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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.

This is on Poles, you can't contiunally lose team value on trades and under draft in the first 4 rounds. That was on display today. Loveland had 1 target, Burden had 2, and one was at the knees and he couldn't bring it in, yet the DET 3rd string TE is making that catch on the next drive. Pitiful. Like it was mentioned, 2nd rounders inactive in Week 2. 4th round on a punter. Stevenson is not an NFL starter. Pickens already off the team. It goes on and on and on.

then they gift the Lions 7 pts, unbelievable.

Bears -3 in turnovers, down 21-7, Jaylon out. Penalties 4-0. The Lions have not been called for a penalty. Game over. Can't beat the refs. On Monty's 18-yd run, Byard was clearly held, but no call.

Now Jaylon Johnson out with groin injury, greatttttttt.

Jones also had a penalty and has allowed a few pressures.

Yeah, O-Line is not playing anywhere near to their potential, impacts the entire offense.

Welp, there is the INT, on a throw-away. Bears checking everything off the Bingo Card today. Holy crap.

These penalties are ridiculous. Every time the Bears have a positive play, there is a penalty on the Bears. Yet the Lions are not called for the same exact thing.

Bears defense stands tall with Lions starting in Bears territory after turnover on downs. Missed FG for DET. Bears have chance to tie.

2nd and 1, hands to the face on Thuney, no call. Then terrible spot on Williams sneak on 4th down.

Offense looks much better, then Swift fumbles. Defense got gashed in two drives, then force 3 and out.

It was a penalty, so they could've declined it last week.

I honestly think some of this is him trying to place it where it can only be caught by the WR or no one, thus the historically low INT rate. However, being that risk averse leads to more incompletions. He needs to dial it down a notch, risk some INTs for more completions. Especially on 3rd Downs where it would be a punt anyway.

Yep this is all Ben Johnson and I love it.

Yep, NFL Next Gen Stats has them. GB's pressure rate against Daniels was 39.6%, lower than WAS's on Love 47.1%. However, Love's TTT was 3.14 to Daniels 2.84. Caleb's TTT last year was 2.92. Caleb had a pressure rate of 38.3% last year as well. So Daniels basically faced what Williams did on average in 2024 against GB.