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At 8-26, Fields would need to go 10-7 for the next 6 years just to get to .500 for his career.

Very true but when they go into prevent that puts a ton of responsibility on your safeties in coverage and unfortunately both of the Bears safeties are terrible in coverage. Brisker is great in the box, but once he is in space he gets exposed. He was involved in both TDs against and Jackson was the one allowing the two other huge chunk plays.

Where is the accountability? Mooney and Tonyan should be healthy scratches next week. Send a message, playing like crap has consequences. Flus would never do that though which is why he needs to go.

This is not an excuse but the refs did the Bears no favors in this game. On the 4th down screen, JJ was clearly held, no call. Then on Njoku TD, his heel is on the white. Fields first INT at the end of the 2nd quarter hit the ground. Fields also got hit late on that throw and didn't get the call again. He has not had a single flag called on a hit on him this year.

I feel like Flus is getting too much credit for this defensive turn around. They brought in Snow as an Advisor, got a ton of players back from injury and traded from Sweat. The takeaways are the players (see Stevenson's pick) moreso than Flus calling an amazing game. Also if you want to give him credit for the great defense because of the turnovers, then he needs to take the blame for the historical 4th quarter defensive meltdowns. So the bad negates the good and you end up with zero lol. Then when you add his terrible HC job, it's easy to see what needs to happen.

Yep, at this point they have their eval of the coaching staff and the players. Nothing they do in the last 3 weeks, especially against ATL and ARZ are going to change that. However if the QBs don't overwhelm them or if they end up at #2, they may keep Fields for Year 4. Remember how many years Trubisky got, and Mitch went 6-3 in his last year on the team.

WR was terrible last year and they only added Moore (who is amazing), but he needs a true wingman. Mooney and Scott are near identical, and guys who cannot block. Velus is a bust. I'm good with Roschon, he just needs to get more touches. Scott has been underwhelming, fumbles, and drops too many passes. Velus drops everything that's why they can only hand the ball off to him. The RBs have been subpar as pass catchers. Fields only has check down on some plays, but not all of them, which is odd.

I'm also concerned about the RB room. Foreman does not look the same since his injury. Herbert absolutely is worse since injury, so the only one looking decent recently is Roschon.

On the flip side, they allowed Flacco to throw for over 200 yards in the 4th quarter, and still allowed a terrible Cleveland offense to score 20 pts.

Yes you did, just confirming with passing map. Btw, can any receiver bail Fields out ever? Not just this game but all season. Scott with a huge drop that hit his hands a few weeks ago, Velus drops everything, Mooney has had a bunch, Tonyan dropped the one today but also dropped a TD a few weeks ago too. There are different levels of drops but these I would consider bad drops. Kmet and Moore have been the only 2 reliable receivers all year.

No MoF no win, not even a single attempt over the middle.

I think Poles whiffed hard on the WR corps. Mooney is not the same player since injury, he is borderline practice squad material at this point. Scott is a younger Mooney who can do anything Mooney can but is probably more of a WR4, then at WR4 you have Velus or ESB? The drop off from Moore to Mooney is too big. WR2 needs to be a stud or at least a compliment to Moore. Mooney is neither. Then for TE they went with Tonyan and he has been one of the most disappointing players this year with a huge drop today.

It's a microcosm of the season and Fields career. I guess people didn't notice Fields has only led 2 TD drives starting from the Bears side of the field in the last 4 games. The defense has been carrying this team for the last 6-7 weeks. Bagent went 2-2 with the defense doing the heavy lifting and Fields now is 2-2 since returning from injury. It shows the QB either doesn't matter or isn't being impactful.

Whoever tried to hit Njoku instead of wrapping him up could've forced Cleveland into a 50+ yard FG too.

We are nearing 40 starts, he is what he is. He may end up with a career arc like Geno Smith but that is the exception not the norm.

I've honestly been on the fence but things are too inconsistent for my blood. Great QBs still look decent in bad situations. Fields' last 3 TD drives going back to last week started on the opponents side of the field. Think about that for a sec. Since he came back from injury he has only led 2x TD drives starting on his side of the 50 in the last 16 quarters. 2 TDs! They are 2-2 in those games even though there have been some dominant defensive numbers.

The Bears lead the NFL in INTs (18) but as a team are -1 on the season for turnover ratio. So as the Bears taketh they giveth away.

Damn, the Bears would've only been one game back of MIN, LAR, and NO and would only need to pass two of them in the last 3 games. Passing MIN and NO was very realistic, what a loss man.

interesting because I keep seeing other stats like Fields is the only QB to end the half and the game with an INT.

and teams have an easy blueprint to shut the Bears down, look at the MIN games too. When there is constant pressure, Fields still doesnt pull the trigger.

People may forget that Pace and Nagy basically got fired for drafting Fields. They only got one year with him and Fields had some issues that many believed were correctable. Then Poles comes in and strips the roster in 2022 giving Fields all the excuses in the world when things went bad. This was supposed to be the no-excuses year and he is basically the exact same guy he has always been. Nothing has changed outside of the fact that he no longer gets the huge scrambles. He has improved marginally statwise, but I think they have purposely avoided plays he can't do like all of the timing and MoF stuff. They know better than anyone what the assessment is, but the numbers don't lie.

Yep and I think the hits have gotten to him. What sucks is there is no way to get a proper evaluation of Fields in meaningless games, and that's what the Bears will have for the next 3. At least with a win, it would've been like a playoff game every week. Now none of those games matter and who know how hard the opponents will be playing. Maybe the GB game, but one game is not going to flip the script as we have seen the same result for a few years now.

I'm seeing players making unbelievable catches all weekend long and Mooney can't squeeze a ball with gloves on?

Not that it matters but I just saw a replay of the 2nd quarter hail Mary INT, they called it an INT but it hit the ground. I'm surprised they just called.it that and didn't check replay.

Fields ended up with a great chance to be the hero and his decisive drive was a 3 and out for negative -2 yards with the game on the line. If they get one first down it is probably game over (since 4th Down hit the 2 minute warning) because they could've burnt more clock and the CLE timeouts. They had 2 timeouts, so that would stop the clock on 1st and 2nd, then the full clock gets burnt on 3rd and you could run the clock down all the way on 4th. The play clock is 40 secs, so they couldve burnt at least 1:30 leaving CLE 30 seconds and no timeouts.