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If true I commend George. He wants (should want) a full accounting of Nagy and how he'll perform with his new QB. This is an indisputable NFL QB talent/prospect and there are no more excuses for Nagy on the QB situation holding back his offense. The worst thing would be to let Nagy go through this season 8-8 with Dalton as QB and us not knowing. George should want to know if Nagy is the right guy to develop Fields.

I think these stats are showing what physically talented rookie QBs can do as a baseline. Haskins has arm talent. As fans I still believe we underestimate just how much these first year QBs have to learn. I'm oversimplifying it (a lot) but it's basically backyard football early on in the rookie season and the arm (or running) talent will get you a base level of performance stats whether you are Trubisky, Jackson, Haskins, Lawrence, Jones (Daniel or Mac), Fields, Kyler Murray, etc. I get there are fliers out there like Herbert but if I could put rookie QB stats into a control chart we'd likely see a trend of upper and lower limits for the vast majority of these QBs. Like your grades in elementary school, I don't think the rookie season necessarily correlates to future success. Especially true for the first half. I definitely want to see continued growth from Fields in the last part of the season.

I think it’s more about the upward trend than overall stats.

If Dalton intended to show teams he’s still a viable starter it didn’t work. Detroit’s head coach is in over his head but there’s no way this win did anything to save Nagy’s job.

There is always a fog around any big organizational changes, in any company.

Might be the long term plan. I believe they’ll want Phillips to close the new stadium deal as that stuff is his strength afterward I could see Phillips retiring.

Missing from all this is the obvious point that if Nagy gets fired midseason it means Pace is staying. .

I lean this way as well... we're closer than we think we are. Not Superbowl close but this isn't a total rebuild. Looking at our season so far I think competent coaching changes at least 2 games our way, maybe 3, with the same roster. With Fields on board finding a WR1 isn't mandatory IMO. We can do what the Rams have done and go with several competent WR2. Newsome may yet be one of them, we need to see him play before the year is out. Get rid of Nagy's pet players. He wants the speed/trick play guys (Byrd, Cohen, Patterson, etc.) but never knows how to fit them into the offense. It's not that I don't want to have one of these type of players on the roster but as far as I'm concerned our PR/KR Grant can fill that role. TE is good with Kmet, James (re-sign ), and can anyone explain why we aren't using Horsted more on offense? He is exactly what Fields needs as a compliment to Kmet's inline play. Instead Nagy sticks with Graham. If we let Horsted go we're going to regret it. I'm good with Holtz too in his current role. Oline I usually defer to those with more insight but while we know Jenkins is a big question mark right now it's quite possible he and Borom are our bookend OTs. We're ok at OG IMO. So if we need to fix the center position that's not a sky-is-falling proposition. More or less for offense we need to fix a couple WR spots and OC plus scheme/play caller. Dline isn't all bad either. I'm good with Goldman as he is starting to round into form. IMO he's getting back to the player he used to be. The missing piece has been Hicks and he just can't stay healthy at this point in his career. I'd re-sign him to a very team friendly deal but he's backup/part-time material and should be paid accordingly. We need to find his replacement. If Tonga can improve it might be as simple as moving Goldman out to DE. Nichols won't cost much we need to keep him around. Draft an interior pass rusher. OLB: I'm keeping Mack unless a team gives us those two picks someone mentioned earlier. He's still a force against both run and pass even if not an elite edge rusher anymore. Quinn will be ok next year and I expect Trevis Gipson to be improved. It's just not a position we need to break and rebuild when we have other issues. If we can get improved interior rush the edges will be more productive. ILB: Roquan is going to get paid. He's everywhere and sometimes looks like he's doing everyone else's job. We can find a complimentary piece to play next to him for a reasonable price. CB: Gotta fix this spot opposite Jaylon Johnson but when you consider finding the CB1 in Johnson is the more difficult challenge we should be able to correct this. S: This is our biggest issue on defense and it's such a huge hole it makes all others look bad. Eddie Jackson will be gone. He has $5mil guaranteed and there's no reason to throw even more money than that his way. Expect him to be a late cut to spread out the hit. Tayshaun Gipson is just always late to the party, we need replacements at both spots. I'd even consider using our 2nd Rd pick to fix this position but scanning draft boards the talent isn't there. I haven't done much scouting but I like Lewis Cine out of Georgia as a mid-rd pick.

That is the most depressing rumor I've ever heard. If it comes to pass I will continue to honor his request as I am the "customer" he said he's glad to lose, and I'll find a new team.

Thanks. While I'm busy with the family you and everyone else here are keeping me up to date on all things Bears. Plus your perspectives on how our players and team compare to others around the league is always a nice read.

Never would have thought of that but it makes sense.

Jackson is an elite runner, he's so quick in his cuts but tonight he appeared to be less mobile. Instead of running away from pass rushers he more often hurried his throwing motion to get rid of the ball often with poor results.

Thank you. She is back home now but has a long road to recovery. So far she's off to a good start and is already able to stand and walk a little bit.

The stats are great and I love his effort have but it would be nice to see a safety supporting the run and pass better so Roquan didn't have to make plays everywhere.

I watched most games this year and only missed games due to being with my wife while she was hospitalized for 2 weeks. Couldn't tell you a thing about last year because I only caught a few quarters of actions here and there.

If I had watched any football last year I might agree.

Just making sure we are talking about this Kyle Fuller? https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/10/22/after-high-profile-signing-broncos-have-benched-kyle-fuller/

At this point it no longer matters because they are about to change the definition of vaccinated for the 2nd time in 6 months so that nobody in the US is vaccinated against COVID. He does understand the risk factors quite well but whatever decision he made he should have stood by it publicly and followed the rules. That's a real lack of character but it's not surprising to see from him.

I"m 100% with you on this. I saw Adam's post on the NYG having the 8th pick in the draft. That won't hold but even if it does I don't care because we have Justin Fields and I feel pretty good about that right now.

For the money we're paying him and his part-time status of 50-75% of defensive snaps, Ogletree has been good. He has 27 solo tackles vs. 26 for Jackson. He also has 3 passes defensed vs. 0 for Jackson.

I'm smiling just thinking about it.

I never expected anyone to offer much if anything for ARob. Since we aren't likely to make much use of freeing up his cap space any offer would have to be at least equal to what we expect we'll get in a comp pick, keeping in mind of course that there's a year and a round difference between the comp pick vs. 2022. I don't see a reason to give him away when our most important project this season, developing Fields, is helped by keeping ARob.

Mahomes still has elite arm talent but I said before that draft in college he had some very Cutler-esque games with multiple INTs. It's in his nature to do all things possible to make the play. Of course those plays can end up on highlight reels for both offense and defense. This was my biggest question with him... how would he handle things when the talent around him isn't as good. He was brought into a perfect situation and made the most of it. I've seen him play in a couple games this year and it's definitely interesting watching how he handles adversity, even some of his emotional outbursts towards his teammates.

I'm amazed how quickly he recovered from that injury. I wonder if they'll give him a week of practice before getting him into contact but seeing him back at full speed alongside Herbert is going to give teams headaches. This comes at a time when Fields is beginning to get comfortable in the offense and they are now moving him around too.

Missed the game for the 2nd week in a row and only saw a few highlights. That defensive performance was pitiful and in an odd twist of fate on Saturday I got to see Mel Tucker's Mich State team beat Jim Harbaugh. Life is odd at times but I should have known something wicked this way comes. I wish I had seen Fields performance, maybe I'll be able to catch a replay on NFL network later in the week. Anyone who has even only played backyard football knows how ridiculously difficult it is for a right handed QB running to his left to throw that pin-point pass to Jesse James in the end zone.