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It is a weird feeling, but the Giants did score more against Pittsburgh who was supposedly a better defense. Even before Saquon got hurt, they had several 3 and outs. The Giants were 8-15 on 3rd Down against PIT but only 3-13 against the Bears. In both games, Jones had 2 turnovers and the Bears sacked Jones 4 times while PIT sacked him 3 times. It does feel like the team is less dominant but the defense looked better as a whole. If not for two bad penalty calls, this game isn't this close.

I wonder if they go to Foles next week. Trubisky has been terrible and incredibly inconsistent. Every throw felt like it was going to be intercepted. He had 2, but should've had 4-5.

Man, another game stolen. 2-0 somehow, someway. Not the way you plan it but you take 2-0 and run to the locker room. It is clear to me the team has zero confidence in Trubisky.

Yeah, officials have been questionable today. Ifedi chop blocked his own guy. That is not a penalty.

At the 2 minute warning, Giants have a 2nd and 10 at their 40. It is all on the defense now, don't allow a TD and Bears win. Allow a TD and we lose. It is that easy.

2:02 left, the Giants need 60 yards and a TD to win.

What a shit show, zero confidence in Trubisky's ability to make decisions after the snap. You have to go to Foles after this game, win or lose. And of course, Santos misses a 50-yd FG. Kicked it left and it barely moved. How about aim center? WTF.

Monty running hard, some nice blocks by O-Line, but then they get too predictable and are left with a long 3rd Down. Trubisky shaky.

17-13 after a Giants FG. Offense has done absolutely nothing in the 2nd half. Setting up to lose this one 20-17.

Damn, EJack with a Pick-6 which turned into a pass interference penalty on 3rd Down. Wow, what a huge momentum swing.

Trubisky with 2 INTs in the second half, not all his fault, but man, offense not helping the defense right now. Mack with a huge sack unblocked, wow.

Offense sputtered without Monty. Trubisky needs to learn to throw the ball away,

Now Monty lands on his head. Great...... He is more than likely out the rest of the game. Return is questionable.

Bush with the INT! Huge play!

Barkley out with an apparent knee injury. You hate to see it, but now there are no excuses to losing this game.

Defense looks much better today with Quinn in. They are getting pressure and making Jones get rid of the ball quick. Fuller with back to back PBUs to force another 3 and out.

Yes please, and welcome aboard! He still likes to get a few of those in, but last year it seemed like every play was a gadget play. I would have rather seen Trubisky throw it there (or throw away).

Damn Trubisky with another dime to Miller, but he drops a TD pass. Trubisky looks much better. Turnover = 3 pts, I will take it.

Well well well, Robert Quinn with strip-sack and Mack with the recovery. BOOM! Bears ball at Giants 20.

Great first drive for the Bears, nothing too crazy from Nagy, just line up and beat you. Trubisky with a nice play on the TD pass to Monty. Bears up 7-0. Great start. Now we need the defense to shut down Barkley and get pressure on Jones.

I would like to see Monty used a little more in the passing game. If he starts catching some balls, it will be near impossible to determine run or pass based on the formation or personnel. They can already do that with Patterson and Cohen, but it seems like Monty is in on predominantly run plays.

Current starters who are UFA after this season: Starters: ARob - 15M Trubisky - 9.2M Patterson - 5.75M RRH - 3.25M O'Donnell - 1.85M Gipson - 1M Ifedi - 887K Scales - 887K Subs making over 1M: Harris - 1.65M Bush - 1M Trubisky currently makes $9.2M, so his contract status is going to be a huge determining factor. Fuller (8.5M), Jackson (7.4M), Quinn (8.6M), Goldman (4.6M) and Whitehair (5.4M) all get big raises next season in the tune of 32.5M. Prime cuts are Hicks (10.5M savings, Graham 7M, Leno 6.2M, Massie 5.4M), which accounts for most of the raises. Then you have Trubisky who currently has a $9.2M cap hit. So to me, it comes down to keeping Trubisky or ARob, you cannot keep both. Trubisky as a starter is going to cost +20M, that is Arob + Trubisky now. Arob wants 20M. So that is likely the decision. Another huge factor is revenue, with empty stadiums, the cap may hit the floor of 175M next year. That's +20M less than this year. That money has to come from someone's current cap hit. There is a chance both Trubisky AND ARob are gone, freeing up $25M from this year's cap.

My only assumption is they wanted to get some of these smaller deals out of the way to figure out what they can actually pay ARob. Now with Cohen locked up, I think ARob is next.

On offense, it was clear that Castillo has influenced the O-Line. That is a good sign for some more consistency in the offense. If we can get the ground game going, play-action will be there with easy one read throws for Mitch. Daniels really stood out to me watching the game again. Nagy did a better job in play calling, but still needs better judgment in certain scenarios. Like before the half, we had yet to move the ball and you call a timeout when DET has the ball with a minute left, only to give the ball back to them with 45 seconds left and great field position. That was a rookie coach mistake. If you don't use a timeout and take 3 knees to go into halftime, you are tied at 6. Instead, they score and go into half with a 7 pt lead and get the kickoff in the 2nd half, where they scored again, and magically you are down 14 before you see the ball again. That was rough. On defense, outside of Fuller, Johnson, and Jackson, everyone else underwhelmed. A few guys like Hicks and Trevathan looked old and slow. Trevathan was always trailing his receivers by 3-5 yards and was slow to react. Signing him instead of Kwit or KPL looks like a mistake after Week 1. Hopefully, he can improve but guys over 30 rarely do. Hicks had one or two good plays, but for the most part was not getting the penetration we have seen from him in the past. Is this due to Goldman? Mack gets pressure but had yet to finish a play. Roquan needs to step up for a top 10 pick. He is looking more and more like a bust. Gipson looked ok next to Jackson, but was not very good in coverage. Skrine also played solid but the team needs the DLine to step up (Nichols and RRH) to go with Hicks.

Santos kicked for Nagy before, and if he is capable of making 45 yarders at Soldier Field, then I think we will be ok. I don't understand why the team is so faithful to Pineiro. He had an entire offseason to get healthy. He has spent more games on IR than he has played in for his career. That is a huge red flag for kickers. If you have recurring injuries to any part of your lower body, that is the kiss of death for kickers. Rarely do they ever fully recover and reinjury is so high, they can't be counted on.