Sorry I must have started a thread same time if one of the hire ups can delete it that would be appreciated.
As for the trade it’s a stinker. Even if you planned on moving away from Howard as the starter let a rookie/FA earn the job. Keep Howard as depth.
I’m fine with them trading a guy that Nagy wasn’t ever gonna use the way he needs to be used in order for him to be successful. I just don’t understand why they didn’t recognize he didn’t fit last year before the season and traded him when his value would have been higher. This trade is basically almost equivalent to just cutting him. Bears will almost certainly draft a running back. And then they will have Davis and Cohen. I think this trade has little to no impact on the 2019 season because Howard had little impact in 2018.
At first I wanted to be pissed. But...... Dude's on a down year, he clearly doesn't fit Nagy's system, and unless you're one of Le'Veon Bell, Gurley, Melvin Gordon, Zeke Elliot, or David Johnson level--the NFL doesn't have a premium on RBs the way I thought a renaissance was oncoming these past few years. RB being drafted is obvious at this point. Bears have met with most all of the top candidates.
Fucking joke right? Yeah yeah I get it he doesn't fit Nagy's offense but WTF. Their looking for ways to improve the running game so let's swap Daniels and Whitehair on the line. I'm sure it had nothing to do with giving Weasel the snaps over Howard. gtfoh I wish Howard nothing but the best but I just wonder who's wife he slept with.
A 2020 6th round pick? What a joke. Interest must have been pretty low league wide yet I would have hung to him for depth. He was solid the last month of the season. We now have no every-down RB on the roster and must waste a precious draft pick to fill this need. Larger point, outside of the addition by subtraction of cutting Parkey, this roster is worse now than it was when the season ended, not better.
It's also insult to injury that the team that fleeced us on this deal is Philly. May as well have traded him to the Packers or Lions.
Forgive me if I'm out of line because to don't nearly understand the complexity of the game to the extent that you guys do, but doesn't a good head coach take the talent he has and fit it into his system? because that's what I've always believed. I would of thought the coach of the year would of understood that. I would of also thought that the coach of the year would of thought that Weasel didn't get the job done in place of Howard.
Nagy is a specialist. He knows his offense and he’s only gonna use his offense. So if you don’t fit it then you don’t fit it. Coaches like Belichick....that can flex their scheme based on who’s on the roster...have become more and more rare with the increase in the amount of “offensive gurus” getting head coaching gigs around the league.
Ok that makes sense but going by the stat sheet what did Weasel bring to this offense that Howard couldn't?
Once again a good player departs so Pace can get his rocks off to a near-meaningless 6th round pick. You're a year late making this move jagoff. Just a cluster fuck of decision making cos as well as being hosed(which Pace just LOVES happening to him in trades), you're now committed to spending a draft pick on a RB, a draft pick we can't afford. This also changes how i view the Davis signing, cos as a depth guy with potential to over-achieve that move had value. But as a feature back move, which is how we must now view it, that move sucks! Well done Pace, you've done a great job of making the roster worse so far this offseason. Why don't you just resign Barf and round it out. And this is the guy who's the exec of the year. Hilarious.
I don't know.....Davis was better at running between the tackles in 2018 than Howard was. Not saying it's a great move....but Pace signed Davis knowing full well that Howard wasn't gonna be on this team come training camp. And the Bears selecting a back in the draft has been a foregone conclusion since the season ended.
Isn't that partly a result of Howard just not getting the ball enough? You were a proponent of the volume carries theory afterall. No love from Nagy, no love from Pace. I think tunas right, Howard banged something he shouldn't have.
I heard fat boy B Briggs earlier on 670 and he said " That's what the market is for Howard " so okay if so then keep him and see what happens ... the Bears are in win now mode so not sure how in the hell they give away a RB who is just 1 year removed from a pro bowl , 2,400 yards plus in his first 2 seasons ... and was in a new scheme last year. Someone should have clarification on this , if Howard had stayed on the Bears this year then walk , would they have gotten a comp pick for the 2020 draft ?
Possibly depending on what other moves the team made and so on.....but based on his salary I think the comp pick would be about equal the pick they are getting from the Eagles.
Overall Pace has drafted well, or at least not horribly when comparing him to Emery and JA. He has made some excellent FA signings including Hicks and Trevathan. But he really has a penchant for getting shafted in trades and it started with the Marshall trade. This one though not only gets so little in return but created such a hole on offense that he's going to need a major hit at RB in the draft immediately to make up for it. On January 6, 2019, we were an average kicker away from legitimately winning Super Bowl 53. The only position upgraded has been that of KR/PR with the Patterson signing. We need a kicker, a starting RB and hope that our low-cost replacements at NB and S work out. But hey, we did re-sign Megapunt, or should I say Mediocrepunt, so no downgrade there.
