What an awful awful FA signing. He competes with Markus Wheaton and Dion Sims for the "Pace's most useless Free Agent" award.
Glad they at least woke up and did this. What a season of miscues though.
It sure is, JABF.
Wow, just about everything that could go wrong, HAS GONE wrong this year.
Kyle Long fell off a cliff and is done (at least as a Bear and I wouldn't be surprised if he retires this offseason). Trubisky's floor fell out. Leno, Cohen, and Daniels have all regressed. Burton has been useless and Shaheen has continued to be useless. The Jordan Howard trade/Mike Davis signing looks really stupid at this point. Leonard Floyd, despite years of waiting, has failed to "step up" and become that needed bookend opposite Mack. Hicks got hurt and we are all seeing now how important he was. He's the 2nd best pass rusher we have and is vital in run defense as well. Nagy is really struggling as a 2nd year HC and looks to be in over his head at this point.
It's a real mess.
About the only positives I can come up with are that Nick Williams has developed into a solid backup DL, Alan Robinson has become a legit #1 WR, and the salary cap situation is no longer as tight as it looked a few months ago. There's no need to pay guys like Trub and Cohen this offseason. Eddie Jackson's market value has taken a hit too. And Floyd, IDK what the heck you do with him.
Been thinking that same thing. Monty-JoHo would have been a dynamite RB duo.
#NagyFail
+1
Instead we sign Mike Davis for $6-million contract. Howard is a 25 year old RB making $2-mil/year. I've tried to defend Ryan Pace and Nagy but it's getting harder and harder to do. Blown draft picks, strange FA signings, Nagy failing as a HC, Trubs looking like a busted pick that Pace traded up for (I still think that was nuts).
I think Pace is going to have 2020 to show he knows his butt from a hole in the ground - and then he's gone if he doesn't improve. 2021 will be with a new GM if the team continues to spiral (and of course Nagy will be out the door too). Over and over and over again I keep coming back to the fact that this is Ryan Pace's team after 5 years here. These are his players. These are his coaches. This is HIS clown show. Whether he owns it or not, he is the GM and this is happening on his watch.
Been thinking that same thing. Monty-JoHo would have been a dynamite RB duo.
#NagyFail
+1
Instead we sign Mike Davis for $6-million contract. Howard is a 25 year old RB making $2-mil/year. I've tried to defend Ryan Pace and Nagy but it's getting harder and harder to do. Blown draft picks, strange FA signings, Nagy failing as a HC, Trubs looking like a busted pick that Pace traded up for (I still think that was nuts).
I think Pace is going to have 2020 to show he knows his butt from a hole in the ground - and then he's gone if he doesn't improve. 2021 will be with a new GM if the team continues to spiral (and of course Nagy will be out the door too). Over and over and over again I keep coming back to the fact that this is Ryan Pace's team after 5 years here. These are his players. These are his coaches. This is HIS clown show. Whether he owns it or not, he is the GM and this is happening on his watch.
Couldn't agree more, JABF. I think Pace & Nagy will get 2020, purely because of their current contracts, and then both will be canned in January 2021 unless there's substantial improvement from this CF clown school of a season.
Bears just can't get their shit together. Angelo was canned because he couldn't assemble a competent offense after the 2006 SB year and whiffed twice on QBs (Grossman & Cutler). Emery had the opposite problem. He was good on O but terrible on D (Fuller was his only good D acquisition and that didn't bear fruit until long after he was gone). Now with Pace we have come full circle. He's been rock solid on D but awful on O. Robinson and Whitehair are his only clear successes among a pile of busts (White, Shaheen, Wheaton, Sims, Burton, Trubisky, Davis, and on and on).
You're right, these are Ryan Pace's hand-picked players and coaching staff with only a couple exceptions (Fuller, Leno) and he owns it completely. The buck stops with him. He's had 5 years, 1 playoff appearance, and a 29-44 record to show for it thus far. Pretty hard to justify him getting any more benefits of doubt.
Mike Davis is a fine player, but the Bears didn't use him right and then just sat him on the bench. Seattle used him well last season (112-514 rushing, 34-214 receiving) and he's a good pass protector. It never made a lot of sense once they spent a draft pick on Montgomery and have given him such a large load.
