In non-Bears news, Raiders trade Amari Cooper to the Cowboys for a 1st round pick.
I think that gives the Raiders three 1st round picks next year.In non-Bears news, Raiders trade Amari Cooper to the Cowboys for a 1st round pick.
I think that gives the Raiders three 1st round picks next year.
I've been a skeptic about Trubisky until recently. I know he still has a ton of things to work on, but if his numbers pan out to anything resembling this it will be by far the greatest single season a Bears' qb has ever had. Dare I say it a season like that probably puts him only behind Rogers, Brady, Brees, and Rivers and makes him a top 5 NFL qb? Maybe throw Watson in there as he is putting up video game numbers recently. Sorry throw in the kid from the Rams too. Stream of consciousness at four in the morning...One of the things I was saying about Trubisky at the beginning of the season was that pretty much all top-5 QB draft picks who "amount to something" make huge statistical leaps from their first year to their second. Their team might not be all that much better and their performance might not be as crisp and polished as you'd want, but the talent shines through enough that they post some pretty huge numbers. You can go back and look at pretty much every top-5 pick QB going back to the Manning/Leaf draft and see the huge numbers gap in the second year between guys who become at least solid NFL starters and the guys who don't.
So, that was something I was paying attention to going into the season.
Well, through 6 games, Trubisky is on pace to throw for... 4,251 yards, 35 TDs to 16 Ints, averaging 7.56 yards per pass attempt (anything over 7 yards is pretty good). He's also on pace to rush for 653 yards and 5 TDs.
Needless to say, if he were to keep this up for the remaining 10 games of the season, that would more than qualify for the huge statistical leap I was looking for.
From what I am seeing, half the QBs in the league are putting up video game numbers. I heard a discussion a couple of weeks ago, about how OCs are fantastic at scheming receivers to be wide open, and making it easier for QBs to put up these numbers. Making the question, "who is more valuable, a great OC or the QB who runs the system?"Iv
I've been a skeptic about Trubisky until recently. I know he still has a ton of things to work on, but if his numbers pan out to anything resembling this it will be by far the greatest single season a Bears' qb has ever had. Dare I say it a season like that probably puts him only behind Rogers, Brady, Brees, and Rivers and makes him a top 5 NFL qb? Maybe throw Watson in there as he is putting up video game numbers recently. Sorry throw in the kid from the Rams too. Stream of consciousness at four in the morning...
One of the things I was saying about Trubisky at the beginning of the season was that pretty much all top-5 QB draft picks who "amount to something" make huge statistical leaps from their first year to their second. Their team might not be all that much better and their performance might not be as crisp and polished as you'd want, but the talent shines through enough that they post some pretty huge numbers. You can go back and look at pretty much every top-5 pick QB going back to the Manning/Leaf draft and see the huge numbers gap in the second year between guys who become at least solid NFL starters and the guys who don't.
So, that was something I was paying attention to going into the season.
Well, through 6 games, Trubisky is on pace to throw for... 4,251 yards, 35 TDs to 16 Ints, averaging 7.56 yards per pass attempt (anything over 7 yards is pretty good). He's also on pace to rush for 653 yards and 5 TDs.
Needless to say, if he were to keep this up for the remaining 10 games of the season, that would more than qualify for the huge statistical leap I was looking for.
That was really a stupid penalty to take and the Jets instead of punt go down and score.Some Bears fans won't like it but that's the right call against Eddie Jackson there.
It's been a rather sedate Tony Romo today, what do you guys think?
Bad penalty at the end of the 2nd quarter. Cost points, I hate when the offense has personal fouls, don't like defense doing it either, but on offense is worse in my limited view.Crap Kyle Long hurt
That was really a stupid penalty to take and the Jets instead of punt go down and score.