These sound like the empty promises we have heard from both of the Reinsdorf front offices.
There is only one GM/President I will believe when they make Promises.
Mr. Theo Epstein. Every damn one of his promises were delivered on.
Absolutely F'in spot on WSD. I cannot think of an executive so highly regarded in baseball or sports for that matter as Theo Epstein. His word and delivery of said promises is absolute gold. He has spoiled us unfortunately.
There is only one GM/President I will believe when they make Promises.
Mr. Theo Epstein. Every damn one of his promises were delivered on.
Absolutely F'in spot on WSD. I cannot think of an executive so highly regarded in baseball or sports for that matter as Theo Epstein. His word and delivery of said promises is absolute gold. He has spoiled us unfortunately.
Go back and listen to his introduction presser. He made several promises, told us step by step what would happen. And each statement came true. I wish the Bears had someone like that running the team.
Absolutely F'in spot on WSD. I cannot think of an executive so highly regarded in baseball or sports for that matter as Theo Epstein. His word and delivery of said promises is absolute gold. He has spoiled us unfortunately.
Go back and listen to his introduction presser. He made several promises, told us step by step what would happen. And each statement came true. I wish the Bears had someone like that running the team.
Agreed. That's been one point I've been trying to make for more than half this season ever since the talk about Fox not being Paces choice as HC began. We still don't know whether it's fact or rumor but it irrelevant by now anyway. What isn't irrelevant is 30 years of mismanagement at the very top of this organization.
We can take this all the way back to 1986 when after winning the Super Bowl Mikey McCaskey arrogantly fired GM Jerry Vainisi who along with Jim Finks had been instrumental in building that roster and replaced him with himself. What did Mikey McCaskey know about running an NFL team? Not a damn thing that's what.
Eventually the '80s Bears defense aged and key players on both offense and defense were lost in FA or via trade and never replaced in kind. And although he was the second most successful HC in Bears history Ditka was fired after a losing season even though he'd gone 22-10 over the two previous seasons and the Bears success rate plummeted for the next 10 years.
Maybe it was time to move on from Ditka but it was the setup for a decade of mismanagement at the hands of Mikey McCaskey and the hiring of losing HC like Wanny and Jauron until his own mother finally removed him after he screwed up hiring Dave McGinnis as HC by announcing it before McGinnis had agreed to a deal. It seems to me things have been only marginally better for brief periods of time ever since.
Phil Emery was Ted Phillips choice and blessed by the McCaskeys and he proved to be even more destructive in three years than JA had been in ten. Lovie was no prize but he was at that time the first winning HC we'd had since Ditka and like Ditka he was replaced by a HC and his staff who did far worse sinking the team even deeper in the mire which the current coaching staff has been unsuccessful in getting us out of.
At what point in time do the McCaskey finally realize collectively they and Ted Phillips have no real ability to run this team successfully and hire someone who does to do it? When to the Bears get their Theo Epstein?
Rebuilds in the NFL sometimes defy logic and timeframes, putting teams on potential playoff ground earlier than expected. Having said that though it looks like the D could be a strength next year if all the chips fall correctly. IMHO for that to happen we need:
1. Goldman and Trevathan to heal completely and come back strong next year (Trevathan may not be ready for either OTA's or pre-season). 2. We need to sign at least impact starters in FA for the secondary, 1 CB and 1 safety. 3. Hope that Allen falls to us at 3.
Rebuilds in the NFL sometimes defy logic and timeframes, putting teams on potential playoff ground earlier than expected. Having said that though it looks like the D could be a strength next year if all the chips fall correctly. IMHO for that to happen we need:
1. Goldman and Trevathan to heal completely and come back strong next year (Trevathan may not be ready for either OTA's or pre-season). 2. We need to sign at least impact starters in FA for the secondary, 1 CB and 1 safety. 3. Hope that Allen falls to us at 3.
But the QB is just as important.
What's Allens position in our base or nickel D?
Good question. I've read some positive stuff about the kid both as a pass rusher and a run stopper but at 6'3" and 290lbs is Allen much the same player as Bullard or far better than that? Is he a true 290lbs or more or like Bullard is his actual playing weight much less. Is he a 3 down 5 tech DE ideal for a 3-4 or is his best position as a 4-3 3 tech DT?
I don't spend much time looking at potential draftees until long after the season has ended, the post season all star games have ended, Combine is over, and FA begins and we add players there. There are too many questions to be answered first until then and this year is no different than any other. As it stand Garrett, Allen and possibly Fournette appear to be at the top of the rankings but as usual a QB needy team may overdraft one of this years crop in the top few picks too.
I would not be inclined to risk a top five pick on a QB in any year where there are this many questions about a readiness of the prospects so lacking any top OT and DL or OLB pass rusher is next on the list. Is Allen that guy?
Good question. I've read some positive stuff about the kid both as a pass rusher and a run stopper but at 6'3" and 290lbs is Allen much the same player as Bullard or far better than that? Is he a true 290lbs or more or like Bullard is his actual playing weight much less. Is he a 3 down 5 tech DE ideal for a 3-4 or is his best position as a 4-3 3 tech DT?
I don't spend much time looking at potential draftees until long after the season has ended, the post season all star games have ended, Combine is over, and FA begins and we add players there. There are too many questions to be answered first until then and this year is no different than any other. As it stand Garrett, Allen and possibly Fournette appear to be at the top of the rankings but as usual a QB needy team may overdraft one of this years crop in the top few picks too.
I would not be inclined to risk a top five pick on a QB in any year where there are this many questions about a readiness of the prospects so lacking any top OT and DL or OLB pass rusher is next on the list. Is Allen that guy?
Last year, Allen's playing weight was in the 260s. In high school he was a WR/SS at 180. I posted this elsewhere but I'll repeat it: health wise, I'm concerned about a guy who puts on 100 lbs over the course of 3-4 years and 30 lbs in the last year. My sense is that's a knee / hip / back issue waiting to flair up and cause problems.
If he were to play closer to 265 or so, I think that'd be his ideal weight but then where does he line up in our current alignment? That's more a 4-3 package player. When you consider we're in the nickel package or some variety of it 50% of the time, where does he play?
Think this is the wrong pick for our current scheme.
I think what Allen affords us if he's on the table is a lot of suitors for our pick which would allow us to trade down and add a number of high - mid level picks.
Good question. I've read some positive stuff about the kid both as a pass rusher and a run stopper but at 6'3" and 290lbs is Allen much the same player as Bullard or far better than that? Is he a true 290lbs or more or like Bullard is his actual playing weight much less. Is he a 3 down 5 tech DE ideal for a 3-4 or is his best position as a 4-3 3 tech DT?
I don't spend much time looking at potential draftees until long after the season has ended, the post season all star games have ended, Combine is over, and FA begins and we add players there. There are too many questions to be answered first until then and this year is no different than any other. As it stand Garrett, Allen and possibly Fournette appear to be at the top of the rankings but as usual a QB needy team may overdraft one of this years crop in the top few picks too.
I would not be inclined to risk a top five pick on a QB in any year where there are this many questions about a readiness of the prospects so lacking any top OT and DL or OLB pass rusher is next on the list. Is Allen that guy?
Last year, Allen's playing weight was in the 260s. In high school he was a WR/SS at 180. I posted this elsewhere but I'll repeat it: health wise, I'm concerned about a guy who puts on 100 lbs over the course of 3-4 years and 30 lbs in the last year. My sense is that's a knee / hip / back issue waiting to flair up and cause problems.
If he were to play closer to 265 or so, I think that'd be his ideal weight but then where does he line up in our current alignment? That's more a 4-3 package player. When you consider we're in the nickel package or some variety of it 50% of the time, where does he play?
Think this is the wrong pick for our current scheme.
I think what Allen affords us if he's on the table is a lot of suitors for our pick which would allow us to trade down and add a number of high - mid level picks.
That's good info belli. I have to wonder if all of the weight Henry Melton gained so quickly in order to play DT may have been part of the cause of his knee injury and the decline in his career thereafter. Then we have CWash, another 265lb guy in college whose now bulked up to 295lbs and has serial knee or leg issues.
Now we have Bullard who was labeled a "steal" in round three yet he's undersized and hasn't found his role as a 3-4 DE either. That why I asked about Allen as far as the possibility of him being similar. I have to wonder in Bullard's case if we wouldn't be better to let him play at 270lbs and make him an OLB like Houston who once was a 300lb DT/DE who became a far more effective player at 270lbs.
In a draft heavy in DBs where we do need significant help as well and also a young QB prospect either via the draft or trade acquiring more draft capital by trading down isn't a bad thought if the guys who are there are not the blue chippers this team can use.
