Can anyone honestly look at the rosters of the 4 Championship teams that competed to be in the Super Bowl, and think we're only a Caleb Williams away?

[bears51/40]

depends on Williams, jury's out

Well, I don't think there has ever been a team that has put this much quality around a rookie QB taken with the first overall pick.

 

[msadows]

I think this team is more complete than the lions, and the public seems to think they are contenders.

If Caleb can become as good as gooofy(hopefully better) than the bears should be good.

 

[Bearcub13]

Your starting center started every game for the Rams last year and did a good job doing it.

Actually Coleman Shelton is not a legit starter at center. He is marginally better than what the Bears have been putting out there, but his biggest strength is his versatility, which means rotational player. The Rams were hoping to save on his already tiny contract by letting him go as a free agent, then pick him up on the cheap. You don't do that with key players. But, your point is well taken, and he should be better for us in 2024, if the Bears don't do anything else at center.

 

[Mighty Joe Young]

Actually Coleman Shelton is not a legit starter at center. He is marginally better than what the Bears have been putting out there, but his biggest strength is his versatility, which means rotational player. The Rams were hoping to save on his already tiny contract by letting him go as a free agent, then pick him up on the cheap. You don't do that with key players. But, your point is well taken, and he should be better for us in 2024, if the Bears don't do anything else at center.

All of that means shit when he started all season for them last year and did a good job.

 

[MDB111™]

So you’re admitting you’ve been wrong about everything that’s happened this offseason? Thanks we didn’t need you to verify that

I wonder if he feels like a dumb **** for the hundreds of posts he made regarding how he "wanted to put it on record" How he doesn't want Maye or Williams.


And now, he has full on, about faced and will create hundreds of posts of how he is fine with Williams.

He is weak minded and can flippy flop with the best of them.

 

[DanielCCSBears]

Because I really want to get the pulse on this.

This isn't about Caleb Williams vs Justin Fields, so if you want to turn it into one of those threads, **** you.


Just objectively tell me, in your opinion, do you really think all this roster is missing is Caleb Williams and off we go to the Super Bowl?


Because that's how a lot of you guys are talking, and when I compare the Bears' roster to the 49ers, Lions, Chiefs and Ravens and shit, even the Packers, the Bears still have some significant holes.

And the reason I even bring this up, is because I suspect the same people who will say "well, even with Williams, of course the Bears have holes that need to be filled before we can compete for a Super Bowl) were some of the same people looking at CJ Stroud and using him as justification for drafting Williams, because somehow a magical QB can just carry people to Super Bowls, even though CJ Stroud did NOT do that for his team, and got absolutely SMOKED when playing a legit team in the Ravens.

So which is it? Pick a lane.

Because those of us who want the haul, see an opportunity to close a 2-3 year talent gap in a single draft with the picks and players we'd be getting back, plus see a San Fransisco team that almost won a Super Bowl with a QB who wasn't exactly God's gift to quarterbacking.

It will literally depend on how great Caleb Williams is because despite great rosters a great QB can beat a mediocre QB almost every single time.

If your QB can beat a great defense and you have a good defense that can stop that Dak Prescott Jared Goff Kirk Cousins Tua Tagovaiola Jalen Hurts QB then you can definitely get there, especially in the NFC.

We've seen how a great QB can turn the fortunes around of an entire franchise like Burrow like Stroud.

Jamar Chase and Tee Higgins were the only reason the Bengals went to the Super Bowl in year two with Burrow? The Bengals don't have an elite roster like the 49ers. They haven't had an elite roster.

Yeah an elite roster can carry Brock Purdy to the Super Bowl but then Purdy has the second worst game of the season where he can't get the ball to his play makers.

So yes it's all about the QB. That's why the Bears aren't trading for the haul.

Dak Prescott played like an MVP but he got to the playoffs and choked again. Was it the roster that let him down? Or is Dak Prescott just not built for primetime?

 

[Bearcub13]

All of that means shit when he started all season for them last year and did a good job.

If coleman did a "good" job, he would still be a Ram. He had trouble with nose tackles, they tended to push him back into the QB. He was a get by center for the Rams. Hopefully he will get the Bears by also. He is a good flexible rotational lineman, there is no crime in that. He is not who the Bears will ultimately want to man the center position, but he is a bit of an upgrade.

 

[Mighty Joe Young]

If coleman did a "good" job, he would still be a Ram. He had trouble with nose tackles, they tended to push him back into the QB. He was a get by center for the Rams. Hopefully he will get the Bears by also. He is a good flexible rotational lineman, there is no crime in that. He is not who the Bears will ultimately want to man the center position, but he is a bit of an upgrade.

Well honestly I don't know enough to argue with you on that one. I just know he started for the Rams for 2 years. I don't know their cap situation.

Whether it be Bates or Coleman, they are just there as a stopgap until they can get a center up and going from the draft.