Hairyducked Idiot

I can't even tell because even when there's open receivers downfield, Mitch checks down or runs with it. With one exception where he hit an open receiver downfield.

Poor Mitch never got a chance. He could have been the hero.

This is where it gets fun. This thing is going down in spectacular flames. So many Chicago teams have gone down in spectacular flames lately that I’m not sure it will have the impact that it should. For sure, nothing is going to change positively. We're gonna lose for a couple more seasons, then bring in a new front office, who will draft a new QB. That QB will show some flashes but ultimately suck, but we might get a season or two in there where the defense is amazing and we get a lot of close wins. But if a team isn't going to be great, misery porn is the next best thing. And it's hard to find good misery porn anywhere in sports these days because all the bad teams are tanking and their fans love it. A team that thought it was going to be good and having to slowly come to terms with the fact that it's bad? That's a rare and special gift in today's sports world.

We got a real good chance at another high lottery pick.

This is where it gets fun. This thing is going down in spectacular flames.

Bryant trades are message-board fodder and maybe something for the columnists when they get bored around the winter meetings. It's not something the Cubs would seriously do.

It's gonna be awhile. They're gonna be paying for all the cap circumvention for a couple of more years still. Totally worth it still.

How does a juiced ball go further if it's not exiting the bat faster? It's the same shape. It's the same weight, isn't it? Is it just the seams being tighter?

If we're parsing down kick percentages from different lengths, we should include a stadium factor. Soldier Field is not a dome.

They have 2 2nds in 2020, theirs and Oakland. Using the traditional trade value chart, the combined values of those is something like a 20th overall pick right now, fwiw. So they definitely could make a trade like Hou and KC did for Watson and Mahomes. Frankly I don't know how you ensure that things "flush out" if you stick with Pace. I think he'll be continue to be aggressive with trading picks. If you're McCaskey are you gonna overrule his draft trades? Give him some sort of ultimatum on his job future? Neither sounds like a good option. I think you have to ride with him or move on. If you want to ensure things flush out, you may have to hand the next GM the depleted draft capital of Pace in 2020 and not wait it out. If that GM really feels a mini blow up is warranted they could at least probably stock up on some mid round picks with the talent base, flush out the cap with dead hits in 2020 and set up for a high pick value in 2021. This is a good point. The Bears are just so screwed. There's no good way to salvage it. You've got a bust QB, the coach who couldn't develop the bust QB, the GM who thought it was a good idea to pay a heavy price to trade up one spot to get the bust QB, and a bunch of empty holes in your draft pick continuum because you bet everything on your bust QB's cheap years. If you fire Pace, what good GM candidate is gonna want to come to a team in this situation? You've got no QB, three out of four recent and future draft cycles were gutted by trades, and the cap hits on the defense are starting to pile up. If you don't fire Pace, you're just leaving the guy who created that situation in charge. My doom boner is absolutely majestic right now. The best part is, I don't think the idea was even wrong. Obviously the execution was. But trying to get your franchise QB at no. 2 overall and then betting everything to build an elite defense for the two-year window where he is on his rookie contract? It was a great idea. High-risk, high-reward.

Trading for someone midseason was never really going to happen. It was just *barely* plausible to make for a couple of interesting what-if articles.

Why would he not start? It's not like Chase Daniel is any good. Jersey already answered for me, but frankly, I'm done with the Trubisky era. I'm not a fan of tanking the entire season. The only problem I see with this team outside of play calling is QB. They have a 24 hour window to improve the QB situation, and already announcing before the deadline passes that Trubisky is starting next week tells me they aren't going to address the problem. The offensive line is just as bad as the QB, but otherwise I see your point

This loss pretty effectively tanked their playoff chances, though. We're not looking at "oh man, they're gonna go 11-5 and lose in the first or second round" anymore, they're just flat-out not gonna make it. They're 3.5 plus tiebreaker back in the division with three teams in front of them, and the wild card in the NFC looks like it's gonna be a clusterhorsefeathers. Which at least gives us some clarity. You don't have to let Chase Daniel be a caretaker or run your stupid, boring "please don't lose" playbook to respect the veteran defense or whatever. If there's even a 5% chance Mitch can somehow turn it around, just take it. Let him air it out, make him run the full playbook and air it out. If he throws five picks, he throws five picks, who cares.

Trading up next season just seems like throwing good money after bad. Their picks they have for 2020 right now are 2nd, 5th, 5th, 6th, 6th, 7th. There's not nearly enough there to get you a high first-round pick. So you're talking about the 2021 1st plus a bunch of other picks. What do you think the 2022 Bears roster is gonna look like if they've had three gutted drafts in a row? Especially when they've also been building up toward some cap pain in that time period too? I don't think tear-down rebuilds are that much of a thing in the NFL, and I definitely don't think the Bears are going to do one. So really the best they can do is take their medicine and wait it out. Mineaswell roll out your vet-heavy defense and whatever band-aid QB you can find in 2020 and 2021 and wait for all the crap to flush out of the system. Then by 2022, you have all your draft picks, you have a relatively clean cap situation and you can start to pick up the pieces. No top-notch coach or GM candidate is gonna want to come here until we get to that point anyway.

Everyone misses sometimes and Soldier Field is a brutal place to kick.

Probably. We are so screwed on draft picks right now. In 2020, the Raiders' 2nd is the only pick the Bears have in the first four rounds. They bet everything on a two-year window of last year and this year. I'm not even sorry they made that bet, to be honest, but it crapped out and it's gonna take years to unwind.

If Mitch wasn’t bad, those games wouldn’t be decided by kickers

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaahahaaaaaaaaaas

A win would be my least preferred ending here. I can’t decide if I want a pick or a doink

Offensive line wants to remind us that they are also bad and deserving of scorn

And the Chargers can’t run the ball. *looks at scoreboard* Running the ball doesn’t matter

I’m not going to defend Mitch but you act like there’s hidden QB talent on the sidelines or something and you know darn well there isn’t. There’s not but you can count on Daniels to not just spontaneously drop the ball.

Nagy seems like he’s too stupid to bench him this season Someone tell him Mitch hit an upright

He’s done. There’s no coming back from that one.

Chargers are out-Bearsing the Bears