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I have a feeling they want to bring Rivera in to be a DC if they hire an offensive minded coach.

Remember that clip of Waldron making a joke and laughing after a 3 and out in the Pats game and Caleb just sat there and didn't acknowledge it? I'd like to think Waldron was making some gen Z joke that he thought Caleb would find funny, but it was actually incredibly cringe.

There's a few offensive tackles besides Banks and Campbell who have mid first round draft grades. I don't know about a disaster, but if they got 7, you can argue they could have gotten someone like Abdul Carter if the slides a little.

So the win today cost the Bears 3 spots. I guess it's really not a huge difference between 7 and 10.

FWIW, on the last play of the game, the Seahawks sent the entire right side of their defense and the Bears had no underneath route to throw to. Yes they needed 10 yards, but had they had Allen run a shallow cross or a drag route he easily gets 10 yards because there was absolutely nobody defending it. Seeing the Seahawks have 8 guys on the LOS and no check down option seems like a huge oversight. When you design a play there has to be a reasonable hot read to account for a situation like that. Instead the Bears ran Moore on a deep cross, Allen on a sit down route in the middle of the field and Odunze on what I think was a deep dig. Allen has to recognize that when half of the field is not being defended he needs to convert his sit route into a crosser. The receivers really haven't helped Caleb at all this year.

Over, just because it's actually very hard to win less than 50 games.

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.