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which is just about the opposite of his approach in Denver....and really everything I've held against him I don't see why McDaniel's would get to choose his GM, however.

lets see our future GO BEARS

He also got Winston over 5000 yards with 33 touchdowns to 30 picks so basically he just threw a lot. winston has had better years than that. the same knocks on Leftwich apply to Moore; good receivers, good QB, good running back, good TE play. Idk, I dont see a big difference between the two of them, I'd probably be fine with either

yeah, i don't know. not really sure what the hype is about when tom brady and bruce arians (not to mention chris godwin, mike evans, antonio brown, etc.) are around. He also got Winston over 5000 yards

I was thinking about that as well. Its hard not to be "wins matter" and realize the circumstances that led to this one. I'm happy the Bears won, but still, horsefeathers Nick Foles

I agree, I've spent a good portion of it in the snow with my dogs

Foles is an idiot, if he ran he had that 1st

It's stunning how easy Nagys offense can move the ball but fail to score

Have we gotten confirmation that hobbled ankle Fields is not the backup for this game yet? Edit- Answering my own question its time for the Great Nick Foles to show off his leadership and skillz! With the weather, it might be a close game, 9-6 Seahawks win

Snowing like crazy, might get 8", 5" or so at Century Link

It's supposed to be 28° *\- and 5" of snow possible near game time. The whole horsefeathering city will be shut down but they'll be playing football with a retread QB and god knows who at RT. What a horsefeathering mess

I just saw that Fuuuuck that

fields is gonna play there is also omicron, and i'd have to go with a seahawks fan....and it will be cold, 28 which is insane for us out here. so many reasons not to, and yet it might be the est chance i get to see Fields....hmmm

I can still get tickets, but I'm super not committal with the idea that I would have to watch Andy Dalton blah

But, he talks so smooooothly

Maybe Graham Jr has taken the outside CB slot, the rest of our current roster can compete for the slot? I also wonder about resigning Hicks ILB should be easy to find on the FA market IDK what Graham could do to be given a starting spot next year. I think that's how you end up with a situation like this year. Ideally, if Graham, Vildor, and Shelley go into camp as your 4-5-6 CBs instead of Vildor and Shelley being numbers 2 & 3, then you have a decent CB room. I'd prefer to sign a guy with some flexibility to play inside or out, and then draft the best guy you can find in the 2nd or 3rd. Probably have to bring in another Burns or Trufant just in case you can't draft a guy good enough to compete since you have limited draft picks. But that signing could wait til summer. I would not touch Hicks. 32 years old, missed 11 games in 2019 and going to miss all or parts of like 9-10 games this year. Love the guy and he's a monster when on the field, but I'm not spending the money to keep a guy that old, that big, and that injury prone. Bad combo. Plus, he's one of 2 guys (Robinson) that could bring back a comp pick. yea, Hicks is a big risk. But I do think Graham could play himself into the starter role, at least take the pressure off the huge need in the secondary a bit.

I mean, its the NY Post...so...

I don't find that idea without merit. A couple thoughts though. There's two examples I can think of like that currently. Loomis in NO and Roseman in PHI. Neither was an agent, but both are the finance kind of GM, not scouts. Definitely in NO and maybe even at times in PHI, that GM pushed those personnel down to a HC with very broad personnel say. Philly kind of waffles a lot though, hence the Pederson power struggle and firing. Many people still seem to be suggesting a Pres Football-GM-HC structure. That is a structure I don't immediately see a strong alignment of power and incentives. Say whatever you will about the traditional President role, but being answerable to profit/revenue/valuation does lend itself to a seemingly decent balance of long term strategic organization building and on the field winning. Everyone's roles and incentives line up pretty nicely in that scenario with just the typical GM-HC power struggles. If Armstrong is just a untraditional GM that to me is different than an expectation than filling a traditional business/Pres role or filling some undetermined Football Ops role that isn't GM. I dont disagree, and its hard to understand what the Bears role for Armstrong really is at this point. The article also didnt delve into the Pres-GM-HC set up specifically, more just the idea of a former agent in the FO. I personally dont see letting a Drew Rosenhaus take over a team - it just screams ego, but I do feel more comfortable with a former player turned agent being the football guy in a FO.

I'd really have to believe in Armstrong to think hes the guy, and I'm not sure I do. What about him makes anyone think that he could act in that role? Its kind of like head dictator and cultural director, almost Ditka like

Realistically, what do we need to add for next year to feel like we're putting Justin in a real position to succeed? Something like this? - 2 starting caliber WRs - 1 starting caliber TE - A starting caliber Center - A starting caliber guard (ideally just extend James Daniels) - A tackle (these last few weeks to determine how good he needs to be) With the cap space open this offseason, that's probably actually doable? You're left bargain hunting on defense, but I'd be happy to finally have a team that can win games 34-27. Can we do this with defense building around Smith and Johnson? - 1 starting caliber ILB to pair with Roquan - 2 starting caliber CB (slot and boundary) - 1 starting caliber S - Rotational DL (ideally extend Nichols) CB needs some real talent additions, the rest could patch up with cheap veterans Maybe Graham Jr has taken the outside CB slot, the rest of our current roster can compete for the slot? I also wonder about resigning Hicks ILB should be easy to find on the FA market

You would think that after last season, when Nagy and Pace convinced them to stay that they had to have, for at least a brief period of time, thought about the alternative to keeping them. This should not be a brand new concept to them as they have been asked about it by reporters in the past. I believe their answer was "Pace IS our football guy," which makes sense. Sooner or later there is a guy they trust to run the team and that person is Pace. All of this is to say that if they don't already know what they want to do they're idiots (like undecided voters). I've long been a proponent of the fact that a guy like Pace as your top football guy is fine. The question is whether Phillips as their top non football guy who football reports into makes sense. It does sound like their questioning thst, but yea are ak undecided that they're now unprepared. Did something really happen in the past 365 days that changed Phillips mind about changing his role? So I'd be curious about what a guy like Armstrong's role actually looks like that broadly complements a primarily personnel/scout based GM at top of Football Ops. Something that is more than head of hiring and firing. Like DePodeata in CLE is all football ops based, but seems like hes broadly responsible for charting a course of a broad football ops expansion (heavily analytics driven). More I read and think about Armstrong and I'm wondering if it's just about him being well connected to coaches and execs and if the intent is just an alternative to a hiring consultant? Or would he have a real permanent job? I was skimming an article this morning with my morning coffee on why former agents would make better GMs, and the gist of the argument was that they understand 1) how to negotiate and not turn off players and agents and 2) how to work the salary cap, where as a scout-based GM is not that well versed in those areas. I can squint and see that, and it does make me wonder about the Foles, Graham, etc contracts Pace has put us into. Maybe that is all the McCaskeys are thinking about.

I thought about googling her name but driving home in traffic, I felt it easier to talk-type the question to googleNSBB instead Thanks for helping me with it all, I appreciate it

Awesome Imagine being hired by someone to represent them and then being hired to fire them

Who is Kusinski and why should we believe her?

I do too, but you do need 3 solid CBs every season with how pass happy the league is so having that reliable 2nd CB with Johnson would just ease my mind with the secondary. Especially how meh Eddie Jackson is these days. Jackson is still pretty solid in pass coverage, he just inst getting the int's