The Reality of the Free Agent Budget

[Outlaw Josey Cutler]

I agree but does anyone think Nagy will be flexible enough to change his offense in order to fit a quarterback that doesn’t fit his system? Based on what I’ve seen the last two years it has seemed clear that the answer is no. Maybe all the new faces around him will help change that.

I agree but I am unsure what Nagy's system even is. Take the RB position. He seems to LOVE Cohen and not Howard. So we are assured that it's perfectly fine that we are trading Howard because Nagy will get HIS RB which is Montgomery(?) Dude breaks more tackles sure but he looks even slower than Howard and is used even less!

Is this progress? Was this Nagy implementing his system better in the running game? It was shit and running game even WORSE after Nagy was here for a year and made requests for personnel moves for his rushing offense.

To say Nagy lacks flexibility is very true but I suspect the problem is even deeper: Nagy lacks a coherent system at all:

during the week, he tries to get fancy, spectacularly fails early in games looking like college offense vs. NFL defense, and then after halftime, goes basic level 101 enough to take what the defense gives and get semi-decent points for the second half and whether we achieve more points in the end than the other team scores is literally 50-50 (8-8),

This basically makes our final average PPG being just what we do in the 2nd half all year long.

 

[DrGonzo]

It may be less than ideal in terms of scheme fit or a long term fix, but in the near term and looking strictly at the numbers I think the Bears can replace Floyd's production for half of what it would cost to extend him.

In a tight budget year and with the highest paid player at that position already on the roster I don't see him coming back. If they are putting a premium on improving the pass rush and they really want to spend another $13 mil this year they should look elsewhere anyway imo.

 

[WindyCity]

These are the totals pressures in 2019 for each defender per SIS. (I only posted those who registered at least 5.
These numbers are using the following criteria; A pressure is considered by any of the following:

• a) any pass or scramble charted with pressure by a specific defender, or "overall pressure",
• b) any sack charted as "rusher untouched," "blown block," or "overall pressure",
• c) any sack charted as "coverage sack" or "failed scramble," but only if these sacks are also charted with a specific defender giving pass pressure. (For example, a "coverage sack" can also have pressure if a specific defender forces the quarterback out of the pocket immediately, but the sack takes a lot longer because of the coverage.)

Player	Team	Pos	Total
Cameron Jordan	NO	DL	67.0
Za'Darius Smith	GB	LB	65.0
Nick Bosa	SF	DL	62.0
Danielle Hunter	MIN	DL	59.0
Shaquil Barrett	TB	LB	55.0
Khalil Mack	CHI	LB	53.0
Von Miller	DEN	LB	52.0
DeMarcus Lawrence	DAL	DL	50.0
Joey Bosa	LAC	DL	49.0
Aaron Donald	LARM	DL	48.0
Trey Flowers	DET	DL	46.0
T.J. Watt	PIT	LB	46.0
Markus Golden	NYG	LB	45.0
Kyle Van Noy	NE	LB	45.0
Matt Judon	BAL	LB	45.0
Calais Campbell	JAC	DL	43.0
Chandler Jones	ARI	LB	43.0
Jadeveon Clowney	SEA	DL	42.0
Everson Griffen	MIN	DL	40.0
Dante Fowler Jr.	LARM	LB	39.0
Melvin Ingram III	LAC	DL	39.0
J.J. Watt	HOU	DL	38.0
Harold Landry	TEN	LB	38.0
Robert Quinn	DAL	DL	37.0
Brandon Graham	PHI	DL	37.0
Sam Hubbard	CIN	DL	37.0
Leonard Williams	NYG	DL	36.0
Carlos Dunlap	CIN	DL	36.0
Maxx Crosby	OAK	DL	35.0
Preston Smith	GB	LB	35.0
Maliek Collins	DAL	DL	34.0
Devon Kennard	DET	LB	33.0
Chris Jones	KC	DL	33.0
Leonard Floyd	CHI	LB	33.0
Cameron Heyward	PIT	DL	32.0
Kenny Clark	GB	DL	32.0
Jerry Hughes	BUF	DL	31.0
Grady Jarrett	ATL	DL	31.0
Marcus Davenport	NO	DL	31.0
Shaq Lawson	BUF	DL	30.0
Bud Dupree	PIT	LB	30.0
Yannick Ngakoue	JAC	DL	30.0
Matt Ioannidis	WAS	DL	29.0
Justin Houston	IND	DL	29.0
Josh Allen	JAC	LB	29.0
Jason Pierre-Paul	TB	DL	29.0
Vita Vea	TB	DL	28.0
Arik Armstead	SF	DL	28.0
Whitney Mercilus	HOU	LB	28.0
Dont'a Hightower	NE	LB	28.0
Ndamukong Suh	TB	DL	28.0
Kerry Hyder	DAL	DL	28.0
Javon Hargrave	PIT	DL	28.0
Trey Hendrickson	NO	DL	27.0

 

[WindyCity]

Top 50 total pressures in the last 2 years combined. Man, I really wish I had the motivation to compile and format all the run data, man vs zone, etc.

Player	Total
Cameron Jordan	116
Aaron Donald	107
Danielle Hunter	97.5
Za'Darius Smith	95
DeMarcus Lawrence	93.5
Khalil Mack	91
Trey Flowers	88.5
Von Miller	87.5
J.J. Watt	79.5
T.J. Watt	79
Calais Campbell	78.5
Jadeveon Clowney	76.5
Matt Judon	74.5
Chandler Jones	73
Fletcher Cox	72.5
Kyle Van Noy	72.5
Brandon Graham	71.5
Jerry Hughes	69.5
Cameron Heyward	68
Carlos Dunlap	68
Chris Jones	68
Yannick Ngakoue	68
Preston Smith	67.5
Dante Fowler Jr.	65.5
Leonard Floyd	63.5
Robert Quinn	63
Devon Kennard	62
Joey Bosa	62
Nick Bosa	62
Harold Landry	61.5
Ryan Kerrigan	60
Shaquil Barrett	60
Terrell Suggs	60
Markus Golden	59
Michael Bennett	59
Geno Atkins	58.5
Leonard Williams	58
Ndamukong Suh	58
Bud Dupree	57
Everson Griffen	57
Frank Clark	56.5
Whitney Mercilus	56
Dee Ford	55.5
Grady Jarrett	55.5
Jason Pierre-Paul	55.5
Cameron Wake	55
Myles Garrett	55
DeForest Buckner	54.5
Justin Houston	54.5
Adrian Clayborn	52.5

 

[WindyCity]

Here are roughly he lowest cap hits you can go with the following deals

4 years 40 million dollar deal

Year 1: 7 million
Year 2: 9 million
Year 3: 11 million
Year 4: 13 million

4 years 32 million
Year 1: 5.5
Year 2: 6.5
Year 3: 8.5
Year 4: 11.5

 

[WindyCity]

Free Agents of Interest that the coaching staff has connections to

OT/OG Hala Vaitai

TE Blake Bell

RB Spencer Ware

WR A.J Green

TE Tyler Eifert

S Glayton Geathers

OLB Jabaal Sheard

CB Rashaan Melvin

LB Kentrell Brothers

S Jayron Kearse

OLB Stephen Weatherly

 

[Raskolnikov]

Andy Dalton is better than his reputation.

He has a strong arm, hides the ball well in RPO, and is used to the cold. We could do worse.
I'd like to see him out of Cincy and in this offense.

 

[Raskolnikov]

Free Agents of Interest that the coaching staff has connections to

OT/OG Hala Vaitai

TE Blake Bell

RB Spencer Ware

WR A.J Green

TE Tyler Eifert

S Glayton Geathers

OLB Jabaal Sheard

CB Rashaan Melvin

LB Kentrell Brothers

S Jayron Kearse

OLB Stephen Weatherly

Get me Vaitai, Eifert(cheap) 3rd TE competition for Braunecker and Horsted), Dalton.

 

[rawdawg]

Andy Dalton is better than his reputation.

He has a strong arm, hides the ball well in RPO, and is used to the cold. We could do worse.
I'd like to see him out of Cincy and in this offense.

We could do better also. And actually did as Trubisky outperformed Dalton across the board other than YPA.

 

[WindyCity]

We could do better also. And actually did as Trubisky outperformed Dalton across the board other than YPA.

It is not necessarily about better, it is about having another option.