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The battle of the teams from Chicago. Go Chi-town! And this….

Congratulations Hillary and Mitch!

I second this. I see that he has been a candidate on other teams' radar for GM; Jets in 2019 and Falcons and Broncos last year: "Champ Kelly, Bears assistant director of player personnel: He’s gotten a bunch of looks for GM jobs in recent years, including with the Jets in 2019. They took a long, hard look at him before hiring Joe Douglas. Kelly has experience in pro and college scouting. But the Bears haven’t been very successful since Kelly arrived with GM Ryan Pace in 2015 — one winning season, two playoff trips, zero postseason wins. Kelly was in the mix for the Falcons’ and Broncos’ GM jobs this past offseason." NJ.com article about current Giants GM David Gettleman possibly being fired this year and candidates to consider to replace him.

There's something to be said about Alabama players. Generally speaking any QB coming from there has been 'playing against' NFL caliber defenses, at least during practices. So their 'experiences' put them a hair ahead of other players. Comparatively amongst themselves, this is how it shakes out: Tua: 2020 stats: 1841 yds 11 TD 5 INT (64.1%) 87.1 rating 2021 stats: 1701 yds 10 TD 6 INT (70.5%) 94.7 rating Hurts: 2020 stats: 1062 yds 6 TD 4 INT (52%) 77.6 rating 2021 stats: 2435 yds 13 TD 8 INT (60.1%) 83.9 rating Jones: 2021 stats: 2850 yds 16 TD 8 INT (70.3%) 97.1 rating With Jones, not only do the stats support he 'gets it' but also have to believe that having system like the "Patriot Way" and Belichick running it certainly helps.

You describing Vic Fangio, Mike Ditka and to some extent Jim Harbaugh. All coaches I like based on this character alone. Although doesn't work as well with the 'newer/younger generation'.

Oh yes that thought definitely has crossed my mind. That and the earlier GB game of the officials definitely siding with GB (more than not) gets me really frustrated. I don't think the TEAM is as bad as the record reflects. The coaching? nother story.

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Hmmm…intriguing suggestion. I like the Bears connection. He’s considered the Asst HC in Buffalo. Not sure if a Defensive minded coach is needed right now, unless he runs a more conservative style like say Vic does.

If anything we should be comparing who each of the players' HC is/are. With Surtain he's in a prime location with a defensive mind like Fangio running the show. Between Fangio and Nagy there's no disputing who is better in their respective fields. Denver is playing well mostly due to their defensive strength (sound familar) and Surtain happens to be a part of it. Their defense would still be good if they had chosen to draft Fields instead. Not to take anything away from Bridgewater. He's a solid QB but...he's injury prone and they don't have much depth behind him. Their offense is running a primarily smash-mouth style running game (go figure) with a fleet of decent RBs and Melvin Gordon as their lead. And I think Fangio understands better how to be an HC than does Nagy.

And they’re 0-3 since he (and OBJ) joined the team. Imagine being in these guys’ shoes.

I’m going with the latter. I just can’t believe that Fields is that bad a QB that he won’t improve. The wife and I were watching highlights earlier and saw Joe Burrow continuing to light things up. I predicted Fields would be next year’s version of Burrow. I think they’re more alike than Fields and Haskins.

As much as I appreciate your optimism I have a hard time believing we’ll win one of these two. Murray I believe will be back and Rodgers is already paying off the refs so he continue his “ownage” of our team. Gawd it would be sweet to beat them though.

Haskins gets easily distracted and bored (recalling the time he was with WFT and was supposed to be on the field when he was taking selfies with fans) and this (below). Justin isn’t that way. Still the stats are pretty interesting.

And just because I like this quote from the man himself:

I’ve been trying to avoid starting a new topic but saw a story on Robert Quinn that got my attention. Turns out he’s had a benign brain tumor most of his life. I know someone like that and being benign doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous or disruptive. Many props to him considering how he’s playing this year and has played most of his career.

All the best to you and your family and congratulations!!! Talkbears fam…all the best to you during this holiday season. Go Bears!!

A few points of contention/disagreement. Kmet had been a bit of a mess until recently. Johnson to me still hasn’t proven much other than being the guy benefitting from teams not throwing his way because all the rest of the defensive backfield is a mess (remember Desai’s ‘area of expertise’). Gipson has been coming on as of late and I've always liked Mooney so I’ll agree those two are earning their spots. Problem is the offense (and to some degree coaching) is so inept, some of the players aren’t able to shine in their respective positions. Take Graham. He finally got a TD yesterday where he’s excelled in most of his career; in the red zone. He was the leading TD receiver last season and now he’s just a memory. I have a hard time believing he’s the problem. The aforementioned Kmet has been doing what seems like dropping passes more than catch them until recently. The running game suddenly went to shit. When Monty was out Herbert did pretty darn good. Monty comes back and they both barely get any yardage. What’s changed? Most of these issues we know lie at the feet of Nagy and the coaching staff. I’m not sure we’re really ever to fully evaluate most of the players due it.

Notice Burns is playing CB opposite Johnson. For what it’s worth I like Grant and Marsh and wouldn’t mind if they stuck around to next year.

Some insignificant roster moves prior to tomorrows game.

The writing was on the wall a few weeks ago it appears…

Maybe not immediately “after” the game:

Because he’s still at “Football 101” or whatever stupid crap Nagy used to say.

Totally 100%. It was bad enough he was not only getting called out by the fans during last week’s loss but I’ve seen videos where they were doing it at Bulls and Blackhawks games too. We get it, he sucks as a coach. But he’s still a decent guy and deserves to be able to enjoy being with his family in peace.

In other (but somewhat related because we still have to play them again) news. Something of note: