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I was actually quite shocked to see how accurate his assessment was. Normally these bad ex-NFL QBs turned analysts (Orlovsky, Simms, Quinn) have very little clue what they are talking about. Simms said Mond should be drafted before Fields. Quinn is on Sirius and his takes are garbage. Orlovsky is on ESPN and he is hit or miss.

O'Sullivan nails it here:

Omg yes, I agree. Jackson has the tools to be one of the best safeties in the league, his work ethic is just bottom barrel. Amos was and is a steady contributor.

Crazy to think everyone, including me, fell for Jackson over Amos. It was thought Amos was a product of the situation and wouldn't play as well with lesser players around him. Funny that it was Jackson all along.

I would be shocked if he took anything less than $5AAV for at least 2 years. This is his last bigger contract before he signs a bunch of one-year deals. He is going to want that to be at least $10M total.

We are not locked into a WR in the 2nd by no means. If they sign someone like Gallup or Williams, you can go with a later round WR as WR3.

Everyone knows what Minnesota likes to do, they show A gap pressure, then either send or drop players. You can design plays off of that, and you can tell by some of the plays, Nagy didn't. Sometimes the plays ran right into the defensive formation's strengths. Who does that? Monty had several runs for loss right into the teeth of the defense. Nagy's offense is so inflexible, it is maddening.

His comments make it seem like he knows he is gone. There are several factors to his resigning, and cap is probably the biggest one. Can they afford him? They would have to get very creative to do so.

He didn't play in 2020, and he didn't impress in the preseason. Once the season starts, game evaluation becomes extremely difficult, especially for PS guys. The coaches are more worried about the 53-man roster at that time. So my assumption is it was that he was not up to game speed by the time they got an extended look. Either way, he is up and on the active roster. Hopefully that wasn't a one-game anomaly and he can pair with JJ for years to come. That makes addressing the secondary much easier, get a true SS.

All we need him to be is a CB2. That would be huge because it allows the team to address other areas of need and save money doing it (Graham on rookie deal).

The problem with Nagy it seems that his ego (or stubbornness) got in the way. Instead of just being the Head Football Coach, he tried to be this offensive guru which he was not qualified for or had the mental capacity to handle. So instead of fully relinquishing all responsibility for the offense, which should've happened in the offseason, he gave away play calling for a few games. Did you see how bad that game looked last night? That was Matt Nagy's brain on offense. Very few people can design NFL-level offenses and have plays for every coverage and game situation. Nagy is like us and he is not one of them. Hopefully, we can find one. He also failed to ever make a single adjustment, week to week, game to game, half to half. He just called random plays at random times, sometimes they worked, sometimes they didn't. Monty has two good runs in a row, pull him out, go to Wild Cat with a double reverse. Why? Just because. When things wouldn't work, he would just keep doing them. Does anyone remember CPat 3rd and Short draw up the middle for no gain last year? How many times was he going to do that? He also never took advantage of any of his player's strengths, which was clearly evident first with Trubisky, then with Monty, then CPat, then Fields. He had an offensive vision and just forced all players to run it. Foles was vocal about it. It never fit Trubisky and it is definitely not fitting Fields. I remember when Nagy was so dead set on having a single-player other than the QB be so important to the offense that if they were not in, the offense would do nothing. The Adjustor. Trey Burton, Cohen, CPat, etc. If that player was so important to key off of, who was the player this year? In essentially the same offense? Makes sense that the offense is so bad because they don't have the Adjustor.

I was always a fan of Olsen and never saw him like Kmet. Olsen was Cutler's security blanket and was scoring a lot of TDs even early on. The only reason they traded him was because of Mike Martz. Kmet is not going anywhere, I would just like him to improve his game. I agree that it doesn't help you catch while running but he needs all the help he can get catching the ball. Too many easy drops.

This team might only have 2 wins if not for Desai's defense, and they would probably have 4 more wins with even a bottom 1/3 offense. This offense is so bad it is hard to quantify. I still cannot believe they held the Vikings to that output when the offense and Special Teams gave the ball away 3 times.

What is wild about Pace is he might've had the best draft of any GM this season. Obviously very early, but there is a chance that 5-6 players drafted this year are major contributors going forward: Fields, Jenkins, Borom, Herbert, Tonga, and even Graham. That is a year removed from Kmet, Johnson, Gipson, and Mooney. So potentially half your major contributors are from the last two years of drafts. If he gets 3-4 more in 2022, that would be on par with what Seattle did. Seattle from 2010-2011 got Okung, Thomas, Tate, Thurmond, and Chancellor in 2010, then followed that up with Carpenter, Wright, Sherman, Maxwell, and Smith in 2011. 10 major contributors in two years. Then in year #3, they got Irvin, Wagner, Wilson, and Sweezy. 14 players with a franchise QB. Since that 3rd draft (2012), they have been to the playoffs 8 out of 9 years, worst record was 9-7 (the year they didn't make the playoffs), won a Super Bowl and lost the following year (when they should've ran Beast Mode). The Bears could have something that looks close to that after next year's draft with 4 more years of Fields on his rookie deal and the salary cap looking really good from 2023 on.

I was shocked, but Cole Kmet led all receivers (from both teams) in receptions and yards on MNF. For the season, he now has 49 receptions (10th among TEs) for 490 yards and is on pace for over 60 receptions and 600 yards. I didn't expect him to be a top 10 TE for how bad our passing offense has been, which seems to make his stats even that much more impressive. However, on eye test, he is a great blocker, but is not an elite pass-catching TE. I feel like he needs to spend the offseason on the jugs machine and working on small area quickness. The only good thing is he is super young, still only 22, so there is still some room for improvement based on other recent TEs (who don't seem to hit their peak years until their mid-20s. I was souring on him lately, but the whole offense has been so bad, I might have been too harsh on him and Mooney lately.

Here is how the 1st Round Rookie QBs stack up the last two weeks: Fields: 44-72, 61.1%, 509 yds, 7.07 Y/A, 3 TD, 2 INT, 16-109 yds Lawrence: 46-78, 59.0%, 431 yds, 5.53 Y/A, 0 TD, 4 INT, 6-23 yds Jones: 28-48, 58.3%, 318 yds, 6.63 Y/A, 2 TD, 2 INT, 6-9 yds Wilson: 32-65, 49.2%, 372 yds, 5.72 Y/A, 0 TD, 0 INT, 8-45 yds Jones is the only one in a great system. The other 3 are playing with very little talent, in bad schemes, on bad teams. With all that, Fields still seems to be distancing himself from the others, accounting for 150 more yards than Lawrence (2nd) over the last 2 weeks. If he can cut down on the turnovers and sacks, he is going to be elite a lot quicker than most people believe.

Depends on what they do with Pace. If he is gone, then you are correct, not much you can do now unless you fire both, hire a new GM in a week and have him start interviewing coaches. He will probably coach out the last 3 games. Just because it is the most Bears thing ever, he will probably win 1 more (NYG) and end up 5-12 so his regular season record ends up at 33-32 (still over .500) when he is fired.

With the Bears officially eliminated from playoff contention, the shift is fully on for 2022. With current contracts, the starting 22 looks like this: O - Fields, Monty, WR1, Mooney, WR3, Kmet, Jenkins, Whitehair, C, G, Borom Holes at WR1 (ARob), WR3 (Goodwin), C (Mustipher), and G (Daniels). D - Mack, Quinn, Goldman, Smith, Trevathan, Blackson, Johnson, Shelley/Graham, Jackson Holes at S (Gipson), CB2/3, and DL (Hicks/Nichols) I would probably create at least one more hole by cutting Goldman, but that would make the DL only have Blackson and Edwards coming back and that is probably not going to happen. Are Mustipher and Daniels "good enough" to resign? For WR, I would draft one and sign one to start. I hope the Bears bring back Horsted at TE, he fits Fields better than Kmet does. Jakeem Grant is not under contract, it makes sense to bring him back, especially if they don't bring Cohen back.

Nagy called the plays, which is why the offense was so chaotic. For the most part the offense was intact outside of ARob, who was worthless anyway, so no excuse for basically scoring once with so many trips into scoring position. I thought Jenkins played better, the holding and false start were ticky tack calls and are not always called. I liked that he stuck up for Fields. Why has Graham been stuck on the PS all season with Vildor and Burns playing as bad as they have been? That is a mystery. Graham looked really good, tackled and supported the run really well. Fields needs to take better care of the ball and needs to get rid of the ball. Hopefully, that will come with reps, but he took a couple of sacks that were avoidable if he just threw it away. I am done with Kmet, he can't catch the football. Horsted has more TDs this season than Kmet has his entire career. Make Kmet the blocking TE, then don't resign him. The Bears kept Graham over Patterson, think about that for a second. The WRs after Robinson are all smaller guys under 190 lbs. Mooney and Byrd are complementary players. The Bears need some bigger bodies. No one was helping Fields, too many dropped passes, even Herbert did. Monty fumbled too. I won't even get started on the refs, but 10 pts came from bogus calls, several on 3rd Downs to keep the Vikings drives going. They scored a TD on one and a FG on another. The Bears probably kick some FGs if they are not down 2 TDs. Could've been a GW drive at the end. It is amazing how a few bad calls flip the entire game. The defense held Cousins to 87 passing yards, Jefferson to 47 receiving yards, and Cook to 89 yards (3.2 per carry) and still lost. This was the ultimate Nagy game. He should be fired for this alone:

This is what you get when you try to play a physical sport during a pandemic. The only way to prevent spread is by separation/isolation, which is not going to happen. If I was a team, I would seriously consider that for the playoffs, or at least thru the Conference Championship Game. 6 weeks is not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. I still can't believe we are dealing with this 2 years later and the cases are higher now than they were for most of 2020.

If he wasn't making top 5 Safety money, I wouldn't be so tough on him. It is interesting that the Bears had as many players on the C19 list as WFT, yet the MNF game wasn't moved.

He doesn't answer a single question. At this point, it seems like it's because he doesn't know or have an answer. No offense to him, but he doesn't even sound like an NFL Head Coach. He seems like someone the team threw out there for the press conference.

Bears have a bunch of players injured and on C19 list. Minnesota leads the league in sacks but allows the 4th most yards (only behind NYJ, HOU, and SEA), and is in the bottom 8 in pts against. Bears are at home and Cousins is 3-9 in primetime on the road (last win at Soldier Field lol). The only positive is ARob, EJack, and Goldman are not playing. Those are additions by subtractions. Hopefully, Ifedi or Wilkenson can play at RT. This team is a mess, from the top to bottom. Hard to pick them to win in these conditions. I am just hoping for a solid game from Fields with no turnovers. Vikings 31-17

BTW, outside of punting at 4th and inches down 11 in GB territory, Nagy only gave Monty 1 carry in the 2nd half. Talk about lack of adjustments. He is such a bad coach and you can tell it has rubbed off on some of the players. There is zero accountability. Former professionals like ARob can just take plays off and nothing is done about it. Jackson should've been benched multiple times for his lack of effort, yet he is allowed to roam around the secondary as the 11th player on the field doing absolutely nothing. He had his first pass defended of the season against GB. His first. As much as a "player's coach" is liked, they still have to draw a line and I don't think Nagy did that. Same for Pace, I heard he is one of those guys that avoids confrontation. As the GM, you are going to have to make hard decisions, and at times, there will be confrontations that you will have to address. Avoiding them doesn't make them go away.

I heard Ifedi might be back too, or at least he is practicing. There were high hopes for him in the offseason. With Borom out we need someone better than Simmons on that side.