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by Moriarty
Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:51 pm
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: 2024 BFO Draft Contest
Replies: 54
Views: 1358

Re: 2024 BFO Draft Contest

I'm confused


What is "draft" about it?
by Moriarty
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:50 pm
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: Bears trade 4th rd pick to Chargers for WR Keenan Allen
Replies: 292
Views: 5699

Re: Bears trade 4th rd pick to Chargers for WR Keenan Allen

Ditka’s dictaphone wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:36 pm Can we tag him next offseason?
for 25M, yes
by Moriarty
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:53 am
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: CBS SPORTS: Ranking top QBs from 2020-2024 draft classes: Here's how Caleb Williams, C.J. Stroud and others stack up
Replies: 8
Views: 246

Re: CBS SPORTS: Ranking top QBs from 2020-2024 draft classes: Here's how Caleb Williams, C.J. Stroud and others stack up

Not worth the read IMO. I was hoping it was ranking them on the potential as a prospect when they entered the draft. I know the writer is basing rookies based on their college performances and projecting that talent to the pros. But it's like comparing apples to oranges, not valid comparing pros to...
by Moriarty
Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:25 am
Forum: NFL General Discussion
Topic: 2024 NFL Rule Changes
Replies: 26
Views: 834

Re: 2024 NFL Rule Changes

My first instinct is that most returns will be about the same length. Everyone's kind of bunched up and not as spaced out as when you're running so far.

If you do actually break through the wall, though, there's really nothing behind it, except the kicker.
by Moriarty
Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:06 pm
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: Bears/Texans to open preseason
Replies: 16
Views: 375

Re: Bears/Texans to open preseason

dplank wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:46 pm Now lets see Hard Knocks....
That's where my thoughts went, too.
Then while checking on it

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by Moriarty
Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:04 pm
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: Bears Big Board at current slots
Replies: 20
Views: 452

Re: Bears Big Board at current slots

Bearfacts wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:24 pm Seems to me that somewhere along the line Poles needs to find another DT capable of competing for a roster spot.
Yes, but nearly impossible to predict, though.
It could be anywhere from a R1 to a R7, or a postdraft stopgap.
by Moriarty
Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:52 am
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: Haason Reddick
Replies: 22
Views: 604

Re: Haason Reddick

It depends on your confidence he can be a 43DE.
Mine is not high.
by Moriarty
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:12 am
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: Ryan Poles Presser
Replies: 23
Views: 600

Re: Ryan Poles Presser

We should have fired Nagy / Pace a year earlier - I was begging for that. But Bears, we wait and then Mis-timed the QB window with a lame duck season followed by a coaching change/new offense and a complete roster tear down. No one in their right mind would have a rookie QB in that circumstance to ...
by Moriarty
Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:56 pm
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: Is It Too Soon For Thoughts On Pick #9?
Replies: 188
Views: 3806

Re: Is It Too Soon For Thoughts On Pick #9?

Poles got asked about the #9 pick specifically at the NFL owners meetings today (CHGO just released a good pod covering it). Poles said they are about to do an excercise when the positions groups for WR, DE, and OT will all get their chance to to give merits for taking one of those positions versus...
by Moriarty
Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:53 pm
Forum: NFL General Discussion
Topic: 2024 NFL Rule Changes
Replies: 26
Views: 834

Re: 2024 NFL Rule Changes

Good to hear push back from players on hip drop tackles. It's funny to think of it from a wr's prospective too: you want to tackle a linebacker? Either you hip drop them, or you take out his knees. Imo outlawing hip drops will just further increase leg injuries. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...
by Moriarty
Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:51 pm
Forum: NFL General Discussion
Topic: 2024 NFL Rule Changes
Replies: 26
Views: 834

Re: 2024 NFL Rule Changes

Ummm...onside kicks are allowed, but the kicking and receiving team lines are going to be 30 yds away from the kicker???

Or do they mean you have to announce an onside kick and then you go back to lining up the current way, instead of the new way??
by Moriarty
Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:45 pm
Forum: NFL General Discussion
Topic: PFF Free Agency Grades for All Teams
Replies: 13
Views: 295

Re: PFF Free Agency Grades for All Teams

The grades aren't very meaningful, since they didn't explain their metric: Teams who improved their on-field talent most/least, regardless of resource available? Best use of cap resource, however much/little it may have been? If two teams did almost the same amount of good, but one spent a lot and o...
by Moriarty
Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:19 am
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: IOL thoughts
Replies: 34
Views: 702

Re: IOL thoughts

IOL has some patches that may suffice for a year, but is definitely unsettled. That's why I was saying in the other thread, I can still totally see them going C in R2-4 or G R3/4. With regards to Jenkins' availability, it's worth noting in the past two seasons he's played in 25 games the exact same...
by Moriarty
Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:51 pm
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: IOL thoughts
Replies: 34
Views: 702

Re: IOL thoughts

I didn't realize JJ's games missed was so bad last year (2022). Yikes! One big stumbling block with Jenkins (beyond the games missed) is that the tags are done purely by OL, not by T/G/C, the way they ought to be. So tagging Jenkins is probably out of the question - which really hampers your leverag...
by Moriarty
Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:35 pm
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: What Bagent is up to
Replies: 45
Views: 1357

Re: What Bagent is up to

I get a kick out of how so many people have already written off the rest of Bagent's career, and that he's now no longer even worthy of being a backup. How many? I count Teddy saying he might get bumped to the PS and...that's it. Can his arm get stronger? Absolutely. Can he elevate the rest of his ...
by Moriarty
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:49 am
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: "The NFL QB Who Didn't Give A ****"
Replies: 19
Views: 545

Re: "The NFL QB Who Didn't Give A ****"

What would Cutler have done with an offensive line? Nothing different. They did a major study of QBs under pressure and not under pressure and how they performed (not special now, but cutting edge at the time, IIRC). Everybody showed notable differences under pressure vs not. Except one. Cutler was...
by Moriarty
Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:19 pm
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: 2024 BFO Draft Contest
Replies: 54
Views: 1358

Re: 2024 BFO Draft Contest

HisRoyalSweetness wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:07 pm If it helps anyone, Jason Lieser mentioned in an article about Joe Alt that the Chargers’#5 pick and Falcons’ #8 pick are known around the league to be up for sale.
:-x

That ain't helpin us move the 9
by Moriarty
Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:24 pm
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: New Bears numbers, so far
Replies: 18
Views: 375

Re: New Bears numbers, so far

Scales is old. Probably lots of vet rest days in his future 😂 Maybe we are stockpiling long snappers like we did TEs a few years ago. Maybe they're going to emulate that hilarious Bringing In a Dozen Kickers thing from a few years back, but with punters, so they need a fleet of LS to go with.
by Moriarty
Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:16 pm
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: Ranking the new additions
Replies: 14
Views: 310

Re: Ranking the new additions

So I don't put much stock into PFF grades (mainly because I don't under how they are generated), but it appears they give very little love to our new additions. That's the problem, I think. When looking at Chicago’s new additions, there’s one thing that stands out: Most of them were graded extremel...
by Moriarty
Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:25 pm
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: 2024 BFO Draft Contest
Replies: 54
Views: 1358

Re: 2024 BFO Draft Contest

LOL You had me yelping "Wait, what!" and diving into the history books (databases). Ron Turner actually was a successful college WR (did not know that), but did not come out in 1987 and was not drafted, apparently Ron Morris Danged fat fingers once again! Thanks for the correction. Sure t...
by Moriarty
Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:19 pm
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: 2024 BFO Draft Contest
Replies: 54
Views: 1358

Re: 2024 BFO Draft Contest

Bears trivia. If you get this correct, you are, by far, the best Bears fan of all time: What was the only year when the Bears took a QB with their 1st round pick and a WR with the 2nd (although it was pick 54): ========================================================================================...
by Moriarty
Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:25 am
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: Plan that gets MHJ to #9
Replies: 53
Views: 957

Re: Plan that gets MHJ to #9

That's the same one that's semi-invisible in my post.

Quote and you can see it.
by Moriarty
Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:07 am
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: New Bears numbers, so far
Replies: 18
Views: 375

Re: New Bears numbers, so far

I missed the signing of not 1 but 2 long snappers? Guess the Patrick Scale era is over. He's getting old, so bringing in guys to get familiar and audition for the future makes sense... ...except for 1 of the 2 being even older than Scales(?!?!?) Is he hurt and going to miss part of camp or something?
by Moriarty
Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:03 am
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: Plan that gets MHJ to #9
Replies: 53
Views: 957

Re: Plan that gets MHJ to #9

Somewhat related - does anyone know a good source for post-FA team needs?


All I've got is
and their format could not be more annoying.
by Moriarty
Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:45 pm
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: What Bagent is up to
Replies: 45
Views: 1357

Re: What Bagent is up to

And fundamentally I don't think you need a backup QB that's massively similar to your starter. Neither do I. Who said anything about that? So we're left with the kind of option that would cost $12.5m like Minshew, $10m for Darnold, $8m for Brissett. Well, I think the Titans have got a steal with Ru...
by Moriarty
Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:29 pm
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: What Bagent is up to
Replies: 45
Views: 1357

Re: What Bagent is up to

Bagent's a great story. And he performed extremely well relative to college competition level, relative to draft position, relative to pro experience. But when you stop grading on a curve, what have you got? He had 2/4 games where he moved the ball successfully (225 yds/game), but 2 where he didn't...
by Moriarty
Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:09 pm
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: Bears sign DL Byron Cowart
Replies: 21
Views: 516

Re: Bears sign DL Byron Cowart

Yeah. He does need a "this is a guy who we could keep on the roster, if we don't draft one" level DL guy, though, and I don't think this qualifies. There are some players ranked in round three that have shown some NFL type talent but will end up up more as role players somewhat like the k...
by Moriarty
Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:50 pm
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: Bears sign RB D'Andre Swift to 3yr, $24M contract
Replies: 118
Views: 3202

Re: Bears sign RB D'Andre Swift to 3yr, $24M contract

For the second year in a row, the Philadelphia Eagles helped resurrect a highly drafted running back's career behind an elite offensive line with offensive line coach/run game coordinator Jeff Stoutland maximizing the talents of his rushers. Swift faced the Chicago Bears twice a year as a member of...
by Moriarty
Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:31 pm
Forum: Halas Hall
Topic: Bears sign DL Byron Cowart
Replies: 21
Views: 516

Re: Bears sign DL Byron Cowart

Poles has a 90 man roster to fill. He's gonna sign some guys to minimum deals in order to do that because he lacks later round picks. The guy has some previous starting experience but it's tough to see him as any more than a guy competing for roster spot. I expect Poles to pick up a few more player...