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LOL, Andy Dalton assures the Bears get a better draft pick by completely crapping the bed in the 2nd half. So the Bears slide back to 8th unless SEA beats ARZ, then they would draft 7th. 7 - SEA 6-10, .518 ARZ 8 - CHI 6-11, .520

So Dalton found a worse thing to do on 4th Down, a Pick-6. Unbelievable. What a loser. I am so glad Nagy is gone. He is such a bum, it is not even funny anymore.

5 DBs in a circle jerk covering neither WR. Unbelievable. However, an epic collapse and loss is totally a Nagy thing. One team made halftime adjusts and it wasn't the Bears.

This is why I don't want Eddie Jackson anywhere near this team next year. Take the dead money and be done with this bum:

BTW Jenkins is in at LT and he is looking pretty good. He plays to the whistle every play even when the ball is not near him.

Nagy brings TEs and WRs into the box from the outside which adds a defender, then runs right at that extra guy. Why not spread it out and make them choose between the box and coverage? All Monty needs is a little space.

Dalton has taken 3 4th Down sacks in scoring territory. So to those who think Dalton is better than Fields because he doesn't take sacks, Fields would at least have a chance to escape. My God that was bad. This offense is still terrible.

Projections at halftime: 7 - SEA 6-10, .518 ARZ 8 - ATL 7-9, .462 NO 9 - MIN 7-10, .515 10 - DEN 7-10, .482 11 - CHI 7-10, .520 12 - WFT 7-10, .532 13 - CLE 7-9, .524 Drafting 11th would seem like a fitting position because that is what they traded up to for Fields.

It looks like he thought it was a penalty and push off. Really odd for him to just give up on the play when the WR caught the ball inbounds without being touched.

Mooney hit 1K receiving yards, not bad for a 2nd year player who is a 5th round pick.

Monty is running hard.

Nagy's route concepts are hot garbage. A monkey could design better routes. Half the time there are no hots or multiple receivers in the same area which makes it easier to cover.

Bears at Vikings, no Fields. Both teams playing for pride? It would be such a Bear thing to do, so Bears 23-17.

That sentence was QBs only. Pace has signed Clausen, Barkley, Hoyer, Glennon, Sanchez, Daniel, and Dalton (Foles was a trade). If you go back and look at the QBs available each year and what some signed for with other teams, that list could be significantly better. However, your statement about the other FAs actually reinforces Pace's departure. He is a 45% GM. Even his free agents are good for about 45% of the time. Quinn, 50%, one great year, one terrible year. Hicks? 2 years with 15+ games, 2 years with 9 or less. Trevathan is the same as Hicks. 2 years with 16 games, one year with 12, two with 9 and this year with 5 games. That is very average at best. BTW, Trevathan is still on contract at 32 next season for $6M. ARob is a 75% and probably one of the highlights, but his highest salary year and the franchise tag got the Bears what exactly this year? I mean, if there was any year to perform, it was supporting the rookie QB and ARob failed miserably. Also, out of the 4 guys you mentioned, only two will be on the roster next year, maybe even one. I will give Pace credit for hitting on the lower end market, however, he has also whiffed there as well. Remember Dion Sims, Quintin Demps, Marcus Cooper, Markus Wheaton, Benny Cunningham? Cody Parkey, Trey Burton, Aaron Lynch? Mike Davis? Buster Skrine, Marvin Hall, Haha Clinton-Dix, Barkevious Mingo, Artie Burns? So for every Brent Urban, there is a Markus Wheaton. For every Blackson, a Davis. To be a winning football team with sustained success, you have to have more hits and bigger hits than misses. Pace just doesn't have that. Even guys that seemed like draft steals are average picks (Cohen, Jackson). At this point, I don't even care who the new coach is. I just want to know who it is and who the OC is going to be.

Oh wow, I thought he gave it up years ago. I didn't realize he was still doing the job into his late 80s. That is wild.

That's the thing, if you keep Pace, you are ok projecting what he has done in the past into the future. So do we want 1 winning season in the next 7? 0 playoff wins for 7 more years? This is a totally different story if the Bears have had at least a few consecutive years of success (winning record) with at least one playoff win. Also, the one winning season is about to be 4 seasons ago (played 3 seasons since) and after that one year the Bears have been 22-26, averaging 7 wins a year. That is exactly who the Bears are and have been under Pace. Do we want that to continue? I would say Payton is the only HC I would be ok with for retaining Pace. Any other HC I would rather go in another direction without Pace.

The more I look back at Pace's tenure, the more I think he has to be gone too. Last year around this time they held a press conference and basically tied Pace and Nagy together. How could Pace survive but Nagy goes when it's Pace's roster? He was the one who had no plan at CB and OL and backed himself into a corner with Fuller and Leno that could've been resolved before last season ended. A team is what the record states and is indicative of the players they have. They are either hits or misses. So if you go thru all of Pace's free-agent signings and draft picks, he has more misses than hits (probably around 40%) which correlates almost perfectly to the Bears record with him as GM. Leno ended up having a rebound year and was just extended by WFT for a reasonable price, that was a miss. Fuller was terrible this year, so Pace is 50%. Pace let CPat walk and he ended up a Pro Bowler with ATL and 5th in total yards. The Bears player with the most all-purpose yards? Khalil Herbert with 1132 and is 33rd in the NFL. Drops Pace to 33%. You can keep doing that and I bet it is no better than 45%, right where the Bears have been with Pace the entire time. For me, looking back, 2018 was an anomaly. Easy schedule with the defense getting way too many turnovers to make it sustainable. That was more like a 9 win team with 3 wins from the schedule and turnover margin. I really hope he is gone. He has had 2x HCs and drafted 2x 1st Round QBs while also signing several vets and none have worked out. Fields is the only one that has a chance, but even he is no sure thing. Lastly, this should've been done last year. Everyone seemed to think 2021 was a reset year anyway and didn't have Super Bowl projections. If there was a new regime, they could've treated it like that and got the roster and cap in better shape for 2022. It's ok, but could be a lot better.

Uncle Buck, you are being too nice lol. 2015: Eddie Goldman - overpaid DL who had 1 good year. Not even seen as a good pick anymore. 2016: Whitehair - only name in 2016 worth mentioning and he is an average interior lineman. 2017: Jackson and Cohen - this seemed like a good draft, but whoa. Jackson has been an under average Safety since his injury in 2018. Cohen hasn't played in 2 years. 2018: Roquan, Daniels, Nichols - This is a decent group but who knows if they will even resign Daniels or Nichols. 2019: Montgomery - Solid pick but RBs are so replaceable nowadays. 2020: Kmet, Johnson, Gipson, Mooney - Probably his 2nd best draft, but he drafted Kmet over WR, Johnson was a good pick, Gipson has flashed, and Mooney is a solid WR2. 2021: This might end up Pace's best draft, but it is all dependent on Fields. Nothing else matters. Then you have the whiff on Trubisky. Check out this tweet from Dan Durkin comparing Pace to other GMs who have been in the job as long or longer than him: Pace is dead last in pretty much every category. I don't know how Mike Brown still has a job with the Bengals or Telesco with the Chargers.

I am just trying to project what the new regime will do. If you watch the tape, Goldman has been near replacement level this year, missed some games, and was out all last year. He only played 15 snaps in the last game where the Giants were primarily running the ball. If there was ever a game for him to dominate the middle, it was that game, and he was a ghost. If you go back and look at games from 2018 and 2019, you will already see a change. He got paid and his performance declined. At this point the cap space and roster spot are more valuable than he is.

So it looks like the Falcons may try to move Calvin Ridley. He is going into his 5th year option year, and will have a $11.1M cap hit next year. The Falcons have $11M in cap space, but with only 30 players signed. They have some terrible contracts. Deion Jones has a cap hit of $20M with $24M in dead money. Immovable. Matt Ryan? $48M cap hit with $40M in dead money. Jake Matthews? $23.6M with $19.5M in dead money. The easy cut is Grady Jarrett, instead of $23.8M cap hit, they can save $16.5M by cutting him. That is all but guaranteed. So if they take the Jarrett cap space, they will have $27.5M for 22 players. Still not much wiggle room. Moving someone like Ridley would make sense. I would be open to trading a 3rd for him with a body. Maybe someone like Attaochu, if he is not cut. They get a pass rusher on the cheap and a draft pick. What would you be willing to give up to get him?

It's crazy to think Cohen got injured on September 27th, 2020. Again, 2020. If he plays again, the next regular-season game for him will be almost 2 yrs since the injury. Something is not right. Some players have been back in 9 months from an ACL. I don't think he is coming back. He seems more interested in gaming than playing football. After that type of injury who can blame him. For early cuts, with a new regime, he is gone. There is no way they are paying him that kind of money as an unknown. I think Goldman is another easy cut. That would free up $9M in cap space. Another guy is Attaochu. I would designate him a post June 1st cut and take $2.7M in cap space while only taking on 400K in dead money. The trick with post June cuts is you can't use the space until after June 1st. So that would be used to sign late free agents. People talk about the Bears only having 35 players under contract, so the $41M is not that much. There are a lot of teams with less than 40 players and with less cap space than the Bears. The Texans, Lions, Chiefs, Bucs, Cards, 49ers, Falcons, and Titans all have less than 40 players under contract and less cap than the Bears. The Saints, Packers, Cowboys, and Vikings are over the cap. Rams, Giants, Bills, Titans, Falcons, and 49ers have a negative effective cap space. The Bears are 12th in cap space and are no worse than 15th in terms of effective cap space (top 51 projection). To me, that is a lot better than it could be.

I hope he comes back as well. We haven't had that spark on special teams in awhile.

I am not denying Rodgers' greatness, but outside of low INTs, he didn't do enough in my opinion for the award. Is he top 5, absolutely, but the winner? Not if I had a vote. Which game, series, drive, etc makes Rodgers an MVP candidate? He beat up on a bad division this year. 16 TDs to 0 INTs against the NFC North and he still somehow lost a game (4-1). He had 0 TD and 1 INT against SEA, they won 17-0. Had only 184 yards against ARZ, they won. 202 yds vs CLE, another win. Compare to Tom Brady who had zero games with less than 210 passing yards, but also had 3x 400 yard games. There is also the assumption that he won't play this week, so there is a great chance that he won't even be in the top 10 in passing yards, is already 12th in completions, and would not be in the top 5 in Passing TDs. So from a team contribution standpoint, it probably should be Brady, Taylor, Kupp, then any one of Rodgers, Mahomes, Allen, Burrow, and Prescott.

This seems fishy. Any close contacts? The other QBs?

I figure he will be in the mix of this group: Harbaugh - all the reasons mentioned above Pederson - successful HC, SB winner, has already been to Halas Hall as an advisor McDaniels - he was a candidate before, success with QBs Moore - young offensive mind, former QB Daboll - young offensive mind, really helped Allen evolve into elite QB Leftwich - young offensive mind, former QB Bowles - if they go defense, he is a name to watch Frazier - same as Bowles, obvious Bears connections Day - Fields OU HC, long shot, but you never know I would be surprised if the next HC was not one of those guys.