I'm very confused. The Bears offensive coaches saw the game plan wasn't working and made an in-game adjustment? Is that even legal? Asking for Matt Nagy.
It’s hard to imagine that the Bears not being picked for Hard Knocks this year. First pick, massive free agency, Justin Fields, big market team… Slam dunk.
I'm in on Justin Fields moving forward. I'm out on every single coach currently on the Bears staff. In fact, I'm firing Flus & Staley tonight if I'm Ryan Poles.
Dear Chicago Bears Beat Writers: During the early negotiations period, teams CANNOT send a full medical staff out to everybody they are negotiating with. Once free agency actually starts, they do physicals to make sure the players are healthy. This isn't a failing of a GM.
Mitchell Trubisky, last 5 games, offensively: 1683 yards, 15 TD's, 5 turnovers. That averages out to 336.6 yards, 3 TD's and 1 turnover per game. I gotta be honest, fans & media who are saying Mitch sucks are not very good at this whole "knowing anything about football" thing.
According to Over The Cap, the Chicago Bears currently have $30,713,289 in effective cap space (after the rookies have signed). Basically, Ryan Poles still has $15-20M left to work with to fill holes with FA's & cuts. Chicago also sits first on the waiver wire claims list.
The Chicago Bears don't need to trade up for a QB this year in the draft, they need to TRADE DOWN and start filling this team up with draft picks on the OL, CB, WR, etc. The only way out of this mess is to get younger. Trading up is what has caused part of this problem.
In 2023, the Chicago Bears have $35M in "Ryan Pace Dead Money". Before cutting Cody Whitehair, in 2024 Chicago will have $859,071 in dead money. I get the Ryan Poles haters, but whatever else you say about the man he fixed a franchise-crushing problem with the bad Pace contracts.
For Bears fans freaking out about David Montgomery, let me help. He's Kareem Hunt performance-wise, that's his comp. Bid difference is Montgomery is an exceptionally high character guy and not a douchebag like Hunt. Nearly identical combine stats except vertical.
Arguing whether Nick Foles is better than Mitchell Trubisky is like arguing whether Papa Johns pizza is better than Little Caesar’s when what we all want is a slice of Pizzeria Uno, Pequad’s, Giordano’s or Lou Malnati's.
I am a bit perplexed as to why some Bears media and fans believe Matt Nagy is on the hot seat. Football is a "win or else" business. Nagy's record is 23-12. With Mitch Trubisky as his QB. Let me help... Matt Nagy is not only not on the hot seat, he's nowhere near the hot seat.
There is ZERO amount of sympathy for Green Bay fans who are mad about a call by the officials. None. Welcome to what the rest of us have dealt with against you folks for decades. Oh, and go back and see how many delay-of-games that were missed just today. Go ahead, I'll wait.
Some Packers fans are disappointed that the Colts acquired Matt Ryan. Why? Because that deal "hurts the trade value for Jordan Love." I kid you not, they actually believe that Jordan Love had a "trade value" before this transaction.
If the Chicago Bears win the Super Bowl in the next 3 seasons I will buy and wear a
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Ryan Poles Bears jersey to the first game played at Arlington Heights.
The difference between Ryan Poles and Ryan Pace? Both would have traded to get N'Keal Harry, but Pace would have sent a 2023 3rd for him instead of Poles' 2024 7th.
After Bronko Nagurski retired from the NFL he owned a gas station in International Falls, MN. Stranger came into town needing gas, asked where the locals bought theirs. "Bronko's" everyone said. "Is it cheaper?" the stranger asked? "Nope" came the reply. (Cont.)
Dear Niners fans: Your team was out-coached, out-efforted, out-disciplined, outplayed and outscored by the better TEAM today. Not the more talented/more experienced players, but the better TEAM. Take a bite of that and chew on it. P.S. Sorry not sorry.
I'd love to see the Bears hire Tarik to work for the organization doing ambassador/community outreach/video/whatever and give him full access to the facilities for his recovery... if he wants to try to play again, that's fine, he can do this until he is recovered.
I hope Chicago Bears do something to look after Tarik Cohen. I would be extremely worried about him & hope the club reaches out to him & tries to assist him.
I am not saying any financial but maybe assist with his rehab or something.
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Chicago is so starved for competent quarterbacking that Mitchell Trubisky not playing like the 32nd ranked QB in the league has people screaming to extend the guy for actual, serious money.
@PackersBob
Are you seriously highlighting an incompletion chucked 5-feet out of bounds? Those sidelines are 6 feet wide, and that ball is nearly to the edge of it. Lord have mercy.
Fun Fact: After losing again to Chicago this season, Kirk Cousins is, for his career, now 4-25 in playing teams that have a winning record. Mitchell Trubisky was 4-1 this season.
Just confused about many Bears fans reactions to Trey Burton. Dude played all 16 games in the regular season last year, hasn't played less than 15 per year since he's been in the league, was 10th in receptions and 4th in TD's for TE's and some fans are screaming to cut him? WTF?
Ha Ha Clinton-Dix is, so far, a clear upgrade over Adrian Amos. Buster Skrine has played well on defense, and is a clear upgrade over a 2019 Bryce Callahan (who hasn't recovered from his injury enough to play yet, and in fact may miss the season).
I'll root for the Bears next week because they are my favorite team. I don't, however, put one single ounce of my self-worth in them. It's a game, I'd like my team to win but if they don't, it's on them, not me. I'll root next week, though, I won't quit. Ever.
"Better gas?" he asked. "Nope, same as everybody else" a local stated. "Then why does everybody go there?" the out-of-towner asked suspiciously. "Well," one local explained, "Once Bronko screws your gas cap on, ain't nobody but Bronko is strong enough to screw it back off..."
Hear me out before the freakout. I think the 2023 Bears should draft a QB next season in the middle rounds. Somebody like KJ Jefferson from Arkansas. Justin's backup should be a similar type player. Additionally, a guy like Jefferson could assume a Taysom Hill kind of role.
Now that three of the Bears drafted in 2017 are either Pro Bowlers or an alternate Pro Bowler, the Bears won the NFC north and Ryan Pace is a GM of the Year candidate, this story isn't aging very well, eh
@Kyle_Schnitzer
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Terrell Suggs, Calais Campbell, Whitney Mercilus, Dee Ford, Khalil Mack, Aaron Donald, Trey Flowers, Chris Jones, Von Miller, JJ Watt. What do these great players all have in common? They all have less sacks on the season than Chicago's backup DT Nick Williams.
Dear Bears fans: If you are still watching this game (and you are not getting paid to cover it i.e. as a journalist) then you are officially Hard Core.
I don't get the whole "who would you rather play, the Vikings or the Eagles?" thing. To me, it's a dumb question. Knock the Vikings out tomorrow, period. End their damned season. Whoever's next is just that, NEXT. Knock who's NEXT's asses out and end their season. Rinse, repeat.
Fun Fact: Byron Pringle had 2 less yards receiving in 2021 than Jarvis Landry. Pringle had a higher Y/R, three more tuddys and 1/3 more yards per target and 600 more all-purpose yards. No, I'm not saying Pringle = to Landry (he's not), but he is younger & much cheaper.
Him: "Why would you trade Roquan just to sign Tremaine Edwards?"
Me: "You mean Roquan Smith? The guy who refused to practice & play in the preseason then demanded a trade? That guy?"
My only comment on the Bears roster right now (simply because they are rather committed to this year) is that Chicago needs to cut Mike Davis. We need that 4th round comp pick much more than Davis.
I've seen people discussing Chicago's 2019 cap space mentioning Danny Trevathan can be cut to save $6M in space. Let me help you out, the Bears are NOT cutting one of the best MLB's in the game to save $6M in cap space. They didn't cut a bad TE to save $6M in 2018.
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To the "Yeah but 2 of Justin Fields' 3 TD's were on blown coverages" crowd: Aaron Rodgers has made a career of punishing teams for blown coverages. He recognizes them and drops the hammer. The good QB's not only find them but accurately get the ball to the receivers in time.
Anybody who watches the Bears game today, sees there's no talent gap between them and the division leaders & still thinks Ryan Poles is a bad GM doesn't know football. I'm not saying he's a great GM, but he isn't a BAD GM. Sweat, Moore, the draft picks future & past? Not bad.
The idea that if Trubisky fails Ryan Pace needs to be fired because he blew a "Superbowl Window" is absolutely ridiculous. Pace CREATED the window and good drafts are keeping it open. If you find somebody who can draft, you keep him. I'm done with the Emery/Angelo's of the world.
I do not get the love for Terron Armstead coming to Chicago. As I posted before: 6, 14, 13, 7, 10, 10, 15, 14, 8. Those are his games played per year since he entered the NFL. Hasn't played a full season ONCE. It doesn't matter how great he is when he's on the bench.
I'm flat going to say it. NFL Officiating has gifted the Green Bay Packers wins over Detroit, Minnesota and Denver. Nothing will be done about it, of course, because Green Bay.
Green Bay wants to host an NFL draft. Can you imagine what it would be like to attend a draft in a town where the best restaurant is the Taco Bell on West Mason Street and the top place to stay is the Super 8 on South Oneida?
Khalil Mack, Akiem Hicks, Eddie Goldman, Bilal Nichols, Robert Quinn across the front, with Roquan Smith and Danny Trevathan backing the middle. That is just freaking scary, I don't care who you are.
Best part of today’s Bears game? Robert Quinn breaks the all-time Bears single season sack record and does it in 16 games, forever removing the “yeah, but” from the discussion.
What is it with the whole "But he ran 4.6" thing about Montgomery? Kareem Hunt ran a 4.6. Le'Veon Bell ran a 4.6. True, none of them were nearly as fast as Jeremy Langford's 4.43... but...
I'd like to like Patrick Mahomes, but MY FREAKING GOODNESS can every network announcer please not slobber for three-and-a-half hours over the guy. It's frankly getting disgusting...
"Unvaccinated players are not permitted to travel on the team charter, even with a religious or medical exemption, and must travel separately. They also must pass a COVID-19 test to rejoin the traveling party and must test daily thereafter during road trips." USA Today
Javon Wims is making his case to be on the field a LOT this year. Right now I'd say he's in the top 4 on the Bears wideout depth chart, and he's pushing to move up that list further. Feel free to drop the whole "he's on the bubble" idea. He's not even CLOSE to the bubble.
If Carson Wentz is traded to the Colts, how long will it be before Bears Twitter breaks out in "Pace is such an idiot, how did he not get that trade done for Wentz!" My over/under is about 24 milliseconds.
Hear me out: Picking Paris Johnson, Jr. isn't a "needs" pick, it's a "positional value" pick. The only way you get to pick the best LT prospect in a draft is to be bad, because of positional value. If things go well, this may be Chicago's one shot in a while to draft the top LT.
Folks, you can't have it both ways. Last year Justin was blasted for "missing the easy ones" and taking sacks rather than dumping the ball off. Yesterday he dumps the ball off, accurately, and gets blasted for not going deep. Yesterday's problem was scheme, not target choice.
Let me get this strait... some people are actually complaining about Ryan Pace trading a conditional 2021 7th rounder for a kicker who will a) work out and be our guy or b) bust and cost us nothing? Really? Trading a 2021 7th for a guy you need now is NOT "mortgaging the future".
Whether Trubisky turns it around this season (he should get at least to last year's level) or no, Ryan Pace needs to draft a quarterback next year either as a replacement or as a viable option second stringer. Chase Daniel is an old, expensive placeholder and that's not enough.
When Tony Romo, who obviously knows his stuff, can sit in the booth and predict every single call by a glance at the Chiefs defense, Bob Sutton needs to be fired. This loss is on him.
I swear, Chicago beats a top division rival and STILL fans are complaining about how they "need to play better". People, just enjoy the dad-gum win for a night and hold off the whining until tomorrow... it's not like you are Green Bay who have a lot more to whine about in 2018...
Next year Chicago needs to draft a quarterback, no matter whether Mitch gets his stuff together or not. Chase Daniel is too expensive to bring back with our tighter cap situation, and Tyler Bray is out of practice squad eligibility.
Remember when our biggest concern as Bears fans was whether our rookie kicker can actually kick? On the bright side (just about the ONLY bright side) our rookie kicker actually CAN kick.
I was shocked when the Vikings waived Ihmir Smith-Marsette, and was disappointed because I knew the Lions were ahead of Chicago in the waiver order. I didn't even dare to hope he got past Detroit, but somehow he did and Ryan Poles dropped the hammer. ISM has POTENTIAL.
When Ryan Pace drafted Mitch Trubisky, the pundits went wild stating that Pace's career resided entirely on whether Trubisky became a true franchise QB. Turns out they were all wrong. Building a top-to-bottom roster as good as Chicago's has will earn a LOT of slack.
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2012 Chicago Bears draft class:
1) Shea McClellin - out of football
2) Alshon Jeffery - left in free agency
3) Brandon Hardin - out of football in 2 years
5) Evan Rodriguez - out of football
6) Isaiah Frey - out of football
7) Greg McCoy - out of football , never played
OUCH!
You know what? I don't even care, I really don't. Justin Fields was not just "OK", he was outstanding. 17-29, 291 with a tuddy and a tipped INT, another 45 yards rushing for 336 total yards while playing against both the Steelers and the Zebras. 2021 is 100 percent about Fields.
Let me get this strait: The head coach of Michigan is interviewing for another job on National Signing Day? If I were Michigan, I would fire his ass today. This is the guy some Bears fans wanted, somebody who would take a dump like this on his current employers? That's nuts.
I'm seeing a lot of these "bench Trubisky" stories out there today. I think it's safe to say that only the media is wishing to bask in the glory that is Chase Daniels as an NFL starter for the next 8 weeks. Thinking about 8 weeks of Chase... I just threw up in my mouth a little.
The Eagles just "dropped" the biggest choke-job of the playoffs as the ball doinks off of Alshon Jeffery's hands. Actually, it hit both hands so I guess it was a double doink.
@charleslenojr72
Thank you very, very much for all the hard work and dedication not only on the field but off of it as well, all that you have done for both the Bears and the Chicago community. You and you wife are classy people, all the best to you with your next non-Packers team.
I’m at the gym first thing overheard from a fellow Bears “fan” about the Carolina game: “Damn it if the Bears keep winning it’s going to be impossible for them to fire Nagy and Pace this winter and get a good draft pick.” Another Bears “fan” nodded in agreement. 2020 is weird.
Cody Whitehair was a beast in drills, and James Daniel is really quick. I know NFL OT’s are big dudes but seeing Leno & Massie together... that’s a whole lot of manpower...
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What do I think of Matt Nagy's shutting the Bears starters down until the regular season? I remember Cam Meredith's 3rd preseason game last year. I'm good with the choice.
The thing about Chicago's win over Green Bay not getting much attention in the national media? Not one single Bears starter was 30 years old except Sherrick McManis who is filling in for Bryce Callahan. Every major Bears skill-position player is 27 years old or younger.
The Green Bay Packers tried to sign Kyle Fuller & Vic Fangio and Allan Robinson in the offseason... and to trade for Khalil Mack. Ryan Pace got the job done. Can you imagine the difference this year if Green Bay had Fangio, Fuller, Robinson & Mack and we didn't?
Note to Ryan Pace: You have your QB. You have your HC. You have 7 draft picks, you have a boatload of FA money. We need PLAYMAKERS not Mike Glennon, Markus Wheaton, Marcus Cooper type players. Just a friendly FYI.