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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    There's approximately a zero percent chance it actually happens.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    The fresh rookie deal is a *huge* advantage Two year difference, on a more expensive rookie contract though, and you have to actually be prepared to you know USE that rookie contract. Now insert uncertainty of rookie QB verse evaluating what we know we have in Fields. This is one of those "too cute" moments. Maybe if it was a generational guy the arguement would be stronger, but that's not Young. Hell it might not even be Young. Plenty of chatter about his draft mates still. They'd have to nail the right one. That's the main reason I'm more idly musing than seriously arguing for it. I'm just not that sold on young or stroud. I'm just also not that sold on fields. Everything sucks forever
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Dependent on what they could get for Fields, I guess, but drafting Young probably puts them in the same spot - poor cast around young QB. If you somehow werent sold on Fields you'd still be better continuing to build around him and it's not a long term commitment until a later point, maybe in 24 which could be a very good QB class or in later years were you can continue to build a bse, helped hopefully with a trade down now. Basically if you're willing to go Young over Field as a GM you have way too much trust in your own scouting convictions. This wouldn't be ARI dumping Rosen after a year for Murray. The fresh rookie deal is a *huge* advantage
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'd be willing to move on from fields. He's not the pocket passer of my dreams, and if we don't have that then I'll always take a chance at that over a certainty of not that. It doesn't matter though because there's a zero percent chance of it ever happening. But in a world where you really really liked Young, moving on from Fields would make sense. A running QB who takes a beating is on a ticking timer anyway, we've already wasted two years of his rookie contract giving Poles the tabula rasa he wanted. The brief stretch of 30 points games was fun, but the league adjusted and fields took an unsustainable beating doing it. If you do keep fields, you need to give him every possible resource to succeed.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Maybe i'm just me-ing, but the top of the draft feels kinda meh and I think I definitely want to trade down. A couple of flawed QBs, 3-4 LB who didn't even put up great numbers this season, or a defensive tackle? Meh.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    If it helps, there's only an 18.5% chance of your lottery ball coming up if you finish last, but also there's a chance a team that wins it can't move up far enough to get to 1 so you stay there. It's like a 25% chance at Bedard
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    I can't wait for PFF to come out tomorrow and say Braxton Jones is good
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Can't wait for PFF to give most of our offensive line good grades after this.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Pretty certain the outcome of the Bears/Lions game is meaningless to the Packers’ playoff odds. That's dumb. They're both 7-8 and on the bubble. I can't be expeced to actually check playoff scenarios.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    But our OL is fine and we only need to upgrade Mustipher.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    I changed my mind. The mood in Bears fandom is that there is no doubt whatsoever that there will be a dozen QB hungry teams ready to enter a historic bidding war and give us a Ricky Williams-like haul for our pick while we only trade down a couple of spots and manage to snag the top player we wanted anyway. Seeing their collective meltdown if we win this game would be worth it.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm generally anti-tank but there's no universe in which I want the Bears to win this game, which has serious implications for both the value of their draft pick and the Packers' playoff odds.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    I underastand that a generational DL might be the best pick to make at the top of the draft. And I understand that we kinda like some of our young linemen so we might not want to get more than 1 or 2. And I understand that the WR market sucks so there might not be anything to get. But if all those combine to leave us with a mediocre offense next season, I'm gonna be salty.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    I told y'all not to sleep on no. 1 overall. It's still unlikely but was always on the table
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't like the penalties but I don't see better options. They are worse at youth level where someone has to be the player that misses - brutal for children. I played keeper in high school and missed my one PK (off the right post) in a tourney game we ultimately lost after 13 tries. Wanted to die then and still want to die today. It's only been 22 years or so. I believe the kids these days would say "skill issue fr"
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Pff, ESPN and random bears fans are a good trifecta of people I don't take football takes from. I watch Jones get turnstiled by every decent edge we face, then after the game get told how great he is. Like I said, maybe I'm just being stubborn
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's cool, but you're probably wrong https://www.chicitysports.com/braxton-jones-is-a-huge-steal-for-bears/ https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35253675/2022-nfl-week-16-power-rankings-1-32-poll-pleasant-surprises QB who is ungodly good at avoiding rushers + coaching staff that knows he sucks and calls plays to protect him
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Maybe I'm just being stubborn, but I still think Braxton Jones absolutely sucks donkey balls and PFF grades are rngs that no one should care about. Poles didn't acquire a single good offensive player, but he also went out of his way not to invest in any, so I'm willing to give an incomplete on his talent judgment for now. We'll know a lot next season.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Speaking of Keith, Patrick Kane is on a Keithian shooting slump. 2 for his last 89.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    This feels like classic 1990s-style Cubs
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    The whole "rooting for your team to lose" thing just seems like a matter of degree. If it's the last day of the 2025 season, the No. 1 pick is on the line and Arch looks like the best Manning yet, then I don't think very many people wouldn't be hoping their team lost. But I think we can all agree the people who start saying "acktshually, this is good for the draft pick" in week 2 are annoying jerks.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    It likely means Justin fields winning games on his own which is the only exciting thing this organization is capable of at the current moment. I get that, but I don't personally attribute wins to individual players. Fields has been playing his ass off, he doesn't need the team to win to prove it.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Bears dropping out of the top 3 is the most likely scenario. It's just the least fun to talk about
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's weird to me that there's still a passionate fanbase about this stuff. It's like people who are still really invested in marvel movies after Endgame.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    watching the highlights, how on earth does brazil get caught with that few back and outnumbered in that situation
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