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I’m with you. Blowing it all up makes no sense. This is the second time since Lovie, third if you count Fox. After Lovie’s canning they went in hard reverse gear with Trestman and Emery and ever since Fox and Pace showed up have been in idle, while occasionally stripping the gears to move forward.

Go Browns!

Gardner Johnson is a POS player.

Was going to say Pagano is deserving credit for getting the defense to play like they are today. He’s scheming appropriately with the players he has available to him.

I would think so if Trubisky wasn’t playing well, but he’s not the reason the offense is playing bad...so far. Although he’s not taking a lot of long range plays where Foles is a bit betters.

On the other hand, Tashaun Gibson has been playing lights out. Two TOs caused so far. One overturned because of zoom shot image of a millimeter move.

If Wims can keep his cool he's a great receiver. Just makes dumb choices occasionally **EDIT**. That didn’t age well. I take it all back.... derp.

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If Eddie Jackson doesn’t play to his full potential today; trade him tomorrow. He just had a horrible open field whiff.

Different era. Different character of player(s). Brees is only a few weeks removed from multiple broken ribs and a collapsed lung. And he’s 42. My current favorite QB of the week Taylor Heinicke had a pretty good shoulder injury yesterday and came back to play a very solid game.

**update** Johnson is out. https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2021/1/10/22223595/bears-inactives-saints-playoff-game-roquan-smith-darnell-mooney-jaylon-johnson-trey-hendrickson

According to the link below, CB Jaylon Johnson is questionable as is LB Woods (glute /toe). Maybe why Teo was brought up? He might be what we need with speed LB coverage to replace Smith. On the Saints side they have Kamara back from COVID protocol and WR Thomas activated from IR yesterday. https://www.chicagobears.com/news/injury-update-saints-playoffs-wild-card-roquan-smith-mooney-jaylon-johnson

I have a co-worker who has said a few times that he thinks Foles is much better without a lot of preparation. You saw him play well against Atlanta when he took over there. And somehow did well filling in for Wentz back in Philly. Although there he maintained his good play all the way to the Super Bowl. Maybe there’s something to it? Maybe you’re right? What would they have to lose if Trubisky can’t put it together today and decide to play Foles? As an aside. How about that Wash QB Heinikie? Pretty impressive performance yesterday.

Although I’m not AS optimistic as you I’m cautiously optimistic. These two teams met a few weeks back and the Bears lost in OT. A few things are different; Thomas will probably be available, Roquan may not, they’re playing in NO and Trubiksy is starting instead of Foles. Will all that make a difference?

You’re not mistaking him for Champ Bailey are you? Interesting enough, this Champ (Kelly) did work on the Broncos staff a few years ago as a scout and player manager. (I had to look it up because I wasn’t 100% sure myself).

Or this... and count me also intrigued.

I feel like this is a trick question. There should be others to consider, like Trubiksy’s peer draftees; Mahomes and Watson. Or even potential FAs for next year like Newton, Prescott and Winston.

Hmmm....that’s a good question.

I know Pagano is getting a lot of the blame for the defense inefficiency but Alex Brown recently pointed out that the players on defense simply aren’t doing their jobs either. Bahktiari being out should have made for a great statistical day for Mack or even Quinn if they were swapping places. How about Hicks and his interior presence? Where was he? And the defensive backfield? Three dropped INTs between Mingo, Vildor and Jackson. Any one of those individually could have made a huge impact, let alone all three. I don’t care who you have in the backfield, QBs like Rogers and Brees are going to make them look bad. Rogers just has more experience in doing it over the years.

Ok fair enough.

Makes sense. I think it might be that he’s been successful enough at NW that he’s be considered for the big gig in town. Like Connor said though he (Fitz) can pretty much write his own ticket if he stays at NW.

Adam this might be in your wheelhouse. Saw this story recently (below) in a few places. That being Bears personnel man Champ Kelly is becoming highly sought after as a GM around the league. First question I have is, why not for the Bears? Anyhow, something I learned from this was if he’s taken by another team as a GM then the Bears could gain another third round draft pick(?). https://www.bleachernation.com/bears/2021/01/05/panthers-ask-for-permission-to-interview-bears-exec-champ-kelly-broncos-next/?fbclid=IwAR2p2Wzwjwaj8gjNj25QnA08VitgUe_VPIZVY9-opld-412fVHLwCSqGSeo

Was considering starting another thread on this because I’m genuinely curious. Why not Harbaugh? Didn’t he do well enough on the NFL stage to warrant another go? And why not for a team that (on the surface) matches his coaching style? That being brash and Bo Schmebecchler-ish. And this isn’t only for Mongo to answer, please anyone share your thoughts. I have more opinions about how well Urban Meyer will do but I’ll save that for another day.

Conceptually he’s not far off, especially in hindsight. But yeah this is over a year and a pandemic ago. Hey he even suggested getting OLmen with his idea. You should like that.

Yeah something tells me Urban Meyer is in for a rude awakening if he does indeed take an NFL HC job. IMHO he’d be along the lines of how Chip Kelly, Steve Spurrier or Nick Saban did in the NFL versus their College HC experiences. On the other hand, where someone like Harbaugh hasn’t done so well in College (recently) he did better in the NFL.