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We'll one stat that is not good. The Bears were number one in the NFL for WR separation and Caleb missed them.

Defense - many veterans missing which to me is unacceptable. Montaez Sweat, Grady Jarrett, Billings, Edmunds and Edward's, Jaylon Johnson and Kyler Gordon. Most have soft tissue issues, which is usual for guys not having a professional work ethic. That is a lot of cap space that didnt live up to the money they were given. I would love to get to the point the offense is set and build the D through the draft and not give these guys money because they tend to disappear.

A loss like that always stings and like others have said there's plenty of blame to go around and sometimes it's hard to look past the frustration of seeing us lose a game we should have won. Bad call/phantom penalties were a factor but good teams play through that and just fight harder the next down. They are no doubt frustrating and there were some doozies in this game at critical points in the game that helped the Vikings come back and win. Again not the reason we lost but definitly salt in the wound. Offense struggled to take advantage of opporutnities. Shooting ourselves with presnap penalties (4 false starts in the first half alone). No consistent run game at all. I felt like we were often behind the schedule putting us in long down and distance situations way too much. The timing of plays didn't feel consistent either like we were making it more difficult than it needed to be. Ben Johnson will not be pleased. On Defense I feel like we started out strong and had their offense rattled but as the game wore on I don't know if it was conditioning or what but we started getting sloppy and undisciplined. Tackling got poorer and poorer, defenders out of place. McCarthy looked lost in the first half but looked like he had all the confidence in the world in the second half. "Special" teams.... more like special ED. Can't think of anything good to say here.

Wording order. They have no good reason to hate on him. All he did was bring winning to the franchise.

No good reason? His career dream job as NFL HC and $13M per year guaranteed. Turn around a bad Bears franchise and NFL legend status awaits him.

I almost didn't survive that play...

Even if Kurt is wrong - for my own sanity I’ll take this as a positive. I also go back to - this is the first real game tape for Caleb with BJ. Preseason helps but it’s vanilla D - training camp helps - but d starts to know the plays. This is first real game action with Ben and against a Flores unit that is usually quite good. Let’s see how they build from here…I am expecting to be 1-3 heading into the bye but hopefully somehow we are pleasantly surprised….

Thought this was interesting. Kurt hasn't usually been quick to praise Caleb in the past, so the fact that he's doing so now makes me feel a little better about last night.

Hightower should know the rules and relay them to Johnson. I think he's gone at the end of the season if we don't see serious improvement. Peace

There is plenty of blame to go around but nothing bothered me more than a very expensive IOL missing blocks.

That's not an option. If we lock the ball out of bounds and they decline. The ball would be spotted where it went out of bounds. Kicks Out of Bounds:If a kick goes out of bounds before being touched by a player, the penalty is 25 yards past the spot of the kick, or the ball is placed at the spot it left the field of play, whichever is more advantageous to the receiving team.

That is correct.

Nope. He was directly told to kick it out the back of the end zone. Straight from Ben Johnson's press conference.

After watching an all-22, Caleb deserves a lot of credit for missing reads and not getting the ball to open WRs. I paid attention to Braxton Jones and I only see 3 times where his guy gave pressure to Caleb. He played well in my opinion.

Good point, more hollow yards.

Lions favored by 6, the 4th biggest spread of the week. For how bad the Bears looked, the Lions looked worse in Week 1. For EPA/P for the offense and defense, after Week 1: Bears 23rd and 6th Lions 22nd and 26th The Lions defense was bad and lucky they didn't give up 40. The Bears were unlucky and gave up 27. I don't think the Bears defense allows that much again. I also think the offense musters at least another TD (to replace the defensive one from Week 1) but I don't trust Santos at all. So I am going with 24-20 Bears. One of these teams is going home 0-2 on Sunday, both overall, and in the Division. Hopefully the team rises up for Ben as he got a lot of hate leaving Detroit for no good reason.

Several things are fixable but If it continues , I dont think BJ keeps Hightower around.

The missed field goal also gave Vikings real good field position.

Yes , we also had a punt partial blocked. I read where Santos was told to kick the ball out of bounds. It would give them the ball at the 40 but would have given us another clock stop for the 2 minute warning. Now with several backups starting did that pull them off of the ST plays? We missed the tackling ability of TJ Edwards and Kyler Gordon.

There was a couple bad calls. They gave Dayo a personal foul for hitting to the head and the replay clearly shows him under the helmet.

Everything I am reading is that it is considered a penalty. Here is a snippet from an article talking about it comparing it to a touchback: "By contrast, a kick that goes out of bounds would be flagged as an illegal procedure penalty, and the ball would come out to the 40-yard line, a difference of five yards." So if it was deemed a penalty, then it would've been pointless to do that as MIN could just decline and ask to rekick. The best option was probably the onside, but then with MIN's kicker they are almost already in FG range with a normal recovery.

My Bears collapsed like my A+ yahoo fantasy team. I hope they both rebound because I want to be happy on Sundays and not use swear words.

I like this way of thinking. As an official, I understand impact to the game. The NFL guys do as well. I actually officiated an arena game several years ago with the white hat from last night. He’s a great official and person from my limited interaction. But he missed on the holding call because he didn’t see the entire play. He turned his head too slowly to his key and stayed on the middle too long. And the DPI was a matter of a bad angle. That official guessed because he didn’t see the contact fully. He shouldn’t have thrown the flag and deferred it to a colleague. What’s more, one of the others should have come to him after and talked him into picking it up. Those two plays directly impacted the game.

Yeah, no one is catching his balls.🫣 He has a lot of pressure playing for a team with fans that haven't eaten in decades. The Bears bring all these food trucks in and get mouths watering and the doors open and nothing.

The Bears should take a page out of Sean McVay's book from the first couple years he had with Jared Goff. He ran a mostly no-huddle offense that wasn't necessarily up-tempo, but it allowed Goff to look to the sidelines for the playcall, like in college, and gave them plenty of time to get all their motions in. Part of the problem last night is that they weren't getting to the line quick enough to do all the motions, and I think it affected the thought process of the QB. It's been clear to me that Caleb Williams has been at his best in the no-huddle offense. I'm not going to skewer Johnson after one game, but he's got to use this to his advantage at some point and not be so rigid about his preferred methods. I really think it could make a huge difference for this offense if they integrated the no-huddle more often moving forward.