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Caleb has actually gotten worse at getting rid of the ball quickly as the season has gone on. The inaccuracy on deep throws has been really disappointing. All his other struggles are pretty normal for a rookie in a badly coached offense. He really does need a reset and the Bears really need to hire an offensive head coach to get him in the right space. There's definitely times where he plays hero ball and doesn't get rid of the ball when he should, but there's also plays where he just has no chance because there's no actual checkdown for him to go to.

As bad as Eberflus was all season, Brown clearly sucks at calling 2 minute drills and time management. They wasted a full play clock inside of 2 minutes and then let the play clock run another 20 seconds before calling timeout. They wasted a good minute of the last 2 that totally took away play calling options in that last set of downs. Eberflus deserved to be fired, but Brown had a nice assist in that.

I felt like I was watching the Houston and Detroit Thanksgiving game all in one. The offense had no real answer to all the blitzes. Then they cobble together a decent drive to at least tie the game and Brown mismanages the time completely.

He was pretty good in 2022. I think the hamstring injuries ruined him more than anything.

This is probably the only reason to do this trade. That and maybe you can get Denver to throw in a 2nd round pick.

LaVine with a great audition on his trade to Denver.

Payton Wilson ran a 4.43 40. Looks like Bryse lost the genetic lottery in his family.

This guy is Great Value Lance Lynn

Yeah the overthrows are just weird at this point. It's like he has the yips.

He gets into stretches where he seemingly overthrows everything. I don't think this ever happened in college.

Poles' 3rd round LT looks like he doesn't belong in the NFL.

Outside of the Panthers trade, it's not like he's made a bunch of good roster decisions. I think you can also say that just about any GM could have made out like bandits on that deal. I guess you can say he did well in getting Billings for cheap, signing Edwards to a reasonable deal, and getting a serviceable LT in Braxton Jones for a 5th round pick, but what else has he done as GM that demonstrated he's irreplaceable? My issue with Poles has always been that he seems incapable of overpaying top tier free agents in premium positions, even when he's had some of the most cap space in the NFL the past 2 off-seasons. Instead of going after premium EDGE or offensive line free agents, he decided to give an off-ball linebacker his biggest free agent deal thus far. That's probably one of the least important positions in today's NFL. It honestly gives me Rick Hahn PTSD from him giving big money to relievers, but skipping out on premium free agents in more important positions. In the case of Poles, it's not because the Bears can't afford it, but it seems more like a personal philosophy that he won't overpay (even though he totally did to sign Edmunds). His inability to spend big money on the trenches is also a huge blemish on his resume. For someone who said he's going to build from the trenches, he's actually done quite the opposite. Add on Poles being dog-walked by Pittsburgh twice in trades (some GMs would never live down trading a 2nd for Claypool) and wasting a 3rd on a 26 year old Velus Jones and Poles' resume looks really bad outside of trading the #1 pick for a king's ransom. And even that came down to blind luck. I'll give Poles credit for tearing down the mess that was Pace's roster, but he honestly seems like a replacement level GM to me that got lucky with the #1 pick twice. If he really was the reason for the Eberflus debacle that led to us wasting a season, he should be gone.

I know Tucker is only a rental and his surplus value is limited because of that, but I expected the Astros to get more. Paredes was terrible for the Cubs last year. His only true value is that he's under control for 3 more years. Maybe he'll be better hitting in Houston, but this feels like Houston cheaping out by neither signing Tucker or Bregman. Replacing Paredes with an MVP caliber player in Tucker is huge for the Cubs. And they really had to let go of one of their top prospects for him. If they can get Tucker extended that's a big get for them.

That was the first thought I had when I saw his profile. Madrigal was never going to really work because he never walked. When you're a little guy, you gotta try to succeed in ways that doesn't always rely on hitting the ball.

Maybe hope Teel is like Realmuto and he's athletic enough to play OF?

Mayer definitely would have made this Sale trade part 2: electric boogaloo

Boston loves trading for tall lefties that throw weird, don't they? Pretty good return. This is the kind of value we should have gotten for Cease.

Not addressing the line with the amount of cap space they had was idiotic. Kevin Zeitler was out there for $6 million and Poles gave that money to Gerald Everett instead.

Miami ranked 14th in the AP poll, behind Alabama and South Carolina. They're definitely not making the CFP.

If Clemson wins the ACC, I really don't see how they can keep SMU out but put Bama in. SMU would have to get destroyed by 50 for it to happen. Miami vs. Bama is a legit argument, although you can argue 2 of Bama's losses should be disqualifying. Miami's losses were at least to 2 pretty solid teams, although you could also argue that they should have lost at least 2 more games to 2 really bad teams (VT and Cal). South Carolina is probably the hottest team that can still make the playoff, but their loss to Bama probably disqualifies them to the committee.

Of course we trade Edman and Kopech to the Dodgers for straight trash and they end up being major pieces to a World Series team.

Well they need to upgrade the line this off-season anyways. All of Poles' big signings should be on the defensive or offensive line.

Not considering anyone last year was stupid in general. There were a really good set of free agent coaches out there. Hell Vrabel and Belichick are still available. Ben Johnson also apparently had interest in the Bears job and I wonder if he stayed in Detroit just in case the Bears job became available. Because it sure as hell seemed like he wanted no part in the Commanders job.

I thought they'd make Washington interim because of this. To have Brown focus more on the offense. Now he's got another set of things to worry about. What's funny is that Brown's play calls kind of caused that disaster yesterday. I'm not sure if the QB draw call was from Brown or just something the team does when they get into late game situations (see Washington game), but I don't think Brown was blameless for the situation he put the team in. The call coming in late to Caleb also made it even worse.

I don't know what they were thinking running QB draw on 2nd and long. The blocking on the play was atrocious up the middle and it honestly seemed like the line didn't know it was a draw play outside of the center. It was like when Illinois ran a QB power at the 40 and got tackled in bounds last week against Rutgers. It took a miracle for them to recover from that, but they should have lost that game because of a call like that. The missed throw to Moore on 3rd down wasn't an awful throw, but it's the kind of throw where if he made it correctly, Moore's running for a long time after. That's the type of throw Caleb should be making. Moore shouldn't have dropped it, but Caleb needs to do better.