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the ones that are still employed ?

Nice blocking on some Herbert runs, and Fields with a great pass to Kmet on a flood route.

Young DB's showing up, Jaylon with a PBU, then Stevenson, then Gordon. They really need to extend Johnson, this is an elite secondary once they get an upgrade at FS.

Fields scrambles for 3 yard TD, super easy.

Holy crap, Fields with a huge bomb to Kmet, 53 yards, Kmet comes back to the ball. We need more of those. Finally someone helps out Fields.

Sweat is a beast, sheds a blocker, gets the stop on 3rd down.

Justin Jones with a nice sack. Good coverage on the back end.

Jets kick FG for the win, keeps the Bears at #7.

late throw on 3rd down.....

and of course, Moore hurt on the 2nd play of the game. This team is cursed.

They are the worst defense in the league, it will be hard to lose.

TEN lost so Bears are currently 7th. WAS just took the lead against the Jets, a Jets loss would slide the Bears to 8th. For draft position, LAC, TEN, and NYJ might all lose. If NYG loses on Christmas to PHI, the Bears slide to 9th with a win.

CAR giving everyone a heart attack, what the hell, 33-30 against CAR?

This season the Bears had the NFC South and the AFC West, next season they get the AFC South and NFC West. It feels like a fairly even schedule. The Bears get 9 home games next season, which is nice. Here are the current non-division games: @SF, JAX, @IND, @HOU, LAR, SEA, TEN, @ARZ, WAS, NE, CAR I know we don't know what some teams will look like, but to make the playoffs next year, the Bears would need at least 6-7 wins from this group. So CAR, NE, WAS, ARZ, and TEN seem like highly likely wins. They would need 1-2 from SEA, LAR, HOU, IND, and JAX. What do you think? I feel like that is very reasonable and the odds should have the Bears favored in at least 6 of those.

Some coaches who seem immune to criticism: 1. Robert Saleh 16-32 in 3 seasons with the Jets. What exactly has he done in NY? This is without Brady in the division. 2. After a great start (prebuilt team), Mike Vrabel is 12-19 in the last two seasons and 5-16 in his last 21 games (lost their last 7 last season), which is the same as Eberflus.

Fields definitely can still turn the trend around, but it can't keep waiting another game or another season, he needs to have a dominant game today. Then do it again against ATL, then in 3 weeks, do it one more time to close out the year. That would really send a statement.

Sort of on topic, do you remember the slide that the Bears showed where they rated their players and Claypool, Velus, and Fields were their top rated players based on athleticism? It is interesting that the top 3 rated players may all end up off the team and as potential busts. To me, there are certain positions where that matters more than others and it seems that QB and WR are not two of them.

Merry Christmas!

Chargers loss drops the Bears to #6. With the Giants, Jets, and Titans all with 5 wins, a win would send the Bears down to #9 or #10 if ATL loses. With all the other games, the Panthers now have a .006 SoS lead on the Patriots.

Watching the early Saturday game, I was curious to see how the PIT QBs compared to Fields in terms of career arc. Below is their ELO comparison. Fields was trending as the worst of the bunch, then had that huge turnaround last year where he actually surpassed Lawrence and Pickett at the same number of starts (between 22-27). Since that point, Pickett continues to trend exactly how he started. That is interesting to me because he did have a ton of college attempts and was one of the QBs that "is who he is" and from the looks of it, that was spot on. Lawrence turned it around and has been steadily improving over his last 20+ games. Fields has a chance to revert some of these trends with 3 great games to close out the year. Then he would at least be trending up year over year.

I am cheering for a win and a clean game, but not disappointed if they lose.

I don't know if there is another sure thing like him in the draft. He is an automatic 1,500 yard/10 TD WR annually for a decade.

He does it effortlessly, we can't pass up on him. Instantly a top 5 WR, Jefferson, Chase, Lamb level.

oh nice, good news on the neck.

I don't know if you heard the interview with Hightower, but when CLE elected to receive, it got them all flustered, and they took the wind for the 1st quarter? Who does that? So they screwed themselves knowing it was a 5-yard difference with wind.