BigSlick

As much as I absolutely love MHJr and would love to see him on this team, you cannot just go and draft him first overall. It's the worst move by value possible. If you can get him in a trade down, do it. Otherwise, it is what it is. You can't keep the first overall and not get a QB - you're missing out on like, 4-5 blue chip players you can get with a trade down.

Yeah I'm really not too worried about what a rookie can do here - there will be more offensive help coming and the talent on offense is coming together. It'll be one of the better places for a rookie to start, and significantly better than what CJ Stroud went into.

Oh I wasn't very clear there - I do think its a negative. I was trying to list things that don't get factored well into his stats, but I edited it and it just kinda looks out of place. I look at all those stats you list and I still think he's roughly an average QB. Maybe that makes me an idiot! I don't care!

I don't think Justin Fields is a terrible quarterback and I've long maintained that it is entirely appropriate to withhold judgment on what to do in the draft until after the entire season is over. So yes, the Green Bay game matters, and it obviously has outsized importance because it's the Packers and its a whole thing. In most QB stats Fields is in the ~20-something range of starters. That doesn't look spectacular. I think he's gotten better after he came back from injury, but he's still been inconsistent. I think, on the whole, factoring in his legs and his field awareness and his propensity for insane plays nobody else in the league can make, he's currently about an average NFL starting QB (with the potential to be better than that, but also perhaps a ceiling that is below 'elite'). Is that enough? I dunno. If I was a cold-blooded NFL executive who didn't want to factor in what it would do for the locker room, what the salary cap situation looks like, the coaches, etc. etc. - probably not. As a fan, I'm a reactive moron who swings up and down based on the irrationalism of football wins and losses. I was stoked to watch the Falcons game. If he beats the Packers resoundingly I'm sure I'll be a gigantic homer and feel significantly more reticent to trade him. It is what it is.

Yeah I mean I openly despise Michigan and actively root against them but they played well, absolutely looked like the better team all game vs. Alabama and Harbaugh out-coached Saban. The only thing I'd say is I remain absolutely unimpressed with JJ McCarthy and I'm baffled by people who think he's a high level pro prospect.

Once again, there's a world of difference between 5'10" and 6'1" in the NFL. 6'1" is maybe shorter than you'd want to have your ideal QB prospect if you were building one in a lab, but 5'10" is so small it is nearly disqualifying. And if you don't like Williams, there's also Drake Maye who is 6'4". I honestly haven't scouted Maye very much so I don't have a lot to say, but there are plenty of folks who rate him higher than Williams. I dunno. We got a long ways to go before the draft rolls around.

Yeah that was a weird thing, I thought I remember the commentators saying that the league for later overrule those and make at least that first "interception" an incompletion in the stat book. I'm not terribly bothered by it overall because he played badly in that game and there were a handful of INTs that DBs just didn't catch. And that first Minnesota game still haunts me. I was at that game, Fields was coming off two extremely good passing games and he....stunk up the place. He was horrible. Getsy called a bad game, but Fields was terrible. And then we had to deal with a month of Bagent and interminable idiotic debate.

This is could be a huge game for Eberflus and Fields. But we have no idea what goes on in the heads of Ryan Poles and Kevin Warren. They may have already made their mind up of what direction they want to go. For all we know, everyone's kept their jobs and they're bringing the whole gang together. For all we know, they could beat the Packers on their home turf by 50 and everyone is fired and Fields is sent packing for a 3rd round picks. I suspect Eberflus has coached the team well enough down the stretch to keep his job. That's kind of a shame, but I don't hate the guy - at least as a coordinator. I just think the Bears can do a whole lot better and I would prefer an offensive minded head coach (and also a coach who doesn't fumble the in-game decision making quite like he does). If he beats the Packers at home and ends the season like, 5-1 down the stretch, I think it's very hard for Poles and co to justify firing him. So it goes. One thing we know for sure about Fields: Bears fans as a whole want him to stay. In his last home game of the season, they chanted "We Want Fields" as the clock ticked down on the W. Polls in general show that Bear fans want him back by a roughly 75-25% clip. Does that sway Warren and Poles? I have no idea. I hope not. Not because I'm anti-Fields or anything but because I don't want my football guys being swayed by the meatballs, ever. I'm still strongly on the side of trading Fields and drafting Caleb Williams with the 1st overall.... but if he caps off his season with another great game (and that Falcons game may be his best overall games in his career), I'm not gonna be overly unhappy if they give Fields the keys and load up on draft picks. It's probably not the wisest overall move (in terms of evaluating Fields's ceiling of play, the effect on the salary cap, the potential of Williams/Maye), but it's one I would understand. Go beat the horsefeathers Packers

This says significantly more about the Bears franchise than it does about Jordan Love, to be fair

I'm at the point where I wouldn't be unhappy with whatever they do. If they trade Fields and draft Williams? Cool. If they keep Fields and trade down and get a haul (and hopefully MHJ), also cool. I probably wouldn't be happy if they stay at 1 and draft MHJ though, that wouldn't be maximizing their assets. Poles has done a pretty impressive job of maximizing assets while also putting together a roster thats getting better and better. Now its the time to deliver results: construct a team that competes for the playoffs year and year.

Damn, that was a satisfying win. If we only historically collapsed in 2 games instead of 3 we’re looking at a win and in game next week. Unbelievable.

If Getsy calls a run up the middle on 1st and 20 I will....be very upset

I don't get why we get called for pick plays and I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone else called for it

I remain Tyrique Stevenson's biggest fan

Honestly, I don't even care that they kinda busted that 4th and 6. I like them going for it straight up over punting in most circumstances on this side of the field

am i insane or has Luke Getsy called an inside run literally every single 2nd and 10?

poor coaching to not rush them to the line and run a play to stop a challenge

i have never seen a qb shirk that many tackles i dont think i've ever seen ANY football player do that. oh my god

its insane this bum gets a call and Fields gets nothing

I'm just saying that Scott hasn't had a ton of opportunities and he's a rookie. The book isn't out on him.

Eh, getting both feet down on a play like that is elite level stuff. I have liked flashes from Scott and I'm excited to see how he develops next year He can definitely be A Guy and not a total waste of a pick like Velus Jones is

lmao, Eberflus is coaching circles around the Falcons. I've never seen him do this before. Savvy move to make them burn a time out.

Except for the Washington game and arguably the second Lions game, where they buried them and didn't give them a chance to come back.

Don't dare Eberflus. He'll figure out a way to lose.

Damn. Aside from two plays, this team is playing like a playoff team. You gotta feel good about that. I feel so bad for Fields. He's playing well, but I don't think anything he can do can change the decision coming. Still, it's nice to see him balling out. Defense is playing insanely well aside from Eddie Jackson being unable to get off a block for 30 yards. Go Bears.