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Agree on all points. Heck, I’d even try running Patterson up the middle due to his sheer size. Last week when they were on the goaline my wife asked me what I thought they were going to do. I said they should run Mack up the middle; you know he’d make it in and it might have raised the morale on the defensive side of the ball. Or ended his season early.

Maybe it was the six near goal line tries and failures right before halftime against the Chargers last week. And just to recap that series of plays, here’s what happened (source Yahoo Sports): * Montgomery ran for no gain on first down. • Cordarrelle Patterson caught a 1-yard pass on second down. • Mitchell Trubisky threw an incomplete pass to Allen Robinson on third down. A flag was thrown for defensive pass interference, setting up the Bears with a fresh set of downs from the 2-yard line. • Trubisky threw an incomplete pass on first down. • Montgomery ran for 1 yard on second down. • Trubisky spiked the ball on third down. Four of those six attempts were by Trubisky. None of which were any more than a one yard gain.

The fact of the matter is, Trubisky needs some sort of reset. I’m fairly certain he’ll never be any better than a mediocre QB and probably will be relegated to career backup status sometime in the next year or two. If he was able to set the reset to the Alex Smith level then maybe he’d be a good crossover QB until the Bears can find an actual Franchise level QB. Look no further than this years stats where Daniel (himself a career back up) has managed 7.1 ypg (to Trubiskys 5.6) with a 73.3 completion % (63 for Trubisky) 213 ypg (173.9 Trub) and carries a 95 rating to Trubisky’s 80. Remember when Trubisky was in college it took him almost three years to supplant Marquise Williams as QB. And that was only because Williams graduated. Where is Williams these days? I’ll agree some of the other pieces of the team are being affected by the play of some on offense and some of it can be due to Nagys inability to make the right calls at the right time. But when a player gets in there who can decipher what the defense is presenting, go through his progressions and not make dumb mistakes his positive plays will influence others to play better. Effective passing will open effective running. And offensive ball control will help the defense rest and keep up tempo and get back to where they’ve been before. One positive to the defense’s play so far is that in the NFC North they have given up the least amount of points (144). Problem is, the offense has only produced 142.

My pouting is over..if only momentary. I couldn’t stay away from this board indefinitely especially when I see Adam (and a few others) and I are agreeing on nearly everything going on with the Bears right now. And when I saw this article (below) from players past and their ... let’s say no-nonsense... response to yesterday’s game. I knew I wasn’t alone in my utter frustration! They speak my language. Still can’t say I’ll watch anymore games this year. https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/bears/ct-cb-chicago-bears-winners-losers-ed-obradovich-rosenthal-20191104-i3o3q7jscrf6bdm63ret3uhhra-story.html

Welp...that clever draft pick known as Shaheen seals it. I’m done watching this season until one of three things happens; Pace is fired, Nagy is fired or Trubisky is benched. See you next year...maybe.

You know they’re going to say that Montgomery doesn’t fit their offense, trade him to the Patriots for a 6th round draft pick. Then with both their 2nd round picks get a D2 running back and TE. Oh and try Kyle Long out at Center to see if he can salvage his career.

Seriously considering turning off the game and getting after my Sunday chores. Seems like a perfectly good waste of daylight hours....

Oh yeah...Jordan’s probably relieved. and yes on sitting Mitch. Now...

Charles ‘I cant block unless I hold’ Leno is back! And why did they decline the ‘running into the kicker’ penalty?

Somebody...anyone...remind me why the Bears got rid of Howard?

Trubisky sees dead people.

Any possible relation to why they elevated Vaughters?

There are some eerie similarities to where the team was last year at this time. Same 3-3 record. Mack is struggling (last year he was injured for a few games played through some but was noticeably not the same), Parkey was missing FGs and Trubiksy was unpredictable (although I’d say now he’s even less reliable than at this point last year). I have a few friends that are Eagles fans and they’ve told me that they’ve been limping through the season to this point with injuries at key positions. I haven’t gone to really check who those all are but one of them, DeSean Jackson (yes THAT DeShaun Jackson) appears ready to go. Even in his advanced age he could still pose a threat in the long game. And besides the lack of push from the front three the back end of our defense hasn’t proven formidable. Howard continues to do what he does, and catch passes. And Jeffery does what he does, catches TD passes. Although not as of late (last one was two games back - so maybe he’s due?). The Eagle are one game ahead of where the Bears are at 4-4 and second in the NFC East. As you said they’d like nothing more than to go into their bye on a winning streak. Bears are 2-1 on the road (the one loss in London) so there is that. Im going to use reverse psychology and say the Bears have no chance in Philly and probably agree with most of what you say about how the game will go down. But I suspect Smith and Mack will have big games. Nevertheless, Bears will lose 20-10.

Short answer for me is having an Alex Smith / serviceable like QB and balance that with a dominating defense (like we know ours can be) and you’ll get what you want. Realistically speaking I even think that would be possible this year, if not definitely next year. I’ve never been one to give up on a season. In fact I absolutely hate the idea of throwing games to get a better draft pick - see where that got us? There are too many variables that can happen in a season to totally rule your team out of contention. But after today passing without us making a move in a trade makes me think our team has stacked its chips and they’re all in with the way things are. Which I read as extremely unfortunate.

Agree Bear Fan. If the ever increasing boos on your own field aren’t convincing enough, then I don’t know what will wake these guys up. And we all wonder why the national media almost mocks the Bears when they do well and challenges them by ‘ignoring’ them. Like MadLith said in another post, until they are able to string more than one winning season together they aren’t worthy of national respect.

Problem is, he’s regressing. Yes there were spurts of good play today but not one TD and two turnovers. It’s like the old adage of ‘insanity is defined by repeatedly doing the same thing and expecting a different result’. Time for the team to unhitch they wagon from Trubisky. See what someone else can do and maybe that will wake him up.

Not just any LB, but a 40 year (losing ground to Gabriel) LB in Davis.

I would’ve at least like to have seen one pass into the end zone or like you said a handoff for a few yards gained. The time out was still in play. I used to really appreciate Nagy but not so much anymore . Maybe he should start on the motivational speaking tour rather than head coaching.

And we’re back to having kicking problems again...of course. Lol

Absolutely right...on all points. And it keeps on getting worse. The defense has got to be getting tired of this. The fans certainly are.

After that half, Nagy should not be taking the field.

And that last two minutes is the game pretty much sums up the offense’s ineptitude. That was totally on Nagy... what a fu*king mess! Totally embarrassing.

The offense is extremely frustrating to say the least. Spots of good enshrouded by inconsistency.

I see Keenan Allen was on the field warming up. Hm.

Danny Trevathan has become my favorite players on the team, alongside Mack and Hicks of course. His silent leadership quality paired with his overall being a good man and player gives me confidence if anyone is going to will this team to do better it’s going to be because of someone like Trevathan. In my opinion, he should be a ‘Bear for life’. https://www.chicagobears.com/video/player-profile-danny-trevathan-x2579