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Thank God you cleared that up, I can stop using critical thinking as a tool to address the Bears offseason.

Poles rebuilt the DB room and LBing core at a high level. Buffalo DL was successful so now Poles will address the DL this year with a great DL coach. I think he adds a couple of pieces to the DL and the defense will be top 5 going forward. Poles will work on the OL and weapons to continue to remake the roster.

Campbell has a losing year, his first year, then went 1-7 and fans were hammering him the same way Flus got hammered this year. They finished 9-8_ where Flus was 7-10 of which should have been 10-7. Now Campbell should be coach of the year. This will be the year Flus needs to show he's a good coach. We will see how it plays out. I expect us to have a winning season.

I think grabbing Boyers and a WR later would be a better get as far as roster co struction.

As you stated, I think we expected an Urlacker type player of which he is not because of the money we have higher expectations. He is a good player 4 interceptions and 9 pass defenses is what we got him for. I think Poles wanted a bigger body when comparing him to Roquan Smith. We have an equal to Smith in TG Edwards by comparing stats, plus we got Stevenson with the draft pick in the trade. Overall we have a better situation in choosing Edmunds over Smith.

As we keep mentioning Williams as the generational QB, Maye may be the better QB in this draft after the dust settles. If comparing Williams , he is closer to Murray , than Mahomes. With all that is stated Williams is small for the position.

That was my whole point, people can win SBs without having a top pick tier one QB. It doesn't matter if it's rare , it matters the possibility exists. The SF situation applied to us would be , we drafted Williams, he sucks ( Trey Lance) and Bagent takes over and we go to the SB.

I wish you were we could a more serious conversation.

You ever notice, you keep having conflict on here with other people even when I'm not involved. You keep referring to me in posts but I no longer give a shit about you baiting me anymore. We have had football related interaction and it's went fine.

I already know you don't think Justin is getting better and wants change but you keep talking like it's not possible for that to happen. On the contrary, it can. Now if your comparison is always Mahomes, he's never going to be that but he can get better. Ceiling top 10? Purdy is going to the SB, and he's not a tier one QB so stuff like that does happen even if the odds are against it. If Poles trades him and he leads another team, you can still see his progress. If he fails we get to see that too. As much as I think he will succeed, I also accept he might fail.

I think the only thing today's games tells you is we are getting close. We can play with Detroit and they played well even though they lost. It showed you what a tier one QB looks like ( Mahomes) and what a 7 th round pick can do with a good team around him. I think Jackson sat in the pocket to long on many plays and should have went off script more. Mahomes did several times and it helped him win.

Poles totally knows what he's doing, he wanted Flus back. It's not like he's saying we need to see another year out of him then he'll judge his choice. You can have a different opinion on him but you're not the GM. His job depends on his choices, he is exercising his choices to build a team , he's not asking for fan input.

I'm not sure just giving your opinion is sacrificing anything . What happens if they play well and make the playoffs? I'm not guaranteeing anything but I thing what ever way they go, they're going to a winning team. IF they do play well, im not going to say( I told you so,) I only care that they win, it's not about me being right or wrong.

There's a lot more energy in playoff games, so you will notice another level of effort. Not sure why you even bother mentioning it because it doesn't pertain to anything. If we made the playoffs then you could compare. I don't understand your comment about other teams playing hard, you are always trying to make a comment mean more than it does. I think the team played hard every game, not sure how that says anything other than that. You keep trying to burn Flus down all the time, I get you don't like him but he is going to be our coach next year and nothing is going to change that. It's a mute point, see how he performs and then you have some substance in the conversation.

For sure their adding more depth on the oline besides a starting center. Taylor is a 3 T but another DT with Billings and Pickens on the team? I think Bowers will have more impact that another WR in his first year.

You can be negative on a lot of things about Flus but saying the team didn't play hard is a little difficult to swallow.

Boy are you going to be pissed if Poles goes with Justin next year to go with keeping Flus.

QBs that can play off script are hard to find. A reason Poles may keep Justin here. He improves his pocket traits, unlimited upscale.

You're right I added it wrong it was 155 and 113. 268

Edmunds became more prevalent as the season went on. Between Edmunds and Edwards, this defense went from last in the league to first in the league in run defense. both are a big contributor to that . TOs increased, Edmunds 4 its and 1 FF. 7 PDs, Edwards 3 ints and 1 FF. 7 PDs . I contend everything is working out as planned. They did a great job. 368 tackles between them

I say this with complete honesty,if Williams is a generational talent , I want Poles to draft him. For me I don't like throwing the term around until I see more of the process.

I kinda agree with you, but assuming a QB is the next Manning is risky. So is it still worth it if he's Prescott or Cousins?

No GM is going to make every perfect move. SF traded 3 first round picks for Trey Lance and are in the NFC championship game right now with a 7 th round drafee at QB. It's all about winning, 2024 is when the fruits of Poles decisions will show up. High expectations in the 2 nd year is a little premature to make a judgement call.

Clearly you make your own judgement but Cliff Stein was loved by the McCaskeys and yet Warren got rid of him. Doesn't seem like the McCaskeys made that move. Flus is on a 4 year contract, no need to give him a contract now. Poles wants him here and their jobs are tied to each other now. I don't think he cares that you don't like it. So if we make the playoffs next year and go 11-6, will you change your mind about Flus?