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Yeah. I lost my mother a few months ago and I still show up to work, even worked late on Fri afternoon. However, it is true I do not have $20mil in the bank.

Kiran can play OG but with him having zero experience there in the NFL to adjust to the speed and power I'd be really nervous putting him there. If we have to rely on him at all I think he'd find it easier on the outside.

I've been thinking who should get benched on the Oline. You get to choose one because it's highly doubtful we'll swap out two players in a single week. I'm close on either Shelton or Davis but I lean toward pulling Shelton first because he's just getting run over or run past play after play. The one caveat is who do we have more confidence in at backup - C (Kramer), RG (Murray/Pryor)? The answer to that question should decide things. Being on the road and against some backup Dline players maybe it's better to stick with Shelton at Center than having Kramer deal with the silent counts. Can our OTs hold up better against the Colts edge rushers than they did against the Texans'? If so, that makes it easier to keep the RB inside for pass pro.

I’m not worried about Caleb yet. I felt in game he showed progress and the film reviews I’ve seen back that up. In the second half the Texans got him to keep his eyes down after the snap and he missed some easy throws. On one blitz he had Homer in the left flat on the hot read with blockers. Perfect blitz beater and he never looked that way. He’s still playing checkers but given the step up from game one to two I think soon he’ll be playing beginner chess. Shelton is my single biggest concern on the team He’s clearly not that strong but as a veteran his eyes and assignment discipline should be much better I’m not even sure there would be a drop off if we put Kramer out there If we have to live with assignment mistakes I think Kramer would put up more of a fight and this line really needs someone to start showing that

I saw growth from Caleb. Just not enough but also not unexpected for his first road game ever. It wasn’t helpful to have the entire stadium know the snap count right after Davis tapped Shelton. Our Oline have enough issues but if you could just change that one aspect of the game it would have helped especially the tackles who were often late off the ball. Williams clearly missed his safety blanket in Keenan Allen too. Last year we’d have lost that game by 20pts.

We're closer as a team overall but the IOL issue is a killer flaw. All game I kept wondering why Caleb doesn't look Odunze's way. The last play made it clear why. It also explains why he was leaning on Keenan Allen so much in week 1. This game was primarily DJ Moore. Still I think Caleb showed far more positives than negatives. Give him 3 seconds and he'll be ok.

Whoever is upstairs telling Flus to challenge plays is bad. If Flus does not have somebody up there doing that he’s really bad.

Here I thought you were not allowed to land with your body weight on top of a QB. Nor hit QB out of bounds. Nor throw punches.

Because our rookie QB can handle that and changing the pre snap calls at the LOS. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that out of a rookie QB in just his second game and first game on the road.

Weak link in pass protection. Just like last week run the stunt across the face of Davis right past Shelton.

I do think some of what they are doing is going to give us a shot over the top of the D.

We have a QB. I know it’s way early but this QB play is different. in other news we need an Oline to protect our franchise QB.

Agreed.

Sure they do but winning is winning and they just might stay with what is working until it's not.

Yeah, I was expecting Allen to miss multiple games after we traded for him. One down I figure at least 3 or 4 to go.

Inactives for tonight. BEARS WR Velus Jones Jr. WR Keenan Allen OL Kiran Amegadjie FB Khari Blasingame LB Noah Sewell DL Dominique Robinson TEXANS WR John Metchie III S M.J. Stewart RB Dameon Pierce LB Jamal Hill OL Juice Scruggs LB Rashad Weaver

https://www.windycitygridiron.com/2024/9/15/24245502/chicago-bears-inury-update-rome-odunze-to-play-per-report-keenan-allen-houston-texans

Nobody was giving a 1st for Rick Mirer either until someone did.

I'm so old I remember when fans were wanting us to draft Skoronski. He got owned by multiple Dlineman worse than Shelton Coleman did.

I'm not sure how much has changed. Plus I know nothing about these concepts and what options there are to choose from. Let's see what we get in Week 2.

I think he’s a good fit for them too. In his first year in the system Tua had to learn to make the quick read. Things looked bad until he settled in and learned to take the easy play. Could Bagent run their offense like Purdy runs the 49ers? Both have arm strength limitations yet similar skillets otherwise.

If the Dolphins call and offer a 2nd Rd pick for Bagent what’s your answer?

https://texanswire.usatoday.com/2024/09/12/texans-hc-demeco-ryans-cj-stroud-bears-secondary-sunday-night-football/

Darnell Wright played well last week. I know Hunter had a bunch of sacks against us last year but that was also when Fields, Bagent, and Getty had no answer for their heavy blitz scheme. I look forward to seeing how Wright does in this game because he’s already seen Hunter and knows what to expect. After this game we’ll have a good idea how good our RT can be. Braxton might be more of a question mark but he also held his own last week in pass pro.

I was looking over the Texans depth chart. I don’t know much at all there aren’t a lot of big names. Our Oline will go from trying to block TVondre Sweat and Simmons to Mario Edward’s and Foley Fatukasi. Their DEs are good with Hunter and Will Anderson. They seem to have a good DB group. On offense they have a good group of small quick WRs. Good Oline, RB Mixon, QB. More than the defense being challenged this will force our offense to score points if we want to win this game. Which leads to my next point…how will Caleb respond. After watching Chase Daniel’s film review I’m now very optimistic about Williams future. While he had his share of mistakes he was clearly reading the field well for most of the game. With just a couple tweaks he easily had two TD throws both being in the red zone where rookies notoriously struggle reading a compressed D. Shelton getting pancaked by a LB led to one tipped pass that prevented a TD. Coaches were right to keep him in the pocket and trust him to read the coverage. The Oline had issues but if we only fixed the huge mistakes by Shelton on a few plays that game looks much better for Williams. Our IOL weakness matches up better against the Texans DT lack of depth. We might see a calmer Williams in the pocket this week.