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Seriously Harbaugh should stay at UM for at least one more season. Spend all those years of heartbreak, people picking you over & over about not getting over the hump. Finally after all that, total vindication. Then just leave? I get that it makes sense on a couple levels but it feels to me like he’s got unfinished business at UM that he needs to complete.

Looking at those plays, it's funny. We heard when Trubisky was the QB that Nagy's offense schemes guys open (but Mitch was missing them). But in all those plays, exactly 1 guy is open every time (actually 0 are open until Fields escapes the pocket on the Mooney TD). No wonder the offense didn't work. If the team takes away that 1 designed to be open, everyone else is pretty much running decoy routes. Explains a lot why some guys look like they aren't expecting the ball at times. Also makes me wonder if they don't do a lot of scramble drill stuff because either Nagy was stubborn about his guy definitely being open AKA design would work or if the thought was the QB would just run if nothing was open (moreso for Mitch and Fields). I've always wondered about the scramble drill stuff. Watching other teams, they consistently get big plays after it all breaks down and the QB is scrambling. Big Ben, Rodgers - they make their living cutting the hearts out of defenses on those plays. Doesn't seem like the Bears make that happen very much. Surely that goes back to what they are/aren't practicing. Anyway I'm stoked about the presser today, and looking forward to a coach a little more in line with what the better offenses are doing. And I think they've got the right QB to be successful with scramble drill make-it-happen football.

Oohhh heeelll yeeaaahh! Seriously, nobody likes to lose their job (been there). They'll land on their feet somewhere else though. Maybe not in their current positions / levels.

It’s really too bad. The sight of watching them take knees and punt, as Steeler nation flips out, would’ve been marvelous.

Ben called in a favor. I just know it.

If they just start taking knees both teams are in right?

Freakin’ Steelers…

Love, in his few opportunities, hasn’t really shown much. If AR leaves and they go with Love,they’ll need an experienced backup. AR will have to decide if he wants to be the highest paid player in the league or one of the highest. If he demands to be the highest paid, gonna make it tough for GB to retain many of their key players. How many of them will take less to stay with GB and Rodgers? If asked, I’ll bet some will.

Back up the truck full of money & women to Rodgers’ house. Love ain’t gonna cut it.

Fantastic. One final hammer blow to send Nagy to the trash heap of Bears history. Looking forward to Monday.

Whew. For a little while I thought there would be a small sliver of an opportunity for the McCaskeys to screw us over again.

Why can’t I downvote posts on this site?

Is there more than the dad that has a WR son (St. Brown boys) on both teams? There was a lady, maybe from the same fam?

People are wearing these combo jackets at GB/DET where the chest is blue & silver, the sleeves green & gold. It’s bad enough when GB fans crash your stadium. Even worse when your own fans start halfway turning “coat” on you.

Anyway the NFL would back down, not Rodgers. They’d probably come up with some BS special “protocol” just for him.

DaBearsBlog has no sources. He guesses based on what the public wants. Pace will be back and promoted and Leslie Frazier will be the new head coach. A promotion for Pace is utterly ridiculous to me. It's so blatantly rewarding failure.

I basically agree with Smitz. Bowles and Roman prob round out my top 4. McDaniels is my first choice. The potential upside for Fields is just too great to ignore. We need a coach where we can say: "if he can't get Fields to star status then no one could." That's McDaniels.

Thing is, yes they can preach collaboration and then fire only one of them. No it wouldn't make any sense, but that's never stopped them before.

Payton would be great of course, but with someone like him, he doesn't have to take any job. He can consider the organization he'd be signing on to, and frankly the McCaskeys count as a negative.

The absolute pinnacle of aircraft design. Ever. Like a Corvette with wings.

Definitely not a fan. I think he's a floor raiser as a coach...possibly an immediate floor raiser. But I think he has to have a strong dedicated OC to run a good offense. Developing Fields is the most important thing for this org, and I'm not sure after watching Jim at Michigan for 7 years, he's the guy to get the most out of him. So he'd have to hire a great OC/QB coach and let him run wild. I know he's had success with QBs like Luck in the past, but his offensive numbers with the 49ers were rather pedestrian. Exactly. Mediocre offense at SF. Hasn't developed any of his handpicked QBs at Michigan. And his passing offenses have routinely finished in the 60s in FBS, despite the ability to recruit at a top 20 level. I agree with the floor raising. It's very possible Harbaugh could come in and win 10 games per season consistently. Harbaugh can probably keep bringing in defense and linemen to make his offense and defense do just enough to win a bunch of games. He may even win a ring. But I don't want 10-win seasons and maybe a ring, as weird as that sounds. I want GB, NE, PIT, IND 2000s success. I want a team that is a credible contender every year because it has a top 5-10 QB in the game and a strong overall roster and system to support him. I want the Steelers 18 straight years without a losing season. I want the only thing our rival can say about the Bears is that they only got 1 ring in 8 NFCC appearances with elite QB play. I don't want a guy who's shown his best case is about the same thing that Lovie Smith did. I think we can be friends.

I'd be pretty upset with that hire. I can't imagine a less progressive move, digging into Bears history for a former player from a bygone era.

He's signed through 2024, but all the guarantees are paid out. I could see him traded, especially if there's a clean FO sweep. I didn't realize he has that much left on his contract. But how often are worthwhile trades made? What could you get for him, a 3rd and a average DE? Why not just keep him at least through 2022 and worry about filling the other talentless positions rather then creating another hole? Just my humble opinion, but it's a bad look for a one of the new FO's first moves to trade their best pass rusher, a franchise-record pass rusher. I'd be shocked and dismayed. Shocked and dismayed I say! Seriously though, if they did I'd want to know their plan to put pressure on QBs. I feel like there's not a good answer.

I do not think it is a real possibility. The only possible chance is if Fields has a HOF performance. I said going into the season I thought there wasn't a playoffs or you're fired situation here. What they needed to do was make the offense look capable. Losing games 34-29 wasn't going to doom them, necessarily. But the offense has been crap all season, including in that game yesterday that was won by Glennon's incompetence. If they hang a 50-burger on the Vikings and Fields throws for 300+ yards, runs for a bunch with no turnovers, I could see a situation where George looks at the progress as justification to allow Nagy one more season. But his contract is up after next season, and if he hasn't already signed a cheap extension in secret, they aren't going to bring him back in a lame duck situation. The only other scenario is if they do hire a guy like Trace Armstrong as the big boss, and he decides to take a year to evaluate things, and chooses not to fire his client right away. That would be a strange choice. I think this post is on the money. Pace is another story. He may well stick around. Feels like a toss up at this point. I'll be just as upset if they keep Pace.

Seldom has a mere week seemed like such a long time.