Can’t believe I’m going to defend an owner here - but I’d need some convincing too if the guy who convinced me to give out a 5 year contract and reiterated that this was our guy 10 months ago now wanted to send 12-15 million of my money out the door (with more to come when the rest of the staff is ...

No it shouldn't....many have reported that Poles and Warren wanted Flus gone after the Patriots game but the McCaskeys would not let them. That is a huge problem when the owers are interfering with the football guys. I am not in the McCaskeys are cheap crowd, but they seem to have a loyalty to peopl...

HisRoyalSweetness wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 11:59 am
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.

I like doing these this time of year to get to know players outside the SEC, since that is all I really watch. Today I learned about Jalen Royals, WR Utah State. 6 foot, 200 pounds, 4.3 speed, and 15 TDs his senior year! Scouting reports say nice hands but a very limited route tree, seems like a nic...

Interesting battle of two of the top three under-acheiving teams (with the Bengals) in the league. The 49ers are a MASH unit at the moment, does not seem any of their key players are healthy. I think the Bears play inspired with the Flus cut loose and pull out a decisive victory.

27-13 Bears

That whole conference was worthless, nothing of substance was said at all.

So what if Warren and Poles knew Flus was gone prior to the presser? What if they are actually cold blooded and sent Flus out as a final F U to him? Flus is a very likeable guy, but a terrible head coach. His in-game decisions cost the Bears too many Ws over the last two years, he had to go.

If true, that is wild. Game changing info there. The GM wasn't allowed to fire him after last season, but wanted to? So George is the actual GM? Sorry, was not clear enough. Warren wanted him gone last year but Poles stood up for Flus. Poles finally turned. 4 weeks ago and George stopped it.

Draft Dr Phil is on right now saying Poles wanted to can Flus 4 weeks ago, but George wouldn't let them. Yesterday was the straw that broke the back and he finally got on board with Poles and Warren, who wanted to get rid of him after last season.

dplank wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2024 9:08 am Dowell Loggains was really Patton Oswalt doing a character study for his movie Big Fan.

Loggains is actually the OC at South Carolina now and doing a pretty good job. Our offense has been putting up some pretty good numbers with a redshirt freshman QB this year.

Flus' undoing was due to his total lack of how to manage a game. Piss poor timeout usage, I do not think he has won a challege ever, and playing not to lose late in games. Those are all bigger issues than his coordinator choices.

I am going out a limb and say it will be closer than people think. The Bears come out hot and build an early lead only to have Eberloose piss it away with playing soft zone and poor clock managment.

27-20 Lions

I just have to laugh at the fact that the are wrangling over $7.3M with the school district in Arlington Heights. They just ate more than that cutting Nate Davis last week, lol. There is no way the state is going to fund any part of a new stadium downtown and there is no way the park district is goi...

I like this one from PFN today. Got talent to build both lines and was able to improve depth all over the place! 12. Will Campbell, OT LSU 43. Walter Nolen, DT Ole Miss 64. Kyle Kennard, EDGE South Carolina 74. Tate Ratledge, OG Georgia 131. Ollie Gordon II, RB Oklahoma State 150. RJ Maryland, TE SM...

I am not as sold on Thomas Brown as most of you seem to be. Yes it looks way better than what Waldron was putting out there, but there is still a lot to be desired. We are in the shotgun WAY too much. There is still no commitment to the run game at all. I do not understand why we run out of the clos...

I swear that guy gets his ideas from this board, lol!

Another name to keep an eye on is Lincoln Riley. History with Caleb and has the shadow President of Halas Hall Trace Armstrong as his agent. I personally would not do it, but this is who I think would be on the top of the list at Halas Hal right now. Evidently B Flo and Poles are friends, met as Bos...

Then I fault him again for not going after Harbaugh this past offseason when he was 100% available - hanging on to Flus another year looks to have been a big mistake. I think you are placing blame on the wrong person for this one. There is no way George and Ginny would of let Harbaugh in the buildi...

Flus was a first time head coach, so no one knew how he would handle in-game situations. From watching Hard Knocks and 1920 Football Drive stuff Flus appears to be a good pratice coach and he had the support of the locker room through all the shit that went out last season. Flus also put together to...

Sam Darnold kind of sucks, so we have a fighting chance. Brown seems to understand the ball needs to get out of Caleb's hand quickly, so hopefully that counteracts Flores.

23-17 Bears.

McAfee just spent 10 minutes explaining why the block was totally illegal....and of course completely ignored by the refs. 1) They hit Scott Daley and knocked him on his ass....you can't touch the snapper on a FG! 2) Van Ness was pushing Brooks in the back, you can't do that either! Good teams get b...

Nagy was not a nice guy, quite the opposite. Go back and listen to some of the stories about how he treated Trubisky.

Is anyone else a little worried that Thomas Brown was a RB, the mainly a RB coach until he got to be OC at CAR? On top of that he was the passing game coordinator here of a very shitty passing game. Why did we make a RB the passing game coordinator?

I have never had an X account and can see them all...weird.

On one hand I would like to see improvement and be competitive, on the other I would like to see the last nail in Flus' coffin. Jordan Love also likes to toss INTs as much as he does TDs, so I can see the team rally and keep it close for the beard.

27-9 Pack

3 in a row with no TDs on offense!

No, they are just playiing a stupid game with AH to get the taxes down until the stadium is built. They are not going to budge on the taxes as the school district can barely afford the teachers now, so just pony up and break ground at the old race track.

I just wanted to get an idea of what is out there to fix the O line. I am of the ilk that Poles (or the next GM) needs to bring in someone for a starting job at all 5 line spots to compete with what we already have. Going to list both draft and free agency options. I am using Pro Football Networks l...

This is the freaking Bears, so the obvious smart thing is out the window. Wednesday Eberloose will name Chris Morgan as the playcaller for GB.

First one of the year... will probably be my theme all offseason. 26 Tyler Booker IOL | Alabama A 41 Jonah Savaiinaea IOL | Arizona B+ 47 Josh Simmons OT | Ohio State A+ 80 Tate Ratledge IOL | Georgia B+ 122 Anthony Belton OT | NC State B+ 126 Kamari Ramsey S | USC A+ 135 Gunnar Helm TE | Texas A 15...

Poles can bring back his favorite human being Travis Bell again!