BearFan2000

I was commenting to my wife how much I hate the kickoff rules. It literally takes away the advantage of having a late lead that is 3 pts or less giving your opponent a good shot to start their drive close to mid field only needing 2-3 first downs to have a realistic shot. It puts more pressure on defenses at the end of the game to keep them out of range. Gone are the days of pinning your opponent inside their 10 with a min and change and like 1 time out. Even in a situation where your up by more than 3 points spotting your opponent that close to mid field makes it easier to get in range to score a TD.

Agree, we finally utilized his speed and put him in position to succeed. Better blocking in the run game. We couldn’t have won this game playing one dimensional.

Overcame the Comanders, the refs and their own brain farts.

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Swift and Moody deserve game balls. Hell of a game by swift

Yet Williams can take cheap shots and no flags

so sick of all these BS calls. Are we playing the Chiefs????

As ugly as this was I have to say that TD drive for what became the winning score showed a lot of determination and grit. These kind of wins are important I building character and enforces the fact that you don’t quit fighting till the clock hits zeros. I was worried about this game because of how we manhandled the cowboys last week. were it not for all the takeaways we wouldn’t have been in this. It sucks to get all those takeaways and have very little to show for it. Aside from the turnovers we got little if any pressure. And we let a struggling Raiders run game look dominant. At time we show no desire to tackle. The big plays (takeaways) are making these issues. offensive line struggled to give Willams time to throw and again got no push in the run game. The run game has been non existent so it’s not just today. This has to get better. I know we had backups in there. Crosby is an absolute menace. Didn’t realize how tall and big his wingspan is. He put on a clinic batting down passes. That was a tall order for a backup tackle making his first start.

Guess my Sundays will be cleared up. Watching this team is hazardous to my mental health

Defense playing with no pride or effort. Giving up 50+ points this is trestman level suckage

That was f’n BS! He was down by contact IN BOUNDS. Clock hit zero and they give the Lions 6 seconds extra to score a Free TD. SMH

A loss like that always stings and like others have said there's plenty of blame to go around and sometimes it's hard to look past the frustration of seeing us lose a game we should have won. Bad call/phantom penalties were a factor but good teams play through that and just fight harder the next down. They are no doubt frustrating and there were some doozies in this game at critical points in the game that helped the Vikings come back and win. Again not the reason we lost but definitly salt in the wound. Offense struggled to take advantage of opporutnities. Shooting ourselves with presnap penalties (4 false starts in the first half alone). No consistent run game at all. I felt like we were often behind the schedule putting us in long down and distance situations way too much. The timing of plays didn't feel consistent either like we were making it more difficult than it needed to be. Ben Johnson will not be pleased. On Defense I feel like we started out strong and had their offense rattled but as the game wore on I don't know if it was conditioning or what but we started getting sloppy and undisciplined. Tackling got poorer and poorer, defenders out of place. McCarthy looked lost in the first half but looked like he had all the confidence in the world in the second half. "Special" teams.... more like special ED. Can't think of anything good to say here.

I'm liking what I'm seeing as this coaching staff is coming together. I admit being worried about the sheer number of people interviewed and many on that list being awful options that George was going to again tie Poles hand and we'd not get a highly touted prospect like Johnson and end up with someone I'd have to convince myself to be ok with. Johnson is a first time Head Coach but he's coming from a winning culture and knows what a real NFL offense looks like. He does not seem to suffer from the "smartest guy in the room syndrome" We've had way too much of that. He strikes me as a guy who sets the bar high and expects a lot out of his players and pushes them. Now again, this is all on paper and till we see it on the field we won't know. What I'm looking for is not just how things go this coming season but can we have sustained success. Remember Nagy came in in 2018 and the team took a leap and we thought the future looked bright, but we know how that turned out. Johnson is inheriting a lot of talent on this roster that's been miss managed so I could see a vast improvement in year one. It's year two and beyond that will tell if he is the right man for the job. Love the Allen hire as DC as well. The key as others have pointed to is that the OL and DL coaches will be critical. Especially the OL. We have got to fix the OL or we're not going to go anywhere. We need better coaching, and better talent. IMO Poles has to get this right this offseason between the draft and FA. We cannot keep doing the patchwork plan it hasn't worked and it will not work. If Caleb has any chance to see his full potential here this has to get fixed or at least greatly improved.

It really is sad. A prevailing thought I had this season before I quit watching the games was that there is far too much talent on this roster to be this bad. That is both on the players for not playing up to their potential but a lot of it is on coaches for not being able to get the most out of their players. The Bears always like to talk about how good the culture is but in reality the culture seems ok with mediocrity and losing. I see a highly talented team playing very undisciplined football which tells me there has been no real accountability or setting a high expected standard. At this point I firmly believe that George can't help himself when it comes to meddling. The only reason Eberflus's name should come up in a post season presser is to note that he was fired because he was bad at his job. For once can this franchise be honest and call a spade a spade and not try to sugar coat it like their fan base is just a bunch of homers that will believe whatever they are told? Dude should have been fired last offseason. We always do things so backwards here. Last offseason would have been a perfect time to reset the coaching staff. Now Caleb will go into year 2 after a disastrously chaotic year one. He will have a new HC, new OC, QB coach etc. He'll be back to square one. As a longtime fan I have diminishing faith we'll ever get that right baring dumb luck. The Bears could write the definitive book on "How to ruin or kill your QB." Caleb's success going forward will depend highly on who the coaches will be and how resilient he is as a player and if he can put this past year behind him.

Just leave Flus in Detroit. Every week we find a new dumb way to lose. The moment we took a sack with 20 or so seconds on the clock you call the time out. Regroup and call a play to get a closer for a FG. Pint is we had the ball in field goal range down by 3 with time on the clock to try to win it in regulation. Not only do we play ourselves out of that possibility, we screw up so bad that the clock hits 0 with a time out in our pocket. At the very least we should have been able to force overtime. We are the laughing stock of the nfl.