Tony

Wait, we talking Schriffin or Getz?

While I don't think he is identifying players to go after, I think he's absolutely involved in the approval process of players/trades, etc.

Don't disagree at all, and a lot of the narratives can change quickly if this continues, but while it shouldn't be that costly to get out of the Poles deal, after giving him an extension this last offseason, I'd be mildly surprised to see a movie by the end of this season. But time will tell.

Again, generally agree that this is not how the Bears operate, but we did see a change in both them firing Eberflus middle of the season, and paying a coach top dollar while also still paying the contract of Eberflus. We'll see, but as I said earlier, if they win 5 games this year and 5 games next year, I just don't see a world where they keep him after the 2026 season with something like a 25-60 record. I think the heat will be too hot around the team for them to bring him back for another season.

I hate that we are even talking about this, and I'm not going to give the Bears any credit or belief they will do the right thing...with that said, even with the extension, I can't imagine Poles is making more than 2-3 million dollars a year. Say this year is a disaster, they bring him back next season and it's more of the same. At that point, he'll be like 25-58 as a GM or something silly, I don't see how it's possible to even bring him back by any metric. My point is, even though the extension was insanely stupid, given what they are paying Ben Johnson, not to mention player salaries, paying a GM is nothing in the grand scheme. I don't think the extension will stand in the way of them HAVING to make a move.

Correct.

Maybe.....it's not the coaches.

Somehow, someway...they may find a way to be worse than last year.

It's become incredibly clear their scouting/drafting/development process is incredibly broken. (Where have we heard this before?) You draft Amegadjie in the 3rd round last year, in one of the most arrogant drafts I can remember. Poles acted like they could get cute and add the finishing touches to an elite team. Dude can't play, was right in the bubble of being cut during training camp this year. You followed that up by taking a punter in the 4th round, who has been average at best in his short NFL career. This year, all offseason, fans and media regurgitated the same talking points over and over again, because they were true. "Fix the trenches. That's where the focus needs to be. You win and lose in the trenches and the Bears need to get much better on both sides of the ball." Knowing that, the Bears took and TE and WR with their first two selections, because why not? Ok, now with those out of the way, lets draft an OL and DE with our remaining 2nd round picks. Neither one has played a snap of NFL football in Week 2. As I posted yesterday, Potash had the tweet that 18 of the 19 OL drafted in the first two rounds in the 2025 draft have already made at least one start for the teams that drafted them. Of course the Bears are the one exception. It's just rotten.

Dude, we get it. You don't have to respond to every post with the same thing

Feel like Roschon wasn't very healthy in camp, just got jumped on the pecking order. But that's clearly the least of their problems

So just like Week 1, Loveland has made zero impact. Ozzy isn’t dressed, Burden has one return, Turner isn’t dressed. How’s that for 4 picks in the first two rounds.

There isn’t a “right one” ever, to take Top 5 overall.

I will now need to be convinced Caleb is actually good.

I think right now there are a lot of similarities between Fields and Caleb. Tons of athleticism, talent is there, but the processing, accuracy and consistency just doesn’t seem to be there. And I don’t know if it gets better. We’re gonna find out

There is a long way to go, and given what they invested into Caleb, and how much he is tied to Poles....they are going to give him EVERY chance to succeed. But, Flash just asked the question "There’s no way you could allow Poles another crack at drafting a quarterback, right?" That could be after the conclusion of the 2026 season (so the Bears give Caleb all of this year and all of next year to see what he can do) If at that point, with like 48-50 games under his belt...if they are in the same spot that they were with Mitch and Justin, I think it's a valid question...does Poles get a crack at finding the next QB? The answer is unfortunately probably yes, given Poles reportedly had two more years left on his deal and the Bears already gave him an extension (for what, I have no idea) but he's 15-36 as a GM, and if they are in a position to draft a QB after the 2026 season that record is going to be worse than it is now. At what point is enough enough? Long way down the road, and we're all hoping it never gets to that point, but it's not a totally unfair question.

Correct. I mean he's an NFL QB. He's going to be able to complete some really good throws. But doing it on a consistent basis is a whole different animal. Thus far, he has shown us time and time again his touch on the deep ball is incredibly inconsistent. Case in point:

While I haven't watched it myself, have seen a lot of people I trust on X talking about how bad the All-22 is for Caleb. The scheme seemed to be there, even in Week 1. The QB didn't execute.

Especially when you won 5 games last year. I get every pick isn't going to be a home run, but just looked it up: Burden played 22% of the snaps. Loveland 57%, but again was 2/12. Ozzy didn't even make the field. Why are you spending capital on an OL IN THE 2ND ROUND if he isn't going to play, even a snap?

Thought about this late last night Your first three picks this year were Loveland, Ozzie and Burden. Loveland was 2/12 last night I didn’t see Ozzie on the field Burden had 1 catch for -3 yards last night

No, but that doesn’t mean Caleb is the answer. Could be…but I’m not a believer yet

I don’t want the city to “turn” on anyone…but EVERYTHING has been given to him this season. It’s ALL set up for him…if he can’t do this, then onto the next one, unfortunately

They have -1 yards of offense in the 2nd half. Yeah, no.

Someone needs to make a play, because the field is slanted toward the Vikings big time right now. Offense has no synch, looks like every other season right now.