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And the moron who endlessly whined and promoted Fields, with obviously manipulated facts and statistics the entire time, should apologise for the complete waste of time and brain cells spent looking at his posts. Thank God for the ignore function.

yes, anyone with eyes can see - JF sucks

And as the world turns, Jayden "RGIII" Daniels is already ruled out, again...

He will end up somewhere as a backup gadget guy like Taysom Hill and live on in the Beartalk threads

I didn't want to start a new thread, but the debate is formally over.

I really love this guy.

I want to see Caleb take a big step forward next week and play his most complete game of his career!

Maye is a specimen.

Listened to Patrick Mannely tonight, he praised how great the oline has become at run blocking, working together, and the RBs are showing the results. He said teams will now have to respect the run and play 8 in the box or different personal. This is the type of offense that allows BJ to mix it up and start attacking with formations that show run and are pass and vice versa. Once he has defenses guessing, then the TEs can start slipping out into the seams

He might be trying to break him from that instinct of running. I noticed when he bailed the pocket, he tried to loop around back in to it. That gives him the whole field instead of half on finding a open receiver. All good things I think.

Caleb needs 108 passing yards to hit 5K for his career, and 1 TD pass to hit 30. If he does that on Sunday without throwing an INT, he will be the only QB in NFL history to throw for 5K Passing Yards, 30 Passing TDs, 500 Rushing Yards, and fewer than 10 INTs in their first 24 games to start a career. The only QB close is RG3 who threw 14 INTs. No other QB is under 15 that has the other 3 stat categories. RG3 had 32-14.

I am wondering if Johnson has told Caleb to throw the ball at all costs instead of scrambling, even when he has space to run? Why do I say this: The last two games, 4 rushes, -2 yards per game, with kneel downs accounting for 3 rushes for -4 yards total. So he has only rushed 5 times for 0 yards in the last two games in total. Going back since the start of the 4-game winning streak? 21 rushing yards in total. In the first two (both losses), he averaged 43 yards per game rushing. So he has dropped 38 yards per game on the rushing side between the 2-game losing streak and 4-game winning streak. That just seems like too much of a coincidence to not be purposeful. He has never had a streak of 4 games like this rushing the ball.

I do find it interesting that the Bears have the 9th highest rated team in PFF while the Ravens are 29th. Their D-Line is no longer elite, so they rely on Kyle Hamilton to make plays all over the field.

4-2 8 @ Baltimore Ravens - TOSS UP (Allowing a league high 32.3 ppg) 9 @ Cincinnati Bengals - WIN (Only scoring 19.4 ppg AND allowing 30.6 ppg) 10 New York Giants - WIN (scoring 21.9 ppg AND allowing 25.3 ppg) 11 @ Minnesota Vikings - TOSS UP 12 Pittsburgh Steelers - TOSS UP 13 @ Philadelphia Eagles - LOSS 14 @ Green Bay Packers - TOSS UP 15 Cleveland Browns - WIN (Only scoring 16.1 ppg) 16 Green Bay Packers - TOSS UP 17 @ San Francisco 49ers - TOSS UP (Only scoring 20.7 ppg) 18 Detroit Lions - LOSS 7-4 with 6 toss-up games, split those for a 10-7 record.

I would love for the running game to hang another 150-200 on the Ravens. That would more than likely equate to a win.

PFF Grades are always amusing. For this game, only two players on the entire team had a below average grade (below 50.0). Benedet had a 43.2 and Turner had a 29.7 on 10 snaps. The top 5 on offense were: Swift - 83.6 Dalman - 74.8 (kind of funny considering the snap issues) Monangai - 73.8 Thuney - 72.7 Jackson - 72.1 (he is slowly getting better and better, you don't hear his name called much) Top 5 on defense: Edwards - 86.8 Wright - 85.9 Jackson - 83.9 (only 14 snaps, but he seems to always be around the ball) Dexter - 76.6 Gordon - 74.1 Funny Grades: Edmunds - 53.6 (he was all over the place making plays, this is a ridiculous grade) Williams - 62.4 (for the first time ever, I think they gave Williams a higher grade than he deserved, accuracy alone puts him under 50.0, so I don't know what they are looking at.

With Roquan coming back to practice, it still may be a couple of weeks for him to rev up to 100%. Playing the Bears he will push to play. Best way to handle Roquan is run right at him.

Sorry, but they’re not going to call that often. He’s hitting the A-Gap and getting squeezed into the snapper. Arm on the snapper’s back? Sure. But 99% of the time that’s not getting called unless it’s worse and more direct with the snapper. Also, like I said before, there is no timing mechanism to the protection rule. Not one, two, or ten seconds. It’s all based on the officials’ perception of whether or not the snapper has had enough time to defend himself. Some players at lower levels, along with their bonehead coaches, think they just have to keep their head down for an extended period and that automatically results in indefinite protection. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

Maybe because young people make bad decisions at a greater rate than older people? Or maybe you haven’t heard everyone under 25 saying “six seeeveeeen” nonstop? Remember tide pods? Etc. I will be one of the many using halftime to get food and take a symbolic dump.

Fired = Demoted 100% of them have extensive connections and officiating networks. One does not advance to the NFL without such connections. When they get fired or demoted they go back to a D1 conference unless they’re ready to retire or they did something outrageous like a crime. The lower you go the easier it is to fire them. I know someone who got fired from a D1 conference because they were accused of drunken towards a female employee in the hotel lobby where they were all staying. Keeping them wasn’t worth the risk.

Roquan just started practicing so he'll make a difference in their run D. However, he's never been a guy to take on blockers his game is built on running around them. If we can get a hand on him he can be moved out of the play.

The next two games are against teams that have so far this season struggled against the run. Swift and Monangai should be able to take advantage. Rushing Defense rankings. (Last column is rushing TDs allowed)

Right. Narratives are stories that persist above the facts. If you win three games with a last minute scores then you're the "Cardiac kids" and then people expect the pattern to continue. Reality is bumpier than that, and neat little generalizations always fail to capture the full truth. If we keep winning, then eventually the story will change about us, and then theyll say we are better than we are, and that any bad moments dont fit the new story. And it'll be BS then too, but more fun to read. But in the end, it's all nonsense meant to allow a causal observer of the NFL to feel part of a story line thats easy to understand and full of absolutes. Simple and neat, and easy to repeat at a bar to seem like you know football. We here who spend more time on this than that, know that even the best teams have bad plays and games. This is gonna be a bumpy road, but the 4 game view should always be trending upward. So far so good.