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Wanna know what is even crazier, the Bears are still only 1 game out of the 7th playoff spot (now held by MIN). They would have to win out at this point, but 9-7 will more than likely be enough for that spot. ARZ keeps losing and now SF is in the mix.

Holy crap, I can't believe my original post was from November 1st. It's crazy that it's literally the same old song and dance every week. What a shit show. How is this guy still employed? Let him say his goodbyes in the locker room tonight and announce he is gone tomorrow. Same with Pagano and Pace. They have to go. There is no point waiting until the end of the year. Let Lazor run the offense, an Asst get experience as DC and put Defilipo as Interim HC.

Yeah, NE and SF hadn't won yet when I posted that last week. Depending on how SOS plays out (best SOS is considered the better team) we can end up between 11-14 this week. All 3 teams behind us have tough matchups, but if the Giants can beat the Seahawks, anything is possible. We are still only a game out from the 7th pick with 4 games left. 1. NYJ 0-12 2. JAX 1-11 3. CIN 2-9-1 4. LAC 3-9 5. DAL 3-8 TNF 6. PHI 3-8-1 ----------- 7. ATL 4-8 8. HOU 4-8 9. CAR 4-8 10. WAS 4-7 MNF 11. DEN 4-7 SNF 12. DET 5-7 13. CHI 5-7 14. SF 5-6 MNF

1. NYJ 0-11 2. JAX 1-9 3. CIN 2-8-1 4. LAC 3-9 5. DAL 3-8 TNF 6. PHI 3-8-1 ----------- 7. ATL 4-8 8. HOU 4-8 9. CAR 4-8 10. WAS 4-7 MNF 11. DEN 4-7 SNF 12. DET 5-6 13. CHI 5-6 14. SF 5-6 MNF We gained at least one spot with the loss and could make it all the way to 10-12 this week.

They have to be fired, there is no point keeping them around. If I was this bad at my job I would've been fired weeks ago. Complete incompetence.

Fire everyone. If Pace, Nagy, and Pagano survive this, we are doomed forever. Most underachieving team in my lifetime (45+ years).

For the Orlovsky review, it is easy to do the same thing for every QB in the league. The difference are the playmakers on the other side. Do you know how many times Mahomes has thrown a ball that was short, behind, ahead of the target and yet the receiver (Hill, Kelce, Hardiman, Watson, etc) make a ridiculous catch, then get huge YAC. Orlovsky was a main component of the 0-16 Lions, so his voice only carries so much weight. Do you want some guy doing your investments who graduated with an MBA, was hired at Schwab, then fired a few later for being terrible at his job giving you investment advice?

Look what Fox did in Denver. He made it work with Tebow and got a playoff win against the Steelers. That was impressive. I think he was handed a pile of crap post Emery/Trestman and was then the easy scapegoat after 3 years. Just think if he was in on the draft in 2017, he liked Watson, and was blindsided by the Trubisky move. We could've had Watson + those draft picks back, which could've been an O-Lineman. He might still be coaching the team with Fangio as the D-Coordinator if that happened.

I believe Tannehill was coming off of injury in Miami, so I would equate Trubisky's more to Mariota's in LV. He got a 2-yr $17.6M deal but as a backup. If Mitch is expected to start, I can see it being somewhere in the $15-20M range. My hope is it's more of a bridge deal 2-3yrs, at about $10-$12M per year with a voidable year at the end. Taysom Hill signed a 1=yr $16.3M contract with the Saints as a backup; Brissett signed for 2/$30M with the Colts. Those were both backup contracts. I think Trubisky lands very close to those deals.

With the teams the Bears play, there is actually a lot better chance than 5%. The worst game will be Minnesota on the road, but besides that game, DET and HOU at home, and then JAX in some nice Florida weather, then GB at home to finish it out. I would say there is more like a 38.7% chance he looks better than any QB we have seen this year outside of Foles in the last 20 mins against ATL. Even if he plays well, I just don't see how Mitch ends up on this team in 2021. Salary is a huge issue. If Nagy and Pace stay, do they want Mitch back? If they both are gone, will the new regime want Trubisky in a new system? Can the fanbase accept another Trubisky contract? I feel bad for him because you can tell he is a good kid and someone you want to root for but for whatever reason it just hasn't clicked. It didn't help that he spent his first year under the tutelage of Loggains, then switched to a completely dysfunctional offensive scheme that never fit the personnel in Nagy's system. Looks like a cold one today, light wind though, so that is good. We will see what Lions team shows up. I assume they are going to play hard for their interim coach and it has been a long time since the Bears have lost 6 in a row. We lost 5 in a row once in the Fox 3 years, but never 6. To me, that is an immediate firing offense.

Fox was the scapegoat. He had a mess to clean up his first year, Cutler injured in year 2, then had Glennon/Trubisky in year 3. Not many coaches are going to succeed in that situation. The Bears went 14-34 under him, but 20 losses were within 8pts or less. If they win half of those, they are 24-24 under him and it looks like a completely different team.

Based on how the Bears play against these teams, I think they will go 3-1 in the next 4 and head into Week 17 at 8-7, then will probably beat the GB 3rd stringers and miss the playoffs by a tie breaker at 9-7 with Arizona.

Oh, if it's Pace, you absolutely avoid QB. He has no ability to evaluate that position. It can't be him. He got a pass with John Fox, but he should still be held accountable for those years.

Going into the final week of the regular season, we still have 9 teams vying for 6 playoff spots, a very competitive year. So far Run Dem Pockets (1), The Bunny (2), Corona Kings (3), and SAVAGEw/LOOSEMORALS! (4) have clinched a playoff berth. That leaves the following teams competing for the last two playoff spots in the final week of the regular season: 5. The Mad Lithuanians* (technically they are in barring some crazy scores since they have the Pts For Tie Breaker against any of the remaining teams) 6. MotM 7. PapaBear 8. Nopper 9. Nips&Tips Even though Victorious Secret has been eliminated, they are on a 2-game win streak, trying to end the season on a high note. Every game this week has playoff implications for a playoff berth or seeding, which is pretty rare. Good luck to all the GMs and thanks for the patience with all the COVID complications this year.

Huge game for draft position. A loss keeps a top 10 pick in play, a win and we are looking at a pick around 15. After losses to MIN and GB, a loss to DET at home would have to be the final swing of the hammer on the nail in the coffin for Nagy and Pace. So we have a few things to be hopeful for in a loss. A win won't even feel like a win at this point. Unfortunately, these are the games the Bears win. So I expect a win, 20-16 in an ugly one.

Mongo, I am tracking everything you are saying, and I agree that not many QBs would do much in this offense or behind this O-Line, but I wouldn't want to pass on one who is a potential franchise QB. You can still sit the rookie QB while you build the team up, but don't pass on one with the hope that one will be there in the future.

Great question. I wouldn't make a move just to use up your waiver priority if there isn't a need, especially one you can use over multiple weeks. Akers seems like the best bet to at least provide weekly points, even in a RBBC backfield and Murray will always give you 5-6 pts at a minimum week in and week out. If Samuel is available, he probably has the highest upside and will be heavily targeted in SF's offense. So if I had to choose one guy out of those 3, it would be Samuel.

Come on Mongo. Name all the All-Pro and HoFers for Brady, Brees, Peyton, Big Ben, Ryan, Stafford, or Favre on the O-Line. They had some good lines some years, but not all or not any historically great lines. Favre, Brady, Big Ben all have over 500 sacks against. You can add Rivers to that list soon too. Brady has historically had no-name receivers. Look at what Manning's receivers did when they played with another QB. They have each had a few, but the constant has been them, not their O-Lines or Receivers. It's a team game and they are going to get some good players next to them, and when they did, that's when the magic happens. A great QB with at least a good team is a SB contender. A great O-Line with a good team looks like Indy right now. A good playoff team, but won't go far in the playoffs. If O-line was the #1 factor, MIN, TEN, CLE, NE, and JAX would be the top 5 teams in the league as they have the best O-Lines in the league. PIT is 10-0 and has the 4th worst O-Line in the league: https://www.footballoutsiders.com/foplus/dvoa-database/basic-offensive-defensive-line-stats?year=2020&offense_defense=offense I am not saying O-Line is not important, and I would not be opposed to drafting O-Line early and often in all drafts, but without the competent QB, the line doesn't matter.

Brady, Brees, Peyton, Big Ben, Matt Ryan, Stafford, Favre, Marino, Elway, Montana?

The true franchise guys can overcome bad O-Line, bad receivers, etc. The next tier needs help, then the bottom tier fails regardless of the situation. If you have a middle tier guy, you can win with a decent team around him (Eli Manning), but a bad QB needs a historically great team to have a chance (Dilfer). The teams you see as consistent contenders have great QBs. Gotta hit on QB and make that the priority every off season until you find one. Then build.

I agree to an extent, but Watson had a horrible situation in Houston where he was running for his life half the time, but he is still elite. Wilson has had some of the worse offensive lines in the league for years, yet there he is year in and year out making plays. Mahomes would be no different. If you need great players around you to be great, you're not great. A great QB actually makes the entire offense better and is more valuable than any other single player on the team. Once you have one of those guys, you build around him. It's much harder to do it the other way around because who knows when you will find that guy? That is a huge unknown variable. Indy is going that route right now. They have a young, talented roster with an old QB. They are never going to be bad enough with that talent to get a top 15 pick, so what do they do? So if you get a top 10 pick and a top QB is available, you have to take your shot because who knows when you will be back there.

Very true. We don't have the right players for the scheme. Mack and Quinn dropping into coverage is a waste. I saw a stat that said the Bears played off the receivers farther than they have all season, allowing for easy underneath and crossing patterns all night long. So odd.

Game plan was to throw at Skrine and Trevathan regardless of the receiver. Look at the stats, those guys were heavily targeted throughout the game. The double face mask no-call on the Trubisky fumble was icing on the cake. I forgot how bad the officiating was due to how bad the team looked. What's crazy is if they call a penalty for a face mask on the Trubisky fumble, give the ball back to the Bears, and they end up scoring a TD on that drive, it's 20-17 at halftime, not 27-10. Who knows how the game turns out then.

It seemed like every pass was against Skrine. I have no clue how many receptions he let up, but I know it was a lot. He ended with 13 tackles, which is insane for a DB. He had 14 over the last 3 games. To me the weakest links on the team were Coward on offense and Skrine on defense. Teams will continue to just slide their targets into the slot, run any route, then blindly throw the ball there against Skrine and 90% of the time it's a reception. If you watched the game, that was happening a lot. That was their game plan and Pagano didn't adjust.

It is crazy to think Monty ran for over 100 yards, Trubisky threw 3 TDs and the Bears were down 41-10 entering the 4th quarter.