Lucky Luciano

draft the future franchise qb. then... use baggette as you say or if he turns out looking like i THINK he could you then have a good+ qb in bagette and then can make the decision to either keep him and trade the draft pick or trade baggette for some really nice draft picks. this is how the packer org. operated. think of the qb's they drafted and traded for good draft picks or premium players all the while favre was in the fold. you then got something out of fields, a franchise prospect and a possible good+ qb in bagette. if you keep fields for that purpose you will REALLY divide the locker room and fans and make it much harder for transition of your new qb.

SIGN HIM!! my word is law

Bow down before the one you serve You're going to get what you deserve just do as 'I' say.

i AM the GM. just agree without fail to every thing i say without question. i KNOW best. us GM's do.

WTF kind of call is that? you have 3 timeouts left, need TWO scores and around a minute to go and you try running it in from the 3 on third down and burn up a timeout if he doesn't get in? that FORCES you to recover an onside kick. even with that said, the game was LOST when they decided to go for it on 4th (and how many yards) at the 30 yard line instead of tying up the game with a field goal? riddle me this batman.... what the hell is going on with the coaching in the NFL? i really don't understand it anymore. in my book you ALWAYS take the points. you don't get cute and go for on 4th down unless you are MORE than 10 points down in the last 5 min of a game. for some reason has the league made field goal points count less than TD points? is there some magical points scored if you go for it on 4th down in your OWN territory in the first 3 quarters? has overtime penalized the winning team? i see it time and time again. this is pop warner stuff that you see coaches doing nearly every game. it's so stupid i almost have to wonder if shaving points or predetermined wins and losses are involved in this. i have seen so many games determined by not going for that field goal during the game that it's mind boggling.

how do you know I'm not the GM?

i just gotta say this... after 2 years of watching a coach perform, if a GM doesn't have an idea whether he made a mistake in the hire then i question his ability to lead the franchise to the promised land. in 2 years the lag starts to catch up to us. qb wise and player contract hits. if he is not the coach of our future then we have wasted an enormous amount of time, money and draft picks if there would have been a better choice after year 2.

1. let me state this: in my opinion poles 'so far' has done an excellent job. with that in mind a couple of red flags for me have come up that bears watching. a) the defense did provide a vast improvement over the season with this caveat... against good teams with good qb's we struggled in pass protection enormously . this is to me the major flaw of this cover 2 type of defenses that goes all the way back to lovie smith and the firing of chico. good qb's will bounce the quick release and throw uncontested strikes in the soft zones all day long for 5-10 yd gains. this may beat the lower tier teams you can offensively keep up with but when it comes to high scoring playoff contenders it is a disaster. pick ANY year against green bay since favre has been here. they handed us our lunch for over 20 years with the bend don't break game plans with some outstanding defensive players on our roster during this period. payton manning crushed us in the superbowl which is where we hope we are heading into against top tier teams. b) "depending upon who he hired". this is red flag #2. i don't know the facts behind our search or hiring but if this was in the criteria of finding a DC that is a puppet or clone of flus strictly for that reason then we didn't look for the possibly best DC, we looked for the best DC that complimented flus's system. that is what this franchise has done since finks left. put the cart before the horse and if that didn't work put the cart ON the horse. all this said i am not dissing the hire but i really do not know if washington was the best DC candidate or just the best for flus.

really? maybe, maybe not. i seem to remember back when president ted phillips stood on the podium next to the family gardener and said any decisions to fire a coach/gm (there has been so many i can't remember the details of who it was) CLEARLY state he would have to talk it over with mike mccaskey. hmmmm.... not quite what they led us to believe about who was running the show. here is the FINAL NOTE: would you right now today give eberflus a 4 year extension on his contract? yes or no. if your answer is no, then why did we retain him in the first place? my thoughts on flus... could he be a good head coach? the answer is yes but only if he would stay out of the way of his assistant coaches other than to guide them in the right or at least different direction without having any stipulations on the type of coordinators or what system they chose to run. this i 'may' be calling the defense is ludicrous. lovie couldn't do it, can he?

in other words, smoke and mirrors. like mikey supposedly grabbing a hoe and doing the gardening. maybe this guy COULD be great but you have hamstrung him before he even gets here. this is the same nonsense we have pulled since jim finks had enough of this crap and walked (if anyone is wondering that's almost 45 YEARS of this ineptitude). sound similar to our great coach/OC nagy who was reed's lap dummy? or lovie hiring his linebacker coach to implement the same ole same ole? it never seems to change with this franchise. it's always a condition to hiring anyone. we will hire you but such and such stays or you have to run their type of system and on and on. nobody in this franchise can define the definition of failure. just plod on and hope it works or not.

why even hire a DC if he is just a puppet for flus? i seriously can't imagine this was the best most qualified hire given those restrictions. what DC worth a shite is going to put his name on that philosophy?

ok.... what the hell does this mean? Head coach Matt Eberflus will continue calling plays, Pelissero added. Washington returns to the Windy City after being a defensive line coach in 2010. https://www.nfl.com/news/bears-to-hire-eric-washington-as-their-new-defensive-coordinator

he has a losing record wherever he coached... nfl or college. not sure that would make me jump for joy.

it's NOT hindsight. it is reliable facts if you want to win multiple superbowls or at least put yourself in POSITION to win them every year consistently it is with elite first round qb's. griese, bradshaw, montana, young, aikman. elway, rogers, morino, even mahomes and then you have the anomalies like starr, favre, brady there are no sure things but as often as you get a chance to really choose a difference maker without mortgaging the farm you better be sure not to f- it up, even if your pick doesn't turn out, by hoping you can turn coal into a diamond.

here's the deal.... if we keep fields because he 'could' be good we are gambling this franchises future for the next five plus YEARS. that means we would have another complete rebuild in that time frame, but probably.... 1. no top of round #1 pick to even GET a qb of that quality. we would have to trade the moon to pull off moving up that far if it was even POSSIBLE. 2. many and/or all of the current high quality players will be gone or want mega buck contracts. so figure most of those blue chip players are GONE and need to be drafted or replaced. where is that capital coming from? 3. if we fail in that time period do we go with new coaches/gm yet again? so there is another window of years to find their groove. although i will say i think poles biggest mistake so far is keeping flus. i would have had no really big problem if poles did this right. but giving flus the keys to the car to call and implement his defensive philosophy over another DC we don't even have coming in just smacks of typical bear franchise moves from mikey to george. in other words idiotic. IF fields was a constant, and meaning he showed consistent abilities every really good qb needs, then that would have been a whole different scenario. but it is NOT. i don't care WHAT the rest of the team looks like. he has had 3 years in the NFL to show what skills he has even behind poor talent. he has not done that. his abilities to read the field in a 3D model in fractions of a second just does not exist with any consistency. he is NOT like maholmes who shows it nearly every game even when his offensive talent and receiving corp which has been atrocious with drops and poor routes. so that comparison to me is ludicrous.

aikman was the cowboys actual #1 pick but the walker trade was an insane amount of draft capital to give up for a runningback. that put them in the drivers seat for talent. that said, it showed exactly what the top priority should be if you have that much draft capital. without the aikman pick the rest of the talent they picked up in my opinion wouldn't have won them three superbowl rings.

problem is... the cowboys used the #1 pick in the draft from that trade on the most important acquisition on their entire team... troy aikman, a QB. so much for that idea

biggest disappointment not listed? easy. franchise management handed the 'How to run a franchise into the ground and make incredibly bad decisions' the norm' playbook to poles and warren. Chapter 1: No matter what, keep the coaches under contract until we don't eat more than one season worth of salary no matter how bad they are. Chapter 2: Always use the excuse that our decisions are based on player and coaching continuity and not wishing on a star. Chapter 3: Always institute the 'Wait Until Next Year It Will All Come Together' doctrine for the suckers. Chapter 4: If we personally like a coach or player because of his good character etc. always make excuses why he should be here whether in reality he doesn't. Chapter 5: The bottom line is always that the ledger reads... Profits Made Final Addendum: Add your own chapter here.

ok, riddle me this.... how did our defensive scheme hold up against PLAYOFF teams with good + qb's? i seem to remember they could pass at will to our soft zones. like maybe green bay has been doing for over 20 years? how did it hold up before we had a very good defensive end to pressure the qb? how did it hold up against playoff teams even with sweat? how did green bay counter that? QUICK passes into our zones that nobody covered. they could have beat us by 50 if they wanted to. how did lovie smith's defense hold up against playoff teams with good + quarterbacks after he fired chico and gave the DC to his linebacker coach to mimic his defensive style and game plan? i'm sorry but this is the same old shite we have been beaten to a pulp with for over 20 years.

............crickets chirping.............

where did you hear that? if that is the case welcome to lovie's DC blunders part 2. if you handcuff a DC before you even find one good luck bringing in a high quality guy. same ole, same ole.

agreed. you are spot on.

you should be able to watch local teams FREE the same as it has been for over 60+ years. playoffs? FREE. superbowl? FREE. when is enough money enough for these greedy robber barons?

WRITE YOUR STATE AND FEDERAL CONGRESSMAN Taxpayers are paying billions for the renovations and construction of NFL stadiums. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/22/taxpayers-are-paying-billions-for-nfl-stadiums-heres-how.html The reason cities end up paying for stadiums begins with the issuance of tax-exempt bonds from state and local governments that the federal government has signed off on for decades. Top 10 biggest federal subsidies for pro stadiums https://www.brookings.edu/articles/top-10-biggest-federal-subsidies-for-pro-stadiums-hint-the-yankees-are-1/ In 1986, Congress tried to fix the problem and reduce or eliminate federal subsidies for stadiums. But the convoluted law, which you can read more about here, backfired, and Congress ended up unintentionally encouraging the practice. The process works like this: When a stadium is being built, a city can sell municipal bonds to help pay for its construction, like cities often do with public works projects. But if those bonds are issued as tax-exempt bonds (meaning that the interest payments to the bond holders are not counted as taxable income), the federal government loses a large chunk of revenue that it would have collected had the interest payments been taxable. And because this is lost federal revenue, the cost is footed by all taxpayers. On top of that, wealthy citizens who hold the bonds receive an implicit tax benefit due to their relatively high marginal tax rates, costing the federal government even more revenue.

that is plain disgusting. it's time the fans start their own union and chop the profits out of these greedy b-stards bank accounts. i am being totally serious, if this continues as pay-per-view nonsense out of the NFL i will just stop watching it and buying any of their products. i did it for MLB and college football (and i was an avid fan of both) and i can surely do it for the NFL.