Bears Week 4 vs Broncos Sunday at noon on CBS

[jersey cubs fan]

28 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

Jalen Carter has a sack and 2 forced fumbles on MNF. He’s been one of the better defensive players in the entire league so far. Wright may end up being very solid and I get the character concerns with Carter and the argument that he had to be in a structure like Philly or whatever but Poles may have massively fucked up. Traded out of number 1 overall to 9th and still had the chance to draft the best non-QB in the draft. 

The argument that this horsefeathers show of an organization is not the right spot for Carter is a knock against the GM and HC who are the reason this team couldn’t handle a talented but mercurial star.

[UMFan83]

More Carter:

 

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Screw defense. Glad we got a good tackle.

[jersey cubs fan]

7 minutes ago, Hairyducked Idiot said:

Screw defense. Glad we got a good tackle.

Very excited for him to be the one useable offensive lineman on the roster next year 

[minnesotacubsfan]

16 minutes ago, Hairyducked Idiot said:

Screw defense. Glad we got a good tackle.

Did we?

[minnesotacubsfan]

We got a serviceable right tackle at the expense of getting a top 3 DT

 

maybe Kyle should be ignored and pff taken with the grain of salt 

 

what a take, kyle

[Hairyducked Idiot]

20 minutes ago, minnesotacubsfan said:

We got a serviceable right tackle at the expense of getting a top 3 DT

 

maybe Kyle should be ignored and pff taken with the grain of salt 

 

what a take, kyle

You know, I've found that there's absolutely no correlation between how hysterical you get at my takes and whether I end up being right in the long run. *shrug*

[Hairyducked Idiot]

38 minutes ago, jersey cubs fan said:

Very excited for him to be the one useable offensive lineman on the roster next year 

1 > 0

[SouthSideRyan]

13 hours ago, WrigleyField 22 said:

Yea, it's amazing how terrible they looked against KC, even expecting bad.  7-0 through 1 Q still felt like a insurmountable route. You could just see it. 

They couldn't get a better bounce back slate than Denver-Washington. Then who knows what state Viking are in, but Raiders next after that, who also look weak.

After that, Carolina is only REALLY weak opponent on slate (though TBD how strong Arizona will stay as season drags on for a talent-stripped roster), but looking like the projections of weak overall schedule may bear out.  If they can go into mini bye at 2-3, a 6 win season looks attainable (which would still be considered a failure season to me, but probably wouldn't lead to compete FO overhaul or mid year firings)

 

Will be interesting to see the home crowd on Sunday. The booing will be quick to trigger and now I'm wondering if this team can even handle that.

I think there’s a decent chance they get booed coming out of the tunnel.

[We Got The Whole 9]

We should have signed Hargrave. That was a big horsefeathers up.

[Brian707]

Poles has made a lot of horsefeathers ups

Edited September 26, 2023 by Brian707

[CubinNY]

11 hours ago, UMFan83 said:

Jalen Carter has a sack and 2 forced fumbles on MNF. He’s been one of the better defensive players in the entire league so far. Wright may end up being very solid and I get the character concerns with Carter and the argument that he had to be in a structure like Philly or whatever but Poles may have massively fucked up. Traded out of number 1 overall to 9th and still had the chance to draft the best non-QB in the draft. 

Carter would already be in trouble if he were in Chicago. 

[gflore34]

Just saw some tape of Wright handling Karlfkis pretty well, of course, I noticed Fields just hopping around and getting sacked.  There's no question the OL, as banged up as it is, has still managed to provide better pass blocking and, despite Getsy' fucked up scheme, receivers are open.  Fields simply refuses to throw the ball

Edited September 26, 2023 by gflore34

[BigbadB]

Guys, it's the coaching staff, not Fields. My fantasy team is 3-0 with Fields as my starting QB. With that said, I'm as much a homer for Fields to be good as anyone, but boy..... it's getting really hard to defend at this point. 99 yards in a blowout game where garbage time yards are usually the easiest yards to get in a game ever, and 49 yards was the total passing yards for the second half. I felt like the OLine gave Fields a lot of time to throw and nothing came from it. Granted, KC did blitz a lot and it blew up plays pretty well, but to only have 22 pass attempts in a game you are losing badly early in the second quarter is mind blowing.

Darnell Wright shut down Chris Jones pretty well in that game. I think Jones' sack came from the other side.

Denver game is winnable, but not without most of their starting DB's playing.  I'm penciling in a loss for the Washington game. That front 4 will have a field day against our line, and with no pass rush, Howell will have the necessary time to look like a HOF QB. 

Is Mooney broken? I seem to recall he pulled up lame sometime during the Tampa game and he had one target vs. KC.  

 

[minnesotacubsfan]

32 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

Carter would already be in trouble if he were in Chicago. 

um....and yet hes doing saintly in the wholesome metropolis of......Philadelphia?

 

[gflore34]

One thing I'd like to see more snaps for "athletic freak" Gervon Dexter and Zacch Pickens, they probably both suck. But, might as well give them a shot at continuing to offer evidence that Poles is a poor at the draft.

[minnesotacubsfan]

10 hours ago, Hairyducked Idiot said:

You know, I've found that there's absolutely no correlation between how hysterical you get at my takes and whether I end up being right in the long run. *shrug*

 

I love how there is zero correlation between your takes and reality.  I mean, you don’t actually talk about the Bears with any other group do you? Certainly not in person, I’d hope

[gflore34]

12 minutes ago, minnesotacubsfan said:

um....and yet hes doing saintly in the wholesome metropolis of......Philadelphia?

 

Well, you know, the city of brotherly love, Liberty Bell and all that, he's probably taking a daily jog to Museum of Art with all the kids.

[WrigleyField 22]

1 hour ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

We should have signed Hargrave. That was a big horsefeathers up.

I mean it's so much deeper than just one player,  but yea.

[gflore34]

For you defensive types out there what's the point of Eberflus playing a soft zone with a DL that can't even breath on, let alone touch a QB?

Edited September 26, 2023 by gflore34

[WrigleyField 22]

Also, "we don't have the right culture for Jalen" 15 months into your culture building isn't a great look. Especially because coming off 2021 wasn't even a toxic culture environment like in 2014.

Atrophying winning environment like in 2022 just sucked so bad. I never liked, but regrettably took a silver lining in tank tracking for #1 which just feels dumb now.

[WrigleyField 22]

8 minutes ago, gflore34 said:

For you defensive types out there what's the point of Eberflus playing a soft zone with a DL that can't even breath on, let alone touch a QB?

I mean there's no logical point. It's an adherence to an ideal that is pointless.

 

If they do fire Flus at some point mid-season, whichever assist draws up the most exotic blitz package gets the DC duties.

[minnesotacubsfan]

Carter's character issues were made up, the only thing that was a concern was him showing up out of shape to his pro day. But if that was really an issue, why they let Davis do the same damn thing for the actual nfl season is bonkers. Not taking a generational talent at DT when your choice of defenses is the Cover 2 was ignorant. Drafting Wright was just follow through on a poor decision, it had nothing to do with why they didn't take Carter

[minnesotacubsfan]

2 minutes ago, WrigleyField 22 said:

I mean there's no logical point. It's an adherence to an ideal that is pointless.

 

If they do fire Flus at some point mid-season, whichever assist draws up ANY blitz package gets the DC duties.

fify

[Brian707]

Is there any hope some of these banged up defensive guys come back this week?