Bears star LB Roquan Smith wants to leave Chicago

Kinda easy, as a Bears fan, Use any piece of news to lament about a lot of things in your life. The slightest misfortune or mistake, and we can’t wait to find the nearest fiery pit to throw ourselves into, as long as there’s a crucifix that we can land on momentarily before witnessing. my skin peeled off (yes, I know a cross almost certainly wouldn’t ‘couldn’t survive in a fire pit, but this is where we are on the lakeshore). That’s how it lasts forever for all of us who don’t remember 1985, becoming more and more a percentage of Bears fans as all that “au jus” collects. collect.
News about Roquan Smith requires trading Leaving Chicago while he tries to negotiate a new deal for himself (and he’s testing himself, that might be part of the problem) isn’t really unusual for the NFL. This has become standard operating procedure. Already this season, DK Metcalf, Deebo Samuel and Aaron Rodgers have all publicly stated, “I can’t be with these guys anymore!” and shocking ended up in the same shirt when the camp opened because of the long line of dollars. Kyler Murray doesn’t publicly say he wants out, but these days it’s the same thing to change your profile or social media references (I really wonder if I’ll be able to understand). this modern language). He then has a cruise ship full of money parked in front of his house, however one gets a cruise ship to a residential area.
But because it’s a Bear, it has to be weirder. Sure enough, Roquan The Chef is fooling the Bears any way he can. He is an extremely popular and really good player who is calling for ownership to join. And he did it during a team practice session, which was at Soldier Field in training camp, called Family Fest. Every team has something like this, but Roquan chose this morning knowing that whatever the reason for being lost requires his or her time in the day to watch practice maybe a bit of an opinion. about Roquan’s condition. He experimented with supporting a new GM, Ryan Poles, possibly from an ownership group that was politely described as “skillful”.
The funny thing about Smith’s letter is that the last thing he should want is for any McCaskey to get involved. There’s no situation where McCaskey can’t get worse, no matter how well-intentioned they think they are. They are The Football Cooler. Their mere presence only makes the things around them look completely silly and stupid. The chairman, George, admitted at his press conference / refused to replace Pee Wee’s Playhouse in announcing the dismissals of Matt Nagy and Ryan Pace that he really knows nothing about football, despite the business. of his family is… football. You might think that through osmosis he got a few things to add to his knowledge a bit more than the “drunk radio caller” but you would think a lot about it. Bears are not.
So it becomes a test for the Pole, and it’s not like he passed the question “Is this guy weird like all the others?” testing is also outlined. Poles have been cleaning houses since entering the door, and truly house cleaning for all levels. He fired the VP of Player Engagement who helped hire him. He’s fired 30-year-old device guys, though no one is sure what they did in the first place.
At first blush, it can break one of two ways. One, the Bears have been so backward and so inert in so many ways, they do need a complete reshaping. The other is that Poles is a paranoid, power-hungry jackass who can’t have anyone around he didn’t hire and anyone who isn’t in line. The fact that his coaching staff has engaged in what they think is Langley-level secrecy about any injury in camp, a full five or six weeks out from the first game that counts, kind of points you in one direction.
When it comes to building the team, it would seem baseball-style rebuilding has come to football, or at least the Bears. Sure, the roster definitely needed a certain level of a controlled burn to get it back to where it has to go. But Roquan, should he not re-sign eventually, is the exact type of player one would build around — a 25-year-old stud. To trade him is to do it just to trade him. The idea of a rebuild, or at least what it used to be, is that your team has gotten completely old and useless and the only thing left are 35-year-olds who wheeze merely jogging onto the field. There’s no other choice but to start over, not just some option to click when you’ve run out of other ideas or more likely just don’t have the gumption, funds, or creativity to keep a certain era of a team going.
What a “rebuild” has become is a catch-all for a front office to buy themselves as much time as they can, whether they know what they’re doing or not. If Roquan sticks around, and Jaquan Brisker and Kyler Gordon are everything they promise to be already, the clock starts ticking. Remove Roquan, you buy yourself more time to find another Roquan. You see it everywhere now, where instead of waiting for the building’s foundation to rot and the walls start to crumble, you just tear down a still pretty useful apartment building to erect a single-family home (another problem we have around here, so at least Poles is tuned into the local scene). Not that the Bears were good or didn’t need a lot of work, but Smith isn’t just some vanity you tear out. You sort of wonder how long it’ll take before Poles and Eberflus turn their eyes to Justin Fields and wonder how much more time jettisoning him will get them, seeing as how they’ve not given him an offensive line that will prevent him from getting his ribs turned into putty or receivers that can find their ass with either hand much less the ball with both.
This is the Bears, and though on the surface this isn’t all that different from what any other team can go through with their star players, you can be sure it will get weirder and worse.