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Are they really building the offense around those two? Moore is signed at least through '25; Poles has talked about extending Allen, and for the most part Poles has been pretty open and honest with fans. Bowers makes sense (after a trade down) in that the Bears may already be making a...

Surely leadership has a lot more to do with leadership traits as opposed to what someone looks like? Surely as Bears fans we haven't forgotten about how a previous iteration of Bears leadership became enamored with a clean-cut young man who drove a good ol' American car. Here are the draft...

It's all a fight for money now with no thought of the future. I used to be a huge Cubs fan, but the Ricketts family has managed to end that. The minimum price for a standalone streaming service for Cubs games (as an in-market resident) is $20 per month. That doesn't sound like a huge burden...

I guess for me the most important consideration for '24 is ensuring Williams has quality talent around him. I'm glad the Bears aren't absolutely tied to taking a WR at 9 and have the flexibility to go BPA/trade down. Even a first-round rookie WR would be a coin toss career-wise, and moreso for...

Yet a lot of people say Williams regressed this year in his one year with Kingsbury as OC. I am very hard-pressed to imagine any football player in any context who is dying to play for the Washington Commanders, but that's just my opinion. Anyways, if he abjectly refuses to play for the Bears...

Why would Caleb Williams want to go to Washington or New England? Washington has been by far the worst-managed franchise in the NFL, plays in a decrepit stadium and has a few pieces but not many toward competing. Think the new owner has magically changed everything? Look at the NFLPA report...

I was really frustrated this year by how the Bears tried to turn Fields into a pocket passer. I would be the first to say it was stubbornness on Getsy's part, but there's nothing to suggest that Fields as a professional can play QB in structure. I would argue the low passing volume is a result...

I will say this: it's one thing to write about the Bears' trade of Fields, it's another thing to report on the trade. Local reporters - Courtney Cronin notably - have reported that the teams reaching out to the Bears valued Fields as a backup QB, not as a starter. So yes, a number of starter...

He has experience in the Waldron system and seems to be angling for a coaching career. That would seem to indicate he's positioned or advertised as someone who can help Williams master the system. Whether Rypien will be any good at that is unanswerable for those of us on the outside. But...

By PFF metrics he was essentially a league average center in '23. It could be worse...but Poles is going to have to show something for the wad of cash he had to work with. If this signing, and that of Bates, gives the Bears some draft flexibility, I can live with it. Still would like to see a...

Investing heavily in WR for a QB who to date is a low volume, low yardage passer would really be a bold decision.

With all due respect, free agency hasn't even come close to concluding yet. Quality WR pieces like Renfrow, Allen/Williams, and more are coming available as cuts come in.

There are still dominoes to fall - Keenan Allen and/or Mike Williams is likely to hit the open market today. Poles is clearly saving cap space for something...or let's hope so at least.

Here's another take on it: All salaries are inflated this year because the cap went up. If the Bears waited for Bates to be cut, they would have to negotiate a contract with him with the funding expectations of the current salary cap. For a relatively low price, they locked in major savings...

With the caveat that the offensive line needs to be addressed, I appreciate Poles' strategy of surrounding (presumably) Caleb Williams with legitimate NFL talent. I hope the addition of Everett does not preclude a potential selection of Bowers.

Well I didn't mean to be digitally combative, sorry if I was. I would argue 14 catches just isn't enough of a sample to draw any conclusions. For transparency, Brown is a potential keeper for me next year. We would really have to go to the tape. I believe his 50 yard screen TD was a perfectly...

With all due respect, this illustrates the fallacy of picking and choosing which stats to keep and not keep. Moss' longest carry from last year was a 56-yard run. If you remove that single carry from his 2023 stats, his yards-per-carry drop to 4.05, which is less than Brown's 4.07 (rounding to...

Any thoughts on the Bucs defense against the Saints this week? Carr had a good game, for once, but hard to see it as a trend. Considering vs the Denver D at LAC.

As long as linemen are ineligible receivers, they don't have any function downfield except to block - but it's illegal to block downfield on a pass before the pass is thrown (offensive pass interference). The one-yard rule establishes the box in which blocking of defenders is legal - this is...

In a vacuum I think this is a very reasonable analysis. The problem is that the Bengals have to make this decision at multiple key positions on offense. Both Higgins and Tyler Boyd are unrestricted free agents. The only replacements on the roster are Andrei Iosivas, who has played sparingly...