How Bout Dem Bears?

Watching the draft coverage and a while ago they had shefty on and he was saying that the fifth year option on Trubisky isn't a given and they've got until the start of may to do it.

So what player are you most excited to see this season? For me it's Akiem Hicks, I think once he went down last year a lot of our defensive threat was gone and Mack became way less effective when opponents didn't have to double Hicks. A fully healthy Hicks mages everything in the defense tick.

So who else? Robert Quinn could bring a new dimension to the front seven as well, the new TE Kmet? Maybe foles (hell maybe trubisky!) will change things on offense?

Of course the main thing will be that we get to see them at all! For me personally, I got the good news a few months ago that I'm moving to Chicago for work, so I'm really hoping to get to go and see one or two games in the flesh, although with the distancing rules that may well have to wait until 2021. Still, it will be nice to be in a place where people are actually interested in the Bears.

thomond2006 wrote: »

Adam Shaheen gone to the Dolphins for feck all. What a disaster of a pick that was.

I actually think a conditional sixth was more than most would have expected. He's done.

One in a long line of examples of bears general managers trying to be clever instead of sensible. Makes you think that looking clever is something the organisation itself values in candidates for that job.

Oat23 wrote: »

Both QBs are sh*te. Meanwhile Cam Newton is doing what you'd expect a veteran of starting quality to do: Easily winning a QB competition.

Pace should be gone if one of these two don't step it up. For all the good he has done, missing on the giraffe, Trubisky and then Foles overshadows it.


https://twitter.com/Zack_Pearson/status/1298317597176410112

The old adage, if you have two QBs in a competition, you have no QBs. Oh well. Blowing it up again next year I suppose. Shame if we have ended up wasting a really great defense all for one playoff game in 2018.

Oat23 wrote: »

Reports now of a potentially serious injury to one of our RBs. F*ck sake.

Nothing confirmed yet but a reporter who mainly covers the White Sox is saying it's Montgomery and his knee he injured.

Reporters are being cryptic. I don't know why so many do this now. Just say what you know.

Edit: Nagy saying it's a groin strain but they don't know how serious yet. At least it's not his knee like multiple journalists were suggesting.

did somebody say, "RYAN NALL"?

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Dear God, Urlacher, I knew you were an idiot, but Jesus...

The internet has made it much harder to live by the old adage "Never meet your heroes".

Ditka is the same for an older generation of fans.

Oat23 wrote: »

Mitch is our QB, and we'll go from there.

https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1302026779503276032

Consider me whelmed.

To be fair though you kind of have to be rooting for trubs in that battle because the alternative is accepting that we blew the pick so catastrophically that it set us back five years.

That's probably true. But I don't want to accept it. You never know. He might do the business. Won't take long to find out.

Putting my cynical cap on and thinking in terms of how Pace and Nagy hold onto their jobs, trubisky is the only choice that makes sense. If they start him and he's bad they have the plan b that they brought in. If they start plan b day one, they've already said plan a failed, so if Foles were to struggle in the opening weeks, then they have nowhere to go. This buys them more time.

Either way it's playoffs or the FAS office for Pace this year.

Going for it on 4th and 7 in the first quarter at that distance tells us they have no faith in Santos. So that's nice to know.

Unbelievable, Mitch may have just bought himself another week

Mitch needs to play two minute offense at all times.

I can't see us doing anything this year. The division and schedule is too difficult for such a flawed team. However we host the Giants next week so you'd like to think the Bears will be 2-0.

Wins like today are fun but we might regret them next April.

Pace and Nagy are fighting for their job. I would be shocked if they traded Robinson.

Serious question: what happened to our o line? It's like they turned from the worst run blockers in the league to it being their specialty. This drive is a master class.

I've seen enough of cairos santos. Guaranteed he costs us a game. Quite possibly this one. No idea why they have him in the team when there's better kickers in the dole queue.