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Yeah, how can you expect to stop someone with that big of a cushion on every play. So you are not covering anyone while you are not pressuring anyone. So frustrating. With all that cap space, this is the team that Poles assembled.

So when does Poles get any blame? He has taken a 6-win, 49-sack team and transformed it into a 5-20 team with 30 sacks (in its last 25 games). How much more to do we need to see of Flus and his stellar defense? Flus' defenses have beaten Brian Hoyer, Sam Howell, Davis Mills, Bailey Zappe, and Trey Lance. Only one of those QBs is still currently starting in the NFL, and even when the Bears beat Howell, he still threw for 388 yards.

Flus needs to go, worst defensive performance in a long time. He used zero timeouts the entire game. Tried an onside kick, then didnt call a timeout when LAC was running the ball. Then took a knee when they got the ball back. That is the perfect time to get young guys some reps. I am so done with Flus. Velus needs to be cut. Worthless. Drops a TD that could've swayed the momentum.

Yeah, not much separation tonight, and absolutely no one helping him out. Too many drops. If I am throwing up a contested ball, it needs to go to Moore, not Mooney. Mooney needs to catch that but he has not been the same since the injury. If they can trade him for anything, I would pull the trigger. Bagent has looked good for his 2nd start as a D2 rookie, but he would need the rest of the season to really assess him, but that ain't happening. I am sure Fields will come back for the Saints game. Bagent's 232 passing yards would be the 6th highest of Fields career in 31 starts. That's pretty crazy. The refs did not help in this game either, they never called anything on the Chargers. Nothing new for the Bears, but it really makes it an impossible task to comeback when the refs are calling everything on you and nothing on the other team. This really makes me not want to watch these games. Bears back to having the 1st and 3rd pick.

Bagent evades some pressure, then on the next play over throws receiver for an easy pick. I have no clue what he was looking at, but a receiver was open, he just sailed it. This game is already over.

The defense looks like hot garbage, Herbert does not have an incompletion. Embarrassing performance so far. Every level is getting beat on defense, no pressure up front, LBs leaving too much space on Ekeler and underneath, CBs playing soft, and Safeties non-existent so far. Just an all around terrible start for the defense.

Bears down 14-0 early, refs handing the Chargers first downs left and right. Unbelievable. They have yet to call a penalty on the Chargers, yet the Bears have like 6.

Velus is such a waste of a draft pick/roster spot. Taylor can easily fill in for whatever Velus brings to the table. Yeah, come on Kmet, that was a great play by Bagent, and Kmet runs short of the sticks on an out route? Come on dude. Both of those calls on Patrick were ticky tack, and are borderline calls.

Refs don't waste time screwing the Bears on national TV, they did it on the first play of the game. Mooney catches a great deep ball from Bagent for 41 yards, he fell down catching it but was untouched when he caught the ball, he got up and started running for an easy TD and they blew the play dead again (just like the Moore play). Then the offense goes nowhere and they punt. Then on defense, the defense is too bendy and lets up an easy TD drive for LAC.

One of the worst scenarios was a CAR win and ARZ loss, and that is exactly what happened. The Bears now have the 2nd and 3rd picks in the 2024 draft. 1. ARI 1-7 2. CAR 1-6 3. CHI 2-6 4. NYG 2-6 5. NE 2-6 6. GB 2-5 7. IND 3-5 8. DEN 3-5 9. LAR 3-5 10. WAS 3-5 The only good thing is CAR will play an easier schedule just based on their division, so if they tie with ARI, then they would get the better pick. The Bears have had the easiest SoS of the top group and 3rd easiest in the NFL (NO, ATL). They still have to play CAR and ARI which will bring their SoS down even further, so they will always win the SoS tiebreaker.

Watching GB lose 4 straight is so nice. GB is in shambles coming to the realization that Love is not it.

Especially if Jackson can't go. Two backup safeties? No real SS on the roster after Brisker.

Ugh CAR won. Not good, now they have the same amount of wins as ARZ who may not win again. The Bears currently 5th after NE and NYG losses. A Bears win tonight would drop them to 8th (unless Denver beats KC) and only a half game from 12th. A Bears loss would keep them locked in at #3.

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Which makes the Denver loss hurt that much more. However, nothing really matters if they lose on SNF, because at 2-6, you are essentially eliminated.

Very cool. Now the Bears need to get your son a win after what they did in the 2nd half against Denver. Part of the defensive improvement has been due to Gordon coming back, and Brisker and Stevenson playing better. The LBs seem to be finding their niche, and our young DTs are slowly improving. Now if our Edges could get going, we would be set. The Chargers have the worst passing defense in the league and #1 WRs torch them. I expect Moore to have a big day. If Bagent plays mistake free football, this team will be a tough out, especially with how good the running game has been lately. Now we get Foreman + Johnson for the first time. Secretly, this is the pairing I wanted from Day 1. Ekeler scares me, especially with screens out of the backfield. Besides him, Allen is great, but the CBs have been keeping WR1s in check. I am going to go Bears 27-24 on a late Carlos Santos FG for the win.

The eval is not yet, but at the same time, do the Bears want to evaluate what they got in Bagent? You can only eval one of them. If the Bears beat LAC on SNF, and he plays like he did against the Raiders, he will have 2 wins in 2 starts while Fields has 2 wins in his last 15 starts with the same team. It is a tough spot, Flus and Getsy are coaching for their lives at this point. I would say anything less than 7 wins and they are gone. If they come out on top on SNF at 3-5, there is an outside chance they can get to 5-5 after playing CAR. Thought would mean they only have to go 2-5 the rest of the way to get to 7 wins. The risk is you go back to Fields, and he plays bad and they lose a few more games, because if they go back to Bagent at that point, Fields, Flus, and Getsy are done.

It depends. If you trade at the deadline, you basically get an extra 1/2 of season worth of use and eval. If some team thinks he is the guy, you don't wait to get him. If teams believe the Bears will draft a QB, Fields value near the draft would be at its lowest in my opinion, but I could be wrong.

I don't know what Fields' trade value is but we at least have a floor (a 4th rounder for Lance). I doubt he gets a first, so it seems to be a 2nd - 3rd rounder. If you are talking professional player swaps, it is possible, but that traded player would have to be worth a 2nd or 3rd rounder as well.

Health has been a bigger issue for the Bears than people (even me) have considered. It is tough to win when you have that many injuries to the same position group. The secondary is getting healthy and even without Jackson, looked great regardless of the pressure. The O-Line has been in shambles, but for some reason, the combo of Whitehair-Patrick-Jenkins worked. Again, the Bears are literally 2 plays away from being 4-3.

That is the optimal week to bring him back, however, he may feel rushed to get back earlier, and with an injury like that, once the swelling is gone, he could just tell them he is not in pain. It would be a mistake, but after seeing that win without him, I feel like he will feel like he needs to play.

Check out this comparison: Fields vs LVR (3rd start): 12-20, 60%, 111 yds, 1 TD, 0 INT, 91.9 Rating, 2 sacks, 5.55 Y/A, 3-4 rushing Bagent vs LVR (1st start): 21-29, 72.4%, 162 yds, 1 TD, 0 INT, 97.2 Rating, 1 sack, 5.6 Y/A, 3-24 rushing Right now we are comparing a D2 UDFA in his first start with a 3rd year QB. Bagent is already ahead of Fields at the same time in their careers. Bagent can basically only get better, but we may have seen Fields' ceiling, that is concerning. Not that Bagent is the guy. His comp is probably a solid backup/spot starter, but with the right situation could be much better. Fields comp now is more Jameis Winston than Jalen Hurts. He still has time to change that, but the same problems that plagued him to this point are still there.

The Bears defense has allowed 12 pts in back to back games, and 20 against WAS. So 14 pts per game the last 3 games is a pretty good sample size for a defense. They allowed a ton the first 4 weeks, so it has skewed the averages a little. Now GB plays MIN next weekend. Then they play LAR, PIT, LAC, DET, and KC. There season is over.

Bagent did it, his game was impressive for a rookie. He looked like he knew what he was doing, wasn't surprised by pressure, made protections changes, and audibled a few times. Besides for the distance of the throws, I thought he played a very solid game, and light years ahead of any other D2 QBs have in the past.

They have to win a few in a row, even just 2, to get rid of that narrative. The way some teams are looking, now even the Chargers look beatable. The Lions got destroyed. They don't play PHI, MIA, or SF, which seem like the only elite teams (already lost to KC so I didn't count them).