Anyone else think this is all part a mad Jerry Jones plan to pair Sanders Sr at HC with Sanders Jr at QB?

Sanders Sr keeps saying his son won't play for just any team and the Cowboys have the 12th overall pick to package with Prescott (after eating some of his contract) and other compensation ...

Harbaugh did great with a seriously flawed team. Get Herbert a single outside WR that doesnt have stone hands. Continue to work on the OL. I think his insistence on Greg Roman will forever hold them back but that team seriously overachieved this year imo.


I have no problem giving Harbaugh his ...

I'm not sure that Kmet was as much underappreciated as he was under utilized.


Underappreciated by the coaching staff, for sure.

MOST VALUABLE PLAYER

Offense: Best performer was Darnell Wright. Caleb Williams was probably the most valuable, though.
Defense: Hard to go with anyone but Jaylon ...

The Cooler King wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 2:49 pm

Magilla_Gorilla wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 2:45 pm Hub wants Rivera as DC.

Thank goodness - more names to cross off my list.

Yeah, endorsements from Hub at this point is often reason enough all by itself to avoid it.

Very Bears mentality there IMO

How about for once we just do the obvious thing with the obvious choice and not let another organization get the jump on us?



There was nothing obvious about Matt LaFleur. There was nothing obvious about Dan Campbell.

Or Kevin O'Connell.
Or, hell, Mike ...

Magilla_Gorilla wrote: Sat Jan 11, 2025 9:46 pm So, uh, can I interest anyone in a Mike Tomlin?

In a few days there will likely be a used Mike McCarthy available. He's a similar model.

Chargers played poorly, no doubt.

3 of Herbert's 4 INTs should have been catches, though, and it's fair to say Harbaugh is ahead of schedule on turning that team around.

They might collapse next season, of course, cos it's the NFL and any given Sunday. But Jim Harbaugh is a good coach, one who ...

Bates doesn't cost another dime until the 2025 regular season starts.


I believe he's due a roster bonus but I'm not sure when that is paid, beginning of the '25 league year?


Fair point, I wasn't aware of the roster bonus and that's my fault for not looking it up.

Over The Cap says it's ...

Keep him as depth, cut Bates, save $4m :thumbsup:


He made $883K in '23 and $993K in '24. He was signed for $1.1M in '25, I image the Bears offer about the same. Bates is signed for $4M for '25; I'm not sure if there would any cap saving with a pre- versus post June 1 cut.


Bates doesn't ...

I left out Simmons because of the injury, but yeah if he’s healthy he’s the best OT prospect IMO. Easily top 12.


Rosenhaus (his agent) says he's "ahead of schedule" and should be cleared for practice by start of NFL training camp.

I think he's fucking good... do you dare take him at #10 if ...

The two consistent testing measurements for offensive linemen Poles has selected in the draft have been the 10-yard split in the 40 and the broad jump. We obviously don't have public numbers on Kiran Amegadjie, but of the five we do have numbers for, 4 of them were in the 75th percentile for the 10 ...

Rich is just pandering to Rusty now.

Fair enough. Bagent is an oversight by me. (That's in no small part because I had an early Day 3 draftable grade on him and I completely forgot he went undrafted.)

If they're high ebough on Stromberg we probably don't bother even drafting one low right? They need a free agent, probably Shelton and he won't take another one year deal. So unless we're cutting Bates that's already 3 center options. Maybe someone low enough to stash on the practice squad ...

I have serious concerns about fit with Abdul Carter, and he's going to be a liability against the run for sure, maybe for his whole career. I think he's a 3-4 OLB only and a 4-3 team could only use him for like 10 snaps a game.

But someone is (rightly) going to want to put those pass-rushing tools ...

Magilla_Gorilla wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 11:23 pm

dplank wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 11:21 pm Gruden obviously getting no interviews, this is sad

Even if he wasn't already toxic - hitching himself to Barstool wasn't going to help matters.

Doubling down, in fact.

Leonard made just enough plays and his two turnovers didn't shift momentum the same way Allar's one did.

https://x.com/SamMonsonNFL/status/1877396861868220610

Bryce Young is a pretty interesting comp. Played 3 years in college. Had a tremendous Sophomore season that ended with a Heisman trophy. Had a disappointing (relative) Junior season but declared for the draft and went #1.

Went to the ...

The luck factor is being vastly overplayed. If luck was such a dramatic factor, why are some teams bad most of the time and others are successful more often than not?


Name names then?


Literally 75% of NFL teams have replaced their head coach since 2020, 69% since 2021, 62% since 2022 ...

And Somehow McCarthy. The Creme de la middle of the Boston Creme Donut (eh feels forced)


I lol'd


McCarthy is basically Tomlin. If you're happy with one, you should be happy with the other.
(I probably wouldn't be, and I can't explain why, so there may not be any logic behind the ...

Chiefs vs. anyone but the Packers. Probably the Eagles.

Magilla_Gorilla wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 5:18 pm Do not want.

I like Matt Campbell, but geez, the guy literally just agreed to an extension less than a month ago.

https://apnews.com/article/iowa-state-m ... 9841d53d01

No reasoning, just proof of George talking out both sides of his mouth, his actual voice making himself into the buffoon that he is.

And seriously, George thanking Eebz? WTF moment there.


Parsing a line out of an entire, and generic/canned press conference, to make the Bears look bad is ...

I read it and it came off as the same old cynical "Bears are so incompetent that they can't tie their shoelaces without help" type of stuff that beat writers continually spoon-feed to a perpetually angry fanbase.


Yeah, Jon Greenberg had a similarly terrible piece yesterday in the Athletic ...

I think a good part of this is the massive opportunity problem the NFL has. Limited practice time, no B league and a 17 game season means that opportunities are few and far between, especially in a position where it's harder to wow in practice.

I sometimes thing about the types of player that ...

Generally speaking, I'm not a big fan of the conversion projects. Most of the time they don't work.

Mbow is athletic with great football character and probably is better off inside, but there's nothing in his past that suggests he'll succeed at C (he didn't play center in HS or in college ...

Generally speaking, I'm not a big fan of the conversion projects. Most of the time they don't work.

Mbow is athletic with great football character and probably is better off inside, but there's nothing in his past that suggests he'll succeed at C (he didn't play center in HS or in college ...

Since they are the main competitor for Johnson

https://x.com/RapSheet/status/1876684780609102036


To follow up:

https://x.com/TomPelissero/status/1876691456414363768


Sure seems like the Patriots got their Rooney Rule requirements out of the way so they can make an offer to Vrabel as soon ...

Rakshir wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 3:47 pm

UOK wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 3:40 pm Antonio Pierce fired by the Raiders.

So the Raiders pulled a Bears.

NFL: gosh, it was a bad look for the Bears to let Eberflus go hours after his press conference.

Raiders: we'd better wait a whole day.

wab wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 4:21 pm There are plenty of mocks that have Graham lasting until 10.

Personally I don’t even have him making it to 7.

He's the first big man off the board.

Back to the Center position ... not a great year this year, but I like Grey Zabal from South Dakota State in the 3rd(ish) round. Currently a LT, but projects to be a center (i.e. TRex Syndrome).


There are several of those this year. Marcus Mbow (Purdue) is expected to be asked to play C at the ...