Preseason Week 3 Game Thread - Bears at Chiefs, NFLN, FRI, 8-22, 7:20pm Central

[Alaskan Grizzly]

2 hours ago, Bears4Ever_34 said:

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.

I wasn’t able to see the game at all because for some odd reason it was blocked in my area. Anyhow seems the team has ALOT of growing to do.  Need to get their collective shit together before they play Minny in a few weeks. Will they win?  Maybe.  FWIW I’m not a fan at all of Dennis Allen and still convinced Goff made Johnson look good (not the other way around).  Hoping to be proven wrong . 

I did see some highlights with Bagent and he looked solid. Glad he’s been secured for a few years.  

[adam]

Hard to assess when the officiating was that bad.

Special Teams is an issue. Terrible coverage on kickoffs, bad returns, blocked PAT and a missed FG. Not good.

People forget that the Bears defense had 4 starters out and no Booker who has been a spark plug. No JJ, Gordon, Jarrett, or Edmunds. That's not nothing especially how KC attacked the Bears.

[ASHKUM BEAR]

1 minute ago, adam said:

Hard to assess when the officiating was that bad.

Special Teams is an issue. Terrible coverage on kickoffs, bad returns, blocked PAT and a missed FG. Not good.

People forget that the Bears defense had 4 starters out and no Booker who has been a spark plug. No JJ, Gordon, Jarrett, or Edmunds. That's not nothing especially how KC attacked the Bears.

Would BJ fire the ST coordinator?  That unit will cost some close games if they dont get it together. Then again the Bears were sloppy (penalties) and slow to start, so thats on the HC.  

[ChileBear]

2 minutes ago, Alaskan Grizzly said:

 Goff made Johnson look good (not the other way around).  Hoping to be proven wrong .  

Ha Ha. Goff couldn't make it in LA, was dumped and Johnson pulled his butt up the ladder in Detroit. Goff was crap and LA knew it and traded for the golden ticket to the Super Bowl in Stafford. Man Grizz,  why not just say it, you think our coaches suck and we have not played one real game. Oh wait, you pretty much said that. Comon, tis is a new direction and preseason is practice. As a well known BBall player once said, it's practice, man, practice. Give them 8 games in real time and let's see. 

[CrackerDog]

I know it’s a meaningless preseason game but I just think the team is one I expect to win compared to when Flus was here.  I expected him to mess up, I expect BJ to make the right decisions to get the W.  Haven’t felt this way in a long time.  
 

The guys were prepared for that last drive.  Nice to see.  

[Alaskan Grizzly]

3 hours ago, ChileBear said:

Man Grizz,  why not just say it, you think our coaches suck and we have not played one real game

I would but yes they have yet to play meaningful game under Johnson so only time will tell.  And yes I didn’t get to see nearly any often game but from what I read they came out flat . Oh and yes I greatly dislike Dennis Allen  

I’ve said it once I’ll say it again, Goffs stats for the last three years in LA were nearly identical to what they were under three years of Johnson. Maybe Johnson’s schemes  made all the rest of Detroit’s offense look good and not Goff.  Guess we’ll see.  
 

Edit: this post brought to you courtesy of Woodford Reserve.  🥃

[BearFan PHX]

Ugh. I know guys were out and we werent scheming, and maybe players didnt care enough about a game that doesnt matter, but our pass rush was atrocious.

Braxton looked scary to me at times too.

I'm glad Johnson left Caleb in until that last touchdown in the first half.

Also great time management at the very end of the game. Johnson knows his situational football. First guy we've had that did in a long time.

There is a lot to yell at the players about over the next couple weeks until Minnesota. That's when it matters, and everyone will be in and we will see for real.

But man tonight was anything but crisp, and Im telling you, if thats our pass rush, we are screwed this year. Dayo looks like a nose tackle out there. He isnt gonna get pressure.

[adam]

You know Spags pulled the Detroit preseason tape and had at least a general idea of what to expect. On a few plays early, the DBs were running the routes for the Bears WRs.

For the Bears defense, there is nothing you really can do if you are being held. On the Mahomes scramble and the play to JuJu where he rolled out, Bears were being held, yet no calls. The 30-yard penalty was also insane. Mahomes was targeting backup CBs and LBs, and it worked, shocker. Again, without JJ, Gordon, and Edmunds, that is a lot of downgrades in pass defense against the best QB in the NFL. Then no Jarrett or Booker in the rotation, and the line is going to be weaker.

Also, I still like the live reps and actually glad Caleb got sacked, took a hit, and had to scramble, because now they have something to really work from compared to the Bills game being against the 2s. Compare that to McCarthy, who didn't play. Caleb didn't throw an INT in the preseason and was only sacked once. If you project that out for a full season, that is only 25 sacks, so his rate is down. Again, it's preseason, but the signs are there. His Comp% was 73.3 against KC and really only had 2 incompletions, a drop by Odunze, then the play in the end zone where Odunze was held at the top of the route.

Burden got an unsportsmanlike penalty for spinning the ball, hopefully he learns from it and doesn't do something like that again.  Better to do that in the preseason when the games don't count. 

Johnson said Booker will be out a few weeks, so I expect Hardy to make the 53-man. I would not be surprised if they look for Edge, CB, and RB help with the injuries.