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I dont like Aikman but he is pointing out Calebs mistakes accurately. Doesnt see open WRs and bad passes. He should be farther along right now but I suspect all the QB hits has him out of synk.

Im impressed, been moving the ball, running, 13-0. seems like a win to me.

I really like the Viking play calling. Gordon blitzes, they throw where he was.

Now you can see why Cam Robinson is not a good player. I like the fact we are running the ball. I dont understand why they are giving Jefferson 10 yards on defense. Hit him and play man ,JJ has played well before on him.

Actually we are playing better than I thought. Why are they leaving Kiran on a 11 sack player without help?

If he just woke up and walked on the field, he is already better than Borom. At least Kiran gets snaps to learn from, Borom is just waiting to be gone.

No matter which coach comes here, Calb is the truth, he will overcome any deficenties a new coach will bring.A good coach will focus on having a good support team to mix with Caleb. Run the ball (Vrabel), good defense ( Vrabel) ,experience(Vrabel). Thats my take.

Add into it the disfunction of an OC and HC, i would say he has did great.

I would love if they won the last 4 games,but Detriot, GB, Seattle and Minny all have something to play for.

I think we will stay in the top 10 of picks. At that range- one of these should be the pick, Abdul Cater-Mason Graham-Kelvin Banks-Will Campbell. One of those will drop to us and we have to take him. It would be nice to have a choose of at least 2 of them but we will have to see how the draft plays out.

Of course they add to the offense but can they be a HC? We are at a point where we have to win and a first time HC probably isnt in the cards. One of them may be the next great mind in the NFL. The case for Grabel. He had 2 OCs that went on to become HC. Matt Lafleur and Arthur Smith. I think he has been around football long enough to have good contacts in the league to get us a good offensive mind to run the offense. Tom Brown may well be an option for that job. He used a 4-3 and 3-4 in Tenn defense so we wouldnt have to change personel on defense. He had a high level running game that this team gravely needs. It would help Caleb a great deal. He's a Dan Campbell-Mike Tomlin type, aggressive and physical.

I dont think they are trading all that high draft capital to pay a star 30 mil a yr. Poles has maintained good cap situation since getting here and to many holes to fill on both side of the ball.

Very well could be but they are not cutting Braxton. I think one of rookie, Jones, or Kiran gets moved to LG. I hope like hell they sign Trey Smith, the chance of having 2 or 3 rookie starters on the OL, may not be a good thing to start the season.

Firt of all, we are offically out of the playoffs. Green Bay is a good team Not very many teams that play defense. If healthy, we may have been closr to the top. With GB winning and Lions losing, Minny can still win the division, we dont have a chance. Braxton Jones was at least an average LT , no Borom, lets see what Kiran can do. May be our starteer next year. Even if we draft a LT, he has a year head start on adapting to the NFL. 34-19 Minny

No matter what , you cant put Borom out there. Play Kiran and give him a TE, or RB chip, or roll out Caleb . Kiran was never a plan to be a starter this yr, but will compete for LT next year. Having Braxton as a swing T is an upgrade for a backup and draft a OT.

That was a very good article that lays everything out there. Poles gives you lots of reason to change but do you think the Bears will do that? The franchise has been dysfuncting for a very long time and until the McCaskeys are no longer a part of it and the only hope is they get lucky. I dont have much hope in Warrem adding anything special because he was a lawyer that build a stadium and was never involved in day to day operations with the Vikings. The most important change will be who the next coach will be. No matter who chooses it, it justs needs to be the right one. My first choice would be Vrabel of which I think the Bears family would align with. A no nonsense hard nosed leader that would command the room. Ben Johnson doesnt seem like a choice the family would like. demanding 10 mil a yr as a nonproven HC. He seems to be a Tomlin, Campbell type that has been successful. Untimately I dont care if it some unknown as long as we win. As that article suggests good coaches wont want to come here, they're not 32 jobs available , as of now 3. NO-Jets-Bears, only one has a franchise QB in place, great cap space ( NO + jets 3.4 mil) and the Bears have the best draft pick situation with 4 top 73 picks. Belichick was never coming here if some people think that was going to happen. Hopefully its someone that gets us wins. I dont think we change Poles whether he deserves it or not. As long as we get the right coach, his roster building is at least a C , some good some bad. For me I look at him fixing the Cap, getting us good draft capital and drafting Caleb. IF the brass brought in a new GM phenom, Im all supportive until they prove they were the wrong choice. Change always gives hope and then 3 yrs later we may want to tear it down again. I think we are very close to being a constant playoff team. Poles has given us a solid roster base DJ Moore, Kmet, Ordunze, Caleb Williams, Wright,Billings, Sweat, JJ, TJ Edwards, Gordon. I think we are 1 draft away from winning regular. Some people will say no because of the division we are in but we have been playing them competively for the last 2 yrs and i think Williams will be the best QB in the division goig forward. Maybe we can just get lucky with our next coach choice instead of thinking the Bears brass will make the right choice. I'll take that.

I agree Justin's ceiling is much lower than Caleb as a passer. I do believe had we not drafted Caleb and (again) got a ton of assets for the #1 pick, we would have a winning record right now. Fields can take us to the playoffs but Caleb can get us to a SB. With Fields here, Poles would have added to the OL and DL. Focusing on the running game it would have keep the defense off the field more and been more effective. He may have drafted a WR but not at nine. He may have not added K. Allen and went after a different kind of RB istead of Swift. I believe those moves he did make were all related to what Caleb will need for a high power passing game. The bad coaching would have still shown its face but as a running team we would have been in more playing from a lead instead of having to keep coming back in games. Poles made the right decision to draft for the future and sacrifice wins. Its brought Poles a hell storm but that is what was needed to happen to get rid of Flus. I liked Flus but he was never taking us to a SB. I think you said it best (flus doesnt put us in a position to win games). Something like that.

Obviously you cant turn over an entire roster every year, so sometimes it takes a couple years, like with Braxton, but the GM should already know you arent the long term answer.

We are a composite of all our choices we make. Your first day on a job (never been a GM) you are given a choice of 3 coaches. Lets agree he didnt get to bring in someone he wanted ,he choose Flus. Clearly that looks bad 3 years later but it is easy to judge now , a lot harder at that moment in time. Lots of examples of people failing that did better in the future, to say if you were bad, always bad. i understand you think that way but reality doesnt always follow that path. Example, Bill Belichick was fired as a HC of Cleveland and went on to win more SBs than any other coach with NE in history. This is very easy, list all the mistakes he has made and it dont mean crap because a bad organization is not going to fire him. He answers to people above him and we will never know if he was loyal to Flus and was told no last year. I thought he was loyal to Fields and he moved on from him and drafted Caleb. We all agree that was the right choice but lets talk about his first day on the job instead. I will mention good things he's done and say I think he deserves one more year. Our opinions dont count because THEY arent firing him. He is in his third year of roster development and told George he will build a consistent winner in 4 to 5 yrs. You said its takes 2 yrs, cant think of any franchises that have did a 90% changed roster but Im sure you will give me one. After 2018 I thought Pace and Nagy would finally do that but all that happened was a bad old roster with no cap space and a one year winner. I would love to find the article by a Bears writer that wrote to do a complete rebuld and build the every year winning team it would take 5 year and that the Bears fandom would not be patient enough for that. He was right.

I like yor draft but taking a CB with your second pick when we need bodies in the trenches doesnt seem to fit at all. I've seen some with a RB in the 2nd and that makes more sense than a CB. I also seen one that took a TE in the 2nd. OH boy some silly people out there.

In 2021 Colts were the 11trh ranked D in the league and tied for 8th in points giving up with 21.5 a game. Those stats dont scream fire me alert. I heard the story he was about to be fired and seen the video where the guy said that but he didnt list a Colt source to verify it. There was talk about Frank Reich getting fired also , so there was a lot of unrest in the organisation of which got fired midseason in 2022. 2 teams interviewed Flus for a HC job, Bears and Jauguars. He was a top 10 scoring defence every year as a DC. He was 2nd in TOs in 2021. Poles was hired and given a choice of 3 names to choose a HC provided by the committee that picked him. Flus, Dan Quinn and Jim Caldwell. Dan Quinn is doing well this year but was fired in 2020 in Atl after starting the season 0-5. If I was Poles, I wouldnt have liked any of those choices at the time. Poles has plenty of issues to be critizied for just in this year, going back to his firsy day as a GM seems like a mute point.

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I didnt know they knew each other. His role with Ravens has been succeeful and name was floated around for a GM job the last 3 years before he was hired. Seen several interviews of Joe Hortiz and it appears the Chargers interviewed 5 canidates for GM before they hired Jim, Joe was one of them. John Harbaugh reccomended Joe to John Spanos the president of football operations after they hired Jim and said they would be a good fit. Jim Harbaugh said he knew Joe Hortiz but didnt have anything to do with hiring the GM . The only ties between Joe and Jim is he worked with his brother and was highly reccomended. The Chargers website has a list of press conferences for reference. Also Joe Hortiz was interviewed on a Kay Adams podcast when he got hired and discussed his relationship with Jim Harbaugh. Hard to say they were hired as a pair.

In longer routes i get taking longer to go thru progressions but what bothers me is he rarely dumbs off to his outlet players when he gets rushed, that's what they're there for.