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Bears blockers as a team are 3rd in Run Block Win Rate. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46138675/2025-nfl-win-rates-top-teams-players-rankings-pass-run-block

Anyone have a thought about this and why he’s in the doghouse? Understanding that he’s still sorta in concussion protocol (wearing the guardian helmet) could he be the answer at RB needed when it comes to hard charging yards? He’s more of a pounding style runner, or so I thought.

He hasnt been inactive yet this year. Being demoted has already affected his value. I just dont think losing OT depth for a 6th or 7th round pick is valuable to the Bears this year.

I just think if the player is going to be inactive, then before you have games with him being inactive, but not for injury, you trade him before you tank his value.

I'll add this - I am not the only one who saw these things early, lots of people on this board agreed. But the passion around defending Fields, Eberflus, Poles and others is why this all started, the name calling and all that. None of this existed for the 20+ years I was on this board before that. Im not saying Im smarter than everyone at ALL, Im saying some people got really mad when I wouldnt budge and stayed true to my belief. And when I end up right about that stuff, I dont bring that up to say how smart I am, but to put a point on it after all the abuse I took for being early. It's natural if you get months of abuse, when it turns out you were right to say something. We can do this again when Kmet or Moore get traded. This whole summer I got heaps of crap about that too. When it happens, Im allowed to say "see?" without being an egotistical jerk. If I wanted to prove I was smart (which I dont) it certainly wouldnt be about football! Anyway, when I come back, lets ALL leave this behind. Please!

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The Oline hasnt been playing well and its not logical to think it hasnt affected Swift. He is a third down type of back and not the pounder in the RB room, that person just hasnt emerged according to their plans. I think he has did find with what has been asked of him. He is effective when he gets in the open, not when he is hit before he gets to the line of the scrimmage. I think Monangai has showed some pop but the line play has restricted his play also. Not sure what they can change in two weeks, but we will find out.

You always come up with great wisdom at the right moment. An argument from a couple of weeks ago and some people just cant let it go. So much to talk about now. Its been so peaceful for the last couple of weeks.

If the Bears dont have any value for Braxton, you aint getting anything if you did trade him. Who is your depth if you traded Braxton? One injury and your back to having problems again. Kiran is next in line and he hasnt looked good. Having depth is much more valuable than a 6th or 7th round pick next yr. Ozzy would be the only backup OT on the roster.

One thing I noticed is that he ran through contact better in the second half. It's almost like he was responding to a challenge.

I think there are two parts to this. The player change definitely helped because Jones is not really a mauler. I also think the Raiders gassed themselves a little bit. If I asked you who won the Time of Possession battle, just thinking back about the game, I would assume you would say LVR won it (I thought they did) because of their running game, but in reality the Bears had the edge 33 mins to 27, and ran 64 plays to 52. In the 4th quarter the Bears had the ball on offense for basically 10 minutes out of 15 with 19 plays before the kneel down. The Bears going 7-16 on 3rd Down and 1-1 on 4th Down compared to LVR 2-8 and 0-1 respectively, was another factor. There was a stat coming into this week that the Bears were one of the best teams on yards before contact, but Swift was one of the worst YPC. I think it is a mix of both but for me, with more blame on Swift because Monangai should not have a better YPC than Swift as a rookie.

Just for value perspective, Houston just traded Cam Robinson to the Browns. They received a 2027, 6th round pick for Cam and a 2027 7th round pick.

Huge injury news, Edwards, Loveland, AND Gordon all practiced today, so unless they have setbacks they will all be full goes for WAS in 13 days. Edwards is a tackling machine and Gordon is the swiss army knife they have missed. If Jarrett gets healed up too, it would be the first game with at least 10 starters on defense with JJ still out. Johnson also gets time to figure out the O-Line shuffle and incorporate Loveland and Burden more in the game plan.

We are all basically ghosts throwing out thoughts to escape reality. Let's get back to the Bear content and keep the hard/soft feelings at home. We are all brothers and sisters that drop in many times a day to see what's new. 🐻⬇️☮️

One move I didn't think about was trading Braxton Jones for an RB or Edge. Very well possible if they are going to go with Benedet or Trapilo. Some have speculated that he would be inactive instead of a backup because he exclusively plays on the left.

Lamar is going to miss a few weeks with a hamstring.

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In football coaches often tell players to know when the play is over. It’s the same with conversations.

I tuned in with 4 min left and heard the announcers say their offense had not crossed midfield all game long. I thought I accidentally tuned into a bears game from last year.

Ben Johnson I believe said the same. That the running game is not the RBs fault. Time will tell.

I recently came across this statistic (from the LVR game?) in an article on SI.com. Rumor has it that Theo gets the start at LT in week 6. Maybe Swift isn't the problem?

You chose the latter.

It was ridiculous! The raiders fans couldn't believe it...

Interesting how close Goff and Williams are passing: Goff 929 yds, 9 TD, 2 INT Williams 927 yds, 8 TD, 2 INT, 11th in yards, t-3rd in TD Passes, 15th in QBR, 14th in QB Rating. All the while Goff has Gibbs and Monty as RBs. Huge difference in running game support. Williams current 97.8 Rating would be the highest QB Rating in a single season in franchise history (w/ more than 250 attempts). Trubisky had a 95.4 in 434 attempts in 2018.