I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

We have seen several years of the Chris Morgan act os offensive line coach. Poles and the rest of the Bears leadership continue to tell us that he is elite. At this point, all of the evidence suggests that he is below average at best. The offensive line is worse than the sum of its parts. That is a classic coaching problem.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

I think Fields wins that game yesterday. I've said all along, I think he is more valuable than a sixth or a fourth. The market said otherwise. I'm glad we have Caleb.

Maybe he doesn't throw 2 picks. I doubt he puts up better other passing stats.

Because you are stupid, maybe read some books educate yourself.

We walk, talk, and won't shit our pants

Maybe he doesn't throw 2 picks. I doubt he puts up better other passing stats.

He would have run

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

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Maybe he doesn't throw 2 picks. I doubt he puts up better other passing stats.

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The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Also, D'Andre Swift appears to be a rotation player, not a legitimate starting running back.

Also, D'Andre Swift appears to be a rotation player, not a legitimate starting running back.

If true, that's pretty damn disheartening considering we minted him a top 10 running back, salary wise. Personally I wanted to throw that money at Danielle Hunter who was all in Caleb's ass last night.

We passed on Jalen Carter for this



Should have also been Roughing the Passer, hey I don't make the fagggy rules, but you have the enforce them consistently.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Wright can't move his feet quickly enough to play tackle. At least, that's the way it looks to me.

And how in the hell have they forgot how to run block? Last year they could at least run the ball.

I like Chris Morgan, but he is the run game coordinator now. That and Waldron could be the problem with the run game. He hates Herbert.

Because you are stupid, maybe read some books educate yourself.

We walk, talk, and won't shit our pants

Because you are stupid, maybe read some books educate yourself.

We walk, talk, and won't shit our pants

Wright can't move his feet quickly enough to play tackle. At least, that's the way it looks to me.

Joe Burrow took the Bengals to a Super Bowl behind a line of exit stanchions from Paycor field.

Poles needs a roster sommelier: you don't pair a leaky o-line with a QB coming out of college with a record high time to throw and a sack rate on pressures north of 20%. Williams may or (so far) may not be an NFL QB. Someone (Lombardi? maybe, he hates everything non-Belichick) compared K-Mid to another under-sized scrambling QB who wowed fans and scouts with his off-platform throws and ability to extend plays with stubby lil legs....Johnny Football Manziel.

At USC Williams would hang in the pocket for 2 or 3 Mississippi as an NPC and then when it inevitably collapsed he'd roll out and begin quarterbacking the play. Possibly he figured doing that gave his receivers ample time to get extra open and made for easy completions.

Bears could've drafted Mahomes, spent draft capital to move up and take Mitch (Pro Bowl QB) (Pro Bowl QB) Trubisky instead. Bears could've drafted Coleridge Bernard "C. J." Stroud IV...and decided to punt on the year in favor of Williams. Maybe teams like the Bears, Jets, Panthers should hire someone to attend the draft, and when they put in their pick for a QB they intercept it and change it to any other QB in the draft.


Still time for the Bears to tank for the next Matty Ice, Miller Time Moss:

We passed on Jalen Carter for this

How worried should we be about Jalen Carter, Jordan Davis and Nolan Smith?
reuben frank
Fri, Sep 20, 2024, 10:04 AM CD

They’re all 1st-round picks, they all played at Georgia, they’re all 23 or 24, they’re all in their second or third year and they’re all struggling.

Jordan Davis, Jalen Carter and Nolan Smith are kind of like a package deal, three best friends who were part of a national championship team or two in Athens.

The Eagles drafted the trio in a two-year span after drafting only three 1st-round defensive linemen in the previous 15 years – Brandon Graham 13th in 2010, Fletcher Cox 12th in 2012 and Derek Barnett 14th in 2017.

Davis was the 13th pick in 2022, Carter and Smith the ninth and 30th picks in 2023.

The Eagles drafted them to form the heart of a rebuilt defensive line that over a three-year period will lose four Pro Bowlers - Javon Hargrave to free agency after the 2022 season, Cox to retirement and Haason Reddick in a trade after last year and Graham to retirement after this season.

So far, all three have been disappointments to varying degrees, and the early returns this year are ominous.

These three 1st-round picks have combined for one solo tackle, no quarterback hits, no tackles for loss, no sacks and no hurries in the Eagles’ first two games.

“I think all three guys have shown moments of ... having a lot of good plays and all of them have had bumps too,” Nick Sirianni said this week. “But that's every player, that's not just limited to those guys.

“We're 1-1 at this particular point so there's going to be good plays, there's going to be bad plays but a lot of confidence in those guys and their abilities to (show why) we drafted them in the first place and what they can add to our defense.”

Two games in, Carter, Davis and Smith don’t have a sack and don’t have a tackle for loss. Davis has no solo tackles and one quarterback hit. Davis has one solo tackle and no quarterback hits. And Smith has one solo tackle and no QB hits.

Thomas Booker, a futures contract player who's only played 17 snaps, has more tackles than all of them combined.

Carter and Davis have had some flashes. They’ve both gotten double teamed at times, and Carter had his hands full with a two-time Pro Bowl guard in Chris Lindstrom Monday night.

But the bottom line is they were brought here to dominate, they’ve played a total of 215 snaps and not one of them has made a single impact play.

Defensive coordinator Vic Fangio said the three Georgia guys won’t be able to make those sort of game-changing plays until the Eagles are able to stop the run, his logic being that it’s difficult for defensive linemen to get tackles for loss, hurries or sacks when teams are rarely in third-and-long.

“When you talk about the 1st-round picks, I think it's a lot of the same," he said. "When you talk production … you're talking sacks and pressures and stuff. And until we do a better job of playing the run, those aren't coming. That's for sure. And we all have to do a better job, that's starting with me, of playing the run better.”

That makes sense in theory, but the reality is that the Eagles have faced 14 third downs of 3rd-and-5 or more. That’s tied for seventh-most in the league.

So the opportunities have been there.

The production hasn’t.

And that’s scary because general manager Howie Roseman has devoted a tremendous amount of assets to these three. Davis is in Year 3 now and Carter and Smith in Year 2. At least Carter had a great first six weeks last year but he hasn’t approached that level of dominance yet this year.

Carter and Davis haven’t been in the locker room this week while it was open to the media. Davis actually hasn’t all year. Smith declined an interview request on Thursday.

Carter did speak briefly after the loss to the Falcons Monday night and said he was disappointed in how he played.

“It was very frustrating,” he said. “Me, no game is perfect for me. No game is good for me. I always got to higher a standard for myself and what I want to do. If I have a game where I have three sacks, why not six? So that's just my mindset with it.

Carter was in the news for the wrong reason this week after being benched for the Falcons’ first series Monday night after being late for a team meeting.

The combination of coming across as undisciplined and unproductive as a top-10 pick is not a good one.

“My message (to Carter) is just continue to be a professional,” Graham said. “Stuff's gonna happen. I know for him, he's come way, way farther than when he started. I'm going to make sure when they do stuff, let them know, ‘Hey, you’re going to get punished for this.’ As much as it hurt me to do it, I gotta do it. They don't want to do it, but if you do stuff, how else are you going to learn?”

Carter, Davis and Smith aren’t the Eagles’ only concerns on defense. Bryce Huff looks lost. Josh Sweat has gone nine straight games without a sack. Missed tackles, blown coverages and miscommunication have been the rule through two weeks.

Not surprisingly, the Eagles are 27th in points allowed, 28th in sacks per pass play, last in rushing yards allowed per carry, 30th in yards allowed and tied for 30th in takeaways going into their game Sunday against the Saints at the Superdome, where they'll face the 4th-highest-scoring offense in NFL history through two weeks.

The Eagles drafted Smith to rush the passer, they drafted Davis to stop the run and they drafted Carter to do both.

And here are the Eagles last against the run and near the bottom sacking the quarterback.

It’s too early to panic. But it’s definitely not too early to be very concerned.

^Yeah the Eagles thing is perplexing especially when you consider they’ve got Fangio, and they’re in year 2 with him. Difficult to know what to make of it. That team should be dominant on both sides of the ball and they just aren’t.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.