Poles has to go

[adam]

This is not a result of Ben Johnson, Caleb Williams, or anyone else but Ryan Poles.

You can't continually lose on trades and under draft year after year.

2025 Draft picks in the first 4 rounds have literally contributed zero to this team in 2 weeks, and the Bears had 5 picks in the first 4 rounds.

In 2024, he drafted Williams #1 and Odunze #9, which were a wash. Most had Williams going #1 and Odunze at 8. He did pass on Brock Bowers and Thomas Jr to go with Odunze. Also passed on every other QB for Williams. Right now, even after a great game for Odunze, it looks like those both were the wrong picks compared to players picked after them. We still have to give them until the end of this year, but it's like the entire team is behind the sticks. 

Don't forget he also drafted Kiran Amegadjie in the 3rd, who barely made the roster, then Taylor in the 4th. WTF was he thinking?

In 2023, Darnell Wright in the 1st over Jalen Carter. Still the wrong decision when DT was as big of a need. Then Dexter and Stevenson in the 2nd. If he went with Carter, he could've went OL in the 2nd. Pickens in the 3rd, then Roschon and Tyler Scott in the 4th. 

In his first draft, in 2022, he didn't have a 1st, but 2x 2nds, and went with a Nickelback and a Safety, followed by Velus Jones in the 3rd.

So from 2022 - 2024, he has 13 picks in the first 4 rounds and has Williams, Odunze, and Wright to show for it. 

The Loveland and Burden picks should've been OL, then DB and TE instead of Trapilo and Turner. That is 17 picks in the first 4 rounds of the last 4 drafts, and only 3 are regular contributors, with Odunze really the only one with star potential. Every week more and more it looks like Caleb is going to be average at best. 

 

[ASHKUM BEAR]

The Paper Champs do not have an oline or RBs to run Ben Johnsons offense.

I do not know what to say about the defense, but did any of the top 5  defenders play up to their pay day?  I would start trading them. Kyler was supposed to be an MVP type player and MIA. Jaylon hinting he's no longer the top paid CB, yet does he even call into work to be a no show? 

Get ready for the boo birds to show up next week.  It will be a sad day. 

[Bears4Ever_34]

Poles is the worst GM of my lifetime—or at least since I became cognizant of what I was watching as a kid around the early 2000's.

I know a lot of people would say Phil Emery, but Emery at least gave us 3 pro-bowl players in the draft (Long, Fuller, Jeffery). Two of them became All-Pro's. He also traded for Brandon Marshall and broke the cycle of WR futility. His misses were catastrophically bad, but he didn't have as much time as Poles did to do as much damage to the franchise. He also didn't ruin a quarterback.

Poles has quite literally been bad at everything, from drafting to public speaking. His free agent signings are almost always terrible. His trades are even worse. Hasn't drafted a single pro-bowler in 4 years on the job. 0 playoff appearances. 2 double digit losing streaks.