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Sure, but as bad as he has been (an immobile) with Mack and Co. having another week to get in shape and prepare could be ugly for old Sammy.

Early games, still early, but GB down 28-10 and MIN down 27-0 to the Bills, Wow. If they both lose, and we win, we would be 1st in the division at 2-1. Now wouldn't that be something?

This is a must win, beat the teams you are supposed to beat. Bradford is brutal and probably won't last a quarter. Johnson does not look the same since coming back from injury and Fitzgerald is the only receiving threat. I want to see a full game this time, with significant progress for the offense and Trubisky. After seeing Mayfield come in and play like he did, there are no more excuses for Trubisky, especially against this defense. I would like to see another step from Roquan and see the team close another game out. Bears 27-10

Say some prayers for the Bradford family.

Thats great news on Floyd, because adding even just a little more pressure from that end will make it that much tougher on QB's.

Bears scoring differential for the first 3 quarters: 30-6 In the 4th quarter: 17-35 So the team has allowed only 6 points in the first 3 quarters of the first two games (literally averaging 1 point allowed per quarter), but is giving up an average of 17.5 in the 4th quarter. So opponent's offenses in the 4th quarter (17.5) outscore our offense for the entire game (16.5). I just didn't realize how dominant our defense has been. GB didn't score a TD until after the 1st minute in the 4th and Seattle scored one 5 minutes in. Some of this can be contributed to conditioning, etc, but I didn't like the Prevent defense Fangio called on Seattle's 99-yard TD drive on MNF. Just play the same defense that got you there. However, looking at it overall, that is a pretty amazing run. So were any of you guys aware that we were that dominant for that long of both games? I didn't even realize it watching the Seattle game.

With a win against ARZ and even with a loss against TB we go 2-2 into the BYE. This seems to be right in line with projections. I am starting to think that Detroit is going to be a little easier than we originally expected and we have a much better shot at sweeping them this year. That would take the projection up to 10 wins. The tie between GB and MIN really complicates the situation if both win 9+ games. There won't be a tie-breaker against them this year.

The defense looks great, and if Fuller catches that INT in Week 1, we are the talk of the league (and 1st in the Division at 2-0). So it looks like we will stay in sleeper mode for a little longer with TB and KC taking most of the national attention. The defense is playing at a top 5 level, and once the cast comes off, Floyd will be much more effective. The defense with Hicks/Mack is looking pretty scary. Hopefully, Smith gets into form and completely supplants Kwiat next to Trevathan. Callahan and Prince looked much better in Week 2 as well. I am very happy about the defense and just think what it will look like after the bye with a rested and healthy team with Mack and Smith both fully in shape and operating in the defense. I am optimistic about Trubisky, but reluctantly at this point. No matter how you look at it or grade him, he has not been good this year. He is on pace for less than 3k passing yards for the entire season. That is Loggains type of Offensive production. His Y/A is 1.2 yards less than last year. That's crazy. I don't know if it is Nagy's play calling or Trubisky's play. I don't even care about how other QB's are performing like Watson or Mahomes, because every situation is unique and hard to compare at this point in their careers. However, no matter what stats you use, QB Rating, QBR or something like DVOA, which adjusts for defenses, Trubisky is around the 28th ranked QB in the league. Only Bradford and Luck have thrown shorter completions than Trubisky (CAY - https://nextgenstats.nfl.com/stats/passing#average-completed-yards). So some of this has to be related to the play calling. So at some point, we are going to have to take off the training wheels. It seems like we get one great drive a half, but the offense is only averaging 16.5 points a game. That is not going to cut it and if we don't help out the defense, we are going to burn them out fast. Also, if teams start taking Robinson away, it is going to take a huge chunk of production away (144 yards, 227 yds to everyone else) from the passing game. Robinson has as many receptions as Burton, Cohen, and Miller COMBINED. Michael Burton and Bellamy have a reception and White has yet to be targeted. I hope we see a visible improvement this week against a terrible Arizona team. With our defense, we should dominate them. We just need the offense to take a step forward and put a few scoring drives together.

This is what people were talking about where Nagy's offense has someone open on every play. It's Trubisky's job to find that player.

With Mack and Roquan Smith getting all of the attention, Trevathan was like "Remember Me!"

The Seahawks are banged up, and just played on the road in Denver (which is always tasking on the body). Baldwin and Fluker are out on offense, Wagner and KJ Wright on defense. Outside of Thomas, there is not much left on their defense. The Bears should be able to dominate and create a ton of mismatches. If they can contain Wilson and prevent him from escaping from the pocket, I don't see Seattle scoring that much. Roquan spying Wilson would make a lot of sense. I still hold to my 31-13 Bears win.

We can't even get White a catch or Wims on the active roster. Plus we don't need the drama and headache. That dude has some serious mental issues that need to be addressed.

The only way you get experience is on the field. I would rather see him out there, especially against an offense like Seattle's that allowed 6 sacks, 2 INTs and a bunch of pressures than watching from the sidelines. Smith is better than Kwiat without knowing the defense.

If he runs, it's hard to see him not making it inside the 10. He admitted that he didn't want to force it and throw an INT in the Red Zone. So I think he didn't trust his arm there, but then threw to Cohen who was in a crowd anyway. So whos knows. I would rather seem pull it down and just go straight towards the end zone.

I see the Bears starting fast again with a few scripted drives, and hope they can put the foot down on the throat this time and close out the game. Wilson has a little of that magic in him, but the Seahawks are a shell of their former selves. I see us winning handily 31-13.

I do agree that the holding was crazy. They literally allowed GB's O-Line to hold on every play in the entire 4th quarter where there were blatant holds. Also, we really got shafted on that one spot in the first half, somehow all of GB's spots took forward progress into account, but not ours. They marked Howard a half of a yard short and he clearly passed the marker. I was actually surprised Nagy didn't challenge that. Lastly, we had a ton of momentum as we moved the ball down the field and then with GB on their heels, we had to burn timeouts. That can't happen, we need to be able to operate in a 2-min no-huddle offense and keep the defenders on the field.

I don't think anyone would be complaining about a 1-pt loss on the road to GB if we didn't blow a 20 pt lead. Most were expecting us to lose this game and were literally one play away many times from winning. Fuller's drop, Sims not making it to the sticks (twice), blown coverages, missed tackles, Trubisky's accuracy all played a part. Fangio can't leave the DB's out there without overhead safety coverage on 3rd and 10 because the only thing we couldn't afford was a long TD (like Cobb's). We are clearly a work in progress and the first half has me optimistic. It just seemed like the team expended all their energy in the first half, especially the defense. The offense definitely got too cute, Leno lining up as a WR, ok. I was expecting more vertical plays, but it seemed like we were doing a bunch of things near the LOS, which eventually becomes easy to defend. I also don't know why we abandoned the run when it was averaging 5+ a carry. Nagy needs to relook what he did just before the FG. We had a 3rd and 2, and he called a pass play, which was incomplete and stopped the clock. You have two downs with 2 yards to go. Run it down their throats and burn some clock. If you get the first down, its game over. You can still kick a FG 4 plays later and would leave GB with at most 15 seconds on the clock to go the distance. So right now I am angrily optimistic. We let one slip away, just like last year vs Atlanta.

This is how the offense looks like when you don't play them enough in the preseason.

Man what a horrible loss. Nagy with some questionable play calls and Trubisky is nowhere near where he should be. Nagy got way too cute with all the exotic crap when Howard was looking good. I have no clue why Sims is the target on 3rd Downs. He first drops a first down that hits him in the chest, then runs towards a defender instead of to the sticks and comes up short. Then is short of the sticks on a quick pass. And Fuller and Amukamara? God the CB's looked bad. Fuller dropped a game-sealing INT (Cobb's TD came right after) and it seemed like they were getting beat left and right.

Here is how some of the young QB's linked to Trubisky did today: 1. Watson 17-34, 50%, 176 yds, 1 TD, 1 INT, 62.9 QB Rating 2. Garoppolo 15-33, 45.5%, 261 yds, 1 TD, 3 INT, 45.1 QB Rating 3. Mahomes 15-27, 55.6%, 256 yds, 4 TD, 0 INT, 127.5 QB Rating Mahomes looks legit, the other two looked really out of sync and probably played better defenses.

I don't have stats to back it up but I would think that the first few weeks of the season have the most upsets. The Bears +7.5 seems like a pretty good bet. I don't see the Bears losing by more than a TD.

CBS Sports lol. "The Model" is only calling for 18 points from the Bears. It looks like they just took the averages from last year. If the projections are going to be wrong, they are going to be wrong on the Bears this year. It reminds me of Philly last year.

Stinger, exactly, and you can't even show guys like Cohen, Daniels, Shaheen, Bullard, Kwiatkowski, and Acho. All above average players and will contribute.

Yeah, great point. The entire roster from top to bottom is getting better.

Here are the depth guys: QB - Daniel (knows system, great QB mentor) RB - Cunningham (starting experience, can catch the ball out of the backfield) WR - White, Wims (will they even be needed?) TE - Sims, Brown, Braunecker (Sims is a former starter, both B's have decent hands) OL - Kush, Coward, Sowell (Kush and Sowell have both started) DL - Bullard, Nichols, Williams (Bullard has started before) LB - Kwiatkowski, Acho, Lynch, Fitts, Irving, Iggy (Kwiat, Acho, and Lynch all with experience) CB - Cooper, Callahan, Toliver (Cooper and Callahan have started before) S - Bush, DHC (both have experience) Would we like these guys to be better? Sure, but where are you going to upgrade and get better output as a sub? Sims, White, and Cooper probably bring you the lowest bang for your buck, but the other guys have decent value for what they are paid.