jason

1. I didn’t watch it. 2. Why did Caleb suck? Bad throws? Bad scheme? Drops? 3. How did Santos miss the one FG? 4. Why did the Bears go for so many FGs? Or where did the offense stall? Outwardly, this looks like a game that the a bears should have won by 2+ TDs.

I think a QB who can breathe, slow the game down, see the field, anticipate the play, and make the throw under duress is the QB who becomes great in the NFL. The QB who can’t do that is destined for something other than greatness. Williams is still frantic at times, inaccurate too often, and that seemed like the type of play that Brady, Rodgers, Montana, et. al would have laser-guided to the outstretched hands of OZ. When he consistently sees those open receivers and hits them, I’ll believe it fully. Right now I’m just cautiously optimistic.

Oz and Kmet. More so Oz.

Nailed it, top to bottom. The combination of no pass rush and porous secondary makes average dudes like Flacco look great. When the Bears play great QBs they have a very good chance of getting eviscerated. That’s the scariest aspect.

Agree on Swift v Monangai. Swift seems pedestrian at times, and doesn’t hit the expected hole immediately, costing him yards. Monangai sees it, hits it, drives hard, and regularly picks up extra yards after contact.

NEVER.GETS.OLD

There were definitely some Justin Fields games where he was the best player and the primary reason for the win. As for today, love the win, love the clutch gene, but watch that last scrambling TD again. Two WRs wide open. WIDE OPEN. I would have been much more impressed if Caleb had stopped and fired a game-winning TD pass. As it stands now, the end of game scrambling heroics remind me of guess who? Fields again.

The EPA formula is so bogus in my opinion. Some things can’t be properly quantified.

Caleb reminds me some talented kids on my sons’ little league team. All the talent in the world, but something is missing mentally. Throw from 3rd? Gun it as hard as possible. Good throw and it’s an out. Throw from 2nd? Gun it as hard as possible. Now it’s an error and the runners are circling bases.

GOOD BETTER BEST!! I love that rallying cry. The team really seems to have bonded. Outwardly there is a great locker room culture right now.

That’s been my philosophy on here for years. Why draft a QB high if you’re not going to protect him and give him weapons? Looks like that’s finally occurring this year. I just wish they had believed in Kmet as #1 pass receiving TE and drafted someone to whelp the defense.

I love the win and the drama, but just because Loveland had a great play/game doesn’t mean it was a good pick. My comment was a reply to the concept that the selection is somehow proven as the right move. I still think it wasn’t, since the defense has massive holes and Kmet has been woefully underused.

Nah. If you have a wallet full of money in your left pocket, and then fill a new wallet with cash & put it in your right pocket, it doesn’t prove that the new wallet was a good purchase. It just proves you have two good wallets…and based on the score, holes in your socks.

Optimism as a Bears fan is not common. And it won’t come from me. Williams looks to me like Trubisky and Fields when it comes to making reads, going through progressions, and pocket presence. The main thing is, in addition to Williams having a way more talented arm, he also has better weapons and a far superior OL.

Make no mistake, he’s a blocking TE if that’s how the Bears use him. Unless they start really including him on offense, he’s primarily a blocking TE. Can he be a receiving TE? Sure. That’s the only reason a team would draft a TE in the first. But right now he’s a blocking TE.

I appreciate that you own it, but a 5-win team shouldn’t be spending a first round pick on a TE, much less a blocking TE. Blocking TEs go on day 3.

No real pass rush and 3rd string DBs is likely to make Flacco look like Brady. We’ve seen this movie many times over, where a journeyman is initially doubted, then torches the Bears for one of his best games of the year, and the people say, “Wow! Look at Player X! What a great day he had!” Whenever I expect good things from the Bears my heart is broken. So, I expect Flacco goes for 300+, puts up better numbers than Williams, and the Bears likely lose in excruciating fashion. In reality, Williams should have a breakout day, with 3+TDs - or passes that set up a few short running TDs - and make us all think he is still the man on which this franchise should rest its shoulders.

Where is Everyone who loved the Loveland pick? Where is the 12 personnel? Is it even being run? When it IS being run, is it even successful? When it IS being run, what’s the percentage of time the first round TE is blocking? Horrible pick at an unnecessary position. I know it’s early, but what a waste. He is underutilized, and so is the other good TE on the team.

Yes. No. No. Dude can make all the throws that mere mortals can’t, but can’t make the throws a garden variety NFL starter can. The things that’s crazy is, I’m still seeing guys WIDE OPEN. And many of them are wide open because of the scheme. For years I’d ask myself, “How the hell did GB receiver (insert name) get so wide open against our D?” Now I see it happening and the #1 overall QB reads defenses like someone who just started playing Madden.

BINGO! Every damn person with the Bears thinks they’re the smartest guy in the room. They reach. They trade. They go with “their” BPA 🙄 And the whole time everyone else is screaming otherwise. 90% of the fans say something different. Like this year with OT, DE, and RB. So what do the Bears do? TE and WR. 🤦🏻‍♂️ This has happened for literal decades now. I have said this for many years in a row: True BPA is stupid. You don’t draft Marino if you have Montana. At a certain point you must draft for need. It’s 100% necessary because a team is only as strong as its weakest link. The Bears should focus on huge names for football powerhouse programs, especially with a history of pumping out studs at a specific position. Want a WR? Start with Bama or LSU players. Want OL? Maybe focus on a kid from Iowa who throws hay bails for fun. It’s really not that difficult. That strategy may not find the hidden gems, but it’s got a lot better chance of avoiding catastrophe. But you do you, Poles. Cut Kmet at the end of the year and find another Shaheen.🙄

Keep in mind this foul has an undefined timing mechanism to it, as well as a perception angle. One, is the QB still the “passer”? He continues to be the passer until the pass ends or he participates, roughly. A lot of Refs have a “the ball is gone”-saying right after the throw, whether verbal or nonverbal, that acts as a timer. After the phrase equals a foul. Two, does the defender make “any” attempt to pull back weight? With the timing of “is he still a passer by definition” and the perception of “did the defender pull back,” there is a lot of wiggle room.

As stated, the training tapes I’ve seen from NFL guys makes it cut and dry. head contact w/ QB in the pocket = foul It’s almost like a facemask in that regard: no gray area. Even though the arm was hit first, he’s still by rule a passer. And therefore can still get the roughing call. To understand rules it’s often beneficial to take them to the extreme. If contact to the throwing arm were first, and a punch to the jaw were second, we obviously wouldn’t say, “He hit the throwing arm first!” Same concept.

Re: Fields, he never got a real shot here behind a historically bad OL. Dude ran for his life and realized running was better than getting killed. Add in coaching changes and scheme changes for the obvious result: bust. Like an apple that appears OK on the outside, the physical and psychological bruises are there, and cannot be taken back. He was ruined and it’s too bad. RE: Williams, I’m still waiting for a few breakout performances strung together. New Orleans should have been one. He’s got the physical skills, but I’m still not sure about mental.

Sorry, but they’re not going to call that often. He’s hitting the A-Gap and getting squeezed into the snapper. Arm on the snapper’s back? Sure. But 99% of the time that’s not getting called unless it’s worse and more direct with the snapper. Also, like I said before, there is no timing mechanism to the protection rule. Not one, two, or ten seconds. It’s all based on the officials’ perception of whether or not the snapper has had enough time to defend himself. Some players at lower levels, along with their bonehead coaches, think they just have to keep their head down for an extended period and that automatically results in indefinite protection. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

Maybe because young people make bad decisions at a greater rate than older people? Or maybe you haven’t heard everyone under 25 saying “six seeeveeeen” nonstop? Remember tide pods? Etc. I will be one of the many using halftime to get food and take a symbolic dump.