Okay, I’d like some spin doctor around here to explain this. Morse was a salary cap casualty with the Bills. He’s a real center and actually plays the position. He’s a good player. Bates played 35 snaps last year as the backup to Morse. Bears are paying Bates about $4 million. Morse is getting about $5 million. Alright: GO……..
Seriously though, from internet bread crumbs (which are always reliable), Bates was more of a hit than Morse was. This seems to be a situation where they felt the new guy was or would be better than the old guy. Now , whether this is true or not is another question. And if it is, is he ready to be put out there in front of a rook QB, or do we need a vet in front of him until he is? We have had decent luck developing linemen (thank god we are not talking about developing QBs or we would be doomed-we can all discuss that when we ruin the new QB). So maybe the right move in the end
Okay, I’d like some spin doctor around here to explain this. Morse was a salary cap casualty with the Bills. He’s a real center and actually plays the position. He’s a good player. Bates played 35 snaps last year as the backup to Morse. Bears are paying Bates about $4 million. Morse is getting about $5 million. Alright: GO……..
This is easy. It is where an advanced MSU degree comes in.
Bates ancestry is from the Himalayas. This is where the fertilizer essential to money trees come from. Warren is in negotiations to buy my money tree (which I bought from a traveling zookeeper,TurboTax phone consultant and designer of the custom lighting system needed for the tree to grow). He knows the fertilizer is the lifeblood of the money tree so he grabbed Bates knowing he needs the three to feed the AH school districts. It’s all very simple and straightforward.
This one is definitely more creative, but lacks evidence and credibility.
This is easy. It is where an advanced MSU degree comes in.
Bates ancestry is from the Himalayas. This is where the fertilizer essential to money trees come from. Warren is in negotiations to buy my money tree (which I bought from a traveling zookeeper,TurboTax phone consultant and designer of the custom lighting system needed for the tree to grow). He knows the fertilizer is the lifeblood of the money tree so he grabbed Bates knowing he needs the three to feed the AH school districts. It’s all very simple and straightforward.
This one is definitely more creative, but lacks evidence and credibility.
Of course it does. MSU is trustworthy on its own. It should not be questioned or fact checked. Once written or spoken, it becomes fact. I’m going to run for president next since these tenets have already been proven. Plus, I strenuously object to your contention that it is not credible. Anyone can see it is the most plausible explanation.
Okay, I’d like some spin doctor around here to explain this. Morse was a salary cap casualty with the Bills. He’s a real center and actually plays the position. He’s a good player. Bates played 35 snaps last year as the backup to Morse. Bears are paying Bates about $4 million. Morse is getting about $5 million. Alright: GO……..
Morse is 31 and will be 32 next month...how's that?
Poles very unimpressive in FA this year. I expected him to make ONE splash acquisition and a bunch of mid-tier deals.
Barkley would have been a weapon on an O that desperately needs weapons. Ridley would have solidified WR2. Hunter would have vastly improved the pass rush.
Instead he signed Swift (who was hurt most of his first 3 years), Byard (who's over 30 when they were a dozen young safeties available), and whiffed on Gabe Davis.
Fugly start to the 2024 league year by Poles
PS: Oh and BTW, Poles got his ass handed to him on Fields. He's gonna be lucky to get a 4th for him now.
Poles very unimpressive in FA this year. I expected him to make ONE splash acquisition and a bunch of mid-tier deals.
Barkley would have been a weapon on an O that desperately needs weapons. Ridley would have solidified WR2. Hunter would have vastly improved the pass rush.
Instead he signed Swift (who was hurt most of his first 3 years), Byard (who's over 30 when they were a dozen young safeties available), and whiffed on Gabe Davis.
Fugly start to the 2024 league year by Poles
PS: Oh and BTW, Poles got his ass handed to him on Fields. He's gonna be lucky to get a 4th for him now.
PS: Oh and BTW, Poles got his ass handed to him on Fields. He's gonna be lucky to get a 4th for him now.
I don't think anyone foresaw the QB market take the turn it did these past few days. I didn't see a single talking head "expert" predict this either. Nobody (no Bears fan anyway) is happy about how the Justin Fields era went down here in Chicago. Least of all, Fields himself. Stuff happens in life that we don't control. Hindsight, remarkably, is always 20-20 though.
PS: Oh and BTW, Poles got his ass handed to him on Fields. He's gonna be lucky to get a 4th for him now.
I don't think anyone foresaw the QB market take the turn it did these past few days. I didn't see a single talking head "expert" predict this either. Nobody (no Bears fan anyway) is happy about how the Justin Fields era went down here in Chicago. Least of all, Fields himself. Stuff happens in life that we don't control. Hindsight, remarkably, is always 20-20 though.
Poles certainly had talks with teams at the Combine. He literally wouldn't be doing his job if he didn't.
So, he has had an idea for a while now that the market for Fields was not gonna be what he had hoped.
They have been desperately spinning lately in trying to suggest that he wasn't really "available". Yeah right, and I'm the King of France.
He's been available since the day the regular season ended and no one has offered Poles anything beyond a late round pick. Or he would already have been traded.
You're absolutely right though about the ignominious way the Fields era is ending here. It's fugly, embarrassing, and awkward. 2023 was a total disaster for Fields value. I do think after the 2022 season, a team would have offered a 1st for him figuring they had 2 years to figure out how to tailor an offense to his skillset. Now, no one wants to bother and/or they see him as unfixable as a passer.
It sucks for Justin and it sucks for the Bears. Lose-Lose
I don't think anyone foresaw the QB market take the turn it did these past few days. I didn't see a single talking head "expert" predict this either. Nobody (no Bears fan anyway) is happy about how the Justin Fields era went down here in Chicago. Least of all, Fields himself. Stuff happens in life that we don't control. Hindsight, remarkably, is always 20-20 though.
Poles certainly had talks with teams at the Combine. He literally wouldn't be doing his job if he didn't.
So, he has had an idea for a while now that the market for Fields was not gonna be what he had hoped.
They have been desperately spinning lately in trying to suggest that he wasn't really "available". Yeah right, and I'm the King of France.
He's been available since the day the regular season ended and no one has offered Poles anything beyond a late round pick. Or he would already have been traded.
I agree. GM's are not going to be transparent about anything pre-FA and pre-draft.