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It has been two years since a team won a Super Bowl without Eric Bienemy.

4th fumble of the game so far.

Are the balls slicker than usual?

OMG, Kaskade is there? Wow! Also, who is Kaskade? Also, I don't care. Disparage JuJu at your own peril, sir.

But last year they had JuJu. Obviously they lack that star power this year.

This looks like a repeat of the second half vs. Baltimore. KC kept doing those screens and they went nowhere.

Trent didn't sell the "I didn't do nothing" pose.

Obviously if I know what Herbert is going to be I take him wherever. But that wouldn't be an 85. He obviously outplayed what most of us idiots thought he would be. If Tua is an 85 that really becomes an interesting question.

I don't know about this. Where is the pick that you're taking an 85 QB? What are we considering that level of QB? Is that Geno Smith? Kenny Pickett? Kyler Murray? I don't have a lot of interest in drafting one of those guys in the first round. I'd rather take a better player at another position and wait on a QB if those are my options.

Which really doesn't have anything to do with anything if you're scouting QBs. I suppose it "matters" to people who think W-L record is a way to judge players.

Absolutely. I was just replying to the hypothetical presented, but I think this is mostly people spending time time debating things that there are not much chance of happening.

Assuming it's not because they're sticking with Fields (which I think is an extreme long shot), the only reasons they would trade down are that they really don't like Williams for whatever reason (have to assume it's questions about attitude) or he's convinced them he won't play there. In the first case, you definitely don't want to trade up for him. obviously. In the second, you shouldn't give too much. I would offer them something, if you really wanted him, but the idea it would be some enormous trade package is silly. If they want a QB and think Caleb won't play for them, they don't want to trade out of the top 2, so no reason t give a king's ransom.

I would be totally shocked if Chicago goes OT with a top 10 pick. They are really high on Braxton Jones and just took Darnell Wright at 10 last year. This seems like someone who hasn't spent any real time looking at Chicago's actual needs.

That is the point I (and many others) have tried to make. It should be exceedingly obvious that that is the point. when someone comes back with basically "that's BS, he hasn't been hurt yet" then it seems clear they are intentionally missing the point to advance an argument. Either that, or, well..... That's why I don't bother responding. It's just not worth it. Exactly.

Yeah. The second one isn't much. But that first one is the kind of thing that is so troubling with him. There is nothing really remarkable about the hit itself. It's late, of course, but look how his head whiplashes and he goes down awkwardly. The guy just can't take hits. With his body type and the amount he needs to run to be remotely effective, it is just becoming mind-numbing to see how people want to ignore this stuff. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised, I've watched and talked about sports for a number of years and I should be used to the blind spots people willingly take when they decide to like a player/prospect.

I like McCarthy a lot more than most here, but I have to be completely out on Maye and Daniels to even consider it anyway. (I am out on Daniels, but not Maye) And then yes, you bring up the other issue, which is where does he go? I think he goes higher than many think, but I still don't know what that means. Des it mean he goes top 20, or top 15, or does Atlanta take him at 8? Teams that are going to deal the massive haul you want to move up into the top 3 really want to close that deal down earlier rather than later, and at that point you have much less of an idea where JJ would go than you will alter. It's a hard situation to navigate. If you wanted to do it.

No, I probably wouldn't.

He caught more passes for more yards and a higher YPC. He also ran the ball a lot more, getting about 5 times as many yards. Seems pretty evident 2022 was a better year.

Except Samuel was better the year before.

This hire has nothing to do with Caleb Williams. They have zero way of knowing if Chicago would even consider passing on him. They aren't going to tie themselves to someone at a crucial position like Offensive Coordinator because of someone they have no reason to think they might have a chance to draft. And the fact that there's no particular reason we need to hire Caleb's one year QB coach even if we were sure we were going to end up with him. The though if he does become available, there is a little side benefit of someone who has inside info on him.

Again, Smith and Kafka were interviewed by multiple teams. Brady was by Atlanta, I don't know of any others.

He interviewed with Seattle and Carolina and was reported to have interest from the Raiders, but they moved ahead with Pierce.

I mean, there were two offensive guys who got HC jobs this offseason we never asked about. I've said plenty of times that Frank Smith and Mike Kafka would have been near the top of my list. Wouldn't have minded at least talking to guys like Joe Brady, Adam Stenaavich or Press Taylor either. Since we obviously didn't have a problem with retreads, why not Nagy?

Yeah, the whole process to me was discouraging from the standpoint that we just interviewed the names the owners had before Peters was close to being part of the process. I'm not buying a massive coincidence that the only people he was interested in happened to be all the people the owners had listed already. So what was it? Did Peters really not have a list of people he wanted to talk to for the job? Or did he just defer to the owners? Or was there someone he was so laser-focused on that he didn't worry about the rest of the interview list? None of those answers are particularly encouraging. The fact that 5 of the 7 candidates (no, I don't count Bienemy) were on the defensive side of the ball was always worrisome as well.