Thinking about the draft with a month left in the season is not something Chicago Bears fans wanted, but it is something they’ve grown used to. GM Ryan Poles said they’d take the North and never give it back. Instead, his team has spun its wheel stuck in the mud of bad-to-mediocre for three years. His handpicked head coach was just fired, and now his team is on the cusp of locking up his third straight top-10 pick in the draft. Following their loss in San Francisco to the 49ers, they now hold the 9th overall pick in 2025.
The most interesting part is team is within striking distance of the 3rd overall pick. Six teams are ahead of them with three wins. If they all somehow win two games each over the remaining four games, Chicago would sit pretty with the #3 pick. It sounds crazy, but it’s not as farfetched as people think.
New England has Arizona and two games against the Bills, including a season finale where Buffalo likely won’t have anything to play for.
Carolina has Arizona, Tampa Bay, and Atlanta to close out the year.
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Jacksonville has the Jets, Raiders, and Titans up next.
Tennessee, conversely, has Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Jacksonville.
The Jets have the Jaguars, Rams, and Dolphins.
Last but not least, Cleveland has Cincinnati, Miami, and Baltimore.
The Chicago Bears are still guaranteed a good pick.
Does anybody think this team is capable of winning a game on the remainder of this schedule? They play in Minnesota, at home against Seattle, at home against Detroit, and then in Green Bay. Those are four teams vying for playoff positioning with way more momentum than the Chicago Bears have. This team has no coaching, can’t control the line of scrimmage, and has clearly lost what little steam it had left. Securing three picks in the top 40 is a big win from a draft perspective. It gives Ryan Poles (or whoever the GM is) valuable ammunition to infuse this roster with much-needed young talent. If they’re smart, all of it will be directed at the trenches, where they’re clearly still too weak compared to the rest of the division. One has to think a constant stream of high picks breaks the dam eventually.
The dam won’t break until the damn McCaskeys sell the team. They are the cancer. One story I saw suggested they killed Mugs Halas to steal control of the franchise. It’s time for Bears fans to boycott ownership.
@Webs – There is no criticism of Erik. Do you know why? Because he lives in an imaginary world where he knows all. The readers are all stupid and we don’t know as much as he knows. Also, he does not remember the stuff he writes in his other articles…for instance, he wrote last an article last week where he stated that Matt Eberflus was essentially on a short list he was given by George and his search committee and told to pick an HC from that list….so he just picked one. Yet, this idiot writer blames him for picking… Read more »
I am surprised there has not been more criticism of Eric’s article. 1. I agree with Barry. No way that many teams will win twice. Just look at how many games are against each other, assuring several teams that they would have to win two against better teams. 2. He said, “This team has no coaching.” I concede that there has been a lot of bad coaching by Waldron, Eberflus, and as someone suggested, the O-Line coach. But on Thanksgiving most of us were screaming to fire Flus and make Brown the interim HC. Did a blowout loss sour everyone… Read more »
@Southside Mike — The guy who set the current iteration of the Lions in motion, Pres./CEO Rod Wood, was a bank executive at The Wilmington Trust Company. It’s best that the “football guy” designation starts with our GM not our CEO (otherwise it results in more George McCaskey-type, “just-a-fan” opinions). Let Warren select the GM — and then, get the hell out of her office! This typical NFL “alignment” doesn’t guarantee success — but it makes identifying the weak link a much easier process. Look no further than “Offensive Run Game Coordinator/O-line coach” Chris “C-Mo” Morgan. How could this clown… Read more »
@Tred that 49ers RB that gashed us was their RB4 !!!!! Lol. He’s good though. Big and tough with 4.3 speed who has WR hands because he was a WR in college.