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At this point, it is play design for me. Fields naked off PA to the side of an unblocked Watt who didn't bite on the run fake, come on. Let's run stick routes 70% of the time (which I hate btw) for a 20% completion pct, then run every other route 30% of the time for an 80% success rate, but keep going back to sticks. Two passes near the end of the game with what looks like only two receivers in a route, both double covered, leaving Fields no choice but to attempt to scramble. He needs some outlets and those just haven't been there for him.

Fields look better than Love and every rookie QB outside of Jones. Even then Jones is dinking and dunking his way down the field. I think the stats will bear this out by the end of the year. Love is going to be a bust. He will be here without Davante Adams in a year or two.

So hard to judge the team when there was a flag thrown against the Bears on every drive for either team. That doesn't include the non calls against the Steelers. This may have been the worst called game I have ever watched. Fields is legit, Borom is playing solid, the defense held up down 4 starters. WRs played better but still don't get any separation. Kmet was 6-87. Regardless 3-7 looms large going into bye.

Drew Brees made a point about this. He said that a ton of Rodgers great plays are non-traditional or things that guys like Love shouldn't be emulating, especially as a young QB. In practice, those passes can be made, but in a game, those are INTs. The other issue is very similar to other QBs, Rodgers' offense is Rodgers offense, not GBs where they can plug any QB not named Rodgers into. That was has been this way for at least the last 6-7 years. GB is 9-14 when someone other than Rodgers has started since he took over as starter. Everyone is spouting off on how great LaFleur is with a 33-8 record. His record without Rodgers is 0-1. He is 2-2 in the playoffs and one of those wins was against Jared Goff. Let's see how good he is w/o Rodgers for a full season.

Yeah, it's not like you bench someone like him, but every week he gets less than 20 pts pretty much is a guaranteed loss.

Perfect week for rookie QBs: Jones 12-18, 139 yds, 1 TD, 1 INT, 2 rushes for 4 yds. Lawrence 15-26, 118 yds, 0 TD, 0 INT, 3 rushes for 4 yds. Wilson and Lance DNP. Fields has some huge performances to follow this week. ?

A Bears win with Fields going off seems like the only outcome based on Sunday's games.

They did it without Henry which is mind boggling. They made Stafford look like backwards hat Matty Stafford who throws pick-6s for a living. He had one 1 garbage time TD, that's it, now that's the Stafford we all know and love. Speaking of Love, did anyone see his performance against one of the worst defenses in the NFL? 7 pts, shutout for 55 minutes, scored on 53 yard drive. A QBR of 27.4. That's after sitting for a year watching arguably a top 5 QB of all time, getting first team reps and multiple pre season games in the off season.

Could be but man he looks bad. He now has strung 3 straight replacement player games in a row. Mahomes the last 3 games: 216 yds/g, 0.66 TD/g, 0.66 INT/g.

Jags also beat the Bills. Crazy week.

Mahomes was 20-37, 54.1%, 166 yards and 1 TD. Again bad game from him.

In the offseason, the guy lied about his vaccine status saying he was "immunized", never wore a mask, was in close contact with hundreds, if not thousands of people, who assumed he was vaccinated, and he wasn't. Pretty dirtbag move, but not surprising from him. I could care less if you are vaccinated or not, but it just seems odd that he would go this whole time acting like that. I am sure he will get off with a fine or something minor because he has some pics of the commissioner.

If Fields turns out to be a legit franchise QB, it is all worth it and won't matter.

I guess it really doesn't matter, as it gives us a better second round pick and so on.

They also have the 6th pick from themselves. Two top 10 picks is a great position to be in. Bears will pick 40th for their first pick (currently).

The team has to shore up the OL and get a real WR1. I would bring back Jesse James as TE2 and the TE room will be good enough. After that, if they can upgrade on the OLine, get Jenkins and Borom to lock down the bookends, then add a true WR1 to Mooney, Kmet, Montgomery, Herbert and obviously Fields, that is a pretty solid offense. I would love for the Bears to draft Olave to reunite with Fields. They have such a connection, it would look like Burrow to Chase. On defense, guys with big contracts or looking to get paid are underproducing. Goldman sat out a year and now looks like this? He is a ghost. They are going to have to address DL with a least one stud, then upgrade at Safety and CB2/3. In regards to grades, Daniels is a 65.9, Whitehair is a 64.7 (above average) and Mustipher is a 48.7 (belove average), Borom is grading out at 55.3 (average) and Peters is 78.3 (All-Pro level). Ifedi was a 60.3 before getting hurt. So the weak link is the Center, which makes the Guards worse.

After a lousy performance, try 3. They have lost 3 straight and 2 at home. Looking ahead, it could easily be 5 straight losses going into Thanksgiving game on short rest at 3-7. What sucks is of all years to suck is when you don't have a 1st Round pick. NYG may end up with 2 top 10 picks.

We can't even hit quick slants. OBJ would be an upgrade, just don't know about the other stuff.

Yeah Ogletree has been good value.

On the field, his game is much more in line than ARobs. OBJ can get separation and knows how to do a scramble drill. ARob can do neither. However, there is no way he is going to a losing team.

With the way Fields has been running lately, you add that to a healthy Monty and Herbert in the backfield at the same time with some misdirection. That is going to cause some havoc. Look at what Baltimore does with Jackson.

In place of Jackson, DHC had a pretty good game all things considered (defense being overall terrible). What is crazy to me is with his limited playing time all season, DHC is now 5th on the team in tackles, tied for 2nd in Passes Defended (3), and tied for 1st with INT (1). That shows two things, one he has been above average, two, the overall defense outside of Smith, Jackson, Quinn, and Mack have been terrible.

Steelers at home only favored by 6.5 is shocking. That's only 3.5 pts on neutral field which means Vegas thinks this game will be closer than the SF game where the Bears were underdogs at home. There is a chance that Mack and Monty will be back. Borom now has a full week under his belt. I am not confident that the Bears can get a win outside of playing DET, NYG, and MIN. So this is probably a loss unless Fields takes another step in his development. The defense was literally a wet paper bag last week. If they are not better, it is going to be a long night. Steelers 31-24 Bears defense still bad, Bears offense a little better (3 TDs).

Monty back at practice, has a chance to play on Monday. Monty+Herbert would be pretty formidable 1-2 punch.

One of the issues with the Chiefs is cap space, this was his last year on his rookie deal at $7.4M a year. Next year it balloons to $35.8M, an increase of $28.4M. So that is like losing 2-3 high paid starters. If the Chiefs look like this now, how will they look with 3 additional replacement level players starting? The answer is worse. Another thing that occurred is he got married and had a kid. We have seen a ton of players change when that occurs. Based on all the TikTok videos by his brother, he doesn't seem to be too concerned with improving or fixing what is wrong.