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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.

And the thing is Trapilo is less athletic when you measure him, but if you watch his tape, he is very fluid, and rarely gets caught reaching. He's pretty polished from what Ive see on him at RT. hes not stiff, and he moves laterally well.

and that is a huge issue for Jones as anchoring was his weakness. So if he is technically "weaker", that will be a problem. Trapilo has the size, strength, etc, but is not super athletic, due to his size. Kiran has both athleticism and strength, but is not as polished of a blocker. With Thuney on that side, I almost feel like they will lean towards Trapilo because he can't train his size, and Thuney can assist on the inside to cover any lack of lateral speed. If Kiran is still learning technique, that is harder to assist with.

Not that he matters at this point, but has anyone heard or seen anything about Tyler Scott? I can see him as an easy cut candidate. Wasted draft pick, could've been Puka or Demario Douglas, or even Chase Brown (hopefully Roschon shows out so it wouldn't matter).

There have been a few. She asked Burden if he should've left school after his sophomore year (he would not have been NFL eligible). She recently asked Grady Jarrett about locker placement and who sits next to him. Of all the questions you could ask Grady Jarrett, she felt that one needed to be answered? I don't know what has gotten into her lately (no pun intended), but she really has been asking some oddball questions.

The battle for the last receiving spot is heating up. JP Richardson has been putting on a show. Tyler Scott has not. It seems Olamide is getting plenty of action as well. According to CHGO Richardson has not been doing special teams work yet but he was a good punt returner in college. If Richardson is moving up in the coaches eyes that's something to watch for because he'll need to show special teams value to make the roster. There are also battles at CB. Stevenson and Smith are splitting first team reps. Meanwhile Nahshon Wright stepped in consistently for Jaylon Johnson. I'll be watching for news on the safeties as well this week. I liked what I saw of Tysheem Johnson coming out of college. Can he contend for a spot against Jonathan Owens who IMO played poorly last year.

I know he's practicing but Braxton is clearly behind Trapilo and Amegadjie. On CHGO sports Hoge was saying this his injured leg is clearly atrophied and he has a way to go to get his strength back. He has the experience and there is a long way to go before Week 1 but he is in an uphill battle right now. Amegadjie has looked better in recent days versus where he was in minicamp. He walked off yesterday limping with what seemed to be an ankle injury. Most notable is that with Darnell Wright getting a day off they didn't not move either Amegadjie or Trapilo to the right side. I'm ready for the practice in pads this week.

Same. I think she's fantastic.

this is right. some little thing gets reported and then it becomes all anyone talks about and then the analysis where they predict the entire career of someone based on this little tidbit. And the funny thing is the tidbit is random, there are thousands of them but only a few get reported. Its all narrative and no analysis. As for Courtney Cronin, I have always liked her and she does seem to ask the tough questions. I havent noticed her falling into that category, but then again I dont watch her on Pat the Designer, and that is a highly narrative driven show, so maybe shes fitting in I dunno. Im not saying youre wrong about CC I just havent seen it (yet?) - I hope she returns to form if shes off, because she is (was?) one of the better ones.

The Bears Beat Reporters have almost become a cult. They are so self-focused. They tried to make a story out of nothing a lot, like the Caleb book excerpt thing even though every fan said "we don't care". The latest one was repeating that Johnson called the 1s off the field as a punishment when it was a timed thing and their time was up. Courtney Cronin, who used to be good, has consistently fallen into this category lately.

This kind of a comment comes from paranoid Bears fans who need to feel better about the direction of the team (not excluding myself from that). Maybe the local media should ask better questions instead of assuming this is the same old Bears offense? Normally you'd expect the national media to be doing the easy hot takes on practice with the local media understanding what's really going on. The local reporters should be embarrassed they got scooped by Breer.

Totally, repetition is how you learn the new techniques. BJ will demand he learns that and he will eventually succeed at it. Caleb is a smart player, not just a QB, he will adapt to new ideas as he goes along.

Here's a projected 53 man roster. I do not agree that Tyler Scott makes the WR room. J P Richards has been spectacular in camp. I say him. https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2025/07/27/bears-projecting-53-man-roster-90-caleb-williams-ryan-poles-ben-johnson-nfl-training-camp

that all makes sense, but i also think that BJ is committed to being a heavy play action team, and leaning on the running game - and that means Caleb has to learn to be productive under center?

Yeah, I saw that late last night cycling through my feed. Not surprised. Eberflus tried to do some of that last year in camp, but he wasn't/isn't smart enough to learn anything from it the way I'm certain Ben Johnson can. It sounds like they are trying to drill in the under center aspect of the offense, and he's not reacting to it particularly well, at this point. I'll be curious to see when the season starts if they abandon that idea and keep him primarily in the shotgun while mixing in some tempo to keep him comfortable. Hopefully he starts to take more to the things he's struggling with now, because that will make the entire offense more dynamic, but it also wouldn't surprise me if they started the year off super basic, running variations of the same few plays that the QB likes and expand from there. Peyton Manning made a HOF career out of that.

I think the components are here to get there quicker than he did in Detroit but it is a process. I predict after the bye week, we will be rolling.

...and unlike last year nobody is asking Ben how he can simplify things for Caleb. At least I haven't heard one reporter ask that question. The goal is clear: Become the best offense in the NFL. Ben has the proven plan for that and the players need to get on board.