New facility - perfect timing

Chicago Staleys · Mar 10, 2019

Currently a legitimate Super Bowl contender, with a creative and player-friendly head coach, and the best defense in 2018 will is opening a touted free agent friendly training facility in a year with limited cap. I believe this new facility is opening at the perfect time. The Bears have tight cap room and a small window of about 2 years to get a championship. Will top FA’s take a cap friendly contract to play in Chicago with all the positives in place?

The new facility that will open this summer:
-13,000 square foot indoor turf field with projection screen, virtual reality room and adjacent classrooms for learning and practicing plays
-Expanding the weight room by 2,000 square feet
-Doubling the size of the equipment room, recovery space, and nutrition and fuel station
-Building new locker rooms, players lounge
-Expanding coaches’ offices, position meeting rooms, and draft room
-Increasing by four times the hydrotherapy and sports medicine space
-Adding a rooftop garden

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https://www.chicagobears.com/news/bears-detail-significant-expansion-of-halas-hall-19789614

TheWinman · Mar 10, 2019

I imagine most training facilities for NFL teams are pretty modern and above adequate. I doubt too many players will give up a a couple million a year for maybe a little better training facility. WHo knows though, but that it was I feel

Warden of the Northeast · Mar 10, 2019

Will there be a tranquil anti anxiety room for our overpriced TE?

KingInTheNorth · Mar 10, 2019

Where is the dance floor?

Bearly · Mar 10, 2019

TheWinman said:
I imagine most training facilities for NFL teams are pretty modern and above adequate. I doubt too many players will give up a a couple million a year for maybe a little better training facility. WHo knows though, but that it was I feel

and if prices are close as they usually are? Big city, plus contender, plus great place to work.

Bearly · Mar 10, 2019

KingInTheNorth said:
Where is the dance floor?

Need that room for Club W.

Visionman · Mar 10, 2019

This team does NOT have a small window.

And the new facility isn't going to be a big drawing card...it just wont be a negative...

xer0h0ur · Mar 10, 2019

Visionman said:
This team does NOT have a small window.

And the new facility isn't going to be a big drawing card...it just wont be a negative...

The stereotypical "small window" everyone speaks of is in regard to having a young QB on his rookie deal that is still allowing the team to make personnel moves to improve the roster talent. It has nothing to do with the age of the team which is quite young yet also comes with its own headaches given that we are going to have to pay a bunch of these upcomers.

Chicago Staleys · Mar 10, 2019

Visionman said:
This team does NOT have a small window.

And the new facility isn't going to be a big drawing card...it just wont be a negative...

If they plan on keeping TRU and paying him. It’s a small window.

Visionman · Mar 10, 2019

Chicago Staleys said:
If they plan on keeping TRU and paying him. It’s a small window.

If Trubisky plays up to a new contract, then we will be fine. If Tru is a legit franchise QB, we can move on from Mack, who will be at the end of his contract and heading to the downside of his career. If Trubisky isn't that QB, then we have a complete team for a new QB on another cheap deal.

Point being, the only way to contend isn't to have a QB on a rookie deal playing lights out. It just makes it easier...

Either way,

botfly10 · Mar 10, 2019

TheWinman said:
I imagine most training facilities for NFL teams are pretty modern and above adequate. I doubt too many players will give up a a couple million a year for maybe a little better training facility. WHo knows though, but that it was I feel

I don't think that is true. Some places still don't have very nice facilities.

And I could see how food and recovery amenities would be a big deal for players.

botfly10 · Mar 10, 2019

Why is OP suggesting bears only have 2 years? Is that cause Trubs rookie contract? Is he suggesting teams with veteran QBs don't win SBs?

botfly10 · Mar 10, 2019

Anyway, happy to see ownership investing in the team.

Bearly · Mar 10, 2019

xer0h0ur said:
The stereotypical "small window" everyone speaks of is in regard to having a young QB on his rookie deal that is still allowing the team to make personnel moves to improve the roster talent. It has nothing to do with the age of the team which is quite young yet also comes with its own headaches given that we are going to have to pay a bunch of these upcomers.

Like NE? In this millenium, 2 QBs won it all on their rookie deals. Wilson and Flacco. That's a 12% level of importance.

Chicago Staleys · Mar 10, 2019

botfly10 said:
Why is OP suggesting bears only have 2 years? Is that cause Trubs rookie contract? Is he suggesting teams with veteran QBs don't win SBs?

4 players not including TRU will account for 35% of the cap when TRU is due. It’s going to take a lot of luck and contract structuring to get talent to surround the QB and defense.

Pace knows that he is in a win now, not 5 years from now, to keep his job.

Chicago Staleys · Mar 10, 2019

Bearly said:
Like NE? In this millenium, 2 QBs won it all on their rookie deals. Wilson and Flacco. That's a 12% level of importance.

The main difference in NE is they never over spent for FA’s. They are a platoon team with the a GOAT QB and coach.

The Bears spent a ton on 5 players not named the QB. Including the highest payed defensive player in history.

I find it funny how people use NE as a rebuttal. There has never been an NFL franchise like them and we may never see another one but the uneducated use them as an example to make their theory a norm.

Bearly · Mar 11, 2019

Chicago Staleys said:
The main difference in NE is they never over spent for FA’s. They are a platoon team with the a GOAT QB and coach.

The Bears spent a ton on 5 players not named the QB. Including the highest payed defensive player in history.

I find it funny how people use NE as a rebuttal. There has never been an NFL franchise like them and we may never see another one but the uneducated use them as an example to make their theory a norm.

The NE part wasn't real and a gag. The rest (that you managed not to respond to) was the point. Very rare for a QB on a rookie deal to actually win a SB. Makes the whole window talk rather moot. Winning SBs is about having good, well coordinated players, not cheap ones.

Da Coach · Mar 11, 2019

No shit that it's rare for QBs to win the super bowl on a rookie deal.

It's only been a few years since this rookie wage scale was even in place making it possible.

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Rise · Mar 11, 2019

Hell yeah thanks to this new facility we landed Buster Skrine! What a time to be alive!

Bearin' Down · Mar 11, 2019

Chicago Staleys said:
Currently a legitimate Super Bowl contender, with a creative and player-friendly head coach, and the best defense in 2018 will is opening a touted free agent friendly training facility in a year with limited cap. I believe this new facility is opening at the perfect time. The Bears have tight cap room and a small window of about 2 years to get a championship. Will top FA’s take a cap friendly contract to play in Chicago with all the positives in place?

The new facility that will open this summer:
-13,000 square foot indoor turf field with projection screen, virtual reality room and adjacent classrooms for learning and practicing plays
-Expanding the weight room by 2,000 square feet
-Doubling the size of the equipment room, recovery space, and nutrition and fuel station
-Building new locker rooms, players lounge
-Expanding coaches’ offices, position meeting rooms, and draft room
-Increasing by four times the hydrotherapy and sports medicine space
-Adding a rooftop garden

https://www.chicagobears.com/news/bears-detail-significant-expansion-of-halas-hall-19789614

Per sources: this was the reason the Bears landed key FA targets and future HOFers Mike Davis and Buster Skrine.

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