Bears outlook from a Packer blogger

Well to start...the NFC North is pretty wide open...so every team is technically a contender right now. Minny is probably the front runner, but they're no lock with the talent they've lost. Detroit has to prove last year wasn't a fluke and they can take the next step. Packers don't have Rodgers and the Bears added A LOT of talent.

Like JABF mentioned...last year the team took any sort of talent not named Fields and got rid of it, to go with injuries to Mooney, etc.

2. As for his "last 6 games" comment. Yes, we didn't score a lot of points...but for 2 of those games(Jets and Minny) we had our 2nd and 3rd string QB's play. Let me see any team in the NFL put up a lot of points with their 2nd and 3rd string QB's playing.

Further, not all the games were "blow outs". We were BEATING the packers 19-10 going into the 4th quarter and they didn't take the lead until there was 4:49 left in the game, going up 1 after a FG. Scoring a TD and 2pt conversion with 1 minute left doesn't make it a blow out. The game against the Eagles was a 1 score game, 20-25...thats a blow out?! The Jets game, with our 3rd QB was a blow out, the Buffalo game was a blow out, and the Minny game with our 2nd QB was a blow out, and the Detroit game that Fields was awful in was a blow out. 2 of them, one of which went to the Super Bowl, were close games and had we had any semblance of a defense, we probably win.

3. DJ Moore is a "nice" receiver? LMAO!!!! "A couple off ball linebackers"...like they weren't the two BEST linebackers available and two of the best in the league last year. "Missing on McGlinchley"...did we really miss? We should have overpaid for an OK right tackle?

4. "The trade was good". No...the trade was GREAT. Is the pass rush an issue? Yes. Do we know what Dexter and Pickens will give in that area? Nope. They could be great, plus Walker adds to the pass rush ability from inside and outside.

5. "Theres a lot of DJ Moores at wide receiver in this league"...LMAO...tell me you haven't watched DJ Moore without saying "I haven't watched DJ Moore." Moore has played 2 games against the Pack and he's lit them up for 15 catches and 251 yards. Lots of those guys around the league though...LMAO!!!!!

6. We added one of the best interior run stoppers in the game in Billings and drafted two very good DT's. Plus Edwards and Edmonds...we'll be better against the run.

7. I don't think we'll be in the playoffs, but they'll be MUCH better barring any injuries than they were in 22. This guy acts like no talent was added whatsoever. He also says to "stay patient", but then crushes the Bears for not blowing their $100 million dollar cap space on free agents and not using some of the draft capital they worked to attain to trade up from 9 for an edge rusher with some serious injury concerns. Make it make sense!!

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We've added a ton of new people over the last two drafts.  And the last 9 or 10 months have seen an incredible amount of change.  So, there is no way to apply any sort of metrics or other analytical tool that can use any sort of past performance to help predict the future.

I think one of the things that confounds most if not all the talking heads is the NFCN will likely end up as a four-team bunch as far as W-L records go and there could be as little as 2 or 3 wins separating the top from the bottom of the division.

As optimistic as I am, I understand that we won't know what we have until halfway through the upcoming season.

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The running game is going to open up the passing game for us.  With better skill players around Fields, plus the fact this will be the 2nd season for Fields in this offense, and also a better offensive line - we should see a far better passing game this year.  If opposing defenses don't sell out to stop the run, then this offense will run on them all day long.  I don't expect gaudy pass yardage numbers, but I do expect to see a team that will gut a defense with some really nice passing plays.  

We have a lot of young/new players on this team, so I don't expect everything to run smooth at the beginning of the season.  I do expect to see the team improve from game to game all season long as the players get game reps together in the schemes.  

As a general rule I don't read fans of one team giving opinions about another team, especially division rivals. My opinion of the Vikings, Packers and Lions is extremely colored by my Bear-shaded sunglasses.

You never know as much about your division rivals as you think you do. He could be right, most likely he's wrong.