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The Bears Special Teams is soooo bad still. On the 2nd to last punt, Duvernay was tackled by 7 defenders lol, with one Bear near him. What are the other 9 guys doing?

How many INTs would this team have if they didn't hit each other? At least 3 more. Also, Jarrett held like crazy by the center, and still got pressure. How do they not call a hold when the center is behind Jarrett with his arms around his waist?

If Caleb is a little more accurate, especially on the move lately, and the receivers can cut down on the drops, this offense is probably the #1 offense in the league. They don't even feel like a top 5 offense right now, but they are.

He gets up to top speed fast.

70% Blitz rate and the Bears are not doing anything to counter. Now Burden has turned into Oz, two drops today.

Yet they call penalties on the Bears that are not even there, yet miss these. Luckily Santos didn't miss the FG, because that could've been even worse.

It literally changes the game, that would've been an automatic first down and could've led to a TD, burnt more clock too.

Homer with a rushing attempt on an important 3rd down? Why? Then he has facemask grabbed twice and neither were called? WTF his going on?

It's really hard to gauge Caleb's performance where he can't even hit his back foot before there is pressure.

There has been a free edge rusher on every play, run or pass. The Bears have to counter that and make them pay.

I don't like soft zone against Jefferson though. They need to at least bracket him.

Would've rather got the 1st down on that 3rd and 1. Odd play calls for Johnson this half.

Holy shit Wright redeems himself with an end zone INT, wow.

Bears get an easy 3 points, but again, the issues are the play calling and protection. First play, a run was way too predictable. Caleb escapes two more sacks. Gotta get the protection cleaned up.

Byard with the huge INT. Jarrett with the pressure.

I agree. You can tell the defenders want no part in tackling him.

Bears up 7-3, great drive, glad it was a TD and not settling for a FG.

Monangai runs so hard. Love it.

Uh yeah, I have no clue how you can watch and hear that play and not call helmet to helmet,

Pressured on first 5 of 7 dropbacks, gotta make them pay for that.

Not impressed with the play calls today. Can't have the overthrows either. The defense is not on their heels at all. Everything seems too predictable.

Yeah the questionable listing is odd because that is the game listing, not practice. He was "limited" in practice, but others like Edwards and Walker were already ruled out for the game. So why would Johnson be questionable for the game if he was not going to play?

One thing to note. I think there is a perceived target on yards that is misleading. Averaging 270 Passing Yards a game would lead the league this year. That projects to 4,590 for the season. We haven't seen a 5K Passer since Mahomes in 2022. The league leaders the last two seasons were Burrow with 4918 and Tua with 4624. I really think the kickoff changes have impacted overall numbers. If you have 10-15 less yards available per drive, you are losing 40-60 yards per game of potential offense. That won't all be passing numbers, but if 70% of your yards are from passing, you are losing 30-40 yards per game by just having a shorter field after kickoffs. That equates to 500-700 yards per season. Not something I really considered. It obviously affects all players but 5K Passing seems a lot harder now than it was a few years ago.

Rodgers was 25 in Year 4, in his first full season, but he may be the closest comp to Williams due to the low INT rate. Most of the other QBs listed outside of Mahomes threw a lot of INTs. Manning had 28 INTs his rookie year (still crazy to think about), and had double-digit INTs in every season but 1 (when he had 9). Brady didn't hit 4K passing yards until Year 6 and had double-digit INTs in his first 6 full seasons. Marino peaked early (his best years were 2-4). He also threw a ton of INTs, hitting 20 per year in 4 out of 6 seasons.

That gives him a shot to play in 23 days against GB. With the PHI game the week prior on a Friday, we can assume that one is out. However, the GB game would give him 5 more games. GB, CLE, GB, SF, and DET. I think the CLE game would be the latest, as that would be 9 days after the 21-day window.