Ryan Poles, Year Four...

[Mongo3451]

Year one:  he inherited a team with a terrible o-line, cap hell and no number one receiver.  Not much to do, but fix the cap and try to accumulate picks.  

Year two:  we get year three of the Justin experiment.  Terrible o-line, the DJ Moore trade, Flus, Darnell Wright, Sweat and still no pass rush. 

Year three:  the payoff.  Draft Caleb and Rome.  Terrible o-line, no pass rush and flus fired.  Drafted a punter in the fourth instead of trench help.

Year four:  draft offensive weapons Loveland and Burden.  Traded and signed entirely new IOL.  Left tackle problems continue, no pass rush and no running game yet.  History may judge him for not drafting an LT and EDGE with the first two picks of this draft. 

Nobody will ever know the truth about the who and why of coaches and players, due to how the organization was run.  I believe Warren has been a stabilizing influence on Poles.  Poles is young and will continue to grow.  For him to get above average, he must get LT, pass rush, RB, S and LB.  All upgrades! 

He says it would be a five year process and I think he's a year behind schedule, given that he will have to hit big to fix LT and pass rush.

My grade: C    A very incomplete grade at that.

I left a ton of info on the table, so fire away with your thoughts...

[adam]

The Bears have one of the lowest snap counts for drafted players, yet have had extra higher draft picks in the last few years which should translate into more snaps.

I feel like he is at about a "D" at this point. If you auto-drafted based on mock draft pre-draft rankings, you would be a "C" as a GM. Poles has drafted worse than that. If you look at the trades, the Bears have lost pretty much every one of them, except for the Carolina trade, and even that one was a no-brainer. So it is not like Poles worked the Panthers into a crazy return. It was market value and he got Moore instead of Burns, which forced him to overpay for Sweat who has underwhelmed. 

Same with getting Ben Johnson, it was a no-brainer hire.

He drafted a punter over Bucky Irving when there was a need at RB.  Velus Jones, Pickens, and Amegadjie. You can't miss in the top 75 every year, yet he does.

I liked the Thuney trade, but didn't like the Bates trade. I like the Dalman signing, but he overpaid for Odeyingbo. 

So if you just assessed each move as a plus, minus, or push, he would have more minuses than pluses, which lands him with a D for me.

 

 

 

[Mongo3451]

28 minutes ago, adam said:

The Bears have one of the lowest snap counts for drafted players, yet have had extra higher draft picks in the last few years which should translate into more snaps.

I feel like he is at about a "D" at this point. If you auto-drafted based on mock draft pre-draft rankings, you would be a "C" as a GM. Poles has drafted worse than that. If you look at the trades, the Bears have lost pretty much every one of them, except for the Carolina trade, and even that one was a no-brainer. So it is not like Poles worked the Panthers into a crazy return. It was market value and he got Moore instead of Burns, which forced him to overpay for Sweat who has underwhelmed. 

Same with getting Ben Johnson, it was a no-brainer hire.

He drafted a punter over Bucky Irving when there was a need at RB.  Velus Jones, Pickens, and Amegadjie. You can't miss in the top 75 every year, yet he does.

I liked the Thuney trade, but didn't like the Bates trade. I like the Dalman signing, but he overpaid for Odeyingbo. 

So if you just assessed each move as a plus, minus, or push, he would have more minuses than pluses, which lands him with a D for me.

 

 

 

Great points.  You have moved my grade to C-.  If Booker and Turner pan out on the DL, he gets to C+.  It's gonna take both though.