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I just can’t buy in on Cams mood swings. His highs are high (which is great) and when he’s low, he’s worse than Cutler ever was. But man it would be great to have Olsen back. Another one of those players that should have never left.

I’m for KC pretty much due to Reid. And honestly I like Mahomes. Not sure I would think he’s all lucky. Might consider it on the same plane as Rodgers who somehow miraculously has pulled out numerous last minute wins ala Hail Mary passes. Is it luck or being fortunate? Would the players supporting Reid and Mahomes be as good as they are without either of them? Not all that long ago they had Alex Smith as their perennial starter, even with some of the current skill players on the roster, and how far did they get? They got to the AFC Championship last year (Mahomes second season) and this year...advanced another step. I agree about the running scheme in SF as it is so much like watching Denver when Shannahan’s dad was coaching there. You could almost literally plug and play any RB in that scheme and have success. It’s really amazing how well Kyle is duplicating his dads success. The one intriguing and trivial thing to me will be Jimmy G. In the NFC Championship game he threw a total of EIGHT passes. Remember early on in the Bears season when Nagy did the exact opposite of that and failed? But I digress. Either the low number of passes was indicative of just how dominant their running scheme is, or pure genius . Meaning Shannahan didn’t want to tip his hand about how really lethal Jimmy G can be. Guess we’ll find out.

Truth!

Another perspective that occurred to me was that comparatively speaking, doesn’t the CFL throw more often than the NFL? Maybe his INT #s are a bit inflated because of the more # of opportunities? But then, he was the top rated FA CB in that league last year so...there’s that. Speaking of age, maybe Robinson will be the Bears version of Richard Sherman. Dude is 31 years old coming off a recent Achilles tear and is headed to his second super bowl. Age is just a number to some guys.

Cameron Wake, Doug Flutie, Warren Moon, Chad Johnson, Brandon Browner and Joe Horn would beg to differ. Sure they are a minimal number compared to the thousands per year that start out on each NFL roster every year. But... there’s always that diamond in the rough and exception to the rule. And with all the teams interested in him; to include NE, Minnesota and SF I’d think there must be something to it.

I don’t think your way of thinking is way off key. I’ve been pretty critical of Trubisky (and Pace because of it) but like ‘Ashkum’ says it would be a lot easier if he just figured it out. Realistically speaking though, I have my doubts. And to support our thinking there’s this excerpt from Gregg Rosenthal for NFL.com. Please take note about the defense: “CHICAGO BEARS: (Need to) Give up the ghost with Mitchell Trubisky. General manager Ryan Pace committed to Trubisky as the team's unquestioned starter on New Year's Eve. Perhaps some distance from an emotional season and the fresh possibilities of this crop of free-agent and rookie quarterbacks could move Pace off the commitment. Coaches and general managers waste more seasons and lose more jobs by doubling down on bad decisions than by making bad decisions in the first place. This Bears roster has a sneaky amount of talent on both sides of the ball, although Chicago's outstanding defense has already started to decline. The Bears could win right now with the right trade or reboot at the quarterback position. Closing their eyes to those possibilities is the sports equivalent of the cover-up being greater than the crime.”

What’s more, from other sites I’ve seen the Vikings were really wanting him back. Maybe a good thing? https://bearswire.usatoday.com/2020/01/29/five-things-to-know-new-chicago-bears-cornerback-tre-roberson/

I’m always ‘all in’ on good SEC players (especially Alabama). But... what i don’t like is the “injury plagued 2018 campaign”. As much as it pains me to say this, I’d say we focus more on OL in the earlier rounds. Now watch Jason appear...

Couldn’t help but notice this guy...yes he’s the son of former Oiler, Eagle and Charger Offensive Tackle of the same name. Both played for Michigan. Maybe wouldn’t be all that bad to put sights on this guy? And by the by, your draft is not accurate. Not enough D2 players selected.?

He’s on the shorter side at 6’1 230# but not a lot shorter than Von Miller at 6’3 250# or even Mack at 6’3 270#. I think in his advantage he’s got raw speed and like Mongo said ‘drive and determination’. Something lacking a lot of the time from Floyd.

Wish I could take credit for it but saw it another site somewhere. Makes sense. He’s a tenacious player and has good sideline to sideline speed which is good if you need him to drop back on passes; like they are known to do from time to time. Thought he was a converted safety but can’t find a link to confirm that. Anyhow, I agree that he’d be a great fit there.

I think with the hopeful loss of Amukamara and potential replacement of HHCD we’ll see some better performance there. FWIW I don’t like Bush back there as a fill in (let alone starter). Seems the few times I recall him there he was getting burnt at key moments. At least one of those was for a score. I think with the hand he was dealt due to losing so many key players; the defense performed really well. I also like that there may be a future star discovered in Kevin Pierre Louis. I would be really intrigued to see him line up at OLB opposite Mack.

So in theory he’ll become a FA? And could come to camp and ‘try out’. No harm, no foul (?)

“Tossing salads with spatulas”. That are pretending to be shoe horns? ???? Just...wow!

“What do you guys think? I also like ketchup on my pizza and drink coffee from a straw.” That was truly intellectual. Lol!! But the part about not having Trubisky play QB is indeed a wise suggestion.

At the risk of sounding political...who are you really? LOL!!! Yeah my post wishing GB well as they watch from their couch (like us) was also lost....oh well.

Absolutely. In fact, in order to be able to trust your QB he should be able to read the defense as he sets the offense at the line. That way he can call an audible (or timeout) if he thinks something better than the called play will work. Trubusky hasn’t quite gotten that down yet (but improving). Cutler never did.

Similar to the hiring of Lazor, I wasn't too keen on the hire of DeFlip. I remember last season (2018) when he was hired as the OC for Minnesota then promptly fired a few weeks before the end of the season. Since reading up on that I found that Zimmer got rid of him to give his team a chance at a wild card spot as they were, for all intents and purposes, still in control of their destiny. As most of you recall, that was not a particularly good year for Cousins (when measured to how well Keenum did the year prior and how well this most recent version of Cousins did - and both under different OC's not named DeFillipo). Then before he made his way to Minnesota he was the QB coach for Philly. And a story I read about that said something regarding Coach Pedersen reluctant in him coming back after he was let go by Minnesota (I didn't see why that was but in full disclosure saw that Philly was looking at him before Chicago snatched him up). Then there is the abrupt hiring this year from Jacksonville. It seems all the bad trends with DeFlip have to do with him as an OC, not necessarily as a QB coach. So maybe he'll be better back as a QB coach with Chicago. One knock on him that we need to know going ahead is that he is an Air Coryell type guy (one reason he didn't stick in other places) and didn't like the run as much - where have we heard that before? But again, if he's solely focused on making Trubisky better as a QB ok, maybe it'll work. One thing is for certain, IF the hiring of all these guys is to make Trubisky better and he doesn't get better...he'll have run out of excuses.

WHY ARE YOU YELLING?!?!?! (LOLOLOLOL). That's too funny... And definitely congrats to two more Bears making it to the HOF. Just continuing the tradition of having one of the richest teams in the league with all the HOF'ers that have come from it. That is AWESOME!!!

Based on what we saw last year and probably the best way to fix it is; the offense will be good enough for another 8-8 season. At the interest of Pace trying to keep his job, Nagy may or may not get fired before the season is over. At which point Pagano will take over because he’ll be able to somehow get the defense to play as good or better than it did this last year. The change, if midseason, will spark enough from both sides of the ball that the team will close our strong and get 10 maybe 11 wins. But despite this and because of spotty QB play the team will either just miss the playoffs or go out in the first round. Pagano wanting to keep the job as HC beyond next season will attempt to summon Luck out of retirement. And Pace wanting to stick around for at least one more ‘do or die’ year, will desperately throw whatever he can (mostly money) to make that happen. Or Trubisky will somehow and inexplicably become the QB he’s supposed to be and not only win league MVP but Super Bowl MVP too.

Amazing how a change of scenery can do that to someone. Maybe there is something to bringing Dalton in? Or Mariota? Give them a try.... see what they do?

Word!!!! Lol!!! Thats the kind of ‘leveler of Wood’ I like to see. Especially from a Safety.

Here’s the kind of safety the Bears need next year (Jacoby Stevens - LSU):

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001096543/article/bears-hiring-exbengals-oc-bill-lazor-as-their-oc Fired from the Bengals two seasons ago?(WTF?!?!). First read tells me Nagy has no intent on giving up control of the offense and is looking for another patsy. Who the hell is this guy?

Meh. Looking back at some of the pre-draft boards yes he was #1 but not all. Some had Watson where another I saw had Kizer. All the more reason we should rarely listen to the alleged ‘know it alls’. And if memory serves, Nagy said the Chiefs were looking at Mahomes early on. They must’ve seen something they liked. Hindsight being what it is AND we knew Trubiskys track record in college (minimal) it would have been nice to bank on someone a bit more solid.