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Bears week 3: Lovie returns noon on CBS
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who is the promising rookie safety? Brisker was a 2nd He's part of the Mack trade tree. I triple checked it was him because I really wanted it to be Gordon for maximum doom bonery -
Bears week 3: Lovie returns noon on CBS
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Doom boner fun For their last 7 first-round pick, the Bears have a total showing on the current roster of a promising rookie safety, a linebacker that averages 1 turnover and 2.5 sacks per season, and a QB with more career INTs than TDs. That's all. -
Bears week 3: Lovie returns noon on CBS
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It dovetails with pre-draft chatter that Fields had/has "slow eyes" and was slow and/or ineffective at recognizing defenses, processing the field, going through his progressions, and knowing who's open (and who's not open) and when to throw (and when not to throw). That, at the end of the day, is the fundamental issue, at least from what I can tell by reading and listening to "takes" by various people who know more about football than I do or ever will. I think we all know how this goes. He spends the rest of the season sucking but maybe a few bursts of decent-ness in garbage time or against bad defenses. We win some games thanks to defense and Fields' improving+rushing threat. Next season we bring in a veteran backup and talk about how the pressure is on Fields to perform. Veteran backup takes over the job at least once during the season, maybe twice. Before the 2024 season, we draft a new QB prospect to build around. But here's the neat trick. After his first season, we fire Eberflus, and bring in a new head coach, forcing the new QB prospect to learn a new regime in his second season and sticking the new regime with a legacy QB they didn't choose. The cycle continues. -
Bears week 3: Lovie returns noon on CBS
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I still think that the Green Bay game was winnable and GB isn't very good. I just didn't realize we had a historically incompetent passing game.
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If we lost 48-30 and fields went 20-32 with 240 yards, 3 TDs and 2 INTs, I would be ecstatic. Fields is putting up historically bad performances and the coaching staff doesn't trust him to throw. That is literally the worst case scenario for the season Heck, even being bad on more throws would have at least been more develop-y. Now I gotta worry about running a high school offense all season
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Bpa isn't a thing after the top of the first round. You aren't looking at the 65th pick and thinking "ok this DB is worth 7.32 footballs but the WR is only 7.34, better take the DB" Dont ask me why lower footballs is better it just is
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Which brings us back to "fields is a special talent that couldn't be replicated in other drafts," which I am really not convinced of
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Bears week 3: Lovie returns noon on CBS
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I hope fields balls out and if not then I hope we lose for the epic meltdown potential. The worst case scenario is winning 17-13 with fields going 8-for-13 for 120 yards or some dumb line like that -
I wanted us to go that route so bad. I didn't even want to draft a QB until we started rebuilding the situation around the QB. Because I didn't want to end up exactly where we have ended up. The only good thing about losing to the Packers is it gets the rest of the fan base on board with my doom bonering You don't have to build it in advance either though. In fact parallel building is probably best so you line up primes. Lack of a first rounder aside, the Bears really weren't that limited in building around Fields even for 2022. They just went ultra conservative with cap use. I hope Cunningham picked up some roster composition and cap strategy from Roseman and is bringing it to Poles and we see it in 2023 and beyond. Roseman gets the cap mechanics better than probably anyone (though Loomis is up there with him). This was a decent primer article from this past spring that touches the surface a little. I like pre-building because 1) offensive linemen last forever so they're great value if you don't already have them and 2) it usually takes receivers and tight ends a year or two to hit their stride
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What Philly has done with him is put him behind the best OL in the league. Also drafted and traded for WRs with 1st round picks. Bears are a long way from being able to emulate that. I wanted us to go that route so bad. I didn't even want to draft a QB until we started rebuilding the situation around the QB. Because I didn't want to end up exactly where we have ended up. The only good thing about losing to the Packers is it gets the rest of the fan base on board with my doom bonering
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I wanted so bad to be the first one to say something like this but I was saving it for at least one more week
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Oh look the second QB drafted by Pace has the exact same issues as the first one. Fun.
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No. It's weird and it's entirely intentional. Every single decision Poles made on offense this offseason could be described as "well this guy kinda sucks overall but he's good at run-blocking." Including the horsefeathering wide receivers we chose. I hate it.
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Very few elite qbs enter the league with this low of a level of talent around him Also true.
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To be fair to the coaching staff, 22 pass plays were called. Fields only got off a passing attempt on 11 of them.
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This would be more convincing if it wasn't a copy-paste of the exact things I've been hearing about Bears QB busts since McNown.
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How many elite QBs look this bad in their second season? Not very many. Some of them are still throwing too many INTs but still getting yards and TDs. But very few are setting futility records.
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He looked pretty upset on the sidelines in the closing minutes
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With a couple minutes to go they had a shot of Fields on the sidelines and I've seen that look in so many Bears' QBs eyes.
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Where is Mooney? He's covered under point 5
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A partial list of people who were bad at football tonight 1) Kyler Gordon. I'm not even kidding when I say he singlehandedly sunk the defense. Every single chunk play was his guy. 2) Cole Kmet. Not seeing the vaunted 3rd-year TE breakout season 3) Roquan Smith. Empty tackle total, zero big plays. 4) Justin Fields. Yes, he's not got a lot to work with and not a lot of chances, but he's also making bad reads and bad throws when he does get a chance. 5) Every single WR. They're all exactly as bad as you'd expect. 6) Braxton Jones. I count 3 clean sacks in two games from his guys, and we don't even pass very often
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This game is Exhibit A in "we've made Fields' development way more difficult with our personnel choices"
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The controversy over the terrible playcall and equally terrible ref call is going to distract from how badly how many Bears played.
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The controversy over the terrible playcall and equally terrible ref call is going to distract from how badly how many Bears played.