Some of us were thinking 2024 or 2025 would be the year the Bears would be a solid playoff caliber team. If we start over with a new coaching staff next year, when would you "reasonably" expect to be a playoff caliber team? The key word there is "reasonably" - what's your guess?
Some of us were thinking 2024 or 2025 would be the year the Bears would be a solid playoff caliber team. If we start over with a new coaching staff next year, when would you "reasonably" expect to be a playoff caliber team? The key word there is "reasonably" - what's your guess?
I say “other” until we see what happens in FA and draft. Catching up to Lions by 2024 will not be easy.
Some of us were thinking 2024 or 2025 would be the year the Bears would be a solid playoff caliber team. If we start over with a new coaching staff next year, when would you "reasonably" expect to be a playoff caliber team? The key word there is "reasonably" - what's your guess?
I say “other” until we see what happens in FA and draft. Catching up to Lions by 2024 will not be easy.
I figure new coaches means new schemes which means they may want new players to BEST fit their schemes. Some players will be fine transitioning to the new world, but others may not. And rookies are rookies... they make rookie mistakes even if they are going to ultimately be great players. So, yeah, 2024 will just be year-1 of the new regime and the roster build for that regime. Coaches are not "plug and play" where you change coaches and sit back to watch the magic happen. I'm thinking if things go right and we do get solid coaches (including BOTH coordinators) then that would move our 2025 "SB ready" point to 2026. I'm not saying we wouldn't get into the playoffs prior to that - and I sure hope that we would. But for a STRONG playoff contender I'm thinking 2026... that would be year-3 for our new QB. LOL, and I know this is just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. Who knows if we will even get good coaches, right?
We'll fire Flus & crew and do the same thing all over again that we've been doing since forever. Hire a rookie GM and/or HC, with a whole bunch of rookie coordinators, because they're all cheap. They'll get a couple years and we'll do it all over again. and again.
Yes, I'm disgusted with the embarrassment this team has been for the last 35 years or so and have finally signed off on ever having hope for this team. At least until the McASSkeys sell off to a properly knowledgeable football owner who can build from square 1 and the ground up.
Post by GrizzlyBear on Sept 28, 2023 16:56:05 GMT -6
With the right new GM, new HC and new QB, I could see us turning things around and make the playoffs within two years. Remember that Cincinnati went from 2-14 to the Super Bowl in just two years. So assuming we hit a home run in the off season, 2025 is doable.
Or maybe I'm just a desperate Bears fan drinking the Kool-Aid.
We need a handful of talented players to shore up both our Oline and Dline along with qb1. Not as drastic as we faced coming into this season, so even with a new HC and staff I can see us being competitive and quickly being a wild card team.
Post by papabear7 on Sept 28, 2023 18:52:34 GMT -6
I’m with Shark. I just don’t have much hope of the Bears getting anything right at this point. At some point they’ll make it back to the playoffs, but what then? One and done then back to the cellar? We just keep repeating the same cycle over and over and it’s getting tiresome.
This team needs so much talent infused into it, its going to take 2 drafts and 2 fa's, and probably another yr for the qb(assuming a rookie) to get up and running. There just isn't any talent outside a handful of guys, if the entire team was cut tomorrow, most of this team wouldn't even be looked at by a playoff quality team, a few would; the rest would be lucky to be starters for non playoff teams.
This team needs so much talent infused into it, its going to take 2 drafts and 2 fa's, and probably another yr for the qb(assuming a rookie) to get up and running. There just isn't any talent outside a handful of guys, if the entire team was cut tomorrow, most of this team wouldn't even be looked at by a playoff quality team, a few would; the rest would be lucky to be starters for non playoff teams.
weak/bad/trash outside a few players.
That’s all true, but let’s not forget that butkus has reminded us that Poles added some more talent to this team in 2023 with his $100M and #1 pick than it had at the end of 2022. End of story. Period. Nothing more need be said about the talent level. Poles did his job. So shut up about the talent.
This team needs so much talent infused into it, its going to take 2 drafts and 2 fa's, and probably another yr for the qb(assuming a rookie) to get up and running. There just isn't any talent outside a handful of guys, if the entire team was cut tomorrow, most of this team wouldn't even be looked at by a playoff quality team, a few would; the rest would be lucky to be starters for non playoff teams.
weak/bad/trash outside a few players.
+1 The team doesn't have a single All Pro. Last year we didn't even have an alternate Pro Bowl guy. I forget where I read it, but recently I read that our DL (as just one example of our dearth of talent) our DL guys wouldn't even make the 53-man roster on some teams. LOL, not even make the roster... they'd be cut in camp. I could see the team improving over the next few years, but how far of an improvement? You don't fix all that needs fixing here in 2 years. Not happening. Can it be improved? Yes. Can it be fixed? No. Not to the level it needs to be fixed.
The franchise has rotted over the years and it's about as bad as you can get. Think "Lions bad" from the years when they were even worse than us.
They key to a better future is Warren. The McCaskeys are here for the time being so them selling the Bears isn't going to happen anytime soon. So, for me, the only hope I have is that Warren has the authority and the skills to rebuild the franchise at his level, down. It will be interesting to see if he CAN do this. It's probably 50/50. But there is some hope.