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Herbert will replace Moss as RB2 so he is going to get some carries.

Has anyone really looked at WAS compared to CHI? Is Poles really doing a good job? I mean, he lucked into the #1 overall pick, yet WAS, who was actually the 2nd worst team in the league last year, traded away both of their Edge Rushers, and somehow leapfrogged the Bears in the development timeline. Now they trade for Lattimore to improve their secondary while the Bears are sellers at the deadline. Very frustrating to say the least.

It's actual market value. Poles is getting a guaranteed 7th in 2025 vs a chance at a 7th round comp pick in 2026. Herbert would have to sign for over $5M to have it be a 6th.

Herbert to Cincy for a 7th. Poles is amazing.....not. You might as well kept him for injury insurance at this point. Poles is really trending down and fast.

The biggest day in the U.S. is today.......the NFL trading deadline. Poles has been one of the more active GMs of late during this period. Will he make any moves? Will the Bears be buyers or sellers? With the ravaged OLine, getting anyone to protect Caleb would be useful. I wonder if guys like Herbert or Allen will be moved?

After climbing as high as the WC2, the Bears are outside looking in now (on the bubble), tied with LAR and SF at 4-4. The 3 WC teams at the moment are MIN 6-2, PHI 6-2, and GB 6-3. So there is already a 1.5 game gap between the Bears and the last WC spot. Just looking at the schedule, even if the Bears play decent, beat NE, then split the last 8 for a 5-4 record, that is a 9-8 record which I don't think will be enough for the playoffs. Passing GB is the only chance and GB would have to go no better than 3-5 down the stretch to finish 9-8 AND CHI would have to gain the tiebreaker against them or outright better record to tie them with 9 wins. The most realistic scenario is having GB go 4-4 to finish 10-7, then the Bears miraculously finish 6-3 AND either win the h2h against GB or have a better div/conf record. The concern is also that SF and LAR are getting healthy and they will be in the mix, along with ARZ since the non-division winner will be in the WC hunt. So in reality 10-7 is not a playoff guarantee either. ARZ already holds the tiebreaker and I assume SF will too. The Bears will hold the h2h tiebreaker against LAR. So with the last two losses, they have realistically knocked CHI out of realistic playoff contention. They would have to do a complete 180 and play like a completely different team from what they have so far, and led by Flus and Waldron, I don't think that will happen.

This feels like a must-win against a bad team. Flus teams normally win against bad teams at home, so this should be a win and some false hope. Then the remainder of the schedule hits. If the team that has (not) shown up for the last two weeks plays the rest of the year out, the NE game may be the final win. SF is getting healthy and SEA is not terrible. I would not be surprised with a 5-12 or 6-11 end of season record. Obviously they can figure things out and a team like GB may rest starters in Week 18, so the Bears could eek out another win or two to get to 7 or 8 wins, but that seems like the absolute ceiling right now. I will go with Bears 24-13 as I think the defense will play better than they did against ARZ.

Kmet is not the 1st or 2nd read ever. That is offensive malpractice. Allen is getting fed the ball even though he can't get open.

That would be great, but he was 2nd round pick, and I doubt the Bears would get anything close to that for him, maybe a 4th, maybe. With all the injuries, they may be a market for Herbert or even Allen.

This was Caleb's worst game. After some progress, he took some huge steps back. He ended up with a QBR of 18.3, 2nd lowest to Flacco at 14.6. We are now thru 8 games, and it feels like Williams is underperforming all things considered. He is averaging 208 yards per game, still only has 9 TDs and 5 INTs on the season. After having 4 INTs in the first 3 games, he has only 1 in his last 5. however, even against bad defenses coming in, the results the last two weeks coming out of the bye have been bad. The offense looks completely disjointed, Caleb is missing open guys, making bad throws, and guys are dropping easy passes.

Carolina now tied with 6 other teams at 2-7 after their win, currently 4th based on SoS. So drafting 3rd in the 2nd round giving the Bears the 35th pick. Bears still 18th at 4-4 tied with 3 other teams at 4-4. So 18th, 35th, and 50th for their first 3 picks.

A blowout shows the lack of effort. Watch the long TD run right before the half. Watch Stevenson specifically. He is trotting along as a spectator on the field instead of running to the ball.

Honestly, it is pretty evident after an entire offseason and 8 games and the bye that Waldron and Flus are not the guys. Flus' ceiling is a DC, but he is the HC. Waldron probably is a decent QB Coach, but not a OC who calls plays. That is what it looks like on the field. Flus mismanages HC duties, and Waldron can't shape the offense around the players.

Herbert has been a healthy scratch the last two weeks. Kmet has 1 target in the last two weeks. Every Bears Beat Reporter should be fired for gaslighting us all offseason. There is no way this dysfunction was not visible in the offseason. The Bears are 4-4, but 1.5 games out of the last WC spot with the hardest schedule remaining. They will be lucky to win 3 games. I am projecting 6-11.

It is criminal at this point. All while Allen who has 17 targets in the last 2 games and only 6 catches. This was a concern with Waldron coming in, he didn't use TEs, and it is showing.

Bogus call on Dexter gives Cards +4 pts, stupid TD at end of half +7, thats 11 pts. Then the safety. That is 13 pts making it a 16-9 game.

It's the terrible route concepts by Waldron. I have no clue what he is trying to do. No routes across the middle, no quick slants, ever.

Kmet with 0 targets today. Allen had 10, caught only 4. Williams had 41 attempts, not a single one went to Kmet. Make it make sense. Kmet has 1 target in the last two games, both losses.

This has been going on for 2.5 years now. The defense got run over by Demercado.

The entire coaching staff is a bunch of clowns. Hightower is a terrible ST coach, getting outcoached in every phase of the game.

They should fire him over that. He has such a loser mentality, but at least they lost together.

I don't want to hear about injuries. Pre-snap penalties, missed assignments, this team is horribly coached. They were not ready to stop the run on defense. The offense still looks like crap and it is Week 9.

This team is dead. Flus lost the locker room, none of the offensive players trust Waldron. They will be lucky to win another game all season. I would not be surprised if ARZ puts up 40+.

Welp, that was a great 1st half.

Lose = Fire Flus