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Feels like 12 below zero to open the game. Bears get the ball to start.

This is going to be an ugly game, Johnson now on IR: So our CBs are Gordon, Jaylon Jones, and Josh Blackwell with DHC and Brisker at Safety. No Sanborn, no Jackson, now no Johnson.

I know, me 2! It opens up so many options for the Bears. Once you start dropping, you are then settling for what is left. I almost feel like #2 is the most valuable pick in the draft because HOU has to draft a QB at #1. That leaves every other player or a trade available to you. No other pick really has that flexibility. Once you get to #3, there is a chance 2 QBs are off the board AND there is even a chance that both Carter and Anderson are off the board, or one or the other. So at #3, you are already settling.

I wanted Jones or Trask, boy was I off. I didn't think Lawrence or Wilson would be available at #20 so I really didn't look into them that much. I was leery of Fields because of his performance against Alabama. Fields did not look good in the Natty compared to Jones. Jones had 464 yards passing and 5 TDs and Fields had 194 yards and 1 TD. In comparison, Trask played the same Alabama defense a few weeks earlier and put up 408 yards passing and 3 TDs. If you can only go off the tape, how would you not conclude that Trask or Jones were better? Here were their WR/TEs: Jones: Smith, Waddle, Metchie Fields: Olave, Wilson, Smith-Njigba Trask: Toney, Pitts, Grimes I would say Jones and Fields Receiving Corps were fairly equal and Trask probably had the weakest group. So if Trask can do that against Alabama, why didn't Fields? Somewhat of a weird comparison, Fields had 194 yards passing, 67 yards rushing, and 1 TD against Alabama in his last college game and now for his NFL career he is averaging 157 passing yards, 57 rushing yards, and 0.9 TDs per game.

Elgton Jenkins signed an extension with Packers, he is off the market.

2. CHI 3-11 BUF @DET MIN 3. DEN 4-10 @LAR @KC LAC 4. LAR 4-10 DEN @LAC @SEA 5. ARZ 4-10 TB @ATL @SF The Christmas day game of DEN@LAR will basically lock the Bears into a top 4 pick. If ARZ can beat ATL next week, that would make it a top 3 pick (even with a win). If DEN doesn't win on Christmas, I doubt they win another game with KC and LAC next. LAR could potentially beat SEA, especially if SEA is out of the playoffs by then (if DET passes them). On the flip side for the playoffs, DAL is a lock leaving only 2 WC slots left in the NFC. Currently NYG and WAS. WAS has a tough schedule and will need to win out to get in. So DET has a good shot to slide in as the WC3, which is wild. However, worlds collide with Bears at Lions in Week 17 as the Bears draft position is as much up for grabs as DET's playoff spot. What would you rather have? 1. Bears beat Lions, knocking them out of playoff contention, but Bears slide to Pick #4. 2. Bears lose to Lions, allowing them to clinch a WC spot, Bears pick #2. After seeing what happened with the Jets and Wilson (Jets won a meaningless game the year before losing draft position), I would go with #2.

I hope he is better at Cougar hunting than he is at QBing because he looks terrible. That game last night was one of the worst performances I have seen from a #2 pick that I can recall. This is also coming after a 300-yd game against DET last week and he also had 355 yards against NE a few weeks ago. His QBR last night was 5.2. Only Kyle Allen and Matt Ryan had worse QBR games with as many passing attempts this season. What is absolutely wild is his completion percentage (among other things). He was 50% last night, 51.4% against DET and only 40.9% against NE. He had a 55.6% last year and some how is worse this year with 54.5%. It is not even like he is throwing a ton of picks, he has 6 TDs and 7 INTs, but he literally cannot sustain a drive. They either go 3 and out, or get one first down, then punt on every drive.

That would be ridiculous, especially considering how bad ATL will be next year, that will more than likely be a top 10 pick as well. Anderson probably won't make it out of the top 5, but to get him and Bresee in on draft would be a win regardless of any of the other picks.

Yep, just trying to be fair and pointing out the good with the bad. Right now, he gets dinged a lot for sacks on his advanced metric QB stats which brings those down a lot. He would be basically top 10 in every metric without them.

Fields leads the league in sacks at 46, and is tied for 8th in INTs with 10 (only Prescott has worse INT%). I hope he can improve on these in the last 3 weeks.

Nagy didn't even know which players were injured or what injuries they had.

Dieter Iceman!

Whitehair might be another cap casualty. It would create another hole, but he is not worth his cap hit at this point. I never seen a vet miss so many stunts in one game.

I don't think he has practiced yet, so I would assume he practices this week and comes back against the Lions. With it being a short week and so cold, it might be a better idea to hold him out more game.

Looks like Schoefield, Borom, and Reiff will all be playing with Mustipher and Jones.

It is going to be COLD on Saturday. Wind Chill temps between -10 and -15 at game time. Brutal conditions. The ground is going to be like concrete. Huge injury risk. I feel like this is going to be a ground and pound game with very little passing. Probably lower scoring than the line is at. I am thinking 16-14 or something ugly like that.

Interesting comparison: Thru 12 Games 159-270, 1870, 58.9%, 7 TD 10 INT 156-253, 1896, 61.6%, 13 TD 10 INT This is Fields last year compared to this year thru 12 games (before the Eagles game). As much as we see progress, the results, outside of the scrambles and rushing, is almost exactly the same. This seems like a red flag. I know the eye test looks different, but at the end of the day it comes down to the results. I did not realize his passing stats would look this similar with two different schemes and play callers. The increase in TDs is promising, but it would've been nice to see improvement in other areas.

Those two outside moon shots were perfectly thrown. Fields still doesn't put enough air underneath his like that. He has thrown some but those were literally perfect. It also helps to have WRs like that.

Great first round of games, at one point, both games projections were within 0.50 of each other. It looks like #6 is going to beat #3 and #5 is going to beat #4.

Yeah, if a blown assignment, then that is on the players.

Yeah, I can't believe how many times our guys missed the stunts. It was like they never played the position before. Once your guy rubs off of you, you have to know someone else is coming around.

and Hurts only had a QB Rating of 64.6 against the Bears Def. If not for 3 super EZ rushing TDs, his overall stats would be crap. He only completed 59.5% of his passes and 113 yards were on two plays. So he had 35 other attempts that netted 202 yards (5.7 Y/A).

CAR is currently drafting 8th. Would you take #8, a 2023 1st rounder, pick #39, and DJ Moore for the #2? That allows you to still draft in the top 10, you get a top 10 2nd rounder back, an extra top 15 pick in 2023 and DJ Moore at WR. The other team is IND, currently 6th. Would something similar and Buckner be worth it? So #6, a 2023 1st rounder, pick #37 and DeForest Buckner for #2 be worth it? The player is basically replacing another 1st rounder like SF did when they traded up for Lance.

I would definitely draft one in the 6th or 7th. Competition is always good. He is slowly becoming less reliable and waving off kicks under 50 is terrible. He doesn't even do kickoffs, so his value is extremely limited at this point. Bagley kicked better than him, the Bears should've just kept him.

Baltimore is now in the 1st Wild Card slot. If they lose their WC game, they would be one of the best teams to lose, so that would be pick #23 or 24. If they win in the WC and lost in the Divisional round, it would be between pick #25-28. With Miami's pick voided in the first round, the Bears 2nd rounder will be between #54-59. So potentially as good as 2 and 54. 52 spots between picks is like missing an entire round. If you can get multiple firsts and another second rounder, you have to really consider trading out of #2. With HOU destined to take Stroud or at least a QB, the #2 pick is going to be super valuable because teams are going to want to leapfrog both DET and SEA for a QB.