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That game against ARZ in a couple weeks could determine a lot. Right now, CAR wins all the tiebreakers with all the 2 or 3 win teams, so we can afford 1 win from them and still be in good shape, but a 1 game lead is way too close for comfort. CAR's schedule gets super easy the rest of the way. Between TEN, TB(2), ATL, and GB, I see at least 2 wins there. They play JAC in week 17, and depending on what happens with HOU, they could have the division wrapped up by then and rest some of their players. It's not going to be easy. If they lose next week to TEN, I will certainly feel a lot more comfortable.

If this organization had any balls, Eberflus would have been launched into the sun the minute that game ended. What a clown, this guy. What else needs to be said about him? He will go down as the coach with the worst all time record in Bears history. Josh McDaniels was 3-5. This mother fucker is 6-22! I'm so sick of watching this team invent new ways to lose football games. They had the ball for 40 minutes (!) today, had a two score lead with 4 minutes in the game, and, still, somehow lost. And it had nothing to do with the quarterback—who was great. This game came down to coaching in the final minutes, whether it was Luke Getsy's chicken shit playcalling on the last drive or Eberflus' defense falling back into a predictable shell and still allowing Goff to gash them down the field in a game that was nearly impossible to lose.

This move makes zero sense for the Bears. Sweat will be 28 next year and this team is nowhere near contention for anything. Sweat is a good player, but he's also never had a double digit sack season. Especially with the talent WAS had with their front 4, it makes me question how good he actually will be now that he's moving to the worst defensive line in football where teams will have a much easier time game planning for him. Look no further than what we're seeing with Ngakoue right now. The Bears are going to be the only team he's ever played on where he hasn't had at least 8 sacks in a season. That is not a coincidence. Chase Young is not worth 50+ picks less in value than Montez Sweat. I just don't believe that. I know injuries are a concern, but his ceiling is much higher, and a 3rd allows you to regain a compensatory pick back if things don't work out. By giving up a 2nd round pick for Sweat, you have no choice but to sign him to a massive extension and pray things work out.

Hats off to Bagent. You have to feel good for the kid to come from DII and get his first win in his first career start, while also playing pretty well. He didn't do anything special, but I thought he made a couple of really heady plays that I'm not sure the other quarterback does: - The first 3rd down conversion of the game was a perfect example of Bagent going through all of his progressions and finding Scott running across the middle of the field to pick up the 1st down. - The QB sneak play, he had the presence of mind to anticipate Crosby coming over the middle and finding the gap to the right to pick up another key 3rd down. - He made a couple of really nice throws to DJ Moore on those quick out routes. He also dropped a perfect touchdown pass that Bagent later made up on the next play to Foreman. - Only 1 sack. When is the last time Justin Fields was sacked only once in a game? I can't remember. You can clearly see the difference between a guy getting the ball out quicker and the guy that doesn't. All in all, you couldn't have asked for much more from Bagent. This brought me back to the Kyle Orton days of game managing. Over 70% completion and 0 turnovers. I'm excited to see what he can do now in primetime against another mediocre football team next week, assuming Fields is out.

He's still not out of the woods yet. MRI could confirm ligament and tendon damage that could require surgery and end his season. I'm guessing he'll miss about 4-6 weeks, which means this could end up being his last season as a Bear depending on where the draft falls and what Poles decides to do with Fields 5th year option. A contract extension in the offseason at this point seems like that's dead on arrival.

This might be a bit of a hot take, but Michael Penix Jr is a better quarterback than Caleb Williams. If it weren't for his injury history and age, I would absolutely take him over Williams. Depending on how the rest of the season goes for both guys, I could see this becoming a much more difficult discussion come April. Williams looked completely overwhelmed against a quality defense that didn't allow his receivers to run wide open down the field, at will. One game doesn't define anybody, but it's another data point that should be studied closely as the draft nears. Penix is the prototypical pocket passer who has a whip of an arm and surveys the field at an elite level. The amount of NFL throws this kid was making yesterday blew my mind. He rarely gets sacked because of how quick he can process through his reads and get rid of the ball. He's basically the anti-Justin Fields. I don't know about you, but I'm kind of tired of the dual threat guy who struggles to get through his progressions and doesn't feel pressure. Penix is legit.

Brutal game by Fields today, taking too much time to get rid of the ball for how often MIN was blitzing. I have a very hard time believing receivers weren't open today. The more he plays, the more convinced I am that he's just never going to be special. You can't tell me the Houston Texans are a more talented team than the Bears are right now, and yet, look at how their quarterback is playing. He's throwing guys open with 4 of his 5 OL out of the lineup, winning games against good teams. If you need everything to be perfect in order to perform your job well, chances are, you're not very special, and I think that's where we are right now with Fields. He's the least clutch quarterback I think I've ever seen, and I don't think the anticipatory throws are ever going to be a thing for him, which dramatically limits his ceiling as a player. If he misses extended time with his injury, I don't know how anyone in their right minds could feel comfortable giving him a massive extension. He's missed games every year of his career and doesn't have the numbers to justify the extension anyways.

I really don't want to trade Fields until we know who we are replacing him with. I've heard people suggest trading him to ATL this year, which I think is absurd. What if we were to do that, and then be stuck picking the 3rd or 4th quarterback in the draft? My plan would be to keep Fields for at least another year with a new regime and make him compete with the next guy they draft. If Fields balls out and keeps Williams or whoever on the bench, that would be a great problem to have. If not, then he's a backup for a year (or two if you pick up his 5th year option), and then either trade him or let him walk in free agency. To me, that would be the much smarter plan than simply just getting rid of him because you're going to draft his replacement. He's still under contract another year. Maybe a new coaching staff thinks they might be able to get something out of him.

I'm all aboard the tank train again this year, but I really want to see Justin Fields get a win at some point soon, just for the sake of his mental state. He's a good kid who's been put in a god awful situation. I'd love nothing more than to see him light it up against Thursday and pull of an upset win against a team that he had beaten last year around this time.

Bears are going to have to earn the #1 spot this year even more than last year because of their cake schedule. I read an article about how teams that have started off 0-4 have had the #1 pick in 15 of the past 21 drafts. The Panthers are the only other 0-4 team right now, and the Bears just so happen to have their pick!

Matt Eberflus has lost 12 games in a row and his defense has given up at least 25 points in every one of those losses, which is now an NFL record.

Shanahan has a proven track record with quarterbacks. Come on. He made Matt Ryan into an MVP. Jimmy G took them to a SB, and now he's turned Brock Purdy into a star. There's a reason why 75% of the league is offensive head coaches. The Bears are on their way to 13 consecutive losses. What is the argument here, that Matt Eberflus is doing a good job??

Would be hilarious if they won this game when nobody is picking them. I'm not betting on it. Assuming they start 0-3, that'll mean the Bears will have lost 13 games in a row. At that point, you have to start asking the question of how many consecutive losses can Eberflus withstand before you have to fire him? Will Ryan Poles even be allowed to make that decision because of how bad it's gotten?

It's becoming clearer by the week that Fields isn't it. He's getting worse, his release is slower, his drop has been slower; he's not even running anymore. It's Mitch Trubisky 2019. I would say I can't believe the Bears ruined another young, promising quarterback, but then again, I'm not. THIS is exactly why you should never hire a defensive head coach to be in charge of developing the quarterback. It's just way too important of a position to take that gamble on, and it looks like the Bears are paying the price for that now. I'd say he gets until mid-season before you pull the plug and go with Bagent. He started off slow last year, too, and with some actual help from the coaching staff, he did manage to turn things around enough to make the end of the season a more intriguing watch. The reality is that the problems run much deeper than the quarterback. Depending on how bad it gets, I think we are awfully close to having to go with the nuclear option and start over completely with a new HC AND GM. Don't make the same mistake you made with Ryan Pace in letting him make another QB selection before firing him the next season. Just start fresh and allow everybody's timeline to line up perfectly, for once!

I don't think the Bears have ever fired a coach in the middle of a season, but starting 0-9 would mean they would have lost, what, 19 games in a row? I don't see how any coach survives that. It's hard for me to see them being that bad, but you hate to think where the team morale would be if they lose next week with KC coming up after that. You'd be staring 0-3 right in the face wondering if your season is already over less than a month into the season.

Unfortunately, I don't see Poles firing his guy unless the season completely goes off the rails again. Less than 6 wins would probably do it. This team doesn't do anything well, and I'm still waiting for his brilliant cover 2 defense to show up at some point during his coaching tenure. It's never a good sign when a coach can't get his side of the ball to function at all. The Bears weren't just bad last year, they were the 32nd ranked defense in football and won just 3 games. I get there is a talent deficiency up front, but you'd like to think that if you hired a defensive minded coach, he'd be able to mitigate some of that with coaching. Vic Fangio took a defense with Pernell Mcphee and nobody else and made them average by year 2. It's only one game in to year 2 for Eberflus, but this was the absolute worst possible performance you could have expected for a week 1 matchup in a game you absolutely had to have, and they got absolutely railroaded by a guy making his 2nd career start on the road.

He can't even complete passes in prevent defense.

Will Fields even reach 200 passing yards before the end of this game? It's amazing how unreachable that number seems to be for him—even as bad as the Bears have been the last two years. So much garbage time, and he still struggles.

It wouldn't be a Packers/Bears game without a 4th quarter interception by the quarterback.

Jordan Love hung 30+ in his first start against the Bears. LMAO. Dogshit franchise.

Holly hell, Roschon just killed a man.

Justin Fields aint it. Is it too early to join the Caleb Williams sweepstakes?

Matt Eberflus, you are officially on the hot seat. This is an absolute embarrassment.

Lmao, that might be game.

It's only a 1 score game, but if GB scores again to open the 2nd half, they're really going to put pressure on the Bears offense to do something, and soon. Just absolutely terrible execution in that 1st half, offensively. They can't block, can't run, and aren't really even threatening anything downfield, whatsoever. Jordan Love has been meh since the first drive, but if the Bears DL continues to stick to their blocks as much as they did in that 1st half, It wouldn't surprise me at all to see Love settle in and start gashing the Bears downfield in the 2nd half.