Ex-Bears Superstar Surprisingly Still Available; Should Chicago Reunite?

Patrick McAvoy

The Chicago Bears still have some room for growth this summer.

Chicago has been extremely active this offseason and still could make another move or two this summer. The Bears have a chance to be much better in 2024 and one of the team's former stars still is out there in free agency and could be an intriguing free-agent candidate.

Former Bears star safety Eddie Jackson surprisingly still is available in free agency and is one of the best safeties still out there. Jackson was selected by the Bears in the fourth round of the 2017 National Football League Draft and has spent seven seasons with the team.

Jackson was named to the Pro Bowl in 2018 and 2019 and was an All-Pro in 2018. The 30-year-old is the ninth-ranked available free agent by NFL Trade Rumors and could make a lot of sense for the Bears.

Chicago has had an intriguing offseason with multiple solid additions -- including phenom Caleb Williams and superstar receiver Keenan Allen -- but still has more work to do. A reunion with Jackson could help improve the secondary.

Free agency essentially comes to a pause after plenty of action early on. It's unclear when it will pick back up, but Jackson should find another opportunity in the near future. Chicago makes a lot of sense as a reunion option.

Why not consider a reunion at this point in the offseason?

Ex-Bears Superstar Surprisingly Still Available; Should Chicago Reunite?

Patrick McAvoy

The Chicago Bears still have some room for growth this summer.

Chicago has been extremely active this offseason and still could make another move or two this summer. The Bears have a chance to be much better in 2024 and one of the team's former stars still is out there in free agency and could be an intriguing free-agent candidate.

Former Bears star safety Eddie Jackson surprisingly still is available in free agency and is one of the best safeties still out there. Jackson was selected by the Bears in the fourth round of the 2017 National Football League Draft and has spent seven seasons with the team.

Jackson was named to the Pro Bowl in 2018 and 2019 and was an All-Pro in 2018. The 30-year-old is the ninth-ranked available free agent by NFL Trade Rumors and could make a lot of sense for the Bears.

Chicago has had an intriguing offseason with multiple solid additions -- including phenom Caleb Williams and superstar receiver Keenan Allen -- but still has more work to do. A reunion with Jackson could help improve the secondary.

Free agency essentially comes to a pause after plenty of action early on. It's unclear when it will pick back up, but Jackson should find another opportunity in the near future. Chicago makes a lot of sense as a reunion option.

Why not consider a reunion at this point in the offseason?

The "They are who we thought they were" game is on NFL Network. The booth of Tirico, Theismann and Kornheiser (?) is just terrible. Nice to see Urlacher clobbering Leinart.

The "They are who we thought they were" game is on NFL Network. The booth of Tirico, Theismann and Kornheiser (?) is just terrible. Nice to see Urlacher clobbering Leinart.

The kid was 11 for 16 last week with no interceptions and playing behind a shitty O-Line and to hear people tell it here he stunk the joint up. Its those sort of evaluations that lead me to question their "objectivity" when it comes to Fields.

Where is the statistical evidence saying the o line is bad. Are you saying Fields holding on to the ball for a league leading 3+ seconds is due to poor line play, or that it's actually a good thing to hold on to the ball for that long?

Justin Fields under pressure early
Bears QB Justin Fields dodged enough pass rushers to help move Chicago into Minnesota territory, but Cairo Santos' 48-yard FG attempt was wide right.

The early pressure is nothing new for Fields as he entered the night having been pressured on a league-high 49.4% of his dropbacks this season, which is up from the league-leading 45.9% pressure rate he faced in 2022.

Funny how this very " crucial" stat was conveniently overlooked by all of the football "gurus" around here.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/live-b ... hWz4J5SlW/

It's strange that MANY around here still think (Pro Bowl QB) (Pro Bowl QB) (Pro Bowl QB) Trubisky is a better QB than Justin Fields.

He wasn’t?

He isn't.

Definitely not true so far but I guess time will tell.

It's strange that MANY around here still think (Pro Bowl QB) (Pro Bowl QB) (Pro Bowl QB) Trubisky is a better QB than Justin Fields.

Trubiskey Has thrown a total of 8 TDs and 11 into in the 3 years since Fields has been in the NFL. Which validates that he "definitely" is not better than Fields currently.

As a Bear (Pro Bowl QB) (Pro Bowl QB) (Pro Bowl QB) Trubisky was significantly better.

OK then why was that and what has happened since? In the 3 years that Justin Fields has been a Pro, (Pro Bowl QB) (Pro Bowl QB) (Pro Bowl QB) Trubisky has thrown for less than 2,000 yards. He clearly isn't better than J Fields right now. And I doubt seriously that he ever was.

Fields is also the dude who has to by far "create more time to throw" because of s shitty O-Line and a collapsing pocket all of the time.

He wasn’t?

That's not what the stats indicate. 4 seconds is more than enough time to throw. When 80% of your sacks come from after 4 seconds it means you are holding onto the ball too long. Now, it would be easy to overlook this if he had gaudy passing stats which indicated that he was extending plays while not just throwing it away and it was resulting in major yardage as plays broke down but that is clearly not the case.

4 seconds isn't a collapsing pocket.

Here is an entire game filled with "collapsing pockets" Brick. And hardly an "outlier" either.

https://youtu.be/nhF7ApctAsE?si=VqYA4FcLTE_mCCIS