Week 7: Bears at Buccaneers

[CaliforniaRaisin]

3:25 pm CT game

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Last year, I was one of the few that called the Tampa game a W when the schedule came out. It was the perfect situation. They had to travel to Chicago on a short week for a Thursday night game. It was early enough in the season to where the Bucs hadn't completely become a juggernaut just yet. And the Bears still play the type of defense that's going to be tough to beat on a short week after traveling.

 

This year, it's the opposite of that game. Tampa played LAST Thursday night and the Bears travel TO them when they have a long week. They brought back all 11 starters on a SB winning offense and have pretty much been clicking on all cylinders from Day 1 of this season. The Bears are going to get beat rather easily in this one. I'd be happy with them scoring early and hanging around for 3 quarters and giving themselves a chance in the 4th like yesterday, but this one should get ugly early. TB has won games 45-17 and 48-25 against Atlanta and Miami this year. While the Bears are better than those teams, the extra rest, road game, and coming off a rivalry game, seems all but certain the score is in that range. Tampa opened as 12.5 favorites.

[UMFan83]

I think I saw Bucs -12.5 for this one. Sounds about right...Brady seems like the kind of guy that is probably still pissed about losing to the Bears last year and is motivated to destroy us as revenge.

[Old Style]

I think I saw Bucs -12.5 for this one. Sounds about right...Brady seems like the kind of guy that is probably still pissed about losing to the Bears last year and is motivated to destroy us as revenge.

[jersey cubs fan]

I think I saw Bucs -12.5 for this one. Sounds about right...Brady seems like the kind of guy that is probably still pissed about losing to the Bears last year and is motivated to destroy us as revenge.

-13.5

[BigSlick]

This is probably the most unfortunate scheduling situation ever.

 

You just hope you get out of this game with Fields intact mentally and physically

[The_Achiever]

Maybe Tampa will be sluggish after 10 days off? :dontknow:

 

Yeah not feeling good about this one.

[WrigleyField 22]

Maybe Brady will confuse the downs again, but every series this time.

[minnesotacubsfan]

Maybe Hicks will break Brady. That's really our best chance

[Brian707]

The one strength the Bears offense has is their running game. Tampa is great at stopping the run. Tampa is not good against the pass. The Bears should open up the passing game but won't. Tampa 31 Bears 10

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The one strength the Bears offense has is their running game. Tampa is great at stopping the run. Tampa is not good against the pass. The Bears should open up the passing game but won't. Tampa 31 Bears 10

 

The passing game was pretty "open" against Green Bay. But the attack was pretty well balanced, with 27 passes and 26 runs. Of course, there were 6 Fields runs in there and that Kmet lateral thing near the goalline which isn't really a run, and 4 sacks. Fields had plenty throws over 15 yards.

[UMFan83]

 

For fun, lets remove the historically inept game vs. Cleveland even though its a game that happened and counts the same as the others, and then lets see their rankings among the other 31 teams who don't get to remove their worst offensive game:

 

Yards: 286.0 (31st)

Yards/Play: 4.74 (30th)

Rush Yards/Game: 146 (5th)

YPA: 4.49 (10th)

Passing Yards/Game: 140.4 (32nd)

Passing Yards/Attempt: 5.44 (29th)

Sack%/Attempt: 10.1% (32nd)

3rd Down %: 37.9 (23rd)

Red Zone %: 64.3% (12th)

Points/Game: 18.4 (28th)

[BigSlick]

Please don't post those numbers. Those numbers don't make me feel good.

[UMFan83]

 

Ugh...guess there is still time to be clear before Sunday but not promising

[WrigleyField 22]

Hey at least we're bummed this year about Quinn possibly missing time.

[Omar]

In Sunday’s Buccaneers-Bears game, 44-year-old Tom Brady and 22-year-old Justin Fields will set a new NFL record for the largest age gap between starting quarterbacks.

[UMFan83]

[Omar]

[raw]

I don't hate a young franchise building block publicly hating on his bad head coach.

[Bertz]

 

CB Jaylon Johnson

 

The Bears are a team that tends to leave cornerbacks on sides, with Johnson playing right cornerback (the offense's left side). The Bears rank fourth in DVOA on passes to the left side, compared to 26th on passes to the middle and 22nd on passes to the right. Sports Info Solutions has charted Johnson as allowing just a 36% completion rate in coverage and only 6.5 yards per target. The Bears certainly know what kind of breakout season Johnson is having and hope the 2020 second-round pick can continue to keep it up throughout the rest of the season.

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CB Jaylon Johnson

 

The Bears are a team that tends to leave cornerbacks on sides, with Johnson playing right cornerback (the offense's left side). The Bears rank fourth in DVOA on passes to the left side, compared to 26th on passes to the middle and 22nd on passes to the right. Sports Info Solutions has charted Johnson as allowing just a 36% completion rate in coverage and only 6.5 yards per target. The Bears certainly know what kind of breakout season Johnson is having and hope the 2020 second-round pick can continue to keep it up throughout the rest of the season.

 

Davante Adams kind of beat him pretty solidly on Sunday. Not a ton of catches, but a couple big plays. But IIRC, they had to move him to the slot, in a position that Johnson isn't used to playing, in order to have success. Johnson shut him down on the outside whenever Adams was lined up there.

[UMFan83]

 

CB Jaylon Johnson

 

The Bears are a team that tends to leave cornerbacks on sides, with Johnson playing right cornerback (the offense's left side). The Bears rank fourth in DVOA on passes to the left side, compared to 26th on passes to the middle and 22nd on passes to the right. Sports Info Solutions has charted Johnson as allowing just a 36% completion rate in coverage and only 6.5 yards per target. The Bears certainly know what kind of breakout season Johnson is having and hope the 2020 second-round pick can continue to keep it up throughout the rest of the season.

 

Davante Adams kind of beat him pretty solidly on Sunday. Not a ton of catches, but a couple big plays. But IIRC, they had to move him to the slot, in a position that Johnson isn't used to playing, in order to have success. Johnson shut him down on the outside whenever Adams was lined up there.

 

All I know is that in his last 29 games, Davante has had 5 or less targets and 4 or less receptions in only 1 other game. He's a target and reception hog and we held him to 4 catches on 5 targets.

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Davante Adams kind of beat him pretty solidly on Sunday. Not a ton of catches, but a couple big plays. But IIRC, they had to move him to the slot, in a position that Johnson isn't used to playing, in order to have success. Johnson shut him down on the outside whenever Adams was lined up there.

 

All I know is that in his last 29 games, Davante has had 5 or less targets and 4 or less receptions in only 1 other game. He's a target and reception hog and we held him to 4 catches on 5 targets.

 

Yeah, that's the good part. 22 yards per catch is the bad part. 32 and 47 yard catches allowed along with a DPI call (albeit weak). Did hold him out of the endzone as well. Wasn't trying to knock Johnson. Adams beats everybody, and it took taking Johnson into the slot, where he's not comfortable, to only beat Johnson a couple times.

[The SABR Gamer]

 

Davante Adams kind of beat him pretty solidly on Sunday. Not a ton of catches, but a couple big plays. But IIRC, they had to move him to the slot, in a position that Johnson isn't used to playing, in order to have success. Johnson shut him down on the outside whenever Adams was lined up there.

 

All I know is that in his last 29 games, Davante has had 5 or less targets and 4 or less receptions in only 1 other game. He's a target and reception hog and we held him to 4 catches on 5 targets.

 

Yeah, that's the good part. 22 yards per catch is the bad part. 32 and 47 yard catches allowed along with a DPI call (albeit weak). Did hold him out of the endzone as well. Wasn't trying to knock Johnson. Adams beats everybody, and it took taking Johnson into the slot, where he's not comfortable, to only beat Johnson a couple times.

 

Adams is the best route runner in the sport, correct?

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All I know is that in his last 29 games, Davante has had 5 or less targets and 4 or less receptions in only 1 other game. He's a target and reception hog and we held him to 4 catches on 5 targets.

 

Yeah, that's the good part. 22 yards per catch is the bad part. 32 and 47 yard catches allowed along with a DPI call (albeit weak). Did hold him out of the endzone as well. Wasn't trying to knock Johnson. Adams beats everybody, and it took taking Johnson into the slot, where he's not comfortable, to only beat Johnson a couple times.

 

Adams is the best route runner in the sport, correct?

 

Nah. I still think Diggs and a couple others are up there. Best over 6'? Probably