2023 Season bitch, vent, and complain thread -- Feel free

Good commentary here which describes how many of us are feeling.

www.windycitygridiron.com/2023/10/31/23938849/ryan-poles-should-be-out-of-excuses-chicago-bears-nfl-draft-free-agency-trade-dumpster-fire-rebuild

"Maybe apologists are right and Pace did leave Poles with nothing to work with, so 2022 was not his fault. However, he entered 2023 with a far better basis for improvement than at least some. Most importantly, even when comparing his work to the efforts made to improve other teams that could be called the worst in the league by almost any measure, he has done far less than typical.

When rebuilds are successful in the NFL, they tend to have immediate improvement. At this basic task, Ryan Poles is failing, and he should be out of excuses as to why."

and this comment below:

"I think more than anything else, Poles not using more of his available cap money 2 years in a row is hurting him. And no I don't have the list of impact players that he should have gone after sitting in front of me. But he could have been at least a little more aggressive. You can't just hope you hit on your draft picks. You need to research the FA class and target impact free agents who can improve the team. Some of them may come in and immediately get hurt. You will probably over spend in some cases. I get that you don't want to over pay someone and get burned on a big contract. But there is inherent risk involved in this job and that's one of the reasons why it's not an easy gig and it isn't for everyone."

+1 to all of that.  I keep thinking I'm okay if I could just see a ray of hope in all of this.  For example, if Fields had not stumbled out of the gate looking like 2022 in those early games and Getsy would have looked good at OC... and maybe Brax nailing down the LT position looking like a stud there.  Instead it's looking like (yet another) "get out the broom after the season ends" year.  Total setback to zero again with new coaches and schemes - and then attempts by the GM (whomever that will be... could be Poles, or not) to find guys to best fit the new schemes.  As a fan I feel like that hamster on the exercise wheel... going round and round but never seeing anything new.

The only hope I have left is that Fields gets back and plays well the last 2 months of the season.  Well enough you feel ok with picking up his 5th year option (which gives you 2 more years of control).  Maybe we don't get a #1 or #2 overall pick.  Maybe we end up with #3 and #5 or something along those lines.

In that scenario, you keep Fields and pair him with a proper offensive HC who can develop a QB and tailor his scheme to fit JF.  That frees up two FRPs to use on MHJr (WR) and Olu (LT).  If Fields can't succeed in 2024 with that, then he's clearly a bust and there's no more questions about him "not having enough support".  

That's all I can come up with and I freely admit it's a long shot.

Having said the above, I won't be surprised at all that when Fields comes back, he will drop back to pass, hold the ball looking confused for 14.72 seconds, get sacked, and fumble it away.  That will end this long shot dream scenario in precisely one play.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here....

Thing is... If you only have one that sucks, you almost cannot judge the other. And im fairly certain Flus sucks.