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I heard Ifedi might be back too, or at least he is practicing. There were high hopes for him in the offseason. With Borom out we need someone better than Simmons on that side.

I know, my luck, several players potentially impacted by C19, don't have bench players on the same team to replace and since they will be the latest games, have to bench better players for ones that are guaranteed to play. Not fun.

If not for Kelce and Hill, I can't imagine what Mahomes would look like. He threw for 410 yds and 3 TDs on 31 completions. 22 went to Kelce/Hill for 339 yds and 3 TDs. So the rest of the offense outside of those two players had 9 receptions for 71 yards. Also, a ton of yards were after the catch and/or on a broken play. KC's receivers actually try to get open after a play breaks down. I just don't know why teams don't bracket Kelce and Hill. Have a guy underneath and over the top on every play. Make Mahomes beat you with Pringle and Hardman (who had 5 receptions for 33 yards).

This whole thing has been mismanaged from the beginning, not only in the NFL but everywhere.

I don't know if anyone watched TNF, but the Chargers went for it on 4th Down inside the 5 twice and another time within FG range and didn't convert any. The first one happened on the first drive of the game after a long kickoff return. Then they did it again to end the half knowing that KC was getting the ball in the 2nd half. This time from the 1. Then after KC opens the half with a FG, LAC does it again. Goes for it on 4th and 2 from the 28 and they don't get it. If they kicked one of those FGs, they win the game. I understand being aggressive, but at some point it has to be balanced with some sanity. Staley has been praised for his coaching, which is awesome and refreshing, but this decision-making reminded me of Nagy, except Nagy would've punted from the 28.

For Kingsbury, it helps when you have a top 5 defense, a WR Corps of Hopkins, Kirk, Green and Moore, Murray at QB and Ertz at TE. Having coached Murray is obviously a huge bonus. You can implement things that are 2nd nature to him which very few HCs get to do. There seems to be 3 options, a HC who brings in an OC and DC and they run their own schemes, a HC who is offensive-minded with his own offensive scheme, or a HC who is defensive-minded with his own defensive scheme. The trend seems to be going towards the offensive-minded HC with his own scheme.

but I thought the vaccine prevents COVID? *kidding*

So apparently Lazor, Desai, and Tabor have all been placed in the C19 protocol. You almost can't make this up: I am not saying these are inaccurate, but for how bad Robinson, Jackson, and Goldman have played, they will barely be missed. However, this looks pretty ugly. So Fields gets Jenkins and Simmons as his bookend tackles against MIN who leads the league in sacks. Lovely.

The Buffalo Offensive Line will look like All Pros compared to what Trubisky had. He is also throwing to Diggs, Sanders, Beasley, Knox, and Davis. His RBs can all catch the ball out of the backfield, so he has a check with Singletary, Moss, and Breida. I am sure he will look very solid.

At this point, they need to find the best combination. Jenkins better dominate on the right side, otherwise that draft pick seems a little high for a RT.

It would offset and they would rekick. However, Nagy could go for it at that point, which was the right thing to do in the first place.

The TalkBears FFB Playoffs are set: 1 - Savage - BYE 4 The Mad Lith vs 5 Fields of Dreams 2 - MotM - BYE 3 The Bunny vs 6 Nips&Tips Good luck everyone. I had a 1.7 pt loss this season which cost me a first-round bye and the #1 seed. That is why every week and every point matters.

There is contact, it doesn't say how much. Also, #24 held (bear hugged) Vildor right after coming back in, but that wasn't called. How does the official see Vildor take 4 steps 1 foot out of bounds, but miss that?

Screw ARob, Fields literally pointed at him, and he just walks off the field and his guy forces Fields out. Who knows, a partial block and Fields could've picked up some additional yards. ARob didn't even attempt to catch a pass thrown to him in the End Zone and didn't come back to the ball on another pass. I would sit him the rest of the year. Let him try to get a decent offer with this game as his last game before free agency. This is also why I wanted Furrey, the WR Coach fired months ago. Between Wims and Miller, there were always discipline issues, then this year, the entire WR room was underperforming terribly. If Mooney didn't have 2 big games against DET, he would be right there with the others. ARob, Mooney, Goodwin, Byrd was supposed to be a very solid room and they ended up being arguably the worst group in the NFL and that says a lot.

If he had no practice and didn't study the opponent, then he was basically going in blind. I don't hold judgment on him for the penalties, and at least he didn't completely whiff on a guy or get bulled over. As long as he can get some game reps and end the season healthy, that will be huge for his development.

There definitely was a difference, same rule, different penalty. Also, Vildor had to run out voluntarily, which by the rulebook states "without being contacted by a receiving team player". I thought the guy had an arm on Vildor as he was going out of bounds. If not, then it's on Vildor, but if there was contact, then Vildor can go out and back in. For the Packers player, even if forced out, he has to attempt to return inbounds in a reasonable amount of time, otherwise, it is an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. He ran 25 yards, 5 yards deep out of bounds, that seems excessive. It was more clear of a penalty than Vildor's. When the All-22 is up, I will take a look, but if Vildor is in contact with a defender in any way, it's not an instant penalty. If he runs out to avoid contact it is. Here is the rule:

I am just saying I am not as optimistic about him as I was coming into this season. As long as we can get a true WR1 and a true Slot WR, he is fine to be on the opposite side outside.

That's it. It doesn't excuse Nagy or anything else, but when officiating is like this, it is impossible to win. The GB player is not getting pushed out any more than Vildor was. They were both trying to get outside leverage and the other player was pushing them outside. After Vildor is out, he immediately gets back into the field of play. What sucks is neither of these guys impact the play. Why even throw the flag? The Bears got the flag thrown on them because GB muffed the punt. That literally flipped the field and the game by 14 pts. It should've been no worse than 38-36 (if Bears attempted and missed a 2pt conversion) when the Bears got the onside kick and had the ball at the GB 27. It should've been a 44 yard GW FG for Santos. Instead it looks like a blowout. If you didn't watch the game, it looks worse. All you will hear about is the 2nd half collapse. Once Roquan went out, the floodgates opened. Not much they could do with 6 2nd stringers in. It sucks that they lost, but worse when the officials are involved. Feels very similar to the Steelers game.

Yep, Jenkins looked like a guy who has played football in over a year. Let's just throw him in at LT on SNF on the road. Outside of Fields and Jenkins, what else is there to watch? I have really soured on Mooney. He can't make contested catches and has way too many balls go off his hands that turn into INTs. How many of Fields INTs were Mooney targets? He is fading to a WR3 for me. Of his 3x 100 yd games, 2 are against the Lions and the other was against the Ravens where he was targeted 16 times and only caught 5 passes. ARob can just go on IR. I don't want to see him in a Bears jersey again. The minute he got hit with the franchise tag, he checked out. Good riddance.

The 2nd half showed Nagy's ineptitude as a HC. Zero adjustments on offense. Outside of the Pick-6, the Bears were outplaying the Packers in every phase in the first half. Once Smith went out, you could tell the defense just didn't have the horses, which sucks because up until that point, they were hanging in there. What also sucks is the officials impacted the game again. They called Vildor on a bogus penalty when the Packers muffed the punt. That ended up being a 14 point swing. What should seal Nagy's fate is that was the punt where he punted on 4th and 1 down 11. Two weeks in a row, he put his tail between his legs and basically gave the game away. Then the officials took over. On the punt where Grant stumbled backwards, there was a Packers play running 5 yards in the Bears sideline making no attempt to get back onto the field. That was not called, but Vildor's was, who immediately came back onto the field. The Packers covered. The Bears could've been going for a 44 yard FG to win it on the last drive after the onside kick.

With that loss the Bears are eliminated from realistic playoff contention. They need to fire Nagy now.

Offensive Balance? The Bears have rushed 17 times (counting Fields scrambles) and attempted 16 passes. Mooney is looking terrible and weak, I would stop throwing to him. Kmet still can't get separation, they need to look to James or Graham more. No WR or TE has more than 2 receptions for the Bears. Adams has been targeted 6 times for the Packers.

The Bears have receptions of 54, 46, and 19 with 2x 20 yard runs. The Packers have receptions of 38, 32, 25, and 20. The Bears secondary is terrible. Jackson had his first PBU of the season, then whiffed on Adams TD catch and hit Crawford instead, who is now out of the game. Talk about a double negative. Can we just shoot Jackson to the moon. He is the leader of the worst secondary in the league. Outside of Johnson, everyone else is terrible. Lazard has 4 receptions on 4 targets, the TEs have 5 receptions on 5 targets. They all have been wide open uncontested catches. That has to be fixed.

One of the wildest 2nd quarters I can remember, 45 pts total, Bears scored 24, Packers 21. The Bears go into the half with a 27-21 lead and the Packers offense has only scored 14 points. The quarter saw a Pick-6, a Punt Return TD, 2 Bears TD catches over 46 yards, a Packers TD catch of 38 yards, and a Packers 4th Down conversion for a TD. I didn't expect a shootout but it looks like it is going to take 35+ to win this one. I feel like the Bears need to put up 17 more (41 pts) to win this. 27 pts matches the season-high in a game (against PIT). The Bears have allowed 33 or more points 4 times, and lost all 4 games. If you count the PIT and CLE games, they are 0-6 when they allow 26 or more.

The Bears had a 10-0 lead, it's now 14-10 Packers and their offense only scored 7. The Bears are the poster child on the different ways to lose games.