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Yeah - bummer. Hope he recovers quickly and ends up becoming a dude for the bears. I saw where BJ talked about how he played a big part in the run d improving.

I think Ben is putting some emphasis on players this week - in particular with the penalties. It’s a long season, I hope we see a 4-5 TD outburst and a Bears win on Sunday!!!

It’s interesting - Rome looks open from there.

I think I with this past draft it comes down to best use of draft capital and the Bears just didn’t do it - period. With that said - I expect Loveland and Luther are both going to be good football players - they just weren’t the right picks or right positional value with the Bears. I do think both are very good prospects though at their position. Trapillo was solid value and I haven’t seen any reason to think he couldn’t become a good RT, but like the guys above, not right use of draft capital relative to roster. Bears literally took a guy top 10 at position 2 years earlier. So unless they plan on flipping Wright, it’s bad roster construction. Shemar looks like the worse pick in terms of production - but in fairness injuries - but at least he was a pick on the dline, which was an area of need. Poles did do a good job on both oline trades and Dalman is fine, but good god did he piss down his leg on his defensive free agents, yet again. But it’s his sheer waste of relevant draft capital and inability to hit big in draft with roster construction that leads me to believe he is bad. I hope I’m proven wrong though.

Especially with two elite wide ups going against our preseason #5-7 dbs (JJ/Gordon/Stevenson/Smith out). Hopefully Stevenson somehow is back and healthy.

Red Zone efficiency is probably the entire difference between first few weeks and last few weeks in all honesty.

Caleb is part of the problem but there has also been plenty of good too. He has to be better and more confident throwing guys open and getting through his progresssions but he has had his positives too and has massively reduced his sack rate. The whole offense continues to false start (literally and figuratively). Too many mistakes between penalties, drops and poor execution too - in particular in red zone. Even mediocre red zone execution and we are having a different story. I expect to see real progress these next few weeks. Let’s see Bears dig deep and grow vs wilt!!!

I want to see Caleb take a big step forward next week and play his most complete game of his career!

Maye is a specimen.

Hope Moore is ok

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.

Santos is out too - Moody will be the kicker. Sounds like Booker is close but maybe just not enough practice time to be ready to go.

I don’t think the Bears have the horses to win this. Run defense doesn’t match up and even with no McClaurin - between Daniel’s, Debo, and the running backs I can’t see our defense holding them to under 28. Offensively we have seen progress- hopefully they can keep building and start to show progress on ground game and we see Caleb play his most complete game yet - but if they fall behind with the Commanders pass rush - this game can get ugly early. Let’s go Bears - step up here and play some great football!!! Would love to see Montez show up and let MNF jump start his season and the pass rush with Booker hopefully back. I see DJ having a big game and curious to see what tricks/wrinkles Ben has up his sleeve following the bye week. Hopefully we see Caleb continue to grow from the pocket and see his footwork and timing continue to improve. Let’s also clean up those penalties!

I hope so - 3 strong games in a row would be a huge step forward for Stevenson and the Bears 🐻

Yeah - the clearly like Wright a lot - can also see they were pushing/coaching him hard to elevate his consistency cause his best reps are elite. Wright is pretty athletic - trapillo looks like a potential good RT prospect. I really think Wright is their best LT - albeit having Theo come out and be a stud would be pretty awesome. I thought Theo got torched by Crosby in 1st half.

I love Ben Johnson!

He had a few pretty big drops - then some decent plays take away by penalty. He was pressured like crazy by Crosby in first half - but I thought as game went on he did a real nice job moving the pocket and moving the chains. A number of throws where he reset the pocket and then hit a 3rd or 4th read. Crosby was a straight up wrecking ball - quite frankly Caleb throws for a lot more yards if not for the short field the D gave him - but the offense did nothing to tale advantage of the short field - the offense calls and execution just seemed off - too many 3rd and long from penalties and non existent rushing attack.

This - just think about first half where they twice had like 4th and 25 from like the 35. They had failed inside red zone a few times today with all the mistakes and or drops. Get the points and go from there! Also - 2nd straight week where Stevenson played great. Huge! Trapillo seemed to stabilize the offense when he came in. Really wonder if we see them try Wright on the left side at this point.

It would have been impossible to burn the clock out. You got to score. I’m actually think it worked out well as bears still would have had 38 seconds and 2 timeouts had the kick gone in - which to me would have been a much better place to be in then if the Bears gave the raiders 1 minute to go and no timeouts.

Given his usual consistent hands I’ll give him a pass - but the penalties were too much. I expect BJ will be tough on him during the break. But in general the dude pretty much catches everything that hits his hands during his career - something was just off today.

Wasn’t pretty - but a win is a win - especially on the road.

Things worked out - nice to win an ugly one going into bye. Lots to clean up but also seeing lots of progress. Should also be quite a bit healthier following the bye week