Daniel Jeremiah on Move the Sticks:
"That Bears team is not talented. I mean, they are 10 players away from being 10 players away. I mean they have not a lot going on there. They are not good on offensive line, they aren’t good on the defensive line. DJ Moore is a stud…but that is their guy.
This (team) is not a quarterback away. Obviously they are going to be in a position more than likely with their pick as well as owning the Panthers pick…they are going to have a chance to go in that direction if they want to move on from Justin Fields, but they got MAJOR work to do on this roster."
“I think they have to commit to a QB…they need to trade their other pick to amass a bunch of picks. They need to auction it off because they need a lot of help.”
PAAAIIIIIIINNNNNNN.
Who is this Daniel Jeremiah and why do I care about him?
As always the truth is somewhere in between
Hes not wrong
“I don’t even know who you are”
Bears r bad. They have a culture/tradition of losing the last few coaches. They cannot come back from a deficit of 12+ points, cannot find an identity on offense, have games where they can’t tackle and cover, do not get better week to week, players don’t grow here, they seem to regress, and the general feel of the team from fans is “guess I’ll waste my time watching the bears lose.”
They have been passed by the lions and the packers will pass them soon. The pack have a coach in place n will draft/sign a qb n leap frog the bears. The bears will start over with a new staff, possibly a new qb, new defensive coordinator and again need 2-3 years to really see the improvement. Was sad to not renew my season tickets in 2021 but watching/rewarding incompetence is just not my thing. Bears in 2029ish
I think it’s an overly negative take. It’s kinda hard to separate the talent from the lack of development from this coaching staff too. I guess we’ll see with a new staff in place next season, but I don’t believe this is fair from Jeremiah.
Who’s Daniel Jeremiah?
I agree we have a lot to fix but I wouldn’t trade down if we have the chance at MHJ.
That being said which of our position groups realistically are good enough-or have a path to be good enough-to compete? RB, off ball LB, and maybe TE(Kmet isn’t great but TE isn’t super important) imo. We need to add legitimate starters at OL, another legitimate receiving threat, maybe a new QB, another Edge and quality backup edge rushers, either new starters on the IDL or better depth if Dexter/Pickens hit, at least 1 new safety, and depending on how Stevenson/Gordon grow and what happens with JJ we may need more at CB too
We are obviously not a talented team overall, but this is a hyperbolic take designed to get clicks. It’s not as bad as he’s claiming
Such a lazy take by DJ. They have a ways to go but to say they are 20 players away is just a stupid hot take. Their OL sucks? So Darnell Wright, Teven Jenkins and Nate Davis are garbage???
On defense there a DT, Edge rusher and some quality debt away.
People say that as if the Bears as currently constructed are one of the worst teams of all time. I get we’re a continual laughing stock, but we aren’t even the worst team in the league and by some metrics aren’t even in the bottom 3. “10 players away from being 10 players away” would put us in contention for like the worst ever, basically saying we don’t have NFL quality players anywhere.
That’s complete hyperbole. We are missing All-Pro talent, other Pro Bowl caliber starters, some depth and have a god awful coaching staff.
That just makes us regular bad. Which we routinely are. But this isn’t the most challenging job for a GM ever. There are some good bones on the roster.
Who’s Daniel Jeremiah?
He sounds like a drunk bitter packer fan.
This is just hyperbole. To say we need 20 new starters to be competitive is laughable.
We have an average WR room, RB room, and TE room. Our OL has 3 very good players, 2 okay, and 2 terrible who all mix in and out.
We have a top LB room, average secondary, and bottom tier DL with some raw potential (prior to Sweat).
We also have a bottom 3 coaching staff in the league.
The Bears were a sexy pick to make the playoffs this ear (in an admittedly watered down NFC) A big reason for that was people thought Justin Fields was going to become an elite QB. But it was also because people felt this team had made improvements.
The team has a stud set of running backs and if Johnson stays a great group at CB. Our LB’s are in fact pretty decent even if overpaid. Our pass catchers are average.
If we actually hit a home run at QB, this team can be a playoff team quite quickly. Not to mention getting a better coach.