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https://www.chicagobears.com/news/injury-update-pineiro-questionable-with-knee

He was ok. He has talent along the lines of Chad Pennington and he was very accurate at times and horribly inaccurate anytime he was on the move.

I'm giving Trubisky the benefit of the doubt too. I was optimistic like most after hearing how well he understands the offense and I still believe that's true. However, calling the plays, knowing the plays, blocking schemes etc. does not directly translate to reading a defense. With that said, last year Trubisky was completely lost in the first few games. Despite all the uproar this year he's nowhere close to looking like that QB. If he was, and with all the other issues on offense we'd be in even worse shape. I guess means we'd be ranked 32nd instead of 31st . Overlooked are many of the good throws Trubisky made that were well defended. It's a mixed bag for sure but he's making more accurate downfield throws than he was at this time last year. Anyway, everyone has had a hand in the poor offensive play. Assuming Nagy was trying to bring in version 202 of the offense this year it's clear his entire unit wasn't ready for it. So now we reverted back to the basic plays, something Vic was probably ready for after seeing the offense go through this last year. We all saw an improved running game in Denver albeit an inconsistent one. Assuming we stick with that early on against Wash, we should start seeing a bit more of the 202 offense on passing downs. Especially with Burton back on the field. I'm optimistic too in part because Shaheen started playing like a man this past week. Plus we're already leaning more on Montgomery as opposed to the overweight Davis. If this continues it should help get the short passing game going when plays break down (outlets) or they pull away a LB who could be spying on Trubisky enabling him to scramble for more yards. That freelancing ability is where Trubisky has the most value at this stage in his career. He didn't make the Pro Bowl as a pocket passer so Nagy has to allow him to use that. For his part Trubisky has to become more comfortable taking the easy underneath reads earlier in the play and enabling his playmakers to do their thing.

Nobody wants to hear that. Trubisky played good football for most of the game but word on the (internet) street is that Nagy took the football out of Mitch's hands. I have to wonder if he took it out of the hands of his pass blockers after seeing how poorly they played. You knew Chubb and Miller were champing at the bit to get some sacks as much as Mack and Floyd were. Mitch as room for improvement but IMO the Oline needs more work than Mitch at this point.

Too much emotion on this one but I always take my wins anyway we get 'em. It was a tough game but I think this is a huge confidence boost for this entire team. Montgomery is the real deal. He finds more yards when there is nothing than anyone I've seen in a long time. The Oline owes him a steak dinner for some of his 3-4 yard gains. Trubisky was average but he didn't lose the game. On his one deep pass that was overthrown I wonder if he knows that at that altitude the ball will travel about 10% farther? If he didn't he does now. Nagy started out conservative but stayed that way I think to a detriment of the offense. I hope he can get all cylinders firing soon. The D is still the real deal.

Idiots

Nah, I was wrong. Signing the new TE and moving Abdullah to the practice squad had nothing to do with Dax Raymond. Preseason hero James Vaughters was let go off the PS to make room for Abdullah. https://www.windycitygridiron.com/2019/9/13/20864491/chicago-bears-sign-abdullah-anderson-to-the-practice-squad-release-james-vaughters-roster-j-p-holtz

Technically I think it was involved but we could have just moved to bring the new TE to the practice squad if we wanted him there.

Abdullah is now on our practice squad.

Andrew Luck just retired because he's tired of being injured. Does anyone here seriously think he wants to line up behind our Oline after what we saw last week?

From what I can gather on film. everyone was taking a turn. Line getting beat and confused sometimes. RBs /TEs same . QB not taking the “ layup” when it’s there. Blitz pickup plan was confusing . This is one of the rare times you can actually say EVERYONE needs to get better. https://twitter.com/olin_kreutz/status/1171580252671348739?s=21

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1171885239649624064 Never heard of J.P. Holtz but the TE position was so bad last week that it makes sense to try something. I hate to lose Abdullah because he seemed to play well and earned his spot over Bullard. Hopefully he's back on the practice squad tomorrow. Holtz..he's big and slow but can catch so he is not a backup for Burton. There is no way we're keeping 3 TEs of this type. It's possible this is just a one week tryout and the Bears took advantage of the fact he had just been on the active roster. I think that makes him easier to cut versus when you sign someone directly off a practice squad but I could be wrong. OTOH either Sowell or Shaheen is injured and can't play this week, or one of them is about to get released once Holtz is up to speed a bit on the offense.

Or maybe Davis, who is just standing there watching the LB come free up the gut, could just step in front of him. Why is it Trubisky's responsibility to tell ARob to cut off his route when there is a blitz? ARob has to read that after the snap too.

I'd never look past their D especially given the edge protection issues we had last week with Leno and Massie. Massie was better than Leno. We better be able to run up the middle on their D or find a way to seal the edge with better blocking from both Sowell and Shaheen or we'll go nowhere again.

The notion that the hot read or the outlet was always open is also false. In some cases the hot read might have been a 3rd down completion but without a chance for a first down what is the point of doing that? I'd try to force the ball into a spot to see if we can get the first down. See the 3rd and 1 play where Shaheen and Robinson were the two options after a fake handoff. Green Bay played it perfectly and if Trubisky tried to throw to Shaheen it might have been picked off although more likely just incomplete. He tried to come back to the inside receiver but that was a no go. Once again with pressure in his face he ended up diving a yard short of the first down marker. I agree sometimes the underneath options were wide open and Trubisky was still too focused downfield and came off that read too late. We ended up with no gain, a sack, or a short gain that was half of what we could have had if he were quicker to decide. Lots of room for improvement for him to just take what the D is giving up.

https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1171790541488578560?s=21 The backup has been around for a few seasons so it's not like he's a rookie.

Much of this depends on which plays you choose to highlight. YOu can easily make a highlight film showing all of Trubisky's bad plays and think that's it. You can make a video just as long showing all the Oline issues that is equally convincing. Or you can make a video of all our running plays that is really short.

Try this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1084&v=c_e4nkDaj-4

Trubisky would benefit a lot from being more like Alex Smith and hitting the checkdowns quicker when it's the right read. At times he's too locked in on the TD-to-checkdown philosophy and when the offense had stalled he drifted back into his old habit of trying too hard to make the big play. That said, I've read a few analyses of the game and he was not as bad and is made out to be. He wasn't great either but his teammates and HC too often didn't help him. There are some odd things being said like the Packers' DB who said they wanted Trubisky to throw. That's BS and it doesn't fit the reality of the fact they stayed in a dime defense all game, which is what you do when you want to stop the pass. That means they felt Nagy couldn't or wouldn't run the ball on them. We expected to see more of the new RBs and they were right. Overall the entire offense played poorly except for ARob.

It's week one and we don't know anything about how the NFL landscape will play out except for a few elite teams and a few really bad teams like Miami and TB. We lost our first game last year and still ended up with 12 wins. Absolutely nobody expected that after week 1. This time after week 1 it seems clear our D is already better than last year. I don't think our offense will stay worse than last year. At a minimum we'll see offense similar to what we had last year and likely it will get even better than that. If teams stay with the Packers Dime approach on D we'll be tearing them up in the running game soon enough.

That play could have been a TD if Cohen catches it right.

I blame Nagy for the inept offense. I watched Baldy's Breakdowns courtesy of a poster on Reddit. Mitch wasn't really as bad as I thought but he certainly could have been better. The Oline on the other hand was as bad as I thought. The play calling was atrocious with a complete disregard for running the ball. Why did we use our first draft pick on a RB if we don't want to run? It's that simple. Despite all that there is room for optimism if a few minor corrections are made at each level. Mitch has to get out of constant TD-to-checkdown mode and make quicker decisions. Sometimes you just take what was given as soon as it's given. Nagy has to run the ball so Mitch has some better throwing windows. The Oline needs to run block up the middle far better especially when the numbers are in their favor. Nagy’s creativity The tactics (Packers) Bears had trouble on the o-line Preston Smith is dangerous Bears missed some golden opportunities Praising the Packers db’s and their dime defense Packer’s will be dangerous on 1st downs in the new offense Leonard Floyd was a BOSS,, his growth could really help the defense

That was crap. Nagy outsmarted himself in the preseason and his offense just wasn't ready for this at all. One more thing is clear: If he does not have a good U TE on the field his offense doesn't function. That goes back to when he was with KC in the playoffs and he lost Kelce in the 2nd half, Burton out against the Eagles and here again tonight. After he was hired and he was on the flight to Chicago with Pace he told him how important that position was to his offense. He wasn't joking. If he's a good coach he'll find a way around this problem. On a positive note we have a really good defense even if there were a few calls in secondary that looked like players didn't know their responsibilities. That'll get fixed within a few games. Roquan Smith is elite. The energy he played with and hit with were really fun to watch. I don't know if we'll have RRH next season but if not we're going to wish we did. Floyd with a bull rush sack and he was in/around several other pressures too. Cody Whitehair didn't play well at the end and really killed the last drive all by himself. Charles Leno killed one earlier in the 4th quarter all by himself. Whitehair is about to be a new father which reportedly will happen any day. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he had family on his mind. Really the Oline as a whole looked out of sync too often. Did Javon Wims have more snaps than Miller? I never saw Miller until the last few minutes of the game. Trubisky looked lost most of the game. We see this every year in the first week or two of the season where teams play really poorly. Good teams fix it. No need to panic yet but of course we will.

He helped us win 12 games last year and has missed just a single game for which he needed surgery. He was 10th in receptions among TEs and 4th in TDs last year and fans want to get rid of him. http://www.nfl.com/stats/categorystats?tabSeq=1&season=2018&seasonType=REG&d-447263-n=1&experience=&d-447263-o=2&d-447263-p=1&conference=null&statisticPositionCategory=TIGHT_END&d-447263-s=RECEIVING_TOUCHDOWNS