BigSlick
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I don't love drafting another Tall White Guy From North Carolina, but thats about it when it comes down to comparing Trubisky and Maye. Haven't watched as much film on his as I have Caleb, but he's a very very good prospect.
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if you're not picking the Packers in almost every match up (no matter the odds), you haven't internalized what it is to be a Bears fan. (I've made a good amount of money doing this)
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It's extremely inconvenient and annoying how hard it is to watch NFL games these days. I wish you could just pay NFL a flat fee to have access to every game, but so it goes, thats not the way of capitalism. Anyway, I either pirate the games I want or I go to a bar.
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Stroud’s unbelievable. Subjectively, this is the best rookie season by a QB I’ve ever seen. I’ll never be mad they passed up on using the 2023 pick on a QB because, lol, they would have gotten Young, but Stroud is looking insane.
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It's possible, I just doubt it. We have nothing on the story other than a bunch clout chasers inventing stories. I don't think Caleb Williams looks at Chicago, Washington, New England sans Belichick, or Arizona and is like oh yeah, I definitely don't want to go to Chicago and would rather go to those places.
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I don't believe any of this stuff and Chicago is also the best team for him to realistically go to in the short term so I think it would be really bizarre if he refused to come here. The whole narrative speaks to an audience primed to think "oh well the Bears ruin QBs and we expect it" - but not to realities on the ground.
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I think Justin can be a very good QB if you give him an elite Oline that gives him 10 seconds a play to throw, and an elite WR corps. But I also think...that applies to most pro level QBs, so it's not a really useful insight.
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No, the most Bears thing to happen is they trade Justin, who has wild success elsewhere, and the person they draft busts
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God I really hope the market for Fields is good enough to get a 2nd rounder, honestly
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It's crazy to look at Mitch's numbers with Chicago and think "well, those aren't so bad" and he can't even hold down a back up job around the rest of the league. We're so bereft of QB Goodness we barely know what it looks like.
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I was bored and I looked at Fields's stats now that the season is over and... While I think, from the eye-test, he was better as a passer this year, his numbers are virtually identical to last year. The Yards Per Attempt are nearly the same, the adjusted Y/A are identical, the Yards Per Catch are identical, the success rate is just a tick higher. The TD% is slightly lower, the INT% is down a percentage. He averaged 50 more yards a game but thats more of a function of throwing more, not more efficiently. The only number that changed significantly is he cut his Sack rate down by 4%, but its still way too damn high. I think its very hard to justify passing on a QB given these numbers.
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It really is like a whole era of football is passing a new one is being born. I started paying attention to football in the early 2000s, so those names are all titans in my eyes. Except Brian Ferentz.
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I can't see Belichick's "personality" working great as a commentator, but I've been surprised before
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Bears requesting to interview Seahawks OC Shane Waldron. A lot of people like him around the league, I can’t say I know much about him, other than the fact he resuscitated Geno Smiths career (impressive in its own right) https://bearswire.usatoday.com/2024/01/10/bears-request-interview-with-seahawks-shane-waldron-for-offensive-coordinator-job/
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Whatever else you may say about the guy, he is indisputably the greatest college coach of all time. That's a helluva accomplishment.
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The more I think about it, the more I'm like "horsefeathers it, draft Caleb Williams and hope and expect greatness" I guarantee if thats what they do, in 5 months, Bears fandom will be fine and chill and excited and stop gnashing their teeth so much. It sucks what's gone on with Fields, but the roster is moving in the right direction and I think Williams is a horsefeathers bad ass prospect. Roll them dice.
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The anarchist in me would love to see the "Draft a QB and keep Fields" option just because it is such a recipe for chaos and bad blood. But I'm also a fan of the Chicago Bears and want to see them succeed, so I hope that doesn't happen, you know, from that angle. I'd take Reich I think. I haven't paid too much attention to how he constructs his offenses, but he seems like a serious guy who has had success - this year notwithstanding.
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Yeah I think it’s 80% likely Fields is traded and they draft a QB at 1oA Im not sure that makes the Bears OC job so alienating. It can be super promising, actually, if you do a good job. And hell, if you’re successful, and the team still sucks, you can be the next HC! Why not?
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Ding dong bitch
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I'm not convinced that any player being any coach/GM's "Guy" matters. Poles came on board knowing Fields was the starter when he was hired, and surely it was something he factored into his decision. And maybe I'm a moron but I genuinely think the vast, vast majority of coaches/GMs simply want the best players playing and aren't tied to them playing if they are his guy or not. (Except in maybe extreme cases when they put in completely different schemes like switching from a 4-3 to a 3-4 defense). I think the thing that matters far more than whether or not Fields is Poles's "Guy" or not is if Poles thinks he's any good or not.
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Feel free to ignore, but I'm listening to Hub Arkush's interview from last Friday on the Score and he said he thought JJ McCarthy is the best QB prospect currently available and likened him to Patrick Mahomes. How the heck was he considered an NFL smart guy? Dear god.
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Penix looks like the type of excellent prospect if you're looking for a QB in like the 3rd round or something. But given his injury history and etc. I would never ever ever draft him in the 1st round. Holy moly. And McCarthy, aside from a nice scramble, did not impress me much at all. I still don't understand why he's talked about like a big time prospect.
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I don't think the McCaskeys care all that much about how the team does other than not being an utter embarrassment (which...they somehow have been quite a bit under their watch) and the value of the franchise rising (which it does, forever).
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I have a bad feeling the Bears admin doesn't want Harbaugh (and doesn't want to pay him). He's an egomaniac and he wants a ton of control over player personnel. It would be the Harbaugh Show - and the Bears are notoriously reticent to ever hand the keys over to someone like that. I'd absolutely take him, of course. Even if the Bears did want him - if the Chargers job is there...I have to imagine that's more Harbaugh's speed. They already have their QB, they have more money to throw around and I have to imagine the ownership is less of a pain to deal with (I have absolutely no idea what the Chargers ownership is like. Feel free to correct me).
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Physically, Michigan dominated in the trenches. Generally, that means you win handily.
