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🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨
Alshon Jeffery will retire as a CHICAGO BEAR and "it's coming soon" 🐻
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I know Steve is slightly joking here but he's actually not wrong either
When you have a coach like Ben Johnson, you can afford to take big swings and miss. You should probably even consider doing it more. Even if you miss, your baseline is Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson.
Look at Shanahan and the 49ers. Every receiver hurt? Doesn't matter
All your best defenders miss the year with injuries? Still make the playoffs.
They even traded 3 1sts for like the worst first-round QB of all time and literally never skipped a beat
Bears fans need to start worrying less. If the trade works out, we got one of the best DTs in football. If somehow it doesn't, we were one of the better teams in football without him
Ryan Poles has been one of the more active GMs around the trade deadline, especially on the day of
Don’t be surprised if they #Bears are still making calls over the next few weeks
Whew boy
Dead last for the #Bears
Cannot be understated just how poorly Ryan Poles has built this defense. One of the worst in the league, and one of the most expensive.
Bears have their promising QB on his rookie contract and aren’t even really able to take advantage of it
Sigh
Music to my ears man
Very glad the #Bears didn’t miss out on someone like Simmons and then try to compensate by chasing after/overpaying for a 2nd tier guy
It feels like how Poles has done things in the past and feel very blessed that he was done with half-measures
After talking to several NFL teams and GMs over the last hour, my expectation is the trade deadline will be even crazier than anticipated. Chicago’s all-in move will cause other teams to react and try to be bold as well.
In the words of one source: “All hell is going to break loose over the next week and a half. Get your popcorn ready.”
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Great points here from JW
Similar to the Mack trade in 2018, you have a promising young football team that turned one of their weaknesses into a strength over night
Hard to understate how much this can move the needle for the #Bears
Gotta give credit to Ryan Poles here
He’s taken a few big swings at fixing the d-line before and just never really hit
Didn’t stop him from trying, and now the #Bears have a proper cornerstone defender and force multiplier on the D-Line
Let this be a lesson to the people who think the "rookie QB contract window" is a myth
In 18 months, Caleb Williams will cost close to $70m a year, and a move like this just wouldn't have been possible
Usually, trading 2 firsts for a 29 year old would worry me but it’s not as bad for a DT
For whatever reason, DTs seem to age like wine vs. Other positions that fall off a cliff at 30
Giddy up baby
The #Bears are firmly in a place where they could justify an all in move and Jeffrey Simmons would be the perfect candidate
Poles has to atleast call and see right?
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Blockbuster! The Titans are trading All-Pro DT Jeff Simmons to the Bears, sources tell @ringer @netflixsports.
The #Bears are firmly in a place where they could justify an all in move and Jeffrey Simmons would be the perfect candidate
Poles has to atleast call and see right?
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Great example of why any "analytics vs. gut" debate in sports is misguided. Campbell wasn't using data here, but he was intuitively making the same calculation the models were RE: the clock. This happens a lot with stats capturing things we already value, but now can measure
Dan Campbell was "shocked" to learn analytics models supported his fourth down call – but he said analytics weren't a factor.
"I believed we were gonna get that. I know what you're conceding, but I also know, without any doubt, any question, we are getting the ball back with plenty of time to answer," he said Monday.