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Herbert comes in and busts a 22 yarder. He has incredible vision.

3rd Down completion for a 1st to Mooney.

Ugh, the predictable run on first for a loss. Need to go play action on first. Already behind the sticks. For some reason Williams starting instead of Herbert.

I wrote him off too, didn't know he played the entire year at like 60%.

Defense forces a FG, no good. 0-0. Great start for the defense. A couple of close calls on INTs, I think the Bears get one against Jimmy G. Chris Tabor pumped on the sideline.

Already a bad spot against the Bears, 3rd and 2, doesn't get to LOS, give them a yard. Allows them to convert on 4th. Quinn with a huge TFL on a quick screen. Quinn then causes a holding. He looks so good. Then gets held again but no call this time.

Eddie Jackson hurt on the 2nd play, looked like his hamstring. Hate to see injuries but I guess we get to see how they do without him now.

Monty has one more year on his rookie deal and has been very solid for the Bears over the last two years. I can't wait to get him back in the lineup where the Bears will have a real 1-2 punch in Monty and Herbert. Thru last week, with Monty missing a few games, their stats are very similar but they are completely different runners: Monty 69-309, 4.5 Y/A, 6-49. Herbert 58-279, 4.8 Y/A, 7-48. If Herbert keeps this up, and looks legit in a small sample size, the Bears will have to decide if they want to extend Monty, which seemed like a no-brainer just a few weeks ago. Now, I don't know. If Herbert is running this good and you can bring in a true fullback, it might be more cost-effective to let Monty walk as not many 2nd RB contracts have been working out lately. If you want to keep Monty, what do you believe would be a fair contract for both sides? McCaffrey leads with $16M APY. The bottom end of the 2nd contract guys is around $12M with Aaron Jones. The 2nd Tier is a guy like Melvin Gordon that got $8M APY who comps very similar to Montgomery at the same age. RB seems risky due to injury outside of a guy like Henry. Thoughts?

I have a feeling this SF game will determine a lot. A loss should make them sellers. However, even with a win, I would still look to move any of the following players: 1. ARob - The Bears will get a 2023 comp pick for him, probably a 3rd or 4th, but that can be negated by acquiring FAs, so the guaranteed compensation is thru a trade now. Take a 4th or 5th in 2022 if you can get it. He has been basically a waste of a roster spot s WR1. Bring up Adams or Thompson and see what happens. 2. Foles - To get anything for him and some cap relief that can carry over to next year makes sense. Obviously, you can only move one of the two backup QBs. 3. Jackson - This would be a massive addition by subtraction. It feels like Desai is playing him just because of his contract. DHC has already had more impact plays in a fraction of the snaps. Take him for anything. 4. Graham - Still the biggest head-scratcher of the offseason. 1 reception thru Week 7. A no-brainer. Take a conditional 7th rounder. 5. Trevathan - Has missed several games but seems like he is healthy; I don't know how much better he is than Ogletree or Jones at this point. Cap savings if you can do it. 6. Dalton - This one is dependent on Foles. Move one of these two for a pick and some cap relief. 7. Williams - Not much cap savings, but enough to consider it. Would save pro-rated $1M, will depend on Monty and Cohen status. 8. Gipson - If you move Jackson, then you keep him. However, if Jackson is not moved, consider moving Gipson who has been another disappointment on the backend. A lot of injuries around the league, and Gipson could provide quality depth to a contender. If the Bears do make some moves, there is a chance they can also be buyers (for the right player), and for the right term. WR - Jamison Crowder - would be a cheap ARob replacement, others to consider: Robby Anderson, Brandon Cooks S - Marcus Maye - in the final year of his contract, if you could somehow miraculously move Jackson, then add Maye? That would be sweet. How about a swap? Jackson for Maye, who says no? TE - Evan Engram - in the final year of his rookie deal, would be cheap and add something to the offense that is missing. Thoughts? I am sure the Bears do nothing at the deadline, but I hope they shed some of the older guys, especially in a loss. They need more draft capital.

Nagy out for sure, Bears by 20! BEAR DOWN!

They literally get everything to go their way. ARZ has 2nd and goal, down only by 3 and throws an INT. Mistake throwing to Green there. Rodgers calling for a flag DURING the play. Did anyone see the timeout call? Same as Fields, but he argued with the refs and they gave him the timeout instead of delay of game penalty.

I don't know about that. With any job, you could have bad QA/QC, bad marketing, etc. If you fire or relieve a VP of marketing, that doesn't mean they are the scapegoat if the lack of performance from marketing is impacting the business negatively. I am just saying if upper management is not going to fire Nagy, that shouldn't stop him from removing underperforming coaches at this point in the season. I am also not saying Nagy is a problem, he is a huge problem, but if we can't fix that now, at least do something to improve the team during the season.

One thing people may be overlooking is the Bears opponents. The Bears have 4 losses against GB 7-1, TB 6-1, LAR 6-1, and CLE 4-3. GB, TB, and LAR are in the top 4 teams in the league right now and CLE is a playoff team. The Bears even beat CIN 5-2 and LVR 5-2, who are the #1 and #2 seeds in the AFC. Outside of the Lions, Bears opponents are 29-8 against the rest of the league. That is an insane schedule. It is the toughest schedule by a lot. The 2nd toughest schedule is Detriot's lol.

Luckily that is not allowed. If he is not cleared, this is a great way to measure his impact on the team. A win probably shows that he is negatively impacting the team (or not helping it), but a loss may mean he does have some positive value to the team. Right now, no one knows. SF has looked terrible, if we can't beat them, then you literally have to start the firesale on Monday.

I wouldn't say to do it as a scapegoat. More to the point of accountability. The WRs may be the most disappointing and underperforming unit on the entire team, and that says a lot considering the O-Line and Safeties. The Bears replaced Miller and Wims with Goodwin and Byrd, both established WRs with a ton of speed. They are basically AWOL. ARob has literally fallen off of the map so bad from being considered a top 10 WR last year to being dropped by Fantasy Teams this season. That shows how much his production has fallen. Mooney will be lucky to match what he did as a rookie last season w/o a preseason as a 2nd year WR with a full offseason. People talk about developing players. The Head Coach doesn't directly develop players, those are the position coaches and coordinators. As much as Nagy should get the blame for the horrible offensive design and playcalling, he is less to blame for players not developing. Where is Kmet's leap? There are very few Bears players that are improving from one year to the next. The best one I can think of is Trevis Gipson, but who knows if that is learning from Mack and Quinn every day. So at some point, someone has to be accountable for this mess. It is easy to remove the figurehead as a statement, but sometimes the lesser moves have more of an impact. Something is clearly not working in the WR room.

It is infuriating. It's literally one play a drive and with no WRs getting open, bad play design and a bad O-Line, that is incredibly hard to overcome. The crazy part about the play action is Fields is lethal w/ PA, yet they rarely call it. Most of his sacks and INTs come from non-PA calls. This is not rocket science.

We have one of the top 10 running games in the league and are 32nd in scoring. That is completely on coaching.

It is mind-boggling to me. I don't think so. I was mainly concentrating on pass plays, but will relook on the runs. For runs, there are only so many places you can run, so the run may look the same but come out of a different formation.

Nagy only knows one system and that was with an All-Pro WR (Hill) and TE (Kelce) to include guys like Kareem Hunt who were solid RBs. Between Hill and Kelce, one is always open. The Bears don't have a WR or TE that is anywhere near those two. So you can't run the same offense, it won't work. This is NFL historically bad, not just Bears or recent Bears, this is league-wide and even pre-SB era bad. No offense to any monkeys out there, but you could have a monkey mash on a button with a play on it and it would be as effective as Nagy has been.

As a Center, you have to be quick or strong, Mustipher is neither. He is not bad, especially for a UDFA, but there was a reason he went undrafted. He filled in admirably last year, but instead of taking a step forward, he has plateaued pretty quickly, which again makes sense based on his draft status.

What is so odd is the offense rarely goes "back to the well" on plays. I understand we are trying to be edgy teens and offensive masterminds, but if a play worked and they couldn't stop it, call it again later. Then you have the option of running the same play (did the defense correct itself) or running a wrinkle off it they didn't see the first time. The one promising thing that I am seeing with Fields is he is going thru his progressions and reading the defense. Go back and watch Trubisky for most of his games. It was hike, stare, throw, or hike, stare, scramble. That is also why Fields is getting sacked so much, because he is going thru his progressions and no one is open. The offense needs to scheme guys open and have blitz beaters available. I haven't seen any yet. Maybe with Nagy out, they have a chance to put something in.

He is undersized and getting abused up the gut and still mishandling snaps. If you gain +10 at center by moving Daniels there, and only lose -8 to Bars or Ifedi taking over for Daniels at RG, it is a net positive. I agree on chemistry part, but if Daniels ends up next to Ifedi or Bars (because they both slide inside), then Daniels just needs to get in sync with Whitehair again. After Tackles, Center is the most important position on the line.

Both would be huge news. From the looks of the line, I know you hate to disrupt them but when healthy, I would go with Peters-Whitehair-Daniels-Ifedi/Bars-Borom after the bye. After RT, Center has been the weakest link.

He looked better than pretty much every other RT this year in his limited time (not saying much I know).

I am torn on this too. I don't know how much better Dalton would've done getting hit in under 2 seconds. I feel like Fields issues are ones that need in game reps to fix. I don't know how he learns from the sidelines. At most they are listening to the communications and play calls. There not much of a view from the sidelines.