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[Waldo]

16 hours ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

Well damn I had no idea.  I’m fairly new to the wet wipe thing.  At least you guys are good for something.  Cheers brother.

Just get s badea attachment. I got them and haven't wanted a wet wipe since. I thought it would be weird but it's golden. 

[CarolinaLivin]

And after your purchase, grab a racoon sammy from BoA to test it out

[LinvilleGorge]

8 minutes ago, CarolinaLivin said:

And after your purchase, grab a racoon sammy from BoA to test it out

 

[CarolinaLivin]

2 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

 

[Waldo]

[LinvilleGorge]

Forget a bidet, if you're eating that BOA racoon sandwich slip you're gonna need a fire hydrant attached to your toilet. LOL 

 

[Bear Hands]

I appreciate the thread direction 

[Jon Snow]

1 hour ago, Bear Hands said:

I appreciate the thread direction 

Glad to help. Most threads eventually turn to crap anyway so we decided to save you some time. 

[Icege]

Somebody on the discord paid for the article and it is wild.

Thomas Brown's wife has gotta be one of the sources... right?

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The most dramatic spectacle of them all occurred on Dec. 26. His team was hosting the Seattle Seahawks on Thursday Night Football. Commercials rolled during a timeout, so nobody at home saw this poignant moment that perfectly summarized the 2024 Chicago Bears. In the wake of two firings, heartbreaking defeats, staggering to the finish line of an agonizing 5-12 season, interim head coach Thomas Brown tried to explain something to his starting quarterback and… no. Williams was not having it.

An auto-response kicked in.

As he had done many times to many coaches all season, Williams turned his head and walked away. Shane Waldron, before getting fired as offensive coordinator, used to stay quiet. Not Brown. Not a stern, blunt, old-school coach who believed this 22-year-old crossed a line of disrespect. The typically calm coach lost it. On the headset, another Bears assistant coach recalls Brown pressing the mic to finish his conversation: “Get your ass back here right now! Don’t fuging walk away when I’m talking to you!”

Unfazed, Williams sashayed away. Right back to the huddle.

The Bears lost, 6-3.

“That’s when you knew the world was coming to an end,” one coach says.

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Williams struggled to execute elementary tasks. Every day was a new disaster.

That early, that spring, the Bears changed the snap count to appease Williams. Instead of using a combination of colors and numbers like every other team in the NFL, the Bears reverted to a “Ready, set, go!” straight out of JV football because that’s what the quarterback requested. Aside from the obvious on-field consequences — defenders could tee off — the Bears were establishing a troubling precedent in allowing a rookie to tell them exactly what to do. Veterans couldn’t believe it. “Are you shitting me?” one receiver asked a coach.

When a play call was sent in, he’d stare at this wristband for a painful length of time. “Like it was in another language,” another coach says. Williams verbalized the call in the huddle, it was wrong half the time, and then players would be lined up wrong all over the field. Verbiage was truncated. Huddling was minimized. The playbook, dumbed down. The Bears offense devolved into an exercise of trial and error to fit whatever the USC rookie demanded.

All of which would’ve been manageable if Williams was willing to work. He was not.

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For this three-part series, Go Long chatted with 32 sources. Coaches, scouts, execs, players and staffers inside Halas Hall guide readers through the sludge. Many have landed new jobs. To share their experiences without fear of retribution they’re granted a condition of anonymity.

The more we dig, the more it’s clear why the Bears have one winning season since 2012.

In Part I, we reveal how 2024 spiraled out of control through the eyes of those coaches. A season that included extreme frustrations, a near benching, a late-season revelation and mass firings. “A shitshow,” one says.

In Part II, we revisit the farce of a draft process that led GM Ryan Poles to select Williams No. 1 overall. One personnel man recalls the charade as “rigged.”

In Part III, we zoom out: Who’s to blame? The Bears have become an organization repellent to independent thought. The GM inherited a bad situation and managed to make it worse with a 15-36 record. All roads in this league tend to lead back to ownership.

Ben Johnson and his staff now stare down the barrel of more disorder than they anticipated.

The quarterback he inherits is not the same species of football junkie.

Former Bears coaches cannot grin and bear it.

 

[Panthercougar68]

https://www.golongtd.com/p/house-of-dysfunction-part-i-the-curious
 

If you love the game subscribe to Tyler Dunne. This series reflects on how bad Poles is and his only claim to being a “good gm” is pimping Fitterer.

basically he scoffed at the idea of drafting Drake Maye or Jayden Daniels.

[Panthercougar68]

Just now, Icege said:

Somebody on the discord paid for the article and it is wild.

Thomas Brown's wife has gotta be one of the sources... right?

 

Literally just started reading it and wow! Poles is a dip poo 

[Icege]

3 minutes ago, Panthercougar68 said:

Literally just started reading it and wow! Poles is a dip poo 

Have you seen the paid for part yet? I'm tempted to throw $8 at it

[Panthercougar68]

Just now, Icege said:

Have you seen the paid for part yet? I'm tempted to throw $8 at it

Oh I’m subscribed, when he did the 3 parter on Sean McDermott I signed up but he’s got a lot of good stuff I read.

[Mr. Scot]

1 hour ago, Icege said:

Somebody on the discord paid for the article and it is wild.

Thomas Brown's wife has gotta be one of the sources... right?

 

Good Lord