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The defense actually rose to the occasion and Fields can make Chicken salad out of Chicken poop. I'm watching him take the snap and Cody Whitehair continuously whiff on the outside in stunts that the Eagles kept running. Leatherwood is not an OT. Try him at LG and tell Whitehair you're moving in another direction. Jaylon Johnson is a top CB.

Agreed! Seeing him shying away from that FGA was disturbing. Our special teams have made critical mistakes in most of the one score losses. Chris Dunn of NC State and Jake Moody should be targets in the draft for Poles. The last 2 Groza Award winners. Moody kicked in the Midwest at Michigan.

Agreed and the other thing he has improved on, is looking to pass before running. He has made some nice completions on the run in recent games.

How about KC at Denver?

You got this wish! Come on Broncos!

Baker Mayfield helped the Bears chances for a top 3 pick better.

I'm wondering how many on this board were around when Mugsy Halas hired Jim Finks because this seems eerily similar. He came into a similar mess and built from the ground up. Of course the NFL is a lot different now but, I'm getting a similar vibe right now. Finks was awesome as GM and drafted a few HOF players. The one move he made that I didn't like was a first round pick for Mike Phipps. Regardless he built the Bears into a Super Bowl contender with great drafting. Ryan Poles has an opportunity to do it even better and faster so we as fans need to see what he can do. This year was on the fly!

Currently the Bears are in the 2nd draft position which is the highest they have been pre trade since their 1969 1-13 season. That is Will Anderson and Jalen Carter territory. A king's ransom can be had though if a QB needy team with draft capital wants to move up. Pittsburgh is now a 4 win team. This hands down is going to be one of the most interesting off seasons since I have been on this board.

Backing up the thought that you don't pay off ball LBs big money is ringing true in Leonard's case.

Expect the Lions to go after Vildor as all teams do and Jaylon Johnson was targeted with success a few times last week. Against Tua in the middle of the 3rd Qtr , the defense got him off of his spot a few times resulting in incompletions. Against Goff, who has played here before when the weather wasn't idea, they need to come after him because he is not a threat to run. That will be accomplished by pressuring him up the middle

Supposedly he has been a team consultant for a while Also he is real friendly with Irsay. Maybe if you draft a guy and develop him like Manning and Luck, we are not talking about this.

I've been around long enough to have seen the legendary QB Bobby Douglass ( who held the single season rushing record for a QB when he played) and I saw the guy that he truly reminds me of and that's former Bears/ Raiders QB Vince Evans. Evans was a draft pick by Jim Finks in the (6th or 7th round?) out of USC. He was a scrambling QB with a strong arm that I remember playing in one of the most physical Thanksgiving games ever between the Bears and Cowboys. The year was 1979 and Evans was the Bears starting QB at the time and he stuck around long enough to be the guy to throw Willie Gault's first TD reception of 57 yards against the Colts at Soldier Field in 1983. The comparison is the athletic ability and his toughness, In the game I mentioned above, Evans was getting hit hard and by the end of the game, he was limping up to center. That's who Field's is.

I'm all in for Clemson DT Bresee at a top 15 pick but, with the Colts in a flux, is De Forest Buckner available? He played for Eberflus.

There is a part of me that thinks Velus Jones Jr might be used going forward like Deebo Samuel or Cordarelle Patterson. Maybe even switched to RB.

I'm looking at Breesee from Clemson as someone who could help on the defensive line.

If you follow Sports Mockery a lot of the posters refuse to acknowledge Fields improvement and say well we didn't win. SMH

Thank you Adam! He ran back kickoffs under Jack Pardee just to get on the field. Then whoever was his OC designed some QB sweeps to fit him in the offense.

AZ I am a staunch watcher of ESPN and NFL Network and both have been singing Fields' praises.

Fields brings back memories of Vince Evans who the Bears drafted as a QB and I remember him being the starter in an epic Thanksgiving game against the Cowboys that the Bears won in a defensive battle in Dallas, Evans had a similar skill set to Fields and had a decent career with the Raiders after leaving the Bears. I believe that Willie Gault's first NFL touchdown was from Vince Evans.

I didn't think of this but, this stopped the Packers from getting him.

Clearly a move to support Fields.

Clearly Roquan's head was not in the game. With him now traded it will really be interesting to see who becomes a leader on the defense.

When I saw Sanborn take defensive snaps for the first time this year, I thought Morrow was hurt. Now with the trade of Roquan I think he may see more playing time on defense. I wouldn't be shocked if Montgomery is dealt also. Herbert has been getting the bulk of the second half carries in recent games.

Both the Rams and 49ers have traded a lot of their future draft capital so I'm not sure what they could offer that would be worth anything.

Agreed and I'm already eyeballing Clemson DT Bryan Bresee. This guy is a stud to me.