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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Have you ever considered that you don't actually know how to judge what you are seeing? Sent from my motorola one 5G UW using Tapatalk Sure. But that's true of all of us. Except maybe raw
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    whitehair isn't our center because we had no other adequate option for LG, that's the reason. I think they drafted mustipher hoping to develop him and two staffs gave SM extended time to prove them wrong, and low and behold, he did prove them wrong. he sucks Funny, I thought the reason was he can't snap and block at the same time
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    That line looks awful to me, but I'm a notorious braxton Jones hater and I think there's a reason we keep not using whitehair at center
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    My understanding is that Skoronski is polished but his arm length makes it extremely likely he will move to guard, or at least staying at tackle severely lowers his ceiling. Pjj needs more development but his measureables are ideal for tackle. I would be very happy with either but I'm not getting my hopes up
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    We said this last offseason at the same point, then be went DB-DB-KR early in the draft. The way he has absolutely torched the lines on both sides of the ball is concerning
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    I really suspect we're going to go DL with the 9th pick and I will be a floor boner about it.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    They're a lot more impactful at helping you win football games when you get them at high-impact positions.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Picking out luxury players you want and ignoring the overall approach to building the roster is exactly what doomed the Pace era. You can always find some random doofus to hand the ball to. Oh no how are we going to replace Forte, oh wait howard is ok. Oh no how are we going to replace howard, oh wait Montgomery is ok. Oh no how are we going to replace Montgomery, oh this Khalil Hebert 6th-round nobody just put up 5.7 ypc. In four years we can all be devastated we are moving on from whatever random 5-8 6th-rounder we pick up this year to hand the ball to. Taking handoffs and running forward is like first-base defense. It would be pretty devastating if you didn't have someone out there who could do it competently, but it's really not hard to find someone who can do it competently.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Because our offensive line sucks and our defensive line might be literally the worst I've ever seen That’s what the money (and all the other draft picks) is for. It may not be the right move this season but it’s a perfectly reasonable option to consider. That's what luxuries are. Things you do in the right situation but not when you have more pressing needs
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    I don’t know why it would feel like that, but luxuries are enjoyable when you possess them. If you have a QB and some WR talent, an elite RB can be a great topping to the skill position group for a nice 5 year stretch. Because our offensive line sucks and our defensive line might be literally the worst I've ever seen
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Drafting an RB high just feels like a luxury. It's at least possible that poles knows what he's doing with the offensive line and expects some of these younger guys to develop. The best offensive lines aren't five top-10 picks. But I'd feel way better with an elite prospect at tackle. But we went through this exact same cycle last year where we thought surely he would address the OL and Wr room early in the draft and instead we went db-db-kr
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm getting the same vibes, almost every offensive player he's signed or traded for appears, for their position, to be a good run blocker. I loathe the meathead run the ball, defense approach it's woefully outdated, it will not work in today's NFL and its boring as hell. I agree running is important, most especially having a mobile QB - a Mahomes scramble was key to the Chiefs B win - but you've got to throw the ball to win games. It's puzzling to me that Poles, coming from the Chiefs, is going along such a route. weird thing to say when the shanahan stuff (which is essentially what getsy is running) is all the rage. the extreme run-heavy approach to play-calling last year had more to do with a lack of personnel (WRs, OL) on a tank roster than anything (maybe fields learning the offense too). but yes, they need actual dudes on the OL. Yeah, we're not the only team trending in that direction. I still hate it. I'll feel better if we pick up a tackle somewhere this offseason who isn't a run-block-first guy.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Running backs should get the javy's minor league teammate treatments and not be allowed to have names. They should all just have RB 32 on the back of their jerseys and no one will even be able to tell when they're being replaced.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    My experience with actually playing in sports is being the kid the coach resented being forced to play one full inning in little league and paying $500 every 3 months to play terribel adult recreational hockey, but the idea that the sides on the offensive line are interchangeable seems iffy to me. I'm sure some guys can do it, but I doubt you can just assume any guy can do it. You're doing all the techniques completely the opposite, losing all that muscle memory you've spent years developing.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    I really like the way Poles approaches asset management. I like that we went rebuild, I like that he seems to be into accumulating picks, I like that he takes a hard line on age. I don't like that the end product he's working towards is the cliche Bears football of defense and run blocking, but I like the approach.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Even without the eye teest, I don't think you can get to a sack/pressure rate that bad without both the offensive line being really bad and Fields being a sack magnet. One or the other alone won't get you to 15% sack rate.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Justin fields had a 14.7% sack rate last season. Fixing that seems way more important to me than having the ideal players to run our desired run blocking scheme
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Someone probably already posted this somwhere, but I just saw a stat that Kyle schwarber has now homered in the NLWC, ALWC, NLDS, ALDS, NLCS, ALCS, WS and world baseball classic.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    I would describe myself as whelmed so far. Neither over- nor under-. It's all kind meh, but free agency is usually going to be meh, even when we have eighty-bajillion dollars in cap space. The NFL structure is designed to chew people up on their rookie contracts and give teams an inside track on keeping anyone who still has some worth entering their late-20s. It seems like we're placing a lot of faith in our ability to internally develop our existing offensive linemen to be better than what they were last year. I hope we're not looking at the line that gave up the highest sack rate in history and only giving it one mediocre, run-blocking guard. I don't think Poles' rebuild will ultimately be defined by which mediocre free agents he gives $15m/year to, it'll be defined by how well he drafts and whether or not Justin Fields can quicken his processing and smooth out his mechanics.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    I know that you're memeing, but I can never tell what percentage of the Bears fanbase is memeing at this point and what percentage actually thinks Sanborn is a useful starting linebacker.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    I got burned last offseason with this line of thinking. I thought it would be malpractice to send Fields into the season with a terrible supporting cast, so the fact that they left it so weak after FA must meant surely they were going to fix it in the draft. And then we went DB-DB-gadget player. But I'm willing to be hurt again. Draft is more important than free agency, so ideally you're right and that's what we're doing.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    I worry a great deal that he's trying to be frugal in a year where the market is taking a big jump, AND Poles actually has the money to do what he needs to do. He's stated he is concerned with value, but holding cash has zero value for the Bears at this point If he's that concerned with value, it will be a multi-year tank. There's not going to be good value in free agency.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm not unhappy
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    I kinda get that there's no much out there and we need bodies, but I really hate this whole tackles who get ragdolled in pass protection paradigm. You watched that one clip too huh? You're going to keep harping on this idea that I came up with the idea that McGlinchey is bad at pass-blocking out of thin air, and for once I'm simply going to let it go.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    I kinda get that there's no much out there and we need bodies, but I really hate this whole tackles who get ragdolled in pass protection paradigm.
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