Hairyducked Idiot

I think mic'ing up the player during play is fun, but they're feeling too much pressure to fiill the dead air and do a full-on interview

Was Bellinger's 1` Wrigley?

Infield in seems an odd choice with zero outs in the second inning.

I have no idea how Eovaldi gets 97 MPH out of that delivery.

I'm old enough to remember when a prospect needing to repeat a level to succeed there was considered a negative. But Busch has draft pedigree and the prospect ratings seem to like him, so I'll assume there's something there.

As they say in baseball, let's go do that baseball.

Yeah, if they went defense at no. 9, I would understand it and it's not objectively wrong, but I'd be a little disappointed

I really think I'd rather not trade down at 9. The QB frenzy is getting crazy and a legit blue chip taken will be there, and I don't think we will be drafting this high again for awhile

Yeah, the Johnson thing was just reporters asking loaded questions in a way that, no matter how the athlete answers, you get a headline that makes it sound more dramatic than it is.

The pocket awareness on the play that starts at 14:30 is so elite. Dude has eyes in the back of his head.

I don't get the Jayden Daniels helium at all. Every time I watch his film I just see throw after throw that isn't NFL quality

That doesn't change the accuracy of what I said

Seems reasonable.

Guess I'm just an optimist. I know there's some concern about fumbles, but Williams had 1.9% INTs in college. Identical to Rodgers and slightly better than Mahomes.

I wrote and deleted three different drafts going into exhaustively autistic detail on the psychology of sports beliefs. You're all welcome.

Three of the five guys you listed were also good on their first team.

There was a point during the Santo days where he embraced the whole "Pat and Ron shows" schtick and was never the same. A lot of people seem to like it, but it's not for me

As long as they don't get hurt, I do not care even a little bit how anyone does in spring training games

Nah, I don't believe in that voodoo, cursed, jersey-scouting BS. Nor do most of the people who say it, allistics just have this weird obsession with saying things they know aren't true. I believe QBs will generally succeed or fail based on their own merits. They are less dictacted by circumstances and more the dictator of circumstances. Good QB play makes the surrounding offensive cast look good, it makes the coaching staff look like geniuses. Bad QB play does the opposite. I think it's as simple as this: if QB development was more about environment and less about skills innate to the player, we'd have more QBs thriving on their second teams instead of it being fairly rare. I think the Bears QB woes kinda of mirror the Cubs' championship drought: A long period of incompetence followed by a recent period with a different explanation. The Cubs were run like a poverty franchise until the 1980s, then they had some bad luck in the playoff coinflips until 2016. The Bears criminally undervalued the QB position because of the "Bear football" identity of running the football and defense. We started actually investing in the position with Cutler, who did reasonably well for us, then we've mad two draft picks who busted: A top prospect from a *really* crappy draft class and a 4th QB taken that was dropping down draft boards rapidly due to some glaring flaws. I don't wanna say that two bust QBs taken by the same long-gone GM is "bad luck," but it doesn't reflect some sort of institutional factor that should be considered when evaluating the odds of our next QB pick working out. Williams is by far the best QB prospect the Bears have ever considered and is more likely than not to be the best QB the Bears have ever had (in part because that is an *extremely* low bar). He has room to be disappointing and still be a decent starting QB In the NFL. I'd place his 25th percentile projection as someone like Kyler Murray or Baker Mayfield, and his 75th percentile projection is literally Mahomes 2.0.

Your Turd Standards are a lot higher than mine. Not as high as truffle's...

Sounds about right. I'm not saying it's a gimme, but there were a lot more seasons that I would consider ok than not

My general rule is that you want to start the season with at least 18 guys in your system that you're comfortable using for MLB innings. I think the Cubs are probably there or getting close.

I think going back 15 years gives us something more meaningful to the modern NFL than going back to before Caleb Williams was born.

15 years. I'd be fine with a repeat of Peyton Manning though. Set the rookie record for yards and I think TD passes, just with a billion INTs.

Going down the list of no. 1 QB's rookie seasons gives me a lot of optimism. Only Goff, Stafford and Young had completely turd rookie years. Even before you account for surrounding cast, Williams coming in and throwing for 3500 yards would be an extremely reasonable expectation, which would make him only the third bears QB to ever do so (Kramer and Cutler)