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Out of his hand I thought he literally was throwing it away and I was like oh crap and than camera angle pans down and it’s oh hell yeah…than it goes to replay and I’m like don’t show a bobble or a foot not getting down (live I thought it was a TD but I’d been wrong before)

It was a bad call on Moore…he was fine and it had no bearing on the play etc. I thought refs were pretty one sided yesterday (in fairness I thought Bears maybe had a slight benefit on calls in the first meeting). But there was a play or two where they should have been a pass interference on Packers (one was where Kmet got mugged early) and I thought the first roughing passer was borderline and still thought the Brisker one was somewhat borderline (but can’t argue it). The 2nd one Booker got gets called everytime…sucked the timing of the head going down. I also thought Packers got away with a couple holding calls on Jarrett.

Yeah I wanted OT. Home game you play for OT, especially with them looking like they had momentum. And I honestly don’t know that the D could have stopped the Packers ground game…they were getting cooked.

Let’s go

I go back to he’s got a ton of warts but is already above average and those warts are absolutely fixable with work and good coaching and I think we have the coaching and he seems to have the work ethic! This is hard as we can get caught up in the quick flash and sizzle but he is just consistently getting better and I think year 3 will be another big step forward. I also think when they get Burden and Rome back we will see a Caleb who is even more ready to work his progressions etc. Jahdae might have a nice future in the slot too here.

This highlight doesn’t get old…my whole family had given up in 2nd half and I kept telling them this team is different they’ll find a way…but even I didn’t see it quite going like this…from so frustrating to so damn fun…so nice to be on the flip side of this!!!

The defense was getting cooked…gave up a ton of long drives as they really weren’t ready to get into a physical slug fest and when Love went out that is what happened. And our dline just isn’t good.

Jahdae Walker might be a solid find a year from now. Small school to big school and he seems to have some tools.

I thought there was no chance he would hit the 51 yarder. Even the one before with that cross wind…wow.

It is interesting - a lot of best qbs bunched in that range. Goff there too and Mahomes and Stafford not far away.

Yeah I thought it was insane when we tried the 51 yarder and he freaking drilled it. He has been pretty good on kicks too. Special teams in general has been much improved past few weeks.

Yes - Ben Johnson and Dennis Allen struggled a bit. Packers adjusted well on both sides of the ball. I think Ben will learn from this though. Id love for Lions to lose tomorrow. Nuts how hard it is to make playoffs in NFC this year.

Bears would have won in regulation without this call (or so I think). That was a bad call.

This is true - he did it against Packers first game too. But he has gotten much better all year and I think another offseason and year 2 and we see him take another step.

Wow wow wow what a finish. Bears got outplayed, were too cute and Ben got out coached (rare and he will learn from it)…but they found a way. Incredible!!! Was such a weird game in those conditions. Caleb was spectacular end of the game and in OT. That ball was a dime to Moore. And the 4th down throw to Walker too.

I don’t think I even know how to understand this. Nor do I think it would be easy for whoever is calculating it to come up with it. Concept is good.

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.