Vikings beat Bears - who gets the deflated ball?

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Yeah, I responded with a literal stat, but context is definitely important.

I want Fields to succeed, just like I wanted Mitch to be the guy. It's likely on to the next one. 🤷🏼‍♂️

I agree with that.  

I know this is going to sound like an over-simplification of the situation, but it seems like Warren needs to begin with a viable plan - and then hold people's feet to the fire to follow that plan.  Be ruthless.  If the goal is to transition to the modern NFL with a modern offense, then "The Plan" should be to go all-in on that:

1.  Hire the best offensive head coach that you can bring here to Chicago.
2.  Hire the best offensive coordinator that you can bring here to Chicago.
3.  Then priority #1 in the draft and free-agency needs to be offense first.  Get the O fixed.
4.  Let the new HC bring in his QB in this next draft.  But don't stop at simply drafting another QB.  Bring in the highest quality offense players to support that QB.  Go 100% all-in on this... no more of these "hope and a prayer" guys.  Bring legit talent to the organization's offense.  Then, by all means work on the defense 2nd - after that offense is finally fixed.  But don't lose focus on the offense until it is (finally) fixed here in Chicago.  Get that monkey off our back.

The Bears have never done this in my lifetime.  They may "talk" about offense but they fail to go all-in on actually making the offense priority one here.  And before someone jumps in to say "well we have drafted a number of first round picks on offense" I'd point out that they have never "finished the job" of completing a viable offense - the entire package of OL, TEs, WRs, RBs and yes, the final piece, the QB.  The whole package.  This is what I want to see Kevin Warren do in Chicago.  Have the plan to actually DO this, and then hold the GM and coaches' feet to the fire until they get it done.  If Warren does that, then I do 100% believe we will see meaningful, successful change here.  We will actually have a QB and offense success.  Building a D is the easy part.  It's the offense that has killed us here.  So, build an offense first.

We have been over this before.  It's easy now to say "he should have drafted Pickens".  Hindsight is 20-20.  You're conveniently omitting the fact that Pickens had significant off-field issues at the time and a GM just starting a rebuild didn't want to take a chance on a potential locker room cancer (ironically, like Claypool became as well).

And again, for the 596th time, he didn't "let go a lot of blue chip players".  That's simply false as I and others have pointed out to David many times.  Most of those guys he cut ties with in 2022 are JAGs or already out of the league at this point.  And NONE of the better ones play on offense.  They are defense guys only (Mack, Smith).

Like I said, I'm agnostic on Poles.  If Warren fires him, fine by me.  But I doubt he's in danger of losing his job even after this miserable season ends.  He didn't draft Fields and this season's success or failure is/was 95% about Fields breaking out and becoming the guy.

Poles isn't tied to Fields.