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Hate to see it - Dayo was good at sealing the edge against the run at least. I hope this puts more pressure on us to trade for someone who can really help us.

right. one thing thats clear about Johnson is he sees the problems, and does things to fix them. we havent had a coach like that here in my memory. Even Ditka oe Lovie, who were great motivators never showed the flexibility in scheme to fix things so purposefully. what a great coach we have now.

To add to our injury issues, not that Dayo was contributing much, but he is lost for the remainder of the year. Bears on edge after loss of another key defender for the year

With 1,916 Passing Yards, Williams is on pace for 3,832 in 16 games, and 4,071 in 17 games. For his career, his 17-game average is up to 3,711 Pass Yds, 22 TD, 7 INT. Williams already owns the 5th best single season passing season for a Bears QB with 3,541 Pass Yards, Cutler owns 2nd-4th with 3,812 - 3,659 yds. Caleb can break all of them this year.

When I saw him get picked up by one arm off the ground like a child against Jalen Carter, I was out.

The 'eye test' told me that in at least the last couple of games, the Bears have struggled in the Red Zone. What is encouraging is that in at least yesterday's game, Johnson made an adjustment and weighed more on the running game and introduced trickery to score the Bears first TD. Prior to yesterday, 'the Bears were scoring 3.9 yards per red zone drive.' 'They were ranked 26th in the NFL and converted 5 TDs of 16 red zone conversions in the four games prior.' Yesterday they scored TDs in 4 out of 6 red zone trips. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46795357/nfl-bears-caleb-williams-red-zone#:~:text="The red zone struggles have,points per red zone drive. https://www.wlwt.com/article/bengals-bears-higgins-caleb-williams-47-42-shootout/69229138#:~:text=games under .500.-,Chicago leaves the banks of the Ohio River totaling 576,-winning 58-yard touchdown.&text=November 2%2C 2025-,According to NFL's Next Gen Stats%2C Cincinnati's defense missed a,of which led the NFL.

Agree. I was big on him until I watched a college game of his and noticed how small he was. I thought maybe I was wrong in my concerns when he didn't have major injury issues last year. Now, he is a frequent visitor to the injury report and has missed quite a few games.

and for all the Daniels stuff, the biggest negative I had on him was injury risk. I always thought he could be a top 12-15 QB but his body type does not suit his play style. We are now on his 3rd injury in less than 25 games.

I had some different AIs look it up and I could not find 4 TDs in one game scored that fast unless it was multiple returns, DEF TDs, etc.

One of the weirder things I found is that Caleb is borderline elite with more opportunities. He has a 23-4 TD-INT Ratio in games where he passes for 225 yards or more (11 games). Below 225? 9-6 TD-INT ratio. More yards don't normally imply a better game, but for him it does. Of his 13 career games with a Passer Rating above 90.0, 9 of them occurred with 225 or more passing yards. He only has two games with 225 Passing Yards with a QB Rating below 95, a 80.8 against IND where he threw for 363 Yards (Career High), 2 TD, and 2 INT, and 77.2 against BAL this year.

I think they viewed Loveland as a special talent. Like if Jeanty was available to draft when they have Swift. At least they can play both Kmet/Loveland at the same time. Now that the Bears have a run game and they are running a more successful offense, they can add wrinkles especially in 12 man.

It's wild when the article mentions guys in this light, yet the unit looks like the worst in the league: "Josh Blackwell, Elijah Hicks, Jahdae Walker, and Travis Homer all round out a solid core of players known for their ability to make plays in the third phase."

That’s been my philosophy on here for years. Why draft a QB high if you’re not going to protect him and give him weapons? Looks like that’s finally occurring this year. I just wish they had believed in Kmet as #1 pass receiving TE and drafted someone to whelp the defense.

Caleb hasn't had the monster game from start to finish yet. Dallas was close but there were plays left on the field. They just scored 47 against CIN and they probably could've scored 60. If you zoom out a little bit, and in this case remove the best and worst games as anomalies, he is actually pretty consistent and the one thing I notice is he really has a high floor. I think most were expecting him to have a high ceiling, but the floor would be very volatile. In reality, it has been the opposite, and he has had 6 games within a top 12 QB range, 1 game in the top 3, and one game in the bottom 10.

well, i guess i wasn't hallucinating from anger. that is an amazing stat. it has to have set a record for pathetic in NFL history.

Proves the point it’s just narrative because those teams have a winning record. Both Allen and Mayfield struggled early in their career. Allen didn’t look steady good as QB until last year. Prior to that there was a lot of hero ball. Now he can beat you both ways.

It helps having the easiest SOS in the NFL to pad some wins but they won the games they were supposed to win, so I give him that. Slightly different defenses they were going up against, and CIN was never down by more than 2 scores which is sort of the magic number that late. Once it goes to 3 scores that late, it is basically game over. That is why the Pick-6 called back was so huge. It was a 14-pt swing in seconds. If you didn't watch the WAS game, the Commanders had no chance. The game was over at half, and all SEA did in the 3rd was extend the lead and they had a 31 pt lead with 8 mins to go in the 4th Quarter. Again, you play him if you have a chance to win the game. It was out of hand at that point. So typically you pull your starter to avoid the risk of injury. Quinn didn't.

4 TDs in 2 mins and 2 seconds total to be exact. I doubt there is another game where the team allowed 29 pts in 122 seconds.

This article from SI.com echoes many of our thoughts on our special teams performance. The Bears' special teams were less than special against Bengals in Week 9

Hindsight being what it is I’d think Quinn would’ve re-thought his decision. Just a few hours before their game a 40 year old QB with a bum throwing shoulder managed to score 2-3 TDs in a matter of several minutes against our team so…🤷🏻‍♂️

PFF Grades Top 5 Offense Wright - 94.1 Jackson - 91.1 Williams - 90.8 Loveland - 86.3 Dalman - 84.8 Top 5 Defense Booker - 90.0 Byard - 76.9 Edmunds - 67.8 Sweat - 65.0 Dexter - 60.4 Worst Offense Odunze - 51.8 Worst Defense Stevenson - 26.5 Wright is playing at an All Pro level.

was there really 4 opponent TD's each one taking less than one minute? if i remember seeing this correctly i have never seen anything like this in 60+ years watching the nfl. special teams? absolutely NOTHING special about them. basically gave up 10 points or more just in the first half. an onside kick in those circumstances is unforgivable. that said, this defense may be one of the worst i have ever witnessed in a bears uniform. the pass defense and wide open zones was atrocious. stephenson looked like a dumpster fire and the other CB's were worse. brister was also sub par. our DL had no pass rush nearly throughout the game with a few exceptions. the tackling throughout was not just bad, it was REAL BAD!! if you can get 5-10 yards nearly every running play and 10 +++ yards per pass you ain't winning many games and certainly not in any playoff contention. i admit i was so disgusted with our special teams and defense i wasn't watching closely so maybe i was wrong on the TD factor. give us some stats on the 4 TD's StatMan.

Giants defense is 27th in EPA/Play and 31st against the run. They allow 5.5 YPC. It seems like the Bears will be able to control the ball and the clock, and throw when the defense starts bringing that extra guy into the box. The Giants offense is 22nd for EPA/Play, but a lot of that was Skattebo who is on IR. They probably are closer to 25-30th now without him. Robinson+Slayton is 3-4 levels below Chase+Higgins. The current DB group should be up to that challenge.

I think Quinn won coach of the year last year. Good coaches make bad decisions sometimes too.

Mayfield and Allen are MVP candidates, and Williams is right there, but if you listen to the media, Williams is the only QB in the NFL missing easy throws, etc, etc. Mayfield - 1919 Pass Yds, 13 TD, 2 INT (6-2) Williams - 1916 Pass Yds, 12 TD, 4 INT (5-3) Allen - 1833 Pass Yds, 13 TD, 4 INT (6-2) The media is so bad that you would think that Williams has the worst Comp% in the league or at least the lowest of any 2nd Year QB. Nix, Penix, McCarthy are all lower, and Daniels is only 1% higher. The standout is Maye who has had the easiest schedule of the bunch. This was at the point of Goff's time with Johnson where you saw a visible improvement to his game. I am hoping we see that from Williams from here on out.