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Or she was the one they used to spread disinformation.

Im not ready to call it a pattern yet I guess. When we get to where there are more substantial issues to ask about, if she keeps doing this, then I have to agree with you that maybe someone is writing her questions or making her do this?

that sucks. I hope its sooner, but that isnt good at all.

Ugh, looks like Shemar Turner is out for at least a month with an ankle sprain.

Another possibility is that she just set such a high bar that there really is nowhere to go but down for her.

and what do you base that it was never in play on? I dont get it. She says she has league sources that were telling her the Bears were serious about Jeanty, but the deal just never got made because they couldnt find middle ground on the price. How can you disprove that? And why would you want to?

OK, I went back and found it. Apparently when a college player comes out their junior year, the website she uses for stats calls the players last year their senior year. so there were stats for his sophomore year, and then his "senior" year and she was confused about that. Its understandable - i dont think it's a knock on her, it was just a mistake based on her not fully understanding why there was a gap from Sophomore to Senior on the stat website. In explaining this she said she wasnt sure what the gap was about, and mentioned covid as an example of these things being weird in stat books. And I remembered that, but she never said it was covid, that was just my poor memory. Anyway, here it is if anyone cares. Watch from 40 minutes in to hear the story.

but her reporting was just that it was likely, or heating up - and that could still be true even if it didnt end up happening! I still believe she was reporting facts - that we were interested - that talks happened.

My bad. I didn't see the sarcasm. When in English Comp, they taught us that the written word is way easier to construe than the spoken, due to inflection, body language and facial expression.

Luther burden returned to the field. He’s still limited but it’s nice to finally get him going. In just two practices Loveland is already showing why we drafted him.

The first day of pads , the one and ones between OL and DL, the OL keeps winning. A real good sign. Beat writers are saying everyone looks good, all the LTs.

Nashon Wright getting a lot of snaps in place of JJ being hurt. He was in Dallas when Al Harris was there and he recomended him. 6'4" 190 with man coverage skills. The only 40 time I could find was 4.49 speed. Was on Minnys PS last year and practiced against Viking WRs. He may be a gem in the rough. Al Harris is well respected and likes him and wanted us to draft Zak Frazier. We will soon find out how smart Al Harris really is.

Plenty of decisions to condemn Poles for but here we are in the 4th year of a rebuild and we are ready to shine. The most important decisions Poles did was draft Caleb and hire BJ. I am happy we are at this point in time of all the ducks are align in a row, and dont care how he got here, we are here. Its time to deliver and I believe this is the year we become playoff bound.

Somebody likes taking everything I say and wants to argue about it. I was being sarcastic. After the draft she said apparently the price was to high. I suggest, it was never in play.

What's the use of finding the podcasts? She said trying and price was too high. Game over.

I think we hit gold.

and Scott followed Velus. The Bears are basically down a 2nd rounder, 3rd rounder, and 4th rounder on the roster because early Poles has been terrible beyond the 2nd round. Hopefully he starts hitting on a few. You can probably add Pickens to that list as a 3rd rounder. Pickens is probably worse than Scott because he was picked 64th overall.

Your last statement is what makes things more baffling, because to me, she was asking the most relevant questions, and would let the other meatballs ask the off the wall questions. Lately, she has just asked things that seem out of character for her. Burden was in H.S. during COVID. There is no gap in his stats, he was a FR in 22, So in 23, and Ju in 24. If you hear the question to Jarrett, she just asked about the importance of locker placement. If she wanted more specifics about his leadership and mentoring, ask about those directly. Those are only two, but there have been more and really have only started recently. I wonder if she has a new research team or someone else is creating the questions for her?

Okay ( narrative ) was a bad choice of words. I seen her on 4 podcasts and she was very positive that this would happen, suggested inside info. Do you want me to find the 4 podcasts or are we good she was pushing that this was highly likely to happen? And we didnt do it.

she never guaranteed that both sides would make the trade - she said there was strong interest and they were talking. And i am sure that we did talk to them, but it sounds like the price was too high. But thats not a narrative. A narrative is when you conclude some total outcome, like that a player will be good or bad based on one detail. It's a story more than a fact that gets passed around again and again until people start making conclusions from it. "Bears will fail because Caleb paints his nails" is a good example of a narrative. "Bears wont take ______ because his arms are too short" is another example of a narrative. That the Bears were sniffing around Jeanty isnt a narrative, if shes hearing that from league sources. If instead she said "Bears are sniffing around Jeanty so they wont take Henderson" THAT would be a narrative.

Pads go on Monday so all questions will be answered. I wish Jones was up to speed and played well that would give us a tradable asset if Ozzy plays well and Kiran is coming along. At least it would project him getting and over 20 mil contract and get a comp 3rd round pick. I think if Ozzy and Kiran are equal they go with Ozzy that looks to have more upside. Kiran is valuable because we need quality depth. Having Braxton and Kiran to back up OTs is a good thing for depth.

Yes its a wasted 3rd round pick but to suggest we missed out on Puka is reaching. He was pick 177, everyone passed on Puka many times. Looking back at drafting and then finding players that did well in the draft behind Scott is wasted breath. Those statements should be made when the draft is complete, like we should have took Puka instead before knew how good he was. I like CC a lot, a very well spoken smart lady of football, but she is good at pushing narratives. Before the draft she said insiders said we were trading up to 5th pick and taking Jeanty. I seen 4 different podcasts she was guested on and was liike guarranting it. Then after the fact, the cost of the trade was to much cost. I think if Jeanty was there at 10, we would have taken him but they wanted more draft picks not trading them away. The Raiders were definitily going to take him, I think the Bears planned on how the draft was going to fall and expected to take Loveland. BJ said every job was in competetion and JP getting reps and Scott invisible lets us know, he's gone.

The question to burden was about her misreading the year code. It got messed up due to covid or something, and she saw 2 years, but didnt realize he wasnt a sophomore. She owned that one, and while it was dumb, it makes sense what confused her. As for those personal type questions, often reporters are looking for quotes. They might want to write about Grady's leadership for example, and so she asks who he sits next to, maybe hoping to hear about a young player he is mentoring? When things are more visible, we will see if she gets back to the tough questions. For a while there she was the only one really asking them.