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Yeah, that sucks, he has been grinding, getting rushing attempts, blocking, and getting some dirty yards. I would assume it was the kidney shot he took.

Week 6 - 1. Maye - 92.6 QBR - 261 yds, 3 TD, 0 INT, 1 sack, and 28 rushing yds. 289 Total Yards. Won. / Season QBR: 72.3, 1522 yards, 10-2 TD-INT, 2 Rush TD (6 games) 2. Williams - 37.2 QBR - 252 yds, 1 TD, 0 INT, 3 sacks, and -2 rushing yds. 250 Total Yards. Won. / Season QBR: 60.4, 1179 yards, 9-2 TD-INT, 2 Rush TD (5 games) 3. Rattler - 72.1 QBR - 227 yds, 0 TD, 0 INT, 2 sacks, and 20 rushing yds. 247 Total Yards. Lost. /Season QBR: 60.2, 1217 yds, 6-1 TD-INT, 0 Rush TD (6 games) 4. Penix - 33.3 QBR - 250 yds, 1 TD, 0 INT, 2 sacks, and -6 rushing yds. 256 Total Yards. Won. / Season QBR: 52.8, 1168 yards, 4-3 TD-INT, 1 Rush TD (5 games) 5. Daniels - 69.6 QBR - 211 yds, 3 TD, 1 INT, 3 sacks, and 52 rushing yds. 263 Total Yards. Lost. / Season QBR: 52.5, 875 yards, 7-1 TD-INT, 0 Rush TD (4 games) 6. Nix - 37.2 QBR - 174 yds, 1 TD, 0 INT, 1 sack, and 24 rushing yds. 198 Total Yards. Won. / Season QBR: 51.0, 1277 yards, 9-4 TD-INT, 1 Rush TD (6 games) 7. McCarthy - Always hurt / Season QBR: 22.5 (Last in NFL), 301 yards, 2-3 TD-INT 6 QBs from the same class with a Season QBR over 50.0 is actually unprecedented. The media is not giving this class enough love, it just seems to be a Maye Daniels love fest, and shit on Caleb. The Year 2 QBs were undefeated the last few weeks and now the only ones that lost, lost to other 2nd Year QBs. For how bad NO has been over the last two years, Rattler is actually playing really solid football. There are 4 teams with a current 3-game win streak, 3 of them have Year 2 QBs (NE, CHI, and DEN). Caleb on pace for 4,008 yards (if he plays 17 games), 31 Pass TD, 7 INT, 34 Sacks, and 7 Rush TD. Just say they rested him in Week 18, and he only played 16 games, he would be on pace for 3,773 Passing Yards, 65 yards less than Kramer's team record in the same number of games. Considering the lighter schedule over the next few weeks, I think he has a shot at the record in Week 17.

D J. Moore spent the night in the hospital in Washington last night. After the game he left the stadium in a ambulance. Haven't heard about the injury but he went back in the game after being injured. He's a baller and not someone you want to get rid of by trade. He's a valuable member of the offense. He runs the ball, catches the ball and blocks. He's still our best offensive weapon.

One of the flaws of QBR, is that it really penalizes incompletions. It also doesn't punish enough for INTs and FL. So Caleb doesn't benefit from his lack of turnovers. Him and Penix played very similar games: Caleb 37.2 QBR - 17-29, 58.6%, 252 Yds, 8.7 Y/A, 1 TD, 0 INT, 3 Sacks Penix 33.3 QBR - 20-32, 62.5%, 250 Yds, 7.8 Y/A 1 TD, 0 INT, 2 Sacks EPA/P also plays a huge role, and Daniels ended up with a +7.1 EPA total, which equates to +0.20. Caleb had his 2nd best game in terms of EPA +1.1 while his TTT was his lowest of the season at 2.65. I don't like the fact that a QB can run out of bounds behind the line of scrimmage and it just be called a rushing attempt for -3. That is a sack, he can throw at any time behind the LOS. The score keepers have no way to know if it was a designed run, a play action, an RPO, etc. That really saves Daniels because he gets a lot of those which penalize him less than others.

The shear number of bogus calls is hard to even comprehend, and it happened on every drive. In total, there was a 13 pt swing in WAS favor, -4 for them and +9 for the Bears. The score should've been 34-21, or 31-21 with a kneel down at the end vs a FG. Benedet was not offsides, flag was thrown after the TD. Caleb hit helmet to helmet by Lulu, no call, then: Brisker gets pushed into Daniels, hits him low but above the knee, result of the play is incompletion, so they throw the flag. Phantom call on Wright for facemask, WR was just running with his head down, then: Defender has choke hold on Odunze, which is a clear hands to the face, not called. Moore was not lined offsides, he was on the line, they still called it and negated a positive play. Loveland within 5 yards, legal contact, the defender should've been called for embellishing as he falls back 10 yards like Loveland is super human. Did I miss any?

We seem to be getting some breaks that usually buried us before. Still penalties are killing us but the officiating crew gives the most flags in football and many of those flags were bogus. The OL played well against a good DL and the running game looked a lot better. Swift is a capable RB and Monangai showed some support. We played better on the D in stopping the run. Washington was the best running team in the league. We outrushed them. It seemed like us coming out of the bye , we had more energy and physicality. Our next 6 games are all winnable. So we still have time to get better going forward. I think Edwards and Gordon will play better the more snaps they get. This was the first time on the field for several weeks. Nashoun Wright made the play of the game but he has a lot of penalties and gets beat a lot. I wish they would give Jalyon Jones a shot. He had good snaps over the last few years. Having won 3 games in a row we are starting to get some confidence that we can win a game even being down. Its still has a lot of growing to do under BJ but the arrow is pointed up right now. The last two games were on the road which is huge wins.

Caleb still needs to grow but he does performs well at the end of games. A few times he could have run and choose to try to get it downfield. I hope he makes better decisions going forward. He seems to focus to much on Odunze and he throws into double coverage a lot.

D has been bad up until this game when we seen improvement at stopping the run. As you average the bad games into the rankings it may not look good overall but they still showed improvement. We also added a running game. The best rushing team in the league got out rushed by Swift.

Currently ranked 27th overall defense. 29th in points allowed, 26th in rushing defense and 32nd at yards allowed per carry. Sure a lot of that came by way of the shellacking from Detroit on week 2. Still I’m just not a fan.

Word!! (#1) Word! (#2) Word!!! (#3) I couldn’t understand with as much time as they had and how well Swift was running they didn’t get even closer…or try to score. They still had a TO to burn and something close to a minute left? Yeah…it was edgy for sure .

right Caleb played a good game, but rushing touchdowns dont go into the QBR stat. Maybe they should!

i agree. Braxton was bad at pass pro, but he was worse int he run game. But also, Johnson changed the blocking scheme during the bye week. The first 4 games, we were a power gap team mostly. Now we had big bodies on the edge, and as you say, both Benedet and Wright are made for that. And since Johnson already knew Swift before, I wonder if the change wasnt based more ont he OL skill set than Swifts. That said, Ive never felt this good about Swift before.

Huge win - defense and Swift get a lot of credit. Moody hits 4 of 5. Lot to still work on too.

I think that is why they made the swift at LT

He took a step back after that TD got take away. I think he really wanted this one after last year and emotion got best of him - but conditions weren’t great and the Commanders dline is quite good. A win is a win - nice to see and kudos to defense and Swift!

And in a rainy game - that was an awful call that took away a TD for Caleb too.

I agree about Loveland. His OPI was bogus, but he needs to be making more of an impact for a 1st round pick. Tyler Warren has completely outplayed him all season. Right now, Loveland looks like just a guy. He hasn't done anything that's stood out. At least Burden has shown flashes. They have to get more out of both of them, to be honest.

1. Does it shock anyone that Swift looked better when plays were called that **gasp** put him in space outside? 2. I’m an official, and I almost never bash officials, but that was bad. The offside was terrible as was the illegal formation. In fact, I’ve been to multiple camps where NFL officials talk about a “single blade of grass”-philosophy, usually applied to defensive offsides, which means if you can put a single blade of grass between the OL and DL, make it legal. The same philosophy applies to attempting to make offensive formations legal. The tackle should be significantly back to draw that foul. 2b. The OPI was weak as well. Push offs are actually one of the OPI categories when justifying the call, but if the defender is swiveling hips to actually run, it’s generally not called. 2c. Last but not least, the illegal contact call was terrible. That has to be something that causes material restriction of some sort, not just a dude touching a WR. Otherwise literally every pass would be DPI as the DB reaches for the receiver. 2d. For any crybaby Skins fan, delay of game is not automatically synchronized with the clock. The philosophy has built in gray area for the time between zero, looking at the snap, and blowing the whistle. The last thing anyone wants is an overzealous back judge throwing 4-5 DOGs every game because he’s being overly technical. 3. Williams still hasn’t put it all together. It worries me. Multiple misses, and one horribly under thrown ball that should have been a TD. 4. Good thing the Bears used their first round selection and drafted Loveland.🙄 5. What was with that one play in the red zone where Caleb looked right, then blindly fired a fastball left straight into the defender’s hands? If he didn’t have a propensity for overpowering short throws, that would have been an INT. 6. Was anyone else going crazy when they stopped trying to get yards at the end? Dude got cut for being inconsistent, gets called up literally today, it’s raining, it’s a pressure-filled game winner, and the Bears are just content with “close enough”?

He had two touchdowns, 1 was rushing. Daniels had 1 more TD, but 2 costly turnovers. I think it's wild he ends the game with a near 70 QBR with that stat line when he literally fumbled the game away. I thought the stat was supposed to account for high leverage moments. If 50 is average, I felt like Caleb was a little under that and Daniels was probably just above that.

The Caleb Vs Daniels is a push and shove Daniels committed two turnovers, the last one probably cost them the game But he also completed 73% of his passes vs 59% for Caleb, thus the QBR difference It seemed to me Caleb became frustrated. You could see it in his sideline demeanor. Tonight, I think it got the better of him. He is capable of much more.

Up until that final Daniels turnover, I thought he was. Caleb's accuracy and decision making was all over the place. He's lucky he wasn't picked a couple times in the redzone. I think almost all of the close ones were plays that involved Rome: the 4th down, the deep ball into double coverage, and the late slant in the endzone. There were at least a few others that were just straight up misses to open guys. It wasn't pretty for him, regardless of whether or not he got screwed on that other TD. That said, once Daniels fumbled that ball on the most critical play of the game, I think he brought himself down closer even with Caleb, perhaps even slightly worse. Regardless, they were somehow able to get a win by beating two teams today. This never happens. I'm feeling a whole hell of a lot better now. The Bears had to prove to me they could win a game like this. I give them and Caleb a lot of credit for their resilience.

I think because Daniels threw for 3 TDs and Caleb only threw for one. Thats why the discrepancy. Otherwise I think Caleb had the better game.

Lol, Caleb finishes with a 37 QBR and Daniels with a 69 in a game he had two killer turnovers, threw for fewer yards, only 1 more TD (though Caleb's was taken away or he would have had 3), and lost the game. Also took the same amount of sacks as Caleb. I didn't think Caleb played well for the vast majority of the game, but Jayden's two turnovers were much bigger plays than the misses Caleb had, and zero turnovers has to count for something. The discrepancy is completely nonsensical.

It never even came to mind until you mentioned two consecutive games won 25 to 24 What are the odds?

You really think this about him? I think he's done well with a depleted Dline, and DBs, and backup LBs over the start of the season. It has been ugly at times but you see the defense rebound each week.