Donald LaFell

Improvement and excited players. Tepper needs to talk about real grass. Also need to hear about a practice facility. I don’t want any drama about a new stadium.

Yeah, definitely part of what I love about pro football. Seeing guys at their peak achieving their dreams. Hoping the best for all of them.

For real, that made no sense. Belichek wasn’t great at drafting but he was always good about trading guys for firsts before they needed a big pay day

I think it’s unavoidable in the salary cap era that teams go through cycles. A new staff will have some rope and time to set things up. If Canales is a good coach and Young lives up to the #1 pick hype we’ll still prob stink this year lol enjoy the rebuild!

Hopefully we can front load some of the cost during the crappy reset year, and these guys are still playing well for the remainder of their contract

Yeah I would think we need to stink this year, trade the number one pick for a haul in 2026 and reset that way.

Hopefully so. I don’t really care. i wouldn’t watch much, enjoy your Sundays! My gut feeling is we’ll be bad during this reset year, then probably mid-bad in 2026 while we get used to a vet or rookie QB to replace Bryce. Just gonna be a long road.

We’ll trade next years first to do it but then end up giving up the number one pick of the 2026 draft

it sounds crazy to say but I’m really surprised at the negative reactions. The team stinks and in all likelyhood it will stink no matter what they do. They don’t have a lot to work with and they absolutely need to support the QB they drafted. They need to look attractive for backups or a new QB next year. Sacrificing the defense to help the offense bring in new blood makes all the sense in the world. We’ll stink no matter what so prioritize the most important position.

The worst team in the league isn’t gonna have a lot of trade able assets

Burns was a cut block away from losing generational wealth forever. Not sure he was going go play this year without a contract.

This doesn’t feel all thst controversial to me. Letting HoF Peppers walk for nothing was much much worse. Letting Norman walk wasn’t a terrible decision in a vacuum but the way we went about it was a clusterpoop, then the kneejerk reaction drafting 3 CBs. This just feels like two parties that couldn’t come to terms, everybody got something. Everybody got what the market was willing to pay.

I mean if they can’t agree on a deal then you get what you can. Still need to re-tool the offense to support a QB.

I really hope it sustains as well. I can’t help but wonder that Tepper’s mind is 2-3 steps ahead in building a sports/gambling/entertainment empire. Owning an NFL team just checked a box for him on the way to owning a recession proof business that’s fun even in a down economy.

I feel like skill players are how you end up in the exact same spot. They need to calm down and build in the trenches.

It’s the circle of fandom. Can’t control it so might as well be optimistic. I’m hopefully but also not really investing any time into the draft or watching many games this season unless we are showing sparks.

Yeah I think it’s worth saying. There’s no ideal ratio of player per dollar, and ideally the team keeps its best players., Since we’ll stink this year maybe we just front load his cap hit lol.

It’d be different if they were locals and they also didn’t get rid of the grass. Nothing wrong with utilizing the space more but they still just seem like carpetbaggers.

That’d be a cool novelty. If he’s made it this far he must enjoy the game and has handled the pressure of being a kid…a baby GOAT? Hehe

I feel like it’s a given, expectations are pretty low

Any pass rusher is going to benefit from a bookend, but Burns has never been one to fight through double teams or command triple teams. I could be full of crap there but AFAIK that’s the case. If you make a big investment in Burns do you now have to give him a FA or #33 pass rusher to keep him effective? The answer probably feels obvious to some but I just felt like throwing that out there.

Without getting into the sunk cost fallacy, the team invested too much in Bryce to not make this season all about him. Give him the best chance to succeed so we can move forward. If he blows then we are in a better spot for a new QB or vet to take over.

Either Bryce somehow becomes a starter worthy of number 1 pick hype or the team is set up better for the next QB. I hope it works out.

I’d rather trade him because just like CMC he’s not going to put us over the top. He needs to be next to other talented players. If we overpay for him I don’t think it’s the worst thing in the world, at least he’ll have the security but he’s just too in between to be an elite edge. Maybe front load his contract and hope we can extend him for cheaper if/when a SB window opens up and he’s failed to be impactful.

I hate to be apathetic but I’m just unsure of how much of a difference it would have made. If you read bears fans posts some of them don’t even care that they have the #1 pick since they just think they’ll screw up anyway lol