Da Bears

[TimHonks]

Ouch, that one hurts. Really fun year and its nice to have a young core to move forward with, but what a kick in the dick.

[UCFish]

Yeah I agree with that ^

Not sure why you have Jackson active to not play a snap....also what the fuck happened to Burton on Saturday.

[mdel21]

Originally Posted by TimHonks

Ouch, that one hurts. Really fun year and its nice to have a young core to move forward with, but what a kick in the dick.

He'd probably miss hitting you there.

[BotheLaneFan]

The kick was tipped at the line.

[FromTheMorning]

Loss is on Nagy imo, not Parkey. Tarik Cohen needs to touch the ball more than 4 times.

[BotheLaneFan]

Chuck Pagano to take over for Vic. GREAT hire imo.

[BotheLaneFan]

It’s looking very likely that we sign Kareem Hunt. Not sure how I feel about this.

[maxatlof]

You daaaamn right!!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BtZboK6n...d=f1rx0io0gy66

[Tiduwho]

Ryan Pace has a weakness: He cant help but pick up the phone. Dude is an action junky, trading picks away constantly. Mitch being the worst example, but today proving the point again. Way to get fleeced by New England.

Cant help himself, once he sees Ace-rag, he is in. Jack-Nine suited? You know hes calling that raise so he can see a flop.

[TimHonks]

Love everything I'm hearing about Montgomery, sounds like a great fit for the offense and locker room.

[DMBZeppelin]

I’m completely shocked the Bears got Fields. Is this real life? Even if it bought us two more years of Pace? Worth it.

[DMBZeppelin]

PFF Round 1 Winners and Losers: https://www.pff.com/news/draft-2021-...s-losers-day-1 and three NFC North teams made it.

WINNER: CHICAGO BEARS

Once Justin Fields started falling, whichever team traded up to snag him was going to be a winner in this year's draft. It will cost the Bears a few picks, including their first-round slot in 2022, but they finally get a bona fide superstar quarterback prospect. One could argue that Fields is a top-five quarterback prospect of the past decade.

He is the only player in the PFF College era (2015 to present) to post a turnover-worthy play rate under 3% and a big-time throw rate above 8% among college football players with at least 500 career dropbacks. He is a ludicrously accurate quarterback who can handle all of the quarterback-designed run schemes that head coach Matt Nagy can imagine.

Fields’ processing concerns were way overblown and, frankly, false. He is that good, and he fell to the teens. This might be the steal of the decade.

WINNER: MINNESOTA VIKINGS

Trade down and get the guy you like — that’s a winning move. There’s a good chance the Vikings wanted Christian Darrisaw at Pick 14, but they instead traded down, picked up two third-round picks and still got the player they coveted. Darrisaw was the third-best offensive lineman and 15th-best overall player on PFF's Big Board.

The Vikings made a great pick here, needing people to protect their big-money-but-not-that-great-quarterback Kirk Cousins. Minnesota is desperate for offensive line talent, and the healing process begins with Darrisaw, who just produced the second-best single-season PFF grade by a Power Five offensive tackle in the PFF College era.

LOSER: GREEN BAY PACKERS

This was another reach at a position of need. Eric Stokes is the No. 11 cornerback and the No. 72 player overall on PFF's Big Board. The Packers locked up cornerback Kevin King in the offseason but still needed to get better at that position. Stokes is very fast and didn’t allow a ton of catches at Georgia, yet he doesn’t have a great feel for the position. There is a lot of upside in this pick, but that’s why he was rated so low by us and many other outlets. The Packers could have gotten him much later — maybe even in the fourth round.

[Lee3691]

EDIT- should be in the NFL thread

[TimHonks]

Soldier Fields is a solid early nickname. Hope he’s a beast.

[maxatlof]

I hope I'm wrong but he's gonna be a bust like every other Ohio State QB. It'll be Mitch all over again for the next 3 yrs, can't read a zone defense to save his life.

[Gene Parmesan]

Beats the fuck out of Andy Dalton.

[TimHonks]

Dalton will be the starter week 1

[Gene Parmesan]

Probably. But Fields has got to be miles ahead of Mitch on just his college experience. Dalton won't be around by October at the latest.

[TimHonks]

Agreed. I think they are hoping he can sit all of year 1, but I agree that isn’t likely to happen

[maxatlof]

George McKaskey and Ted Phillips and their track records are getting absolutely trashed by the media on this conference call and I'm loving it!

[UCFish]

They are such a dumb organization.

It is so frustrating.

[BotheLaneFan]

We won’t be good until Virginia dies, and even then, we just have to hope the owners that take over after aren’t Shad Khan level dumbasses.