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This quickly turned into the least interesting NCAA Tournament I can remember. Out of the remaining 16 teams, there are only three that are 5 seeds or worse. One was the national runner up last year and the other two are ACC teams.

Yeah suspect they won't be able to get into the top 3 but maybe top 8 or so depending on where McCarthy goes.

The human body isn't made to throw a ball 100mph. Guys who make a living on that kind of velocity will eventually break. The few that don't end up in the HOF.

Passan would be my recommendation

More like brokeback whales amiright

In a quarterback loaded draft class, with a Bears that already has at least a mid-tier starter quality QB on a rookie deal, Bears would be silly to not seriously explore trading down. They could probably land a 2nd and change, maybe late 1st for Fields. They could also move out of #1 and add a future 1st just for dropping one or two spots, and still draft a top QB. Heck if they decided they liked Fields more than Maye/Daniels/McCarthy, they could trade down from 1 to 2, then again from 2 to wherever, getting the QB premium return for both trades. They're absolutely in the drivers seat and imo would have to REALLY love Williams a ton more than the rest of the class to take him. Which isn't to say they won't. But it can't be a close evaluation between QB1 and QB2 for them.

I still like the idea of sticking it in the quarry in Herndon off 28. Opens up some really interesting stadium concepts like leaving one side of it a solid stone wall. Imagine how unique and loud that would be. (I'm just making this up btw. no idea how deep the thing is or what the walls would look like)

The risk would be how far they can trade down and still land him, if that is indeed the intention. Once you get to about pick 5, it opens the door for a ton of teams in the 10-20 range to be able to trade up. So even if you feel you can still land him based on the draft order, that might not necessarily be the order as the draft plays out.

I’ve been saying… If I felt like we could execute a trade down and still get him between 6-10 that might be my preferred path. But a trade down followed by the Giants taking him at 5 (or trading the pick for someone else to take him) would absolutely ruin that plan.

One benefit to hiring Quinn is he got to prepare for two games against EB and Howell. That gives him a pretty good preliminary evaluation coming in. EB’s offense, as we suspected, was found lacking.

Kingsbury coming here probably increases the possibility Caleb Williams pulls an Eli…

Basically this for me. If it’s overblown or not true, the Bears will take him. If they don’t, we probably don’t want him either.

……how did I miss this bandwagon?

I'm old enough to remember when Dan Snyder tried to hire a head coach with experience and then he read the message boards and we ended up saying hip hip hooray for a few weeks before we hired a bingo caller to call plays.

Slightly more direct connection but if Matt Ryan wanted to be our QB coach that would be cool.

He went to the playoffs the following year. Matt Ryan got old. It happens.. windows close.

Think of this like like you are interviewing candidates for a job in your own profession. Would you be biased toward people who have never done the job before, but have the right skillset for it? Or would you interview people who might have already done the job (even if they had a mixed bag of success)? Generally speaking, job experience is a good thing. Even if that experience includes some failures. People learn from their experiences and improve the next time they get a chance. NFL has their weird dynamic where coaches get one shot with one organization and then get buried down the list of candidates in the future because everyone is trying to get lucky and hire the next McVay. I know nothing (personally) about Quinn other than he had coached top defenses in Seattle and Dallas, and took Atlanta to a super bowl. He's had enough success in his career that it's not crazy to think he could be a better coach here than he was in Atlanta.

There was no way it wasn’t being included in the sale. That’s a valuable asset for Angelos. The hope has to be the new owners are more willing to reach a settlement.

We could do a lot worse than Quinn. He's got a wide depth and breadth of experience and hiring him would make a key rival worse. He's been an excellent DC at two different gigs, and took a team to a super bowl. Yeah he floundered toward the end with Atlanta but a lot of that might have been Matt Ryan just getting old.

My somewhat controversial QB ranking is Maye, Williams, McCarthy, Daniels. Big caveat that the knock on Caleb is only related to some of the personality/coachability concerns. If your interview process with him makes you feel good, he’s hands down #1.

Trumped/trump Cannot for the life me figure out why.

Let’s put it this way. Goff put up great stats with Mcvay and Mcvay dumped him (and won a Super Bowl with his replacement). Goff is who he is. He’s ok. He can distribute the football well. He’s never going to wow you and make the kind of individual plays that can change the game. The fact Johnson can say he “improved” Goff over even the stats he had with Mcvay speaks volumes to his chops as an OC.

Actually I think it makes perfect sense. Hurts is a decent quarterback and manages the game nicely for them in an offense that is stacked with playmakers. But he's not a real difference maker at the position. Eagles also have a history of selling high with QB (Bradford when they traded up for Wentz, Wentz when they moved on to Hurts). And look, Hurts being an established QB already that would be an upgrade over Fields absolutely would give them a possible leg up over other trade offers. Hurts, this year's 1st, and two future 1sts for #1 overall? That's not a bad trade for Chicago if they think Hurts could take them to the next level.

Langford got promoted to AA and hit over .400, then earned himself a couple games in AAA at the end of the season. I suspect both will be quite good players. I'm not worried about Crews hitting his little slump.

Be careful what you wish for. That would be BY FAR the best job available and Ben Johnson would be dumb to not take it if offered. And his scheme with the Eagles talent would be brutal for a long time.