fleet wrote:HoopsterJones wrote:Yup season over. Raiders must be thrilled with all of these losses piling up for the Bears.
Gruden, he was bullied pretty bad by the media etc. Which comes with the territory, yet for Chicago media and fans thinking somehow that OUR FO people knew what they are doing generally, well, they probably don't. The logic of Mack deal was always built on the assumption that Trubisky and Nagy were for real. But at the time Mack deal was made, it always felt like a real gutsy if not desperate move by Pace to self-validate his previous work.
it would have been PALATABLE if trubisky was a year further along in his development (i.e. he had the kind of year he had last year under his belt). then the whole "we gotta go for it while he's still on his rookie deal" would have made some sense. including back-loading mack's contract in years 3-4 of the trubisky era. but trubisky was merely coming off a shaky half a rookie season as a starter. and the coaching staff had just been let go to boot
the mack trade was always a hail mary to generate fan excitement and buy pace additional time after 3 mostly failed seasons as a GM. and when the rest of the defense made a sharp improvement as well much of the credit for THAT was given to mack
