45catfan

No, but he can be a game manager and that's all we need in winnable games. The idea that #1 picks especially at the QB position can't sit a portion of the season is moronic. They AREN'T ready for the NFL and rushing them out there only shakes their confidence.

Can't just hand Chicago the #1 overall pick. We got to win a few games. Dalton is the best, short term solution to at least have the Bears to trade up to the #1 pick.

Exactly. The coaches can't run the plays for the players, they can only call them and expect them to execute the play. Our WRs suck. If Thielen ends up being our best WR, then that's a major issue. Too many people are giving TMJ slack. He's bad and I don't see him getting better. Put like this, he's the WR comparable to Ian Thomas as a TE.

Bryce on the QB sneak.

Hated the trade. Assuming they were honest and didn't know who they were taking at #1, I STILL hate the trade up.

Hopefully we aren't wearing the white pants as Byrce sh*ts himself in the face of a pass rush. if all else fails, toss the ball on the ground to avoid the pile on.

RB trades don't set a franchise back in today's NFL, but trading up to #1 overall for a so-called football wiz kid in a 13-year old's body is definitely suspect.

Lol, you got Burrow and that's it. The rest struggled. Rookie QBs need to sit, period. The higher the draft pick the fewer game they sit, but throwing their arse to the wolves is, and always has been, a bad idea. That is unless you are FULLY prepared to take on a losing...sometimes UGLY losing season. In today's NFL, HCs have about two years to turn it around. That being said you can hope the rookie is forged by fire after a brutal rookie campaign OR start a veteran an ease the rookie in if the things aren't going swimmingly after the first several games.

Life is hard on Bryce because he's a rookie. Think about the guy trying to call plays for the rookie, pretty hard for him too.

So Brown can cough up the ball and miss WRs?

At this point you go with Dalton or prepare to go 0-17. The kid needs time. If the staff wants OJT for Bryce and are willing to suffer beat down after beat down, then that's fine. Hopefully Bryce is strong enough mentally to endure loss after loss. It's something he's never experienced.

He don't have the arm to throw more than 15 yards down the filed in the NFL. These dudes aren't Vanderbilt DBs.

But we HAD TO go QB this year at all costs, right?

Really? Rattle off the list.

Seriously, should have stated Dalton and eased Bryce in. Right now, bro is rattled. Never start a rookie QB.

Well, now we can't even get into FG range, smh.

Pineiro is my fantasy kicker, so.............

Strip-sack on every hit. And I was worried about him staying healthy. Survival mechanism; drop the ball and the defenders won't pile on top of you.

Take a shot every time this happens...uh, crap, I might run out of liquor!

So far the defensive struggle I was thinking about.

double post.

Bryce missed a wide open target on the scramble left. He tried to hit the inside guy, but the outside guy was wide open.

Pick 6 on the first play. Must have been thinking of that rub down after the game.

He would have to sustain a bad injury or have an off the field issue to drop like that. Even if his stats are just mediocre this season, he still won't fall out of the first round.

Last draft. Yup, I was. A year or two doesn't make it an annual exercise though. That would be TE, truth be told, which dates back to 2018 for me and until Ickey, since 2013 for an OT. THAT is an annual exercise. Again, there's not a ton of underclassmen in this draft as opposed to last year and the few that are the top of the board absolutely will declare. Williams and Maye are not going back to school. Ewers, maybe, but then you have a slew of Seniors (red shirts, true, 5th year) and graduate students. There is little reason for them to return even if they are eligible for one more season.