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Offense looking like crap. Fumbled snap on a high snap from Dalman, then on 3rd Down he snaps the ball and then holds onto it? I don't know if I have ever seen that before and how that is not a penalty lol. Bears settle for FG. Offense is killing themselves right now.

Defense coming up huge, Montez Sweat with the strip sack and Dexter with the recovery.

Terrible start. Of course. The typical quick screen to the WR that is almost intercepted, then a false start penalty to cause a 3rd and long and quick 3 and out. Lovely.

Yes lol.

Don't blitz Rattler and wait him out as he gets worse the longer he holds the ball: Blitz: +0.12 EPA/DB No Blitz: -0.11 EPA/DB TTT below 2.5: +0.12 EPA/DB TTT above 2.5: -0.32 EPA/DB

The Long Snapper is considered a defenseless player when snapping the ball with his head down. On both of the last two kicks, the block and the GWFG, Payne is clearly on Daly's back instantly, and using him as leverage. On the previous kicks, Payne would just rush the gap between the LS and the G, but in these two he was going over the back of Daly, which didn't give him a chance to even attempt to block him. In the MIA game, this was called against the defense.

I was trying to look for some trends for this game, but in general, the Saints have been so bad under Rattler and over the last two years, there is not much to find. However, I did notice that in their only win and Rattler's first (1-12), he did not take a sack, nor did he throw an INT. NO is 1-1 when he doesn't take a sack, and winless when he takes at least one. For Williams, the Bears are 1-6 when he doesn't throw a TD pass but are 4-0 when he is sack 1 or fewer times in a game. They are 4-14 when he is sacked 2 or more times. So the formula is at least 1 TD pass with 1 or fewer sacks for Williams.

I think the top 3 are really comparable with different elite traits. The one factor that has to be considered is the opponents. The difference between Maye in 2024 and 2025 is the absolute cream puff schedule he has this year. So I would expect him to lead all 2024 QBs in passing this year just based on that alone. Daniels had that last year. WAS was 1-4 against playoff teams and 11-1 against non-playoff teams. Daniels and Nix are in Year 2 of the same offense as well. So thru Week 6 in Year 2, Caleb has had the toughest SOS and is already on his 3rd play caller, OC, and HC. Penix and Rattler are with Caleb, on their 2nd coaching staff and have harder schedules. 1. Maye -coaching staff change, +schedule 2. Williams -coaching staff change, -schedule 3. Daniels +lack of coaching change, +schedule 4. Penix -coaching staff change, -schedule 5. Nix +lack of coaching change, +schedule 6. Rattler -coaching staff change, -schedule 7. McCarthy -always injured One last note on Maye, he has never thrown for more than 287 yards, and the most passing TDs in one game is 3, which he has done only twice. Caleb has 4x 300-yard games and 2x 4 TD passing games. Daniels has one game over 275 passing yards, the Hail Mary game against the Bears. That one stupid play gave him a career high, and his only 300-yd passing game of his career to this point.

They had the same punter in last week to help the returners.

Oof, Loveland would be 20th.

Side note to the New Orleans game, the Saints are 23rd in Pressure Rate. In contrast, the Bears have faced teams that apply a lot of pressure, in 4 other games: WAS - 4th, DAL - 8th, DET - 9th, MIN - 10th. I was suprised to see WAS that high, so maybe Caleb's performance was a little better than I thought considering he was facing a top 5 pressure defense and the offense still put up 25.

Yeah, from what I can see, it seems he moves from 1-2 pretty fluidly, but then 2-3 and beyond, his eyes and feet separate.

The entire line played great.

The Bears had their best games in terms of Rushing Success Rate in the last 20 years, and one of the best games by any team this season. It also does contrast with Swift's career as he has typically been a 47% Success Rate Rusher, slightly below the league average of 49%.

The accuracy is the main issue, but he didn't have accuracy issues in college, so I think it is something that can be corrected. I heard Nate Tice say something about the deep incompletion to Rome that was considered "underthrown, that it was the 2nd longest throw in the NFL this season only a half yard shorter than Mahomes hail mary attempt.

Moore is a baller if he played through that. 😁

The TEs have really underwhelmed. Kmet is having the worst year of his career (pass catching), and Loveland has barely played as a top 10 pick (which is not good). All the while Tyler Warren leads all TEs in Rec Yards.

I think with Swift it is the consistency. He is just not a consistent player, never has been. He has games like this once or twice a year, then 5-6 games of subpar play. That was his 8th 100 Yard Rushing game in his career (6th year). The most 100-yard games he's had in one season is 2, and in both seasons, the were in back to back games oddly enough. Also, this was the first time he had a 100-yard game without a run of 20 yards or longer, his longest was 19. He has also never had more than 2 games in a row with a YPC at 5.0 or higher. Never 3 games. It is so odd. If the Bears got this Swift weekly, you absolutely keep him, but if he reverts to his old self for the next month, then you have to move onto someone who can do it week in and week out.

Yeah, it was called in another game, I am looking for the game. Literally the same exact situation, yet the defense was called with a penalty just by touching the LS before his head came up. Found it: Penalty on Miami, DL went in the gap between the LS and OG, but because his head was still down, it was a penalty. (9:30) C.Dicker 58 yard field goal is GOOD, NULLIFIED by Penalty, Center-R.Lovato, Holder-J.Scott. PENALTY on MIA-M.Butler, Unnecessary Roughness, 15 yards, enforced at MIA 40 - No Play.

At 3-2, here is where they stand on offense and defense, it looks like without the turnovers, this team is probably 1-4. The defense needs to improve quickly: Offense - 10th PPG, 14th YPG, 15th YPP, 7th 3D%, 9th Sacks Defense - 27th PPG, 27th YPG, 32nd YPP, 2nd INT, 27th Sacks

The rule states: "It is illegal to make contact with the long snapper while their head is down immediately following the snap. Contact can occur after the snap is complete and the snapper has lifted their head." If you see the screengrab, he just released the ball and hasn't had a chance to even move his helmet and Payne is already on his back. It actually happened on the GW Kick too.

and it is kinda crazy that his 2 INTs this year are the Maxx Crosby tip and INT, and the deep throw away that was intercepted against DET. Neither of those were typical INTs.

2nd Year QBs - Career Totals Passing Rk Player GS Cmp Att Cmp% Yds TD Int TD% Int% Rate Sk Yds Sk% Y/A AY/A ANY/A Y/C Y/G Succ% W L T 4QC GWD Team 1 Bo Nix 23 509 773 65.8 5052 38 16 4.9 2.1 91.9 30 234 3.74 6.5 6.59 6.05 9.9 219.7 43.6 14 9 0 5 5 DEN 2 Caleb Williams 22 449 721 62.3 4720 29 8 4 1.1 90 78 533 9.76 6.5 6.85 5.52 10.5 214.5 40.4 8 14 0 4 3 CHI 3 Jayden Daniels 21 408 604 67.5 4443 32 10 5.3 1.7 99.8 58 291 8.76 7.4 7.67 6.56 10.9 211.6 47.4 14 7 0 4 4 WAS 4 Drake Maye 18 356 517 68.9 3798 25 12 4.8 2.3 96.5 52 284 9.14 7.3 7.27 6.11 10.7 199.9 48.5 7 11 0 0 1 NWE 5 Spencer Rattler 12 269 431 62.4 2534 10 6 2.3 1.4 80.5 33 197 7.11 5.9 5.72 4.89 9.4 194.9 39.4 1 11 0 0 0 NOR 6 Michael Penix 8 159 262 60.7 1943 7 6 2.7 2.3 82.9 11 73 4.03 7.4 6.92 6.37 12.2 194.3 45.8 4 4 0 0 0 ATL

Didn't even pay attention to this, but the blocked FG should've been a WAS penalty. One-second rule: This protection lasts for the first one second after the ball is snapped. Payne immediately uses Daly's back for leverage. He was not protected for one second.

PFF Grades Thuney - 88.0 Swift - 85.6 Burden - 81.1 Wright - 75.7 Kmet - 72.1 Williams - 46.1 (lowest graded offensive player) Edwards - 89.0 Byard - 81.2 Edmunds - 80.9 Sweat - 79.5 Jackson - 75.0 Ford - 37.1 (lowest graded player) The most hilarious thing is PFF has Justin Fields graded as a better passer than Caleb, Purdy, Nix, Rodgers, Penix, Jackson, and Geno. Pure comedy.