Hairyducked Idiot

How certain are we that the QBs go before the DLs outside of the Bears pick? Because it seems like the DL are the types you can't get every year, but the QBs aren't anything special as far as top-of-the-draft goes.

Even I wouldn't 'hate it if they if they took Carter. Dude is drawing Aaron Donald comps.

Playcalling is like bullpen management. It's uncanny how bad you are at it when your players suck and how good you are at it when they don't.

I forget the exact details, but there's minimum spending rules over multiple years that hit the Bears hard next year. They literally have to be incredibly active in free agency. With Fields hitting his stride, there's zero reason they can't be contenders next year.

objectively good result that I'm glad I napped through watching. Justin Fields looked really good on the highlights I saw, and he's still basically the only thing that matters. There's not much else you can analyze on a roster of never-will-be's with $91m in dead cap and a ton of injuries.

Maybe I'll eat these words, but even with Fields, i'm not particularly worried about this Bears team getting too many wins down the stretch.

No team would be stupid enough to to give up a haul just to move up to 2 for a QB that the team at 2 doesn't want and will probably fall to them anyway

Yeah, I 100% thought they had given a penalty the way the US players collapsed at the final whistle. It was just exhaustion and relief.

I know it's a long shot but I'm keeping an eye on the Houston scores. mineaswell dream big

Every hit that Fields takes in the next five games is stupid and unnecessary. I'm never a fan of pure tanking going into the season. But I think we've crossed the line at this point where I would personally rather see them lose than win. I'm more worried about Fields' survival than his development at this point, and I hate pretty much every other player on the roster.

It's never really possible to enjoy the suck. Disagree.

Logically, there's nothing wrong with taking an elite defensive player. I've heard Aaron Donald potential thrown around. Subjectively, I don't care, trade down and give me offensive linemen. I hope we win every game 51-48

I only keep a casual half-eye on soccer outside of the wc and key qualifiers, so this is the first full look I've taken in 8 years. This team looks so different from the ones I grew up watching in the 90s and 00s. Multiple guys with real creativity and touch

A couple of games with this offense, headed by Trevor Siemien or however you spell it, will do as much for Fields' reputation as his own plays did.

On replay, it's clear he was trying to throw it to Mooney behind Montgomery and the routes interfered with each other. Not sure whose fault that is.

Ironically, designed runs were probably safer for Fields at that point. He was getting destroyed whenever he tried to drop back.

Fields being bad was gonna be fun, but Fields being good but the team losing lots of close games is going to be just as fun in terms of watching the meltdowns and hot takery.

Oh hey it's the exact reason I didn't want to incorporate 100+ yards of fields running every game even though it was working.

The idea that athletes need to "learn how to win" comes from a combination of two human cognitive biases: The fundamental attribution error (our desire to explain other people's circumstances as a result of their innate characteristics) and the desire for narratives. Justin Fields was on a Bears team that lost some games. Fundamental attribution error makes us want to believe that some trait about *him* is what caused that to happen, because we instinctively reject circumstance-based explanations for everyone but ourselves. He must not "know how to win." We have a strong desire to fit sequences of events into understandable stories. "The young, talented person still needs experience to learn success" is one of the oldest stories we have. So now he needs to "learn how to win." Nah, he's just played really good football on a really bad team.

"knowing how to win" isn't a real thing other than just being good at the sport you're playing, braxton jones is a bad tackle, and pff grades are rngs and everyone should stop caring about them

People I do not like as football players: Braxton Jones. I just don't get it. All I ever hear from Bears fans is how he's adequate and isn't it amazing that a fifth-round pick is playing this adequately at starting tackle. And I just have no idea what they're seeing. I'm seeing a guy who gets beat routinely, gives up at least one crushing sack every single game, and who would be giving up even more if he didn't have Fields' scrambling to bail him out. On a real team he'd be fighting for a roster spot to try to scrape out a few years as a swing tackle. He's being gifted a starting job for a season because we don't care, not because he's a real prospect. All of our WR3+ options. With the addition of Claypool, we have two WR2s and everyone else is a WR5 or worse. Jack Sanborn. I'm glad he had some impact plays today. I think it's cool that he's living the dream and worked his butt off to get his brief time in the sun. But as soon as next year we're going to be trying to win playoff games, and if he's on the field against a good QB in the playoffs he's going to get absolutely torched on every third down play. I hate when people can't tell the difference between a good story and an actually good player. Honorable mention: Kyler Gordon. He's doing ok-ish for a rookie corner, and no corner is going to perform well in front of this pass rush, but he is flying under the radar a bit in terms of being bad at his job and not getting noticed.

It’s not fun watching these losses. Yeah it’s fun thinking of the possibilities but losing sucks period. I've been saying it for years and I 100% meant it, and now that I'm getting it I'm not sorry: I would rather lose with an elite offense than slog through another 11-win, championship-defense, "if only we had a QB" season.

It's annoying to keep finding ways to lose games, but whatever. Offensive line is still butt. I would love to bring in three new starters for it in the offseason. I am really tired of hearing how ok braxton jones is when he really isn't. This is still the most fun i've had watching the Bears since 2006. This team could be dominant as soon as next season.

The terms get kind of intertwined, but I define "rebuilding" as taking some time to focus less resources (money, draft picks, trade value, etc.) on the present and more on a few years down the road. "Tanking" is actively trying to lose as many games as possible in the present in order to improve draft position. Rebuilding is often justified, although I'd love to see leagues find ways to discourage it. The value of tanking is *way* overblown outside of true generational talents. You don't want to be the 1997 Bears, winning 3 in the last month to go from drafting Peyton Manning to drafting Curtis Enis. But the difference between drafting 7th and 12th is washed out by the loss of value in your present-day assets underperforming, so you might as well root for your team to win.

I want to win this game and I want to blow up our draft position. The 7th seed in the NFC is going to go to an ass team that will probably be 9-8 or maybe even 8-9. We can't really get there but I want to be calculating improbable but theoretically possible scenarios in the final weeks.