Bears Week 17, TNF vs Seahawks, 7:15 pm

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Jets and Panthers getting blown out, back to 9th pick 

[CubinNY]

Old pal Mitch in for the Bills. 

[Soul]

🙄

They’ll keep Poles and hire one of the boring coach candidates.  It will be a group decision with the McCaskeys having their nose where it doesn’t belong.

Not a surprise at all.  Williams will struggle without strong guidance and probably fail.  Lather rinse repeat.  My wife wonders why I still root for this team.  She has a point.

[NorthsideAvenger]

3 hours ago, Hairyducked Idiot said:

Yeah, if I'm ben Johnson I would prefer Jacksonville.

Holy crap this thing spiraled out of control fast 

If I am Ben Johnson, if the choices are Jax, Chicago or stay in Detroit, I'd stay in Detroit. 

[CubinNY]

Its amazing what a guy can do when he has time to pass

[NorthsideAvenger]

Double post. 

Edited December 29, 2024 by NorthsideAvenger

[Soul]

25 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

Its amazing what a guy can do when he has time to pass

And look what happens to guys like Rodgers when there’s no time at all.

[Soul]

31 minutes ago, NorthsideAvenger said:

If I am Ben Johnson, if the choices are Jax, Chicago or stay in Detroit, I'd stay in Detroit. 

It would be quite a feat to make Jax a contender.  I agree 100% this says a lot about the Bears that Johnson would rather go there.

[Derwood]

Giants winning is slightly helpful

[gflore34]

1 hour ago, NorthsideAvenger said:

If I am Ben Johnson, if the choices are Jax, Chicago or stay in Detroit, I'd stay in Detroit. 

Ben Johnson is not the only avenue to success, if the Bears properly address the OL.  There's no reason Kingsburry or Joe Brady can't be as successful as Ben Johnson with the Bears.

[NorthsideAvenger]

7 minutes ago, gflore34 said:

Ben Johnson is not the only avenue to success, if the Bears properly address the OL.  There's no reason Kingsburry or Joe Brady can't be as successful as Ben Johnson with the Bears.

I agree. 

[gflore34]

2 hours ago, Soul said:

🙄

They’ll keep Poles and hire one of the boring coach candidates.  It will be a group decision with the McCaskeys having their nose where it doesn’t belong.

Not a surprise at all.  Williams will struggle without strong guidance and probably fail.  Lather rinse repeat.  My wife wonders why I still root for this team.  She has a point.

I really don't believe that's going to happen, I believe they're going to hire someone with an offensive background - Johnson, Kingsburry or Brady. 

To me, firing Poles is key, if they do then, we can take away they're serious about addressing the roster issues and competing.

Edited December 29, 2024 by gflore34

[Soul]

29 minutes ago, gflore34 said:

I really don't believe that's going to happen, I believe they're going to hire someone with an offensive background - Johnson, Kingsburry or Brady. 

To me, firing Poles is key, if they do then, we can take away they're serious about addressing the roster issues and competing.

Is there an indication they will fire Poles?

[gflore34]

3 minutes ago, Soul said:

Is there an indication they will fire Poles?

I think we all agree he should be fired, there's nothing to suggest he's capable of fixing the trenches.  In fact, there's plenty of evidence suggesting he's incapable picking and signing/trading the correct players.

[Outshined_One]

11 minutes ago, Soul said:

Is there an indication they will fire Poles?

Depends on how you want to interpret the Eberflus situation. Some sources said Poles was pounding the table to fire him and Eberflus was never his guy, some said Eberflus was Poles' pick and Poles wanted to keep Eberflus this past offseason.

The roster is a disaster and Poles hasn't done much to instill confidence in his ability to identify talent or high quality coaches, plus he only has a year left on his contract. A good organization would can him. We'll see what the Bears do.

[Soul]

6 minutes ago, Outshined_One said:

Depends on how you want to interpret the Eberflus situation. Some sources said Poles was pounding the table to fire him and Eberflus was never his guy, some said Eberflus was Poles' pick and Poles wanted to keep Eberflus this past offseason.

The roster is a disaster and Poles hasn't done much to instill confidence in his ability to identify talent or high quality coaches, plus he only has a year left on his contract. A good organization would can him. We'll see what the Bears do.

I mean that’s kind of my point.  Without an indication I’m going to assume they do the thing they usually do and keep him.  We know they aren’t a good organization.

Edited December 30, 2024 by Soul

[Hairyducked Idiot]

There has been little indication they intend to fire poles, unfortunately 

[BigSlick]

2 hours ago, gflore34 said:

I think we all agree he should be fired, there's nothing to suggest he's capable of fixing the trenches.  In fact, there's plenty of evidence suggesting he's incapable picking and signing/trading the correct players.

us agreeing that Poles should be fired means nothing. Probably over 80% of the City of Chicago wanted Eberflus fired after last year, and they kept his dumb ass. 

I'd say its quite likely Poles stays another season. 

[gflore34]

1 minute ago, BigSlick said:

us agreeing that Poles should be fired means nothing. Probably over 80% of the City of Chicago wanted Eberflus fired after last year, and they kept his dumb ass. 

I'd say its quite likely Poles stays another season. 

Unfortunately, you're probably correct.  The point I was trying to make is Poles has no empirical evidence he should remain the GM, most organizations would fire him based on this alone.  However, being terrible at your job is often times not enough to get you fired from the Bears.

[Irrelevant Dude]

What do the Packers have to play for next week?  Will the game matter at all for their playoff seeding?  Or will the Bears get a meaningless victory to cap off their disaster of a season and end up picking 10th?

[cwood218]

46 minutes ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

What do the Packers have to play for next week?  Will the game matter at all for their playoff seeding?  Or will the Bears get a meaningless victory to cap off their disaster of a season and end up picking 10th?

If the Redskins hold on to win vs ATL then they would hold the tiebreaker over GB for the 6 vs 7 seed.

The real question however is could the Bears stop the way GB uses Malik Willis ... I think not.

Play the starters or rest them, GB probably wins either way.

 

Edited December 30, 2024 by cwood218

[CubinNY]

7 hours ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

What do the Packers have to play for next week?  Will the game matter at all for their playoff seeding?  Or will the Bears get a meaningless victory to cap off their disaster of a season and end up picking 10th?

Even not trying, the Packers will win. 

[Derwood]

3 hours ago, CubinNY said:

Even not trying, the Packers will win. 

If I was the Packers coach, I would just blitz 10 guys every play and see if I could set the single game sack record

[Soul]

1 hour ago, Derwood said:

If I was the Packers coach, I would just blitz 10 guys every play and see if I could set the single game sack record

Caleb suffering a major injury on a sack by backups playing against backups in a meaningless game with a lame duck coach and potentially a lame duck GM would be the most Beariest Bear thing of all time.

[Brian707]

11 hours ago, cwood218 said:

Redskins 

 

 

No matter how many times you say that word they will never be that name again