ASHKUM BEAR Posted April 4, 2020 Report Share Posted April 4, 2020 23 minutes ago, Mongo3451 said: Yes! If it awakens Mitch, great. We have a young QB. If Foles comes in a flourishes, then I think we will be happy too. Hopefully with Graham, Burton, and Holtz we have production from TE. Draft OT and RG and Massie and Leno will be thinking this could be their last big check and have to step up with Ifedi in the mix also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZ54 Posted April 4, 2020 Report Share Posted April 4, 2020 12 hours ago, ASHKUM BEAR said: If it awakens Mitch, great. We have a young QB. If Foles comes in a flourishes, then I think we will be happy too. Hopefully with Graham, Burton, and Holtz we have production from TE. Draft OT and RG and Massie and Leno will be thinking this could be their last big check and have to step up with Ifedi in the mix also. Realize we're all just hoping for average QB play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZ54 Posted April 4, 2020 Report Share Posted April 4, 2020 https://twitter.com/AdamHoge/status/1246128764905553924 Adam Hoge "Nick Foles just said if he didn't agree to "a crazy restructure" the trade wouldn't have happened and he'd still be in Jacksonville. He wanted to be in Chicago and so he made it happen." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZ54 Posted April 5, 2020 Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 He sure sounds like a QB who plans on playing this year. https://www.chicagobears.com/video/nick-foles-excited-for-the-culture-in-chicago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam Posted April 5, 2020 Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 3 hours ago, AZ54 said: He sure sounds like a QB who plans on playing this year. https://www.chicagobears.com/video/nick-foles-excited-for-the-culture-in-chicago Also, the team is still non-committal on Mitch's 5th year option, which has to be decided on by May. If they wanted Mitch to succeed, they would've picked up the option already. The fact that they haven't means they are contemplating the risk vs reward in terms of comp picks. They picked up Floyd's option and got burnt (lost comp pick) and they may feel like the comp pick potential is greater than Mitch's ability to turn it around, which is a damning statement about how they truly feel about him. My opinion is this. Nagy took the job in hopes of making it work with Trubisky. After two seasons, he has realized that it's not going to work. He then tells Pace that he needs a new QB, and Pace brings in Foles. Pace is going to go down with the burning ship instead of just admitting his mistakes. It's ok to be wrong in this business, but when you continually make the same errors and then attempt to ride them out just to be right will end up getting you fired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chitownhustla Posted April 5, 2020 Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 4 hours ago, adam said: Also, the team is still non-committal on Mitch's 5th year option, which has to be decided on by May. If they wanted Mitch to succeed, they would've picked up the option already. The fact that they haven't means they are contemplating the risk vs reward in terms of comp picks. They picked up Floyd's option and got burnt (lost comp pick) and they may feel like the comp pick potential is greater than Mitch's ability to turn it around, which is a damning statement about how they truly feel about him. My opinion is this. Nagy took the job in hopes of making it work with Trubisky. After two seasons, he has realized that it's not going to work. He then tells Pace that he needs a new QB, and Pace brings in Foles. Pace is going to go down with the burning ship instead of just admitting his mistakes. It's ok to be wrong in this business, but when you continually make the same errors and then attempt to ride them out just to be right will end up getting you fired. How do you want Pace to admit he's wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted April 5, 2020 Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 5 hours ago, adam said: Also, the team is still non-committal on Mitch's 5th year option, which has to be decided on by May. If they wanted Mitch to succeed, they would've picked up the option already. The fact that they haven't means they are contemplating the risk vs reward in terms of comp picks. They picked up Floyd's option and got burnt (lost comp pick) and they may feel like the comp pick potential is greater than Mitch's ability to turn it around, which is a damning statement about how they truly feel about him. My opinion is this. Nagy took the job in hopes of making it work with Trubisky. After two seasons, he has realized that it's not going to work. He then tells Pace that he needs a new QB, and Pace brings in Foles. Pace is going to go down with the burning ship instead of just admitting his mistakes. It's ok to be wrong in this business, but when you continually make the same errors and then attempt to ride them out just to be right will end up getting you fired. Maybe they are also waiting to see if anyone they believe is worth it falls to them in the draft before they outright cut him. Just saying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mongo3451 Posted April 5, 2020 Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 29 minutes ago, Bill said: Maybe they are also waiting to see if anyone they believe is worth it falls to them in the draft before they outright cut him. Just saying. I know that was tongue and cheek, but Mitch ain't going anywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZ54 Posted April 7, 2020 Report Share Posted April 7, 2020 On 4/4/2020 at 8:05 AM, AZ54 said: https://twitter.com/AdamHoge/status/1246128764905553924 Adam Hoge "Nick Foles just said if he didn't agree to "a crazy restructure" the trade wouldn't have happened and he'd still be in Jacksonville. He wanted to be in Chicago and so he made it happen." Apparently crazy restructure made his deal so he only has a cap hit of $5.3mil this year. We still have $11.4mil in cap space per OTC. Spotrac still shows Foles with a $15.6mil cap hit this year. https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/chicago-bears/ Not restructured yet: ARob. If that gets done we could have even more cap space available plus we still have Shaheen and Braunecker on the roster. Aside from signing a FA Safety or some bargain shopping among Oline cuts but I'm not sure there's anything else we'll do in FA. Pace could try to sign someone like RRH long term. Instead of using Robinson's deal to free up cap space he could front load it a bit to make 2021 easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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