7.5 dogs seems a little high, but understandable. The Browns beat a terrible Texans team by 10 at home.

However, it will be like a home game if Fields starts. Fields will finally get a week of practice with the 1s and hopefully build off his play from Sunday. 

This is an interesting matchup. Cleveland lost to KC and beat HOU. Just like the Bears lost to LAR and beat CIN. I feel like CLE is better than CIN but HOU, with Tyrod Taylor and Davis Mills at QB put up 21 pts and had the Texans within 3 pts with 8 mins to go. The Texans had two more drives, a punt and a missed FG. So there will be opportunities to score. 

I feel like Cleveland's strengths play right into the Bears strengths, running the ball and defending against the run. I almost like the matchup better than I did for Cincy. Cleveland uses their TEs a lot. Njoku has 5 receptions, Hooper has 8, and Bryant has 5. Landry is the only WR with more than 3 receptions. The Bears biggest weakness on Defense is slot corner, which the Bears can mask with the Big Nickel. 

One other important note on defense, Mario Edwards is back from his two game suspension. Fresh legs and he was very productive last year and will help that front 7 rotation. If Goldman is back, that will be even more defensive firepower. 

Mayfield also hurt his non-throwing shoulder but that may still be lingering come Sunday.

I am going with a Bears upset 24-20 with the defense making a stop in the RZ to seal the win.

Can we stop the run? Idk

2 hours ago, killakrzydav said:

Can we stop the run? Idk

We stopped the Rams running game better than Indy did and then held Mixon to 69 yds rushing after he had 127 against Minnesota. Chubb is averaging 6.8 which is unsustainable and Hunt averages 4.4. Those are both due for a correction. CLE is 3rd in rushing and the Bears Def is 5th against the run. I would rather have them try to run instead of targeting the Slot Corner all game.

Also, the Browns will not have Landry for this game, but Beckham will be back. I assume he will be rusty coming off ACL from last year. I feared Landry more than Beckham. 

After the lack of targets, I feel like the Bears are going to go TE happy against the Browns. Kelce was 6-76 and 2 TDs against the Browns in Week 1. 

Since they barely got targeted last week, there is pretty much zero tape on Kmet, Graham, and James. This would be a great time to target them and use a ton of play action to stop the pass rush. 

Fields is starting

 

2 hours ago, Mongo3451 said:

Fields is starting

 

QB1

I think we can keep their running game in  check. We will win it we win the turnover battle. It seems we're on a roller coaster , look good one week look bad the nex. I hope Fields can change that.

58 minutes ago, Stinger226 said:

It seems we're on a roller coaster , look good one week look bad the nex.

Hell, you don't have to go beyond one game to see that roller-coaster effect.  Last week (aside from the first TD score) our team put out relative garbage for most of the first half.  Then the defense went off and had 4 turnovers (1 fumble recovery and three INTs) and a sack or two.  But then late in the game the defense went to sleep and allowed Cincy to rally back within 3 pts.  Thank gosh the clock ran out when it did.  We saw it the week before when both Jackson and Gipson didn't down the receiver when they passed him while on the ground.  Who then promptly stood up and scored. 

That's definitely a Nagy/Desai issue with lack of discipline to keep the pressure up on both sides of the ball for the full 60 minutes.   

BTW, Tyrod Taylor was 10-11, 125 yds, 1 TD and 1 rush for 15 yds and 1 TD before getting hurt in the first half. The game was tied 14-14 at half and Cleveland only pulled away late once after a half against Davis Mills. 

Mayfield not even using his left hand for hand offs in practice. 

Getting Mario Edwards and Goldman back will help.

2 hours ago, adam said:

Mayfield not even using his left hand for hand offs in practice. 

Looks like one good hit would knock him out of game.  Hope he doesn't get hurt.

41 minutes ago, Bill said:

Looks like one good hit would knock him out of game.  Hope he doesn't get hurt.

Cleveland is 3-3 in their last 6 games dating back to last year. The Bears are 4-2 with no QB. The Browns were no better than a Tyrod Taylor led no-name offense for a half of football. 

It feels like they are due for a correction. This also lines up perfectly for Fields, playing in a somewhat non-hostile crowd. Many will be cheering for him and he is a hard player not to like. 

Bears list of injuries seemed endless.  I don't know about this, but hope Fields shows us a glimpse of a brighter future than what we had for 30 years 

 

See that Goldman is out again… Goldman hasn’t played a snap since 2019.  DT Margus Hunt was brought up from the PS to fill the vacancy.

Last week my not knowing how the Bears would play, played to my favor. I’ll go with the same blind ambition and suggest the Bears will win, 26-17.  Don’t know why or how.  

 

Goldman out, ugh. Dude is a waste of a roster spot and salary cap at this point. 20 games missed now. Hasn't played since 2019.

The team is amped up for Fields this week. 

Cool story about Fields:

 

Well my CoolAid drinking brain bet on Fields to score a td and the Bears to cover 7 + 1/2 points.A parlay that pays +780. Dumb bet

So far, two long 3rd Down conversions for the Browns and a BS defensive holding call on Johnson. First bad call of the game.

Would you look at that!!!  Two weeks in a row and Robert Quinn comes through with another sack!!! 

Da Bears!!!

Holy crap, a huge sack by Quinn on 4th Down to end the Browns drive. He now has 3.5 sacks this season in 2.1 games. We need him to keep this up across from Mack. 

Gotta believe an experienced QB would audible out of this.  

Refs are certainly helping Cleveland today.  BS call on Tonga..