Chicago Bears 2024

#228      
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No reason why not. Still 4-3 with ten games to go. Ultimately, it's going to come down to division play. It always was going to come down to that. Go 4-2 and they're a playoff team. Go 2-4 and they're not. They really should win these next two. We'll see.

Tough way to lose
 
#232      
Looking back at the play from this perspective, I have one question...what the heck was T.J. Edwards doing on this play?:


Like, there's no reason on a play like that that they need a QB spy. Either have him run back towards the end zone or put in another DB or one of your good hands WRs to try and knock the ball down.
Yeah, I could have done what the spy did. Any of us could have.
If Daniels had decided to run the spy wouldn't have stopped him anyway.

Poor all around
 
#233      
Yeah, I could have done what the spy did. Any of us could have.
If Daniels had decided to run the spy wouldn't have stopped him anyway.

Poor all around
I'm not saying it's good logic, but what a spy can do is force Daniels to take a longer, more time-consuming route to the outside, buying time for the faraway DB's to make up some ground.

If Daniels burst straight up the middle uncontested with all the defenders 40 yards away, things might get a bit hairy.

Anyway, all of this is why you should blitz a hail mary.
 
#234      
If Williams had the time Daniels had to throw the ball he would be that effective too.
 
#236      
On am 1000 this morning Eberfluss defended the handoff to Kramer “that’s one of our one yard plays” and said the 13 yard gain before the Hail Mary “didn’t matter.” Really starting to dislike this guy.
I'm guessing that he's thinking two things:

1)He's not going to throw anyone under the bus, especially his OC

2)They practice the mother &$@&!& hail Mary 5554328 times in practice, knock the mother @#_&&$@$& ball down and all of these questions are moot. That's probably what's going through his mind, verbatim.

Ultimately, if Byard does what he's supposed to do and stand in front of the receiver behind the pile(like coached since high school)....he bats it down and we're celebrating Caleb coming to life in the 4th quarter and engineering two incredibly impressive drives.

We'd also be celebrating that amazing game that he called in the defensive side. That defense kept them in it and he is the architect there. That can't get lost.

That one is going to sting until the full attention moves to Arizona. There's not too much he can add to a completely botched last play of the game.
 
#238      
I'm not saying it's good logic, but what a spy can do is force Daniels to take a longer, more time-consuming route to the outside, buying time for the faraway DB's to make up some ground.

If Daniels burst straight up the middle uncontested with all the defenders 40 yards away, things might get a bit hairy.

Anyway, all of this is why you should blitz a hail mary.
Trying to run it in from 50+ yards in a Hail Mary situation - I have never seen this work ever in my life; not sure I’ve ever seen it attempted in the NFL, to be fair. Because of the 7 NFL DBs out there. As good of a runner as JD is, you have won the game the moment he crosses the line of scrimmage. A thousand out of a thousand times. Just let TJ go after him.
 
#239      
I'm trying to think of a tidier package for the argument that Eberflus should be somebody's DC, not head coach, and I can't top this game.
Ole’ Greeny actually summed it up by noting that you cannot employ a man capable of believing the free 15-yard out to the 48 didn’t affect the outcome. Like I wouldn’t trust this dude to wash my car.
 
#240      
I'm trying to think of a tidier package for the argument that Eberflus should be somebody's DC, not head coach, and I can't top this game.
He'll deserve the billing as the scapegoat, don't get me wrong, but looming in my thoughts is frustration at how badly Poles has screwed all of this up.

And between the schedule and the injury bug (which is not entirely Poles' fault of course), the "Caleb runs for his life on every play" narrative of the season is only just beginning.

Rookie QB, holdover defensive HC on the hot seat, run-y screen-y east-west-y OC, splashy moves to add Allen and Odunze, paltry resources dedicated to improve a known shaky OL.

It just does not add up to a coherent strategy and is fitting together badly in a totally foreseeable way.

And, as is tradition in Chicago, it's wasting a genuinely very good defense which won't sustain forever.
 
#241      
Tough way to lose

Someone in the Bears organization might point out that if there is still time on the clock -- the game is STILL GOING ON. And you haven't won anything yet. There's plenty of time for dancing and prancing around like giddy-hyper kids and 'engaging' with opponent's fans after the game is over.

Some franchises are lucky. Some franchises are good. And some franchises appear to be neither. It's a mind set of being winners -- or not.
 
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