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He was a Pro Bowl LG in DET, then LAR tried to use him at Center and RG and it didn't work. Bears trade for him as a RG. Poles is really bad at his job. Making guys swap sides normally doesn't work out. Like try skateboarding with your opposite foot forward, you can do it and if you practice, you can get better, but it never feels natural.

They will have an Out or IR designation. Sometimes that does not occur until it is official.

7 of the top 10 draft teams are still in the top 10 from last year. Falling out were JAX, NE, and LVR, all who are 1-1 and JAX is the only team of the 3 to have a plus point differential after 2 games. The 3 teams that replaced them are MIA, HOU, and KC. MIA seemed to be trending this way since last year. HOU has always been a shaky team right at the cusp of winning and losing, but KC is pretty shocking since the matched their loss total from last year in 2 weeks. However, with 7 of 10 still in the top (or bottom) 10, and the other 3 teams only 1-1 really shows that it is hard to move out of the basement, just like a 32-yr kid who is unemployed.

Yeah, at this point, we are back to only tracking QB growth in Year 2, Year 1 in new system. Most people were expecting a fringe playoff team, but unfortunately this roster is filled with guys content with 5 wins.

Updated after MNF: 1. NYJ 0-2 (.471 SOS) 2. NO 0-2 (.471 SOS) 3. MIA 0-2 4. CLE 0-2 5. TEN 0-2 6. CHI 0-2 (.559 SOS) 7. NYG 0-2 8. KC 0-2 9. CAR 0-2 10. HOU 0-2 (.647 SOS)

Looks to be out for awhile or possibly the entire season. Crazy think players can get hurt outside of work and basically get workers comp. Good reason for a fire sale I guess. Clean house at deadline and reset for next year. Use this year for offensive development and to evaluate players.

In Week 2, Fields had 1.1 QBR, one of the lowest scores I have seen. 3-11, 27.3%, 27 yds, and a fumble lost before leaving the game with a concussion.

Crazy to think the opening line has the Bears favored, but they do. My assumption is that will slide to DAL being the favorite as the week goes on and DAL gets hammered with money. At this point, it is probably another loss until something happens with the defense. If they can't get pressure, they can't have Stevenson out there trailing WRs by 5 yards on every play. I don't even know what type of coverage he is playing, but he has been one of the worst players on the defense, and teams just start targeting him on every play. Hopefully the offense decides to get the TEs involved because they combined for only 3 targets against DET. 2 for Kmet and 1 for Loveland. Right now the target share by position group is: 1. WR - 46 2. RB - 12 3. TE - 9

The Bears really got screwed by the schedule makers (again). Back to back division opponents, then playing on the road against a division opponent on a short week.

Even after the DET blowout loss, this Week 1 game still stings. MIN got away with one, defense did not adjust. Williams played better than Penix against MIN defense. MIN should be 0-2 right now. Sucks.

Week 2 - Penix - 27.1 QBR - 135 yds, 0 TD, 0 INT, 3 sacks, and -1 rushing yds. 134 Total Yards. Won. / Season QBR: 62.6 Maye - 77.6 QBR - 230 yds. 2 TD, 0 INT, 3 sacks, and 31 rushing yds and 1 TD. 261 Total Yards. Won. / Season QBR: 60.3 Williams - 43.7 QBR - 207 yds, 2 TD, 1 INT, 4 sacks, and 27 rushing yds. 234 Total Yards. Lost. / Season QBR: 57.7 Nix - 72.3 QBR - 206 yds, 3 TD, 1 INT, 0 sacks, and 20 rushing yds. 226 Total Yards. Lost. / Season QBR: 43.6 Daniels - 26.9 QBR - 200 yds, 2 TD, 4 sacks, and 17 rushing yds. 217 Total Yards. Lost. / Season QBR: 39.1 McCarthy - 6.2 QBR - 158 yds. 0 TD, 2 INT, 1 FL, 6 sacks, and 25 rushing yards. 183 Total Yards. Lost. / Season QBR: 20.4 Penix won with 135 passing yards. Nix lost with a QBR of 72.3. McCarthy has had one good quarter in the NFL out of 8.

If a player is IR eligible, when you go to move them to the BN, there should be another slot labeled IR to move them to. However, if they already played this week, you would have to wait until the next week starts because it will say they already played and can't be moved.

Welp, that was fun while it lasted. Didn't think I would need to start this thread this early, but it is hard to see much light at the end of the tunnel with the brutal schedule. As of this writing, the Bears are one of 7 teams at 0-2, with 2-3 more likely by the end of the week. So the entire top 10 may be winless after two weeks. What sucks for the Bears is the reverse order SOS, so not only do you get punished in season with the toughest schedule, that also equates to the worst draft pick. The league should move to strength of victory as the tie-breaker, and only use SOS for 0-17 teams. That would be a much more accurate indication of a team's true strength. 1. NO 0-2 (.407 SOS) 2. NYJ 0-2 3. MIA 0-2 4. TEN 0-2 5. CLE 0-2 6. NYG 0-2 7. CHI 0-2 (.600 SOS) 8. CAR 0-1 9. ATL 0-1 10. KC 0-1 11. HOU 0-1 (.654 SOS)

Just like in Week 1, bad call and game goes off the rails. This one just happened right before the half. The Bears could've went into halftime with momentum, DET having the clock run out on them, only down 7. Instead, the bogus call gives the Lions an extra play for an easy TD. Don't know why Johnson didn't use a timeout there to give the defense more time. DET ran another play, so technically the refs can't go back a play to get the other play correct. Then in doing so they still got it wrong. Unbelievable sequence. Then they were down 14 and the entire game plan changes. Basically game over from there.

This is not a result of Ben Johnson, Caleb Williams, or anyone else but Ryan Poles. You can't continually lose on trades and under draft year after year. 2025 Draft picks in the first 4 rounds have literally contributed zero to this team in 2 weeks, and the Bears had 5 picks in the first 4 rounds. In 2024, he drafted Williams #1 and Odunze #9, which were a wash. Most had Williams going #1 and Odunze at 8. He did pass on Brock Bowers and Thomas Jr to go with Odunze. Also passed on every other QB for Williams. Right now, even after a great game for Odunze, it looks like those both were the wrong picks compared to players picked after them. We still have to give them until the end of this year, but it's like the entire team is behind the sticks. Don't forget he also drafted Kiran Amegadjie in the 3rd, who barely made the roster, then Taylor in the 4th. WTF was he thinking? In 2023, Darnell Wright in the 1st over Jalen Carter. Still the wrong decision when DT was as big of a need. Then Dexter and Stevenson in the 2nd. If he went with Carter, he could've went OL in the 2nd. Pickens in the 3rd, then Roschon and Tyler Scott in the 4th. In his first draft, in 2022, he didn't have a 1st, but 2x 2nds, and went with a Nickelback and a Safety, followed by Velus Jones in the 3rd. So from 2022 - 2024, he has 13 picks in the first 4 rounds and has Williams, Odunze, and Wright to show for it. The Loveland and Burden picks should've been OL, then DB and TE instead of Trapilo and Turner. That is 17 picks in the first 4 rounds of the last 4 drafts, and only 3 are regular contributors, with Odunze really the only one with star potential. Every week more and more it looks like Caleb is going to be average at best.