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If you consider Trapilo as the eventual starter at LT, the entire starting OLine is on contract or cost-controlled (5th year option for Wright) thru 2027, which is Year 4 of Caleb's rookie deal. If you extend that to the rest of the offense, you can include Williams, Moore, Odunze, Burden, Kmet, and Loveland. That is insane. RB is the position not signed thru 2027 (Swift and Roschon signed thru 2026). Outside of RB, the 2026 draft will be defensive heavy (Edge, Safety, DT, LB).

He will get a $1.5M raise annually from his current AAV of $16M, which only bumps him up one spot from 5th highest paid LG to the 4th highest. By this time next year, when the actual extension kicks in, he will probably be out of the top 5.

This O-Line is now locked in for a few years. As long as they figure out who starts at LT (Jones/Trapilo), I like having this type of continuity.

Here are the QB matchups with what we know today. Depending on how you view Caleb, there will only be a handful of games where the other team has the better QB. Right now BAL and CIN? I don't think Goff w/o Johnson is better than Caleb w/ Johnson. I think Caleb is at least comparable to Hurts, Daniels, Purdy, and Love. Week 1 - McCarthy (first pro start) Week 2 - Goff - 6th QBR Week 3 - Prescott (3rd game back since injury + new HC) Week 4 - Geno Smith (new team) Week 5 - BYE WEEK Week 6 - Daniels - 4th QBR Week 7 - Rattler/Shough Week 8 - Jackson - 1st QBR Week 9 - Burrow - 3rd QBR Week 10 - Wilson/Dart Week 11 - McCarthy Week 12 - Rudolph/(Rodgers)? Week 13 - Hurts - 10th QBR Week 14 - Love - 5th QBR Week 15 - Pickett/Flacco/Gabriel/Sanders Week 16 - Love - 5th QBR, Love vs CHI in 2024 (1 TD, 1 INT) Week 17 - Purdy - 7th QBR Week 18 - Goff - 6th QBR (Goff outdoors in January) 9 games against top 10 QBR QBs, 8 games against non-top 10 QBR QBs. I expect Caleb to be a top-12 QB this year for QBR.

It's exhausting to be honest. There are so many other little things like hiring Jauron after announcing Dave McGinnis. Not that hiring McGinnis was the answer, he was terrible too. It was the entire process that led to the team announcing it before it was a done deal. EmBearassing. How about going with Trestman over Arians? That was fun too. Arians was the easy slam dunk and would've been crazy fun with Cutler at QB. Then with Eberflus, Dan Quinn was a final candidate. The only saving grace is the Bears would not have landed Johnson because Quinn would probably still be the HC right now.

It is crazy just how bad they were. Flus may be the only head coach to have his DC, OC, and RB Coaches all fired in season, then gets fired in season himself. Williams and Walker left in season in 2023, Waldron and Flus in 2024. In reality Flus should've never been hired, and or fired after every season. He took a 6-win team and somehow made it worse. Then because Fields willed the team to a few extra wins in 2023 he got a 3rd year. Which was again crazy. How does a guy like that get one of the top 32 positions for that career field? This continually supports the position that what Caleb did last year was even better all things considered. The coaching actually hurt him and was a detriment to his development and performance. I would not be surprised if every other rookie QB drafted last year fails miserably under the same conditions.

Here is a quote stating that it was "at times". I just thought it meant that when he was going to watch tape alone, no coach ever told him to watch something specific. Still coaching malpractice, but it seems par for the course with how bad the coaching staff was.

Check out this interview with Bagent. He thinks Caleb and Dexter are going to have breakout seasons. They try to be nice about the former staff, but Bagent is super excited about the new staff and went up and down both sides of the ball praising the coaches. He also noted that the new staff is teaching them what they are responsible for on each play, what their job is on every play, very detail-oriented, connecting the dots, etc. Now one would think this occurs everywhere, but the fact that he states this as a difference leads me to believe that they were just running plays last year. He mentions "teaching" several times in this interview. He also mentioned how awesome it is to have JT Barrett and Case Keenum in the QB Room. He said that Keenum has already helped him change his routine. That's awesome. I would not have any issues keeping 3x QBs on the roster if Keenum is that big of an influence.

He had to wait for the ball too, which made his overall route slower than it could've been. Swift and Roschon didn't look bad, but Monangai for a rookie has some quick twitch.

Yeah, people make the 4K Passing season a big deal, but the entire passing offense ineptitude has to end this year and with this group. Yep, and even if one of them doesn't pan out, the odds of all of them failing are close to zero.

Right, it doesn't say anything about Daniels not being told what to watch. Just because he watched tape alone doesn't mean he wasn't told by Kliff what to watch. Whether he did it at home, at the facility, at, during, or after practice is a moot point if he was instructed on what to watch.

There is a good chance that the Bears top 4 franchise receiving leaders are currently on the team. Johnny Morris is #1 in Receiving Yards with 5059. DJ would need 2.5 more years with his average numbers to surpass Morris as the franchise leader. Then you have Odunze, who as a first round pick will more than likely get a 2nd contract. If he gets one, and just say he puts up his rookie numbers annually, he would surpass Morris halfway thru Year 6. Then you have Loveland and Burden. Both have the highest pedigrees of Receivers that the Bears have drafted (besides Odunze lol) since Alshon (3rd in franchise). A wild note about Alshon, if he stayed with the Bears, he would've been the franchise leader in receiving yards and 2nd in receptions. However, he never even had a 900 yard season in Philly before retiring at 30. So the Bears made the right move with him and he lucked in a Super Bowl with Philly and Foles.

On another note, it makes his performance last year look even better considering what he was up against.

I would say it is not "nothing" but it is no more than other players calling the coaches out during the season in different ways. So, how does Jayden's presence in the facility at 330 have anything to do with Caleb's not being told what to watch? It has already been stated that Caleb was in early, staying late, on off weekends, and literally doing things on his own to get better. Someone coming in to get extra work done and coaches not doing their part are totally unrelated. Williams' statement was simply I was on my own with little to no guidance.

Week 1 - Vikings at Bears (MNF) - W Week 2 - Bears at Lions - L (short week, team still gelling) Week 3 - Cowboys at Bears - W Week 4 - Bears at Raiders - W 3-1 Week 5 - BYE WEEK Week 6 - Bears at Commanders (MNF) - W (2024 rematch with a much better team/coach, bye gives them an extra week to prepare) Week 7 - Saints at Bears - W Week 8 - Bears at Ravens - L Week 9 - Bears at Bengals - L 2-2 Week 10 - Giants at Bears - W Week 11 - Bears at Vikings - W Week 12 - Steelers at Bears - W Week 13 - Bears at Eagles (FRI) - L 3-1 Week 14 - Bears at Packers - L Week 15 - Browns at Bears - W Week 16 - Packers at Bears (SAT) - W Week 17 - Bears at 49ers (SNF) - L Week 18 - Lions at Bears - W 3-2 11-6 If the Bears can beat DAL in Week 3 at home and handle business in the division at home, they have a great chance at going 8-0 at home with the other games being NO, NYG, PIT, and CLE.

4 "short" weeks either after MNF, or leading into the FRI or SAT games. Right now it looks like no more than back to back weeks at home or on the road.

Bye is Week 5 ugh. Feels way too early for me. Earliest bye week should be Week 7.

They released all international games, and the Bears are not on the slate. I do not mind at all that they don't have to travel internationally. The Bears travel the 5th fewest miles. I would say there is not much of a difference in a few thousand miles over the course of an entire season, but with the top 3 teams having over 30K miles and 20K more than the Bears seems like a lot for them, and a good thing for the Bears.

No Thanksgiving Game but we get a Black Friday game. Hoping the bye is Week 12 so it's not a short week on the road in Philly. Week 1 - Vikings at Bears (MNF) Week 2 - Bears at Lions Week 3 - Cowboys at Bears Week 4 - Bears at Raiders Week 5 - BYE WEEK Week 6 - Bears at Commanders (MNF) Week 7 - Saints at Bears Week 8 - Bears at Ravens Week 9 - Bears at Bengals Week 10 - Giants at Bears Week 11 - Bears at Vikings Week 12 - Steelers at Bears Week 13 - Bears at Eagles (FRI) Week 14 - Bears at Packers Week 15 - Browns at Bears Week 16 - Packers at Bears (SAT) Week 17 - Bears at 49ers (SNF) Week 18 - Lions at Bears

It's amazing what a Win-Loss record does for you. It's also crazy that Nix led all rookie QBs in passing TDs and Passing Yards, but you would think Daniels dominated all the other QBs when he only had 27 more passing yards than Williams. Williams had 4x 300-yd games, and Daniels had one, against the Bears, meaning he needed the Hail Mary to even hit 300. Hell, he doesn't even have another game over 275 yards.

Collectively, between Johnson and Allen, they have to be a top 5 play-calling duo for both sides of the ball. Then you add Bieniemy, Randle El, and Harris, and we have some of the best position group coaches as well with a ton of experience either playing and or coaching. HC / Play Caller - Johnson DC - Allen ST - Hightower RB - Bieniemy WR - Randle El DB - Harris

I wonder if they are interested, or want to go full tank mode. Bagent would win them some games. They also drafted Shough in the 2nd round.

I saw two funny ones: Chicago got the papacy before Detroit won a Super Bowl. It only took two days to select Pope Leo XIV, and it took 3 days to select Shedeur Sanders.

I think it is natural for Bears fans to be pessimistic when it comes to passing numbers, but Goff is a good comp. He had 2x years with Anthony Lynn before Johnson took over. He improved in every statistical category. So Goff averaged 8.6 Y/A last year, which followed up back to back years of 7.6 Y/A. Williams was at 6.3 Y/A. So just say Williams adds only 1.0 Y/A to his average, that's over 500 yards from last year's total. If you consider that with the sack reduction, now he is around 700 yards better than last year with nothing else changed. If Trubisky could average 230 yards passing a game, Williams can average 250 per game. Stroud averaged 273 his rookie year. This is kind of funny looking back on it, but Trubisky averaged 230 yards per game in 2018 passing to Gabriel, Robinson, Miller, Burton, and Cohen. Compare that to Moore, Odunze, Burden, Loveland, Kmet, and Swift.

and the same with my numbers, I didn't account for any WR beyond WR3, or TE2. Duvernay, Zaccheaus, Scott, or Smythe. Zaccheaus had 45 receptions last year. I am not saying it will be a lot but even a few catches per player beyond the ones we listed would bump up Caleb's numbers by at least 100-200 yards.