jason

You’re right on all of it, but that doesn’t mean the Offense or Williams looked good. 2024-Turd 2025-Turd Sandwich

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.

To be fair, the offense was pretty terrible, the play calling was like a little girl in a haunted house, the second half run defense was nearly non-existent, the OL had way too many penalties, and Caleb looked far from generational.

I feel the same. Never wanted him. He was amazing in college because he was a superior talent with amazing talent around him, and his opponents were PAC12 garbage. He missed 2-3 simple passes up the middle. Almost overthrew Kmet on another if not for an amazing catch. Looks frazzled like a squirrel in the woods. And the overthrow to a wide open DJ for the win…that’s just unforgivable. Gotta give your #1 guy a chance. He better shake it off quickly, or he’s going to lose the city by mid season.

That aged like milk in the July Alabama sun.

Same. Hyped up for 30 minutes, but I knew better.

I honestly still don’t understand that one. Knee on the ground requires contact. This is the NFL not NCAA. And the first contact was to the ball, making it loose. I don’t understand how it wasn’t a fumble.

Either our WRs and TEs are atrocious at getting open… or Caleb Williams has poor vision and anticipation.

This game comes down to Caleb Williams and his development. He needs to take a step forward IMMEDIATELY and lead the team. The Bears need to be offensively focused rather than a traditionally defensive team. Bears 28-21

All this yada yada back and forth is nothing but conjecture at best. We don’t know what anyone truly thinks, what will happen, etc. Year after year we have these discussions but the team never does what any of us want. And maybe that should tell us something since they’ve sucked for the great majority of the last 40 years. What I know is this: OL was finally a top priority. That’s what I’ve wanted since the last Super Bowl. So, in general, I get to finally see if what I believe is true. If they start trading top talent for stockpiles of 2nd rounders just before the players degrade or want a huge contract, like DBDB suggested, then that’s one more thing I want.

He’s a very good player, but not a marquee, OMG player like when we traded for Mack. Two Firsts and An all pro DE? GB lost this trade.

Didn’t read any replies. Bad idea. No thanks.

What I liked the most from the highlights, because I didn’t watch the game, is how open receivers were. In years past, there were numerous times where an opponent was wide open. I thought, “How the hell does that happen to us every game, but our receivers are never open like that?” Well, now it has happened. And not just once. Multiple times. That’s something we simply haven’t seen much in the past 40 years or go. The last time I remember seeing that was with Crowton before everyone figured him out. cautiously optimistic, but that’s a very good sign.

Agree. Hugh and stiff creates straight legs. Straight legs Minimize agility because muscles aren’t engaged. That’s why he wasn’t able to use his glutes and hammers to adjust laterally.

You should try being a ref and watching the mouthpieces in the NFL dangle. Equipment is a point of emphasis over and over. But for some reason in the NFL the don’t care about wearing any equipment whatsoever, then complain years later about CTE and not getting compensated enough to retire.

That’s almost exactly my point regarding Keenan Allen. Instead of him stealing targets, it’ll be a rookie TE. i don’t know how there can be a drastically higher number of attempts this year. Hell, Goff had LESS attempts last year than Caleb.

Wasn’t he the dude who previously said something about football can wait because he wanted another day with his kid?

The only difference between this year and many others in the past 15-20 years is the bright offensive mind and legit focus on OL. There were many years where someone on this board said something like, “Look at all the weapons! Unstoppable!” We shall see. But I think Kmet is a blossoming TE talent being drastically held back, and he will be even more minimized this year.

Which is why I hate the TE pick this year.

Honestly, how can anyone DEFEND the Bears staff or front office when it comes to offense? The Bears haven’t been a feared or creative offense for 30 years or more. Other than a fluke year for crowding and Trestman, it’s been ugly.

Reason this out with me. Poor guy has manual Kia. It drives well. Poor guy sells the Kia to a teenager. Young kid doesn’t like driving manual. Barely drives it. Does that mean the Kia doesn’t drive well? The point is, I don’t know if the Bears can say they made a good move. The only thing certain is that Alshon made a bad one.

It definitely looks different, but we’ve seen many years that were different in the offseason/preseason. Way too many what ifs and optimistic lottery tickets. They have to prove it before I start buying jerseys again.

Disagree. With the Bears, it’s ALWAYS time to question everything. Until they can prove the organization isn’t a perpetual clusterf**k, everything must be questioned.

Which three are you counting? Decker, Ragnow, and Sewell? If so, I’d say you can’t discount Glasgow either. Oh, and BTW, Ratledge is going to a monster in that grouping. They might have an entire OL of mismatch players.

Well, Kmet definitely won’t get a ton now because there is a 100% certainty that he will be underused in 2025.