Week 1 - Packers @ Bears Thread

The "price paid" for Wright was perfectly fair value.  Many, many analysts had Wright as a top-tier tackle in this draft and those guys go top-20 without fail.  Several believed him to be the #1 very best.  He stoned Will Anderson last year who was the consensus best edge rusher.

Wright will be fine.  Not perfect as a rookie of course, but fine.  He's gonna be really good in due time.

Wow, how things have changed huh?

Most Bears-Packers games the last 10+ yrs were Bears with a mediocre-at-best QB and a WR room made up of rejects, rookies, and JAGs.  Now it's Green Bay's turn to experience that.  

Looks like Watson isn't gonna play so that leaves Doubs, a 2nd yr player, and a bunch of rooks and UDFAs at WR and TE.  

That's pretty much my point (we'd better be able to beat the Packers).  Because the Lions seem to be tougher than Green Bay... that seems to be a shell of its former self.  I see this game on Sunday as especially important.  First, if we can't beat this year's version of GB then we are pretty weak.  The Lions are a good team.  Not saying they are some great team.  But they are not the Lions of old where you could just chalk them up as 2 wins a season most years.  I do respect what they are doing in Detroit.  Watching that team perform it is looking like a very solid team overall.  Not many weaknesses there.  Goff isn't great, but he's "enough" of a QB that a good surrounding team can win with.  

The Bears have done a lot since last year ended.  My hope is that we see some significant results on Sunday with the better roster.  I 100% get it that the team is a work in progress and this is the 2nd year of Poles/Eberflus - and last season was a tank year.  But all the same, we SHOULD see some progress now.  Then over the course of this season we should see improvement with these very young/new players as they get more game experience in the Bears' schemes.  

The NFCN is changing... I'm not sure what to expect as far as the final7 end of the season rankings for the 4 teams.  Could be anything at this point - yes, even the Bears could be Division winners... or heck, in the cellar at #4 or something in between.  But Detroit has shown they are a good team.  They showed the Bears that last year and now are looking to me as better.  

That's accurate for this game...   But I think moving forward (if watson can stop hurting his legs) GB's pass catchers have an extremely high ceiling.