On this edition of the Under Center podcast, the crew throws it to the fans to answer their questions about what is going on with the Bears this season. Kenneth Davis, Josh Schrock, and Alex Shapiro evaluate Ryan Poles’ roster construction, discuss whether or not his emphasis on scheme fit and culture has backfired, debate if they should already regret not taking Jalen Carter, and analyze how to assess the roster with the current staff.
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Bears Mailbag: Evaluating Ryan Poles’ roster construction after dismal 0-3 start
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Fellas!! You're over looking 1 major thing, Bears' Organization is so disoriented, anyone they would have gotten, they would have wished they were elsewhere!!…………..Like DJ Moore!!🙄🤔🧐🤨😬
😲Oh yeah!! ☝🏾 Let's not overlook the Bears 1 of the oldest franchises, operate as such!! The game, I think has evolved since the 1800's!! They need to step into this Century, a little!!🤏🏾
😲🧐OOhh!! So that's like the blind leading the blind!!😎
Take a look at the QB Tyson Bagent you just might have more than you really know.
Luke Getsy is somewhat out of his norm in play calling. He doesn't need anything more on his plate.The need for more talent on the offensive line will be RB Roschon Johnson's salvation to elite status.
On Defense, these LBS are not what was advertised. Stopping the run is the start in winning and losing. First and for most (Must )stop the run.
"King Poles" lmao
Justin takes epilepsy meds they slow down his mental processes
It almost seems as if Poles and staff assumed that all they had to do was sign a bunch of players with high athleticism scores and everything would take care of itself
Poles was the GM who traded the 2nd rounder for #10 right? That looks like a bad trade atop it looking like bad roster strategy. Why was a bad attitude WR the priority at that point in time? Great WRs are drafted in the second round all the time. Ask GB.
Jim Harbaugh
Fire poles
What’s worse, you could have got similar trade value from Fields as the first overall pick this offseason. It’s completely feasible that you could have acquired DJ Moore and walked away from this draft with Stroud and Carter. You can’t say people weren’t pounding the table for these moves.
Fire poles he let people scare him out picking the guy you knew you needed for a rt that was a 2nd 3rd round pick before the last month on the season
I hate when people say Carter wouldn’t have been good with us that’s a excuse to stop you guys from crying if that’s the case Lebron wouldn’t have been $hit if he was drafted by Portland or any other team
Y’all need to hire Lions OC, Ben Johnson as your head coach next season. This move will weaken a division rival while setting your team up for the future.
Thought headline said dismissal I was big mad for a minute
I rewind it like 5 times when Ken said “What’s the culture?” 😂😂😂😂
From the mouth of Ryan Poles on why he hired Matt Eberflus "Leadership" and the team has appeared to quit by week 3. Great point by Ken on the Jalen Carter conversation.
I wonder if the Bears would pass on Caleb Williams if he had a stain on his record like Jalen Carter has
Yup…..and bears let Carter slip right through their fingers. Piss poor management. They don't want to win and it shows
Turning out that Poles is inept. A statistician did his analysis of the Bears coaching staff and here is his conclusion. The average high school or Div II college football coaching staff would have an 80% chance of winning three out of twenty games with the Bears roster with one week of preparations.
Being honest with yourself would be knowing this year 2023-24 is poles having control over this roster. Last year was a fire dumpster of paces dismal decisions. If not on the wagon ur off u guys just find another team. Negative Nancy podcast!
Green Bay fan here thank God poles didn’t take Carter 😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉 I was soo happy when he passed up to take a right tackle that been scouted as a 2nd 3rd round prospect a month before the draft Monsters on the Midway man Please 😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣 Ryan pace would better than that at least he knows how to scout talent besides the Quarterback/Wr position he gets no pass on mahomes
So you would get a double teamed Carter with the rest of the defense not rushing anyone. Thats what you would have got if we had Carter. Get a clue guys.
The other problems was not paying quality money for OL and DL. The coaching staff needs to be canned. As for Poles, We need to draft quality starters .Wright, Roschon, maybe Tyrique, but those other picks sucked. If he stays he cannot do it again! And we all know Justin is not the guy. The film shows he has missed too many open receivers, holding the ball too long, which is not part of Getsy's crap play calling. Draft a QB with a quality coordinator, and get the best OL and/or DL linemen
Not gonna lie, my moment of the Draft was Kenneth going off about the Lions picks. I am sad at the situation the Bears are in but it won't cause me to stop supporting. 38 years and counting from New Zealand.
If you trust Poles with picking your next QB you better be ready for a surprise 4th round prospect chosen at 1st overall pick with all the potential generational talent ignored!!! That's how incompetent he is.
we have spent 3 second round picks in 2 years on the secondary while having 0 pass rush. that seems counter productive
If poles and eberflus can't make justin fields work then they need to be out the door with him. I'm sick of drafting a qb only to fire the gm and head coach the next year and then placing that qb in the hands of a gm and coach that never asked for him. They either figure this out and get some wins 7 minimum or they all get shipped out and we get a new GM HC and QB
i do not trust Poles — why keep a guy who only won 3 games in 2 years? Instead of some young guy get a GM with a resume in here.
Scheme fit is the b.s. excuse Poles uses when he makes a bad decision
Does this guy on the right not know that Carter has been beating double teams since week 1
It’s a deep rebuild. In fact, last year was its infancy. Everyone is rushing to question everything Poles has done. GoPolesGo.
Investing funds! BS. It was one year of FA’s, the pickings sucked.
This dude coping about jalen carter. He's getting doubled more than 50% of the time and tied with micah parson for most pressures when double teamed (6).
End of the day, there's probably a darnell wright quality tackle in every draft (unless he goes on to have a trent williams, jason peters type career). Carter is prob the best dt prospect in the last 5-10 years.
They didn’t take carter because they didn’t take to his character supposedly. Legal issues etc. but ya huge whiff on grabbing the best player in that draft.
We need a elite center it would make the offensive of line better we need a 3tech it would make the defensive of line better every body talking about get another qb why so he can killed under center as well they need to build on the offensive line and the defensive line I guaranteed the team play better
Edmunds and Edwards were monsters when they played for the Bills and Eagles. Why? Because they were allowed to attack and be aggressive. Now they are being passive and soft. That’s most likely a result of how they are being coached.
Best debate/show yal have had! I understand some of the decisions the Bears have made, but I HATE how it looks.