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With Nagy and Pederson's relationship, plus DeFlip's knowledge of Wentz, I think the Bears would be in the best position to make a decision on Wentz than any other team. So if they don't have full confidence in him, I doubt the Bears trade for him.

HUGE POINT here! Since all the future guarantees become dead money on Philly's books, this becomes a one-year deal, which seems like how long Pace/Nagy have left to prove they are worthy to keep around. So if all we are giving up is #20, Miller, and Foles, with the possibility of getting a 3rd or 4th rounder back + Wentz on a one year deal. That seems like it is worth it, especially if it means bringing ARob back. He would immediately become Wentz's best WR he has ever had. Kmet in his 2nd year, Mooney in his 2nd year, Monty in his 3rd. Cohen back from injury. If they can address RT and keep the interior with Whitehair, Daniels, and Mustipher, the offense would be the best group since the Cutler, Forte, Marshall, Jeffery, Bennett days.

I lol'd at this. Hilarious!

It sucks that it had to be Brady winning another one, but outside of two long crazy incompletion throws, Mahomes looked terrible behind a bad O-Line. Very interesting to see him be given every excuse in the book to justify the loss. Patchwork O-Line, Receivers dropping passes, no running game, leaky defense. Man, all those sound very familiar. It's almost like if you don't have those (like TB did), you will only get so far. That was Mahomes worst game of his career, on the biggest stage. Also, I think TB found the blueprint for success against KC, and it will be interesting to see what type of team KC can roll out in the next two years when Mahomes gets his 5th-year pay bump in 2021 and then his new contract cap number in 2022. They will need to lose one of Frank Clark, Chris Jones, or Mathieu on defense at a minimum and will lose another one in 2022, if not more. Another thing to consider is Kelce is 32 (same as Gronk), so how many peak years will he have left in the tank? KC is always going to be in the playoff hunt with Mahomes, but with teams like Buffalo and Cleveland getting better, with younger rosters, it is not going to be easy for KC to get back to the SB. Look at Seattle, back to back SB's in Wilson's rookie contract, and have not advanced past the Divisional Round since. Right now Mahomes only SB victory is against Jimmy Garappolo.

Wentz had a receiving corps comparable to Bears in 2016 in 2020. The leading WRs were Greg Ward and Travis Fulgham, what does anyone expect a QB to do? Go look at the WRs Wentz has had since his rookie year in 2016. His highest producing WR was Jordan Mathews who had 73-804 in 2016. He has never had a WR have more than 73 receptions (Mathews 2016) or over 843 receiving yards (Jeffery 2018) in a single season. Ertz is the only pass catcher to have over 75 receptions or 900 yards in a season since 2016. Also, the Eagles haven't had a 1K yard rusher in that period either. So Wentz did all of that without a 1K RB or 1K WR. Since Trubisky's rookie year, the Bears have had 2x RB seasons with over 1K and 2x WR seasons with over 1K. Howard also had 935 yds in 2018.

On Wentz, the biggest concern for me is health. If he is healthy, he is an above average QB. His TD to INT ratio from 2017-2019 was 81-21 over 40 games, which is very impressive over that length of time. In his career, he has had 19 300-yd passing games, 37 games with at least 2 TD passes, and only 13 games with multiple INTs in 68 games. He also has had 35 games with a Passer Rating above 90 and only 11 below 70. Compare to Trubisky who has only had 7 300-yd passing games, 17 games with at least 2 TD passes and 10 games with multiple INTs in 51 games. Trubisky has had 19 games with a Passer Rating above 90 and 14 games below 70. So he is a clear upgrade over Foles and Trubisky. The question is, would he be better than the #20 pick? If Miller is part of the trade, I could care less. That helps the Bears more than hurts them at this point (save some cap). If they can make the money work, at the end of the day I would rather have Wentz and Arob than Foles, Miller, without ARob. If the Bears can get back a 3rd rounder, then that lessens in the impact on the first rounder for me.

Also, how much better is Woods, Kupp, Reynolds, Higbee, Akers, Henderson than Golladay, Jones, Amendola, Hockenson, Johnson, and Swift?

Both teams took on dead money to make it happen. The Rams are in a win-now mode while being a bunch over the cap for 2021. They also don't have a 1st round pick for another 3 years. So if they don't win, they are going to fall hard and fast. Detroit got some draft capital but also took on dead money and Goff. If the Rams are good the next few years, those are expected to be mid to late 20's picks anyway. How much better do the Lions get with better players but a worse QB? Like I said before, I am not as high on Stafford as many are. Would he have been an upgrade, absolutely, but enough to offset the loss of potential starters drafted in the first round? The issue is you can't sustain success without rotating in impact guys on rookie deals or miraculously hit on UDFAs.

Lol Win win for Bears

Who knows if this is true, in-division trade?

I am not a fan of the color rush or when they do gradient color changes. I don't mind the second one, but I would have to see it with jerseys to make a final decision.

Now I am seeing news about Watson requesting a trade. So it is game on.

Well, it shows that even over that period, all it takes is one year. Up until this year and even up until the playoffs, Licht had achieved nothing but signing Brady. I am actually surprised he lasted this long. He got to hire 4 coaches. Pace has hired 2. Arians has been on two teams in that period. Who knows if he would still be the coach in Chicago. So Mark's tweet didn't really say anything other than Licht has been with the team since the Bears hired Emery and Arians was hired instead of Trestman (which was a mistake). It wasn't like Licht was some wizard. Once they got Brady, a bunch of players signed for cheap deals to play there.

My reply: The Bucs are 56-88 since 2012, before this season had one winning season (9-7) and zero playoff appearances. Arians is the 4th HC in that time.

I hope we are not. Like I said above, Stafford is the MVP of the Garbage Time League. He has been stat padding for a decade.

Rodgers has as many NFC Championship wins as Rex Grossman. Since Rodgers came into the league, the Packers have as many Super Bowl appearances as the Bears. Rodgers has lost his last 4 NFC Championship title games. This, by definition, is a loser.

Which basically makes the Bears what the Texans are now.

If he goes to the Colts, they are a 10 win team and right on the cusp of the playoffs. I don't think he elevates them any more than Rivers did.

There are some numbers that I have heard about the coverages the Bears played on the backend in 2018 vs 2019 and 2020. Supposedly there was a significant shift away from 2-High or a Cover-2 look. Pagano played more Cover-1 or Cover-3 which restricts Jackson's roaming ability because of his specific responsibilities over the top. I will believe it when I see it because to me it looks like he was playing not to get hurt and there was a distinct difference in his play prior to injury vs after.

Stafford has been the ultimate stat padding and Fantasy Football QB. He put up huge numbers on a losing team, mostly playing from behind and when a lot of teams were in prevent. I am not as high on him as others. To me he was on par with Cutler. He threw a quarter of all his TDs to Megatron. It's not hard to throw for 5k when you throw the ball 700 times. In 2012, he had 4967 yards passing but with only 20 TDs and 17 INTs. He had 727 attempts! That is insane. The year that he had 5k passing yards, he finished 3rd in the league in yards and 10 QBs had 4k. Eli Manning had 4933 yards that year. Would he be better than Foles/Trubisky, absolutely, but I don't know how much and I doubt that difference would be worth the trade value. Just my opinion.

It makes a lot of sense. He would be fairly cheap and could replace Ryan after a year or two.

In other news, Ragone is now the Falcons OC and Jay Rodgers left for LAC.

Very well respected, I don't mind this move at all. He has received a lot of praise from players and coaches.