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Is this team better with Foles vs. Trubisky? Or is it basically the exact same.

Well - Foles can't hit when guys are wide open, they have bad drops, they have stupid penalties, and quite frankly, their players (not named Mooney) rarely win one on one matchups. Oh - and Montgomery is slow and TERRIBLE. HE IS PART OF THE PROBLEM. He is the worst starting running back I can remember the Bears have (and I remember James Allen pretty well - in fact that is probably who he reminds me of; I always remember James Allen never got downfield, he always did a slow stutter jump forward thing that was brutal. Montgomery looks like he's in quick sand a ton. And quite frankly - Nagy does an awful job getting his best players the ball. He's usually scheming to get Patterson way too many touches (his whole career has shown he is an awesome special teams player and a very ocassional gadget player. In no way shape or form should Patterson be getting the # of touches he is getting. And Beast - I think on the play Hicks was smiling, he was smiling because it was an absurd offsides call given how delayed the olinemen jumping off was. Either way - the Bears absolutely railed to make plays. I actually don't think Nagy is an awful head coach, I do think he's an TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR. Like he absolutely sucks at it - that said, the personell suck too. Oline, running backs, blah receiving corps.

Brutal. Not a good decision on that pick. They are not any better with Foles.

I said when they drafted him - I thought it was an unnecessary move.

This is Nagys problem - he gives too many reps to his lesser players. Don’t get cute - If kmet is good, give him the ball. Same with Patterson - we give him way too many carries. I legit can’t remember a worse rushing attack in franchise history than last year and this years bears.

Whole family got the flu shot today (love how easy they have made it - literally we just pull up in the car, hop out for < 5 minutes and we are done (don't even have to park the car). Hopefully this years shot is pretty effective against the flu - would be a really good year for that to be the case and for it to be a mild mild flu season.

Fair enough - I agree with that.

No offense guys - but the world would be a better place if we stopped just blanketly calling people with different political viewpoints idiots. Makes no one better & not productive. Unless you literally think we should live in a world where you can't be friends with someone who has different viewpoints. Personally - I think that is a boring world and I don't believe things are black and white. Different people have different views and I need to respect that - as long as those views aren't fundamental extremist type of positions. And no - I don't think every person who voted for Trump is an extremist - some certainly are, but many had there reasons and the fact that they voted for that individual does not make them a horrible person. We will never get ourselves back as a country if we continue to have so many people who have basically put themselves in an echo chamber (it is literally the exact opposite of diversity and is scary). Tony - I am not saying that is you - but this country is way too polarized and I hate absolute statements like this. The reality is, there were a lot of people who voted for Trump back in 2016 because well, they figured they had been stuck in their situation forever and maybe that situation had gotten worse and over decades they never saw it get better (Democrat, Republican...didn't matter). So you know what - they decided they wanted to take a shot and go anti-establishment, because you know what, why not, nothing else had helped them (in their own perceived world). I don't get why people can't empathize and respect that and instead just assume every single person who voted for Trump is a steaming pile of dog, poop. Some absolutely are - but that is the human race and those people exist on both sides of the voting spectrum.

For those that worry about whether TLR will fit in with the younger players on this club - given the Sox talked to TA (and maybe a few others) prior to letting Ricky go, isn't it safe to assume RH and gang may ask a few of the leaders to way in as it relates to a potential managerial hire. I don't envision the players making the decision, more just getting a high level reaction if there were any concerns (may even get specific - i.e., would the team be okay with Hinch given what happened or if it was TLR, etc).

But in the playoffs - an extra TOR guy is better than filling your worst position. If they are a defensive blackhole that is a seperate issue, but Engel can cover that even if he can't hit. Just find him a platoon partner and spend on the TOR guy if you can. With this team - I'd spend all my money on pitching.

Bears have to be making a move for Spain of the Bills, who was just cut. Sounds like it had more to do with a disagreement in the lockeroom with coaches/other items than his play. He also worked with Castillo back when he was in Buffalo and well - the Bears line is not good, so if I were them I'd be pretty aggressive in making this move (albeit- in season moves are always tough and olines more than any other position benefit so much from consistency and cohesion). But with the Bears oline - which is putrid (year 2 and running) - I'll take my chances.

Does everyone who suggests Joc would have been better than Mazara realize how bad Joc was in 2020? Dude hit under .200. Both of them stunk in 2020 and we would have complained with either of them in the lineup. But yeah - paying $10M+ for a guy coming off a season where he hit <.200, no thank you (although i do assume he'll bounce back). Bright side is - Joc can play defense.

This - buck stops with him as it relates to people on HIS staff.

I still LOL at everyone who rips Dave Roberts. 3 world series appearances in 5 years as a manager. I don't care how good your roster is - doing that year in and year out is impressive. Not to mention fact he is just really good, use of statistics, ability to manage his players, etc. Like any manager, you can nit pick, but Sox couldn't have been luckier than if Roberts somehow landed on the open market. Anything is possible - but I've followed and watched Dodgers enough to know Roberts is hands down a darn good manager and would just be a stellar fit. Highly unlikely the Dodgers move another direction - especially now that his team just came back to beat the Braves after being down 3-1. But if Roberts were free - he would be by far and away my runaway pick.

This - he is the mgr - he controls what his coaches do / don't do. He and he alone could have and should have stopped it. If the front office was doing other things and had issue with him stopping it, than peace, I'll find another gig. Hinch pointing fingers at others is not appropriate when he KNEW it was going on.

Next 3 weeks are going to be really tough - going to learn a lot about this team over next 3 weeks.

Sorry - I should say a 3rd and a 2nd (cause his pick was a waste as was the 2nd we gave up).

Also Roquan has shown up. Too bad Pace kept Danny T over Kwit. Danny is the weak link on this defense. Johnson is legit. He had a tough game today. A few bad plays and some costly borderline penalties but kept grinding at same time. Really a big fan of him. He did miss what should have been a Teddy Bridgewatsr pick in the red zone with a horrible play on the ball that actually gave what should have been an easy TD to Panthers (Moore dropped it though). Nice to see Kmet with some plays. Robinson had an off game. And Nagy had some straight up trash play calls today. He had some good ones but he gets cute way too often. Build up a real offense and than add some cute vs just being cute. Non Bears note: Adam Gase had to coach his final game for the Jets right?

By the way - another no show for Anthony Miller. Forgot Trubisky miss - Miller was a bigger miss. Mitch was a qb and while they missed you take that shot all day long. Miller is a bust and essentially was a whiff of 2 2nd round picks. He had another dumb play today where he cost them a 1st down. Mooney is real deal. Bought time Bears had a wideout with speed!

I agree

Not a review where they watched film. Just the refs huddling together to confirm on the call. Technically this flag I think was for hitting a defenseless player but was a tough call.

That penalty, the pass interference that lead to the TD on Johnson. Just real bad. I also thought the Foles roughing the passer was bad too. No idea how this team is 5-1 but Nagy is a decent head coach and a horrible play caller. They need to figure out how to run the ball under center with Foles at QB like they were doing with Mitch or something.

I read the same thing and thought it was interesting. I found it just as interesting that they had a quote from a 23 year old Hinch (after it happened) who took the high road and literally said maybe one day he'd be back in the organization.

Look at the Bulls; He wanted Doug Collins but ultimately let his basketball people make a decision and if anything his friendship with Collins actually got in the way of him hiring Collins again (he didn't want to have to fire him and he knew that). JR has his flaws, but he is very trusting of his people and I really believe he'd largely be a pretty darn good owner to work for (in the sense he gives you autonomy and trust).

Great post & welcome aboard. I agree with everything you state.