BearFan PHX

Just read an article about the cap by Aaron Lemming, and the good news is we have a TON of cap space! He has a long list of high priced and mid priced free agents we can afford to sign! He comes up with abut $39 Million for us after we tag Jaylon Johnson and the rookie pool, so he's including Johnson in the number that begins closer to $60M. for example he signs two additional free agents at over $10M a year and a few more over $5M a year too. Good news for careful readers! https://247sports.com/nfl/chicago-bears/contentgallery/aaron-lemings-chicago-bears-2024-mock-offseason-228202634/#2380055

this is so full of shit I dont know what to say Pix. Do better. Youre seriously actually upset that I used the word "turd" once a few months ago? Really? Seriously? That's your actual stance? Youre NOT trolling? You actually MEAN that? For REAL? LOL Im sorry that doesnt reach your threshold for respect as a person, i cant tell you how much it makes me question myself. LOL You wanna threaten to ban me over this? Thats even weaker. Wow.

you know what's funny Pix? Yesterday you said I was paranoid when I didnt even take the bait. Today its SO clear youre trolling etc I think it proves that when you say Im paranoid, you know youre lying, trying to get in some barbs under the radar while pretending youre not. Well here it is for all to see, and you know what? it doenst make me mad. It doesnt hurt me, it just makes me explain exactly why youre being what you pretend youre not. And when you post things that dont discuss me personally do i attack you? Nope. Im pleasant and take up whatever it is youve written with respect and often agree too. Time to take inventory of yourself my friend. Be the man you want to be or think you are. Dont be a liar and a weak passive aggressive instigator. Have the courage to do what you do upfront and out loud, and then if what that is is something youre ashamed of, then change for the better. If you werent ashamed, you wouldnt try to hide it. I am here for football. Not to get all upset about the word "turd" - what a joke. Oh, and in case people reading dont know it, I called Justin a turd months ago. You and stinger are bringing it up again now to win some sort of points. How silly is THAT?

I've never seen such crybabies. Youre about to get what you always wanted - a championship QB, and this is all you can muster. Pathetic. Get excited!

bullshit. youre just trying to find a way to tag me, and it makes you look bad. Fields IS a turd, and if that language is too harsh for you, maybe you need a nursing home. anyone can see your pathetic passive agressive attempt at bullying here. And it's SO weak dude. So weak. Youre embarrassing yourself. Tomorrow youll be like "oh Im always nice, I dont care for this rough behavior" LOL GTFOuttahere I am sorry that Justin broke your heart, i really am. I wanted him to be good too, but it's time to let go now. Be a big boy, take the loss and move on. Trying to best me about it is a bad way to deal with your feelings. The fact is youre mad that I dont agree with your opinions, but heres the thing, you dont have any! Theyre not your opinions, theyre someone elses opinions you read and repeat. Just watch some tape. Youll probably come out of that agreeing with me. Its not so hard.

I mean, youre trolling. its obvious. You cant really be this stupid. And so if youre trolling, then dont pretend youre the good one and Im the bad one ok? Youre the one trolling. So much dumb. Is it possible to talk about football here or does it HAVE to be your and stingers egos constantly? Im talking about football. Im watching tape and telling you what i see. Does that make you feel like Im arrogant, or is that because you actually dont like someone knowing more than you about something? And its not because Im so smart, its just because I put my butt int he chair and did my homework and watched some tape. You can do that too. Anyone can.

Youre offended that I called Justin Field a turd because he didnt fullfil his potential? Seriously? On a sportstalk site? Youve jumped the shark. And if you want to invoke children, I said turd, not shit. You did, and then stinger did. So, if youre SO worried about it, dont say it. But dont pretend youre being reasonable and Im the big bad meanie - these posts I think reveal that game youre playing to anyone reading.

oh please. this pearl clutching is ridiculous. A piece of shit is much worse than a turd. And you cant win debates by feigning being offended. Please. If you dont know the difference between the two in slang, that is not an insult. This is actually the stupidest and most intellectually dishonest post ever written on this board.

I hear ya.

I dont even know what you mean now. He IS a turd he is definitely NOT a piece of shit. Unless youre pretending you didnt understand what i wrote (ha) and think you can win this with some stupid trick equating the two words as if every single person here doesnt know and use that slang all the time. How lame and dishonest is that? When Caleb lights it up for us, you arent even allowed to cheer because if it was up to you, he wouldnt be here.

oops you beat me to it - exactly.

probably, and then you've got to compete with other teams. He will be a backup here most likely, whereas another lesser team could easily afford $4M a year and make him a starter. ANd he would have chosen being a starter Im sure, so Poles paid the price to make him a Bear.

No Justin is not a piece of shit and I never said that. What your reading comprehension challenged mind is rememberi8ng is that i called him a turd. And while an actual turd and an actual piece of shit are the same thing, I assume youre not SO stupid that you think i was mistaken that a human being was an actual poop. no, it was used in common slang, which you and I are both well aware of. A piece of shit by slang is a terrible person, someone without morals, someone who betrays others and cant be counted on. Justin is not that. That's crazy, A turd by slang is something that doesnt reach its potential. You may know the phrase "you cand polish a turd" or "he laid a turd" it means to be inept, and miss fulfilling a promise or goal. And that is precisely what Fields is. Also there are lots of examples of me speaking in measured ways, giving odds all that - youre just a very silly person who cant debate very well, and resorts to personal attacks and arguments of authority when challenged. And no, Mahomes was going to be great. People knew his ceiling before the draft. You could read it anywhere, what they were worried about was whether he would be able to play on schedule rather than always freelancing. ANd also the guy was picked 11th overall so spare me that no one saw potential in him. Youre silly and wrong and angry and you are going to feel really dumb when Williams is the man and the Bears succeed and YOU were the hater that couldnt see it. Silly silly man.

BIlls are in major cap hell. Gotta factor that in to all of this. They are having a fire sale. Maybe Poles got a deal.

All I know is the film I see. I watched at least 40 plays in a row from LSU Alabama where Daniels locked onto a single receiver right from the snap, and then either threw the ball to that receiver, or ran. i never saw him work through a progression or even turn his head except for one play. That means no looking off of safeties, and a lot of batted balls at the LOS. No second reads. I hear the same narratives over and over from pundits. i don't think they watch the film, I think producers tell them hot takes that get clicks. Once you just watch a couple games on all 22 with your own eyes you start to realize how phony all the press coverage really is. It's so easy to just take a minute and use your own eyes - you dont need to be an expert, just look at all 22, and watch each play three or four times in a row. Figure out what the progression was, what the QB did, did they manipulate the defense, did they get the ball to the right guy in tempo. It takes a couple hours. It's not that hard at all, but if you dont do it, youre at the mercy of stats and pundits and they really dont tell the story at all. Most of it is BS. Like Tony Romo commenting on the Bears game. Romo's a smart guy, he knows football, but he repeated narratives that anyone who watches the team knows arent true. His producers prepare him, he didnt watch a years worth of Bears games to prepare. When I started watching Caleb Williams tape I was expecting to see him holding the ball a lot and looking like the same things i criticized Justin for. That's what Id read. But you know what? That wasnt what was on tape at all! We all need to shake off the media brainwashing and look for ourselves if we want to know the truth.

Im still open on Maye, but Daniels is a one read QB from the film Ive seen. Unless he grows skills he doesnt have, hes gonna get eaten alive by NFL defenses.

Look at Marino's throwing motion - best that ever spun it. Then look at Williams. And I have never heard of the guy doing the Williams analysis before, I just searched "Caleb throwing motion" on youtube just now and found this. I know his motion form the tape I've watched, but I found this that gets right to it. I only watched a few seconds of the thing ive linked here, and you can see it. Marino-like. If you're still throwing up red flags about Williams, it's like youre hating on Walter Payton. Youre all gonna have to remember that youre the guy(s) that said Williams was a mistake. What a big fail!

and a ton of money yet in free agency too!

I hear ya!

watch tape, dont quote stats that you read out of context. Williams held the ball on some plays for a reason, not because he was indecisive. When you just read stats you really dont know what they mean.

FWIW I watched the first half of LSU / Alabama to see Jayden Daniels. I gotta say what I saw was shocking. In literally every play I saw, Daniels stared down a single receiver from the snap, and either threw the ball to that receiver, or ran. There is a stripe on the top of his helmet and it was astonishing how it never rotated. I've never seen anything that clear. In some plays, there were other receivers wide open, and he didn't ever look to a second read. He has an incredible arm, and when Nabers is open, which he often is, and is Daniels' primary read, which he often was, Daniels throws a really nice ball and puts up those big numbers. LSU has another WR who is pretty good too, and ditto that - if he's the first read, Daniels puts up some really beautiful throws. But I didn't see him once turn his head. He didnt even look off safeties - he just locked on to his primary receiver right from the snap and then threw him the ball or bailed and ran. That is gonna have to change big time in the NFL or we all know what happens. CBs punish you int he NFL for staring down receivers, and when Defensive Coordinators find out you're not multidimensional, they can get into your head and shut you down, just like what happened to Justin. Daniels moves down my rankings big time after seeing this. And it wasn't as if I'd read that about him before, or was looking for it. It just stood out from the film. There it was, true on it's own merit with no bias, because i wasn't even looking for that when I started watching. It wasnt a narrative, it was just there on film. EDIT - I finally saw a single play where he looked around. He was looking around panicked, and threw an incompletion, the receiver dropped it. But his head did move on that one play. It was not an example of smoothly going through a progression though that's for sure. Also, because he locks on to one receiver right from the snap, defensive linemen have time to get into throwing lanes, and he gets a lot of balls tipped too. Hard pass on Daniels.

he's projected to be worth $10.4M a year. Poles is disciplined with his spending but that doesn't mean he isn't willing to spend big when a player is worth it. $10.4M/yr isn't that big of a contract anyway. He apparently plays deep center field or in the box, and can play cover corner too. On spotrac, his player comp is Eddie Jackson LOL Good find ASHKUM.

I would definitely take two first rounders for JJ.One of them we'd have to use on his replacement though, and the other one comes in 2025?

I've been thinking the same thing. Poles does seem to have an eye for DBs, and while Jaylon is good, and Im happy to have him here for a while, and he is worth the money, and we do have the cap space - but a few more picks might help the team more. I think it's almost a toss up for me. I guess we keep him. But if we can sign him to a deal that we can get out of next year with a trade, like front loading it with money this year, having him this year, and possibly getting major picks for him next year when we can replace him wouldnt be bad.

The Bears tagged Jaylon Johnson - no surprise, and likely contract negotiations will follow.