Not an original thought, but it’s straight up malpractice that the Chiefs didn’t add a receiver at the trade deadline. I mean, this is going to cost them a shot at another ring.

Chase >>>> Synchrony

If you think trading for Sweat and paying him $100M is one for the win column I don’t know what to tell you.

I’ve been dreaming of a combo of an AirPort mesh WiFi, wired Smoke Detector, and Home Hub.

I’d have a WiFi hub on every floor. I’d be able to free up counter/cabinet space from my HomePods and Eeros that I don’t really need, and I’d be able to replace my Google Nest Detectors and remove the final Google and Amazon devices from my ecosystem.

If we end up drafting in the 7-10 slot, he’d be awesome.

This year nobody. Next year, hopefully it’s a rookie inline TE with a little more long term potential.

On a good team, yes. You need those guys. On a bad team, you need opportunities for players to break out.

Yannick Ngakoue - NO

Justin Jones - NO

Lucas Patrick - NO

Dan Feeney - NO

Cairo Santos - 100% YES

Robert Tonyan Jr. - NO

Rasheem Green - YES

Marcedes Lewis - NO

D’Onta Foreman - YES

Jaylon Johnson - YES (so long as the number isn’t insane)

EQ St. Brown - NO

Dylan Cole - NO

Trent Taylor - NO

Darnell Mooney - YES

That’s about it. We can’t afford to keep all these one year veteran rentals. Our young players need to see the field. We need to use those roster spots to find cheap young talent that we can grow with. We’re not a competitive team so let’s act like a team that’s hunting for building blocks, not placehodlers.

I think you undervalue roster spots. It’s hurts your chances of improving when guys who could never crack the startling lineup are here. Guys like EQ, Feeney, Tonyan and Lewis need to go. I’d much rather roll the dice on a UDFA blocking TE in that Lewis spot.

Those veterans ought to be depth on an established roster. Not on a team in a youth movement.

The Bears are a conservative organization. They have a new GM and a new President. Poles knew from the get go that this was a complete tear down and rebuild. He probably said as much to Eberflus when he was hired. In general coaches are usually given 3 years to turn an organization around, though that’s becoming less of a norm than it was 15-20 years ago.

So, yeah, there’s a dozen reasons to think Eberflus will be back for year 3. It will all come down to whether Poles thinks Eberflus has been irredeemably bad as an HC or not. We can point at a handful of outwardly apparent red flags, but we don’t know if there are mitigating circumstances.

I think he’s gone, but it’s absolutely in doubt.

He’s a converted OT. And he has issues snapping the ball. Not sure I’m ready for that rollercoaster again.

Probably true. But with scarce draft capital if we do pony up for a FA I’d rather use the pick on pass catchers or pass rushers.

We have young players at LT, RT and LG. I think I’d prefer we address Center though the draft so we can keep a young core together for the next 5-6 years.

A veteran might be a safer short term answer but if there’s a high quality Center available when we’re picking on day two we need to pull the trigger.

No. It’s the players. Coaching might cost us a win or two, but we’re one of the worst teams in football for two years running because of the players. Most notably the QB.

I want the Bears to draft a middle round QB no matter what. Even if we take Caleb we should draft another QB prospect if the value makes sense. You can’t have too many lottery tickets at QB.

Maybe Bagent is the answer at QB2. Fields isn’t the answer at QB1, but if we go with your proposal, we still need to grab another QB who could maybe become the next Russ, Kirk or Brady.

If we take Caleb and move on from Fields we should still grab a QB for the exact same reason. If Caleb gets hurt or busts we should have another roll of the dice on the roster.

Next year, we should draft another QB unless we have a absolute stud at QB with zero questions. And if Caleb is that stud, we still draft a QB every 3 years just in case.

QB is more important than every other position by a factor of 10.

No one is excusing the coaching.

Fields Stans resorting to lame straw men at this point.

Um? WTF? The Lions offense was terrible against our terrible defense.

This sub is so dumb sometimes (most of the time).

The bad and most likely way, “Justin go out there and just try to get a first down, no turnovers.”

Or the good way, “go out there and be you, let it rip.”

This is incredibly stupid. In that situation you need to play smart football. You absolutely need to reinforce the no turnovers message. “Be you” is some idiotic Nagy-level meaningless junk. If Fields isn’t capable of running a 4 minute drive because “that’s not him” then there’s never been a more damning thing said about him.

We are absolutely not better than either Arizona or New England.

This fucking place.

Talk about the lamest straw man ever.