Claypool and Mooney are not difference makers and it shows up on tape every week.
+1 They just are not that good.
Ric, to me it looks like the team has problems everywhere - coaching and players. Layer after layer of issues. I do want to see a new coaching staff brought in, and an offense coach as the head guy... maybe then, the Bears will pour the needed player resources into the offense. One can hope anyway. We got rid of the real Lovie Smith because he couldn't get it done here. Eberflus is a "poor man's Lovie" as far as I can see. Not good. Not good at all.
But the bottom line is this team has better talent, and its not performing. Thats on them.
If you guys don't follow Ted Nguyen on twitter, I suggest you do. He's a great follow who provides a ton of info. Tonight he broke down all the formations backfield actions, and motion Miami used to run Crack Toss against Denver and they were killing them with it. They then used that later in the game to set up Split Zone Toss and you can literally see the defenders bite hard to try and stop Crack Toss. This is the kind of coaching I'm talking about!!! Where is the creativity? How are they putting these guys in a position to succeed? Every one and their mother knows what this offense is going to run and its as bland and dry as a slice of white bread.
Well is that on coaching or is that on the players that cannot understand what the silent count is and how to line up on the play called or how to run the correct route?? Again this roster is only better on paper, there is nothing showing they are better on the field. And again, these coaches were all here last year getting the most out of an, on paper, worse roster.
OL is full of backups, and the receivers outside of Moore are all mid. Kmet, Claypool and Mooney are not difference makers and it shows up on tape every week. Chase D and Tim Jenkins, talked about the same stuff, poor play design, but also zero separation constantly and when Fields did give them a shot on 50-50 balls, they dropped them.
The entire O is lacking talent, and not sure that they are capable of running something more complex given the first part of my reply. These coaches are all deserving of being shit canned, but the roster they were given is hot garbage or injured.
Thats on coaching too! Coaches are teachers...when your students don't understand something ITS YOUR JOB TO GET THEM TO UNDERSTAND. At the very least scheme up a better friggen offense than having guys run deep every play or run a 2 on 4 bubble screen.
I thought my reference to an untrained chimpanzee being able to add talent to a team that has been deliberately decimated of talent by cuts/trades with the ensuing $100M and #1 itself deserves zero accolades from Bears fans, much less a justification for not firing Poles for the meager talent increase added despite the largest cap windfall in NFL history + the #1 pick. Poles is 70% responsible for this mess, and the coaches had a hand in making it even worse.
You cherry-picked my second paragraph, as there is more than poor coaching to account for the declining performance of the most expensive Poles recruits.
Last years team had less talent. Period. End of story. Done. Finito. Nothing more to see here.
For reasons stated, that doesn’t support any conclusion about Poles competency as a GM. If you agree, we’re done.
For reasons stated, that doesn’t support any conclusion about Poles competency as a GM. If you agree, we’re done.
The GM doesn't coach. You're right...we've been done.
That’s not what I meant. A GM can waste a ton of resources and still have a roster with more talent (on paper) than last year’s talent-deprived roster that Poles himself largely created. That result should be considered an indictment— not endorsement— of Poles job performance.
Claypool and Mooney are not difference makers and it shows up on tape every week.
+1 They just are not that good.
Ric, to me it looks like the team has problems everywhere - coaching and players. Layer after layer of issues. I do want to see a new coaching staff brought in, and an offense coach as the head guy... maybe then, the Bears will pour the needed player resources into the offense. One can hope anyway. We got rid of the real Lovie Smith because he couldn't get it done here. Eberflus is a "poor man's Lovie" as far as I can see. Not good. Not good at all.
ya it's not even a house of cards at this point, it's just a deck thrown on the floor.
Well is that on coaching or is that on the players that cannot understand what the silent count is and how to line up on the play called or how to run the correct route?? Again this roster is only better on paper, there is nothing showing they are better on the field. And again, these coaches were all here last year getting the most out of an, on paper, worse roster.
OL is full of backups, and the receivers outside of Moore are all mid. Kmet, Claypool and Mooney are not difference makers and it shows up on tape every week. Chase D and Tim Jenkins, talked about the same stuff, poor play design, but also zero separation constantly and when Fields did give them a shot on 50-50 balls, they dropped them.
The entire O is lacking talent, and not sure that they are capable of running something more complex given the first part of my reply. These coaches are all deserving of being shit canned, but the roster they were given is hot garbage or injured.
Thats on coaching too! Coaches are teachers...when your students don't understand something ITS YOUR JOB TO GET THEM TO UNDERSTAND. At the very least scheme up a better friggen offense than having guys run deep every play or run a 2 on 4 bubble screen.
Students have to want to learn, they have agency in their ability to know and understand. And it's not like what Getsy is doing is all that complicated, this is far from KC and the Reid offense.
Listen the entire thing is rotten, Mc's on down, coaches need to go, but the players are NOT good either, they just aren't. Moore is just about the only thing worth building around at this point(not including rookies as good/bad, it's a none grade).
The GM doesn't coach. You're right...we've been done.
That’s not what I meant. A GM can waste a ton of resources and still have a roster with more talent (on paper) than last year’s talent-deprived roster that Poles himself largely created. That result should be considered an indictment— not endorsement— of Poles job performance.
Its an indictment that he rightly tore down a roster that needed a reset and then added talent to the roster the next year...........
That’s not what I meant. A GM can waste a ton of resources and still have a roster with more talent (on paper) than last year’s talent-deprived roster that Poles himself largely created. That result should be considered an indictment— not endorsement— of Poles job performance.
Its an indictment that he rightly tore down a roster that needed a reset and then added talent to the roster the next year...........
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LOL Achievable by untrained chimpanzee….
Or try this one: if you pour the water out of a bucket and then pour two inches back into it, you have added more water to the bucket than was left in the bucket after you poured the water out of it. Try to get that.
Its an indictment that he rightly tore down a roster that needed a reset and then added talent to the roster the next year...........
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Got it.....
LOL Achievable by untrained chimpanzee….
Or try this one: if you pour the water out of a bucket and then pour two inches back into it, you have added more water to the bucket than was left in the bucket after you poured the water out of it. Try to get that.
And yet so many "trained chimpanzee's" have failed to have the courage to tear down a roster when it really needs it...so easy that many fail to do it...we're done here dude.