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Can't wait until Swift is off this roster. Horrible RB. False starts on the first play of the half, and then trips on a 2nd and 10 run. He always goes down on first contact. Please run anybody else other than him.

This team looks poorly coached. No discipline whatsoever. OL continues to make things impossible for the offense to succeed. Caleb was playing great until that last boneheaded play.

Yeah Daniels looked like crap. Had like 125 yards or so through 3.5 quarters, and ended up with a garbage time TD. It honestly felt like a Caleb Williams game from last year, watching him. His deep ball accuracy is not as good as people think, either. GB shut down those slants and screens he benefited from last year and didn't let him escape the pocket. He didn't have an answer for it. Saw this circulating on X during the game. If this were Caleb, he'd be getting excoriated for "missing" open receivers. Curious to see if this is more of a blip than a trend, but this is two consecutive weeks of mediocre-to-poor play. This is what happens when: A.) Teams have had all off-season to study film on you B.) You no longer have the easiest schedule in the NFL C.) You actually play against teams with great defenses

Thought this was interesting. Kurt hasn't usually been quick to praise Caleb in the past, so the fact that he's doing so now makes me feel a little better about last night.

The Bears should take a page out of Sean McVay's book from the first couple years he had with Jared Goff. He ran a mostly no-huddle offense that wasn't necessarily up-tempo, but it allowed Goff to look to the sidelines for the playcall, like in college, and gave them plenty of time to get all their motions in. Part of the problem last night is that they weren't getting to the line quick enough to do all the motions, and I think it affected the thought process of the QB. It's been clear to me that Caleb Williams has been at his best in the no-huddle offense. I'm not going to skewer Johnson after one game, but he's got to use this to his advantage at some point and not be so rigid about his preferred methods. I really think it could make a huge difference for this offense if they integrated the no-huddle more often moving forward.

Caleb still surprisingly finished with a better QBR than McCarthy(63.8 vs 52.6). Guessing those nearly 60 ground yards helped, and of course the McCarthy pick six. McCarthy got better as the game went on, Caleb got worse until, of course, the final drive when he always seems capable of running a successful 2 minute drill against shell coverage.

Lost in all this bad is the fact that the Bears drafted 3 second round players, and only 1 played tonight and had 1 catch for negative yards. Shemar Turner was a healthy scratch. Unacceptable.

Caleb WIlliams kind of sucks, doesn't he? It's getting harder to ignore how bad he is.

Bears are about to implode. Just inexcusable to go from 1st and 10 on the 24 to come away with zero points, even if the penalty was bullshit. Cairo Santos is horrible. MIN's kicker confidently makes a 59 yarder with ease while Santos misses a 50 yarder horrible and damn near missed an XP in the same game. Time for a new kicker.

God, they needed that pick 6 in the worst way. If the offense can stop sucking and get it together for at least one more TD drive, that should do it.

Swift sucks. 9 carries: 22 yards. No reason Monangai shouldn't be given an opportunity. They have to change something this half. One dimensional football against this defense is sub-optimal. Honestly, neither of these defenses have blitzed a lot. I expect that to change, especially from MIN in the 2nd half to generate something. Feels like a game where the first team to force a takeaway or have an explosive score might win. Bears missed a lot of opportunities in that half, including poor clock management by Johnson to take a timeout so early, to give MIN enough time to get in position for a FG.

Absolutely brutal OL performance. Dumbest line in football? High school teams are more disciplined than this.

And, of course, no Gordon OR Jaylon Johnson. Bears, for some reason, didn't elevate anybody from their practice squad for depth, so we could be looking at a safety playing corner if one of those guys goes down in this game.

If Gordon, Edwards, and Johnson are all out, my opinion on the outcome of this game is going to take a dramatic shift. Those would be three brutal losses. Those are arguably your 3 best players on defense. Bears offense might have to play a lot of ball control, ground and pound football tonight to come away with a win, because this Bears secondary without those two guys is awful.

It sucks for us, but it's a big gamble by GB, because it puts everyone on the clock. They are Superbowl or bust for the next couple years, and I'm not sure they are a clear favorite in the NFC after this trade. Everything is going to ride on Jordan Love. Losing Kenny Clark figures to hurt the middle of their defense, potentially leaving them more vulnerable against the run. Parsons himself is not a good run defense. He'll make them better, but how much? This defense isn't stacked like the 2018 Bears. He probably had a more talented defense last year with the Cowboys than he's walking into with GB. Again, it will all hinge on how good Love is. If he can replicate his success at the end of 2 seasons ago, they're definite SB contenders, but if he looks more like he did this past year, I don't see them as a serious threat to PHI, DET, or even WAS.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that the Bears keep missing on these background evaluations. I'd be willing to give him some slack if we didn't already have to go through the Nate Davis/Chase Claypool drama. What a joke.

Worried about their run/play action game. Aaron Jones always kills them.

Me too. I'm hedging my Bears cynicism with a QB making his first career start on the road. If they win, it probably won't look pretty. The only thing I'd be shocked by is if either team won in a blowout.

I tend to think this becomes a defensive struggle for both teams with the Bears narrowly winning because McCarthy turns the ball over more than our quarterback. I imagine it playing out very similarly to week 1 last year, hopefully with not as inept QB play from Caleb. I might be on suicide watch if he throws for under 100 yards again, and McCarthy outplays him in his first career start. Early prediction: Bears 20 Vikings 17, offense rallies from down 13-17 in the 4th and the defense holds at the end.

In minor defense of the offense last night, I think it was fairly obvious Johnson was trying to focus more on the run game and under center formations. Caleb's just not as comfortable with that as he is in shotgun. All of the explosives in the game against the Bills came from Shotgun. I didn't see as much of that until the 2 minute drive in this game. Frankly, if it were up to me, I'm running a mostly no-huddle, shotgun heavy system for Caleb to start the season, and will sprinkle in more of the Detroit stuff that Ben wants to run as the weeks go by. Just don't do the Luke Getsy/Shane Waldron thing and force your system on the QB right out of the gate and have to peel back after you start the season 0-1/0-2. I am worried that's what's going to happen.

Defense got abused by KC on those drives with the starters. DL running in quicksand, Nashon Wright getting exposed at CB.... Officiating has been horrible though. KC got away with multiple holds and they were calling every ticky tack thing on the Bears. Offense predictably came back down to earth against the Chiefs #1's. Caleb had a rough go until the final drive against their backups. Botched handoff, took a bad sack on 2nd and 3, and missed a wide open checkdown to Swift in the redzone that would have kept the drive alive that they ended up settling for 3. Good ball placement on the deep throw to Rome on the last drive. Rome has to start coming down with those.

Wright wasn't good at LT in college, like Trapilo. I don't know of many comps of RT's in college who became good LT's in the NFL. Wright is a mediocre RT as it is now. It'd be crazy to think he'd do a better job on the other side. If they were going to mess with the rotation, moving Thuney to LT would make more sense because he's done it before. Personally, I think there are no good options. They're going to have to accept being bad at LT for the season and hope Ben Johnson can scheme around it. They also better hope it's the only position on the line that is a liability or they are in much deeper trouble.

Scrolling through some of the tweets from practice today, it seems like it was a better day for the offense than the joint practices against Miami, but LT has become a major bottleneck for their ability to sustain drives. Way too many false starts and sacks given up. Braxton Jones with another subpar practice. On the positive side, OZ keeps making plays as WR3. Another 40+ yard TD reception in one of the final 11 on 11 drills today, and the Caleb/Rome connection is apparently red hot right now. Multiple TD's for Rome in team drills on the day. Oh, and Shamar Turner came back to practice, which is good to see.

This is the guy they had to have instead of Jalen Carter. Not a great news day for Ryan Poles' OL draft picks. Trapillo seems destined for the swing tackle position as he continues to lose reps to Braxton Jones and an undrafted free agent at LT.

That was a rough watch. Brutal offensive execution down the stretch, especially after the big sack to set them up in FG range. My only real observation/takeaway from that game is that Keenum looked a lot more comfortable than Tyson Bagent. I'd elevate him to QB2 for the next pre-season game, at the very least.