Echo chamber? Bears subreddit an echo chamber? OP, have you been active in this sub lately? We’re by far and away the most harsh and critical on this sub, way more so than any other fanbase is. I’ve seen more people outside of our subreddit say they like Justin Fields or they think the Bears will be fine with better coaching and a few more roster pieces.

Here you get 1-2 (maybe 3) posts a week that are somewhat positive, and even those posts get completely shit upon and people are waging war amongst the comment section.

Any true bears fan knows NOBODY hates the bears more than their own fanbase, lmao

Fine job regurgitating this “hot take”.

Our fanbase tends to look at everything the Bears to thru rose colored glasses at first. I was the same way for many years, but the Mitch/Nagy/Pace era finally snapped me out of it. The years of failure have made me much more critical of the team and I try to look at each move objectively now. Like OP said, this sub is pretty much an echo chamber of positive takes where the rest of the NFL world pretty much has the opposite view. I want Sweat to workout but I’m not getting my hopes up that he even re-signs with us next season, especially if Flus sticks around

The Bears are going to try and extend Sweat. Young is purely a rental. Young has major injury history. Sweat has missed 7 games in his entire career (due to a fractured jaw of all things). The edge class this year is weak relatively speaking, and this fills one of their biggest needs this offseason.

Comparing this to the Claypool trade is stupid. They traded for Claypool based on potential. Sweat has proven he can produce at a high, consistent level.

I’m not saying it’s a great trade. I think it’s good. It might be a slight overpay, but not nearly to the same level as Claypool. But some trades have more context than others. I remember when everyone was freaking out about the return we got for Mack when it was the only way to fully get his contract off the books.

It was a position of need for a good DE. They need two, at least, but having the chance to sign him before he goes to market is what the trade is really for. One less position to draft. They can easily recoup that 2 by trading down in the draft.

This is hilarious because the echo chamber in this sub hates the move.

It’s popular to shit on the Bears. That’s the echo chamber.

I personally like the move. I think Sweat is a huge addition to the team. Here’s the thing too, Chase Young is a rental and SF will let him walk. Imagine if the Bears sign him this offseason. Suddenly, the Bears have 2 DEs in a bad DE draft class.

I would think that they talked with the agent before making the deal, understood the deal Sweat would want, and that deal aligned with what the Bears are willing to pay before making the trade. That seems like it should be a common practice. frankly, if it wasn’t done that way, it’s gross incompetence on the Bears… which we can’t rule out.

But I would imagine the deals of the extension come out later this week. At that point, I believe this becomes a very good trade for the Bears. If this doesn’t happen, then the OP is spot on.

Bro but is RAS off the charts. Seriously tho, were not going to know how this pans out until the end of the season and if they can get a deal done with him. Until then I remain cautiously pessimistic.

So many of you have low standards and that’s really sad.