Im glad Poles has more time than you do. You would go all Emery on our asses, ser.
Poles will have as much time to produce a Super Bowl ready team as Warren and George allows. No GM gets an endless blank check from the owner/CEO. People around here have been telling me this “rebuild “ should be nearly done by now. JABF recently reverted from 2026 to 2025. Poles himself said LAST year that it’s 80% done. So I will flip the table on you and say I hope Warren’s timeline to Super Bowl ready is a hell of a lot closer to mine than yours, and I believe it is. Once you get past 2026, all these contracts from players Poles got from “teardown” and the Panthers windfall will expire. That’s why 2025-26 seasons are our Super Bowl window and probably the make or break years for Poles/Flus, unless Warren is satisfied to be the next Cowboys, and he says he’s not.
Im glad Poles has more time than you do. You would go all Emery on our asses, ser.
Poles will have as much time to produce a Super Bowl ready team as Warren and George allows. No GM gets an endless blank check from the owner/CEO. People around here have been telling me this “rebuild “ should be nearly done by now. JABF recently reverted from 2026 to 2025. Poles himself said LAST year that it’s 80% done. So I will flip the table on you and say I hope Warren’s timeline to Super Bowl ready is a hell of a lot closer to mine than yours, and I believe it is. Once you get past 2026, all these contracts from players Poles got from “teardown” and the Panthers windfall will expire. That’s why 2025-26 seasons are our Super Bowl window and probably the make or break years for Poles/Flus, unless Warren is satisfied to be the next Cowboys, and he says he’s not.
David, I just figure it's not worth worrying about right now. I'm personally just sitting back and enjoying the moves the Bears are making. Then this season we can see what the team does. Why worry before we need to, right?
Poles will have as much time to produce a Super Bowl ready team as Warren and George allows. No GM gets an endless blank check from the owner/CEO. People around here have been telling me this “rebuild “ should be nearly done by now. JABF recently reverted from 2026 to 2025. Poles himself said LAST year that it’s 80% done. So I will flip the table on you and say I hope Warren’s timeline to Super Bowl ready is a hell of a lot closer to mine than yours, and I believe it is. Once you get past 2026, all these contracts from players Poles got from “teardown” and the Panthers windfall will expire. That’s why 2025-26 seasons are our Super Bowl window and probably the make or break years for Poles/Flus, unless Warren is satisfied to be the next Cowboys, and he says he’s not.
David, I just figure it's not worth worrying about right now. I'm personally just sitting back and enjoying the moves the Bears are making. Then this season we can see what the team does. Why worry before we need to, right?
It matters, because if we say we’re not signing anybody 30 years old (Hendrickson) because we won’t have him 2027-28, we are passing on a Pro Bowl player still close to prime who could be a key contributor to a 2025-26 Super Bowl ready team for a second round pick (Poles sold Mack and Smith for that price). A team has to reach critical mass to become Super Bowl ready, and Hendrickson could be a critical piece, but you need a goal and a timeline to pull it all together before contracts expire and/or players become age 32+.
David, I just figure it's not worth worrying about right now. I'm personally just sitting back and enjoying the moves the Bears are making. Then this season we can see what the team does. Why worry before we need to, right?
It matters, because if we say we’re not signing anybody 30 years old (Hendrickson) because we won’t have him 2027-28, we are passing on a Pro Bowl player still close to prime who could be a key contributor to a 2025-26 Super Bowl ready team for a second round pick (Poles sold Mack and Smith for that price). A team has to reach critical mass to become Super Bowl ready, and Hendrickson could be a critical piece, but you need a goal and a timeline to pull it all together before contracts expire and/or players become age 32+.
It doesn't matter what any of us say really unless someone here as a lip to the McCaskey's. You make it should like once we have discussed it, then it will happen.
It matters, because if we say we’re not signing anybody 30 years old (Hendrickson) because we won’t have him 2027-28, we are passing on a Pro Bowl player still close to prime who could be a key contributor to a 2025-26 Super Bowl ready team for a second round pick (Poles sold Mack and Smith for that price). A team has to reach critical mass to become Super Bowl ready, and Hendrickson could be a critical piece, but you need a goal and a timeline to pull it all together before contracts expire and/or players become age 32+.
It doesn't matter what any of us say really unless someone here as a lip to the McCaskey's. You make it should like once we have discussed it, then it will happen.
I don’t think anybody in Halas Hall knows or would give a rat’s ass what any of us wants them to trade or do. That doesn’t stop us from talking about it. How does that sound to you?
Yeah, that's what I thought. Hendrickson is older and he's been a little less consistent IMO.
Sweat will be 28 this year, and Hendrickson 30. That’s pretty irrelevant for those aiming at 2025-26 to be Super Bowl ready. By 2027 Sweat is at the end of his contract and 31.
Over the last 4 years, Sweat averaged 31 tackles and 8 sacks. Hendrickson averaged 33.5 tackles and 13 sacks. His WORST sack year was Sweat’s AVERAGE year. He is worth a second round pick.
Trey Hendricksons first 3 years in the league saw sack totals of 2, 0, 4.5...what do you mean his worst sack year was Sweats average year? Sweat never put up 0 sacks in a season.
David, I just figure it's not worth worrying about right now. I'm personally just sitting back and enjoying the moves the Bears are making. Then this season we can see what the team does. Why worry before we need to, right?
It matters, because if we say we’re not signing anybody 30 years old (Hendrickson) because we won’t have him 2027-28, we are passing on a Pro Bowl player still close to prime who could be a key contributor to a 2025-26 Super Bowl ready team for a second round pick (Poles sold Mack and Smith for that price). A team has to reach critical mass to become Super Bowl ready, and Hendrickson could be a critical piece, but you need a goal and a timeline to pull it all together before contracts expire and/or players become age 32+.
David, I just figure it's not worth worrying about right now. I'm personally just sitting back and enjoying the moves the Bears are making. Then this season we can see what the team does. Why worry before we need to, right?
It matters, because if we say we’re not signing anybody 30 years old (Hendrickson) because we won’t have him 2027-28, we are passing on a Pro Bowl player still close to prime who could be a key contributor to a 2025-26 Super Bowl ready team for a second round pick (Poles sold Mack and Smith for that price). A team has to reach critical mass to become Super Bowl ready, and Hendrickson could be a critical piece, but you need a goal and a timeline to pull it all together before contracts expire and/or players become age 32+.
It is looking like this is pretty much our roster for this season, and 2025 will fill in the remaining players we need. But I could be wrong. I am at the point that I'm looking forward to watching how the team does now. And then I'd like to see the team use the draft picks they have in 2025 to build out a bit more. We do have 8 very good picks next year (2 second round picks and all 8 are above the 7th round).
Sweat will be 28 this year, and Hendrickson 30. That’s pretty irrelevant for those aiming at 2025-26 to be Super Bowl ready. By 2027 Sweat is at the end of his contract and 31.
Over the last 4 years, Sweat averaged 31 tackles and 8 sacks. Hendrickson averaged 33.5 tackles and 13 sacks. His WORST sack year was Sweat’s AVERAGE year. He is worth a second round pick.
Trey Hendricksons first 3 years in the league saw sack totals of 2, 0, 4.5...what do you mean his worst sack year was Sweats average year? Sweat never put up 0 sacks in a season.
Read what I wrote. I said over the last 4 years his worst year was Sweat’s average over the last 4 years.
His first years in the league were working up what JABF calls the “learning curve.” Where they are now is what matters, not where they were 5-6 years ago.
