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I mean the thing with the Marvin Lewis bengals was he made the playoffs every year just never won. Big difference compared to going to the playoffs twice in 12 years and never winning.

While still skeptical of Poles talent evaluation, it was hard not to appreciate his accomplishments yesterday. The offensive line is one of the best in the league, largely due to the offseason moves of Dalman, Jackson and Thuney. One of the reasons it was easy for me to fly off on Poles when that group started slow (esp Dalman) was that despite it being commonly said that it takes oline and offense time to gel, as a bears fan it’s been pretty rare to see our groups improve in season. They are either good right away and slowly atrophy, or bad and stay bad. The bears across almost every major position group have been improving, as people who watch functioning organizations say is possible. Quite a sight. the one area that will still paint as disappointing is DLine, which is way too expensive to be this mid. But even they played great vs the run yesterday.

That’s funny I thought herbstreit was pretty kind to Caleb despite it being one of his rougher games. He was often pointing out the WR slips causing throws to look off. Biggs 10 thoughts are so epic. With the athletic giving up on covering sports, he’s really taken the lead of must read bears reporters: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/29/chicago-bears-brad-biggs-10-thoughts-week-13/

They seemed like they hated each other last year then won the Super Bowl. But feels like it’s really prying apart now. Not sure where they’ll find an OC though. Though sheesh maybe they try to pry Declan Doyle with playcalling

Just an unbelievable game by the defense. Did not notice any of the obvious issues with the LBs this week. Meanwhile, man that full secondary with CGJ AND what wright has become is havoc wreaking

That felt so so good.

I kinda think it would have been worse had we had a Japanese scout the last 15 years.

We really need TJ Edward’s back or they’ll do same misdirection stuff Pitt did all day. but yeah it’s a bad bad matchup, will be nice to get Gordon back though. I do think we may be able to run on them, Dallas had some nice runs today. Run the ball and throw to Loveland.

Vargas is crushed by his defensive ability pushing his bat down, but he is a baseball player. I’d hate to give him up for what he’s worth, which is little. I don’t feel like he’s blocking anything for at least another year.

Non tendering Tauchmann makes sense. Superfluous with Tucker.

When Kyler Gordon gets back, I wonder if they move him to the outside and leave CJGJ at nickel.

I know one score games are flukey, but when you are really bad at them it's not. Want to give some flowers to Johnson, who has gotten us to end of games and halfs with full timeouts and aware of time optimization. Even the Vikings game, they knew the right thing to do, almost did it perfect, yet our peg legged kicker couldn't execute.

feels like a lot of teams are like the bears right now. Our offense is improving, our defense is going to be struggling until Kyler/Edwards get back. Offensively it is nice to still feel like we can get more from Colston/Luther, but defensively it is pretty disappointing that the players we paid this offseason are all injured and seem constantly injured. Feels like Kyler tops out at 6 games a year, so frustrating.

He was my "guy i'd sign if Ishbia gave us a bunch of money".

twitter feed is just 35 tweets straight of dabolls head.

No idea if it will work out, but not a big fan of the names. what is it boveee? BOfa? that'll be fun.

I agree, surprised how big of an impact he's having defensively now. I am struggling to watch games and catching some erh intermittent feeds, but was happy to see the second half last night. What a crazy game to not lead until 3 seconds left.

I love robert.

I agree about the 'bad win' thing. The Bengals had so many moments that just went their way, from the kick, to the graze of a thumb on edmunds on the pick six that instead had us backed up inside the ten, to the extremely close call on whether flacco fumbled which was another near TD. The bears had a 2 TD lead with minutes left, and in most days a 7 point win on the road is good, but even better imo when you basically gave them a 7 point lead to start the game.

Ok I do need to also give flowers for Wright, he seems to be trending to elite. I love watching his run blocking every week. He absolutely plows players, it is so rad. We love our offensive lineman in chicago, my apologies to Darnell.

I will say it was 4th and 8. He's had two interceptions like this where he kinda throws up an interception prayer and it kinda makes sense to do given the context.

couple thoughts: - Still very bullish on Johnson as HC, he managed the timeouts and clocks perfectly end of game. We always have 3 timeouts end of half and use them well. - Poles has to go. I think hightower should be on the way out as his kickoff coverage has been terrible all year, and now the onside kick fiasco. And the penalties. But Poles basically drafts for special teams in the fourth round and later, including a punter, and it is still this bad of a unit. And now blackwell is out. Then add to that, this absolutely trash d line which has many 2nd round/3rd round draft picks, many many millions of dollars. And it is awful. The secondary is obviously beaten up, but just crazy how terrible this defensive line is. And that is inexcusable to me year 4 after a tear down job. What's worse is guys that come in, look terrible, then go elsewhere and look great (al-quadin muhammed is doing great in seattle). Something just terrible with his player evals. Of course, he did have a day with Monongai and Colston showing up. But I'm just so so frustrated that this team is missing elite guys with so many draft picks and money and trades made. I have zero confidence that if he makes a trade for a guy today/tomorrow, that he will get a guy with impact, let alone win. It will probably be an underperforming 25/26 year old with great athletic profile and zero production.

I proposed trading cease for Betts before 2020 and re-signing him (which wouldn't have happened with Jerry, but I was right he was open to signing a deal before free agency). We'd have won world series in 2020 and 2021, and possibly won every world series since.

an unbelievably irrelevant draft class that featured a top ten pick and 3 second rounders.