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That makes a lot of sense. Edwards, Coley, and Schofield are the surprises so far.

My assumption is they are clearing space to sign other guys that got cut from other teams. That would be the only logical explanation.

CBs: CB Darqueze Dennard CB Malcolm Butler CB De'Vante Bausby

Some WR cuts of note, interested in any of these guys? WR Auden Tate WR Geronimo Allison WR Isaiah Ford WR Laquon Treadwell WR Marvin Hall WR Mohamed Sanu WR Albert Wilson

Chicago Bears WR Kevin Shaa C Corey Dublin S Jon Alexander WR Dazz Newsome OT Julie'n Davenport FB Jake Bargas DT LaCale London CB BoPete Keyes DL Carson Taylor LB Christian Albright LB C.J. Avery TE Rysen John LB Noah Dawkins S Michael Joseph (injured) CB Jayson Stanley (injured) LB Javin White (injured)

If the Bears can neutralize Bosa, chip, screen game, run at him, bootleg and rollouts away from him, I think the offense can score. On defense, it is stopping the run and stopping Deebo. I would almost have Johnson follow Deebo or at least when he is on the outside, then Gordon when he is in the slot. I think they will attack Vildor if he is starting.

We need to change the reply header to white text, the black on navy blue is barely readable (at least of me).

There were 6 teams worse than the Bears last year. None of those teams did anything that would make me believe they would leapfrog the Bears. Then you have Seattle, Atlanta, and Washington all with one more win than the Bears. I could easily see the Bears better than all 3. Then you have an 8-9 Cleveland team w/o a QB and Minnesota both with 8 wins. I could see the Bears somewhere in the mix with those two teams between 7-9 wins.

It makes no sense to trade a starting caliber RG on his 2nd year of a rookie deal. The media are like sharks, blood in the water. They all want to get the scoop or be the one that is quoted asking a specific question or a snarky question. What a way to live. They need to move on from asking Jenkins about being traded. For Fields, he has 3 things against him, Ohio St QB, Bears QB, and Black QB. That is a lot of stigmas to overcome. Everything he does wrong will be amplified and anything he does right will be lessened (it's only preseason, the WRs ran good routes, anyone can make that throw). He has 10x the critics than he does in backers. The only way to stop the noise now is to ball out.

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NFL+ has a free trial for the first month. Watched the entire game there, CLE broadcast though, very homer-ish.

That would be a great bet. The Bears allowed 33 pts and were a PAT away from tying it late before the defense laid an egg last year. The Bears didn't have Montgomery or Mack in that game. Vildor was starting at CB. Just by adding Brisker and Gordon, this defense will be better. Deebo was basically unstoppable, he had 6 receptions for 171 yards and Mitchell had 18 carries for 137 yards. Way too many chunk plays. I can't see them allowing 30+ pts again. Lance is the QB now. He has started 1 away game in his entire career (@ARZ - 15/29, 192 yds, 51.7% Comp, 6.6 Y/A, 0 TD, 1 INT, 2 sacks, 16/89 rushing, a 17-10 loss). On offense, the Bears scored 22 pts and Fields had 175 passing yards and 103 rushing yards. I feel like they will have more of a balanced attack this time under Getsy. Fields last home game (vs MIN - 26/39, 285 yds, 66.7% Comp, 7.3 Y/A, 1 TD, 0 INT, 7/35 rushing, 1 FL, 17-9 loss). I am thinking a close game within 3 pts of each other both scoring in the mid-20s. Bears at home, so I will give the edge to them 24-21.

I think it will come down to injuries, but if you are adding one more to offense, it would be Coulter-WR or Carter/Eiselen. On defense, I could see any one of Kamara-Edge, Gates-LB, Stroman-CB, and Hicks-S depending on what they need and/or injuries. Weird to think the offense is more set than the defense but it seems that way for the last few roster spots.

Fields 14-16, 156 yds, 9.8 Y/A, 3 TD, 146.9 QB Rating compare to other young QBs: Jones 9-13, 71 yds, 5.5 Y/A, 1 INT, 56.8 QB Rating Lance 7-11, 49 yds, 4.5 Y/A, 73.7 QB Rating Mills 6-10, 58 yds, 5.8 Y/A, 1 TD, 1 INT, 70.0 QB Rating Love 16-26, 148 yds, 5.7 Y/A, 1 INT, 61.1 QB Rating

I doubt it, in this short amount of time. Maybe if you had an entire off-season.

Biggs also reported this today:

Very cool.

Nice find. Good to see him doing some activity. We have 15 days left until Week 1 and that was 4 days ago. So 19 days to go from running the hill, to football stuff, to padded practice, to live game. 5 days per phase, he should be good to go.

For Week 1, I would rather face Lance than Jimmy G. Our defense has great edge rushers, speedy LBs, solid CBs, and Brisker and Jackson roaming. I think Smith is going to play angry. Lance is gonna have issues. The team that makes less mistakes wins.

Btw, if you haven't seen, the other young QBs have looked terrible for the most part. Lance did nothing, Love, Mills, and Jones threw picks, Wilson was bad and now hurt. Lawrence was ok, about the same as Fields so far.

The last update I saw it was an undetermined timetable but hopeful he would be back for the opener. Without any news, especially considering they are so big about a ramp up period, I can't see him playing in Week 1 if he is not at least at practice starting on Monday.

Last year, in a Matt Nagy offense, Mooney was 10th in targets, 18th in receptions, 17th in yards, and 19th in 1st Downs amongst WRs. He did that with 3 rotating QBs. If there are about 25+ WR1s in the league, I don't know what else he would need to do to qualify. What is funny is that a guy like Terry McLaurin is seen as a true #1, but check out how close their numbers are: Targets: 140v130 Mooney, Receptions: 81v77 Mooney, Yards: 1055v1053 Mooney, TDs 5v4 McLaurin Is he at the Kupp, Jefferson, Adams level? No, but those are All-Pro, Perennial Pro-Bowl WR1s. However, I think he comes in as a lower-tier WR1 with the likes of McLaurin, DJ Moore, Pittman, etc.

Just from a target share perspective, around 65% of the targets will go to your top 3 skill players, for the Bears probably WR1, TE1, RB1. At the end of the day, that 4th target will likely only see only 10-12% of the targets for a game/season. That amounts to 4-5 targets per game and 40-50 per season. Last year, in a terrible offense, Mooney was at 25.8%, 17.1% to Kmet, and 12.2% to ARob (who missed 5 games). I assume Mooney will be up to 29%, Kmet up to 21%, and Monty will take some of ARob's and jump to 12%. Monty had 9.4% last year. Goodwin averaged less than 3 targets a game, Byrd just over 2, and Graham under 2 per game. Those were targets 5, 6, and 7 who totaled 7 targets a game. So once you take Pringle and Jones, add someone like Griffin and Herbert, there are not many targets left for Sharpe, St. Brown, Harry, Ebner, etc.

They just need to replace guys at the bottom end of the roster if there are better players available. Normally that is associated with the last WR, DB, LB, DL, and OL positions.

I am rooting for the kid. He is saying all the right things. There is no shame in being an All-Pro Right Guard, just ask Quentin Nelson. Jenkins has barely played the position, so he will only get better from here. Same with Borom. Once Patrick is back, with Whitehair, and unbelievably, Jones, we can see the unit improve as a whole.