After many of us (myself included) had inflated expectations for last season, what are your expectations for the Bears in 2025? What to you think is reasonable?
Personally I feel rather conflicted thinking about this. On one hand many of us under estimated the impact of a rookie QB last year. While it seems like Ben Johnson is a clear improvement on Flus, I imagine we will see some similiar new coach growing pains. Thus I am trying to temper my expectations somewhat.
On the other hand the Bears just extended a GM with a record of 15-36. It will be year 4 of the rebuild, and I have to think that it's reasonable to expect this Bears team to at least show signs of being competitive. I'm having a hard time justifying that Poles deserves to keep his job going into 2026 if he misses the playoffs in all of his first 4 seasons. Obviously the contract extension means he isnt going anywhere, but I think it's at least worth talking about.
Personally I feel rather conflicted thinking about this. On one hand many of us under estimated the impact of a rookie QB last year. While it seems like Ben Johnson is a clear improvement on Flus, I imagine we will see some similiar new coach growing pains. Thus I am trying to temper my expectations somewhat.
On the other hand the Bears just extended a GM with a record of 15-36. It will be year 4 of the rebuild, and I have to think that it's reasonable to expect this Bears team to at least show signs of being competitive. I'm having a hard time justifying that Poles deserves to keep his job going into 2026 if he misses the playoffs in all of his first 4 seasons. Obviously the contract extension means he isnt going anywhere, but I think it's at least worth talking about.