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The amount of quality coaches Poles passed on to hire Flus, and then again this offseason is so disappointing. Poles sucks at his job. He got lucky with the CAR trade, that's it. Hardly any other move has resulted in a player playing above his contract or draft status. Taylor looks like shit, Wright has never played to top 11 pick potential, Stevenson sucks, Pickens sucks, Scott doesn't play, Velus was cut. What an absolute shit show, courtesy of Ryan Overrated Poles.

F*%k this team. An absolute poverty franchise. We all could see this coming a mile away. They had to move on from Flus or they would be repeating the same thing they did for the last 2 1st round QBs, and they did it AGAIN. Now it is going to burn at least another year of Caleb's rookie deal in a partial rebuild year as this one is lost. GB 45 - Shitty Team 6

This is arguably the worst run franchise in the NFL. Somehow the Panthers have won 2 straight but the Garbage Bears can't win a single game in their last 3 on one of the easiest schedules in the NFL. The original 4-2 was hollow and it shows. I don't care what you think of Poles, but he built the O-Line in the image of himself, a shitty OLineman, and it shows. His draft picks have sucked, he whiffed on way too many instead of loading up on OLinemen until you had a solid core. Velus, Scott, and Taylor were all wasted picks. They could've easily had a starting OG and OC out of those 3 picks. Poles also hired Flus, so the coaching failures are on him. I don't want him picking another coach. Make Waldron the sacrificial lamb, then fire Poles and the entire coaching staff this offseason. They all suck. Worst run franchise in the NFL. Look at Minny, Washington, etc, all were on similar timelines and are running circles around the Bears. That Keenan Allen trade looks like an absolute whiff. Another draft pick that could've been used to throw more darts at the trenches. Stevenson, who they traded up for sucks. He is terrible with a bad attitude. Great drafting Poles, a fetus could do a better job at picking than you. That punter sure looks like a wasted pick now. A 13 yard punt while the Pats punter is booting 75 yarders in his face. Embarrassing. What absolutely sucks is the Bears should've had a firesale at the deadline. Now they are stuck with this piece of crap roster for multiple years. Can you imagine how pissed Caleb has to be right about now? Sure he is not playing up to his potential, but man, WAS could've traded up for him and he would've had McLaurin and Kingsbury in WAS with that team. Instead he is throwing WR screens to an unmotivated Moore while old man Allen is whiffing on simple blocks. After 9 sacks, I would just list him with a phantom injury and call it a season. Let Bagent play out the string, no reason to risk long term injury when the season is over. The Bears could've had the historic haul + Jayden Daniels or this....... I think Poles whiffed here and he did zero homework on Daniels. Unbelievable.

At least he acknowledged it in the last press conference. Someone asked him about his accuracy issues and he is aware of them. So we will see. That is a better answer than "what issues". Here are his comments:

Game related, it looks like Billings is out for the year with a pec tear, Brisker still has not come out of concussion protocol. Both OTs are more than likely out. So this game is not looking good either. If they can't beat NE, they may not win another game. With the risk of injury, at what point do you go with Bagent? With the Billings new, Poles and Co knew he would be out before today, thus he could've made a move to add a body to the DL. Buffalo literally signed 2x DTs off waivers today.

It became very evident in Hard Knocks, and when they captured his post game locker room speeches. He might be a good "teacher" but that always doesn't translate to a good Head Coach. The good teachers are the positional coaches, and at most the coordinators.

Margins are so small in the NFL. There are about 120 total snaps in an NFL game (both teams), you can't afford anything external to the gameplay impacting the play on the field. We feel that with the officials all the time, a missed call or a phantom call, and it really feels like it impacts the game. The same can be said for coaching. If the Bears had Eric Washington as the HC all season, the Bears would at least be no worse off than they are right now. That tells you Flus needs to go because if you can just replace him with just about anyone and there is no drop off, then he is not a benefit to the team in any way shape or form. To me, he always felt like the "safe" pick for HC. I swear he was hired almost immediately after Poles and some questioned if Poles actually had much say in the process. Here we are almost 3 years later and week in and week out it feels like the same time. When there are problems, they will search for the answers, etc, etc. They never find the answer.

The 3rd year is supposed to be pointed up. I don't know if you can say the Bears are trending up. It feels like we are just floating laterally into oblivion. The crazy thing is the team has a bunch of vets that were supposed to add leadership. Allen, Lewis, Swift, Kmet, and Moore on offense. Sweat, Billings, Walker, Edmunds, Edwards, Johnson, and Byard on defense. That is a long list of vets to be having accountability issues.

Also remember this was a 10-win team last year that won 7 games. Now the Bears are a 6-win team that is 4-4.

What sucks about this game is, an average win will tell us nothing. It is the same Bears beating a bad team at home. The only way a win means anything is if they blow them out by 20+ and the offense looks like an actual NFL offense. If the Bears lose, Flus and Waldron have to be fired. 4-5 with the easiest schedule in football and 3 straight losses?

Unfortunately Moore has been pouting all year. I honestly think he didn't like the Allen trade, though he will never say that. He came in as WR1, then they drafted Odunze and traded for Allen. Last year he was the top dog and only dog outside of Kmet. Now he has to split targets with 2 other WRs. So he doesn't like to run routes when he is not getting the ball. That has been clearly evident the last few games.

Nah its all good. It is just like Velus. Poles held onto him for no reason. If Herbert was going to be inactive for multiple games, why not trade him in the offseason. They clearly were going in a different direction with Swift and Roschon. They had to just outright release Velus but had trade offers before the season started. At this point, that is the best he can do, cool, oh well, schucks. The issue is with roster building. If you continually bleed value, it will reflect on the field. 2nd round pick lost for Claypool, 3rd rounder used on Velus. Those missed picks, whether they are traded, or don't pan out, add up. That is why you see teams like MIN and WAS winning while the Bears are struggling.

Herbert will replace Moss as RB2 so he is going to get some carries.

Has anyone really looked at WAS compared to CHI? Is Poles really doing a good job? I mean, he lucked into the #1 overall pick, yet WAS, who was actually the 2nd worst team in the league last year, traded away both of their Edge Rushers, and somehow leapfrogged the Bears in the development timeline. Now they trade for Lattimore to improve their secondary while the Bears are sellers at the deadline. Very frustrating to say the least.

It's actual market value. Poles is getting a guaranteed 7th in 2025 vs a chance at a 7th round comp pick in 2026. Herbert would have to sign for over $5M to have it be a 6th.

Herbert to Cincy for a 7th. Poles is amazing.....not. You might as well kept him for injury insurance at this point. Poles is really trending down and fast.

The biggest day in the U.S. is today.......the NFL trading deadline. Poles has been one of the more active GMs of late during this period. Will he make any moves? Will the Bears be buyers or sellers? With the ravaged OLine, getting anyone to protect Caleb would be useful. I wonder if guys like Herbert or Allen will be moved?

After climbing as high as the WC2, the Bears are outside looking in now (on the bubble), tied with LAR and SF at 4-4. The 3 WC teams at the moment are MIN 6-2, PHI 6-2, and GB 6-3. So there is already a 1.5 game gap between the Bears and the last WC spot. Just looking at the schedule, even if the Bears play decent, beat NE, then split the last 8 for a 5-4 record, that is a 9-8 record which I don't think will be enough for the playoffs. Passing GB is the only chance and GB would have to go no better than 3-5 down the stretch to finish 9-8 AND CHI would have to gain the tiebreaker against them or outright better record to tie them with 9 wins. The most realistic scenario is having GB go 4-4 to finish 10-7, then the Bears miraculously finish 6-3 AND either win the h2h against GB or have a better div/conf record. The concern is also that SF and LAR are getting healthy and they will be in the mix, along with ARZ since the non-division winner will be in the WC hunt. So in reality 10-7 is not a playoff guarantee either. ARZ already holds the tiebreaker and I assume SF will too. The Bears will hold the h2h tiebreaker against LAR. So with the last two losses, they have realistically knocked CHI out of realistic playoff contention. They would have to do a complete 180 and play like a completely different team from what they have so far, and led by Flus and Waldron, I don't think that will happen.

This feels like a must-win against a bad team. Flus teams normally win against bad teams at home, so this should be a win and some false hope. Then the remainder of the schedule hits. If the team that has (not) shown up for the last two weeks plays the rest of the year out, the NE game may be the final win. SF is getting healthy and SEA is not terrible. I would not be surprised with a 5-12 or 6-11 end of season record. Obviously they can figure things out and a team like GB may rest starters in Week 18, so the Bears could eek out another win or two to get to 7 or 8 wins, but that seems like the absolute ceiling right now. I will go with Bears 24-13 as I think the defense will play better than they did against ARZ.

Kmet is not the 1st or 2nd read ever. That is offensive malpractice. Allen is getting fed the ball even though he can't get open.

That would be great, but he was 2nd round pick, and I doubt the Bears would get anything close to that for him, maybe a 4th, maybe. With all the injuries, they may be a market for Herbert or even Allen.

This was Caleb's worst game. After some progress, he took some huge steps back. He ended up with a QBR of 18.3, 2nd lowest to Flacco at 14.6. We are now thru 8 games, and it feels like Williams is underperforming all things considered. He is averaging 208 yards per game, still only has 9 TDs and 5 INTs on the season. After having 4 INTs in the first 3 games, he has only 1 in his last 5. however, even against bad defenses coming in, the results the last two weeks coming out of the bye have been bad. The offense looks completely disjointed, Caleb is missing open guys, making bad throws, and guys are dropping easy passes.

Carolina now tied with 6 other teams at 2-7 after their win, currently 4th based on SoS. So drafting 3rd in the 2nd round giving the Bears the 35th pick. Bears still 18th at 4-4 tied with 3 other teams at 4-4. So 18th, 35th, and 50th for their first 3 picks.

A blowout shows the lack of effort. Watch the long TD run right before the half. Watch Stevenson specifically. He is trotting along as a spectator on the field instead of running to the ball.

Honestly, it is pretty evident after an entire offseason and 8 games and the bye that Waldron and Flus are not the guys. Flus' ceiling is a DC, but he is the HC. Waldron probably is a decent QB Coach, but not a OC who calls plays. That is what it looks like on the field. Flus mismanages HC duties, and Waldron can't shape the offense around the players.