rarer for draft experts to say “this is the weakest position” and it turn out not to be. If it helps ease your mind, I believe the context of those comments are almost entirely based on the...

Kiper didn't like OT and didn't mention IOL either way (so is that average?)

This is from PFF a month ago: https://www.pff.com/news/draft-2025-nfl-draft-strongest-weakest-position-groups They are down on IOL, and I agree. But some of that is due to C being a wasteland. And they like T ok and converting Ts to G is frequently a good strategy. I also agree that if you're being ...

Funny sample I reckon. How many of those were genuine contenders rather than seat warmers. And as for wins, how many of those situations were burned out rosters contributing to the previous coach getting fired. I said at the start of the season we might have the best roster that a #1 overall pick h...

Flag planting is sort of a representation of where we are as culture. It's all just boring to me. One team plants flag: "Why they gotta do all that shit! It's unsportsmanlike! Just shut up and play!" Leading to the response: "If they don't want the flag planted, then they should have...

Banks is probably not even a full 6'4. Unless his arms are amazing, he's unlikely to be a T.

There’s a timeline in the universe where I believe Emery/Trestman could have succeeded if they hadn’t been saddled with an aging roster that hated them just because they weren’t Lovie Smith. Actually, I should say "I agree, minus Emery". I think a better scenario, but being stuck with him...

wab wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2024 2:22 pm And Mack has spent the majority of his career as an outside linebacker.

That's true, but in the 3 where he was a DE he made 3 Pro Bowls, 2 AllPro, had double digit sacks 3 times, and had PFF ratings of 90+ 3 times. So clearly he was able to do both at an elite level.

dplank wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2024 10:39 am JMO but it would be in the best interest of the franchise to play Kiran the rest of the way at LT.

Ideally, but I think him being hurt for the entire spring, entire summer, and half of the season have killed that possibility.

6'2 250 DEs were kind of an Eberflus thing. Carter also feels more like a 3-4 guy. Next HC, DC certainly plays a role and, sure, 6'2 250 is easier to project to OLB, but I wouldn't in any way write it off before knowing the system. Khalil Mack was 6025 251 4.6 Carter is estimated at 6021 252 4.5 Ev...

Fanspeak, Buffalo FAMBase Only 1 Trade: 2.38 for 2.48, 3.80 10: R1 P10 DE Abdul Carter - Penn State 6'2 250 4.45, 10 sacks 20 TFL in first season at DE, FreaksList 12 42: R2 P10 G Donovan Jackson - Ohio State 6'4 320 4.9 FreaksList 26 48: R2 P16 SS Nick Emmanwori - South Carolina 6'3 225 4.4, 6 INTs...