2025 Bears Offseason Thread

[Brian707]

Pat Mahomes revenge game ugh

[Bobson Dugnutt]

So far, Bears MNF against the Vikings, a Black Friday game against the Eagles, a Saturday game against the packers on 12/20, and a Christmas game against Washington. Not surprising given everything they’ve done this offseason, but the Bears are getting some pretty premium slots.

[Brian707]

15 minutes ago, Bobson Dugnutt said:

So far, Bears MNF against the Vikings, a Black Friday game against the Eagles, a Saturday game against the packers on 12/20, and a Christmas game against Washington. Not surprising given everything they’ve done this offseason, but the Bears are getting some pretty premium slots.

I guess the Bears- Washington Christmas game is incorrect. They are playing them Week 6 on MNF

[UMFan83]

19 minutes ago, Brian707 said:

I guess the Bears- Washington Christmas game is incorrect. They are playing them Week 6 on MNF

I will not be watching Countdown and seeing a replay of the Hail Mary 400 times.

[jersey cubs fan]

1 hour ago, Brian707 said:

Bears to open at home vs Minnesota on MNF

Smart, they air two MNF games that week so will be able to shift eyeballs to better games if bears horsefeathers the bed again 

[WrigleyField 22]

@grotesports is reporting the following matchups on the #Bears' schedule:

🐻 Week 8 at the Baltimore Ravens
🐻 Week 9 at the Cincinnati Bengals
🐻 Week 18 the Lions visit Soldier Field

 

 

[UMFan83]

9 minutes ago, WrigleyField 22 said:

@grotesports is reporting the following matchups on the #Bears' schedule:

🐻 Week 8 at the Baltimore Ravens
🐻 Week 9 at the Cincinnati Bengals
🐻 Week 18 the Lions visit Soldier Field

 

 

I also saw Week 10 vs NY Giants per a Giants beat guy 

[NorthsideAvenger]

1 hour ago, UMFan83 said:

I will not be watching Countdown and seeing a replay of the Hail Mary 400 times.

Let Stevenson rewatch that play and see if he learned anything.

[Brian707]

47 minutes ago, jersey cubs fan said:

Smart, they air two MNF games that week so will be able to shift eyeballs to better games if bears horsefeathers the bed again 

The MNF double headers this year are Week 3 and 4 I think so you are stuck watching them horsefeathers the bed

[jersey cubs fan]

10 minutes ago, Brian707 said:

The MNF double headers this year are Week 3 and 4 I think so you are stuck watching them horsefeathers the bed

 

[Brian707]

Ben Johnson goes back to Detroit in week 2 for a nooner

[jersey cubs fan]

1 minute ago, Brian707 said:

Ben Johnson goes back to Detroit in week 2 for a nooner

Afternoon delight 

 

 

[UMFan83]

Hmm...Bears in Cincinnati on my birthday and I can get Bengals tickets from my in laws pretty easily.  Then again, the last time I went to a Bears game in Cincinnati the Bears lost 45-10 and Cedric Benson ran for 768 yards.

[Brian707]

Just now, UMFan83 said:

Hmm...Bears in Cincinnati on my birthday and I can get Bengals tickets from my in laws pretty easily.  Then again, the last time I went to a Bears game in Cincinnati the Bears lost 45-10 and Cedric Benson ran for 768 yards.

I went to that game LOL. It was so bad we drove back to Chicago at halftime. 

[UMFan83]

45 minutes ago, Brian707 said:

I went to that game LOL. It was so bad we drove back to Chicago at halftime. 

I was literally sitting with 15 in laws all screaming "WHO DEY" in my face every time the Bengals scored.  I don't mind going to a game and my team losing but I think they scored on every first half possession and at no point was there anything to be happy about as a Bears fan attending the game.

[Brian707]

Most likely the final schedule

W1: MIN (MNF)

W2: @DET

W3: DAL

W4: @LVR

W5: bye

W6: @WAS (MNF)

W7: NO

W8: @BAL

W9: @CIN

W10: NYG

W11: @MIN

W12: PIT

W13: @PHI (Black Friday)

W14: @GB

W15: CLE

W16: GB (Saturday)

W17: @SF (SNF)

W18: DET

 

Edited May 14, 2025 by Brian707

[Derwood]

Good thing they've hyped tonight as the schedule reveal and then let all of the schedule leak all day

[Bobson Dugnutt]

15 minutes ago, Derwood said:

Good thing they've hyped tonight as the schedule reveal and then let all of the schedule leak all day

It’s been happening this way for years.

[UMFan83]

I swear every year we have a disproportionate number of home games in Dec/Jan.  This year it's 3 out of the last 4.  Nothing like Soldier Field in the winter.

Edit: I guess last year we only had 2 of the last 5 in December/Jan but 2023 3 of our 8 home games were at the end of the season and in 2022, 4 of our 9 home games were in the last 5 weeks.

Edit Edit: I wonder if it's because of the Fire.  They do have 1-2 games a year moved to Bridgeview because of the Bears, but their season goes until late October and not including any playoffs if they ever actually made it, but they're a Chicago team so they don't.

Edited May 14, 2025 by UMFan83

[Brian707]

I don't like a week 5 bye but having a lot of late home games might be good(not for fans lol). If they are contenders for the playoffs 

[Banedon]

This is pretty fun.
 

 

[gflore34]

23 hours ago, UMFan83 said:

I will not be watching Countdown and seeing a replay of the Hail Mary 400 times.

That's OK let the media over hype Daniels, the Hail Mary and the Commanders, it'll make it that much sweeter when Caleb out plays him on MNF in front of everyone.

[gflore34]

20 hours ago, Brian707 said:

I went to that game LOL. It was so bad we drove back to Chicago at halftime. 

I remember that game, not only did Benson run all over the Bears, they seemed happy about it, helping him up, encouraging him, just over all delighted with his performance.  That's the part I didn't get, congratulate an opponent after the game, during the game do everything in your power to grind him into dust.

[UMFan83]

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45161794/caleb-williams-sought-way-going-chicago-bears

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Quarterback Caleb Williams was so concerned about being picked by the Chicago Bears in 2024 that he and his family weighed circumventing the entire NFL draft, consulting with lawyers to figure out a way around the league's collective bargaining agreement while considering signing with the United Football League, details from a forthcoming book reveal.

"Chicago is the place quarterbacks go to die," Carl Williams, Caleb's father, told Seth Wickersham, author of "American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback," in the months before the 2024 draft.

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Carl Williams went to great lengths to try to circumvent the NFL draft, Wickersham writes, wanting to give his son an opportunity to choose his future employer. The Bears had not drafted a star quarterback since the 1980s, and their recent draft selections, Mitchell Trubiskyand Justin Fields, didn't pan out. Carl Williams was worried that, with the franchise's history, stadium uncertainty and offensive performances under then-head coach Matt Eberflus, Caleb Williams wouldn't have the organizational support to succeed.

"I don't want my son playing for the Bears," Williams told several agents in 2024.

Looking for a way around the league's collective bargaining agreement, Carl Williams spoke with Archie Manning, who helped Eli Manning assert a measure of control over his eventual team in 2004. He also met with labor lawyers and agents -- and even considered whether his son could sign with the United Football League and become an unrestricted NFL free agent in 2025 to be able to pick a team. In addition to the draft process, Carl Williams vented about the rookie wage scale, which could lock his son into the team that drafted him for up to eight years. He calculated hundreds of millions of lost market-value income.

"The rookie cap is just unconstitutional," Carl Williams told Wickersham, later adding that the CBA is the "worst piece of s--- I've ever read. It's the worst in sports history."

After an up-and-down final season at USC, Caleb Williams was unsure of what he wanted to do as he prepared for the 2024 draft. At the NFL combine that year, he met with Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell. The two hit it off, and Caleb Williams began to dream of what it would be like to play for Minnesota.

"I need to go to the Vikings," he told his father.

"Let's do it," his father replied. But both Caleb and Carl knew that a trade to a divisional rival was extremely unlikely.

Bears GM Ryan Poles stood firm, telling Williams, "We're drafting you no matter what."

That left one option: To publicly attack the Bears and the city of Chicago, hoping that it would make the situation untenable -- similar to what Jack and John Elway had done with the Baltimore Colts in 1983.

"He's worried about me taking bullets," Carl Williams told Wickersham of his son. "I don't care. I just don't agree with this s---, you know? I'm more interested in making sure that he can do what he wants to do."

But Caleb was concerned that if they did try and the Bears refused to trade him, it would make a tough situation worse. In the end, Caleb Williams told Wickersham, "I wasn't ready to nuke the city."

After a predraft visit to the Bears facility, Williams believed he could be part of a process to turn the franchise around.

"I can do it for this team," Caleb told his dad. "I'm going to go to the Bears."

The Bears declined to comment.

The book also sheds light on Williams' tumultuous rookie season, in which both Eberflus and Waldon were fired and the Bears lost 10 straight games.

At times, Williams said he would watch film alone, with no instruction or guidance from the coaches. "No one tells me what to watch," Caleb Williams told his dad. "I just turn it on."

Hmmm

Edited May 15, 2025 by UMFan83

[Outshined_One]

His dad sounds like a peach.