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Just watched the Bears game, busy week.
I saw the Bears were getting the opening kickoff I thought to myself that it would be very Bear-like to not fair-catch and start at the 25. Instead they will not run it out far, and still get a penalty that will be half the distance to the goal. Bingo!
Defense sucks, offense sucks. Fields looks like my wife when she shops, standing there looking around for no reason. Eventually he drops it down and gets the receiver killed. Throws it high, receiver jumps, defender puts a shoulder pad in his ribs at full speed.
They ought to draft a QB from a lesser college, one who has learned to handle pressure and competitive games more than one time per year. I'm afraid he isn't the answer.
I saw the Bears were getting the opening kickoff I thought to myself that it would be very Bear-like to not fair-catch and start at the 25. Instead they will not run it out far, and still get a penalty that will be half the distance to the goal. Bingo!
Defense sucks, offense sucks. Fields looks like my wife when she shops, standing there looking around for no reason. Eventually he drops it down and gets the receiver killed. Throws it high, receiver jumps, defender puts a shoulder pad in his ribs at full speed.
They ought to draft a QB from a lesser college, one who has learned to handle pressure and competitive games more than one time per year. I'm afraid he isn't the answer.
Bears down 13-10 at half. Fields needs to get ball out of his hands quicker on offense. Defense playing well enough considering they're now down 3 members of their starting secondary.
Chase Claypool just got his first career touchdown catch with the Bears. The last time he scored a receiving TD was also against Tampa last season.
Bears are 6-25 over their last 31 games. They’ve had some bad stretches of football over the last few decades, but this is about as bad as it’s ever been.
I don't think Fields is it. On to the next QB the Bears will probably ruin too.
Rooting for Saints to win tomorrow and keep my dream of Bears having first two picks in next year’s draft.
No doubt their own will be the #1 overall pick. I wonder what they will do with it.
I was in the "you have to give him some protection" group, but if you give him a lot of time he just patiently waits for someone to sack him.
Sadly, I predicted this when he was at tOSU. I did NOT want the Bears to draft him. He could play when all of his teammates were way better than the guy across from them. When tOSU played speed, Fields fell way off.
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agree
I had the same thoughts and was hoping to be proven wrong
While there are examples of guys over the years whose game developed over time... in most cases a player demonstrates if he’s “got it” within the first few games and first year when he is in a featured position.
‘Wishing and Hoping’ might be a great name for a 1960s Dusty Springfield song... it’s not a great way to develop players or to run a sports franchise at any level.
There seems to be something about the Bears franchise that dooms them to suffer at the QB position. Year after year, decade after decade. Very few exceptions over the years.
The Bears traditionally have been a franchise living off a great defense and good running backs. With the RB position becoming so de-emphasized in today’s game... there goes that advantage. You’ve got to have a field leader that makes quick and good decisions and ball release... a gun for an arm... accuracy... and swift receivers that actually catch the ball. These are not areas that quickly come to mind when thinking about the Chicago Bears.
Will the Bears spend less time on where to build a new stadium and grab taxpayer money and more time finding players better adapted to today’s game? One wonders.
how many times was fields sacked at OSU ? 56? One out of every 12 pass plays , with an all American line in front of him and great running legs.
Shouldn't that have been a red flag? And he was sacked NINE times his first game as a bear? He looked terrible running the ball today except on the TD.
ROLL HIM OUT!!! Turn him loose! or turn him loose and let the kid play
Shouldn't that have been a red flag? And he was sacked NINE times his first game as a bear? He looked terrible running the ball today except on the TD.
ROLL HIM OUT!!! Turn him loose! or turn him loose and let the kid play
I’m not a Bears fan, but even if Fields plays okay the rest of the way #1 has to be Caleb Williams
Eh Caleb would probably stay in school if the Bears had the #1 pick and wanted a QB.
They refuse to hire a splashy HC with a big personality. They signed these linebackers for millions and the defense looks soft as heck. I get that the team was lacking in talent last year.... but Eberflus's three wins were against Trey Lance, a tanking Houston team, and a stuck in the mud Patriots team.
Sell the team, let Poles sign a coach he actually wants, and build a winning culture, not some vanilla boring team. There are bad teams that throw haymakers in the NFL, the Eberflus Bears just casually stroll toward putting another L in the loss column.
They refuse to hire a splashy HC with a big personality. They signed these linebackers for millions and the defense looks soft as heck. I get that the team was lacking in talent last year.... but Eberflus's three wins were against Trey Lance, a tanking Houston team, and a stuck in the mud Patriots team.
Sell the team, let Poles sign a coach he actually wants, and build a winning culture, not some vanilla boring team. There are bad teams that throw haymakers in the NFL, the Eberflus Bears just casually stroll toward putting another L in the loss column.
interesting call -- 2 minutes to go ball on your own 5? and you throw....a SCREEN PASS?
Who would make that call? Having to run 95 yards to score? And then have the other team say they knew what exactly was coming?
The call may have been spurred on by the goal of having the first and second picks in next year's draft.
Hey! Shades of 1965! Can you say Butkus and Sayers? Come to think of it they didn't win with them either! But they were fun!
This team is BRUTAL.... and DULL.
Who would make that call? Having to run 95 yards to score? And then have the other team say they knew what exactly was coming?
The call may have been spurred on by the goal of having the first and second picks in next year's draft.
Hey! Shades of 1965! Can you say Butkus and Sayers? Come to think of it they didn't win with them either! But they were fun!
This team is BRUTAL.... and DULL.
Nah it was way worse than just calling a screen pass on their own 5.
They called a screen pass that actually went for a first down, but Claypool didn't sell a route enough and picked up offensive pass interference.
THEN
They ran basically the EXACT SAME PLAY and the Bucs D read it and the LB jumped it to get the pick 6.
Though his career was cut short... Gale Sayers might just be the best running back the NFL will ever see. Sure, there’s been lots of durable and exciting backs over the years. But nothing like the Kansas Comet.
The Bears franchise had already slipped down from the high level of football they had played some years earlier. But it just didn’t matter what the rest of the team did on the field when Sayers came to town. You just couldn’t take your eyes off him.
Yes, Walter was outstanding. Another really special back. But Sayers just saw the field differently and made cuts that nobody had ever done before. In some games, defenses were helpless against him. He was unstoppable.
Except for that one Bears year that many fans cling to... for the past 60 years the Bears have had mostly forgettable teams. But they also were blessed with a few really special players that never got to taste enough team success because where the fates had sent them.
The Bulls needed to add good players around Michael before they could titles. That’s what the Bears needed to do with Sayers... and never did.
Bears had one of the all time great drafts in 1965, picking Gale sayers #3 overall and Dick Butkus #5. They also got Dick Gordon in the 7th round, who made a couple Pro Bowls and led the league in catches and touch downs in 1970.
Could have been even better, but #6 overall pick Steve DeLong signed with the AFL Chargers instead. He had a solid career as a DE, making an AFL Pro Bowl and leading the league in sacks once. 4th round pick Jim Nance also signed with the AFL Patriots. He made a couple Pro. Bowls, led the AFL in rushing twice and was the 1966 AFL offensive POY.
Bears were a bit above .500 from 65-68 before the bottom fell out with a 1-13 team in 69. By then, the knee injuries had affected both Sayers and Butkus. Sayers’ career was effectively over, while Butkus soldiered on on some bad teams until 1973.
Sayers was really only healthy for 64 games through 5 seasons, but he scored 56 TDs in those 64 games.
Could have been even better, but #6 overall pick Steve DeLong signed with the AFL Chargers instead. He had a solid career as a DE, making an AFL Pro Bowl and leading the league in sacks once. 4th round pick Jim Nance also signed with the AFL Patriots. He made a couple Pro. Bowls, led the AFL in rushing twice and was the 1966 AFL offensive POY.
Bears were a bit above .500 from 65-68 before the bottom fell out with a 1-13 team in 69. By then, the knee injuries had affected both Sayers and Butkus. Sayers’ career was effectively over, while Butkus soldiered on on some bad teams until 1973.
Sayers was really only healthy for 64 games through 5 seasons, but he scored 56 TDs in those 64 games.
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