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+Infinity Trading up for Mitch when he didn’t need to? Bad.Seeing Watson and Mahomes both going a few picks later? Fireable.
Trading up was stupid, but everyone had those players rated differently. Its easy to say in hindsight that Mahomes and Watson are the better QBs.
While Mahomes in particular and Watson to an extent weren't considered to be the immediate impact players they have been, I don't think anybody but the Bears thought Trubisky was the sure fire, need to get QB in this draft. Some thought that he could wind up being the best QB in the draft yes, but need to move up 1 spot because everyone else wants to move up to get him? No. He started like 10 college games for goodness sake.
I usually agree with you on Bears matters, but I diverge here. Pace has done such a masterful job with the team and roster otherwise. The Trubisky thing is a giant black eye so far, and trading up to do it is even worse.However, his 2017 draft also produced Eddie Jackson and Tarik Cohen. He got Roquan Smith with a high pick in 2018, and while its early, James Daniels and Bilal Nichols all look to be starters with a lot of upside, and Anthony Miller still is potentially very exciting. And David Montgomery looks like the real deal. He's been good in the last few drafts other than one blunder. That plus the Mack trade, free agency moves. Fireable is far too severe
My counter is none of the above matters if you get the QB wrong.
I think a vast majority of people if told before yesterday’s game that Rodgers and the Pack were held to ten points, probably 95% of people would have said that’s a Bears win. I’m Nagy’s biggest critic, and have been, and last night was embarrassing for him.
[...]-Kicking...Piniero calmly drills the first mid range FG attempt he gets so Nagy's response is to...show no further faith in him. Glad to see this kicking boogeyman will be here all year.[...]
Meanwhile I've been a big Nagy fan and I was f-ing disgusted with him last night. Where to begin...-David Montgomery. He's been really exciting in preseason, trade up to get him, hes gonna be the guy. Yet you have Mike Davis getting way more looks and touches? Mike Davis who was literally brought in to be the 3rd RB? Montgomery looked solid in the first half, broke some tackles, was productive...gets 1 touch in the second half. Absurd.-Tarik Cohen...is he just a slot reciever now? Patterson had more rushing attempts than a guy who averaged 6 carries for 25 yds a game last year to open up his receiving abilities as well.-Running game in general. Trubisky was terrible and inaccurate, its a 4 pt game...and they dont try to establish the run at all. Baffling-Kicking...Piniero calmly drills the first mid range FG attempt he gets so Nagy's response is to...show no further faith in him. Glad to see this kicking boogeyman will be here all year.Playcalling overall was awful. Mitch was awful. Just terrible. Totally agree that Nagy was too confident in himself and thus got super cute and "clever" and paid for it. He showed the ability to rebound game to game last year, but an inauspicious start for sure.
Double edged sword on the kicking. If he misses the 50+ harder, media and fans will rip him (the kicker) apart.
Ratings were solid:https://deadline.com/2019/09/green-bay-packers-nfl-kickoff-game-ratings-rise-nbc-meek-mills-1202713643/
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
I was just driving back home from ORD and listening to Parkins & Mac, Parkins made a reference I’ve thought of before, how Nagy and Joe Maddon have similarities.
Raiders release Antonio Brown.
He'll probably end up with the Patriots.