He's only playing because of injuries. I hope that is only because the coaching staff is full of idiots. I haven't been impressed so far.

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Yes.

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Seems competent enough.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

He looks like a dime a dozen type big, slow TE. Probably a wasted draft pick. Might be an ok player though.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

by the way, does Dion Sims have leprosy? He has been "out sick" since the bye week began

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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The Packers would love to have him.

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I don't think so. He'll be lucky to have the career of Richard Rodgers.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Should have drafted Schuster.

Rodgers can't block, and his stat line yesterday was 1/5yds.

The Bears obviously made the right choice for a TE during the last off season. And Teddy T's miss on Bennett will make him less likely to dip into the FA pool again.

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Real good today. Hopefully it's a sign of things to come out of this dude.

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He's starting to look like he belongs in the league. This is looking like Paces 1st good draft as far as I'm concerned.



But I don't want to get ahead of myself here either. Dude needs to be consistent and stay healthy, but he's been looking more and more like an NFL TE as the season moves along for sure.

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If the rule you followed lead you to this, of what use was the rule?

I think Pace had a talk with Fox/Loggains this past week about him not playing.

Floyd, Whitehair, Bullard, and Howard is a solid, solid haul for one draft. Kwiatkowski is a guy who can be in the league. Nice draft.

Tru, Shaheen, Jackson, Cohen is a solid start to this last draft.

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Bullard and Kwiatkowski are only starting on a bad team because of injuries. Whitehair is a good pick imo, tho he's had an up and down season -Floyd (a top 10 pick we traded up for) has not played up to that value and has been unable to finish his only 2 seasons in the league so far, so he gets graded on a curve. He is a solid starter tho, who's specialty is valuable, but I feel he needs another player of equal or greater skill opposite him to make him look better rather than being able to do it on his own.


Howard is good, no argument. Especially from a value standpoint when his draft position is considered.


(Pro Bowl QB) Trubisky, Jackson and maybe Shaheen all have potential to be game changing type players (I'm stretching this for Shaheen to boost my argument, don't judge me lol). And I like Cohen for what he is -an effective scat back who has the big play ability to change a game but can't carry the load like a Howard could.


Here's the thing tho, how much of the good we're seeing out of some of these guys (especially on defense) is due to coaching up from a veteran coaching staff? And how much if this 'hey, these guys are out there starting games' is due to them just being on a bad team in the 1st place where a low bar for that standard has been set. Sorry, I'm not impressed right now with the Bullards and Kwiatkowski's of this team, they're just guys imo. Paces 1st two drafts were put together a bit haphazardly and without a plan in place imo. This last draft makes a little more sense than those 1st two and we have 4 guys all playing as rookies right now out there making a difference and looking like they're part of the future of the team. I can't argue that Bullard and Kwiatkowski are permanent solutions at their positions right now, and I don't think that's a stretch or dishonest to say.

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If the rule you followed lead you to this, of what use was the rule?

Kwiatkowski is a guy but that's part of good drafting is filling out a roster with guys that can stick in the league. Amos was good value in the 5th. I think Goldman was a good pick.

The last 2 drafts, I think there is potential to have 7 guys that could start/play regularly in rotation on a good team, maybe 8.

Those are the 8 guys I listed earlier. Was Floyd overdrafted? Yes, he was. But he's still a 1st-round talent with excellent specialized skills. Howard was their 1st round pick that year, tremendous value.

The Bears were God-awful. Fox and Patton Oswalt aren't the guys to take this team beyond this year but another solid draft this year, some improved health, a deep threat, and a bit of luck and this team could be competitive next year.

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Either that or they figured out pretty quickly that they would not be back, so why not play him. Seemed kinda odd that on the drive where they went for it on 4th down, they didnt do it again when they were on the 2 yard line.

I think the past few games only reinforce this opinion

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Inactive today.

Damnit.

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I mean I have no problem shitting on Fox, but he's started a bunch of other rookies, many from week one, so I think it's more about Shaheen than he doesn't want to play rookies.

He was out due to injury today.

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Yeah, I'm just saying, as I think you pointed out when it happened, the story that Fox wasn't playing Shaheen because he wanted to "win now" didn't make much sense.

Pace probably saw that as an admission of fault on the Kevin White Experience. But you're right.

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Inactive again.

Thank goodness for the MLB Network and a special on Billy Martin

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Inactive. Ends a wasted season with a thud.

There has to be more to this. The kid looked good enough to play.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

His blocking is pretty poor, maybe keep Mitch healthy.

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http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/12/31/ ... um=twitter

By Chris Emma–

(670 The Score) Adam Shaheen’s rookie season is over. The Bears’ second-round pick from April is inactive for the regular-season finale against the Vikings because of what the team has called a chest injury.

Shaheen, the rookie tight end out of Division II Ashland, has missed the last two games due to the injury. He has 12 receptions for 127 yards and three touchdowns in 13 games played this season, including four receptions during that game in Cincinnati.

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

Ryan Pace didn’t want a pro bowl safety in Budda Baker so he traded down for a TE that can’t get on the field.

Having no heart is technically a chest injury.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.