NFL 2023: A different shade of green for Aaron Rodgers
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Joe Flacco will probably be their starting QB.
Watched the Johnny Manziel documentary on Netflix. Feels strange to say it was a shallow documentary when he fully admits to everything he did, but it felt really underwhelming. Maybe because there was nothing new? Maybe because it focused on all the wrong stuff and barely paid attention to the interesting stuff? There was a scene where he said he was going to spend all his money and kill himself but the gun jammed. And then it's never brought up again. He admits to everything, but the documentary glosses over it or underplays just how bad it was.
I mean, yeah, at the end of the day there are only 32 head coaching jobs and even a year brings life-altering money. (And with Reich, he's getting life-changing amounts of money from both Indianapolis and Carolina.)
Well, most likely, but nothing is going to help Young being roughly the height of a garden gnome.
He's 5' 10". Doug Flutie would like a word.
The Bears managed to outlast the Cousin-less Vikings. All the pieces are in place I think
The Bears managed to outlast the Cousin-less Vikings. All the pieces are in place I think
They'll do just well enough to convince the McCaskey’s to give Eberflus/Fields another year.
You’re winner!
I don't even want the McCaskets to get another year. Clueless old rich people.
My concern is that the Bears will have just enough success in their final five games this season to convince Kevin Warren and Ryan Poles that Eberflus & Co. deserve another year, but I'm relatively certain that they're not going to pick up Fields' fifth-year option and they'll either cut bait or give him a prove-it year in 2024 on the last year of his contract. It's clear that the coaching staff doesn't trust him--there's no other explanation for Luke Getsy calling a zillion WR screens per game, to the point that fans in the nosebleeds can tell when one is coming--and this far into his career, there are far too many badly glaring gaps in Fields' game, between his footwork, his reluctance to throw and as a result hanging onto the ball for far too long, his fumbling tendencies and him still staring down his receivers.
By my count looking at the spray chart, Fields had 17 passes behind the line of scrimmage last night, which is an utterly nonsensical number and it's an indictment of both Fields' play and Getsy's play-calling. Sure, every now and again he can nail a laser bolt to DJ Moore, like he did to set up the game-winning field goal, but all too often he's missing wide receivers who are completely open with no DBs anywhere near them because he's already locked-on to his target, damn the torpedoes. It's really hard to overstate just how much Moore and to a lesser extent Kmet and Mooney have been bailing him out on some truly hideous throws, and at this point, with 35 games under his belt, I think it's safe to say that Fields is a known commodity and has shown what he can and cannot be. (Such as, for example, he cannot be a pocket passer.)
I'm still generally high on Poles (fleecing the Panthers out of two first-round picks and Moore was a master stroke), but it's clear that Eberflus is badly overmatched as a head coach. He seems to be doing fine calling the defense, but the team's overall performance leaves a lot to be desired and any even remotely competent offense would have hung 30 on the Vikings last night. So, fuck it, burn the coaching staff to the ground, hire someone like Ben Johnson or Brian Johnson or some other hot offensive-minded coach, draft Drake Maye (Caleb Williams basically looks like Fields 2.0, but shorter, to me--you cannot tell me with a straight face that he's actually 6'1"--and that fumbling problem is very worrisome) and Marvin Harrison, Jr., let Maye sit for a year behind Fields and Bagent until Fields inevitably gets hurt, pay whatever you have to in order to keep Jaylon Johnson in the fold, and shoot for the playoffs in 2025.
The McCaskeys aren't even that rich. Almost all of the family's net worth is tied up in the valuation of the Bears and they're extremely cash-poor. This is why, like maybe 15 or 20 years ago, the NFL changed its ownership rules regarding liquid assets and debt, so the children wouldn't have to sell the team once Virginia finally carks it.
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It's the reverse Pottery Barn rule, 'I break it and you keep buying it.' I've lived through the dead decades of the Ben-gals so I feel your pain as a fellow fan-atic.
OK, maybe not that rich, but can we agree on "clueless"? I still have slim hope the children and grandchildren decide to sell at that point anyway.
Oh, clueless goes without saying.
Never forget that Mike McCaskey scheduled a press conference to introduce Dave McGinnis as the team's new head coach after Dave Wannstedt was fired despite McGinnis not having actually agreed to contractual terms yet, then McGinnis heard the news on the radio while he was driving to Halas Hall and he promptly informed the Bears that he had no interest in being part of such a turbofucked clown show of an organization, and it forced them to settle for ... sigh ... Dick Jauron and the three-headed quarterback monster of Shane Matthews, Jim Miller and Cade McNown.
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