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He was very accurate today in tough conditions against an elite defense. If not for a few drops he has an even better game. Also had some nice connections to DJ (albeit I don’t want him making that one throw that worked out very often - but what a dot and catch). Luther, Kmet each had a drop on very accurate balls and than Monagai had 2 on screen plays - one of which looked like it would have been a massive play. One thing Caleb was doing a bit too much of was dropping too far out of the pocket due to pressure. Bad habit that I hadn’t seen a lot of but it could have been with lead he was trying not to make a mistake. Overall thought he played solid. Defense was stout - pass rush still not good enough.

Hate those injuries - I want to beat them with everyone there. Want bears to learn what it takes to beat the best. Hoping we get good news on Odunze and we see Bears play their best game yet next Saturday night!!! Let’s go bears!!!

Hate injuries

Let’s go bears - let’s start a new winning streak against the Browns!!!

To your point - I'm presuming the primary read was a shorter pass and/or him running for 1st down vs. Kmet or Moore...which means by time you get there its too late. I think a good throw still works but that is not that easy when you are on the run in the cold with pressure.

I'm rooting for Rams hard - I think if Rams beat Lions that helps out quite a bit. Reality is we are in control of the playoff destiny - but the probability/odds are tough. I still think if we win 2 games we should be in, but that is easier said than done. Have to show up and play strong against Browns....lose this game and the road gets a lot tougher (and it's already tough enough).

This is very fair. I'd go as far as saying not getting that completion percentage up above 60% next year would be a major red flag. This year given all of what Caleb is being asked to do, you can accept it. But if in year 2 he is still that low, it trends into a problem. I'm not asking for a jump to 65%+, but he has to get into the 62/63% range and it sure would be nice if we saw him have a breakout game next week with like a 65% rate and he finished the season on a bit of an upward trajectory (since in season it has really declined). I'd say 2nd half was probably one of the better accuracy streaks he's had in a while (which doesn't say a ton). I will note that mechanics and footwork (even just being behind center and shifting his lead food) are pretty big changes and he entered this year making 2 huge ones plus a new system, so I fully expect it will take an off-season of work from Caleb to materially help his side of the equation and I also expect another off-season in the system and training camp / offseason work with receiver's/te's will all help with the passing game.

Quite frankly the play is a touchdown 80% of the time, if the QB sees that read and hits it early. Heck, if he threw when he did and made a better throw, I think it is still a TD 60% of the time. But pressure was all over and people say he had it if he ran, I'm not sure that he has that first down. That Packer Dline is ridiculous and Caleb is a damn good scrambler but I don't know that I put the odds at a 1st down with him scrambling at >50%. I also don't know if Caleb saw the defender late (thinking he wasn't on Kmet) so he kind of floated it initially but just missed it when the Packers defender recovered and went there). The Packers player said it was a busted coverage and he just identified it - so maybe that contributed to it looking worse. Bottom line - you win some you lose some. They were the better team in 2nd half, worse in 1st half...but they played and held up and got a 2nd straight week against an elite defense...back to iron testing iron....competition is going to test our unit and force them to elevate and be better. They got to experience it, to raise the bar and set an even higher standard, and to kind of provide more of the 201/301 defensive concepts that you just can't practice vs. game time. Force Caleb to see how elite defenses react and play and get him to learn from those habits.

This. Caleb absolutely has to get better and he's still leaving a lot out there, but he is also elevating the team at times and making special plays. He is reading the field better but still has his moments...no surprise, he's a year 2 player in a 1st year offense that is complex. He's also highly athletic and with it you'll see those are the types of QBs that sometimes take a bit more time to find their accuracy (i.e. Josh Allen / Lamar Jackson). I expect a big year 3 jump for Caleb but in fairness if we don't see it and this is who he is, than I think you can start asking yourself some of these questions...but saying it now, nuts to me. I wish he had every boxed check in year two...but very few do that, especially when you see how defense has made a comeback in this league. Just look at the Chiefs game vs. the Texans. Mahomes was all over the place and turned it over 3 times. It was sloppy, he looked flustered and didn't look like a guy who was playing on schedule. It was against a great defense - but Mahomes is an all time great. So it happens. Same with Josh Allen against that defense. If you told me we were here and Caleb is doing what he is doing, I would have been pretty happy. Now that we have 9 wins and were the #1 seed, I think expectations elevated a bit faster and probably a little too high given where we are at in the journey. That is okay and I think it is awesome that the Bears are going to get challenged like this in year 1 - can be a huge cultural lifter / franchise builder. Really hoping they can find a way to get 2 more regular season wins - but I also acknowledge that is going to be really hard to do and I see plenty of scenarios where it is 0-1 quite frankly. I fully expect the Browns game to be the only game remaining they are favored in and we know in football a few bad bounces / infortune turnovers and a game can get flipped.

Bummer about Gordon. When people are knocking Gordon, I won't pretend to know what caused the soft tissue injury. I haven't heard anything about work ethic, I did hear maybe some thoughts that he might have stressed his body too much during off-season training (which would imply the opposite)...but not sure. JJ was same - he was putting in work and injured himself and than when he was supposedly out for the year he kept grinding and came back early. I don't love injuries and soft tissue ones can be the most frustrating (since on paper they seem less severe but end up ruining a whole season). I'm hoping we hear in the cold it was just too much and they didn't want to chance it vs. he reagged it and he's back to square 1.

Probably done for the season. I presume it was his hammy/another soft tissue injury?

Until bears show otherwise, they are still the third best team in the division. I need to see them beat our better divisional foes and I personally think right now Packers are better than Eagles. This will be a very good test. Bears are absolutely trending in right direction - but the haven’t yet earned anything in the division other than beating a very bad Minny team 1 out of 2. Let’s see what they can do. Let’s go Bears!!!

He really has seen his production drop since the injury. I’m hoping maybe a bit of rest can help get it situated but sounds like it really requires offseason to heal.

I’m looking for a breakout Burden game with Rome out.

It seems to have been for 4-5 games. Goes back actually to when his hot start slowed down.