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That's a good season statically for a rookie but carrying the first pic in the draft stigma, it seems off. Has a bright future but it's not set in stone that he's generational.

He's our best offensive player.

The Byard hit was worth watching this game by itself.

He has some upside but not as a HC. Carroll, Gruden, Johnson or Vrabel would all be fine with me. No one knows how they will do until it happens.

I heard the announcer say Byard is third in the league in tackling amongst all DBs. I didn't realize his contributions this year was very good.

No kidding. In a league I Ied for most of the year and ended up 3rd, I took Anthony Richardson who bombed and took Mayfield as my #2 QB, it worked out.

Poles carry responsibility for a lot of things that's happened but don't think his bosses are holding him responsible. I think if they were getting rid of him they would have already done it. So we have to hope he has learned from mistakes made. Ryan Pace totally screwed up here and went to work in ATL as president of football operations and seems to be helping them turn things around there. People learn from mistakes. The key is the coach choice.

I think they won't pay him the money he wants, with Rome and Kmet needing more targets that works out better . They will also draft a WR or bring in a Time Patrick type to be the 3rd WR.

That's the only way we can play it. Easy to say don't sign him but untill you replace with a high level rookie to eventually take his place,you make the OL worse. Another option is draft the LT of the future and move Kiran to LG in place of Jenkins and still draft a rookie. The Idea of 3 rookies starting may take time to learn the game and not be good. They need to sign a Trey Smith type and then figure what positions to draft. I don't see anyone giving Jenkins a big contact with his injury history but won't be here if you try to give 4-5 mil. I would say a per game incentive with a base 3 yr 18 mil to balloon to 36 if he plays 85% of snaps.

Here is our top free agents, who should we bring back? WR Kennan Allen DE Darrell Taylor OL Coleman Shelton OL Teven Jenkins RB Travis Homer TE Mercedes Lewis OL Matt Pryor DE Jacob Martin I think Shelton played well enough to bring back as a backup, Jenkins on a team friendly deal and Jacob Martin is a cheap backup that has shown some since coming off injury. He was making the vet roster salary. My biggest wish is bringing in Trey Smith. Poles was there when they drafted him. With the growth of Wright and stick Smith next to him we have a power spot on the OL.

I dopnt know enough about Johnson's personality to see what kind of HC he would be. Staying with Detriot one more tells he didnt think he was ready yet and wanted to go to the SB with the Lions. That was a good sign. Vrabel is easy to read on his old school persona and would do fine. Hell both probably will excel as a HC here with a lot of good players.

Yes my memories are failing as I turned 72. I mix stuff up all the time and got lazy to look it up.

Happy new Year is all we have on the hopes of the Bears having a good team. I thought it was changing in 2024. I truly believe had the Hail Mary failed, we would have had a 5-2 record and maybe lost to AZ but would have beaten NE. We would have been 6-3 with the difficult schedule ahead od us. The team confidence went to hell, it took the team chemistry down with it. Every bad thing happened to us along the way. Even with failed coaching and all the injuries we probably would have finished with a winning record. The mental aspect of the game is under estimated on the effect of the team.

I think they are going to bring back Poles or they would have already got rid of him. I think they extent him to match the new coach. He doesnt deserve a extention but until the ownership changes we are going to get chaos at the top. I will give him credit for one thing, he has not spent alot of big contracts on bad investments. Davis is the only terrible contract and he has an out in 2025. JJ, DJ Moore, Kmet, and Sweat were all good contracts on good players. As much as Edmunds is not worth what he is paid he is not a terrible player. He had great value with Edwards, Billings, Walker. Drafts has hits and misses. something other teams had we did not was 1st round choices that would be huge buiding blocks of any franchise. We did not have first round picks in 19-20 and 2022. 2017 and 2021 were Tribisky and Fields that failed. Thats 5 top picks that should be the strength of the team that Pace failed on. Poles came in here with a bad roster and terrilbe cap space. He gets credit for changing that around. AND the trade that got us Caleb will go down in history as the best Bear trade ever. The only way that goes bad is if Caleb fails and I dont think anyone here thinks that is going to happen. There is good and bad tied to Poles but he will be back so we dont have a choice but to hope he makes the right choice with the new coach.

To be honest I expected to see Caleb look better towards the end of the season. Totally understand the rookie thing with bad coaching and jacked up OL but still expected him to grow as the season went on. With all the other rookie QBs seemly getting better as the season went on, (NE), (Atl) . Daniels started strong and leveled off and Nix had Payton coaching him. I expected we would see better rapport with his WRs, hold the ball less and learn to throw the ball away better. It didnt get better. Clearly Daniels is ROY and now opens up for discussion on who the best QB in the draft was. Caleb had flashes during the year which leaves us with the thought he will play much better in the future but I now have some doubt on (the greatness tag). There is only so much you can blame on coaching and OL.

Hock and Sucks are friends of mine and I asume they will gladly be back. My only complaint is you always win to much. I wish you were worst at this Fantasy game.

All you like to do is find stupid shit to argue about. He never lists anyone he talked you, he made the shit up but its facts to you because he gives the impression he talked to someone. WHO did he talk to? If you cant find who he talked to just stop pretending you're smarter than everyone else.

I use to read his articles all the time and started realizing his sources are other journalist that use each other as soruces as inside information. So your saying (my understanding) doesnt mean its an opinion? I dont really care what you want to call it, he thinks he knows what they meant to do, yet there is no source. opinion: a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. "I'm writing to voice my opinion on an issue of great importance" Here's another hard hitting rumor from Eric.https://www.sportsmockery.com/chicago-bears/ben-johnson-reportedly-leaning-on-the-bears-to-fire-ryan-poles/

I think that is on the table, move back in the teens and get an extra 2 and Draft Joel Simmons.

Lamberts source is Zimmerman which doesnt have any substance in his tweet , its his opinion. Zimmerman is just a sports journalist, he doesnt work for the Bears organisation. Lambert likes taking someone opnion and making it out like he talked to Cunningham himself. Relook as his tweet and show me what does it mean( my understanding)? Its not any different from you or me saying the same thing. I looked thru many of his articles and no where does he ever claim a (Bears source). Its just like our opinions. His claim to fame is lifelong Brears fan like us.

Eric Lambert is one of the worst Bear journists on the beat. He has a history of putting out bad info. (Its my understanding) the Bears would have drafted a OL. The only 2 people that knew what Poles would have done is Ryan and Cunnungham. Olu will eventually be a good player but he only started 7 games out of 15 he played. He broke his foot and is out for the season. Poles liked Rome but there is no way Nabors would have ever made it to 9. Alt was the only OL that was taken before 9.

After watching Washington become what we thought we would do, its time to assess Caleb in a honest convesation. We see potenial that could be special but all of his play is not because of bad coaching and poor OL. We could have had 1/3 less sacks had he not held the ball so long so many times. When under pressue you hit your check down or throw it away. As much as he made some spetacular plays down the strerch of games he also took rally killing sacks.He is no longer a rookie after playing 16 games, he should play better. He has missed many open WRs of which all QBs do but he should have gotten better. Did he worry to much about throwing INTs that he was always pushing the ball downfield? He has proven to be a exceptional rusher and a special arm but I would think at this stage we would see better QB play at this time. I always support who is here and expect great things from Caleb but some of this bad year is on him also. I totally expect new coaching and a better OL will unleash the beast in him but (the holding the ball to long) bothers me. We have seen good play from every QB drafted this year and for me I seen them get better as the season moved on. I am never the person that says we should have drated a different QB because if those rookies were here they would have been affected by the disfunction of this team. People will say to look at his stats and say he did fine but stats can be deceiving, it was not a good year for Caleb.

Hard to judge Kiran with the injury and late start. Next year will be more show his value. He was drafted with the prospect of pushing Braxton, and hopefully being better. I suspect if they drat Banks one of Kiran or Braxton will move to LG.

I/ve been looking at a lot of draft stuff because the team forced me too. Banks and Campbell are the only 2 top 12 prospects . I would be happy with either.

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