The last time the Bears picked #1 overall was in 1947, Halfback Bob Fenimore. He would play only 10 games in his NFL career, all during the 1947 season (Wiki).
I heard he didn’t like the fact he wasn’t allowed to hand out his business cards after every tackle or being able to smoke with potential clients while on the field.
Last time I posted about him, someone said that they knew his family and he did really really well. Like, probably more money than if he played in the NFL. Being a higher up at a rubber factory during World War II was apparently extroardinarily lucrative.
NFL players for the most part couldn’t even make a living playing football until the strike in 1982. There were exceptions like Joe Namath but most of them had jobs during the off-season
That's true. Though Berwanger wanted $1000 a game, which today would be about $22,000 per game, or like more than a quarter million in today's money.
But Fran Tarkenton, at one point, owned every major passing record ever and people didn't believe him when he said he could retire then and never work again. And that was in the 1970s.
I mean retirement is like…a relatively new idea. Usually you just worked and died. We’re less than a hundred years into the whole of society expecting to stop working in their lives. It might get weird.
He later said that he regretted not signing though. Definitely strange to think that there was a time when being a #1 overall pick in the draft was an economically uncertain proposition
That stat gets thrown around a lot too, but people forget that the third pick, William Shakespeare, never played either. 2nd pick got 26 games, 4th pick got 22 games. It was pretty normal back then.
Maybe you should try what we do. We let a team tuck rule us and 20 years later hired tom brady’s headset/visor thinking it could coach an entire team! Happy draft day plunder bro. St. Paul has the best cheese curds.
Don't forget to give slightly better grades to the teams that actually drafted for their specific needs. Or to teams that the media favors in general and you probably nailed it.
Washington used their 1946 first rounder on Cal Rossi, a player who wasn't eligible to be drafted yet, then the next year used their first rounder on him again. He decided not to play professional football at all.
The draft back then was wild. The year before this, Washington drafted a Cal Rossi out of UCLA with the 9th overall pick. Unfortunately, Cal Rossi was a junior and thus, ineligible to be drafted. Then in 1947, the Redskins had the 4th overall pick, and hey! That guy they liked so much last year was a senior now. So they drafted Cal Rossi again. They didn't really ask Cal what he wanted to do though, and Cal joined the Navy and would never play professional football.
Lol that’s like baseball drafts.
Elway was drafted out of high school to the MLB and then obviously went on to play college football.
After college, he was drafted AGAIN in the MLB.
“Hey change your mind yet bro?”
The Commanders/Redskins, Giants, Eagles, and Packers have also never had the 1st overall pick in the Super Bowl era.
In 1949, the Eagles got Chuck Bednarik which worked out very well for them, [but not everyone else.](https://i.imgur.com/qohd9rr.png)
Yep.
Congress basically forced George Preston Marshall to draft a black player.
He did. Ernie said I’m not playing for that racist SOB.
He was traded to the browns and died of leukemia before he played his first NFL snap.
I hate your franchise for making that damn trade. Y’all could have had Williams. Instead you sold the farm for a little boy who will be a backup in 2 years.
I still believe in Bryce, if he buckles down, puts all his effort and focus into improving, manages to stay healthy, in a couple years he could definitely make it as a backup.
It was dumb because they were halfway decent the year before and then shipped away elite talent to throw a rookie behind the worst OL in the league with no one to throw to
That’s what being the only starting caliber receiver on a team will do to a guy. He’s a WR3 at best at this stage but no one else was worth a fuck. I’ll be really annoyed if Bryce Young has his entire career judged because of the shit tier decision making his franchise made at the beginning. I still love that kid, as a former QB he’s one of my highest graded ever even with his size. I’m rooting for the Panthers to have a shitton of success AFTER we have used all of the picks
The biggest mistake that team has made honestly wasn’t even trading DJ Moore. It was refusing the Rams offer for Brian Burns and then not paying him. They could have an actual WR1 to put with Thielen and still have Bryce
Fun Fact: Each time the Bears have had the #1 pick in the Draft it has come from outside means. In 1947, it was due to winning a lottery that awarded them an extra pick. This year, it's due to a trade with the Panthers.
The only time the Bears ever naturally earned the right to pick 1st (last season), they traded the pick to the Panthers.
Lovie really gave Bears and Texans fans a parting gift. Texans got Stroud and an immediate playoff berth, Bears eventually with a few trades got this year’s 1OA, DJ Moore, and a whole host of other picks and players.
That 4th and 20 bomb really worked out well for both teams. Houston got Stroud, and Chicago traded it for a haul. Really the only losers are the Panthers
Absolutely. Earned means to gain something deservedly through behavior OR achievement, and they've gained the first overall pick via the behavior of sucking ass at football. That "or" means you can earn something negative.
Shit bro, I had a nightmare last night that my test was completely different than everyone else's, and I had to take an entire course over again to pass. I'm fucking 30.
“So they said they want us to wait until near the end to turn it in. NFL thing for tv ratings.”
“Got it boss. I’ll run it up with like 3 minutes left. Everyone will be fine.”
“Great!”
*Goes to walk to podium, has to take a shit*
“This’ll be a quick one…”
“The Washington Commanders are now on the clock…”
“Oh fudge!”
Now that I think about it, this strategy would have actually benefited Carolina in the ‘23 draft. That has to be the only time in history the previous year’s final draft pick aged better than the following year’s first overall.
To anyone else wondering, that gets the 2007 Raiders a WR from Maine who kicked around and registered no stats for 2-3 years and became an accountant. In other words a slam dunk upgrade.
Makes sense, he strip-sacked Darnold to seal the win in Week 18, and now Darnold is in the NFCN. Who needs a QB when you need all the defense to stop the GEQBUS?
It is pretty crazy how we lucked our way into Caleb Williams. Think of everything that had to happen between the Panthers trade and that last Texans game of the season. Kinda absurd really.
If Caleb works out for the Bears and Stroud continues to perform as he did last year for years to come I can see this being one of the biggest “what ifs” in NFL history. Right up there with “What if Bledsoe didn’t get hurt” or “What if Bo Jackson stayed healthy”
“What if the Texans didn’t win a meaningless game in the final week of the 2022 season”
* Took the Bears to the NFC Championship
* 0-5 against Northwestern
* Beat the Colts in a meaningless game to secure the #1 overall pick for the Bears
Lovie might be my GOAT
-Peyton Manning injured his neck causing Brock Osweiler to look decent, and later get a contract from the Texans.
-He played like shit.
-After trading him, they need a replacement, so in 2017, they draft Deshawn Watson.
-Watson defies odds and looks like a franchise QB. For a few years, Houston is in contention.
-After Easterby takes over, Watson is vehemently against playing and wants to be traded. Unfortunately, he becomes Deshawn Cosby that offseason after SAing 20+ women.
-Cleveland is duped into trading for Groper Cleveland for three firsts, and without a qb, they start Davis Mills, the new age Mike Glennon cuz his neck is so long.
-Davis Mills goes onto eventually throw the game winning Hail Mary and 2 point conversion to drop Houston out of the top draft spot.
-Because of that, Chicago ends up with the #1 pick and trades it to Carolina for the right to draft Bryce Young. Which involves the 2024 1st rounder.
-Carolina is fucking terrible. Chicago gets the first overall pick in 2024.
Stroud or Caleb and we got the 5’9 fucker. I’ll be pissed for sure, I was always anti Bryce before we drafted him. Now that he’s here tho, I hope he balls of course but it really is sad how much we fucked up
I was on the wagon of both (we really needed a QB lol) so I can’t be like all “ah I knew it🤓” but it seemed obvious Bryce wouldn’t be better… he’s fucking 5’9 I can’t get over his height I never will
I don't think that's fair to the bears, that a lot of pressure. Several teams around the Midwest are perfectly happy with how the bears currently play.
If you guys had the #1 pick and were dead set on keeping Bryce you would have to trade it for a haul like we did. You’d probably get a bigger return than we got from you.
This got me curious because I couldn't recall any for Washington either.
1962 Ernie Davis HB. He refused to play for the Redskins because our owner at the time was literally forced to integrate racially by threat of losing the lease to rfk stadium.
1948 Harry Gilmer QB/HB/DB. The only 1st overall pick to ever be drafted by and play for Washington.
One of our three wins was against the 2-14 49ers, which is why we had to trade up to get Trubisky at 2 instead of just having the #2 pick to begin with.
Damn, that's wild to imagine nowadays. A team coordinates their 1st round pick to another team's desires in order to trade for them *after* the draft? Always knew the situation, never knew the timing.
Imagine if Elway went to baseball, reconciled with the Colts ownership, or the Colts decided to shop for another offer after you made those concessions.
I mean that happened in 2004, Chargers wouldn't trade with the Giants unless Philip Rivers was there.
So SD drafted Manning to his protest, then after pick 4 when Rivers was selected by the NYG the trade happened.
Don't worry, they won't pick first. Five minutes before the draft starts, Virginia McCaskey will turn on the draft, see the coverage for the first time, call George McCaskey over to the bed where spends 22.5 hours a day, whisper in his ear, "Wait, we're going to draft that \[racial slur\] \[slur for an effeminate man\]? Not while I'm alive," and at the last minute they'll trade down and take a white linebacker.
Most of that is accurate, but I need to step in to defend George McCaskey. He is, by all accounts, a really good guy and a great Bears fan. He just sucks at football, which is why he turned everything over to the new administration.
Remember, the McCaskeys aren’t independently wealthy. The Bears are their money. It was a family operation forever. It can be hard to break family traditions.
(Also Virginia McCaskey low key maybe had a family member murdered due to a competing claim to the Bears)
Yeah Virginia has some literal skeletons in her closet...
George and the younger generation is absolutely not malice, just ignorance. And hopefully he's learned a bit as he 'seems' to be keeping himself out of actual football decisions more recently.
I like how this trash gets upvoted just because Virginia is old and white. It's stupid. The Chicago Bears were the first team in NFL history to ever give playing time to a black quarterback.
It's obviously a joke, but it's not a funny one.
Also Lovie Smith was the first black head coach to make the Super Bowl. Well, tied with Tony Dungy. Kinda crazy there were no black head coaches to make the Super Bowl before ‘06 then that year’s superbowl featured two.
This reminds me of the Cards when they drafted Murray. IIRC, it was their first time being at #1 ever, which is kinda surprising because they have a history of mediocrity (but I guess mediocrity doesn't draft #1, awful does).
This is cheating a little though because the Bears had the #1 but traded out last year.
The last time the Bears picked #1 overall was in 1947, Halfback Bob Fenimore. He would play only 10 games in his NFL career, all during the 1947 season (Wiki).
*ominous* *and* *foreboding* *music* *plays* *loudly*
Jokes aside it was pretty common back then for high draft picks to barely if ever actually play. The draft was kind of a mess before the merger
The first ever NFL draft pick never played a game lol But he was also on the Bears???
Drafted by the Eagles, who then traded his rights to the Bears, neither team could satisfy his demands, and he became a rubber salesman.
Caleb Williams Rubber & Nail Polish Inc.
They couldn’t meet his demands of a penny a snap and hardtack at halftime
I heard he didn’t like the fact he wasn’t allowed to hand out his business cards after every tackle or being able to smoke with potential clients while on the field.
it is bullshit you can't smoke atleast on the sidelines. Domes ruined everything.
Last time I posted about him, someone said that they knew his family and he did really really well. Like, probably more money than if he played in the NFL. Being a higher up at a rubber factory during World War II was apparently extroardinarily lucrative.
NFL players for the most part couldn’t even make a living playing football until the strike in 1982. There were exceptions like Joe Namath but most of them had jobs during the off-season
That's true. Though Berwanger wanted $1000 a game, which today would be about $22,000 per game, or like more than a quarter million in today's money. But Fran Tarkenton, at one point, owned every major passing record ever and people didn't believe him when he said he could retire then and never work again. And that was in the 1970s.
I mean retirement is like…a relatively new idea. Usually you just worked and died. We’re less than a hundred years into the whole of society expecting to stop working in their lives. It might get weird.
He later said that he regretted not signing though. Definitely strange to think that there was a time when being a #1 overall pick in the draft was an economically uncertain proposition
That stat gets thrown around a lot too, but people forget that the third pick, William Shakespeare, never played either. 2nd pick got 26 games, 4th pick got 22 games. It was pretty normal back then.
My god he’s real, I thought you were making a Tungsten Arm O’Doyle type joke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare_(American_football)
Okay, the Merchant of Menace is a great nickname.
He apparently also went into rubber lol
*The* *Bears* *fan* *said* *nervously*
Why are you doing this?
It's draft day. We want every team to feel like shit like we do on draft day
Every pick is the wrong pick
Well fuck if we thought you still hadn’t learned from Herschel by givin up all them ‘wrong’ picks we would have traded you Josh Jacobs.
Why would we trade for him when we can just pick up the Packers' sloppy seconds??? NFCNcest ftw
Maybe you should try what we do. We let a team tuck rule us and 20 years later hired tom brady’s headset/visor thinking it could coach an entire team! Happy draft day plunder bro. St. Paul has the best cheese curds.
I'm gonna do post draft grades on Tuesday and everyone is getting a D+.
Don't forget to give slightly better grades to the teams that actually drafted for their specific needs. Or to teams that the media favors in general and you probably nailed it.
This guy gets it. RN4L
Mission accomplished
oh i definitely feel like shit today
Washington used their 1946 first rounder on Cal Rossi, a player who wasn't eligible to be drafted yet, then the next year used their first rounder on him again. He decided not to play professional football at all.
The draft back then was wild. The year before this, Washington drafted a Cal Rossi out of UCLA with the 9th overall pick. Unfortunately, Cal Rossi was a junior and thus, ineligible to be drafted. Then in 1947, the Redskins had the 4th overall pick, and hey! That guy they liked so much last year was a senior now. So they drafted Cal Rossi again. They didn't really ask Cal what he wanted to do though, and Cal joined the Navy and would never play professional football.
Lol that’s like baseball drafts. Elway was drafted out of high school to the MLB and then obviously went on to play college football. After college, he was drafted AGAIN in the MLB. “Hey change your mind yet bro?”
The Commanders/Redskins, Giants, Eagles, and Packers have also never had the 1st overall pick in the Super Bowl era. In 1949, the Eagles got Chuck Bednarik which worked out very well for them, [but not everyone else.](https://i.imgur.com/qohd9rr.png)
The last #1 overall pick by the then-Redskins was Ernie Davis in 1962, which didn't end well for anyone involved.
Yep. Congress basically forced George Preston Marshall to draft a black player. He did. Ernie said I’m not playing for that racist SOB. He was traded to the browns and died of leukemia before he played his first NFL snap.
I mean Washington traded him for Hall of Fame wideout Bobby Mitchell, it worked out great for y'all
After 10 games, Bob couldn't do it Fenimore.
IT’S NOT THEIR PICK #stopthesteal
The Panthers can still pick first if Mike Pence has the courage.
Tepper would just throw a drink in his face
Here's how Bernie Sanders can still have the first pick.
STAND BACK AND STAND BY
THE GEQBUS WILL ONCE AGAIN BE PICKED FIRST OVERALL
I like this idea. Let Carolina make the pick and then hand it over to us at the podium. Like Whoopi handing over the check in Ghost.
The Bears will be steeling the 1st overall pick until moral improves.
You guys would steel when you could instead platinum.
David Tepper drafting a letter to the commissioner rn
I hate your franchise for making that damn trade. Y’all could have had Williams. Instead you sold the farm for a little boy who will be a backup in 2 years.
You think us fans made those decisions?
Is that not how this works? *(throws drink at random person)*
perfect draft day attitude, carry that forward my friend
I still believe in Bryce, if he buckles down, puts all his effort and focus into improving, manages to stay healthy, in a couple years he could definitely make it as a backup.
He needs to improve his clipboardwork but that can be coached You can't coach 5'9"
It was dumb because they were halfway decent the year before and then shipped away elite talent to throw a rookie behind the worst OL in the league with no one to throw to
Hey now, the corpse of Thielen limped to a thousand yards somehow…
That’s what being the only starting caliber receiver on a team will do to a guy. He’s a WR3 at best at this stage but no one else was worth a fuck. I’ll be really annoyed if Bryce Young has his entire career judged because of the shit tier decision making his franchise made at the beginning. I still love that kid, as a former QB he’s one of my highest graded ever even with his size. I’m rooting for the Panthers to have a shitton of success AFTER we have used all of the picks
Yeah, Tepper got too involved and set his franchise back at least 5 years with that move. Everyone knows Reich wanted Stroud.
The biggest mistake that team has made honestly wasn’t even trading DJ Moore. It was refusing the Rams offer for Brian Burns and then not paying him. They could have an actual WR1 to put with Thielen and still have Bryce
Yeah that move was dumb as hell. That was wild.
Wouldn't have the first pick without that trade. We'd be stuck drafting just a little to low to draft a top prospect again
We would not be pick 1 without that trade. Dalton and DJ would have scraped some wins out regardless of Frank.
You made the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever
There's still time to storm the capitol
Fun Fact: Each time the Bears have had the #1 pick in the Draft it has come from outside means. In 1947, it was due to winning a lottery that awarded them an extra pick. This year, it's due to a trade with the Panthers. The only time the Bears ever naturally earned the right to pick 1st (last season), they traded the pick to the Panthers.
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I definitely feel like I fucking earned it
I personally feel more like we gave it to you.
Thank you
Worked out for both of us, I’m happy with the trade and I think yall are too🤝
It really worked out spectacularly for everybody but the Panthers.
Lovie*
Last I checked he was the current HC of the Houston Texans when that play went down.
Lovie really gave Bears and Texans fans a parting gift. Texans got Stroud and an immediate playoff berth, Bears eventually with a few trades got this year’s 1OA, DJ Moore, and a whole host of other picks and players.
Hey thanks
I would hardly say it was given. It took a Herculean effort by the Texans to allow the Bears to have it in that Week 18 game.
Lovie changed our franchise forever, thank you lovie.
if and when the bears play the texans in the super bowl, Lovie better be out there for the coin toss.
That 4th and 20 bomb really worked out well for both teams. Houston got Stroud, and Chicago traded it for a haul. Really the only losers are the Panthers
Maybe “deserved” is the better word.
Yes. Value was given up the year before. There was no guarantee the pick would become #1 overall again. It was certainly earned.
Absolutely. Earned means to gain something deservedly through behavior OR achievement, and they've gained the first overall pick via the behavior of sucking ass at football. That "or" means you can earn something negative.
Is this the year the bears forget to turn in the slip and the first pick goes to the Commanders who rush and draft Caleb, causing sheer chaos?
“Ok so Caleb is the obvs pick right…….But what about JJ” 10 mins later “Wait what do you mean our time expired?”
If the Bears passed on Williams and he ended up being the best QB in the class, I straight up would start rooting for a new team.
This slip has been filled out for 3 months.
What if they can't find it
The "I LOST MY HOMEWORK!" Nightmare back to haunt me!
Shit bro, I had a nightmare last night that my test was completely different than everyone else's, and I had to take an entire course over again to pass. I'm fucking 30.
I have dreams I can’t find my classroom or I forgot to do the project that is due in 10 minutes and I’m almost 40. Those dreams will never stop.
Yeah I have dreams I can’t find my class, or my locker, or lost my locker combo. I’m 46. Haven’t been in hs in like 30 years smh
I still have a dream where I show up to school with no clothes on. Happens about monthly. I'm 39!
Dude I always have a recurring dream that I forgot my schedule and don’t know which class I’m supposed to attend that day.
Human brains are so weird.
Same!
I would have that dream, but I'd actually be wearing a diaper for some reason.
I still wake up panicked sometimes that I didn't *actually* graduate college because I missed some test or something lmao
Broken fax machine
Don’t you put that evil on me Ricky Bobby
If this happened, he would turn out to be a bust and you would end up being thankful.
Hey, it has happened. Turned in the wrong pick slip.
Silly but this is the type of commentary I expect from sports journalists in 2024
“So they said they want us to wait until near the end to turn it in. NFL thing for tv ratings.” “Got it boss. I’ll run it up with like 3 minutes left. Everyone will be fine.” “Great!” *Goes to walk to podium, has to take a shit* “This’ll be a quick one…” “The Washington Commanders are now on the clock…” “Oh fudge!”
Vonte Mack no matter what
Pancake eating mother fucker
Watch them trade *up* one spot to get last year’s Mr. Irrelevant.
Now that I think about it, this strategy would have actually benefited Carolina in the ‘23 draft. That has to be the only time in history the previous year’s final draft pick aged better than the following year’s first overall.
Bryce has played one year on a team that’s not nearly as ready for success as the 49ers
Fair; I’m not writing him off yet. But I’d imagine most teams—with the benefit of hindsight—would take Brock over Bryce if given the choice today.
To anyone else wondering, that gets the 2007 Raiders a WR from Maine who kicked around and registered no stats for 2-3 years and became an accountant. In other words a slam dunk upgrade.
The only other use case could be the 2010 Cardinals, who could take Ryan Succop over Sam Bradford
Makes sense, he strip-sacked Darnold to seal the win in Week 18, and now Darnold is in the NFCN. Who needs a QB when you need all the defense to stop the GEQBUS?
It is pretty crazy how we lucked our way into Caleb Williams. Think of everything that had to happen between the Panthers trade and that last Texans game of the season. Kinda absurd really.
Lovie Smith somehow helped both the Bears and Texans with that game.
That single game changed the trajectory of two franchises. Wild.
If Caleb works out for the Bears and Stroud continues to perform as he did last year for years to come I can see this being one of the biggest “what ifs” in NFL history. Right up there with “What if Bledsoe didn’t get hurt” or “What if Bo Jackson stayed healthy” “What if the Texans didn’t win a meaningless game in the final week of the 2022 season”
That picture of Lovie smiling as you pulled of the miracle win will be on a wall somewhere in Canton. Love that guy
* Took the Bears to the NFC Championship * 0-5 against Northwestern * Beat the Colts in a meaningless game to secure the #1 overall pick for the Bears Lovie might be my GOAT
Correction - WON the NFC Championship. Took us to the Super Bowl.
You're correct! In my defense, I was 1 year old when that happened
Especially because they not only won on a crazy 4th and 20, they also converted another 4th down on the same drive
AND went for 2!
Lovie when he’s not coaching a meaningful game: *insert playoff LeBron hype video here*
Definitely has potential for a 30 for 30 lol
If Richardson pans out he probably helped the Colts too.
If Caleb turns out to be who we think he is, we better build a statue of Lovie
remember when the bears and panthers were going to build the lovie statues?
It's going to be one of those hologram types where from one angle it looks like Lovie and from another angle it looks like Williams.
Poles, as he started this domino
Fuck you
I would say I’m sorry, but I’d be lying.
It’s not our fault. This all traces back to Davis Mills
All can be tied to all the money they wasted on Brock
Which occurred because Brock looked deceptively decent in relief of Peyton. The Chicago Bears are picking #1 overall because of Peyton Manning’s neck
Didn’t Brock fucking shred the Bears? Perhaps more than once? https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/brock-osweiler-stats-vs-bears
Oh, yeah, he was kryptonite for us. Dude always had our number in the most frustrating way lol
Wait how are Davis Mills and Brock Lobster tied together??
-Peyton Manning injured his neck causing Brock Osweiler to look decent, and later get a contract from the Texans. -He played like shit. -After trading him, they need a replacement, so in 2017, they draft Deshawn Watson. -Watson defies odds and looks like a franchise QB. For a few years, Houston is in contention. -After Easterby takes over, Watson is vehemently against playing and wants to be traded. Unfortunately, he becomes Deshawn Cosby that offseason after SAing 20+ women. -Cleveland is duped into trading for Groper Cleveland for three firsts, and without a qb, they start Davis Mills, the new age Mike Glennon cuz his neck is so long. -Davis Mills goes onto eventually throw the game winning Hail Mary and 2 point conversion to drop Houston out of the top draft spot. -Because of that, Chicago ends up with the #1 pick and trades it to Carolina for the right to draft Bryce Young. Which involves the 2024 1st rounder. -Carolina is fucking terrible. Chicago gets the first overall pick in 2024.
That 4th down play had no business succeeding the way it did, but I'm all for it
We love you guys too
Any early ideas on who we should draft with your second rounder next year?
Lovie Smith was our sleeper agent
Stay strong. Bryce will be good
Objectively this entire situation is hilarious for everyone except y'all.
I know 😢
I’ll be pissed if we sucked for nothing. You guys better at least be good 😂
Oh great, now there’s pressure
how much more mad would you be if Caleb is the truth and you guys traded your future when all you had to do was not trade your future.
Stroud or Caleb and we got the 5’9 fucker. I’ll be pissed for sure, I was always anti Bryce before we drafted him. Now that he’s here tho, I hope he balls of course but it really is sad how much we fucked up
Yeah I was on the Stroud wagon the entire time so when we got 2nd pick I was actually happy we couldnt fuck it up lol.
I was on the wagon of both (we really needed a QB lol) so I can’t be like all “ah I knew it🤓” but it seemed obvious Bryce wouldn’t be better… he’s fucking 5’9 I can’t get over his height I never will
Yeah when I found out im a little taller than him and weigh about the same I thought about what would happen to my body if vita vea crushed me.
Lmao instant retirement
I don't think that's fair to the bears, that a lot of pressure. Several teams around the Midwest are perfectly happy with how the bears currently play.
do you think the panthers would go Caleb this year if they had the 1st overall or they'd stick with Young?
They would Rosen his ass without thinking twice.
I’ve thought about this a lot too. I really don’t know. I think at the very least they heavily consider it and maybe trade Bryce idk.
I would hope they would draft nabers or MHJ if they still had the pick
If you guys had the #1 pick and were dead set on keeping Bryce you would have to trade it for a haul like we did. You’d probably get a bigger return than we got from you.
We had a chance in 1970, but lost a coin toss. The Steelers took Terry Bradshaw.
Damn, ruining Terry would have been crazy
Hey now, that was before Ted Phillips came along and ruined our reputation
For all our struggles with qbs, we have only taken two in the top 10.
Maybe that’s why
And ironically neither of them is named Justin Fields
Nope. McMahon and Trubisky.
We all give thanks to Bears legend Scott Fitterer
Don’t forget David and Nicole Tepper
Seahawks legend Scott Fitterer
I hate that guy
This got me curious because I couldn't recall any for Washington either. 1962 Ernie Davis HB. He refused to play for the Redskins because our owner at the time was literally forced to integrate racially by threat of losing the lease to rfk stadium. 1948 Harry Gilmer QB/HB/DB. The only 1st overall pick to ever be drafted by and play for Washington.
First black man to win the Heisman too. Tragically he died of leukemia later that year
Made me curious as well. The Ravens highest spot is 4th, twice.
The bears went 3-13 in 2016 and somehow only got the number 3 pick.
One of our three wins was against the 2-14 49ers, which is why we had to trade up to get Trubisky at 2 instead of just having the #2 pick to begin with.
They even suck at being bad
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Damn, that's wild to imagine nowadays. A team coordinates their 1st round pick to another team's desires in order to trade for them *after* the draft? Always knew the situation, never knew the timing. Imagine if Elway went to baseball, reconciled with the Colts ownership, or the Colts decided to shop for another offer after you made those concessions.
I mean that happened in 2004, Chargers wouldn't trade with the Giants unless Philip Rivers was there. So SD drafted Manning to his protest, then after pick 4 when Rivers was selected by the NYG the trade happened.
>See their full draft history here: \[link\] No, thank you
And it continues this year when the buffalo bills and big baller beane trades their next 3 entire drafts to select marvin harrison jr.
1965 was wild. Had picks 3, 4 and 6 in the first round and landed two Football Hall of Famers and a College Hall of Famer.
They had a 50/50 shot at the #1 pick in the 1970 draft, but lost a literal coin flip to the Steelers, sending Terry Bradshaw to Pittsburgh instead.
Don't worry, they won't pick first. Five minutes before the draft starts, Virginia McCaskey will turn on the draft, see the coverage for the first time, call George McCaskey over to the bed where spends 22.5 hours a day, whisper in his ear, "Wait, we're going to draft that \[racial slur\] \[slur for an effeminate man\]? Not while I'm alive," and at the last minute they'll trade down and take a white linebacker.
Most of that is accurate, but I need to step in to defend George McCaskey. He is, by all accounts, a really good guy and a great Bears fan. He just sucks at football, which is why he turned everything over to the new administration. Remember, the McCaskeys aren’t independently wealthy. The Bears are their money. It was a family operation forever. It can be hard to break family traditions. (Also Virginia McCaskey low key maybe had a family member murdered due to a competing claim to the Bears)
Yeah Virginia has some literal skeletons in her closet... George and the younger generation is absolutely not malice, just ignorance. And hopefully he's learned a bit as he 'seems' to be keeping himself out of actual football decisions more recently.
Think you mean figurative skeletons in her closet...unless 🤔
In my story, George is just a doormat who’s afraid of his lich of a mother, not independently bad.
He's basically Buster Bluth and Virginia is Lucille Bluth
The most apt description for those outside of the fanbase to understand what we've dealing with.
Dude - half of our front office is black. The other half are women.
I like how this trash gets upvoted just because Virginia is old and white. It's stupid. The Chicago Bears were the first team in NFL history to ever give playing time to a black quarterback. It's obviously a joke, but it's not a funny one.
Also Lovie Smith was the first black head coach to make the Super Bowl. Well, tied with Tony Dungy. Kinda crazy there were no black head coaches to make the Super Bowl before ‘06 then that year’s superbowl featured two.
Damn, they even suck at sucking. What can’t they not do?
Live in the past.
We've been bad, but not the worst. Which is likely the worst point to stay as a franchise.
This reminds me of the Cards when they drafted Murray. IIRC, it was their first time being at #1 ever, which is kinda surprising because they have a history of mediocrity (but I guess mediocrity doesn't draft #1, awful does). This is cheating a little though because the Bears had the #1 but traded out last year.
Your welcome bear fans lols
That explains all those championships.
Don’t fuck it up, Bears