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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    You don't consider "he's an above-average DE" to be a good thing? Because I've said that multiple times in posts targeted directly at you. He's a perfectly fine player. Paying a high draft pick and FA prices for perfectly fine players is almost always a bad idea, unless you're very close and it's the last piece to put you over the top. It's inefficient resource management, and efficient resource management is how you make sure you have enough to fill all your holes, not just the one right in front of you today. Just like my disdain for PFF grades, this isn't something I ad hoc created after the trade to justify not liking it. I said in the weeks leading up to the deadline that I don't like those kinds of trades.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    No, because PFF grades are a block box with no way to check or re-test them in any way. They are pure pseudo-science, designed to fool people into thinking they are serious analysis because they have a decimal. I said that yesterday, I said it today, and I'll say it tomorrow. I will change that opinion if they ever produce solid evidence that their grading system is useful. I will not change that opinion based on the whims of whether they agree with me or not on any specific point. With regard to Sweat, I think he's an above-average end. The fact that you think it's "clear" that I don't think he's valuable is a testament to your poor observational skills.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Kyler Gordon is a really bad corner who, if I were a team with a half-decent QB, would be my target on every key third down and red zone play if I were against the Bears and needed tow in.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    It sure didn't help. All that draft capital for the privelege of making him the highest-paid defensive player in the league. I don't mind extreme ineffiicency when you think you're close and are trying to win right away and are willing to accept a hit further down the road, but that's what the Mack deal was.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    If he wasn't available this offseason, then we live without him. Paying whatever it takes to fill holes without regard for value is *exactly* how Pace ended up where he did.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    I would like to point out that even when they agree with me about things like Montez Sweat being nothing special, I still place absolutely zero value on PFF grades
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    "I like that we've been avoiding bad contracts by buying free agents." "Man, extending Sweat to the exact deal he would have gotten in free agency was such a savvy move." That's how you can tell someone is just looking to feel good about whatever the Bears do and not actually hold them to any sort of consistent standard.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    I suspect the angst won't be as intense next year because the team will probably be pretty good, but I don't expect Counsell to be any more willing than Ross to hand MLB playing time to every Coors@Iowa-inflated AAA slash line mid-tier prospect that fans are clamoring for.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Poles didn't start making the win-now trades on his first day. He started out the same way as Pace did. Paying draft capital for the mere privilege of paying market-value cap space to Sweat is the *exact* sort of "win-now" move that tanked Pace.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    People who have weird emotional biases like you do tend to project those biases onto everyone else. I have literally no idea what you're talking about with regard to being quiet about sweat during games. He's been exactly who I expected him to be: An above-average but not special defensive end.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    I explained a specific mathematical way to show that I'm wrong. I would absolutely budge if the right sort of evidence were produced. Don't project your boomer "I believe what I like to believe regardless of evidence" tendences onto me.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Bears have been one of the worst franchises in the league for quite a few years now. The people who are constantly saying negative things about them are doing it not because we're meanieheads, but because we're astute. You're *massively* overrating Sweat, a guy whose career high in sacks before this year was 8.5, and only started racking them up this year when playing on a stacked Washington line.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Gordon is a terrible corner, Brisker is a run-only safety who contributes heavily to us getting torched repeatedly by every decent QB, and Jones is a decent value but at the absolute wrong position to be trying to sneak value out of. I remember the Pace era quite vividly. He started out with a tear-down rebuild and when he was criticized, people said "it's not his fault, he was starting out in such a bad spot from his predecessor." Much like you're saying. Then when the crack started to show and he started overpaying for guys to fill those cracks, people said "look, he's getting us great players, don't worry about how much he's paying for them." Much like you are now. Trading for Sweat was the most Pace-ian thing Poles has ever done.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    You're basically overrating every single player poles has acquired. If you call all the good players great, all the average players good, and all the bad players adequate, it *feels* like you're being reasonable. But the resutls on the field will never match your evaluations.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's weird to me how much praise tevin Jenkins is getting lately. I don't think he's terrible, but he gets beat cleanly plenty often, especially in the second half of games.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    The entire game plan tonight was to grind it out and hope for the best. There's less than five teams in the Nfl you can beat with that plan and we happened to play one of them
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm significantly less worried about Carolina playing us out of a top 2 pick
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    I've always been a believer that all wins are good wins but this one tested that belief
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Sure looked to me like young lost track of Sanborn because he can't see over the lines
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    He's still a rookie. But the clock has started ticking. He needs to look better than this by early next season.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    I still like him long-term but I would be afraid least starting to doom boner if I were a Panthers fan
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, he was last seen getting this much protection, hopping in place forever anyway, trying to run sideways, taking an unnecessary hit and getting hurt. So probably something like that
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    He looks mentally broken after the fourth quarter of last game
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think if you spend an offseason or three fixing his mechanics, the arm could improve. But it's so bad right now. Today has been the worst he's looked and that includes his 4 to game five days ago.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    75% chance it gets picked off by the safety coming in from the left on one of Bagent's arm punts
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