jason

Bingo. Good if not great OL and everything changed. Now the Bears are suddenly an offensively oriented team with weapons all over the place. A team to be feared. Getting kudos on a national stage. Ranked highly. Caleb is being called a budding superstar. Etc. OL is why the draft class looks good.

I noticed this too. It carries positives and negatives. Positive: hard to defend Negative: superstar WRs are not likely to come here due to the lack of targets

I don’t think so. I think it all correlates to what I’ve been saying for years about the OL. Fix the OL and suddenly other players can perform. With last year’s OL, people would be saying Williams might be a bust, Swift is wasted money, Burden can’t get open, and Monangai can’t find a hole.

That play also felt poorly designed. You do the hook and lateral to a side where another receiver is at, which carries with it at least one extra defender? Seems like the receiver in back should have been running a post or something.

Does anyone else think Caleb gives up on the play too quickly about 2-3 times a game?

Two uncharacteristic drops by young players. Pressure bursts pipes. Either way, I hope they learn from it.

Welp. Here we go. Time for the Bears to do what they have done multiple times this year. This game has been an absolute indication of the severe pass rushing flaws. Every single draft pick in the first three rounds should be DL.

Screen to McCaffrey looked to have forward motion at the snap. Very close to illegal motion. Certainly more worthy than the millisecond late delay of game call on the Bears.

Collinsworth had to hit his quota of meat-riding Mahomes and Erin Rodgers. Dude has always been biased against the Bears.

3/G from the 11 and three receivers ended up in the exact same space over the middle. Either a terrible play design or someone ran the wrong route.

The Umpire who appeared to talk the Referee out of it. Both were accelerated through the officiating ranks very quickly. The Referee, Alex Moore, is overly confident and it causes mistakes.

If/when the Bears beat SF, Will they have anything left to play for against Seattle?

WTF is nfelo? Is it a web series from Wisconsin?

Then I hope he gets blasted on the first possession. It’s not enough for the packers to lose. They must suffer.

Concur, especially bolded. Same as the offense; build an awesome line and the rest benefits, but the reverse isn’t necessarily true. No shocker that the OL FINALLY got some love and we’re trending significantly upward. Build the DL and the rest can be Kwiatkoski, Sanborn, etc.

I’d hate to lose DJ or Kmet. I wasn’t really a fan of drafting Burden. And I despised the Loveland. On the other hand, I’ve always complemented the Patriots for getting rid of players before significant skill deterioration or unnecessarily punitive cap hit. So, maybe the Bears are leaning towards multi-year success?

The fact that Purdy threw five TDs to McCaffrey, a hobbled Kittle, and three dudes I couldn’t pick out of a lineup is very worrisome. If the DL doesn’t get pressure, this could be a difficult game.

That’s why I want more passing.

Quick reaction: Caleb throws off his back foot, from irregular mechanics, and oddly far too often. But he’s a great talent and gets away with it. He also bails on the throw too quickly. He should either stay in and find a receiver or just run sometimes. What’s frustrating is that if he cleaned that up he’d have a chance to be amazing.

HOOLLLLEEEEE SHIIIIIIIT

OMG this game. A muffed snap?! This game is going to kill multiple people in Chicago tonight.

Amen

I’m sure my heart just lost a week of life just now.

LOL! Good one!

That illegal shift is MADDENING! What bullshit!!! I’ve heard NUMEROUS NFL OFFICIALS talk about this exact concept. Every time they mentioned it had to create an advantage gained for the offending team. This did not. Furthermore, the one second set rule is more guideline than a hard rule, even if it is in the rule book. No official watches the players stop, get still, then runs a “one thousand one” in his head. It’s waaay overly technical, and shouldn’t have been called.