Week 7 Official Game Thread - NOR @ CHI, Oct 19, 12PM CDT, FOX, CHI -5.5

[adam]

This game is a completely different story if the refs called an even game. It is a 40-10 blowout. Same for last week. The silver lining is the old Bears would shit their pants and lose. This is a different team.

[Stinger226]

 

[adam]

PFF Grades are always amusing. For this game, only two players on the entire team had a below average grade (below 50.0). Benedet had a 43.2 and Turner had a 29.7 on 10 snaps. 

The top 5 on offense were:

Swift - 83.6
Dalman - 74.8 (kind of funny considering the snap issues)
Monangai - 73.8
Thuney - 72.7
Jackson - 72.1 (he is slowly getting better and better, you don't hear his name called much)

Top 5 on defense:

Edwards - 86.8
Wright - 85.9
Jackson - 83.9 (only 14 snaps, but he seems to always be around the ball)
Dexter - 76.6
Gordon - 74.1

Funny Grades:

Edmunds - 53.6 (he was all over the place making plays, this is a ridiculous grade)
Williams - 62.4 (for the first time ever, I think they gave Williams a higher grade than he deserved, accuracy alone puts him under 50.0, so I don't know what they are looking at.

[BearFan PHX]

I really love this guy.
 

 

[Stinger226]

 

[AZ54]

17 hours ago, BearFan PHX said:

I really love this guy.
 

 

I didn't realize we hired a modern version of Tom Landry.  

[BearFan PHX]

Hes nothing if not intense. I love it. Everything I wanted from Vrabel is here in abundance with Johnson.

Our future is bright.

[AZ54]

I’ve watched the usual QB film study and some others.  I watch a few other games each week.  The core of this team is becoming good. The Saints blitzed a lot all game and yet not once did it feel like our Oline and Caleb  didn’t know what to do.  We have a ways to go to get the consistency the really good teams have but 6 games into the Ben Johnson era the floor has moved up considerably from where we were the last few years.  

[BearFan PHX]

46 minutes ago, AZ54 said:

I’ve watched the usual QB film study and some others.  I watch a few other games each week.  The core of this team is becoming good. The Saints blitzed a lot all game and yet not once did it feel like our Oline and Caleb  didn’t know what to do.  We have a ways to go to get the consistency the really good teams have but 6 games into the Ben Johnson era the floor has moved up considerably from where we were the last few years.  

I think there were a few times the Saints zone blitzed, and the lineman dropped right into the throwing lane of our hot read. Caleb, to his credit, didnt throw the pick, and ran around instead, usually not to great effect.

Williams and Johnson will have to work to build a better answer to that - and thats exactly what this season is for.

Benedet also had a terrible game, two killer penalties and got beat a bunch by Chase Young. Not saying Jones or Trapilo are a better choice, but if theres a good LT in the draft next year that falls to the right place, we shouldnt hesitate to pick him just because Benedet and Trapilo are on the roster. Ditto possible trades or free agents.