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10 hours ago, Pixote said:
It was noted when he was drafted and again this year in preseason that Caleb has problems with his cadence when calling plays. I'm reasonably sure that this is just one of the reasons for our ongoing issues with presnap penalties.
He had barely played from center in college - Ben is having him play from center and forcing him to develop from there - but there wil be growing opportunities.
Offense was quite good today which was nice - despite another couple drops from Rome.
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11 hours ago, Bears4Ever_34 said:
Feels like an inflection point game for Caleb today. If he doesn't play well, and the team loses, it wouldn't surprise me if we start hearing rumblings of a potential QB change on the horizon.
The Bears can't lose back to back weeks to a Ravens team without Lamar Jackson and an old ass Joe Flacco with the worst defense in football, who, by the way, doesn't have Trey Hendrickson out there today. Can't happen to a team with real playoff aspirations.
There is zero chance they should be looking at a qb change. Caleb is 1.5 years into his career and half a year into a new system.
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4 minutes ago, Alaskan Grizzly said:
Speaking of Turner…
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.
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11 minutes ago, BearFan PHX said:
I havent heard him do any of that CYA stuff yet, so I read it differently. I think he means it.
We dont have to agree of course.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!!!
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3 hours ago, adam said:
On INT, Loveland 6 yards downfield being held by Roquan, literally on his back, prevented him from moving. Another missed call.
It’s interesting - Rome looks open from there.
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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.
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29 minutes ago, Alaskan Grizzly said:
This.
FWIW, Flacco led the Browns to defeat the Packers on week three of this year. Flacco was traded to Cincy 5 days and made the starter before he met the Packers again but wasn't able to pull of the win (losing 18-27). I'd make the case the Cincy's offense is better than Baltimore's - position wise.
It appears the Bengals and Ravens may have swapped out on who has the worse defense. Right now Cincinnati is ranked 32nd overall, 31st against the pass and 30th against the run.
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.
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4 hours ago, adam said:
Here is a graph of Caleb's Comp%, QB Rating, and QBR. I will add PFF Grades once this week's grades are out.
To me, this looks like he is regressing across the board. With 7 games, you can take out the middle game, which was right before the bye, and assess in 2x 3-game increments. In his first 3 games, he had 7 TD-1 INT, with 3 games at or above average. Then in his last 3, he has 1 TD, 2 INTs and 2 of the 3 lowest graded weeks this season.
Red Zone efficiency is probably the entire difference between first few weeks and last few weeks in all honesty.
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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!!!
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I want to see Caleb take a big step forward next week and play his most complete game of his career!
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On 10/18/2025 at 11:03 AM, Mongo3451 said:
Caleb is my guy, but really liked Maye before the draft. I think Maye is going to be the best of them all. Followed by Caleb, Daniels, Nix and Penix.
Maye is a specimen.
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Huge win - defense and Swift get a lot of credit. Moody hits 4 of 5. Lot to still work on too.
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3 hours ago, BearFan PHX said:
It looks like we shifted from a power scheme to more of an outside gap scheme, which lets Benedet and Wright get out on the edge, and Swift has been much more successful doing that. Cool.
I think that is why they made the swift at LT
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1 hour ago, Pixote said:
The Caleb Vs Daniels is a push and shove
Daniels committed two turnovers, the last one probably cost them the game
But he also completed 73% of his passes vs 59% for Caleb, thus the QBR difference
It seemed to me Caleb became frustrated. You could see it in his sideline demeanor.
Tonight, I think it got the better of him. He is capable of much more.
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!
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1 hour ago, Bears4Ever_34 said:
Lol, Caleb finishes with a 37 QBR and Daniels with a 69 in a game he had two killer turnovers, threw for fewer yards, only 1 more TD (though Caleb's was taken away or he would have had 3), and lost the game. Also took the same amount of sacks as Caleb.
I didn't think Caleb played well for the vast majority of the game, but Jayden's two turnovers were much bigger plays than the misses Caleb had, and zero turnovers has to count for something. The discrepancy is completely nonsensical.
And in a rainy game - that was an awful call that took away a TD for Caleb too.
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8 minutes ago, Pixote said:
Just read that Booker and Homer will both miss the game. I'm really disappointed that it is taking so long for Booker to recover.
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.
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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!
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5 minutes ago, Mongo3451 said:
I bet he's at his best in this game. This dude looks like he's redeemable...
I hope so - 3 strong games in a row would be a huge step forward for Stevenson and the Bears 🐻
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2 minutes ago, AZ54 said:
Ben Johnson seems to be very high on Darnell Wright. With Ozzy looking decent I could definitely see them ramping up LT reps for Theo.
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.
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1 hour ago, Stinger226 said:
I love Ben Johnson!
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45 minutes ago, jason said:
Did Caleb look like shit as his stats indicate, or was the OL terrible? I didn’t watch any of the game but I thought he’d put up big stats today.
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.
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37 minutes ago, jason said:
Don’t agree on this one. You don’t dick around when you can score a TD, because TDs aren’t guaranteed.
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.
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2 hours ago, adam said:
Can't count on a blocked FG to win, glad that happened, but could've avoided that situation with better clock management.
I understand the theory of just scoring, but teams sometimes allow teams to score to get the ball back with more time. With how the defense was playing in the 2nd half, you can't give the other team that much time and allow that big of a return.
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.
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Odunze is not a bust but he’s going through some struggles catching. He also is getting open all over the place - it will come together but it is frustrating. Far from a bust and I expect we will see him bounce back. Jamar Chase had some cases of the drops early in his career too.