NFL Week 11 thread -- Coming straight on like a Mark Moseley field goal

Wasn't Khalil Mack's fault that Ryan Pace moved up in a draft to select Mitch Trubisky with Deshaun Watson and Patrick Mahomes still on the board. The fact that the Bears' offense stinks is not connected to that deal with the Raiders. It was a price that the Bears would pay again, especially seeing how Mack has helped make that defense formidable.

 

Too bad he’s a deck chair on the Titanic.

 

Bridgewater's, from what we now know, was worse. Three ligaments, including the ACL, and a knee dislocation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...que-knee-injury-even-freaked-out-his-surgeon/

Without question, it was career threatening in a way that no one is describing Joey Burrow's - at least not yet. Hopefully, never at all. Burrow's is awful, but that's from a POV that they're all awful. Hope for a speedy recovery with no further complications.

 

Yeah, I had forgotten about the knee dislocation with TB.

 

On that we can agree. But until the Bears either do something about the offense, or make changes above to facilitate an overhaul to the offense while that defense is playing this well ...

 

That deal has worked out fine for the Bears. Even now, they've given up roughly 50 points less than everyone else in their division this year. Problem is, Mack can't play quarterback. (… Maybe. Fuck, maybe the Bears should try him out there. Couldn't hurt at this point.)

 

the Mack trade was based entirely around the idea that they had their guy with Trubisky on a cheap rookie deal, so they could afford to pay Mack a QB level cap hit.


But in general the Bears have screwed themselves by overinvesting in defense. Yeah, the defense is great and being let down by the offense. But the defense is taking up 70% of the cap space, which is the reason the offense sucks so much. Signing Quinn and ignoring the offensive line should be enough to get Pace fired by itself.

They’ve been in denial/save the GMs job mode for two seasons, but they’re gonna have to do a full rebuild before they can be real contenders

 

I’ll go further in my edit of your post than @Chef2 did, and both of us are still correct.

 

Given the Bears' history and luck with quarterbacks over many, many decades, is there any reason to think Watson or Mahomes would be as good as they are if they'd been drafted by the Bears?
If they'd ended up in Chicago, Watson probably would have spontaneously combusted at the first OTA and Mahomes would have needed Tommy John surgery after throwing a weird sidearm pass.

 

Some people will get sick, and by and large they’ll get better.

 

Another emergency response to a completely predictable situation.

What does the N in NFL stand for?

Nowledge.