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Yeah, the glitz and glamour and stars on the sideline faded quick. I think even kids are realizing that it's just all about Deion.

Colorado lost another commitment today. They only have 9 2024 commitments and the class is ranked 64th in the country. They have a grand total of zero 2025 commitments. Deion is begging boosters for donations because he knows he's gonna have to buy team through the portal. Sure looks like the wheels are falling off in Boulder.

I definitely had a good chuckle recollecting y'all's arguments when they were talking about that.

Interesting that they all noted this was Frank Reich's offense and the worse things got the more Frank Reich the offense got. Shotgun, three wideouts, absolutely zero pre-snap motion. Absolutely zero RPO plays when that's what Bryce ran constantly in college. All acknowledged the lack of vertical threat in the offense. One thing they pointed out is that Bryce is really struggling to recognize "NFL open". WRs aren't getting 3-4 yards of separation every play like at Alabama. Another thing they mentioned was that Bryce was resistant to the arm band and that caused some friction and likely led to some of the issues we saw with struggling with the play clock. Smitty basically said they should've told him you're a rookie, deal with it, we're using the armband. They all acknowledged that Ickey is probably best suited at OG but to let the next staff make that call. Smitty particularly pointed out that Ickey's feet are a mess. He harkened back to how Wharton played better at OG than OT but he had success and was position flexible because he had great feet. Smitty doesn't think it would look all that different for Ickey right now at OG due to the footwork issues. They also mentioned that moving him to OG would basically be admitting that you made a mistake picking him #6 but it's better to have a good OG than a struggling LT and with Bryce's height interior OL play is vital. Smitty went as far as to say that for a young QB IOL play is more important than OT play because that pressure is coming in your face. Either way, Ickey is a mauler. Pure and simple. Smitty said if he was a pitcher he wouldn't have any curveball or sinker or slider, it would be all fastballs all day. If he was a boxer it'd be all power punches, no jabs. It's just who he is and he has to fit your scheme. They all praised Evero and the work he's done despite having a different lineup practically every week due to injuries. That's the stuff that stuck out to me.

I've worked for bosses like Tepper before. Yeah, it fuging sucks. If I had a guaranteed contract I would've just mailed it in until they paid me to go away too.

One guy has ideal NFL QB measurables. The other guy had to be able to overcome completely lacking NFL QB measurables.

Colorado lost another commitment today. They have the 64th ranked 2024 recruiting class and currently zero commits in the 2025 class.

Dude is burning through coaches and QBs faster than a chain-smoker through a pack of Camel Lights.

Oh wow. Never forget one of the peak moments of shamelessness we've seen in sports.

I want Tepper to marinate in the utter embarrassment of handing the Bears #1 overall as just part of the haul we traded to get to #1 overall last year. This is going to end up on a very short list of the worst trades in NFL history with Stroud looking like a future HOFer. If the Bears knock one out of the park at #1 and Bryce keeps looking like a guy who doesn't belong on an NFL football field it might end up taking the crown.

Somebody post up a link to it in its entirety once it's over. I could t tune in live but I do want to see this poo show.

And we even fuged that one up. Hindsight being 20/20, the obviously correct play was to sign Reddick long-term freeing us up to take the haul from the Rams for Burns.

The only way I'll come out of it positive if he publicly swallows his pride and commits to staying the fug out of football operations moving forward beyond hiring and firing decisions. Day to day football operations, roster decisions, draft decisions, scheme decisions, etc. just stay the fug out. He wouldn't be asking a football coach or front office personnel to help him analyze a hedge fund portfolio so butt out of their business. That's what they do. Your experience and past successes clearly have no translated to football. Let football people make football decisions.

I'm not out yet. There's a chance we could put a top flight OL in front of him with top 5 weapons around him and he still turns out to be decent. Yeah, I'm out.

Fields to DJ Moore for 36 yards gets them in cheap shot FG range. Barring something wild the Bears are gonna win this one kicking four FGs.

Let's see if he can redeem himself. They're gonna get one more crack at it. But the inconsistency and critical mistakes are just too much. Gotta give someone else a chance to resurrect his career and move on.

If the Bears were undecided on QB or not at #1 tonight might have sealed it. They gotta move on. Only three points off of four turnovers. Back to back drive ending fumbles from Fields on the last two possessions with the game in the balance. It'd be one thing if it was a fluke but it's not.

OMG, a Bears CB goes down leaving a Vikings WR open by 10+ yards deep downfield and Dobbs leads him out of bounds. That's just awful.

Now Fields gets strip sacked in FG range. What an ugly game. This is definitely not one of those games that might not suck because this game sucks.

The wheels are falling off for Dobbs tonight. That's pick #4 and he had a would be pick six dropped. 16/25 for 99 yards and 4 INTs, plus the aforementioned dropped INT.

When are the Bears gonna take a shot? The Vikings are blitzing their asses off and squatting on routes because the Bears are basically running our offense tonight. Zero vertical threat. If they'd pick their shot and go max protect and run a stop and go I bet the guy would be wide ass open.

I know as a defender you're hardwired to intercept it if you can but they're going for it on 4th and 3. All you did was cost your team yardage not knocking that deflected pass down.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't lobbying to GTFO of here. He and the team say he wasn't but all the sitting out with relatively minor nagging injuries and then getting traded for not a great return to a contender and then suddenly getting a lot more durable (like I predicted)? It all just adds up to feeling like he forced his way out of here. For the record, I was 100% onboard with trading CMC. We needed a QB and we needed draft capital. We just fuged it up like we have everything else under Tepper.

It certainly was based on what we turned the haul into. The 2nd was a minor part of the trade for #1 for Bryce. The 3rd and 4th we turned into DJ Johnson via trade up. We still have a 5th next year. That better be a Sam Howell level 5th rounder.