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Eh, it's been boilerplate press conference nonsense. People calling it awful are probably the ones who burn jerseys and post it to social media. Yup. Not really understanding why people are expecting Pace to start dragging players he's asked about. There's nothing the Bears would gain from that. You want to know how they feel about Adam Shaheen? Consider the fact that, while healthy, he couldn't find his way on the field despite our dumpster fire of a TE situation in an offense that uses the position heavily. And, FWIW, PFF liked Floyd's 2019, despite the lack of sacks. I don't think talking up his positives (he's far from a terrible player, first round status aside) is some crazy offense. Yep yep yep. Pace is a milqutoaste speaker but he said what he had to say. The press conference wasn’t going to be anything unless they pulled a Nagy firing out of nowhere. They have to see which backup QB is most available slash cheapest. You have to sign offensive line competition, draft some more. Bring in a new offensive coach or three. It’s not going to be an exciting offseason. But there will he churn.

That would be dumb. Rehabbing for 3 years to earn that money is smart.

The belief is more people will instinctively put money on the Pats, so the spread is artificially higher in their favor.

Nor do I, I know many have said we'll probably have to grin and bare it for 2020 but, there's got to be better options. However, consider this, Pace has horsefeathers up the QB position twice (Glennon signing and Mitch), I believe there's enough evidence to suggest he does not know how to find or what is a good QB. Do we really want him trying his hand at QB again? Glennon was a space filler, not an attempt to solve the QB position. I would like to have Pace work with Nagy, and hopefully an experienced NFL OC to pick the next one. Pace was effectively on his own last time with no help from the coaching staff. And he wasn’t a college scout, he came out of the pro scouting side.

Cry while you wait for 2020 to end. It's a garbage-time season, a lost cause that you have to play out. Your choices are "fix QB and let the rest of the roster suck" or "fix the rest of the roster and run it back with Trubisky." You aren't winning a Super Bowl with either choice, so either is fine with me as long as they stick to short-term deals and don't lock themselves into a QB long-term. Yup the window was always narrowly planned around 2018-20 unless Mitch propelled into stardom. Ride it out. Thirded

I want it to be Trubisky and then I don't give a crap which non Chase Daniel competes with him.

The thing that makes the most sense in bringing in Mariotta is the presence of Helfrich, but the idea of bringing back all of the offensive coaches is kind of crazy. Helfrich was a failed college head coach when he took the job. And there's reason to believe he's not up to the task. I think they need to bring in somebody with NFL coaching pedigree. They should probably replace Helfrich and once they do that, the idea of bringing in Mariotta makes even less sense.

That 2nd period was ugly.

This is insanity

The Giants were partying down the street from me. They are poised to ruin the Eagles pathetic run to the playoffs. Bears are poised to go like, 1-15 ATS this year. NFL Lines For Week 17 - NFL Football Line Week Seventeen NFL Line 12/29, 2019 Date & Time Favorite Line Underdog Total 12/29 1:00 ET Tennessee -5 At Houston 48 12/29 1:00 ET Cleveland -2.5 At Cincinnati 46 12/29 1:00 ET At Minnesota -7.5 Chicago 41.5 12/29 1:00 ET Indianapolis -3.5 At Jacksonville 43 12/29 1:00 ET At Tampa Bay -1 Atlanta 50.5 12/29 1:00 ET At Dallas -11 Washington 44 12/29 1:00 ET New Orleans -13 At Carolina 48 12/29 1:00 ET Philadelphia -4.5 At NY Giants 46 12/29 1:00 ET At Baltimore -3 Pittsburgh 41 12/29 1:00 ET At Buffalo -1 NY Jets 37 12/29 1:00 ET At New England -16.5 Miami 43.5 12/29 1:00 ET Green Bay -10 At Detroit 41.5 12/29 1:00 ET At Kansas City -7.5 LA Chargers 48 12/29 4:25 ET At LA Rams -7 Arizona 49 12/29 8:20 ET San Francisco -3 At Seattle 47.5 12/29 4:25 ET At Denver -4 Oakland 42

sure. Lovie did this, but with the defensive side instead Not really. He won the division three times and those were the only times he made the playoffs. This also reiterates to how valuable a great QB is, because a dynamic defense requires several great young players and it cannot last. Mahomes could lead the Chiefs for the better part of two decades.

I would kill for an enjoyably productive offense led by a dynamic HOF QB who wins a ton of games, makes the playoffs a whole bunch of times but only makes it to one super bowl and lose that one. That would be an amazing run.

I've been struggling with this too and I think it's clear they share the blame in some proportion. But I still think Mitch is the main problem. To be blunt, I think he's a dummy and I think Nagy is really struggling to design an offense around a guy who doesn't know where to go with the ball, can't read a defense, makes the wrong decisions on the read option, etc. When the stars align and you have a wide open WR streaking into the endzone, Mitch airmails it. You see a lot of single option plays where it's just designed to go to one guy with no other options. He's not calling those plays for no reason - he's calling them because he knows Mitch can't read the defense and throw it to the right guy when he has multiple options. Other teams know this and I think it just compounds the issue. The narrative that Nagy is just stubborn and would rather watch his offense repeatedly humiliate itself on national TV rather than call plays that suit Mitch's strengths seems lazy to me - I don't buy it. I put the blame 60-70% on Mitch for the offensive struggles this year. Out of qualified QB's, Mitch is 28th out of 32 in QB rating. He's 32nd out of 32 in yards per attempt. Despite being last among all QB's in yards per attempt, he's still only 20th in the league in completion percentage. He's 29th out of 32 in QBR. And this is with 4 games with a rating over 115! Think about how bad he's been in all the other games to end up where he is. He's not just below average, I think you could make a decent argument that he's the worst starting QB in the NFL. Where I do think Nagy horsefeathers up was not recognizing this going into the season. I think he deluded himself to thinking Mitch is going to take some big leap and he rolled out a gameplan week one that Mitch had 0% chance of being able to execute. Think about that game. Nagy comes in with a game plan calling for Mitch to throw it 50 times. The Packers defensive game plan was literally "Let Mitch play QB." They understood what Nagy didn't. With all that being said, I have no idea where they go from here. They were all in on Mitch and doubled down with the Mack trade. You have to hope for some miracle Tannehill-esque reclamation project. The future looks pretty grim for this team baring some kind of miracle. I agree with your take. Mitch is a dumb person. I also know that the coaching staff had big reservations about Mitch coming in. But they didn't have much of a choice since the team was locked into it. They could only try their best to get the most out of him, and they probably did that. They don't have anything resembling a good enough running game to do much of anything but hope the passing game could get them through the season. Mitch isn't average to below average. He's bad. He's missed so many should be touchdowns, and this team is still maybe 5-6 missed plays from him from being still in wild card contention. Nagy leaves a lot to be desired, but I think he's capable of progressing as a coach and deserves an opportunity to help pick and develop his guy. Pace leaves a lot to be desired, but this isn't a complete disaster of a roster. Let the two guys have a shot at becoming legends, and if it doesn't work out blow it up after 2022.

How could one night, barring injury, ruin or make Mitch' progress? It couldn't. But that's an easy column to write following a predictably pathetic performance against Mahomes and Nagy's mentor.

I mean, this is the same QB and playcaller that won 12 games last year. I know the defense gave them more short fields and scored points, but the offense last year did a decent job getting into the endzone, despite not a lot of yards. So, I guess there's hope there. There aren't many examples of a QB just "getting it" after 3 years. But ironically enough, the one shining example is Drew Brees. But he was really good his 3rd year (step back in 4th) and really took off obviously with a new team/coach. The numbers are pretty similar overall too. Brees (1st 3 years)- 21-21 record, 787-1282, 61.4 comp %, 8551 yards, 55 TD, 38 INTs, 202.5 yards per game, 6.67 yards per attempt. Trubs (1st 3 years)- 22-18 record, 785-1243, 63.1 ccomp %, 8347 yards, 48 TD, 29 INTs, 207.5 yards per game, 6.72 yards per attempt. That would be awesome but can we really hang our hat on pretty much extreme outliers? I don't think it's hang your hat as much as it's they don't have a realistic option other than trying to fix other things and hope Mitch takes a step forward. It's not going to happen, but they aren't fixing the QB issue until 2021 anyway.

Try telling a Pirates fan the Cubs didn't buy their way past them into the top of the NL Central and eventual World Series. The Cubs huge payroll advantage provides tremendous leeway, not the least of which is the ability to brush off a bad contract that would absolutely sink a garbage team all by itself. The Cubs bought their WS title and they will have to buy their next one too. And they better get cracking or it's going to take several decades to get it done again.

Figment, is that you?

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