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Not that PFF holds much weight, but Williams posted a 74.8 PFF Grade for the MIN game. That is his 4th game over 70 (great games), and his only 2 games under 50 (bad games) were Weeks 1 and 2.

As of today: The Bears first 4 draft picks in 2025: 12, 40 (CAR), 43, and 74. I would not be opposed to 4 trench players, 2 offense, 2 defense preferably. I am sure they will mix another position in there like Safety, CB, WR, or TE. IOL, DT, Edge, OT, S, CB, WR, TE feel like the top needs.

Some underlying good signs: Week 12 - 3rd fastest TTT while the Offense had 8th best EPA/P, against a Flores led defense. This follows Week 11, which saw the Bears have the 2nd fastest TTT, and 6th best EPA/P. To me that shows it is sustainable. If those numbers were grossly different from each other, I would say that there was some randomness involved. That is very consistent for 8+ quarters now. Can you imagine this offense against IND, HOU, NE, or WAS? The Bears probably win all 4 of those games with this offense, when the defense was playing stout. Such a bummer.

Oh absolutely, he has a low trajectory from distance but this is not something new. Watch the MIN GWFG, the OL actually gets push and protects the flight of the ball. The Bears guys are flat footed and get run over. They need to be attacking. I have no idea why they are not trying to push forward and engage vs waiting to get bulled over. The same with the muffed punt and penalty on ST. There are about 10-15 ST snaps a game. The Bears can't afford to have 3-4 negative plays a game on those snaps.

How about launching Hightower with him. Blocked FGs in back to back games? Terrible coverage and return units. Almost always a penalty on kicks/punts, and then the muffed punt. What exactly is Hightower getting paid to do?

Lions open as -10.5 favorites, with the O/U at 48.5. That projects to a 29.5 - 19 game. It feels like Lions and the over is an easy parlay.

The disaster is going to be on defense. Both Addison and Hockenson had over 100 yards receiving, Darnold had over 300 yards and Jones was over 100 rushing. Can you imagine what Goff, St. Brown, LaPorta, Monty, and Gibbs are going to do? Goff is going to shred Flus' defense so easily, it is not going to be funny. I think Caleb will keep it competitive, but it feels like if Darnold and Minnesota can score 30 on the Bears, Goff will score no less than 30. I am praying for another solid game by Caleb. However, on short rest, Thursday Night on the road doesn't feel like the best scenario for the Bears to be competitive in general. Even the Special Teams has been subpar over the last few weeks. How do you not shore up the blocking on a FG to get kicks blocked in back to back weeks. That was also the deciding score in the game.

He had that ridiculous throw to Allen between two defenders, then followed it up to that silly pass down the sideline to Swift. Just like last week against GB, he was electric in the 4th Q.

This will be the nationally televised disaster that gets Flus fired. That is my hope at least. I honestly thought we could not get a worse coach than Trestman, but the Bears have hit a new low with Eberflus. What an absolute joke and fraud of a coach. His limit is as a Defensive Coordinator. He is not a Head Coach. The first year was masked by the rebuild. The 2nd year was Fields. There was no excuse this year. It is the same result with a new way to lose week in and week out. He can't win a challenge, does not know how or when to use timeouts, and the team is always unprepared. Now with the defense failing, there is zero reason to keep him as the HC. If you are going to fire him at the end of the season, fire him now. Lions 38-23, this game will be over by halftime, probably 31-13 by halftime. The Bears defense is going to get shredded by Goff because Flus refuses to rush more than 4 while playing zone coverage 10 yards off every receiver. I have never seen a softer defense that what the Bears have shown since the NE game. The pain should be over by 3pm.

If this is actually Brown's work, they just need to make him the interim HC and kick Flus to the curb. With such a short turn around, I am just hoping for a solid game out of Williams and keep the team competitive throughout the game. A win would be great for morale, but a loss would help out immensely for the draft position.

Yeah, it's crazy with the drops. Also, if he targeted Allen less, his numbers and comp% would be way higher. He now has 3x 300-yd games in his first 11 games. Fields has 2x in his entire career. Daniels has 1x and it was against the Bears and aided by the Hail Mary, he had 326 that game. Nix only has 1x 300-yd game (307). Maye has zero. So Caleb has the two highest passing yard games (364 and 340) for all the rookies this year and more 300-yd games than all the other rookies combined (3-2).

How many straight losses will it take? We are at 5, will be 6 in 4 days. The last 3 will be in the Division. One of the most damning things I have seen outside of the normal stuff was the words of encouragement that KOC gave to Caleb after the game. That was better feedback than anything Flus has done for Caleb to date.

Also, Caleb's post game comments are telling: Waldron should've been gone at the bye. What could've been. Another wasted season.

1. JAX 2-9 2. NYG 2-9 3. LVR 2-8 ------------ 4. NE 3-9 5. CAR 3-8 6. TEN 3-8 7. NYJ 3-8 8 CLE 3-8 ----------- 9. NO 4-7 10. CIN 4-7 11. DAL 4-7 12. CHI 4-7 13. IND 5-7 With the expected loss against the 10-1 Lions on Thanksgiving, the Bears will have lost 6 straight, 3 division games in back to back to back weeks AND 2 games in 4 days. That would drop them to 4-8 with 5 to play. DAL somehow beat WSH and may win a few more than I thought. CLE won, and NO have won 2 straight. TEN just beat HOU, so the Bears actually have a chance to creep into the top 5. I assumed #7 but that was with both TEN and CLE losing this week. Even with one win and finishing at 5-12, the Bears will probably get a top 10 pick. So that will be 3 picks in the top 40.

Allen was targeted 15 times in the loss. He may be a problem. Moore was targeted 7 times for 7 receptions. Kmet had 10 targets and 7 receptions. In the 5 straight losses, Allen has 56 targets, 24 receptions, 1 TD

Thru 11 games: 1. Moore - 566, needs 72 per game for 1K 2. Odunze - 518, needs 80 per game for 1K 3. Kmet - 422 4. Allen - 368, needs 105 per game for 1K 5. Scott - 0, needs 167 per game for 1K Both Moore and Odunze have a shot.

32-47, 68.1%, 340 yds, 7.2 Y/A, 2 TD, 0 INT, 103.1 Rating +33 rushing yards against MIN is one of the top 3 games against the MIN defense this year. He now has the Bears rookie record for passing in a season. 2nd highest passing game with 340 yards and 3rd 300-yd game. 4th multi-TD pass game. 9 TD and 1 INT since starting 2-4. He is up to 214 passing yards a game, which would put him at 3,638 for the season. To get to 3,839 (Bears team record), he would need to average 247 yards per game the rest of the way. He is averaging 285 per game since Brown took over as OC.

Yeah, pretty much. Also, if they just went for the XP, that last second FG would've won it.

That was absolutely on Caleb, but where is the dump off, hot route, no one open. He is forced to be Superman. That is going to happen.

The Flus defense is now all fluff. 4-man that gets no pressure with coverage that plays off? Hilariously bad.

There is zero doubt, absolutely zero doubt that Caleb Williams is elite, and a franchise QB. He just torched the Vikings vaunted defense for 330 passing yards and 2 TDs while scoring on back to back drives in less than 30 seconds. Unbelievable poise. Regardless of the outcome, we have our QB.

How Minnesota has scored 24 pts: 34 yard reception + Nick Mullen gets 3rd Down conversion - 3 pts Carter muffs punt - 7pts 69 yard reception - 3 pts FG Blocked + 35yd DPI - 7pts 45 yard reception - 7pts

Can you believe holding Justin Jefferson to 1 reception for 7 yards, 0 TDs on 4 targets and losing?

If it wasn't the Bears it is probably a good idea. If you get it, you can win with a TD+XP or tie with 2x FGs. If you don't get it, you can still tie with a TD+2PT.

I am glad Caleb finally got a passing TD, but man, I am so sick of targeting Allen, which missed on the 2pt attempt.