No point cutting him, just don't count on him. He's a quality piece when healthy and a low cost player. No need to create more work for ourselves here. I get it's frustrating and all. As I do not think I have ever seen him play, I can't see cutting him. $5MM for a backup is about right. Let him sta...

The Chicago Bears' lease at Soldier Field expires in 2033: Lease terms The Bears pay $6.48 million annually to use Soldier Field. They can break the lease early by paying a penalty that decreases each year until the lease expires. They do have some cushion. But, man, they seem to love wasting time

Snap counts on OL


882 snaps


Coleman Shelton 871/882 = 98.8%
Darnell Wright 771/882 = 87.4%
Matt Pryor 752/882 = 85.3%* 752/756 = 99.5%* (Pryor was on the bench healthy the first 2 games)
Braxton Jones 696/882 = 78.9%
Teven Jenkins 659/882 = 74.7%

I always get mad when young draft picks don't get on the field, especially when inactive on game day and the given reason is "they don't give us as much on special teams like GuyX does", especially on teams that aren't contenders anyway (almost every season for us). You knew what he does ...

Carter getting reps ahead of Scott speaks volumes IMO. He’s likely not good. I wasn't high on the Scott pick when it happened, so full disclosure and this could be my confirmation bias. But this is two consecutive coordinators who have shown zero interest in giving him any shot to play, even on spe...

If they put Odunze or DJ back on punts, Brown & Poles need to be gone by morning

I think it's some of 1-3 I'm not sure that Everett is done, but with his bad contract***, he's certainly done here. * 10th highest paid Bear in 2025, can save 5.5/6.5M by axing him. ** Who the fuck pays a backup TE 6M/yr? And who thought it was bizarre at the time? https://www.bearsfansonline.com/fo...

If the Bears take a RB in the top 10 while needing, at a minimum three new starters on OL and one of the deeper DL top-end DL classes in a while...I'll switch fandoms. We would all miss you terribly but that doesn't seem likely to me. That wab follows through or that the Bears do something dumb?

dplank wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2024 8:36 am

I'm not sure what to say.



What do people normally do when something goes right for their team?

One of Ben Johnson’s biggest hurdles is going to be getting guys he wants on staff to hold off on taking other jobs while they wait until Johnson can be hired after Feb 12. Or would Chicago do like Indy and start hiring coaches before the Head Coach is officially hired - hoping that he doesn’t pull...

I think Blackwell will do punts

Who knows who the PR and KR are now?

Go ahead, guess without looking.

Until that thread comes along, this is almost the same thing:

Oh, I totally missed the MNF part.

National humiliation.
Fabulous.

Bears make some improvements


Bears 16
Minny 31

I'm a looong way from studying stats but with that caveat, if you take 2024 opposition scores as the population then the mean allowed is 21.2 and standard deviation 6.96. The 49ers game at 38 is therefore 2.42 standard deviations from that mean. The previous worst (excluding overtime) was the Cardi...

Is there a SearSTower and a Seer$Tower?

How many different accounts are we tracking here?

I'm skeptical about that story. I have a hard time believing it wasn't known that that position would be created and work that way, as Teddy prepared to retire. The only way it could be true is if the Bears planned for it to be another finance only guy like Teddy, then changed their mind later. If s...

It makes zero sense to fire Poles now after what Warren said in the press conference. Poles is leading the new HC search so he’s staying. However, it also makes zero sense to be looking for a stud HC if your GM (leading the search) only has 1 year left on his contract. However, it also makes zero s...

Joe Brady?????? A 35yo with 1.5 seasons as a OC? Glad to know they're taking this search seriously Can’t believe I’m going to defend Joe Brady, but… Regardless of title - he called plays for LSUs title team with Joe Burrow. He called plays for two seasons in Carolina before being fired. Hes called ...

Joe Brady??????

A 35yo with 1.5 seasons as a OC?

Glad to know they're taking this search seriously

Adam Jahns reporting that Poles was signed to a 4 year contract (despite Eberflus getting a 5 year). No extension announced so the expectation is he has one year left on his deal. If he is being kept you'd have to expect an extension to match whatever the Head Coach gets. As it is it makes it easy/...

Forgot about him, he'd be great Me and Saleh graduated the same year from Northern Michigan University, so I’m sure I can use my connections (there are none) to get box seats for all my boys on BFO😂 You've learned nothing from following this team. You're supposed to omit this part, get our hopes wa...

Trestman was always going to (ultimately) fail. He had no business taking the top spot. Highly debatable. He was extremely successful as a HC in the CFL (3 championships in 7 seasons and a 4th as runnerup). Trestman was always going to (ultimately) fail. He had no business taking the top spot. Emer...

Lovie has done fuck-all since being ousted: in college, the NFL - you name it. Keeping him was going to just give you more mediocrity. The problem after letting Lovie go was with the hires that succeeded him, not the firing itself, imo. The Lovie firing was probably for the best AT THE TIME. The Be...

That was definitely peculiar and tone-deaf. And all the more troubling because the McCaskeys have a long, long history of putting "Devout Christian" at the top of their HC/GM/VP qualification list and "good at football stuff" somewhere further down the line. FWIW, Marc Trestman ...

CHICAGO — Coach Mike Ditka criticized his Chicago Bears, calling them a team in disarray Sunday and said, “I don’t know if this team can win another football game.” <spoiler>L.A. Times Archives Oct. 16, 1989 12 AM PT</spoiler> You can cover this team just by recycling old observations about ineptit...

I've got very little in the tank right now to give to thinking critically about the bears, but how many good teams out there actually have this mythical GM/HC combo that both came into their positions at the same time? It's not that they automatically have to arrive at the same time, but you can't ...

Yikes. Losing narrowly to great teams on bad calls and bad coaching = great outcome Getting the shit kicked out of you by a mediocre/hurt team = bad news Thomas Brown's HC prospects (around the league, for years) may get tanked by this, but I have to suspect that DC:Eberflus & OC:Brown vs DC:Was...

Very.

I've been riding that horse for maybe 30 yrs now.