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It's awesome that the most sought after OC candidate picked the Bears over every other available job. That speaks volumes about the culture and roster, especially coming from an outside perspective.

Yep, and they have a cap problem already. Once they have to sign Love to $50M+, they are screwed.

Great info, thanks!

That would be great, and they need an upgrade at WR coach too. One other comment, if the Bears defense struggles, I could see a scenario where Waldron is promoted to HC and retained.

The Waldron OC pick is great. Now who is he going to want as his QB? Going with a rookie buys him more time. What QB in the draft fits his style the best?

Parker, I have seen this scenario discussed on the socials. I would say the thought of it has legs, but in reality, it would be impossible from a cap perspective. A Herbert trade would cost the Chargers $108M on this year's cap when they are already $46M OVER the cap right now. So that move would make them $136M over the cap lol. They would have to cut and trade about 8 starters and only sign vet minimum guys for 3/4 of their roster. The rookie QB would end up like David Carr and have CTE by Week 3. The only QBs that might work in that type of scenario would be someone with a contract thru 25 or 26: Tua, Lawrence, Prescott, Geno, Purdy, or Jimmy G. Would you trade the #1 for any of those guys? I don't think so. However, do you want another crazy one? Trade Fields for Geno, trade down from #1, add a future 1st or two, and draft a top flight WR.

Waldron revitalized Smith's career in Seattle, but also worked at the QB Collective, where Caleb Williams is training for the draft. So this is going to be interesting. Will Waldron want to hang his hat on Fields or a rookie QB? How much say will he have in the process compared to trade compensation for either side? Which coaches will he bring to Chicago with him?

Another thing this does is it makes Seattle worse. Just like the Carolina trade and the Sweat trade. Now this is three teams Poles has made worse while making the Bears better.

This is a massive win for the Bears. I think there were 13-14 open OC positions, and Waldron was clearly a top 3 candidate and not even expected to be available. For him to become available out of the blue, the Bears to interview him so fast, then still interview 8 others, was impressive. They left no stone unturned. Looking at his pedigree compared to Getsy's, this is night and day. The offense is going to tangibly improve next year across the board regardless of who the QB is. Seattle had Metcalf, Lockett, and JSN, so I expect Poles to get Shane some new toys to mirror that setup. Maybe sign a higher end FA WR and draft a WR in the top 10 maybe? This may not seem like a big deal, but with him in the building, the Bears don't lose that much time without an OC for offseason prep, player acquisition, etc. Also, is this the best OC hire for the Bears EVER? Honestly. Here are the previous names: Getsy, Lazor, Helfrich, Loggains, Gase, Kromer, TIce, Martz, Turner, Shea, Shoop, Crowton, Landry, Hughes, Marchibroda, Meyer, Gillman, and Moss. So Ed Hughes was the OC for the 85 Bears, Ron Turner was the OC for the Bears last SB appearance. It seems like Waldron comes in at that level already based on how bad the other names are lol.

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I would say if we had consistent QB play, we would be in the positive category. Fields has games that are at or above that mark, but then has too many below that mark. That's the problem in my eyes. I could care less how he gets the yards as long as drives are more consistent, less 3 and outs, more conversions on 3rd down, and better play in crunch time.

That would make sense. It is interesting that they don't label the interviews that way though. All come in for OC interviews then take lesser jobs? Like I go in for a CEO interview then take a job as a custodial engineer.

The O-Line was bad and Getsy sucked. I don't even know if Goff is overcoming those two factors. I think the Bears situation would turn Goff into Sam Howell. He would still have decent yards, but way more INTs and sacks. Tua becomes Mariota, Purdy becomes Bagent, Prescott becomes Jamarcus. Mahomes, Allen, Jackson, Stafford, Herbert, and Stroud are probably the only ones that would overcome the Bears shortcomings. Fields would be Fields.

It said interviewed for the DC position. I guess they could do that, but lateral moves can be blocked.

I'm assuming they are going to hire Kubiak if there is not an announcement this week as he would be the only one that they technically couldn't hire yet of the available candidates interviewed.

Goff scares me though. The minute he sniffs pressure he folds like a wet paper bag. With the Bears O-Line, especially with the gaping hole at Center, I think he would struggle with the Bears.

Interesting interview with Harris. TEN had the least amount of INTs for a defense with 6, in contrast the Bears led the league with 22.

This Detroit Tampa game is a snooze fest. 10-10 at half. Goff with 99 passing yards. Mike Evans with the only exciting play with a great sliding catch near the goal line. TB gets the ball to start the 2nd half. If they score there, the pucker factor is going to go up.

The Lake Erie Hoedown!

Neither team deserved to win really. I have not been impressed with any of the teams so far. HOU beat a CLE team that didn't show up, then got hammered by BAL. KC beat MIA in the arctic. BUF beat Mason Rudolph. GB beat a DAL team that didn't show up, then lost to SF who didn't look ready to play. DET barely beat LAR who only had one offensive player. TB clobbered PHI who have looked terrible for 2 months. Every game in the AFC has been decided by 14 to 31 points. Of the 8 total playoff games so far, only 2 have been decided by 10 or less. 6 games have been decided by 14 or more. That is some terrible football. The passing yards of the 4 QBs this week: 252, 194, 175, 152. The Y/A of the 4 QBs: 6.9, 6.5, 5.7, 5.3. The winning QBs last week threw for 337, 277, 274, 272, 262, and 203. For the playoffs, the winning QBs have averaged 254 yds per game. No team has yet to win a 2nd game in the playoffs, that changes today.

GB is also in cap hell. They are technically over the cap for 2024 with 48 guys on contract. If Love is their guy, are they going to let him go into the last year of this bridge contract or extend him? Bakhtiari has a $40M cap hit from previous restructures, now what? Cutting him has $20M in dead money. Aaron Jones has a $17M cap hit as a RB. Jaire Alexander has a $24M cap hit and has huge dead money. If anything, once GB extends Love, they are going to lose 2-3 of their current vets, someone like Kenny Clark, Preston Smith, or Elgton Jenkins, or all 3.

LMAO, what a bunch of losers, complaining about the refs and their kicker when their QB throws 2 INTs late. Love had 2-3 nice throws the entire game, but also had 2 INTs and probably should've had a 3rd. Even with a 100 yard rusher, unless the receivers were wide open, he couldn't hit them. To me it's funny, because the dude is going into Year 5, he is not going to improve that much, if any. I actually expect some regression next year, and then maybe in 2025 he may improve again back to something close to this season's numbers, but that is a maybe. The things that were issues with him in college came out in the biggest game of his life. He has zero running ability, and even with a great O-Line still threw 2 back breaking INTs. GB last 4 drives were INT, 3-n-out, FG Miss, INT. So 2 out of the last 3 drives ended in an INT. These all occurred when GB had the lead. They did score a TD on the 5th to last drive, but it started at the SF 20. Love gets credit for a TD drive and TD Pass when he basically did nothing. If they stick with Love, which all signs point to they will, I can see GB being a fringe playoff team every year, but that's it. They lucked out playing the biggest frauds in DAL to actually get a playoff win. Next year is going to be interesting. The Bears are going to improve with 2x top 10 picks. DET is now the Division leader. GB is going to have their work cut out for them. GB plays NO, MIA and PHI compared to CHI playing CAR, NE and WAS.

Both of these QBs are going to have it much harder next year now that teams have a year of tape and an offseason to prepare specifically for them. GB will also have the same exact skill position players. Christian Watson is the next Randy Moss they said, 1 catch for 11 yards. Last week, 1 catch for 9 yards. So his two game playoff total is 2-20, lmao. Here is what the up and coming QBs did and have going for them next year: Stroud 19-33, 175 yds, 72.2 QB Rating, don't have 2 picks in the top 3, losing OC, 1st place schedule in 2024 Love 21-34, 194 yds, 2 INTs, 72.4 QB Rating, Aaron Jones will be turning 30, 2nd place schedule in 2024

How about that Jordan Love performance? He had Aaron Jones running thru and around everyone and they still lost and he threw 2 costly picks, one to end the game when all they needed is a FG to tie. He had a 5.7 Y/A with 2 INTs and he never got sacked. He had a ton of time in the pocket and just shit his pants in crunch time. Look at how similar this is to a former QB that is known for dick pics: