While you're of course right about the deterministic aspect, Caleb is absolutely a 1.1 guy. If he wasn't behind Caleb, Maye almost certainly would be as well. And Caleb is certainly on the high end of those 1.1s hisorically. You might be right, but there's no "absolutely" or "certain...

Some things can be unassailably true, and still unimportant. The odds on QB at 1.1 strike me as one of those. Within certain conditions, you can't argue with the numbers: if you want a good QB, and you want to know where to choose him, 1.1 is statistically your best bet. No argument there. It just i...

Yeah, the shift in tone made the season finale of Fargo feel like a series finale. I didn't mind it all that much, but it teally was a bit of somewhat rushed wrapping-ip.

Yeah, looks like due diligence to me. His tenure at Arizona was bizarre: I've never seen clock mismanagement like that, and he almost seemed to be coaching different games than the ones his team was playing.

PFN. A Fields's Last Stand draft. 1.1 Traded (Caleb Williams) to Arizona for 1.4, 1.27, 2.35, 3.66, 2025 1st. 1.4 Marvin Harrison, Jr., WR, Ohio St. Call me Sir Edmund, but I did it because he was there. 1.9 Traded (Jayden Daniels) NY Jets for 1.10, 3.72, 2025 4th 1.10 Brock Bowers, TE, Georgia. Not...

What’s infinitely more likely is that our franchise has sucked from the top down and has created an environment that’s very difficult to succeed in. For the first time since the 80s, I feel like our franchise is operating as a professional group. McCaskeys are out of the decision tree. Warren and P...

Has anybody watched much Steelers football this year? 'Cuz I haven't....and they seem to have adopted a REALLY WEIRD offense? I mean..some of these formations are NUTS! :sick: They ditched their extraordinarily Getsy-ish OC mid-season and elevated their RB coach. That's when the season turned aroun...

Mikefive wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 1:32 pm Now back to your regularly scheduled Bears talk.

Do we have to? That was a beautiful bit of memoir, Mike; thanks for sharing it. You're a strong man for keeping your eyes on the good stuff in the midst of all that rotten stuff.

Yep, good stuff. And heck, this means we was beaten by the best this year: if Buffalo takes care of Pittsburgh tomorrow, the NFC North will be the only division with two teams left.

Interesting mock draft I just saw: Chicago trades #1 to Washington for #2, #36 and #40 Caleb Williams goes #1 We draft Marvin Harrison, Jr. #2 We draft Jared Verse #9 No future first round picks, but we get #36 and #40 this year to address iOL/Move-TE/RB/DB etc. Thoughts? No 2025 first-rounder almo...

I think Flus forces a conservative mindset on offense. He doesn’t call plays but that impacts the play caller. I don't agree there, he has been adamant about wanting explosives and mentioned not having enough of them during the 2023 post-mortem presser. He wants to see deep shots, he's on the recor...

Mod edit: do some shit like this again and you'll find yourself back in 2034 I hear you, and I really should have taken a beat there before posting. I thought it was a silly little joke that deliberately nodded away from something shitty...but the something shitty was still right there, and that sh...

I get the sense that Getsy is the scapegoat here (and please don't misunderstand, I'm not saying he's good, there's not much way to know) in that I think he had to completely reign in the offense he wanted to run to play toward this "200" criteria. I frankly think he almost completely avo...

Places I trust in their estimates have him around 6'2 1/2 and 215. We obviously won't know for sure until the Combine, but I'm comfortable going with that until then. He's smooth and has excellent hand technique. He makes contested catches very well, though I suspect that's due in part because he d...

Grizzled wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 9:51 am

Rusty Trombagent wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 9:26 am

And it's official.

It really is a rarity when scenarios like this actually come to fruition.

Ah, the old new HC before hiring a GM. Often blows up in a team's face.

Might just be confirmation that the GM will effectively report to Mayo, just as a series of them did to Belichick.

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Weird how many people in exurban Seattle back away when I stop them in the woods, stare at them in a way that my ancestors would agree can only be described as "Prussianly," and ask "Welches Jahr haben wir?" Must not be fans of the show. The question isn't "Where is Mikkel?...

@The Marshall Plan Time is a flat circle? Dude, making another play at urging you to watch Netflix's Dark. Just started watching on the strength of so many recommendations here, and nearly done with series 1. It's fantastic; the casting is eerily good. Thanks for the nudge. Weird how many people in...

There's a lot to like about Odunze's game--I was a fan last year before he returned to UDub--but I doubt that he's nearly all of 6'3", and he plays smaller than his actual height. He's very good, but he's not a terrifically stark complement to Moore.

I don't see how he has any inherent advantage with insider knowledge. If the picks were flipped, sure. Even if Poles was 100% sold on trading the pick now, what's Ian going to do with that knowledge? He won't know what offers Poles has on the table from other teams. Nothing that would preclude othe...

Hot damn, that's fascinating. Isn't it? Makes me wonder if Poles would 'throw him a bone' or if Cunningham finds a way to 'dupe' Poles somehow. Should be fun! For that matter, does Cunningham bring it up in his interview with Washington? "I've got a better idea of the market for 1.1 than anyon...

G08 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 12:29 pm Interesting if Ian Cunningham gets the Commanders job, what with them holding the 2nd overall pick and Poles likely knowing how Cunningham feels about the QBs in this draft...

Hot damn, that's fascinating.

Is it collusion if it happens while you work for the same team?

wab wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:44 am Biggest downside is that if he's good he's getting tagged for a HC gig. But that's a problem for later.

Possible upside: that HC gig could be ours.

It'll be fascinating to see how Bagent addresses the offseason. His mechanics seem to be made entirely for short and intermediate stuff--when he tried to throw, say, 40 yards, it still looked to me like he was throwing a 15-yard route, just harder and higher. There's room for improvement. Tom Brady ...

We were damned lucky to have Poles and Cunningham as an executive team these last two years. But that sort of luck can't last forever. I'm kinda surprised he lasted this long with us.

Man, I haven't thought about Tee Martin or Jerrod Johnson for a while. Johnson intrigued me coming out of A&M, and I remember wanting Martin for the Bears before Pittsburgh drafted him. I don't have any strong opinions about OC just yet, but it'll be fascinating to see who they interview and who...

Didn't see Carroll getting the axe, so I didn't even consider Waldron. From what I've seen (and I see Lumen Field every day when I walk the dog), he's a very very friendly OC for a defensive-minded head coach. There's that. He's gotten the most out of a pretty dismal offensive line and nondescript R...

wab wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 8:42 pm I see the same elongated windup on several throws that Fields has…

Yep. And his footwork is much quieter and downright better than Fields's, but still not great. He's making a few things more difficult than they need to be, and that'll show up in the NFL.

Nearly every team in the league can ask the same question about the last three years in light of Brock Purdy. That doesn't make it a constructive question. Might as well just throw darts at a wall for every decision then, including whether to keep Fields or not. Nothing matters. You put it more art...

crueltyabc wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 6:39 pm Nobody really said anything you wouldn’t expect

- poles didn’t talk to harb or anyone else about HC
- flus’s phone is ringing off the hook for the coaching openings
- Chris Morgan is staying

One of those things is not like the others.