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Yeah, this early for Bryce never entered my mind. I thought he’d baseline be looking okay with maybe an avg 205ish yards, 1-2 td type weekly performance, with some high turnover weeks. What I didn't see was that he was done before the season began and stifled to a Clausen level. I was also a bit too favorable to the defense - I thought the pass rush would be serviceable not non-existent. That was the other big miscalculation. Moving forward, the Bears defense has been playing lights out so if this offense looks more like the Cincy/Vegas games this week, I’ll feel a bit better about the system being installed. If we continue to flutter even with Dalton, then I’ll start to get weary of this staff. Even with the injuries we still have personnel to show up and perform decently on offense. Not sure about the defense though since there’s zero pass rush and it’s not going to magically arrive.

Even with our roster. I was thinking 5-6 wins would feel appropriate. 4 or fewer and it’s getting into questionable territory. Over 6 would be a welcome surprise. So it seems like we’re flirting with the low end of my expected. It’s looking to be a 3-14/4-13 kind of season. Would be very disappointed if we only win 1 more game the rest of the way. Give me at least 2 more wins this year Panthers. Thx.

Well this has been interesting

Yosh had to fill in for bakhtiari and did fine in GB. Nothing spectacular but held his own and had some good stretches. I think he’ll be able to handle the ATL pass rush this week. The injuries suck but we aren’t in dire straits quite yet. We still suck though, no changing that

I think Tremble getting knocked to last week on his hit/fumble effected that grade. Agree that Sanders has been pretty disappointing. Meh. Oh well.

Yep-It was. Heck..Plenty here were thinking we should shore up the OL or DL if the top WRs were gone. Or maybe a DB. Not only that, but Ladd was available at WR, Newton was available at DL, Frazier, P-J, Kneeland, talent was there and we reached for a guy many had reported was around 70ish overall and at least a 3rd round grade for many teams. Did the same exact thing with Mingo a year prior over legit WR talent in Jayden Reed and Rashee Rice. Also had JuJu Brents, Branch, Tuli RIGHT f’n there for us.

Both Humphrey and Josh Myers went right after TMJ… then we panicked and traded back up 3 spots for Brady C.

Spencer and Kirksey have been here since 2021 running the college scouting side of things. And then there’s Robert Haines who has been here since 2015, worked his way up and now as the top national scout. All seem pretty active in decision making based off of the offseason “behind the scenes” videos the team makes. We have some newer area scouts— those people will typically hand in reports early December. The team reviews, folds those assessments into the full draft prep by the new year. End of the year around bowl season is usually really active internally but is not usually shown. Come draft season, they’ll already have plenty of stuff on prospects when we’re just starting to dig in. Jeff Morrow is a name you may have heard, he finally retired after being here since the early 2000s.

I'm fine as in I'm a non-participatory fan. I don't care anymore, I don't get the stomach feels when it's a close game in the second half. I have no expectations, Dalton didn't change that, he just made it temporarily interesting. I'm more-so enjoying Sunday fall football vibes with the fam and my attention is only partially on our games anymore. Made some good chili so that was nice. I've been consistently not watching our games in full in a few years. Early this year, I was turning it off after our first few drives. The benching got me to tune in again and now, it's settled back to quad boxing or redzone again.

Yeah listen for offers. Bottom line is that we need talent. I'm usually not about getting cute with the draft pick prognostications, but we need an injection of talent in the worst kind of way.

Bad matchups, depleted defense, Bears defense is very good one. Just an overall recipe for disaster. We had a running game but fell behind and couldn't play catchup against one of the best pass-defense's in the league. The rookies didn't seem terrible for needing to carry the team. I'll give them that.

Chinn is doing great today. His stint here after year 1 still confuses me to no end.

Okay I’m over this entire 2025 class sans Boise State RB and Zonie WR

If we were interested in multiyear services we would have worked out a deal when we traded for him. He’ll be 30 soon, it’s a bridge situation for him to find a nice final multi-year contract. Could still end up being here, but realistically, I see it somewhere else. A trade pre deadline is a bit too brash but I’ve seen crazier things happen.

Im all for any way we can generate pressure. Current biggest weakness on the squad is our pass rush.

The class is kind of souring on me. I'm leaning a bit into the Nus-Bus with an eye on Allar. Still want to see how the season plays out.

but for real, we don't have admin tools so..

This is for the 2023 NFL Draft.

Wondering if I should take the metra to Solider Field on Sunday. Was thinking this was going to be a stinker if we were still starting Young of the Shire but it would be fun to check us out.

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I thought you were joking but you’re legitimately right. He’s a 30.1 overall PFF and -0.278 EPA per play

Kneeland has been promising. Just quiet if you just look at sack and tackle totals…

Precisely. Same with XL and Sanders right now. Gotta give them a moment to breathe and let them settle into the roles. Will have ups and downs. Especially with Trevin, as every position is dependent and our defense is depleted. Now he’s getting the calls and in the center of it all.